skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a deal between Yahoo management and Summly investors. Lucky young guys got themselves warmed up in the middle of big guys hugging each other.
Not to mention it has no phone or 3G data connectivity, way worse cameras, and no GPS.

Apple also sells unlocked and contract-free iPhones, starting at $450 for the iPhone 4.
>the founders didn't do anything really noteworthy

1M+ downloads for an app with licensed technology is noteworthy.
This post is full of anger, desperation and disdain, but of the exquisite kind, and the kind I agree with, so it's great!
I like SourceTree for my gui git needs on OSX.
Why You Should Fire Yourself
US carriers were give too much power. I'm surprising that government doesn't want to intervene. There are virtually no pre-paid offers, which are immensely popular elsewhere in the world. They are also the best way for people to control in flexible way how much they spend on mobiles.

For US vs rest of the world price comparison:
I spent 1 week in SF last year, and was shocked to spend $60 for cheapest SIM card with data (it was T-mobile AFAIR).
In UK (and all other EU countries) you can get plenty of minutes and unlimited data for under $25
From what I've read, IBM was hiring crossword players, chess players, anything that seemed to indicate intelligence.

I agree it's better to hire for talent (or aptitude or intelligence) over experience, but sadly in the United States these days that is pretty much illegal. So how much of "hiring for experience" is HR departments not knowing any better, and how much is it their better knowledge of employment law and not wanting to be sued?
Hey everyone! We didn't plan on opening Docker for another few weeks, but last week [1] you guys made it clear you'd rather see it early, warts and all. So here it is! Pull requests are welcome!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5408002
Looks great, I've had the same idea. Probably not alone in that :) - But I'm a little curious - 25m+ likes on itunes, 7.2m+ likes on App Store, and still doesn't make more than $10 per week? How?

I'd not hesitate to pay for it, except I'd need it in my (3y son's) native tongue and on Android.
Reference point: I get fantastic coverage in Denver on t-mobiles HSPA+ network.
Not quite what I meant but I do think that Facebook and the like endow your existing social network with an extreme and unnatural gravity that makes it harder to meet new people online (outside of a dating sites) and in person.

I had a meeting a few days ago but it took them a while to unlock the door. Ten years ago we'd all have engaged in some small talk but on this occasion everyone immediately dove into their screens.
Spot on. Luckily, most of us browsing HN probably don't have to deal with particularly draconian dress codes (and if you do, that sucks, but I hope you're sufficiently well compensated for it).

I just find the "I can't be happy happy hacker unless I'm wearing a hoodie a flip flops" and "you're not a real geek unless you've got the most lustrous scraggly neckbeard" attitude kind of odd.

I think some of that might be a backlash to working in a dress-code enforced environment for a period of time. I know when I left a job years ago to go independent/freelance, I spent a significant amount of time in sweatpants (on a good day) & hoodies. A few years later, I'm happy to put on an ironed shirt, dark jeans, and nice shoes to work at the office or to go meet a client.

For me, there is something to the ritual of grooming & dress that gets me ready to take on the day like nothing else. I just wish it weren't so vilified amongst the hacker set.

[Fun side-effects: people take you more seriously, women (and men) will smile at you, you'll be in a more powerful position when negotiating, service industry workers will (generally) be more accommodating, and you'll always be ready to meet people for dinner or drinks at the drop of a hat. Try it!]
I think Pulse could be tagged as an RSS reader, though not having used it I can't say for sure. But if it lets you setup feeds to follow...
Exactly!
Also the fact that rss enables this kind high quality, narrow domain, low volumes posting makes the web way better.

I don't want to read professional writers who have to write their quota whether there is good material to write about or not on that day. They too often focus on gossip and sensationalism. Although I might be entertained briefly, in the end I will not have gained much from reading this type of articles and it's a waste of my time.

