skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Foremski totally missed the real "dirty little secret" regarding acquisitions.

Acquisitions are really about control and ownership: Control of IP, control of customer relationships, control of planning, ownership of growth potential. It's placing a bet that ownership is strategically beneficial. Sometimes there's a defensive component.

"We bought them for their talent" is the cover story. It maintains the secrecy of the real value the acquirer believes it sees. It sounds better too.

And we tech folk eat it up. It plays into our egos.

But think about it. Technical talent is actually fairly fungible above a certain competency level. You know you or a handful of your friends could build most products you see. It's the decisions about what to build, how to build it, when it got built, and how the market responded that are all bundled up in a company's existence at a point in time. It's this bundle that's being bought. Not talent.
Wasnt this an American thing how the hell did it endup in the EU.

Now i can only think its time for a full all out war
Full scale continuously defending our freedom against
police-state intrigues apparently the EU has become one too, until we can live in freedom again.
Never thought we needed to fight for freedom in the EU.

what happened to free speech free information and free sharing of information.

libertad o muerte

hack,
we need a Che Guevara figure to free the internet slaves
It is an incredible mistake to make, so yes it does bring your perspective into question. Especially given that this story has absolutely nothing to do with "catching terrorists" -- even the most paranoid interpretation wouldn't go down that route -- and everything to do with immigration thinking he was going to be a lazy layabout who would end up working illegally in the US (or worse would end up resorting to petty crime to support himself)
Motorola Ruling Halts Some iPhone Sales in Germany
From the outside looking in, it's easy to say we're giving up too easily.

We've been on this project for over a year. We've tried multiple business models, strategies, etc. We know where we went wrong, and we know what it needs to make it successful. But we don't have the time, energy, or money to do it.
Let your Bot get Tickets for you
Ticketmaster Bot is known as a professional Ticketmaster application development company that has launched a great number of Ticketmaster products in the market for Ticket Brokers and Sub - brokers who are willing to reduce their work load and to maximize their profits.
German Court Gives Motorola iCloud Injunction
"the borders of the U.S. and Canada aren't really all that similar to the borders of countries like the Netherlands or Spain"

They used to be.
In my experience most people involved in Startups are trying to make big money.
Doesn't event.preventDefault() cater to this case?
The place this trips me up routinely is reading code on GitHub. I think they rightfully boxed the source file view to be fixed width so it doesn't blow out the rest of the layout. And it'd be inappropriate for them to wrap the code in that view. So, we have a scroll bar, which works fine, except on a trackpad on Lion.
Do you know of anyone who sells them in the US? (or OpenPGP cards or any other Linux usable tokens for that matter?) or do I have to order them from Germany?
No Women on Facebook Board Shows Disconnect
Feel free to make a different comment, I’m just reproducing the ones that are made on a regular basis. I don’t judge whether they’re correct, just whether they’re frequent!
Because there's no guarantees the extents actually point to the file data.
Search Linkedin to find emails or just cold call.
I would suggest getting a strategy together to do this, just like you had a strategy for the business.

For example:
Identify possible buyers:
The large players, Edmunds, AutoTrader, etc;
Large dealerships - they might want this for their own inventory, it seems like it could be easily adapted for a dealership. Concentrate on finding dealerships in large metro areas. They sell millions of dollars worth of cars. Places like the tri-state area, virginia/dc/maryland, LA, Seattle, Texas, etc. Get a list, find some emails, put it together.
Car companies: email them all. They might want to buy your software to showcase their stuff. Its very clean, and they can adapt it. Email the ones out of America too. China, India, Europe;

Identify the people in the organization who will buy. Spend a day researching them, put as many emails down as you can find. Be clear about what you're selling, and how it might be useful to that organization. Get a spiel together for emailing car companies, dealerships, etc. Show how it can be adapted to their needs. Every email you get, its like raising your price. Go after this selling thing like you went after building your website. With gusto.

Hold an auction on a certain date, and ask that bids be submitted.

Don't worry about the lawyers for now, they'll get involved when a buyer is actually interested. Until then they stay out the picture. So lawyer involvement is a good sign you've piqued some interest.
> Yes, lets rule out the country that provides us with a userbase for most of our sites.

With the greatest respect, that kind of silly assumption is exactly why a Euro-centric HN-style site is potentially interesting to those of us here in Europe. I can think of numerous ideas for businesses aimed at a particular kind of culture or niche interest where the US probably wouldn't be a particularly big market.

In any case, there are more people in Europe than the US, and a very high proportion of them speak English with impressive fluency even if it's not their native language. And while we have quite distinct national identities, we also have many things in common that are relevant to a business/tech audience and quite different from how things work in, say, North America or Asia.
Could you possibly include Points/Number of Comments in your bigrss feed?

