skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's not a whole lot new here - T-Mobile has long given discounts for off-contract plans without a phone subsidy. They've just figured out that it can set them apart in the mobile space, and are pushing it as a result. I think it's a brilliant move, but it's going to hinge on whether people can get past the increased initial cost of the phone.

For the past several years, I've been buying my phones outright (Nexus devices) and using them on T-Mobile for $20/month less than I'd pay on-contract. It ends up being a better deal financially, and I have the freedom to upgrade my device any time I want. They're going all-in on that now and reworking all their service towards that model.

Right now, I pay $40/mo for 750 minutes/unlimited text/unlimited data, and am using a Nexus 4 ($350 from Google) with the plan. Compare to something like a Verizon prepaid plan with unlimited minutes/text and 2GB of data for $70/month. Even with a "free" Verizon phone, at the 12-month mark, the T-Mobile plan is less expensive, and continues to be so thereafter.
Cash management is built already. We track how much you have, dividend payments, all that stuff. We've built many risk measurements, too: alpha, beta, Sortino, Information Ratio, etc.

Risk management is far more complex. Risk management is more a part of the algorithm itself than a feature that we can build. That said, we can add more risk tools. We're very open to suggestions, if you have some in mind.
I support Watsi's goals but a cursory overview of their financial statements suggests that they are anything but "lightweight." For their current size (measured in terms of personnel), I would expect at least 5x the charitable activity and 20x the fundraising compared to similarly situated NGOs.

Yes, I know that 100% of their "fundraising" will go to their charitable activity. But that is "fundraising" in the Groupon sense--it is a redefinition of a commonly used term that excludes their fundraising activities that actually support their non-charitable operations. Small donors may not care much about that, but for institutional donors (i.e., foundations), operational costs are a significant factor in the grant-making decision process.
For me, it was the deep integration with Internet Explorer browser elements and rendering engine. For several years, TurboTax just wouldn't run on my main desktop computer, always throwing some arcane error message about MSHTML, and the only info I could find from Intuit was something about upgrading Internet Explorer which was already done. I had to install and use TurboTax on either an underpowered laptop or my work machine.

It cleared up somewhere along the line, I think with IE8 circa 2010, but I'm always still not quite trusting of TurboTax's code quality.
Assuming you mean an article on the subject of scraping from an unbiased source, I think you'll have a difficult time finding one. If someone is going to trouble themselves to write any type of article, they probably don't want it scraped.
Right to be forgotten on the web unworkable, argue data watchdogs
There's no guaranteed way unfortunately. If you expect to need this in the future, you can add a flag in your program to print runtime.Version(). But for existing binaries that don't use that function the version will not be included in the binary.

http://golang.org/pkg/runtime/#Version
does this share history on the account too? i buy these people gifts!
That's an incredibly outdated policy.

A 4TB hard drive now lists for $150. This means that 50MB costs a fraction of a penny, and the price is dropping.

Every second that a minimum-wage employee spends deleting emails to get down to that low a quota is a flagrant waste of money. The higher-paid the employee, the more flagrant the waste.

This is seriously like paying your employees to collect individual pieces of pine straw so you can save money on landscaping.

Not to mention the fact that those emails probably contain data that's worth more than their storage cost, especially if they're searchable.
Thanks for the feedback. Yes, I forgot about the favicon, will add that. I am glad you liked it.
On the moral decay of the Dutch hacker scene
There's a page[1] describing why they created AlterEgo.

They basically claim everything else was too difficult for people to use - which is funny considering the other companies[2] using Google Authenticator. They also call it "1.5-factor authentication", which is kind of unsettling.

AlterEgo is a closed-source online-only service provided by MailChimp, while Google Authenticator is an offline, open-source, standards-based, two-factor security solution that anyone can implement on a wide range of platforms. You'd have to want less compatibility, less reliability and less security to use AlterEgo.

[1] http://blog.mailchimp.com/introducing-alterego-1-5-factor-au...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Authenticator#Usage
The feature I want on RSS readers: Volume sliders.

A volume slider per feed, and perhaps also a global one.

If a feed is posting too much stuff, but I still like some of the stuff on it, I'd prefer not to unsubscribe if I had a better option.

If I notice a feed getting a bit noisy, I'd like to open a view for that feed, with titles and timestamps. Then I'd just move a slider and watch stuff drop out, until I've turned it down to a volume I can handle.

Hopefully, the lower-signal items will drop out of view first and the higher-signal items last. The more data available for making these rankings, the better. Comment counts or scores from the hosting site should help. So should links/shares/likes/comments across the major social networks.
Forecast.io API Docs
"If you walked out the door of Apple with source code and "source code" for their hardware, you could replicate a lot of their value for the immediate future, until they had time to cook up new stuff."

