skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Inside trading is specific to a single stock. Most politicians only hold single stock in a blind trust so they can't really perform insider trading. Instead, the flap over "insider trading" for politicians is when they, supposedly, change entire sectors and then trade broad, sector based funds. However, I don't think that has actually been proven with more than a look at these financial disclosures. Does it look bad? Sure. Is it illegal? Nope.
That is always the most difficult part for me when trying to get these issues resolved - the legal side is complicated and I don't have the bankroll to get lawyers..
The amount of unused tax benefits MM has is $1.7 billion according to the article - the $700 million a year figure is speculation by an analyst.

Furthermore, future tax benefits ought to be discounted to a current value and the potential rate of return for alternative investments for Google's cash must be considered.

Not to mention that Microsoft's $250 million also affects their taxes.
Mike Maples (angel investor, Motive founder) Sizes Up the Tech-Investing Boom
> there's no SOPA-style outbreak in any EU country but Poland.

Greetings from Ireland, where we've spent the whole week kicking the government's arse over a nasty bit of Record-Company-Felching, and a Dáil debate was just forced onto the agenda not 15 minutes ago during an emergency discussion.

http://stopsopaireland.com

Oh, and I note that the largest consumer-facing site in the country just did this: http://boards.ie
It's not that this API is available to App Store only apps, it is that it is available only if you have a signing key from Apple. That is because these APIs make connections to Apple's server. It would make sense that Apple would, you know, not let just everyone into their server with every user's information.

So, this post is blatantly misleading, and whoever wrote it should be ashamed.
Is this a troll?

Of course programming is supposed to be exciting. It's problem solving at it's more basic, and it involves making staff, potentially even stuff with huge impact on the world.

What the fuck, even cooking and truck driving is exciting, why would programming not be?
>I personally don't classify downloading other people's work as stealing, but building a huge business from it is totally different matter.

You should though, because the two are just different shades of the same color. Downloading other people's work = benefiting from their work without their permission. Building a huge business = benefiting from their work without their permission on a larger scale.
A 30 minute walk to work is great. It ensures that you get some exercise in before you get to work. If it's a nice area, you can drink some coffee, listen to a podcast and enjoy the walk. I'd much rather have 30 minute walk to work than a 10 minute drive.
Pfft. That's an engineering problem, not a research problem. I kid a bit, but IBM does have the fabrication engineering talent to pull it off.
I love how all the marketing folks are piling on.

Hindsight is twenty-twenty. McDonalds followed the social media best practices to a T and still got burned.

While it's easy for the Chris Brogans of the world to create a new post about "Lessons Learned from McDonalds' McFail," the truth is, nobody thinks it will backfire until it does.

That's the fundamental nature of disintermediation.
Probably. There's a reason we are still using 32nm silicon, even though we can experimentally fabricate graphene & gallium-arsenide transistors at sizes down to... 6nm? (That's the smallest I remember.)
Since it's a meta-discipline (i.e. thinking about thinking) philosophy has been pooh-poohed and vilified since ancient times; or philosophers have been elevated to god-like stature. The danger in the current times, I think, is that they are fast disappearing from the public consciousness, eliciting neither of these strong responses that they did in the past.

This is too bad since, like it or not, we need them more than ever (or as much as always, depending on your view about the progress or lack thereof of the world):

"... if I say I would never kill an innocent person, does that mean that I wouldn’t order the bombing of an enemy position if it might kill some civilians? Does a commitment to democratic elections require one to accept a fair election that puts an anti-democratic party into power? Answering such questions requires careful conceptual distinctions, for example, between direct and indirect results of actions, or between a morality of intrinsically wrong actions and a morality of consequences."

Those are not abstractions but common questions that we are facing today (e.g. using UAVs in Afghanistan or the rise of Islam in Egyptian elections). Add to these the important questions that are perennial election debates in the US: gay marriage (check how your argument fares against e.g, polygamy), abortion rights, limits to right of speech (e.g. the very recent ruling in personal data encryption), stem cell research, affirmative action, and so forth.
Few more questions:
- How merchants are protected against fraudulent chargebacks?
- How refunds are handled?
I live in and own real estate in a building that is pictured on that map. Some notes:

1) Not every red box is accurate. For example, one of them contains a bank as well as a parking structure, yet the bank was circled as well.

2) Not everything is counted evenly. Some condo and office buildings' parking structures are circled, and some aren't. Almost all of the condo buildings have their own interior parking, most of which is not circled. Hell, mine has an exterior blacktop parking lot and its not even circled.

3) The majority of those lots circled are not for flipping real estate. The ones circled are mostly commuter lots and business lots that are often mostly empty.
Do you also find Legos and physics really boring, except as means to an end?
Great suggestions, thanks a ton for taking the time.

