skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get this a lot, and I understand it, because when I was 20 and earning the princely sum of $12.50 an hour it was outside of my experience that any business anywhere would pay $100 for anything which was not e.g. a lawyer. I am now older and, knock on wood, wiser.

There are no "social tricks" involved -- well, not in the sense that you're thinking. You don't need a magic mind control beam to sell things to businesses. Here, I'm a geek like you're a geek. Can you (or J. Random Hypothetical Dev) outline how you would convince me, a fellow geek, that you could successfully program iOS applications? Showing me something you have made would suffice. Talking about the process of building iOS applications in a way which made it sound like you knew what you were talking about would also suffice.

Now pivot from the technical question to the business question. Given that I (or K. Random Small Business Owner) has a business doing $FOO, how does that business make more money or spend less money as a result of having an iOS application built for it?

I know exactly how you'd sell me an iPhone app. You'd ask if any of my SaaS accounts had ever canceled because of lack of an iPhone app. I'd tell you that that happened X0 times. You'd say "How much was their aggregate spend per month?" I'd say "A few thousand bucks." You'd say "So, to a first approximation, an iPhone app being available is going to be worth a few thousand bucks per month to your company within a few months." (n.b. This is just an example rather than a request to get proposals, guys.)

How would you convince e.g. a financial adviser that he urgently wants to have an iOS app written? That might start with "How much do you make on your average customer account every year?" "A few thousand dollars." "How often do you get to talk to them?" "Mostly commonly, once or twice a year." "Do they ever cancel saying 'I don't understand what I'm paying you for." "That's my #1 cause of losing clients." "Wouldn't it be better if you were on their home screen every day?" "YES."

How would you convince a restaurant that they want want a delivery app? Fill in the blank.

How would you convince a plumbing company that they want something their plumbers can use to check-in and check-out of work sites? Fill in the blank.

As to where you find businesses: I suppose you could sell things door to door, but most people don't. One way which works for a lot of people is to throw an event with the local e.g. Chamber of Commerce about some technology topic (maybe an overview of how mobile is changing the Internet, a subject on which you're vastly more educated than the average owner of a firm with $2 million a year in revenue in your local community) and having business cards and a willingness to continue the conversation when people try to talk to you after the event.
did you fucking read it?
My process is similarly all over the place, but DWWWSAY suffers from the additional problem that 80% of my thinking power is taken up with social crap in a situation like this, so the interviewer is essentially seeing me at 20% speed. This may be why I have never gotten a job after being asked to demonstrate coding something on a whiteboard. :)
I have always said comedians should run the place. So many are incredibly bright, keen observers of life and manage to cut through the PR and political crap that needlessly muddies the waters. Russel is one of these.
http://www.amazon.com/Software-Estimation-Demystifying-Pract... is fantastic for giving many approaches to the topic, and counseling for non-technical stakeholders where it isn't a negotiation, but math.
Ex-Nokia designer on Windows Phone UI
If someone is married and has children, then it's likely they've been working for a while (for example, assuming a typical graduation at 22 and kids at 30, that's 8 years in the industry). In that situation, technical interviews require a lot of time preparation. It would require looking at old college textbooks/notes, doing practice interview questions, etc. The amount of time required is probably about the same as a "make a webapp".
I agree. Furthermore, it's better to use the flash than not capture the moment at all.

> In my book, there is never a scenario where it is okay to use a flash, if it is too dark to take the photo, then don’t take it.

Statements like this reminds me of audiophiles that refuse to listen to music on "substandard" audio gear. Real music lovers enjoy the content, and would rather have poor quality than no music at all. They love the music and not the equipment. The same applies here. No photo vs photo with suboptimal lighting, I'll take the latter.
Normalising Designs For Better Quality CSS
Don't you think it's funny that there is always someone who is number 1 on the charts?

They continue to gravitate towards Rihanna and the likes because those are the ones that get more airtime and more promotion. It's still a big machine.

Spotify data shows what when people are free to play what they want, off chart music is actually more popular.

Music that is popular has much more to do with culture than with the skills or ingeniousness of the product or artist.

So no the article isn't totally wrong, your criteria is.
Why Drug Dealers Live With Their Moms (2007)
$11,50? I am serious. You get 10Eur/h for cleaning floors in Germany. I can't believe that you'd get $11,40/h for coding an iOS App. No way! Even the cheapest company I know pays 50Eur/h for an iOS dev and they're currently valued between 120Eur/h and 200Eur/h here.

