skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are assuming that prices do reflect value. Isn't that a sketchy premise?

I just gave an example in which the GDP is 100,000,000 times larger then the observable transaction outside us two people ($20M vs. $0.20). It is perfectly ok from legal and tax perspectives (income and expenses cancel out; accounts were netted).

Now, given how easy that is to do, why would you assume that prices properly reflect value?

As an example, the GAP and Banana republic will sell you everything at 50% discount if you know what you are doing (there is a 40%-or-so discount window for "loyal customers" every week, and other coupons and rebates that stack up). What price should Banana Republic consider their inventory in? The higher price, or the lower price?

Now, when they transfer this to Banana Republic UK, what are the prices (and values) they should use?

This is all ripe for perversion, and it is this "flexibility" that allows Google and Microsoft and other multinational corps to pay 3% tax on one hand, and companies to present arbitrary GDP numbers on the other.

Prices and values only reflect each other in efficient markets -- but those are almost nowhere to be found.
If you're looking into how to hire salespeople, check out this post I made on how WePay hires: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3864412
Websockets: A Guide - somewhat in-depth explanation of WebSockets
If someone does stupid things with the car and has an accident it is going to be recorded.

This is not a problem if you don't do stupid things.

Is going to take less than a megabyte to record an entire day(I use smartphones to record inertial movements), and everything is already on place on cars accelerometers, gyros, gps, and 3d compass(plus tacometers and maps).

They even can add microphones to the mixture(from the hands free phone system).

The problem in USA is the Patriot Act, every info the government takes about you should be clear, and it is not, they want to spy on you and they have no limits.

The problem is also the facebooks: "give us your inertial information and you will have a discount, or a free lollipop, or your friends will be able to know were you are driving".

This will happen, maybe it is a good thing. We need the wrong things that could happen with technology to happen fast so people develop antibodies as they do with every new tech.
A multimonitor setup is great but it hardly answers the OP's question. When this decision was made multimonitor setups were rare...
The technology provides an impressive first impression. With that said, I would appreciate it if somebody can help me understand how this doesn't lead to "two-dimensional" vendor lock-in (hosting and proprietary framework). From my first glance, this appears to be a combination of hosted service and web framework all rolled into one, where code portability is not possible. Am I missing something?
I often see Rosetta Stone advertised and mentioned, and I even briefly toyed with a demo version in the past, but it didn't click for me.

Can anyone provide their own success story for Rosetta or a competing alternative?
I've been using Ginger for ~ 6 months (I work for Lincoln Loop), and it's appeal is difficult to describe.

It doesn't really _do_ anything, there's no clever features, yet as a team we've been having these intelligent thoughtful discussions since we started using it. Somehow those discussions just didn't happen with the other tools we tried.
The whole Build New Games site is a collection of articles geared towards html5 game developers, put together by Bocoup and sponsored by Microsoft. Check out more at http://buildnewgames.com/about/.

Additionally, if I can provide any information about WebSockets, a strong interest of mine, I'd love to!
I agree. Scripting languages in general and Python in particular seem to be overused (and promoted) in domains that they're not well suited for.

But we've been seeing a lot of random several-year-old python stuff on Hacker News for quite a while now. Can't someone just post a link to a comprehensive list of all python tutorials, rather than them all being submitted individually like this?
I loved the "FAILED" stamps on Oracle's mobile phone docs.
I have read a number of articles on "debunking" that statement, but they always have large holes.

This one in particular attacks what it considers consistency. It suggests that we cannot be sure that the data that is collected will consistently used accurately. It suggests that having ones fingerprints on file were the cause of a number of false arrests.

While I agree that if we collected no data, we'd probably have less false arrests, they convinently avoid talking about how many people have been correctly (as far as we can tell) convicted because of that data.

I'm not saying this has anything to do with the whole car article- I'm just saying that if someone is swayed either way by that simple computer weekly article, they haven't really thought the issue through themselves.
It's not an either/or proposition, HBO can allow streaming and still be friends with the cable companies. NBC is one of the big backers of Hulu and the cable companies still deal with NBC.
I kind of agree but I think I'd change a few things in this list.

* If you call yourself a hacker you are very likely not a hacker. If you are convinced that you are a hacker without saying it there is also a strong probability that you're nothing more than a wannabe hacker.

* I couldn't stress more ethics. The term hacker has been watered down to a point where it's impossible to relate it to the mentality of the first hackers. Here is a very small world but the way I see self proclaimed hackers on HN is a bunch of people who want to build something to make money. They don't care about ethics, about privacy, about their users. It's totally contrary to the ethics of old-school hackers.

