skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not just an aggregator thing. Ryanair (and similar airlines like easyJet) have long been guilty of advertising low headline prices, then tagging on all manner of fees.

Add on the baggage fees, landing fees, priority boarding fees, tax, credit card fees, etc. and the price isn't so impressive.
Interface Design Lessons from the Aerospace Industry
Log base 2 of 100 is 6.6. That means you need 6.6 effects the size of valuation in Chris' case in order to have the same impact on your outcome as picking a winner. Can you explain why using valuation to drive your decision is preferable to using the startup's likelihood of being a winner?
Ask HN: What should I do with my domain? [NowReading.com]
I have this domain [NowReading.com] for many years now but never got around to building anything on it. I was looking for some ideas on what I can build on it.

I'm good at web development and iOS development which I can use to build something.
Collective bargaining rights was developed to counter exactly this power imbalance with minimum government involvement. Unfortunately I'm not aware of any programmer unions.
Pirates is wrongly re appropriated term, but it certainly fits better to a company selling something belong to someone else without an agreement and keeping all the money than say someone downloading an audio track to preview it before buying if it's good enough (and available enough at a reasonable price).

Anyways there's no mention of piracy in the original statement.
It was not intended publicity, it's not as if they made a press release or something, it's just the answer to a question asked to the guy on a website that got picked up.

Here are the original posts:
http://www.formspring.me/EdmundM/q/406941407635331564
http://www.formspring.me/EdmundM/q/406945771976419136
http://www.formspring.me/EdmundM/q/406960226210700795

These depicts a whole different situation than the one you seem to have grasped from the kotaku sensationalism.
What you talk about is a kind of "blue ocean strategy" applied to investors.

Red investors oceans represent to all the industries in existence today – the known Investor space.
In the red oceans, investors boundaries are defined and accepted, and the competitive rules of the game are known.
Here start-ups try to outperform their other start-ups rivals to grab a greater share of investment demand.
As the funding market space gets crowded, prospects for high valuation and rapid investments are reduced.
Products become commodities or niche, and cutthroat competition turns the ocean bloody; hence, the term red oceans.

Blue investor oceans, in contrast, denote all the industries not in existence today – the unknown investor market space, untainted by start-up competition.
In blue oceans, investment demand is created rather than fought over.
There is ample opportunity for high valuation and rapid investment.
In blue oceans, start-up competition for funding is irrelevant because the rules of the game are waiting to be set.
Blue investment ocean is an analogy to describe the wider, deeper potential of investor space that is not yet explored.

(Adaptation of Wkipedia article on blue ocean strategy for investment for start-ups)

In your article the "guilder-investing angels" are the blue ocean for investment in start-ups.
The lunacy of the long-distance runner
If you are a backer of DFA, you can watch the Mojang movie on their private backers forum, it is being streamed, today (Dec 23) only.
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It's sometimes cool even when big company does it for profit (Megaupload).
Negotiate for the removal of these clauses from your contract and don't sign it if they won't remove them. Sometimes this may mean passing on a job but if everyone did this then employers wouldn't try to get away with it.
It's the US only for now. I don't think that should warrant a 1/10...
Erm, it only quotes one tweet from the other dev that actually doesn't add anything at all by saying that they still didn't get paid which was implied.

It also had (it's been silently rewritten) an outrageously sensationalist title and lack context and follow up you have in the original source.
Reminded me of this comic :
http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1930#c...
Nope.
http://www.formspring.me/EdmundM/q/406960226210700795
GitLab looks awesome, both features and design wise, but the installation process is so tedious and complicated that I quit in the middle of it more than once:
https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/blob/4-0-stable/doc/ins...

This is feedback I heard from fellow developers as well.

I'm curious as to whether the maintainers are planning to simplify the list of dependencies and installation steps in the upcoming versions.
Business dilemma: Windows RT or iPad? 84% say Windows RT
Nothing to do with google flights. Just a fun note about the old CRS platforms generally.
No problem, happy to help how I can.
There are legal theories under which they could sue, just not copyright infringement in the US.
Standing is one of the few very well settled areas of copyright law in the US (IE at least 8 circuits worth of federal appeals courts have all held the same thing about who has standing to sue for infringement)
The clearest example is from the LWN article you referenced.

> "Once a developer assigns copyright, they are at the mercy of the assignee to enforce the copyright. In this particular case, one can speculate that the failure to pursue the violation was likely a shortage of human resources. As Richard noted, "We have staff for GPL enforcement, […] but there are so many violations that they can't take action on all.""

As the LWN article notes, statements like this are a huge distance between FSF in practice, and FSF's own reasoning behind assigning copyrights to it (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-assign.html).

When a project has assigned copyright to FSF, the project workers have no recourse when the copyright holder opts not to fulfill its part of the bargain.
Did anyone download the file?
The THQ bundle was but an attempt to boost the stock value of the company by showing people had interest in the games before filing for bankruptcy.

