skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As said, I believe the major reason for there not being real competition is that enough people are fine with the current condition. We cannot assume that every niche can be served.

I'm not doubting people download to "vent", but isn't that independent of the moralic discussion of whether someone should be entitled to download?
Besol named ‘Cool Vendor’ in Cloud Services Brokerage
This practice is part of the problem. It is bidding up the cost of apartments for locals who need a place to live.
I had that happen to me, subletting an apartment for two months outside of AirBnB. (We were taking over an apartment of friends of friends while they were in France.) So, a few days after the house was broken into and our laptops were stolen, the landlord (from Germany) found out we were there and we had an hour to get out. Since then, I've been very wary about subletting unless everything is above board.
Holy ripoff Batman. Check out their fees ! Sorry but they seem to charge for just about everything you can do. I'm not expecting free banking service but 25 GBP/month just to have an account there ?? 2.75% for using the debit card ?! WOW !!
I think it was a useful, informative article. Why do you say she runs a shady company? Electrolysis, as far as I know, is a legitimate hair removal technique.
I understand Yelp filtering out what they may see as astroturfing reviews, but on the other hand I can certainly understand a business owner getting customers to submit positive reviews to counter negative effects of Yelp. Finally, is paying $350 a month to Yelp now considered a normal cost of running a bricks and mortar business these days? Unbelievable.
Does Google still give their 30% to the carrier? If so then Google's revenues from Android doesn't have anything to do with app sales.

You could say that Apple makes infinity times more money from their app store if you were just talking about sales of apps.
What is the interesting point? That users should place a foolhardy, ridiculous level of trust in developers and processes that they don't know and have no insight into?
Oracle to Patch 14 Security Flaws in Java SE
Considering that it's the subway, I'm guessing that it's probably the diploma mills. The last time I took the subway, which, granted, was three years ago, the place was plastered with ads for diploma mills.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art on Thingiverse
They are having to start drinking WATER in Finland?
Has the booze finally run out?
Git browse: an interactive git blame tool
I'm getting a 404 on apc.io.
Nevertheless, Zed is helping lots of people out there who is eager to learn coding like me, I could imagine back in the days if you want to learn coding there are tons of resources out there, probably too many, that you don't know which one is good and it cost you money. Now, people like me can always go to his book finish the course and look for what is missing without spending a buck.
I can say as someone who moved to New York two weeks ago and hoped that AirBnB would allow me to find a good temp place that i feel pretty critical towards the experience.

The prices are insane. I paid 3300USD for a shitty studio in China Town for a month.

I am ok with paying a lot of money for a place and I know NY well enough to know it's expensive.

But people who get only profit from subletting and pumping up the prices by a factor 2x-3x should not be allowed onto the platform.

Of course Airbnb don't really care because they get a percentage of the transaction.

So great idea but pretty shitty service at least in NY.
Perhaps you should have been more careful with your wording. It demonstrated a lack of understanding of real world configurations and requirements and implied that if you're doing it that way, you're doing it wrong. I'd guess that most websites live in shared hosting systems.

EDIT: You could have just replied to my original comment agreeing with me that shared hosting systems work that way, and that it's ok for certain types of site. It would have made more sense than your comment "Don't use shared web hosting."
I agree with the article's premise, but the user does need to be educated about the risks at the same time. We can enforce some degree of password strength, but we can't keep the user from reusing the same password. If we could guarantee that their password would never be exposed, that would be fine but I'm never going to make that guarantee.

I can be diligent and yet one mistake can still expose the user's (hopefully salted and hashed) password. If there is a financial impetus for someone to find my mistake, they will spend the time looking.

As a side note, I'd love to hear how the hackers came to be in possession of 6.5MM LinkedIn passwords ... what mistake was made that allowed them to collect unsalted hashes in the first place?
I may have missed this but what countries were recovering from fascism in southern europe when the euro got introduced?

AFAIR the last fascist there (colonels' regime in greece) ended in the '70s, while the closes thing I can think of as the euro (ECU) just had dracma added to their average a decade later.
Awesome. You may already know, but a huge proportion of the large finance firms are still stuck with 2003 and from speaking to a few people, they don't seem super ready to change. Given you are planning on selling it, these guys would probably be decent customers.
Windows Phone is not something that stands on its own, Microsoft is building a powerful ecosystem comprising a desktop OS (win8), tablet os (win8), smartphone os (wp8/apollo), gaming platform (xbox), and tying it all together with a cloud infrastructure (skydrive, hotmail, bing, bing maps, etc.). Of course, the desktop/tablet OS and smartphone OS are going to be merged in the long run and it's possible (probable?) that eventually phones will even be able to run the full metro desktop when inserted into a dock, to act as a cheap computer replacement.

