skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More just to mean that he'll get paid ridiculously well. Probably a bad choice of words. I didn't mean to give that impression.

What the PA hire is looking at here is a few years of $30-50,000 (if he'll even get that) followed by an immediate bump to the low six figures. Over the course of his career he'll steadily work his way to the high six figures.

This is pretty much guaranteed, although it's not stated anywhere in any contract or in the ad. Professionals in entertainment typically make an order of magnitude more than their contemporaries, after they get in and are vetted, join the trade association, etc.

You just have to get in. This involves getting a well-known production to take a chance on you. A lot of people bum around entertainment for ten-fifteen years before they catch their break. That break typically comes in the form of a very part-time gig on a huge production. You might get some face time with a big name.

That's when everything changes. Overnight, your marketability goes up tenfold. You keep working with bigger and bigger names and before you know it, you're rolling in cash and bennies.

This looks like a horrible job ad when you look at it from our perspective, but what it really offers is a short-cut. You can jump out of the IT industry and the generally shitty 'opportunities' it offers and hop immediately on the fast-track to success. You don't have to bum around with the hangers-on for years, you can get your foot in the door immediately. This is a truly Edison-type opportunity, one that comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Entertainment types don't typically hire outside the industry. Outsiders just don't understand it, can't quite grasp their priorities. That's why they chew through so many young people and burn them out, because they can't get outside professionals to work they way they need to.

PA is willing to, and you'd be a fool not to jump on it.
Then why does unemployment fluctuate so much? Do you think the population just forgets how to make money occasionally?
My bet is that you don't have to worry about it, because only a VERY small percentage of your customers will actually pay using bitcoin.

If all your customers paid in BTC, it's very true that you might take on an unacceptable level of risk. But as a practical matter, accepting BTC as an alternate form of payment might be a great way to diversify your holdings.
No it doesn't.

Saying that Jolla is powers by Sailfish OS sais nothing, even if it's a mobile operating system. It could be anything from a book reader to a TV.
He doesn't seem to dispute that he basically gets paid less than someone who does all those things should...

So what I'm missing is whether there's a legitimate reason for him to be paid below market considering the Penny Arcade seems quite successful.

Though as one of the many people who's accepted supposedly below market pay, I can somewhat relate.
My gripe is how the Magic Mouse works on Mavericks. On Lion it worked really well, now it flips out all the time. I get scrolling when my fingers aren't moving a lot, especially right to left. But I cannot tell you how many times I've tried to click on something...and only have the mouse move the page down just-a-bit, moving the link away from the pointer.
Many thanks for answering. Much appreciated. Conceptually, I understand each of those steps. I'm much less clear on how the drop appears to refract the underlying image.
Ruby On Rails Cookiestore Vulnerability Plagues Prominent Websites
Was it before or after 4chan was created? :-)
Well, there probably already is life on Mars thanks to us now :)
Nothing he wrote has changed my opinion about the ad or the position, except for the parts regarding his depression and lung issues, and how they handled it (well).

Overall, it reinforced that they are interested in someone who is willing to take a below market rate, is a generalist in many arenas, and is willing to work 60-80 hours a week, including 24/7 on call.

Honestly, breaking the job into 2 positions (no, they would not be reading r/aww all day, and if they were, you hired the wrong people) would make this SO much more enticing. It would eliminate the 24/7 on call (you could do every other week), you'd have someone to bounce ideas off, and if you hired the right 2 people, their expertise in the 4 'jobs' would likely be much higher than whoever is going to get the gig currently.
A grad student at Duke, who lived in a van

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/14/education/edlife/ken-ilgun...
The integration uses Bitpay, which can either a) Convert the bitcoin to your local currency upon payment, or b) deposit the bitcoin directly into your wallet (in bitcoin).

If you go with the first option, nothing is really different. You accept bitcoin, but you get the payment in your currency.
Wish they went for something else that wouldn't be easily mistaken for a genuine result. It could even encourage another pop singer next year to do a similar stunt or make this bizarre dancing look cool for young people.
For new users perhaps it is a bit of a leap for them to take, but don't you think they can overlook this fact because they know they are working with a new operating system? Once you understand how the BB10 OS works its nice to use.
The same thing happened recently with Windows 8 when everyone had to learn how to use the gestures for tables.
The main point however is that jolla doesn't stand out from the pack just because they have no front-facing buttons...
You have no idea what risk he should or shouldn't have taken. I don't know if you have kids or not, but as a parent you have to both care for your kids and also provide them a good example of how to live. For me, a life without risks is not the life I want for my kids.
Thanks for the kind words, Will. Onwards & upwards!
How the Fifty Shades of Grey movie got me my first 1,000+ users to Zanda.com
My new site Zanda is a rating platform where users can rate and review items, people, places and anything else. Beside that we have toplists and users can create compares of items and have other users vote on it.
A couple months ago one of the first users created a compare:
Who would you like to play Christian Grey in the upcoming movie Fifty Shades Of Grey?
http://www.zanda.com/matches/40080080000078/who-would-you-like-to-play-christian-grey-in-the-upcoming-movie-fifty-shades-of-grey

At this time it wasn't decided yet who would play that part. Users started sharing the compare over related Facebook Pages and within one week this particular Zanda page received over 3,200 Facebook Likes and over 1,000 users registered at Zanda, voted, rated and shared.

