skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am myself learning, struggling and learning right now.
Here's my conclusion on how to learn programming-

1. Pick a language(say Python or Ruby or JavaScript), no matter what, just stick to it for sometime (maybe 3 months).
2. Quickly go through a very light book/tutorial in the languge(learn python the hard way, or ruby hard way) (max 6 hours)

3. Build a small program for yourself. Solve your simple, stupid problem (e.g. a small interactive calculator). Keep pushing your limit with every small project. Try to learn a new concept of the language always. Hard part would be figuring out what "new concept" to learn? At this point, pick a advance book of the language(e.g. Programming Ruby), skim through table of content to see what you haven't implemented yet.

4. Keep learning basics. ie. keep digging deep into concepts (e.g. understand how lambda function really works)

5. After a good grasp of language, pick up a framework and start building apps(small apps to bigger apps).

6. Repeat from 1 to 5, until you feel confident.

7. Venture out, try out other languages/frameworks.

Tips-
1. Read blog posts regularly from people good in that language.

2. Don't get overwhelmed by how much you have to learn. Go easy but go full. Learn things properly.

3. Do Algorithms and data structures problems regularly.

4. Don't just copy and paste code. Understand it properly and then type it. (It helps)

5. Be consistent and Persistent. (Code daily, don't give up)
Ask HN: How do I get people to buy my tshirts?
I had the stupid idea of designing a tshirt about memorising 39 digits of pi (because that's how many you need to measure the circumference of the observable universe within the width of one hydrogen atom).

I posted it on Hacker News, a few subreddits and some startup link directories that I found. I made a website and everything at http://memorize39digitsofpi.com/

It was a massive, humiliating failure. I didn't sell a single tshirt on Teespring and the statistics weren't very impressive either. It was a stupid idea, but I was still disappointed.

To be fair, I didn't even try that hard. I ignorantly expected it to blow up given that it was Pi Day. But now I'm sitting here thinking how I wasted $10 on a domain (I'm hosting it for free off of GitHub Pages).

I want to give it another shot and run another Teespring campaign. I literally just want to get my $10 back for the domain. Everything else is extra.

How can I achieve this?
Best title change ever.

Can't we all just agree that "big data" requires at least 2 computers?
I believe this should be the typical day of every developer.
The USB C connector carries two logical USB interfaces, to have more ports than that you're going to need a USB hub in there was as well, and all sorts of mess trying to get USB 3 speeds to actually function properly.
Your MacBook supports USB Target Disk Mode when you use it with a compatible, full-featured (“super speed”) USB-C cable. Note that the USB-C Charge Cable (included with MacBook) does not support USB Target Disk Mode.

Probably nothing.

To elaborate: USB-C has 24 pins and looks like up to 18 conductors. That's power, ground, more power, four shielded differential pairs, an unshielded twisted pair, and three special function wires. A full cable is going to be thicker and stiffer than one that just has enough to support charging. The user experience of a thin, supple charging cable is going to be different from a ticker, stiffer, superspeed+ cable.
Twitter Cuts Off DataSift to Step Up Its Own Big Data Business
What is the USB hub situation with USB-C? I haven't see a hub that will charge and provide ports like a Thunderbolt hub.
(I work on React.)

I don't think this was intentional, and I'm sorry if it came off that way. We've certainly pointed people interested in building mobile apps at TouchstoneJS and I'll point people at Reapp too now that I know about it – obviously React Native isn't appropriate in all situations. Will try to keep an eye out and retweet some stuff of yours in the future.
Hmmm... no wonder i feel immensely satisfied at work nowadays. ;-)
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Yes, it's not surprising and not limited to them either. But seeing all the similarities in a non fanatic context also makes Apple work a tad less amazing.
Just got rejected. Most likely because we are so early on, haven't launched and are hardware and software. Too many red flags for YC in an application pool with thousands of established companies. Doesn't mean that this means there is anything wrong with what we are doing. Never give up due to rejection, it takes rejection to succeed. Time to hustle and show YC why they should take a closer look at the underdogs.
If you wanted a bit of interface "smoothness" more complicated than roll-over image links, and you wanted to only have to do it once and be pretty sure it wouldn't crash your browser...

I don't think this is an indictment on browsers and how they "sucked" back then. Browsers did their jobs just fine as tools for viewing static hyperlinked documents over the network, but it was the huge level of adopters who wanted to build full application stacks on top of the web that necessitated browsers host a concurrent application platform beside the host OS, by any kludgy means necessary.

