skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple’s Lower Prices Are All Part of The Plan
It's worth knowing given the intent of the original post.
Something about the login form causes Firefox to not successfully fill in the previously remembered username and password. That makes it quite inconvenient to log in (have to go copy the password out of the password manager).
3 Months of running a Bitcoin Casino
As an update, I disabled the Google Voice Sprint full integration because it was eating my texts (Google Voice would catch them but never forward them on to my phone, despite that option being enabled), as well as not notifying me of missed calls.

Now I'm trying to go back to Google Voice Lite (to have just voicemail transcriptions emailed to me) and it appears there's no way to do that.

I might have to drop Google Voice altogether it seems.
Yea, it's not quite polished just yet so you get the occasional failure to load a screenshot. I figured I'd gauge interest before dumping a bunch of time to clean up the edge cases.

Also, I just did timecube and it looks like it's working for me: http://instantscreenshot.com/screenshot/b1
What I'm taking away from this is that it really is important to check up on the background and specific accomplishments of new hires, regardless of prior accolade or title.
He should of at least Googled the guy!
Sleep paralysis is terrifying.
Microsoft’s New Patent Agreement with Compal and more details
There are ways to build something like this to:
1) Audit the production process so keys can't be stored, if you trust the code (and the hardware)
2) Stuff coming from the production process goes into tamper-responding smartcards which can prove they are real devices and untampered (preventing counterfeiting and double spending)

At that point, as long as you trust the cryptography and tamper-resistance (of mint hardware and coin hardware), you can trust that a coin someone hands you is valid.

It's probably about $5-10 to make a "coin" with these properties, and $200-300k to make a mint. There are a lot of hybrid online/offline token based currencies which would meet the requirements, but assuming the right hardware, you can build the whole thing as a wrapper around arbitrary data.

There is still no real market for this, though.
A ton has happened in the past year since I launched NewsBlur. River of News, iPhone app, Android app, an official API, major speed improvements on both the backend and frontend, a public user-support forum, and many, many user-customizations.

Heck, just check out the activity graph on GitHub: http://github.com/samuelclay (and follow me there... I live on props and need your love).

The next year is going to be full of improvements: search, major upgrades to the [free] iPhone app, and more social features that you can shake a stick at. My stomach-butterflies are tingling just at the thought of the cool shit I get to build next.
It is orignally from another great article of Tim O'Reilly: Work on Stuff that Matters[1]

[1] http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/01/work-on-stuff-that-matters-...
Interesting that the author had trouble with BuyVM - my instance seems to be working out pretty well and i've recommended them to some friends. $15/year is incredible, i've had no trouble with support, and they just quietly sit there hosting rtorrent and nginx.

There has of course been some limited downtime.

EDIT: Uptime statistics hit 99.99% this month. http://buyvmstatus.com/info/34 On top of that, the Frantech Announcements feed is pretty good at explaining the state of their datacenter, maintenance, node migrations etc
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The problem isn't Wall Street greed. The problem is that the government rescued the banks with public bailouts, at a time when a true capitalist system would have put them out of business.
Thanks. I'll put it on the list.

As for PhantomJS, I hadn't heard of it. I was originally rendering the screenshots with Selenium and the FirefoxDriver. They came out looking good, but performance was abysmal and when a page froze up I needed a mechanism to kill firefox manually.

Now I'm using Wordpress's Mshots service, but I'm looking at a couple of python tools to generate headless screenshots.
The hiring process and possibly placing too much trust in a new employee can be dangerous without the proper due diligence. However I think there is something else that has to do with technical people running their businesses that is worth mentioning.

Being a technical person in sales can be bloody scary, I run a software company and at the beginning I was scared to death about both sales and marketing. So much so that I would avoid it, and only do it when absolutely necessary. Which lead to basically working on whatever came along. Not ideal, and I was basically working for myself, with no real growth.

While working at a co-working space I met a fellow entrepreneur who had a sales and marketing company mainly focused on lead generation and online marketing. I hired his company to help with new messaging for our company. However this engagement quickly turned into sales coaching 101: how to build a sales funnel, effective proposal writing, understanding buying signals, targeting ideal customers, the whole works.

The whole time we worked through this process I was learning and understanding, and becoming less and less scared. One of the books that he recommended to me was 'Customer Centric Selling', it's a good read and I think is ideally suited to technical folks finding themselves in sales roles. It talks about sales as a process, and not a "who you know" connections mystical black box. you know.. Like the VP of the 100 million dollar company wanted to do. Connections always help, but the process is there to make sure that the optimism that the sales people will undoubtedly assign to each deal can be measured and verified. I find you don't get into these situations where a sales person feeds you a loaded forecast with nothing to back it up.

