skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed - but I know of many quality startups that have moved to the U.S from Australia (including mine). I think the bigger problem is lack of quality Angel investors, VC's and incubators. The largest angel network in Australia still has a ridiculous and immoral pay-to-pitch flow. They simply just don't get it. And the VC situation is even worse.
Gonna have trouble acquiring users at $9/month.
Changing my Workflow with Drafts and Reeder
Bat-Eating Spiders
Lack of enrollment in IT and entrepreneurship is a symptom of the culture, really. You've got tall poppy syndrome combined with protectionism that makes shooting for the easy low-risk stuff desirable... trades pay insanely well due to strong unions and tight immigration policy, for example.
As a manufacturer who drops hips for online sellers, this is a pretty god guide (jewelry)
Important text: with intent to render such bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt unfit to be reissued

No destroying money for the express purpose of destroying money.
If a developer builds a Javascript web app without any servers, how do you know what to charge them for bandwidth? The developer cannot store auth tokens in the client code because anyone could see it. If someone steals the auth tokens, then they can spoof the developer and the developer ends up being overcharged. Or am I missing something?
I disagree. I think that there are probably no more than 5 kids flying by themselves on any given flight. I'm not even expecting a 1:1 ratio - I expect that for those 5 kids, there is maybe 1 person in charge of them. Those 5 kids are generating $750 in revenue. The expense for a chaperon is whatever a seat costs, plus that employee's expenses. I'm going to guess that they make a profit on the service (not to mention I'm doubting there is a special "kid rate" for a seat).

Now the problem comes when they start cutting costs. The flight attendant, who used to probably be a well paid, skilled employee who was serving 50 seats is probably a paid less, shorter term employee now serving 75 seats.

And instead of having a dedicated chaperon, it's probably now just one of those flight attendants.

That they can't deliver for the price they charge doesn't mean the price is wrong. If you buy a car and drive it off the lot and the wheels fall off, you don't say "well, I guess they should have charged me more."

Granted, there is a "too good to be true" factor, but I don't think that $150 to make sure that a kid makes their connection and picks up the baggage is more than enough. Honestly, I'd expect that as part of the ticket price.
I saw about 5 minutes of it streaming and had to turn it off, it was awful.
> If you are doing it by accident, or aren't

> doing it on a commercial scale, you're perfectly safe.

Sigh. I wish people would stop repeating this. It's not true. If you infringe a patent "willfully" (i.e., you know about it, and have reason to believe it applies to you) you can be subject to triple damages. But you aren't safe just because you didn't know about the patent.

And doing something "non-commercially" means little. We all know that estimates of commercial harm can be manipulated-- looking at the damages that are routinely awarded in copyright infringement cases should be enough to convince you of that.
Why can't Samsung release one penta-band UMTS version of each GSM phone?

Releasing an international version and several U.S. versions segments the market, slowing down 3rd party ROM development particularly for the U.S. versions. Carrier ROMs are bloated, non-standard android environments, and lag behind the latest version. That situation is unacceptable; no new Samsung Galaxy phones for me.
I am waiting for someone to prove, solving procrastination problem is NP-Complete
Those pundits were uninformed - it was generally expected that the console itself would be revealed later, just like with the PS3.
That's No Train! Air Force Eyes Subway for Nuclear Missiles
Watching Bodies Evolve
Andrew Youderian's the real deal. I've been reading his blog for a while, here's his story:

http://www.ecommercefuel.com/my-corporate-escape-story/

http://www.pocketchanged.com/2012/08/14/online-business-secr...
For that particular need, I'd expect that I'm rolling my own, or using a service provided by my business or something. At the very least, I'd assume that I'm paying for it, and even then, when you get to that level, you probably want to just do it yourself for the knowledge that you really do have complete control.
While I agree this is a legal contract, more importantly, I think this is pg setting expectations for both founders and investors.

I speculate that the underlying motivation is that YC partners are spending too much time on handshakes that have gone wrong, rather than helping building businesses.
Most sports codes endure, video games get superceded every few years. A professional athlete can coach the sport. There is a fairly high demand for professional sports players on the speaking circuit. There are product endorsements, I don't think video game stars are recognizeable enough to compete there. Finally, the top level earnigs for sports are so much higher.
Shaq at the forefront of tech
Bruce Schneier: Our Security Models Will Never Work — No Matter What We Do
Are you saying trades paying well is a bad thing? I'd argue that's a great thing for entrepreneurs who are willing to take risks because then you have strong, cash-rich people who can stimulate demand in the economy.
Just so you know, I didn't write the original comment.
You're very welcome! I'd be wondering the the same kind of thing if I were you. :-)
The Unclimbable Mountain
Samsung now has 3 CEOs
I just signed up and am pretty dismayed by the "thanks" email I got. I honestly wish I didn't take the time to sign up for this

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We've been very excited to receive thousands of applications to participate in each of our auctions, but unfortunately we can only let in a select pool of candidates. We will be judging applications based on:

1.) Location. We are primarily focused on the SF Bay Area, NYC, Boston, and LA though select Engineers from Austin, Denver, Seattle, and developers that are willing to relocate are also let onto the platform.