I want to read the authors who mostly spends their time doing things in their domain of expertise and get out of their lab/office/cave once in a while to write a post on something they feel is interesting and worth sharing. Because they are not frequent writers the prose might be dryer but the facts, ideas and insights are usually much better than what you get from those who's main job is writing.

I love insights that comes directly from an expert's keyboard. They are pearls of wisdom and it would be sad to lose them because of a decline in support for RSS.
Breaking the 1000ms Time to Glass Mobile Barrier
I think it makes sense to target one niche because you can optimize for those specific users' needs without trying to please everyone.
List of reddit comments that have received bitcoin tips
I had the exact same issue. What fixed it for me was what the parent said of adding this line, too:

config.sass.compress = false

Clear you cached assets, restart your server and reload the page. That should hopefully fix it for you.
Do you know Where Ideas Come From?
That's not right, or at least not nearly the whole story. Of course use of automatic fire is discouraged for situations where it's not effective, such as engaging point targets with aimed accurate fire. For other tasks, the most obvious being suppression, automatic fire can be very effective. Capability of automatic fire was and always has been a requirement driven by the military. For a recent example, look at the U.S. Army requirements for the individual carbine program - selective fire is a requirement for submitted designs.

Anyways, none of this impacts the fact that the term "assault rifle", as introduced with the German Sturmgewehrs and now subverted by the U.S. media to mean "scary looking gun", has a specific military meaning that distinguishes it from other small arms like the battle rifle. Let's use Wikipedia's definition: An assault rifle is a selective fire ... rifle that uses an intermediate cartridge and a detachable magazine.

The distinguishing features of the assault rifle, compared to the contemporary battle rifles at the time it was popularized (like the M1 Garand), is that it is chambered for a lower powered non-pistol cartridge (which translates into lighter weight), has a detachable magazine and is capable of burst or fully automatic fire.

I'm not aware of any military or paramilitary organization that uses a definition substantially different from this, or anything like the one you've suggested.
Excellent - I should've chosen "itemized" and then, of course, the percentage is lower than 100%. Thanks for the link - good info.
I'm in the same situation (literally). The FBAR penalties are even worse than you describe. It's a case of well-intentioned legislation with unintended consequences. The extreme penalties were intended to hit people with offshore tax shelters, but instead it is mostly a source of revenue for tax lawyers.

This is, unfortunately, true of the US tax code in general...
Cool conversation underway on the IRC channel: #docker on freenode.
Google takes on Sweden in fight over the word "unGoogleable"
Wow, great. Any plans to provide RHEL/CentOS instructions?
Created a static version of the page that completely avoids the database altogether. The reason I don't use a cached version of the page already is because filtering the companies by market requires accessing the database (at the moment). I was coding a permanent solution to that yesterday and will have it finished sometime later today.
I've been able to witness some of this in the State of California. This system is designed to try to prevent the government from overspending on software. They can always point to a public RFP and open bids if anyone objects. However, it is not designed to produce the best value for the state.

First the RFP has to be written, which itself is a very political process and may have been initiated by a contractor/sales-person convincing someone they need the software or process in question. They'll often help write the RFP if you let them. These RFPs are often signed off on by non-technical people who are not qualified to really understand the technical details.

Then the state has to get multiple bids. Sometimes the RFP is written so specifically that many options are excluded. For example, I've seen an RFP that required the state pay for the software. The way it was worded excluded an OSS contracting company from providing support for a Linux solution. A more public example is the LA School District looking for computers for their students. They are required to support both a keyboard and touch, which is prime market for Windows Surface devices. It could theoretically go to something like an iPad, but it makes it very hard for laptop makers to compete.

Finally the state is required to take the lowest bid that meets the requirements of the RFP. To reject a bid the state has to show that it does not meet the requirements. They can't simply take something that is better value, they have to take the cheapest solution that meets the minimum requirements.
Smaller sites have a huge barrier to entry for consumers though. For a large percentage of gamers, myself included, if it's not on Steam, it might as well not exist. I'm far more hesitant to download/purchase from other services.

