skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The shiny beauty draws them to the Store and buy the phones and they buy cases to protect that shiny beauty.
"Additionally, just like the real world, there are endless people posting jobs expecting the moon in exchange for peanuts."

I know what you mean. One of the biggest problems I've faced hiring people via oDesk is quality assurance (finding a programmer who will use version control, provide test cases, deliver on their promise). There's some good talent on oDesk (it sounds like you're among the best), but oDesk doesn't specifically cater to the extraordinary, nor do they offer a satisfactory solution for high tier clients (like facebook or google). oDesk tries to be a one-size-fits all, which is enough for many clients.

For me, it's not enough. It doesn't meet my expectations as an engineer. I don't trust oDesk's filters to find a reputable opportunity and clients frequently are not qualified to vet candidates -- this results in me wasting time interviewing with clients. The lack of standardization (demonstrated by a large standard deviation in price and job quality) makes it challenging for talented specialists to get paid what they deserve.

Hackerlist.net has been experimenting with solutions to this problem (all our jobs are geared towards specialists and start at $100/h). There are several others services like grouptalent, gun.io, ooomfg, and toptal which are offering solutions of their own to attack different niches of structuring online opportunities.
The 13th falls on a Friday this year. An omen?
I enjoy the software development process from top to bottom. Sometimes I like making sure a button is pixel perfect in Photoshop, and other times I'd rather be writing algorithms. I think I've always been drawn to software because it allows me to constantly explore the different sides of my brain.
Your time must not be worth very much if you're really considering rolling your own. How long will it take you? A day? You might think so, but no. A weekend? Possibly, but you won't handle all of the corner cases. A week? Getting closer. How much would you pay yourself for a week of work?
The President definitely doesn't get his information from the same sources we do. He has daily access to top-secret information.

"The President's Daily Brief (PDB) ... is a top-secret document produced each morning for the President of the United States."[1]

And he can definitely read the legal decisions that come out of the FISA court. There's no way that a FISA court decision declaring an NSA program unconstitutional wouldn't get to the President's desk.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President%27s_Daily_Brief
Thoughts on the Smart Watch
You know what's amazing about Apple? The iPhone 4 is still a fantastic phone. I use it every day and it runs great. It's what 3 years old now? It might be hard to sell consumers on how great a 3 year old phone is, but gosh, it's still pretty fantastic.

I can understand why they would want to do the 5C, if only so they can get customers and developers unified around the larger device size, and so that they have a newer product that people are willing to pay for.

Still, it's astounding just how good the iPhone 4 still is, especially in light of the other phones that launched around the same time - the original Galaxy S and the Motorola Droid six months before that).
His point was that documentation shouldn't be taken as the final word since it is not always 100% accurate. Especially when writing kernel drivers.

So you do all the dramatic laughing and peeing and ...
"THEN, and only then, have you reached the level where you can safely read it and try to use it to actually implement a driver."

So you're reading urine soaked documentation at this point. But I guess you're now going to be reading it with the appropriate level of skepticism.

A little over the top perhaps, but kind of entertaining.
"Windows licenses" alone probably include more distinct SKUs than Apple has total products. A lot of that is just inherent to enterprise vs. consumer, but even then, Microsoft has lots of complexity, seemingly on purpose, while Apple tried to be minimalist.
> Would you feel differently if the NSA were "they"?

Presumably not, at least in general, otherwise the outcry against persistent Chinese spying on the USA (e.g. the Aurora attack on Google) would probably be much much larger within the U.S.
Xbox Music comes to iOS, Android plus Free Streaming on the Web
To quote myself from 2 years ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2990507):

Degrees in computer science and computer engineering are in the top 10 for average earnings. We get to build all kinds of cool stuff used by people around the world. For many of us, programming is fun. And we get paid to do it!

