skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
how is exactly working in an unknown unsuccessful young company such a strong career booster?

It's not. There are plenty of people out there with no-name companies on their resumes.

You learn a lot, but then go into a subordinate position where everyone thinks you're an idiot. Either you push back and end up in lots of conflict (possibly fired) or you accept it and gradually become what they think of you.
Yes, they are an appropriate defendant, i think you are confused as to whether they want to stay in this. They have a very clear safe harbor here, and they've never cared about their sellers anyway.
They'll likely either try to get dismissed as a defendant (on some jurisdictional issue, which they'd likely lose), or, at worst, get it dismissed on the pleadings or on summary judgement. They aren't going to drag it out and make it painful "as a warning to others", because it doesn't matter to them.
They'll get sued even if they did.
Worth no more than $1 a card on the black market. It'd be cheaper to buy cards than to try to crack the key. There's more supply than demand for stolen card numbers.
3D-printed canal home takes shape in Amsterdam
Looks like this came with a homepage redesign as well: http://github.com

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, Drew Houston ought to be feeling great right about now.
"We don’t really know how this coin is created."

"I don't really understand how this coin is created"

- FTFY
> Everything in there is Free (as in OSI / RMS free), no ads, etc.

I should point out that you're conflating free (as in freedom) with free-as-in-beer (ie, gratis).

Free (as in freedom) software absolutely may have ads, or charge for the software.

F-Droid may be 'all of the above' (free as in freedom, no ads, no charge), but that's not necessarily implied by "Free (as in OSI/RMS free).
This is a totally trivial nitpick, but when I see 500MB at the $9 level I start to do multiplication in my head and kind of get distracted. If it wouldn't cost you too much more, I would suggest considering 1GB for that level. The little story told by the levels just seems simpler that way to me. Like I said, totally minor point, and perhaps it's just me so take with a lot of salt.

Congratulations getting to this stage! The price levels seem reasonable to me. I personally wouldn't have a problem paying for it.

Is there integration with Basecamp or similar? That would be nice.
> Order the modifiers to maximize the product of their successive restrictive effects.

Compare: "The great grey-green greasy Limpopo river, all set about with fever trees."

So we'd have to decide on the fly which is more restrictive of great rivers, grey-green or greasy. Perhaps sometimes it's just about how the sounds sound.
The Oligopoly Problem
In other news: JavaScript is the new X86 assembly language.

Of course, X86 is "not that bad" according to Linus et. al. But it is awfully full of cruft, and could be a lot better. Yet it's fixed and will probably remain so. I wouldn't be surprised if there are x86 CPUs of some sort in 500 years.

It's the awesome power of installed userbase.

JavaScript is the same. It's not that bad of a language... using node.js converted me from a hater to a mild-disliker. But it's got some really ugly stuff and is missing some very important things.

But it's probably going to become one of the biggest and longest lasting languages due to its massive installed userbase.
I may be an odd ball here, but I cheated at Monkey Island 1 and 2. I don't like to be frustrated with a puzzle that relies on either randomly choosing inventory items or seeing some pixels that look like almost every other set of pixels on the screen and trying to pick them up.

For me, what made Monkey Island great was that it was a pretty quirky comedy. I wanted to see what Guybrush would say next.

Further, it shocks me at how bad the graphics are at some of these games after looking at them again after decades. It occurs to me that what I remember it looking like is a heck of a lot better than what it actually looked like. So I'd rather the game not look like the pixely original. I'd rather have it look like I remember.
You made me think of two similar (pet peeves) of mine:

Address and
US Dates

In the latter, obviously Mar 15, 2013 is expressed as 3/15/2013. I prefer to encode as 2013 03 15 (insert whatever syntax you like). There are enough techie people here I doubt I need to say much more on that.

But the former, addresses, really bother me. Why do we start with the smallest modifier first? It probably relates to the way postal routes were first created, maybe for ease of use for the delivery person, would would already be in a restricted area.

Seems that addresses should be ordered:
Country, City, ZIP/subregion, Street, Number, Person
The convergence of dropbox and git was some of the initial inspiration for http://projectmeadow.com .
Boston bombs were pressure cookers filled with metal
They do not "scrape" content on your local machine. They do incorporate stuff on their services including emails, as you mention (OpenTable, Amazon packages, etc).

You can also have this sort of stuff triggerd by desktop searches if you join this "field trial": https://www.google.com/experimental/gmailfieldtrial/
It's fun, but a rather different type of game.

Classic Adventure games are a cross between a puzzle game and a story - often using inventory or area switches to get past..

Walking Dead instead used an illusion of choice as it's core mechanic. It focuses on story more, and it works well, but it's not identical.

