skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends on how you want to go about it. If you want to go legit you have to do all those things. If you want to roll under the radar then you could live here easy on a tourist visa. You have to extend your visa once every two months but you don't have to do a visa run until you hit month 18.

Once you get into doing things like renting a real office, hiring employees and doing local work, then you would want to go legit. There are economic zones here where you can get a tax holiday for something like 6 years and requirements for locals to be part of your corp get waived if 75% of your income is from outside the country.
For something like a movie they mostly consist of a hash list which is clearly a derivative work based on the original so probably. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torrent_file

EX: A 4GB file using 4MB pieces would have 1000pieces x 20 byte hashes or 20k of 100% derivative work. And ~2k for all other meta data.
My wife and I started a similar site awhile back, originally just for our family. After realizing there were so many other competing sites out there we put it on the backburner. Never even really finalized a name/URL.

http://giftregistry.hindessite.com/
I've been using it for about 17 years and I too am a noob. hjkl
Agile Development Movement "is a scam ... designed to sell services"
Wikipedia also suggests that "History" is related to historical records:

"Events of the past prior to written record are considered prehistory."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History

That seems a pretty sensible distinction between history and prehistory and the historical records in the UK doesn't go back that far - is there much before Roman times?
I suppose it doesn't matter what product you have as long as you know how to market it and most importantly, solve a problem.

What problem does app.net solve? Honest question, because it surely doesn't solve the problem of walled gardens.
"A thing is worth only and exactly what others are willing to pay for it." Obviously it's worth $50 to 100,000 people. Some of us would like an ad-free version of Twitter that, by paid signup, screens out much of the...um...less interesting participants. Sounds like they've got 100,000 users already, which seems a good start.
Each Pussy Riot member is sentenced to jail for 2 years
Put a 24 hour hold after a stock transaction is held before you can sell and you just killed 99% of HFTing.

Not just HFT - you just killed some significant fraction of all forms of trading. Bought something and it's declining? Oops, too bad, you're locked in - better wait 24h. The arbitrary phase shift of transactions will add massive amounts of complexity and create a new system to be gamed.

Edit: Also, regarding "skin in the game" - the recent $440M Knight fiasco shows that firms participating in all forms of HFT are exposed to real financial risk. They definitely have some skin in the game.
Sorry, I was being facetious.
I wound up doing the same thing (not with Janus, but with a massive forked .vimrc).

One day I was SSH'd into a remote server and vim'd a directory by accident and I discovered Netrw. It wasn't the same as NERDTree, but it was good enough for me to get rid of that plugin. Eventually I just learned to enjoy the defaults with minor tweaks. Today my vimrc[1] is < 200 lines, mostly comments and navigation shortcuts.

[1]: https://github.com/mgirouard/Dots/blob/master/.vimrc
Kindle edition has DRM, right?
Actually the merchant is only liable for the loss if they did not follow all of the rules and regulations for processing the credit card.

From wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_card_fraud#Merchants):
"The liability for the fraud is determined by the details of the transaction. If the merchant retrieved all the necessary pieces of information and followed all of the rules and regulations the financial institution would bear the liability for the fraud. If the merchant did not get all of the necessary information they would be required to return the funds to the financial institution. This is all determined through the credit card processory."

From what I have seen, it is very common for the merchant to be liable for losses on a card not present transaction (e.g. online retail) but the credit card company stomaches the losses for a card present transaction.

I suspect that online merchants could reduce their liability by implementing things like Verified by Visa but choose not to because it causes them to lose too many legitimate sales.
India ⊂ Asia & Pacific
Um, the 50'th sigma is nonexistent on any physical scale. The 27'th sigma is 10^-317, and the 28'th sigma is too small to represent with doubles. For comparison, the number of atoms in the universe is about 10^80.

