skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is my advice. Stretch out your runway by cutting down your burn-rate. If you have people on as full-time employees renegotiate with them so you pay them per catering contract. You want your burn-rate to go down to as close to zero as possible. When your burn-rate is zero you can keep running on empty for as long as you want and never go out of business.

Your business name and goodwill will always be there. With the burn-rate under control you can gradually and organically grow your business.

The worst thing to do is to fly into a panic and rush into all these lead generation techniques. People can sense your fear and panic in your food. Think of your business as a dish. Let it simmer slowly and let the flavors gradually express themselves.

Also don't increase your burn-rate by giving deep discounts in a desperate bid for customers. Keep your prices reasonable. The profit-margin is the oxygen for your business to stay alive.
Just an easter egg from Apple, not an actual dependency.
I'm excited about this because I assumed all the people who wanted Steam on Linux would download it immediately, leaving no room for growth in the second month. The fact that it's still growing is a good sign.
Anything I did wrong ? I think I gave your library all the credits it deserves by naming it in the title and providing details where the used parts came from in the comments below.

Or is it that I used the most trivial particle rendering ? :)
The Android Dvorak Bug
>Anyway my point is assassination with drones is hard and always has collateral - but if the target is in an area that is not actively protecting him then the traditional methods of walking up and shooting him is much more viable.

So the "assassination" part doesn't annoy you much?

Much more that the target can be anybody some dumbness in high offices in a single country declared "guilty".
'Scam' was a bad choice of words, but its ridiculously buggy (it accepts your music downloaded from TPB, but will only take half of an album which I legally bought and ripped to disk) and iOS playback is horrendous (both on and off WiFi.)
I'd also like to add that this may have been a class of students who were in a sign-language class...

I did an experiment similar to this in highschool where we were supposed to go without hearing, sight, or speech for a few days. The specifics are fuzzed but there were a lot of kids walking around with things covering their eyes.

It was a cool little experiment and it sounds like this teacher took it a little further. It also sounds like most good stories that I know, mostly fact but a little fiction in there to spice it up rather than saying... well shit I just don't remember that detail...
Prior discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5294202
>Then again, it might be fine to apply an alternate "default theme" if and only if there are literally no non-user-agent CSS styles defined on the page (either by stylesheets or DOM-manipulating Javascript).

That might be the way to go.
New Jersey Allows Online Gambling Tied to Its Casinos
Don't buy it if you don't like it.

I don't understand what exactly problems people with referrals.

Would you prefer it he had an under the table deal with the author which you could not see?
I'm not sure what you find funny and/or what the "STEM jerk" is? Care to elaborate?
Here is one guy:

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

I am sure US Dept of State will understand if South American drones fly around Miami for a while and blast some terrorists.
Your link to patrik gibson's twitter shows how silly the original hypothesis is.

For instance, Apple's stores are still powered by WebObjects because WebObject is still one of the best web frameworks in the world.

Do people say that Amazon is "bad at the web" because obidos and gurupa were designed in the 1990s? They're worse than WebObjects by a wide margin. How about all the companies whose web services are from the 1990s?

Including google!

The rest of his examples are cheap shots or simply based on ignorance.

For instance, Game Center having trouble under heavy load is an exceptional event not a daily occurence, and lets not forget the weeks of cummulative time that google has had gmail down because of issues over the years, and all the mail people have lost and the fact that google will just blackhole people's accounts for no reasons and then when it happens you have no way to get your data back.

The rest of it is misunderstanding or misrepresentation.

In other words, this is just more propaganda in the endless google good, apple bad, ideological war that was started to try and cover the fact that android is a blatant ripoff of iOS.
doesn't DIRECTLY involve criminal penalty AS OF NOW.
[pdf] Best Practices for Scientiﬁc Computing
The Micro USB plug is an abomination, only exceeded in horribleness by Apple’s predecessor to the Lightning plug, the Dock Connector.

