skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The difference between his book and "Gone Girl" or "Fifty Shades of Grey" is that he sold a couple thousand copies in a week and dropped off the radar, while those books are numbers 12 and 9 on the list almost 9 months later. Being a best-seller for a week is a great way to sell a couple thousand copies, but you don't sell hundreds of thousands or millions due to one week at the top caused by some temporary publicity.
For people who like me are not familiar with the debt problem Cyprus is facing and would like a little more info:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/12/business/global/in-cyprus-...
That's exactly what "following" is.
Clouseau.js, a node library that ensures your JS app works as expected.
Japanese are incredibly xenophobic, it makes more financial sense just to import housekeepers from the Philippines or Indonesia, but many don't like the idea of that so they'll develop household robots instead

With the housing so limited in places like Tokyo, wouldn't it make more financial sense to get a robot you can store in a closet than hire a live-in housekeeper?
Not sure what you are looking for, but the unobtrusive table sort script is pretty good if that's what you need:

http://www.frequency-decoder.com/2006/09/16/unobtrusive-tabl...
What austerity are you talking about? The governments still spend much more money than they have. When you have no money, taking a loan to buy a 60" plasma TV instead of an 80" one does not mean austerity.
My current job is to write software for those huge assembly-line robots you see in factories.

I entered this field (taking a significant pay cut) thinking that maybe I could put some of my algorithmic knowledge to use. Turns out 90% of my job is rote logic - rewriting process flows and the like. Nothing too smart. Really boring tedious stuff.

The 'cleverest' task I did was implementing a Kalman filter to smooth over some encoder readings. That was the most fun I had in a while.
I'll go out on the limb and suggest that google is trying to kill the ecosystem that nurtured it and focus on more mainstream nanny and media for to be cosumable for ages 10-14 or some such number. News papers target groups with lower intelligencer ratio and TV goes even further.

With that I don't think google wants to support independent internet anymore - it does not go well with investors and profitability. And can roust some smart minds that just might bring the whole google empire to its knees(or more aptly make it irrelevant). At this point google can be called the internet in some sense. And if such status can be argued for then it is not interest for google to support resources out side of its "google is the internet" domain.

Most companies go through such cycles and it seems that google is sort of outgrowing itself. It is sort of popular with G+ but largely it has failed in the social arena. I has captured some market share with lowcost android phones. But there is no certain future in Silicon Valley. One can say google is tired and is withdrawing from being rapacious inventor and instigator of new technologies.

...

my 2c. Just an opinion :)
Show HN: Gem to search for random domain names
Just created this ruby gem that creates random domain names based on a dictionary and tells you if they're available.
Thats awesome. I'm reading the Now Habit at the moment (mentioned by the OP) and that seems to be one of the main points. "Guilt-free play" is about doing the things you WANT to do when you want to do them, so you can focus on important stuff later. Guilt is a huge part...
Where's the default? I don't read anywhere that Cyprus is defaulting in part of its debt.

EDIT: Why the downvote? Please explain what percentage of the debt is being defaulted, that is, what is the percentage of Cyprus debt that isn't going to be paid at all?
Odds that the "connected" types were tipped off and moved their money?
Isn't that what the author is trying to say. Eventhough it's a bestseller, he is embarrassed to give out the numbers.
It really makes you curious what's going to come out in 45 years about the iraq war, and afghanistan etc.
Hi, I just created this ruby gem that creates random domain names and tells you if they're available.
Sounds like what math grad students did 50 years ago, before we solved all the pure math even tenuously related to the 4 dimensional reality we live in.
People being human beings and often driven by emotions rather than rational decisions, even if only a proportionally small group of depositors lose their confidence in banks and chose to withdraw their savings, such an event could quickly snowball into a complete panic where the one-off 10% levy is the least of people's problems as if people expect that the banking system will collapse (and once again, rational decisions play no part here, much of the banking system is built on trust) they would desperately try to get hold of their savings even after the levy has been imposed.
3. it proves that it's better to spend spend spend, than to be a sucker and save
But for a writer, it's not a side project, is it?
I recall that http://to./ used to be the world's shortest URL shortener.
Only in Silicon Valley
You are referring to "cash savers under the mattress". Putting money in a bank is investing.
What's the difference between saving and investing?
The author says others, like his wife's family, believe that authors on best sellers lists make millions.
I get the impression that most or all of his sales were due to the "controversy" surrounding the C&D letter from Jack Daniels. He got a bunch of short-term publicity from that, and the book's popularity faded along with the media hype. Maybe he assumed that once it was on the bestseller list the sales would just keep rolling in, but that clearly wasn't the case. It seems misguided for him to blame Amazon for that, when it's possible that readers just didn't find the book appealing.
Is there any workaround on heroku for this? Just tried my HTTPS site and can confirm the trailing dot gives an warning.
My dad is an accounting professor, and while I don't think he normally involves undergrads in his research, it seems like he could. This is just one small segment of business research, but he tests how rules and incentives impact decision making.

