skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Migrating from C# to java makes your app platform independent. C# is not platform indenpendent because it is never complete outside windows. The site is an ad without details, but I guess that the translation can not magically map WinForms to swing. Some manual work probably remains, but this kind of tools remains very usefull to reduce migration workload.
Google is under no obligation to voluntarily remove videos and music from Youtube. They do it themselves, because of whatever compromise they made with the labels. I actually think people should be a lot more outraged about this than they are right now. Google is going out of their way to be stricter than the DMCA demands.
Grooveshark has no legal obligation to tell their users what can and can't be uploaded. Their only obligation is to follow the DMCA procedures when they receive a takedown notice for content that is allegedly infringing.

The broader discussion here it that the cost of enforcing copyright protection should fall on the copyright owners. And it's obvious that they're not up to the task, which is another clear signal that their business models sit at odds with the current state of technology.
I like this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Philosophy-James-White/dp...

It has a collection of smaller readings so you don't get bored and/or get confused getting through a 500 page tome on your first go. The subjects covered are fairly interesting (epistemology, philosophy of mind, etc.), gathering material from a mix of time periods.

A problem with a book like that is that it doesn't have commentary built-in, so if you misread something and run with it, you might not realize it in the future, if ever. I used the above book in a class, which allowed me to bounce ideas off of other students and, of course, the professor. Consider getting a book more along the lines of a textbook when you're starting out so that you have readings along with commentary by a person knowledgeable in the subject.

Oh, and the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is useful: http://plato.stanford.edu/
Delaying the IPO to juice returns
That seems unlikely. WiFi should certainly drain your battery less than cellular. (I have yet to jump on the smartphone train but my iPad gets consistent 7 hours with 3G, 10 hours with WiFi.)
Deron Williams signs his $98 million NBA contract on an iPad
I'm sure it's fantastic to get a 'bonus' every 6 months, but these government mandated '13th/14th paycheck' schemes are really just employer-managed savings plans. Personally, I'd prefer to get my salary as I earn it and decide for myself how and when I spend or save it.
Agreed, the Stanford videos are AWESOME. The professor was actually one writers of Objective-C at NeXt. He explains how most of the major frameworks work and the design decisions behind them which gives you a strong intuition. Honestly, I can't recommend these enough.
Agree with mobthink and Austro-fascism. I would add lack of enthusiasm and closed-mindedness. Don't know what your problem with the city is, though. Even after having lived in Vienna for more than a year I'm still stunned how beautiful it is and how easy it is to meet interesting people.

If you're in a circle of cool people, Vienna is probably one of the nicer capitols to live in. And as a country-bumpkin I find it a lot less mentally taxing than let's say London or Berlin.
Incidentally, that was the perfect sales pitch for diigo :)

Edit: Encompassing idea: Viral sales based business plan: Build something in a field that a lot of people talk and argue about, so people suggest your product during heated debates. Has this been done?
Countries like the US, France and UK get by just fine without this requirement. The arbitrariness of the number is an indication that it's a bad idea: the number is too low to guarantee compensation in many situations, and adds another obstacle for would-be entrepreneurs, especially those who do not come from a well-to-do background.

Far better might be some transparency requirements.
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"the person consuming the content they enjoy never sees it as something that's self-indulgent."

"In my opinion the reasons you're seeing people shell out money to all kinds of startup-assistance services and sites is NOT because they are receiving some terrific value from them"

I think you have to also look at the entertainment factor. People are spending money because they enjoy reading this the same way they might watch a sports game or go to a movie. I guess the only issue is that (like education, religion or health) they feel the time (wasted?) is more justified because the intentions are somehow of a higher level than what is traditionally considered entertainment.
As there is always bashing over the "fixed" headline issue, let me take here a bit of an contrarian position. In the past my titles have been changed numerous times but I slowly came around and even found it somewhat a good idea.

# I think the problem is less with Hacker News but more with the authors of the original articles who are unable to write a decent topic for a posting. If an author is unable to communicate his message in the headline, it might be better to use another source.

# The fixing effect is in my opinion positive. The click baiting title rises up in the top news, but get reversed to some boring, non descriptive headline. It hopefully gets people curious why this news is in the top X and click on it. This has the effect that they are conditioned to read not always the most "screaming" headlines but also stories with weaker headlines.

# As an overall effect, the top news stories don't look like a shouting match where the scariest story wins. Instead it features also stories that have boring headlines and more a content over headline oriented approach.

Of cause this whole argument is somewhat arbitrary in your case, where a real life is at stake.
The salaryman can quit. A slave couldn't. We often focus on the fact that slaves were unpaid, but that is really the smallest injustice they faced.