2.) Likelyhood to attract offers from employers. For example, Python and Rails Developers are much more in-demand among start-ups than .NET Programmers

3.) Education History & Open-source contributions. We favour Engineers from the likes of MIT, UC Berkeley and Stanford as well as Engineers who have notable GitHub accounts.

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"now you've got a PR crisis"

Yeah but we aren't back in the old days of "coffee tea or me". In the end the bad PR actually means very little. People choose airlines based on price and schedule. In the end does a screw up like this actually change buying behavior? I don't think it does. People fly because they have to. Even the cruise lines typically rebound after a major disaster which effects many more people. People who forget and are on to the next shiny ball from the media.
See also the bookend piece The Computers of Tomorrow, Martin Greenberger, Atlantic 1964. Both articles linked here: http://www.theatlantic.com/past/unbound/flashbks/computer/te...
Thanks! You're right - most of the information is publicly available, and we just consolidated it into one spot. Some aspects are a bit harder to find publicly - like some of the tricker aspects of managing the logistics of operating a drop shipping business - but still not impossible to find. You just have to dig a bit deeper, or talk to someone with experience.
You can also use IFTTT, and let it put on your dropbox account. I used that for Twitter, until they shut IFTTT's account (Zapier (YC S12) still works, but it is paid).

The cool thing about this is that you get search. If only there was a web interface that would use my dropbox account, and allow me to mark as read, search and star things...
"I saw it somewhere, that someone packaged an ipad, a sqaure, and a receipt printer together as a bundle"

That someone was Square.
Wow, thanks watershawl - really appreciate the vote of confidence. And thanks for reading as well!

The more you share what you're doing, the more it will ultimately end up coming back to help you out. Just look at Nathan Barry: his transparency has undoubtedly helped - not hurt - his blog, sales and reputation. I think it's a great model, and am trying to do something similar.
Very good post, I highly recommend reading "The Now Habit" It's something I'm reading at the moment.
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See the real thing Google has is not that they offer a bunch of services, it's that those services are all tied together very neatly.

When I transition to a new computer all I have to do is install chrome and I basically have everything I need - the login will get me all my extensions + put me in email, calander, voice, youtube, and search. All with one login, that's the power, people are lazy, they don't really care about OSS or freedom, they follow the path of least resistance, and in this case that's Google, good or evil.

It sucks but it's true. I keep thinking about moving to a different email provider but then I have to find one that does all the things that gmail does, and has a decent calender app (there is NO replacement for voice) and something that does search in an okay and understandable way. I can't find one. The only reason I use facebook over G+ is because I don't know anyone on G+ otherwise that too wold be my social network of choice. In addition my University uses Gapps so I'd be stuck with google regardless (for at least the next four years).

And really that's the issue, so far it seems from history that once you reach a certain critical mass, there is no way to not be evil, Google was great until about 2011, but they've turned on us....

wow...just realized this is a lot of rambling... still I make a couple good points
Oh man, this was the funniest thing I've seen all year. Yes, it was bad. It seemed almost intentionally so. I definitely enjoyed it.
Thanks sayemm!
Microsoft’s Surface Tablet Is Said to Fall Short of Predictions
I would love to have something like this. Checking out Open Badges, it seems cool, but it looks like it's focused on skills, learning, etc. I would like something more generic. Xbox Achievements could be a good thing to look at for something to aim for in that it is defined enough that all games for the system can define them.

My thought is a simple standard api that allows apps to create badges that their users can earn. Users should be able to view their badges not only from the app that created them, but also a way to view all the badges they got from all the apps they received badges from. So the users maybe would have to have an account with the gamification system. Maybe OAuth could be used for apps to get permission to give badges to a user. Apps could also possibly get permission to view a users earned badges from other apps in order to perform some action like give a reward, etc.
Also, they're controlling our minds with the flouride they put in the water.
As a World Champion Grandmaster Super Kingpin Big Daddy Procrastinator, I have to say...yes, it is indeed laziness.
It's pretty amazing how advanced the smartphones were back in the 1950s.
Step 1: Build totally awesome Google reader replacement.
Step 2: ????
Step 3: Get acquired by Google.
or 24fps cameras.
That is a popular concern but I haven't read a case based on it. All of the cases I've seen include the allegation that the farmer sprayed their crop with glyphosphate. If you have a link to a case where that was not alleged, I'd love to read it.
Getting 6% off at Ebay India
Not being in SV and not following the SV way of building companies I really don't understand the rush, especially for something as important as picking the right investors. This would be like picking your wife on the first date and doing a handshake on it... Why not go for a more slow and more thoughtful route? As I see it great companies are not built in days, but years of hard, concentrated and thoughtful work and decisions.
> Note: Getting sidetracked by comments on sentence structure may be the signal that I've successfully procrastinated other work long enough.

