skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends. Contract work through contract services will generally pay a range from $40-$100/hr depending on your location and skill set. They do this because in the end they are charging $70-$200/hr, and they are spending money to find the jobs and place you.

If you instead go the "freelance" route, then your rate would be more along the lines of what a contract agency is charging.

Some advantages of contract services is that many times they will have health benefits if you need them and it only costs you a small amount of money. Also, they will work hard to keep you working and they deserve to be compensated for it. If you instead go the freelancer (independent consultant) route you'll be responsible for finding the work, doing the work and keeping yourself moving forward. Depending on your network the ability to find and keep work is either reasonably easy or damn hard.

Please just don't take your prior salary and divide it by 2080 and figure that is your rate. When you contract you will need more savings, you will have additional costs including taxes to pay etc. So make sure you keep all that in mind.
Case in point: I received 12 hours of notice on a Sunday before my master database was rebooted to patch a Xen security flaw http://status.linode.com/incidents/2dyvn29ds5mz On the plus side, great Xen effort to to roll out fixes before it became a public zero day.
No marketing really. At the beginning, almost all users came from the Mac App Store.

I've tried different marketing things along the way, like sponsored posts or Google Adwords. Probably spent around $500 in total on marketing during the lifetime of the app. None had a meaningful effect so I kind of stopped trying.

I mostly focus on engaging my users as much as I can and trying to make them happy, so that they will recommend Dash to others.
Gkv – Git as a key:value store. A toy gem
Filming sidelines was all they were punished for. But they almost certainly were filming opponents' practices, including the St. Lous Rams' "walkthrough practice prior to Super Bowl XXXVI"[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_New_England_Patriots_vide...
> I can alter the kdbx file to change your password so that it is no longer valid.

How are you generating a kdbx file that has the record where they think it is? The entire file is encrypted en-mass except the header.

You can certainly make a kdbx file that KeePass will open, but it is impossible to make one that will fool the user without more than enough information to just compromise the database.
Author here. Obviously this is purely an experiment/toy. But it was quite fun digging into the guts of git to use it this way in a light fashion. Happy to answer questions and/or take feedback.
Is this the most amazing bike trail in the world?
Previous post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9726789
>no ... furigana support in most browsers

Chrome, IE, Safari and Opera have all supported the "ruby" tag, which is used for furigana, for a while now. Firefox has finally added support in version 38, released in May.

Now, I can start complaining about the number of sites that misuse ruby and break highlighting.
These has been a security audit, ordered by the french ANSSI (French government IT Security agency). This audit resulted in a "CSPN" certificate, which basically means that 35 days were spent by a competent auditor (Thales), and no important vulnerabilities were found in KeePass 2.0 Portable.

Report: http://www.ssi.gouv.fr/uploads/IMG/cspn/anssi-cspn_2010-07fr...
https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-hard-costs-of-heartbleed/
I used semantic-ui for a very short period of time before moving back to bootstrap (needed to support ie8). My impression was that it is very hard to overwrite semantic classes (selectors are too specific), and components don't play that well together, especially if you're modifying some of them.
Better form, for certain definitions of better (works in global scope):

#define BUILD_BUG_ON(condition) extern int build_bug_on[!!(condition)-1]
I have been using the

ipython console --existing

command to connect to the same kernel that the browser is attached to. I can do more complicated coding in that repl (inside of emacs). Then, when I need visual feedback, I do some kind of one liner plot and hit play in the browser.

It works pretty well, but maybe this will make the whole thing smoother.
Hmm, an alternative strategy might be to start an EFF program to photograph and add to a facial recognition database every law enforcement officer. Have volunteers take pictures of people showing up at the police academy, and people in uniform doing their job, and people going into and out of employee only entrances to law enforcement facilities. They can make this data base for DefCon 'spot the fed' sessions and for other interested parties.