Materially, in the US slaves often had higher material 'quality of life' than northern (free) factory workers. They had a better diet, lower pollution, better housing, and more time off. The plantation owners effectively viewed them as an investment. Really, if you want to talk about underpaid and overworked, a more apt comparison would be factory and mine workers in the 18th century.

The horror of slavery was that you had no choice in life. Who cares if you are fed well if someone else can decide to split your family up. Someone can kidnap you, drag you across an ocean (where you have a high chance of dieing) and put you in a country where you can't speak the language. Someone else can decide to move you to a new home. Someone else can decide whether or not you are allowed to read. Someone else can legally beat you.

The Japanese salaryman/women can quit her job if they want to. If they don't, that is their choice, but it is a choice. That is a massive difference. Any comparison between the two really papers over the horror of slavery. Much like any Nazi comparison, it drags the quality of the discussion down.
I just went on vacation as a family of three. We rented a flat which was I think 50€/person. Even assuming 100€/night and 1000€/person for traveling (actually I paid 200€ for us all for an 8h train ride) it is still not 7.5k. However, 7.5k really gives you some flexibility (travel further away, more expensive hotels and so on).

I guess it would be easy to spend 7.5k, but I really would think twice before spending that much on holidays. On the other hand, if you only have one week per year, perhaps it comes naturally that you are willing to spend more.
Microsoft: Apple has it wrong, it's a PC+ era
Beefing Up Dull Text in WebKit
Serendipity may be over rated sometimes, but that's more desirable than under rating it systematically. :)
Django connection pooling using sqlalchemy connection pool
I wish the new 802.11 ac standard would've gone the "battery efficiency" route, rather than doubling the performance. Technically, they could choose either doubling the performance or cutting the power consumption in half, but I'm pretty sure they will go the performance route, which really isn't necessary on a mobile phone right now (500+ Mbps).
I would add a vesting period based on him reaching milestones. Don't fight over the details. Fair exchange of value.
Consistently, strategically EOL-ing/deprecating technologies, even through some painful transitions, is no small part of why Apple are in a good position today. There's no way they could've pushed the iPhone out the door in 2007 if they were obsessively keeping all of their Mac software compatible across Intel/PPC or providing support to OS9 users (not that those are completely meritless).
The de-emphasis of backward compatibility has been a tactical advantage against Microsoft.
It is perfectly ok if they can offer equal or superior recycling.

I don't think this is a claim you can really make right now though. When you send a device back to Apple for recycling, there's no way to find out what their recycling standards are.

Subscribing to EPEAT objectifies this, and makes it easier to know what happens when an EPEAT device is recycled.
The first 40 chapters are Jeff raging against PHP.
If you go to a website and click "My Music" and then it says "Upload your music collection to be accessed from anywhere" and doesn't explicitly state "It's illegal to upload music you are not licensed to distribute, you're posting music to be listened to by any user of Grooveshark" and then distributes every upload you submit to every user of that website I would not compare that to buying a knife and not being told it can kill people.
Why Apple Is a Great Marketer
Could we skip the political discussion about this for now? HN really isn't "about" politics, and I have a feeling that the crowd here is just as divided as the general population when it comes to debating what should be done about healthcare. Us bickering about it here isn't likely to lead to any change, IMO.
I think the argument is that a given amount of spectrum has a maximum capacity of data that can be transmitted. Using one cell tower to serve a large area (which means a large number of devices and a large amount of data) caps the amount of data that can be transmitted within that area. There are two solutions to that: use more spectrum or serve smaller areas. If you're serving smaller areas, there are cheaper technologies available than 3G, and they also don't require dedicated spectrum.
More Twitter awfulness
Grooveshark is by no means innocent here. It's hard to get around the fact that they're distributing content without compensating its copyright holders through mechanical licenses, and without any agreement with these copyright holders. If it was your copyrighted content being distributed by Grooveshark for profit, with no money going to you, you might feel differently.
Exactly. Recycling could be marketing speak for "sending to a landfill in China".
Tell the team, help them find your replacement.
The SMTP protocol is not going anywhere. Deal with it.

It's really straightforward to fix your griefs with e-mail: Write a MUA.

If it provides good value over normal e-mail clients and handles normal e-mail well then it will quickly become popular. If it's not backwards compatible then it's just yet another "todo-app" and will very likely not take off.

tldr; There is no such thing as "replace e-mail".
I thought you couldn't create them on iOS until this update? I could be wrong, I don't think I ever tried to create a hangout from my phone before.
How does it work in the car?
It's a novel argument to run - obviously the beauty of the judicial system is that the court ruling against this novel argument now sets a precedent (subject to appeal etc) that can be applied in future.