(maybe even time of submission?)
This isn't phrased very pleasantly, but it is a valid point. It would be very cool to have OpenID support like on HN.
> The issue for our application is that sometimes there's just too much data.

If that's the case then you have either not executed proper information architecture and design or you're trying to shoehorn a product into software for which it is not suited.

Not everything can be translated properly inside of a web browser. It's a very limited tool that has its uses, but beyond the basics it cannot compete with native applications which can take true advantage of the OS and hardware along with allowing the developer to circumvent many web conventions.
It's already hit IUS, which is good. It just sucks since I just upgraded all of our development servers to 5.3.9 and we were just completing our tests to roll to production.

C'est la vie.
I've used ViEmu for 5 years. I'm very satisfied with it. Don't have any reason to try VsVim, but it's nice to know there's more than one option now.
Hey Matt, to echo yycom's concern below... can you please add dates to your articles? We have context as they're posted today, but it gets muddled 10+ years out.
Why do I think that by your tone and anonymity you are the offended designer?
I was hoping someone would develop something like this too.

Free to use would be great, and the amount of traffic the tool would regularly get could create a substantial revenue stream from just a few small non-intrusive ads.
It's linked from the blog.
The Dirty Little Secret Of Silicon Valley's Startup Boom...
BREAKING Ban on iPhones and iPad suspended in Germany, sales resume
What is Internal Branding?
Here are a couple of suggestions:

* Use tagsoup only for small projects or sites that are so broken that other packages fail to parse/load DOM properly.

* Shpider[1] package on Hackage (which I maintain these days) makes it somewhat easier to do the crawling bit. It has an intiutive API and we are always open to suggestions/new functionality there.

* Instead of tagsoup, learn hxt (and arrows along the way). It is really, really hard to get used to, but just amazing in extracting information using combinators from DOM once you're there. Perhaps you could do it as a back-burner learning project. Make sure to look into the arrow proc/do notation as that's pretty much key for scraping.

* Alternatively, you can use one of the xml parsing libraries and their combinators. Some that come to mind are: haxml, hexpat, xml, xml-basic, xml-conduit. I'm sure these would be great too, although I haven't used one in any great capacity.

[1] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/shpider-0.2.1.1
List of software development philosophies
Why You Don't Need a Unique Idea to Make Money (How to Make $30,000 in 30 Days)
FaceCash Founder Claims New Financial Regulation is Unconstitutional
Speaking of horizontal scrolling, I wonder what it would take to make HN verbatim text not get cut off horizontally, when viewed on mobile Safari. Anyone know if HN uses a PRE? Does mobile Safari cut off all wide text in PREs?
Google adds 'Bouncer' malware detector layer to Android Market
Your Vision Isn't For Everyone
>"I wonder if we'll see a separate, significant mobile category in the future."

Doubtful in the short of medium term. Microsoft has more or less abandoned the concept of mobile as a discreet ecosystem when it went from Windows Phone to WP7.

Now mobile is just another end user facing part of the Windows franchise. The same thing has happened to Hotmail and other parts of Windows Live. This past year they were moved out of Online Services Division.
I do not agree that a military, ex-military, border agent, or other law-enforcement agent's inherent personality can be separated from his personality "on the job".

All sorts of executive-branch military or law enforcement posts seem to encourage "us vs them" thinking, while shifting the bright line in the "us" direction. Accepted norms become narrower, while "the other" becomes correspondingly broader.

That change is not confined to on-the-job attitudes and behaviors.
Furniture manufacturer at good price
It's not like anyone is forcing these people to sell the company. You have the option.

If you're a whole-hearted entrepreneur, then don't sell.

Otherwise, a startup is a great way to get some experience, prove your value, and get a great job afterward.

If the option to sell to a large company who wants talent didn't exist, the downside to startups would be significantly greater.
This is a legit invitation: come by, bring a few beers, we'll give you a Peek and show you some tricks...

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RSVP here
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Is the page down?? Anyone? I am getting a 406 network error!
Windows Phone 7 Web Page Tiles
>2. Patents are fundamentally broken. They should all be thrown out, and miraculously everyone will rush to build great products with razor-thin margins.

The build cost for an iPhone 4s is roughly $190. The device retails for $649.

That is hardly razor thin.
Funny, I actually cloned this repo last night to contribute. I really want to contribute because it's so useful and @jaredpar seems to be doing a shit ton of work all by himself. But the whole F# part is going to be a hurdle.
Kill The Bugs
Did you read their feature list? It clearly integrates with those services as part of their value proposition.

Honestly, I don't understand all of the API hate lately. People get upset when you don't have OAuth or integrate with their existing services, and then they get upset when you DO have it and it tries to integrate with your existing services.