It was real real sub par in comparison of other bundles, it was crippled by being windows only and steam only on linux, it had no bonus content and didn't feature anything fresh. Also developers of those games mostly didn't see a dime of this.
I was quite surprised at how fast it was on the searches. It sounds really great and im sure I can put up with xml, I just dont like having to return HTML - but is that you preference and the way you have done it? It looks like its just return dict of results, so no reason why I cant form a json response I guess.
How does a typical query look like? and how are you using the sentence boundaries (tbh im sure sure what it even is). I guess for fast text search this is perfect but im guessing any computation it cant do?
I'm sad to hear your GitLab installation didn't go smooth.

I hope to improve our Chef Cookbook for GitLab to the point where it can replace some of the scripts you need now.

Was there any particular part of the installation guide that we can improve in the near future?

(I run GitLab.com, offering GitLab as a service)
I'm not sure how the leaps from "price-sensitve" to "smart money", and "price-insensitive" to "dumb money" were made. I think it's much more accurate to divide it amongst "price sensitive" and "value sensitive" investors. Yes, there's still classifications such as "dumb money" and "smart money", but they're often misused when discussing topics like this. And I've yet to see any posts on early stage val's of the biggest companies in the past few years, which could explain how "smart" or "dumb" either is. I also haven't gone through the presos of funds of both types to see who's getting the best returns, but I can remember anecdotally that both classes of investors had had success. (Kauffman Foundation would have some good data on this.)

I will say that one nice thing about pricing on the higher side is it requires more conviction on the part of your investors. Thus, it will be those that are committed to your company, despite a higher relative price. (All investors are price-sensitive, it's just to what degree.) So by pricing it higher you end up with the same result as CZ and DS are seeking, except you keep more of the company.

And as far as the price-sensitive, there are many reasons, aside from them just being "smart": a) they're trying to raise a fund and need lower valuations, "better" numbers, for potential LPs (since LPs are usually investors with a more traditional mindset on finance, and thus more price-sensitive), b) their existing investors want to see lower valuations, "better" numbers, c) they're able to get "good deals" (I'm not mocking this, I'm just noting it's a value judgement, not something concrete) at lower valuations, d) they care more about potential multiples on their own fund(s) more than investing in the outright best companies, and any number of other reasons.

Hunting for the cheapest relative startup isn't necessarily "smart" (nor is investing in say uncapped notes), and investing in "expensive" startups isn't necessarily dumb (nor is haggling over price).
they have been showing this for a couple months. I wasn't thrilled when I saw my history so now I don't do much searching. FB logs everything.
Actually you don't, according to david pitkin it's the lack of age restriction in the ubuntu store that cause this game to be rejected.

Here's the quote:

Hi Edmund, let's figure the confusion out as soon as possible. There were some crossed wires with the Humble Indie Bundle 5 launch and Super Meat Boy plus the lack of age restrictions in the Ubuntu App Store for Issac but nothing more I thought : (

David Pitkin,Director of Consumer Applications at Canonical.
literally noone cares
Yes, you can quit and work somewhere else. Also you can read about what Sony does on Hacker News and decide not to apply there for a job in the first place.

I really hope you are not actually against customized employment contracts- there are a lot of cases where they can be useful. What might be better is prohibiting instances of terms you find offensive. For example, California's moonlighting law, which effectively voids such clauses in employment contracts: http://www.quora.com/Legal-Issues/Which-California-laws-prot...
Telepresence robots let employees 'beam' into work
>You will have very high fever, control it with meds but be aware that it won't go away

I thought this was highly inadvisable. At least is what you see at the end of almost all painkiller advertisements in Brazil.
10m+ views & 250K shares from "Grand Finale" viral content experiment.
For those that like citing stats:
Murder rate in 2011
Montana - 2.8
New Jersey - 4.3

http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/murder-rates-nationally-and-...

Violent Crime rates - http://www.infoplease.com/us/statistics/crime-rate-state.htm...

Please note DC, the place with the most gun control in the country, is also by far the most violent, with the most murders per capita by a huge stretch.
Hamming: "dubious that great programmers can be trained.."
I'm currently reading "The Art of Doing Science and Engineering" by Richard Hamming. The book is based off of lectures he gave in a course by the same name. Here are a few paragraphs that I found thought provoking:

"I made the comparison of writing software with the act of literary writing; both seem to depend fundamentally on clear thinking. Can good programming be taught? If we look at the corresponding teaching of "creative writing" courses we find that most students of such courses do not become great writers, and most great writers in the past did not take creative writing courses! Hence it is dubious that great programmers can be trained easily.

