skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not related to the point at hand, but why don't people mention the millions of copies sold on other platforms?

More than 7.5 million copies of the title have been sold

Minecraft has sold 7.5 Million (+) of the PC version, it has also sold millions of copies of the iOS version, the Android version and the Xbox version which just recently broke 5 (edit: sorry, 4) million sales. Seems strange not to say something like:

More than 14 million copies of the game have been sold across all platforms, {relevant figure for relevant platform here}.

Although maybe with the article being about the PC version it's assumed readers will understand the figures are for the PC version alone.
I don't think InclinedPlane was arguing that there aren't other ways to do drug research. Patents are just one solution to the free rider problem, and pretty much every free rider problem lends itself to the same small set of solutions: propertization, regulation, or subsidization. We address the free rider problem in drug development by giving temporary property rights in drug formulas, but we could just as easily regulate the industry and guarantee a rate of return or publicly fund development.
Yandex latest to build an empire off Google’s back
More info: http://kb.askmonty.org/en/cassandrase/
What would've happened to Chrome if every website treated it like they're treating Opera now from the beginning?
Who do you think provides jobs and economic growth? Your government or new businesses?
Can you gamify content curation? This startup thinks so
Who's talking about suburbs? That's still thinking in a city mindset.

I grew up in a 2500 person country side village in England. That village had everything we needed and it was only 30 minutes bus ride away from the neatest large town. It was also 45 mins train ride away from the nearest city.
We think considering the risks we take as founders, being taxed 32.5% (the current rate) is already quite enough. But more to the point, investors who make do with this kind of taxes on their return will never accept an increase to 60% and will by and large invest somewhere else, effectively killing off funding for startups in France. That's the whole ecosystem we're trying to protect here.
Rarely do people mess up plugging in that end of the USB, it's the other rectangular end of the USB that people typically mess up, which this cable still has.

Bent pins are only ever the result of blunt trauma, like if you rolled over your cable with your desk chair. I see no evidence that this cable can withstand more brute force than a USB cable.

Also, I don't know what country you're from, but I've never seen anyone get frustrated by "getting their cable sideways".
This also means that there is an opportunity for US buyers (or others) to grab high-quality French startups as founders might be willing to settle for less.

Selling their company twice the price in a few months will give them the same return!
Helmets aren't as cut-and-dried as even this article makes out: Studies have shown that wearing a helmet increases your chance of having an accident in the first place:

http://psychcentral.com/news/archives/2006-09/uob-wah091106....

So you may improve your chances of not getting injured, but you also increase your chances of an accident in the first place.

It's nice to think it's as simple as "X is safer than Y" but matters are rarely that cut & dried..
Yes they do if they pay their social charges.
I am a student from Hong Kong, China. I am coming with my finance and looking for accommodation with cost that I can afford. Would you tell me your price and location? Thanks a lot!
Well you don't need to put money in a pension fund if you pay social charges.
I have a 2010 MBA with 2Gb of RAM, it only chugs on browser stuff when I've got a VM running and compiling, a terminal running various bits and 3 windows with about 6-7 tabs open. It works fine. Your personal experience is not a good way to go "What the hell are you smoking", as there's many of us with that model who've had nothing but happy happy joy times with it.
The second part of your comment is interesting. Can electronics be designed in a way so that it has a very long life?

The idea - hard-code information to silicon and preserve it. e.g. Chips on PCBs that are completely encased in substrate. Provide fused power prongs and a serial port interface to this. Future systems can integrate to this to consume the data.
RailwayJS looks interesting, but wondering why they don't appear to support pushState routing with # fallback, out the box.

hashbangs URLs are so 2010. :p
Thomas Szasz: The Right to Take Drugs
(Trolling here but) perhaps president Hollande can take an example from another famous president and claim " If you’ve got a business. you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen. The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet".
Introduce your Logo uniquely than the logo itself
in his autobiography, During his fight with BRitish Airways his wife dragged him to a barbecue with friends. He spent all but the first five minutes in the car calling and organising his teams for a crucial meeting Monday Apparently he felt it was the closest to divorce he had come.