That will certainly keep the conversation going although in a less civilized way. Perhaps it could bring enough pressure to bare on NTIA to get them to reconsider basic privacy safeguards.
I have been using this service for a year. It's nice. Definitely more expensive than going to the supermarket but the food is way better. We have to eat less and more healthy anyway.
My question is, long term how does SV not become just another large bureaucratic / corrupt power center like D.C. or Manhattan? Today it feels good to see those who deserve it get rewarded, but I imagine that's how people in NY felt about Manhattan when it was a fraction of what it is today. Same of course with D.C. shortly after (for example) the American Revolution.
Uses well-audited GPG, high level crypto functions which makes it difficult for the developer to get the crypto wrong.
> Perhaps you should contact the OP's author and see if they'll write a followup about you.

I don't think they care about someone making a living on the App Store. They either care about failures or about getting insanely rich.
Sorry i should have specified, i mean in a more generalised manner. But even then, do words really effect people that much? If the community has the power to downvote/hide idiotic comments, and to argue through rationalised speech, theres no need to get your panties in a bunch.
FIFA's Chuck Blazer went undercover to avoid lengthy jail term
Another one for the clueless bandwagons to hop on as the new sexy. This type of content on HN is getting tiring and played out. Please desist from mounting this type of bullshit on HN its misleading.
Contract rates depend on location, duration, skill set, experience, and industry, and you've only given the first. So it's impossible to tell you what to charge (and I don't know the Utah market, assuming it's even uniform).

I recommend patio11's salary negotiation guide:

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/

If you move from contracting to freelancing (which is a pretty big move), check out http://doubleyourfreelancingrate.com/

Very good material.
jaxy?
Depends on how many of the laws of physics you want to ignore. The horn has infinite length and sound waves have a finite speed (assuming sound is defined as the usual compression wave through a medium). So a sound wave starting at the narrow end would take an infinite amount of time to reach the other end. But the sound it self shouldn't be anything special.
the japnese katakana titles are fun to read

the second rennaissance part 1: za sekando rune-sansu pāto 1

program: puroguramu

detective story: detekutebu sutōrī

the second rennaissance part 2: za sekando rune-sansu pāto 2
Snoop Dogg for CEO of Twitter. Here’s Why: – Life Learning
Lol, whose bud have you been smoking?
I personally volunteer my backyard. My neighbors will probably disagree with me, but all I require is $100 per household-year of high level waste generated. Since nuclear power generates approximately 1 coke can worth of waste per year of powering a household, a 55 gallon concrete cask will hold 586 households worth of waste for a year.

My disposal plan will add approximately half a cent per kilowatt hour to the price of electricity, and I have a minimum order size of 10000 casks, or the waste of 5,860,000 households. My half billion dollars will be primarily invested in:
1) storing the casks in my backyard as a depot while I load them onto a container ship.
2) A single container ship which I'll float over deep ocean trenches, dodge hurricanes, and run fuel and supply ships out to.
3) Approximately 1/4th of a presidential campaign ($250 million) worth of advertising, marketing, and education about the safety of 3rd generation nuclear reactors.

I will then sell the "waste" back to the resulting 3rd generation reactors for $100,000 per cask (for around 5000 household-years worth of energy per cask). I figure I should net a profit on the scheme of around a billion dollars per iteration of this scheme, once I factor in my expenses.

Seriously. The "waste" problem is not a problem. It's a massive profit opportunity waiting for an entrepreneur.
Digital news consumers increasingly control how they view content
Linguistic Anonymity on the Internet
Ask HN: Why Does IdenTrust Support Let's Encrypt?
IdenTrust, who sells SSL certificates as well (among other products), is listed as a "Gold" sponsor for Let's Encrypt:

https://letsencrypt.org/sponsors/

Furthermore, it was announced they provide a cross-signature so that Let's Encrypt certificates will validate automatically for most users:

https://letsencrypt.org/2015/06/16/lets-encrypt-launch-schedule.html

Why did they do this, or rather, what incentive do they have? Is it that they have all those other products as well and may swap their SSL business for the improved brand value?
Also built-in support for other data store backends e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, ...see https://docs.prediction.io/system/anotherdatastore/ since 0.9.3 release.
I think you are underestimating how much stuff you can actually prove. There's an entire field doing software verification which deals which formalizing aspects of the execution environment and proving absence of certain properties, i.e. classes of bugs, in a system. Sure, your proofs might rely on some "assumptions", but testing, a mere search for the bugs, is surely not the only way to ensure correctness.
New exploit turns Samsung Galaxy phones into remote bugging devices
Network Programming in the .NET Framework
I agree with everything you wrote. However, users and developers of nodejs do have slightly different interests.