Of course, Apple has had this for years, but I think that WP holds some pretty good cards for the long run ...
RMS is what he is because, what he is.

You can't change such people, you won't be able to. And they won't change, And they must not change. If people like him, don't live like he does- Its impossible to take on entities like Microsoft and Apple single handedly.

Although you can argue that ideas from Free software were there ahead and during RMS's times. You can never debate that he gave it a sense of cause, activism with passion and enthusiasm never seen before. This man, made Free Software a purpose in his life. He never gives up, never compromises, his passion and intensity never wanes. He just seems to find infinite energy to go on and on.

Don't get me wrong. We are not just dealing Steve Jobs grade material here. He is more than Steve Jobs. This guy wrote some of the most widely used programs on earth today. And of supreme quality. He designed them, wrote them and marketed them. He is also the author of the most widely used license in software history. He is a prolific organizer, and executor.

He also holds strong views on political issues. Although he is often aggressive. I have never heard him do cheap talk or bad mouth some one, criticize, hate and bash them pointlessly without facts, or because of their ethnic origin, faith, belief or way of life.

But I see ESR as a epitome of hyperbole, bad mouthing, hating people because of their belief, faith and their way of life. Advocating violence. Yet his contributions towards are hardly few. I don't know of the last time he made a big contribution. And I don't even know if he has ever contributed something signification. All I know is has a high Blog noise to work ratio. Has written books based on some one else's work. And now feels qualified in the world to take on anybody and comment on them. People like ESR generally don't get taken seriously.
But their payout is based per stream, not per track, isn't it? At amounts that still exceed that of radio?

"For a 99c sale of a track on iTunes an indie artist gets 70c. At the time you need 140 Spotify streams to make the same 70c." (Source: http://www.spotidj.com/spotifyroyalties.htm)

These figures are hardly comparable with piracy, and for an artist with a reasonable audience, should more than exceed the $.918 average royalty for a song per unit sold that record companies provided in the era of CD sales.
I think they are still going strong. (I'm friends with one of the co-founders.)
This is not law though.
Oligopoly: HDD Prices Not Expected to Return to Pre-Flood Levels Until 2014
They just announced the preorder, might be worth waiting for suppliers to sell them on their behalf in the rest of the world.
On average, there isn't a lot of money in startups.

However, there is a lot of consistent money in selling advice, coverage and hype of startups.
All of this is true, it is unethical and illegal. But it is also true, that in cities like San Francisco and NYC (especially SF-Co) rents are absurdly high, and landlords care nothing other than making the most of it. My previous two landlords forced me to pay only cash for rent, and I know many other landlords do the same, and cheat on taxes.

In one place I went, they wanted 450$ for "application fee and credit check", and it was not even a luxury apartment, wasn't in Manhattan or any high rent place.

I am not defending any party here - just pointing out, noone in this mess is totally ethical.
I believe it's still true even if you add in regional debts. From what I can find, before the current crisis, outstanding central government debt hovered around 30-35% of GDP, while regional debt added up to around 10% of GDP, for a total of 40-45% of GDP, one of the lower debt totals among large economies in Europe. Lately it's been ballooning due to a mixture of: 1) interest-rate rises producing a self-fulfilling prophecy; 2) recession reducing tax revenue and increasing safety-net expenses; and 3) recession causing the GDP denominator to get smaller.

The main difference I can see is just that the German economy is much stronger than the Spanish economy, not any difference in fiscal discipline. Germany can afford to carry bigger deficits and bigger debts because it has a comparatively strong economy; same reason the U.S. can maintain much higher deficits than Spain without borrowing costs increasing.
What's The ROI On Federal IT Spending?
When it asks for permision there is a spot for who can see the posts. I always choose "Only Me" and I deselect the post to timeline request as much as possible.
And I was under the impression that the US has much more economic power than German. Or China with its billion+ people market.

The Euro is the attempt to balance this power with an European currency. The market of the Eurozone is the sum of the countries and Germany is a part of that. Germany alone is relatively small (a market of just 80+ million people - compare that to the US, China, ...).
Just storing it locally isn't the only thing you have to do to enable offline access.

You have to programmatically remove/disable/enable all buttons that edit state (or you have to locally cache actions). You also have to make sure pages linked to from that page, that might not have locally stored data, also don't need locally stored data to function.

Then on top of all this, you have to test all of the app with online access coming back at all possible screens for all possible edit boxes, etc. Then you have to do it for offline access going away for every single edit box, etc.

No matter what he says he knows about the data model, I'm doubting he cracked open the app archive on his phone and went looking for a SQL database. I'm not sure he is really qualified to make statements about what is and isn't local.

