skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe I wasn't even as clear as I intended, but I read it as:

Now that this change has happened, 'putting the genie back
in the bottle' would take an enormous amount of time. Even
if there was a dedicated, directed effort to do so, we
would probably be talking time-scales of millennia rather
than things that us humans would actually be able to
look forward to (even a couple of generations forward).
People practically never follow through on actual actions to back up their "principles" - to the point where the Starbucks next to the Occupy London was, well, occupied. If not even people who sleep in tents on the pavements for weeks are principled enough to forego Starbucks coffee, don't count on the average guy to be.

So I'd venture a guess that Starbucks UK haven't seen any real decrease in sales - rather, it's probably their PR people who figures it's better to be seen as "responsible", as you put it, to not irritate the natives.
No Surprise. It gets down many times.

Only great thing about it is that its free..
About the 'real' entrepreneurs who don't know what Twitter is, I often see small companies who could save or make a lot of money if they had one full-time programmer or engineer. The cost is usually too high for them, or it is unlikely they would find someone passionate enough about their business to do everything that could be done without well defined directions.

An advantage every engineer or programmer has is that if he/she starts any business, he/she could also play that role. I think it is a huge advantage, and it is a big reason why I like to be a part of non-engineering endeavors.
> How is this different from reading right before bed? That's what often messes up my sleep.

I think this just goes to show we're all different. For me, reading is a great way to relax to get the sleep. It's a way of focusing the attention on a single thing, and letting the other distractions fade away, whereas other activities (whether coding or gaming or otherwise) demand simultaneous focus on many different things.

And not to mention my books don't bathe my face in high energy photons... (I say this as another convert to Flux, but unfortunately I fear Flux isn't sufficient: I hear that research has shown just a few high energy photons are sufficient to suppress melatonin production. In which case you'd be better off wearing glasses with a blue filter.)
Laffer curve, anyone? Reduce the Corporate Tax rates and companies wouldn't have spend mony on all these contortions to avoid paying.
good point. Now that you mention it, I actually forgot that there used to be "points". I was adamantly against it before, but now I'm used to it. I kind of enjoy it.
Yes, but not a very relevant (or clever) one. Just because two words can go together doesn't make it a fit for the article's title. Something about Metropolis would probably have been better, as in, not being a denizen of the city of Metro.

Also, if you actually do consider yourself to be metro, then it's even more out of place.
Not sure if you're taking offense on India, Estonia, or Latvia's behalf, or you believe that China is totally monolithic.

Either way if you look at the legend, the color coding indicates that India, Estonia, Latvia, and China are at "low risk" to a "mad despot" being able to unplug the whole country.

That indicates that each nation has quite a few connections to the outside world.
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As far as I am aware, they did not and never have 'filed fraudulent accounts' in the UK. They are not lying, they are not committing fraud, they are not breaking the law.

What they are doing is deliberately organising their affairs, subsidiaries and transactions such that the profits they made are actually made in locations where tax is low, e.g. The Netherlands, Ireland, etc.

Essentially, they have a company in the UK that 'licenses' certain IP or buys in certain services from their foreign holding. These licenses and services happen to cost as much as they receive in revenue here, so they make no profit in the UK. However their foreign counterpart makes huge profit by selling these licenses and services at a high mark up.

This is all, as it stands today, entirely legal. Whether it is moral or not is another issue, and whether it will remain legal is also. However, these kinds of loopholes are almost impossible to stop without huge international co-operation, which isn't really in the other states' interests.
So do you get an award for having high Karma?

I think people put too much weight on things like this.
I've been on message boards for over 12 years. People know me because of my name and what I contribute, my karma (which we don't have) or likes or friends don't matter.
You're being glib, but the main entrance to my building has a revolving door in the middle, and double doors on either side of it. The preference for us is to use the revolving door because it's more energy efficient. So, yes, there are situations like this in the wild, and there usually is a "why" behind it.
Nice. Yeah I'm very new to Go so I know almost nothing about the stdlib libraries. Thanks for the pointer.
Once you do a feature branch... you never go back.
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Do you have a rebuttal for the flimsy analysis? I realise it's far less time consuming to just insinuate bias and move on, but if it's that flimsy it shouldn't take you long.
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Designing for Receipt Printers
Facebook Photo Sync: 9 Things You Need To Know
Programmers are unfairly biased against suits; even the word is a symbol of evil. Hysterical raisins and all that.