Every day is programmer's day.
This sounds like Charles Stross's description of the future cold war in his novel Halting State. Instead of the "twentieth-century model, an electronic Pearl Harbor", the attacks are subtle. "Footnotes inserted in government reports feeding into World Trade Organization negotiating positions. Nothing we'd notice at first, nothing that would be obvious for a couple of years. You don't want to halt the state in its tracks, you simply want to divert it into a sliding of your choice."
Look at what they did with the iPod (under Steve's leadership) to capture all the price points in the music device market. Expect similar tactics in phones and tablets.
Paradoxical Gear Sets
Desperately trying to escape the shittiness of your life through drug abuse, and from there getting into prostitution, is still desperation.

Say what you will about respect, but I find it disgusting that our society demeans women by congratulating them for entering sex work as a profession. ("Oh good for you, you made a free choice to take off your panties for me! What a sweet little empowered capitalist you are!") There are plenty of abolitionist women's groups around the world that agree, for example:

http://www.womensmediacenter.com/feature/entry/abolishing-pr...
Linus' facility with language never ceases to amaze me. Even when he's over the top, he makes sense.
You don't really think that an entire agency's remit can be specifically summed up within three generic words, do you?

Hell, the Navy used to run their personnel management out of the "Bureau of Navigation".
How to use the Web completely securely and keep your communications ...
The Yahoo Intern's Logo (that we should have gotten)
In your opinion, what is it about Android phones that were contemporaneous to the iPhone 4 to be inferior in quality?
Leaked: Can This Be The New 'iPhone 5S pictures'?
Fine, you feel you're not being robbed. I know quite a few people from the US who feel that taxes are theft. Granted you agree they have the freedom to believe in whatever they want, how do you justify the fact that if they don't pay taxes, they will go to prison (not right away, but eventually, if they decide to resist, even if peacefully) or have their property alienated? Democracy isn't the answer, because they don't believe in one. If you say they have to pay because they use services a government provides, then it's also very debatable: they certainly may not want to pay for some of them (military?) and surely they don't have any alternative because government monopolistic behavior prevents any competition in certain sectors of the economy. Saying they have this freedom to believe in whatever they want when they don't have the same freedom to act according to their beliefs is identical to not granting them any freedom at all.
Xbox Music launches on iOS and Android, free streaming on the web
I'm on ADSL2+ and am likely to be for a lot longer, thanks to the change in the Australian government. The phone line coming into my house seems to act as a big antenna and I get so much noise that I can't maintain a connection above 10Mbit down, 1Mbit up. I'd pay for mods to my modems too.
soon-to-be-outdated?
The burden? Excuse me? That's their job. I'm sorry there is a cost associated with doing your job.

If you're prepared to outsource that job and have the private sector do it extremely poorly and with no regulation, thereby effectively raping people of their wealth over a pittance, you should be prepared to pay the consequence for that.
Single page:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/09/business/media/a-journalis...
Uh, it's been happening to the US for decades, with nobody seriously talking about war. The most recent "famous" example that hit the news was Chinese cyberattacks into Google (the "Aurora" attacks), which didn't elict a drumbeat for war. In fact right before Snowden Chinese industrial espionage was one of the topics that President Obama discussed in a summit with the Chinese Premier (which, again, was reported in the media).
The chosen example photos seemed to have as their subject the male gaze, not the breasts themselves.

Yes, so many people seem to have missed this key point. To quote from the opening sentence in the presentation - "Titstare is an app where you take photos of yourself staring at tits."
Most smartphone owners I see use a case - iPhone or Android. I think it's a pity because the devices look so much better without cases.
CvRDTs are (almost?) as general as they can be
I converted from Puppet to Ansible - best decision ever. Much easier to maintain - much easier to train others.
Comparing Apple to Ferrari is a mistake. Apple makes mainstream consumer products, Ferrari is a luxury car manufacturer.
Nissan Introduces a Smart Watch. Seriously.
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Yes, I did too. Capitalized Go seems to be the common form for referring to golang now.
It was at record lows, so the capacity for a record bounce-back is higher.
Back end problems are so much more interesting.
Very valid point. That's why even in Hacker news we see a lot more items talking about frameworks instead of domain related topics.
thanks for the link. fyi, it doesn't go where you wanted it to. your (2002) annotation is being interpreted as part of it.

unmangled version: http://www.geek.com/chips/palladium-microsofts-big-plan-for-...
You Can’t Have It All, but You Can Have Cake
These are the symptoms of bad responsive design. There are ways to mitigate these things by really going about proper responsive design, and that takes actual usage.

