skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think if you have a large youtube audience who's loyalty you depend on it would be wise to also have an external website (even a crappy 1 page thing) and link to that in every video.

That way even if your videos are deleted you can stick them up somewhere else and link from your site and hopefully at least some of your followers will have bookmarked it.
Social Client Review: Sprout Social
Was going to respond with "chat isn't broken" but I actually quite like the look of this!
Every Apple Ad Ever Aired on TV
Modulus Launches Public Beta (premiere node.js hosting)
would love to explore this but only if i could host it on my own server.
What happened to the "More" link on saved stories?
Am I the only one that doesn't see a "More" link at the bottom of my saved stories page on HN?

I also only see 28 links instead of 30.
There is however a strong feeling that certain Large Internet Related Companies ought really to pay some tax on their UK operations.

I think it's not so much Internet-related companies as multinationals, who (unlike home-grown, smaller businesses) often have the scale and geographical diversity to play funny money games where all of their profits conveniently wind up being earned in a location where a very low tax rate is payable, even though the money was blatantly earned elsewhere. That creates a huge barrier to competition for those smaller, home-grown businesses, and obviously deprives the government of a lot of tax revenues they "deserve".

The catch is that these businesses do pay a lot of tax in the originating countries: in the UK, for example, they probably collect VAT, make Employer's National Insurance contributions, and pay all kinds of consumption and property-related taxes. Additionally, these businesses typically employ a lot of local people. Consequently, if you sharply change the rules so they can't play their funny money games on Corporation Tax and as a consequence it really does become relatively expensive/unprofitable to operate within a certain country, then if they scale down or outright leave, it still hurts, a lot.

So far, I don't see any happy ending to this impasse for the government that doesn't involve an unprecedented and IMHO implausible level of international cooperation.

The more likely alternative seems to be governments realising that taxes on local profits are effectively a competitive international market, and having to learn to live within their means, probably rebalancing the tax system heavily in favour of consumption taxes and then making a whole round of adjustments to avoid screwing poor people because consumption taxes are regressive by nature. I can believe this would work, if you had sufficiently smart people figuring out how to balance everything properly, but for sure it would look very different to the tax landscape we have in most first world countries today.

Of course there are also the more draconian options: windfall taxes, economic annihilation of tax havens until they stop undercutting everyone else, and the like. But I suspect the long term costs of breaking the rules because you're a government and you can would far outweigh any short term increase in tax revenues, so I don't see any of these as particularly likely.
Slides from my session on Mobile DevOps at MoDevEast 2012
No. It's an argument against having all of your income based on an iPhone app. Now, sure, you might start out on the iPhone; but rather than focusing all of your effort there, once you've got some traction, it might be good to work on porting it to Android, and possibly Windows Phone or Blackberry. Of course, even there, it's mostly a duopoly; I don't think that Windows Phone or Blackberry are really viable platforms at this point, so you are going to have to deal with the duopoly nature of the business for now.
Bit Traffic: Who Pays for Internet Traffic and Why?
What happened to the right to be left alone?
30 Cool Raspberry Pi Ideas
This is great! Thanks so much!
Try 'ps auxw' - the w enables wide output.
One mans voting ring is another man's circle of friends.
20 Years of Texting
surveys like this one: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-20108336-17/apple-tops-in-...
Tax is paid on profit, not revenues, correct. However, the whole point is that profit is a lot easier to manipulate downwards in a multi-national than revenue is.
Problem is that in some markets (e.g games) you can't really help but be beholden to some large publisher. Whether it be Apple, Steam or MS. You can hedge your risk a little by releasing across multiple platforms but then there is still the risk that one platform in particular accounts for 50%+ of your sales and you could lose that at the drop of a hat.
I'm a happy long term Mac user. However, I've resisted buying first generation products, and I wouldn't buy Apple products without an option to cancel the purchase. I'm happy with the attention put into the product design, but not with their quality control. If Lenovo made laptops with touchpads that worked as well as MacBooks, I would switch. But no such luck so far.
Curiosity Rover Update: Live Stream
I'm not a Buddhist, but I have attended a few classes on medetation. I had a bit of an epiphany at one session. Portions of the experience of meditation are similar to being "in the zone" when coding. A lot of other commenters here have already mentioned it: "flow".

There is a significant difference though. When you are coding, you experience flow with your mind already full of things. When meditating, you start with an empty mind, so the perceptive influence of flow is far more noticable. It's enough to throw you out of the meditative state if you are unprepared.

The goal of meditation is different than that of coding as well. Meditation starts from an empty mind so that you once you reach a meditative state, you may choose to do any number of things. One exercise the instructor had us perform was to find a meditative state, then meditate on the first thought that entered our mind, and to not sway from that thought.

