skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Kickstarter finished October of last year.

Printers have already been delivered to the first, second, and third tier beta testers.

As of the latest update, printers for the first (Jul), second (Sep), and third (Oct) tier version one have been "pushed back" but there's no indication by how much. I believe this is the first schedule push back, so I wouldn't expect it to be a massive one. They did not sell-out their third tier version one, so I would assume anyone who orders from their "coming soon" store would expect delivery shortly after, or at the same time as the third tier version one Kickstarters.
This critique is always presented as reasonable and is almost offensively lazy.

Congress doesn't write rules in a vacuum. It's no coincidence that the laws always favor certain corporations of groups of corporations. Through lobbyists and organizations like ALEC, the companies who benefit from these loopholes are frequently the same parties who write the legislation. Obviously our lawmakers are complicit, but saying, "They're just following the rules" ignores that they usually write the rules too.
Magic and science do not mix. That's why I don't dabble or anything else.
Pitch the way VCs think [pdf]
The Control Group, San Diego, CA - Full Time

There are a ton of positions open including: Node/PHP Developer, Devops/Sysadmin, Front End Engineer, Graphic Designer, and other non-technical positions. Here is the link to the job listings: http://www.thecontrolgroup.com/category/job-openings/

Here's what the listing for Node/PHP Developer says:

San Diego application developers! Are you looking for a job where you’ll feel challenged, be appreciated, and given the space you need to do your thing? We’ve cultivated a developer-friendly culture here and we intend to keep it that way. You get autonomy, and the chance to collaborate with other top-tier developers in the industry. Sound good? Keep reading.

Do you view programming as “your craft” and have strong opinions on the subject?
Are you prone to raising an eyebrow when people say “Big Data” and enjoy playing with stats?
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If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, we want to hear from you.
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I work in the Pacific Beach office which is literally right on the beach -- it makes for really awesome lunch times being able to walk the boardwalk and try a bunch of different places. There's even a rack at our entrance to put your surfboard!

You could talk to me if you're interested (justin.mealey@thecontrolgroup.com), or you can apply through our website.
He's not saying that we shouldn't. But the U.S. is overwhelmingly focused on punishment, retribution, and incapacitation rather than rehabilitation. Essentially victim blaming, if you want to look at it like that. Opinion: It's going to take system-wide reform to accomplish anything meaningful.
Stop offering bug fixes for free. Software development entails bugs; it's unreasonable to expect that bug fixing will be free of charge. If you're selling pre-packaged software with a warranty that may not be true, but if you're billing by the hour you're crazy not to bill for all your time.

Start tracking bug reports carefully. Log all the details of the report, investigation, and resolution. Make these available to your client where possible.

Also, consider that inadvertent misuse of software may constitute a UX defect :-)
If they could not afford to do custom-tailored program for average student, why should they do it for gifted? Results of the survey shows that gifted kids do alright in life, make more than average, get Ph.Ds, etc. Should schools (and average Joe who pays for it) provide them with even more advantages?
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2. Senior Rails Engineer

You are a performance-oriented senior back-end Rails engineer with experience scaling modern web apps and DBs. AWS/sysadmin experience a big plus.

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The other film:

"The UNIX System: Making Computers Easier to Use"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvDZLjaCJuw
I also think that Valve used him a bit as convenient scapegoat to explain why the release of the game was pushed back another year.
> It makes my spine tingle when stories like this flip your understanding and perspective of things like the Hollywood Entertainment Machine.

No doubt. Not sure if they ever made a conscious choice of "we'll teach our people English better" or they just took the easier route. But watching American shows in English is really invaluable to learning American conversational English. A huge part of it is always cultural references and sayings that just never translate directly things like "Don't put the cart before the horse" saying, of even stupid movie and pop culture memes like "Hasta la vista, baby" (Terminator 2) That is stuff one has very little chance of learning in school (grammar and vocabulary always come first).
An AI is going to be much cheaper and faster than books + practice + private lessons.
I knew nothing about FindTheBest before reading this but it gives me a warm fuzzy feeling towards them. Newegg also recently made the news for beating a patent troll. People who stand up to this make the world better for all of us.
I reject the argument that Valve had it coming since they didn't take the time to secure their network beforehand. There are almost always going to be holes in the security of any system, especially digital ones (since they have a larger surface area to consider), so blaming the victim of a break-in implies that everyone should just resign themselves to being hacked sooner or later. Valve surely made at least some efforts to secure their systems, but even if they did not, that would not justify the morality/ethicality of entering their servers without permission.
I see you are somewhat versed in Enochian workings. I'm a bit surprised, but the tech community has knowledge extending every direction. Yes, Enochian Magic was created by John Dee in reference to the apochryphal book of Enoch. It entails in working with both positive and negative angels under YHVH (Judeao/Christian/Moslem deity).

