skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. I tried to use Evernote for GTD but found Wunderlist just works a lot better. The Wunderlist App is fast and the general design leans more towards GTD.

Evernote is still a decent app for keeping notes and filing things away but I've found Wunderlist much easier to use for the general tasks workflow of GTD.
If it's my own fault, I can at least curse my own lack of knowledge and expertise, and I can strive to do better in the future.

When the cloud is down, all we can do is fiddle our thumbs and hope it doesn't happen again. Or maybe we could send an angry letter to Microsoft, and hope somebody reads it.
Getting better candidates is not the only problem. Keeping them is the real trick. I have several friends who've ventured into teaching out of various more or less idealistic reasons. Most of them quit for reasons that have nothing to do with money and everything to do with the terrible working conditions. Constant micromanagement, zero control over lessons or lesson plans, endless stream of tests they had to teach to, reams of pointless paperwork that sucked up all their supposed lesson planning time. That is what drives many young, smart, talented people away from teaching in my experience.
SV currently has a culture of "making it," rather than "making." Until it flips back to the latter, it'll continue to be infested by people trying to get theirs at all costs.
Why productivity systems fail? https://docs.google.com/document/d/1p9U2Mu4Zth8Qa3buL3j2EQTf...
I have a little Android app that makes about $60/mo. It's my burrito money for the month :)
My German job board https://englishjobs.de started generating around $50 per month on some link referrals, but the site is still on dippers.
I always thought that building something like this might generate an initial income (and potentially a profit) but that consistent, longer-term revenue was much harder to come by. Any chance you'd expand on what your app does and what the revenue generation/ongoing promotion model is?
Hate Skype? New startup eating their lunch
Did you even read the article?

> Some of its opponents, like Senator Saxby Chambliss, Republican of Georgia, believe it went too far in curbing the N.S.A. Others, like Senator Rand Paul, Republican of Kentucky, thought it did not go far enough.
You should tell that to google adwords, inbox, and AWS console, then. All of them are developed with GWT, and haven't functioned in any unsafe, unpredictable, or highly mutable way.
I get that there's a lot of politics in Debian. I also get that systemd is a controversial topic, but is this really a vote that just came out with the result that no vote was needed?

How many votes will there be about systemd in Debian that will turn out inconclusive?

Also, I have yet to see a single article of somebody running into all the various horror scenarios envisioned by adversaries of systemd. I mean: Multiple distros have already switched and there still aren't that many blog posts about systems dying in flames because of the switch.

I would so love for this discussion to happen based on technical merits and (by now actually available) real world experiences than FUD (on both sides)
Why did Things and Wunderlist fall apart? (Could it be that you did not schedule and do the weekly review? I've had that problem myself.)
Personalized kids books on the iPad (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/little-heroes/id477247738?ls...) ~ 2K / month
Which only increases the issues of the company to stay afloat.

They need to manage a steady income of money for their product, which also includes captivating developers to target their platform.

This means adding developer evangelism to their costs, on top of the usual consumer oriented costs.

Alongside battling against Blackberry and FirefoxOS for that fourth place.

Not impossible, but very very hard with their budget.
You need a better lawyer.

If the situation is as you describe, sending unsolicited email and then charging you for receiving it (that's essentially what you're describing) when you have clear evidence you hired via the prior contact with another agency (they have that documented, right ?) is something which can be easily fought - albeit in court with some initial costs if they're going to be ass-ish.

You would win both your case and the legal costs if things are as cut and dried as you suggest.

However, if you replied to the unsolicited email (establishing you saw it) and there is no evidence of the prior agency being before that, you have a more difficult case. My personal experience of two agencies being involved was that the agencies sorted it out amongst themselves how to split the single fee which was paid to one of them - this was in the UK as you seem to be.

Only an experienced lawyer familiar with the details of your situation can properly advise you. I'm curious that you've been advised to settle if you've consulted a lawyer and appraised them of the situation you describe. Normally lawyers like slam-dunks like this.

My experience is recruiters don't send unprompted candidates because, without a prior agreement/contract, they will have difficulties in establishing they made an initial introduction and hence qualify to get paid. Otherwise they can just mailbomb you with millions of name variations and claim they introduced you to everyone on the planet and you owe them $$$$$s. [I think you realize this with your 'proposed' new business venture. ;-) ]
Could relearning a mother tongue lost in infancy be hard-wired in our brains?
I am a Google apps reseller and have a few customers. My customers get the accounts for a small discount then what they would direct and I make a small margin. Right now the total on that is about 1200 a year. I pretty much use that as a "toy slush fund" and use it to buy geeky stuff without getting in trouble from the boss ( wife ).
I disagree, tests and QA happens regardless. Adding a compile step to development is a big downside to the type approach.
This looks like a pretty cool book, thanks for the pointer. For anyone else who's interested, MIT press has it online for free here:

http://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/titles/content/s...
Show HN: Comparison of WhatsApp to YouRoam
Palestinian protestors try to burn down berlin wall
You mean apart from the day job?
Note that the linked site, cs.lmu.edu, has a broken IPv6 DNS record:

$ dig cs.lmu.edu AAAA
cs.lmu.edu. 3493 IN AAAA ::1

When loaded on IPv6-enabled clients, you'll connect do localhost:80 instead.
Both Thai and Khmer are Indic abugida scripts that derive (just like Burmese, Lao, Sinhalese, Balinese, etc.) from Brahmi. Claiming any of these scripts is one person's work is displaying abject ignorance of one of the most significant families of writing in human history.
This is a confidence builder for migrating my two servers to FreeBSD from Debian. I don't have a problem with systemd from a technical perspective but I do have a big problem with politics getting in the way of progress or forcing hands.
Terence McKenna smoked marijuana for 35 years heavily. He died of brain cancer.

McKenna was diagnosed with glioblastoma multiforme, a highly aggressive form of brain cancer. For the next several months he underwent various treatments, including experimental gamma knife radiation treatment. According to Wired magazine, McKenna was worried that his tumor was caused by his 35 years of smoking cannabis, although his doctors assured him there was no causal relation. -Wikipedia
As of Android 5 everything is native, including Java.

EDIT: http://developer.android.com/about/versions/android-5.0-chan...
Show HN: Identify unknown file types through JavaScript
The point is, that you don't have to deal with any of those issues with javascript. I've been using GWT for over a year, and I've never had to dive into the compiled javascript to debug something. I only ever edit my java code, and I compile it, that's it. Its exactly the same as your C code compiling to assembly, or the java code compiling to bytecode. You never have to look at the compiler's output.
sender domain please ? I need to update my block list on my mailservers to protect my customers (and myself).

There must be public links/references if this is their business model - care to share those ?

Also, what test cases ? Those are public record in the UK - they are no liablity issues in pointing to matters of public record/factual court records.
Adventures with Hazelcast
Interact.js – drag and drop, resizing and multi-touch gestures
Hm.. i'm on nightly and seems to be unaffected by this problem.
Also as I found out, set the TTL on your CNAME very low.

Also this is a PITA if you use the @ entry in your DNS.
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Starting over is incredibly expensive, the more so when done at a deep level. Either you reimplement an existing API on top of it (quite a bit of work, doesn't pass through all the benefits of a redesign) or you also have to port or rewrite all your applications.
>>We are making entrepreneurs out of ordinary people, it's fking awesome.

>people are naturally entrepreneurs stifled by regulation and AirBnB, Uber, Udemy and TeeSpring...

Not really. Renting out your house to someone is not entrepreneurial. Neither is driving people around in your car or teaching people. Further, I know of no regulation that prevents people from teaching for money. As far as Teespring "designers", those people are not entrepreneurs either. They are simply affiliates who market for Teespring and who also happen to give over whatever creative ability they have to Teespring with the hope of being paid for it.

In all of these cases, the people being touted as "entrepreneurs" are no different from employees working as independent contractors, and in some cases it's worse. The only entrepreneurs here are the companies that built the platforms and convinced people to give over their time and resources to generate revenue for their business.

One can make value judgments about whether it's good or bad for the people who participate, but to say that they are creating entrepreneurs is literally saddening.
That's 3 of the 8-member Technical Committee, which is the group that's ultimately responsible for all technical decisions in Debian.
Anything that can read my contacts should automatically be a 'D' in my opinion. Take pictures and access the internet - that's a 'D' too. I know this site is measuring the difference to people's expectations, but privacy needs to be re-framed once you have an out of control government in the mix.
The Racist Origins of Felon Disenfranchisement
I agree. The policy issue is between Taxis and existing legislation. The ethics issue is between Lyft. Taking a step back, this is one of the craziest market competitions that can exist, and it's going to be interesting to see how it plays out. Remember, Taxis didn't have nearly as fierce competition between themselves it reminds me of cable companies. Perhaps they'll eventually have to settle for different territories to manage.
Why You (Probably) Don't Need Multi-Datacenter Capabilities
Seconded! I was able to set up a toy blogging system with Docker, but it's not something I'd feel comfortable using in a production environment yet. I'd really love to know more about how robust production environments are built with Docker.
I wrote and self-publish a book named Mastering Modern Payments[1], with a fairly recent second edition. It's making about $2k/mo.

I am also selling paid support and add ons for my open-source Rails engine for Stripe named Payola[2][3], which very recently gained support for subscriptions[4].