For a community that is supposed to support each other trying to innovate and take risks, we've lately been really negative.
Sorry Facebook users, the IPO is exclusive to the rich savvy investor
SEEKING WORK - Salt Lake City, remote

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So, you’re a startup? Then I’m 99.9% sure you’ve already answered these
This is a user issue; It's the way your one finger swipes work on multi-touch. You'll also notice when you swipe with one finger it navigates backwards (as noted in the document).

You can adjust this in your OSX mouse settings by having it to two fingers (which is very handy). I switched mine instantly and now i'm able to navigate through various pages with two finger swipes.

This isn't OSX breaking the web...
Best thing I've read all day. lol.

Node looks great for insanely high connection count / non blocking messaging apps but for nearly everything else it looks like a square peg in a round hole.
It is perfectly possible to have an HTML5 game in one file. While you can link directly to a Flash file, if you want it to appear on a web page you are going to need at least two.

Also,

Is anyone else tired of 'infographics' that are just tables with a few added pictures? What do the graphics add to the info other than a level of cute-ness?

e.g. when presenting a row with two data points, do we gain anything by adding a graph of those same two points?

Tufte is losing the war :(
David Brooks Inspires Me to Re-examine the Establishment
Darpa wants novel security technology to protect SCADA, embedded systems
I found the comparison for CPU use kind of confusing. You can't tell which stat belongs to which technology.
Anonymous intercepts confidential conference call between FBI and Scotland Yard
YouTube link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pl3spwzUZfQ&feature=youtu.be
"Patents are fundamentally broken. They should all be thrown out!"
I'm filing this in a long list of "be careful about crossing borders" articles.

Seriously folks, this isn't like walking to the corner grocery. Know what documents to have, what to say, how to act -- everything -- before you cross the border. There are lots of people who get paid everyday to "protect" their country, and they would like nothing more than to have an excuse to fuck with you.

Now you may not like that. I do not like that at all. As an American, I really wish we could be more friendly about these things. I love my country and am proud of it, but I am also ashamed about it in many ways. This is one of them. But whether we like it or not or whether we're ashamed of it or not -- you still gotta know what the hell you are doing when you go to cross a border.

I wish I could upvote this, but sadly it's just too much like a bunch of other articles.
Interesting idea - I'd be happy to have a standard method of passing notifications that were simpler than an email from any site to any user.

But I do not like the idea of tying it to web browsers, or to one aggregator. If I want all of my notifications to go to Google and be turned into emails, or to Facebook and appear in my inbox there, or to a server I run myself, where I can get them with a desktop app, then I should be able to.
"But the posters are a sentence fragment in a standard font. They're not printing off bootleg copies of the Mona Lisa here."

---

A 63-year-old Picasso got out his pen and paper and sketched the woman, who passing by had asked for a quick self-portrait of herself.

It took him 30 seconds, once finished, he asked for 500,000 US dollars.

'Why? It didn't even take you a minute!' she replied.

'Madam, that sketch took 63 years."

And off he walked, with the sketch in his pocket.
So what about managing indices (or at least map-reduce views - CouchDB style).

I'd really quite like the option of having something like CouchDB that kept documents as separate files but still allowed efficient querying.
Really ? I could provide you with numerous references, a quick Google search should bring back a lot of results.
Found this related article: http://thexploit.com/sec/critical-php-remote-vulnerability-i...
Just tried and it works mostly.

However, I've run into a really strange issue with ssh. If and only if I am logged into the console, I am able to ssh from a remote machine.

If I log out from the console, I get access denied. Never seen this before. Hopefully it's a bug somewhere.
I'm a designer (and developer, depending on the task).

Not the designer.
The hard way.

Hmm I would take one of the stripped down command line only distros and build it up from there so that you get into the nitty gritty stuff.

Something like this:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/welcome.html

Put it on a 128meg usb stick and have at it.
For your situation to exist, those groups would have to have dramatically higher SAT scores and a societal status to have the leisure of many extracurriculars.

Which is the exact fucking thing we're trying to achieve.

I'm not trying to say that there isn't discrimination going on, just that a more reliable indicator would be comparing the ratios inside top universities versus the real world. I don't have those numbers, but trying to play games with test scores can too easily be done incorrectly.
Important note: If you are a founder who has taken venture capital, you may not have a real choice in the matter.
How about iPhone 4s?
Sundowners fan, eh?
I can't speak for the parent, but personally, I just don't like awful new stuff. My iMac has a 27" display and a fairly expensive set of peripherals. It's not an iPad. In their efforts to make it into one, they broke nearly everything they touched. Scrolling that can't be set up the way I want it (without third party utilities), scroll bars that hide useful information in order to save 0.04% of screen real estate, full screen windows that are almost always massive overkill, but can't really be ignored because to implement them they had to break useful functionality in Spaces. The list goes on, well, not quite forever, but the list of stupid ideas in Lion is to a first approximation, the same as the list of ideas in Lion.

