skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To underscore Patrick's point about just how many of these businesses there really are, he's one of the few folks I remember from the old Business of Software forums over at joelonsoftware.com that seem to have migrated over here.

That was a tiny little board where the owners of single player software businesses would get together to ask silly questions about how to update their shareware product's PAD files. There were a few hundred of these businesses represented there just among the regular users.

Most of them fly under the radar since, having products that provide a comfortable living with relatively low workload and no need to follow the latest hot technology trends, there's little reason your average Dot-Com-Thousandaire would ever stumble across a place like Hacker News.

Edit: forgot to plug S3stat (http://s3stat.com) and Twiddla (http://twiddla.com), my two main revenue generators, and FairTutor (http://fairtutor.com), hopefully the next one.
Definitely have changed. There is less respect for teachers, the school system and people communicate more. This has happened because there were a hell of a lot of victims.

Also communication between parents is now at an all time high. I've seen this change in just the last two years.
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Maybe that's best put in the "Job Description" section, rather than in the Qualifications section?
You're doing it wrong, asking a question won't work.

By Cunningham's Law, you need to post a false example and wait for someone to correct it. If no one does so, the example stands, and you've successfully disproven Cunningham's Law using Cunningham's Law.
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Software licences for dummies - hell, I'm mostly clueless about this so I had a good look.

One point I will make is that as soon as you read the relevant material on this site, you have to go into a dark corner and read the small print.

I've noticed the odd comment or two on this page mentioning lawyers. A bit expensive, but they're the most qualified people to talk to, bar (sorry, bad pun) judges.

At college, I used to live with someone training to be a barrister. Whereas the average thickness of my maths and science texts is, say 500 pages, I saw one book on law hitting around 2,500 pages. It ranks alongside the London Knowledge for verbosity.
Thanks patio11 and everyone else who has shared their story. I have been consulting for a few years and I plan on moving to a product based income. Built products in the past that have not been successful but hearing stories of others who have done it is motivation to keep trying.
Thanks for the hard work on this. It's a problem I find particularly bad in my day to day use of chat on various clients across a phone, tablet and laptop.
Dude, that's great, you'd be fixing a real issue that Chromecast has (in my opinion). I'll check it regularly to see how it goes, thanks for the effort :-)
> Is it sad that I saw this post and immediately thought, "Well, that doesn't reflect well on programmers..", thinking that our status as a group is already quite low.

Hm, I never thought of programmer status as being that low, although as an American living in London I definitely noticed that it is lower here than in the States (especially Silicon Valley obviously). But generally programmers can bring tangible value in a way that few professions outside of sales can do, so I never felt a strong need for alpha behavior and posturing to acquire status. What is needed is to work in a company that understands how to leverage technology, and the rest should take care of itself. Programmers are in such high demand now that companies which don't know how to use them and fundamentally value them will get stuck with the bottom of the barrel, leading to a negative feedback loop.
The msx is pretty insane for creating music even today. This album was created using a Sharp x68000 http://cheapbeatsmusic.bandcamp.com/album/new-power
I was bullied at grade school all the time, I was a poor, fat kid and my parents had just divorced, I was happy and optimistic, but very vulnerable. I won't go too much into the details of this, because this post is already too long. But as a result and the point of this post is that I became a bully myself.

I didn't have friends there and as a result I hanged around with the kids on my neighborhood. They were all younger than me and quite a lot of immigrants and others with not that much of a "social standing" and I could get an easy hold over them just by the power of seniority. Then, when I went to a middle school and the scenery changed, I had become an alpha male in that sense that I knew how to rule over people with fear and verbal abuse. I didn't do it consciously, it just had became a part of how I act.

Bullying is about abusing other people's weakness'. I had became a master of it. I never actually did anything myself, I just talked, other kids did stuff for me. Physical abuse like "Hey I know, let's fill your backpack with all of our books and hit that guy in the face with it!". Stealing shit from school like computer equipment, cigarettes and candy from grocery stores. There were even plans to rape certain girls. Perhaps the only time I thought I maybe had gone too far was when a "friend" of mine bought a gun to school.
The way the school tried to control me was to talk to the people around me. My closest acquaintance was this huge football guy and the principal frequently took him into talks and tried to get him to stand up against me, he always came back to me to tell it and my reaction was pretty much "Haha what would you do you fucking fag?". In reality, if even one person had said anything or done anything to me, I would've completely crumbled down, because inside I was still that bullied little fat kid trying to fit in.

What I'm most ashamed is the bullying I inflicted on one kid that was born with his legs different height and as a result, he didn't walk very good. Easy target.
Also, my own little sister. She was the first one in line always. We fought so much that she eventually had to move away to live with my father.

