skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are pinning a vast economical shift on just one factor? You have a very blinkered view of history. When Voltaire wrote that description he was just seeing the very few anointed few which the English allowed for their own benefit to trade with them in London.

>each center, when it was at its peak, was a place where foreign merchants felt safe and comfortable.

And talking about foreign merchants feeling safe and comfortable, did you ever ask how the American Indians felt as the US become an economic empire, or how comfortable it was for non-europeans to do business in the European colonies? Yes, London allowed a few traders from it's colonies but they worked damn hard to make sure the colonies didn't industrialize. India in particular become deindustrialized under British rule - all of India's cotton mills were packed up and send to Manchester, and the production of cloth forbidden. Even relatively small things like the production of salt in India was forbidden so British salt could be exported to India.

The majority of foreign merchants weren't even allowed to participate in British markets and were violently suppressed if they tried to. This world you speak of - where economies grew because they set up such nice and comfortable places to do business in - never existed.

You say China isn't open to business - why then is the entire Fortune 500 doing business in China and increasingly shifting more and more of their manufacturing there? There is cost, but there is also the fact that besides cost, as Steve Jobs told Obama, the expertise, supply chains and capability is shifting to China.

If you read any recent works on China, like the recent one on China by Dambiso Moyo - she makes the point that China is better at doing business with developing countries than America. http://www.dambisamoyo.com/

>Do foreign merchants feel they can make deals as equals with the native Chinese merchants?

This is exactly the point she addresses, and most African and many developing Asian countries are increasingly favoring dealing with Chinese. The Chinese pay more for resources, build useful infrastructure, and provide much needed goods at affordable prices - all things which are increasingly making it an essential part of the economic center in much of the world.
Sometimes yes, HSTS sites would be harder to crack.

However, many people still manually enter website urls (citibank.com) which redirects to https. If the DNS points citibank.com to a fake citibank phishing site, they simply wouldn't redirect to an https site at all.

Very savvy customers may notice that they aren't connected vis https; most people wouldn't.
I can recommend Start8 which brings the start menu back and boots straight to desktop (one of my annoyances was going straight to the Metro home screen on boot). It's $5, but worth it in my opinion:
http://www.stardock.com/products/start8/
I've began to think of late that this may be the most prevalent market inefficiency in the world. Hiring people you know without due process is a big reason for the incompetence that creeps into companies after a while.

This means that consistently hiring objectively while following due process could be considered a competitive advantage.
Yes! That's exactly what this site is for! Signup and give it a spin -- I'd love more feedback.
It's bound to happen, if not soon, at least once we start electing legislators who have grown up using these services.
Most of these suggestions can be summarized as "don't be selfish".

My own approach is to consider the relationship as something somewhat separate from yourself. You like/love the relationship, and it fulfills you in one way or another, so do what it takes to maintain it. Sometimes that means "spending" some of your own ego.
Your comment is far more meta than the OP, he makes a claim that Yahoo has propensity for killing acquired services... that's germane to the subject of this thread, yours is not...
I can't speak for the Ghostery plugin, however is a JS based site that relies on client-side templates and JS to render the content. What browser and OS are you using?

The site pretty much requires a modern browser (IE9+, iOS, Android 3.0, Chrome, Safari, or FF) but the "degrade gracefully" aspect still need a lot of attention.
Billy, a tiny programming language for children
Ive been running Windows 8 on a Mac inside a VM (Fusion) for about a month.

I like Metro (but this is coming from a mec geek - so there you go). BUT I agree it will take time to get used to. But I suspect a hack will be out shortly allowing you to by pass Metro completely. I can't imagine the corporate world being happy about Metro.
Making it Big: How small online businesses can sell to large organizations
So, the Surface is going to do well because it's the third competitor against two well-established players, and a three-player market is better for consumers? This must finally be the year of the Linux desktop as well.
You should work on the simplest idea you can think of. Start small and improve as you go. Launch something and just focus on covering the hosting cost.

Making a constant $1/day is really hard. If money is the only motivation then you'll give up really easy.
Reminds me of this old obfuscated C contest entry:

http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~manuel/obfuscate/pi.c
YC Startup School: Lessons for a First-Time Founder
Eclipse is only $65 on CSI. It all depends on where you buy the stuff. The nice thing about board games is that good ones remain playable for years, unlike many video games.