The nice thing about steam is that:

1: They're established, I don't have to worry about my CC security

2: I can re-download forever* on any computer. It is impossible to overstate how big of a deal this is.

3: Nothing to remember. No serials/keys to keep track of. No installers to back-up. IT JUST WORKS.

4: Auto-updates
I agree. Applying for a UK visa is not a walk in the park and you can lose a lot of money on application fees for failing to include documentation that covers every single statement you make on an application, even if that statement isn't integral to them approving the visa.
The spring assistance in these knives doesn't cause the blade to move, it just makes it easier to pull them out. That's basically the definitional difference between them and switchblades.
I made an app called BHive Tasks. I did it originally for BlackBerry since I saw there was very little competition there. On a good day it would make $150/day ... and it's probably made 40K so far.

http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/7327/

I also tried to make the same app for Android, Windows Phone and BlackBerry 10... The Android app has done ok (a few thousand dollars so far). The windows phone app was a complete disaster. Even though it was at one point #3 in productivity, it was only getting a few sales a week (I decided to never developer for windows phone after that).

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bhivetasks...
Are you over your rate limit? Our new API speedometer will tell you.
IANALinguist, but like a lot of 'fun facts', I think that's only half true. Saying the 'z' spellings are invariably the originals is as wrong as saying that for 's' endings.

The idea is that the words originally came from ancient Greek, where they had the ending -ιζειν, pronounced with a z. The trouble with that is that not all these words did come from the Greek. E.g. realize/realise was (IIRC) a French invention, and they spelled it réaliser. And even in the ones that did come from the Greek, not all of them had the -ιζειν ending - e.g. analyse/analyze was ἀνα·λύω (pronounced analuo); I guess the French gave it the -yser ending.

(The real solution, IMO, is to reject the idea that the 'correct' spelling of a word is the one closer to how it was spelled in the language it was invented in).
As an alternative I would recommend showing a "+0.50$" bit when the amount entered is $0 or the difference if it is below $0.50. A tool tip could explain the "fee" - it'd be much friendlier than a pop up message.
Raspberry Pi a Hit at PyCon 2013
True.
Except if you used ListenUnixgram returned and couldn't use type inference for storing it's return value. Go1.0 returns UDPConn, which will be renamed as UnixConn.

This is a clear API bug, and it's the only exception to the backward compatibility rule.
Or use a ssh tunnel/VPN.
Here's my take: without the theory of computation, there wouldn't be a web, nor would there be many of the other innovations on the list (e.g., CT scans).
Are you really sure about calendar being a core product?

Because the userbase size (without knowing what it actually is) probably isn't all too different from that of reader.

It will probably be around forever as a part of google apps, but the free calendar for everybody might eventually face the chopping block.
Overpaying for apps is the new overpaying for social networks for that vague master bullshit artistry of "reaching" users.

Yahoo irrationally overpays for tons of stuff, AOL irrationally overpaid for Bebo, there was that high school girl that made a social network and makes millions of dollars so she bought her mom a house, there are plenty of other data points I filed away in my head over the years.

Tons of things happen in Silicon Valley everyday that makes no sense to outsiders, or sometimes even to those stuck in the tunnel. Are you new here? Sit, enjoy a cup of tea meanwhile.

Throw on top of that the youth obsession in tech has been around since I was 17 eleven years ago and it will continue to stay. Youth is forever a distraction that you have to grow out of. If you don't then consider seeking a therapist.

Your brain hurts from trying to neatly organize this particular liquidity event as fair? Maybe you can't. Maybe it doesn't matter. Get over it, stop the hating, and get back to work.

Funny enough, mainstream media with old talking heads are spinning this narrative two ways: 1) the ever louder need to get every child to learn to code and 2) it's so fun bit of escapism to think what you would have done with big money when you're still a teenager contrasted against the $325MM Powerball win in New York.