(#3 Is a huge pet peeve of mine)

I fear too many designers only "test" the mobile site; they don't actually "use" it. Using and testing are two vastly different things as the former actually puts you into the driver's seat for a ride from the visitor's (read: customer's) perspective. Until that happens, designers are only engaging in speculative design that they think is responsive. It's not quite the same.

All the problems highlighted shouldn't be happening on a properly designed and architected site.
Mostly back but I run my own sites (good or bad as that is) and work on the front end from time to time. Still I feel more comfortable in the back-end, plumbing, making structures that keeps things running. There are really talented front-end people, very creative, sharp in design like nobody's business but that's not me. For me, front-end is some plain HTML, some JSP, maybe some basic jQuery stuff or if I really need it I'll dive into either jQuery or DoJo for nice interactive tables but the majority of the time, back-end.
Building a Random Rap Generator
There should be another option - full stack development. I am quite sure that many developers love working on entire application stacks.
>but profiteering of the weak is certainly not an american value.

Clearly, yes, it has become that. Each day, I become more ashamed of where I live.
> What else is going on?
1) The founder said he's raising money.
2) Cable was cut a few times.
3) Amazon server bills were not being paid since 5 months ago and they did suspend us a few times.
4) The company initially had around 15 people. Today, there's only 3.

Do you have a viable product?
1) We do not have a viable product yet. It's more like a prototype. The founder is very focused on building a lot of nice looking features. The product is not lean, in my perspective. We are more like building five products.

>Does the product's market make sense to you?
Yes it does.

>How does your product stack up against the competition?
Personally, I believe in the product, but we never really spent a lot of time testing the market.

>If you think the company has a bright future, then I'd dig deeper into the paycheck issue, maybe asking the founder why he's being so secretive.
I will definitely try to have another conversation with him.
Angularjs Surpasses node.js in Google Trends interest.
But the Xmir patches, were not a contributing upstream, in any meaningful sence. It's a we have our own project, here is what you need to make it work, and while your at it can you maintain them too (assumption, based on Canonical culture)

Code dumps (especially when the code is only to support your project(Xmir), rather then improving project(Intel driver) itself) != contributing
Xbox Music for Android
A file is not a file
FPGA's would be a better idea and actually might be viable for a small trusted compute base.
Let me volunteer - slow and poor multitasking, buggy apps and lack of quality apps
They say a poor man's Ferrari is a used one.
Android phones that were released around the same time as the iPhone 4 were running Android 2.x and mostly not updated to Android 4.x. I still use an old Galaxy S sometimes, and it's a fine phone but android 2.3 really feels outdated.
Sir or mam, I don't know you, but you're my kind of people.
As a side note: you feeling that you're not being robbed has nothing to do with what actually happens, which is extracting money by a threat of force. You may not think about it this way, but it becomes painfully obvious once someone refuses to pay. To me, the refusal to see this is akin to a Stockholm Syndrome. No offense though, I did not mean to discard your argument using this comparison. I may add this is what it looks like to me subjectively.
didn't cuil[1] already try that?

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuil
Say what you will about personal choice, but I find it empowering that our society enables women by letting them them freely enter sex work as a profession.

^ See what I did there? You believe sex workers are homeless druggies, I believe they are efficient businesswomen. The truth probably lies somewhere in between. At some point, it basically becomes your personal views about exchanging sex for money, and the morality involved therein.

