skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a significant move for several reasons:
1) Samwers have made the majority of their money from selling their clones to the original companies. I think they can continue doing this with much success. So I don't see why they need to go public.

2) Cloning to sell doesn't seem like a viable business model as a public company, what metrics would they be judged by? So that means they are seriously building companies now for cashflow and long term potential.

3) From what I know about Rocket Internet many of their management level employees are transient. As someone else stated, they hire a lot of interns and young employees looking to gain a little experience before moving on to something else. Can they continue doing this as a public company?

4) They are extremely aggressive, and focus a lot of growth by any means. I don't think anything they do is illegal, but such focus on rapid growth always leads to problems (think real estate loan bubble). They will dramatically increase their liabilities as a public company.

5) Is this the first technology incubator to go public? Public companies are similar to them?

Wanting and planning to go public is one thing. Having the management team, financials and story to convince people to actually buy your shares is another. I'm looking forward to reading their prospectus.
Id love to!

At around March this year, I was sitting at home thinking to myself, "Hey, everyone has their own cloud service, why can't I have my own?"
So I started building Mitch's Cloud. It started with a task manager, contacts list, music streaming and calendar, you know, because iCloud.

Mitch's Cloud was only my own project but it seemed to bring about ideas from others. I had suggestions to add email, documents and other apps. Everything changed when I had a visit from my very good friend, Jack, a student at University of Sydney.

Theres a huge hole in university life in Australia and at the bottom of that hole is a software package that all uni students have to use called Blackboard. The frustration expressed by Jack on behalf of his peers was incredibly interesting and brought about lots of ideas on how to build something better. Mitch's Cloud soon turned into Dessk, providing uni students a single point where they can organise all of their studies.

Where's the place that you do all of your work? Your Dessk.

There's an injustice in the software industry where people have just accepted more interface as the truth and from what I can see, most people here share similar passions in wanting to create great software that people love.

* It has to have minimal loading times (its now almost instant)
* Must be easy to collaborate with peers and lecturers
* Communication and sharing must be instant
* Without a doubt, it has to increase the users productivity

It seems students aren't the only people who use the internet either, so we have things like teams, project managment (called workspaces) for more business oriented power users.

TLDR: built a platform to ease productivity loss between common things activities you do on the internet. Launching soon @ http://des.sk
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Dear god. MIA sucks even as a US citizen. Avoid it if you possibly can. (I used to live in Anguilla so I'd fly that route a lot, and always did a hop via SJU or to anywhere but MIA.)
welcome to how germany treats their own citizen
Just a heads up. Your email is not visible in your profile. The "email" field isn't visible to other people. If you want us to be able to see you email, you need to add it to the "about" section.
"Global Entry is also available to citizens of the Netherlands who are enrolled Privium, Canadian NEXUS members and Korean SES members. Global Entry is also available to citizens of Mexico." [1]

Mexicans and Koreans tend not to be caucasian, so at least some non-whites can get one of these.

Not sure whether you would want one, though. It sounds pretty intrusive.

"Travelers must be pre-approved for the Global Entry program. All applicants undergo a rigorous background check and interview before enrollment." [2]

Also, the system relies on a fingerprint scanner. Since I have no fingerprints (due to medication), I would receive a big ole 'X' on my receipt every time.

"If the kiosk receipt has an “X” printed on it, then you must report to a CBP officer. Please report to the nearest staffed CBP passport control station. You do not have to get back in line. The CBP officer at the passport control booth will review your documents, determine the reason the “X” was printed on the receipt and either release you from there or refer you to “secondary” for additional processing.

The “X” can mean many different things: random inspection; you have items to declare; you have duty to pay; you have agriculture products that need to be examined; your membership may need review; your fingerprints may not have matched, the system may have trouble completing the transaction; you may have timed out on one of the screens, or other issues. "

[1] http://www.globalentry.gov/faq.html

[2] http://www.globalentry.gov/about.html
Much of Google senior management is Microsoft veterans running Microsoft style business units, so be careful what you wish for. Don't live in the 90s forever.
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Whether TLS would prevent it depends on how it's implemented. They could just drop connections to AdSense's servers.
Why would you think otherwise?
I had to channel Rick James to make that funnier.
Yes, showing that the corporation is in the vehicle would also be difficult, and I do doubt that location of the incorporation papers constitute the location of the corporation.
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You're right: I'm here because the benefits outweigh the disadvantages. But this kind of stuff is what tips the balance the other way, not for me, but for other people like yourself.

The problem with the US immigration system is that none of the people suffering in it can vote to change it. The purpose of my story is to raise awareness amongst US citizens who understand the importance of immigration to the economy that the system is broken, at nearly every level. I can't fix the system by complaining, but they can.
> Don't like US immigration? Good, don't emigrate to the US. Once enough people do this that it starts to affect the US GDP I'm sure there will be some change.

