skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll join the discussion by saying that mkr-hn might be trying to fit a Star Trek:TNG society onto today's world. (Though I add the caveat that this is just speculation on my part.) I certainly see a Trekkie answer to your concerns, anyway, you just have to swallow the sci-fi for a moment. ;) That hypothetical 24th century isn't such a bad place to live, at least compared to 21st century Earth. (My major beef with it is that people still die. Death isn't that hard of a problem, especially when you have teleporters!) In the 24th century, many humans still do purposeful work to better themselves and better humanity. Those that don't work live unexciting lives on some unknown colony planet, but so long as the Borg et al. don't attack, they can live their longer lives in peace and comfort, free of charge. Energy isn't free even in the Star Trek universe, but the society has moved beyond requiring people to toil for money in order to live. Such non-toiling has its costs, of course. Not every slacker can have their own galaxy class ship.

In essence, with such technology, and with such a culture of "it's okay for people to be useless and their marginal cost for the Federation to support is close to 0 so why not", it's not that hard to see how they can get rid of money. They still have de-facto currency and capital, though. e.g. natural dilithium is a common source of conflict among the space-faring races. But such sources of capital typically have instrumental value apart from being able to get other stuff with it.

This is all sci-fi speculation, though it can be useful to postulate various technologies existing and try and guess how humanity might be changed. I'll leave you with a simplified form of a particularly hairy one that some very smart people are spending their lives on right now. Will they succeed by 2100? 2500? Via I.J. Good:

"Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any man however clever. Since the design of machines is one of these intellectual activities, an ultraintelligent machine could design even better machines; there would then unquestionably be an "intelligence explosion," and the intelligence of man would be left far behind. Thus the first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make."
Should work for almost all PSD's and layer effects. We have worked extensively on making it work for layer effects.
There could be few rough edges when there is a something we didn't encounter.
Fidelity, vanguard and state street are the biggest owners of AAPL and are not known for short-term thinking.
CloudFoundry is great to build a PaaS on your own servers and want to manage it. However if you really don't want to manage and run an infrastructure then you would probably don't want to run a system like CloudFoundry!
It certainly doesn't apply to anything medical.
To give an example of what the increased land area leads to: I get 1Mbit/s down and 0.5Mbit/s up for the same price that my uncle in the city gets 40Mbit/s down and 8Mbit/s up.

The reason is that I live in a rural area about 20-30 miles from major cities. If you go another 10 miles your only option is satellite or dial-up (if you have phone lines to your house).
Great team, amazing product, really excited about where they're headed.
The last word on it (as far as I can tell) is that Veeck is right and there is no copyright on "the law", even measly building codes. I have no idea if I've read it wrong, or if the court has changed its mind in the mean time.

>Conclusion

>[51] For the reasons discussed above, we REVERSE the district court's judgment against Peter Veeck, and REMAND with instructions to dismiss SBCCI's claims.
This is a fairly yawn-inducing story.

Congratulations, Apple, the most profitable company in the computing sector, announced an 11% discount on a high end laptop.

Should we have an article when Dell bumps fifty bucks off an Inspiron laptop, too?
So why don't we make an effort to publish these sorts of pre-prints?
Microsoft's CFO Is Damning The Surface With Faint Praise
It seems like there's a growing renewed interest in the tools of old (like smalltalk). Happy to see it.
Haha, great. I can see the ommp clubs loving it.
Yes and Yes! As a metter of fact deployment hooks (both for packages and scripting like Chef) are available as private beta. Once we are done with the tests they will be released.

As for hooks: We have hooks and API to start a deployment after your git commit or CI gives us a go ahead and are working to add post-deploy hooks so you can chain up the deployment to other systems you have.
This is wrong. "Wall Street Estimates" don't come from hedge funds with large positions in AAPL, they come from companies that make up estimates in order to drum up business buying or selling AAPL on behalf of their so-called clients.

