skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The target was set in a shareholder letter, so if Tesla intentionally mispredicted the target, they would likely be liable to a shareholder suit. Thus, it is reasonable to assume that the target reflected all available information at the time and that Tesla sent out the press release. Therefore, the most probable event is that Tesla had an abnormally large influx of orders, which is a non-artificial accomplishment.
The problem is that no one would hire Steve Jobs as a subordinate, but he was an evident great hire for a decision-making role, even then. People like him usually get filtered out before they get high enough to use their talents, though. In fact, Jobs is the opposite of what corporations promote, which explains a lot about them.
i can't decide whether this code is clever or borderline obfuscated. if i were a more confident programmer i'd go with the latter.
Nuesbyte is definitely one of the better Google reader alternatives out there. Love the layout and simplicity. Added to my list - http://ginicharts.com/google-reader-alternatives
WhoAPI introduces Free domain API
This looks really promising, actually signed up which is saying something because I've always leaned towards just using actual websites despite having built a few mobile RSS readers myself.

I am a bit confused with some UI elements though (perhaps because I wasn't a heavy Google Reader user):

1) Subscriptions are for grouping feeds ya? I see how I can create a new subscription and name it, but I'm totally failing on how to add a feed to it. If you go to the RSS page I see things I want to add, but no plus button or other interaction seems to do what I expect. Am I just confused?

2) Not sure if this is a setting somewhere, but having full articles open in a new tab would be nice.

3) Is there a way to set all the items in a single subscription as read?

4) What is the column on the right? Popular items? Some label there might be good.

Overall super cool, I like it! Keep it up man. If you continue developing it, consider a Bitcoin tip jar, I'd throw some your way.
$1,750 was the price when Buffett wrote that.
Oh well, the whole hack/hacking/hacker terminology has been absolute and totally corrupted to oblivion already anyway. I mean, this site is called Hacker News and we come here to read about where to sit in a conference room.
The following paper/article is about 45 pages, and I expect it
to be good (not tinfoil hat stuff) due to the source. Since some
of the academic paper paywall sites are already asking ten bucks
for it, I was happy to find a legit copy online for free.

Harvard Law Review

The Dangers of Surveillance, by Neil M. Richards

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5472230

Edit: Some more fun reading.

Swarm - A Cellular Programming Language (columbia.edu)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5472485
If there were a GUI for that, it could show decks of FORTRAN cards and a shelf with printouts... ;-)
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Ah. You createa group and click on it (its highlighted) and then you move to the right side, and click on the feeds you want, you can use the input to search for feeds, or, put the feed directly into the input box.

The column on the right its popular views in your feed selection. The 'views' should hopefully outline this fact. I agree I have to setup a better method (or instructions) on how to add feeds to a group
You shouldn't have to go to Reddit to get a decent directory of my blog. Anyway, you can't; anything that makes it onto Digg or Reddit or del.icio.us is mixed in with everything else, and gets bumped down into oblivion by stuff that's newer and/or better.

Actually you can "unmix" it:

http://www.reddit.com/domain/steve-yegge.blogspot.com/top/

I know this is a far cry from what he's asking for, but it's still damn useful.
Working from a Coworking space instead of from your company's office for me is still "working from home".

The essential part is basically that you work from wherever you find yourself most productive. Personally, as long as I can avoid commutes of over an hour, I'm happy enough.

Working from my actual home has some extra benefits (like going out with my dogs whenever I take a short break etc.), but I definitely appreciate working from another place every now and then.
> Managers vastly overestimate it’s efficiency

and then

> It’s primary role these days...

Are there no copy editors at Forbes?
He didn't say it was the solution to everything, you know. In fact, he pointed out "Of course, it’s not all without drawbacks either." Somebody at Forbes wrote that headline.
That bugs me, too. Cringeworthy.
I'm not a patent lawyer, but I fail to see why this would be the case.

If the old version was held by someone else, would it then also be open for the public ?

As far as I can tell, patents pretty much stand on their own.
He's married and has at least one child, I think.
By 'relatively useless' do you mean 'historically useful because it was a way to store tokens of wealth in a way that didn't decay/corrode'? And as mentioned already, there's plenty of uses for it in the modern world.
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If you're presuming a new invention that makes farm land and oil irrelevant (a star trek replicator) then it's likely gold can be produced by this new method as for there to be unlimited supply, making your pile worthless
Kudos for the history lesson. I can't believe IBM still has a market for IMS (!?!), with all the nice ways of combining SQL and "NoSQL" nowadays... Are they hypnotizing their clients or what?
Your exp?
INR 21.1 LPA in Singapore isn't less? But I might not be knowing living costs in SG actually. Or is it an onsite post - LinkedIn says Infy?
Exactly. The true value of the gold for the investor that chooses to buy it instead, is that in the future he will be exchange it for whatever he wants then at (hopefully) close to the same exchange rate he bought it for. He believes it's value won't decay with time, or at least that there is less risk with it than with his other options.