[1]: https://www.masteringmodernpayments.com

[2]: https://www.payola.io

[3]: https://www.payola.io/pro

[4]: https://www.petekeen.net/payola-subscriptions

Edit: You can read a free preview here: https://www.masteringmodernpayments.com/read
The increasingly higher-level languages that are being used now certainly contribute too, as back when Asm and C were the only popular languages, there was little or no unused code because the amount of effort required was great enough that adding any "superfluous abstractions" would mean basically no advantage to neither developer nor user since someone would have to expend effort to write that code, and at runtime it would also add overhead. Efficient, minimal code - often because of simple design - was encouraged more than it is today.

Now, thanks to all these libraries, frameworks, languages, etc., someone can in a single line of code summon dozens or more layers of abstraction - and be quite unaware of the actual amount of resources being used - until something breaks or feels too slow or runs out of memory. We are increasingly creating systems that are so complex and difficult to comprehend as a whole that they have nonobvious failure modes, and when they do fail, it's even more difficult to figure out why.

A more extreme and somewhat philosophical viewpoint on this: http://countercomplex.blogspot.ca/2014/08/the-resource-leak-...
10 Trust Secrets You Need to Practice in Business
Would you mind elaborating on this? I'm in the same boat as return0 -- I just can't imagine what utility I'd get out of a touchscreen on my wrist.
Stocks, depends on the month: 1000-2000 on average.
Link: http://mays.co/i-made-6k-this-month-doing-nothing/

Webhosting: $20 (Mainly just pays for my VPS)

Launching soon: http://gymbrew.com (Subscription box service for protein goodies)
Wish I wasn't having those problems :/
You can do reasonably well (if you're just after pocket change) with a decent utility app - let's be honest, most of them have shockingly bad UX, and reap ad revenue.
If trust is earned then they should all be graded 'D' until shown otherwise.
After many years of GTD, it's clear to me that the poison in any GTD system is items that are low priority and hard to turn into concrete actions. If you use GTD, items such as "Plan a better way to arrange the living room furniture" and "Look into what's involved to mend a chair leg" will slowly creep into your "Next Action" list, roost there indefinitely, and slowly drain your list of oxygen.

Right now I'm trying Mark Forster's "Ultimate Time Management System", which seems to offer some relief to this problem.
Two parts of the Huffington post submission here clarify the issue:

"In a paper published Friday in the journal Molecular Cancer Therapies, a team of researchers from St. George's University of London outlined the "dramatic reductions" they observed in high-grade glioma masses, a deadly form of brain cancer, when treated with a combination of radiation and two different marijuana compounds, also known as cannabinoids. In many cases, those tumors shrunk to as low as one-tenth the sizes of those in the control group."

So the tumors are being treated with radiation in the current study, as well as with cannabinoids.

"Liu and his colleagues examined mice that had been infected with glioma and subsequently treated with radiation alone or in combination with varying levels of two cannabis compounds: THC, the psychoactive compound associated with the "high" sensation, and CBD, which doesn't produce psychoactive side effects."

So far this is a study in a mouse model organism, which may or may not generalize to human patients. This is worth looking at further, but the trade-offs of safety and effectiveness for drug treatments of all kinds can often differ between human beings and mice.
Agreed. Besides, they've never acted upon those words. It was essentially a thoughtcrime.
Looks like it's gone :( but it was great fun
> It seems to me that teachers and educators spend the most time with kids apart from parents (or one would hope),

You mean the hour, maybe two they see a child during the day?

> are the least bad candidates to second parents in parenting kids.

No, they're not even a candidate.
"smoking" is an important factor here, smoking anything is bad for you. I imagine any other sort of ingesting it (marijuana) would be much less harmful
I'm not sure asking here will get you the answers you need. Talk to lots of people, feel their pain, build an MVP. That said, I'm happy to give my opinion.

In my experience, there are plenty of excellent software tools, on the surface. If you want to innovate, I think you might want to think broader -- about how GTD systems actually succeed or fail.

If you were to ask me about the weakest links in GTD software, it has less to do with the "core" software and more to do with behavior. Challenges I've seen include: (a) Forming the habit to use a new GTD tool; (b) Continuing to use it even when life gets in the way and you revert to another system (such as using email, ug); (c) Making it appealing to return to after a break, knowing that there will left-over cruft in there.
"Whatever people's thoughts on the language itself, Java has built itself into a juggernaut in the amount of tooling available that fit into various opinions that developers can choose from. The number of large frameworks (in terms of popularity and usage) is not really found elsewhere. The number of smaller plugins are vast.
It helps that companies like Google and Oracle have invested a significant amount of research power into designing frameworks and tooling around it. Just from there two companies alone, we have tools like GWT, Android, MySQL..."
It depends on the size of the tab headers.
Google Inbox and the cost of not making decisions
How are the stories selected?
NgN 1.1.1 – Fully customizable notification module for your AngularJS app
It's about abstracting away the cost of it being your own fault. Realistically the cost of employing enough people, and buying enough hardware, to provide anything close to 99.X% uptime is much more than punting that over to a Cloud Provider.
Presumably, "11111111" et al would not be valid passwords to begin with. But even if they were, so what?
>> Which amount to "whatever piques one's intellectual curiocity" and "whatever good hackers like"

It only amounts to that if you completely disregard this part: "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic. "
100-200 a month from having an android app.

