skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OP doesn't need all the clients, just enough to keep him busy. Let's say that's five clients. Perhaps there are five or more clients in the world who'd be willing to pay the $100 rate to work remotely with someone. Why should he cut his price without finding out?
Better yet, you wouldn't even need to actually talk to them, which means you would be free to provide assistance in an emergency, not risking making a sound in a home invasion and the GPS could stay on, allowing emergency crews to keep track of where you are.

Talking takes time, attention and requires you to use your hands - something that is not desireable in an emergency.
It's just that in some emergency situations, where for example someone deleted a lot of files on the disk, you might not have /bin/cat or /bin/cp anymore.
Take a leaf from our own Jacquesm and consider a Journeyman experience: http://jacquesmattheij.com/will-work-for-food-and-lodging

Here's one of Jacques's follow-up articles - explore his site for more http://jacquesmattheij.com/journeyman-project-trip-1-united-...
Presentation by Hans Reiser on Reiser4. Reiser just explained the new Linux VFS layer introduced by Reiser4 and the ability to see each file a small directory or a set of records.

Audience: Then what is the difference between a DB and a filesystem?

Reiser: Marketing.
Hehe. And to contradict myself, if you HAD written it all down you wouldn't have the cool story :)
What? ifconfig or My Network Places in Windows. Adapter cards had to have their mac address programmed once; it can be done again. Its firmware.
He will give a Talk [0] at Hackover 2014[1]on how he did the Demo and explains some of the tricks he used.
The talk will be recorded and maybe even streamed (for those of you who are interested)

[0] https://hackover.de/fahrplan/events/6046.html
[1] https://hackover.de/
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It seems like your best bet is to move to Cebu or Metro Manila and get a job in BPO. You can start around 40,000 PHP a month pretty easily (30,000 very easily) from what I see on Jobstreet and when I go to hire. Competition for devs is fierce in the city between the different ROHQ's and BPO companies.

Actually we're (ROHQ) trying to hire a junior .NET dev in Makati city, here's the link if you want to apply: http://jobs.jobstreet.com/ph/jobs/5088558?fr=21&src=12

If you'd rather contract and work remote, best of luck to you! I have no idea what that market is like. If you're not in the city, it seems like your internet's not going to be stable enough for reliable work, and if you are, maybe it's easier to brave the traffic as you get your feet under you career-wise.
Introducing the Gartner Programming Language Index for 2014
reminds me of the abandoned WinFS project (Windows Future Storage).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFS
Interesting (terrifying) synopsis. I might have to borrow that last bit, too: "he was a bit too fight-clubby for me".
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1134/is-a-chicken-g...
Eco-Designer transforms fashion footwear company, says goodbye to leather
Interesting to see Dart up there with F#, Erlang and Go.

EDIT: Dart & Swift also made huge jumps in the TIOBE index:
http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index....
I'd gladly try that out for personal use!

But it is an entirely different manner when your purchase has to be approved by a pyramid of bureaucrats and more importantly, buying things at online auctions (eBay, gasp!) or even otherwise (amazon) takes weeks to be approved. And oh!, we need five of those monitors to start with (and they better work!).
Yes, but I still wouldn't call Reddit itself an open source project. There's a difference between a project developed by a company which just leaves the code out there, maybe with the occasional outside bugfix (Android, Reddit), and open source projects where the direction is decided at least somewhat by the community (Linux, Apache, etc.)
Baboosh – Object Oriented Bash
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8397664
I Am a Barbarian, Imprecisely
I don't know about the rest of it (despite living in Silicon Valley for 10 years) but the 'capitol of CS degrees' is Carnegie Mellon! They invented CS. Go Tartans!
As far as I can tell, the government isn't happy with the situation, but is terrified of the farmers.
Vultr accepts Bitcoin
As a kind of food-for-thought question rather than a topic-hijacker, how much should cost of living be taken into account for your pricing?

