skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is disturbing that a city of 50,000 would need something like this.

In any case, all the advocates of the system claim is that it "lets you know when and where a gunshot occurs". That's it. I see no one claiming more, yet can appreciate how knowledge when and where a gunshot occurs can be useful to law enforcement.
One good point made on the finance side is that you have a huge impact because of the size of the deals involved. The scale is much bigger than Google.

It also takes a certain viewpoint on free markets that most people lack, to see the good that finance does. For example, buying a company with a low share price and liquidating it would be a net plus, but seeing this relies on rejecting common falsehoods, eg that jobs are an externality.

The best argument I saw for working in tech came from a promotional video for an investment bank! One analyst is being interviewed, and she says how she spends all her time analyzing companies, but it would feel more "honest" to be actually doing the work that these companies do. While finance does add value to the economy, being so far removed from the coalface may feel less rewarding.
The issue with banks like that is the complexity is lying outside their ability to enforce it, so they have to rely on government/law to enforce that complexity instead of software. Such banks move slowly. Are there any banks with open APIs? Yes, not many though, there probably aren't enough to start a network effect.

Just because some APIS are "hard" and exist outside of an electronic network, doesn't mean that they cannot be automated in software to some extent.

Makes me wonder if Obama is trying to automate the government and military so Laws and enforcement can be automated so inter-banking can be automated. Didn't follow our NDA and are using our API to lander cash? Automated drone missile at your IP interface.
There's also ifconfig.me, who returns either an HTML version or a plaintext version depending on the user-agent, so `curl ifconfig.me` returns just the plain IP. There's also a list of other URLs on the homepage (for the host, user agent and a bunch of other stuff).
Would this be good for listening for breaking glass?

That would be great for detecting breakins and car theft, no?
If the client refused to leave a 5-star review, I'd speculate the developer would improve the project such that he would get a 5-star review. I think it's his way of saying, "we're not done until you're totally satisfied". Of course, the developer went about it in a rude way, but that's exactly what you can expect hiring someone from a totally different culture than ours whom you've never met.

Basically this entrepreneur is complaining that being an engineering manager isn't 100% easy. And then he concludes by saying that being an engineer is totally do-able and probably easier than managing. lol
Also this is written from his perspective. It's most likely he forgot (or deliberately didn't mention in this article) everything the developer said during those negotiations, presumably things like "we will have to negotiate additional charges for anything not specifically mentioned in the spec."
somewhat easier to remember: curl ifconfig.me
FUCK NO!! :)
I guess I'm uniquely qualified to comment on this, having moved from Apple to Goldman Sachs.

At Apple I made toys for rich people. The only people I helped where those who rented a movie on iTunes.

At GS I wrote software to help sell corporate and municipal bonds. My work at GS directly made corporate expansion and city infrastructure cheaper to fund.

Without a doubt, my work for GS was far better for society.
http://ghost.org looks promising. You should definitely be self hosting.
There are exceptions to every rule, but I generally agree with Keith's comment. For most successful entrepreneurs, the cost/benefit analysis just doesn't work out. Potential issues range from helping the competition to simply wasting time that would be better spent on the business. Additionally, entrepreneurs often have boards and shareholders that are scrutinizing everything they say. Unless someone has a burning personal desire to blog, there are just too many issues involved for already successful entrepreneurs to want to bother with it.
I'm really rather happy with openSUSE. I have a VPS and a RPi running Debian stable and beta respectively, but my main laptop has been running openSUSE for years and I prefer it if possible. I think this one has been updated at least since 11.4, and I've started using their "rolling stable" release (for lack of a better description), called Tumbleweed, which is really neat![1]

YaST is nice since it's there if one doesn't know how to change certain things (or if one cannot be bothered) simply with the config files, though they are always there for direct editing. Another nice thing is the wide array of Window Managers available, I've been using KDE4 for a long while but recently found myself using i3 more and more.

Regarding package management, I find zypper a delight to work with, since repository management is straight-forward (and so is gpg-key-management). It's also rpm-based, which I think makes packaging a lot easier, but YMMV.

[1]: Thanks gregkh! :)
I was confused by this too since the Tmobile website is bundling the "sim starter kit" for $10 but I got the $0.99 sim from them earlier in the year for my Nexus 4.
What did the trolleys provide that today's bus system does not?
why do they even have two separate subreddits for that?
Actually they could develop a new model you install inside a house and listens for windows breaking.

That would be better than the expensive of putting a sensor on every window of a house for an ADP type system.
I calculated this out a couple days ago. The hash rate has been rising pretty steadily exponentially with all the new ASICs coming online, and can be expected to double again within 25-30 days. The current break-even price for 1 GH/s is about 0.03-0.04 bitcoins -- that is, if you bring 1GH/s online right now, over the next 6 months you will mine a total about 0.035 bitcoins and at that time you will be minting at less than 1% of the rate you started with.