Tell me about it. Anyway, how's this:

> The rich have savings accounts and insurance; the poor stockpile junk.
No. What part of AT&T's defense involved operational network security? For whatever it's worth: AT&T's complicity in NSA monitoring of overseas traffic involving American citizens was despicable.
Ten pi-fect projects for your new Raspberry Pi
We don't mind paying for Google Reader
Right guys? We have been using it for aeons, what if Google asked us to pay, let say, 10 us per year, why not?

At least we could still use that service.... pfffff
It's rather telling that many of the comments disputing the author's thesis about the root cause of procrastination read like the Top 10 Things Procrastinators Tell Themselves. Almost all of the alternative causes mentioned have nothing to do with them, because that would mean admitting a flaw, but have to do with the situation, which of course is beyond their control and therefore not their fault.

Anyway, this article really hit home for me. I will definitely be picking up a copy of "The Now Habit".
Exactly. I just don't see why dev(s) are not jumping at this opportunity. Though I saw one dev wishing luck to NewsBlur on twitter :-)
Road mobile tractor erector launchers would work, but rail-based launchers don't seem to make that much sense.
I think its gotten a bit overboard on pay. There is nothing wrong with that, but it will reduce innovation and risk taking. Especially with such a high minimum wage, people cost is so high that it's reducing innovation/entrepreneurship. I think this is their style but its gone too far in the last 5 years.

The USA is a bit overboard on under paying. Minimum wage needs to go up + tied to cpi + fix health care to find a happier medium and build out a strong middle class. This might be our personal style though, but I think its gotten out of hand. I don't want to be Australia.

I think Australia has gone a bit far and the USA not far enough. Somewhere in between is a sweet zone.
Well, you could apply your own words here... if don't like it, you have the choice of negotiating a different deal with them before using the Play store.
I would add indecision to the list of sources. I can't pinpoint where I first heard this, but it rings true to me. If can break down a large todo into its constituent pieces, each of which either has a trivial answer or has a clear path to finding the answer, I can mow all of them down. Bam bam bam.

My downfall is when I forget that specificity works (when I get lazy). Exactly like me and TDD. You will eventually check all the boxes; enumerating them beforehand removes the crap.
I couldn't help but think this as well. Intentionally bad or not, someone likely got paid an exorbitant amount of money to come up with this, and I'd have done it for half of whatever that amount was.
Question about the menagerie of particles:

At what point do we stop giving names to particles? Are we there yet?

In other fields I see a pattern of trying to categorize things into relatively short lists that a human can comprehend. E.g. phonemes for speech. It turns out that phonemes don't work, but by using a much finer-grained classification you get a system that does work.

So for particles, charm quark or top quark are not particularly descriptive. The names are really no better than "excitation 112" and "excitation 236b". Perhaps a bit more memorable, but not more descriptive of the physics.
> Under this scenario, I don't see why anyone would develop new plants.

Prior to privatization, many universities in ag states developed seed for the public domain and farmers passed seed down from generation of farmer to the next, selecting and improving for conditions and yield along the way. Many of these are now considered heirlooms and can be purchased through Seed Savers Exchange or found in seed banks. Some have well-documented lineage, most are a mystery.

There are plenty of reasons beyond money for developing new plants. I'm a pretty intense gardener. I select and create hybrids based on taste. I'm not particularly concerned about travel time from my back yard to my dinner plate or resistance to pests that don't exist in my backyard.

Then again, "growing your own food is like printing your own money": http://www.ted.com/talks/ron_finley_a_guerilla_gardener_in_s...

So maybe it is about money.
I would reply that at least the windows issues will be solved with Blue coming to screens near you this spring or early summer.
Where shall I keep my feeds there? I mean my list of blogs that I want to follow. Their feed I mean. There is thousands of sources where I can explore, be social(though I hate the term) and read stories which learns from my choices (like Prismatic which certainly doesn't learn - just shows stories filtered using keywords).

So, no dear this doesn't cut it.
Not so sure if I agree with the comment about not being able to hire developers. I think it could be better said "We are unable to hire developers for the price we want to pay".

I am going to take up the offer to email and see how it goes... but I would be surprised if I get an offer which pays enough to actually live in Sydney.

I recently went hunting for jobs and my experience was less then stellar. Many companies didn't even bother sending feedback to coding tests, and one expected me to pay for the Yahoo Boss API and violate Google's terms of service for a test. I will say I had an excellent experience with Hotels Combined though despite declining their offer for personal reasons.

