skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was bought in July of 1994¹ for a company called NeXT that Steve Jobs started in 1985² and sold to Apple in 1996³.

After which he had a second "boardroom coup"[4] which he won; going on to become the CEO for a second time[5].

The first coup he lost[6], resigned, and started NeXT[7]. Due to horrible sales of the Lisa[8], Apple III[9], and original Macintosh ref:1984-86[10], Jobs wasn't trusted to make sound business decisions[11]. NeXT didn't sell many machines either; only 50k over its 11 years[12]; one of which TBL used to make the World Wide Web[13].

The nextgen Mac OS was scrapped in favor of a nextgen NeXTStep[14], branded as OS X[15] [16].

Fun Fact: I own zero Apple products except for some stock I bought in 1998 (after trying a rhapsody developer preview) and one NeXTStation color turbo I got at a surplus sale in early 2001 (in my parents garage, up in the rafters; call it an investment). Best $1,000 and $25 I've ever spent, respectively.

[1] http://who.is/whois/next.com

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT#1985.E2.80.931986:_Foundin...

[3] http://news.cnet.com/Apple-acquires-Next,-Jobs/2100-1001_3-2...

[4] http://news.cnet.com/Amelio,-Hancock-out-of-Apple/2009-1001_...

[5] http://news.cnet.com/Jobs-named-interim-Apple-CEO/2100-1001_...

[6] http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=JiAyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3...

[7] http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/...

[8] http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=dxEhAAAAIBAJ&sjid=J...

[9] http://www.nytimes.com/1984/01/16/business/apple-expands-pro...

[10] http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=CgwhAAAAIBAJ&sjid=T...

[11] http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/...

[12] http://www.crunchbase.com/company/next-computer

[13] http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/WorldWideWeb.html

[14] http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/january/new0114c...

[15] http://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/12/business/rhapsody-s-out-os...

[16] http://www.rhapsodyos.org/misc/rhap_timeline/Rhapsody_Timeli...
"A myoelectric prosthesis uses electromyography signals or potentials from voluntarily contracted muscles within a person's residual limb on the surface of the skin to control the movements of the prosthesis..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosthesis#Myoelectric
Aside from that it doesn't work (from what I can tell), what is it supposed to do??

'Simply enter the text you need "Blinked" in the field at the top and "Blink it!".'

What does it mean to blink text or code?
As soon as I clicked the source and didn't notice a binary diff being done for files I realized it was a toy/learning project, but my reaction was "Hell yeah!" anyway. Keep it up.
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Surface and Treo are not the best examples either. His definition of "didn't exist in the world" is getting mainstream recognition.

Relevant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_electric_vehicle...
Bitcoin Now Trading At An All-Time High - Few Reasons
Well, solar boom has been going on for billions of years and predicted to last billions of years. And most of it is FREE or LOW MAINTENANCE. Oil guys should think about it.
An Unremarkable Event in the Tenderloin
All of those professions have a lobby pushing their agenda. From the first one on your list see https://www.thiswaytocpa.com/.
It says to me that there is a large amount of speculation. As a currency, Bitcoin is basically useless except for illicit transactions (which are usually pretty inefficient anyway). Would you use dollars if the value of a dollar could change by hundreds of percentage points in a few months? No one would.
As long as the judge is aware when the suing party is a shell company vs. an actual small business and requires some sort of monetary escrow only for the former.

I don't know if "danger" is the word you are looking for :) I'd love to see a "reverse class action" happen to an intellectual vulture; the only way it would be better would be if the judge allowed the "defendants" to pierce the veil when it came time to collect.
As dustcoin pointed out, credit cards are charged when the item shipped. Waiting for confirmations isn't an issue.

> Can you prove it, the way that ECDSA (on which Bitcoin is based) can be proved secure as a signature system?

