skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep. There are plenty of counter-examples of companies that set up different brand names that become stronger than a shared brand could ever be. For example, Unilever has many strong brand names: http://unilever.com/brands/?WT.GNAV=Our_brands

Large breweries often have many different brands that are perceived differently by people.

It's hard to build a strong brand name, but if you can pull it off and avoid line extension, it's the better way.
Facebook makes 4 billion in revenue. Google makes I think about 7x more. And from what I heard Facebook ads aren't very effective.
The MtGox Attack
Old (quite beefy at the time, but still solid) Mac Pro, with dual 30" Cinema displays and a full size keyboard.

Even older, first gen MBP as a backup / portable system.

Hosted Debian boxes/instances for deployment.
The Calm After The Storm (Bitcoin)
With SkypeKit, Skype wants to be everywhere
Well, that could be due a convergence between automation and labor-intensive manufacturing (which can't be automated easily) moving overseas to fine a cheaper work force.

Also, I think the parent post was referring to the fact that Steve Jobs is now CEO of Apple which IIRC does most of their manufacturing overseas (SE Asia). If SJ still believed that quote, then he would have been trying to 'bring it home' so to speak.
Exactly, which I'm curious if GOOG will incorporate hotel reservations in it all.

Man Google has it covered. I'm trying hard to think of an online space they're not in.
The way Google+ is growing is... neat. It's organic. Google is taking advantage of the huge advantage they have - a database of users and contacts via Gmail. Now I have a Google+ account, and I am encouraged to use it normally. I place friends that Google suggests into my circles. Google knows who my friends and contacts are already, because I email them through Gmail. As soon as I share something with my 'Friends' circle, they are emailed about it, and subsequently given the opportunity to sign up. I don't have to send them an invite. Me interacting with them IS their invite. Google knows about them because of me, before they give their information over. I've effectively already signed them up, because I've added their email address to my circle.

It's 1 part big brother, 1 part genius.
firing employees is in germany not really difficult, especially not for startups. every employee must serve a 3-6 months test period until he gets a professional contract. during the test period you will see, if the employee is performing well or not and you can fire the person easily the next day, if you want.

and hiring people in germany is much easier than in the valley or in new york, where you have huge competition from the big ones like google, facebook etc...
Cameras. Defensive tools (ie, guns) where it matters. Etc.

I doubt it'll be an issue for the same reason I doubt it's been a major issue that bolt / wire cutters are available in any hardware store. The physical barrier isn't the only thing that prevents people from crossing it and causing havoc.
How to be Creative. Hugh MacLeod
Selling and Free[1] are interchangeable, as well as physical and digital, in your statement. Realistically, there isn't much difference between a counterfeit luxury handbag being sold for $20 out of the back of some shady shop and an illegitimate copy of a blockbuster movie being given out for free[1], over the internet or hand to hand.

[1] Key point: These domains being seized aren't actually giving away streams or download links for free, they're being reimbursed through ad revenue or affiliate programs.

Side note: A popular watch brand's repair facility in the USA gets a large number of counterfeit watches in for repair every day. They would like to see these thing eradicated, but are restricted by law to not seize the fake goods, after all they have no proof that someone somewhere profited from the production of the fake watch, which be definition is infringement. Anyone can replicate a popular product, but the moment it starts to compete with the original on the marketplace, it is copyright infringement. Blindly stealing fake watches from potential customers is illegal. So, this Watch company, if it desires to do so, will ask the customer if they would like to sell the watch to the company. If the customer agrees, they inform them that selling counterfeit goods is illegal, and they then have jurisdiction to seize the fake watch.
I rewrite to avoid the ambiguity:

My wife and I worked on projects that became casualties of the war.
Did Someone Say Tech Bubble?
Well, sure, but frequently I don't want to clarify all my ideas up front. I want to dip my toe in and see if my ideas have any legs at all. (Wow, tortured metaphor.)

I actually like Haskell. But I do think it's the wrong tool for a lot of the work that people here on HN tend to do.
>if we need better pronouns, then let's make some up.

For every language?
We support running Scala apps at CloudBees today without locking down the JVM, so you can take advantage of the full set of language features (like actors). By combining the Java PaaS with our GIT and Jenkins services, we can enable pushing those "harder" Java/Scala apps to the cloud using a Heroku-like GIT workflow.
I don't believe your assertion that paying for the service of someone to come around and mow your lawn legally constitutes an employer-employee relationship.

One need not incorporate to do business.

Indeed, I was trying to be brief. Incorporate, register an LLC or DBA, or simply informally conduct business.
A quick look at Linux Mint LXDE 11
Hm. I like sketching out my initial architecture in diagram mode before digging into the code. Forward and reverse engineering saves a bit of time and it's easier to play with various approaches at the class/model level.

