skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google wants to wire-up Africa because they know that a certain percentage will use their services (it's hard to completely avoid Google on the internet). So what? The entire argument rests on the premise that profit does not align with public good. That's just completely wrong.
In my experience startups have very little extra resources - you can't simply lay some documentation on them and expect it to "go to the right person". Why don't you pick up the phone and talk with them?
You know it's pretty easy to say something won't work. Most of the time you will be right. However, consider there are lots people who create Podcasts, videos on YouTube, and sites like skillshare.com who might be interested in this.

Finally, it's a lot more interesting to figure out ways to make things work than be "The Critic."

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7-it-is-not-the-critic-who-c...
Well this is definitely not our bag, I think you need a rather specific product. Hopefully some more people have the same needs as you do and such a product gets built! We are currently trying to only target our product to software development teams as, being a software development team ourselves, we have more chances to have the same needs as they do and build the right product. Of course the targeting might change in the future, depending on the success with the MVP.
So is it horrible strictly because it's Java? Or because it's a bad idea altogether?
Brzezinski is Obama's advisor.
Sell it for yourself at a price of rather north of $5. It is a revenue-generating asset for the right people, right? $40 is very reasonable if it helps someone ship a Wordpress plugin that goes for $25 to $50 a pop, helps them deliver client work, gets them a new job, etc.

The single best way to sell virtually any sort of educational content is to give some amount of education on the topic away for free, collect email addresses, and then explicitly sell to the people over email. Read Nathan Barry/Brennan Dunn on the topic -- their blogs go over pretty much every element in detail.
So the remaining roofers get higher pay, and the in-flood of designers leads to lower pay for designers.
On "bullshit jobs"
Previous discussion:

Forced Exposure

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6242569

Groklaw legal site shuts over fears of NSA email snooping

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6243081
Job titles are probably based on some governmental labor definitions. . .in the U.S., that would be Bureau of Labor Statistics.

And in the organizations where I've worked - mid- to large-size, programmers are perceived - rightly or wrongly - as folks who just code, while the software engineers are perceived doing more than just coding - although a lot of people with that perception can't really explain what they think the "more" is. Don't shoot the messenger. :-)
This is a Angular provider I've created after seeing NProgress[1] but I didn't want the jQuery dependency and I also wanted it for Angular so here it is.

Please comment if you see I'm doing something superstrange in the code or if you have any suggestions. I'm eager for your feedback!

[1] http://ricostacruz.com/nprogress/
Sounds interesting. I can see a potential usage in remote tutoring. Parents set up their kids, who don't understand something, and use it to speak to someone qualified (you could have pre-approved lists or groups of people). And by virtue of being google, it has a large potential audience.

The potential for abuse would have to be carefully monitored/considered, of course.
> I can't stay online personally without losing my humanness, now that I know that ensuring privacy online is impossible.

This shook me to the core. What can we do to fight back?
Getting your credit card info stolen is a huge pain. Imagine the pain from having your government identity stolen.
Google answers was awesome, probably the service I miss the most from Google. It was a lot like the stack*.com sites these days, but generally higher quality as people paid for answers.
All those "CSS programmers" must be freelancers, with the salary covering the whole contract.

Otherwise, I'm really, really, really underpaid.
This is why many companies are getting out of the tech hubs. Costs are lower for the company and money goes further for the devs. Take Research Triangle Park in Raleigh, NC. A ton of companies have dev centers there (Cisco, EMC, NetApp, HSBC, Fidelity, Deutsche Bank, Verizon, IBM, John Deer, ConstantContact, iContact, SAS...).

As a dev your money buys 50% more and yet devs are in such demand that unemployment is under 3% in the sector. Because of this you can easily beat all the salary benchmarks in this article and have a four bedroom house too.
I am avoiding git's CLI like the plague, but IMHO the staging area is awesome to use with a GUI like Git Tower - it was never that easy to stage (and commit) line by line, leaving out stuff like printf debugging that shouldn't go down the wire.

