skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think they will probably go down in court. Having done Amazon business in the past, and knowing what bad mojo it is to try to change the terms adding extra charges after the deal is signed, personally I would have just eaten the $1.44 fee.

Then again, I never made a dime at Amazon, only just lost money and collected positive ratings...

EDIT: I am being downvoted up the thread for taking a position that is not popular. I agree with Med Express that Ebay is culpable for this, as much as this must put me in the wrong legally. Where are the metamoderators?

A 1-star review is the lowest rating that you can give. The seller took the item to the post office and mailed it, postage paid. For some reason it arrived with postage due. Now Med Express will probably be required to keep a reserve on their Ebay account for the next 6 months.

Maybe it gained weight in the mail?

Maybe buyers should post reviews that are fair and balanced. Was the item as described? Received on time? Damaged in transit? Did you communicate your issues to the seller, did they make an attempt to remunerate your concerns?

If the pope hat article is remotely accurate, I would not have given this company a 1-star review. They did everything they could.
I think one of the things he said is telling and gives useful perspective - they wanted to do more with the visuals, but were stuck with what was possible in 1990. We shouldn't elevate retro pixel art to some perfect art form. It's unlikely to be what the original artists intended, rather it was what they had to accept.
The attacker claimed that he compromised their webserver. If he had access to the private key and encrypted numbers, then they were indeed being stored on an internet-facing machine.

07:52 < HTP> the CCrypter class of the linode application
context was accessable from outside the wwwroot using
undocumented ColdFusion methods. i was fully able to
decrypt the ccs using the in-memory privkey that they
supplied the password for.
but the font was nicer in the old one, i think
For a side-project, that is great. But if you are building a company where you have multiple people looking to you to keep supplying the paycheck that pays their mortgage, that just seems irresponsible.

Notwithstanding that, why would you want to build something that could have the rug pulled out from under it at any point? I build stuff because I enjoy building thing. If it wasn't working in the market and fails, it is my fault, and I can live with that. If it is successful in the market and fails through somebody else's actions (that I should have been cognizant of), that just sucks.
I've been doing this exact setup for over a year now. I sync between three computers: office desktop, home desktop, and laptop (all three computers run Ubuntu 12.04). I'm very happy with this setup, although there have been problems.

The major benefit is that I don't have to remember to commit and push my changes before switching from one computer to another. When I'm leaving work, I'm often in a hurry; when I get home, all of my work comes with me. Same thing applies to travelling with my laptop.

The major problem is that Dropbox occasionally fails. Because I have come to rely heavily upon this setup, a failure causes significant pain. In my experience, Dropbox has failed in 2 ways.

1. I make some changes on computer A. Dropbox screws up when syncing the change to computer B. When I switch to computer B, I discover that the repository on computer B is messed up (HEAD has been updated, but not the working tree; or the local repository is messed up so that 'git status' fails; or something else bizarre). In this situation I must switch back to computer A, move the 'good' repository outside of Dropbox, wait for Dropbox sync to complete, move the repository back into Dropbox, wait for sync to complete, then finally switch back to computer B and wait for Dropbox sync to complete. You can imagine how this process would be extra painful when it requires you to commute back and forth between home and office for each step.

2. I make some changes on computer A. Dropbox has silently stopped syncing the repository on computer A. When I switch to computer B, I discover that none of the changes made on computer A have synced. In this situation, restarting Computer A usually causes the Dropbox sync to resume. Troubleshooting this situation follows a similar course to situation 1.

I have communicated with Dropbox support extensively about Situation 2, and I believe that it is related to the '10,000 folder limit' for Dropbox on Linux. See the section "Monitoring more than 10000 folders" on this page:

https://www.dropbox.com/help/145/en

Git uses a very large number of folders (usually around 1500) for each repository. This does not play well with Dropbox on Linux. When Situation 2 occurs, Dropbox gives every indication that it is working correctly; files that are not syncing show the "green checkmark", and the Dropbox tray icon shows "All files up to date". Troubleshooting Situation 2 was a thoroughly enraging experience.

