skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a lot of this in Silicon Valley. Competition isn't as fierce, and a lot more respect for IP laws, so it isn't quite the wild west but you can walk into Avnet's warehouse and get pretty much any part you need. The biggest issue was Fry's getting into the component business, putting the small guys out of business, and then getting out of it. Still recovering from that but you can see it in places like JameCo getting much better.

As Trevor complained we don't have a lot of small hand factories, which is a bit surprising. Partly its the cost of space, partly its the regulation environment. So if you need a custom fastener you can get it made but if you then want 10,000 you need to switch to someone else and that takes time.

That said, the culture and features grow in environments where a lot of hardware design and implementation is being done. Much of the money in the valley is in software (its slowly shifting back) and so much of these places died off, but you can still find it if you look for it.
> because the companies are still solving pretty darn realistic problems and are doing so uniquely.

That is pretty arguable and not definite.
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Shawnee, Kansas fourth city to get Google Fiber
Great to see that ArchLinux ARM already has support for the BeagleBone Black [1]. I have a Hackberry A 10 that I'm very happy with, but this looks like a great product as well. I'm definitely tempted to go for this rather than the Hackberry next time.

1: http://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv7/beaglebone-black
That's true except when it's not true. Some apps are single window applications, and clicking the red x will in fact quit the app. For example, System Preferences.
I don't want to agree but I do. If you had a job out of college and didn't squander your money (as we are assuming the existence of intelligence) bootstrapping a good idea together is very cheap. If they have been at it and the idea is good and solves critical mass problems and other start-up problems within it why should he/she/they go to a VC?

The current stage: VC's come in, or, like to come in when the startup appears to not even need them. If it is already growing, adding users and all thats needed to make that grow exponential is throwing cash at it they love to come in.
People shouldn't have to prove their innocence.
I think he was talking about what the founders say in the video, not the quality of the video itself.
You mean nobody calls it dday besides Paul Graham, all the time.

There's a convenient little box you can ask for confirmation of that right at the bottom of this very page.
The article is incorrect: Portal 2 is not available, only the original Portal.
HexFiend[1] doesn't do the trick? (I have only occasionally need for a hex editor, but it serves well when the need arises.)

[1] http://ridiculousfish.com/hexfiend/
I was surprised when I didn't see this on HN first. I wonder what would happen if an organization like wikileaks began injecting documents into the blockchain.
For anyone looking at Fiddler since it was mentioned, mitmproxy is a great alternative for Linux and Macs:

http://mitmproxy.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3556688
Correct, i meant tam, not valuation.
Sal still makes lots of videos! Lately he's been making a World War I series:

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/history/euro-hist

We just like to put up good content from other authors too when we find it. :)
No I don't have a power meter. I know the Black works on a USB 2.0 port of my laptop and my desktop too, so it uses less than 500mA. From my experience working with Ti's stuff, they are often pretty good about power consumption though.

My main problem with the Pi is that it is very finicky... plug a USB device in, and it dies/connection drops and all kinds of weird things happen. I have seen none so far on the Black.
Treaties aren't forced on Canada; they're bought from Canada, and Canada sells them. Complain to your own government.

I like how quickly the framing of discussions jumps around in political arguments on HN; we start by talking about a government so authoritarian that individual police officers can arrest, try, and sentence you for up to a year in a labor camp on the spot, and we end up talking about how repressive the US is because we still criminalize marijuana.

China, by the way, publicly executes drug prisoners.
Interesting concept. But I can't get it to work on my system. Any other Linux users having any luck?
Am I the only one who doesn't see the advantages of doing web development on a Mac instead of on Windows? If you're going to be running the site on a Linux server, why not just do development on a Linux server too? You can easily do this with a Windows laptop, by just mounting a Samba share or using SSH.
Understand that it isn't MY problem. I find it easy to avoid wikipedia because I know how to do things like -wikipedia.

But I'm not the vulnerable population. Most people don't know to do that, and just think wiki info is fine when it's not.

The results that give 5+ wikipedias on one search are usually long tailed.

Here's one search I just made up:

logic axioms encyclopedia

First 4 hits are wikipedia, all 4 of them are shit. If you just add -wikipedia the results are infinitely better. Therefore, wikipedia is a low quality content farm shitting up the Internet.

It also doesn't help that google, apple products and other services now directly prioritize wikipedia.

Example:

continental philosophy definition

Google first gives a big bold wikipedia box, presenting wikipedia info as if it is the fucking gospel.

Then the next hit is wikipedia.

Then the rest are a mix of reliable sites that wikipedia stole its content from, and wikipedia subsidiaries (Jimmy Wales affiliated) like Citizendium.