Later on in life, I found out that the kid who began the cycle of hatred, my original bully, had a very abusive big brother.

I've gone through clinical depression, severe anxiety and drug abuse at my adult life to truly find out who I am and I feel that a lot of it was residual from my childhood, as it usually is.

I'm not trying to justify anything, but if you are in that period in your life where you don't really know how life works, there's nobody to show you and the only experience that you have is dog eat dog, then that's what you become.
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Install a Start Menu replacement like StartIsBack (http://www.startisback.com/) or Classic Shell (http://www.classicshell.net/) and voilà, you've got the productivity of the Windows Vista/7 desktop and the performance improvements of Windows 8/8.1. No hot corners to worry about.

Even if you don't use a third-party Start Menu replacement, this update will mean less pain - with power and search buttons on the Start Screen, there will be little reason to use the 'Charms bar', which eliminates two hot corners. With the Start button's return in Windows 8.1, the bottom left hot corner isn't an issue, either, and the top left hot corner is only necessary if you use Modern apps (and it sounds like you don't).

Changing the default file handlers for audio and video files back to desktop programs for non-touch users is a fantastic change and I hope heralds a small shift of focus away from Metro.
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I become one with the vocalist, which is really fun with the varying amount of music I listen to. But, I also won't listen to music that I don't connect with, because music is such a personal thing for me.
ONO sells for $9.5 billion and nobody cares
I went through similar stuff in the 70s and 80s, although nowhere near as extreme. Bullying is physical and psychological child abuse. The fact that it is perpetrated by other children instead of an adult makes no difference to the victim.

I will say that schools can do something about this, and some of them do. My son has been the victim of bullies on occasion, and both his primary and secondary school have been very supportive. Nipping this kind of thing in the bud makes it clear that such behaviour is not accepted. It is when it becomes part of the culture that you have a real problem.

One option is to go to the law. Child abuse is against the law, and schools have a duty of care. Hitting someone is assault regardless of where it happens or who does it, so if you are assaulted and the school does nothing then go to the police. Document incidents for a few months, take the document to the school authorities, and if they do nothing then talk to a lawyer.
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It couldn't possibly be any cheaper than just having one diode per key though, could it?
Some LOGOs allow you to save and load a default workspace, complete with words you have taught LOGO. Google has failed me with MSX Logo however.
Are you planning to build sth on top of Glacier or include Glacier as an storage option (seeing it's on S3 anyway)? It will bring the cost down a great deal.
I'm 33 so I was at primary school in the 80's.

Bullying was (at my school) an unfortunate reality.

My brother (year younger) was born with a congenital problem (ptosis) in both eyes which required frequent surgery (poor sod had 9 operations with weeks of recovery for each before he was 11).

This obviously made him a target for bullying and since the school was doing nothing about it I ended up stepping in to sort things out.

When I was about 8 I found my brother and a group of boys in one of the classrooms at lunch time, my brother was curled up on the floor sobbing with one boy sat on him and the rest where jeering.

I picked up a chair and waded in and I really wasn't pulling any punches.

When my mother came to pick me up from the school I was sat outside the headmasters office with the bullies.

We went into the office the headmaster started saying how my behaviour was unacceptable and that I couldn't just assault other pupils in that way.

At which point my mum interrupted "Ben isn't in the slightest violent, he's never had any issues with fighting at this school and yet he felt the need to use a chair to protect his brother, who we both know is getting bullied as you've seen fit to punish Ben I fully expect you to punish the bullies as well and if you don't you can be assured will be going to the local newspapers about the endemic bullying problem, I will also be writing to the Governors and the Local Education Authority", this was in the 80's, parents didn't complain then like that.

I was out of school for 3 days, my mum took me to the bookshop and said I could pick any three books I wanted.

My brother didn't get bullied again til secondary school and he dealt with that himself.

I learnt a very valuable lesson that day - stand up for those who can't stand up for themselves and fuck the consequences (I also learnt that my mum was a badass).
this XEP is supported by the most popular XMPP servers (prosody, ejabberd) but it is still quite difficult to get a good XMPP client on all platforms that can support this.

this is especially important for mobile clients on iOS or Android or web clients. I don't see another way to have OSS multi-client chats with XMPP similar to hangouts/Facebook/WhatsApp.
Why don't add actionscript, at least with limitations?
But why wouldn't the clever execs buy it? They are consumer electronics companies. The TVs they manufactured followed standards (PAL/NTSC), their videocassetes were all VHS... why should it be different for home computers?
> and I've been happy with it so far.

famous last words.

i haven't seen an html-based editor i couldn't sabotage,
just fooling around with it. and you know what they say
about how the world keeps on inventing better fools, eh?

it's true.

now, if everyone who edits your content is experienced
with .html, and knows how to avoid the pitfalls, great!

but if you want the general public to touch your stuff,
you're gonna find yourself doing some heavy clean-up...

at least if my experience is any guide.

you'll have stuff that might _look_ "right", as long as it
stays in the exact environment where it was last edited,
but as soon as you move it, it will blow up in your face.
because the markup underlying it was not done correctly.

