skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is your programming done via SSH to a linux desktop or VM? You can SSH from a chromebook no problem: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/secure-shell/pnhec...
1) The self-driving cars are hardly vaporware - not only do they actually work, but Ford and other companies have large investments in the space too. Moreover, Nevada and California have already legalized robot cars.

2) Maps may no longer be the most innovative product in the space, but Google defined the tiled, online map, and they forced Apple to provide free turn-by-turn by doing so on Android.

Moreover, Google has made two press announcements (we made our own maps via StreetView, and then we made it free on Android) that destroyed the market cap of the major nav companies to the tune of double digit market cap percentage losses, which amounted to billions of dollars, in a day... twice.

3) As for Google Glass, I don't expect much from this project actually, but vaporware is not the right term for something that is already being worn and used.
"why it doesn't come with 4G/LTE?"

Because that would eat your 100MB data plan in 42 seconds. Not too mention it would probably increase the price. Nobody actually needs 4G yet, we just like it in our fancy things. It has no place in budget (attainable) hardware.

"And 100MB a month? Seriously?"

Because that is what Verizon, a company that makes its money off selling wireless data, is willing to give away for free (or a subsidized price paid by google). I'm sure they will not hesitate to sell you more if you are in the minority who need to watch 3Mb videos on the bus...
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Android usually has features long before iOS.
If $20 is a "huge risk" for you, you probably shouldn't be buying any frivolous software.
Looks like it's coming from Syria:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hXpzxDWlS...
Surprise: The US Dollar is a Virtual Currency
Slightly rough characterization of iOS apps, but I must agree that apps on Windows 8 desktop can essentially be viewed as full software products. Plus, it will frequently be backed by businesses so money may not be as sensitive.

Personally, I hope that tradition PC game makers take advantage of the MS Shop and continue to charge the same as they currently do. This could translate very well for other software products/apps as the games largely drove the $.99 revolution.
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Muddy lake bed holds radiocarbon 'Rosetta stone'
EDIT: Fixed formatting (was italicized by mistake).

Just because something is not the first to market doesn't make it not innovative[1]. Android is not a feature-by-feature copy of the iPhone, and I think various Android features (Google Now for one) are quite innovative. Furthermore, Apple also "copied" various Android features (notifications for instance). Similarly, while the Kinect is universally considered as innovative, I think Microsoft's Metro UI + OS is also quite innovative in that they came up with a refreshingly different and clean interface.

First to market may drive important metrics like adoption/success/profit, but doesn't define whether a product is innovative or not.

[1] sorry for the multiple negatives in that sentence.
Thin/Unicorn/Rainbows have been around for like 3+ years.
Building with Bootstrap.Some great ways to use Bootstrap.
A better link might be https://status.github.com/
http://freemoviesite24.com/2012/10/kamaal-dhamaal-malamaal-2...
Actually pbiggar is correct – the going market rate for employees (or, at least, engineers) in an acquihire is usually around $1-2MM/employee. E.g. a small startup with 4 engineers would be acquihired for $4-8MM. Thus, if this were a full acquihire and Color has 20 engineers, I'd expect the acquisition price should have been around $20-40MM, not $2-5MM.

In an acquihire like this, the acquisition price and each employee's final compensation and options grant from Apple are entirely unrelated. diego has an excellent post in this thread covering that in more detail. [1]

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4670637
I was in the middle of forking a ruby gem... I really hope it wasn't me that took it down! The second after it finished the site went down...
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Or Apple just went to the team directly and hired them, and the $2-$5 mil are signing bonuses.

This isn't an aquihire situation, this is just Apple hiring a bunch of people.

It's unlikely Color has any real leverage in this case.
Jeez. How do I become the guy that requires 2M to stick around? Are these often irreplaceable programmers or are they typically product management types?
Exactly - developers doing Windows 8 need to take advantage of the fact that they get inexpensive distribution directly onto desktops and laptops, where their apps can be treated like "full software" products, as you put it, and not mobile apps.
I enjoy that the Economist takes a strong editorial line. Sometimes I agree and sometimes I disagree but I respect their opinion and color.
Haha typical timing, i've not touched GH in days, and right when i want to...

Ho hum. Some HN distraction time for me then!

EDIT: Youtube too? Checked on http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/youtube.com also
The search for evolutionary biological explanations for these kinds of things can be a great party game, but it's about as close to actual science as most scientific debate on the internet: not very.
Thoughts on the Display, Price, and Name of the Impending Smaller iPad
I have an iPad but it is primarily a consumption device and after a couple of hours it starts to feel like I have reached 'the end of the internet'.
A light laptop with a really fast browser and a physical keyboard is paramount so I can write, comment, chat, email and multitask. This Chromebook really hits a sweet spot for me both with size and cost!
This completely ruins this movie and its predecessors for me. Here I was thinking that, say, everything the Hulk does obeys the laws of physics.

