skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I sell a laptop battery meter (http://batterybarpro.com). It's not income replacing; it makes about $1,000 per month, but it's been crucial in saving enough for down payments one two houses.

I've tried to get the revenue numbers up, but I've never been able to break a $2,000 month.
ELI5: How is it legal for mobile games to almost completely copy other games?
Good to hear. I removed the old account and created a new premium one for you. Feel free to send any feedback!
Heh, I was so proud of my Amiga which was the best thing here in europe at the time, I had a buddy over who's parents were from Japan and tried to impress him with the quality of the graphics and sound, he was like 'yeah it's ok but my machine is much better'.

I remember scoffing at his statement saying something like 'dude, only the arcades are better than this', he then invited me to his place where he had a Sharp X68000, I remember being totally stunned.

This was a home computer with arcade perfect ports, he showed me ghouls'n ghosts, gradius, space harrier, r-type, they looked (and to my ears sounded) exactly like their arcade counterparts, it was apparently never sold outside of Japan.
I don't know Clojure, but I do know Python, and I'd like to say that unpacking is more flexible than you may realize. For example, you can do this:

a,(b,c),d = [1,[2,3],4]
> Clearly intended for what we now call power users.

You would think that, but in the DOS vs Mac days a lot of non-power users advocated the DOS way, I still don't know why though. A Mac is a toy, was the argument back then.
Oh look, yet another markdown editor.
I spent a number of years wasting time on IRC looking at and chatting to people about techincal issues, plus a bit of humourous banter. These days the all of my income comes from activities where IRC is the main means of communication.
Utilization of Squares by Chess Masters
I would actually welcome a unifed interface across all devices I use. I'm not sure if Windows is the one I would use, but the idea itself sounds pretty good to me. I haven't used anything from Microsoft since Vista was released.
developers have a cultural quirk where they believe that, e.g., "file sharing is not theft"

Yeah. Thankfully, the SCOTUS shares our cultural quirk, as Dowling v. United States showed.
Type .jpg in a search field in the Finder vs. google how to do that using grep I guess?
I have nothing currently online but I've launched a few websites in the past that I thought would be useful. I could never figure out how to get people to even look at my homepage. For those that launched successful websites on your own, how did you get the first group of visitors?
Not only were they arcade perfect ports, many arcade games coming from Japan used the Sharp as a dev environment...so they pretty much were the arcade games.
You can have a successful online business with one-person, but there will always be a maximum to the amount of money you can make and it does not scale well.

I ran a 1-person company for the past 3 years (B2B SAAS). I now have 2 other partners in the company to pick up the slack and we will be hiring a few employees next month.

It's difficult to: maintain your current business (IE: new features, bug fixes, customer service) while at the same time, trying to get new business (marketing, new ideas, planning) and also have any kind of life outside the business.

You also won't be able to go on any kind of real vacation and time-off is challenging. I didn't think about these things at 20, but at 30, it's starting to become more and more important.
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You just need to pin a lot of programs to the task-bar. And pretend there never was a start-menu.
Ok, but that was much later! :)
English companies have a legal duty to protect staff from harm. This includes bullying in the workplace.

Any company that fires a victim of bullying leaves themselves open to compensation claims.

Any company that does nothing likewise leaves themselves open to legal action.
and whre do I get a new one ?
that's why I don't like OSX. I prefer minimal OSes.
I sell Asterisk reporting sw for win @samreports.com. It makes about $1000 a month in revenues. I also work as iOS developer for the man. I have a free iOS app on the AppStore (HRTecaj), soon to be commercial, when I add ATMs. I was Asterisk integrator, and learned a lot about the system, made software to present call reports in customisable and pleasant way. SAMReports has been selling, consistently, for 4 years. I made a few updates, but now I'm working on a major update.
Just a heads up, I can't see any text on your website (Chrome 33.0.1750.146 on Mac)

http://imgur.com/Ptmxgsm
It's fascinating to me that they still keep the Building Windows 8 blog up: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/ You can go back and read the justifications for all the features that are now being redone or pulled out in service packs.

edit: This post in particular is great to look back on 3 years later: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/10/11/reflecting-on-...
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Just a one-man show creating simple web and mobile apps.
>But its cool, I'm sure tptacek has full view of their internal strategies and knows, for sure, that Uber hasn't tried at all to operate within Austin

Do not say things like this. It is incredibly disrespectful.
I feel like a lot of Markdown editors get posted on HN. Some of them seem pretty cool, but it gets hard to keep track of them all after a while. Has anyone tried keeping a running list of these editors with their pros and cons?
Having been a programmer in tech companies in the UK for a long time I agree about the low status, but I've only rarely encountered bad behavior by managers (mistakes and bad decisions, yes. Bullying not so much). My experience is that in this sort of job the pay is at least liveable and the working conditions are typically good. This is however entirely anecdotal and it's quite possible that I just got lucky and am an outlier. I think there are many other kinds of jobs where bullying is much more common and may even be a core feature of the profession (I'm thinking of Work Programme providers).
This sounds like a massive case of mixing correlation with causation.
Fun fact, the Sega SG-1000 (precursor to the Sega Master System which is almost the same hardware), Colecovision and the original MSX are almost the same hardware. So close that porting software between the systems (so long as it fits in RAM) is pretty trivial.