That said, TellTale's Sam and Max games and Tales of Money island are highly reminiscent of such old school works, as is Machinarium and quite a few others.
Ron, please shut up and take my money!
Just the other day I paid $20 for a pen. You know, half the 'pen and paper' alternative.
I don't know what PA/University Ave used to be, but I wasn't impressed with it when I arrived in the Valley two years ago. I would say the community is what you make it.

Personally, I found a nice home amongst MeetUp groups and the local Techshop to the point I am far happier in San Jose than even PA. Its like all the nerding out with none of the pretension and rent is half as expensive. Then again, maybe things are different if you are trying to be a founder.
Regulating by looking away: the strange case of top tier cycling
"Boston" by John B. Hynes
John B. Hynes was the Mayor of Boston from 1950-1960. This is a post by his great-grandson (@JackRMcDermott), who was raised and currently goes to college in Boston, reflecting on yesterday and sharing a poem is Uncle wrote.
> First, there is no innate, specific grammar or syntax in the human brain.

While I don't agree with theory, Chomskyian grammar actually does assert this. It has a certain intuitive strength behind it, too.

> To say that "no conscious understanding of the rules is required" is a little like saying "Kobe Bryant is a naturally born basketball genius."

Except that's different. "No conscious understanding" doesn't mean "no learning". Most English speakers easily use irregular pluralization without significant hiccups, but it's really just following I-mutation: http://www.etymonline.com/imutate.php I'll bet 99% of English speakers hadn't even heard the term or the concept.
It seems like you're putting a lot of stuff on silicon that better belongs in a compiler. It isn't clear to me how to make the silicon, say, check for the totality of an arbitrarily-large function in any reasonable manner; silicon prefers rather sharp bounds.

Plus anything you encode on the silicon is basically permanent. (Sure, you can tweak things with microcode, but only so much.)
Or Tentaclecat
No, they didn't... You have to be able to reach the server over a network somehow to be able to store new cards and charge existing ones. The requirement is not that the server have no NIC, just that it not be internet-facing itself. The DB server was only accessed through the compromised web server, not directly through the public internet.
Have you ever watched a child learn language? They're not conscious of grammar at all. It's basically impossible to correct them, the just ignore you and keep on saying the wrong thing. Eventually they figure out the right thing themselves.
Transaction fees are part of the spec for bitcoin. Who says there are no transaction fees?
Lots! Check out http://www.adventuregamers.com/ - They have reviews frequently.

If you're in a hurry, try their top 100 list, at http://www.adventuregamers.com/articles/view/18643
Launch of Microsoft Office 365 Infocenter
Card processors take 3% and have a ready made solution they can sell and sell again with zero modification. I don't see why a custom app for a specific purpose which will have limited use can't say they're taking 2x the card processors, 6% (adding up approximately to the 10% total cut).

edit: fixed a typo that inverted my whole point :)
I think his point is worrying about hardware agnosticism with a device like this is a bit like putting the cart before the horse.
You know who people have been notified today?

Not a good sign. All that praying to the FSM and nothing happens! I am beginning to think he is not real...
* Development costs too much to afford iterating.
* Mobile app that customers didn't ask for.
* Language customers didn't understand.
* MVP not actually being viable.

I'm sure there are more, but my take-away is that this was not a lean startup.

If your development costs are such that you can't iterate on new ideas, you might not have a lean startup.

If you are presenting features that your customers aren't asking for, you might not have a lean startup.

If your customers can't understand what you are showing them and you aren't immediately changing it, you might not have a lean startup.

If you are trying to target big and little customers at the same time (or don't know who your customer is), you might not have a lean startup.

If your minimum viable product isn't viable, you...well, you don't have a minimum viable product. The point of the MVP is to provide enough value that customers see more value in using it than it costs. Anything less than that is just some features thrown together.

In the end, I'm not sure if OP agrees with me or not, but this sounds like a focus problem: trying to do to much instead of focusing in on the pain that gets you in the door.

Another note on MVP: It changes over time. Initially, an MVP may just be some powerpoint slides that show your idea. That may be enough to get you some conversations. Later, when targeting your initial customers, it may be a feature or two that helps them solve their immediate needs. Later still, when you want to start mass-marketing, it needs to be something more.

A key takeaway: Just because Lean is simple doesn't mean it is easy. It takes a lot of discipline to keep from putting the cart ahead of the horse.
I think the problem is that most of these VC-funded startups are seen as loaded to the hilt on one kind of risk (red-ocean grow-fast-or-die gambits) so they avoid all other kinds of innovation, which is why they are such uninspiring places if one looks at the actual work and culture. I know someone who's trying to run open allocation and his investors said "no", because they didn't want the added risk.

VCs are swinging for the fences more than ever, but that means they're loading up on one kind of risk (rapid execution risk) and have no space for any others.