But he (and you) are incorrect if you think no work goes into moving from their old technique to their new technique.

I'm just saying, all the above is a LOT of work compared to other features an app may not have, and those features may be more important to MOST people, not just people who go into spotty connection areas a lot (which not everyone does, for instance, not everyone works in a building with elevators and parking garages, and have near constant 3g coverage).
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I keep hearing about these mysterious hackers. My gut feeling is that with these really big ones that we hear about, its more likely to be some kind of insider threat that they will do everything they can to hide. Blaming "them" with no details at all, seems really sketchy to me.
And that makes all the difference.

I mean, you can kinda do it in java (drop frames, add conditional expressions, etc.) but in VB... It just works.

Credit where credit is due.
@lispm: "the raw materials would get cheaper" doesn't mean anything for export. Raw materials for export get in, and they get out inside the finished goods - at the same exchange rate. The exchange rate is neutral for raw materials that get reexported.

Instead, relative labor cost would change. That labor is high quality? Yes, it is. But importers wouldn't buy it "at any cost". Higher price, same value -> less demand.

As for the DM getting stronger all the time: It did so in time, while German relative productivity was rising. On the contrary, this would create an incredible shock. I wish you not to see your dream come true. You could find out it's a nightmare.
I gave up on these "startup advice" posts a while back if it was their 1st startup. If I could be bothered to read them I'd just read them as anecdotal evidence to their success/failure.
Probably more a supply chain isssue.

Every component on this thing is bargain basement, so you use whatever driver the maker of the SoC core supplied. They are also bargain basement so have used whatever driver the GPU maker supplied.

So you are really using components that were 'new' a couple of years ago. The makers of this would have to put considerable time/money into making 4.0 drivers for components that are supplied through a chain of subcontractors none of who have the technical ability to help.

It is one of the big ironies of opensource Android that in a way it's a lot less open than a regular PC.
In my opinion, they have started working on that before the release of ICS..

I am curious about the user experience of this product. I am excited to see such a cheap PC, I have never been impressed by the usage of mouse/keyboard as inputs for Android. Android-x86 was a pain to use, and not only because it was buggy.
Uh... perhaps I misread this story, but nowhere do I see Microsoft "mulling" a Nokia buyout. Nice headline, but seems very misleading.
Google: ustream.tv contains malware
In Chrome, trying to visit ustream.tv gives a malware warning, saying "ustream.tv contains malware"
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EastWest Institute Proposes Public Health Model For Internet Cybersecurity
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http://apc.io/wp-content/blogs.dir/7/files/apc-screenshots/s...

Come on guys, get serious.
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Right, RMS at least used to write code. ESR has always been a creepy hacker fanboy, latching on to and idolizing hacker culture, but has never been part of it, and never produced any code.
Again, you're completely ignoring shared hosting systems. You have a very strange understanding of what "real-world applications" means when it comes to MySQL.
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The point about insiders is often overlooked but just as plausible as an outright hack. A rogue sys-admin or coder who is trusted and has access to file-systems and DBs can leak or sell data and might even get away with it without ever being caught.
What about the legitimate tenants in the building?
It might be one of those under $49 for headline and customs (tax+duty)but we make the money on the $50 shipping.

But since you can buy 7" resistive tablets for <$70 inc shipping from all the online chinese stores this shouldn't be too difficult to bring in a screen and battery-less device at this price.
We taught them a lesson in 1918,
And they've hardly bothered us since then

- Tom Lehrer
Not coincidentally, those are also areas where there's basically no longer any profit to be made. No one makes money selling web servers or compilers for Unix, because it's not possible to compete on price with "free".

The businesses that make money from open source typically do so by selling something else on top. Google doesn't sell open source. They sell services. Red Hat doesn't sell open source. They sell support to large businesses. ISPs sell bandwidth. Etc.
This feeling is even worse/stronger if you are, like I am, on the receiving end of streams of ideas like this. (For context: I run Cydia, the alternative to apps for jailbroken iPhones, where you find tons of "Substrate extensions", which are self-contained functionality modifications for other software applications, including the default Apple UI.)

There are a ton of designers out there that seem to believe that developers are not idea people, and that we need concept art and mockups (either videos or Photoshop) in order to build new things. I often describe the concept with the metaphor of an arrogant painter that believes that sculptors are somehow bereft of imagination and would somehow appreciate being told "here: you should sculpt this painting", and then being given beautiful paintings that would make impractical or impossible sculptures--or even simply ones that look great in 2D from a fixed angle but would be awkward from other angles in 3D.