When you're coding, you are keeping many things in mind. I find that when you end up in the "flow", it is because you have pushed everything out of your mind as a result of there being no space for it. Meditation is about pushing everything out of your mind so there is space for anything.
After using Xcode for a full day I can see my immortal soul stuck in the desktop background.

I avoid using iMacs with any kind of glue near the LCD for obvious reasons.
It's now a pet peeve of mine to see a reporter in a hurricane/warzone/crime scene telling you something banal they could have told you from a studio. The wasted time and effort for fake "authenticity" totally jumps out at me now.
Really? I mean, that's what he says to us. With the media attention on him and this case, I would think he'd be protected from the worst of what he claims would be police abuse.

Unless, you know, he's guilty as hell. You're basing your knowledge of this incident upon his own version of events.
Ah, $500B+ market cap company problems...
Why would a steel trading company have such high expenses? Are they manufacturing and storing it as well?

Then there is also the question of the shares put in trust for tax purposes also...
So now it's that I'm "obsessed" with shiny?

The number of MacBooks in the environment that I work in that have serious dents, battle damage from severe falls, outnumbers those that don't, and they're all in functioning condition. Don't think that Lenovo laptops are the only ones that are durable.

If you look at the resale value for a MacBook it's a lot higher than a Lenovo. I'm sure there's something other than "shiny" that makes a five year old MacBook still have significant value.
I said - "You can rely on the results."

Please say what you mean by "a language is faster than another".

Please say what in The Java™ Language Specification tells us that "language is faster than another."

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se7/html/index.html
I wonder if this was because your friends were all using the same IP address that you were?

If not it would be a great way to sabotage somebody you didn't like.
Front End Hacker at iCracked (W12) - Growing like crazy
We started on a college campus repairing iPhones 2 years ago and now have over 300 locations in 8 countries. We are Y Combinator backed and looking for a lead hacker to come join our family. We’re out repair the world – One iOS Device at a time.

We have an incredible team of 15-18 in Redwood City on the bay (next to our sailboat of course) and we’re actively searching for a great backend engineer to work with our designers/front-end/iOS team to bring together the ultimate on-demand online/offline experience for hundreds of millions of our future customers.

What we’re looking for in you…

• Innovative Hacker - Do you love front-end code and finding new ways to build beautiful, snappy and efficient interfaces? We have a ton of great problems to solve together.

•HTML5

•CSS3

•JavaScript + jQuery - Node would be a plus.

•Responsive Layouts.

•You’re able to write great cross platform code with efficiency in mind. (all great browsers, Firefox, Safari, Chrome) *Yeah, I know we left out IE.

• PHP / Code Igniter experience is a plus, we love well rounded hackers.

• Great to be around!

We move fast - We build iterate and ship constantly so you will be pushing code to production Weekly/Daily/Hourly. This is a big picture position, you will be integrating with our existing code base and writing for the new exciting projects we have in the pipeline.

We’re really looking forward to adding another member to our core team and family. We take care of all employees and provide a full stack of amenities to make your life better. Catered food, resort gym membership, retreats, bonuses, unlimited energy drinks/coffee, benefits – Heck, we will even give you a sweet bedroom in our house down the street from the office if you want. We're in the process of remodeling a 11,000 foot office space on the water and are putting in a climbing wall and 16 person bar for the occasional beer o’clock and happy hours.

You wouldn't be starting new job, you would be joining a family. We have the best customers and the best investors in the world. If you're the right person for the team, compensation is important but should be secondary. (although we take care of everyone extremely well)

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What are good alternatives to those websites?
5.17.6: "The seed used by Perl's hash function is now random. This means that the order which keys/values will be returned from functions like keys(), values(), and each() will differ from run to run."

Wait, what?

5.8.1: "Mainly due to security reasons, the "random ordering" of hashes has been made even more random. Previously while the order of hash elements from keys(), values(), and each() was essentially random, it was still repeatable. Now, however, the order varies between different runs of Perl." - http://search.cpan.org/~jhi/perl-5.8.1/pod/perldelta.pod#Has... , Sept 25 2003

When did that get undone?

Edit: Admittedly, I just tried to verify that this actually happened in 5.8.1 and none of 5.8.8, 5.10.0, or 5.14.2 appear to be actually randomizing key order, at least according to the keys function.
If the customers start sympathizing like that then they're going to stop listening to us and only act according to the other constraints you mentioned.
If i go and buy a Pro Retina, the screen is the last thing i want trouble with, and if they fail in ensuring that it works, they should just replace it. Period. I don't give a damn about thresholds and whether im being 'reasonable' in whining or not. Maybe it's just me i want the best when i pay for it. Screw the shareholders and suppliers.
As somebody who's been pretty successful with fundraising, I can relate... the only things that matter are customers and revenue, and fundraising is just one tool to get there. Necessary for some business models, admittedly, but there's many business models you can choose from.
Infectious Worm Spreading on Tumblr
Installing a new version of Perl doesn't break your old code! This is not true for Ruby (I'm not sure about Python as I no longer use it much), which is a huge argument in favour of using Perl over Ruby.