Hardly anyone will use the HDMI out. Prioritizing the plug seems like the correct tradeoff to me. And make no mistake, this is what this is. It’s always about tradeoffs.
I could look for links that prove my point but whats the point? That information is naturally opaque. I believe that R&D costs are likely to be lower because I see such a huge number of new devices coming from companies without the clout of Google or Android. If Google are spending amounts equivalent to Apple on the pixel they are doing something wrong.
This is nothing to get in a tizzy about. DMCA is stupid, we know, but the reality is that laws are made all the time that have some asinine edge-case side effect that makes a totally innocent action a criminal offense. The important question here is, are you likely to be prosecuted for such a dumb thing. I think it's relatively safe to say you won't. Obviously we can't say the same for those of us who'd be inclined to build our own DVD playback software but to use it to view a DVD is, in reality, not going to get you in trouble.

I'm not saying I support this. I absolutely don't. My question is, what's the point here? To me, this comes off as another article meant to get all the anti-copyright, anti-DMCA people to all come together and pat each other on the back for how smart they are for being against such silly laws. This stuff is good to know and interesting but I'm still a little disappointed its on the front page of HN. It seems like exactly the kind of thing the guidelines say not to post. It's an easy up vote - who can't get behind the idea of DVD playback on Linux being illegal being, well, ludicrous.
Here are Steam's December Linux numbers that I recorded back in January:

OS Share Delta
Ubuntu 12.10 64 bit 0.29% +0.29%
Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS 64 bit 0.26% +0.26%
Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS 0.13% +0.13%
Ubuntu 12.10 0.12% +0.12%
Other 0.71% +0.14%

Note that this was the first month that Linux use was recorded, which means that the delta for "Other" is almost certainly entirely Linux (for example, there was no "Linux Mint" option then).

Here's this month's numbers, for easy comparison:

OS Share Delta
Ubuntu 12.10 64 bit 0.71% +0.28%
Ubuntu 12.10 0.38% +0.19%
Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS 64 bit 0.31% +0.31%
Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS 0.20% +0.20%
Linux Mint 14 Nadia 64 bit 0.17% +0.17%
Linux 64 bit 0.14% +0.14%
Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS 64 bit 0.11% -0.22%
Other 0.82% +0.06%

BTW, if you're a Steam user on Linux, don't neglect to fill out the hardware survey if you get selected. It really is an awesome resource for determining the capabilities of the average gaming computer. There's also a handful of strange results... is Firefox really six times more popular than Chrome on Windows? Are there really people still gaming on 640x480 monitors?
Apple has no problem making pay – but they do have a problem making people pay for stuff they don’t use. Nothing to do with costs per se, it’s more a philosophical stance.
But wont this dissuade plaintiffs with few financial means from seeking out justice?
I wish I had saved the results every time over the last few years that Google showed me a page it claimed had what I was looking for, when neither searching the visible text or even the source code of the page produced any such string. I am sure that it's happened to me hundreds of times by now, if not thousands. For a long time, it was surprising and ranged from annoying to infuriating. Now I just sigh and accept it as the cost of Googling.
Baseline: Dev box with batteries included
You need to enable the site in noscript for its fonts to render correctly.
Video: Pirate Bay Founder Thanks Supporters From Inside Prison
I think the top comment should always be a contrary response to the original post. In this case, skepticism is appropriate.
A basic grounding in the humanties does not seem like such a rip off...
I hope that steam breaks the myth that Linux users will not pay for software.
We've got the Conservative Party of Canada on the right, and the Liberals, the NDP, the Greens, and the Bloc on the left.

This is another myth of Canadian politics. Most Liberal voters, if given a ranked ballot, would choose the Conservatives second, and vice versa. The Liberals have, in practice, been as right as the Conservatives ever have been.
Interesting. I'm using ~24,800 of my 25,000 available tracks. About %90 of that is actually CDs that I ripped (I'm not really much of a pirate). I had a problem where it wouldn't accept one of them at all, and I ended up pirating that one to get it to work. The rest I was able to import ok, so my CD collection going back to the 1980s when I first started buying them I was able to import.