Which is exactly what I'm saying about the current fracas -- it is a few people who have quickly-offended personal moralities that have been outraged by TitShare or whatever. Tying it to a larger issue of "this is why women don't work in tech" is a futile exercise.
I saw a woman laugh at the TitStare app.
Pro tip: If you have to use sarcasm tags, it's not sarcasm.
I have a Samsung Galaxy S variant (the Vibrant). It simply does not compare to anyone's iPhone 4 on the following:

1. Up to date software.

2. Responsiveness.

3. Ease of use.

The iPhone 4's iOS 6 is strictly superior to the Vibrant and other Galaxy S pre-ICS Android. The former also is much more responsive on web pages, far smoother when switching apps, and quicker to the camera and GPS lock.

I honestly did not believe the Galaxy S released at the same time as the iPhone 4. That is rather unbelievable. They are so far apart!

I do run CyanogenMod ICS now on my Vibrant, but it doesn't match the iPhone 4.
So what is the point?
Most of the thousands of people seem to disagree with you. The TitStare app got by far the best response from the audience.
What the fuck? Plastics are an awesome material and Apple is no stranger to using it – especially under Steve Jobs.

The believe that this is in any way a compromise is just so fucking weird.
And for those not following along, Greenwald moved from Salon to the Guardian last year. As a journalist.
I agree and finding great developers is a big part of the challenge. However, there's more to arranging a project then finding the right talent, especially for clients who have expectations for security, domain expertise, and quality assurance. Most platforms simply solve the matchmaking component (eharmony style). The solution is a platform which supports engineers' workflows (git, hg, etc) -- or at least this continues to be our philosophy and mission as we grow Hackerlist.net.

mjhea0, how do you typically structure projects after you've found someone who is a good fit? Do you use any additional services like invoicing, github/bitbucket, bug tracking, etc?
No, it's not like you read xkcd and think "I wish it had more dick jokes".

I would prefer my xkcd with an extra side order of dick jokes with fries. Please stop generalizing your personal likes and dislikes and rebasing them onto the rest of us.
Thanks a lot for your detailed response. I really appreciate it.

I would definitely hope the situation is better. In fact, we had not even been given pay stubs for over half a year. My coworkers and I had asked individually and we never got them.
It is mu h a worry as a factor that makes the company much stable as compared to some others it competes with. Look at BlackBerry or Nokia. Their fall from grace was precipitous. Google and to some extent Apple are one trick ponies. Although its a damn good trick, its risky to only know how to make money doing only one thing.
Large servicers (Bank Of America, Chase, Wells Fargo) already have a known history of mistakenly foreclosing on the wrong houses, fucking up tax payments from escrow accounts causing legal problems for the homeowner's, etc.

My father and step-mother both are mortgage underwriters. One is currently still underwriting, the other is currently working for the GSEs (Fannie and Freddie) forcing several large banks to eat the shitty mortgages they pushed on them.

I can not even begin to tell you how poorly managed these large servicers are. But heh, keep on thinking they know what they're doing. If they service your mortgage, I encourage you to keep a very careful on your note.
I prefer working on front end stuff, not necessarily because I think working on the back end is worse, but because it's more immediately rewarding.

With frontend work, you get to see the results right away, and interact with the user interface, and I guess that in a way it's closer to visual design part because of controlling interactions and making decisions (in some cases) about the way that users will interact with the app.
I am aware of this. I was however noting that Obama himself admitted to learning about many of the NSA's programs through the press. It isn't beyond possibility that he had no personal knowledge of court procedings and what was asked of the FISC.
I like working on the back-end more because of the challenges, but I also like doing front-end IF the platform is either Android/iOS. I feel like web front-end work takes too much time.
My preference is like (Backend - Database) + Front End!
I think author is confused about what responsive design actually is.
Right, so open standards and open source are important. you have to be able to audit all the way through.
Well, I won't argue that some developers can do what you suggest. I'd be shocked if it weren't the case, in fact. My point wasn't meant to be applied universally to all the projects there. It was simply a statement of what I observed.
> This is not just about the US wanting to know what's going on. This is about the US engaging in the sort of behavior that we have rebuked China over -- state-sponsored industrial espionage.