E.G. if living in Manila is 50% cheaper than living in SF (http://www.expatistan.com/cost-of-living/comparison/manila/s...) (and my apologies to gdiocarez if they don't live in Manila!) you probably shouldn't price yourself at 50% of the wage of a US remote worker. But what about, say, 5% cheaper than the competition so that you can compete on price (or indeed earn more, relatively speaking) without devaluing your skills?

I think current advice here does a good job of giving you some algorithms for taking your cost-of-living and working upwards to a reasonable wage from there.

(Full Disclosure: I've worked in Waterloo, Canada and currently in London UK, so I'm used to a generally lower salary than comparable jobs in the US and currently pay similar living costs to SF and NYC. :P)
I've heard a conductor on the Lakeshore line out of Chicago vent similarly. It was something like, the contracts with CSX specify a dollar amount based on the on-time percentage Amtrak achieves, which Amtrak thought would guarantee priority, but it turns out that CSX would rather leave money on the table than give Amtrak the least bit of priority.

I honestly suspect CSX actively hates Amtrak at some level of management. You've got these passenger trains running fixed schedules 3-5 times a week and you can't run them on time? I can't believe that is an accident.
I'm not a lawyer, but in general, I think the answer is no. The DMCA protects online service providers from being liable for things their users do. Additionally, plagiarism itself is not crime or legal offense; instead you'd be most likely looking at some sort of copyright violation.

It sounds like you have a specific situation and you're looking to sue someone, in which case more information about the issue you're having would be helpful.
>That Haskell provides it is an admission that strict R.T. is unworkable.

Perhaps it is, but that doesn't mean it's not immensely valuable as a default. And it's worth noting that in the case of Debug.Trace, the actual program is still referentially transparent, it's just the debugging tools that break the rules, as they often do.

>Haskell's laziness makes the order of execution highly counter-intuitive.

Yes, there are some use cases where do-notion doesn't capture all the side effects (i.e. time/memory) and so a completely naive imperative perspective breaks down. But these cases are rare, and it's not that hard to learn to deal with them.
LOL from Chicago. Or more accurately I'm told "mostly west of the mississippi" routes have the nice double decker cars and "mostly east of the mississippi" routes have the dumpy single height worn out cars.

I also heard they're starting to use new cars out east that are nice but I've never seen one outside fawning journalist articles (they may be nice, they may not, but coverage is overwhelmingly positive). Maybe next time I take an overnight to NYC I'll get to try a new model train car.
Whoah, McDonalds near Reykjavik has McCheese and curly fries? What's McCheese like? Does it go on the fries?

Sorry. Some people gape at the majesty of a waterfall. Some people find... other... wellsprings for inspiration.
Despise the term 'Native'. Its used (incorrectly) instead of 'aboriginal' which means your ancestors came from there. Native just means you were born there. I'm a native Iowan for instance. My boys are native Californians, and we're all Native Americans, though our ancestors were from Austria. So there.
While this is an entertaining hypothetical, I think Coase would say that you should go & offer the shopping mall $0.50 to rent you the spot. And the price might still end up being $20.

Applicability to domains: maybe they should all be auctioned?
Show HN: Ios blog is for sale
No, because its harder to estimate the arithmetic in my head with 5K than 10K and when I got the result it was so utterly extreme that I felt no need to go back and correct. If it was significant rather than a rounding error then I'd have gone back and rerun the numbers.

Also I forgot to mention I used small biz pbx as the most populous estimate because I assumed j.random.ATT cellphone user wouldn't test, one iphone should do about the same as the next
Glaxo has a huge facility in Rixensart, it's not far from where I live. I'd imagine they do a lot of R&D there
The breach was their customer list. No passwords; no financial information. Overheated headline.
I missed several of these, because I listened to the audiobook (which I still recommend, if only for the goofy way they handle footnotes). Thanks!