In some ways, we have a Pyrrhic victory of sorts.
UNR has a tiny CS department. There is a small startup community in Reno but it's not very developed and there's not a ton of support for it. If you've been in a hackerspace in SF and then visit the one in Reno you'd be hard pressed to say they were the same thing. It's also hard to find any startups that are doing anything interesting here.
I don't know which I prefer, overly large page width, or overly large overflowed scrollable div.
I never knew he did this, I sometimes do the same with websites I enjoy so I can have archived backups.
Most people in Reno aren't stupid enough to believe that opening a DC will bring tech jobs. The city council certainly hopes they are though. Reno has been courting the Bay Area tech companies for over 20 years with no success. This is a PR puff piece.
Matter Over Mind (the declining demand for skilled work)
There is no reason to believe they don't monetize the data coming in from paid services. In fact, that data is even more valuable than random freebie users.
People want to own less stuff, we move around more, do less DIY etc., having stuff is a PITA.

I often want to rent things though, maybe I want a set of glasses for a big party or a steam cleaner to get the wine spill out that happened during the big party. I usually buy that stuff now because it's so much easier than renting.

What I want is amazon for rentals.
Yet another “What is a Monad” post
That like a regular practice for making backups.
From the article, it looks like you can mount one Macbook's hard drive on another macbook by starting it in "USB Target Disk Mode".
When?
Where?
Is it open to audience?
Does anyone know if there is an adapter that gives me the possibility to connect a Macbook to a Cinema Display ?
It's not clear that you read the article, as it describes several devices like that, and the whole point of the article is the somewhat obvious point you're making with the rest of your comment.

For Kickstarters, this one looks pretty nifty:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/668098663/infiniteusb-o...
Downtown is trashy and rundown. The riverfront has been redeveloped and they make an effort to hide the homeless but the actual problems here aren't being addressed at all. Midtown has as many businesses (especially bars and restaurants) closing as it does opening. Those great commercial real estate rates aren't going to last and some business that make mid town what it is are already moving around/out because of increasing rates. Wages here are depressed and the median family income is low when compared to the cost of housing, transportation and food. There are also not many job opportunities should you need to change jobs. The recent sale of IGT has started another exodus of tech workers which are already in high demand and low supply. You won't see local businesses raising wages to attract or retain these people though.
They should've put USB and other ports on the power brick, making it a hub. That would be a good match for the common use case where a charger and a few USB devices are permanently placed together on a desk.
You forgot to mention the blanket "no game development" policy, which apparently includes activities such as discussing game ideas or giving feedback to friends that are developing their own games.

Lately I've been hearing that we (Amazon employees) are required to get approval to take any online courses, such as offerings from Coursera. Something about you may write code that gets shown to someone outside the company blah blah blah.

The way things are playing out seems a bit ridiculous. I do wonder some times if Amazon is going to start trying to say that you can't contribute funds to a certain organization because it may "compete with the interests of Amazon."
But that copper hasn't been destroyed; it's just tied up in the form of pipes, power lines, etc. If civilization collapsed, our successors could "mine" pure copper from the ruins of our cities. If anything, pure copper would be more easily accessible post-collapse than in the Copper Age, because industrial civilization has already done the hard work of converting it from 0.6% ores to pure copper.
In my opinion logic, "deep learning", and everything else are subproblems. The real test of strong a.i. is intelligent code generation.
So Alice quits programming and goes back to cooking because Math is Hard. And we wonder why there are gender issues in tech.
Practice shows, that not a lot of people know about it...
Is it bad that five out of six features are completely generic and would be expected of any product, and the only remaining one tells us nothing at all?

Pretty sure you could just replace Prediction on this page with your product.
Just click on the link and you'll know;)
To add a bit more perspective to this, here's an article explaining what's going on with India's mobile Internet landscape http://yourstory.com/2015/04/airtel-zero-india-net-neutralit...
I'm nodding my head in agreement to the points you make and wondering why we're not having the conversation about AsciiDoc instead, especially with regard to the constant surprise you mention.

http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/index.html
Wait what? They're allowing "USB 3.1" to be used to refer to 3.0 speeds? Since when does "gen 1" mean "exactly the same as the previous generation"?

It's going to be half-impossible to figure out what actually supports 10Gbps.
The bigger problem is that classic journalism of the sort that people lament we don't have enough of is a loss leader. Certainly the streaming services would consider doing something like HBO's Last Week Tonight with John Oliver which is a good example of the news-as-entertainment/journalism hybrids that are probably one of the few things about the (sort of) news business that are doing quite well.
Have you tried BuyVM? Their filtering is through Voxility.

Link: http://goo.gl/mNwZod

A solid provider, at any rate.
Texts is single-window, WYSIWYM (“what you see is what you mean”).
I think this is more of a product of staying focused on what they need to work on. I would have been surprised if they did actively help you guys enhance Reapp. I mean just by open sourcing react native they are making huge contributions.