We have to take with a pinch of salt how rosy life was for people who have succeeded and look back hoping their kids were not too fucked up by them. (it's a worry we all have - just likely to be more so for people who spend life running round the globe)
Project Management Dashboards - ProjectVision
Nonsense. First of all, I am giving up my citizenship. But the US and North Korea are the only countries on this planet stupid enough to think people who don't live there anymore owe them money.
I don't have the context here but it's entirely possible to use it without Google's knowledge. For example Amazon also implements Gauth for their two-factor scheme.
Why not just do some projects relevant to what you'd want to do there, and then try contacting HR about a job with a link to your projects?
In the Fireside chat at I/O they said that the JB webview was entirely Chromium based and at parity with Chrome at the time, but would not be updated on Chrome's release cycle.
I used to live in France and work in technology. To be honest increasing capital gains tax to 60% is not that significant. The entire structure of taxation and social charges and the rights of employees means that French entrepreneurs should simply abandon their country if they want to build a startup as might be seen in the US or UK.

Between the inability to fire people who aren't working out, to the huge amount of time off people can claim (on top of their vacation) because of all sorts of rights, to the 35 hour employee work week, to the amount of tax and social charges the employer contributes, France is unsuitable for startups. Various governments have talked about different incentives for small companies, but the on the ground situation has not really changed.

I have a good friend who runs a small company in France making medical devices. The litany of employee problems that he has to face because he cannot fire people is a nightmare and then there's the taxation. The reality is that he is working to transfer the company's IP away from France and then leave. At that point France starts getting 0 EUR in revenue from him and his firm.

Now, in case you think I 'hate France', here's the thing: I think it's a wonderful country to live in, but it is not suited to startups.
Show HN: open hardware community allowing circuit and PCB design in browser
Energy Analysis is pointless in this situation.

Mixing cyclists and pedestrians is extremely dangerous in locations where pedestrians aren't used to cyclists, because pedestrians have a tendency to change directions very quickly.
It's really surprising (to me) that 10k people per day are still buying pc minecraft. I'd think pretty much everyone that was interested in a game like that would have gotten it by now? How can there still be 10k new people per day (over what, 3 years now?) that have just found out about minecraft?
The mix of plain desktop and touch environment is what draws me to Win8. I didn't get a Asus Transformer, as the only emacs I could get there was in a terminal, and in a sandbox. With a Win8 tablet, I get tablet-y stuff, and a full desktop env with a full unsandboxed emacs. Exactly what I want.

So I hope they keep this best-of-both-worlds for the forseeable future.
But certification isn't new, and is still optional... I don't understand why developers are up in arms over it?

Also, is it intrinsically bad? It's proving that the software you installed is from a particular publisher and hasn't been tampered with, isn't that a good thing?
I rebut everything you just said with one article: http://www.rudebaguette.com/2012/02/07/six-lies/
Sure, there might be many ways to fix the problem, but just getting rid of pharmaceutical patents and doing nothing else is unlikely to help.

Also, be careful about misusing the statistic of "drug companies spending more on marketing". A huge part of "marketing" is giving away free samples, which are often used by doctors to help reduce the cost of drugs for low income patients.
Followed closely by:

The New HTML 1.1
Nothing last forever... except hyperbole.
Yes, both are using mechanical harddisks.

I also use utilities like Alfred, etc... I can see how a fast SSD makes your system smoother.

An SSD is my next desirable upgrade.. but a considerable expense seeing as I need at least 512GB (I dualboot OSX and Windows)
The game format is pretty conducive to "casual" gaming. I'm sure with all the new features getting added it's more and more attractive to these gamers.
"Funny" side-effect: "bootstrapped in France" may soon become a label of perennity, given the complete counter-incentive to take outside funding...

We may see less "Sparrow effects" now.
Is Gamification = "I will trick you to do what I want"?
Have you actually been to france? You most certainly can "fire people who aren't working out". The car companies put thousands of people on the streets when the economy tanked. France also tends to have long "probation" periods to ensure they can do exactly that: fire people who aren't working out. What you can't do in France as easily is screw people the way you can in places that aren't as interested in worker's rights (e.g. Zynga and the "google cook").

> to the 35 hour employee work week

Again, if you'd actually worked in France you'd know this doesn't apply to everyone. IT workers work long hours in France just like anywhere else. But it seems you also have a misconception about how human productivity works if you think 60 hours a week (you didn't say this, I'm just guessing based on your tone) will give you a more productive year than 35 or 40 hours.
Second this, worked for me after adding the email param.
could you maybe summarize your refutations here?
Sort of like how DNS works?
The 35 hour workweek is not as simple as "only working 35 hours". It is the case for blue-collar workers (ouvriers) but things are less rigid for white-collar workers and management (cadres).

"Ouvriers" are paid by the hour and "Cadres" per day. All engineers working in IT should have a "cadre" contract, so they do not really count their hours.