Having said that, it's certainly possible to use all of these languages, and once you are good at one, it should take little extra effort to learn the others. All of them have their strong points and you'll probably regularly see code in each of them, so just learn them all.
Those UIs look quite cluttered and unclear to me, but I suppose a weather app isn't the best benchmark.
I'd rather trust cloud provider X then have the government regulate the Internet. Please, let's not go down that slippery slope!
Wasn't facebook started on the idea that people wanted an exclusive place to share information with "college kids"?
I guess I should be wearing shoes made from truck tires and old seatbelts, shirts made from recycled canvas bags, and underpants made from old rags because who cares about appearances.
Im interested in checking out the app, I just sent a request for info with my email {username} at gmail. I happen to be a growth hacker that will be living in SV from january onwards. Ill be participating in the AngelHack demo day. I'd be happy to share strategies over a cup of coffee over there. Cheers.
Something that really annoys me about such debates on taxation is that people often say `tax' when they mean `corporation tax' (in the case of companies) or `income tax' (in the case of individuals).

In the UK, about the same is paid in national insurance + VAT + council tax as is paid in corporation tax + income tax.
"downvoted (not "punished")"

Downvotes which one feels are unwarranted are best considered editorial feedback. Take them as evidence that your writing did not match the expectations of the audience which received it. This may be due to misassumptions about the nature of the audience, or due to a miscommunication of the point one is trying to make. The solution to downvotes one feels are unwarranted is improving one's writing.
You mean what Apple Records did to Apple Inc?
There is a new MacBook Retina clamshell that was pushed out a month before the 13" MBPr hit the shelves.

I had mine replaced due to pretty intense ghosting after just 2 minutes, and when I went in to the Genius Bar, they found the clamshell part had a new model number (vs the one they had seen a week before). This one does not ghost.
Thanks, it's a broken redirect -- will strip that out.
Just to add to the anecdotal evidence bandwagon, I'm another very happy long term customer, with almost a decade of happy purchases. I've never had a problem nor experienced anything but excellent service. I've had iPhones replaced for free (without Apple Care), free repairs for faulty components in 2 MacBook Pro's (performed immediately and at no cost).

I don't blame you for you dislike of the Apple brand given how you've apparently been treated, but realize that your experience seems to be somewhat anomalous.
Eh, I read a lot :-)
Solar-Powered Plane Flies Through the Night
> But you have to remember: India is not a homogenous country; with 15(?) official languages, 1000 different dialects, 100s of ethnic groups, etc.

Maybe the solution is to have a looser confederation where states can experiment economically to figure out what works for them? This might get some places develop faster.
Stop looking for your "dream tool" because it's a form of procrastination. Most tools are feature cluttered given the tasks that most of us have to do.

Honestly you'd be amazed what taking out one hour a week and a .txt file can do for your life. Another low-tech tool you can use is to print out a calendar and pencil in dates.

The reality is that "project manager" is a job title, so either you take time for it or pay someone to do it. It's also hard for people doing the work to manage themselves -- and this isn't a new observation but something that Drucker was writing about eons ago.
> Why would I buy a Lenovo T-series? It looks virtually indistinguishable from any laptop made in the late 1990s and still has that absurd red joystick.

And with that statement you just exposed how ignorant you really are. The TrackPoint is far superior to any trackpad out there. In fact, I don't even use a mouse with my desktop - I have a USB version of the ThinkPad keyboard[0]. With the TrackPoint, you can use the mouse without ever moving your hand from the home position on the keyboard. It's more efficient than a mouse, and much, much more efficient than a trackpad.

And instead of the stupid "two-finger scrolling" you see on Macs these days, you can hold the middle mouse button and push up or down with the TrackPoint to scroll infinitely.

And the reason why the ThinkPad design has stayed the same since the 90s is because ThinkPad users aren't chasing after the latest shiny bauble - they want a device on which they can get their work done. The ThinkPad design is timeless in that it gets out of your way so that you can focus on what is important.

Apple has to make sure they regularly have shiny new product designs to keep their customer base happy because their customers are more interested in looks than functionality.

> I know there's Lenovo fans, ThinkPad fanatics, but they look like junk and feel even crappier.

You really need to stop drinking the Apple Kool-aid and realize that there are far superior laptops to the MacBooks.