The free version has had 483k downloads, makes ~5$/day advertising (admob/adsense). ~250 downloads a day, been on the market since 2011.

The paid version ($2.99) has had <2000 downloads over the ~3 years it's been on the market.

Unfortunately I've no time to keep it updated so last update was in 2012.
About 10K per annum from www.rssweather.com. Been a reasonably consistent source of money for ten years.
$3,400 this year, from dividends and bond interest.
And for many other countries: http://fahrplan.smurfy.de/
I had a similar situation with DigitalOcean. Droplets were taken offline with no notification whatsoever, only answered after I submitted a ticket. This has happened to me twice.
1.) You never set background-color. Not setting background-color results
in unintended consequences on any browser configured to have a default
other than the expected white background. A good example in your case is
visited links become grey on grey (assuming a browser with grey default
background).

2. You need to be cautious of and properly handle notorious
webspam/blogspam regurgitation sites like "recode.net":

"Wal-Mart Scammed Into Selling PlayStation 4 for $90"
http://recode.net/2014/11/19/wal-mart-scammed-into-selling-p...

Which leads to:

http://www.cnbc.com/id/102197050

Which leads to:

http://consumerist.com/2014/11/18/terrible-people-create-fak...

Which leads to:

http://kotaku.com/people-are-scamming-walmart-with-bogus-che...

Finding the original source can be a PITA, but it's still much better
than rewarding spam regurgitation sites with traffic.

3.) Having a "sign in" icon link on every single article listing looks
odd. Is it the default replacement for some voting mechanism that's only
available to logged-in users?

4.) Grey text on a white background is common fare on the web (including
hn) to de-emphasize some text, but it's a poor design decision in terms
of accessibility. People with even minor visual impairments (i.e. poor
vision) have difficulty reading grey text on white backgrounds.

All in all, it looks interesting. Good Luck With It!
Anyone try "Getting Results the Agile Way: A Personal Results System for Work and Life" [1] ?

I just got the book from the library and the reviews seem a little mixed.

[1] - www.amazon.com/Getting-Results-Agile-Way-Personal/dp/0984548203
You mean your day job isn't sitting around reading HN? ;-)
By stocks, do you mean dividends? Or do you cash out the gains you make periodically? Otherwise, I don't think I would count that as 'income'.
This is likely referring to Qt. They use Wayland too, and these platform-ish things appear to be paving the way for Linux on the desktop.
We are using fig. Just starting to get our feet wet with docker, so I don't know if its considered "best practice" though. It seems to meet our needs so far.

http://www.fig.sh/
I currently make about 1000EUR/month consistently from an Android app I sell for 9.99EUR.

It's a tasks app that syncs with OmniFocus. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.quantus.app...
FOTONICA
Putting aside the anecdotal nature of your comment, it raises the question of whether, because McKenna was "worried" about a causal relation between his brain cancer and prior cannabis use, he ceased smoking post-diagnosis.

If so, that would certainly complicate what I'm assuming you're implying, that McKenna's case runs counter to the [edit: findings communicated in the] HuffPo article...

Edit: Also, it's significant that the treatment in the study was a "combination of radiation and two different marijuana compounds", not simply a correlation to historical cannabis use.
Sadly this is a common situation. They appear to hold off making any public notice (including often on their own "service dashboards") until support forums are screaming with upset users.

Google App Engine has had numerous outages like this, the only one I can find any public documentation for being a 6 hour outage in 2012: http://googleappengine.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/about-todays-a... (and let's not forget the old-style Datastore corruption incident, where every App Engine user got to manually merge split-brain database tables after a messed up failover)
It is crashing all the time, it should be back soon.

Even with all that I still keep coming back.
𝓖𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽 𝓯𝓸𝓻 𝓹𝓪𝓼𝓼𝔀𝓸𝓻𝓭𝓼
Don't forget that Thiel is also an investor in Uber through Crunchfund.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is open source at work. Open source empowers people and if you don't like it some way, you have the power to move on.

There are so many other platforms that this will never be possible on. Don't like something in Windows, tough. Don't like something in OS X, tough. Don't like something in Linux, xBSD, etc? Fork or go home.

I'm excited to see what happens next and if it will be folded back into Debian in the future.