The last two days something similar is happening.

Almost an identical compare was created but for a different, similar, book series 4 days ago:
Who would you like to play Gideon Cross in the upcoming TV show Crossfire Series by Sylvia Day?
http://www.zanda.com/matches/21060010000077/who-would-you-like-to-play-gideon-cross-in-the-upcoming-tv-show-crossfire-series-by-sylvia-day

Today the same thing started happening again! Wentworth Miller’s official Facebook Page posted a link to the Zanda compare and traffic and new users are taking off again!
I feel like I should learn German only so that I would be able to comment on the ß issue every time a Unicode thread pops up. From my uninformed point of view it is not really clear if ß should really be handled as a separate character/grapheme, or just as a ligature in rendering phase and stored as 'ss'. Or even if current-day orthography should be held at such a sacrosanct position that it shouldn't be changed to save significant amount of collective effort.
The scale or pivot paradox for travel startups – there is another way
I suppose you could just withdraw your money as and when you get it.
What you're actually asking is for people to repress their emotions, and that's way more degrading.
Google Street View goes indoors with airports and train stations
Many academics are deeply fascinated by Bitcoin.

The lack of formal proofs has many reasons, not the least of which is that there is no security definition that one could base a proof on. Coming up with a good security definition is going to be a major undertaking. Last year's Turing award was given for the security definition of something much simpler.
Understood. That's a much more plausible view than your original posting.
If someone has something seriously wrong with them, do you believe that degrading them further by "treating them like children" is going to effect the outcome you desire?
For the Dubai Expo 2020.
PythonAnywhere dev here: thanks for the shout-out! Just a slight correction -- we're not web2py-specific, just Python-specific. Django, Flask, Bottle, etc -- all are welcome.

However we are big fans of web2py -- we host web2py.com gratis, and really try to make sure that the framework integrates well with our system.
Did you see it coming ? You might have wanted to start searching for a job before losing the house. Don't think you are worth nothing, hang in there and get back on your feet in a more "normal" manner.
> There is a reason people get a little squeamish about proposals to just give poor people money...we all know what it does to us.

Except we don't. We think we do. And even then, we only have a rough idea what each one of us personally might do. Yet when there have actually been experiments, people don't tend to act in line with these expectations.

> You have to be much more careful and empirical than that.

Exactly. And the (to be fair: very little) data we have so far does not support the notion that people in general won't work hard if they're paid for nothing. Some won't. Others see it as their opportunity to build something. A lot of others simply don't change their behaviour all that much.

Maybe you'd party all the time. For others, social safety nets is what makes doing something greatly useful with their time low risk enough for them to dare do it. E.g. my own example is the opposite of yours: I've never a day in my life seen poverty or homelessness as a possibility, and for me that is a large part of what has made doing startup after startup viable, because I want to do something fun and challenging. The possibility of a big payout is great, but that's a gamble with poor odds.
This post confirms that the job posting is exactly what it looks like: an exploitative horror-show

* He speculates whether the job is worth a "lower salary" (and, given his admitted inexperience in the workforce, he probably has no idea what a market salary looks like)

* "The ping-pong table is NOT a benefit"

* He's on the "bottom of the goddamn ladder" and "reminded every day" edit: I'm getting a lot of flak for taking this out of context. This is a post on his employer's public forum, that they tweeted out on their corp accounts. It's not a stretch to read between the lines because this "joke" is so awkward and forced. I cannot imagine that it didn't have a double meaning. In other words, "ha ha only serious"

* He wears "four hats," and does the job of "two people" so they can run "lean."

* At some point his burnout was so bad (and so visible), his employers asked if they could "send [him] anywhere"

It's really a little strange to read this post. It's obvious that he really, really likes his coworkers and really, really hates his job. He describes horrible things with soft, feel-good terms. The author seems to hope applicants go into it with open eyes: the new hire will be crapped on and underpaid while he keeps a laptop next to the bed to handle early-AM change requests. But your coworkers are really fun!
Once You Use Bitcoin You Can’t Go ‘Back’ — And That’s Its Fatal Flaw
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Awesome - I live in Sheffield and actually attended this event (though I don't seem to be in any of the photos!)
The BTC support we offer is through a 3rd party merchant gateway. As a shop-owner, you are simply accepting payments via BitPay (our partner) which converts the BTC into a currency you find acceptable and deposits it into your accounts.
Imagine a search engine that simply removed the top 1 million most popular web sites from its index. What would you discover?