As the founder you need to know what works for your business, and don't hire a sales person hoping they will have magical powers and be instantly able to sell your product/service. Learn and create the process yourself, then hire a sales person and have them execute and refine your process. You know your business best. Others can help, but at the end of the day it's on you!
Alternatively, a programmer can see the seeming complexity that emerges from many, many permutations of seemingly simple operations and extrapolate that over millions of generations to consider how, perhaps, we're all just the result of simple compounds joining and rejoining in a trillion different ways.
Google seeking to finance acquisition of Yahoo
I've used a similar analogy frequently, that profit is to my business as fuel is to an aircraft. I want as much profit as I can get not because I'm greedy but because I want to stay in their air as long as possible, constantly making longer and more adventurous flights.

My biz might be just a little four-place Cessna right now but my goal is to someday be a nice Boeing Business Jet.
The Cup Holder Principle
It's still difficult to get good references if you're not competent. Sure, some people might get friends to flat out lie and say they're a previous employer and give a glowing review. But how often will that really happen? More likely, people will pick real references that will give a good review, but you can still get good information from that reference (e.g. their responsibilities at the previous job, why they left, etc.).
I always get a prickly uncomfortable feeling whenever a business leader comes out and says 'profits aren't the most important thing'. It's this type of wording that can give life to stupid ideas such as 'you can run a business without making a profit'.

I also lose respect for business leaders who try and paper over their success with motherhood statements like 'I wasn't in it for the money', when clearly they enjoy the trappings of wealth.

People should be proud to state they are chasing a profit, proud to make profits, proud to have successful, profitable businesses. It's impossible to make profits without providing value for other people. Profits (for the most part, over the long run) are just a recognition that you're productive and are providing something of value.

My take on this particular piece is that a focus on short term profits is a mistake, and that a focus on long term value through great products and innovation is the right choice. Because long term value creation should necessarily result in profits.

But I just wish more people would have the gumption to say 'I made a big set of money hats for myself, my investors and my employees, and I feel great about it'.
NewsBlur is great - thanks conesus! Bought a subscription a few months ago and it's worked great for me.
or Apple?
Reminds me of this:

http://www.adrianboeing.com/pal/

Great in theory, but not worth the effort, so very low rate of adoption.
Got a source that isn't behind a pay wall?
You are seeing a delineation between wall street/banks/government which is not there.

The problem IS [wall street/banks/government] GREED

All of Obama's top advisers are GS and banking cartel.

Thus we transfer all our wealth to them.

Just like when all of Bush/Cheney's cabinet (including Cheney) were all from the MIC cartel - we transferred all our wealth to them.

This is 30 minutes worth your time:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=K...
Since you seem concerned (as I am) about AUS/NZ performance, it's worth repeating the unconfirmed gossip that Amazon have a closed tender out for a pair of Sydney data centers.

Ninefold are also in Sydney and doing a good marketing job, and I know several first-class engineers that have been involved in their setup and have made only positive remarks on their potential (with the usual caveats around Australian market scale being an issue).
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"Debase" is probably a better word than "devalue" in this context.
How would you notice that on a resume? High school drop-outs don't write "high school drop-out" on their resume. In fact, many people, including many of the best people, don't put "education" on their resume at all.
All of the markdown editors I saw are two column layout.

Are there any state-of-the-art inline markdown editor? It will display & edit source only on the cursor context, the rest shows as rendered
And as I remember it, it was just a matter of months after iTunes was released for Windows that the iPod really took off.

iTunes for Windows came out in October 2003, and then the iPod Mini was released in January 2004. By even that February I recall the iPod Mini being a grand slam seller. The combination of Windows availability and the Mini being an option at a lower price point were when the stars seemed to have aligned for the iPod.
The moral of this story, which virtually every startup founder in the history of the universe has heard or told a variant of, is:

CHECK. REFERENCES.
Reminds me of this guy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravi_Desai

At a company in SF we interviewed him and I can only imagine what would have happened if he was hired. Luckily everyone who talked to him thought he was nuts. Cramer talks about him in his book.
The problem is that he took "VP of a $100M company" to be stuff having been done and other people thinking the ex-VP was smart. He never verified it though. He took a secondary indicator of ability to make a sale (VP status) and used it to infer a bunch of primary indicators (stuff done, intelligence, actual ability to close a sale) without actually checking any of that.
I think I've worked with that guy before...
Show HN: App to enhance employability in local communities for #svc2uk
We are students who are entering this app for the #svc2uk competition (http://www.svc2uk.com). We would like some feedback on our MVP. Here is a link to our pitch video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLIsFyrfznQ
Inhale-able Caffeine
I'm a night person. Always have been.

