skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You certainly can do it in the US. Perhaps something special about the (sub) reddit thread?
I am doing that, and the sales suck.
These links: a.) lip-service reporting that Snowden was-to-have an interview or b.) reduced the lengthy talk to an inconsequential soundbite.

The NYT Blog - 3 days late, is it that hard for such a "renowned" journalistic enterprise?

Wow! Props to the Associated Press for writing about something globally noteworthy [sarc.] in an article that few cared to carry or - God-forbid - elaborate upon. (ABC merely picked up the AP story.)

That's the very definition of a pathetic free press.

None of these links constitute actual coverage or equate to Cable air-time, where millions of baby boomers develop/refine their world-views.
So they wiped some money you owed for data transfer that most likely cost them absolutely nothing. Big deal.
What about games that offer additional (similar) content for a fee? Seems like it'll be hard to draw a line without excluding some otherwise great games.

Example: Ascension: Chronicle of the Godslayer on IOS. It's a card game similar to Dominion. You get a large deck to start off, but can buy additional decks (which offer new game mechanics) for a fee.
10,000 house seems like an awful big investment for a plan B. Granted, much of that time will be paid for, but you would still need to spend a lot of time learning the plan B. That then leaves one skill on the side while you are using the other skill. Again, not the best investment.

As a solid PHP developer, if you aren't as solid on the front-end, then that's a great direction to go. An ace HTML / JS / CSS developer will have no problem finding work, especially as the front-end gets more complex and gets asked to do more. This would be a great enhancement to your tool-set rather than a replacement.

Otherwise, I would be looking at things which could bring in an alternative income. For example, you could build an add-on for Wordpress which you could sell while also boosting your profile in the Wordpress community. You may not want to do Wordpress work, but that could be another source if your other sources dried up.

There's lots of other things you could do also. The possibilities are endless. You should try to break out of your comfort zone of doing dev work to bring in other sources of income.

I can sense the fear, uncertainty and doubt in your post. You should embrace the chaos, kick your creativity into gear and try some different things. Chaos and change is good, it shakes things up and creates new opportunities.
Having employees make the difference. If you don't have employees you're more or less like a freelancer, which is significantly different from carrying the responsibility for a whole bunch of people.
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I'm struggling to keep one wife happy. You must be crazy! :)
That sounds awful. Can you block it through robots.txt? If not, and if Bing gives you no traffic, you could feed it blank (or just super truncated) pages based on the user agent.
Band invoices U.S. govt for their music being used to torture gitmo detainees
I started http://github.com/EGreg/Q three years ago in PHO, and it grew out of http://phponpie.com

If I had to do it again I'd use node, but only for ONE REASON: concurrent I/O
I deeply regret choosing PHP for a dictionary website that I wrote 5 years ago. The trouble is that I've moved on as a developer. Mostly everything else I write now is Java or Groovy. I used to be ok with PHP's quirks but now I find my old PHP code so painful to look at that I generally don't and have pretty much given up development on that project with the vague hope of one day having a free month to rewrite it from scratch in something else.

Don't see your hours with PHP as a waste though. It's important as a developer to try different platforms and languages so you understand the pros and cons of different approaches.
That is a great, powerful, article. Thank you for posting the link.

> For an individual woman in her 50s, then, annual mammograms may catch breast cancer, but they reduce the risk of dying of the disease over the next 10 years by only .07 percentage points — from .53 percent to .46 percent. Reductions for women in their 40s are even smaller, from .35 percent to .3 percent.

Many people are going to be baffled by risk presented like this. Presenting the numbers differently is helpful to let people understand the risks.

"Imagine 10,000 women like you. Of those X will die from this disease. But if we take those same 10,000 women and give them mammograms we find that Y will die from the disease".

Sometimes X will be 2 and Y will be 1 (50% decrease in risk) or X will be 100 and Y will be 2 or X will be 100 and Y will be 99.