I'm not experienced in any form of crypto, so not personally, no.
It's unclear from the article whether or not the author has actually used Google Glass. It's pretty vague, so I assume not. It's easy to wax on about the greatness of a device if, having never used one, you're free to project all of your hopes and fantasies onto it.
Appears to mean to make the text blink. With a text-decoration:blink attribute in the css.

Which is weird because AFAIK the <blink> tag is still a thing in modern browsers... I didn't even know you could do it with css.
A fraction of a millisecond is a long time, in HFT.
Sugar is behind global explosion in type 2 diabetes, study finds
Not FPGA, but ASIC. Mining with a GPU is fairly useless now unless you've a warehouse of them and free power.
Almost everyone who is rich enough to own a high-end MacBook also owns a fast phone with a data plan, which can be used for tethering. How many cellular radios do I need to carry with me at once, anyway?

Note that this is in contrast to the iPad, where the owner cannot be presumed to have a fast phone data plan, simply because they may be too poor to own both an iPad and a fancy iPhone.
It's because, e.g., "The Warrantless Wiretapping Act" doesn't sound as nice as "The PATRIOT Act" and they want to pass it.
I use XenForo and it's relatively simple to stop all forum spam for the most part. I just set up a custom captcha that only people who are interested in the topic would know the answer to, and then use XenForo's built in spam catching system for the rest...though I haven't had anything get through yet once I made the changes.

Also deleted forum footprint to dodge people scraping my forum off of Google, so that takes care of about 99% of all spam attempts. Someone would have to custom register accounts on my forum to get in, after which they would be destroyed by the spam catcher :)
When you think about it it's almost a logical certainty that he'd take the fall. Any company collectively able to understand that the actual failure was inadequate safeguards would have been able to see it coming and presumably would have prevented it from happening. If you're so inexperienced that you expect no one will ever make a mistake you'll obviously assume that the only problem was that someone made one.

It's somewhat fascinating to hear that a company that damaged managed to build a product that actually had users. And I thought my impression of the social gaming segment couldn't go any lower.
I don't have any, but I do wonder if this is another reason why there's a bias towards younger founders (or at least the perception of one). You start a company at 25 after a few years of unfulfilling work, put your nose to the grindstone for 5 years, and, in this unusually terrible hypothetical, end up with nothing but lost time and opportunity.

But hey, you're 30. There's time for a comeback. There's no age limit on making a comeback, but I don't think it would be an outrageous claim to say that bouncing back at 30 is easier than bouncing back at 50. Of course, as is the case in most things, attitude matters. A lot. You can look at your 5 year struggle as a massive loss, or as an incomparable learning experience, and that could be the deciding factor in how successful your next venture is.
These solutions assume that the spammers have human beings who are actively checking that their spamming effort worked on your forum.

I have a forum where I've been battling spam for years, and since the beginning all external links have been nofollowed... AFAIK this made no difference whatsoever.
There have been hundreds of virtual currencies introduced both before and after Bitcoin. However, Bitcoin remains the most popular of all of them. While it has some obvious advantages over many of the other schemes, it would be speculative to try to explain exactly why it has succeeded where others have failed. However, regardless of the reasons, it has a strong enough foothold to last for a very long time.

My personal opinion is that Bitcoin is popular because it makes money more flexible, and enables people to take absolute control over their money - in the same way that the mp3 standard enabled them to take control of their music.
I don't think it does... the smaller entity is the original assignee - it just now happens to be owned by the troll.
A test that means the difference between knowing a diagnosis and not knowing a diagnosis is often management-changing. If this test gives you the diagnosis, even if there is no therapeutic option for that disorder, then it means that your search for an answer is through (ending the need for continued testing, anxious uncertainty, etc).

In other posts I offer examples of tests that would not change management, and surely experienced clinicians could offer myriad other examples. (A lot of it depends on the clinical context.)