Buffet's argument would be just as valid if it was applied to a pile of US dollars for example.
I've just tried NightWeb and the startup latency is very high, even on my Nexus 4. Sadly I can't think of an app where 5-10secs of latency is acceptable :(
I prefer the term ”remote work” over ”working from home.” I almost never work from my apartment, beyond the occasional email. But by working from co-working offices or a coffee shop, I avoid the constant “hey, quick question man” and “let's just have a quick meeting” and driving during rush hour and having to ask permission to work from a beach in Florida because I scored cheap flights like happened last week.

So a bit of a false dichotomy (not judging, just mentioning): "Remote working" does not necessarily mean "working from the space I also sleep in." That would drive me nuts.
A browser's Javascript VM typically doesn't run in ring 0, unless you've got it badly wrong.
Irish person here. There is no distrust in the currency or banking system. No one's doing a run on the banks here.

Ireland was a traditional 19th century bubble
Sushi chain acquires gamification startup Gametize and turns founders to chefs
http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/01/singaporean-sushi-bar-acquires-tech-firm-turns-founders-into-sushi-chefs/

Original post over at http://blog.gametize.com/
HTML5 Image Editor - Photoshop clone?
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The Pirate Bay "moves their servers to USA"
not me.
When writing blog post titles, forget about SEO
Why would you patent a cancer drug?
How to count documents in your cloud database
Well, I'm not Japanese so that's practically impossible (outside of universities).
More likely is if we find a massive new source of gold. Price would plummet. This happened before. When the Spanish went over to the new world they hound massive amounts of silver and were able to mine it.
The Firebird Book (Second Edition) released : printed and ebooks
How to extend the functionality of dynamic search ads
There's a name for that occupation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tosher
Gmail blue made me think of: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepsi_Blue
Round Up: All of Google’s jokes for April Fools 2013
I don't think you understand. You really do lose control. Look at the legal implications.

http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/177992

The most important paragraph:

So what are the differences between an employee and an independent contractor? There are a number of factors that determine which category a worker falls into. The most important of these is called the right of control. Does the employer have the right to exercise control over the worker? Basically, this means that the employer has the right to hire and fire the worker. But it also means the employer has the right to dictate both the means and the manner in which the worker performs the job. If this is the case, then the relationship is that of an employer and an employee. However, if the employer can control only the final results of the work, then the parties have an employer-independent contractor relationship.
I like Thursday as a work from home day. It's far enough into the week that you're sick of going to the office, and it doesn't connect to the weekend so you don't slack off.
Medical patents involve a lot of money invested into making the drug, ex. producing new chemicals, laboratory equipment costs, huge salaries for scientists in R&D, etc. Patents are one of the best ways to "earn back".

Why a cancer drug? Why not? There are lots of companies fighting for this huge market, and if you're the first to have invented a medicine, you would like to be rewarded, isn't it?
A lot of people are pointing out drawbacks to working at home. Noisy, cramped, no separation of home work life, etc etc etc.

None of those are valid criticisms of the idea being discussed. We say 'work from home' as shorthand. It doesn't literally mean YOU MUST WORK AT YOUR DOMICILE AND NOWHERE ELSE.

It means you can work anywhere you can make arrangements to work.

That is a huge difference.
I've not been unemployed for a long time but I've turnt down quite a few offers that required 9-5 hours. I probably can't help you that much but if you want to talk about it, feel free to email me.
I'm a big REST fan, but I think using a different mediatype is only important if the format is (or can become) generic and used by other services. For example, if you're serving a GeoJSON document, which is a open format used by many services, it makes sense to use a specific mediatype. If, on the other hand, the format is totally custom to your service, I don't really see the point, since the client parsing it must be custom too.

The only advantage I can see to using custom mediatypes is if you want to do versioning (+v1, +v2, etc).
TrafficCOM - collect and share automobile and bicycle traffic count data
Hmm. Maybe because you've spent many millions of dollars developing it, proving it works to some significant degree, and getting it approved by various government authorities?
Serverspec - RSpec tests for your servers
Hacking gravity: BALANCE
I resent the downvote. I made an observation and this guy comes and randomly jumps to a political conclusion about what I observed. He was absolutely and completely wrong and I didn't need to waste more than a word in response.
I just pretend there are multiple concrete implementations of the written English syntax. I then have a substitution macro I run automatically in my mind when I encounter a grammar rule that is inconsistent with my own implementation. I almost always end up being able to understand the intent of the writer.