As for the 2 programmers who work for me (the rest of the staff have to be there 9 to 5) they can work anywhere anytime. I care about results; meet your schedule- you can work from the beach if you want (I live in South Florida).
Hmm. The first segment is 16 minutes, the second segment is 13 minutes. Are there really 31 minutes of commercials in "60 Minutes", or did they only put parts of the show online? Usually, there's 40 minutes of content to 20 minutes of commercials...
The same people who always take the losses - speculators. Some of them are the same people who bid the market up; some of them are people who foolishly bought at the top.
In a street market in Beijing I found the Handbook of Diagnosing and Solving Computer Problems, by William E. Perry, 1989. By contrast, this book has aged a lot more than MMM, but still is a fun read. The author calls software data processing GIGO, garbage in garbage out.
Designing Fault Tolerant Applications on AWS
Everyone pay attention, this seems to be one of those lessons everyone learns the hard way.

I'd made a similar mistakes with my first hire. Basically I hired the first guy who said he was awesome at php. Great I said. Do this, this and this. You can do some work from home, set your own hours at the office etc. He stopped coming into the office to work from home instead. I was so over capacity that i didn't check on his work for about 2 months (fool is me). When I finally did I discovered a horrible horrible mess. The app was completely useless and the 'awesome php dude' was completely incompetent. Lessons learned:

1. Do your own investigation into a potential hire to see if they are actually capable.

2. Watch new hires carefully

3. It costs more to fix hiring mistakes than to prevent them from happening.

Actually my second hire was pretty shit too. This time I made sure the dude was technically competent but he didn't fit the company culture I wanted. I don't like egos or office politics.

After those few bad mistakes my subsequent hires were great.
Three hours doesn't prepare you to do a decoupled IFR approach or anything, but it give you enough to do a 180.

'Most noninstrument pilots can be placed in one of the three following categories: (1) the noninstrument pilot who knows he could not fly instruments and takes every precaution to avoid instrument weather; (2) the noninstrument pilot who "knows" he could not fly instruments, takes every precaution to avoid instrument weather, but believes his knowledge and experience would enable him, if caught, to fly out of instrument weather; (3) the noninstrument pilot who believes, primarily through ignorance of the problems involved, he could fly through instrument weather.'

Are you instrument rated? Have you taken further training beyond the requirements? What's your confidence that you could successfully perform a 180 degree turn out of cloud in the plane that you fly the most? Would you keep your hands on the controls or not?

in the study the attitude indicator (artificial horizon), heading indicator, and vertical speed indicator were covered, simulating a partial failure of the vacuum system as well as a partial failure of the pitot/static system.

Again, I think this makes sense in the context of the study. The goal wasn't to simulate failure, rather because those were (at least at the time) not required to be installed.

The interesting part to me about the study (I'm not a pilot, but have played with simulators such as XPlane and probably plan to get a license some day when I can afford the time and expense) is that none of the test pilots were able to perform a life saving maneuver when starting, and after 6 hours of direct training all were able to. And yet, oddly, this isn't (to my knowledge) part of the current pilot training. Why not?
Steve Jobs: A Few Memories (Stephen Wolfram)
Fear of people stealing your idea is only one of many reasons not to tell people your startup idea.
You buy something if you think the price will go up, but this also makes the price go up. If a whole bunch of people think a commodity will go up, and start buying up, this will drive the price up a lot. A commodity does not have to change it value, or for there to be an increase in demand for the price to go up, all it needs is some speculation that it will go up, and a whole bunch of people looking to profit.
This sounds like the standard "BSD is dying" canard from Slashdot and elsewhere, and without substantiation it doesn't merit a top spot in this discussion. BSD has been and remains a server-first OS, with desktop support for the latest and greatest processors trailing Linux by a substantial margin. On widely-deployed hardware, support is generally equivalent, and I'm quite pleased with recent releases for headless servers.
Though don't hold not having a college degree against a candidate. A good candidate can come from all walks of life - but in the end it is the interviewers job to make sure that the candidate is suited for the job - regardless of his background.
At some point the farmers have to turn a profit. Maybe not every year, but most years. Otherwise some percentage of farmers will get out of the business and do something else. The price will rise until it becomes profitable.

Over the last few decades the real problem has been food is too cheap. First world governments are subsidizing food production to the point that a farmer trying to grow rice in southeast Asia can't compete with imported rice shipped from California. So that farmer moves to the city and gets a job making Nikes.

When there's some disruption in food production thousands of miles away all of the sudden people are starving because everybody is making shoes instead of growing food.
Steve Jobs family photo album
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> Why defend the system so vehemently
He wasn't. He was stating specifically how it worked.