Having opened their yaps and sold the stock to someone on the basis of their own estimates, they are reluctant to say, "We goofed," so they encourage a climate of believing that they are in charge and it's Apple's fault when Apple hit or exceed Apple's estimates while so-called missing their estimates.

If what you say is true, you ought to be able to sue Apple for missing Wall Street's estimates. Tim Cook clearly isn't listening to his bosses and has stolen money from you as an investor who disregarded Apple's guidance and instead went with Wall Street's guidance.
Essentially ...

"This is the dilemma Microsoft is facing: Klein and other executives cannot strongly praise the Surface, lest they scare the PC makers who pay lots of money to license Windows."
Yeah we only covered the occasional Apple event over at our live blog: http://live.gdgt.com
Thanks! We definitely want to craft a consistent experience on all devices.
Warning Graphic Crime Video: Drive-By Shooting: Teen Girl Murdered
16×16 Pixel Art Tutorial
In Marketing, People Are Not Numbers
Battery university to open its doors this summer
This all seems so Incestual.
Stagnation was only one aspect of the problem. Another big aspect was common bad quality of sites created with IE only in mind. The same often happens with WebKit on mobile.
A fun MUD to try out
Did they make more than one season of Sym-Bionic Titan? I thought the art was gorgeous, but it felt like a decent high school drama, an awesome "large mecha fighting monsters" drama, but that the two halves didn't blend well at all. The strongest episodes were the ones that were either entirely in the high school, or entirely in the suit.

I also enjoyed the political stuff & (oddly) the robot dating the cheerleader.
Isn't the screenshot bootstrap? Or you have cloned bootstrap styles in .psd?
Amazon And Microsoft Have Both Delayed Their Plans For Smartphones
He already did the official apologies.
isn't OpenShift Origin better?
This is Rails only for now. More Rack based frameworks are coming soon alongside node and others.
This was inevitable, regardless of how Mac sales are doing. The classic MacBook Pro design has no place in 2014's lineup, and you've got to get a $1700 laptop to a $1200 price point somehow.
And are these estimates coming from the major holders? No, they are coming from brokers and analysts. "Wall Street" is several different things, and conflating them in this case does nobody any good.

If and when Al Gore holds a press conference and tells Tim Cook what he wants Apple to do, we can talk about the shareholders running the company. But some snot-nosed analyst writing a research report estimating sales or material costs or whatever is not the same thing as owning the company and directing its activities.
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Essentially ...

"Both were expected to be out in the first half of this year. It appears as though those plans have been put on hold for now."

Tablets can be sold anywhere, but phones are sold to the telcoms - and they just may not like Amazon and Microsoft.
Developing Portable CUDA C/C++ Code with Hemi
Do you have a better pricing page somewhere? $9 per server per month... what kind of server? Micro instance?

Also, is there any Redis support?
The title was my bad. I misunderstood how the SelfCloud works. I am glad somebody pointed it out.
After that I lost track because millennials don't seem to know how to rock out.

They just don't understand, man.

But seriously, millennials are all about 'the party'. They were really young during the roaring late 90's and weren't burdened by the issues of the 00's. If pop music is the a good measure of a generation's status, you wouldn't know of bad times from all the Katy Perry, Kesha, Taylor Swift, Bruno Mars, Justin Bieber, Pitbull, and Maroon 5. Every one of those except Katy Perry currently has a top 20 hit.

Or maybe it's just escapism. Tough call.
I think if the $200/mo tier was officially suggested to them, they would've jumped on that (depending on how miffed they were about the outage). However, suggesting a $200/mo plan which then gets switched to a $3000/mo plan is enough justification to just leave and be done with it.
A Time and a Place: When to Use Node.js
OpenShift is a great solution to build your PaaS. Cloud 66 is however provided to you as a service. So if you like PaaS because you don't want to manage or run an infrastructure then you probably wouldn't want to manage and run OpenShift (or CloudFoundry) either.
https://twitter.com/SteveStreza/status/301725620172386304:

New hobby: Inspecting the source of blog posts complaining about Opera adopting WebKit and finding -webkit prefixes without -o equivalents.
You said what I would have said if I hadn't been rendered near-incoherent by needing to go have lunch. :)
Next time a French telco laments about a tough market, show them this...
It's a cool idea, but has Google actually guaranteed any certain level of support? What if someone ends up creating a site with a huge amount of bandwidth, and then Google pulls the plug?