EDIT - Emailed then, and got a response within 1 minute. I will say this for Matt he's very responsive.
I agree.

I find for me I don't really identify with the "fear of failure", yet I do have a problem with procrastination.

I find tasks that I enjoy, or tasks where I am working towards a goal, easy to start and do. I find it hard to work on tasks where the task leads nowhere (the example of doing taxes is the perfect example)
Next step: roll out ways to monetize hashtag for brands (marketing tools?)
IT is not a admirable career here at all, Medicine, Law and Engineering are the good careers that pay well and are generally respected, but IT is looked down upon big time over here. Its a shame really, but to most IT is tech support (I know many computer science grads who are on minimium wage tech support)
Life lessons in entrepreneurship from a 100-year-old man
Enigma64 – fastest way to get images from Photoshop
Martha Stewart's Best Lesson: Don't Give a Damn
DOBA's interface can be convenient because they integrate seamlessly with big suppliers, but they have a limited number of end-suppliers and the service is more expensive. So while I'm sure some people have used them successfully, I think starting from scratch there are more compelling options. I've never used them, however, so I can't speak from personal experience.

If you can find and work directly with your suppliers, that's preferable. Next best is going with a directory like World Wide Brands if you're struggling to find suppliers or need a solid brainstorming tool. Instead of serving as the go-between, they simply connect you directly to suppliers via their listings. Additionally, they'll have a larger selection of smaller niche suppliers which is where I see people have the most success with drop shipping. I've used WWB for years and they're a good source for legitimate wholesaler suppliers.

Full disclosure: I've been interviewed / posted on the DOBA-affiliated blog to promote eCommerceFuel.com as they have a well-known blog in the drop shipping space.
I'm not talking about real speeding, I'm talking about driving 70-75 in a 65 because that's what traffic is doing. A week later I get a ticket in the mail because some zealous law enforcement agency subpoenaed a bunch of records from automatic.com. Maybe I'm being paranoid but it doesn't seem to fall far outside the realm of possibility these days.
Thanks for the tip! (For those who needed to search, as I did: http://roots.cx/css/)

Do you know of any other Stylus-based frameworks, for comparison?
Sounds like you may have a underactive thyroid (Hypothyroidism), do you have any of the following symptoms, have they persisted for more than 2 weeks ?

fatigue, exhaustion,
feeling run down and sluggish,
depression,
difficulty concentrating, brain fog,
unexplained or excessive weight gain,
dry, coarse and/or itchy skin,
dry, coarse and/or thinning hair,
feeling cold, especially in the extremities,
constipation,
muscle cramps,

Your doctor can give you a very simple blood test to see if your thyroid is underactive. I would suggest seeing a doctor.

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http://thyroid.about.com/cs/basics_starthere/a/symptoms.htm
Difficulty: If as a community we can filter out porn websites how is this difficult. They have filters for malware sites in many tools which have been blacklisted and require additional steps to get to. They could create an open repository of ad servers curated by users and then a slider - say block most offensive/obstructive ad servers.

Reason: Better experience for users.
Hidden Motive: Competition with Google and market retention of their premium products. Security for their business model. A click to download ad would itself hit the ad business hard.
Interesting, I know a basic php dev in Perth working for 75k a year, and many IT contractors are pulling in 200K. The thing is most of our grads end up in tech support on 40k. And that's why we are getting in many overseas IT people to actually code (The majority of my computer science class dislikes code)
Stalin compiles a subset of Scheme.
Agreed! I love eCommHub, and use them for one of my sites. Kurt and the team over there are great and have built a solid service. Hopefully we can get them included.
Interestingly, the patent on first-gen roundup ready soybeans is set to expire next year.
Not very reliably. AFAIK, the geographic resolution on phones GPS would not hold up to scrutiny if you were driving within 10-20% of the speed limit.
So that’s what that was, it drove me crazy! I would workaround it by selecting all or a quick page scroll down/back up. Just tested a bunch of many-replied reddit comment threads to great success! It’s the little things :-)
It's a generator. It generates files. Typing it out would be less magical, but then it wouldn't be a generator. To me, git diff seems like a fine way to see what it did, tbh.
CERN Physicists See Higgs Boson in New Particle
"Register to view link"
American businesses are not very good with globalization in the economic sense
This is a sad way to Web.
It's always shocking to me how many of the people I graduated with want to go work for 'defence' contractors/intelligence agencies like the NSA. I can't tell if people don't think about the affect they're having on the world or just don't care.

I don't have a problem with cow-tipping apps, I just want people to avoid actively harming the world.
I came here to make nearly that exact comment - but about the article rather than the comments. A friend who is a psychologist recommended these resources on the topic:
http://www.cci.health.wa.gov.au/resources/infopax.cfm?Info_I...
dude your entire article could be rewritten in just 3 paragraphs. this is way too verbose.