skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"it seems to me that a person ought to be responsible with what's done with his property."

I think in a practical sense this is never going to happen. If you lend someone your car you are responsible and will get sued if they kill someone. The type of lawsuit and even criminal charges might depend on whether you knew of their capacity at the time to commit a crime or fitness to drive. Important distinction with cars and guns. With both you know they can be dangerous. (In the case of a gun you know even more so obviously.) There is not the same widespread knowledge or even possibility with the internet for harm along the lines of death because of use of an internet connection. Although I'm sure it's happened a few times (harassment or planning terrorism.)

As far as the requirement to lock down a network that also is not going to happen as you well know in a world that chooses "football" or "123456" for a password not to mention key loggers and viruses. Simply not the same as keeping your gun in a gun safe or knowing your neighbor is drunk and shouldn't drive your car.

"and if our laws demanded that this be do-able even by somebody's mom, then I think manufacturers would address that usability problem."

I think there is quite the demand from users to not have constant viruses, infections and hacking of computer networks (as well as embarrassment to both the software and hardware industries and to high profile websites.) Do you really think that this can be achieved with "beyond a reasonable doubt" standards so that someone's mom can have secure wifi in her house? I don't. I get calls every day from people who type domain names into the google search box instead of the browser bar.
Tiger Styles lifetime iOS sales numbers
I've worked mostly in the midwest and the South during my career, and this lifecycle of talent is not something I've really observed outside of the Valley.

I suspect that this "lifecycle of talent" is a part of SV's secret sauce. As manufacturing becomes even more amenable to rapid prototyping, this sort of culture could be applied to that domain. (Is it already?)
Here's a shorter answer:

Have money or want to make money? Buy Unity 3D. No money, non-commercial: Free Unity 3D. Refuse to use anything closed source? Then go open source (and in that realm there are too many choices for me to recommend one.)

Unity 3D is a really good product, and it bridges the gap of being easy to get started with while simultaneously capable of professional AA title work. Your art will still be a lot of work, but Unity has the engine side of things covered . The programming paradigms are perfect for game development too.

Really worth checking out.

(I'm assuming you're building stand alone executables or mobile games, Unity is usable in the browser with the Unity plugin, which a surprisingly large number of people have installed.)
Why I'm betting on Social TV
I have passive income thanks to Adsense, in comparison with the average salary in USA is kind of low; but is bigger than the average salary in my country (Colombia).

And I also want to point out that nobody is talking about "wealth" around here, just about a few more bucks.
Porting to Native Client with Visual Studio
sample http://samples.leanpub.com/startupflow-sample.pdf
A new way to learn how to program
Apple IPad Increases Tablet Share as Amazon Shipments Slump
I don't think that's a fair comparison.

If you ask to use my phone, I'm going to let you borrow it, but I can't know whether you're going to use it to order a pizza or call in a bomb threat.

Of course I have some degree of responsibility, but with guns its is completely different - we went out of our way as a society to make rules about the responsibilities of gun owners.
> If he lets someone use his gun, he's got some degree of responsibility, and if he lets someone use his communication facilities, he's assuming some as well.

Analogies such as these should be avoided because you're falling in the same "you won't download a car" trap.

Say, if someone comes to my party and uses a kitchen knife to commit a crime, what is the degree of my responsibility?
Show HN: My side project is a joke (seriously! you'll smile)
Hi all,

I have always wanted to create a community dedicating to creating the work place more positive. Right now, it's only jokes. I am working on a revision of this that will just place the community page right in front and do away with the landing page. I welcome and appreciate any cheesy thoughts, critiques or suggestions you might have.

In the pipeline: jokes, quotes and ideas on how to make the work place more positive!

-V.
Most startups don't attract these people because when you approach a great engineer when you want something, they can smell it on you. They don't need your job and they don't want to work for someone who sees them as a means to an end.

Words of wisdom for a founder who wants to establish a culture of "Good People."
Here's a good article at the IEEE. They say an 1859-level flare could wipe out the grid. The big transformers would be destroyed, we don't have spares, and they're built painstakingly by hand, by skilled artisans who spend years learning how.
http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/the-smarter-grid/a-perfect-s...

There's a new device that could be installed to protect those transformers, but it's still in testing.

With enough warning, disconnecting the transformers would protect them, but the operators have to have the guts to purposely cause massive blackouts.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/energy/2011/08/11080...
Startups make up a smaller share of U.S. businesses
I strongly disagree. When a person gives or lends something or provides a service to another person, you should not be able to hold the first person responsible for what happens, unless they had reason to believe the second person would misuse it.

The legal system depends on treating every person who is mentally competent as being responsible for his or her own actions with regard to the law. What you suggest upends that dependency.