Hollywood actors are, at best, in the 3-4'th sigma.
I've seen forum participants give matter-of-fact, state-the-obvious replies which I'm pretty sure must have come from simple.wiki. I don't think it's a bot, just someone copying and pasting, however the simplified language could be very useful for genuine AI development.
twitter controls the access to the data

Twitter controls access to the data via API.

Whether they can do anything about someone scraping their site manually is a different question.
You don't have to follow Twitter's guidelines for displaying a tweet (you're right about fair use, I think); but Twitter doesn't have to authorize your OAuth keys to give you API access either.
It's because Linux contains non-free firmwares. The Linux-Libre fork of Linux became part of GNU sometime in the last year (I can't find the announcement).
I didn't mean to imply it means ONLY toilet, so I, uhm, thanks, but I knew that.
The associated Wired article: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/08/google-dremel-v...

and the ensuing HN discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4395164
Betteridge's, anyone?
The one caveat here is, if you're going to use infinite scrolling. Don't have links on the bottom of the page!

Sites like Facebook do this, and I have no idea why.

Want to "Create a page". Well there's a link at the bottom. But if you scroll to the bottom of the page, it's going to load more content and push the link down.

I just tried it, and the page reloaded 15 times before I gave up... never did get to the link.
So say you take $300 from each dev to handle expenses. They live like kings maybe spending another $500 a month on themselves. At the end of a year they've saved ~$18000, barring any plane tickets home. I'm not sure a lot of people would do it for that amount of money. You'd probably have to double it.
I agree 100% but there is, sadly, the issue of credibility on Wall Street. The Google boys let Eric Schmidt have the CEO title for a while. Maybe Facebook should hand Sheryl Sandberg the top title for a while.
Quick, cut out the tech guy who made this possible, get the suits in here post-haste we've got to MARKET.
Today's Tech IPOs have it harder than their earlier bretheren
You're not going to make billions charging only ~10% of your userbase.
Luck is certainly a big part of success - but IMO the author has misclassified a lot of skillful execution as luck, and that's a shame.

> "Carly Rae Jepsen has a catchy pop tune, but is only really successful because she happened to be in the right place at the right time."

No, publicity like this is practically never accidental. Every news article, blog post, radio station play, magazine mention, is highly deliberate and evidence of a good publicity and marketing crew at work.

Whenever the NYTimes writes about some new app, some new startup, or a new product, suffice it to say some marketing legwork has been done. This isn't to insinuate some kind of payola, but rather that "getting noticed" is 90% putting your product in front of important people - these leads are rarely ever organic.

To bring it back into our tech-world for a moment: do you really think that getting featured by Apple in an App Store "guide" is accidental? That it's strictly Apple deciding who makes the cut without external influence? Or is it a whole lot of interested parties pitching their product in the background?

So no, Carly Rae Jepsen wasn't "in the right place at the right time", she had a catchy pop tune, an incredibly well-executed music video with just enough shock/controversy to go viral, and incredible timing.

And luck. But let's not shovel everything under luck.
What? The argument is that people are X, and in what country they are X is completely irrelevant. It's called being a human, try it sometimes.
I'm sorry, what is the private entity involved in Assange's case?
It's a neat idea. It'll be a lot of work to get right. In the meantime, I can send a psd, png, whatever to cssilize and have it chopped up by a human into great looking html and images and I don't have to piece-meal the psd myself to conform to what markupwand needs:

http://www.cssilize.com

It's like $35 or something per page.
It seems what they mean when they say "improvement" is merely the stock price increasing. As that data-point is set by investors, I don't see why Zuckerberg could be at fault for this. I also don't see how a CEO who goes around projecting his self confidence to worried investors but without a good technical background would be an "improvement" over Zuckerberg, who despite all malaise towards him is a better programmer than most. Just my thoughts.

edit: I was reading the comments of the article and one of them notes that by selling the IPO at 4x of what it should have been priced, Zuck showed that he is a brilliant CEO.
Good points for past classes, but I don't see the harm in listing the current class. On the other hand TC seems to cover them, so I'll lower my hand now :)
Are you a lawyer? I'm not, though I studied law for a while.