We'll be making some changes to it very soon and we'll post details once the changes are live.
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I got a new Job Title thanks to Managerator.
Making it open source could potentially lead to future revenue similar to the way other companies that heavily leverage open source. Red Hat and Google come to mind. They QA new features into the main build and offer service and consulting for Enyo/webOS. Maybe the mere fact of open sourcing the code will generate more interest vs. when it was closed.
Personally I use the zsh completion for pacman over pacman -S as it is much faster
Works nice! Thanks! Great work...
Can you open source the code?
I've thought about doing something similar in the past. While researching it I noticed that there are not a lot of "insider" blogs like we see in the tech/VC world. In fact, I briefly thought about getting into film production and using blogging as a way to document the process and create a brand. (I ultimately decided I like my current career better.)

I think someone will eventually do this and build a huge name for themselves. I asked this question on Quora but didn't get any response: http://www.quora.com/Why-arent-there-more-movie-TV-finance-a...
The link might not work for you (for now). They are in the process of changing the video but it should be back up soon https://twitter.com/useclear/status/162548668254261248
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> it's very easy to see Nokia's best possible scenario is to sell just enough phones to cover the production costs while keeping as much of Microsoft's money as possible.

I can't really think of a dumber strategy than this.
Hi there. Chris here from Wildbit. I want to make sure I clarify some points.

A big reason we waited so long to shut it down was leaving our customers stranded. Even at such low revenue, we owed everything to them for allowing us to get our first product off of the ground and finding value in our service for so many years. It was a VERY difficult decision.

We did not make a move until we had a very good transition process for all of our customers. We set up a partnership with Campaign Monitor so each customer could easily migrate their lists and avoid any downtime in sending emails. Sure, it is a pain to export and import lists, but there are many good options out there such as Campaign Monitor. If your electric company shut off your service you would surely be screwed, not really the same case here.

Regarding Postmark, this should make you feel even more confident about it. We've seen amazing growth and our team is so passionate about Postmark that we decided it was worth giving up profits on Newsberry to make it even better. That says a lot about our commitment to our other products and our focus as a team.

In the history of Wildbit there were many times when we could have just added a few employees to keep profits going in one area while we worked on something else. A perfect example is when we decided to drop consulting to focus on products. We could have kept it going along side of products, but focus is everything in business if you want to create something that people really love and enjoy to use.
If your son is passionate about technology and computers, direct him to learning to code the hard way series. Or pick up a book that will teach programming by creating a series of simple games.

If he his not, stop trying to live vicariously through him.
Programming is as exciting as ever!

Three years ago, I was kidnapped by monkeys, who appeared to be in a trance. They took me to the top of the Swayambhunath Buddhist complex, in Kathmandu. I was told that this was the Monkey Temple. As a monk translated the wishes of the holy monkeys, I discovered that I was required to rewrite the OS of their ancient computer, which had failed to reboot, back in 1839. Since then, they had searched the world for a programmer competent to handle the situation. They were about to give up, as they stumbled onto me, and realized that I was the reincarnation of ChiChu Gomptar, the lead programmer for the CS monkey gang, which had served their monkey king, the creator of this computer. I was flummoxed by its design, as it was made of smooth stones, uniform beads, colored sand, and wooden levers inlaid with gold. I told them that I couldn't remember anything from my past life. They gave me something to smoke, saying that it would connect me, through the eternal ether, to my previous memories.

It did, and after 25 days of extreme programming, of which I recall no details, I had completed the monumental task. I stood up, and ceremoniously dropped the special IPL bead onto the machine, which then awoke from its 170-year slumber with a mighty roar. The holy monkeys were pleased. They handed over a small golden box, with mysterious carvings. It seemed empty, and I was told not to open it unless my circumstances had become truly dire. I thanked them, both for the box, and for the tremendous experience. Unfortunately, I was not able to sell them continued maintenance for their new OS, but that was mostly due to their language not having the word "maintenance". Anyway, I have those memories, and this box to use when things go really bad, plus the always-present hope of future adventure.

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial_Program_Load
A month wasted
Here are some ideas (and we've used pretty much all of them)

Alice, from Randy Pausch (http://www.thelastlecture.com/) team
http://alice.org/

Scratch
http://scratch.mit.edu/

Codea--programming on the iPad. I highly recommend getting a keyboard.
http://twolivesleft.com/Codea/

Art of Problem Solving has online programming classes
http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/School/courseinfo.php?cou...

Good luck!
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Agreed. I think it's less exciting if you're the lone wolf coder sitting in your room optimizing the hell out of a language. With all the abstractions available nowadays programmers have gone away from developing their own frameworks to utilizing several to make something much bigger than they could have int he past.