Does experience help? Do bureaucrats after years of writing reports and instructions get better? I have no real data but I suspect that with time they get worse! The habitual use of "governmentese" over the years probably seeps into their writing style and makes them worse. I suspect the same for programmers! Neither years of experience nor the number of languages used is any reason for thinking that the programmer is getting better from these experiences. An examination of books on programming suggests that most of the authors are not good programmers.

The results I picture are not nice, but all you have to oppose it is wishful thinking - I have evidence of years and years of programming on my side."

What do you guys think? I disagree with his creative writing analogy because I don't think creative writing courses were taught much in the past, but otherwise I feel it's spot on.
Which sadly happens to be buggy under linux
GObject itself is not a dependency, Inheriting from GLib.GObject provides support for features like introspection and better integration with the collections framework and GLib libraries. However, lightweight 'non-object classes' are supported but treated differently by the compiler. There is a slight variation in constructor syntax between plain objects and GObjects.

As far as I know there is no Vala runtime or garbage collector. Memory management is by automatic reference counting but there is support for manual C++-style pointer syntax with new and delete operators.

I agree that Vala was not specifically designed for 'low-level systems stuff' but I see no reason why this is not technically possible. The Vala compiler is a source-to-source translator to C and in my previous experience worked fairly well interfacing with fairly low-level C libraries like MPI and OpenCL. I assume that a kernel writer does not require much more than a limited subset of the language that supports C pointers, structs and arrays.
Always. Be. Shipping. A lesson from Jacopo da Pontormo, circa 1545.
Top 8 Log Analyzers - Linux Links - The Linux Portal Site
VPN and SSH[1] have been means of evasion. But there have been anecdotal evidence of "unstable" VPN[2] and SSH connections before.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Firewall_of_China
[2] http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/may/13/china-crack...
So what's the catch when it comes to D? If I can use all C libs easily, and get some more palpable syntax, what am I missing exactly and why haven't people transitioned to it?
> Before writing all these BS, maybe he should do a little research first?

There's a subtle difference between being able to call back into Go/Rust code from C (where the main function is in Go/Rust) which both languages allow now, and allowing a call to originate from a C program, which neither currently do. The author is talking about the later.

I would agree the article could go into more detail about what's currently possible, and why it's not enough. But calling BS, I think, is going a bit too far.
Binding of Isaac is a fantastic game. The theme may be a bit strange and the graphics aren't anything special (though I do feel the graphics suit the gameplay), but the gameplay is top notch. In fact, I bought this bundle specifically for the Binding of Isaac DLC.

Machinarium was a flash game too and yet it is still a great game. Being a flash game doesn't necessarily mean the game is not any good. I do understand what you mean though - if it looks like a basic flash game, then perhaps its as shallow as the masses of flash games you can find on the web, but in this case its simply not the case.
I'm not sure a one-size-fits all regulated solution is the answer.

For example , what about a startup that wants to make signing of an NDA a requirement for employment? Would they be expected to just take it on trust that a new employee isn't leaking stuff to their competitors for cash?

What about employments that might deal with highly sensitive/classified information and thus require certain background checks to be performed before & during employment?
Yeah, I never understood why people want to live in Florida. It gets unbearably hot, you get hurricanes every year, and you're susceptible to tropical diseases. Seems to me that there are a lot better places to live in the US, where you don't have a tropical climate.
I can't find any kind of getting started guide, and most of the libs have no documentation at all.
UK campaign to filter porn
It may not be controversial among experts, but it is definitely controversial when political fights break out about the use of funds for public transportation vs. highway widening.
Steve Jobs, anecdotes and little-known facts
There is a Chef Cookbook for CentOS https://github.com/atomic-penguin/cookbook-gitlab
>Would they be expected to just take it on trust that a new employee isn't leaking stuff to their competitors for cash?

Well, make that punishable by law, and no need for an NDA.
Right now GitLab doesn't have public repo's http://gitlab.uservoice.com/forums/176466-general/suggestion...
Ten-year-old invents light-up crosswalks, IBM makes them real
It Is 5x More Difficult To Get An Attendant Job At Delta Than Enter Harvard
How to Give a Great Presentation: Timeless Advice from a Legendary Adman, 1981
Sure you do. You are confusing fur coats with investments. To how many companies in your 401k portfolio have you offered free consulting? With an investment, ownership matters. If you could spend $200k on a company for a 1% share or $100k for a 50% share of a similar company with similar prospects for growth, I would easily bet you would spend more time on the investment on which you could get the cheaper deal. More ownership means a greater return on your time investment.
I wrote you.

Thanks for inventing LxTHW guide format and for suggesting to help.
I've brought this up as the "child porn" clause, and had brought it up in an employment contract once many years ago. Basic language was "we own anything you create". I said "I don't really think you want that - if I create some child porn, you're the owners". I seem to remember I had some less restrictive language placed in my contract vs that one, but I don't think it made a change to anyone else's contracts.