For example, make a game where two people are teamed up. You give person A $10 and tell them they can give as much as they want to person B, and that's it. How much does person A share? Ok, now what if you give instructions explaining to person A that person B leaves empty handed if they don't share? What if you say that they're supposed to share 50%? What if 10% of whatever is given to person B is lost as a "tax"? The idea is to figure out ways to get people to act honestly and fairly in the hopes that it can be applied to business.

Undergrads could help find test subjects. They could help design the tests (they generally involve simple software that administers the games). Some could probably analyze the results in the hopes of finding interesting and unexpected takeaways.
Which country are you talking about? Nobody I know buys TVs any more, let alone with loans. Or are you saying the government buys TVs?

Sounds like a nice anecdote, it would be good if it corresponded with reality at all.
US did the same thing. People who paid their mortgages bailed out people who got free houses (which they then rented out under the table)
>but it's because we can't buy computers (anymore) without operating system.

So were they buying computers from OEMs like Lenovo and Dell, installing Linux and then selling them? Why not assemble desktops from components? I believe the ODMs will sell laptops without OSes to distributors if the order is large enough.

>However with Windows 8 all doors are being closed permanently and we see no way to open these.

What has this to do with Windows 8 at all?
You're asserting that providing free Internet access isn't evil? Have you ever once considered how it benefits Google? What possible motivations Google might have to want to know everything users do online?

So, here it is: Google does nothing altruistically. They are an ad company, and search is a fundamental component in service to that. Data collection is one fundamental pillar, establishing Google search on every device is another.
Yes and no. Governments are spending in bank bailouts, but there's austerity for the masses, like tax hikes and cuts in social spending.
And I just raised $27,000 to fund writing my first book [1]. I'm a first time author and despite my best efforts agents and publishers wouldn't touch the project.

The world is changing rapidly, and traditional publishing just doesn't make sense for many authors anymore. Also of course refer to the recent discussion on O'Reilly's changing practices [2].

[1] http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/605480326/beyond-connect...
[2] http://www.perceptualedge.com/blog/?p=1521
> Can you give some examples of recent paid services that were popular and were shut down?

I find that hard, because I'm not a business person nor do I usually make the money-for-time tradeoff; hence I mostly only use free services and am mostly affected by free service shutdowns - in other words, selection bias makes my personal experiences unrepresentative. (Is this similar to other techies - like Hacker News users? I think it is.)

However, we can make the general observation that services only sometimes survive the business running them, and businesses shut down all the time. To give two personal examples of paid services I used that have stopped or will be stopping in the near future: Intrade has halted all trading during an investigation, and probably will wind up shutting down; Zeo Inc is shutting down as it looks for buyers of its assets, and while the web interface I've always used to export my data is not yet down, I don't give very high odds for it staying up for more than the next year.

In both cases, I paid good money to use them; it didn't save them.
Is "scot-free" an offensive term in Ireland?
And this is one of the reasons I look forward to bitcoins - the state can't steal them.
Really? These savers are not saving the money in Gold coins under their mattresses. They are holding it in a bank in EUR. The bank will not just hold the money, it'll invest it (either by loans or direct investment).

The savers are rewarded a little (always positive) percentage of their money that barely covers inflation.
Lots of authors are arguably aspiring writers.
>Why would that happen? Unless you expect more "tax"

Of course people would expect more tax.

As for assurances, they don't mean anything. Just five days ago they were assured by the Finance Minister that "no bank tax would happen". And then boom.

So, a bank run DID happen after the news emerged. But the people found the banks were closed and ATMs had restrictions. The banks will be closed for several more days.
So what physics did you take into account?
You are wrong. Money saved = equals money invested.

Or it used to. With this braindeath concept people will be more likely to burry their stuff in the back yard.
My solution is probably 3-5 times cheaper though.
It's actually free for me (KM via appsumo and Mandrill free tier)
If google wanted to kill RSS they would stop supporting RSS in their products.
Off topic and unsolicited request: Can you make the font size of the article titles larger than the surrounding text? I'm getting a 'wall of text' feel from the design that is making it hard for me to delineate where one news item begins and ends.
This is what happens in Feedly's "Today" view. It (apparently) uses signals from social media to pick out the most popular articles in your folders and only shows those.
That's absolute bollocks. Asus still sell OEMs bare bones laptops with no license as do a fair number of Chinese brands.
Most of the time the author has a Twitter account you can follow and they post not only links to their new articles but also random interesting thoughts you wouldn't necessarily get through RSS.
As good as the sun rises tomorrow.