Less immigrants would negatively affect the GDP? I've heard the opposite many times, but I'm not an economist. Why is that so?
The basics of UX design can be learned, so if you really care you'll learn.
Could you expand on your diet changes? (For eg: General breakfast, lunch and dinner?) I have the same symptoms and have a colonoscopy scheduled to check for ulcerative colitis.

I'm in my mid 20s and lead the typical unhealthy lifestyle (eat out everyday, lot's of spicy food). Only recently have I started having these problems (severe heartburn, stool 6-8 times/day etc) Sigh..guess I'm getting old already..
Global Entry is open to U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, Dutch citizens, South Korean citizens and Mexican nationals. Canadian citizens and residents may enjoy Global Entry benefits through membership in the NEXUS program.

OK, I like Dutch people, but how'd they get into this sweet deal ahead of classic US friends-and-allies like the UK or Australia?
It reminds me of that bash.org quote.

"0 is false and 1 is true, correct?"

"1" - "0"
There is nothing unique to the US about this in my experience. There is literally one part of the government that deals (by definition) with people who cannot vote and do not have elected representatives.

If you want to know what it's like dealing with government agents in highly undemocratic countries, it's precisely this. Except it's every day and it's in your own country.
This article headline is deceiving.

This is not actually Polaroid, but rather a already-existing photo printing company which is licensing the use of the Polaroid brand for their new expansion stores. The people involved with this have nothing to do with the "Polaroid" camera team of way back (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polaroid_Corporation#Use_of_Pol... for more info)
A few hundred guys and girls living in tents are not going to impress the powers that be. The only reason they got as far as they did was because the media milked the story for as much as they could.

Canadian anarchists are not the right group to jump-start a broadly carried demand for change.

The US revolution was more akin to a war for independence.

The French had a revolution, and it came off pretty good. Unless you were rich, of course.
Holy God, is MIA ever a donkey circus. That is the single worst place I've ever been (there's a peek into my knapsack of white male privilege for you all). That place would sour the sweetest vintage.
He wants "x is declared but never used" to be an error that halts compilation. Go's philosophy on this[1] is "if it's worth complaining about, it's worth fixing in the code."

1: http://golang.org/doc/go_faq.html#unused_variables_and_impor...
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I'm building des.sk with tasks management, document editor, calendar (with sharing between teams), contacts and project management. Everything I need to be productive online without going to external services. Seems though students love it too.
This reminds me of the first iteration of color.com

Obviously Instagram has the benefit of network effects.
So rather than charge its customers what they really cost the business, this ISP wants somebody else to fund them? I want telemarketers to pay my phone bill, since they use it the most, anyway.
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I don't know if it still downloads it to the computer as well, but I do know it does start downloading it on your device automatically.
People like you will be the death of us all someday.
>The thing is, there is a point where the difference between the spot-price on the market and the brokered purchase price is larger than the value of the aluminium that can be smelted with that energy. When this happens, the smelter shuts down its smelting operations and sells the energy back to the market instead.

That seems odd, Aluminum smelters are even harder than coal fired power stations to power cycle. The cells have to kept constantly molten, freezing damages them.
I wrote a long, long blog post about why: http://seldo.com/weblog/2012/11/29/why_all_americans_should_...

But the TLDR is: immigration brings skilled workers into the country, who produce more than they consume, raising GDP. So stopping the flow of immigrants causes GDP growth to slow.
Let's look at the incentives. The picture here is not pretty. There's a big incentive to squeeze budgets, of course, anybody who watches US politics knows you can't just get any money you want, especially when there's 2 dozen another 3-letter agencies competing for the same. There's some incentive to serve citizens better - since once in the country, the citizen can call his congressmen or his local paper and raise hell if he was mistreated, and if bureaucratic middle-management hates something it is being featured in bad press and asked unpleasant question by his superiors. But when it comes to visitors, there's pretty much zero incentive to treat them better. I'm not saying that immediately leads to bad treatment - I am a non-citizen, I crossed US border more than a dozen times last few years and always was treated with courtesy and respect, which I assign to the good nature of the people that worked there. But there always are bad apples, and there's very little that can keep those in check. If the immigration officer mistakenly denies entry or costs a person 5 hours of their life, there are no consequences, ever. So these things are bound to happen, unless some kind of incentive to become better will be found.
Second that. All you need is your papers, short interview in a closest major airport and you don't have to do this passport-fingerprint-photo stuff anymore.
Looks like a very good summary of mathematical physics -- from ODEs all the way to Lie algebras / symmetries which are very important in quantum field theory and other advanced physics subjects.

