skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found searching minus the top 10k websites to be most effective for finding new stuff. It seems that after that point, a lot of the 'crap SEO' stuff is gone. One problem, the sort of baby with the bath water issue, is that the quality of content also goes down. The search engines still do a great job for the most part in surfacing relevant content, mostly because the barrier to entry to 'gaming' them is high enough ( that most people dont' really notice spam ). I don't know if seaching this way will be an effective strategy for me going forward, or even if for the most popular categories the spammers start a new SEO campaign, ( let's optimize these queries for after the top X domains. ), but it was definitely an interesting thought/search experiment. And only in an hour? impressive.
4K demos in DOS didn't look anything like these modern ones, they were much simpler. They were still very impressive for the time, but the grandparent-post's point is valid.

If you wrote a 4K DOS demo today against modern hardware you wouldn't be able to reach anywhere near the look of these other demos which sit ontop of OpenGL/D3D/Win32 etc, because you'd need to build the equivalent of those API's functionalities into your demo.
No, it's closer to a garbage collected Algol but with way more features.
Math: Deriving the Y-combinator
Tech Lets An Army Of Informal Recyclers Collect Waste
I used to be a Code Ninja but had to pivot because the Valley considered my skill set harmful. So I became a Ruby Brogrammer but that market went lean before I did so I moved on to become a NoSQL Rockstar for a startup that was going to change the world by disrupting the c2c tulip market. Now I'm looking for mind hacks to become a Growth Hacker so I can create my own Excel/SharePoint MVP to innovate enterprise convergence to drive bleeding-edge e-markets.
Judging from the statement he released, he's certainly aiming for a non-tax reason.

If he did it for tax reasons, it would make a lot more sense for him to do it pre-IPO announcement, or really as early as possible, as the amount of exit tax he's liable for is based on an estimate of the value of his assets. As the article mentions, it's easier to argue that number down when it's a private company.
Mercedes prices actually did go down relative to standard car prices. Pointing at Mercedes alone doesn't really show much.
Dropbox/Google Drive — Data portability for the web
I want to describe this as the "Codecademy for Design" but Codecademy lets you complete lessons before pushing you to sign up. I would've never signed up otherwise -- because I already know how to code but the interface/approach appealed to me. I know it would require a slight infrastructure change on your part to implement this but might pull in more users in the end.
Has MSFT given any justification on why they are banning Firefox from Windows 8?

And why iOS doesn't allow FF too?
Essentially, yes. A person who renounces U.S. citizenship is generally not able to take advantage of the special visa programs (like the EB5 investor program) to regain residency. Furthermore, their applications for visas, etc., are also (informally) put in the lowest-priority bracket unless they pony up to be placed in the priority queue.

Moreover, any attempt to renounce their renunciation of citizenship results in a hefty tax bill for the period they were not a citizen, as the initial renunciation will be treated (by the IRS) as an attempt to evade taxation.
Indeed, merely returning to the U.S. for a period of more than 183 days (one of the tests for residence for taxation purposes) could trigger this result.
EDIT: Also note, as discussed below, he would be deemed "inadmissible" for re-entry if he was deemed to have a tax avoidance motive for renouncing his citizenship. The consequence would be a permanent ban from the U.S. (and the hefty tax bill would remain intact).
I would also think Americans tend to have higher limits if they are in debt.
seriously. US tax system....lol.
Microsoft had an illegal monopoly on x86 powered desktop computers. There's a reason why only the ARM version of the exact same OS is locked down.
Maybe I'm just an excessive planner, but I like satellite maps and google's street view for things such as: locating parking lot entrances, locating exactly where a business I'm visiting is, scoping out street parking, getting an idea of the neighborhood's look, and, of course, seeing if my car is pictured anywhere.
What is this I don't even..

It sounds like you're considering a life of crime. Probably thinking about how you could be like that botnet guy on Reddit. Getting money without working is a nice thought, after all.