Boss or staff, in the French startups with whom I did have the pleasure to work, the 35 hours are far away from the really worked hours.
Hidden truth - Assange and the Attack on the Republic of Ecuador
In response to the social taxes, all taxes are like this; they end up in a pool that (hopefully) provides services to the taxpayers.

In the case of significant capital gains, the taxpayer is unlikely to be a welfare recipient, and is paying into the system without benefit.

I have no problem with this; it's the nature of taxation. But lumping it in with general taxation is not misleading at all.

If it were a superannuation scheme, and you got the money back when you retired, you might have a point - but it's not.
While I don't have any metrics that correlate with the claims made in this article, I agree with them. I find that at the very least, the user is missing content.

I'm a fan of this homepage: http://www.curse.com/. It's got slider-like elements, but the content is displayed in a very organized, not distracting fasion. Designing above the fold is nearly irrelevant at this point. If done correctly, the user can easily be encouraged to scroll.
>> ""Microsoft owns the Xbox. Apple owns the iOS. The charm of the PC is that nobody owns it... "

Yes, but Microsoft owns Windows. The certification change doesn't affect the PC it affects Windows users. His final comment is a lot more balanced:

>> "Microsoft is free to do whatever they want with their OS. I won't support all of what they do, however"

His comment about Microsoft trying to ruin the PC as an open platform is nonsense. Obviously Windows runs on the majority of PC's but no matter what Microsoft does they can't ruin the PC as an open platform. Linux is available. Build Minecraft for Linux and actively promote Linux. Refuse to build the game for any closed platform and make it clear people can only use your game on open platforms.

The whole thing seems to be misuse of 'PC' and 'Windows'.
CD/DVD/BlueRays do wear out, specially if they are from cheap brands.

The coating layer just vanishes, leaving you with an unreadable piece of plastic.
You know, I get told that when I say I enjoy tinkering with computers.
Simple .INI file parser in C, good for embedded systems
Britain's Royal Navy in the First World War - animated
Visualisation of 1M datapoints transcribed by citizen scientists of the OldWeather project from Royal Navy logbooks.
This is my experience exactly. Cars are generally predictable and most drivers are really careful. In my experience most dangerous situations arise from pedestrians walking on te cycle lane abruptly or from other cyclists that don't obey the traffic laws. In the end, I think it's much safer to ride on the road than on cycle lanes (where in addition one is hard to track for drivers).

Oh, and a helmet once saved me from serious head injury. I don't know if it should be compulsory, but I recommend wearing one.
I think it's a minority of developers that are up in arms against in. As a user and developer I've welcomed it on the Mac. Developers can easily certify their apps and it gives customers confidence. If you choose not to certify your app you don't lose out, your software will still run. It will be pretty much the same on Windows (although I find their policies a bit more restrictive). If you don't want to certify, it doesn't prevent your software from working.
http://www.cyclinganalytics.com/ looks interesting.

FYI .tcx files exported from Garmin Connect seem to fail (.fit files are ok).
No, you didn't. My major points were: high taxation and employee laws.

Your rebuttal on taxation is: "In addition, these high taxes are the same high taxes that allow entrepreneurs in France to live off of a 70% unemployment salary for 18 months after they are let go from their company. What goes around comes around."

And? That's fine, but that's not what a startup cares about. Sure, it's what a person cares about, but it does nothing to address my fundamental point about the tax/social charge burden. And your other point about there being an 18 month delay in the first tax return is pointless: the taxes still have to be paid.

On employee mobility, you say: "well, unless of course, you have a periode d’essai (“trial period”) written into the contract (which is the case ~100% of the time), which allows you to let go of an employee with little to no notice for the first three months. Oh, and you can also request to renew the trial period for an additional three months, legally – but you know, if you suddenly hate your employee after six months, well then, buddy, you’re S.O.L."

And? After 6 months you hit all the problems of an employee who is very, very hard to fire.
BBC Domesday Project - Preserving Census Data Between 1984 and 1986
Google Authenticator is just a client for the open OATH protocol. It doesn't rely on Google at all - there's no network connection, it's just a number being calculated from a seed + the current time.
sounds fantastic. I will go buy an optical microscope and the software.

Honestly, after all this research is the best Hitachi could come up with? How about a marble stone with some dots on it? They seem to last a long time too.
Good game, incredibly laggy for my location.
Did you actually read the first line of my comment?

"But it seems you also have a misconception about how human productivity works if you think 60 hours a week (you didn't say this, I'm just guessing based on your tone) will give you a more productive year than 35 or 40 hours."

