skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wasn't going to complain but since someone else experienced it, they are missing for me on Google Chrome on Ubuntu 12.04.
I'm not advocating for or against raising money here, but I think the post offers a very low intensity approach as a meaningful way to build a successful business. And for more entrepreneurs, especially first timers, I don't think that is going to work out.
Would it be reasonable to think of these expletive redacted botnets as a force of nature? As something useful to harden resources against, or just disasters that you hope don't hit? (I'm thinking of this in terms of sour grapes, not poor planning.)
If someone "broke" WinRT enough to get it running on the N7, I'd be very surprised if it wouldn't also be possible to get a compiler going and build normal desktop apps. It's still capable of running at least a significant subset of "classic" Windows (at minimum, however much it takes for Office to run); so once it's been convinced to disregard security, it should theoretically be possible to get many other Windows apps compiled for and running on ARM as well.

That said, if you want to run desktop-style applications, you're far better off just buying one.
Unity is a long way from perfect on tablet or PC. Having said that the sidebar has grown on me. Since almost every monitor out there is 16:9; vertical space is precious and another 50 pixels gives me another 2-3 lines of code on the screen.

The best way to use the sidebar is to put your most commonly used program at the top and then launch them with Logo+<Number>.

If you spend some time setting up your shortcut keys you can actually use much of your system mouse free.

So I'm not really sure that it is targeted towards tablets. It could however be adapted to be tablet friendly a lot more easily than the MS Windows interface or older Window managers could be.

So rather than having this jarring difference between Metro and Desktop like you do in Windows 8 they could have a much more subtle transition of the same interface depending on whether a mouse/keyboard was plugged in or not.
Hire a copy editor.
A quick search of their listings shows that HouseTrip has less than 3000 Paris options compared to Airbnb's 10,000+.

OF course, that doesn't account for quality. When I was looking for Italian rooms on airbnb, there were numerous generic entries by professional bed&breakfast operators...it was something similar to what you see overrunning Craigslist's apartment listing these days.

However, I'm not sure that the number of lower-quality entries is enough to offset airbnb's advantage. After all, what sets airbnb apart from craigslist is the ability to easily filter by recommendation/quality, thanks to the underlying social network.

It's possible that a native startup can beat back an American juggernaut...but when has that happened? I can think of Groupon in China and, well, Facebook and Twitter in China. I know there are such cases in Europe that have slipped my mind...but AFAIK, all of them involved European-to-European transactions (just as China's groupon clones are Chinese-to-Chinese transactions)...I know a lot of Europeans travel but I imagine the market to capture is still America-to-Europe type visitors, and Airbnb will seemingly always have that advantage.

So again the numbers in HouseTrip's niche seems to be this:

Supply: The number of people who can rent out their entire home

Demand: The number of people who can afford to rent out an entire home (and then, the subset of those who would rather just get a more centrally-located hotel room instead).
Except the odds of you winning again are no less than any other person winning since your previous wins are unrelated.
Privacy Roundup - Oct 19 2012 - 1st Edition
Those facts kind of debunked any point the article was making. Interesting look on the past perhaps.
TL;DR "Google didn't help at all. I got lucky and was able to re-register with my number before someone else did."
How is it that Hollywood Accounting is legal? The US has its problems, but people's leal rights is one thing the US is usually pretty good about.
I worked for GE in the late 90's (as a Software Architect/Mgr) and dealt with the reviews of my team and had visibility to other teams practices. I can tell you getting rid of the bottom 10% was generally a good thing. But it is how you treat these people and how you "get rid of" them that matters. I am not personally aware of how Microsoft handles it, but I know in my group (and division) we helped the C players find other projects or divisions where their skills would be a better fit; or in the case where that wasn't possible we helped ease their transition out of GE.