You know, the "ethical reactions" stem from that guy doing evil things. He knows he's being evil but doesn't care. Some people find that appalling.

For him, it's just an easy way to make money, and the fact that he produces no value to society at large is irrelevant. He even gets to work on challenging problems!

In fact, what he's doing is quite similar to working for the financial industry, doing HFT or whatever. It's clearly wrong, and clearly harmful to mankind, but it's easy money, so ethics are thrown out the window.

It is generally easier to make money by scamming/abusing people than by doing something valuable. That doesn't mean you should.
It's fascinating to know all this stuff from his perspective but the moral attacks by others in the comments truly suck. What is the point of AMA if all they do is attack the one sharing information.
Linus Torvalds won't do github pull requests
Yes, but who are you going to complain to? The very same cops that just broke the law?

Or maybe he should go through the legal system? He'll spend more money fighting it than anything he lost is worth. And it'll make his life a lot harder.

I'd love to see him fight it, but I certainly don't look down on him for not.
Getting 500 error.
Except the government doesn't guarantee that they'll pay it off; they're just forcing it onto the student.

To put it differently, if the government announced that failed startups could not discharge their debt through bankruptcy and that the founders would be held responsible for paying off the debts, would you call this government subsidization of small business?
I'm not familiar with this service. What is the advantage to the consumer in exchange for losing their fraud liability protection?
Not to be an ass, but the first thing I questioned when I came to the site was "If this is the best design they could come up with, what does that mean for the education?"

Sign up and design failure aside, I question what this site will do. Design a logo in 30 minutes? Design a one-page flyer with a minimum of 5 typefaces? Those aren't exercises, those are bad practices.

There's an overabundance of people who call themselves designers and not enough people who truly understand it and care about it at a depth that creates good products, not broken experiences. There's already an influx of graduates with degrees that show nothing except that they put the time in. There's an abundance of sites (ahem Awwwards, Smashing Magazine, Dribbble) that do their part to promote bad design as good design. And not to speak ill of any good designers who work for Google, but as a company they're not exactly known for it - quite the opposite. I would prefer qualified guest designers or actual professors as opposed to 'vetted' corporate employees to judge my work.

I don't think people need Design 101 anymore. I think we need a place for seasoned designers and people who are making the switch from print to web or design to front-end coding to fully understand what they're getting into.
This article doesn't make sense. He's not "dodging" taxes, since he's also giving up any claim to benefits of those taxes (social security, roads, constitutional rights, etc.) And I'm sure Singapore has higher tax rates than the US, generally speaking?
I bet there are types of searches for which excluding popular sites works well -- for example, trying to find less popular stuff, which is something that popular websites don't do that good of a job of covering. "Indie" topics, if you will. Would you try to discuss an indie movie on a website chock full of discussions about the latest blockbuster? Then when you search, don't you want to look at less popular movie websites to find the good discussion about your indie movie?
Shown HN: my weekend project GuysHelpMeDecide.com
How many failed CVV2 checks before your account is locked? Something tells me less than 500.
Let's see, he's 30 so maybe he has 50 years to live. If he got $3.84 billion and got a conservative 5% interest on that my back of the envelope calculation says he could spend $115 million a year for the rest of his life. Now spending $115 mill per year doesn't count buying assets like mansions or fancy art, those are investments. It would be $115 million on apparel or personal employees or the depreciation of cars, yachts and private jets. It would actually be hard to do and take a lot of work to spend it all every year.

If he paid the american taxes, which are 15% for cap gains but let's say he loses a third so he's left with $2.56 billion. He would be able to spend $77 million per year.

A $38 million per year difference seems like a lot of money, but is their any difference between a $115 million a year lifestyle and a $77 million a year lifestyle? In both cases you have more money than you can spend year in and year out. You're really getting diminishing lifestyle returns the more money you make. Maybe at the $115 mill level you'd feel more comfortable buying another private jet or having an extra 100 personal employees to take care of your stuff, but it really wouldn't be that much of a difference. I bet if he had a talk with some older billionaires they would tell him that it's not worth the hassle.
Submitted a few days ago with a small amount of discussion and context:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3865881

The story has been discussed many times:

http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=title%3Apio...
I might have a bleak vision of this place but unfortunately I think this article is not going to ring a bell in here. Well it might be upvoted but sparsely read.