Presenting the numbers this way allows most people to understand the risks better.
If the reality of the situation is that consumer devices all have touchscreens because of overzealous OEMs, then affordances should be made for touchscreen interfaces wherever possible. That said, if it's not clear that touch makes sense as the primary input device, more so than the mouse, then the UI should not be designed around it, regardless how many people own a touchscreen that they keep two feet away at eye level.

If, on the other hand, you have a device where touch is the only input that makes sense, then your shell needs to be designed around it. Every aspect of user interaction needs to be reconsidered, because you can't expect your users to run regedit with a touchscreen.

I think you're right that Microsoft won't drop Metro now, but I don't think it's a given that customers will ever adopt it. Windows 7 works fine for everything I use it for, and without architecture-imposed RAM limits, I honestly can't see a time within the next decade that it will stop doing that. I still know people who use Windows XP, 11 years after it was released. The fact is, they all run Firefox and Chrome equally well. Your desktop OS has never mattered less than it does right now.

Three years ago I bought a Macbook Pro, ostensibly for iPhone development. I went in with the assumption that I would still primarily use my Windows desktop, what with the power and the keyboard and the mouse. Within thirty minutes I was signed into my GMail account, browsing my RSS feed, and realized that I had completely migrated my life over to the new machine. In this environment, where switching to Ubuntu requires less of a lifestyle change than Windows 8, why would anyone ever upgrade Windows?
What do you call the person who graduated at the bottom of their class in med school?

"Doctor."
Software engineer means exactly the same thing as software developer or programmer/analyst.

Coder means that the person referred to is at a Junior level. People who write frameworks are usually at a senior level although even a junior can write a framework by essentially porting from one language to another.

And all this terminology stuff is nonsense. Basically meaningless in a professional context. Even HR people should ignore titles because too many people inflate their titles.
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Even if this is to show off the binwalk software, it's still a really nice post! :-)

I like the 3D visualization at http://binwalk.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/avr32_3d.gif

What might perhaps also be interesting, is to create a plugin for binwalk that compares the firmware with other firmware binaries.
He's saying it would be a conflict of interest if they offered some sort of service to not get spam.
It's strange to think that countries that never had this kind of weapon and maybe don't have a detailled nuclear doctrine might have to take such a decision in the middle of a crisis if they are "chosen".
Sounds like an idea. If I really had to.

I would still have a similar problem with "teleporters" (of the Star Trek kind), though.
As a personal anecdote, I bought hundreds of apps/games from 2008-2011, before IAP took over, and can probably count on my fingers the ones I've bought since (Angry Birds, Edge, S&S, Infinity Blade...). IIRC the only IAP-based app I've actually used is Paper. Most of my friends also have very few games on their mobile phones.
I'm a little confused by this one:

• Lack of a "capped service cost" plan (mitigated somewhat by monthly pre-paid service).

What makes this a "somewhat"? Isn't that exactly what pre-paid service gives you?
It seems clear that the virtual blackout of this insightful interview is yet another deliberate attempt to obfuscate the truth from the view of the American public. The media has continually attempted to shill the official government lies about mass domestic surveillance programs, justifying them as necessary to fight the “War on Terror”, while attempting to painting Mr. Snowden as a traitor.

Say what you want about the other claims of this article, this is pretty spot-on and should be the concern of all U.S. citizens (by virtue of, y'know, citizenship). This person worked for our government, and facilitated the release of huge amounts of classified information. This is Of Interest to everyone, whether you love him or hate him.
How do you travel to the airport, and did you factor in the risks of traveling at that different time?

Reducing a tiny risk in exchange for increasing an already large risk feels sub-optimal to me.
And yet, there could be a differentiation. How many of you have read and follow SWEBOK or SEMAT or, better yet, both. Those are the only people who have a right to call themselves "engineer" as something that is better than the run of the mill developer.

And there are very, very few such people about, especially in Silicon Valley's cowboy coder environment.
Depends on what you call a business. A business can be a bakery or an international software publisher.