Publishing metasploit, running a torrent tracker, running a car rental service or a gun range would all require extremely expensive liability insurance if liability always transferred.
The strategy could work if done correctly and most certainly in the case of a mass lawsuit.

If the corp is opened in a place that offers nominee owners or directors even better. Although there are most certainly legal ways that someone could figure out who to sue, in a mass lawsuit it would simply not pay to put the effort in to pierce the corporate veil of any individual when there were 1500 other targets.

Despite what others have said you've made a good point to always keep in mind as an entrepreneur. Something that you are legally obligated to do by contract is very often not worth the time for the other party to file a lawsuit over. If you rely on attorneys this is not something they always will make you aware of. (My points are based upon surviving many many years in business both with and w/o contracts.)
MatterPort To Make 3D Scanning Of Rooms As Easy As Shooting A Video (YC 12)
Isn't this mainly because the new iPad came out in the first quarter, whereas most other electronics are bought for the holidays?
Hi all,

I have always wanted to create a community dedicating to creating the work place more positive. Right now, it's only jokes. I am working on a revision of this that will just place the community page right in front and do away with the landing page. I welcome and appreciate any cheesy thoughts, critiques or suggestions you might have.

In the pipeline: jokes, quotes and ideas on how to make the work place more positive!

-V.
Show HN: Weekend Project for Laughs
Does Microsoft have app development right?
No objection at all, I'd be willing to design the landing page if you come around to implementing this :)
I'm just going to say it: i don't like it that much.

Don't get me wrong it looks nice and it is a functional app but I instantly feel this is not a native app. The interactions are wrong. The scroll bounce is not correct. There are noticable delays. The back button does a fade instead of popping a viewcontroller. Little things like that.
"Old revision" doesn't really mean anything on jsPerf since anybody can create a new revision which will increment the counter. The main point of having them numbered is so that you have something stable to link to.

The latest revision (35, as of this comment) is basically equivalent from most JS engines' perspective, and shows pretty much identical results.
But you're assuming it would even get to a trier of fact. That is a mistake that lawyers make many timese that I've seen. They will settle a case with another lawyer as if the other side will actually go through and file a lawsuit and even has the money to litigate. McDonalds regularly settles slip and fall lawsuits that are merit less. It is cheaper in certain cases to just pay off the tort lawyer with $10,000 then go to court. And certainly you've seen cases where the little guy gets sued and gives up because they don't have the money to fight even though they are clearly right (or let's assume they are..)
Hi, I'm one of the founders of Gitpilot.

Why won't you trust a SaaS? What if you were provided with a link or a way to download all of your data? Would that change your mind?
That's a very apt description of the problem!

Technology should be developed to tap the ionosphere, where there's a fairly constant stream of electrons. I think the biggest obstacle in the past was storage: breakthroughs were needed in material science to be able to construct suitable capacitors. But I wonder if anyone's looked at this problem recently...
Manufactors are partially to blame aswell. e.g. WEP is still available. It is totally insecure and should not be used. Any consumer grade equipment that only supports WEP is just encouraging people to be insecure while thinking they are secure.
In Q4 2011, there were 28.2 million tablets sold vs 17.4 mil in Q1 2012. So a sequential decline of 38%.

While holiday sales are obviously significant, what this might indicate is that more people will purchase for themselves but are more willing to purchase alternatives (like the cheaper Kindle Fire) as gifts for others.
You can add more value to firms outside the midwest because there are very few firms in the midwest where tech is their core business. I was living in Cleveland and severely underpaid, but I could not find another company in the area that would give me a $20k raise because IT was just a cost to them and not how they made money. I moved to California and more than tripled my salary.
Is Apple’s Dropbox-Related App Rejection Process Getting Ridiculous?
I concur with this.

Despite the grand importance of time as the absolute foundation of wealth, very little progress has been made in the most obvious optimization of all: creating property that can create more time. More heartbeats, more health, more time spent alive and active. Rejuvenation medicine, capable of repairing the damage of aging. Tissue engineering to generate replacements for worn organs. The cure for cancer. If you could do all that, then the much more productive form of escape velocity becomes possible - longevity escape velocity. Why strive to maintain an empire of property that will crumble to dust when the degenerations of age catch up with you when you could be that fit-looking guy having a blast swimming in the breakers every other Sunday for as long as you like?

Wealth is exactly time, and here we are, bordering the era of biotechnology for the repair of aging. Planning ahead for the best possible personal future starts with investment now. Think about it.
How The Look & Feel Of Your Website Affects Your Users
Maybe because he prefers languages where he has to do his own garbage collection ;-)
It could be the beginning of the end for Amazon's chance to succeed. By alienating the retail channel, which is very important for consumer devices, Amazon may find themselves struggling to find places to sell their device other than their own store.