I think Golang is a good example of this... the developers (mostly Google) want Golang to be small, less complex, etc (at the very least, it makes their job easier if they don't have to support certain features). But the users want generics, exceptions, and assertions (among other things).

So there's this difference in point of view -- the developers have a certain vision of what Golang should be.. and the users just want to get their project (that happens to be implemented in Go) finished as quickly/efficiently as possible.
SV's basically already becoming a center of entrepreneurial finance rather than entrepreneurism. Fewer companies can afford office space and fewer non-repeat founders can afford rent in palo alto, mountain view, sf, etc..., so the people who live in those cities are increasingly those tied to the finance of startups but with higher salaries like VCs and lawyers.
I currently can not notice any performance degradation, and I bought the drive in may 2014, with no further updates. (Unless Arch Linux automatically applies firmware updates, but I doubt that)
YC has been talking more about working on bigger more ambitious projects/companies, so maybe its away to fund things that won't get funded by traditional VCs.
Energy storage (battery, flywheel, etc) would solve the transient energy problem, you are correct. Something like the Tesla PowerWall could potentially be scaled up to commercial energy production, but honestly we probably still have 30 years to go there.

As for cheaper, it's still slightly more (30%) for PV solar than for nuclear (as far as I can tell). That will continue to come down, which is great. The cheapest clean energy is actually geothermal, but there are only so many places where the plate tectonics work with our current drilling technology. Ironically, drilling advancements for fracking and deep wells will open up the field for geothermal in many more places.

As for safety, the 5x number was for plant solar, not rooftop. Production of silicon PV panels is not clean, nor is it safe shipping millions of them around the world. However, the safety is so much higher than coal that I shouldn't really be complaining.
They sure do take a playbook from the innovation they try to foster and do new things (although it isn't necessarily "new" in the sense that other funds like this don't exist).

In the business of business-acceleration, I guess this makes YC the McKinsey or GS?

Thing is, they can't keep stretching the payout to investors.

Even a moonshot (as a business) needs to experience a liquidity event of some sort, so they're either inflating the so-called bubble with this or...

They're playing dirty with some of their first-to-market companies by helping them grow and stay cheap enough until they emerge as monopolies (-redacted- AirBnB come to mind mostly).

Edit: to my surprise, Uber isn't a YC company, edit made.

Edit 2: I am checking a list of YC companies and other big ones I see that have potential are:

- Disqus

- Heroku (exited so doesn't count)

- MixPanel

- Olark

- Embedly

- HomeJoy

- Stripe (of course!)

- Codecademy

- Firebase

I stopped at Summer 2011, but some of these are now so ubiquitous on the internet, that it makes you wonder...
You need to look at the PasswordSafe file format. It can be found here (among other places):

http://sourceforge.net/p/passwordsafe/git-code/ci/333dd9f23a...

ECB mode is only used for the internal keys. The database records are encrypted in CBC mode, and there is an integrity authenticator HMAC as well. However, the format was designed in the days when Mac-then-encrypt was considered proper. So the authentication HMAC is over the plaintext prior to encrypting.
Maybe you could use a strobe effect: Have an audio sample that loops every 1/100th of a second, and then put a "fan" spinning at the same rate in front of the electron source, which blocks the electrons except for 1/60th or less of the 1/100th of a second. As you vary the phase of the fan, you capture the needle at different positions in the loop.
http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/news.shtml

Under 28 Dec 2014 it mentions 0.95, but there is a 0.96 from 12 June of 2015 available at

http://sourceforge.net/projects/passwordsafe/files/Linux-BET...
Adobe launches stock photo service
Most of the money to be made in VC is by doubling down on successful investments. YC has foregone billions by not doing this. Competing with later stage VCs may incline them to compete with YC, which would be a very great thing for the world.
*Sandwich nutrition values include 9-Grain Wheat bread, lettuce, tomatoes, onions, green peppers and cucumbers. Values do not include cheese unless noted.