How is this considered ok? It's an intellectual travesty and a giant threat to public education. How many people will click the first link, or the giant google endorsed wikipedia box, and ignore all the reliable experts below it?
Yes, but many are also based on IPS technology instead of TN, which supports a much wider colour gamut.
Don't forget MIT OpenCourseWare. They were first to the party. :) http://ocw.mit.edu
Prolog? I'm Going To Learn Prolog??
Yes, but if you threw a torrent up with every published paper since Galileo, there'd be be plenty of people willing to seed.
You most certainly can.

Here's my 2c for places to go in HK:
> Sham Shui Po
> Mong Kok / Yau Ma Tei
> Wan Chai Computer Center
> 298 / 188 Hennessy Road

If you go to any of the places above, don't be afraid to bargain. If you pay cash you'll be well served by doing a quick survey of a few stores - there's usually a clear price and you should go below it. You won't have to worry about any language issues, too.
That doesn't pay for development. Even if you have a non-technical cofounder who can pitch in for the development when necessary, you're going to hit a point where it's not enough. And it's not so easy to sell people on joining your company for equity when salaries are so high at large companies.
It still takes an exceptionally rugged individual to be able to sift through that much of that sort of thing and not want a different line of work.

Though, perhaps like some people that work to clean up extremely gory crime or accident scenes and aren't bothered by it at all, there may be a few that can maintain some kind of separation.
Wow, gutsy, but awesome, call by B&N! As the owner of a Nook HD and 3 Nook devices in total over the years, I whole heartedly endorse this move. Especially as I have a book in the Google Play store right now, that I haven't been able to read on my Nook, and I was starting to get a bit pissy about that. This is a nice step. I hope it works out well for B&N, as the Nooks are - generally speaking - pretty nice devices.
There's Charles proxy, seems as good as Fiddler although I'm not a power user. http://www.charlesproxy.com/ For dev tools I use PHP Storm, IntelliJ IDEA and Emacs for everything else http://emacsformacosx.com/
I couldn't dismiss the cookie message on Chrome for Android on my Galaxy Nexus.
I think NASA's bandwidth is better than what he'd get on some random ISP in China.
"I am the lone Windows user in my office. I could use a post on how to go from Mac Development to Windows. Only half kidding."

Here are some tips I wrote up on "How to Turn Your Windows Machine into Unix": http://www.patfitzsimmons.com/2011/05/how-to-turn-your-windo...
As I said, it's a power imbalance, with "force" being in the economic-coercive sense, not the threat-of-physical-violence sense: "do this, or we won't let you sell anything to us, so no entrepreneur or investor who cares about 'size of market' will want anything to do with you, so you'll run out of GDP-growth and your economy will stagnate." See: Cuba. Alternatively, "we'll take away the sweet deal [usually a tariff on a more productive country] that you've built your entire economy upon." See: Cambodia.

Don't see China in either case, though--they're in a very special position; they have enough population to sell to on their own, but they're also heavily invested in American credit markets. America has economic-coercive power over them in the same way a bad debtor has economic-coercive power over their credit card company: if you default, they get screwed, so they want to make sure they don't do anything that screws up your ability to pay them back, even if it would be good for their profit otherwise.

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Also, as a note on framing: by thinking of the conversation as "jumping around," you're committing the Fallacy Of Linear Discourse In A Threaded Comment System (which I obviously just made up the name for, though I've heard it described before.)

Posts organized into a tree-structure are by default tangents from, not replies to, their parent. Only one subthread of each thread needs to actually "continue the conversation" -- the rest can have whatever other purpose their authors wish. Soapboxing for their personal issues, pedantry and pointing out typos, wordplay on the parent's speech, &c.

It's a self-perpetuating fallacy, since people who think threaded conversations are linear actually cause this jumping-around in the first place, by trying to force "the" conversation "back to the topic at hand."

This confuses enough people that I'm trying to work out a threaded-commenting UI where replies move down--like a message board--and only tangents move to the right (and default to closed.)

Notice that this post is actually two posts: one is a reply, and then the other, after the line, is a tangent. Don't they seem like they should be treated separately by the UI? :)
Interesting, thanks for bringing some balance to the story. Incidentally, I've been good friends with a group of Sherpas in Boulder, Colorado for years. I can't even fathom people such as them behaving badly. I'm inclined to take Mr. Moro's story with a grain of salt because of this.
Also nobody really has even a 1% chance at becoming a 100B company. There have been very few of those in human history, the odds are << 1% even for a top YC company.
Because you can't know the net positive in advance; is way too dependent of the context and that includes the size of the company.

It also discourages the searching of flaws in the system because even if you get away with it once (net-positive) you know the next time the fine will make unviable.

BTW this is similar to how already the civil justice system works in many countries, where after repeated minor offenses you go to jail.
Or websites, apparently.
The real problem here is that PCI certification is an absolute joke.