In some markets, porting games provided much of the libraries. It's interesting that so many NES games, a different architecture all together, started on the MSX.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7365887
From your article:

> “Rather than speak openly with creditors about mounting debt and shrinking revenue, the defendants began deliberately manipulating the firm’s financial statements,” said Richard Frankel, who heads the FBI’s criminal division in New York, in a statement. “They backdated checks, changed write-offs and even misappropriated loan payments as revenue. All in an elaborate attempt to cover up the increasingly dire situation.”

> Aviva Life & Annuity Co. has sued Davis, DiCarmine and Sanders, alleging they induced the insurer to buy $35 million of secured notes in April 2010. Des Moines, Iowa-based Aviva said Dewey kept its debt secret from partners to avoid the “possibility of a mass defection” of lawyers.
You then have to be very disciplined about logging your google accounts in and out, and either give up on tabbed browsing or have a youtube-only browser and an "other" browser.

On Android, you don't have this choice.
Agreed. It's likelier that you'll grow to love what you do than you'll wake up one morning feeling like you want to do something that you love.

My theory is this: People like Steve Jobs, etc say "do what you love" once they're already successful. It's not about giving good advice to others, it's about elevating the advisor. It's a modern day equivalent of God's voice speaking to Joan of Arc. "Listen to your heart" isn't great advice when your heart isn't particularly telling you anything, but it makes the advisor look like she's been bestowed with great purpose.

I recommend Elizabeth Gilbert's talk about genius. You're a lot more likely to be "visited by genius" halfway through the daily slog than you are on any random moment of any random day.
> how society maintains is social structure

I grew up in India. My schools had no bullying at all. And we still had a (much weaker) social structure, the popular ones, the slightly-dangerous ones (those I would avoid hanging out with) and the not-so-popular ones (like those who would spend time on a computer instead of meeting up for sports). Bullying is not universal. Neither is it necessary.
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> Or is it yet another site where every other guy from the Internet who thinks he knows what some license means decides to tell everyone else about it?

Anybody can edit the license summary and attributes, so it's literally "every other guy from the internet"
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Especially if you remote control the PC.
I agree. Can you point us to one such example?
Sounds legit. Can you think of any such example?
It's true. Not just PG, but everybody else in the room, too. It's the classic courtier situation. See: 48 Laws of Power
> I meant they are somewhat correct in their belief that bullying is a part of our social fabric. But I don't endorse bullying, rather I think that there is something wrong with our society.

Of course it's part of the social fabric of wherever it happens and goes unpunished. This seems like saying "this is a thing that happens", which feels like a truism.

Like you're saying, it isn't something that should be encouraged or that should go unpunished. If there is something beneficial about it, then that is probably just a symptom of something else that is wrong with society, which forces/enables the bullying.
The Times has two really interesting pieces on mental illness running right now: this documentary, which is quite good, and Ron Susskind's piece on his autistic* son in the NYT Magazine.

The Susskind piece is more of a typical uplifting human interest story that you find frequently written about autism. It focuses on one [upper middle class] individual and that individual's story, without getting into too much depth on the real challenges.

The documentary shows the tip of the iceberg: what life is like for basically everyone else with serious disabilities. It's horrendous. Abuse and neglect come in many different forms, no matter which state you're in. Even some of the top programs for people with disabilities, which can be insanely expensive, are hard to distinguish from the type of untrained care described in the documentary. There is virtually no oversight or effective regulation and Medicare fraud is rampant.

Two pieces my father wrote speak to these topics:

Disability and the Invisible American 'Gulag Archipelago'
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/neil-s-greenspan/disability-an...

Failings in Mental Health Care for Adults With Autism
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/neil-s-greenspan/health-care-a...

It's also interesting to look at the federal court records of county-level disabilities boards, such as the one in Cuyahoga County, OH, where I grew up:

http://www.plainsite.org/flashlight/index.html?id=5006872

Not a pretty picture. And most communities are just as ignorant as the one portrayed in Iowa, if not more so.