Track down DFW's _Tense Present_. You'll like it.
That's a good way to think about it. Any code can be made correct (for most use cases) with the right amount of man-hours. It's more a question of how many man-hours that is (and how many of them are needed to ensure that correctness is not lost when the code evolves).
TLDs are absolutely significant, and no TLD is viewed by any majority of the internet as equivalent to .com. .io is probably way better for a technically oriented site.

The answer to all your other questions is "no".
Location: Mumbai, India

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Python

Resume:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KdYbLWvFn0g6RHn319-tesC5...

Email: vinu76jsr@gmail.com
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"Especially for those of us who have ages with several digits it's pretty relevant."

Wait a sec, just how old are you exactly? I'm assuming you are counting in base ten of course.
:) But what's this about Reykjavik? How on earth could you know that?
This may sound oversimplified but I think people will have to become more creative and create their own jobs in the future (ie self employed entrepreneurs). Simply hoping to gain income from a job via the traditional route of applying to companies is becoming more difficult. I think the large growth in "startup culture" over the past 5 years is proof of this.
The article basically mentions this.

"That may be the wrong place to look for improvements in productivity. The service sector might be more promising. In higher education, for example, the development of online courses could yield a productivity bonanza, allowing one professor to do the work previously done by legions of lecturers. Once an online course has been developed, it can be offered to unlimited numbers of extra students at little extra cost."
First, you probably can't sue anyone in the US for plagiarism, because plagiarism isn't a tort.

If all that's been ripped off is an idea, and that idea isn't something like a trade secret they stole from you, you're out of luck.

If Quora is itself actively publishing something that you wrote, which you'd therefore have copyright to, then the DMCA does not necessarily immunize them from suit. DMCA safe harbor applies only if the provider lacks "red-flag knowledge" of infringement. If they themselves infringe, like Kim Schmitz did at MegaUpload, then they are S.O.L.

Of course, you're not going to make any money suing Quora over a single post.
Here, or in Japan? because you know the Japanese are more enlightened. They can see beyond the physical
Thank you kngspook. Tangentially, is .me a good TLD for personal/portfolio website?
4G on a Shoestring
They could have just ran those apps in compatibility mode, which returns different values for all the GetWindowsVersion calls.

Or they could rename the entire OS.
You're usually taught to yell for help as you start CPR. There's not really a way to tell if a person has a had a heart attack without an EKG or labs. You can assess for cardiac arrest (that's the whole reason for CPR), and any time the heart is stopped, the best chance for the patient is immediate, high quality CPR.

The only exception to this rule is if you are in an area where no one will find you unless you call for help yourself. For example, if you are home alone with someone and you start CPR, you will probably need to stop out of exhaustion before someone will hear you cries for help. In this case, you need to call 911 first. If you're in a mall or something, then leave the emergency call to someone else and get started on chest compression.
>You're citing a document from 2010... Things are picking up pace

That's only 4 years ago. Thing's haven't changed much, it's a human perception problem.

Its a misconception that we believe that the time they are living in, right now, is the most important time of all time. Why? Because it's the present and we cannot see the future, and we do not care about the past.

The thing to remember is that we have always thought this! In the 1970's they thought that we were living in the most important time ever, and that things were picking up pace. In 1980s we thought the same, in the 1990's we said the exact same thing. pick any year and humans would say the same, "we are living in special times".
They do here (in the UK) but the modern kits are self teaching (literally, you open them up and they start talking) plus self monitoring (they fire pulses automatically).

Lots of businesses (mostly larger) have started having a unit on site as well.

I was fascinated by that technology when I did my CPR training last year.
Former Google employees develop search engine for pornography
Ice swimming is easier in the coldest months when the water is a lot warmer than the air. Only the most hardcore swimmers do it in April when the air is warmer than the water. Also I have never heard of someone taking cold showers at home to prepare for ice swimming. I would say most just start when there's enough ice to cut a hole in it, without practicing it for months. Source: Finnish.
What about setting up the phones so that dialling 911/999 etc shows the current GPS co-ordinates on the phone screen (on phones that GPS enabled).