While Amazon has a large customer base, it can't compete for market share with the big-box retailers and boutique stores that companies like Samsung and Apple have a significant presence in.
Thank you cemerick! I was hoping to catch your first screencast with O'Reilly, but only managed to catch the last 20 minutes - So this makes me especially happy.

On a side note, your book is fantastic - I have pretty much all the Clojure books out there, but I really like the job you and your co-authors have done.

Thanks for all the work, and keep it up.
Okay, that's it, I'm cutting of my hair. Everyone seems to hate long hair on man.

But I wonder how many long haired man were in the sample. They are quite rare and a few ponytail grad students might lower the score.
I believe those are on the road map. But probably will take couple of releases before getting there.
I think the title is silly.
You don't learn to code in 3 months.
You learn the keywords and semantic of the language.
This has nothing to do with being a software developer and producing good and valuable products.
This attitude is the reason why out of 100 resume I get on my desk I might find 1 or 2 good developers.
Then you read about "developers" complaining they are only being paid 1,500 EUR in Europe. You know why?
Because. They. Suck!
For the view from the other side of the table, read Peldi's posts from Balsamiq.
I guess it's ok as an introduction to the idea behind 'lean startups', but it doesn't really give you much to go on that's concrete.
So...what, some sort of "Who is the best Net visionary, vote now" thingy?

I dont think they could be any less clearer.
60mo joins FreeAgent
60mo has been acquired by FreeAgent, the UK's biggest and best accounting tool! Important information about your 60mo account. Here's the deets.
Bloody ‘ell, we've joined
the FreeAgent team!

We're extremely excited to announce that 60mo has been acquired by FreeAgent, the UK market-leader in online accounting software. 60mo was built to make the lives of small business owners easier and we’re happy to be joining a team that shares that passion. Also, they have a castle!

What does this mean for the 60mo team?
We’ve joined FreeAgent as the charter members of their US team and will be working to help bring the FreeAgent platform to the tens of millions of US small business owners losing sleep over their finances. There is a ton to be done, and we are chomping at the bit to get started.

What does this mean for the 60mo product?
As our focus will be on the FreeAgent platform, we’ll be sunsetting the 60mo product in the next few months. 60mo users will be able to get an export of their data until the product is shut down, but data integrations such as Yodlee and QuickBooks will no longer be supported.

How can I export my data?
Contact us at support[at]60mo.com with your account id from the admin area and we’ll provide a full csv file export including all of your major data items.

What happens if I don’t export my data?
No matter what, we care first and foremost about the privacy and security of your data. After the shutoff date, all customer details and data will be deleted from all instances of the 60mo databases and will be unrecoverable.

Who is FreeAgent?
We might be biased, but we think that FreeAgent is one of the best products serving freelancers and small businesses today (and they don’t even wear kilts to work). Give it a try, you won’t be disappointed!

--

A note from the founders:
As entrepreneurs building a product to help other entrepreneurs, we’d like to say “Thank you!” to our customers, supporters, friends, and families for their encouragement and patience. The last few years have been an incredible experience, and we feel privileged to have worked with you.
I really like your thinking. This is exactly what you have to do when confronted with legal opinions and what lawyers are telling you. You have to challenge them ask questions and propose ideas. They aren't going to think for you and depending on their ethics they aren't going to put words in your mouth (and tell you how to lie and I'm not implying you are doing that). (Same with accountants as well.)
More like months, according to the IEEE: http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/the-smarter-grid/a-perfect-s...
Is there 16 bit per channel image support?
If this doesn't create a push towards IPv6, I don't know what will...
I am from Bangalore, India.

I agree I'm going through the same route as a you. But I'm in my 20's now. Pretty confused as to how the future would turn out. Our country has had a very unpredictable curve when in comes to economic conditions. Especially IT industry has changed drastically. During the 90's and early 2000's, you could just join the industry get promoted to be a manager in a couple of years. Get a US trip, save enough money to amass a lot of real estate, money and assets to retire. These days its totally different, developer salaries are just as normal as any other industry. No more quick promotions, foreign travels and hit & run successes.

But its all the same in any part of the world.

Currently I'm seriously contemplating if all this is worth it. I put in crazy insane hours, totally devoid of social life, without holidays/vacation, no friends, no life, putting my health on risk and still with a insecure future and peanuts in return.

I just feel like working my life out, even if with all the conditions I describe. I just feel like I want to make tons on cash and then go on to settle down in ShangriLa.
FULL TEXT FROM THE ANNOUNCEMENT:
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60mo has been acquired by FreeAgent, the UK's biggest and best accounting tool! Important information about your 60mo account. Here's the deets.
Bloody ‘ell, we've joined
the FreeAgent team!