But fundamentally, a suit is exactly what the modern hacker wants: a uniform. I suspect more than a few HN posters have nothing but jeans and monochromatic T-shirts in their closets. A suit is a uniform with four extra pockets and social bonuses.
I followed your same path too. Each time I 'migrated' it was due to an extremely fascinating article and great discussion. When I went from Digg to Reddit, the article that got me was this very in-depth analysis of what the future of space 'warships' would be like. It was great fun; the author put a lot of thought into the subject, and the comments were equally insightful as to what the mechanics of turning a massive ship in space would be.

An equally good article/discussion is what led me here. Of the aggregation sites I know of on the web, this place is currently the only one that retains (for the most part) it's signal to noise ratio in the comments.

Reddit anymore, even though being subscribed to very specific subeddits, is just frustrating to use. It seems to me that the average age of the user has shifted downward as the site has grown. Couple that with a lack of moderation, and comments are all now one line, or a 'funny gif' response, which, by the way, are strictly outside of reddiquette...
Well, if Google's efficiency is the problem they should consider banning all agricultural machinery. There is untapped job potential for up to 90% of the population!

Or we could start building pyramids again - with bare hands!
Sorry, but it was not my intention to troll anyone. I am fully aware that both open source and propertarian software models are viable business models. However most successfully open source projects were probably open source from the start.

I am more wondering if open sourcing propertarian software are a good way to reach the masses? And if so, what risk would we be taking on?

I don't think I am the only on wondering about this. Tom Preston-Werner (Cofounder & CEO at GitHub) has written about some of the same issues at http://tom.preston-werner.com/2011/11/22/open-source-everyth... .
I know it's about Go, but bash is awesome for stuff like this:

while read line; do
host $line | head -n1 | awk '{print $1 " -> " $4}' &
done < domains.txt
But fire doors are the size of normal doors. They just tend to have giant warning signs on them, are sometimes painted red and tend to have "push bars" instead of handles.

Door size has very little to do with fire door "affordance".
There are a couple of awards. One is the ability to downvote as well as upvote. That comes pretty early. The second is the ability to change the color of the stripe at the top of the page (for your own, logged-in views).
So I was the receiving end of this stalking (my name is Mark and I work at Shopify). I just want to point out how effective his tactics were. At no point did I have ANY idea what was going on behind the scenes. I simply thought, "oh - he's a cool guy, he likes my blog, and seems to enjoy Tweeting / commenting a lot." To learn about his wildly elaborate strategy now is not just amusing, but it's impressive as hell. If any of you guys are having trouble finding quality blogs to write for, or are simply looking for another way to get traffic to your site - give this a read.
Monkeys reject inequality
The ones who fine will get iphones for their wife :p
JS classes for the masses
Ruby, Python and Perl are older than you probably realize. Ruby started in 1993, Python in 1991, and Perl in 1987. I would not worry about their long term prospects: they've been around for a while, and I think it's a safe assumption they will be around for a while still.

Avoid decision paralysis. If you like Ruby, go with it. As I said, I don't think which scripting language you pick is all that important, but I think it's crucial that you know one.
You can vote, and that is proportionally meaningful. Want more say, convince more people to agree with you.

You have zero say about anything criminals do.

There is a vast difference.
Minimilist posters for Women in Science
Why you should treat your company like family
xargs -P is a godsend for one-off jobs needing parallelism
>They are not lying, they are not committing fraud, they are not breaking the law.

>Essentially, they have a company in the UK that 'licenses' certain IP or buys in certain services from their foreign holding. These licenses and services happen to cost as much as they receive in revenue here, so they make no profit in the UK.

I know. I think they are lying about these prices, and thereby lying about where their profits are made. As to whether they are committing fraud and/or breaking the law, the MPs will decide that.
It's a very murky and gray area, but I think everyone but Kickstarter would agree that they're currently on the wrong side of it.
it's much easier to design an app if you can say "don't bevel anything that isn't a button" rather than "don't put anything in a rectangle that isn't a button".
I'm embarrassed how many times I've implemented the above without thinking to look for a standard lib solution. Thanks!
Maybe it's designed for people with touchscreens? On Windows, in Chrome, the scrollwheel sucks, but if you click the page and move the mouse up or down to scroll (dragging), it's much more responsive.
An example is the "Change PC Settings". Is it a link or just a title? How can you tell? See here: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/windows-8.html
Internet access denied.
"Are we providing enough value for the users?"

Enough value for what?
Why you should treat 1 million people the same as 1 person
>"I feel like I'm faking that I actually know what I'm talking about".