Anyway I am not a hacker and I'm happy not be one, and wanting to be one is pretty laughable, you're just called a hacker by your peers, the rest is a pride problem.
Is this related? It's an article I wrote on how WePay hires it's sales team: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3864412
I'm looking for a line to draw between acceptable sharing/collection of data and non-acceptable sharing/collection of data. I think there is a line somewhere around "personally identifiable". Looking at the data elements currently recorded (or, I guess, officially recorded), it looks very dry and non-identifiable. Not necessarily fully-anonymized, though.

I think I would be okay with this information being aggregated, analyzed, and even sold to insurance companies (perhaps even marketers, why not?).

But as soon as the data is being shuffled around with personally identifiable information attached to it, I agree with you.

Is there a better line between acceptable and non-acceptable?
Instagram Dollars Should Have Been Used To Fix The World’s Problems
I speak three languages fluently (Arabic, French, and English), and I have the same advice for anybody who wants to learn a new language:

- Watch their news media. For instance, if you are learning Arabic, then watch Arabic media. It might be tough at first, but just go at it. Be a baby. Babies bombard their minds with input and eventually patterns form.

- Pick a TV show you saw and watch the whole thing again using language-you-want-to-learn subtitles. This can be fun, and well things will be mentioned so often they will stick. This is extremely effective, and my English vocabulary improved dramatically this way. I prefer this to carrying cards and trying to memorize them. Its unnatural.

- Go to a country that speaks it.
As someone who has used (and contributed code) to envoy, I must give warning that envoy is still very much a work in progress. Don't go in there expecting the same quality of the Requests module.
As a reference, the news article that explains this:

http://www.wjla.com/articles/2012/04/report-unconscious-pilo...
It helps if you're in a city that has a large base of startup entrepreneurs like San Francisco, Austin, Seattle, etc. If you're not, I suggest moving to one.

Check your city to see if they have any meetups (Meetup.com and Google). If you live in any of the cities that have active startup communities there are definitely meetups. Or just check if there are any upcoming networking events in the local area.

Go to the meetups and meet everyone and anyone you can. Try to make real relationships with these people. Become completely ingrained within your city's startup community.

You'll be surprised where a little bit of networking goes.

Another tip: Apply to an incubator/accelerator. If you don't think you're good enough to get into Ycombinator, then apply to the lower-tier ones. Even the worst incubators can be immensely helpful for someone who isn't plugged in to the community.
Ugh. Do we really need another one of these?
IANAL, but I read that you have to sue to protect your property (copyright, brand name, etc). If you don't, you are waiving your rights on it, which is why Google may be using Classpath and Harmony as examples.
Finally, the Groupon adds are gone!
Let's not forget what they say about how HBO works financially... softcore pornography and boxing pay for all of the "Game of Thrones"-level masterpieces. While they have produced unfailingly inspirational television, it's not a core part of their economic engine.

It's a shame that non-subscribers can't see all the programming, but we wouldn't have it at all if it wasn't for their business model. As good as HBO's programming is, it probably wouldn't be economically feasible if it had to be directly supported. There might be enough income from itunes to (barely) support breakout hits like GoT, but it's unlikely that all of the shows that led up to it would have earned enough money to stay on the air.

Cable companies may be evil, but HBO definitely needed them in order to start. They can't be expected to unwind the relationship on the promise of netflix streaming sales to come.

(Disclaimer: I love HBO and will watch anything they make)
Here's an old comment of mine with regards to google readers social aspect (and when they made the changed to G+):

"I'm also usually very open to change and what have you, but I despise the new reader. Exactly because I like to be in reader, and see what my friends posted from reader. I don't want it mixed with the rest of my social life, I don't want it mixed with FB like status updates, I just want to see what people are sharing in Reader. It's like I had my own "community" in reader, a small but special subset of people really in the "know". Yeahyeah, that's a circle, I know, but I went to reader to read what they shared, then I read my own, and shared. The 'dialog' was more circular, if that makes any sense. That, and my Reader slants heavily on the 'images' and artsy side of things, it was almost like a micro tumblr that only friends saw, but unlike tumblr, it's not recycled stuff, we are all pulling from different places, I followed a guy from finance, a dude that loved astronomy, and chick in advertising, a guy in tech, a girl into silly comics, and it was all right there, im my reader. It was perfect."
Is that submittable in court? Do you do this? You should write a blog post about it?
GIMP is some high quality software. I love it. An amazing achievement.
Congrats! You guys are based in London, but I'm guessing you could go on Kickstarter because you have a company registered in the US?
Question: why is this downvoted?
Neither is it the purchaser's fault.

Best Buy was the one who selected the item, put it behind glass where it couldn't be examined, and then wrote the FYIGM policy. They are also the one that wants to have a brand as a reliable retailer.