A good precaution is to push your personal working branch to GitHub (or your remote repository of choice) as a backup when using this setup. Treat this remote branch as disposable; if you rebase your working branch, you can just delete the remote branch and push your rebased branch (`git push origin :my-working-branch`, `git push origin my-working-branch`).

So, there have been some serious issues, but altogether I am very happy with my setup. I like the flexibility of not having to commit and push changes when I'm switching from one computer to another, and in general I feel the daily benefits have outweighed the occasional problems.
Dell: We're committed to Windows RT despite "slower" sales than expected
I think you lost sight of what made those games great. Certainly not how they looked. Getting more skilled artists on the job, with a fresh perspective on the world, would be awesome.
Have you considered integrating something like Persona? While I have never like FB sign up, this is the exact situation where I would be tempted to use it. Possible interest, but I don't really wanna go through the sign-up. I keep hoping to find a site in the wild using Persona.

of course... in the time I typed this I could have just signed up. :P
http://i.imgur.com/cKLkPPi.jpg

Pretty subtle logo change really.
Dustforce sales figures
I hope more startups move to Texas... housing cost are way too high in SV.
I'm glad that it wasn't called a "weekend project". I think you can do a little to the right column design-wise to separate out the different components. The quote, attribution, and link to more seem to meld altogether.
What was wrong with Tales of Monkey Island? I thought it was good!
Deciding The Fate Of Your Digital Stuff After You're Gone
In that case, I would wait for Ubuntu glasses.

Google has to make money or kill the project. They are not afraid of killing projects.

However, I would wait for Ubuntu glasses BECAUSE people can also sell good apps there.

You sound like RMS, and that's not rational anymore.
I might have been wrong, but I interpreted "I is just my habit of creating some noise in any data collection effort" not as "I was curious what happens if I'll try to mess up with the poll" but more like "I don't like when people gather and analyze data, so I'll screw this up for Greater Good".
My point wasn't that it didn't exist because it wasn't in stores but more that taking a device like that to mass-market is a much bigger challenge that making it for one person (not that I am saying his work isn't incredible).

When discussing UX and how this will affect the general population, this technology is basically brand new.
Point Eleven is awesome!!

Eleven - The only way I would or could make another Monkey Island is if I owned the IP. I've spent too much of my life creating and making things other people own. Not only would I allow you to make Monkey Island fan games, but I would encourage it. Label them as such, respect the world and the characters and don't claim they are canon. Of course, once the lawyers get ahold of that last sentence it will be seven pages long.

edit: Thanks!
A look at the sales numbers for the first year of our first game
The Boston Marathon and U.S. Drone Attacks: a Tale of Two Terrorisms
Should make the same as non-startup employees. Eg: 150k+ in 2013 dollars.

Developer auction was giving out sub 100k quotes, I just ignored them.
Just add -C to the ssh command to enable compression.
Let's make this more clear:

Linode has two servers. One is a web server that runs their website and contains its source code. One is a database server containing customer information and encrypted credit card numbers. The web server is connected to the internet. The database server is not. They communicate over the private network.

The web server is compromised. The attacker has the source code, which includes the IP/host and login credentials for the database server, since the website code talks to the database to function. The attacker can now access the encrypted credit card numbers in the database by connecting from the web server.

At no point are the encrypted numbers stored on an internet-facing machine, but the attacker now has access to them. There is no evidence that says otherwise. There's no way to build this that doesn't have a path from the internet to the card numbers either, since eventually they need to get onto an internet-connected machine to talk to the payment gateway and actually charge those cards.
I wonder how those in the performance computing sector feel about running a proprietary supervisor with built in DRM on each and every CPU? Raspberry users might not care when for just hobbyist applications, but I doubt any serious scientist is going to overlook that.

http://www.arm.com/products/processors/technologies/trustzon...
Do you have a chatlog or citation?