In some ways, I'm grateful to Universal for running the argument as it's one less cause of action that can be argued in the future, or at least can be dismissed much more easily by relying on the precedent.
Actually Canada has had issues with provinces not coordinating medical issues very well. They are actually less centralized than the US is. One of the reasons why SARS hit Ontario so hard was that there was no equivalent to the CDC nationally or at that time in Ontario.

But for the US, if you sent things to the states, coverage could follow residency, and states could decide the level of coverage they wanted to provide (coverage varies significantly between Canadian provinces btw).

The big problem for the states is you can't do it as long as Medicare is fully federal and Medicaid is so heavily regulated by the federal government. You'd probably have to hand these programs to the states first.
ALS killed my father. He and the family went through a year of the most horrible, humiliating, painful torture I can imagine. Because he was (briefly) in the Army, we were able to get assistance from the VA. Without that and the support of the ALS Association, the cost would have been unbearable.

The last thing Aaron and his family should have to worry about is how to pay for a wheelchair, remodeling their bathroom, lifts, in-home care, etc. I hope they get enough donations, but I also hope that the this country gets its act together so that you don't have to be a veteran or a well-known open source developer to have access to desperately needed medical care.
The #1 justification for authoring any sort of technical tome – and this has been the case for decades – is that it gains you credibility and respect in a field. If you want to consult, or are looking for senior positions, etc, get a book with your name on it out there and you have a foot and a half in the door. At least with many who are suckers and are looking for short-cut filtering, which I say because the vast majority of technical books are terrible.
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<Braces for the piling on by Europeans about how inferior our vacations are>

It's a nice thought, but I'd rather my employer (and my girlfriend's employer) just pay top dollar and let us figure out our own vacation plans.
Cool! I signed up and even paid

Would be cool to add comments and domains you already own to the list
I am actually looking forward to an Amazon phone. I think the media consumption model is a good one for these devices. Amazon could easily become the #2 or #3 Android phone maker behind Samsung and HTC. Also, in the US, Amazon could do something like Straight Talk SIM and partner with AT&T, Verizon, or Sprint and offer an "unlimited" talk/text/data plan for $45 a month that runs direct through Amazon.com. They could even throw in Amazon Prime on top or maybe for an extra $5 a month. Then for $50 a month you get phone, internet, movie streaming, book rental, fast shipping...

That could be very compelling.
Actually, that's a pretty common misconception. The only information is that there was at least a base capital. You can spent all of that on wages, then it's gone. But it certainly shows that someone had the dedication to invest a certain amount and thus has an incentive to keep the company alive.
I'm New Jersey - would love to know how you found the JFK-BKK flight as well, please e-mail me usmanc---at----gmail. No need to give it all away - I plan to use Flightfox in the future for complicated travel. I just did a crazy complicated Middle East and Asia trip, it would have been worth $50 to me just to see other options than what my travel agent booked.
Small Team, Big Income Goal for Common Craft Founder
Announcing Amazon GameCircle - A New Gaming Experience for Kindle Fire
As other say... you might be a jerk. But it is impossible to tell from here.

Putting that aside, it seems that you are in That point. You may consider going to the next level: get some capital, take more risk and pay a good developer. More capital is not necessary finding a VC or that stuff. Think about your friends, your relatives. But, if you go there, you will need to think seriously on your business model and your goals. You will have duties.

Or you should consider your possible exits: are there people interested in buying your project or financing it? Would it be less painful to shut it down fast or to let it die? Could you open it to the community, as others suggest?

But before all that, I think that you should be sure that you absolutely could not find another developer. I mean... why this post in HN and not a "Growing online game seeking for a developer" one?

Hope it helps,

Regards!
Library differences could probably just be handled with a support library. Microsoft used one to support its VB6 to VB.NET conversion engine, and it worked fairly well in my experience.

I wonder more about all the myriad C# language features that don't translate directly to Java. If their engine is limited to porting C# 2.0 code then a lot of that hassle probably goes away (though I'd still wonder about unsafe blocks), but that excludes most new code that's been written in the past 8 years. And I would be leery of trusting any automatic porting engine that claims to work with C# 4 but doesn't come with a very clear and detailed explanation of how it's going to handle something like extension methods or late binding.

And, for that matter, a clear explanation for why I should prefer automatic porting of a large project instead of just running it in Mono, using IPC to get it talking to my Java code, and calling it a day.
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Awesome. Delighted you like it.