Also, no DRM that requires you to be connected to the internet at all times.
Stamped was a very well-designed, well-thought-out app, but its failure to take off proves no one has cracked the "anti-yelp" recommendation app yet. Someone's going to figure it out.
Now that is what I call an accurate headline. Those are indeed 16 fabulous ways to screw up a marriage.
You just nailed what I tried writing in two paragraphs in two sentences.
yeah, what the hell, I was scrolling around and all the suddenly I was reading another article :S and what's up with the iOS-styled sidebar?
Or, maybe, that Libertarians are as extreme as Communists in your books.
Upgrading from XP to Vista or 7 was pretty terrible. I can only assume upgrading from XP to 8 will be even more so.
I've got Windows 8 on my laptop, by the way, and the Metro apps available right now tend to be slow, buggy, under-featured, and ad-ridden. The Metro ecosystem might take off, but given that the Microsoft built-ins are some of the worst of the bunch, it bodes ill.
I was able to buy a retail copy of 7 Ultimate from MS directly for ~$300.
Cool, thankyou, the SABRE looks awesome.
Serious. Looks like they went for the hot new app look which doesn't makes sense if you're just consuming content.
What's with the test parameter in the URL?
I found it interesting that he was so quick to be negative about a product he's never tried.

Ballmer should send him one.
There are undoubtedly huge technological hurdles involved in adding a life support system and a passenger. However, whether or not those hurdles get crossed is largely meaningless as long as the goal is a stunt: "putting a person on mars".
Or car : motorcycle, depending on why the learning curve is low/high.
Intellisult: Insult people intelligently
> I might consider buying a copy of Windows 8 Pro at that price and then waiting until it hits SP1 to install it.

They don't want to release service packs anymore and instead release constant updates including feature/performance upgrades. http://www.instantfundas.com/2012/10/windows-service-packs-n...
Well, they were failing in terms of user traction and numbers yes, but the app itself was really nice to use, well designed and will give Yahoo a nice iOS developer talent pool to work with.

Buying a successful iPhone app start up would have been way more expensive.
The site works with FF 15.0.1 + Ghostery on Mac OS X Snow Leopard
Seems to be a fairly popular opinion and I have to agree with him.

It tries so hard to be a business/productivity device with the built in kickstand and keyboard. Yet the software is all consumer right now. I do think over time once the software gets better the Surface will find its feet.
reference > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modigliani%E2%80%93Miller_theor...
Missing one of the most important ones of all.

And #10--really?
It's a cheap hack to get around the de-duping system for submitted links. This article was submitted 53 days ago, with a good discussion about it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4467612
I would argue that the existence of the iPad mini itself proves the article false. Until the public proved that there was a widespread demand for a smaller, less expensive tablet, Apple ridiculed them.
the example in the picture is invalid...

the syntax would be when i press p move a1's radius 10
In the Windows PC world, of which the Surface is an extension, you are used to being able to shop around for a less expensive model with the same fundamental specs.

They're fighting against OEMs that will try and make something like Surface, only cheaper. If they can, then Microsoft will be competing against them. If they can't because the licensing costs are too high, they'll abandon Windows and actively work against Microsoft.

Apple doesn't have this problem because of how they've structured their market. It's a premium product. You don't look for cheaper versions. At best you look for sales.
In theory. On the PandaBoard I max out a class10 card at 30 MB/sec.
The geography of start-ups
Meteor - A better way to build apps - Parties App Demo
Tastytrade interview; discussion about Mobile CRM and $25M Wasted on SAP
Here's a diff that shows the differences between a fresh Rails installation and RailsApps/rails-stripe-membership-saas as of ea5bc35c02de4be277682dca964bff8dcb84917c.

https://gist.github.com/3955802
The feedback I got from Meetup.com was that:

> the lack of content in your description looked suspicious. Generally speaking, we are known for reaching out to Meetup Groups when the content posted in the group description is unclear. In your case, the content may have been very sparse, but your motive was super clear: "Fans of Vim, the text editor". It's a shame that one of the most clearly defined Meetup Groups ended up setting off an alarm.

The fact that I mentioned Practical Vim had nothing to do with our account being closed down.

By the way, meetup didn't turn down our original request to set up the group. The Vim London group had been established for about 10 days before it was closed down, and we had around 50 members.
> I always figured at some point they would slap a proper navigation UI on the ipad (the icon grid offers a really poor ux)

Do you have any suggestions for something better than the canonical icon grid?
I think that releasing Surface RT first will confuse a lot of customers. Many people are saying incorrectly that Surface will run Windows apps, but my understanding is that Surface RT won't, but a subsequent version will. If this is true, and if this gets Microsoft a lot of bad press, it will basically kill the Surface. Also, the iPad mini, despite my belief that it will completely cannibalize iPad sales and hurt Apple, will likely inhibit people from buying Surface as well.
well I don't particularly like it, but i manage.

the ribbon i think is far less of a drastic UI change then metro.

The ribbon was just changing the text menus to a persistent large tool bar with tabs. Metro is like bolting a touch interface overtop of the standard desktop interface and replacing the start menu with it.
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Things App Designers Should Know about People
> For every one great game like Skyrim, I pay for a dozen mediocre games that I play for maybe an hour or two.