Then again, I guess the GUI could just implement the staging area itself and pass line numbers to "git commit" :)
This is quite surprising. I'd never expect to be that high.
Well I just mean setting a bar so high that if you raise the money, great, it's worth a shot! If you don't, you can at least gauge interest and decide if you want to revise and be a bit more realistic.
PG has made similar comments about the use of Lisp. It doesn't really scale to the IBMs and Googles of the world, though.
My commentary on this matter:

http://stylebot.me/styles/2945

(Mostly only of use to desktop users, but it's quite an improvement IME).
Oh ye of little imagination.

I go to Google Search, and I type in some phrase. The search results happen to not really have any great answers. And down at the bottom of the page is this nice little link that says, "Can't find what you're looking for? Care to ask an Expert?" Out of curiosity, you click it, and it takes you to the Helpouts page.

If they allow people to set their price at $0, some people will just do it out of altruism / reputation. (Think of Stack Overflow karma and badges.)

I could picture Open Source projects using $0 Helpouts, to encourage use - in helping new users configure, in helping users solve problems, in helping developers contribute. It'd be like an IRC channel. Especially if we can invite multiple people to the Helpout, like we can with Hangouts.

I can see businesses using it, as a way to reach Customer Support, when another business or high-end consumer wants to ask a question that they're willing to pay for.

EDIT:

Picture this, "Carmack Thursdays." On Thursday evenings, John Carmack agrees to do $1000 Helpouts, and donates all of the proceeds to a charity of his choice.

Linus Torvalds, Bruce Schneier, Jim Carrey, Ron Paul doing fundraising for a campaign, Markus Persson, Jeff Atwood, Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, James Lipton, Tyra Banks, Kevin Smith, Venture Capitalists like the Y-Combinator folks...

If they get the right people to do Helpouts, it could be huge.

Like a one-on-one Reddit Ask Me Anything, where you pay to get backstage passes.
This is taking quite a scary turn, but not, I think, in the direction that the governments are intending. Rather than intimidate people into silence they are actively creating a movement of people who are abhorred and appalled by these tactics. Kick that dog enough times and you're going to create an organized movement that can fight back. This is how unrest happens.

What I don't think they realize is that the dog they're kicking is also the most technically capable one on the planet. They're not poking Al Qaeda with a stick, they're poking every programmer and hacker who cares about privacy with a stick. While they may have unlimited financial resources, I would pit unlimited technical resources and creativity against that any day of the week. If they manage to create an organized group of highly technical opposition I think they're going to be very surprised by how capable it is.
Do you have any sense what a reasonable fee would be?

I am a math teacher, and I've seen math teachers make $80+/hr tutoring high school and college students. I'd consider trying this platform out, because it would take little effort to get started, and I'd have nothing to lose.

I'd be a little frustrated to see Google take 20% right off the top. But I am assuming that Google has the infrastructure to roll this out without needing to take 20% to maintain profitability on this. Does anyone have a sense of a reasonable fee for this service?
They were not spying on people as far as I know.
That's strange for hn because it's known that in a vast and rich sea such as the IT world, stability leads to a slow/fast failure or disappearing. They'll have to innovate, for their business and for the users.
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I made a jQuery plugin called Progress to do this. https://github.com/RyanNielson/jquery-progress

I whipped it up pretty quickly so if there are any issues or enhancement ideas feel free to post them on Github.
One key part of the story is that the UK government basically accused Miranda (and Greenwald and Poitras) of aiding terrorists by intending to publish that classified information. That's a hairsbreath away from the charge of aiding the enemy that Manning was (just barely?) found innocent of in the US.

I think that defining news reporting to be aiding the enemy is pretty darn close to a lot of what one sees in sci-fi police states.
They do put some effort into internal controls, e.g. SELinux came from the NSA originally. But apparently not enough!
> I think it's not because it sounds boring but because it sounds like a marketing bullshit. Guy in a suit tells you "trust us, we have a whole basement of experts and years of experience" but when you check them out, the company was funded few months ago and only one employee doesn't have some sort of "manager" or "director" in his job title.