Some minds are like the compiler that shouts, "I know you meant a semi-colon, but you didn't type a semi-colon so I'm just going to complain" and some minds are more forgiving and say "Let me just put a semi-colon here for you, no worries." :-)
Exxon pipeline breaks in Arkansas 84,000 gal
Google Sidewiki?
> The customers who ordered this option will instead receive the 60 kWh pack, but range will be software limited to 40 kWh.

>...all 60 kWh cars have been and will be built with Supercharger hardware included. Tesla is taking a slight cost risk that ultimately all customers will want to buy the Supercharger upgrade and receive unlimited, free long distance travel for life.

I am assuming that the supercharger hardware will be disabled as well.

This kind of thing really turns me off a company.
I work from home 99% of the time and what you say makes sense for me too. But I think the point DHH is making is more to do with companies requiring you to be in the office almost every day when everyone else is there which is completely unnecessary in a lot of cases.

You enjoy the office, your coworker may not. There are tools now that help both of you be happy doing the same job together.
Monitor your Web API application using your own custom counters
Sure but for me its pretty much like an office. I like daily routines, getting out of the house in the morning. I do even enjoy a short commute to just think.

However i still get the mentioned interruptions as i work on pretty big projects, but its mostly via IM. Working from the coffe shop or even the beach is not for me though, id just grab my girlfriend for a short trip and catch up on work on the next weekend.
Downvoted for projecting your opinion of Jobs onto your (probably deliberate) misinterpretation of the story. Jobs was a difficult hire because he wasn't a team player.
I liked the part about centibytes (or is that scentibytes?).
I bothered to find this for you, not that I expect you to be grateful -- you probably think that attacking your conspiracy theories is the same as attacking you...

It still isn't relevant for China, but a more serious viewpoint on how the Iraq WMD opinions were built:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21786506
I'm still a student, and I know that I don't yet have the personal discipline to work from home. I know that I'll find it difficult to have a routine, so I will work at odd times, and I know that because of this, all the time I'm not working I'll feel like I should.

I need to do the 9-5 thing for a few years. Once I've done that, I want a flat/house where I can designate one room as my 'work' office, in which I will only do work, and all work will be done in it. Anything that is not work related I'll have to do outside that room. I think if I have this separation I'll be able to focus on work, and on personal things much better.
Adding a “Saved Items” section to your site or blog with one line of code
At least so long as a $5,000/car government subsidy continues.
The worst thing is that what you describe is a profitable business, even in London. Every jeweller shop gather floor swipes, drain sludge, ... and have them processed (edit: processing is done in the UK, that's normal job for a refiner). The recovery is in the thousands of pounds a month for a small shop. There is an amateur community in the US and UK that recycles gold from all sorts of electronic part for fun and profit.

You do not have to have miserable work condition to make a profit recycling gold. The sad thing is how little valuable is human life in India.

Another example, they flatten silver into gilding leaf by hand, with a hammer. They frequently break bones and become disabled (and out of work of course). Gilding leaf, especially silver, is cheap (like round wire, flat sheets), as you may imagine the machine that do that in Europe are extremely low tech, reliable and cheap. Yet, in India, it is even cheaper to use human labor to do that. Depressing.
Yes.

I don't think they ever had a patent for this drug in India though hence they were already producing a generic version.
The thread creator was not the author, I assume he copied out of his RSS client after reading the article.
I agree, it sends the wrong message about key traits Steve Jobbs was good at. Anyone successful at being a jerk has 1 of 2 things the rest won't have:

1. They have something tangible to offer every single person that has to deal with them.

2. They are able to build bridges at least as fast as they're able to burn them down.

If the behavior isn't sustainable then I think its safe to say we have a problem, not an asset.
The only difference is, that you have to actively engage in order to keep Exxon running and the farmlands productive. Plus think of all the lobbyists you have to hire to keep the government away from taking your farming subsidies and oil rights.

With the gold, you just dig a hole, put it in the ground and you know that when there is a time you need it, it will most likely be of the same value than when you put it there in the first place. It is about how much capital you have, your personal views on global economic stability, and how actively you are willing to work that capital.
> The reason we do not get more sniper mass killings is that it takes a lot of skill to hit a target at a very long range with a sniper rifle.