If they're smart, they'll make this right.
I felt the same (well, not quite blood boiling, but annoyed) with regular expressions in python. Why so awkward? But now, I don't know, one thing the somewhat cumbersome subprocess and regular expression support helped me to learn was that I didn't want or need to spawn a subprocess or use a regex for every little thing. There are good python libraries for manipulating files and directories, globbing, and so forth. For strings, you can get a very long way using split, join, slicing, and the "in" operator. I like my programs more this way. They look like, you know, programs, instead of hacked together shell scripts.
Infographic: How different are mobile customers?
Smithsonian welcomes space shuttle Discovery
> 2- Removes unnecessary space (empty lines and spaces). Why the extra bits?

The extra whitespaces are most probably the template output. If he is using erb, erb is a generic template and doesn't make assumptions about relevance of whitespace. If you are optimizing by hand, you will still have all the newlines and indents in the output.

Some people use minifiers, most people don't care. Almost all servers and clients speak gzip, and the extra overhead is so low on the list of things to optimize that it probably isn't even on the list.

> 3- JavaScript, I see that you are loading a good chunk of JavaScript in the HEAD and you are loading a bunch of it in the end. For example the Amazon JS file (http://s3.amazonaws.com/new.cetrk.com/pages/scripts/0004/737...) is certainly not usable, and is yet a whole HTTP request.

Again, I am taking a guess. layout.html.erb yields under body, and head and scripts are same for all pages. Now patio11 can hand include just the needed scripts on every page, but he chose to include all scripts on all pages. This isn't something the designer controls.

> 2- http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2777218/shot2.png

That menu change really looks weird.
But it did successfully mitigate, if not kill, the threat of having Sun's XDR (eXternal Data Representation) become the defacto way of describing complex data structures. The arguments that ASN used in the RPC standards wars were "no need to bundle both a description and the data", "new stuff could be added without changing clients", and "all systems (little endian and big endian) have similar data conversion costs."

It was a really annoying war (I suspect there isn't any other kind although some people apparently really enjoy the standards 'game').

My favorite quote from Bob Lyon at the time, "Try to solve the problem, not the future."
Como recuperar a mi ex
Tecnicas sencillas para aprender como recuperar a un ex, facil y de forma efectiva
>As an aside that I'm probably going to get down voted for...

I really hope this doesn't become a common thing to say here.
Suppose someone created a landing page where guilt-ridden torrent downloaders can spend a reasonable amount (say $2 per episode) to get rid of their guilt, would HBO accept the money?
Totally. And I also think a lot of imperative languages make that kind of discipline more of a hassle than it needs to be. (Giant peeve: .NET does not have any decent options for immutable collections in its standard libraries.)

But the author does bring up a good point: The industry is full of people who were taught using Scheme in university, but quickly switched to an imperative language when given the chance. Having TA'd classes that are taught in Scheme, and spent a lot of time tutoring people who fit into that class, and watching the way they go nuts when they're finally shown set! for the first time, I've come to the conclusion that it isn't merely a preference. Most of them really do have a genuinely easier time reasoning about and writing correct imperative code. It would also be a mistake to rely on a programming paradigm in which many people have a hard time functioning at the industry level.

If there's a middle ground that allows people to keep their FOR-loops while discouraging them from using mutability in the contexts where it's dangerous, that's the direction I think industry should be headed in.
If you've offered to send the thing back, I don't think it's fraud at all.
so what does this have to do with pintrest? is it just the pictures of cakes?
It's not necessarily true that HBO is leaving money on the table. It could be that having a streaming service is against some contract term they have with the cable companies, and having one would lose them $x per customer. That amount could be less than what they've determined they could make from streaming. In that case, while they aren't taking your money, they are still maximizing their income by doing so. It's the demand curve in play. If 200 people are willing to pay $50 for something, and 50 more people are only willing to pay $25, then it makes sense to sell it for $50, since that makes $10000, rather than $25 since that makes $6250. In the second case, more people enjoy it (all 250), but the company makes less money. I'd highly suspect this is wrong though, given what Valve has demonstrated with price levels and video games.
We'd have flying cars finally ;) granted, they'd only fly 'til they landed for the first time...
This article is so far off the mark. A better source is Richard Stallman's (often called the last hacker) on this: http://stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html . An even better source is Steven Levy's Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution http://www.amazon.com/Hackers-Computer-Revolution-Steven-Lev... . Either way, it's clear that hacking is related to computers but one need not be using computers to hack. In fact, the word hacker comes from modifying the system at the MIT Tech Model Railroad Club. While hacking is widely associated with computers, I think it is better described as a playful attitude towards objects and materials which takes into account the "hacker ethic." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_ethic
> Not sure if this is the case or not, but certain templating systems make it really hard to remove extra whitespace/lines (I'm looking at you Jinja2)

Jinja2 is a generic templating engine, and as such can't make assumptions about relevance of whitespace.