I know that the offered amount of bandwidth is drool-worthy, but realistically how much of it can be used without drawing the ire of Google and getting shut down?
There may be a bug in the signup process for those who were on the mailing list. I went to signup for an account, it said I had already registered, so I went to login, couldn't figure out my password, clicked forgot password, entered my email and it says Invalid login credential.

UPDATE: They do have password reset available if anyone else runs into this issue, but I did not see this option on the login page, they had to email me a link.
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But tonido is limited to 2GB or something like that, isnt it?
One obvious solution would be for Australia to start or join a free trade zone. In the European Union you are not allowed to prevent people from trading across borders or discriminating them on their country of residence, so price differences between countries are relatively small.

I realize most free trade zones are between neighbouring countries but I don't see why they couldn't do a free trade zone with the USA, for example.
Written some node.js + socket.io applications in the past. I like that you packaged storing info in the database. This is a great tool for a hackathon but if you are doing anything more complicated I think you would want to write you own back-end. Good idea guys keep innovating.
I like the notifications when signed in. Is that regular JS or are you using something like Parse?
Very impressive. Could you help with the pricing a bit more. The cost is $9 per server per month in addition to costs from the cloud provider with the first server free?

BTW your FAQ still lists $7
https://www.cloud66.com/help/faq
Solving the Enigma:  History of the Cryptanalytic Bombe
Assuming that no webpages are reliant on those bugs, sure. One of the problems with everyone targetting a single rendering engine is that they become reliant on the bugs of that engine, to the point that it becomes difficult to make any changes without breaking compatibility. Look at IE, for instance, especially the IE7-compatibility mode in later versions which wasn't IE7 compatible.
I agree it may be in its infancy but so many of the startups I see (among the ones that fail too) are all about sharing and nothing else. A joke that turned into viable idea[1] is emblematic.
Foursquare started like you say, but I'd say it's not used by the majority of people to meet with friends.
Instagram pivoted to follow themselves this trend. It doesn't answer to a need of the founder so it is not an organic startup if you consider pg's definition "those [startups ideas] that grow organically out of your own life"

I am not arguing that sharing is not popular. I am saying that it's and ephemeral trend.

[1](http://www.jotly.co/)
I wonder if this is good or bad news: After the twitter acquisition, the expensive product becomes free. I rather have a free product, but as a customer I would be worried shutdown is next.
That's a valid point. Thank you. Will work on a better pricing page.

For the reference, any server: virtual / physical or any size. Since we don't sell the servers, we only charge for provisioning, deploying and configuring as well as the on-going management (scaling, monitoring, backups, add-ons) per server.

Redis is coming soon (we use it ourselves and deploy our stack with Cloud 66 - so really keen to get it working so we can deploy and managed our own stack fully automated with Cloud 66!)
See also:

https://public.resource.org/

https://law.resource.org/

By state.
https://bulk.resource.org/codes.gov/
Agh, I was hoping I was wrong. This is more in line with my experience.