No, I didn't say that and you shouldn't read that into what I was saying. I was specifically comparing the situation for startups that I've seen having worked in them in the UK, US and France.

And I am specifically NOT wishing to comment on the moral or political motivations for the work environment in those countries. Each country has developed its own history and culture which I do not seek to criticize. My original point was that I do not believe France is a good place for startups. That is all.
So basically, whether they treat advertisers or publishers well is a function of whether they have too many advertisers or too many publishers?

Makes sense - although it does seem a bit like eating your seed corn. As and when the economy recovers and there's an online advertising boom, the balance may shift.
Live is a bit of a stretch, could see it being useful for some situations, though.
I know engineers who get up to 8 weeks of paid holiday because they accrue JRTT (days of reduction of work time) when they work overtime.
I don't like comparing to famous people. Like in basketball, the next Michael Jordan, or the next Kobe Bryant. Maybe the qualities maybe the same, but he is unique in some way.

And to the topic, I think no one can determine it but yourself.
The last Last Supper: How to kill religion with respect
580 days on my corporate default browser (IE9) - 2192 days if I switch to "compatibility view" - and I am unable to expand the stats on either.

On Chrome, 7 days ago. Yay.
Thanks - that's a great reply, and makes a depressing amount of sense.

In the case of page layout issues rather than click fraud, though, I still can't see why it doesn't make more sense to work with the publisher to achieve a layout everyone's happy with. I'm not sure what the bad guys could get out of knowing that Google doesn't like inline ads without a border, for example.
Is your website optimised for social sharing?
"Music rights groups including the Recording Industry Association of Japan say they have developed a system capable of automatically detecting unauthorized music uploads before they even hit the Internet."

"But to do that they need to be able to spy on Internet users’ connections and compare data being transferred with digital fingerprints held in an external database. That can only be achieved with the assistance of Internet service providers who would be asked to integrate the system deeply into their networks."

More gold from the music industry. Some kind person should mention SSL to them...
1 BILLION Facebook users on Earth. Are we there yet?
I don't agree. Taxes are not the same thing as social charges, here's why.

If you make 250k a year, you pay a lot in social charges, but not as much in percentage (usually retirement charges are regressive) and in exchange you get unemployment checks and retirement that are proportional to how much you've put in. In short you get back what you've put in.

On the other hand income taxes are usually progressive (the richer you are the larger the percentage you pay) and richer people benefit less from them, in that they go to finance public transportation, education and hospital which rich people tend to use as much if not less than commoners.
Its how MS marketing works: Metro is new thing they must sell and they are promoting it best they can (and that's not always the best way it could be done).
Classic mode will remain on desktop in the future, and Metro is for tablets and desktops. New versions of Photoshop, Premiere, Audocad, Maya, 3d Studio, SAP, VisualStudio, SQLMS,... will be desktop versions, installed directly, not from MS Store. So really dont know why Minecraft can't be sold on Minecraft web, files downloaded and installed manually, like its done last 20 years, and it will be done probably in next 10 years?
Also, the site uses images to quote text from other sources. The credibility of the actual content went very close to zero in my eyes, right there.
http://bootsnipp.com/ & http://designshack.net/articles/css/20-awesome-resources-for... were recently posted here although they doesn't perfectly match what you're suggesting.
Ah, I stand corrected. So as a founder in France you can receive money from the government when you're sick or if your business tanks? (Most start ups do). Didn't know that. In most other European country's you need to arrange your own thing (via an insurance).
Due to goal of this app is to save tracks over a person's entire life. The data is saved with super high level optimization. Thus it's impossible to export them to other services like Google Latitude.

However, we're working on database synchronization between different devices. Soon you will be able to sync your data between your iPhone and iPad through Dropbox (also for backup). We also have plan for a Mac version in the future, and due to the power of a desktop computer. Photo mapping or more options are expected to show along the fog map.

That's true it's almost impossible to explore over 1% of the world. So the app doesn't lie to you, right? Anyway, the app encourages people to explore more of the world, discover new places, and know more around where you live. Those numbers really do not matter. It's about your life, and you will know how many places (or area) you have explored in your whole life.
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The BBC has always been biased toward microsoft.
I spoke to him briefly at a signing session during a B5 convention, years ago. He was bemused by the attention from fans; during a talk on stage, he went orthogonally to the spirit of the event, reading 'Do not go gentle into that good night' by Dylan Thomas. He did it for our 'edification'. His reading was brilliant, dramatic, deep - I had a new respect for him after that, and I believe the audience felt the same.