_that's_ why wysiwyg sucks; it "looks" right, but it's not.

and it's not a "short-sighted" view. it's _experience_.
painful, hard-fought, bang-head-against-wall experience.

now, perhaps redactor is ahead of everyone else on this,
and it knows how to handle these headaches in advance,
and if that's the case, i'd love to hear it. meanwhile...

-bowerbird
This isn't a boring story!

I wish there was a site where this kind of information could be collected. Personal history of computing is important and a lot of it is being lost.
Most of the taxes go for weapons/military, so you could say that you're technically reducing wars by avoiding taxes.

Or better yet, there should be a tax for stupidity in congress, that alone would set the USA economy back on track.
Windows Phone is the new MSX!

MSX came along in the UK when the home computing market was well established. We all knew 'network effects' even of we did not know the phrase, hence, if you were in the Sinclair ecosystem and only owned a ZX81 you wanted either a ZX Spectrum (48K) so you could play the same games as your friends or a BBC Micro like what the school had. Similarly, if you owned a Commodore Vic20 then a Commodore 64 was the way to go. Beyond these few brands there were plenty of Ataris (400/800), Ti/994a's, Dragon 32's and so on, none of which had 'network effects'.

The UK home computing market morphed into Amigas, Acorn Risc machines, Ataris and the Amstrad versions of the Sinclair machines, at which time Microsoft were still trying to foist a tarted up version of MSX onto the marketplace, but nobody was buying even if the MSX machines were very nice. They just never managed the 'network effects' that the popular machines had.

History is rhyming with itself as far as Microsoft is concerned, their Windows Phone is entering a crowded marketplace that is settled. People with old Android phones go for new Android phones, people with old Apple phones go for new Apple phones. It is that simple. Regardless of the benefits of Windows Phone it just does not matter. They can tart it up all they like but nobody cares.
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I agree. I'm missing a vital piece of the discussion from both the blog and the comments here; what do the children think of it? Sure they're performing above expectations at a game, but are they happy?
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I'm tracking the "sparks", perhaps about five a week (through beeminder.com), with very high fluctuations. Interesting to look back at them in retrospect.

All those insights are then consolidated into an "identity framework" through draftin.com. Shortcomings are then expressed as quantitative goals on beeminder.com and tracked (using RescueTime for time-related goals and binary variables for almost everything else).

This method has actually had quite an important impact on how I perceive myself.
I am running premium Ghost Blog marketplace http://www.gtheme.io/

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I thought that until I visited the page, the graphics and content both feel American to me.
Goodgecko just never made any meaningful amount of money plus it was a competitive space (surveys) so it was shut down.

Peashoot did ok but in the end there were too many free competitors (twitter analytics).

I think if the same thing happened now, I'm a more experienced entrepreneur so I'd be able to deal with free competitors better - figure out what customers are still willing to pay for, aim for the enterprise market etc.
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Anyone here know how the Linux client OSes are doing? Malware infection of those would be news I imagine. Debian Squeese EoL is soonish.
Cooked, ready. I see the whole preparing/eating process as a waste of time every day. Fair price? I guess slightly above the "ready meal" boxes from supermarkets, but also a bit higher quality.

I never heard of gobble before and quite like the idea. The only thing I'd ask for (can't see it on their overview) is define the ingredient likes/dislikes rather than cuisine style. So something like "shellfish: not at all; beans: great; ...".
Having been a contractor for several years now, I have to admit I've never seen any sort of bullying. I've never been treated like anything less than a bona fide member of the team. To be honest, I've never seen any sort of bullying. Maybe I just don't know it when I see it ...

(currently on my fifth placement, in London, at a mix of small and international companies)
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Probably because the adverts that are blocked pay for the site. Kind of like asking musicians for zippy share links to their music.
$0 since I put a donate link up last month: http://dalybulge.blogspot.co.uk/
$1.07 per month in ad revenues. Any ideas to help me increase would be greatly appreciated.
You should work for a news channel. This kind of speculative crap is what they like
Rule #1: The e in email is for "evidence".
> The Windows XP-based laptops on the ISS

LoL!
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Right after this string of replies, I was expecting Guido van Rossum would be next, saying he created Python and even he learnt something new...
mailto: is the same principle and has been around since the 90s.
> I wish the Apache License was more popular.