It's a shame they don't release the numbers because it's easy for "40%" to float around the Zeitgeist, concealing a very real problem.
put your email in your profile.
Crashlytics offers its enterprise-level crash reporting solution free
And why is 4chan still hosted at CloudFlare?
Because most alternative PDF renderers have been worse? Charlie Miller did an analysis once, fuzzing various engines, and Adobe's actually came out on top. (Combine this then with personal experience tangentially gained during JailbreakMe 2.0 and 3.0, and I now refuse to allow Apple's PDF renderer to ever open a file on my system, and always make certain to have Adobe Reader installed on my Macs.)
Innovative ways of queuing - Thai Edition
Yeah, definitely! Here are the two I used - fair warning, one is a Nettuts article. It's not the best tutorial ever but I had never written any Python before reading it and I was able to pull out the useful bits and apply them to my own plugin.

http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/python-tutorials/how-to-cr... - If nothing else, this will at least teach you how a Sublime plugin works (like where it lives and how you add it to the editor and such)

After that, the Sublime API will take it from there - http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/2/api_reference.html

I took bits about how ST2 plugins are structured from the first article, then looked for 'how to do X n Sublime' in the second and once I got those down it was just a matter of Googling for "how to do Y in Python".

The basic gist of it is that a plugin for Sublime is just a Python script that lives in Sublime's packages directory (~/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 2/Packages on a Mac). Create a folder named after your plugin, drop the python script in there, and then use Python + the Sublime API methods to interact with the browser.
Several out of work as Valve makes 'large decisions' about its future
Don't forget the 2 Ewok made-for-TV movies, The Ewok Adventure[1] and Ewoks: The Battle for Endor[2].

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087225/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2
[2] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089110/?ref_=fn_al_tt_3
Can anyone with beta access comment about features or share screenshots? There's not much to see otherwise.
Why!? (Again)
My understanding of what Slick offers over something like Squeryl (which I admit I don't know super well so correct me if I'm wrong) is that it's queries can be generalized over many different data stores and is not just limited to SQL. This is why there are plans to release other backends in the future, such as MongoDB. It is able to accomplish this by constructing queries through monadic composition[1]. This an idea that has already been shown to be fairly successful with Microsoft's LINQ[2].

[1]http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2011/4/106584-a-co-relational-... [2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_Integrated_Query

EDIT: clarity
How to Speak Startup: A Primer
This is great for the area. There is a lot of unsung innovation coming out of the Midwest with Kansas City playing a large part of it. Coupled with a ton of very smart people, Kansas City is ripe to become a major player in the startup community.

Also, the city is wonderful. Beautiful, amazing food, great schools, cheap, clean, and great transportation options for vacations (out of a great airport!). As someone who lived there for 18 months before moving to San Francisco, there is a lot about Kansas City that I miss.
1. What happens if I need a binary available on the server? (wkhtmltopdf)

2. Can I choose the linux distribution?

3. Can cron jobs be set up?

4. What about stuff like scout/monit etc ?

5. What about redis/memcaches/mysql/postgres?
If you like wrttn.in check out Write.app. Same deal except with a Sublime Text 2 plugin and a bunch more ways to store and share notes than just the web interface. https://writeapp.me
Actually attended a local user group presentation on elastic beanstalk last night.

Elastic Beanstalk not only handles auto scaling. You can set limits that enable it to launch a replacement server if your pages start responding slowly.

The new console lets you easily add SSL certificates and schedule backups. I was pleasantly surprised how much Amazon has added to it in the last few years.
Apple Could Destroy Microsoft's Xbox Business In The Blink Of An Eye
I signed up. This is something I've wanted to find/build for awhile.

My two feature requests would be:

1. A way to toggle between visible layers and layer groups. My designs usually come in a single PSD with a "Home" group, "About" group, "Contact" group, etc.

2. For the download all images to include all text and image assets (hidden and visible), perhaps in the same group/folder hierarchy as the original PSD.

I was talking to Suren on Olark and he was very responsive, but ended up losing the chat when I navigated to the purchase page!
Fucking intense startup video
Love this video, startups should take note and stop being so boring!
How could you possibly evaluate whether this article was correct without having read Lehrer's original article?

