skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could you elaborate on why that is the best thing for most people?

Because the evidence for "Mutual funds, in aggregate, underperform the market by precisely what they charge in fees; past performance of mutual funds does not predict future results; no more fund managers beat the market than would be suggested by random chance; capital flows into mutual funds are virtually invariably poorly timed to surge after they have made their gains, hurting fund performance" is incredible. It's, um, shoot, I need an analogy... you know how science suggests that cigarettes might not be a good thing health-wise? That conclusion is tentative next to "actively managed mutual funds are a poor investment vehicle."

Index funds are virtually structurally guaranteed to outperform actively managed funds for any given equivalent investment classes, because index funds also underperform the market by fees, but their fees are about 100 ~ 250 basis points lower. Over someone's working life, that turns into "Your retirement account is several times as large as your neighbor who used actively managed mutual funds."
> If so, why even fly anyone in? Just dismiss the charge if that is what you really intend to do.

By the same argument they could have him charged in absentia. It is just complete nonsense from the Swedish prosecutor to pretend as if that is not possible under Swedish law.

So why this circus? A formal charge much earlier on would have stripped a bunch of issues from the case. E.g. the fact there is no formal charge was a big issue during the extradition hearings.

But of course a formal charge would also mean that the prosecutor would have to make fairly public binding statements in front of a Swedish court, and provide wider discovery to Assange's lawyers. Perhaps she is not prepared to do that.
There is a filepicker in the Chrome Devtools. Who knew?
Especially considering Authentec apparently still hadn't completed their product as of the end of July. Apple's not in the business of releasing last-minute, untested hardware just to meet a deadline. Apple's never been bleeding edge on their mobile hardware. History shows us they're satisfied with incremental improvements based on time-tested hardware.

The only way I see this being true is if the timeline is incorrect in the article and Apple/Authentec were working on integrating it into the iPhone/iPad long before the deal was close to closing.
The Wikileaks Grand Jury?
If he did the same act(s) in the UK that he did in the Sweden, he would be guilty of a UK offence. It seems pretty clear to me.

"His conduct in having sexual intercourse without a condom in circumstances where she had made clear she would only have sexual intercourse if he used a condom would therefore amount to an offence under the Sexual Offences Act 2003, whatever the position may have been prior to that Act"
In the end shared hosting with Joyent wasn't very good. It was slow, it was clunky and had an air of neglect. I have one site remaining on it I think. Most of my sites are on Linode.

What was worse was that Joyent changed directions, decided its then current customers weren't profitable enough (my guess shared hosting = higher per head tech support costs) and basically stagnated the service while it introduced new services. I think they did this a couple of times, and it has always made me relunctant to recommend them to friends (even ones looking for cloud services).

Sigh I hope StrongSpace will still honour the lifetime part.

BTW for readers who think lifetime account holders are being greedy, the point of the accounts was that when TextDrive/Joyent needed extra capital to expand, they offered lifetime accounts in return for quite a bit of cash up front. In part, they are where they are due to this clever bit of fund raising.
I vote for a swarm of mini coopers carrying Assange look alikes.
IIRC he hasn't even been charged with anything yet. They are still at the "we would like him to help with our inquiries" stage officially.

There are provisions in place between us and Sweden for relevant interviews to be done by video phone, by their police visiting, or by proxy (with our police handling the interview). Apparently all such options have been offered and refused.

If this were just about the rape case, there would be no such effort to retrieve him physically until charges were officially recorded.