I know some law students, who clean floors, because they don't want to fill their head with useless stuff, when they can get along with 80Eur a day and concentrate on studying instead of work.
Before the twentieth century, and even today in some parts of the world, music wasn't something you buy. It was something you participate in. Before the invention of the phonograph, people would bring instruments to parties and play music themselves. It took time for this tradition to die out. Even in the 40's movie theaters frequently showed sing-a-long shorts! While recorded music has brought first-rate professional performances to the masses, it has robbed untold millions of musical expression. How many of us learned to play some instrument or another as children, but never bothered to keep playing because we didn't like the music we were taught to play and didn't think we could ever play well enough to be worth listening to? Odds are most people reading this are much less musically accomplished than their great-great grandparents were.

For a substantial portion of the twentieth century, technological limitations made recording and distribution expensive. You could make a lot more money by promoting a star and making everyone want a small number of records than you could by recording everything under the sun! Some of those stars were just gifted amateurs who had mass appeal the moment they walked in from the wilds. Those were rare enough that we soon learned how to manufacture stars, and the methods have reached a level of sophistication where musical talent isn't even necessary anymore (see autotuning).

The internet has practically eliminated the costs and difficulty of distribution. The moment you record something, you can send it to the other side of the planet almost instantaneously to as many people who are interested in it exist. Recording still takes some knowledge, but the equipment required to do professional quality recording is now easily accessible to hobbyists. Natural prodigies are still showing up now and then, and stopping them from recording great music would be more challenging than allowing them to do so! It's the manufactured star system that's collapsing. It costs a lot to do research on what should appeal to teenagers in a few years, hire professional writers to design songs matching your research results, hire somebody who looks good in a latex bikini to record those songs, shoot videos, etc., and finally have a team of professional audio engineers digitally massage her horrid caterwaulings into something that doesn't sound horrible when blasted through iPod earbuds at top volume.

Manufactured music superstars are a dying breed, and good riddance. My playlist is devoid of them and full of gifted amateurs, and I couldn't be happier with the change! The global musical monoculture is ending and a diverse, global party is replacing it. We are working towards the point where music can be created by anyone, anywhere, to be shared with everyone, everywhere. Perhaps, as we listen to superstars less and to ordinary people more, the pressure to play like a superstar or not play at all will drop away and we'll reclaim the tradition of participatory music that we've been robbed of. Perhaps, one day, people will start bringing their instruments to parties again!
Totally agree. One more thing I'd add is: tell your candidates up front what to expect of the process. An overview after first contact is nice, but interview-day schedules specifically seem to help alleviate the jitters. We've started giving candidates a schedule with names and rough content before they arrive: 10a-11a - pair programming on a TI Launchpad with Jerry; 11a-12p - planning and organization exercise with Sam; 12p - group lunch; etc.
by far the greatest line: "Subsequent to my jokes, the evening took a peculiar turn... It had the vibe of a wedding dinner where the best man's speech had revealed the groom's infidelity. With Hitler."
Or one can just not do megaprojects.

An instructive example comes from one of Mary Poppendieck's books. The Empire State Building was never planned and estimated in the traditional sense. They picked a deadline and used a flow-based approach to make it happen. They were already building the lower floors before the upper floors were designed.

One of the problems they faced was that nobody had designed an electrical system nearly that size. So they split the building down the middle vertically and in three slices horizontally. That gave them 6 30-story buildings to wire, an understood problem.

Another good example is the Internet: a globe-spanning network that connects a large fraction of humanity. There is no central control, no central design, no plan. Much larger than any megaproject, but done without a megaproject's methods.

I agree that megaprojects use more involved methods, but I think "called for" is, as yet, unproven. I think it's more about the people and the social structures making the decisions than it is about what's being created. When all you have is primates, everything looks like a primate dominance hierarchy.
SkyDrive's Recycle Bin stores files until you run out of space or until 30 days is up. So you might randomly be able to recover a deleted file.
He gave this step by step presentation at JSConf.eu today. It was really well done... I could almost follow!

I hear there will be video in a couple weeks.
I just don't see why there's all the hype over this keyboard versus any other mechanical board (Filco, Leopold, Ducky, etc) other than PR.

For me personally, nothing beats an 87-key (standard 101-key minus the number pad, but with arrow keys and stuff above them) with Cherry MX Brown switches. Blues are also acceptable in a pinch (reminiscent of the old Northgate Omnikey boards). The only superior board is of course the IBM/Unicomp models with buckling springs.

All this is my opinion and preference; I have coworkers who love the "flat" chiclet-style keyboards like the Apple models; I can't stand them and they make my fingers hurt due to lack of travel. Bad habit from learning to type on a Selectric II in the late 80s.
This quote really stuck with me:
“this race to get jobs becomes more important than the actual ‘let’s educate our students,’ ” Henderson said. “It’s not uncommon to encounter a 20-year-old who has not benefited from the maturation you get from higher education, from true engagement in a classroom — it becomes more about taking classes as an extended way to build your résumé. You think you’re talking to a 20-year-old who should have bright ideas and enthusiasm, and they can’t get out of the mode of: ‘What are the words I’m supposed to use in this conversation?’ And you see that the risk has been taken out of résumés — that’s the part that’s most disheartening.”