I'm not arguing, I'd love to read it! :)
The juxtaposition between this and https://github.com/pcwalton/sprocketnes is neat.

E.g. https://github.com/pcwalton/sprocketnes/blob/master/audio.rs compared to https://github.com/scottferg/Fergulator/blob/master/audio.go or https://github.com/pcwalton/sprocketnes/blob/master/disasm.r... compared to https://github.com/scottferg/Fergulator/blob/master/disassem...
FPSMeter, a simple JavaScript library for measuring FPS
The "career booster" argument is something that the bad startups use to sway clueless young talent. It's not true in general, and a good startup will show you the kind of work you'll be doing and let you decide for yourself.

Yes, good startups are good for peoples' careers, but there are only a few of those in existence (that are still startups; I wouldn't count Facebook) at a given time. Oh, and most of the good startups are slow-growth companies you've never heard of, but that are doing genuinely interesting work (machine learning, robotics, etc.) rather than social media. They're very selective and hard to find, but those are much better options than these VC darlings.

Social Media is the Reality TV of startups. It's not common because it's good, but because it's cheap. Here, "cheap" pertains to talent (hard to find, especially for non-technical people) more than anything else.

It's easier to get a title at a startup, and if you can convince the next employer to take that title seriously, you can swing it to a permanent improvement.

I think, though, that unless a startup has distinguished itself as a real engineering shop (and very few have, because very few deserve that accolade) that being a startup engineer is a career negative. Most of these startups have MBA-type management and the Design Paradox implies, so the engineers aren't very good. With a few startups excepted, most startups see engineers as cost centers and give them laughably low equity and if you work at a company like that, you're a chump.
Who is going to post on a dating site that their friend is really fatter than they're claiming? I imagine most people would consider that unthinkably mean.
Scribble: Github Style Wikis with Live Markdown Preview
Well, take it with a grain of salt obviously. There are still plenty of startups & established companies in and around PA, and the presence of Stanford pretty much ensures property prices will never be low.
At this point, why is there even a title field available?
So the issue is less risk-adversity and more focus on a certain "ideal" risk. Interesting.

As to "world domination," it's more a joking term for startups that are creating a new product that intends to replace what the market currently has [0]. Imagine a product designed to replace college as we know it. Incredibly risky? Absolutely. Crazy payoff (in cash and actual change)? Just as absolutely.

I just don't see these kinds of ideas anymore. Maybe we all forgot to remove our schlep blinders, maybe the community has been focusing elsewhere, maybe they exist and have been avoiding premature hype. Probably a mix of all three.

[0] Think Google/Heroku, not more mobile apps/anything social media
They redid the homepage a while back. December 2012: https://github.com/blog/1355-new-homepage
Automatic REST bridge between Angular/Express/Mongoose
I love the idea behind being able to collect the snippets and quotes you come across, but not having an alternative for a Facebook sign in pretty much makes this useless for me.
Good luck getting him to sign it. If you need him more than he needs you, be prepared for him to decline.
Spoiler: The answer is http://decode.org/?q=SbheNggenpgvirYbatPnanqvnaJbbqJevgvat

(Rot 13 encoded. See the blue text -- for some reason my eye doesn't immediately see the decoded text.)
Designing Large-scale 'Nudge' Engines
Yes, yes, yes.

There are so many things they did that are obviously wrong from the Lean Startup perspective. And then he goes and blames the Lean Startup material, rather than their understanding of it.

For example, his notion that product management is supposed to be casual and erratic is not what the Lean Startup approach suggests. The essence of the approach is in proving that customers really need something before you invest in it. It's a disciplined, data-driven approach. But he says they built half-assed features that nobody needed, and somehow blames that on the Lean Startup stuff.

Also, he preaches about controlling expense. The word "Lean" in "Lean Startup" comes from Lean Manufacturing, the heart of which is relentlessly discovering and eliminating waste. How in the world did he get from that to being free-spending and wasteful?