* The word "autism" is virtually meaningless. See http://www.huffingtonpost.com/neil-s-greenspan/autism-concep....
but you trust google, which I listed in my previous comment. Also openid+email worked the same way with custom domains years ago the same way.

I do not understand your reply, sorry.
The Futility of Productivity Posts
I'm using Windows 8 (and 8.1) at work a lot and never joined the hate crowd. It's reasonably good and works for me.

My biggest gripe with the Metro (or whatever it's called now) stuff is using a machine via RDP. Imagine a crappy client constellation where Win+something doesn't work and now try to use that system (bonus points for 8, not 8.1).

On the other hand: I know that I don't represent the mass market. But for me, a power button actually makes a whole lot of sense.
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The hard part is proving it(Bullying is subtle). The next hard part is stumping up the courage to take legal action.
The Start Screen still brings me nothing over the menu. The way I used to use the Start Menu, was Windows Key + Type. With Windows 8, the search interface eels all wrong: the search being in the top right (awkward), search results to left of search box (awkward), thinking that your search brought up no results, only to then arrow down (Ubuntu lens) and try again.

The mystery meat navigation/control of Windows 8 is the hardest part. I remember the first time I used a tablet with Win 8, and I felt totally lost. I had to Google how to use it. And I've since forgotten all the gestures.

Sure add power shortcuts, but let us have a discoverable user interface.

Also I have Win 8 on a 32inch TV, with fonts and tile sizes increased, and it's still not very usable. I always end up on the floor in front of it cursing.

Not to mention application switching (metro and desktop) etc. It just feels like a very beta interface, and the said plasters in the update don't sound as if they change much.

(Tip: Windows D, Alt + F4, Enter to shutdown lol.)
Do you really want people releasing code under your brand?

In any case, a license with such restrictions is considered non-free, so you won't find them on the OSI or FSF. There's CC-BY-NC, but they don't recommend applying it to software. I don't know if there's any other freely usable license with such terms, you may need to pay a lawyer to write you one. Or you could ask, say, the MAME developers if they license you theirs: http://mamedev.org/legal.html
I'm already signed up to this. I'm hoping it'll go beyond what I picked up messing around with Capistrano and AWS. I've enjoyed other courses on the edX platform.

My problem is that there don't seem to be any resources available for learning sysadmin with web development and VPSs specifically in mind. After getting through a book on Unix sysadmin, I learnt about more than I need without really feeling confident about the topics that are relevant to hosting a webapp securely/reliably.
It really requires a different mindset. For instance, while BCC makes sense, I can't imagine someone willing to pay for something like Appointment Reminder.
I helped get a law passed here in Italy. Not the US, but not known for great politics either.

http://www.governo.it/Notizie/Presidenza/dettaglio.asp?d=690...

Most of the marijuana legalization stuff isn't being driven by huge corporations.

Gay marriage rights are not a campaign that some lobbyist cooked up.

In my home state of Oregon, they legalized euthanasia a number of years ago. That wasn't exactly something with massive corporate backing... "Wash down that lethal dose of barbiturates with a refreshing Coca Cola!"
US military budget is, what, ~$700 billion? I don't think a $100 million is going to improve anyones odds of survival if spent on equipment/research/something else, but it can have a big effect on morale if the soldiers know they wont be just abandoned and forgotten if things go badly.
>Also given the way you talk about taxes it doesn't seem you understand what taxes pay for.

I would say the same to you. Roads are usually paid for by vehicle registration fees, gas taxes, etc. Pick a better example.
Hey,

So I just clicked on your app, and ended up "cancelling" when Google OAuth asked to manage my email address. The app then took me to a Django debug log. Looks like you are running the app with DEBUG=True. You might want to change that, so it would show a generic error message instead of providing me with all the view/template info!!
I remember that you had other apps before like GoodGecko and Peashoot, what happened to them?
I don't see how these compare: prosecuting murderers is supposed to prevent them from murdering again and, more importantly, discourage other people from murder. What is the parallel effect of proper burial of war casualties?
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Why was leobelle being downvoted? I can understand disagreeing with what they were saying. It's an opinion after all. But, what they were saying wasn't that far off base..
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My school had MSX comps too, the Yamaha MSX (probably ones mentioned in the article that were sold to Soviet Union). A lot of experiments with low-level programming were done on them. Most docs were not available then (it was time before the Internet :) so it was a lot of piecing together random info and lots of trial and error. Also, it had a bunch of very addictive games (ah, King's Valley)...
>By giving programmers a choice of number types, programmers are required to waste their time making choices that don’t matter

So I guess making sure that you can never do array[0.5] before your program ever runs doesn't matter? At least not to Crockford apparently, who seems to have some kind of irrational hatred for static type systems.
Excellent points, thanks for the insight. I'm not as far along as you, but already starting to see the same challenges.
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Maybe most of them do, and we never learn about it. We learn only about the sloppy ones.
Ask HN: What is performance testing skill?
The only method to test for performance I know is to make a stress test to see which part of the system is the bottleneck. Apart from that, I have not much knowledge.