A mix of affiliate-driven content sites, abandoned blogs & spam sites, based on some of the searches I did. The broader the category, the more likely I think you are to stumble on something relevant and helpful.

(Also, .gov sites don't seem to have been removed from the index. A search for "type 2 diabetes" still brings a number of results from NIH.gov, mimicking what Google serves up.)
When unemployment fluctuates the bar for earning money is fluctuating. If you're the kind of person who is near that bar you need to take a good hard look at yourself.
Because investors really love spending their rapidly appreciating assets...
I've missed plenty of calls because I was in the shower or washing dishes and couldn't get my hands dry enough quickly enough to pick up the phone. I've also missed calls intentionally because I didn't want to take my gloves off in below-zero-Fahrenheit weather just to answer a call, and I couldn't answer a call with my gloves on.

I do wish smartphones phones came with a fallback "answer call" feature that didn't rely on the touchscreen being able to recognize your finger. I can answer a call on a flip phone with just my teeth.
As long as NASA doesn't try to claim this is more evidence for astrobiology (rather than plain old terrestrial damn-tough bacteria), I'm OK with this.
That really depends on what version of windows was out when you grew out of your early teens. It is still around, absolutely, but I feel like the typical hn reader browses wisely enough to never encounter it.
As a (still happy) n900 user looking for an upgrade path to a decent open phone with modern hardware, I'm hoping that Sailfish gives you command line/root access.

Realistically that probably won't happen in this first iteration, but I've held out for long enough now to be able to wait another 6 months to see what happens. A hardware keyboard would also be nice, the bigger the better, but you can't have it all...
This looks very familiar:
http://overtone.github.io/

http://vimeo.com/groups/82430/videos/21956071
The OP probably needed to clarify. English having a simple alphabet gave the US a leg up on personal computing compared to the KJC countries. It's only one contributing factor, though.
Because the alternative is telling people how to spend it, which will be a less efficient use of that money. We already see this with food stamps and housing vouchers. There are many cases where someone has food stamps, but doesn't have trouble buying food, and so has left over food stamps at the end of the month. Yet they can't afford housing, because you can't pay rent with food stamps.
It's called variance. It will either go up or down. However, the general trend of Bitcoin is upwards so it's easier to argue that it's more likely to go up in value. So accepting Bitcoin as payment is +EV in my opinion.

However, some businesses currently could suffer if they accepted Bitcoin due to it's volatily. If you're selling SAAS your cost is tiny so accepting a more +EV payment currency is probably beneficial.

However if you're selling physical widgets on very slim margins and don't have anything in place to reduce your exposure via quick selling of Bitcoin, and cashflow is/could be an issue it's probably not suitable.
Missing hard drive containing Bitcoins worth £4m in Newport landfill site
> You can choose to receive your payments in Bitcoins (paid into your Bitcoin wallet) or paid in your local currency directly into your bank account every business day.

If you choose to receive local currency, what rate do you receive? Are you guaranteed a rate? Does it fluctuate daily (and as a result, can you quote prices so that they change daily as well?) and do you know the rate in advance?
I'm going to trust that he understands his desires, ambitions, and capabilities better than anyone reading that thread, the discussion around the Internet, or the job posting. This is not some naive kid fresh out of college being abused by a powerful corporation.
Even if you don't believe they should be free to make their own economic decisions. Do you really want 20-50% of YOUR money to be eaten up by administrative costs? Why is the current incomprehensible complex system better than a simple one?
Correct, C# and .Net have an immutable string class and a mutable StringBuilder helper class.
Raspberry Pi co-founder picks 5 of the best Raspberry Pi projects he's seen
Thumbs up for the design/ux, a good idea nicely executed I think!
The ladder comment is about the Ping-Pong tournaments regularly held in the office.

From the comment it's pretty obvious this is a two person job and getting a single dev is a business mistake.
A State by State Map of America's Filthy Porn Searches
"More options are better for the consumer:" not if you consider fragmentation. While this runs Android apps, it's not clear if it's fully/"acid" compliant and the risk is Sailfish's flavor of Android is a black-sheep stepchild of Android that doesn't always run Android apps properly.

"BTW you can call any product vaporware" - not really. The iPhone wasn't vaporware as it was never officially mentioned before it was released. Android was launched pretty early on with the G1, etc.
Haproxy and varnish on single hostname tutorial
https://bitpay.com/bitcoin-exchange-rates
> If you make changes to your site that make both IE6 and all other browsers fast, then what are you optimizing for?