>I think everyone would be better off if everyone was just honest about what Social Security is
Calling it a ponzi scheme doesn't accomplish this goal.
BSD's legacy lives on via Mac OS X (sort of)
That's a pretty old article, when Lamson hit 1.0, Zed wrote: "Someone suggested that I post a blog post announcing the release of Lamson 1.0. You can go grab the latest using your favorite method, and then I also gave everyone a present by releasing Lamson BSD or GPL licensed. This means you can use it for either type of project."

I think he still believes that in principle (A/G)PL is for the best, but I think he also wants the code he's written to get to as many people as it can. Likewise, he is a self-professed git hater, but he still put some of his projects on Github in the interest of the community that has grown around his projects.

I know lots of people have a hate on for him, but I actually kinda admire the guy.
IPod: Ten Years and Still Going Strong
can you please make a summary out of it and share that too? Something like this: https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewanalytics?formkey=dHhwMm...
It's only terrifying if you let it terrify you.

I get it on a regular basis, and don't mind.
I think an "education" section is a boilerplate resume item. If it wasn't there, I'd at least ask for details.
The current one is over favoring there own products in search results over third parties. Some of the evidence is pretty damning, I was quite surprised at the what they had put together.

In general its over enhancements such as searching for a company and the first result is a Google map location with a nice thumb nail and a link through to the google review site as opposed to the actual business.
it takes really much time for it to take a screenshot
I was curious about BSD...found PC-BSD and it was easy enough to get going.
I think you're confusing trademarks with patents.

Trademarks are to protect brand names and brand identities. Patents are to protect inventions and technical and design concepts.

Lego could, and did, get patents for the blocks. That's the entire point of the Boingboing article - the patent was granted and has since expired.
It's a bit disappointing not to see more mention of Groovy/Grails.

It has all the great features you get with Ruby/Rails but built on two solid time tested technologies being Spring and Hibernate. Not to mention the ability to integrate with pretty much no effort with existing Java infrastructures.
Typical ifanboi response:
1) Completely ignore post being replied to
2) Diatribe of rubbish about how apple invented everything
3) Oh, i'm not a fanboi btw lulz

Honestly, you seem to be selecting the worst examples of dumbphone design and then saying, "Look how great the iphone is cos it isn't the worst at this particular feature". If you're going to criticize people about reinventing history, at least learn some yourself. This list of "Stuff that mattmanser didn't know about Smartphones before the iPhone came along" is almost trollish.

Both Palm and WinMo had most of the features you seem to think first materialized on the iphone: Rows of Apps ie "Home Screen" (WinMo even had widgets, etc), web browsers, contacts, emails, texting, media players, cameras, third party apps, syncing, on screen keyboards, notifications, etc, etc, etc.

If anything apple BLATANTLY copied WinMo, but made it look nicer.
Fantastic book. One of the things that is rough about computer science academia is usually it's either quickly obsolete, or too theoretical to be useful. In a sense they're confused about being and producing programmers or mathematicians. Brooks is the rare exception. His core concept that adding programmers increases communications which slows you down combines sociology with engineering. It is just as relevant today as when he first wrote it.

As mrchess states, you can read it an essay a day to digest it. Or better yet, reread every few years. The material doesn't chance, but with experience, one learns to appreciate him even more.
I did, and I stand by my statement. You are arguing that it's viable if you move small amounts of money. That means it only works with toy amounts, any large amount of money will influence the price because demand is shallow. Thus, you argue if you move small amounts frequently it would work, but then it is subject to the same volatility. This is why it's a toy 'currency' because it only works with tiny amounts of money.
"A hard drive with a headphone jack." -Bill Gates
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>It is a bit disconcerting to me that commenters here are fascinated by the technical analysis of this system and appear quite oblivious to the problem of starving human beings.

Your emoting and four bucks will buy a cup of coffee. It's not going to help anyone eat.

You have to understand what's going on before you can make things better. So yeah, how the "moving pieces fit together" matters more than how much anybody cares.
Could it be that you are in their Gmail contact list? I don't have a public Google profile, and never gave Facebook my Gmail password, yet I get suggestions for people I have emailed once years ago. The only explanation I can think of is that I'm in their email contact list, or that they've searched for my name on Facebook at some point.
Just call it regulatory capture, and principal agent problems.
hated that chair, we have these http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/00103102/
they are pretty okay, comfortable and such, not too adjustable though(non-adjustable armrests are the only thing I dont like about it)
There is a difference between trademark and patent.

But Apple has a patent on making something that replaces a pad of paper look like a pad of paper - shouldn't a similar arguement apply?
Touchpad too sensitive
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Excellent post. Mirrors my own experience a lot. How many life-savings and great business ideas have been burnt beyond repair by doofus business losers only god can imagine.