skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your website doesn't really matter. If you want to improve the quality of clients, try:

Give them quotes per project or part of project, not per day, or heaven forfend by the hour.

Don't find clients on odesk, find them anywhere else (referrals and contacts is the best way, you've already done some work, so work those contacts).

Don't do work and then walk away - build meaningful relationships and trust with clients over years, and keep delivering for them (and being paid). Trust is key. So don't drop clients unless they are toxic - aim to build up a stable of good clients with repeat work and income. You've probably already met your first consulting client.

Do drop clients who don't trust you or insist on lower prices. If they don't trust you, you can't work for them.

Don't talk technology to them unless necessary or requested. Your client doesn't care if you use odoo with git or poo with tigger, they care about what you can deliver. They won't even know what OpenERP is (I didn't either). You can do a lot of work for clients without them knowing or caring what tech is used as long as what you build is solid and solves the problem.

Discuss requirements with them first in an in-depth way, don't wait for them to give you a list of things that need done, have a discussion, and come back with a quote which details ways to improve their business (efficiencies, new features, new markets etc). Think of yourself and present yourself as a partner, not someone contracted to do some odd jobs.

PS Since you asked about your site, it is a little topsy turvy, it starts from top to bottom with stuff you care about, and only reaches stuff clients will care about at the bottom - consider instead having a set of case studies at the top with projects you have been paid for (just 3 is fine), and quotes from happy customers. Your clients are usually focussed on their business and making money for that business more efficiently. Your personal views, your favourite technologies, and even the types of work you do, come secondary to that.
I copied the function from the article, they are identical. This was done intentionally to show how convoluted the article is.
The most interesting code is dark grey text on black background.
Thanks for those suggestions! For hackers (who also mostly write on their pc) this could be a way to journal. But for the most people, that's not really an option.

I also think in the longer term, that's not the right way to accomplish this - because it's not really made for journaling and thus also too complicated, in my opinion.
You're right, I didn't think of that. I wonder why at least one country in Eastern Europe that doesn't have to adhere to EU/Schengen immigration regulations hasn't opened up for long-term work visas. I imagine that some US freelancer living in, say, Albania could contribute significantly to that country's economy if only by consuming considerably more than an average Albanian.

On the other hand, isn't a lot of the remote working in Thailand also "technically" illegal?
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=anacleto

Are your doing some experiments or something? a new account with 48 submissions in the past 5 days is odd.
I rather meant that such comparisons were made for legitimate reasons and so would not necessarily end the conversation on the assumption that the person resorting to them was just trolling.
Anytime I see someone mention hacking on magnetrons, I feel it my duty to remind us that the back of your eyeballs don't have pain receptors. If you were to power up thatagnetron outside of the microwave and point it at your face, it's possible you'd blind yourself before you even realized you were in danger.
Search for open+house or "open house".

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/global-search#w_example...
to add on top of it:

"working at a startup gives you the illusion of ownership"
Yeah, seems like postgres is the only database that doesn't support those things. I mean, I use postgres, but I curse the lack of this feature regularly.
You don't build the minimum and stop there. You build the minimum to prove an idea is even worth going further on.
Excellent! The crawler does get CPU bound so having multiple machines (and/or cores) makes it go faster. We (as in Blekko) also maintain a list which we call the "crawl frontier" which are pages we know about but haven't seen enough relevant data about to decide whether or not they are "worth" crawling. Although some new stuff we just built will help with that.

Much of what we crawl is shared with the common crawl folks so that can help you with your choosing perhaps. Also that corpus provides a good way to test indexing and ranking algorithms. Things I like to test are queries like "Who are the Cardinals?" which can catch both sports references (Arizona and St Louis Cardinals) and church references (Pope Francis just named/blessed/appointed a bunch of new Cardinals). Often times news sources or blogs can help identify which interpretation of an ambiguous word is probably more relevant at the moment.
How One Man Accidentally Killed the Oldest Tree Ever
Realtek is famous for being hostile towards opensource just like Broadcom

On the other hand, you can easily find datasheets for many of their SoCs. Whether or not this is due to their lax security policies is a question to consider too...

Realtek might not be agreeable to opensource, but I'd say they are still a far distance away from Broadcom. They are more of a "Gongkai"[1] sort of company.

[1] http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=4297
A watch is a piece of technology you wear on your wrist. Jawbone and Fitbit have already been infringing on the space, but only imperceptibly, because they started at the end of the market that had already gave up watches.

Before the iPhone and even Vertu, there were a few years when mobile phones were borderline jewelry. For most people choosing a phone was completely a fashion choice. The iPhone commodified (basically removed) that choice within two years of its launch.