For what it's worth, I think this whole thing is dumb. The main problem with Lehrer isn't that he plagiarized a few articles, but that his writing is mostly b-level propaganda to begin with.
This is actually done:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/laplaza/2008/07/venezuelans-...
Its a lot cheaper to buy the fastest consumer cpu + 32gb ram + ssds and have it in the home office than it is to rent that same server in a good data center.

Having a 1gbps network would let you run more of your hardware at home where it's cheaper. This makes sense for certain specific cases.

For startups that need this power, hosting at home can save money. Also you can't beat the security of having physical access and control of your hardware.

For my app streamjoy.tv I run all the intensive tasks on a core i7 at home and then just push the rendered results to a $5 a month digital ocean vps.

For the kind of computation that I am doing it is much less expensive and faster to use my local hardware and push static pages to my nginx server at digital ocean.

If I had a 1gbps connection I would run even more of my setup at home. Its not that important for the features I have coded so far but in the future it would be helpful.
I just relocated my team to KC from Boston after living in the Home for Hackers house for 3 months.

Very few entrepreneurs are moving here exclusively for Fiber, the real attraction is the super inclusive community and the extensive resources available to startup founders. Every single person I have met here is so unbelievably welcoming and will go out of their way to help you out. The Fiber is just icing on the cake.

Another huge reason people have been moving here is cost.
My team just moved into a 1800sqft house for $1100/month and fiber ($79/month) gets installed in a few weeks. So much cheaper than Boston..

Oh yeah, and the Kansas Angel Investor Tax Credits [http://www.ksrevenue.org/taxcredits-angel.html] are great.
You're arguing that it's not necessarily terrible if Opera switches to WebKit, in terms of monoculture issues.

That may well be true. But what others in this thread are arguing is that it would also not be terrible if everyone else switched to WebKit too, and I believe they're wrong about that.

> can't you just submit bugfixes for the bugs that are parallelism bottlenecks?

You mean bugs like being written in C++ and not architected around parallelism?

Bolting on parallelism is _hard_. Have you ever tried doing that with an existing multi-million-line C++ codebase? I've tried with Gecko, and I've spoken with people who have tried with WebKit, as well as reading a good bit of WebKit source, and it's not really feasible unless you drop everything else and focus all your energy on it. And maybe not even then.

> are there any examples of WebKit "bugs" that prevent parallelism that you could not fix yourself

And get the patches actually accepted in WebKit? Lots.

Again, you seem to think the problem is some small issues here and there, whereas the problem is more that you have lots of code touching non-const data through C++ pointers, which means that if you try to parallelize you either get tons of data races or lock contention that kills performance or most likely both.

> At the end of the day, all you guys need to defend is the interface, not the implementation

As long as there are multiple implementations. Unless you include in "interface" everything that's web-visible, but policing that is a huge endeavor that no one working on browser implementations has the manpower for.
App Design Guides - for Ubuntu Phone
Looks similar to TrunkClub ( http://www.trunkclub.com/ ), which I saw on HN a couple of months ago. But with cheaper prices. (And hopefully better service -- the TrunkClub advisor I talked to missed an appointment, was confrontational, and didn't seem to listen well).
I can only speak for myself, but I just signed up, so I guess I'm part of their market.

I consider myself (or at least, aspire to be) decently fashionable, but I have a lot of anxiety about actually clothes purchasing. The whole subscription + curation model means a) clothes appear without me having to actually make the (for me, very fraught) decision and b) when I think that an item of clothing looks good, I have some corroboration on that from someone who does this for a living.
>The world does need men & women to be making the same amount of money for doing the same job.

The world already has that.
1. We support manifest files (in private beta now) to allow you just that.
2. Yes. Both on the server (as you would do normally on any linux box) and through our CRON app.
3. We provide minimal vital signs for all the servers: memory, disk and CPU.
4. MySql and PostgreSQL are supported. Redis is coming soon. Memcache is after that.

However, it is always good to remember, all the boxes are yours and you have shell root access to them. So if we don't support something right now, you can always jump on the box and do it yourself the the Pro way!
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