One major quibble -- why the hell does his chart's y-axis start at 100?!
Having been involved in an informal[1] acquihire a long time ago, I both agree and disagree with this.

Engineering talent isn't always correlated with great organizational awareness, so while some of the better people will have moved on by the time it gets to this stage, there will still be strong engineers left.

That being said by this stage it is unlikely to be a team on top of its game, and if the stories about an increasingly poisonous work environment are to be believed, Apple is going to have to do a winnowing process, and keeping the "team" together may well be counter productive.

[1] Informal acquihire in the sense that our CEO got wind of a company closing down its remote sub (remote to them, local to us) and made a blanket offer to the team
Youtube is down as well, with a 500 internal server error. Not sure if it's related.

see https://twitter.com/search/realtime?q=youtube+down

EDIT: Youtube is back up (~5 mins later), so presumably unrelated.
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Yes https://status.github.com/
Confirmed: all EBS volumes were 100GB.
YouTube appears to have gone down as well.
Sorry, I really meant cloudy.
"Avoid the pain of Windows 8"

And say hello to the pain of not finding suitable drivers for half your devices.
YouTube.com Is Down
> UTF-8 only encompasses 7-bit ASCII

What? This is wrong. UTF-8 encodes a lot more than just ASCII.

UTF-8 is compatible with ASCII in that all of the characters ASCII and Unicode have in common are represented the same way in ASCII and UTF-8. Going beyond ASCII involves the introduction of multi-byte representations in UTF-8, and that takes you smoothly (that is, no surrogate pairs) out into the entire rest of Unicode. As a bonus, it's always possible to verify that a given string of bytes is valid UTF-8, given that there is a nontrivial structure imposed on UTF-8 multi-byte encodings that is very unlikely to occur by chance in any non-UTF-8 sequence of bytes.
They could just raise the price to $1000 once they get close to the token limit.
How I would think that it should work is the client downloads your token when you register the software. If you decide to share your license, the more people who use your token, the more likely that token will hit the 1,000 per day / 350 requests per hour limit on the twitter API. If you were to post your registration info on a sharing site you could effectively make that token useless for you and everybody else who was trying to use it.

If somebody figures out how to trick the registration to get free API tokens on the other hand, that would be really bad for the company.
Xubuntu 12.10 is out
I don't think the ranking algorithm is that simple - I think it takes into account recency of votes, although I'm not sure. The first example does not seem suspicious to me, although the second one is surprising to me.
I've got one on preorder. I'm a gentoo dev in my spare time, and I definitely intend to get Gentoo running on it. I kind of have a leg up though since Chrome/ChromiumOS is built on Gentoo. In that regard, it already does run Linux, just their custom spin.
Developers aren't their target audience.
> terminal with antialiased Source Code Pro Ligth font

Just have an ssh-able desktop/VM somewhere with emacs, install https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/secure-shell/pnhec..., and set the font to Source Code Pro (font instructions are in http://git.chromium.org/gitweb/?p=chromiumos/platform/assets...)
Tweetbot for Mac finally comes in for a landing - with a $20 price tag.
i would've been worried have i not moved away to bitbucket few weeks ago.
Since when is general relativity considered Newtonian?! This page is just dumb.
Youtube hacked?
Youtube is down?
is it a good thing to have everything built in?
It happens semi-frequently and is noted on their status page. Why do we need a submission about this every time on HN?
Youtube homepage returning 500 Internel Server Error
A team of highly trained monkeys has taken down YouTube.
YouTube also appears down at the moment. Coincidental?
GitHub down
That's it.
OP said Android tablets, which excludes phones.
Yup, showing Internal Server Error.
YouTube is down? Highly trained monkeys are hard at work.
Youtube is down (500 error)
Yes, it turns you they're experiencing a major outage http://f.cl.ly/items/3T2M0b2s3A3Q0d2z2l3x/Screen%20Shot%2020...

status.github.com
This is a cliched reply that would be appropriate a few years ago.

Nowadays, I've found that I can install Ubuntu on more laptops and desktops and get better driver support from the initial install than even Windows can in many cases.

With Windows, I've had to scrounge around for drivers and pray they're compatible with Windows 8 Professional 64bit Premium Plus Bonus edition on the same laptops.
Someone posted this picture: http://i.imgur.com/E6Fmo.png [1]

Maybe YouTube is setting up a new design and that's why most of us keep getting a 500 error.