You're right when you hint that having employees might change everything: it does.

Don't forget that remote work also exists when being employed so I would not say flexibility is "be your own boss" related.
Sorry I have to answer this way, but if you spent that amount of time in PHP, how come you don't know the answer already?

To answer your question: Whether it be PHP or Python or Ruby, you will need to work hard. Advice if you stick with PHP: Get the Zend's PHP and ZF certificates. Apply for job after that. You won't be jobless in next 5 years, and you can expect quite a good salary.
Here is a screenshot for the blank results when the sources link is clicked: http://imgur.com/63dWPlw

I don't know what is a tailored result and what is not on sites, specially Google lately. Add in other quirks and you have an unreliable system of communication.
I also immediately searched the Times and found this as well :)

The reality is that MSNBC and CNN don't really cover "news", they cover things that interest the average person. The average person is interested in Justin Bieber gossip, not about spycraft and governmental overreaching. In that case, I wouldn't expect MSNBC and CNN to cover this.

If the Times didn't mention it at all, then I was going to be worried. The truly cynical would point out that this is a blog post rather than an actual article, but the quality of their blogs are generally very good, so I'm not going to complain. If you subscribe to the Times and don't read any of the blogs, you are missing out.
They really should be doing this for you by exploring those alternate scenarios, instead of using "Taking a walk?" as their sole example.
I can't imagine someone in the UK getting scans for lower-back back pain unless there was some clinical need for it.

The advice for most people would tend to be "lose weight, get exercise, check your beds and chairs; and carefully take paracetamol for the pain".
To be honest I never understood the value proposal of Github. Ok, you get git repository hosting, and list of projects, and that's pretty much about it, with the ability to browse code online without cloning. Besides, that, I personally find most of the features useless. For example issue tracker is unusable, concept of forks is just a small convinience that doesn't add any real value. And about the most praised feature, like pull request, I find it just annoying and too much work. As a potential committer, it's much easier to me to clone the original repo and send a format-patch set then to bother creating my fork, cloning the fork, creating branch, pushing branch and writing an issue. As a maintainer, I also find it more convenient to just deal with format-patch set or an url to repo/branch than to deal with Github pull request system. And Linus tends to agree with me on this ;)

That all being said, I still use Github for OS projects for visibility, I just don't accept pull requests, and Bitbucket for private projects because of unlimited free private repos. And I find them both useful, just not groundbraeking.
I tried searching for good movies there. All were dvd only, which defeats the purpose of paying for streaming (i.e. Being more convenient than torrents)
Lawsuits are the consequence of that. The concept is that if something happen, there must be somebody to blame, because they "should have done something to prevent it". And the lawsuits are in no way minuscule - they are actually huge and consist a serious drag on the economy, but the worst consequence, of course, is the behavior modification which emphasizes covering one's ass over all else.
The evidence was in the link of my post: because of the Faraday cage/screening, part of the radio waves that the cellphone is emitting are reflected back into the elevator; the resulting strength of this fields exceeds the norms by an order of magnitude. this is considered to be within harmful range.

The parent poster mentions the same effect in the context of aeroplanes.
And perhaps the most important american freedom of all the right to self selection
Why do they hate our freedom so?
Google's Sundar Pichai too in race to head Microsoft?
What's happening at MtGox?
Why are the results so dramatically different? Is Google's "search bubble" that bad?
I was just interested. But there you go, regional dialects. I have no idea what a "sand groper" is!
Recruiters are can shuddup, in the same way that old-school baseball scouts can shuddup.