Would it be possible to have a version in the computer moder font and without so much space between the lines. I would print this and try to read it.

I never liked/respected differential equations much, but this looks like a tutorial (300+ pages!!!) which could turn around my opinion.
Well, it's the person's job to be able to judge if someone's trying to falsely represent themselves in that area, so he should be familiar with what common job titles mean and which ones could be mistaken for others.
Because immigrants represent work potential, realizing that potential will increase the GDP.

More people -> higher GDP.

I really dislike quoting the Bush administration on anything but here it goes:

http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/cea/cea_immigrati...
"they say it's impossible because only the government department that created the flag can remove it, and that department no longer exists" -- omg, real-world Kafkian anecdote...
Err, how about the Assange case then?

Or the unrelated, completely warrantless extradition and 23-hour-a-day solitary confinement of anataka, from a third country, with absolutely no legal process?
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I hope you apply the same standard to news and magazine articles, and realize the sorry state that journalism is in now. Wikipedia will never e better than the sum of its sources, many of which are awful.
That sounds like a great idea. I do agree, touch seems to fit infinite scroll pretty well - pagination navigation is a pain on touch devices.
Thanks for taking a look. I'd really appreciate any feedback.
you needed a visa in 1995 to come to the US? Why? Could you not get a waiver? o.O
>not an OS that will get out of the way and just help you do what you need to do

Huh? Unity, especially with auto-hide is literally more out-of-your-way than any other Desktop Environment in any Operating System I can think of. (And I don't even like Unity, I like Cinnamon and Elementary which are very similar to the Windows XP/7 and OS X style desktop environments.)

I'm just really exhausted of non-specific "it's hard to use". (Keep in mind I was specifically talking about pre-installed, though the Windows/Ubuntu installers are nearly the same). If I asked someone to install iTunes in Windows versus install Rhythmbox in Ubuntu, I know which would be easier for someone who had never used either before. Go to a website, download an EXE, bypass the scary security prompt, walk through a six step installer asking about location, menu entries and more. Or open Software Center, type "music player", pick one and click "Install".

If "it's hard to use" because people are used to Windows, I throw my hands up, there's no way to reply to that.
I think the problem with Linux was that it has no argument for it.

Everything is just "it's just like Windows and Mac OS, except it's not" and not always equates to "free, open source, no cost, no licence fees, customizable, faster, etc..." but never anything that was a true blue selling point.

To the users that have the know how to switch to Linux, all it sounds like is a slight upgrade over their existing setup with less software support.

I think Chrome OS is slowly getting attention because it gets out of your way completely.
No setup, no worries about losing files, extremely low risk of viruses or malware, you already understand it, and it's the easiest to leave in case you don't like it.
Almost universally electric. Remember that (being essential for tea) they may be used many times a day and be found in offices and other places without other cooking facilities.
Unfortunately, you can't make tea correctly with moderately hot water like what you get from some water coolers. The tea won't steep correctly.
None of the tasks you listed are anything to do with window management. Perhaps I'm misunderstanding your argument. Could you elaborate?

Shouldn't the OS handle most of those things, or perhaps some app?
"Irregardless of the pedantry[...]"

I'm just going to assume that's intentional irony. Genius.
seems interesting...
Ah, let's remember one thing real quick. When people talk about macbooks being the best selling laptop line by a large margin, someone else always points out that that is because it represents the entire access to that ecosystem (i.e. the total sales are not split between brands).

In this case, you're also looking at a very cheap laptop in an OS where there are only two MODELS even on sale, one of which is older. It does not necessarily, or even probably, signal a sea change in the way people think about OSes.
One of the first rules of service industry is that you don't complain about your job in front of the customers. I haven't worked retail but have done plenty of years in restaurants.

I'm not sure how you can use "you've never worked in the service industry" as some kind of trump card, as this kind of behavior could easily get you fired from any half-decent service industry position.
And yet regular journalism is as bad but we don't see constant hand wringing about how the NYT or WSJ is full of BS.
>Android and Chromebook are (mostly) the same thing

What do you mean?
> But this kind of stuff is what tips the balance the other way, not for me, but for other people like yourself.

I made my decision independently long ago. You really should ask yourself: if this is not enough to tip the balance for you (who has experienced it firsthand) why would it tip the balance for someone who only gets it second hand?

Nobody is going to fix anything because of this blog post, but you can make a statement that really carries weight.

But if you feel that your greencard is worth more than your dignity or principles then you've made your own bed and now you must lie in it.
Quite true. The problem is that non-tech type is not a young market anymore. Young are savvier than ever on both hardware and software and it is quite cool among college goers to say "I am on linux man".