And then this makes me crazy: "By this stage, Lean Startup theory told us we should be scaling up." No. No, no, no, no, no. No! The Lean Startup theory is that you start scaling if and only if you have achieved product-market fit and have a sustainable way to deliver. He described nothing to suggest they were close to product-market fit. Indeed he says they were limping.

Or his sudden too-late realization that software quality is important. The Lean Startup stuff is basically Extreme Programming plus Customer Development plus some Lean philosophy. Extreme Programming is one of the most quality-focused methods. At my Lean Startup, we had high unit test coverage, strong acceptance tests, lots of code review, and very high quality. 18 months ago I gave a talk on how quality practices were vital when using the Lean Startup approach:

http://vimeo.com/24843552

And it's not like I was the first, or even the 10th person to talk about this. Rather than blaming the Lean Startup approach, he should blame his poor understanding, and his cargo-cult adoption of various rituals he apparently couldn't fathom.
What is a full stack developer?
Digital ads hit $36.6 billion in 2012; mobile spend triples to $3.4 billion
Yeah. I think at this "early" (from a mainstream PoV) stage, services like Coinbase and Bitpay are just simply another "VCs+founders betting" on how something might play out in the medium-term future. IF you have a few crashes like that in the short-term BUT Bitcoins "take off" and keep rising in USD in the medium-term, great profit opportunity. Because then, you get your 29.95 while the price has already risen far beyond that, with them pocketing the difference.

If it works out like that, neat play for them. If it doesn't -- "oh well, startups are risky". Fair game for teams that have such stamina. ;)

When it comes to BTC, right now, all bets are off.
for $5 you can leave your own opinionated first amendment protected review: http://www.ebay.com/sch/med_express_sales/m.html?_ipg&_f...
Well that's the employees decision. Rent is high just about everywhere from Oakland to San Jose. When taking into account transportation costs, paying a premium to be in San Francisco is often worth it from a cultural standpoint. I can't really speak to Oakland, but after having worked on the Peninsula I would unequivocally not want to live there.
Yes, I agree, corry! I made reference to some of those points but didn't articulate it as clearly as you have.
Agreed. I think this would be very useful in a business context as well, but business users need an alternative form of login. In the end I ended up to our B2B web app directory anyway though: https://starthq.com/apps/quotered
Printable Investing Checklist (FutureAdvisor(S2010) via LifeHacker)
Power Corrupts, But Power Also Reveals
Chomskyan theory is less dominant than it used to be. Before WWII, linguistics was largely the study of European languages, and as a result, there seemed to be a lot of similarity between languages. Chomsky was on the tail end of this.

In recent years, the amount of research of non-European languages has exploded and we've realized that languages are much more diverse than we thought. For example, it's not just a matter of SVO, OVS, VOS, or any permutation of the previous; some languages don't even use the subject-object pattern(they do something called ergativity).

TLDR: there may be some sort of innate grammar, but it is much, much more murky than we used to think.
> It seems like you're putting a lot of stuff on silicon that better belongs in a compiler.

That's debatable. By making the separation between hardware and software here, it allows future processors to make substantial changes to their internals.

> 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.

Actually, that part is easy. Essentially, you can define a typed functional language without recursion (or recursive definitions). The only looping that you do allow is the use of eliminators over inductive data types.

> Plus anything you encode on the silicon is basically permanent.

The only thing that is really permanent is the interface. Future processors can change their internals, but the old programs should always work on new processors.
The voice version of DotT is indeed awesome. My favourite example of voice acting in adventure game that you don't want to click through. Too many games rely on this "ask 23 inquiring questions picked from a list" in a way that becomes really boring, with swathes of dialogue to get through.

(Even worse, in my opinion, are those that require that you delve into a certain part of the dialogue tree in order to get an item or otherwise open up something in the game, which means you have to go through the entire dialogue tree even some of the questions seem uninteresting and you don't want to go through with it. DotT did have a few of those, if I remember correctly.)