[1] Source: http://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/11p32s/not_sure_whe...
That's incorrect. I believe I heard this via Cable on John Gruber's 'The Talk Show,' but you can still have an app in the MAS and provide updates even if the app is not available for sale.
The iPhone actually uses TomTom maps, not Nokia. That said, no maps but Google maps has street view. Plus, they are moving into mapping shopping malls, parks, stores, and even tourist spots. On top of this, they use image recognition with their street view data to improve accuracy of their maps on several levels.

Don't forget the sheer amount of integrated information such as transit and traffic routes. Google maps has continually set the bar for mapping. They are so successful that people no longer even recognize that all these features were not commonplace prior to Google maps.

Edit: and if you define innovation to things in production, I straight up disagree. Innovation happens prior to production.
Good thing it's git. When perforce went down when I worked with it, that's it. No work could be done, because if you wanted to edit a file, it would need a network connection to open the file. Just another reason DVCSes are awesome.
Yeah, V8 doesn't do that. Meaning the effort to support Windows 8 RT will/would be large and possibly with little reward.
I don't mean to deny your gut/emotional response. But isn't all of capitalism based on the idea that two entities can make an exchange that is mutually beneficial?

On the purely economic level, Google is offering a hunk of electronics and software for $250. (There are secondary economic effects too; the Chromebook will encourage the use of Google services, etc).

On the emotional level, Google is offering an an experience and trying to show how it could be a part of your family life and make it better. And you are offering Google employees a chance to feel like they're making the world better (speaking as a Googler, I can say that I definitely care about that sort of thing).

As a completely honest question: do you feel this way about ads that sell diapers/baby-food/etc?

ps. Congratulations on fatherhood!
Its a conspiracy - went to Youtube to waste time until Github resolved itself...

Clearly HFT and software-patents are to blame.
YOUTUBE.COM - DOWN
Youtube.com is currently offline due to unknown reasons, many users speculate a new hacking group.
it's so weird to me that people feel this way, when NPR is clearly much more Right-ward than me and my friends - but of course, I've lived in San Francisco, Oakland, and Portland.

I wish there was a news source Left of me! It would be fascinating.
They say their plan is to both release it for profit and continue to support it, all under the constraint of a limited number of user tokens provided to them by Twitter.

I wonder if they considered a subscription option instead of a one time payment. A lower subscription price (say a dollar a month) might have sounded good to users psychologically, kept a revenue stream going for the stated future development, and offered the potential for recapture of user tokens as users drop out of their ecosystem over time for whatever reason, which they could then convert to revenue again.

I really have to imagine that they at least considered it, -I'd love to know why they decided against it.
Although 'never' is a very hard word, I found that in real live most code that uses early exists simply breaks SRP (come to think of it 99% of the time that is the case)

I know people will say "but I will only write this little return statement here" before you know it you will "add this little assignment before it returns" ...

Never might be strong but it make a very good point.
Google just called their employees monkeys ?
I'm considering using GitHub as the primary (or only) single sign-on for my new web service. Even with the occasional downtime, I still think it's a great choice for hacker-related web services. I'd rather take my service offline every few months than make people remember yet-another-password.
Anyone have any more information on this?
In search alone, Google launches hundreds of improvements per year. Most people would call that innovation. The biggest recent example is the knowledge graph, and there was stuff like instant, but they're constantly doing algorithm changes behind the scenes that are not as visible.

They also do a lot of stuff for advertisers (their real customers) that you probably won't know about if you don't manage advertising campaigns.

Android has had lots of innovations, such as being the first NFC-enabled mobile OS, the first with turn by turn directions, voice actions and the quality of their speech recognition in general (which requires constant innovation), etc.

Google Translate.

Google Takeout.

Google Transparency Report.

The Google+ sharing model (circles), which forced Facebook to respond and implement something similar.

etc.
back up :S
I would expect their deployment strategy might be more planned out. It could be the issue though.
The internet is collapsing folks. YouTube is down as well: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4670859
OP, even your site is down
Their api still works, and hence so does vid.io

Evidence that they're not using their own api for their dashboard!
What does "Used Approved" mean from Lexus?
Now to wait for GitHub.
What is a ‘Mobile’ device after all?
Freemium Regret on the App Store, or, too nice to monetize?
For a while it was showing an internal server error: http://imgur.com/RbO21
I think the more important question is, how do you find domains that are about to expire? I don't know what the domain hoarders do but here is what I do.

I discovered that pool.com maintains a list of domains that are set to expire. I download and filter the list and then email myself a list of domains that match my requirements (.coms under a certain length, no numbers or other funny characters, maybe .coms with a specific word in them). I actually just wrote this script, it had been on my to-do list for over a year. The daily email contains hundreds of domains so I might have to filter it more.

https://gist.github.com/3914495
Here's my script, it only uses PHP to get tomorrow's date, otherwise it's standard linux utilities like wget, egrep, unzip, cut, sed...

I have it set up as a daily cron job.