We also never said they were bad people, just bad fits for the project/team -- and I know my management dictated that respect for them was not optional. I think a lot was made and overblown about that process because really it was a healthy organization doing what it should. And in the end the remaining employees were more motivated because we didn't make them hang with C players, and I saw a number of people that felt it was handled properly and with respect to those leaving, so they felt they would be treated with respect to. Many times we would let people job hunt, print resumes onsite etc just to help them with that transition.

Also, I am sure some groups in GE that handled things better than others, so I am have no doubts other GE people would call GE's policy horrible and badly implemented. But from my experience it was healthy overall. My management also made it very clear to me that if any of those bottom 10% felt shocked to be there than I failed as a leader and I would be held accountable. If you are in that bottom 10% you should know it for 6 months or longer before you are let go, otherwise it is unfair to you and there is no way to recover.

I also would agree with the comment that GE had a lot of inefficiencies that it needed to deal with, and I would say a lot of bloat of C players that had invaded and camped out for years. So I believe it was a good process for a limited time, and once you get back to being lean it isn't necessary, and could hurt morale pretty easy because you are letting go of people that are still performing with really no valid reason. And at least from what I saw at GE, we never took it this way. I never once was told there was a mandate to terminate 10% of my staff or team, and I was trained at the famed Crotonville facility.

As for how Microsoft handles it, there are a million ways to blow it and cause people to feel unappreciated and demoralized. Who know's what they are doing.

The comment on who knows if it worked for GE, I think has some validity, but in reality I think it did the organization a huge amount of good. If for nothing else to remove the bloat and get a bit leaner. Of course, I would argue a company with 300k people is never really lean, but that is a different discussion.
If you add the following to your .bash_profile, you'll get command line completion of your hosts:

function _ssh_completion() {
perl -ne 'print "$1 " if /^[Hh]ost (.+)$/' ~/.ssh/config
}
complete -W "$(_ssh_completion)" ssh
Probably to watch all of Hacker News squirm.
I will rephrase myself: the original statement is

you can do V with F

to which the reply was

no, you can't do V with F

and the subsequent reply was

but you can do V with M

and I pointed out that F does not imply V. Your current reply is

Clojure has both F and M and can do V

which is obvious, since M implies V already, but still unrelated to what F can do.
Let's imagine using just one deck. Your odds of 15/49 could easily be 12/45, or 15/20, depending on what cards have come before it.
There is no other plane in the world like Air Force One
Brazilians speak portuguese...
Startup School 2012: Live Feed
As hundreds of HN'ers descend on the Stanford Campus for the 2012 Startup School it would be great to crowdsourse a live text feed of the event on HN for those who couldn't make it to Palo Alto. If you couldn't make it use this area to ask a question and see if those of us who are here can get your questions answered for you. This will be a fun experiment :)
I have to say, i love this, crazy, for a language that is really for transferring data.

I guess you could do this with YAML too?
FBI got Hacked, Reveals Hundreds of Passwords
The people making comments about Unity on this device have some valid points, but are missing the forest for the trees. One of the major themes of 13.04 and the entire point of this demo is to fix the core of Ubuntu, as was referenced in Mark's blog:

"I think it’s time to look at the core of Ubuntu and review it through a mobile lens: let’s measure our core platform by mobile metrics, things like battery life, number of running processes, memory footprint, and polish the rough edges that we find when we do that."

Don't expect the Unity UI experience to be optimized for this device in the 13.04 time frame. That's not the goal.

Not speaking officially here, just trying to help people connect the dots of what Canonical have publicly revealed thus far.
They were already using Redis and made this? They could have just partitioned and replicated them for scaling.
Build Relationships, Not Just Customers
Oh man, I have been thinking about this problem for a while now. Glad to see the start of some simple solutions to make this more bearable.
Cut the 'in my experience'. MS objectively has a large support infrastructure that goes through to the engineers. Also 'should' fits better than 'could' when that is a sentence by itself. You don't need to neuter the message to be polite.
Journalist denounces Dr. Phil in open letter: "a public mental health menace"
Could you email me? I'd like to talk more about this offline: ryan at dailypath dc
Show HN: Uptyme - Monitor downtime of all your website projects in one place.
The GitHub Learn Hub
Startup selling itself for $800.
Pay-what-you-want ebook bundle breaks $1 Million in sales
This looks to be more like just an IR parser. I was imaging that it actually ran LLVM IR.
Plenty of public companies have support departments. Support services hurt margins from a naive analysis of a business. Good support services can strengthen a brand, which can create loyal customers over time.
Here's the problem with skill bars: Bjarne Stroustrup rates himself at 7/10 for C++ knowledge. So if the language creator is at 7/10, where is anyone but the most skilled programmers? Probably somewhere around the 3 to 4 range tops (and the scale might be logarithmic).