That's one of the reasons why I mentioned chaos magic. It is devoid of any deity worship, and is more that of being a sorcerer.Golden Dawn also used Enochian magic, albeit only the second book. And they also involved themselves with YHVH, Egyptian deities and Celtic deities. For no deity workings, perhaps Tantra or Chaos would apply.
Great comment - totally agree with the hostility point.

The best product managers are like the best point guards in basketball. They see the whole court, deliver the ball right into the hands of the person who can score at the right moment. Unfortunately, most PMs are like characters in Office Space.

My theory about why their aren't many PMs out there: it's a shitty job. I was a PM for around 10 years, but I left it because it's just not a great job in most orgs. More specifically, it is generally a job of "no" as opposed to a job of "yes", and is a job that lacks any real authority in most cases.
The game was delayed a year because of the hack.
From the previously linked AmA:

"This was actually one of the interview questions, don't know why they didn't use the answer. I work as a software developer and a bit of a system administrator. I work in a company that does physical security, like fire alarms and such. Most of the work I do is programming PC control software for our systems and also quite some firmware development for various uCs. I know quite a bit of different assemblers. Measurement and automation is another field that I'm currently learning more and more."
It's not pre-packaged (100% custom).

I don't know, I feel like if you build something, and it's defective, that you should fix it free. I would expect the same from a car mechanic. I get that software is a hard thing and bugs are inevitable. I'm curious what other people do.
Kindling, New York City, NY - Full Time

At Kindling our mission is to modernize the enterprise experience with software people enjoy using. For us this means a design-oriented and engineering-conscious approach based on clarity, coherence, and simplicity. We build innovation software which empowers members of an organization to contribute to the life and growth of that organization.

There are currently two roles that HN readers might be interested in!

1. Lead Application Developer

This is a pretty broad server-side development role for someone of a senior or lead level. Part of this role is supporting our existing web application and API which is built on the LAMP stack (Zend framework), but we hope the role can also be flexible and future looking: from extending the application (not necessarily with PHP) to building whole new apps against the API.

If you're interested: http://www.kindlingapp.com/jobs/lead-application-developer/

2. Passionate QA Engineer

We need someone who can do more than click around our software and reporting bugs. This is the ideal role for someone who likes to figure out new and exciting ways to break software. You'll get to know the software from top to bottom and be instrumental in designing tests (automated and manual) as new features are developed.

http://www.kindlingapp.com/jobs/passionate-qa-engineer-full-...
At work when we've contracted with firms, a lot of times the agreements include a few months of paid maintenance (two or three hours per month at a reasonable rate) to cover this stuff. That way they don't disappear and leave us with bugs nor will they feel shafted by our requests to fix issues. Everyone is happy :).
Is there an opportunity for a well-known backup vendor to have shopfronts in malls that are wired into a high-speed backbone? Take them your external USB, go have lunch in the food court, come back later when the backup is complete.

'YOUR PHOTOS BACKED UP TO CLOUD WHILE U WAIT'
When it comes to coal these efforts and those who support them seem to always make the assumption that there is nothing that can be done to make burning coal "cleaner". After working with the utilities industries (mostly natural gas industries) I can tell you with 100% certainty that more than 80% of the by products from the burning of coal, including CO2, can be removed using scrubbing technologies and filters. In many cases the cost to install these technologies are lower than the costs to convert a plant to natural gas. The problem is that EPA regulations on coal are driving the costs up (by making it harder to mine and transport) to the point where in the long run natural gas is cheaper (though get a change in the US administration and that could sway the other way again)(Edit: Which is why a lot of coal plants are being converted to natural gas). My point is that if coal didn't cost as much as it currently does (because of federal regulation) a number of technologies could be installed that would enable coal plants to continue to be used with much much less environmental impact.
I think the assumed issues here are the long rebuild times and the expectation of an additional failure happening during the rebuild which could then trigger another disk error. Then the entire array of data would be taken offline and possibly corrupted. I have build many RAID5/6 arrays and have rarely lost any data, but I am leery and now and tend to just stick with smaller RAID 1 or 10's due to the large size of current disks. We really need native ZFS (BTRFS?) on everything now. Data should be automatically distributed to multiple disks and the file system should be able to guarantee via checksum the data read is what I wrote.
I certainly found this interesting and implemented the node.js package[1] in a project just now. I found it super easy to use -- much moreso than minimist[2] or commander[3].