You're clearly doing something wrong then. I'm not a particularly big gamer, but by spending a minute or two online looking at review scores before buying a game, I've almost always been happy with my purchases.

> The amount of time you need to commit to make it worthwhile is exactly the problem and introduces a high risk factor.

I think this is less of a problem these days because you can get a pretty good idea of the quality of a game from online reviews, certainly better than newspaper-based movie reviews that people have relied on for the last half century (not that you can't find movie reviews online now as well).
> it sells premium products at premium prices, and it never discounts.

I fail to see what's premium in a tablet that has an inferior screen compared to the cheaper alternatives.

Apple won the 10" market by virtue of literally doing everything better than the competition. Better screen, better battery life and so on. The iPad mini isn't like that. The $200 Nexus 7 has a much higher pixel density which used to be Apple's own obsession until the mini (retina iPad, iPod Touch, Macbook Pro, iPhone) and they completely ignored the whole pixel density and screen quality angle when comparing the mini to the N7, just stating the obvious "ours is bigger!!!".

When you ask for premium prices, you should deliver premium quality. The iPad mini is not premium enough to warrant premium prices. I would have seriously considered buying one even at a higher price IF it was actually a premium device, but it's not. The N7 is just the better device here, and if there was no software issue with their shoddy fork of android, the Kindle Fire HD 8.9 would've also been interesting with its full hd screen. 1920x1200 8.9 display for... $299, less than the crappy iPad Mini.

I've never felt so underwhelmed by an Apple product since a long time. The iPad Mini feels Meh rather than making me drool at the thought of getting one.
I've been using Iconfinder for many years for my websites and presentations. Free icons quality is amazing. Will premium icons be even better?
We already have "self-driving cars", as well as "self-driving transport pods" that can do all of the things that you describe. Assuming, that is, that you widen the definition of "self-driving" to include having a human being at the steering wheel.

Self-driving cars would make my commute wonderful, but won't be materially different than having a good bus route. The only real difference I can see autonomous vehicles making is to remove a certain class of jobs and creating another class of jobs.

Likewise, you could hire a "generic bipedal utility robot" pretty easily today. It's expensive, but that's mostly a political problem. (For the humor-impaired, that last clause was a joke.)
Did you read the article ? His quote was in the response to this question:

"Windows 8, of course, features both the standard desktop interface and the new Windows 8 UI (formerly known as Metro). The surface, runs Windows RT, doesn’t offer the full desktop experience, but it does run Microsoft’s Office suite in the old-school desktop mode."

You have to agree that WinRT having a full desktop experience that looks identical to the Win8 desktop but not being able to run Windows apps is pretty confusing and compromised.
This actually sounds pretty neat! I really like the decision to stick to print, but it's going to be tough. I'll be contributing as soon as I get home.
Someone needs to fix authentication for banking. Seriously.
Windows 7 does play DVDs out of the box. IIRC, so did Vista. I am surprised they went backward on this.
Not that different from the people who haven't tried it either, and yet are somehow very positive about it.
Raising the value of your firm is not the only reason to celebrate as a company; successfully making it possible to continue operating/expanding for another year is a good thing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_H._Goddard
This made me think of the essay 'Solitude and Leadership' by William Deresiewicz.

From the essay:

"So why is reading books any better than reading tweets or wall posts? Well, sometimes it isn’t. Sometimes, you need to put down your book, if only to think about what you’re reading, what you think about what you’re reading. But a book has two advantages over a tweet. First, the person who wrote it thought about it a lot more carefully. The book is the result of his solitude, his attempt to think for himself. Second, most books are old. This is not a disadvantage: this is precisely what makes them valuable. They stand against the conventional wisdom of today simply because they’re not from today. Even if they merely reflect the conventional wisdom of their own day, they say something different from what you hear all the time. But the great books, the ones you find on a syllabus, the ones people have continued to read, don’t reflect the conventional wisdom of their day. They say things that have the permanent power to disrupt our habits of thought. They were revolutionary in their own time, and they are still revolutionary today. And when I say “revolutionary,” I am deliberately evoking the American Revolution, because it was a result of precisely this kind of independent thinking. Without solitude—the solitude of Adams and Jefferson and Hamilton and Madison and Thomas Paine—there would be no America. So solitude can mean introspection, it can mean the concentration of focused work, and it can mean sustained reading."
Jessica Livingston: What Goes Wrong
Never argue in front of the kids

You know, I have some experience with this. I had a friend in college that had parents that never once argued in front of him. Not once. This guy was completely unable to resolve any conflicts. You know what? People learn conflict resolution by watching others, and that goes for kids.