But this is a problem because you won't get any jobs if you say your skill in the language they use is 3/10. And of course you have to compete against people even less skilled than yourself who rate themselves at 9/10.

Maybe the way to solve this is to take the space used for skills and use it to show off your projects. If you're new to a language, your most interesting project will be something small and simple. But for the languages you're most comfortable in, you will likely have built something awesome.
> I've also seen Hulu using fansubs for some of their Korean TV [1].

Hulu wasn't "caught" using fansubs - they have a legitimate deal with DramaFever[0][3], which in turn gets the subtitles from K-drama fansubbing groups like Haru2subS (the group you mentioned) and WITH S2:

> DramaFever has been working closely with the broadcasters as well as fansub groups such as WITH S2 to make dramas available with high quality subs.[1]

> Today we are presenting a drama that needs no introduction: Boys Over Flowers. We are proud to be the first to legally release this online for our US audience along with the amazing subtitling from WithS2.[2]

As for this:

> Ironically, many fansubs are of higher quality than official subs, especially when it comes to idiomatic expressions in the source language.

It makes perfect sense when you consider that official subbers are required to make the subs as accessible as possible, to create a broad audience. On the other hand, fansubbers translate how they want to. Although this might put off some newbies, most watchers get acclimated to and eventually come to expect the fansubbers' approach. A similar phenomenon can be observed in the anime fansub community.

0: http://www.dramafever.com/

1: http://www.d-addicts.com/forum/viewtopic_77984.htm

2: http://blog.dramafever.com/2009/04/we-got-boys-over-flowers/

3: http://www.hulu.com/companies/311
Because Intel chips and boards are ovespecced and overpriced for the use hey were put to.
I believe that most people pay. It is perceived to be cheaper to pay off the extortionists than to mitigate the DoS attack.
This was pretty interesting on launching a massive DDOS and how to stop one. http://hackerne.ws/item?id=4535226
Freemium Regret on the App Store
In origin-of-life experiment, cooperative molecules win out
Not all PC users are annoyed by the side-bar -- I really like it, despite thinking I'd hate it when I first upgraded. I actually have my Windows 7 PC at work set up in a very similar way -- task bar at the side. In both, Win-[1-9] will switch to the respective application. Most applications I use are pinned, so I don't have to interact with either start panel very often.

My Unity task bar auto-hides, and with maximised windows losing their title bars and menus (until I disabled that feature as I like focus-follows-mouse) living in the panel, full-screen applications take up pretty much the whole screen.
This happens all the time one after another.

We never know something is dangerous until someone realises, and then everyone says, well, oops.

Then it becomes common knowledge and everyone will say, of course man, X is dangerous, it's obvious.
Your mistake in turn is to assume that it's impossible for people
to judge their own abilities.

Lots of people think they could write a decent novel. Most are wrong.
Suppose only .01% actually could. If your argument were correct,
JK Rowling should assume her chances of writing a decent
novel are .01%. She feels fairly confident that she could, but
she has to discount that, because people are often mistaken about
such things, and "fall back to the raw figures."

It is possible to know that one is good at something.
Chrome apps (apps, not websites) use proprietary Chrome APIs beyond HTML.

Behind Chrome, Google uses plugins, like webgl for Maps and the Talk plugin for chat.