Apple Watch will remove the fashion choice from the watch industry. Because there's only enough room for one timepiece on your wrist.
The issue is that, for us here, "DNA being interpreted by the cell's machinery" is pretty clear. It's like instructions being "interpreted" by a virtual machine in computer science. They are executed, and something (hopefully interesting) happens.

For a philosopher, there are millenia of debates behind him or her regarding what "meaning", "interpretation", "truth", "information" etc. actually are. Much of those debates is very interesting, for example in the 20th century a flaw was found in a 2500 year old definition of "truth".

So when the same word, "information" or "interpret", is used both by scientists in biology as well as by philosophers, it can lead to confusion. I am not saying that the philosophers are clearly the confused ones, in fact many of them are not. Their claim is a more subtle one - that the potential confusion affects scientists. In other words, that while it is clear what "DNA being interpreted" means when a scientist really thinks about it, the fact is that often scientists do not think carefully and rely on intuition, and are led astray by such metaphors.

In other words, the better philosophers are saying that some scientists are making the mistake that the worse philosophers are. As the saying goes, all scientists are armchair philosophers.

How much of an issue is this in practice? I would say little. It's interesting to philosphers, but not that much to scientists. Yes, epigenetics were only appreciated recently, but I doubt it's due to a philosophical misunderstanding. The simple fact is, the discovery of DNA was like the discovery of Newton's laws of physics - suddenly, there was a clear and powerful framework that explained massive amounts of observations coherently. Such frameworks do lead people to focus on them and to look less at alternative explanations. It took a while for physics to get past Newtonian gravity, and for biology to get past a strict understanding of DNA, because those theories are so good. That's how science has to work - when you have a great theory, you have to use it to the limit. When it stops working, that's when you start to consider alternative theories, not before.
Right. I can't see why anyone uses Gmail. The built-in mail client in Android works just fine with IMAP servers. I have two desktops, a laptop, and an Android phone all using the same IMAP server. Everything but the Android phone runs Thunderbird.

It's rather nice that Mozilla maintains Thunderbird but doesn't change it much. The Firefox UI keeps changing, but not improving. Over three years, Firefox moved add-on icons from the top to the bottom, then hid them, then moved them back to the top again. I'm worried that if they change Thunderbird, they will "add social features", make it send your contacts list to Mozilla HQ for "syncing", or something like that.
It's in maintenance mode, so unlikely to happen, but ...

please please add support for something which is not mbox format storage.

Maildir, sqlite, whatever. I hate "From" inside an email becoming ">From". It's fragile as hell (although, last time I suffered corruption was in 2006 in Windows; never had my mbox corrupted in Linux).

Even with this, I prefer it to all other email clients, native or web, that I've tried.
For those interested, I work for a startup that does something similar to what Qhojo did [1], but for all kinds of stuff.

Thanks for sharing your experience.

[1] https://www.peerby.com/
And that we have fixed bufferbloat on many technologies, and thus a mandate for more packet loss, rather than less - or the deployment of ECN - would be WAY better than further political debate. example of the fix for cable modems.

http://snapon.lab.bufferbloat.net/~cero2/jimreisert/results....
No you're not mean because I thought the same thing.

The biggest mistake this guy made was quitting his job BEFORE validating whether there was demand for his idea or not.
One key sign: basically no one in those pictures is actually working.

I see one guy with a laptop, and I suppose a few people could be trying to solve hard problems by walking around. But there is more yoga in those pictures than software development or customer service or anything that Google does for a living.
All the best guys, e-learning is always a good idea
Actually regarding Judah's defeat from the inhabitants with the iron chariots, it was because they were afraid of them and not trusting God (see Judges 2:1-3). They did defeat them latter on (Judges 4:3,15)
> sometimes it shows one address it's found as you start typing but then changes it after you've moved your focus elsewhere to be someone else.

The problem may be due to a new feature in auto-complete that searches for matches that include the entered string, not just ones that match the beginning of address book fields, which was the old method.

When auto-complete shows multiple options, arrow down till you come to the correct one and then hit the Tab key. This will make sure you have the correct email address in your recipients list.

> it is more than a little creepy that Thunderbird is apparently phoning home every day to tell them I'm using it. Not cool, Mozilla.

You can opt-out if you like:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-stop-firefox-automa...
That could be useful instead of buying new things but only if you can get enough users on the service to lend stuff. Then obviously you'd stick ads on there like FB or Twttr.
They didn't develop it in git, just dumped it in github. That explains the lack of commits.