I understand that making your own sockets or database interface library might not be as exciting as rolling your own. However I feel that it's much easier for nearly anybody to pick stuff off the shelf and make something amazing which we all benefit from.
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South London is just as exciting as the rest of London, especially because of sexy South London escorts.
The technique covered in this article is also cross-browser.
Dopey, the Folder-Selection Annoyance
Lattice Engines doesn't make engines. It's just another fluffy dotcom.
They'll just make an exception for legislators, as is the case amongst so many other laws that don't apply to those who wrote them.
I ended up getting the Samsung Focus S. I was convinced I was switching to Android and going to get the Galaxy Nexus after owning every iPhone since the 3G. However, after looking at several different phones I found the Mango UI to be the most innovative take on interfaces. I actually feel that as far as the core interface goes both Mango and Android have pulled far ahead of iOS.
Cool story. I'm looking forward to part 2!!
On Debian, I definitely use aptitude. However it hasn't been updated for Ubuntu's recent work on multiarch, and thus actions requiring dependency resolution are not usable anymore on many Oneiric installs (those that are amd64 with a few i586 packages).
You'd recommend to an 11 year old to read a book "learning to code the hard way"? Really?

I think you're making a lot of assumptions with a comment like "stop trying to live vicariously through him". Would you have had the same reaction if the question was about sports?
This is a supply and demand issue. A lot of people do want to live in dense, urban areas, but there isn't enough housing stock to meet demand, hence the expensiveness of urban living. But if you factor in your transportation costs into living expenses, all of the sudden living outside of an urban area isn't so cheap: http://htaindex.cnt.org/

There has been a big push to see housing affordability as intertwined with transportation costs. If you have to drive a car to do everything in your life, that costs a lot more than someone who can walk to the grocery store, movie theater, bar, etc.
Is Steve Jobs the 2nd Greatest Innovator of All Time?
If I hear a song on the radio I'm benefiting from the artists work without paying. If I record a song off the radio then sell copies of it to other people I am doing something entirely different.
Ahaha, hope so :)

And best of all, you could contribute if something is missing for your needs ;)

<3 Open source
I do not follow that logic. Surely, "work and attention" do not cause health damages, do they?

I do not think there is any correlation either way, but one could argue that, say, putting together a 'work fast, but the end result must be spotless' item is less risky for one's health than putting together a (purely hypothetical, for the sake of the argument) 'we do not care about shards on the glass screen; blood spots on the screen are OK, too, but do it in ten seconds or we will not make a profit' product.
Apple also posted a 'huge loss' in 1997 and '98. Is this really a surprise for a company that had a CEO change and had to retool their product line?
Shit Entrepreneurs Say: “We’re Not Too Concerned With Profit Right Now”
In addition to Chris's point, when we reached out to our customers about the decision, we gave them time to transition, and assistance in the transition plan.

I didn't personally speak to every customer, but many of the customers were understanding and in some cases, very supportive of the decision. The produce hadn't gotten new features or much more than maintenance in over a year. They appreciated our honesty and perhaps more importantly, our empathy for the situation we ultimately created for them.
I suppose it's mainly taste, but the things you mention don't seem too exciting to me technologically, though there are indeed significant increases in the userbase and business ecosystems, so it's a good time to start a tech business (a different question). But I have a preference for more DIYability and less interest in interfacing with APIs and cloud services, which isn't necessarily the Correct preference, but is one.

Games? Meh, I keep up on recent games in part because it's my job (oddly enough), but listing my top-10 favorite games, Minecraft is the only post-2000 one I can think of. In general I think they've gotten worse, mostly by focusing way too much on graphical fidelity. Even MMOs are like MUDs v 2.0, and I think in many ways haven't recaptured the depth of community and user-generated content that MUDs/MOOs had, but I admit that you can make a case either way (and Eve Online's community in particular is arguably something new in terms of multiplayer dynamics). And mobile and Facebook gaming seems to consist largely of cloning 80s and 90s games...

And the web is just recently catching up to the level of interactivity we had on 1980s networked computer systems, which mostly got thrown out in favor of a pile of hyperlinked documents (plus, later, Flash)... its main advantage is increasing visibility in business and society, so you can do things like buy plane tickets on it, which would've been completely possible with 1980s technology but didn't have the business case for it.

I do find workable crowdsourcing, with Wikipedia as the main successful example, to be a very interesting para-technological development, probably an emergent effect of internet connectivity. I guess that ties into whether you fundamentally find the ability to reach millions of people (as you mentioned) interesting. I think it is to some extent, but I think it's also become harder to reach 20-50 people in a meaningful, sustained way; things are much flatter, and recreating something like a BBS community is quite hard (though not impossible). Technologically speaking, I don't really find millions of people necessary; doing interesting things that impresses a few dozen people who engage with it meaningfully (rather than just clicking through off Reddit or HN for a few minutes) is satisfying enough.
Ask HN: How do you keep track of your personal achievements? 
HN: I'm trying to organize and keep track of my personal achievements. Achievements include things as varied as "Learned Python in 2011", "Lost 5 pounds in July 2010", "Learned how to bake my first cake on March 7, 2005", "Donated $100 to charity on December 24, 2003", etc etc.