That is the reason, you think, and not that most people in the world are relatively decent and not psychopath monsters?
You need to add top:0; left:0 on your fixed topbar for android browser - good job btw
Jakob Nielsen's site has been redesigned
I like it so far. I would encourage you to keep improving it, because as things stand now you're at the top of my list of GReader replacements. I like that Nuesbyte is in the browser and doesn't require a client. Importing my feeds from GReader will be great. Also on my wishlist: vi-style movement keys (j,k,l) &c. Thanks!
What If The Google Reader Readers Just Don't Come Back?
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You're a wise man! ;-)

I wouldn't have said anything if this was from a blog, but it surprised me coming from Forbes. It appears they simply publish email interviews without so much as reading them...?
I've worked from home for about four years now. I keep in regular contact with my Co-workers (Campfire) and friends (IRC). It would take a lot to get me back into an office.
Task management is like losing weight. Everyone knows the real answer is a little self-discipline, but nobody likes to hear that so they keep buying the latest new app hoping that THIS one will be the silver bullet. The fact that none of them really work any better than a simple to-do list is what makes them addicting. The rush of trying the new thing, followed by the let-down. It's just like drug addiction.
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I still think its problematic. I like to have a place where i work and nothing else. When in the coffe shop or a nice place i just enjoy it for what it is without trying to squeeze some productive time in. To me its the same seperation issue, its not so much about the place home but the mindset of spending work time in a private life enviroment. Just my view of course.
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I don't see why. Would you be happier if they made two versions with no way of changing one into the other? I see this as a great plus, if you are not interested in a feature, do not pay for it, if you later are, you can enable it without buying an entire new car. Also if you sell it, the new owner can decide if and when to enable those features. It seems a clear win-win to me, and a very clever strategy from Tesla.
Even with a Star Trek replicator, there are some things that cannot be replicated such as latinum:

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Latinum
Unfortunately there are so many inaccuracies in your comment that almost every sentence is false or embeds an erroneous assumption. I don't have the time to go line by line, but just take this:

It exists not because the law is ever-shifting, but because
the financial industry it regulates is ever-shifting.

But the law is indeed ever-shifting. Sarbanes-Oxley? Dodd-Frank? The JOBS act? And those are just the Congressionally authorized ones. The toughest part of dealing with the federal government is the fact that you can't simply read the law to find out what is legal or not. You need to pay a lawyer to determine what interpretations are in vogue with the current batch of regulators, and what's being enforced and what isn't.

For better or worse, engaging in commerce with the public
is not a right in the U.S., it's a privilege

Trading is a basic human right. The government exists at our sufferance. And prior to Lochner this was the common understanding. The mission of our time is to escape from people who believe a man's right to engage in commerce is a "privilege" to be "granted" by some unelected regulator.
I like that the little mermaid in Copenhagen is drawn in on the map. There are some cute details like that.
> Have you ever practiced law or been involved in it?

As Thomas correctly notes below, yes; that's how I earn my crust. (A lawyer would have looked that up for herself.)

> The judiciary has no real power other than that of apparent authority.

That's not exactly stop-the-presses news. Lawyers generally are taught it during their first week of law school, just in case they missed it in their college Government 101 courses or high-school civics.

> It is an assumed power; an assumption which could just as easily be undone by another accident of history.

True enough, but the system has worked reasonably well for a couple of centuries now, achieving a kind of dynamic stability. (And yes, I'm mindful of those Court decisions that history has rightly come to regard as, how shall I put this, less than successful, such as Dred Scott, Plessy v. Ferguson, and Korematsu.)

You're welcome to try to convince ~150 million voters and their elected representatives that a change in the arrangement is warranted. Good luck with that; in fact, good luck even getting their attention, given that all of those folks do have a few other things on their minds. Past attempts to overhaul the arrangement have never caught on and in fact have been viewed with suspicion, for example as FDR learned the hard way when he tried to pack the Court in the mid-1930s.
Yes. As someone from the UK, I find the brutish eagerness Americans tend to have about their guns to be pretty fucked up anyway, so this is just another level on top of that.

No doubt someone will trot out the old discredited "protecting our freedoms" argument, that somehow seems to apply both to personal gun ownership and invading foreign nations.
And yet people argue that gold is somehow more real than, say, Bitcoins.
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Whats so new about this?
I deleted a line from my original post before submitting it which said it was a problem I wanted a solution for so that might make it worth persuing!

I like your suggestion that it should be highly modular, not sure what makes that mean its not useful though?
It's like the double-tap-and-drag gesture on laptop trackpads, you just learn it's there at some point.
> How long would the Ivy-league schools maintain those huge endowments if most spots were taken by students from poor background?

Pretty long, I’d wager. The endowments weren’t built on tuition, they were built on alumni giving. One might hope that formerly poor students would be more likely to give generously as wealthy alumni.
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Then you are not buying the gold, but investing in Exxon Auric, newly the worlds most profitable company

I think buffet is cautioning against seeing gold as an investment (buy now wait for the price to go up). He compares it to real productive investments - and as such explains why he is rich and everyone who has said store of value is useful is not rich
I have been working on this for over a year and thought it was time to show it off, if you do not want to sign up to have to try it then you can login with the username Demo and the password demodemo.

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. A mobile app is on the way.
Same problem on Windows 7
I think that's a good point. I will try and fix this, but the emphasis should be on the point we're trying to make with the recipe.
NewsFlash: The older Steve Jobs would not have hired the younger Steve Jobs today.