But thank you for bringing this up; I agree that a diagnosis is, in itself, valuable for patients (and care providers).
Paste this in the js console to make the page (slightly more) readable

var getScript = function(url, success) {
var script = document.createElement('script');
script.src = url;
script.onload = success;
var head = document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0];
head.appendChild(script);
};

getScript("//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.min.js", function() {
var wrap = function(html, tag) {
var parts = html.split('\n')
var out = '<' + tag + '>' + parts[0] + '</' + tag + '>';
out += parts.slice(1).join(' ');
return out;
}

jQuery('#content li li').html(function(i, html) { return wrap(html, 'h4'); });
jQuery('#content ul > li').html(function(i, html) { return wrap(html, 'h2'); });
jQuery('li').css('margin-bottom', 3);
jQuery('body').css('line-height', 1.5);
});
Take a look at Chrome packaged apps: https://developer.chrome.com/apps/about_apps.html

It's probably not as powerful as you want but it already can do quite a lot.
I work freelance. When someone wants a price from me, they want a number. It might not be the number they want to hear. It might not be an accurate number. A lot of the time, it won't be the actual number used, and it will probably not have any relation to the final invoice. There are an infinity of reasons why you might not give someone a number when they ask for a price, and they're all irrelevant.

It's okay to qualify the number. "Ten million dollars, but order now and..."

If you'll note, your customer just said the same thing I did. Listen to him.
Worst case, the court could pierce the corporate veil, but apparently there is the bond requirement mentioned in my sibling comment as well.
I call BS; they routinely break rule 5.
In a lot of ways, I feel that my own path has had that trajectory.
Also, I can't tell you how many times I've attempted to click on a button on a web form, and it was still loading and the button moved (along with a different button appearing in its place).
Good point. I imagine those up North may get some use as they can double as heating (if the area's small), but besides that, it does seem like a waste of time and electricity at this point.
Geez, you're only a year older than he was at the start of his Herculean effort. Get writing!
Only SF and Mountain View/Palo Alto. That's not helpful to me unfortunately.
>Why is the liquidity justification pure rubbish? That's what human traders do as well.

Human traders hold securities for more than fractions of a second. If I want to sell my shares of some low volume stock today and some other human investor wants to buy them next month, a third party who is willing to buy them from me today and sell them to the other buyer in a month is providing a useful service -- I get paid today, he gets the shares at a slight discount and makes a profit a month from now. That clearly doesn't apply when a high frequency trader buys shares and turns them around in fractions of a second.

>They don't "deserve" it any more or less than any other middle man.

A middle man deserves the profit he earns by providing value. What value is provided by a middle man engaged in naked arbitrage by taking advantage of an ephemeral information asymmetry?
I know what you mean.

I would have certainly liked something less expensive to play with too, but this $160 thing has two USB ports and an eSATA port which will definitely make things somewhat more interesting -- my SheevaPlug has been struggling to keep up with the USB disk access... I also saw that there is Gig ethernet on this "devkit"-yellow-thing. I am almost convinced of getting one, but I will sleep on it just to make sure this is not just an empty geeko-consumerism moment.
Links are not something you own, they are things you access. Obviously I don't 'own' the link news.ycombinator.com it's just a link.

Pinboard doesn't 'exist to charge me to gather other people's urls' it just gives me an excellent way of keeping track of links that I find useful and want to occasionally have access to (and does that across multiple computers/browsers which is great). Tumbler may be great for a few things, but I have thousands of bookmarks for example and tumblr would suck for that in my case ...
Helping each other
I've been homeless.

No one in SF is hungry. In a span of a few blocks a person could eat for free 5 or 6 times a day. Money is used for drugs or McDonald's.

My advice: don't give anyone money or food. If you want to help, give your time.
Cool, thanks. I am, not shockingly, curious how this works, now. Is it just a hinting mechanism, or can the rendering process of a tab/window change on the fly? What happens when you go to a new url in an opened tab? (I mean these more as things I'm now interested in. Maybe I'll get off my virtual butt and check the source. Granted, that source tree is less than casually approachable.)
How To Use Live Chat To “Get Out Of The Building”
To be honest as a CEO I would fire myself for letting someone in the team work that wrong (I mean in the production server)

Plus there is no excuse for not having backups...
Damn, I hate subway.
high volatility is natural for all new currencies, as volume continues to increase then volatility will decrease.
PikSpeak-Captutre Moments
You did the right thing. Hunger pains suck.
It's such a misleading title. It's nothing like Dropbox.