0: http://i.imgur.com/oVKgB.jpg
Repeating my comments from the previous thread which was deleted for some reason:

Why would people be OK with constant security risk, but not OK with one time registration step for normal XMPP service? XMPP clients are available for all major desktop and mobile platforms. So it's a really interesting psychological hook that Whatsapp developers catch their users on here, offering a completely inferior solution, with selling it of for the fake attraction. And it's a really nasty thing to do - to play on people's ignorance regarding security.

So why would Facebook want to buy this monstrosity? The only valid reason could be to convert it to proper XMPP, then I'd applaud them, but on the other hand Facebook's own IM service isn't federated, which defeats the purpose. So it doesn't look like it can improve Whatsapp in any way.
It's called solder mask and it doesn't cover the entire board...

Compressing the bottom of the case will short.

It's badly designed.
The State of Smartphones in 2012
These lawsuits are an unfortunate business practice, but Apple is not alone here. I'm not a big fan of them, but that's the way the game is played.

Other corporations do this all the time, but apart from the Olympic Committee, which sues anyone and anything with "Olympic" in their name, most don't have a regular English word as their name. This leads to more conflict in practice, and Apple must, according to the law, work harder to "defend" their brand or have it weakened.
You should read this article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark_dilution

Different standards apply to famous marks vs. regular trademarks. Imagine if a company which made heavy mining equipment had a logo of a swoosh with a hardhat inside. Would Nike be justified in claiming trademark dilution? Absolutely. Or if that same heavy mining equipment manufacturer had a logo of a big rounded arching M with a hardhat on it. McDonalds would legitimately claim dilution there as well, even though the restaurant has no plans to get into the mining industry. These situations would not be dissimilar to an apple logo with a child's head inside.

It's easy to say "poor woman" but the cafe owner must comply with trademark law, imperfect as it is. I hope she prevails actually. However, the process must be allowed to continue. She filed for a trademark application. Apple has apparently contested the trademark registration and sent the cafe owner a cease & desist letter on the side, hoping she'll voluntarily withdraw the application. She doesn't want to withdraw, so now it's in the hands of the German trademark office to sort out.
Um...somehow I don't think the cure for banal journalism is to have fewer reporters on the actual scene. And sometimes they say banal things because there is nothing else to day.
I have nearly the same story as well. (Even contacting Google about it some months ago, they rejected the appeal and you only get one.) It sucks, but whatever I guess, just means I gotta make money with one of the tons of other ways to make money...
So what? It's still more efficient to just memorize your multiplication tables.
It is still possible to work around those things, but smartphones are just more convenient for most people.

It would be awesome if phones transformed into computers, sort of what Ubuntu has planned out. http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/android
I define success in life as not having to worry about shit like this.
For my comment history, I emphatically disagree.

For example I do not think that http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4843141 is anywhere close to being the best comment that I've made in the last month, but I have to go back to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4684916 to find one that is higher rated.
Looks interesting. Our team also got tired of using traditional chat clients for communication, and we've been using https://www.flowdock.com/ for a year now.

From a consumer's perspective, it's always nicer to have more options to choose from!
Interesting. I've had the exact same problem, and yet what happened to me was the best customer service I've ever experienced.

I had bought a 15" retina MBP at launch, but only noticed the ghosting last month. After booking an appointment with a 'genius' online I arrived ready to argue my case. What actually happened was that the 'genius' agreed with me straight away that the ghosting was intolerable, and without doing any testing besides what I'd shown him recommended that they replace the screen. I left my MBP at the Apple Store and 3 hours later received a phone call to say that the repair had been completed and my machine was ready for collection.

I don't think there's another computer supplier that:-

A. I could book an appointment online to get my laptop looked at the same day.

B. Actually has a local store with support staff.

C. Could carry out the repair at said store, the very same day.
"Minimisation and avoidance are of course different"

Minimisation is avoidance surely? It's tax evasion that's illegal. Any legal means of reducing your tax bill is avoidance.
Whatsapp is a perfect example of how not to solve something in a crooked way. Whatsapp developers should be ashamed for exploiting people's ignorance, and for luring users with fake convenience of skipping one time registration step for the price of constant security risk.
I use Apple products everywhere, partially because of the awesome retail and support experience -- in-person and by phone. If they screw that up, they will lose a big part of their "special-ness".

It is so great to walk into an apple store when you have an issue and have someone who actually cares take a look and try to help you. And when you call them for order or tech support, you get someone clearly intelligent, caring, and who speaks English well.

Where else can you get that great service and retail experience? Does a MSFT store do this?
That's silly. The sentence clearly wasn't about "credit", it was about explaining what a cool guy Tukey was. I think his independent rediscovery of the factorization that allows the FFT to be computed (that is, the thing we commonly think of as "the FFT algorithm" -- for obvious reasons Gauss didn't identify the application correctly) absolutely qualifies as evidence to that effect.

If anything, your dismissal of the guy's work is the real crime here. What's your problem with Tukey, exactly?