I agree about the retro pixel art. A retro style just to capture the essence of a golden age is, in my opinion, philosophically harmful; it quickly becomes annoying. There are some games that sort of redeem themselves: "Superbrothers: Sword + Sorcery", which uses ultra-low-rez graphics blown up to full size combined with fluid animation, is pretty good, although I wound the glib, self-referential tone of the game to be a bit obnoxious. Then there are Wadjet Eye games (like Gemini Rue and Primordia), which use some kind of SCUMM-like, really retro engine, and graphics that are something like 320x200, again blown up to full size, but without any modern animation wizardry. The games are so good that it works, but you do get the sense that the time of this kind of game is, and should be, over.

While I loved the zany style of DotT, I never liked the exaggerated "French" drawing style of Monkey Island 3 [1]. Monkey Island 4 was just awful, and the new Monkey Island episodes are downright creepy in its empty-eyed-doll animated characters, and the "enhanced" remake again does a kind of Disney-style makeover that doesn't quite fit. (Among other things the animation has gone from wonderfully zany to just plain. Watch how they animate talking people [3], it's hilarious.) (Of course, part of the problem with MI3-4 and later was that they turned Guybrush from a likeable, sort of innocent hero into an annoying, clueless, condescending moron somewhere between Chris O'Donnell and Chris Elliot. I don't know if it was the voice, or the hair, or whatever, probably a combination of them. It didn't work for me. It wasn't Guybrush.)

A more recent game that creates a cozy and charming, yet contemporary and technologically up-to-date style is Machinarium. Crisp high-rez graphics, charming animation, fun story, pretty much perfect in every way. That's the way to go, I think.

[1] http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-O8op_6zSEYQ/UBDrWkuhwiI/AAAAAAAAAG...

[2] http://wiimedia.ign.com/wii/image/article/100/1008507/tales-...

[3] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9eJHotWoDQ
Fair enough, I agree.
The new logotype looks great. The capitalization is a non-issue in the long term, it doesn't matter if people continue calling it lowercase git.

I have qualms about the Octocat mark though. Everyone wants to be Apple and drop their name in favor of a recognizable logo. What people forget is that the logo for Apple is actually an apple. That's what made it so easy for Apple to adopt this strategy early on. The same approach can work for companies that have a massively recognizable brand and an advertising budget dedicated to burning the icon into our retinas (Nike). But it still requires having a memorable mark.

For applications of the logo where scale comes into play, GitHub's designers clearly haven't reviewed their branding 101 coursework. Read Paul Rand's IBM style guide for a refresher on the 8-stripe and 13-stripe versions of his logo. The applications they show on their site at 30x30px and lower are barely readable.
The youtube video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9mxsPGCfu8
This article give a better explanation:
http://www.businessinsider.com/thomas-herndon-michael-ash-an...
>I'd argue that the Series A levels haven't really changed from year to year

It doesn't take away from your point, but I believe there are actually an increasing number of Series A level investments happening.

We call the current situation a crunch because we're measuring the competitiveness of going from seed to Series A.
"Med Express immediately offered to reimburse Nicholls for the postage due amount. Despite this offer, and before giving Med Express a chance to reimburse her, Nicholls on February 26, 2013..."

It looks like Med Express didn't have the opportunity to fix their mistake before Nicholls started posting negative reviews. I don't understand why everyone is hating on Med Express. Imagine a similar hypothetical: If I made a mistake and offered immediately to correct it but instead was blasted via social media before I had the chance to correct things how would I feel? I'd be pretty upset.

This is what the system is for, actors that are personally unknown to each other, not a part of the same small scale geographic community, seeking a resolution to a perceived wrong.

Who on HN thinks Med Express should have been compassionate and understanding of Nicholls response without regard for the fact that repuation is critical to the survial of Med Express on eBay?