But this is an aspect of the large nutrition companies that can be checked out. Unless you're talking about the other companies.

They do have a lot of people with respected qualifications working for them; they do produce all these different products.

The bullshit with these companies is that they push multivitamins as useful for everyone, when really there's a limited market. They push a bunch of other stuff as useful for all kinds of conditions, when really the evidence is weak at best.

> Those of us who eat to live don't expect much from industry after McDonalds and sugar everywhere but we still desperately hope for something better. That hopes fuels enthusiasm for soylent.

That's fair enough. It's your body, and you can make your own choices. You know that as well as Soylent there are a bunch of these liquid feeding products, so if you wanted to experiment now you can?
They all suck:

* Livefyre is ugly and has limited features compared to Disqus. What they do seem to have is good salespeople who get stupid moron bosses at big companies to insist on using it.
* Facebook comments? Really?
* Echo doesn't keep malicious activity out any more than anyone else.
* Google+ is okay.
* Realtidbits loses data.
* Comments Plus is wordpress only. Need I say more?
* Moot? Ha!
* CommentLuv doesn't help SEO. The author of this article is stupid.
* Talka TV might actually be okay
This guy seems to be trying his damnest to piss away what good will he had at replacing an administration that was derided for pretty much the same actions.
Be the change you want to see in the world.

Do you think Helpouts should exist, yes or no?

If Helpouts become very popular with for instance the tech crowd, and if Google kills Helpouts, you'll see other companies rush to fill the void.
"Don't be evil. We believe strongly that in the long term, we will be better served — as shareholders and in all other ways — by a company that does good things for the world even if we forgo some short term gains" -- Google's 2004 IPO Prospectus (http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~hal/Courses/StratTech09/...).

Binding or not, it's a social contract, and it could mean the world if Google stands by it.
Sapphire glass is incredibly scratch-proof. And with a full desktop OS running in there, the battery is going to need all the help it can get.
Or pg is trying to slow the site down to delay Eternal September. Keeping it painful to use on mobile would seem to accomplish that.
Yes, exactly. Atlassian's client (I forget the name) has that feature too, and it's great, but it can just do it directly if there's no staging area (as it does with hg, I assume). If you're in the CLI, you can use the exact same command you use to stage stuff to commit stuff, and then there's exactly zero benefit.
To quote Good Will Hunting, "I was being ironical."
It's a perfect simulation; because it gives the user an ego of which the survival depends on the very existence of the universe. If there's a flaw; this ego will quickly try to find a reason why the flaw is not a bug but a feature. (God, etc.)

There are many limits to our universe; yet we explain them away, because if they were there; it would mean our ego's and bodies would be an illusion. Our ego doesn't like that.

Look very closely at the outer reaches of science, art and religion; and you will find cracks in this system. In buddhism, the discovery of these cracks is called nirvana, 'Moksha' in Hinduism, 'light being the fastest speed at which one can travel' in science; and the concept of 'Flow' in creative work. One can also refer to this as Egoic Death: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ego_death
Well I can say that the prices on Numbeo are fairly accurate for Poland
> the man's journalist husband more or less openly threatens the UK government with the release of more classified information in retaliation

Greenwald goes to lengths to refute this interpretation in the article and elsewhere.
Very nice, installing now.

Please add the video to the GH page.. I almost meh'd out of there, but was lucky to notice someone's comment here mentioning the youtube vid.

EDIT: just tried it.. Dear god, our repo looks like a swarm of drunken spiders was hard at work there..

Also, +1 to the request to change the default config and not track everything!
You said 'rant' twice, not exactly polite disagreement.

The models are pretty simple - they are called supply and demand. They work for everything else in economics. Low pay for dangerous work is not so exceptional situation.

In poorer countries, there is even less pay for even more dangerous work, because education is even worse there. There's a few data points there.