Why does HTML " 5 " matter more than the actual functionality?
Where did he actually speak against the regime? It seemed to me that the interviewer spoke intermittently against the regime but not that he did.
After years of jealously/furtively reading HackerNews at my BigCo IT job, finally an advantage! I can get my account manager at MSFT and GOOG on the phone whenever I need something, and they make sure we get help quickly.

All it takes is spending a significant amount of money with them, year after year...
You need a 'peer-reviewed' journal for a paper to be relevant in your cv in Spain. And by relevant I mean "it DOES count as a paper". If it is not 'peer-reviewed' it does not count.

(Even if they are cr*p, yes).

You may have proved anything. You may even be Thurston. If you do not have 'papers' (like most of Thurston's second era works), they are NOTHING in Spain.

I guess something similar happens in other countries...
Assuming that you can get the source to these desktop applications and re-compile them for ARM. I also doubt that older Win32 libraries will be compatible with WinRT.

You would basically be getting WinRT "homebrew" like you do with some consoles, a cool hack but probably miserable for getting work done.

OTOH an ARM based ubuntu might be a usable dev system.
The Django tutorial is part of the official documentation and is kept up to date with the rest of the framework: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/intro/tutorial01/
> Personally, I use quite a few public/private keypairs for the various servers and services that I use, to ensure that in the event of having one of my keys compromised the dammage is as restricted as possible.

If you keep all those private keys on the same machine and tend to load them all into ssh-agent frequently, then there's little point in that. People forget that keypairs are not like passwords -- if Github gets compromised, nobody can do anything with the public key you gave them.

Unless you treat the keys very differently (like having a special key that you rarely ever decrypt), there's no reason to have more than one per device.
That was intentional, highlighting how little people who impose tech decisions actually know, think or research about this stuff.

"Java/JavaScript" is the worst, but I'm sure we've all encountered others.
because great businesses, for both customers and employees, are not built on pure efficiency.
Quite a few artists/bands have crowdfunded albums on pledgemusic (http://www.pledgemusic.com/). This seems to work reasonably well for established artists that already have a decent fanbase but I'm not so sure about how well it would work for a band that doesn't have a group of loyal fans to turn to.
The interviewer introduces the word dictator. He goes along, but doesn't actually make any criticisms - pretty much all he says of substance is that he wants peace and unification, which are not particularly 'South Korean' ideas. If a similar film had been made with the current leader 20 years ago, I wouldn't be surprised at all.
It isn't obvious at first glance that this small xml file actually expands to billion "lols". You really have to give the bad guys credit for ingenuity.
Only window when not sitting at the 30" monitor at their desk, right?
Not for all day productivity.
In the US, there was Pickett v. Prince [1], wherein Pickett made a guitar out of Prince's symbol and Prince copied the guitar. Both the trial court and the appellate court agreed that Pickett had no copyright because he had no permission to make the derivative work.

Pickett's argument was based largely on an interpretation of 17 USC 103(a) [2] that implied he could own the copyright on the portions that were non-infringing, and the court soundly rejected this argument. Internationally the wording is similar:

From a translation of the Finnish Copyright Act [4]:

"Art. 4. A person who translates or adapts a work or converts it into some other literary or artistic form shall have copyright in the work in that new form, but his right to dispose of it shall be subject to the copyright in the original work"

The Berne convention states: "(3) Translations, adaptations, arrangements of music and other alterations of a literary or artistic work shall be protected as original works without prejudice [3] to the copyright in the original work."

I haven't read any Finnish caselaw. However, I expect it to be incredibly rare for a functional legal system to determine the act declares it acceptable to create derivative works sans permission in a manner that inhibits the owner's management of derivative works. (With the exception of mechanically licensed derivatives, such as song covers.)