Even if the general conspiracy theory is complete hogswash, there is definitely something extra to be considered here. The rape allegations and the way he has been pursued have become two separate matters because the way he has been pursued is significantly disproportionate to how such a case would normally progress. Whether he did it or not (and if he did significant punishment should be served) the authorities still have questions to answer as to why they are pushing in an unusual manner.
Comparing Standard ML and OCaml
I've been very happy with WebFaction for a couple of small websites.
I've got two gaps in my work history and I explain them fairly similarly: I didn't want to jump from one thing to another immediately if I didn't have to. The first gap was largely spent playing video games and pointedly not doing anything remotely resembling work for most of it, the second is full of travel and independent small projects. In both cases the response I get from companies ranges from "makes sense" to "sounds like a good idea".
Unit Test with Atoum for PHP
The UK extradition judge said the same act would be an offence in the UK as well.
The Wikileaks Grand Jury.
American Airlines started selling a lifetime pass in 1981, and is still honoring them today, although they're starting to crack down on certain abuses of the system.
The problem is that a lot if people bought these shares under false pretenses. Decent returns are not visible to anyone who is truthful and open minded. There are two paths in this circumstance - sell now and cut your losses by buying something that will return better, or sell later at an almost certain lower price, and lose that potential in the mean-time. If it were me, I'd cut and run now.
Not true, necessarily. There have been proposals to form a "web of trust" for miners, which would prevent this sort of thing from happening.

Miners who have been on the network for longer would have greater authority than new miners, regardless of computational ability. If a 51% attack occurs, it would in effect fork the blockchain, because the WoT-enabled miners would not accept their signed blocks.

You can fork the blockchain now if you want - it's just a matter of getting enough people to agree with you for those coins to have value.

I'm not saying it would be _good_ for Bitcoin - but this is not an insurmountable problem from a tech standpoint.
I'm noticing many problems with your perspective, and since I'm in a good mood this morning I'm going to try and help force-puke the cool aid out of you.

> I seriously admired (and still do) the Diaspora guys for tackling probably the hardest problem there is

Its a trivial problem compared to what SpaceX, Solum, and tons of others are tackling.

> However, how do you go from the ambitious Facebook-Killer to an quickmeme/pinterest mashup

This sentence is a great example of cognitive dissonance. The reality is, it is easy to go from one to the other because they are pretty much the same thing: People get to share stuff with each other on a web interface.

> especially from the godfather YC

> There must be some secret sauce that only pg et al. know

PG invests in dumb shit. YC invests in dumb shit. All the time. Their business model is not "invest in the best ideas in the world" its "invest in people who have the potential to make billion dollar companies".

Furthermore, PG has stated this in his essays, and there is ample evidence in the many startups they have invested in throughout the years.

So, I hope I've helped push you through the social-web-center-of-the-universe and YC-the-creator stage.

I've been there, and its nice to move on.
Gold is a tangible asset that has been a proven store of wealth since as long as we know about the history of human civilization. Gold is shiny, you can store it somewhere, make handy pieces out of it and and take it with you, people like holding and looking at gold, almost anybody, anywhere in the world will take gold in exchange for other goods or services.

Outright bullshit. Gold became money because you could make statues of the Sumerian gods out of it. Silver for almost exactly the same reason.

There is nothing actually valuable about some rotten piece of metal, or at least, their industrial uses can't back up their price.

Good luck when the gold bubble pops.
I have the same reaction you (and Garry Tan) do. Having a members-only upscale e-commerce wasn't invented by Fab, Gilt Groupe was doing it four years before Fab was founded. There aren't that many variations on what a members-only-bouncer page can look like.

Aside from the choice of layout of the product page, which itself is generic, I don't see anything in common. Having the time remaining in the header bar has been commonplace on flash sale sites (Groupon and clones) since before Fab was ever founded.

E-commerce layouts have been studied in depth, it wouldn't surprise me if the layout choices (like repeating the add to cart button at the top and bottom) by Fab were not arbitrary but based on known best-practices.
These are not new "dilutive" shares - the stock was always factored into the FB market cap so it's not like publicly traded shares are suddenly worth 60% less just because the float increases. But it does mean that for a while people who have been unable to sell are able to do so which is going to lead to some short term downward pressure. Once that is over Facebook will resume its normally trajectory, ummm, downward...
Show HN: git-cdd - Commit Driven Development in git
MediaLayer is good, but I've never seen a reason not to shell out the extra $10 a month for a VPS.
$19,90 at 5pm UCT time, not good indeed
This.