And there's quite a lot of literature on the education system and teacher unions. To start off with their's Waiting For Superman (2010).
Personally, this is why I limit my usage with vim with the core vim(to me it means vim-as-out-of-package-or-gvim-package), my customimzed .vimrc, and highlighting plugin.

The original vim alone is more than enough to satisfy my needs, and it's compatible with virtually every machine that I'll be using after all.

I can venture on plugins for more convenience, but I already have an ample satisfaction and I would rather keep it that way.

I wrote this in vim, and copied here.
Despite that, I believe this is already the most money ever pledged to a crowdfunding project?

Pebble raised $10,266,844

Ubuntu Edge currently $12,243,447
Hey Patio, thanks for the advice (I'm a subscriber to your emails as well which are great)

Selling for myself was my initial thought but my weakest point is driving traffic/marketing. Amazon brings me the traffic I could never hope to get myself. I can code with the best of them but when it gets down to the actual process of getting people onto my website, I have no idea.

I've been learning what I can about SEO, social media marketing, using adwords and so on but I still feel like I'm missing a trick. These so called 'internet marketing' experts tell you they can drive masses of traffic but I just don't see how!

Anyway, I completely agree with your point about giving away some of the topic for free and I've read a lot of yours (and Brennan's) articles on doing that. I shall look into it in more detail, thanks!
Many existing phones have hdmi-out, and can connect to Bluetooth keyboards and mice. Some also have USB-to-go. There was nothing new in the Edge hardware that would enhance that.
>use them to target political dissent

locking up a dissenter's partner doesn't count, right?
This is really nice, but am I missing something or is there no way to go past the first page of content?
"Investing their time."

I'm sorry, but this is an awful excuse. We're the type of people who master new technologies quickly. There's essentially $0 cost, and a ton of benefit, to new products becoming available. That's why they're exciting.

If the same startup starts another useful product, I'll check it out. I think people with your attitude are saying they'll cut off their nose to spite their face... but they actually won't. They'll use useful products, no matter the track record of the company, if the tradeoffs are close to right.
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It's a piece of the puzzle, it's a way for them to know what the concerns are and they can choose to act or ignore. You're right, it shouldn't just stop there but people should shout from every rooftop even if it's potentially ineffective.
Writers aren't typically paid by the word.
To be honest, we don't know that. All we have here is some offhand remarks by supposedly unnamed official.
In the light of everything that has happened over the last month, this has to be a joke, right?
The price was including taxes (VAT), and I guess they would ship it from UK to European backers, with no duties inside the European union.

I agree that the price was high, but not higher than for other phones in the same market segment (comparable hardware and such). The problem with the price is that it wasn't very attractive either. A new, untested phone 9 months from now, for the same price and with comparable hardware to currently existing phones.
The EU mandated in 2011 that all new smartphones must use mico-USB to charge [1]

[1] http://www.dw.de/european-commission-says-standard-mobile-ch...
Self-powered sensor chips? Micro-transmitters/cameras that don't run down? RFID tags printed onto clothing?
Webkit is the mobile IE6 if you ask me. Very narrow minded design and testing from the people who usually bitch about IE6.

Oh the irony.
Seems like a reasonable solution until vmin/vmax/vh/vw are more widely supported.
The difference is low-level thugs were able to get access rather than the automated collection services operated by the GCHQ, so now low-level thugs have his passwords.

The most salient point is how regular individuals are authorized to receive user passwords, and they're able to use them too. The article clearly states that the low-level thugs checked his email within his presence rather than him communicating the passwords to more secure individuals.
Considering ALL of the contribution packages with limits are claimed in the remaining hours, which would be:

3920000$ + 420000$ = 4340000$,

for the funding to succeed; 15422386$ worth of other contributions have to also be made. That is:

771119,3 Founder or,
514079,5 Forgot International Shipping :) or,
308447,4 Founder With Style or,

more reasonably;

22190 Ubuntu Edge or,
2203 Enterprise Starter Kit contributions in just under 20 hours.

Anyone wanna bet?
And yet the reverse is true too. Over-innovating which I see as almost universally putting form ahead of function kills web enterprises dead too.