You can buy 1GH/s for about 0.12 bitcoins on cex.io right now, if you are a sucker.
I would say the largest existential threat to Bitcoin is scale. All the problems cited by WU are fixable; same with user security.

However, dumping even half of the Visa/MC daily tx volume would bring the network to a halt. The transaction fee scheme has issues as is, it needs to be reworked before it can handle even double the current daily volume. [need to find source, gavin mentioned it somewhere]

We could raise the block size, but that's no free lunch (makes it more costly to run a node, etc...), things could go off chain, we could use Ripple, etc... etc.

Point being, something will need to change before the big players come in, and it's more than just liquidity and user security.
What a scam. If Apple doesn't like your project, you don't have to pay the developer. No risk for you.
Since pg can't always talk directly with each and every YC funded startup founder, I believe he writes his essays so all of them has a chance to get his message. Those texts are deeply related to his core duties at YC and no, I wouldn't call that "regularly blogging" - not even close.
Everything in this article is from the writers perspective. The developer may have done all the things you said, informally, but the article writer didn't bother to mention them. Perhaps he should have gotten a lawyer, and gotten an iron clad contract, but that itself would have cost more then the total amount he was going to be paid.
A standardized open android just means easier rooting by hardware. No, you don't want to write to that location, mr. software, how about I link you a dialog about violating your EULA instead?
But not for people who collect code and then find an excuse not to pay, that isn't necessary at all.
But that was at the height of the financial crisis, that doesn't apply to gm stock today
Hey HN, I created this site and just found out via Twitter that it got submitted here! (thanks jtreminio) Had to dig up my account from a few years ago...

I whipped up the site last week and it's been getting quite a bit of traffic this weekend (by my standards). I created it after I found out that you were able to do this to Google Maps and I was looking for some solid examples.

Some of the planned features I have are:

1. A tool for creating these styles. There are a few out there but I'd like to take a crack at creating a better one.

2. Ability to register in order to favourite certain styles.

3. Add an RSS feed.

If anyone has any suggestions I'd love to hear them.
I'm actually in the middle of transferring a large sum of money between countries.

WesternUnion would cost me at least 4.5%, their fee calculator doesn't even support large amounts.

Bitcoin will cost me around 1.0% in fees (including USD wire-in, buy bitcoin, sell for Euro, SEPA-out).

Guess which method I will be using.
That's not technically correct. Your work is modulated by the device. A device with less parts modulates it less. Less modulation of your actions means you have more direct control.
Would setting up a version control repository for the developer that you can access avoid the problem being held at ransom for the five star review?
I'm wondering how badly throttled the free users will become over time.
Ask PG: What does YC think of dev bootcamps for non-technical founders?
The focus is on how YC views development bootcamps, and, if possible, which ones PG holds on higher regard when looking for a founder.
“How much would you pay to wake up early?"
I think the idea is that accountability to voters helps keep things in line.

If you're in a situation where you believe a natural monopoly to be inevitable, it's not necessarily flawed reasoning.
such popularity

so doge

wow

many reddit
You might like my whitespace lisp with f-expressions: http://akkartik.name/blog/wart
You are not paying for development, you are paying for outcomes with Apple. If there's anything wrong with your idea, you don't have to pay and the developer doesn't eat no matter how well they delivered on your spec. That's a scam.
You must have just hit my site? I noticed someone was on it from Palo Alto. Anyway, I'm mostly doing calling and emailing of networks and local businesses. Why do you ask? If you're interested in more info, drop me a line scott@companyname.com.
I did freelancing till 2010. And I will say its 100% your mistake. But I believe now you know how it works. Someone said its the Elance model problem and blah blah. When you assign the project to any developer, the payment, the model doesn't matter. You both agreed to money, deadline, product, etc. What you need to do is make real short milestones and precise task list. Which includes bug fixing, meeting schedules, and of-course delivery of source-code (I prefer a private Git repo with bitbucket or something similar) and hosting to app store. Both should exactly know what needed to be developed and on what date & time. It should go like this:

Milestone 1 ($50 / 2hours / 4th Nov 2013 - 10AM delivery):
- Git init
- splash screen
# Your task (1 hr) -> test - release $50 as a go ahead

Milestone 2 ($50 / 2hours / 4th Nov 2013 - 10AM delivery)
- Screen 1 - form submit
- Backend - process form
# Your task (1 hr) -> test - release $50 as a go ahead
.........
You should also include closing of project, giving reviews and source code details in the milestones.