In Java world it can hardly be more popular.
You might not have to move, just have your company operating from an appropriate tax haven. You typically need to pay lawyers, accountants, etc to achieve what you are thinking about and they end up costing more than the tax you would have to pay. Do your numbers first before you get too preoccupied with the tax. As a very general comment, in some low tax countries you need to spend a lot of money to have what you get more or less for free in other higher tax countries.
That is really true. Facebook buys Instagram for 1B$ and everyone know. Google buys Nest and everyone start to discuss about "Internet of things", but no one cares about ONO.
You could leave these two bits out:
* Ability to work with a version control system (like SVN) in a team environment
* using IDEs like Eclipse

If someone has worked as a software engineer for more than 6 months, that someone already knows how to "use IDEs" and version control.
Oh the MSX was great, for an 8-bit computer.

And yes, there were drives for it, but maybe if they "didn't bundle" that was the issue

The MSX II was an 8 bit computer though, only the "Turbo" was 16-bit

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSX2#MSX2 (The 2+ added even more capabilities, and more important, most of them were accessible from Basic)

And it could do a lot http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=busiDuS94qY
Maybe I'm the only one but I don't find this overview convincing.
If you primarily rely on sources of information in English (of which I'm guilty, too) then obviously you will be mostly getting information from the Anglosphere dominated by the US because it's, oh you know, richest and most powerful country in the history of the world.

This is not some "Americans cover their successes" thing. It's that they matter more. There is an underlying economic reality in which we are lagging far behind them. Not Africa-far but still far.

In a picture http://cdn.static-economist.com/sites/default/files/imagecac... from http://www.economist.com/node/21559618
It is, and Hacker News has long outgrown its title.
Use the name of made-up music band -you haven't heard of anywhere- and attach the current age of someone in your family: Merrytallica27

Simply enough to remember and harder to crack than most passwords in the world.
Facebook, Instagram, Google, and Nest are all well-known in communities focused around Internet technology companies. I suspect that this acquisition is well-known and well-discussed in communities focused around telecommunication companies.
A good example illustrating that even the best and most capable hardware will be completely let down by ill-thought-out, poorly designed software.
I am wondering if the company name did not sound like a mistake in english if the news would have been be bigger - congratulations to them though.
I run http://www.candyjapan.com

It just crossed 500 paying members. I started it with my wife, but recently the shipping part is no longer done by us two manually, but by a local supermarket. In the beginning it was just an email to some previous customers asking if they might be interested in a club like this. Then a landing page and a HN post. From there it grew through blog mentions and now there is a trickle of organic traffic coming in.

Before this I had some small apps on social networks that made more money, but were much more unstable. While Candy Japan could wither away, I expect the death would be more gradual. I still have some of the older sites / apps which together are still making around $500 / month, which is a nice bonus.

Probably anyone working as a salaried programmer in the US is making a more money than I am currently, but I enjoy the freedom and the thought that there really is no upper limit. If we ever do hit 1000 members I'm planning to have a celebration :-)
Reading through http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_comprehension, it seems that there are roughly equal numbers of languages where "list comprehension" produces strict list as languages where it produces lazy lists.

I think it's a lack of naming convention - the word "list" on its own means "strict list" in some languages and "lazy list" in others.
tl;dr: Helps businesses not lose money. So they pay for it.
It's funny how 'speed' is an important concept in any kind of learning, be it math, music or sports. You need to sync and align your perception with your actions to be able to reflect. Some time putting yourself in a frictionful context helps to avoid skipping steps.

Similar to people with scarce computing resources[1], they had to learn slowly, properly enough to know what they do clearly to avoid high costs.

[1] cultures of once-a-week-compiling
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A couple of weeks ago Actavis bought Forest Labs for $25b. A few days earlier Comcast bought Time Warner Cable for $42.5b. And before that Beam offered $16b for Suntory.

Huge deals that affect entire markets (and industries) happen all the time, but unless you follow that specific market you don't get to hear about them. The fact is ONO is a mobile operator in a small local market (from a global industry reference frame), and wholly outside of the tech-news-but-really-only-"startups"-and-only-SaaS-startups-at-that microscope that most of the tech press spend time looking through.
They are considering [0] to make it an LTS release.

[0] - https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2014/03/msg00...
I would keep 'version control' in (and looked for it on their resume during my last two searches).

It's surprising how many people don't use source control, but they do tend to work in smaller shops (one or two developers) or places with little change.