I have a theory that pretty much everyone feels like this and the only reason anything gets done is because people are trying to stop other people from finding out that they think this about themselves.
So many ignored errors. :(
Moustache is more than just {{ }}
I started playing UO when I was 7, in 1998 or 1999. I just stopped in the past few years. No telling how much sleep I lost to that game!
I have a Retina MacBook Pro with the same issue. It has really soured me to Macs (which I've used literally all my life). You know if this has happened to one of their more high-profile products (one that begins with an "i" and fits in your hand), it wouldn't fly. But Apple haven't had much pride in their Macs for years now, and have let really bad design flaws like this go unfixed.
Please, read and think a little before jumping on your strawmen.

The allegation is not that google is being more efficient and thereby reducing employment. The worry is that there will be much less news/television/radio because google has removed its primary source of funding.

(If you believe the purpose of all things is economic optimization then this won't concern you, but many consider news/television/radio to be valuable for their own sakes)
The only tech pundits with any readership I can think of who are not hostile to anything Microsoft are Paul Thurrott and Jeff Atwood.

Paul Thurrott's http://winsupersite.com is hellbanned on HN, you can't submit a link to it, I am guessing due to excessive flagging by HN users with good karma.

And any Jeff Atwood's post on Coding Horror that's positive about Windows 8 gets flagged off the front page just like any other article remotely positive about Microsoft. (Even the announcement of Surface Pro pricing was killed, see [1]).

Coding Horror will probably get hellbanned soon on HN if he keeps up with those kind of posts. That's HN and it's partisan audience at work.

Asking PG about the rampant abuse of flagging on HN elicits no response inspite of getting voted up, maybe he didn't see it because it was flagged too! [1]

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4849814
I think these questions are awesome. As someone who lost one co-founder early on (there were three of us and one person quit right after YC), I wish we'd talked about some of this stuff more.

Having said that, I actually think in reality this conversation is very difficult to have.

If you've never started a start-up before you just don't know what to expect so some of these questions don't make sense. I would have WANTED to answer these honestly, but when I started HireArt I really had no clue whether I'd want to raise outside money (let's just get started was my motto) or which attributes we'd en up clashing on.

I think this makes more sense if you've started a company before and can anticipate the feelings and issues that will arise (but in that case you probably already know which questions to ask and don't need a guide).

Overall I guess I think it's really important to talk and to talk a lot. However, don't estimate how much there is that you just don't know about yourself until you're doing the start-up.
Regarding average karma per post, I happily tote a ~2.5 while still hitting a spot the leaderboard. I could drive up my average number by picking stuff I could be certain the community wanted to see, but I purposefully submit things that I think are contrarian or otherwise overlooked. I think pushing our collective comfort zone is worth it.
Great bear!

(Besides the corporate tax and probably very welcoming environment for outside investors)
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...and in your example, you said a normal sized door next to double-doors. Yes, there are other signals indicating emergency exits. But I was assuming, from your example, that the only piece of information we had was the door size. My point was that most people would then look for other signals to indicate what was going on - such as giant warning signs and push-bars.
First of all, congratulations for shipping, that's half the battle :) . I like the logo, background very much.

Like masnick, I don't really use Facebook logins unless I absolutely must (AND it's blocked at work).

I'd remove the "test test test" goal :) . Maybe you can pre-populate from the best-known bucket lists?
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If you want to see how much is linked to content quality and how much comes from having a well-known account, perhaps it is time to open another. Posting high-quality stuff from another account should yield the same results if that is the only signal used when people up vote things.
I agree that this is a super hard conversation to have. BUT, if you're working with the right people, I think they'll understand that a lot of these questions are "must-have" conversations. Might not get to all of them, but even some will be super helpful to at least orient the ship and crew in the same direction.
Much ado about nothing for now, this is about Apple's "application" for the patent. The possibility of a patent war depends on Apple's claim, if they get the patent at all, since there are clearly already examples of said technology. If Apple claims that their patent doesn't just cover the ability to charge certain devices up to a meter away but also covers "all devices" charging up to a meter away then there might be a problem.

Without reading Apple's claims, I would assume this covers the actual physical technology they're using to charge a device up to a meter away that's actually different than current technology on the market that cannot charge at such distances. If that's the situation, I don't see a problem with Apple's patent application.
No one seems to notice the obvious... that his life and his friends lives were certainly more exciting when he was a Junior at Harvard.