If I build a web application with CRUD (Java), what kind of tools I can use? What kind of approaches I can try?
Did the employees feel an intense wave of irony wash over them when their job at Robots Everywhere was automated away? I'd be thinking, "Well ain't that a bitch."
So sad. :(

My prayers go out to the Freescale community and the loved ones of all that are currently missing on MH370.
Check out Gobble. I think they're just in Mountain View at the moment, but I could be wrong.
The person being bullied keeps a log of what happens.

They then go to HR (or whatever the proceedure is -and companies need to have a proceedure) to talk about it. They present a copy of their ongoing log and ask for help. If the person has seen a doctor they can ask that doctor to write a supporting letter.

Being a member of a union is helpful here because they will help.

Taking legal action is an absolute last resort!
But it depends on the type person you are. If you have aspergers its very easy to become a victim of bullying.
Why would you use grep?
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No need to imagine. http://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/01/06/kalzumeus-software-year-...
Maybe if Ghostery was developed in a half way decent manner it wouldn't have a bad history of breaking sites and would block tracking more intelligently rather than blanket blocks of domains.
I think my dentist uses it. It's easy to forget an appointment that's 6 months in the future.
Most technology companies in the UK are small(1-20). They don't have HR, and don't really have 'grievance procedures' even though they should. So often bullying is straight from the owners/directors.

If you went to a small digital agency, and said you wished file a grievance you would be laughed at.

Programmers aren't unionised.
Technology and the self
If you're from another country, you really don't understand the problem. Teachers time is spent teaching kids how to pass the test, not teaching kids what they need to know to succeed in life.

It is a very broken system
Could you keep the badges expanded instead of on hover? It would make for easier comparison.
Resource usage, responsiveness. They did a lot of good under the hood work with it. Just metro ... make all the good will that would have been won go to waste.
I'm an 8.1 user. Well sort of. My desktop is on 8.1 on my workstation and I usually have a high bandwidth connection between whatever client device I'm using and the desktop and use RDP. Over the last few months I've been using a 2011MBP as a client device and occasionally the wife's iPad. On a daily basis, I deal with Windows, Linux and FreeBSD platforms from both a development and administration perspective.

What has become apparent to me is that the only thing I still use on my windows desktop is Visual Studio, the MS dev stack and HyperV. Past that, I've slowly moved to a neutral ecosystem with standard formats.

When I look at this update, all I see for me is more pain to be honest. The 8.1 RDP experience is awful compared to windows 7 because of the whole hot corners thing. And they're adding more!! You have to run your desktop full screen in case you get stuck in a metro app. This is a royal pain. More than an hour on an RDP session is stressful and counterproductive. I've managed to reconfigure everything back to windows 7 levels but its still nowhere near as usable for a power user.

So, for me, I'm dumping all this crap. I'm spending the weekend moving to VMware fusion and windows 2008 r2 as a desktop (our target platform) just to run Visual Studio and I'll can the rest. I'll use the cash from workstation sale to buy a Retina MBP and just use that as a workstation.

Microsoft are really hanging themselves with this drive to change the UI. There are an awful lot of non windows machines appearing in the last two Microsoft consultancies I've worked at and I can see why.

I wont even go into the amount of relearning and churn that you have to put up with either.
Sounds useful, and I like the demo. Just a note: when I scroll down to the footer, the demo "pulls me up", hiding the links :)
The article doesn't mention that MSX computers had little to differentiate themselves from each other. Er, so a Panasonic MSX was very similar to a Sony MSX. This is great if you like standards but makes it hard to chose one machine over another. I beleive some people were paralysed by that choice and took a different computer instead. Also, individual makers within MSX had profits diluted by all the other MSX builders.
www.lawdingo.com is a single founder which is absolutely killing it
yes these posts should be life and perspective altering. If you do not depend on them and treat them as doses of lsd, effect might be quite theraputic. at the end of the buzz sometimes there is a tiny takeaway and thats how it goes. Later down the road lesson learned might be highly beneficial - at least there were moments like that for me.

imho
What a bizarre comment, I expected to see American flags and red and blue text but the site looks like any website, American or otherwise.
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