I have no trouble with playback on iOS. But I don't tend to stream, I tend to sync the songs I want to the device and then play them.

The one time I did have problems with iTunes match was a period where we rented a house in rural mexico. We were using some sort of fly-by-nite mexican ISP, and iTunes match had a lot of difficulty. It was really inconsistent and it sounds like this is what you experienced.

I suspect the issue there is that certain ports were being blocked, or that the ISP couldn't keep a consistent connection (Though loading web pages was fine, longer streaming connections like watching video were not.) I think iTunes match is probably sensitive to needing specific ports open and isn't great at falling back when they are blocked, or isn't great at handling frequent interruptions in the net connection (even if they are short.)
> This was such bad PR it got stopped pretty fast

I was thinking about this and I wonder if "no such thing as bad PR" applies here as well. Think about it, this is done by people who get paid to blast away "terrorists". It involves both government contractors who build drones working with those who operate them (presumably pretty close relationship). Declaring that "all terrorists are done and we are closing up shop" is like firing themselves. I know Africa is hot now and L3 is hiring linguists for it, but why not milk the ME cow for all it's worth right. If one strike at wedding produces 10 more terrorist leaders -- that is like investing in future growth. They would be silly not to do it.

> suspect it happens more than we hear about (Litveneko and the polonium being the obvious case)

Except that in that case the goal seems to be exactly for as many as possible to hear about it. These people are not stupid, they know to "suicide" and accidenta-kill people. Using something as exotic as Po-210 is not stupidity, the point was to send a strong warning to any would be defectors. It is a message saying you betray us, we'll find you and assassinate you.
I too would love to draw. I am in San Francisco and going through Andrew Loomis's books on my own requires discipline. Any tips on where to start ?
It's all about distribution ("rozpowszechnianie"). If you download copyrighted material - the people that made it available without permision offended tha law, but you had not.

I think it's very useful distinction, and the only one that makes sense.

Also there are exceptions for short excerpts from copyrighted material, satire, etc (considered fair use).

That's why Poles were so infuriated when USA tried to enforce ACTA on us.
Im sure the BBC had some way of enabling licence paying Brits abroad to still use iPlayer. Could be completely wrong, but some bell relating to this is ringing in the back of my mind.
Yup, that is a feature and for our own "good".
Thank you for the kind words. I am definitely going through a stressful time right now and yes you are right that I have an aching feeling of huge disappointment of the people that has supported me along the way and customers that lover our food. I know the biggest way to solve that is getting out there and connecting with people about our food and our story. I already got a tremendous amount of advice on this thread. so its really about taking massive action. I'll do my best to turn things around, be strong and have the faith to keep going.
People first | LinkedIn | nice read
It's also a pretty blatant copy of the Macbook. Given the history you outline (which I agree with) I think the huge leap for the pixel came from Apple. Just like the huge leap from a blackberry clone to an iPhone clone that android took over the course of 2007-2008.
I expect there are considerably more people who fit the necessary criteria to attend college than who end up as graduates. When you are trying to filter applicants, you usually want to reduce your set, not increase it. Even filtering on college graduates is starting to be less effective due to increasing rates of output from the colleges. In the technology field in particular, we've started to become more interested in hobbies because fewer people have relevant hobbies than degrees.
Judge Cuts $450 Million From Apple's Jury Award in Samsung Case
It’s The End Of The News As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
And in a rational world it would be. It's P/E ratio is crazy low compared to Google and Amazon just in raw terms. But the market is an irrational place, it only looks sane in aggregate and over longer time periods.