We're talking about 60 lines of python for the "server" and 90 lines of python for the "client".

That's a weekend hack, not a Dropbox clone.

It happened so many times in the past, that I'm patenting a method of getting on first page of HN:

1. Write something

2. Call it a dropbox clone

3. Congratulations, apparently no-one bothers to check if that "something" does anything even remotely similar to dropbox:

- does it have a GUI client with a highly polished interface?

- does it have an installer?

- does it have conflict resolution to reconcile changes made on different computers?

- does it try to not corrupt files if download/upload fails in the middle?

- is it self-contained or do you first have to install, say, python interpeter?
I was thinking an appropriate solution would be watchdog:

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/watchdog
Ask HN: How can we solve world poverty
Serious question. The poorest of the poor, those who live off of 1-2$/day
There is enough food and moneybut inefficencies, corruption and bad governement.
Thanks for taking the time to do a detailed write up, it's very enlightening.

>So no, it's not just theory;

No offense was intended, I phrased my statement poorly. The technique is usually discussed in more abstract terms would have been better.
But what no one talked about was the years she forewent hanging out with other girls in middle school, watching TV and doing her hair with girlfriends in high school.

Ah the old "I knew Taylor Swift" card, hear it all the time. I will say the funniest thing about being from Wyo is how everyone in a 50-mile radius of my town/school apparently "knew" and were best friends with Taylor Swift before she left.

But yeah I agree, certainly a lot of sacrifice. Her entire family moved to support her dream and it fortunately paid off. You don't hear about the 1,000s of other families that move to Nashville and fail. So no, sticking with it is not a guarantee for "success", not in the slightest. Depends on how you define success of course.
Some great CDN hosted (for free) sources for twitter bootstrap files to help new users get going:

http://hostedbootstrap.com/
http://www.bootstrapcdn.com
http://cdnjs.com/
Don't hate on all SEOs just because of the overall clown-ness of the space :( there are some good guys!
That was heart wrenchingly sad, thank you for doing this. I live in the Haight and I see people shivering in the cold and realize how good my life is. I am never sure whether to help people or not. I have heard contradictory stories of trustafarians and the whole philosophy that giving people money doesn't help them. Ultimately, despite all the bustle of tech, it feels like we are letting down the poorest of the poor by not helping them someway or the other.
Awesome new site. It's got a few areas for improvement but it's such a good idea.
Tizen and Firefox - 2 major open source mobile OS of 2013
I had it set up on the client side (putty on Windows, terminal on OS X)
How to improve the testability of your Android app
Search "Google Drive pricing" at DuckDuckGo. First result: "It will cost you"
No other search engine returns this, but the URL is valid.
Energy is needed to produce those solar panels. You also need space and the grid to move the electricity around. Oh and store it at night (if you don't have a backup source of power).

I'm partial to nuclear, there is enough Uranium in Australia to keep us going for at least 1000 years or so.
The light turning on when recording will be disabled in no time flat for people who want to record surreptitiously.
Scientific publishing: Changing Nature
Moments of beauty, as I see them.
This is truly some next-level stuff. Very compelling price, and it seems like a very well thought out revamp of an existing paradigm.

Obvious concerns:

- security
- confidentiality
- how easy is this to set up? to cancel?
- how timely is this?
- how accurate?
I usually try to help out and give the less fortunate the change in my pocket when I can, but this one instance really made me reluctant to continue giving.

He was inside starbucks and was walking out the door while I was waiting for a chance to enter. He stopped me and told me his name was Marcus, he was really hungry and needed some money for food. I gave him what was in my pocket, about ~2 bucks. He took it, looked at me and said "That's it?". He scoffed and walked away.