I go to UPenn, and the pre-professionalism defines the school. The students, especially those in Wharton, do almost nothing between the hours of 8am and 8pm that isn't in some way connected to building a career. I'm not condemning this attitude though, because it is productive and realistic. In the modern economy students at Penn often come out with great jobs and a relatively secure future, and that's very important. I also can't say I'm much above it, I put a ton of effort into finding internships and jobs. I just wish there was some way to balance this with the "Hollywood" depiction of college where students sit around and engage each other in intellectual conversation for the sake of mental expansion. I wish this was the type of where people don't just join a handful of clubs/groups to build their resume, and where people don't avoid interesting classes that might hurt their GPA. I've loved my 3.5 years here, but that element has been decidedly missing.
"The Century of the Self is an award-winning British television documentary series by Adam Curtis. It focuses on how the work of Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud, and Edward Bernays influenced the way corporations and governments have analyzed,‭ dealt with, and controlled ‬people.[1]"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Century_of_the_Self
Okay, so we've gone from "You can make $100/hr making iOS apps" to "You can make $100/hr making iOS apps if you happen to live in a city that lets you throw an event, figure out which people you need to convince to let you throw that event, have enough public speaking skills (along with presentation skills and "appearance skills") to wow the audience, and you can somehow get local business owners to attend your event."

The overview is really excellent, it's just that I'm getting the feeling "connecting competent iOS devs to business owners" is a huge unsolved problem.

Could I persuade you to throw out some more ideas for how to connect with the right people to land a $100/hr gig?

(I appreciate that this thread is rather not-very-visible, so maybe your time is better spent elsewhere. But I figured I'd at least ask, since the advice would be so valuable.)
And if they end up serving no practical use they end up discarded and ignored by scientists and engineers (if maybe not pure mathematicians). The author's point is that there is no such selective pressure on lit crit.

Litcrit theory is actually a pretty big commercial success. Derrida et al. sell quite well for academic books, and a Sexy Postmodernism Sex Theory Made Accessible to Undergraduates type course is a reliably decent draw for English departments, who need the enrollment.

Furthermore, if you consume entertainment products with shifting, non-linear narrative like The Simpsons, Coen Brothers movies, or Inception, you're exerting selective pressure in favor of postmodernism.
Amateur music is quickly filling in that gap, especially on the electronic front (not just EDM, there is a huge variety of music composed digitally that sounds nothing like your standard rave music).

No, you are completely wrong. I can't talk about genres I don't know about but for the electronic music I listen to there is a painfully obvious difference between amateur and professional stuff. To the point where I think it is harming the genre. The top artists earn almost nothing from sales of their music, but command large fees for playing 1-2 hours sets every weekend.

There is a real dearth of new talent because people getting into it just don't have the sound engineering experience to make their music sound good enough for people to enjoy. What happens is the big labels find producers would could have some talent, take them on board and teach them how to make the music and have the experienced engineers tidy up their work until it sounds good. What this has resulted in is the two major labels absolutely dominating the scene with a large majority of the big names signed to them and absolutely dominating the share of music listened to. One of the labels also owns the major online store that sells music in this genre.

And yet, they still make next to nothing from sales. This is why ghost producing is so widespread in electronic music- the only money to be made is in live performances. To get big there, you need good productions to get a name for yourself. So what do you do if you're only interested in making music but not performing? You make the music, put it out with someone else's name, they do the performance and bring in the $$ and you split it (or whatever your agreement is).

Now, competition might be more prevalent in other genres- but I can tell you without a shadow of a doubt that in genres without significant competition, there is still no money to be made in sales. People listen to the top artists like crazy, they just don't pay for the music because why wouldn't you just download it all for free?
>> if I ask you to write a function that determines whether two given words are anagrams of each other

I've no college degree, I've been writing software earning me a comfortable living for 2 decades and for fun for 3 decades. I've solved a lot of problems in software and never heard of Big O until recently on HN. If you ask me about college quiz stuff like fuzzbuster (fizzbuster?) or anagrams I have to Google what an anagram is in the first place. I've never seen anyone paid to write them, never had a manager ask me to write one.
In your experience with the Kinesis, would having a flat layout be a significant impediment to the comfort of another matrix key layout?

It's probably not optimal but probably is an improvement. Having the space and backspace keys (which are probably the two I use most) under my thumbs is a HUGE advantage.