At any rate, I think "world domination" is a pretty pathetic goal. Where are the companies that want to focus on excelling rather than simply "dominating" some market?
Can you explain on why you think the new Github homepage imitates Dropbox's homepage? They both look pretty standard to me.
I think the author hits the nail on the head with the term "minimal desirable product" rather than "minimum viable product".

Many of the commenters here are replying with things like, "Dude, you don't understand the meaning of the term 'viable'." I can say that I've worked with plenty of developers who think of MVP as "the minimum amount of shit I need to build to ship this thing" rather than "this is the minimum that needs to be developed to make something that someone would be happy to use."

With all that said, I think changing the term to "Minimum Desirable Product" would be something that helps get everyone involved with a software product on the same page.
But you can’t fucking eat intrinsic reward! Is that really so hard to get?

Sure, many hobbyists will make lots of good software and that’s awesome. Twitter (and the like) will make software because they don’t have to monetize Glass, they just have to be present. The New York Times (and the like) will make software because they have existing infrastructure with which they can charge people outside of Glass (and people accept that infrastructure and are already used to it).

What, however, about people who develop apps for a living on their own or in their own small company, who don’t want to or think they can become Twitter or The New York Times? What about people who made their hobby their job? What about your mom-and-pop dev?

When I think “great apps” I think primarily of those developers. And they will not be able to survive on Glass.
Perl was Ruby before Ruby was around to be the ugly cool kid.
And no, Al Qaeda is not some James-Bond baddy organization with hundreds of millions in finances, you pulled that out of your ass.

Al Qaeda is a common name used by lots of different little local terrorist groups to make themselves seem menacing.
eg if the Al Shabab boys in Somalia want to make themselves seem badass, they call themselves "Al Qaeda in Somalia"

But facts don't matter to you because you are a complete fraud.

So we'll give you the benefit of the doubt, and pretend that you are talking sense. We'll pretend that you were referring to Osama Bin Laden's organization in 2001. His actual organization, not the one in your fever dreams.

That organization had hardly any people outside of Afghanistan. And didn't use much money. Their entire
budget for the attack was 19 air tickets and some box
cutters.

The facts about the attack are also that it was small.
Large for a terrorist attack, but small in the grand
scale of things. 2 or 3 buildings knocked down, and about
3000 people killed.

We'll throw in the US embassy bombings and the attack on
the USS Cole as well.

And you are saying this grand total justifies extraordinary
rendition, suspension of habeas corpus and the Geneva
conventions, the Patriot act etc etc etc. while the Korean war didn't?

Mao's China and Kim Il Sung's Korea put together, with
their legions of commandos (and now their nukes) were a threat.

Are you trying to say a few thousand suicide bombers
are a bigger threat? Such a bigger threat that we have
to give up civil liberties for them that we did NOT have
to give up when at war with China?

Are you really that stupid?
JSON-LD is now in Last Call at W3C
kind of my point. I guess it's prestige when you have 'I wrote the youtube player' on your resume when youtube was a startup. if you have 'I wrote the nextvidflixr.io player but we closed down after 3months because the founder was a moron' it's cool story bro, now go home and get your fking shinebox, isn't it? there are startups and startups.

//edit: and in my hypothetical example I don't mean the skillset required to write a player, but the position where you worked with successful people that did everything right, rather than the same experience at a wannabe company doomed to fail.
And those things will be done by big established players with deep pockets who see advantage in being on glass.
Er, so what? It's called Hacker News, not Startup Funding News.
Here's a quiz for you:

Put the jumbled adjectives in the correct order:

I have (CANADIAN ATTRACTIVE WRITING FOUR WOOD LONG) tables.

I've tried this quiz with a bunch of people who never studied grammar, and I've found if you are a native English speaker, you'll arrive at the same answer.

If you have doubts about the order of a certain pair of words, just try using those 2 words alone, for example, ask yourself if "ATTRACTIVE WOOD table" is better or worse than "WOOD ATTRACTIVE table", and the answer will be obvious.

I also found it fascinating that there are 720 possible ways to order the adjectives (because 6x5x4x3x2x1 = 720), but just one sounds correct.
Sorry for the confusion. I just made it more clear by changing it to 1.5 to 3 actual months.
More improvements for Chrome at the office
Interesting that they're supporting OpenSUSE, CentOS, Ubuntu. Quick glance, the pricing seems competitive with Amazon EC2.
I think the difference is the command vs the product. Even the git homepage refers to it in uppercase almost everywhere [0]. A similar example would be capitalizing Java everywhere, but using java for commands.

[0] http://git-scm.com/
I'm voting this up. It has so many problems that everybody should know and talk about them.

"...First, the minimum viable product preached by Lean Startup has limited practical use. Customers aren’t interested in funding your “learning.” They want reliable software that delivers value consistently. You must build the minimum desirable product, and if you don’t have a good understanding of what’s desirable before you start, then, don’t...."