In fact, we often have come up with the same ideas, but either a) can actually build such things,
--and thereby feel "talk is cheap" or "anyone can build a mockup"--but have not been able to get around to it yet as it is hard or low priority, or b) have actually built it, maybe five times now, but it didn't actually live up to the promise of the idea somehow.

Put differently: I end up being bothered by people Ho believe that "concept artist" describes, rather than "a conceptual artist" (a kind of modern art that some may or may not appreciate ;P) and instead a stage in the pipeline of construction (the guy who makes the concepts, as opposed to the mere implementer) that is critical and missing otherwise. To be clear, not the reuse of the term, as one normally does see "concept designer", but the very idea that that second position should, or even can, exist.

We are /all/ artists using different mediums, and to convey our ideas to others we use many different kinds of prototyping tools, from "Photoshop mockups" to "slideware". When you label yourself "concept artist" only, I feel like you are just saying "artist, but without the interest in actually creating or the skill in the underlying medium to do so". These two bereftments then combine to cause the lack of "attention to how it would actually work in the whole user experience" that you describe.
I don't know what it takes to build a lot of things, but I trust that the engineers will do a good job. I see no difference with software.

I've always found it odd that SWEs can harbor this type of opinion. That is, "it's the user's fault for trusting me/us." when every other engineering discipline would consider such a stance insane. All other disciplines would place responsibility directly on the engineering team. Whether a plane falls out of sky, a car explodes when rear ended, a bridge collapses, a chemical causes cancer, or an oven electrocutes the user, in all cases we'd point the finger at the engineers (or company that performed said engineering) and demand an explanation. I see no difference here.

Full disclosure: This is coming from someone who was originally studying to be a ChemE before switching to comp-sci.
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Sometimes analogies, like ships, break down quicker than you'd like.
I am my sister in-law both do this. It's a great way to purchase a vacation home and off-set the cost. Just make sure you financially plan for the worst and hope for the best :)
I do know (personal experience) that some applications refuse to work properly if you don't grant them every bit of access they request. Even if that access is not fundamental to the operation of the application.

The example I speak of is Digsby. I saw some of my friends had postings from Digsby on their wall, with "achievements" like sending 100,000 messages etc. I didn't want that, so when I installed Digsby I unchecked that option. Consequence: Digsby would randomly boot me out of Facebook Chat and not allow me to log back in. I had to remove it from my Facebook apps list, re-login, and turn off wall postings within the Digsby app itself rather than Facebook's permission management.

That's the kind of thing that irritates me.
Keeping Germany in check was the main reason for its predecessors (Montanunion, EWG). They called it "ensuring peace", but from a French POV that meant the same, and the Montanunion was proposed by them.

It was more successful in driving business than thought, so the scope was extended over time. No need to stick to a single goal only.
Coda.fm does just that for music, and has been online for years.
Our university used Java and it was exactly as you say. I think Java dumbs down students even more because it is a single-paradigm language.
When I hear "Scientist" I tend to think "PhD level work." Graduate level work in math, Comp Sci and statistics is not something that can be readily compressed into a 9 month program without substantial prerequisites.

Are today's "data scientists" really just software devs who have specialized in digging around in data and using various data mining algorithms with only a superficial understanding of their inner workings?
If Nokia has blockbuster sales with WP7, or other companies with Win8 tablets, expect those companies to be on board pretty quickly. So far, though, it's not happening. Also, those companies know that Microsofts strategy can (and will if needed) change overnight just like it did with PlaysForSure (replaced by the Microsoft-made Zune).
Innovation: Sharing the knowledge burden
I'm sure that this stunt has been tried in the software industry too.
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I have the same thought process as you, and I find it quite debilitating. It often manifests as a need to know everything about a problem space before even starting on a solution.

The upside is that on the whole I produce code that is logical, consistent, maintainable and relatively bug-free. But it takes a long time.
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I imagine there's all sorts of motivation for this too. A dishonest security admin or consultant for LinkedIn might have had no traction in convincing managers that they should pay him to upgrade the security system. I can see rogue programmers contriving leaks like this just to give themselves more work.
I remember than some people have got an old, buggy version of it from an old TF2 Beta.
Oh dear, much slower than I thought. I misinterpreted that, thanks.
Well there are places on Craigslist you probably could've found cheaper in Chinatown of all places. But studio apartments in general are expensive in a place like

Secondly, Airbnb does have plenty of shared places in Queens and Brooklyn that go for less than seventy bucks a day, and studios that would be closer to 2k.
Remember there is no such thing as 'Germany' in this case.

There are German taxpayers who don't want to pay more tax/see their foreign holidays cost more/pay more for their mortgage.

There are German banks who want back the money they lost in bad loans

There are German politicians who are split between keeping the banks happy and not getting hung up on lamposts by the voters.

-- just like every other country really.