That being said, if you can get the cash together the Kinesis is worth it. I didn't think so at first, but, as I say in the post, I went back to a regular keyboard after sending the review unit back. Then I found the money.
haha, yeah like the Samwer Brothers, they copy existing startups. http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/the-samwer-brot...

To be honest, you probably won't make money with this until December.
It's spinning in the right direction if you're a satellite in a mid-altitude equatorial orbit.
I think he is best being interviewed and talking in general rather than in his work. If you like what you hear, you should put some effort in to searching out some interviews, he is fascinating on many subjects.

Not saying his not a good comedian, he is very good, but I think people are sort of put off taking him seriously because of it. I'm sure this is true of many comedians.

Oh also, here in the UK, his is an easy tabloid target. Which is the game he alludes to. Tabloid----> media----> big business---> government---> establishment. He attacks the lot, and they really don't like it one little bit.

BTW, fantastic to see this resonates with the HN crowd. Never saw that one coming. :)

Edit: Added

I've just realised something. Brand is a sort of "hacker", ish. Often here we talk about "disruption" in a particular market, and seeing how that market changes or responds. Well, read this bit:

"I could see the room dividing as I spoke. I could hear the laughter of some and louder still silence of others. I realised that for some people this was regarded as an event with import. The magazine, the sponsors and some of those in attendance saw it as a kind of ceremony that warranted respect. In effect, it is a corporate ritual, an alliance between a media organisation, GQ, and a commercial entity, Hugo Boss. What dawned on me as the night went on is that even in apparently frivolous conditions the establishment asserts control, and won't tolerate having that assertion challenged, even flippantly, by that most beautifully adept tool: comedy.

The jokes about Hugo Boss were not intended to herald a campaign to destroy them. They're not Monsanto or Halliburton, the contemporary corporate allies of modern-day fascism; they are, I thought, an irrelevant menswear supplier with a double-dodgy history. The evening, though, provided an interesting opportunity to see how power structures preserve their agenda, even in a chintzy microcosm."

Am I right in seeing that as hacking the ceremony?
"Boy you guys, wouldn't it be neat if a software development career entitled you to a concubine on top of everything else?"
Moving it a few inches away isn't inherently impossible, since you could put the flash at the other end of the phone from the lens. At the minimum it'd be a lot more awkward to use, though.
2005. Discussed in the book Freakonomics.
While by definition you're partly correct, the triad itself, which never had an Army competent, is carefully designed to make sure of significant serious retaliatory return.

Bombers are critically important because you can launch them in all sorts of circumstances including ones short of war without their necessarily even being able to have their warheads go boom (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permissive_action_link). They're also obviously not vulnerable to ABM systems except the dual use ones. Or various gambits that make the space though which ballistic missiles have to travel hostile, e.g. zero intelligence "gravel".

When the stakes are survival, redundancy is your friend.
Or... http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=501...
I didn't mean 3.0, I meant any version from then on. For a phone that came out in may 2011, it was infuriating to be stuck on 2.x.

Other than nexus phones, all android phones are at the mercy of the carrier and manufacturer. None of them get updated on the day a new version of android comes out, most experience long delays, and many see no major version bump.

When iOS 7 comes out next week there is no doubt I will be able to install it on my iPhone.
The headline is in error. This article was submitted earlier,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6390605

and is being discussed on the front page.
>> Without the math, how do you know that your solutions are any good?

He probably does it the same way you do, idea, code, build, test, analyze.
Worry will kill you faster than a nuclear power plant will.
Sorry but many many many so called artists cant play or compose anything to save their lives.

P-diddy never played an instrument. Plenty of popular singers are mediocre to say the least. And many many many very talented musicians make no money what so ever.

Musical talent have very little to do with whether you can live from your music.
No. They both look like net improvements, however. The Sculpt also uses scissor keys like the ones on MacBooks or, at least at one point, Thinkpads, which is an interesting choice. I prefer keys with more travel, but that's pure preference.

Pretty much no one likes the standard rubber-dome keys.
It's a juvie, which is what Young Adult (YA) fiction was called back when Heinlein was writing for that market.

However, I called it a 'juvie' because the book fits the older style better: A young person Gets Into Trouble and uses Native Wit, Loyal Friends, and a few Helpful Adults to Solve The Problem. It not incidentally teaches Moral Lessons by example, like how important it is to stand up for yourself and so on. Modern YA stuff is more psychologically deep and less focused on Solving The Problem.

Anyway, the target audience is middle school to high school. The protagonist is in high school, but it's a rule in kid lit that kids will gladly read things meant for older kids but never stuff meant for younger kids.
It was also the average IQ of our grandparents' generation and that of South Koreans in the 1950s

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

They all got rich and their (our) IQs went up. The question is why hasn't this happened in Sub-Saharan Africa.