I know, I know, one person can't represent everyone. It just stung and comes to my mind whenever I think about giving.
Every so often, I'll buy someone a meal: Subway, or some noodles, or something like that. Or I'll give them $5 for the BART, or whatever. Absolutely no skin off my nose; a big deal for them. And every single time, the look of joy and surprise on their faces completely cuts through any cynicism I might have had about the interaction.

I figure, every single person who's out there begging is in need. I wish there were better programs out there to help them, and I wish our community could help out. I sometimes wonder if the people selling Street Spirit could be selling a product that people actually want instead (even if it's just a magazine like the Big Issue).

I don't know the answers, but it makes me sad, too.
In addition to not using the anti-credibility keyword "beautiful", Earth Class Mail (which I currently am using) seems to be a much more useful service offering (as it doesn't rely on people attempting to obtain your mail from your current address, nor does it rely on the idea that your current address even has relevance or permanence).
Women form into geek groups all the time... geek girls this, linuxchix that, and nobody objects. In fact, studies have shown women have an in-group bias where women like women more than men like men, so it's inevitable they will stick together:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15491274

But as soon as a guy sets up a podcast with a self-deprecating title that references his own gender, it's a signal that women don't belong? C'mon.

All the numbers I've seen show that, contrary to commercial IT, the ratio of female to male participation in volunteer-based open source is minuscule. As in, the norm is 1-5%, and it maybe goes up to 10% after years of advocacy, in a successful project, e.g.:
http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/58218

Arguably the most successful open source project, i.e. Linux, is run by a self-admitted asshole who chews out contributors in ways that would rally a never-seen before army of White Knights if it were ever directed at a woman. Linux is successful either despite or because of it, and nobody particularly seems to mind.

After a decade of goading women into joining open source, very little has actually changed. Most of the women I know in open source got involved through their job rather than a hobby, and I think this reflects the growing importance of open source over commercial software more than anything else.

The horribly sexist incidents in the community ("perform like a pr0n star") were always the exception, not the norm. The only thing that's changed is that now there is a hypersensitivity over anything that might be deemed offensive, as opposed to a "boys will be boys" shrug, and the loudmouths are favored over the people who just want to get things done.

Focusing on gendered references like beards is missing the point entirely. I think the only way women will ever make up a significant chunk of open source contributors is if hobbyist open source stops being relevant. Most technically-inclined women simply don't seem to be interested in working by themselves for the heck of it, they care much more about doing it in a safe and friendly group setting, for a well-defined external purpose. Hence, a huge chunk of programming culture will be male dominated, and it's pointless to be ashamed of that. Even though women are welcome to join the party, it was mostly men that built the internet.
Security BSides Sf shuts down talk over Ada initative protests.
If your business relies on SEO or is affected by Google search rank in a critical way, it may not be a viable business long-term.

Yes, that means I'm talking about a lot of online businesses.

The intelligent thing to do is sell a product or service that has value on its own and neither relies on SEO nor is it likely to be blames by other sites or companies for lowering their SEO.

I feel bad for these folks, but if you are planning on starting a business that doesn't really provide much value on its own that is identifyable outside of the roach motel of SEO, then you are headed into the ocean in a dingy with a small outboard motor, imo.
If not here, then elsewhere. We're decades away from a green economy.

We would be decades away even if we decided to invest what was necessary to get us there, and with the current levels of investment, I would be unsurprised if we're still drilling for oil full blast when I die.
This is just me, and my approach to the homeless or destitute, but if someone asks me for money, the answer is some form of no (if I even acknowledge the asker). Yeah, you tell me you're hungry or whatever, but I'm not going to risk participating in your next fix.

If they ask me for food, however, it's always a yes, assuming I can do it right then (not late for something, have money or my card on me or whatever). You wouldn't believe how rarely that actually happens.

I don't spend a lot of time in the Tenderloin — though I do pass through it fairly regularly — but actually being asked for food is pretty much the opposite of "unremarkable" in my experience.
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