[1] http://openjurist.org/207/f3d/402/ferdinand-pickett-v-prince

[2] http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/103

[3] "Without any loss or waiver of rights or privileges" - West's Encyc. Of American Law

[4] http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/text.jsp?file_id=127088

[5] http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/ip/berne/trtdocs_wo001.html#... (Article 2, Item 3)
This number is ignoring that the tax structure of the time was quite a bit different than today. It's more enlightening to look at effective tax rates, which depending on the year were around 20-40%. (Edit: Actually very rarely far from 20%. http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxfacts/displayafact.cfm?Doc... shows effective personal tax rates on the 1% from 1979, and this http://www.freeby50.com/2010/08/effective-tax-rates-1934-to-... shows average effective taxes from before then (and after match the first link fairly closely).)
:(){ :|: & };:

Even simple bash scripts can do weird things like this. And that's a lot smaller.
Whos.amung.us - pro accounts
Microsoft has always provided amazing support for our Office 365 account (hosted Exchange, like Google Apps). Its a paid service though ($6/user/month), so perhaps that's the difference in our experiences.

Most recently, I filed a support ticket online and my phone rang a few minutes later. On the other end was an MS support rep who stayed on the phone with me for 40 minutes, including a screen share, until my issue was resolved. At the end of the call he left me with his direct # and email, and said that I could contact him directly with any future inquiries.

Really can't ask for much more than that.
this reminds me of the "impossible is nothing" video resume.

why list all the fp and nosql stuff when you're github repos are all css and javascript?

i'd suggest that you link to your "deployed" projects instead of showing these self-assessed skill bars.

tl;dr site looks terrible
What should be considered is not the maximal tax rate but the effective tax rate (after deductions, evasions and so forth).

Do you have any doubt that with the paper accounting of the 50's it was significantly easier to evade paying taxes? Do you really think anyone actually paid 70%?
They have SSH, so they are better than Android and iOS tablets for this task.
For the curious: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_bomb
> it seems to require a UDP connection

What is a UDP connection?
It's cool that YC has produced enough services to allow you to do this sort of thing.

One thing that I found interesting were the gaps in the trip. The most economically "important" pieces were skipped over. Things like the airline service, fuel consumption, and potentially more innovative ground transportation. The companies that made products and services that "actually" got you to Mountain View and back.

It will be interesting to see if YC can produce companies that start to close these gaps.
Resolution? RAM?
Yup. Totally could have made a choice I wasn't happy with.

Opted to make a choice I was happy with instead.
Don't forget that many bands consist of kids in their late teens and early twenties who might be more naive than you are and who may not have a full understanding their chances of making it big vs getting screwed over.
The key is that he looks and sounds like an American asian kid, which affects what you think he must have been saying. This talk about unification and peace is nothing remotely controversial. Both Israel and Iran, for example, espouse an interest in peace on one hand, but they edge toward war and have generals saying idiotic belligerent things on the other hand.

I doubt North Korea would show this domestically, but that doesn't mean they would find it unacceptable for export to other countries if it increases sympathy and brings on another round of aid. They have been alternating between provocations and pity for decades now...
So I have to buy another computer just to send a file from my new computer to a printer?
Right, it's not really a disadvantage. But I wouldn't say that it's a requirement, either. A hash where each input character only affects certain output characters is less than ideal, but it's not a critical flaw. You could make one at least as good as md5 if you had the desire to.
I think that the reddit style [NSFW] tag was in poor taste. This is either a suitable post for HN News or it is not. If we have descended to posting juvenile crap then we are in deep trouble - equally, if we do not understand the nature of the HN community then it is better not to post.
I like the sidebar, just reduce the icon size to something normal and you have something similar to Windows 7's panel.
'iPad Mini' Pricing to Begin at Approximately $329
I'll try it for the predictive text ... but, what do you mean "you don't have to login again"? I use a public key login on ssh (so login is invisible), and you can set up your ssh command line in your config file to do so, e.g. I often use

ssh beagle3@remote.host -t 'screen -x || screen'

And it works beautifully. (I'm heavy screen user, so even if I switch to mosh, there will be screen underneath...)
Thanks for the perspective. Skill bars are clearly non-trivial.

I think I will swap out the skill bars. Maybe some code/explanations would work better.