So that's for a Steak & Cheese, hold the cheese.
You can play with an FPGA on your phone without spending too much: http://www.bugblat.com/products/fan/
If it's truly better and the only difference is remove Linux and install BSD then what is BSD doing that is better/different/messed up that the packets can flow faster in BSD than in Linux?
Your 2nd link describes Pregel, Google's distributed graph database specifically built for these kinds of tasks.

They were using Map Reduce prior to that, but it was a cascading mess.
YC does follow on investments but they are done by partners today. Negative signaling exists but it is swept aside because it is not a YC fund following on. Now they will have a large fund to do it so will be interesting to see how they navigate this landscape.
On Windows, installing Python involves double clicking on the installer, pressing the "Next" button until it turns into "Finish" and then pressing that. No configuration should be required.

But point taken. It would be cool if Python were bundled with the Windows SDK.
so we need wind harvester's which approximate trees? then we can chop down some existing trees in windy spots and drop those in?

otherwise, we need a bit more study..
Speech Recognition from Brain Activity
Same reason why all cars nowadays look like cough drops. Aerodynamics.

It's a common feature added to many objects. My laptop, furniture, shampoo bottle, my backpack, my smart phone etc.. etc.

Whenever I see an aerodynamic building I just laugh, because when I throw my ugly smart phone into the trash, at least the aerodynamics makes it a bit faster while it's flying through the air. But buildings? Why? those things don't even move.
To add to chowyuncat's comment:

Electron is not an editor itself. The Atom editor is built as an Electron app, and so is Visual Studio Code, but Electron is not an editor. It's not even an editor framework. When you hear "Electron", think "Cordova for the desktop". Sort of.

That seems to be the extent of the similarity between the two--that they're each packaged as essentially a single page app for a Chromium-based, site-specific browser runtime.

For more info on VSC, see castell's comment from last week[1] and this post[2] from Scott Hanselman a couple years back (including the comments).

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9691289

2. http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ARichNewJavaScriptCodeEditorSp...
Interested in launching DeliveryRunners.com in your area?
I have the domain deliveryrunners.com. any one interested in running a delivery business in your area?
I wish there were a FUSE-based file system for testing the consistency and durability of arbitrary applications. Surprisingly there doesn't seem to be such a thing.[1]

There's also a list of other things that could be built with FUSE.[2]

[1] http://sourceforge.net/p/fuse/wiki/FileSystems/
[2] http://sourceforge.net/p/fuse/wiki/Filesystem_Suggestions/
It depends on what type of frontend work you want to do.

The advanced stuff (like JS frontend frameworks) all seem to have a deep learning curve, but normal HTML5 + JS isn't that difficult (with tools like bootstrap, etc.)

If you've been building stuff in Django and Flask for 2 years, you've already done some frontend work with Jinja2, etc.

I guess this is why developers justify charging USD+70 per hour, as the amount of skill it takes to master so many technologies warrants a high pay-rate.
Yes, @tehjh on Twitter pointed this out. The CBC code is in Util.cpp, _readcbc; it appears to be length-delimited instead of padded, so there's probably another error oracle in the decoding of the length/type block.

Also: in PWSfileV3.cpp, are they HMAC'ing the IV?

This is interesting; we might be able to make an exercise out of it.
Why is that playing dirty? I don't get it.
i don't understand the use case for this. could somebody please explain?
Uber didn't go through YC.
How can you have a history of portable computing and not say a single thing about LCDs? The innovation that contributed most to adoption of notebook computers was the TFT screens with wider viewing angle and better colors. The article talks about the CNC used to make the sleek computers of today. But it wasn't any deficiency of manufacturing that made old laptops look boxy. They had to build the frames to block as much light as possible from interfering with the display.
> Alone, it accounts for 29 percent of Arizona’s emissions from energy generation. The Navajo station’s infernos gobble 15 tons of coal each minute, 24 hours each day, every day.