What you say may be true of common law. But I suspect the doctrines of equity may have other ideas. The return of funds is not the same as lifetime hosting. Those clients want specific performance and equity may yet grant it to them.
And Amazon FR. One thing I love about Amazon is that you can change the TLD in any link and it will still work.
IIRC it's been around for months now. Why is it resurfacing?
Bookmarked! Thanks for putting that together, great work.
Fun Fact: MySpace launched August 2003, Facebook February 2004. For all intents and purposes, MySpace isn't any older than Facebook.
I can't possibly understand why people thought a $38 IPO wasn't going to implode. It's practically tongue-in-cheek. You're not really buying a piece of the new silicon valley when you do it on the old New York stock market. Suckers.
Bitcoins spike up 20% in last 4 days
There has been some work saying that you can preserve life by immediately removing oxygen from the cells. The theory is that the damage from death happens as the oxygen levels slowly decay, causing all sorts of damage. If you could exsanguinate a body immediately, then preserve it in an oxygen-free environment, it might have a chance of being revived. (Wish there was more news about this idea)

If that's true, perhaps future generations might view finding this guy's brain as a great tragedy, because we lost a chance to actually bring somebody back from the Iron Age.

Admittedly this is highly-speculative BS. But hey, it's the internet.
I'm also pretty new to vim (well at least using it seriously, for a quick config edit I've been using it for ages as it beats having to use nano).

I love reading other people's vimrc as I usually always find something new that I'm willing to try out. Mine is here in case someone wants to take a look: https://github.com/PatrickLerner/dotfiles/blob/master/vimrc
We use this product extensively to analyse users who play our games. We record billions of rows of data per day and can query it effectively/efficiently with Big Query. It is a pretty awesome product and getting better all the time.
The fact that it's being reported this was all John Browett's idea (the new head of retail at Apple) should come as no surprise to anyone from the UK, since before joining Apple last year he was CEO of Dixons, a struggling and highly maligned British consumer electronics store.

I don't think anyone who had direct experience of shopping at companies previously run by John Browett would say his appointment by Apple was anything but a bad idea.
Zuck should totally step down and hand over the reins to one of the many seasoned executives from Myspace.
No, the 3D view can help you spot when someone has already injected content into your page.

But not really, because most of the time, the "content" injected into your page is a script tag, which doesn't show up in the 3D view.
> The communist anti-capitalism rhetoric

Black and white much? This idea that everything that's anti-capitalist or anti-stupid-ways-we-spend-money is communist is absurd.

The anti-capitalism rhetoric of the "mid-1900's" was a full-on propaganda campaign put out by government agencies and supported by the very real threat of nuclear total annihilation. Comparing a complaint about the stupid ways we spend money and organize our priorities to the Cold War is a bit of a stretch. I fear communist comparisons are becoming the new Godwin's law.

In reality, the guilt mentality discussed above is much more similar to the ultra-realist perspective of the comedy of Louis CK— http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r1CZTLk-Gk —in that it is ridiculous that we have the immediate concerns that we do, but is, in fact, entirely true, and it's observant and useful to point that out.

It is not, however, communist.
Anyone who has ever played Japanese Reach Mahjong can tell you with some certainty as to the astuteness of the point made.

Ignoring any aspect of the other player's discards (or, more to the point, telling signs emanating from any of the players in a company with the power to reject your product) is a certain path to failure.

When you have 3 other skilled players (or X number of competitors) - all of whom can deal triple damage to you if you aren't careful - you learn to avoid losing.
Consistent browser rendering with Normalize.css
It's not because you technically have access to something that you should or will access it, for a myriad of reasons.
Great post - really brilliant tactical thinking, and it's always a delight to see smart moves pay off.