Not trying to just back them for no reason, but I'm happy with what they are giving the community.
Fabrice Bellard also did some research on pi digits calculations. Because of that, in 2009 he held a record for the longest pi expansion ever calculated.

http://bellard.org/pi/
NASA Reformats Memory of Longest-Running Mars Rover
I found an abstract of at least one article from 1986 discussing the 13.4% prevalence of antibodies against Ebola in Liberia (from a rainforest area) in 2 minutes using pubmed, which is free and open for all to use. It does not link to the full text (some abstracts do link to full text), but the basic information was easily found. You just have to look for it!

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3092415
Aren't almost all of those things normally wireless now? Apart from charging phones.
Can someone give a couple of archetypal examples of what a business would use this for?
Interesting point he made about how innovation will bring down prices in healthcare / education, and in turn there will be a boom in demand in places in the world that don't currently have ability to afford these services.

What I think is left to be decided is what kind of innovations will happen in these spaces, which plays into the above point as to how much the innovation will either create or destroy jobs in those sectors.

For example, Khan Academy. For someone with an internet connection they can teach themselves and/or leverage the community when they come across something they're having trouble understanding. These days there are so many resources available about so many things, it's hard to imagine people will suddenly become more inclined to want to pay for something they can get for free online. So perhaps the only jobs that are truly safe in education are those on the fringe / cutting edge. Theorists / researchers, etc.

In healthcare it's more hazy I think, but still the innovations will either try to tackle "enabling" technologies which make it easier for doctors to do their job, or cut the middle man entirely and go direct to consumer. For example, why would I need a doctor to tell me I have cancer if I have a compact portable device that can tell me the answer to this question with 99.99% accuracy?

So, then perhaps those who are truly safe are surgeons or researchers. Then again with more early detection / preventative innovation my hunch is, as a result, far fewer people will end up on the operating table.
> It seems like a straightforward backend

No offense, but if you're non-technical, what are you basing this on? Literally every client I have worked with has said this and it's almost never been the case.

And as for your actual question: the most important attribute you should look for besides basic technical competency is someone who really believes in your idea and wants to see it through.

Looking for the lowest bidder on Elance will result in a lot of pain for you. They will see your baby as just another project to knock out. They won't have you or your business' best interest in mind and will cut corners. You will end up spending a lot of money for a low quality result, and other developers likely won't want to touch it.

Unless you have the money to pay a full time, market-rate salary, you will have to find someone who doesn't need a high salary (although they will expect a significant amount of equity, like 10-50%) and believes in your idea enough to deal with lots of iteration without cutting corners.
I work from home about 8 hours of billable work per day.

Whenever I step back into any office, I am astounded at the lack of productivity in comparison to my own. I feel I can easily accomplish 2x to 3x the work in the same 8-hour day at home compared to an engineer of equal skills and experience.
I had an Amiga for a while. You couldn't hook up standard keyboards and monitors to it, everything was just different enough to be incompatible. It didn't bode well for Amiga's future.
Reno averages just over 250 sunny days a year. Being in the eastern shadow of the Sierras and at ~4500 ft (4505 ft at the university) does lead to heavy snow which makes the roads unusable for bikes. Public transportation is not sufficient for most people. The drought has made this not much of an issue the last few years though. This is high mountain desert so you can have very hot days and very cold nights. There is a good mixture of weather and we get most of the four seasons. There are many great outdoor activities nearby with the Pacific Rim Trail and Lake Tahoe as two good examples. It's a nice place to have a family but it also has a large number of problems that are not being addressed.
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Darn - no one? I guess this is too buried to get an answer now, but the issue still is important to me - I guess I will try Quora or something, or maybe even my entrepreneurs community.
Interesting fact: This version was supposed to be called Isis until, well you know...

Isis is a nice name with interesting mythological significance. Sad that it has been ruined for the foreseeable future.
I am thinking of something that is permanently attached not a dongle.
Yes, that would be great! I remember running it over and over listening to the miracle of speech through a ibm pc speaker, wondering how they did it. I also faintly remember some kind of fantasy sports game, with quirky characters kicking a ball or something (it's very vague at this point), which had the most amazing (to me at the time) polyphonic music coming out of this simple speaker on its title screen. I've been looking for that HELPME-file and the title of this game for years.
Free, online operating systems that "install" in less than 2 seconds and never ask for any payment are the wave of the future. Oh, and did I mention the integrated AI?