I think it boils down to personal preference although I can't help but believe that some up front planning (uml or otherwise) is going to be more consistantly effective than just jumping in and coding. No matter how many WIMP type questions you avoid.
>> GLAAD's letter declared. "What our community wants in wireless phone and Internet service is exactly what Americans in general want: more access, faster service, and competitive pricing. On all three counts, we believe that the facts strongly favor the merger."

So let me guess this straight: a merger that reduces competition by reducing the number of market players will get you competitive pricing, more access and faster service. Don't make me laugh.
A Google profile is not the same thing as a Facebook profile. You can have a Google account without a Google profile. That's why when you delete a profile, it doesn't mean it deletes the whole account.

Geesh, such a misleading article. Was this pushed by that Facebook PR firm again?
Are you saying the linked story (from 2003) is false, and has been maliciously placed onto the BBC's web site? If so, what's your source for that?
Unix core with a nice UI, ability to run professional applications, can be used to develop for all major platforms, either desktop or mobile.
I agree. This approach hasn't exactly worked out all that well over at microsoft.
Anonymous and the Arab uprisings
Nope. Quite odd. :)
I wasn't criticising your work in particular, sorry if it sounded that way.

There are many other cross-platform runtimes/libraries that give developers much better terms, I'd use one of those instead: Python+Qt/Wx, Titanium Desktop, JVM, Mono.
so tylee78: where did you get the information that everybody is leaving berlin? what kind of people you are talking about? it seems you haven't read the article. berlin is booming. every week two new startups are launching. berlin has two airports from where you can get to every other destination on this planet. berlin has several good universities and huge amount of young talented people. even academics from the best universities in germany (whu, ebs, hhl, mannheim etc.) and even from the U.S. (e.g. Research Gate - forunder moved from harvard to berlin) are moving to this city, because it is a perfect environment to create a new company on a low level of costs.

berlin isn't more dirty than hamburg or munich. berlin is just a huge city, where some parts are of course dirty, but it is the same for munich, hamburg, new york and san francisco too. berlin is the place to be in europe, if you want to setup a tech startup. if you care more about other things, you really shouldn't start a tech startup.
I object to the site's notion that there is a "best" intro book in many areas, but I'd like to see listed on the site:

Griffiths' _Introduction to Quantum Mechanics_ is quite commonly used, even though it's a bit calculation-heavy. Beyond that or for more theory, perhaps Ballentine, or Dirac's original monograph, although neither is a very common text (if that's what someone's looking for, then Shankar [mid-level-ish], Cohen-Tannoudji, or Sakurai); Ballentine because it's new (relatively... 1998), and Dirac because it's old and it's what a lot of the mid-to-late 20th-century physics giants started from. Feynman's Quantum Mechanics and Path Integrals is also a no-brainer because it's been republished and it's now a $12 Dover edition.
By being around truly inspired/motivated people (peers especially). The attitude is contagious.
One of the most famous examples of this is Amazon (search for "amazon patents" on Slashdot), but of course there are other examples too like Sun/Oracle.
I'll be damned if I know, you tell me!
Perhaps Google finds asking users for their gender (which is highly correlated with your name, anyway) to be an easier task than introducing the necessary pronouns into every language in the globe.
That just seems anti-competitory. I wouldn't expect Apple to reject google on the pretext of working with facebook, and I think it would be even more ridiculous for google to actually remove a currently existing app of a competitor.
On Twitter (and elsewhere), Instagram Growth Zooms
"Start-up" company

"Steven P." Jobs

"United States can still compete as both a low-cost and a world-class manufacturer"