Yes, it felt a bit 'nuclear' dropping such a charged statement like that, and even when I bring it up as an example in conversation, some people cringe - a 'sex tape' analogy might be less offensive to some, but the basic premise still stands. Any company that wants to claim ownership of every piece of content or code I 'create' needs to understand what that really entails. It might actually give some people license to work on legally questionable stuff (not child porn so much as, say, banned crypto), knowing that they don't really 'own' it and thinking someone else might be responsible for the consequences.
I know the feeling. I was floored (as in disbelief) - because of the same reason - when I saw his presentation and stats too.

Thanks for the kind words.
Thanks, I moved my site to another server. It should be ok now.
What's odd to me is that in many cases people who purport to be "pro free market" are also anti-union. As far as I can see, unions are the free market.
Cool! Consider contributing your patch to the GitLab project, many people have indicated interest: http://gitlab.uservoice.com/forums/176466-general/suggestion...

I run GitLab.com and it would be great to have public repo's
Well, Thank God for things like Dropbox - he has been using some amount of cloud storage & he has a backup external drive.

I will be doing my best to get it up and running - but given that it was initially written in PHP largely, and I am a Ruby guy we are trying to figure out the best way forward (in terms of a sustainability path with hosting resources).
Thanks for the kind words...but I can take very little credit. The story kinda writes itself :)
Thanks for the Pedialyte tip, never heard about it but sounds helpful. Will try when I get dengue next time!
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Stabuniq Trojan rapidly stealing data from US banks
Strictly speaking, Florida is unfit for human occupation. Even when hurricanes aren't blowing, it's the thunderstorm capital of the country. Runner-up in the uninhabitable sweepstakes is New Orleans, which is mostly below sea level and only "dry land" because of unreliable dikes that periodically fail. Over time, because of land subsidence in New Orleans itself, and because of a gradual increase in worldwide sea level, New Orleans becomes more and more dangerous.

When you perform an economic analysis, you discover it would be cheaper to pay everyone in New Orleans to move away, than to let them live there and pay for the disasters that inevitably blow in from the sea. Florida is only slightly safer on average, and that only because the northern reaches are sufficiently above sea level.
IPhone 5 now starts at $99 as refurbished units hit AT&T website
Lucky you :) Good luck running emacs on some embedded things.
>Yes, you can quit and work somewhere else.

As if people always have that luxury. What if most companies in your field (e.g computer games) follow similar practices? "Go work at another field"? Why fell prey and bow down, looking for work elsewhere, and not try to change the system instead?

If a company didn't allow black or gay employees would that be acceptable, and people be told to just "work somewhere else"? I think not, people would revolt and try to change the laws so that the company cannot do that. Why should BS NDAs be any different?

People forget that:

a) we're not necessarily talking about the top 1% of employees companies fight over, but also for the rest 99% of the people, that don't have an upper hand in negotiations and don't always have the luxury of moving around, staying out of a job long enough to find a better one, etc.

b) we're not necessarily talking about a "seller's market" such as programming

c) even if we did (b), we're not necessarily talking about now and the Valley, but also about times and places where unemployment is rampant.
"Include only me activity" means activities that are private. I.E. shared with only yourself
I lived in key west and always had random people in my backyard inspecting for standing water. Even woke up to a helicopter one morning overhead spraying for mosquitoes. I got dengue in 2010 and it suuuucked, the eye pain is incredible, you can't move your eyes without extreme pain. And at the time I had no idea what it was, and it turns out the awareness of it is still low because many people work in the service industry and don't have health insurance so most people avoid the doctor (like myself) didn't know I dengue until afterwards.. like the article says 5% of people in key west have had it at some point which sucks because if you get it again (and a different strain of it) anytime after in your life then you have a 20% chance of dying.. which I hate thinking about when I travel to costa rica. I got a bug zapper and have been massacring mosquitoes nightly. I dont know why there isn't one on every lamppost. /rant
So does Google.. and probably a lot of other sites.. Amazon etc.
FIxed. It's in the guide now.
How?

Pass a law forbidding anybody from talking about what they did at work that day including to their family or friends?

The majority of jobs don't really require any real secrecy thus one size fits all fails.
Almost all mirrors are down. However, I found one after a good amount of searching.

It doesn't seem to have any passwords but surely names, phone numbers and addresses.

If you are a FIOS customer, you might want to have a look.

Din't want to link to it directly but you will find the download link on the blog: http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/12/23/3-million-verizon-fi...
The main feature I'm missing is forks/pull-requests across repos. It's a nice way to keep strict control over the main repo while allowing others to commit code at their leisure. I must admit that this took me a little by suprise after installing GL.
They claim to know that it is not the phone line itself. What are you using to measure the attenuation/signal to noise? I have to say the upload speed being faster than the download speed, together with the lack of any drop-outs or instability in the connection did make me wonder about rate limiting.