This does not increase my confidence in keeping my money in the bank. The usual argument is theft + lack of interest but the banks barely pay any interest anymore and the lack of theft....
Or how about spinning it off into a new company? Wouldn't that provide more value to shareholders than throwing the whole thing away?
Yes, but the article title makes it sound like the author got screwed even though he made the bestseller list.

$12000 isn't nothing, and Amazon has nothing to do with the results an author gets from their book in terms of units sold, except for providing search results.

Just seems like one of those attempts to get eyeballs to an article to me.
This story while interesting is just a creative way to draw more attention and get people to buy the book.

"In one more week I was going to be a millionaire."

We don't know how long of a period it was on the best seller list at all. It almost certainly made it to the list because of activity following mention (as the author points out) "the story went viral and was featured in places like Forbes, Time magazine and NPR’s Weekend Edition" which had nothing to do with the quality of the writing but more of a David and Goliath human interest story.

So what we have is a book that made a list because of a cease and desist letter which got it major media attention which created a concentrated interest in the book.

The takeaway from this is that he made roughly $3 per book for a book that is sold by amazon at $14.95. (Also the kindle edition is less and I don't know how that factors into the count obviously.) Also to find creative ways to get publicity for your creative vessel. Pissing off a large company is certainly one way to do that. Then after the attention that generates dies down simply write another angle about how well you didn't do and get more publicity. I didn't buy the book but I did look at it on Amazon. Obviously the Salon story and links to it will help him sell more books.
Can someone explain to me what happens with money people have in assets?

If someone has an investing account that has money invested in stocks or ETFs, are those assets liquidated partially to pay up to the the 10% of the levy?

Does only not invested money count?
They can't find someone on Alibaba to ship them pcs without OSs?
In the freight transport world, the truckers that work for carriers directly make 1/2 to 1/3 what the independents get. In addition, the independents have the right to chose when they work, so if they want to take a week off, that's their prerogative (no requests required). It's fundamentally, a different arrangement.
It looks like a fairly standard design. Will PayPal follow suit? ;)
This is baffling to say the least. This is the worst move any country/president can make in my opinion. You are teaching people how not to trust and work with the system.

By having money(wealth) stored in banks, you can control the economy. You'll have more control over inflation, taxes, leverage... By having money stored in people mattresses, you'll lose this control.

It'll be even hard to estimate the amount of money in the system, and if it's even moving. The EU is handling this crisis all wrong to protect their interest.
Revenge. The banks screwed us today, we destroy them tomorrow -- this also is a good lesson because the banks will want to prevent this for the next time.

Lets crash all the banks than then build something good from the ashes.
I really doubt they had wireless wi-fi cameras. Any decent installer would never do that for such a large establishment with that many cameras. In fact, it would probably be more maintenance because they are not as reliable. It would be interesting to see how he got the feed but I really doubt they had wireless cameras in a casino.
Google removed navigation bar?
That's exactly what I was thinking. Theirs' seems like an unusual approach yet one that has it's advantages. I guess they would buy in bulk and leverage that so that they could get special preference regarding the OS? And they avoid having to build their own brand reputation, too.

They can still buy from an ODM like Clevo and sell them under their own branding.
I second this. I runs 100s of jobs with Jenkins all day. Works awesome.
Drivers are not getting cut off after one or two bad rides, they are cut off after consistently low ratings. With a rating threshold of 4.7 an Uber driver can have 7.5% of their rides be rated at 1 star (with the rest at 5) and still meet the minimum threshold. We're not talking about one bad day here. Not to mention that once they drop below the 4.7 threshold they still have 2 weeks to get back above it. There are plenty of Uber drivers who have no problem staying employed, we are just hearing from the vocal minority.

You seem to be implying that by firing under-performers Uber is somehow mistreating its workers. I would argue that's simply false. In environments with literally hundreds of people waiting at the door to take your job the environment is going to be more competitive, and it should be. This is not a blue-collar only thing, sales works the same way in many organizations. It does not mean fired salespeople are being mistreated, its just the way business works.