You are correct in that more of Facebook or Craigslist's values are comprised by network effects, but I still believe more of Apple is network effect than not.

Consider the walking-out-of-the-door-with-the-blueprints hypothetical. You would still need to cobble together a supply chain, i.e. glue together a string of "doers" and make sure the glue is strong enough so the whole thing doesn't fly apart like a 787.

Remember the Hacker News refrain about execution versus MBA-style "ideation"? The execution guys are valuable because they know where to find what and whom, not because they ninja together the eleventh hour code themselves.
I've never felt so guilty skimming an article.
Downside: You get mobile-oriented websites from apps that do user agent detection.
In all honesty, I don't know why people are "so much" hate contracts? You know, I need the service anyway and in all likely hood I stay on the same carrier for two years, why "so much" hate?
my bad images do work if you click the link - i didn't understand the homepage was just a preview.

http://wilfra.postach.io/post/hello-world
Female Founders of Y Combinator’s Winter 2013 Class
Right now it's hardcoded to Control+PgUp and Control+PgDown.

As I said it's still a work in progress.
But $30M for two developers?
Could you give some more detail about your first paragraph?
(and also, I get your point)
Mmm. I'm sure people have had bad experiences. However I run my own mail server (and no others who also do) for myself, my company and a few other domains I host with almost no effort. It's true I have fewer than a dozen users, but I'm sure most people would be the same way.

I just upgraded it this weekend, otherwise I haven't actually had to touch it in the 5 years since I originally set it up. Support ends for the Ubuntu LTS release it was based on next month, and I chose to migrate to new server software (dovecot) without much difficulty at all. I think anyone moderately skilled with sysadmin tendencies could manage it.

A good guide is here (though I am not running the described spam or virus filtering, and neither am I using EC2 myself): http://www.exratione.com/2012/05/a-mailserver-on-ubuntu-1204... - there are many other guides online.

But I confess I personally have a gmail account that I use most of all. I receive lots of mail daily, and none of the open-source clients (webmail or otherwise) have managed to compare in terms of usability. Priority Inbox is the most recent example of something that I would struggle to live without.
If he could afford it, it would probably be best to either drop the fees altogether for prices of <= $1, so free games can honor their price, or otherwise set the minimum price to $1, so that the store at least doesn't collect more money than the dev himself.
Anybody looking for some examples, here's a couple sites:

http://geekforbrains.com
http://blog.quoterobot.com
http://docs.quoterobot.com
http://crunchycorner.postach.io
The Steubenville Rape Case in Terms of a Bank Robbery
What surprises me is that the same people who complain about patents and intellectual property are often the first to bring up the discussion of how market tends to undervalue fundamental research. You can't have your cake and eat it too.
Postwire is hiring engineers to solve the content personalization problem
iPhones don't support WiMAX at all; the 4[s] on Sprint/Virgin will only ever hit EVDO.

There's a reason Sprint and Verizon were so much faster to market with WiMAX and LTE vs. AT&T and T-Mobile; EVDO doesn't age nearly as well as HSPA. (IIRC, EVDO was much earlier to market itself.)
I understand that, freedom is always better, but what I see is the dislike of contracts is not proportional to the reality of contracts discomfort. You can always buy yourself out of the contract.
Thank you everyone for your thoughts. Although I didn't communicate the first time, as soneca points out, I did realize I needed to. I sent him a note letting him know that things are not working out and I would like to move forward. I have not heard back from him. I didn't want to get into a "dialogue" until I had a good idea about what he can do or what he is entitled to legally (and morally, according to you guys) and what I should and should not be saying. I have two specific questions where more opinions would help:

1. Without being a legally registered company ever and no IP filed, is this still a valid legal issue worth consulting a lawyer?

2. According to you, what is C entitled to (on moral grounds, what is fair)?
No, I understood the context of his message, but allow me to articulate further: "While it may be against the norm around these parts for a simple post of agreement or gratitude, it doesn't harm the community, on the other hand, it lets the OP know that posts of this kind are good and to do more of them in the future."

However, I agree, sometimes it's nice to have something positive to read in the midst of constructive criticism.
> Consider the walking-out-of-the-door-with-the-blueprints hypothetical. You would still need to cobble together a supply chain, i.e. glue together a string of "doers" and make sure the glue is strong enough so the whole thing doesn't fly apart like a 787.

Maybe a more interesting hypothetical is "what could the 2nd place competitor do if they got blueprints and source code, and could use it freely?". In terms of Facebook and Craigslist, nothing much. In terms of Apple, Samsung could probably go to town with it, although I suppose you could also argue that "the right to use it freely" is in some ways the most important bit, as Samsung can probably replicate the hardware, and has good enough software at this point.
Redis needs a binary protocol now
Couple Captured In Photo Together 15 Years Before They Met
There has been a lot of demand for that, yes. I think it makes a lot of sense and would make docker much more useful out of the box.