Let me know if you have any questions or other suggestions.

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Is this sustainable?

> Now, when a user wants to cancel, we give them two buttons front and center... If it’s because of price, we’ll give them an instant, lifetime discount;
Because the built-in email client is more than good enough.

And when I mention the use of email to most people in their 20's they stare at me like I just walked out of the jungle.
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WiFi also kills my phone's battery.

It appears that for newer devices, wifi uses a lot less power.
This is true. Most of them won't scale up sufficiently, or rather if you try they will be captured by corporate interests.

But that doesn't mean we can't look at what others are doing and try to fix things here.

Single payer works on a small scale by giving groups of people effective representation in collective bargaining, something that private insurance doesn't do. It also works by giving that same group collective bargaining regarding drugs and medical devices. It doesn't work by creating this huge insurance pool which is what we are told.

We could take the PPACA and change it, requiring that all insurers qualified under the plan are owned and operated by the insured, and then we could require compulsatory licensing of patents for medicines and medical devices.... And then we could take on the AMA's role in accrediting medical schools.

But pigs will fly first.
IPad integrated clipboard to impact mHealth adoption rate
Between You and Me, This Isn't Private - how a sloppily coded app can betray you
Crossdressing, Compression and Colliders: The First Photo on the Web
If you had a wifi-capable Blackberry and T-Mobile in the US, you could use what's called UMA calling- which offers normal uninterrupted voice service over wifi, with seamless handoff mid-call between Wifi hotspots and the normal cellular network (i.e. no dropped calls). The best part about it is the wifi calls don't count against your monthly minutes. It was an awesome service but never really caught on.
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IKVM does the reverse, for running Java code on .NET VMs.
I don't think there's a contradiction between "they all did it" and "so far, only many of the big banks are being investigated".

We don't have proof that "they all did it" so perhaps I overstated the case a little. We do know that the UK government contacted Barclays because their rates were higher than everyone else's. Perhaps some of those lower rates were legitimate. Perhaps not.

But if we're going to be pedantically accurate, perhaps you should say "if you have a LIBOR-linked mortgage with Barclays, Citigroup, RBS, UBS AG, ICAP, Lloyds or Deutsche Bank" ....
It's also available on Android. Unfortunately I've flashed mine to have a generic ROM, meaning that I've lost the ability. Hoping to see it ported back in.
Let's stop fantasizing about the Canadian health care system. I had family with ALS and the expensive equipment and home modifications required to cope with the later stages of disease aren't covered in Canada, either - except next-to-no Canadians have private health insurance, so instead of just some ALS patients being in this man's situation, almost all of them are.

Instead of editorializing, you should donate to the man's fund, or your local ALS Society - they do incredible work almost completely unappreciated by the broader public.
He is planning on relying on both Medicare and Medicaid. He already has our political opinions, and thank goodness he does.

Individuals shouldn't have to rely on popularity contests to be cared for when tragedy strikes: as a society we should care for everyone in the same situation. Charity, while good for the individual, is bad for society because it takes away from the importance of providing equally-available support.
We'll see! I have a hunch we'll have to tune this offering quite a bit based on the user's usage history, account age, and anything else we feel can help make things better for them and keep them around. There's also a good amount we're measuring that would alert us to an unusual number of cancels that involve that discount, etc.
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"One cause of this problem is an outdated curriculum that doesn’t correspond to the needs of the industry. The academic sector has not been agile enough to meet the human resource needs of tech startups"

...or the top developers were already pirated by big corporations in Singapore and other countries. For example, there's a shortage of senior .Net developers in the Philippines because most of them are working abroad.
That's awesome. What's interesting though is that (in my experience at least) you get a fair amount of "cancel my account ASAP and delete all the data" users. I wonder if there's any data on how Step 2 plays out in that situation.
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In late 2006, early 2007 I worked on a site like TaskRabbit, but it was called Oddjobr.com (or oddjobr.net but I think I had both to be honest). I let the domain go (apparently it was picked up), but at the time I had a mostly working website up and running (it was a software lifecycle class project - with a team of just myself). It was a reverse auction though, bidding on jobs.

Are you sure these are clones? I didn't check em all out, but just throwing out that if I thought of this idea independently, it is likely others have too.
I'm European and I am certain that this is wrong, unethical, and bad for society as a whole. I'm not surprised that "death from overwork" is an isolated cause of death and has its own term in Japan (Karōshi).

As an employee in Japan I wouldn't want to survive.
Hangouts have worked the iPhone using the Google+ App for at least a year.
Viral growth and analytics: Cracking virality vs value