So, what other items become amusingly ironic thanks to the lens of retrospect?
Plus IP and counterfeit/security issues, communications issues, and such. Provided I didn't need to be colocated with Chinese parts suppliers, and that my production process wasn't dirty enough to have major environmental issues in the US, the US seems like a top choice.
What did 37signals, Evernote and Wufoo blog when they just get started?
In a graphic design or web design project, there is definitely a fine line between what the client can expect as an aesthetic outcome and what works functionally or is congruent with user-friendly/intuitive design principles. The scope of any project can clearly define functionality requirements. However, when it comes to aesthetic appeal, and "beauty" as Johan describes, the client and designer may not be on the same page. As a professional, the designer should incorporate everything that was asked; this is not in question. There are problems with designers projecting their own will onto a project and it can take a negative effect on the client/contractor relationship. But the problem at hand is when a client gets an idea of what the final product should be and this idea conflicts with the functionality requirements as outlined in the scope. Several clients of mine have even changed their minds in the middle of the project and try to "scope-creep" their way out of the original concept to cover up the fact that they were not yet mentally prepared to start. This is when the designer needs to believe in their knowledge and experience and be professional, firm and courteous. I inform my client that I will complete the functionality requirements. Any major changes that are made to the original concept will result in an amendment to the contract or a second contract. Johan is absolutely right! The client should know exactly what he/she wants their website/app/interface to do. The client may suggest ways on which technologies to do it with and why. The client may supply design layouts that appeal them. The designer's job is then outlined and structured, yet they still have the freedom to use experience and professional opinions to construct the best possible product.
But contractors are often working for many customers at one time. If one of those customers has a large project, it will affect the time available for the rest of the contractors projects.
I'm not asking why it isn't widely used. I'm asking why it's apparently forbidden by law or regulation, requiring an exemption for the application described in the original post.
The trick is to be logged into Gmail and G+ with your Google Account, log off from Gmail, log back in with your Apps account (one which has been transitioned to a Google account) and finally switch to G+.
Interesting news. But has a page 2. So, I can't read the story to the end, nor give you the actually earned upvote. Really sorry, Jon.
Someone needs to show Gabriel this.
Connexion Email Account Dump Includes Military and Government Accounts
NATO Server Hacked by 1337day Inj3ct0r and Backup Leaked 
Team Inj3ct0r ( 1337day ) claim to hack Apache Tomcat Version 5.5.9 of NATO. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization or NATO also called the (North) Atlantic Alliance, is an inter governmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty.
Youth unemployment: The outsiders
Yeah RIGHT!, my memory doesn't have ECC !
Similar situation here. I use an iMac, but all of my work is in vim, over ssh.

I use Mac because it gives me access to the greatest breadth of local tools when I need them.
Do you Have to be Rich to be Honest?
Google isn't (yet) using it for selecting pronouns and/or they don't seem to have a problem using "their" as a neutral pronoun: http://i.imgur.com/1B5rT.png
The halting problem is a specific instance of the type of problems predicted by the incompleteness theorem (IT).

The first IT says there within any system of logic that's powerful enough to express arithmetic (and consistent), there are always statements that are true that can't be proved true. A specific program, P, that doesn't halt, but can't be proved not to halt, is an example of this. (Or, more precisely, the statement 'The program P halts' is the example.)

The second IT says you can't prove the consistency of a system from within that system itself, but that's another story.
To paraphrase Steven Tyler, they won't have to come - they're already there.
There is no reason to assume the value of something is Investment/percentage of ownership.

"Valuations" are so high because there is nothing correlating them to eventual market cap (which is what people act like they are).

This is doubly true with the liquidation preferences, etc that VC/Investors get.
Again, if you are incapable of seeing the distinction between a general-purpose search engine which indexes the entire web and a website dedicated overwhelmingly to links to copyrighted content (including categorization features, rating systems, subsections devoted entirely to individual television programs), then we must just view the world differently.
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Laptop with Ubuntu, for the freedom and flexibility it offers. With MinGW, Wine and VirtualBox, I can work fairly unhindered on both the Linux and Windows versions of any given project.
Hipmunk already does hotels: http://www.hipmunk.com/hotels
>I don't know how it works with node

FYI (for the curious) you just declare dependencies with npm using package.json. It's easy! http://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/node-js#declare_depende...
...and for Ruby, I find Chris Pine's "Learn to Program" a good choice: http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram
I bet the author got exactly what he aimed for, which is a lot of traffic. This type of news writer intentionally aims for such sensationalistic headlines, even though they end up dis-informing people (one great example of this is Fox news).
jmitcheson

Does g+ have groups yet? -_-
Video of their test model in flight: http://www.terrafugia.com/Flight_1146.html
Capitalism is not a physical law. We have the power to implement it how we choose.
hckr news has data going back just over a year. I've thought about exposing the data via a ui other than 'get next day', but frankly have never had the need. Whenever I've wanted to revisit an item, it's been within a few days -- for anything more, there's hnsearch.
Twitter Valued at $7 Billion in New Financing
Seven months ago, the company was valued at $3.7 billion in another investment round.
the Dilbert's author described that great reason for getting a minimum wage job while being a teenager ( http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870435350457559... )

"One of my earliest childhood jobs involved shoveling manure at my uncle's dairy farm in upstate New York. Things were going well until my uncle explained that no matter how well I performed, I would never be promoted to farmer. Or even cow. I had hit the manure ceiling.