That or even a button on the screen that will "read" them to the telephone operator at the other end.
This sounds like it is from the Onion except it isn't funny.
While most see Trader Joe's an upstart grocery chain, it is important to note they are owned by the founder[s] of Aldi a huge grocery store chain. They were two brothers (one died recently) who had a very clear world domination plan with their grocery stores. Essentially they split the globe among them and each controlled the stores in their territory. Here is the Wiki stating it better than I could here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldi
Or is it a trap? Who knows?
There are no APIs that return a string of the product name. GetVersionEx gives you numbers. To screw up in this manner, you have to be relying on at least two layers of broken code on top of the really simple API that you should be using directly.

So I don't buy this rumor at all. The number of real applications that 1) remember Windows 9x exist, 2) aren't completely broken on modern Windows anyway, and 3) go out of their way to use some convoluted version checking method has to be extremely small.
People complain about everything.
Try checking other freelancers on sites such as odesk and elance.Compare their expertise and experience with your as a measure in molding your own rate.
Or price yourself 5 percent higher and employers will thank you're 5 percent better than everyone else.
I saw a lot of SLI and mixed modes. I'm guessing the helix animation was done with sprites (full screen height). But there are a lot of things that just seemed beyond what's possible on that platform. No idea how the Coca-cola logo was done (sprites moving together? but how the curves?), or how any of this was so smooth and fluid. Simply mind-blowing.. especially on a 2600, which IIRC have less capabilities than even a XL/XE (POKEY/ANTIC/etc).
I think the larger the team, the larger the managerial workload. We're so small, if our client app manager stopped doing dev, we'd have to hire another person. At a global company I started with after college, working with with a team of 10, my boss split his time between managerial busy work (expected of him by upper management, not self-imposed) and being as involved as possible. He was always able to speak intelligently about the product and its code, and was able to contribute in ways that set an expectation of quality. He always had the respect of the team (and when not, someone got fired). I consider him to have been a mentor - he got it right.

If you're managing a team of 40, being involved directly in code/execution is likely impractical and perhaps even detrimental, but at any scale up to 15 people or so, direct involvement seems both practical and necessary to retain the respect of your team, and assure a quality product in the end.
I'd like a more actionable list. Its good to be reminded of what the right actions are; but when and where are what distinguish great managers from ordinary. Fire somebody after two reprimands? After behavior rises to what bar? And so on.
Actually I ended up working on fantastic projects for some excellent clients, but I had a strong personal reputation and a great network backing me up as well.
I'm wondering how to calculate the hours/week I'll get starting out as a freelancer.

I've been working on the assumption that I'd get 20 hours a week here in the UK and set my hourly rate at £26 accordingly.

In the UK I'd also not be liable to make National Insurance contributions which would save £2,200 per year.

Then comes another common question - self employed or limited liability company?
You’re talking science fiction now. If it becomes so small as a fly how on earth would it be energy sufficient? With a battery? And that battery will hold enough energy not only to keep it flying but also to provide for a taser that could incapacitate an individual? And at that size it should also carry some communication infrastructure to receive instructions from a command center, a gps, and a cpu capable of running face recognition or even detect movement patterns because otherwise you can’t have efficient crowd control. Sure, in a couple of generations we’ll get there, but not in the immediate future.
Medical first: Baby born to woman who got new womb
If I remember, they were one chain and split over the issue of sales of tobacco and alcohol?
Agreed, hoping for $100-$200/hr for all devs across the world is wishful thinking. When things 'level out', one would expect it to tend to the average, not the outliers.
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Only if it were determined to not have been human error, but human intentional action.
You can also use <space> to go forward and <shift>-<space> to go backwards through the slides.
The us military finds drones more practical for bombing.
GO-there – p2p car revolution
> it's not obviously an effective propaganda tool

It's actually a terrible propaganda tool, the "goal" so far as there is one is to strike terror into your opponents (and gain supporters) while not doing something so heinous that you call down the wrath of your target since terrorism is usually the far weaker side opposing the stronger side.