I really don't agree with your conception of a business as a entity that has social responsibility to its employees. Businesses exist to return value to shareholders, not to employees (although they may occasionally be shareholders also). If treating employees extremely well is good for business (e.g. Google) then businesses will do it. This usually exists in an environment where there is a surplus of demand for the employees you want. If there is a surplus of supply, employees don't tend to be treated like that (e.g. Cable Assembly Factory - a place I once worked for 2 years). Its unreasonable to expect a business to be generous to its employees at the expense of its shareholders, it just doesn't make for a very efficient business or a very efficient marketplace.
I know someone whose husband wrote a business leadership book (a crowded category). The book hit the New York Times best seller list for a couple weeks. However, my impression was that he simply paid a publicist (or agent or whatever) who was able to make that happen in some narrow subcategory of the list for 2 weeks. The sole purposes was that on their next printing, they could add the "New York Times Bestseller" badge to the cover. It sounded like a game.
Not messaging per-se exactly, but making Dropbox an account that could be accessed through Mailbox. The standalone messaging without sending a file as well is just a wacky idea of a different direction Dropbox could decide to take things.
Samsung needs to address the look of the software. They put all this work into making Android ugly for no reason other than differentiation.
Google to pay $7 million to US states for Wi-Fi eavesdropping
Well hopefully people will demand the money the only way they can.

At the point of a gun, a sad way to go for decent people but only fair.
For a long time, I was looking for a reader that allows to export not only the subscriptions, but the actual news archive. With newsbeuter I can easily access the sqlite database and export all the news.
Tell that to users of App Engine who have experienced frequent, repeated downtime and utter apathy from Google. Google's customer support sucks.
Knowing Cyprus (or any other place for that matter, from the US to Germany to China) 100%
Just went to your kickstarter campaign after seeing your comment elsewhere. Can you share how you got the word out on this campaign ?
I feel like you're over reacting. It's really not a game changer feature. I know I'll hurt the feeling of 1% of my visitors by not including it, the clever rest of the RSS users will first judge whether the content is worth it or not.
Last I checked, American citizens in America aren't being dragged in front of loalty hearings.

Killing an Arab terroris hiding in Yemen actively fighting against the US is not a summary exection. Al Awalki had plenty of chances over years to turn himself in and take advantage of due process.
I've updated the post to include more readers people have suggested.
I got a friend to give RSS another shot with this post: http://mkronline.com/2013/03/15/why-you-should-want-to-use-r...

The main issue for RSS seems to be that no one bothered to explain it in direct terms to all the tens of millions of people who rushed into the web starting around 2007.
Not really. It's more like, say, Ireland's corporation tax being lower than the EU average (though not as low as Cyprus's...), in order to encourage companies to set up there, rather than somewhere else.
Is this a secure boot / Microsoft key issue?
1) Then you're not in the "early founder who just jumped out of the corporate world" ship anymore. Congrats. You're now the owner of a successful business looking to scale.

2) That's a lottery ticket, not a plan. 99.9% of the facebook-alikes failed so miserably you didn't even hear about them. That's roundabout your chances if you go that way. I wouldn't quite my job for a 0.1% chance of making it.
Your "perfect example for TDD/BDD" is actually about testing in general, not TDD. You are stating the value of having a test suite when making a large change, not the value of writing tests first.
10 things you didn't know about the president's secret army
There are no regular work hours, and nobody is obligated to show up. I know of a publicly traded company that has an almost identical model, but for freight. If you are interested, at a recent transportation conference, the CEO walked the audience through how it works.

If you are interested, here's the transcript:

http://seekingalpha.com/article/1252781-landstar-system-s-ce...

N.B. You will have to hand edit HTML in order to avoid having to login.
Having the dept repaid by stealing deposited money, is close enough to default in my books.

Especially if that only repays a tiny amount.

Same thing with Greece. The dept is always the same as it was, and the default is only avoided by getting a quick additional loan every X months. Which is essentially a default in "life support".
First, fix what is making your body hurt. Presumably the problems are with your back or hands or both (and if not both, the other will come along soon enough). For your back, the solution is pretty well documented: chair that fits you, displays at eye level, keyboard at elbow level. For your hands, the solutions may be more personal, but likely involve (a) keeping your wrists straight and (b) kinesthetic feedback on your fingers.
It's by no means a matter of luck. This was calculated to happen on a Saturday
These engineers quit their jobs to start LeChat
It's always interesting to me to see the fonts used for movies are often quite common ones. Papyrus may be seen as the Avatar font now, but it's used a whole lot more.

I like to start from a font and then change it up from there to give some personality to a logo, while maintaining some familiarity (and piggybacking on the expertise of those font designers too).