All in all, this barely registers as a blip on the average American considering real shit that's ongoing with fairness over marriage equality in SCOTUS.
1. Leave Facebook.
2. Go to other social network.
3. Realize none of your friends are there.
4. ???
5. Go back to Facebook.
There have been several p2p low-latency streaming companies in the past with swarming, some of which where acqui-killed by CDN companies like Akamai. But since I haven't read the app, I won't go as far as to critique the filing.

I think the big challenge for this is that traditional bandwidth is becoming cheap, and anyone who cares about QOS can pay for it and/or build out their own distribution network.
Kickstart a Documentary about Hackers in Uganda
Delicious was actually the first social bookmarking site I was aware of (and used). So I'm under the impression that they were ahead of the curve. Saying it's just a social bookmarking site I guess is the same as saying it's just a wheel.
+1 for #docker@freenode, a very helpful resource.

We've been playing around with docker internally at SendHub for the past few weeks, and so far it is looks promising.

I'm /really/ looking forward to seeing and hearing about cool applications people find for docker containers!
I agree that MOOCs have many benefits but I don't think that they are a threat to higher education. A liberal arts education is not about rote memorization of facts, but rather about developing the ability to think, reason and write. One of the reasons that few people are able to educate themselves is because it requires intellectual maturity to stop, think and challenge yourself about whether your ideas are correct or not. It is very easy to lead yourself astray when you do not have anyone to talk to about your ideas. Most professors are not afraid of MOOCs because MOOCs are not appropriate replacements for what they do.

MOOCs are useful for learning material that would be covered in "lower division" classes, which often have little student-teacher interaction. Upper division classes require more student-teacher interaction, and research almost always requires in person discussion with a professor.

I think your attacks on unions and "professional organizations", as well as your view that they are "afraid of competition" is misguided. If you look at the countries that have the best secondary school education, you will find that almost all of them have very strong unions. In order to attract intelligent and competent teachers, you must treat them well. In the U.S, the smartest students do not become teachers because the pay is awful and the work is very stressful.

Although academia can seem very competitive (e.g publish or perish), collaboration is a much more dominant theme than competition. There are many environments in which focusing on competition is an inappropriate way of improving things, especially when the rewards are intangible. The joy that a teacher feels when she sees a student understand something and mature because of it cannot be measured in dollars, or any other metric for that matter.
Now you are caching everything, i.e. every filter returns just the unfiltered complete list.
I guess I was a 'power' Delicious user with several thousand links and.. I switched to a giant text file synced over Dropbox between all my machines and a Ruby script to manage and search it. All I lose are the social features, which I never used anyway (although I remember when del.icio.us/popular was my go-to site for links in the way HN and Reddit are now).
Hacking might be difficult if you confuse dashes with underscores.
Yes, definitely. There's an open issue here: https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/issues/172
I get good coverage in most parts of SF, I've seen speeds around 15mbit, usually at least 5-6. But then you hit areas where it just sucks and you get basically no coverage at all, like my apartment. :(
The PUB-SUB Hacks: Meerkat
>> I just don't get what it adds to your code apart from hiding simple function definitions in the visual trappings of a static helper object or closure. Javascript is already homogeneous enough without making it visually even more.

What method do you use instead of the following, when creating namespaces?

var yourNamespace = {

foo: function() {
},

bar: function() {
}

};
[Ask HN] Best online PR services for digital startups
Which are the best online PR (pro) services for launching/promoting your digital startup? Some people suggest PrWeb (prweb.com), anyone tried it? Other good services?
1M downloads with 1M+ dollars in investment is not noteworthy. You can basically pay for that much downloads. Not to mention its a FREE app!
There are two things that disturb me about the US government

This is an article about private interests lobbying to obstruct government reform for their own gain, and you've launched a screed about interesting but really quite irrelevant matters that disturb you about government. Please stop trying to hijack the thread to push your own political agenda. What you wrote has literally nothing to do with this story.
Wah. I was hoping for something more interesting than S3 for persistence of the key / values...as kenneth seems to have very novel and interesting takes on things.
> people who could quickly assemble a MVP from existing APIs that appealed to the emerging cohort of buyers and trendsetters.