I feel like it should be noted that it's quite dangerous to threaten a move like this unless you're actually prepared to follow through with it if the gambit fails. If this move hadn't worked and the prospect had responded with something like "please reconsider, we believe there is still a good chance things can work out," I think it would have been disastrous for this company's credibility going forward if they had actually continued working on this prospect. Part of the reason this was a great move for them in this situation is that they were legitimately ready to cut their losses with this prospect and move on. When that's the case, even the smallest chance of jamming a sale through is pure value over their best alternative.
App.net and Hacker News: A love story
I'd love to hear people's thoughts on why people on HN will read and upvote literally (as far as I can tell) any story about app.net.

Is it
A. People really do yearn for people to pay for their software
B. People love a good story, and since nothing has REALLY happened with app.net (besides getting crowd-funded) people want to add to the currently compelling narrative
or
C. Something else

Thoughts?
If you can't tell that a site called iHave50dollars.com is a joke... there is a good chance you are confused about a lot of things. It might be time to questions your assumptions about life.
Remember that Zuck is the guy that didn't sell Facebook at a number of junctures, when all his advisors/investors were telling him to sell. He wants to build great tech -- which is at odds with what today's shareholders want -- quick returns.

On second thought, he could pull a Jobs and get pushed out, only to save the company from death and then take it to stratospheric heights decades later.
Leveraging YARN to provision java apps on Cloud
Ask HN: Why are you supporting App.net over Status.net?
Status.net has been around for a few years now - it's an open source twitter clone, with federation and open protocols all baked in. So my question is simply, why are people choosing to support the closed source, centralised app.net over it?
This is how Visa works
How long before the mainstream financial press picks up on this price action?
Hachette UK: DRM 'working very well'
I don't follow this reasoning. Social networks do tend to rely on network effects, but must they?

It sounds cyclic. Social networks need lots of users because they can't charge their users directly, and they can't charge their users directly because they need so many users.

I don't know that app.net has to replace Twitter for everyone. Can't they be smaller and yet successful, precisely because they charge users directly?
By your logic a plot summary would be a derivative work.

You can't recreate a movie from a plot summary, same way you can't recreate a movie from a torrent file.
Everything about this seems contrary to Apple's image. Particularly, I'm struck by the comment suggesting that Apple Stores need to learn to run leaner, "even if the customer experience suffers." That's such a bizarre statement for any consumer-focused organization to say publically, especially Apple.
There's another thread on HN that shows it can be used to spot XSS vulnerabilities.
Did your credit card get charged? If not, just sent through another order? It probably got lost in the ether.
Interesting. Are you able to automate the process ? Also, what's EPP ?
This is revolutionary because it is the first time that merchants have been ever been given the option to pay a flat fee per month in lieu of paying a percentage fee on each transaction. While that may not seem like a big deal you, merchants really love the simplicity of it.

A business that processes 60K a year is below the size that is targeted by this pricing structure. They are better off continuing to pay 2.75% per transaction.
Does Google charge for bandwidth from Google App Engine to this service? It might be cheaper to upload the data to GAE in a smaller form, then transform it to CSV and upload from there.
Doesn't have to be inside an iframe; it could be an undisplayed UIWebView, or even a headless process such as PhantomJS.
And noisily is also a typo?!
Streams allow people to find/stumble across information they may not have known existed. A visitor could enter (site) with a permalink to the content and then find a zillion spinoff conversations/articles - rather than forcing them to search or use poor navigation by the site owners, they could now spin themselves around the web based on streams of content... Love the idea!
Dumb article. The underlying assumption here is that a management shift is a panacea but that's far from the case. People forgot to ask how Facebook could effectively monetize, and I think MZ has a much better shot at figuring it out compared to external management.
These kind of developers truly deserve recognition.
Indeed. One really has to question how this sort of thinking affects humanity in the long term. Modern business has become too meta to the point where it hurts the actual product and market.
I agree. The retail stores aren't a profit center and Apple shouldn't treat it as one. A 22% margin for retail is nothing to sneeze at. To his credit, he did reverse the decision (or someone higher up).
i think streams for image based sites, so long as the taxonomy is correct could be a killer UI. Thats one of the reasons Pinterest is moving along nicely.
Developers are displeased with Twitter (especially after yesterday) and happy to have an alternative that's off to a good start. Competition is good.
I've always thought that was a very shallow definition and this has just helped me finally realize why I think that.