A good portion of HN users don't care at all about privacy, or at least not when they could be the ones protecting it. I read this board every day and every time I am floored by the fascination for cloud services, the (relative) savings from it and monitoring software. As long as they are glossy and beautiful, that's it, sold.

Anyway I was shocked by the last one with Brita and that's great that EFF is publicly calling these companies and their actions.

Thanks for reminding us that we must remain vigilant.
I think that one of the guidelines when developing iOS apps is that if you are building a browser you must use WebKit/UIWebView.
> Someone who really wanted to could get a CVV2 value in only 500 auth attempts on average.

That's going to trip a fraud check at the bank and get the card frozen long before 500 attempts.
I think the OP needs to pay attention a bit on the UX of his site first, getting 500 error is not a good sign.
There is http://experts4solutions.com/e4s/default/index for web2py/python developers.
I am well aware I am the queen of "...and crickets chirped." when it comes to submissions. That actually generalizes to other forums, so it is not a left-handed slap at HN. Anyway, I am posting this because I have a serious question: Is there such a thing as an "N-combinator"? I mean mathematically speaking.

When I google either term, what comes to the top are company names. But it is possible to find the math stuff for Y-combinator but no such thing comes up for N-combinator. This kind of came up in conversation on HN yesterday and I had too much time on my hands this morning and began wondering about it.

Thanks.
I would love this. Sign me up.
He is not eligible for that program (the EB5 visa), as a result of renouncing his citizenship.
If you tested that in court you would almost certainly find that the receptionist has not been granted the authority to enter the office into legally-binding contracts.
It is more of a defensive move than an offensive one it sounds like.
Looks like someone snuck a hack. Thanks for finding this folks... I am pulling out my hair aka working on this now!
This is a bit silly. So the point of this article is that Mozilla "should be criticizing Apple?" Why waste a whole article saying someone else should criticize Apple? It seems more worthwhile to do it oneself.

The trouble with trying to dismiss an argument with accusations of hypocrisy is that hypocrites can be right. If I make an argument that stealing is wrong and then turn around and steal something, that doesn't mean that stealing is morally permissible. Likewise, the fact that Mozilla neglects to criticize Apple doesn't mean their criticism of Microsoft is incorrect.
View full curriculum isn't working either.
I would expect a site like this to provide a good user experience, e.g. confirmation that my email address was accepted. Signed up all the same because it sounds like a great idea and just what I'm looking for.
The point is that even if someone steals your order database with credit card numbers and expiration dates, they need to try every number 1000 times. That's a decent speedbump.

If you store CVV2 in your database against your merchant agreement, and someone steals it, I'm sure the credit card comp will come after you for the losses.
These guys are very smart... their hack doesn't even leave a presence in the source or cache. It's happening via JS I believe.
Mozilla fires startling broadside at Apple
Ok I'll name my working conditions: A work environment with peace and quiet to be able to concentrate. Have enough time to be able to deliver though-out quality work. Having reasonably specified tasks, and if not, have the decision power to fill in the blanks as I see fit. Not being constantly interrupted.

Not being under constant stress and pressure to the point where I feel that my health might be suffering.