You can already publish your own images with 'docker push'!
After working for Bittorrent (I recently left for job that fit me a little better) on the Live team for almost two years (more so on all the software supporting the actual core protocol itself which Bram himself works on mostly..) it is awesome to see Live finally being released to the public. I cannot wait to see how the public will use it (I am sure anyone with an imagination can think of a thousand ways a P2P Live streaming protocol could be useful and powerful..). It will be interesting to see how usable people find it and if they end up adopting it or sticking with the current RTMP server client style architecture.

One thing I always found interesting while working on Live is that although in some ways it really seems like Live Video streaming is more or less an undeveloped field there is actually already a super successful P2P live video streaming implementation called PPLive that is BIG in China ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PPLive ).

Another interesting thing to check out if this Live Video streaming stuff interests you is that some guys proposed a Live Video streaming protocol VERY similar to Live's sometime recently:

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-ppsp-peer-protocol-02

Just compare the BitTorrent Live Protocol and this proposal..

One interesting thing that Brams implementation does is actually speed up and slow down the playback of traffic depending on the latency and whether or not Live figures you need to buffer more or can afford to have less of a delay/buffer. Talk to Bram and you'll quickly figure out he is obsessed with low latency..

This ends up being funny in implementation too, as you will notice when watching a stream that the playback will speed and slowdown while you watch it...

This is detailed in the patent but I did not see anything similar in the ppsp protocol..
But HR is the first gate. If they only let through mediocre people, then the true hiring managers are stuck with taking the best of the ones that get through. The only way to change that is to change how HR gates candidates.
I think he was just giving an easy to understand example which didn't really reflect reality. The problem with predictors of failure, unlike success, is that it's a lot easier to hide them once you know what they are. If you know, for instance, that having founders who when asked say they're doing a startup because they hate having a boss, no non-idiot will give that as an answer when asked, even if they believe it, ruining the predictor.
They're not competent enough to make an initial proposal for how much taxes are due, but they are competent enough to doublecheck a manually filled out tax statement and not send you a tax bill which you don't owe them? The blindly trusting will get ripped off regardless of whether returns are prefilled, assuming a government set on tax fraud (an irrational assumption in my opinion.)

Prefilled returns are the opening round in a negotiation with the government. In any bargaining situation the opening offer is the weakest party. You should prefer them to make the opening offer, especially if you distrust them. Better that you check their numbers rather than them checking yours.
> Your brain hurts from trying to neatly organize this particular liquidity event as fair?

Like much of the commentary in the other story, you're projecting. The article is a discussion of why this deal is stupid, not bellyaching about it being unfair.
You've missed the main point of the article: "opinions are used interchangeably with facts", and rushed to post an opinion not (as far as one could tell from your post) based on fact. Do you have anything to back up your claim that a "male (or female) role model is an important part of the development of kids"?

Just as an example, here is research that says otherwise:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100121135904.ht...

The researchers found no evidence of gender-based parenting abilities, with the "partial exception of lactation," noting that very little about the gender of the parent has significance for children's psychological adjustment and social success.

Another example:

http://news.discovery.com/human/genetics/parents-gender-chil...

Children usually benefit from having two parents instead of one. The gender of each parent, however, does not have a significant impact on a child's success.
Human nature trends for the next decade by Steven Pinker [video]
You can come in with your own phone and not pay anything. That means you could buy a used phone online or bring an old phone from another carrier. Or, after the two years is up, your monthly price drops by $20 so you're saving money by keeping your old phone instead of upgrading.

I think there are a lot of advantages to this.
SF, Seattle, NYC, Boulder are tech hubs
GTK+ 3.8.0 released
Because packages are namespaced by user, and it's easy to rename imports, I don't worry about choosing obvious names - that's only a problem if it is popular and used by more people than me anyway :)

So I'm using obvious names, with the pkg (say core) in one folder, and subpkg in the subfolder named adapters.

"github.com/user/core"

this has a few .go files in it to split things up into different concerns, and a subpackage with adapters (again with a few files), imported with:

"github.com/user/core/adapters"

and using adapters.XXX in the core code. You can also do this:

import
(
mypkg "github.com/user/core/adapters"
)

and use mypkg.XXX to refer to the subpackage, so you're not tied to the folder names for package import names, that's just the convention, and if someone needs to rewrite the name on import, they can do so.
Sync to Paper
You're right that personal appearance speaks volumes, and that works both ways, which is why many of us here would rather work at a place where people wear jeans and a hoodie instead of suits.
If you just feeding data from the internet into the CPU that's a pretty fricken long tape!
idk, their core asset may not be their technologies. Their asset maybe the ad space they sell and the properteis they own. I think of Yahoo in as in the buisness of owning things so they can sell adds. I don't think they care about the technology of this app (which is less then a masters thesis) compared to its user base.
Great idea. And good luck!