> At sunrise, a reddish-brown snake slithers across the sky as the burned coal sends out plumes of carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxide, mercury, lead and other metals. That malignant plume — containing 16 million tons of carbon dioxide every year — contributes to causing the very overheated weather, drought and dwindling flows of water the plant’s power is intended to relieve.

First, of all, words like "infernos", "gobble", "slithers", and "malignant" are clearly designed to provoke emotion, not just inform.

Then, the plant causes 29 percent of Arizona's pollution? How much of Arizona's power does it generate? Does it pollute more than the average for the amount of power it produces?

Then there's lumping in carbon dioxide with mercury and lead. Even if you consider carbon dioxide as a pollutant (as the EPA does), it's in a bit different class than mercury.

Then there's the connection of CO2 to the drought. That's suspected, perhaps even strongly suspected, but it's not proven. Anthropogenic climate change can cause a bunch of effects, from heat to cold to drought to flooding, but it's problematic to prove that any one effect is caused by CO2, when so many possible different effects could be caused by it.

That's just in two paragraphs of the article. That's enough for me to call both hyperbole and alarmism.

Look, the reality may be alarming. But creating an alarmist tone serves no useful purpose. For some people, it trips their propaganda detectors. For others, it creates alarm burnout. "Yeah, the world is ending from yet one more cause. Yawn. What happened on Game Of Thrones?"
`Does the Issuer intend this offering to last more than one year? No`

Does this mean that they're only offering entry into the fund in the next year, or that the money will all be distributed over the next year?

If the latter, this would imply that this is a single investment vehicle. Though the wording does imply the former, I would think.
Why do you think they don't need it? There isn't much info available about the company, but from I can tell, this would be the first game they've released. Even if they've done something to this point or have some outside backers, they surely don't have $60M lying around which is what the original Shenmue cost to make.
DDG might not comply. Yandex most likely won't. DDG uses Yandex results if I'm not mistaken, so no big difference.
My sentiments exactly. 100% Singaporean penetration is hard enough. But sucking a corporate dick for a pittance is also hard enough.

Its an exploiters market
Except the stat that shows a drop in sugar consumption includes corn-based sugars.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US_Sweetener_consumption,...
Yep, great idea to use a little OLED and go for something smaller. You might check out the Metro 'mini' board or other similar small Arduino boards like the Micro, Mini, Nano, etc. too: https://www.adafruit.com/product/2590
Introducing Empire: A Self-Hosted PaaS Built on Docker and Amazon ECS
Building Street Fighter II in Ruby [video]
I believe they also use Concorde behind the scenes to actually solve the TSP instance.
Password Gorilla is compatible with the PasswordSafe DB v3 file format, and is not hosted on SourceForge:

https://github.com/zdia/gorilla
By encrypting traffic, Microsoft ensures your queries will only be collected by a third party if you're being investigated by the FBI or some other government with a court order. Without encryption, anybody between you and Bing can see your queries.
See last week's https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9690653
Honest question. What's wrong with the function?
I have a similar function to ironically enough compare Hmacs in an encryption program I wrote in Java and C#
When I release the source code for the java version I replaced my function with java's own Arrays.equals though
> HTML is not a regular language and hence cannot be parsed by regular expressions.

But, but! In StackOverflow, "regex" doesn't mean "specification for a finite state automaton which recognizes whether strings belong to a given regular language", but rather "a character matching tool implemented in whatever language or its library that a question is about".

Some so-called regex engines will match nested tags.

The question has a problem because it makes no mention of what concrete tools OP is using to solve a concrete problem.
The support rep engineer was truculent. Petulant was the wrong word.
The Lost Entrepreneurial Generation?
Most people I know use 1Password. From the comments made here, 1Password also looks to be the best of both worlds and the most popular alternative.