Interesting times indeed. Gonna get harder for MS/Apple to make money off this turf it seems.
Spelling clearly wasn't a priority: "spohisticated"
Their enterprise division is huge, and Office is still a cash cow. They may have to trim some fat at some point, but they aren't even close to hurting.
Can't say I've tried every distro out there but my OpenGL+X+audio system has worked fine across the several popular ones I've tried, it's getting better.

And anyway, the point wouldn't be to support all platforms, just the prevailing ones, so I'd say your remarks miss the mark.
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And the circle of analogies is complete.

Cloud computing: it's just like your utility!

Utilities: just like cloud computing!
Don't forget that Plutarch wrote this 400 years after Alexander and Aristotle were alive.
It really depends. Quite a lot of older people drink only tea. Young professionals living in London drink espressos, capuccinos, that sort of thing. I don't know anyone who drinks instant coffee (although I'm sure some people do).
> That is: users hate ads. But someone has to pay for all this stuff.

Curious if this is actually the case. I certainly don't hate ads, except when they are obnoxiously annoying but that is getting rare these days.
> if Ad-Blocking were to go truly mainstream, especially if ISPs started to block ads themselves, a major portion of the internet as it stands today would be financially unsustainable, especially when it comes to content sites.

It your business model doesn't work anymore, you have to move on. That's what the music and movie industry should learn. Maybe Google will have to learn it too. The NYT paywall is working pretty well.

Maybe you're worrying that paywalls will be raised everywhere. I don't think so. There will always be free content. Also, maybe we need some P2P protocol instead of HTTP, so content can be delivered for cheap.
Some of your countrymen - and women - do just that. I have the privilege of knowing a few of those and they are doing quite well outside of their native habitats.

American go-getter attitude abroad seems to be a winning combination.
How do you address that somebody could take on 5 bugs that take 5 minutes to fix versus the guy who takes the 1 bug that takes 5 hours to fix?
Generalisation ahead (based on my experience in London).

Many people will have a morning coffee, but tea is drunk continuously throughout the day.
Any HNer uses K/Q/KDB for personal/commercial purposes? What do you use it for?
Great idea. I changed it to only be bold comments if the number of unread comments is greater than 0 and less than the total number of comments. It's been pushed to the Chrome Store. Thanks for the feedback!
Very cool! I wish I had that last week when I was scrambling to reply to comments... (I used text search the page for "minute" and "minutes" but that not very efficient...)

Bonus if you adapt the script to reddit -- the same problem of not knowing which comments are new exists (except for top level comments which can be seen if you sort by new).
Fair. On webOS iirc, HTML+JS is pretty much native, save for calls to the subsystem, not much unlike "native" code on other mobile platforms.

With my use of "modern" I mean, how HTML + JS apps/OS have become increasingly on the radar as a complete way of being.
I think it's great you decided to pursue the idea until fruition regardless of how well things weren't going with your friends and team. It's hard to get anything done when the other teammates don't have the passion or ethic to see it through. Kudos to you to launching it.

As to the person who asked what does this solve? What did Instagram solve? What does Twitter solve or Lolcats or Angry Birds or Reddit? Sometimes providing reprieve from a day or entertainment/inspiration is enough.
Some of the middle is clickable, if you can find it :/
And on my netbook, I don't even see the arrow prompt because the page is too large by default. I have to zoom out.

http://imgur.com/CxOVj
> if Ad-Blocking were to go truly mainstream

Then paywalls and interstitial-ad-walls would pop up everywhere. It wouldn't be very technically hard to force users through an interstitial ad before they could get to content. Quickly people would realize the previous way sites did ads was actually better.
I remember a site on MacOS vs Windows dialog boxes from way back in the late 90's, a time in which many confusing UI patterns abound. It's too bad it's still not around as it is a great guide on how to display the question to the user correctly.

It went on to display a few common(windows 95 I think) dialogs that would leave most users confused. Then showed the Mac dialog in similar operations where it was very clear what the intended outcome of each button would be.
Java has a keyword 'final' for immutable objects.
Apple sells Macbook via Apple Store. The title is misleading.
Instagram does not do many things, several by choice and some otherwise.

I'd put this closer to the deliberate bucket than not.
I'd prefer to see more high end laptops with normal Linux to be sold.
Can't say I've ever really found a personal use, but in my StatArb days it was invaluable.

Want to calculate the 180 day rolling VWAP only between noon and 2pm for every NYSE stock? Yeah, there's a function for that.

Also, it's a hilariously illegible language, and most anyone who's proficient at it is as nutty (and brilliant) as Arthur ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Whitney_(computer_scient... ), the founder of the company.