Basically, I could announce that I'm offering a service whereby you give me $50 dollars and I call you gullible. If I find 100,000 people willing to do that, it would mean that my service is "worth" $5,000,000 dollars.

The "worth" you're talking about does not seem to me as a very good indicator of whether we're improving the world or not.
Honestly, and sadly, I think this shows just how ready he is. He recognized Facebook was at its peak and sold. That's good business. He's got a ton of money to drive Facebook forward. What's the mismanagement I'm missing?
I used NERDTree for a long time until I saw a simple tutorial to netrw - now I love netrw and don't want to ever go back to NERDTree. It's simple and to the point and just works really well for me.
Apple did backpedal from this very quickly and has since the article was published two days ago rescinded the order.
How "Big" is the SEO World on the Web?
>Why not price the coffee at $30 then for millionaires?

That happens all the time, including for coffee.

Coffee at a "high end" hotel / coffee shop etc does not cost the same as coffee at your local coffee joint --while the coffee itself has marginal difference. And there are places that sell $30 hamburgers (even $1000 hamburgers).

Same for brand name clothing etc compared to lesser known or bargain brands. The cloth / manufacturing quality in tons of cases is exactly the same, to the point of both being made in the same factory in China.
Amazon provides also a chrome plugin for PC
And TIL stands for what, exactly? Sure you would not simply equate "syntactic sugar" with "syntactic sugar implemented in javascript".. so what are "TIL javascrip functions"? I tried searching, but no luck, woth none of the permutations. There are too many acronyms for TIL to just blindly guess.

My point basically was that

_(listItems).invoke('remove')

is actually short for

* [content of http://underscorejs.org/underscore-min.js]
_(listItems).invoke('remove')*

and even if you removed all non-called parts from underscore, that's still a lot more complex than

for(var index = 0, length = listItems.length; index < length; index++) { listItems[index].remove(); }

it's just hidden, out of sight and out of mind.
Yes, but it's possible to get rid of it
the link will, but often you'll have a "not available" message (commenting just because I tried yesterday to get an ukulele tuner which is available in .com but not in .it)
Any way to download and read this on linux ?
How to Log Linux IPTables Firewall Dropped Packets to a Log File
Because we need an aggregator. It's not like a blogging engine, where I can just use Wordpress. A social network needs people.

A lot of people complain about the quality of HN going down. Why don't they take the arc or reddit source code and run their own news site?

Because a social network without people isn't.
Agreed, but have you seen HN lately? It's 100% app.net stuff! I agree it's got huge upside, but to be the only thing people want to talk about? Slow news day maybe?
How do I download the book so I can read it on my iDevice?
Python -- it's classy (a blog about learning my first programming language)
There were wall street and silicon valley people talking about Facebook as if it's worth 200B or 1T dollars, in which case buying in at 100B may make sense. This was a problem on both sides: SV hyped, WS hyped and a bunch of people were blown out of the water.
The markets are fickle... And the suits complaining over sneakers are just plain ridiculous. Think what you may of Zuckerberg, he's ensured continued control of the company, and whoever's complaining should have done their research ahead instead of jumping in and then acting surprised. Research could have started with notorious early business cards reading "I'm the CEO, bitch".
Primary lesson: the old school enterprise sales process is as painful as hell.

Dropbox does tons of sales into the enterprise by doesn't need to resort to political gambits, because their product is chosen by individuals and spreads virally.

Ping Li of Accel has an excellent paper on this alternative way to sell into the enterprise. It requires a careful approach to choosing and designing your product, but it makes your business more scalable and less painful:

http://www.accel.com/assets/resources/files/17/original_rena...