[1]: https://github.com/docopt/docopt.coffee

[2]: https://github.com/substack/minimist

[3]: https://github.com/visionmedia/commander.js
Even the basketball league in New Zealand is introducing courtsiding policy. It strikes me as completely ridiculous in all sports.

If you want to offer real-time betting on sporting minutiae and for some reason you can't do it such that some able to bet or gain information in real-time could screw you over, tough luck.

What do we ultimately lose without the policy? An inability to bet on the next point right up to it happening? Big deal.
The Half-Life 2 source would have been an incredible learning tool for anyone interested in engine design at the time. That knowledge is their competitive advantage.
> That doesn't mean that Product Management is worthless...

> the real key was the ability to balance product requirements now against their long term affects

The problem is that a lot of companies are structured so that this is impossible for their PMs to accomplish.

Good employees (PMs or otherwise) will always find away to be effective in spite of the organization. However, if product management is too much under the thumb of sales, or if they are too much under the thumb of development and disconnected from sales, they don't have the visibility they need into one end or the other. Further, there will be pressure from their bosses to advocate more for their side.

To me, the best PMs are good mediators. Not only do they know how to schedule requirements and decide scope, they know how to communicate that effectively, and get buy-in from both sales and development with a minimum of squabbling. Because of this, if they're capable of doing their job effectively they don't need sales or development to report directly to them, and likewise they shouldn't be reporting to either sales or development.

If leadership feels the need to put product management under sales or under development, chances are they need to hire new PMs.

I completely agree though that good PMs are rare, exceedingly difficult to hire for, and worth double their weight in gold.
Houdini had a slight edge against Stockfish DD, which is a few months old. The latest Stockfish version (v5, very similar to the version that competed in the TCEC Superfinal) is ~60 Elo stronger, and demolishes Houdini at all time controls. It should soon start hitting the more conservative ratinglists.
Long-term contracts. $X a month for bug fixes. If they drop the contract, they're billed by the hour.

Recurring revenue and the client is happy: they are now able to budget their costs.
I was just identifying and summarizing calculations done by others. Among the calculations I analyzed, all included the cost of appeals and housing.

In many states there were mandatory appeals for death-row inmates which added to their costs. For most other sentences there were more limits on appeals which in-turn limited the life-sentence appeals costs.

There were higher housing costs for the death-row inmates, although I don't remember seeing a breakdown. I always assumed the differences were because of increased security costs. The housing costs were for entire expected sentences, not by year (while a life-sentence inmate would be expected to need housing for a longer time, the costs were still less than a death-row inmate's costs until execution).

Also, in many prisons, the life-sentence inmates could participate in work programs, with some of the related income being funneled back into the prison. At the time I was doing my research I couldn't find any work programs that allowed death-row inmates to participate. So not only were the life-sentence inmates cheaper, they could potentially work to reduce their own costs.
> Fedex bid on a government contract and was the low bidder or supplies a product or service that the government needs.

The implication is that Fedex is bidding on government contracts while actively avoiding paying taxes. Their bids would be less competitive if they had to account for paying the 'appropriate' rate.

> Puerto Rico was a tax haven for a reason. In particular many Pharma companies located operations in PR which created great benefit to that area.

Puerto Rico's unemployment rate has been above 10% for over 30 years. I suppose you can make the argument that it would be worse but for these tax havens, but good luck with that.

> How many people, on personal income taxes, pay anywhere close to the "rack" rate? Note the use of "official" as if to imply "what they should be doing".