You are not hiring an agency whom you know and who won't mess up (btw, even big agencies mess up). You are hiring a guy whom you have never seen/met. And you just paying $800 for an iPhone app! What you need to do is just tighten up the milestones! If he have good reviews - he definitely have the capability to do the job.

Its good to learn app development (also helps to check developer's source) - but there's nothing to be afraid of elance or freenalcer.com. You just need to use the right strategy. The app idea is already in your mind. Spend 2-3 days to plan the project management and make a list of tasks. Then you are all set!

And congratulations for your app!
May I suggest that you STFU
I was told that many of the boxes in Chicago just have fake cameras and a blue flashing light to let you know you're being "watched". Not sure if it is true or not but you can buy fake security cameras.
The iOS 7 App Design Guide [Book]
I'd rather they become politicians and create a new order of technicrats.
TuProlog: Making Prolog Ubiquitous
BUT DOES THIS WORK WITH NODE.JS?!1
How to Gracefully Wind Down a Failing Startup
Why throttle them? Let them hit the caps and pay for more data.
Because /r/shibe's original moderator drove out a large number of subscribers and shut it down temporarily, and they created /r/supershibe in response. Standard internet drama.
You may find the work more rewarding personally but I seriously doubt that GS is due any credit for it. If any good comes from work done by GS it is certainly a by-product that simply can't be helped.
see my response below. or you're wrong.
yeah... you're wrong ;)
This was my initial idea but it did cause a few performance issues, especially on mobile devices. It's a responsive site but even with 5 Google Maps instances the performance on mobile is pretty bad. I think I might switch to just static images on mobile and then load up Google Maps for larger screens. For now you will have to make do with pagination...

Glad you noticed the persistent map bounds :D
> There simply is no good way to secure bitcoin for the regular joe at this point in time.

My coworker has a regular checking account. One day he noticed he had something like $20K missing. He called the bank, they have a long conversaton, put him on hold, long long hold, then they say "Your money is back, let's never talk of this incident again".

If he hadn't noticed it, he would be out $20K.
I thought the entitlement was google's when they used open source development to build their closed tools and betatest their api/protocol.

Of course the entitlement is theres because they convinced OSS devs to write code for them for free under the "do no evil" moniker.

So now if they want to keep their toolchains, they have to continue maintaining the oss-side google service apps to regain access to the tools they help built.

I think this is called bait and switch, and it's probably the #1 pattern used by big technology firms today. It's so easy to "switch" with IT. Carrot-stick pattern worked well for Microsoft, because they owned the only stick and most the bait, but no longer. I guess without a monopoly, the only way to secure customers is to fool them.
Western Union is very expensive compared to an online trader like xe.com. I'd say that would be more comparable.
Google Chrome To Start Automatically Blocking Malware
Test if any website is blocked in China
Interestingly, the largest employer of mathematicians in the world isn't Google or Goldman Sachs.

It's the NSA.
How To Launch a Company with Zero Ideas, Capital or Tech Savvy
Installed ghost earlier this week. It's awesome. The only problem I've had so far is that this bug https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/issues/527 means I can't run it at https://mysite/blog - but other than that it's awesome
I believe this is the case. If you try to run a 16-bit executable on x64 Windows, you will receive a "not compatible" error MessageBox essentially saying WOW cannot help you.
I'm pretty early since I only work on it part-time and I'm learning marketing/sales at the same time as this. I want to get a few more customers to prove out the product fit before putting a bunch of resources into adwords, etc.
[Edited] You mean, you helped make rich people richer ..
Joel Spolsky of StackExchange - http://www.joelonsoftware.com/
Goodbye R scripts, hello R packages
Man I had the exact same thoughts. I have taken jobs in the past from clients with perspectives that resembled the authors and .... I can tell you, I will not do it again.
I totally agree to "he got what he paid for".
I'm glad you threw Drug companies in the mix. I used to
think that was the one industry that followed scientific
principals--boy was I wrong.
Consider who the shareholders of Goldman are. Teachers' pension funds for example. Is it a worthwhile goal to provide them with superior returns so that their pensions are in good shape? Yes. Is it a worthwhile goal to organize the world's information? Yes. Let's not have this silly debate. Everyone should work on what they enjoy and find intellectually challenging and the world will be a better place
The language problem may have meant that the developer interpreted the milestone as pay upon App Store submission instead of App Store approval. The developer stated in the conversation that if the app was rejected because of his coding mistakes, that he would fix those bugs.