I think for example IS/ISIL/ISIS are just about to cross that line if they haven't already.
If Pirate Joes is a Trademark violation, then every single small business that includes a persons name is a trademark violation. Regardless, settle a name change, and done. My point is there is zero need to be litigious here, and there is no logical legal justification.

Trader Joeys, clear trademark violation. Pirate Joes, no fucking way. Not in this country.
Russia Proposes Monetary Penalties for Bitcoin Use and Promotion
So much this. It's not just important to be okay at communication. I've had coworkers in the U.S. that were immigrants and it was absolutely painful to work with them to the point, where we actively just excluded them. We just found human cron-job tasks and relegated them to those tasks (unfairly, but better than laying them off). In things like software, where there are many many abstract concepts being thrown around, not being able to communicate will get one quickly out the door.
Ask HN: What's your (ideal) teamwork stack?
Hi,
We spend a lot of time here on HN discussing different dev. stacks, but what stack do you use (or would be your ideal one) for managing teamwork (i.e. project management, communication, organisation etc.)? It seems like the number of credible tools in this space has exploded.

E.g. Slack/Hipchat/IRC/Skype/Basecamp/Campfire/Trello/Asana/Evernote/DropBox/Gdrive/github/bitbucket
Its a trademark suit. If you don't defend your trademark, you lose it. They are obliged by the legal system to do this sort of thing.
Do you watch the news? Flying machines with guns are decades old tech. Drone versions are actively used. Welcome to the present.
$45 is absolutely not the top range. A previous startup paid more than that to our overseas developers. It is definitely lower than a US contractor rate, but not by that level.
I approach managing software teams the way a coach approaches winning games. Top down leadership is not edicts from the top, it's about creating the conditions from the top using the resources available (time, team, etc) that lead to bottom up enpowerment and action.

IMO, any "manager" who asks the question "what are you working on today?" has no business being in the role. This type of clipboard task master nonsense is the hallmark of someone who doesn't have the emotional, intellectual, and leadership chops for the job. You job as the manager is to _know_ what people are working on, not to ask. A true manager doesn't ask "what are you working on?", they ask "how are you getting along?". Daily status reports and "what are you working on" create natural resentment and skepticism and rightfully so.
Bash, now on the web (chrome/opera)
If you started with Pale King and already love him youre in for a real treat. Not that Pale King is bad, just obviously incomplete (which it necessarily was, unfortunately).
My big question is how can software--particularly free software--create jobs? Take operating systems. With free alternatives the trend is towards commoditization and declining prices. Same goes for almost any category of desktop software. The only potentially increasing trend is in service, customization, etc.--all geared towards business productivity. Increased productivity may or may not result in net employment gain. In fact, for every programming job there may be manual jobs becoming obsolete. So what can sustain high hourly rates and create new jobs? One part of the answer must be increased specialization, but not everyone can become a specialist.
Came to play and "learn" > left annoyed as f
I wonder, too... It could pick it up automatically.
I am the creator of this monstrosity... AMA.
Ahhh, come on already with this one. Let it die.
And 640K should be enough RAM for anybody. Betting against technology is a losing game.

My nephew has a palm-sized copter with remote that flies for 10 minutes, right now, got it for XMas.

There have already been dragonfly-sized gadgets made by graduate students. Check out youtube.

RFID tags are all the computing power you mention, already on your high-end product you bought from WalMart.

The future is clear. Maybe a one-use metal-air battery on a chip-bot? If I can say it, its conceivable.
Good advice. One thing I do know: "people skills" are as important in software as they are almost any place else. And in case it offers any perspective at all to the OP, I am working my way up from a disadvantaged place in US society, and I'm getting paid $20/hr to intern in my first programming job. I expect that to be $30/hr by the end of the year, then on from there. FWIW.
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I stand corrected. The only way I could possibly have been right would have been if they were in Miami, which they weren't, and we were talking about the northwestern part of Amazonas, which was unspecified.