I consider that experience my first economic stimulus package—the unwelcome realization that my current job was a dead end. While my classmates were building snowmen with carrot noses (mostly the girls) and carrot genitalia (mostly the boys), I started to do some serious career planning about how to get out of the fecal relocation profession and into the warm embrace of a loving corporation. I studied hard, and I earned money for college by mowing lawns, shoveling snow, shoveling even more manure, and (my personal favorite) shoveling frozen manure covered with snow. I saved my meager funds, and with the help of my parents, who both took extra jobs, plus a few scholarships, I clawed my way into college."
>>Would it really? I'd like to see some hard data on that.

The process would be this:

-> User submits Regex

-> Google fetches all documents in it's database (46 billion documents according to mryan) - If we assume 1kb of data per document (wich is probably way to small), google just fetched 43869 GigaByte of data

-> now google somehow iterates over said 43869Gb (we assume we have a lot of RAM btw.) and check if the regex matches any of them

-> Search results are delivered to user (days later?)

I can not give you any "hard facts", but the problem is that if you can not build an index, you have to look at each individual document. And in google's case the amount of documents is just way too high.
gender is actually highly sensitive for a lot of people as well, especially being forced into male/female buckets (which are actually sex and not gender).

There's a world of pain for them in this.
> That is unrelated

Not if Google subsequently decide to make your information available more widely than it was originally, it's not -- and I would remind you that several of the Internet giants, including both Google and Facebook, have faced heavy criticism for deliberately doing exactly that in the not-so-distant past.
I really hope they have smart combinatoric search. I want to be able to search flexible day, flexible airport, multi-leg world travel trips without making my own spreadsheet. Some services do flexible day, some do flexible airport, but I haven't found any that provide these with a multi-leg itinerary. I'm sure this is due to the computational complexity, but Google could handle it.
Truly awesome work. Does it find the introductory book by googling it or they're all introduced by hand?. The funny thing is that my gf ain't letting me going on with my holiday project instead of helping me like yours haha
- Web page says "US and Canada" only.

- The FAQ says that "Willet is a super fast and simple way to buy digital goods and services". Surely you are targeting developers, ie. the seller, so you should tell us that Willet is a super blah blah way to sell digital goods and services?

- Willet seems designed for very small transactions and has no support for subscriptions.

- Your site does not tell me how I, as a seller, gets the money. Surely that's at least half of the point of services such as Braintree -- ie., the merchant account.
This particular linked case appears inextricably tied up with immigration, though. The person in question isn't alleging that he's being denied rights in any manner other than via the fact that he isn't allowed to legally live in the US. That's a bit different from the question of whether non-citizens caught up in the U.S. legal system (in either a criminal or civil case) have the same rights during the proceedings as citizens do.
I like the premise of this idea. It stands to address a lot of problems in teams. I hate to see someone (even myself) being ostracized or belittled for failing to understand a concept or get something right on the first try. It makes for a crap work environment and tends to sap any energy going into the project. While I can agree with some of the sentiments about ego being a good thing (i.e. ego inspires pride in one's work and self improvement), I don't think that's the point being made here. Instead, the goal is to make the work environment as transparent and friendly as possible. Anyone should be comfortable speaking to anyone whether it be for advice, conversation, instruction, or otherwise. Definitely a good principle to base your business upon.
In today's world we are already seeing a dramatic shift in educational methods. Examples include Internet classes where you only meet your teacher face to face for the final exam, the usage of Youtube and other internet media in the classroom and the acceptance of Wikipedia as a source in a paper. We've known for a long time that traditional classroom schooling does not work for everyone. The difference is that students growing up with technology today have better opportunities to discover how they learn the best. Institutions are slowly catching on.

Garciag said..."I'd be interested in seeing how long the students would need to adapt to the new classroom dynamic. I would suspect that the students would at first present cautiously, seeking your approval of the material, until you are seen as the mentor and not just a traditional teacher observing and grading."

I agree with him. I believe that this model would be easier to adjust to if each "teaching project" was graded as pass/fail. Either you did it, or you didn't go it. Anyone in an undergraduate entrepreneurship class should LOVE what they are doing. If they don't, then they will never succeed as an entrepreneur. So, if they do it at all, the chances are they will put effort into it. I believe that this concept of teaching in order to learn is absolutely correct. However, just like your favorite chocolate, it must be done in moderation. Along with the chocolate metaphor, you don't want to eat straight cocoa, you want to add powdered sugar with it to balance the sweetness and bitterness. Likewise, a typical lecture dynamic and breaking students out into groups are equally as important. Try to tap into different forms of learning so that all the students will latch onto the concepts. In conclusion, the model of teaching in order to learn is a form of learning that is rarely used. It should be used almost as regularly as breaking students out into groups.
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