Go code. Open source. Port your first game to HTML5/canvas, just for the kicks. Pick up new language. Record a screencast of hello world of some technology you like. Port an algorithmically interesting code, eg a hashing function from some language to another. Start a blog. Do an interview with a few founders of recently announced startups about their technology stack, write about it. Get involved in hackernews discussions. There is so much to do!

Whether you get money or not, keep coding, keep creating, keep passionate about making bits dance. Job/money will come.
Wow, I'm envious! It costs $433 to lodge a company registration with the ASIC in Australia. It's a bit more (mine cost $570) if you use an online service which can lodge electronically and generate all the documents you need for your company to be legal (i.e. forms for consent to act as a director, company constitution, share certificates, etc.)
In theory yes, but I don't think that's the case in practice.

I quit my job and was unemployed for three months (by my own will). I started interviewing again, got interviews, passed all coding tests, was complimented in some of them. And I was shot down in each. They called me for face to face interviews and in some of them I got a strong feeling that they were only trying to find a reason to reject me. You might ask, "but if they called you they must have been interested in you?" Well, maybe. It's human nature, we are highly irrational creatures who think are rational. I could solve problems, but my CV didn't look good and I'm not good in face to face interview and I can tell they definitely are in the mindset of shooting you down when you show the tiniest mistake, slip or lack of knowledge (my best guess for this behaviour is that most candidates suck and they expect you to suck). By the way, nobody payed any interest in the books I had read in between and little interest in my hobby projects.

I was quite sad and disappointed, not for being unemployed or rejected, no. For realising that we are such silly and pride fuelled creatures. I'm not even saying I deserved any of those jobs. I'm saying they were doing it wrong in a painfully obvious way.

The story has a sad ending: eventually I found a programming job.

And a happy continuation: I quit again and now I'm actively looking for a new position as shepherd on the top of some remote mountain.
I believe the circumstances have to be consist with international law. I don't think that would be the case here.
They burnt through the Kickstarter funding long before Makr.io.
Breaking into the game industry: Best Practices
I made a simple proof of concept of the workflow. https://github.com/walle/git-cdd
But that's not what it shows. It just shows that people of all ages give similar answers to a set of questions designed specifically to have only one answer.

Similarly, if I gave a quiz with the question "I don't think it's right to run over kittens with my car. Strongly Agree ... Strongly Disagree", then gave that quiz to a broad spectrum of people across all age groups, you'd suddenly find that the overwhelming majority of them were all "cat people".

But if you simply asked whether they liked cats better or dogs better, you'd get a more accurate and less skewed view on the situation.
"Just" being able to freely place them, choosing alignment (left, center, right, justify?), various fonts, selectable font color and maybe even an outline color and width (you can simulate that with a bunch of text-shadows) would go a long way :)

The fridge thingy could also do with several fonts, but I actually quite like it as is. Though here a selectable background and font color would also be nice, or the option to put the caption above the image.

Happy coding!
I assume they're giving everybody a refund of their purchase price, right? ...Right?
Like hacker/cracker, or open-source/free-software, or any of a myriad of other classic message board topics, "startup/small-biz" is a pointless rathole argument. It's easily avoidable by reading articles with an open mind and trying to grasp what the author means. In this case, the author's take on "startup" versus "small business" is fairly anodyne: he's not disparaging small app shops, and in fact is leveling a popular critique of VC startups.

The bigger issue with this post is the extremely clumsy segue from talking about the mobile software market to talking about his own business. There's nothing wrong with promoting your business in a blog post --- why else write one? --- but the transition here sure was jarring.
Dotcom is not a New Zealand citizen. He is a resident alien with some extra restrictions due to his extensive criminal background (for example, he cannot own land in New Zealand).