You still optimized for IE6. It just so happened that your optimizations made your site faster in other browsers too.
> Gold is dropping probably for its own flaws. It's heavy and expensive to handle, and you have to trust same banks you trust your other money to

The same problems it has had for the last 10000 years. You can't seriously expect these "realizations" to have an effect on Gold prices.
Poverty is a huge cause of crime, disease, teen pregnancy, and poor educational outcomes. Do you disagree?

And if someone refuses to get an education or better themselves when given the opportunity, are they somebody you'd like to hire for your company? Better to keep them placated with some minimum of food and shelter so they don't rob you, and save the jobs for the people who want them and will execute to your satisfaction.
There you go http://trypepperjs.appspot.com/
yep agreed here. a lot of the responses i've been getting are intelligence-insulting "that's how all money works" "economics is flawed blah blah" but i think the fact is -- these things are taken into account.

Currency can exist purely through the means of social contract, I'm in total agreement with that. But Bitcoin's volatility is not exactly "good PR" unless people are actually delusional enough to believe that the value is massively increasing because it's "clever and people are beginning to understand it". It's soaring because it's clever and people don't get it at all.

Given all of the shady baggage and investment scheming associated with the ecosystem I don't think it will ever reach the level of widespread social contract.

it's not that I love the dollar or anything it's just that the dollar is an agreed upon currency and Bitcoin is still just a trading market. Since it's yet to be proven that it's performing its stated purpose (transactional currency), there's no reason why the market for it won't just disappear one day with a crash so bad that selling at a loss isn't even possible -- the faith is just gone.
So is mine... but still stuck behind the kebab companies :(
Try local bitcoins. You can buy in person with cash.
Rigging Time's Person of the Year poll? All in a day's twerk
That si better than running the drives 24/7 - if one is going to go then that way it is more likely to go alone. If every in an array (anything I even half way care about get s the RAID1 or RAID5 treatment) has been spinning for years then a power cycle can be quite scary. Restarting once month or so increases the chance that if they fail they'll not all fail at the same time.

Having said that, my main little server at home hasn't had a power cycle for somewhat longer than a month as there have been no kernel updates or that like that have required it...
There's plenty of live aspects in electronic music, see for example Robert Delong, Beardyman, Booka Shade, Pretty Light's current tour, etc.
> Recognizing the danger of an architecture-specific web, Google has disabled NaCl for everything except the Chrome Web Store.

And plus.google.com. :(
> in this case the target environment seems to me to be much more complex than a physical cpu: threads, memory management, etc.

It compiles for a restricted subset of javascript. There are no threads (there are no threads in javascript itself in the first place), and it works around memory management (it sets up big typed arrays, and memory allocations are slices of that)
A Brief Introduction to Linux Containers with LXC
I use Jekyll for http://markwatson.com/blog and I generally like it. I used blogger (mapped to a subdomain) for years and liked it but decided I wanted more control over my own "property". Before using Jekyll I tried a cheap Wordpress host for a few months. Wordpress is OK, but had a lot of ceremony for what I need, and static web page generation was a good fit. I also like the Jekyll tools for producing nicely formatted program listings for a variety of languages.
Thanks a lot. I wanted to make the listings/offers as faster as possible.
I'm not suggesting that you upgrade to 2.0, or anything drastic, but does this mean you don't install the security updates? Build 448 included important OpenSSL fixes, and no functional changes or deprecations occur during these minor upgrades.
Show HN: Bitcoin Register - Square for Bitcoin
Once people reach a livable income, do they totally stop learning, inventing, or creating? I know I don't, and I know other people I see with financial security don't just "stop" either. Because of that, I believe it's at least worth a try.
If you know some finish guy, you will definitely understand that this mobile is going to rock.
> What if in fact asmjs was causing a degenerate case in their JIT and what they actually did amounted to fixing some bugs?

I don't see how that's any different from optimizing for asm.js. Optimization is often about fixing bugs.
That's cool; I had heard of overtone, but I didn't realize there was any kind of equivalent for Haskell. What's the name of the library?
I have two concerns: the first is basically the one you identified: welfare and similar programs are less about helping people and more about keeping a large voting block in a state of dependency. I'm not sure the alternative of basic income changes that, it might actually increase it since more people would be getting basic income than are currently getting welfare and other forms of assistance.

Any program which encourages people to be dependent on government rather than themselves is problematic in my view (obviously with exceptions for those with disabilites that make this impossible).

My other concern is that it's simply inflationary. Giving every adult a $34,000 basic income (the amount proposed here) would mean a married couple would be bringing in $68,000 a year doing NOTHING AT ALL productive. There's no getting around economics: money is an abstraction of productivity. To the extent you introduce money into the economy that was not created by productivity, you simply reduce its value. So what would happen is that the basic income would become the new zero line. It represents the value of zero productive work. Wages and prices would simply inflate so that a person having only basic income would be as impoverished as someone having zero income is today.
Looks nice, but I wish I didn't have to sign up to see what was available.