We're extremely excited to announce that 60mo has been acquired by FreeAgent, the UK market-leader in online accounting software. 60mo was built to make the lives of small business owners easier and we’re happy to be joining a team that shares that passion. Also, they have a castle!

What does this mean for the 60mo team?
We’ve joined FreeAgent as the charter members of their US team and will be working to help bring the FreeAgent platform to the tens of millions of US small business owners losing sleep over their finances. There is a ton to be done, and we are chomping at the bit to get started.

What does this mean for the 60mo product?
As our focus will be on the FreeAgent platform, we’ll be sunsetting the 60mo product in the next few months. 60mo users will be able to get an export of their data until the product is shut down, but data integrations such as Yodlee and QuickBooks will no longer be supported.

How can I export my data?
Contact us at support[at]60mo.com with your account id from the admin area and we’ll provide a full csv file export including all of your major data items.

What happens if I don’t export my data?
No matter what, we care first and foremost about the privacy and security of your data. After the shutoff date, all customer details and data will be deleted from all instances of the 60mo databases and will be unrecoverable.

Who is FreeAgent?
We might be biased, but we think that FreeAgent is one of the best products serving freelancers and small businesses today (and they don’t even wear kilts to work). Give it a try, you won’t be disappointed!

--

A note from the founders:
As entrepreneurs building a product to help other entrepreneurs, we’d like to say “Thank you!” to our customers, supporters, friends, and families for their encouragement and patience. The last few years have been an incredible experience, and we feel privileged to have worked with you.
#1 Neither are doctors.

#2 Yes you are. It's called StackOverflow and a million other sites on the internet where you can google for an answer to your question.
CocosBuilder Reader(ccb) Ported to Cocos2d-X
It's a good reminder though, because sometimes people get ideas in their heads about using exceptions for something other than, well, exceptions, and this is usually a bad idea.
It's not cost of living but supply of jobs. The job market is smaller so there's much less competition for talent. Employees that aren't willing to move to the hotter markets don't have the same bargaining power.
"There was no alternative to the internet that did the same things."

And this is a terrible interpretation of what I intended on saying. :)

I was mocking the validity of the parents assertion because I find it has as much credibility as my ridiculous assertion.

Perhaps you were mocking mine? and if so, kudos to you sir.
They are boring though. If I have to take a programming test, I'd rather take that time build a real feature onto your product, even if for free. If you like the results, at least I've created real value for my time, not just played a silly game. There's a risk that you won't like the results and it will be thrown away, but that's a reasonable gamble.
If you make the ownership graph sufficiently complicated (as in enough companies crossing enough international jurisdictions through enough shared-ownership layers) you'll be:

1) invulnerable to lawsuits

2) the coolest person in the whole internet
To show you that you can upgrade to a paid version?
Back in the day, there was xman:
http://www.x.org/archive/X11R7.5/doc/man/man1/xman.1.html
Ironically, Paul Miller probably won't see this parody because he's not using the internet anymore.
‘Galaxy S III’: Rumor roundup
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Important to not that in the vast majority of the U.S. there is no such thing as gun "licensing" or "registration". You can trade, loan, buy, give, or otherwise move firearms around all you wish with private parties.

Your only obligation in most places is to ask, "Are you legally allowed to own a gun".
If you have a US bank account, it's hard to beat Stripe (https://stripe.com/). They allow you to process payments without forcing users to sign up for a third-party service, and they handle compliance and the heavy lifting of recurring billing. Perhaps most importantly for your use case, they allow you to combine small charges on a monthly invoice, which reduces your processing fees (because fees on small transactions are otherwise insane). They also support euro-denominate transactions. Integration is well-documented and easy if you're comfortable with RESTful APIs.

If you prefer to bill users for each transaction instead of invoicing, Amazon Payments might be a better solution. I've never used them, but they offer a fee structure that makes small transactions less painful (https://payments.amazon.com/sdui/sdui/business?sn=devpricing...).

Good luck!
Slow-loading Sites Cost Retailers £1.7b Globally
I'm sorry, but there's no 'unsexy data crunching' here - just a series of ratios compared against one another. There is a whole body of statistical literature about how to do anything of this kind, and they haven't done any of it. I'd quite happily believe that none of these differences have any kind of significance in the statistical sense (i.e., it's due to background variation). But then again, I wasn't given any information to know whether they've even looked. So I can't say...
Well-observed, as always
sigh Bummer.

If you feel like you have the time, please try to explain roughly the same message that I tried to express, but with a posting style that is not obnoxious.
I've wondered why this hasn't received more attention. Probably because it hasn't "happened yet", WRT the (negative) experience of end users. Can't be too much longer, now, though.