If he wanted to become a New Zealand citizen, the criminal background could be a big hurdle.
>In June a judge ruled that the warrant for the initial raid on his mansion and the way evidence was seized were illegal.

It's amusing the case still exists at all when it's clearly been identified the raid and evidence seizure were illegal.

I wonder why we even have laws when the authorities can so blatantly ignore them without consequence.
The Aggressive Retargeting Creep Factor
I'm not sure about embedding per their license, but I was also curious about whether or not ligatures will render in browsers. Apparently it's hit-and-miss:

Firefox has supported this since version 4, and but until recently it was the only browser do so. Now Microsoft has joined the party by announcing OpenType support in Internet Explorer 10, along with Chrome on Windows (not Mac yet).

(per http://blog.fontdeck.com/post/15777165734/opentype-1 with Chrome 16+ mentioned for Windows support. I haven't verified this.)
Alternatively AI sees that Assange has plenty of resources to help him and are instead using their own to help the great many other people in need.
I am beginning to realize this recently at my new job. Due to a couple of people leaving and stuff like that, i got handed a reportedly(half-written) code base with no test cases. And a knowledge transfer document, that was mainly written by a poor guy who had gotten the code(before me) and left the project in 3 weeks. In any case, couple of months into the project i got handed a different requirement. Guess what, a total of 10 months after i took the job the second tool is done and is in testing while i am still working on the first one. But the main problem so far has been, lack of clear visualisation of the requirements beforehand. Documenting a project specifications (functional or technical) is unheard of here it seems. I swear taking the time to gather all the requirements would have halved the time i spent developing,demoing, getting feedback,correcting/fixing suggestions etc.. sigh
I dunno, you can buy 5 $35 raspberry pis for the price of one $200 pandaboard. $200 approaches the territory of being plausibly enough to build or purchase a full PC.
>Sure, but so are the Ecuadors - Diplomatic Immunity wasn't set up to allow embassies to offer temporary asylum for non-national fugitives :-)

Originally no, but there are centuries of precedent for using it that way.
That's a nice guide!
strange since his company seems targeted at app developers. Although I'm not sure how many people are going to pay for components which have open source equivalents (all the iOS components on the advertisement site I looked at do, except for maybe the PDF kit)
If you're comfortable getting dirty, I'd check out http://prgmr.com/xen/
As long as it's not terribly mission critical I'd suggest a VPS. Since you have a virtualized server you get everything you mentioned (and the responsibility of keeping the damn thin up to date). Take a look at http://lowendbox.com You're likely to find deals in the $20/yr range for small instances with ~128MB RAM. Expect 99% uptime and you'll be pleasantly surprised with the third nine.
I passed on a 6 month contract job using Dojo back in December. I really didn't want to do the deep dive for a 6 month contract as I figure it would have taken quite a bit of time to really get up to speed with Dojo. Wasn't convinced I'd ever use it again, either as I don't even see Dojo jobs out there. Granted, I don't look all the time, but it's jQuery and nowadays some flavor of JS MV* being asked for.

Had lunch with my recruiter last week and asked if they're still looking to place that position. She said yes (9 months after I turned it down!) If it were a longer gig, I might have taken it, but 6 months, I'll pass.
Ask HN: What kit/add-ons should I get for Rasberry Pi?
I'm buying my cousin a Rasberry Pi as a belated wedding gift. Any must have kits/add-ons I should get with it? He already has a breadboard and all your typical wire/resistor/led packs. Any input would be great. Thanks!
I am Matt from Slicehost. And yes, if something sounds too good to be true, it usually is.
This guy is really talented. What he built at AngelHack, could easily turn into a $100MM product if pursued full-time. I'm sure he'll have some great accomplishments in the years to come.
It would probably be a bad idea to embed this in a web page just for technical reasons, but for avoidance of doubt: fonts that you have to buy licenses for are virtually never embeddable directly. As a rule of thumb, if a technically capable person could in a short amount of time recover the original font from your web page and use it in their own work, you're materially violating the font's license.