However, writing an extension on top of it isn't hard, and mitsuhiko has written an extension to do that.

https://github.com/mitsuhiko/jinja2-htmlcompress
How We Eat: Analyzing 1/2 a Million Meals - Massive Health
If the focus is on the word "usable", I'm still waiting on them to do that for RHEL.
The Pinterest connection is that it is serving a largely female audience with interest in crafting and recycling content. Basically, if MakerBot and Pinterest joined forces, this would be the likely result.
And their official blog post: http://blog.massivehealth.com/post/21377192742/how-we-eat-an...
I can see this sentiment being easily twisted around to...

This is a huge win-win for surveillance software making people behave better:

1. Well-behaved citizens carry on in their lives relatively freely

2. Gov't has evidence of your innocence (notice the implication here)

3. The constant surveillance has forced society to be permanently more
conscious about their behavior and made them better citizens.
Not only does it identify "bad people", but it can convince them
to become better people, possibly without them realizing it!

I realize I am putting words in your mouth and I apologize. You probably don't believe my "translation" but I want to point out that it doesn't take too much work to go from your words to mine.
They're not bolting it on as an afterthought. They looked for feedback from the very beginning on how people wanted to use it and what security features would enable those uses. Then they ensured that in designing the core product adding those features later would still be possible and efficient.

I commend this approach. Security before there's anything to secure is a little silly. Having it in mind when designing your product and making intelligent compromises is essential.
Calculating The 5,000 Most Frequently Used Domain Name Prefixes and Suffixes
I am not sure what exactly you mean by "friction problems", but one thing I am sure about is that it wasn't half-assed. Tim Roughgarden did an excellent job and went beyond the call of duty to provide advanced videos which covered material that wasn't within the scope of the course. My only problem with the class was that it was too short. I am eagerly awaiting for the second part of the class.
Ask HN: YC Hopeful Seeking Interview Advice
Their shows are popular outside the US. They don't seem to want any subscribers from there.
So it's like that episode of South Park?

http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/411094/the-newest-meme
Anonymous Builds AnonPaste - A New Haven For Stolen Data
Just checked them out, very cool sites. Thanks for the advice.
The location restrictions are the same when I try to view something on BBC or Sky websites. They are just interviews or report snippets but it's restricted for viewing in the UK only.
Sex in the Bathroom and the Problem of Offline Data
Both `open sources` and `exploited` have precise meanings in this context. A quick proofread by someone familiar with Linus would have removed these two mistakes.
that would be a valid reason, if the author of the article actually was working on touch up work of the pictured female.

somehow i have the suspicion that no: he chose it on purpose, because, you know: BOOBS!
Lesson learned in the opening paragraphs - unsolicited email still works, even amongst the most internet-smart targets.

* with the right circumstances
I think Progressive has some kind of Orwellian name for it like "Safe Driver Program" or something.

It's called Snapshot, and that program's the main reason I chose Progressive. I very much appreciate that there's an insurance company that agrees that I should be able to get a lower rate if I can prove that I'm a more prudent driver. Sure, they gotta collect some data on my driving habits first. But how the heck else am I supposed to demonstrate to them that I have safer driving habits?

Personally, I think I'd have to be stupid to not take them up on the offer.
Domestic Helper Agency
9 Timeless Leadership Lessons from Cyrus the Great
Ancient wisdom from Cyrus
You only have to authenticate a device every 30 days.

The attack that is prevented here is someone who knows your password getting access to your account. They can't get access unless they know your password and manage to steal your OTP generator or device. That's significantly harder than knowing someone's password. (Knowing your password is probably hard, but I know many peoples' password. It's "password".)
Best use of subdomains ever?
I don't think it's possible to get just basic cable and HBO; you typically have to get some sort of bonus cable package, and then tack on the HBO package onto it. Last time I looked, you needed a level 2 tier of service, and then a bonus subscription which came with HBO and two other channels I couldn't give less of a shit about without medical help.

Things may have changed, this was about five years ago.
I would have no problem with an article that made the argument you just made. I do have a problem with an article that says "the primary function of the black box devices would be to record and transmit data" when the "transmit" part is pulled out of thin air. This bill does not require technology that enables active tracking.
> All I know is that whenever I see their commercials it reminds me of how stupid they think their customers are

I haven't looked into Progressive's program in particular, but car insurance is a huge information asymmetry problem. If I think I'm a better-than-average driver (thanks to Dunning-Kruger, most people do), then I'd benefit from my insurance company knowing more about my driving habits. Just because you value your privacy above the potential savings doesn't mean everybody who would prefer the savings is stupid.
The guilt that makes you resist buyers remorse and keep products you don't want is profit for the sellers. Frivolous returns are already part of their forecast. You might as well return it. But beware: if you tend toward guilt, you'll eventually make even more purchases to ensure the seller profits from you in the end.
That is crazy....amazing infographics too