I think craigslist is a great example of success going with the most minimal "innovation" - in the last ten years I can think of two changes there, and one wasn't even voluntary. First, the map-view for housing listings and second the giving up of sex services to other sites like backpage under threat from a bunch of point-scoring district attorneys.
I think you got balls for this posting, however I agree with ynoclo. Although the f-bomb is an attention getter it is also a turn off since you could have--at the very least--used asterisks for an equally attention grabbing title and omitted it entirely from your profile.
> SecureKey, based in Toronto, today announced it has been awarded a contract by the USPS to provide a cloud-based authentication infrastructure.

I love that USPS, a government entity so far in the red, has the ability to award any money at all...
I assume the pay figures are based on IRS figures rather than anonymous true responses, because a large number of the "low rated" occupations are cash businesses, notorious for under reporting income. So the IRS could prove on paper that I made $30K, so I guess I "made" $35K and call it good. Which probably doesn't even cover his bar tab, but whatever.

The other problem with the low rated occupations is the author doesn't want to work outdoors, therefore surely no one wants to, but part of the reason pay is so low to work outdoors is because so many people want to work outdoors (despite supposedly no one wants to do it). So that's how you end up with biology grads as foresters at $20K/yr (oh wait the article claims bio is 4th best job, now I'm confused)

The final distortion is several of the high ranking jobs are "winner takes all" much like professional sports. Yes a pro football quarterback is a great job; of course most people who want that job will never be able to get it. Lets see... I know a degreed mathematician working in a call center, an ageism-fired actuary not working at all, a biologist working at a retail food store deli, a sociologist working as a call center supervisor, a PHD philosopher working as an electrician, an astronomy grad working at a bookstore as a clerk. IF you are one of the small fraction of grads who get a job in the field, its great, but you'll probably be working retail. Of course accountants and parole officers DO always seem to be in demand.

This also happens in computers. Yes the top 1% of grads works at GOOG for $150K/yr, but the bottom half is unemployed or at best works a call center resetting passwords.
That's not the point :D. It works better than a simple bookmark, with slide to change from page to comments, etc.
Sapphire glass will be used on several new upcoming high-end smartphones, and is already used by Vertu. So, yes, it is just a fancy sounding gimmick and will be commonplace in 2014.
I think email is more possible to contact them. I don't have their contact number, and I live in a different country.
Ah so then you also believe horses can do math. After all we have proof: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clever_Hans
I expect them to communicate in person, or over the phone. You use PowerPoint to distribute information to GROUPS of people, which implies it's more than just high level management that will be seeing the PowerPoint.
From the public? Maybe. However, some more tech-savvy sites are hit even harder. Apparently 50% of the readers of gaming site Destructoid use Adblock[1].

[1] http://www.destructoid.com/half-of-destructoid-s-readers-blo...
I agree completely with this. Additionally I wouldn't worry about the formality of the approach – if pinging them on Twitter is the best way to get the right person on the phone or out to a coffee - then ping them on the Twitter.
> Classic multi-authentication security is based around the idea of:

> Something you know (e.g. a password).

> Something you have (e.g. a smart card)

> Something you are (e.g. a fingerprint)

> rather than sending an SMS to his phone, it sent it to his partner's phone. Every time he wanted to log in to Facebook, he would have to ring his partner and ask for the one-time code.

New CloudSystems' Four Factor Authentication. The first factor stops your spouse. Then the second factor stops your boss. The third factor stops a random crackhead after he grabs your laptop out of your car. And finally, the fourth factor stops the NSA and GCHQ for up to nine hours.

Four Factor Authentication: Because -- You'll believe anything.

(Based on SNL's Triple Trac Razor parody. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Saturday_Night_Live_co... )