My web-based implementation of Unix: https://www.urdesk.net

To go straight to the AI: https://www.urdesk.net/desk?intro=bertie

I am always looking for help!
For how long? Was it your main machine? Just trying it in a store you have no hope of getting to know it.
This is exactly why Google should be researching fully homomorphic encryption like crazy, yet I haven't heard anything about them ever considering researching it. I think at the very least FHE is a slightly more practical research area than say researching quantum computers, and could have a bigger positive impact on Google's cloud business in the near future.
Thanks - you're right about how I parsed GP's text! Apologies GP.
I ran data through both services a few weeks ago. Both claimed the same accuracy on cross-validation but the prediction.io interface showed the classifier was performing very poorly on the sample predictions that they display. Sure enough, it continued to do poorly when I tried it on new examples. The Google classifier generalized well and continued to get the same accuracy. This is obviously just one anecdote but it did turn me off a bit.

That said, some of the constraints on the Google API are pretty lame (e.g. the same word with different capitalization is treated as two separate words so you have to downcase everything). We ended up writing our own grid search across classifiers and set up our own web service for using it that has a much nicer API and more tolerance for real world input formats.
> This site only works with an up-to-date version of Chrome!

Also, that's not really an operating system. It's a web-based desktop environment, like the late g.ho.st, but not an OS.
Your last paragraph describes first ARM chip :) ARM was all that(fast interrupts, fast ram) and more (30k hand laid transistors). It took a while, but ARM is taking over from the bottom up, making Intel ignore highend and concentrate all of its efforts on power efficiency (raw performance all but stopped in last 5 years).
I don't think any company here will tell you it'd be a deal breaker. Certainly it will have an impact though. You could testify but still have a plan for controlling what comes up when people search your name. For example, by doing SEO on yourself.

Also, if the law that was broken was actually a major thing then I'd be hard pressed not to testify. It might affect your career, but only with companies that themselves have questionable ethics. You probably don't want to work for them anyway.
So this basically amounts to a mandatory $80 mark-up for a not-so-optional USB-C Digital AV Multiport Adapter, right?

http://store.apple.com/us/product/MJ1K2AM/A/usb-c-digital-av...

Without it, the machine is essentially limited to wi-fi speeds for everything you try to do.
Interesting article, although I feel that some of your time may have been better spent submitting the changes you felt (like for documentation) as pull requests to help make it better, rather than just ripping on it.
The "funny" thing is that restaurants are among the worst offenders for some reason for sticking all sorts of gratuitous pop-ups and weird sliding animations etc. And this for sites that, probably more than most, are going to be accessed by someone on a phone who just wants an address or to take a look at a menu.
I work 9am-6pm with a 1h launch break. Apart from that, I code some side projects mostly between 9pm-12pm
BuzzFeed denies deleting critical articles to appease advertisers
Many places and people believe there should be limits to copyright and trademarks if it's in the public good.
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Prepare your dongle jokes.
Whatever you're looking for you won't find it on Elance or similar sites. Generally, those are places to pump out boring work at cheap prices.

As far as skills go, just look for programming skills, ideally with a body of completed prior projects. Hopefully the projects are somewhat large and/or complex (not a GitHub profile with a few forked repos and toy projects). Of course, many good developers have no publicly available projects but as a non-technical person you will have a hard time judging those people and they're probably not the type to work with you anyhow (they want benefits and paid vacation).

I'd recommend something like Craigslist - Computer Gigs or if you want to pay someone market rates, Craigslist - Internet Engineers or Stack Overflow Careers.

Also, if you are paying market rates, you should reframe how you're explaining this. The gal/guy with an idea in search of a coder on Elance is a pretty poor first impression. Just say you're a bootstrapped/self-funded startup. And make sure to do your share of the business side of things which somehow most non-technical people aren't actually good at. Line up paying customers rather than taking a Field of Dreams approach.
He has a bit on how he works here: https://www.stallman.org/stallman-computing.html. He freely admits that a lot of it is pretty idiosyncratic, though.
Testify. It demonstrates integrity. Any firm that doesn't want to hire you, especially if the case is clear cut, is not worth working for.
Quite a lot of phones support wireless charging these days.
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If the OP is claiming copyright they only need to claim the year of original publication. Technically, not even that. To print the copyright as the current year doesn't make sense. Unless:
- The copyright is on specific content, made in the year indicated.
- The content is substantially revised (should just add a year, not replace it.).

For the entire website as an entity, 2015 is fine as the copyright notice and original date of publication.

That's my understanding anyway. Not legal advice.
One thing a large datacenter project does give your town is the potential ability to tax a big chunk of relatively immobile capital.
The resources allocated to Flex meant less resources for flash. Adobe lost focus with Flex. It meant the IDE never really evolved , the flash api was still full of unpatched bugged and the general quality went down.

There is nothing left from Macromedia anyway,Flash is almost dead, Fireworks an excellent image editor for web projects is dead, Dreamweaver is a zombie. They eliminated all competition, but at the end of the day Adobe didn't won the web authoring tool market. They destroyed that sense of community Macromedia helped create. There is nothing like the Flash community anymore.