I don't see how the quote substantiates the notion that .NET core is written from scratch.
How do your clients force you to use gmail?
Microservices allow for localized tech debt
Hi and thank you for your feedback.

The misspelling of motocross was an honest mistake. And yes, english is not my fist language. I am actually from Germany. But the funnier thing is that a lot of my american colleagues missed that misspelling too.

With some words it works with some it does not. We already took that under consideration. The landing page tries to make a visitor instantly understand that the system is all about finding others in your area with the same interest in activities.

The highlighting of the "ing" part is just a branding teaching concept. Inside the system the "ing" is not being highlighted of course.

At the end it is kind of like asking "What's your thing?". I guess if you dislike using that phrase, it goes back to personal preferences and what you like or dislike saying.

We also understand that a product is not appealing to every single person it gets seen by. We did get a lot of positive feedback so far. Not only from the family and friends group, but also from external sources.

Thx for the parallax hint. We did get rid of the parallax scrolling feature for mobile devices. I personally was not able to reproduce the chrome or safari issue. The only time I saw it not behaving correctly, is when the site was loaded in chrome being bloated with tabs and eating up a bunch of memory. One of my partner's browser always has that issue ;) For some reason he does not like closing tabs!

Thx again for your input and taking your time to look over our landing page. It always helps when others take the time to share their point of view and thoughts! Have a great weekend.
cheese is expensive, papadams are cheap
Intel is definitely making a play for the low-powered market (including wearables and embedded) and experiencing an uphill battle, but they're still pretty much uncontested everywhere else. I seem to recall some discussion of ARM trying to move into servers but I haven't heard anything about it since.
Sure, or office space for a bunch of different companies. Rent it out one wedge at a time.
Tcl is awesome for building cross-platform GUI's when used with Tk. Python's Tkinter and Dlang's Tkd are simple wrappers to provide GUI toolkits for those languages too.
How would this help? Visa, Mastercard and Paypal aren't the creditors here.
In fact, a quote from [1] clearly states that it contains "largely the same code ... refactored":

".NET Core also includes the base class libraries. These libraries are largely the same code as the .NET Framework class libraries, but have been factored (removal of dependencies) to enable us to ship a smaller set of libraries."

[1] http://www.dotnetfoundation.org/netcore5
Ha! Clickbait.

> "What’s so wrong with the U.S. judicial system? Nothing, actually"

That's a very unique point of view only the government paper can present.

In this special case having a bit more international law would do better for everybody. The post should rather critize the TPP where it really is broken, not with this international arbitration argument. Read the TPP leaks Wikileaks published and you will be surprised.
I love Julia. I used it to write a restricted Boltzmann machine in less than a page of code ... and my code has lots of whitespace ... and without much effort. It helped that I knew matlab.
> Mega pays users that recruit new premium users, this can be seen as encouraging infringement

Dropbox pays you (in lifetime free storage) for referring new users.
Compile-Time Garbage Collection for the Declarative Language Mercury [pdf]
Ok, thanks. I was going by memory and didn't think it worth the effort to be exact. Being a pedant myself, I do appreciate the correction.
> I can recognize 160kbps mp3 from 320kbps

This something that is possible. However I wonder if you really tested it, or if you just think that you can hear the difference. Often people in HiFI claim that they can hear a difference when in reality they can't.

> Now scale power 1000x, I bet price will go up as well. Probably exponentially.

As you go up with power you can often use techniques that are cheaper per watt in electrical engineering. Also size restrictions that you have with headphones fall away. I don't know why people always believe everything to be exponential. Anyway - with "normal HiFi" you have different problems than with headphones.
Well, as long as you have credintials, any email client will let you use your account on any system

I think the main thing is that you can't really add on a lot of things to webmail. Look at the success of outlook in office, because you can add so many things to an exchange server that IMAP doesn't support. Reserve rooms for a meeting, schedule events, and more.

Or, small organizations often have a single IMAP server, and do not use gmail. If you are part of several servers(graduate students/scientists/professors), a client allows you to access your mail from all of these systems. If they have webmail at all, it's awful(Think Squirrel Mail). I sort of tried adding my university email to my gmail account, but the feature always broke in weird ways.
In my opinion they should improve Firefox Sync to work with Thunderbird as well. It could remember add-ons, email addresses (although in my opinion it should not remember the passwords and should prompt the users for their passwords once more) and RSS feeds. I think that we miss that feature more than any other.
Well banks are too smart for the good of the society right now. I would like some form of Glass Steigl updated for the modern age that splits the banks in two parts - the utility - facilitating movement of money and the commercial part. The utility will be common carrier.
Am I alone in finding the irony in...