If the NSA were only focused on industrial espionage with these programs then I don't see why they felt the need to target Google (a U.S. corporation in the first place).

Not to put too fine a point on it, but oil is certainly a strategic resource and even if the U.S. never had a single plan to do anything with Brazil's oil, there are both military and national-interest reasons for knowing what Brazil knows about their own oil reserves, refinery capabilities, etc.

Likewise there are embargo-related reasons to know if Brazil has secret agreements to export oil to nations embargoed by the UN.

And the worst part about it all is that whether NSA is around or not, the U.S. does live in a cloak-and-dagger world, just like every other nation does. They can either somehow convince other nations to go about things "fairly" as well (possible with the EU and Brazil perhaps, not so much with Russia and China), or they can immerse themselves in that game as well.

Certainly the U.S. is familiar with the problems of industrial espionage and secret economic agreements (some would say "bribes"), as both have been deployed against the U.S. (yes, even by friends, even by allies).
Look what is on the front page today
http://goto.ucsd.edu/quark/
Compromised Keylogger-aaS exposes network of Nigerian 419 scammers
Why would routers do this? IPSec didn't exactly take off (this weeks news reminded us why), so end-to-end encryption wouldn't really happen on their level.

That said, I certainly expected and assumed Google would already encrypt traffic between data centers. Whats the point of forcing HTTPS on gmail when you constantly backup my complete email repository across the world over unencrypted connections?
In this new context, the statements on Prism ("we do not give them direct access!") certainly seem misleading. Right, you do not give them direct access, you just sync your databases over fibers that you know they have access to, without encrypting the data.
Interesting point. I'd think they'd create a new brand. Maybe it won't bear the "iPhone" moniker.
Of course NSA can crack crypto. Anyone can. The question is, how much?
"Still, even if the price is fairly high, a cheaper iPhone should appeal to a subset of people in developing countries who flaunt gadgets as status symbols, like jewelry."

As opposed to the subset of people in developed countries that do exactly the same ?
'They' haven't priced any 250 GTs lately.
I'm running 4.2 on my Galaxy S just fine.
2 of the top 4 posts, and 4 of the top 20 posts are from less than one month ago. A sign of HN's rising popularity.
Ok the article seems to pretty outdated. 2011!! it woudln't have mattered if the facts were still valid but a lot of things changed, including policies and features of these sites. Not to mention vlancer got taken over by freelancer.com

So i'd advice people to keep this fact in mind when going through this, and not use this as the final word on the matter when comparing.
Groupon India sells Onion. Traffic crashes site.
Students Share Lessons From an Uncommon Internship
One of Tutorspree's selling points was their human touch.
> An oft-cited example of this is the reluctance of the Office applications group to release complete versions of Word, Excel and other software for iPads and Android devices. That decision, in theory, could help Microsoft tablets that run Windows, though it hasn’t yet...An even broader conglomerate is Samsung, which is in areas as varied as electronics, life insurance and petrochemicals. But each of those businesses is run with a high degree of independence from the others. The company supplies screens and semiconductors for Apple, even though Apple is the main rival to Samsung’s mobile phone business.

The Samsung software layer on their Android phones was so awful, so devoid of inspiration, that even as an Android user, I hoped that Apple would continue to spank them in the phone industry. But I highly respect whosever management decision it was to keep Samsung's units as independent as possible, even so that one hand of the company may be helping to spank the other. Perhaps it's because Apple's business is too good to lose, but hopefully there's some "a rising tide lifts all ships" mentality in there.

Meanwhile, Microsoft could've ported Office and given it a good foothold as the productivity software of mobile and the cloud..but by the time they've waited for the Surface to become a success, Google and Apple may both eat its lunch