What value and growth hypotheses are you testing? Seriously, nobody is expecting your customers to put up with crappy development. What we're saying is that you must clearly explain what you are trying to learn before each rev. Just coding up some minimalist POS and irritating a potential customer with it doesn't take you anywhere down the learning road. Pro tip: irritating people will not give you good results in your quest for learning.

Lean startup stuff says everything you do should be geared towards proving a value or growth hypothesis. You should have a disciplined way of testing, and numbers that mean success or failure -- ahead of time. Yes, you do it in loops. Yes, there's all kinds of other stuff. Yes, you're always focusing on eliminating waste. But I think this guy missed the point completely. The MVP is where two proven hypotheses are deployed in tandem to a target market.

I could go on, but I don't want to be mean. We learn much more from watching people misunderstand things than we do watching successes. Thanks to casca for posting it.
It is far far more likely that they are doing this as a PR/marketing effort: they can get exposure, and new customers who want to spend BTC on something. Not because OKC/Match wante to invest in the BTC system.
Wait did you mean bubble-filtered?

We're not talking about users here; if you're a Twitter developer you are by definition someone who should at least pay passing attention to which way the wind is blowing in tech. If you want to try some ideas out by building against Twitter that's great, but if you are trying to build a business and you don't realize that Twitter is trying very hard to make sure no one makes any money from their platform but them, then you deserve to have your legs cut off when it inevitably happens after months or years of hard work building traction.

With Facebook or Google APIs you can make the argument that's it's worth the risk, but idealogies and diatribes aside, with Twitter you have to go in with your eyes open.
I enjoyed this post, although you didn't mention one of the most interesting things w.r.t. SMS-first apps: super high SMS coverage in the developing world.

I have a vague (but exciting) sense that there are some big companies waiting to be born at the nexus of (1) the developing world's exploding population, (2) cheap server possibilities (e.g. Raspberry Pi's) + API (e.g. Twilio), and (3) 100% SMS coverage.
I wasn't able to find the actual pricing anywhere on the app or this blog post?
Nobody needs to crack the key: merely the keyphrase.
Bruteforcing is relatively cheap.
Yes, but in those 15W of power, Kabini will likely have 128 stream processors, and I suspect more memory bandwidth: http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2278693

The Parallella doesn't seem inherently more appropriate for embedded devices; it just depends on your requirements. Kabini would be embarrassingly power-hungry in plenty of embedded applications, while the Parallella might be laughably slow in plenty of other embedded applications.

Don't forget, by the way, that "embedded" doesn't mean "battery".
Considering how difficult it is to get an optimizing C++ compiler right, I wouldn't place my bets on that deadline.
That makes much more sense!

However I would still add that simple suite of regression tests (in my CRUD app these are almost entirely integration tests), often speed up development by more than the time it takes to write the tests in the first place. So to say a startup doesn't have time for them seems shortsighted.
"Every rule of grammar you know is a fuzzy reference to a referent embedded in someone's brain." sounds better, though ;)
Isn't it actually relatively possible now for him to secure the IP rights from Disney? With LucasArts disbanded, they've made it clear they intend to license the IP to other developers.
Python might not be a bad choice. There's a free book - http://www.greenteapress.com/compmod/ - written by Allen Downey, which uses it to cover various topics pertaining to computational modelling.
I hate to be a citation dodger, but partly due to laziness, and partly due to not wanting to send any traffic their way, I didn't bother digging up what site it was. I'm all for paying for expert opinion when a) it's better than I could do and b) the people providing the expertise get the majority of the money. Charging money for unverified, uncompensated answers? Too lame. I am one of those people who used SO/SE for quite some time and finally signed up for an account when I stumbled upon a question I had an answer for. I don't mind giving back, much as I didn't mind contributing to CDDB until Gracenote ruined it. Whatever other gripes I might have with SO/SE, I think it's so successful because of its model.
The homepage now looks very bland. Perhaps to people who really know typography the GitHub name is very distinct, but to me it doesn't distinguish itself and reminds me of a bootstrap site with a couple hours of tweaking more than a unique and memorable brand / style.
The requirements also include responsible storage and management of cryptographic keys so that individuals are not able to access your credit card database and private key, in which case the only thing standing in between them and your customer credit card information is a password.
-Very similar logotype
-Signup form on the right, with huge signup button
-Tons of whitespace w/ 'floating' elements
-Footer styled very similar
-Same location on the page and method of promoting their paid product -etc
A non-scumbag would resolve the issue for the customers and fix the systemic issue. That this continues to be a problem is a sign of a bad seller. The first time this happens, you need to re-calibrate your scale.

In their defense, at least they offered to refund the extra shipping cost, but relying on not being caught to save a small amount of money is not worth it in the long run.