This reminds me of a study that found that many East Germans were nostalgic about East Germany before the wall came down, but the researchers concluded that it was because it was because the interviewed people had been in there 20s at that time, not because of any particular aspect of the East German society.
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Extending the web
Thank you. A very interesting article. A few points that caught my attention:

1. The US position on the ITU meting is to shot down various proposals and keep the current regulations intact.

2. The bulk of proposals are devised to lessen the influence of the US on the internet. E.g. transfer ICAAN duties to ITU, charge companies like Facebook and Google for outgoing traffic to national networks.

3. European Telecommunications Network Operators seek to outlaw net neutrality, quoting that without "fair" traffic control they're unable to develop their networks.

And in the end a little excerpt:

"A bigger danger is therefore deadlock. That might encourage a large pack of nations to set up their own internet regime, making communication with the rest of the world more costly and more complicated."

Which is already happening with China, Syria, Iran, and others.
Glad I got a Lenovo. I was mulling over getting a macbook for the longest time since I wanted the option to develop iPhone apps. After thinking it over I realized that I was disgusted with Apple's practices and didn't want to support them beyond what I absolutely had to, so I'm getting a Thinkpad and I'm quite content with that. Any phone dev will have Android first and I'll get a second hand mini or something when I need to do iPhone work.
One piece of evidence doesn't necessarily contradict the other.

I definitely need about an hour of cool-down after work each day, but I've also noticed that I don't sleep as well as I'd like when I'm watching TV or gaming before bed versus reading or doing other things.
John McAfee Still On The Lam
There is no downvote for articles. If it is blatant spam or does not belong here, flag it.
I assume you mean "Programming Perl", aka the Camel book. (has a camel on the cover) In my experience the Camel book is better as a reference and you should use "Learning Perl" to actually learn the language. It's structured better for that task I think.
All entirely above board - full tax on operating profit on a company with geniunely high expenses - as refuted by Private Eye. The interesting question is..who 'briefed' the newspapers on this (this wasn't investigative journalism), and who are they being paid by?
I have nothing against TechCrunch but if that's your main news source on startups, you have a problem.

I attend a lot of entrepreneur events, Startup Weekends, etc and one of the common threads is the navel-gazing or me-too startups. If I have to sit through yet another "social sharing for X" or "group-curated Y" presentation, I'm going to kill someone.

They focus on the follow-on startups and think "because so-and-so did it, I can too!" instead of actually looking at the problem and trying to understand it. They appear to be startups for startups sake.

If you read TechCrunch as if it's the center of the world, it's easy to get into that mindset. Instead what you have to realize that it is a tiny piece of the whole world and will never cover 99.99% of the startups out there who are solving major life-changing, make-everyone-rich sorts of problems.

Go out, kick ass, and don't worry about what that 0.001% of the world is up to.
How Klarna became a payments giant
Your hero worship of your idea of a technologist is embarrassing. You're forgetting some basic truths about people.
Do they even have the internet in N. Korea?
I guess senegal in white means 'no information available' rather than 100% safe from despots
Summit Eden
> Apple clearly don't believe the marginal profit hit involved in appealing to nerds is required to maintain their market position.

Considering that the period over which they went from laying on their deathbed to becoming one of the most highly-valued companies in the world falls entirely within the period over which they started making these kinds of design changes, they'd have to be downright stupid to believe otherwise.

But for the sake of unpacking that idea anyway, let me advance that what's really going on is that they don't believe that the wallet of a nerd who is fundamentally opposed to the basic idea behind their business model in the first place isn't really worth chasing after. Apple deciding not to solder RAM to the motherboard because it might make their computers slightly less unappealing to a certain class of nerd makes about as much sense as your local butcher deciding to stop carrying veal in an effort to get more vegans to come through the door.

Besides, I'm not convinced that RAM soldered to the board is a real practical complaint so much as yet another lightning bolt for an ideological grudge (I can't help but note the phrase "church of Apple"). We don't see the same griping about how the Raspberry Pi's RAM is soldered to the board. This even though it's a computer that, unlike the iMac, is specifically made for us tinkerers.
That sounds like a mathematicians mind.

Peano Axioms and all that.
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My four-month-old rMBP's screen failed last week and now I'm staring at replacing it out-of-pocket, or never using it as a portable machine again and leaving it hooked up to an external monitor. I'm so unhappy with Apple right now.

EDIT: I couldn't find the default warranty (sans AppleCare) and based this comment off of other similar situations (including OP). I found out this morning that it IS COVERED by the default warranty, so I'm not unhappy anymore. This is my bad.
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