Is there anything out there that's better than a spreadsheet or a word doc?
It doesn't make logical sense but this isn't about logic as much as it is about emotion. You definitely get the sense after reading this that their hearts just weren't in it. For one reason or another that lack of continuing passion led them to shutter it rather than force themselves to work on something they just didn't have as much love for anymore. Plus it was an unprofitable time sink. Yes, it made money but the opportunity cost wasn't worth it considering their other projects.

Not all good decisions are based in objective reality. Never underestimate a gut feeling.
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> There are two standard screen sizes, 800 x 480 and 400 x 480 which is well suited for cheaper commodity devices.

There are Android devices being sold with 200x320 screens. To say nothing about Nokia's huge sales of S40 devices.

> Android won't because the development costs of adapting the OS to small low margin commodity devices would be borne by the manufacturers and carriers,

The closer you are to the upstream manufacturer's (the company you buy chips from) reference design, the lower your costs. I can't imagine companies that cater to the lowest-end of the market trying to differentiate on technology.

> WP7 is what will replace them.

There are a lot of if's in this idea. It could happen IF Microsoft could make WP7 attractive on low-end devices (big if #1) AND Android manufacturers fail to make Android run on them (big if #2) AND Nokia decides they will replace S40 with WP7 (big if #3). Samsung will merge Bada into Tizen (a.k.a. Meego) and pursue the low-end segment with it. WP7 will only be a contender for the low end if Samsung starts to fail in a market they know very well (big if #4).

When you see Microsoft paying money to Nokia so that they boost WP7 market share you have to imagine they already failed to convince more viable companies to do it. I have little doubt Microsoft offered similar deals to Samsung, LG, HTC and others and Nokia was simply the cheapest one. Or the only one who took it.
Besides the fact that a direct debit payment is reversible, isn't there also a timeout between the authorization and actual debit (in The Netherlands, I believe it's about 1-2 days)?

How do they handle chargebacks/failed payments and do they charge their merchants for failed payments/chargebacks?

I think direct debit could be huge on mobile, but given the fact that every direct debit payment can be cancelled within a month or so, how do you reduce your risks?
22 EU states sign the ACTA ‘Internet censorship’ treaty
According to the Wikipedia article about the 11nm node, the thickness of the gate dielectric becomes just 1 atom at that scale: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/11_nm
What's the success rate of 500Startups' past companies?
I think there are some people who's interest in programming is correlated with the end result (what the end product is + impact). If the end product is going to be trivial, it doesn't matter what innovative technology you're using - it won't be interesting. I'm one of those people.
They won't change the interface, as it works for them.

When deciding between being shady and getting more money, and being honest and getting less money, they already chose their side.
Running pacman-optimize (part of the base pacman package) occasionally keeps the performance at an acceptable level for me.
>Speaking of speculation, you have ZERO backing for your conjectures about why posts from Winsupersite get buried or simply don't make the front page

Try submitting a story from Winsupersite, it will be instantly dead. That either means it was heavily flagged in the past that the system auto-kills any submission from it, or it was singled out by a moderator.

>Update: The problem here is that we have anonymous/opaque voting, moderation, and flagging. Without showing me a collection of stories that received massive upvotes but never made the front page, we have no evidence of moderation or flagging, just evidence that your interests are in the minority.

Eg. see this post complaining but no action was taken.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3408883

I am not even complaining that the stories are not voted up, it is that they're completely banned. If it was Daring Fireball(Winsupersite is basically the Microsoft equivalent of that) that was banned, HN would go completely ballistic.

Not to mention that fact that Gruber's deprecating and sometimes misinformed takes on important Microsoft announcements get more traction here than the actual news itself.

Do you really see anything on that site which makes any submission to it instantly dead other than that it's Microsoft-centric reporting which seems to be its only sin?
It's a series where you dictate written programs and then debug them. http://learncodethehardway.org/

If the question were about sports, then yes, it would be similar. (eg: football) If your child is passionate about football, begs to watch games etc; consider enrolling him in a football league where he will play football and buy him a book that explains real plays that wont talk down to him because he is a child. If you love football and want to see your child play football, but he has expressed no interest in it, it may not be A Really Good Idea(tm).

(EDIT: added link)
Well, you'd have a point if he actually did it. But he didn't, did he? He just made a piece of software that allowed other people to share work without profiting from it. Copyrighted and uncopyrighted.