Hint:

When you'll have a chance - pay attention to the way successful person handles bad stuff: emotional pain, negativity, disturbances, irritation, annoyances, etc... You'll notice that he/she immediately faces it, pays attention to it and resolves it.

Not-so-successful person escapes it, postpones it, blocks himself from it, hides.

Attitude of dealing with pain is the first and one of the most important inner traits of successful person.
“There are hardly any startups in this batch that are bad,” Graham said.

I believe one of two things about this statement, neither of which is what pg likely meant by it:

1. YC has bad startups it just hasn't recognized yet.

2. YC has an entirely mediocre batch of startups due to not taking any risks on "bad" startups.
Here's hoping pg writes an essay on what YC thinks the "predictors of failure" are. I'm sure some applicants for S13 are probably panicking, having optimized their application for the "old" version of the YC selection process. I'm not too worried, as we're exceptionally strong on the one data point he's provided.
Thank you for such a gracious reply! In turn, I should apologize for writing something that could so easily be misinterpreted.
The cyclical password change for my dozens of accounts would be a constant pain. Some of these accounts also need to be used on mobile devices where 1password doesn't auto-fill (ie, iPad). Add to that sharing certain of these accounts with spouse/family and you have serious friction to constant credentials updates.
The belgian government is so ineffective we didn't have one for two years because they failed to organize a ruling cabinet after elections. And still we have prefilled returns that work well. It's not that difficult.
Reminds me of the slogan for the strip club Déjà Vu:

"1000's of Beautiful Girls and 3 Ugly Ones"
Why do you feel the need to repost your own blog posts here?
Thx and great advice.
As for functionality, Maildir with your MDA of choice gives you all kinds of rube-goldberg opportunities with text files. No silly "max connections" junk when your phone and your laptop hit IMAP at the same time.

The one thing I really liked when going from procmail/postfix/dovecot to Google Apps was spam filtering. I hated keeping up to date with the various new methods spammers discovered to offer me good times with farm animals.

Today, I get a lot of false positives, especially with the "this is spam because other people marked messages like this as spam" emails from my bank. I miss emails from family members, travel vendors, and even online shipment confirmation messages. I've had to create rules to catch them and move them to folders/labels as well as have a client-side process occasionally search for a whitelist and "rescue" the messages.
I know that many shops don't work this way, but when I have designed from a "data driven" methodology (I know this is an old term, but I have been in the industry since 1984), I always started with the question - what are the things we are capturing data about? Usually by starting with the "objects" if you will, I would actually end up with a close to 3rd normal form data design, but still close to the object level as well. I have also been a big proponent of the developers having complete access to the database and for them along with the architect to design out the triggers/stored procedures - mainly to make sure the data maintained a certain amount of integrity - especially if the system was going to be designed to allow end users to update and add with tools such as Access or Excel. I have seen many issues - especially with large projects where there are more than a few developers, with the data integrity rules only being in code close to the client as you ultimately end up with two or more pieces of code handling the integrity differently and one or more of them being wrong.
There was a Nova episode about creating the perfect turkey. [1] They concluded that the two keys to cooking a tender and flavorful turkey were 1) brining and 2) browning the outside of the meat.

The recipe is available here: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/insidenova/2012/10/the-science-...

[1] http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/body/can-i-eat-that.html
> your brain is lying when it says price should be a function solely of production cost. Supply and Demand is the Law!

One must not forget other factors, notably entry barriers into the market. In theory at least, no one should be able to make any profit selling anything at market because someone will always be selling a little cheaper. In practice - just look at the cost of broadband internet!
Introducing new solar inverter that could change the game
People have been predicting the pop for a while now, I don't think that YC being picky (< 2% of applicants make it) is a sign of the apocalypse.

They hit scaling problems, so what? It's not indicative of a larger problem.
I like his point about how trivial "tl;dr" summaries often don't get at the core idea of an essay, but they still work for news formats which are kinda "tl;dr" already.
no, it maps to the docker registry which is different then github.

The docker registry is a community server where anyone can add their own images, they just need to login first (docker login), and then push/pull their images they want to share.

nothing is stopping you, so go ahead and try it today.
how do you deal with lookup quotas (if there are any)?
According to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5445978

CTRL-Pgup and Pgdown, trying tomorrow :)
Eduardo Saverin's a good example. Of course, he did have the benefit of dual citizenship (Brazil).
"Last week I came back to this idea and realized that there are good alternatives available, it should not be treated a reason to stop."

- Awesome, I'm glad you decided to go ahead with this. This is a crowded space but you've been able to make a useful tool with features other sites don't have. Congrats!
I've been using Bitnami VMs for years. Surprised to see them in a 'new startup' batch.