The single greatest improvement I've seen in the time I've had my iMac was when the hard drive died and it came back with Snow Leopard without me having to spend the time to downgrade it myself.
Also, Safari gives progressive feedback on the action and releasing it before halfway cancels the move, whereas Chrome has it instant. IMHO if anything this is a Chrome implementation issue, not a OS X issue.
No worries about taking the bait. My comments will be removed soon enough which will make yours either incomprehensible or invisible, depending on how the Stasi decides to remove them. Regardless, you should be blameless.

To answer your question: I have had multiple personal interactions with pg. I think that everyone who has spoken with him in the same context as I (essentially peers: similar social status, not looking for funding, etc.) will agree to the first two of my characterizations:

- egotist
- passive-aggressive

They may or may not agree with my third, depending (in my opinion) on their empathy for other human beings (including and especially in this case) disaffected geeks:

- snake-oil salesman

I am offended as a human being that he exploits his goodwill to resell extant hopes and dreams for his own personal profit.
I'm working on it. Coming soon. (I developed Hackful)
The key to successfully using the Internet is to ignore people that type in all caps. Everyone hates everything; no matter what you do, someone is going to claim that it is ruining their life. The key is to ignore them and do what you think is right.

Making a sign that you saw in a photograph is not much different from sticking a clever caption on a picture of Homer Simpson. No, you didn't create the sign or the Homer Simpson character. But that doesn't mean it's not cool or funny.
I personally enjoy Unity and while it took me a couple of weeks to get used to it, I find it's made me at least 5-10% more productive in the long run.

I would compare it to learning to drive manual transmission. Difficult to get used to at first, but once you've mastered it, automatic will feel awkward and unsafe.
Yes, that's what they're mad about. It's the Internet. People are mad about everything.
>"If you ask someone what Microsoft makes, they'll answer 4 different versions, each one incorrect, because none of them accounts for more than a third of the company revenue."

Unless they answer "Software."

Microsoft has long had a clear coherent vision, "A computer on every desk and in every home." The strategy, well, "Developers! Developers! Developers!" comes to mind - they even get to eat their own dogfood.
If you're using [your fav framework], you're doing life right.

Just use it and see if it works out for you.
you are absolutely right, but there is a factual counterpoint: availability of those intern/half-timers in the region.

we are located near SF, so far we had a hard time finding interns - cause the young kids are busy building start-ups themselves...
That comment parodies a debate wherein some people argue that patents grant Apple the right to make this margin, and if you remove the patents (and IP monopolies in general), other companies will clone everything, driving margins down to effectively zero. Some people agree with this but argue that somehow, companies will still invest money in R&D and create great products.

It’s a debate, it’s a complicated situation with a lot of hypotheses to toss around. I was just trying to find a risible straw-man comment to share.
Gotta be honest, I disagree with just about everything you've said there, with the exception of one part.

"...or you're trying to shoehorn a product into software for which it is not suited."

I agree with the statement, but disagree with the context. If by software we mean the display methodology, then yes. I take issue with the assertion that this is a web browser problem though. We're basically talking about a pivot table here. Large pivot tables often require horizontal scrolling. Moving the pivot table to native software doesn't magically solve this problem.

This is an information representation problem. We're currently using a pivot table. There is probably a better solution. I'll readily admit that I don't see it, and that's my deficiency. I cannot see that this is a problem inherent to web browsers though.
I had a coworker who tried to show me the value of VIM by asking me to program in Word. Interesting approach, but the lesson fell short on me.
ThePirateBay.se - In Sweden? Really? (traceroute)
Nonsense, just throw the obvious ones out!
I'd like to see a site where there is an actual consciousness that not everyone is living in the United States of America.

Well, if our lobbyists do their jobs properly, mere accidents of geography will not keep you out of the fold. :)

Moreover, sorry dude, the tech war is over and we won. We've got better funding, better language, better regulations, and better spirit--and sadly, not a lot else.

EDIT: (and yes, not seeing stories about services that can be used outside of the US is unfortunate--agreed. Submit more and upvote!)
I had the Pirate Bay ship made.
"(Note: I did not say "RESTful URI design"; URIs are essentially opaque in REST.)"

Glad to see that - I'm seriously puzzled by the number of references I see to "RESTful URIs".
Sent you an email.

I posted a submission about this topic about a year ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2454412.
Sorry, on the deck on the Enterprise :)
I presume that means "the noise of the starship Enterprise"...