There should be several classes of certification, from "I want to sell a few pet rocks" to "I'm Apple with 150,000,000 credit cards on file". Right now there's basically two.
Any particular reason for Kaleidoscope over filemerge?
Dear Will,

Are you gay? Inquiring minds want to know.
it is mostly higher volume purchases. Almost all the stalls are setup by the factories around town. So the manufacturers go to huaqiangbei to take a look at their samples and find out their prices. If you go in there just trying to buy a handful of ICs they dont really want to do business with you. You have to tell them you are looking to get samples or making a prototype and will be back for a much larger order and then they will be much more likely to help you out.

They also dont talk about in the article but most of the malls there are separated by floors. On some floors it is all consumers electronics like tablets and pcs then on other floors it is all parts and components. So you can really see the whole manufacturing chain represented in these malls. The components are sold on one floor and the finished goods they are put into are sold in another floor
There are people out there in law enforcement who's job it is to collect child pornography, categorizing and filing it in the hope of identifying the victim and the perpetrator.

When there is a breakthrough and the child gets saved, these people are the heroes that make it happen. However I imagine that for every perp caught there are a dozen more that escape justice... personally I can't imagine doing such a job - it'd tear me up inside to know these people are out there. But someone's got to do it.
Movie by moving atoms
As a high school student, Ap Liu Street/Golden Computer Center was my favourite hangout :)
Gives new meaning to the term "honey pot" :-p
1983 in 2013: PONK for C64 postmortem, from McPixel creator SOS
Now I really feel clueless for not knowing better to check the Arch Wiki. Thanks.
I don't think that Valve is at danger at all. The types of games on Steam are COMPLETELY different from what is on app stores, and so are the prices and consumer behavior. People will pay large sums of money on Steam, in a way they won't in a mobile app store. And you can trust that you're getting a quality game.
The task of a good manager is to run an employee up to the point of the Mental limits and make sure all those other limits are at 5% so they can maximize the employee output.

WTF? Not unless your definition of "good manager" includes "motivates employees to on a killing rampage and then commit suicide" or "has numerous employees keel over dead on the job from heart-attacks at an unusually early age".
Can someone please explain to me the advantages of using MacVim over Vim through terminal?
@brandon_wirtz: I totally agree with you.. there goods and bads to both environments. I genuinely enjoyed my time on windows and always found a way, tool or trick to get the job done. Thanks!
The reason why I use it in conjunction with GA is that it provides some cool unique features, like this one http://metrica.yandex.com/promo/
Charles isn't free though. Though Telerik will probably screw up Fiddler somehow. For web app HTTP or REST stuff, most browsers do this today too (natively or with plugins, so I need Fiddler/Charles less and less.
Definitely good. Have one myself. Just one issue seems to occur quite often, and that's that the space bar can either or both loud and sticky. And if your on the short keyboard welcome back to the number pad.
that means someone has to download it, though.
#sweet!!!! Wish you had shared this 8 years ago tho. lol Thanks
http://xkcd.com/1205/

Obligatory XKCD on this topic.
HR's job is to step in and right things when managers fail, and at Google, they refuse to do that.

No, that's a labor union's job. HR's job is to protect the company by mitigating risk from L&I related lawsuits. Period.

Programming can be considered a trade, and I think 99% of the shit you complain about could be solved by programmers unionizing. But of course, that would bring its own new set of problems.
True. Not all the points I am suggesting above would be correct. However, how would you (let's say you're running YC) separate a genuine technology startup with great communication skills from a fake one with great communication skills?
Agreed. If this is a "I have a signed contract that will give me $Xk next month, if I can just make it to then" situation, sure, go for it. Otherwise, it's (almost definitely) just pissing away someone's money. There's always another way: get a job or freelance for a while and work on the startup on the side, take on funding, whatever.
Brilliant, I love it. Thanks for the corrections.
Thanks didnt know xcode had a visual diff tool build it! I'll give that a shot!
ROFL I did my MS in computer science from Old Dominion University.. proud of you :D :D
I disprove.

If you wanted a Unix environment you could have installed Linux.
For outstanding research on the meaning of progress in your work, take a look at "the progress principle" by Amabile and Kramer:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/142219857X/

Gist: yes, progress is essential to feel good about your work.
There's already a 7z binary of wikileaks crap in there. About 3MB of the stuff.
Paranoid Americans...
Bangladesh vs. the U.S.: How much does it cost to make a denim shirt?
Google Expands List of “Generic” Top Level Domains (including .io)
Well then all of the worries about this child-porn being in the blockchain are warrantless.

You could create a link to child-porn from this very comment I just posted using the right cipher. I am sure of it.
It is far faster at scrolling with non-ASCII characters, helpful when scanning logs of such characters.