Nearly everyone does. The majority of Americans (upwards of 65%) take standard deductions and their effective tax rate is identical to the prescribed rate based on their income. The next largest chunk take obvious deductions (mortgage, charity, etc.) but no further.
I don't like doing this (replying without actually extending the conversation) but you've missed a word:

morally right but not condoned by the government.
^^^
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I believe the Founding Fathers were aware of this loophole, since Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin,
"Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?"
With no hesitation whatsoever, Franklin responded,
"A republic, if you can keep it" [1]. Having a just government requires constant vigilance.

[1]: http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Benjamin.Franklin.Q...
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I feel like this is not an applicable comparison in regards to workmanship. However, if this truly is the way you want to operate, then I really see no way around simply accepting the situation the way it is now.

I can understand why you feel this way, but I don't think it applies to software as much as it would tangible goods or service.
... but vim is can be scripted too! the in-build scripting language is sometimes a bit awkward, but it works. here is a big repository of scripts for vim. http://www.vim.org/scripts/index.php
This is probably not the answer you'll like, but if you're really only talking about literally (only) hours of unpaid work, I'd suggest you just do it and chalk it up to "customer service" and hope that you're commitment to helping them even when it's not your problem will get you a good reputation for future work.

I've seen this sort of thing too, and while it's frustrating when my code is blamed for user error or other people not reading the API I give them, I feel like it's more trouble than it's worth to stress out about it. Just give it a low priority, and do it when you have some down time in the interest of keeping future potential customers happy.

Granted, I'm not some pro freelancer, but doing this has let me cultivate many long term positive relationships, learn new skills on someone else's dime, and get new work with (potentially better) clients based on the recommendation.
IMHO, more than half of the US folks can't even place Germany on the map, so how or why would they be afraid of something they don't know about?
There was a Harvard study showing that coal had an externalized cost of $175-500 billion per year. http://cleantechnica.com/2011/02/17/cost-of-coal-500-billion...

EDIT: Direct link http://chge.med.harvard.edu/resource/full-cost-accounting-li...
Indeed, I had an entire server blog engine written in objc, I had it running quite well on a Mac VPS (Lion running on vmware on Xserves), that I intended to move over to a Linode.

But I wanted libdispatch, blocks, all the stuff in the newer objc runtime, etc. Back then that meant playing all sorts of games compiling a specific objc runtime (there's more than one outside of apple), in a specific order with other things from GNUstep, using clang at certain steps instead of gcc to compile it all. It was a mess, but if I had really wanted to I probably could have pulled it off, and now I'm sure things have improved. I moved the entire thing to python and forgot about it though.

But I've always liked the idea of writing little things that have no GUI of any kind in objc, I wrote a few commandline utilities in objc and loved it. Background services on the system (mac or linux either one) would be fun too I think.
just focus on challenging myself

That's a good lesson and its effectiveness is also supported by research.

http://www.csulb.edu/~dthoman/Pubs/ThomanSmithSilvia2011.pdf

As Heidi Grant Halvorson put it: focus on getting better rather than being good.
The onset of frustration comes so much more quickly if you expect yourself NOT to be frustrated.
"The FFT bans courtsiding because it “owns the right to the data.”

Wat. Especially given that courtsiders are usually making their point determinations before the official results. Has this argument ever been tested in court?
I agree. Essentially, good product managers should have all the skills necessary to be a designer or developer as well.
He is unemployed in two years. The BRIC sticking point is reality. Economic reality.
"Some places that have Product Managers (or Product Somethings (editors, gurus, swamis, whatever)): Apple, Google, Dropbox, Box, Evernote, Square (they exist, I know some who fill these roles), Twitter, Facebook, Microsoft, Spotify, and many others. These people not only exist but also are a central communication hub if they are doing their jobs right. Today's shining stars of PM are Apple (for hardware), Google, and Facebook. Everyone wants to hire people away from those teams."

Where are you getting your info? Apple has no Product Managers. It has lots of Project Managers and Product Marketing Managers but not Product Managers as you describe them. What products to build (from high level vision down to fine details) is decided by primarily Engineering and Design (for both hw and sw).
Alexis Ohanian's (kn0thing) Commencement Speech to the Carthage Class of 2014
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That wasn't my point, at all. It's great that we're committed to reducing our usage by 30%. The problem is that 10x the number of people are going to increase their usage by a lot more than that amount.