To give more details about my friend, he was a really nice guy, but he avoided confrontation like the plague. The problem is, you can only avoid it for so long. When he finally did get into it with anyone, he would literally start to fall apart. It drove him to drink and eventually most of his relationships fell apart and he became a binge drinker/alcoholic. He ended up dropping out of school and disappeared from the face of the earth. He drunk dialed me years later and left a message on my answering machine (without any details about where he was). A very, very sad situation.

I'm not saying everyone will react like this, but that watching an argument be properly resolved is a good thing for a kid to see.
Json (and NSDictionary) to Objective c Model Helper
If this catches on and becomes really big, imagine future Youtube Comments! :D

Feedback:

-) could see something like this in the form of a smartphone/browser app where users could insert these statements directly to e-mails / short messages / instant messaging (if gold mine, i am glad for a cut ;)

-) maybe additional features like praising someone, etc

(especially as an app it would deliver to little without more features)
Hacker News indeed...

3 pages? Really??
I think number 12 is the most important. Having fun. (Or even just planning to do fun stuff).

If that stops happening, you are in trouble.
Enterprise Piet? Seems like the OP is just adding more additional features that takes Piet even further away from simplicity.

Ironically, Piet is, an RGB in the land of greyscale PICS. They broke the abstraction layers, mess up logic with implementation, introduce not just different kinds of colors but redundant and irrelevant dark colors and ruined the magic of "everything is an alpha value." Look what a classic two tone Hello World became.)
Agreed. The golden rule could replace a good number of these.
An open letter to prospective team members
On Win8 launch day a look back at Steve Ballmer, circa 2001
Gold functions without electricity, so, I doubt it.
I'm not able to verify this right now, but facebook stores user identification information using EXIF in JPEGs? If so, I wonder whether image hosts delete this info before hosting your file.
The problem was never having to show up. The problem is making sure that disputes are solved fairly, that your debtors can be compelled to pay and that your assets won't be seized.
>If you're not willing to honor the license, what possible point would there be to paying for the software in the first place?

This practice is actually fairly common. For example, almost all the technical people I know have bought OEM licenses rather than retail licenses for previous versions of Windows when they're building new systems. According to Microsoft, an OEM license is only valid if you sell the new system to someone else, not use it yourself[1].

[1]http://www.microsoft.com/oem/en/licensing/sblicensing/pages/...
As funny as this sounds, this is so true.

First marriage: door open, miserable
New relationship: door closed, happy
It's great they are putting mobile at the forefront of their strategic direction.

I don't think Yahoo's web presence can be salvaged - they have just fallen too far behind Google, Facebook, and the multitude of other leading social platforms.

But mobile is a chance for Yahoo to reset it's identity, it's brand, it's UI, it's relationship to users. It has a chance to become cool again.
Plasters.
Aspirin.
For your future reference, Microsoft offers virtual machines of XP, Vista, and 7 for browser compatibility testing. They expire after three months, but for your uses, they're fine. You'd just grab the VHD out of the VM and use any of the import tools to convert it to your preferred VM format.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=1157...
Multiple "HN Trends" sites
A few weeks back my friend and I created HNTrends.com on a whim but since then, we've come to the realization that this has been done before (many, many times) so I thought I'd compile a compilation of the ones we found:

http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/
http://touchwoodsoftware.com/yctrends.html
http://hn.metamx.com/
ours --> http://www.hntrends.com/
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As a developer, I think it's already happened as some degree. Do I feel threatened? Not in the slightest. Plenty of people hire developers on eLance et al at low rates. I've seen no impact on myself or my developer friends. Stand up at a tech meetup and say you're a developer looking for a job and see what happens.

As an entrepreneur? I see a wave of arbitrage opportunities.
Surely the platform only actually matters if you intend on playing online. I've got a PS3 and 360, but never play online (although I don't use them for copied games). I used to worry about gamer score or whatever it's called, but these days I only actually use the ethernet functionality of either when I need to update the firmware to play a game that requires it.
I would add this:

Have a short memory for negative stuff and a really long memory for positive things. Some people have a tendency to do the reverse, and it is really toxic to relationships.
This is really insightful. My parents never (knowingly) argued in front of me either (a few times I heard angry voices in the other room). And when I was younger I definitely avoided confrontation. Hmmm...
I don't comment a lot here, but I did want to come on and make the same point, but you beat me to it Seth. The truth is that we had a quick write up. Our video actually took more than a couple takes because we didn't rehearse or script it and someone would say something silly and we would all laugh. The best way to get in is to have a strong team and understand your product and market. Building your company is the best way to understand your product and market. For the interview I would definitely recommend being rejected as much as possible before the interview so you can quickly and confidently answer any questions or concerns someone can come up with in a 10 minute span. You will find that getting rejected is pretty easy to do. It's just like with women (or men), if put yourself out there, you will get rejected. How you learn from the rejection and better yourself is important.
Debian package for Stripe's python library