Paying upon approval is ridiculous. I can request a developer write me an app with a buy button that takes the user to my website instead of using Apple's In-App Purchasing. That app would never get approved even though the developer wrote exactly what I asked them to. So I shouldn't pay the developer because Apple denied the app? And no, you shouldn't expect the developer to vet your design before starting development and alerting you of such problems unless you are paying for it. For $800, you are definitely not paying for it.
Read some Steven Pinker to learn why this is currently impossible. Example - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_flies_like_an_arrow#Analys...
1 counterexample from 600 companies...
such anger wow
xe.com was the other option I considered, but they are very secretive about the wire transfer fees out of their account. I didn't want to risk getting ripped off.
If it'd been in Bitcoins, he'd still be out the $20k.
As well as financing the construction of municipal infrastructure. Get over yourself.
and the google life extension project, if it is to succeed, will require a lot of financing. Here is a thought experiment: if investment banks are useless then why do companies, including Google, pay them high fees? The simplest explanation is they have their own role to play
Yeah, I am having the same issue trying to compile gcc on an emulated old MIPS. :-/
jammed some edm, hi bpm in the background to keep me alert. when things got hectic i got some lag but that only helped me catch up. I couldn't stop playing.

I would like to see a leaderboard too
> Price, Quality, Time

Please don't use those terms. There are better ones: Price, Scope (size) and Time.

The problem with the phrasing "Price, Quality, Time" is that nobody wants to sacrifice on quality. Everyone wants a app that doesn't crash -- the client, the end users, and the developer. Yes, yes, technical debt is a quality concern, but as long as the app runs the client doesn't care in the moment that there's copy/pasted code everywhere and future changes will be "interesting". It's hard to sell "but if I take an extra half day to make this change future improvements will be easier", at least not in tight projects.

But Scope, scope can start negotiation with clients. "Ok, you do know this new control you want will probably take something like 10 hours to write, do you really want it or can you make do with a default one?"

If a client drops a fixed bid project on me with a dictated time deadline, sure as anything I'm going to take control of the scope side of the project triangle.
Isolate activities in virtual machines. Ideally use something like Qubes OS. At the very least, fire up Virtualbox. My password safe runs in my Virtualbox host OS. Nothing else unnecessary runs there. I do my browsing and daily work in various virtual machines.
These systems are pretty good at detecting fire crackers and backfiring cars. E.g., check out this recent map of results:

http://www.minneapolismn.gov/www/groups/public/@mpd/document...

Only a few of those points are actually shootings.
By far the most accurate description of fantasy sports I have heard is that they are "Dungeons & Dragons for jocks." Because they are about sports, they are basically the only socially-accepted way for jocks to live in a fantasy world without being labeled "nerds."

(Yes, I realize non-jocks play fantasy sports too, but they are definitely not the main target audience.)
Mmmm, I think it's just not profitable for them to do this any more.
You bring up a good point, though. There's a spectrum of financial industry activity, ranging from stuff necessary for the modern economy to function to stuff that many observers would consider dangerous, irresponsible, immoral, and rent-seeking. Maybe Goldman Sachs touches every part of that continuum, maybe it doesn't - I don't know.
Sometimes, non-technical people don't (or can't) tell the difference between a "bug" and a "change". when the thing doesn't do what they expected in their mind's eye, its a bug, not a change. A change is when a completely new feature that isn't mentioned in the spec.

So "bugs" like, moving a menu around, or swapping screens seems easy to someone who has never written anything before, but it isn't trivial (unless, of course, you had time to write nicely abstracted code. But for $800 and two weeks, i doubt that's the case).

May be there should be an app that lets clients make mockups, and when they change their mockups, it computes a "diff" that then is heuristically used to generate an expected price...
I would have to disagree about Pfizer. Success in the pharmaceutical industry is based on bringing real benefit to patients, otherwise you don't make any profit.

Sure you can argue that pharmaceutical advertising is boosting those profits beyond what they would normally see, but the fact remains that these companies are still providing therapies that improve patients' lives and health.
(Not ideal/feasible for every employee, but if you do have important access/credentials... at least they aren't getting those by owning your browser in a throwaway VM)
Type using Dvorak in Gmail
Depending on how you want your blog to work (say you want to serve ads, or some other feature) you'll get stuck unable to do what you want with wordpress.com. [1]

Self hosting WordPress is usually a good option but if money is a problem it will mean more work managing your install, if money isn't much of a problem take a look at the many managed hosts (wpengine, wpsynthesis, zippykid).

You also get more options with theming and plugins if you host WordPress yourself.

If you just want to blog, a free wordpress.com, a blogger blog, or a tumblr should all serve you well enough.

You might want to invest in your own domain name though, as *.example.com isn't the best way to bring people in.

[1]: http://en.support.wordpress.com/advertising/
it certainly answers your question. It's just not the answer you were looking for ;)
I wouldn't leave a 5-star review simply because the developer requested to get paid earlier than the agreed upon schedule.

If he doesn't honor what he agreed to, he doesn't deserve 5 stars.
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