From my experience these (common sense?) demands on working conditions would rule out pretty much most programming jobs.
Bitcoinica hacked. ~$100k USD stolen.
Bitcoinia's officially statement: http://bitcoinica.blogspot.com
And so it begins... I believe you mean Windows RT [1] and not WinRT [2]. Both x86 and ARM processors can use WinRT (metro interface) however Windows RT is the flavour of windows that only runs on ARM processors and only supports third party apps using WinRT [3].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_RT
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Runtime
[3] http://www.i-programmer.info/news/177-windows-8/4079-three-w...
The toaster lets you open it, the toaster lets you modify it, it has standard screws and doesn't explicitly lock you out. It gives you no help in modifying it, but you are permitted to do so, and there are no mechanisms in place to stop you from doing it. If someone were to make a tool that lets you modify the toaster, that would not be illegal, and I highly doubt the toaster company would take issue with it.
Browsers are totally allowed -- there are alternative browsers in the iOS App Store right now (I use Atomic).

What is not allowed is to download code and execute it, which makes it impossible to write your own JavaScript interpreter, and forces you to use UIWebView to render HTML. You can't even just use webkit on your own -- you have to use the one on the device (by using UIWebView).

FireFox would also not be able to have plugins for similar reasons.

Atomic is better than Safari because it allows User-agent switching, view source and some other nice features, all of which doesn't require them to interpret JavaScript with their own code.
That's odd, 2.8 was clearly available when I viewed that page. Maybe you just had an old version cached?

They only seem to offer links to 2.8 for Snow Leopard and Lion, so that could also be an issue.
The problem is that third party applications can cause security and performance issues and it's Microsoft who ultimately takes the blame for it. They exempt their own browser because it's their own browser.
Nothing. This 'feature' is entirely designed to reduce the banks' liability. It shifts the onus of security onto you (from the banks and the merchants).
I do remember MS of the mid 90s and it's aura of invincibility, but in retrospect it sure looks like that aura was illusory (or highly temporary, which is really the same thing). Even apart from the antitrust suits it seems clear in hindsight, partly due to the examples that you mention, that the market was widening beyond MS's reach.
> linux won't help

? He says Linux does help.
Good point, it would in fact make a difference.

I read the article, they do say "colocation"; besides which, XO Communications does not rent servers as far as I know. So that seems to point that they were renting the physical space that their servers are in.

Would it make a difference if they were just renting a partial rack, or a full rack that goes all the way down to the floor and is enclosed? I don't know ...
Yes, the government massively subsidizes student loans, both directly, and through guaranties. See http://www.direct.ed.gov/
"... I've thrown a lot of ad-hoc tests at it, and I'm getting remarkably close performance to standard Clojure code"

That's amazing!

"Someone suggested to me that if you have low-level enough access to your implementation, you can reuse the thunk after each invocation ..."

Yep, I thought of that when I was looking at the generated js code. I'm think of out of luck as well. However, as I mentioned at the end of my article, I think you should be able to hoist all the functions into top-level forms and pass around an environment. This way, functions are statically allocated once, and the performance hit of passing around environments can't be nearly as great as function allocation.
MP3tunes Files For Bankruptcy Protection
link: http://guyshelpmedecide.com

The idea is pretty simple: A tool that helps you get feedback from your friends on shopping decisions.

Don't know what book to read? With this tool you can set up a poll with some choices and your facebook friends will be able to comment and vote the best option.

This is my attempt to make something cool, simple and viral.

For those interested:
-Uses Twitter Bootstrap as CSS Framework.
-PHP for server side technology (with codeigniter MVC framework).
-jQuery used heavily on frontend.
-Amazon API.
-Facebook Open Graph API.

I didn't build that for the money, but all the amazon links are affiliate links, so I'll get a 4% :D (Let's see if this covers the hosting at least).

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated
> Except, I'm not a lawyer... so if there is something, then I probably wouldn't catch it either. At some point, you have to trust professionals to do their job.

Right, which is why I suggested asking a lawyer if anything in the contract was unclear.

IMO, it seems like having the lawyer read it without reading it yourself is just deferring the decision to the lawyer. How can you convey to the lawyer what you're okay agreeing too, and what you would take issue with? What are you getting out of it above and beyond the "Everybody signs it, so it can't be too bad," approach?

What if, after signing the contract, you find out there's a clause you disagree with, but the lawyer tells you, "Oh, I didn't think you'd mind because that clause is in all of the contracts like this and everybody else is always okay with it."