Oh man reading that I just realized that was exactly describing the type of consulting gigs I always get (and I'm young).

Are we a side effect of the pump-and-dump VC culture or is this a legitimate new way of developing software/products?
Seems cool, but the name should be changed. There is already an open source tool called ElephantDB created my Nathan Marz (Clojure, Big Data, Hadoop guru)

Not trying to be a jerk, I'm just sure that if this were my creation I would want people to let me know if I was potentially walking into brand confusion.
I haven't been unemployed in a long time, so I may not really understand, but I think that people who give off the emotional vibe of being desperate and frustrated don't tend to make people want to hire them or otherwise associate with them. Which can put some unemployed people into a nasty vicious cycle - it's tough to just stop being desperate and frustrated when you can't get a job.

I have also tended to be a bit skeptical of getting a job by spewing resumes all over the internet. I doubt that this works well, unless you have some really impressive stuff on your resume. I haven't looked for a job in a while, but I would bet that it's more effective to meet people in person by going to whatever events you can find or even the offices of companies you might want to work for. For software people, internet links to things that you have actually built is probably better too. Of course, driving around and going to conferences can eat up a good bit of money too...
Generally quotas are only implemented on the server. So the easy way to work with that is to set up a rule to automatically move all your incoming mail to a local folder. Of course this does break the ability to access your email form multiple clients, or use web mail, unless you have the rule set to replicate locally and let mail sit on the server for 7 - 14 days.
Why aren't we serving rss feeds as json?
Just curious why we are still serving them as xml and not json??? Then they would basically become a REST interface, right?
Right. Penicillin was important, but there are other antibiotics. The transistor was also important, but there are alternatives that might have been used (e.g. techniques based on optics). The theory of computation is absolutely fundamental.
I like the "volume dial" on G+ Circles. Just wish it would let me filter circle posts by media type (i.e. block all images and videos, but show all text and link posts). I'm sure it can be done, as they just implemented this feature for Google+ searches.
I feel this is against HN etiquette but I need to thank you. Be encouraged and go far. This looks awesome. I wish you many a decent pull-request.
That becomes less and less likely the more we think we can get away with, or if we can rationalize that nobody really gets hurt (cheating on an exam, for example). 'Free Will', and the belief that, ultimately, decisions made by you are yours and you are responsible for them seems like something we evolved for a reason. Even if it is an illusion (likely but not proven), it's a damn useful one.
To be accurate, there are no weapons features that have been banned from private ownership and use in the U.S. at the federal level. Certain weapons fall under regulation of the National Firearms Act and require payment of a tax before transfer. Examples are machine guns, suppressors, destructive devices and short barreled rifles/shotguns. These are all legal to own by individuals at the federal level.

A few states do outlaw or ban some specific NFA weapons however - for instance 5 states outlaw individuals from possesing machine guns.
I've got a great recipe for mayo/sour cream-covered halibut or other white fish, oven-roasted. Not sure how well it holds up for a 5-hour turkey roasting, but at least for 1-1.5-hour cook times, mayo seems to hold up ok.
6 advantages of remote UX testing
Shouldn't Svbtle be on there?

http://blog.svbtle.com/svbtle-funding
Google Reader... No, only joking ;-)

For my part, it's a lot of browsing, including places like Hacker News and Reddit, and notably a lot of great things get submitted to HN but never get any votes.. those are always the coolest finds. There are also a lot of Twitter users to follow who produce content and tweet about it. I also get a lot of direct e-mails from people who create things, perhaps a third of links come via outreach from authors.. but that's the sort of thing that only happens after you've been doing it a while.