The rational part of me says it will be over 1k within a year, regardless of how irrational I know that thought to be :-)
I would think this fits from a second amendment frame of mind.
The current license agreement explicitly allows repackaging of the client to work and be distributed on other distros.
How much money do you think PBS gets from federal tax dollars?
This heavily depends on how the companies you are investing in perform in the mid-term. It is true that the stock market out performs other kind of investments but this is only true if you are not investing in let's say 2-3 companies but rather in an index or something similar. Investing in an index is much much less exciting than investing in 2-3 companies.
> I'm left feeling that traffic data produced as a side product is somehow being reused internally

Of course. One has to be very naive to believe data traveling to their servers is being immediately discarded.

This reminds me of a story I saw once by Onavo, a mobile app which reduces data usage by acting as a middleman and compressing the data before it reaches the phone. The story however talked about which apps made the most revenue; and guess how they knew: http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/08/onavo-mobile-games-grossing...

The company looked at game usage among their U.S. iPhone users in November. Then they looked at the market share, or the percentage of their U.S.-based iPhone owners that use these games on a monthly basis.
Apple's P/E isn't comparable to Amazon's. The two companies execute radically different strategies. Amazon relentlessly spends profits to capture market share; Apple is famous for being the profit share leader in the markets it sells in.
Ask HN: Where are the hard programming challenges/jobs?
I got started programming a couple of years ago because I like problem solving. The harder, the better. I know I'm not alone in feeling that way. I've gotten a bachelor's degree and learned a bit of ruby, rails, and other frameworks/languages, but I'm running into a problem. It seems like all jobs are just simple CRUD apps. I look at 99 percent of the software out there and know that I could do it if I had the time.

My question is how do you get to work on the hard/fun stuff? A quintessential example for me would be self driving cars. It's challenging and would have a real impact on the world.

I'm looking into becoming a data scientist because it's newer and seems to have more challenges. I also have a theory that any challenging computer science problem requires a lot of math. Do you need a PhD to work on these hard problems? Can anyone give advice on how to avoid a career of working on simple CRUD apps? (CRUD is a metaphor for simple problems in this case)
that's great. but why doesn't ctrl c do it? I mean it closes everything else on my system, except man pages, vim and some other programs that use less.
Audi Vs. Audi Paintball Duel
The biggest wrong about Yahoo is that they don't have a core business anymore, a one that earns them money, like google search is for google.
A website forcing the user to resize the browser window (or use a readable-bookmarklet/plugin) is broken.
SOFEX - The Business of War
That is also blocked in Tokyo: "We're sorry, but this video is not available in your region due to right restrictions."
iPhone, Android users make up half of Z10 sales in Canada, one-third in UK
Google Summer of Code proposals, from student and mentor side
Apple is vastly more efficient at R&D than google is, in part because Apple's products are so profitable, that it's R&D as a proportion of sales is "small".

Meanwhile, Apple is investing $10B this year in CapEx, and while a couple billion of that are for server farms, the new HQ and store upgrades, many billions are going into the equipment and tooling necessary to make Apple products.

People seem to think you just call fox con and say "I want 100 million mobile phones by monday!"

Apple's "R&D" includes the investment in being able to scale a manufacturing business to the point where it can sell twice as many devices as the previous year, for several years running.

This is under appreciated by people who look at no-sales devices like the google Nexus and claim that google is in the lead by some arbitrary criteria.
Honestly I don't expect upvotes, I just want you to see it.
Before I read this article, I didn't know exactly why Ubuntu comes without a DVD player, and I didn't understand CSS encryption. The article also offers interesting historical notes. Thanks to the OP for posting.
Wow, at 16 you were hustling way more than me at your age. Nice. I agree that orangethirty sales tactic is very good and that it has worked for you. So it's all about executing on it on my end. Which is definitely not an easy task for me, but clearly it needs to get done to get this business afloat and survive.
P/E is just one signal of many that affects the stock price. You cannot look at it in isolation.