Maybe it really just depends on how well a person knows and trusts their lawyer?
And the reason is because they don't allow you to run code that you download (which you would have to do to support JavaScript).
I would rather not have to have a large group of people with me everywhere I go. To me, that is worth $500m of $4B.

He obviously has different priorities.
I wish any browser on my iPhone would support text reflow. Webkit on Android does it. Opera does it. But you can't fix that without putting in a new rendering engine.
Surely even then the rental contract would specify the equipment they rent, not the space - the data centre could move their rack to a different physical location at any time.
Wow!

I've seen many similar things in alpha testing, but this is the first one that really works.
>Maybe I'm just a cheapskate...

Nah, just that your time is worthless.
It seems to me you might want a free plan suited to app development but not production use (e.g. something that doesn't keep data long-term) to encourage more people to develop for your platform.
re: Point 1, "If you are a resident alien, you must follow the same tax laws as U.S. citizens. You are taxed on income from all sources, both within and outside the United States"

From http://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc851.html
For those experiencing issues, I can attest that it was working perfectly a short time ago.

I've gotten a confirmation email, and the "View the full curriculum" link resulted in an overlay.

Edit: Just a note here. The "View the full curriculum" link doesn't work because designlab.js contains HTML instead of the script.

Link: http://s3.amazonaws.com/designlab_static/js/designlab.js
That sounds like a browser issue, I see visited as purple and unvisited as blue.
When a website asks me to use one of these, and I don't want to, how do I decline but still make the purchase? It always seems like my options are take-it-and-like-it or don't complete the transaction. Is there a third option?
SpaceX and Bigelow Aerospace Join Forces To Promote Space Travel
Exceptions do not invalidate the norm.
There are a few addons that are available. I've used Roksbox successfully for a year or so.
Actually really interested in this and will be contacting Tagstand on Monday to talk about doing this sort of thing at a few upcoming events... Had checked out their site before and been tempted to order something just to play around with on a personal level but not got round to it, didn't previously think of this particular use, though.
People Just Aren't That Into The Internet
Yeah the part where the bear destroys the hard work is so miss leading. I thought you where trying to say that salesmen are the developers worst enemy.
The problem is that cars and housing are to a large degree unsubstitutable goods. When lobster became a delicacy instead of prison food, wardens weren't wondering how they could afford the newly expensive goods, they were substituting them for cheaper replacements.
Intrigued by Markup.io. I think I'll probably add this to my arsenal. http://markup.io/v/0fk6myfx7wk5
As a student of history I'm sure you are aware that Mozilla (the name and the code base) predated Internet Explorer.

Indeed, the name Mozilla comes from "Mosaic killer."
Why You Shouldn't trust those lottery ticket scanner machines
From the wikipedia article:

Windows RT (RT stands for Runtime)

...

Not to be confused with Windows Runtime

Great choice of names, there.
Decent post on his workflow. Asana looks nice enough but I would always prefer to use open source or pay for a product rather than using a product that is just free. Just doesn't make sense unless they are selling your info to advertisers.

Does anyone know how/why Asana is free?
Right, because the Navy Seals would spring into action to rescue him if he ever got into trouble, any time, any place.

I bet this homeless guy was super-glad to be a US citizen too: http://reason.com/blog/2012/05/08/the-da-just-released-surve...

> Do you think Singapore can protect him?

They could, if they wanted to. Just like the US could if it wanted to.

But he's probably better off just buying protection by himself, or not flaunting his riches.
We're exempt on tax on "Earned Income" up until a certain level (and yes, there is a highly technical definition for the type of income that qualifies for this). As one of the other commenters mentioned, we still have to pay full on Social Security, Medicare, Self-Employment taxes
but he says, only because it is not much common, and different distros are too diverse to justify an "investment"
Whoa wait, we are really supposed to replace X with something that only works on Linux? Way to give BSD guys the middle finger.