Show us the stats. Do your own Project Oxygen if you don't have the stats.
Good COBOL programmers are in high demand.
Facebook is testing Graph Search for mobile devices
The full interview:
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3a1_1390832727
That's such a brilliant idea that it already works this way in most of Europe :-) call starts with "this number costs X per minute in addition to the costs of your normal plan" if you disconnect during that message you're not charged the extra fees.
AFIAK it was never written in perl. An anecdote from the facebook effect is when Dustin Moskovitz wanted to work on FB. He went home and learned Perl, to which Mark replied "dude, the site's not written in perl".

http://books.google.ca/books?id=RRUkLhyGZVgC&lpg=PA34&ots=LR...
> If freemium were generally just a demo for a better game

It's not, and no one ever said it was. The demo analogy isn't valid; a free-to-play game is a fully functional game. IAPs may unlock additional functionality, or help bypass time gates, or whatever, but the "core loop" of a game shouldn't (under the guise of freemium, anyway) be restricted by payments.

This isn't to say that it doesn't happen -- not every developer really understands freemium, and some bastardize it. But can you really argue with consumer preference for freemium? If consumers hated freemium, it wouldn't dominate the app store.
There are a bunch of websites that contain every single phone number possible and a lot of ads.

Web searching phone numbers is not a fun experience.

Any search engine people reading: you might want to investigate this because I can't understand how some of these sites legitimately rise in the rankings.
Scorch the earth in the sense that nobody can ever use those mechanics again, because they don't work. Zynga overused them. It's equivalent to the idea that overworking the land while farming makes the land impossible to use for years in the future.

Zynga's strategy was bad because it undermined their ability to continue delivering growth in the future. In the short term they grabbed all the money they could, but it wasn't by itself enough to guarantee long-term success.

For reference, actual mid-to-high level Zynga employees have been quoted in the past on this subject - they agree with the idea that they overused viral pathways and that hurt their long term success.
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It always amuses me to see 1) people complain of the need to pay for a service 2) [more amusing point] the free stuff is not good enough. Beggars can't be choosers, if one wants something, earn enough and pay for it.

My solutions? There are two: 1) Work long enough to have reasonable amount of savings to fund my start-up, free stuff is nice, but they are sometimes risky. Reason being, how much leverage do you have when you didn't pay for something?
2) Be creative, there are always solutions out there. Writing an article to complain about a free service being not good enough really make me wondering if these 'entrepreneurs' are ready for the real world.

My start-up runs on a 512MB shared instance on $9/mth, and so far it meets my need.

BizSpark may have good perks, but it is beside the point.
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Ah the free market guys.

I think every time I hear "you should eb ashamed" the free market guy SHOULD stand up and say NO, morality is actually whining that someone should be coerced into doing something they wouldnt want to selfishly do. If there is a market for your thing then caveat emptor.

Screwing your clients? The market will decide whether you can keep operating.
My son is 9 months old, and I take care of him two days a week while his mom goes to work. I've solved the problem in a way, by working long hours and in the weekends. In time we'll see if it's worth it. The kids are only kids once. I have two other kids from a previous marriage, the oldest recently began studying at the university. He seems to like spending time going to cafe's with me, so it's still not to late to catch up.
I'm almost out of energy for repeating myself on this point. Every good game that I can think of offhand made plenty of money. Right up to the present day. Selling a game for money is still a plenty viable business model. Now, ok, yes these freemium Skinner box things are not games in the same sense I and other gamers are used to. Just like slot machines have nothing to do with Grand Theft Auto, this new breed of F2P 'games' have nothing to do with Portal. What's unfortunate is that companies that used to make good games are selling out, in the very essence of the phrase. In my opinion, it's not because what they were doing before isn't viable, it's because their management is that admirable combination of greedy and risk-averse.
I published several projects in php. And i hated that i used the language in vogue at the time to try to not use php.

What I'd done different if i were starting the last one now? I'd not start on ruby, and would have went directly to php.

Btw, I'm starting one now in elixir. Cross fingers.
Are you saying people's decisions are never influenced by society, advertising or habits?

Should we factor this in, or is public health department a nanny state intervention?
It's even more absurd the international rights to the Interview are owned by CineCentrum a 100% subsidiary of Studio Hamburg which is completely owned by the NDR, a Member of the german ARD public broadcasting network.