For example, the smartphone and tablet market is subject to changing trends and quick turmoil. One botched launch cycle from Apple and/or one great launch from one or more of Samsung, Google, Nokia is enough to change things in just one year. That implies risk, and the market does not like risk.

Contrast that with well entrenched near monopolies with well erected moats like Google in the web search market, Amazon in the online retail market and Microsoft in desktop software with Windows/Office.
You can usually get legal aid, but how far it goes varies on a per-country basis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_aid#Europe

So yes, suing random people depends on having the financial means to stomach the losses. But in general, in this system you don't go to court without a good chance to win the case. Which is IMO the way it should be.
One of the best HN comments ever.
try Google, if you are really good and have passion to develop tough stuff like machine learning languages, dealing with large data. By the way have you tried any problem given in http://www.topcoder.com/, if you like that stuff and also can do, Google is worth trying.
The bloggers, financial news sites and even the mainstream media need a story to go on, so last year it was Apple. Also analysts need to make a name for themselves so AAPl at $1001 is a sure thing to make it in the news and maybe stay there.

But the media tires so they start the cycle of destroying what they built up and build up a new thing (now it's Google.) When Apple was valued at $600 Billion it was clear that the law of big numbers was going to kick in really soon
The PBS geo-blocking is reasonable to understand. Video streaming can get expensive and international delivery almost certainly isn't in the foundation's stated mission at this point. Things also get complicated when you consider that PBS is not just one non-profit, but many "member stations", each operated as a separate non-profit. It's not their main objective navigate through the difficult task of making international streaming pay for itself (i.e. through correctly targeted ad partnerships or additional fund-raising). It's easier to just block it.

But back to the numbers: I'd estimate that PBS is paying around $0.05 per show to stream. I'm basing this on CDN costs in the range $0.10/GB - $0.20/GB, the size of 30 minute shows weighing in between 125MB and 250MB, plus storage and admin overheads. I might be wrong, but it looks like they're delivering their bits via CloudFront[1] and so those costs basically double for viewers outside of the US and Europe[2]. Even if it's not CloudFront, the basic cost structures stay the same. Why on earth would they want to serve content to users who mostly aren't giving them money and are costing twice as much to serve?

One last point: the link below are for Downtown Abbey, for which PBS certainly doesn't have international streaming rights.

[1] http://video.pbs.org/videoPlayerInfo/2335534842

[2] http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/pricing/
It would be interesting to see purchase reports and not just usage as a developer too.
You say you don't understand the problem? Allow me to explain.

Referral links in book reviews are a problem because of the conflict of interest they create. If the author of the review chooses to put a referral link into it, they create a financial incentive to bias their own review in favour of the book. Rather than a means of helping people determine which books to buy, reviews become a hollow call to action with a conversion rate measured in referral dollars. A review with a referral link in it has absolutely no credibility.

On top of that, they call the very purpose of the review itself into question. Is the author of the review really reviewing anything at all, or are they simply writing reviews as a means of generating cash? This particular blog is brimming with glowing reviews of Javascript books, each with Amazon referral links inside. Are there really so many must-have Javascript books on the market? If so, do we really need the dubious help of a blogger to find a good one?
This is why this was posted on HN: "This stuff is good to know and interesting". I did know some of it but there might be some people who don't. Specially people that are new to linux.
Forget specs, lets talk about software: The MacBook air is a real computer. You can compile your code on it. IT has an operating system. You can play games.

The pixel is just a web browser.

The correct thing to make the comparison to is the iPad, but even the iPad is more functional, since it can run apps that aren't browsers.

From a usability viewpoint, the pixel is kinda laughable... it's so arbitrarily limited, it isn't even really usable unless you're on a network.
What, exactly, do you think the "agile" ethos is?
We are agile, but that does _not_ mean that we don´t triple-check everything we type into production consoles.
It does, however, mean that everything we do in production has been done before in at least one test environment. Why would we want to forget about doing that?