This isn't just how this graphing font works; it's how virtually all professional typefaces work.
Depending on the jurisdiction, before charges can be formally filed, there may need to be some kind of grand jury action which may lead to an indictment. A subpoena to appear before the grand jury can lead to a bench warrant for arrest for failure to appear. The charge in such cases would therefore be "contempt of court" (or the equivalent).

Not sure it applies here, though.
Design is all about subtleties, not big deals.

Does it make a difference? You bet.
Some Super Cool New Technologies
engineered algae, Personal Robots, Horizontal Farms
Historical volatility for FB is around 6% for a 2 day move which at current level is about $1 in price terms.

Presumably the point is that not everyone is expecting the next couple of days to be "normal", given the amount of shares potentially going on the market as the lock ups end. Obviously that doesn't necessarily make the mentioned deal a good one, but it doesn't make much sense to assume anything about the stock price movements today based on the limitations of yesterday.
Canvas is a lot more fun because it adds a level of playful interaction (stickers) and brings along a known-for-lulz community (4chan and by proxy Reddit) that Makr.io doesn't. My problem with Makr is that if it's trying to create memes, not only is the audience terrible at choosing photos, but the design isn't even using Impact (which may seem silly on the surface, but ensures the content is read to be funny/sarcastic).

In this sense, it reminds me more of an LJSecret's Pinterest, and these two audience types don't blend well together at a social level, so I'm not sure how a a platform catering to both of them will do over time.
Best wishes to assange in his quest to make the most secretive regimes of the world transparent. Less governments the better! Humanity do not need extra ordinary hijackers, tramplers of human rights and surveillance junkies.
"interview" and "interrogate" are the same thing.
This. What a silly thread. You probably couldn't lawfully use this on a web page even if you wanted to.
Facebook, Gmail, Twitter, Hotmail, etc.
I was (am?) also a TextDrive VCII customer. I signed up in March of 2005 and had a little home on a server called nelson. If my memory is correct it was around $450 or so and I hemmed and hawed over the decision. I was just getting out of the debt I had built up after the post-college/dotcom recession and it was a lot of money for me. However, I knew that I was going to continue programming for my career and so I saw it as an investment in them as well as myself. In 2008 I was asked to move to a Joyent shared accelerator (drake) and everything continued along.

I saw it as a genius business move for them: they got upfront capital in exchange for a promise to offer a commodity that their customers would naturally outgrow. Those customers would likely be highly influential and/or become power-users. Furthermore they would be able to grow bigger than they would otherwise without having to take VC money (which at the time was harder to come by and the VC had a lot more power/control). Now we have things like Kickstarter so the idea doesn't seem so strange anymore.
Ask HN: Privacy concerns with BYOD and AirWatch?
My company recently gave its employees the option to use our own devices to access company email and calendars. But we have to install AirWatch MDM app and there is some configuration. Our IT representative doesn't seem to know a whole lot about how AirWatch works, other than how to install it.

Does anyone have any experience with it? Can someone from my company's IT access my personal email, text messages, phone calls, GPS, app usage, etc.? I'm apparently supposed to be connected to the Airwatch wifi as well, but I seem to still get company email and appointments on my calendar if I disconnect from it. I'm using an iPhone, if that matters. Any insights or thoughts? Thanks!
This is pretty common with consumer products. If something has a "lifetime warranty," that "lifetime" is typically a defined period of time (e.g.-seven years), not until you die.
Owners Should Know What They’re Getting With Private Equity
After reading this, it seems like way too much complexity exists in the market. Me and my naive thoughts of "it's just simple buying and selling, right?"

How long has it been like this?
Because it's on a site that accepts credit cards and has a prominent "Buy" link on the page itself.
Pop went the social media bubble. Now what?
A Liquid Power Fuse
Yes, one of the primary things to realize is that this is not preprocessor style... its more like custom properties and a function for accessing the values of custom properties - in css, respecting everything else about css.