I'm interested in suggestions on how to snipe/reserve/etc domains as soon as they become available.
I'm learning to love git. How awesome is it to be able to continue committing, branching and all that locally even when the server goes down?
Interesting. I don't see any of those issues on all four Windows machines I use daily(Work PC, home desktop, laptop, HTPC). There might be something with your setup, network or hardware causing this.
US and UK only...

This pretty much has to be the last gasp for ChromeOS, it makes no sense to differentiate the software this much between Android tablets and Chromebooks with identical internals and just a slight difference in form factor. Next time around they can just put a touchscreen on it and load it with Android 5.0.
Some please, for God's sake, get rid of the all-caps title. Also, the site this links to is (ironically) down itself.

https://status.github.com/ is a better link or this: http://www.isup.me/github.com
Always nice to know it's not just you.
It wouldn't be so bad if it was 'A' submission. It is a little annoying when it is 10 submissions every minute though.
This is true indeed.
I memorably referred to Rust's significant semicolons as "the worst thing in the language" after my very first read through the tutorial, last November.

Almost a year later, I'm just as in love with Rust's semicolon rules as Armin is. However, I bet new users will still be just as instinctively revolted as I initially was.
YES, IT IS.
Powers of Ten (short film, 1977)
Xbox may not be the legacy they deserved, but better them leaving school thinking of microsoft with something positive that they enjoy, than something which they mock and is easy to pirate (well was when I was at high school) like windows xp.
Caught sean parker listening to a popular Indian song. 
Listen to the original song here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZE3kIWTEhI
Is this good for programming through an SSH shell?

I am looking for the most portable device that I can use for programming. The key concerns are: Weight + size, and keyboard layout. Since I code through an SSH shell, the laptop's mem + CPU specs are not very important for me.

I believe that the Mac Book Air 11" has a good enough keyboard. (I haven't tried it for long, but the keys are the same size as the 13", just closer together.)

The Chrome book is only slightly thicker (0.8" vs. MBA 0.7"), only slightly heavier (2.5 lbs vs. 2.4 lbs), and wider (13.2" vs. 11.8"). Weight and thickness important here. It's also much cheaper.

What do you think are the downsides of using the chrome book (or a macbook air 11") for primary coding through an SSH shell?

[edit: Is there some store I can play with a chromebook in real life?]
Chrome could use the IE10 JavaScript engine presumably (depending on how easy it is to hook native APIs back into the rendering engine from JavaScript).
Youtube is running ok now. But Github( http://www.github.com ) is still down. Is it a hack?
GitHub Goes Down With “Major Disruption”
I was guessing you didn't mean that, that part of the response was in the context of the parent comment. I wasn't entirely clear, I'm sorry.

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As far as "A-Levels" banding together to get hired, I'm not totally sure where I stand after I think about it. Some questions:

-What exactly, is the advantage of hiring unproven pre-conceived teams for a project over assembling teams through individual hires? Don't acquihires already meet this need (proven team)?

-Why would a company pay a few million signing bonus to an unproven team?

-If the developers were already grouped together, why wouldn't they work for themselves?

-Wouldn't an "A-level" developer be concerned about companies that need and/or want to buy flocks of talent?

(perhaps there is a certain size/type of company that this service would be ideal for, I'm not sure which company that is.)

-Wouldn't a multi-MM signing bonus to an unproven team skew incentives for both parties?

-If an "A Level" was looking for a stable job over a risky payout, would he want to be grouped into a unit?

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I think a lot of these multi-MM signing bonuses reflect more than the skill (+ deva devb devc).

I also wonder about what types of developers/companies this type of service would select for.

If you'd like to share any thoughts, I'd look forward to hearing them.
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But then the copyright holder would have to proove that this thing named "Lady Gaga - all albums" is actually infringing material and not a bunch of, say, zipped lolcats. So they'd have to check it and file a complaint on per-file basis, at which point Mega just deletes that file. Isn't it just like YouTube, but without the ability to run copyrighted-material-detection algorithms on data?

BTW. in Poland there's a well-known sharing service that operates this way; promptly deleting infringing content, while everybody knows that the files will reappear shortly somewhere else, and it's all Google-indexed (I don't think that it's by coincidence), so with simple "site:" query you can even skip the paid search feature.
"The upshot of it is that Twitter allows you to build those relationships in a scalable way."

Having the same tweet be pushed to 1000+ people is not building relationships in any meaningful manner though. Sending a personalized tweet to 1000 different people is though, but then that wouldn't be scalable.
No More Repositories
Apparently YouTube Engineers are Monkeys
Exactly. It's interesting to note that "big money" source control like Microsoft TFS also suffers from this issue.

Being fully dependent on Github, if it goes belly up, you need to reconfigure where people push to, that's it.