The NDR says it only got the national rights to the video, while the international rights are still at CineCentrum. Originally the NDR didn't even see it necessary to publish the video undubbed to german.
Only after some heavy online protests they put the original version online, yet still geofenced to Germany.

http://www.dwdl.de/nachrichten/44424/nach_kritik_ndr_veroeff...

The transcript is offically available here: http://www.ndr.de/ratgeber/netzwelt/snowden277_page-1.html
But the iOS store is a tool for discovery and management of software, whereas APT is just a tool for management. I mean, you can do "apt-cache search tetris", but you can't view screenshots and reviews of each tetris game.

There's Ubuntu Software Center, but that postdates the iOS store.
We need to keep our paranoia in check. That article is B.S. — wrong on all the verifiable points. And the rest is just random guesses.

I went and checked the German news (I'm American but lived in Germany 5 years, and am still fluent) and it turns out that ARD screwed the pooch on this one: the two most respected media outlets in Germany are pissed off and have written about ARD's shoddy editing and refusal to provide easy access to the full interview. Here are my translations for the titles:

Der Spiegel
"ARD relegates Snowden interview to the middle of the night"
http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzpolitik/ard-versendet-sno...

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ("FAZ")
"The Snowden interview is going around the world ... or not?
http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/medien/edward-snowden-...

Now, the Spiegel linked to ARD's mini-site for Snowden stuff, which claims to have the full video and full transcript in English: http://www.ndr.de/ratgeber/netzwelt/snowdeninterview101.html

And then this article all about how ARD at first would only put the interview out with the German dubbing. Then, under pressure, ARD released it with the original sound. But, wouldn't make it accessible overseas...

Der Spiegel
http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/tv/ndr-veroeffentlicht-snowden-...
For me, it's going shopping. I find that hardware stores and warehouse stores are almost vacant while the game is being shown.
There are two side notes. 1. Should we really be constrained by frequent pub visitors when teaching CS? Adapting to stupidity (OK, mediocrity) caused Java and switch from Scheme to Python for intro courses at MIT (with great help of mr. Guttag, I suppose).
2. Should we ever hire a person who couldn't get what Y Combinator is or not being able to write one in Scheme?

Update: Python is heavily used in Biology and related research (so they said) and transition at MIT seemed like reasonable, but I still believe that Scheme shall be the language for serious introductory courses, like classic Berkeley CS61a was. Now PLT/Racket folks are doing great job of introducing proper concepts and developing "good habits" to students.
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I believe this is due to stupid copyright issues, not anything particular sinister by the US media. I have approximately zero problem pirating it, so http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f93_1390833151
I'm an Apache committer, and because of that Microsoft gives me a free MSDN subscription (which includes Azure credits).

I use Azure to run assorted Ubuntu machines. They run well, the interface is nice and I have no complaints. I also have a few EC2 VMs (and some DigitalCloud VMs and some Rackspace VMs and in the past have had HP Cloud VMs and Linode VMs).

Amazon is good, too. But I signed up for EC2 before the free micro-tier came in, so I got nothing from them.

So what I want to know is why I should feel scared, running Ubuntu on Azure?

And what is wrong with giving Microsoft credit for offering good programs like Bizspark? (And read that first sentence again, BTW. That's a real thing, and no other company does that)
SEEKING FREELANCER - Remote OK after the first month. London UK (Marylebone)

Seeking a developer fluent with HTML/CSS and JS to work on the front end of a suite of e-commerce websites and the accompanying tooling.

Responsive design experience is a must. SASS and ASP.NET MVC experience is beneficial.

Initially looking for a three month contract, possibility to extend.

Shoot me a mail if you want more info: amarsuperstar@gmail.com
I found these videos that can be viewed in Germany:

1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GlYh58cxKY (Interview with German translation)

2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x38jkFlPeg (Interview in English)

Do they work for anybody else?