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...the ad next to the article?
It is worse and simpler than ideology: self-interest demands collusion. Media conglomerates benefit from political ad revenue and "access"; political figures benefit from corporate news channels that won't rock the boat. Individuals who buck this trend from either side are filtered out, usually before they set foot in the door. Those who remain are only too happy to believe the narrative that benefits them.
they were able to pay $2 billion to walk away scot free

Is it only me, or does that phrase make no sense?
Trust is expensive.
Another post that shows how important it is to launch MVPs (minimum viable product). I often see friends spending a huge amount of time coding something that when finally released doesn't build any traction.

This article kind of resonate with me. I have a great product that is being used by hundreds of people everyday and I get constant requests for iOs/android apps. If I had more time I would learn how to make a phone app and I would monetize it...
I was an original sponsor of Soylent and I really thought it would be interesting. However, as a European customer I was totally neglected and eventually I cancelled my order (after corresponding with the founder about my disappointment). I'd like to give something like this a go but the way they treated me I am in no hurry.
okay so...Sinatra, Padrino, Lotus?
I'm not really the person to argue with on this topic because I probably agree with you on most counts. Given the close ties our countries share, I just thought your original comment a bit odd.
A lot of people forget about small and embedded devices.
> ...recommend DT 770 PRO, 80 Ohms. In my opinion best closed studio headphones for reasonable price.

thanks for the info. on the usb dac side i do have the audioengine-d3, which runs the p5...
> please please add support for something which is not mbox format storage. Maildir, sqlite, whatever.

Support for maildir format has existed since Thunderbird 12.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Pluggable_Mail_Stores

You can follow the steps outlined here but to minimize the risk of data loss, please back up your profile first.

https://jaisejames.wordpress.com/2012/03/15/to-activate-mail...

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-tb

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/moving-thunderbird-data...
They do have a maildir-like format implemented, but I don't think it's yet the default or easy to convert to:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58308
Researchers have achieved wireless speeds of 1 Tb per second
As the article demonstrates, in anything other than trivial microbenchmarks it's the inability to inline across a virtual call that will cost you. Inlining is the single most fundamental optimization for a modern C++ compiler. It enables the 0-cost abstractions for which C++ is rightly famous.
XFCE 4.12 Released
Rocket Romeo -just found the next Flappy bird. Damn this is addictive
What the "deep" means in deep learning? Is backpropagation deep learning? Why not just machine learning? I became lost since this term started to get used a lot recently. I have implemented and used a feed forward neural net trained with the BP algorithm once and learned it just as a "machine learning" technique, no deep.

I haven't read this yet though, maybe it explains.
Meh. My application with paymill has been in the works for over a month now (following google wallet digital goods shut down). Requests for updates are ignored. Documentation isn't great. It is a shame as on paper they do seem quite good...
For a start, payment processors should have some freedom to refuse merchants selling any thing that looks like snake oil: Requiring merchants to keep deposits and having putative chargebacks may not be enough to compensate processors for the reputational risks they are taking.
Good luck with your idea ;-). Why don't you open your own thread/news? Liebe Grüße und komm uns mal besuchen, können einen Kaffee trinken
Actually, you can absolutely have a say in bitcoin's operation or design decisions.

From the bitcoin FAQ:

Bitcoin is a distributed network, so any changes implemented to the system must be accepted by all users. Someone trying to change the way Bitcoins are generated would have to convince every user to download and use their software – so the only changes that would go through are those that would be equally benefit all users.

And thus, it is more or less impossible for anyone to change the function of Bitcoin to their advantage. If users don't like the changes, they won't adopt them, whereas if users do like them, then these will help everyone equally. Of course, one can conceive of a situation where someone manages to get a change pushed through that provides them with an advantage that no one notices, but given that Bitcoin is structurally relatively simple, it is unlikely that any major changes will go through without someone noticing first.

The fact that such changes are so difficult to make testifies to the fully distributed nature of Bitcoin. Any centrally controlled currency can be modified by its central agency without the consent of its adherents. Bitcoin has no central authority, so it changes only at the behest of the whole community. Bitcoins development represents a kind of collective evolution; the first of its kind among currencies.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/FAQ#Could_miners_collude_to_give_...
Looks like a clone of https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/throwdown-fitness-community/...
The counter-point is how PR folk have been learning to master the art of viral, distributed propaganda. While it's harder to control than broadcast (memes have a life of their own), active manipulation of public narrative for profit remains alive and well on the Internet.