It has a better find interface.

It is almost exactly like Terminal.app in most respects, which I appreciate.
If you're doing a web/mobile startup what do you need VC financing for?

Might as well go see a VC about opening a Pizza shop, it makes about as much sense.

The people who are losing to VCs have no leverage, if you have no leverage you will always lose the negotiation.
Why can't they just use a second email address?
archlinux arm is so baller
I've heard this about the apparel manufacturing market as well. Parts for sewing machines, complex machinery, etc. etc. are all right there in town. It just doesn't exist in the US. They don't produce in China because it's cheaper, they produce there because it's the only place you can.
Yes. You could also establish and publish a simple protocol for this, so that someone could run a program and extract all the hidden messages the way we can currently by looking for plain-text. Granted this would provide a means of detecting the messages (and therefore filtering them). This could be counteracted by first posting the data, then posting in the block-chain the fact that you posted the data (along with relevant meta-data). If you do this in a probabilistic way (IE, a single transaction has a 5% chance of being an advertisment of your data), then any would be filter would need to make a trade-off between false-positives, and ease at which a reader could operate.

Also, even when posted in plaintext, I wouldn't say that the messages are readable by people who are not looking for them. (How often do you look at the block chain?)
I believe some one already tried something similar, it unfortunately didn't end well[0]. If some one does throw up such a torrent though I'd be glad to help seed.

[0]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz
Might as well go see a VC about opening a Pizza shop, it makes about as much sense.

Rich Miner, head of Google Ventures, financed Cambridge One.

http://www.cambridge1.us/about.html
They are in danger should Microsoft ever gain a significant foothold with the Windows Store. Microsoft can turn off "side-loading" of software in Windows and lock everyone into their walled garden. If Valve hasn't successfully migrated away from Windows by that point they will be completely screwed.
> Both runners insist on running every single spec in the queue before obliging and running the spec you want them to run.

Autotest has a fast start option that stops it from running the entire test suite on load. --fast-start of -f for short
if you haven't found an answer to this by monday, send me an email (notatoad-gmail) and i'll let you know. doing a power consumption test between beaglebone and beaglebone black is on my to-do list.
What if A) your comment was preserved as a part of the block-chain that could not be removed without doing serious damage to bitcoin. And B) the cipher you are using is a publicly known cipher recognized as the standard way of encoding data into the block-chain.
Can't thank you enough for this.

Can't blame Apple enough for making this a hidden default one has to use the terminal to enable. WHY ?
This was on hn a few days ago: https://squaresend.com/blog/sending-emails-with-javascript
> The problem I have is: where are all the GPL'ed games?

All the id engines have gone GPL. Ogre3d is a popular engine base.

A lot of game studios use some derivative of Unreal 3, which Epic will never GPL because they make money selling rights to it.

Most other engines, even beyond that, will have some proprietary inclusions that they don't hold licenses over, such as with the JK launch.

The lack of community FOSS game engine projects from the ground up is strange to me. It seems it would make a lot of sense for major industry players to band together and develop a really rock solid engine in the FOSS world to minimize the costs of engine development, even if in the short term they lose the benefit of being able to license their engine or profit off specialized graphics or gameplay tech they put in it.
I had asked a similar question about 8 months ago. [1]

joshkaufman's comment made good points:

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In my experience, pretty much every business closes for one of three primary reasons:

1. The business runs out of money and/or available financing.

2. The owners decide the business isn't returning enough to justify further investment of money or effort.

3. There's some irreconcilable difference of opinion between owners, leading to an impasse on a critical decision and dissolution of the business.

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[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4496102
Do you know when Strikingly launched?
How do people expect prgmr.com compares with linode in terms of security?
I tried to. I did not find anything. And even if I did, you are easily the biggest tool I've seen on HN yet.
Yea, we just had the only viable industrial sector after a depression and two world wars...
Chrome Browser Now Directly Opens Microsoft Office Documents
Our Solar System: Rare Species in Cosmic Zoo
Wow. Google has certainly been busy pulling in lots of previously non-Google Android tablets. Last year they got Kobo. Earlier this year they pulled in a bunch of no-name manufacturers (at least for this year's JB 4.1 tablets).

Now they've reeled in B&N. Outside of Amazon, China and maybe India (all big, idiosyncratic exceptions to be sure), who's left? The biggest name I can think of is Nabi (maker for educational tablets) and I don't know how long that will last.
Weather & Clock app visual exploration
Nice stack.. i'll check these out too!
I run Arch on a GTX 285 and never had graphics driver issues. All I ever had to do was tweak on coolbits in the xorg.conf to enable fan control and overclocking (which you have to do manually on Windows as well). The lack of any support of Nouveau makes me not want to buy an Nvidia product in the future, but Catalyst really is the elephant in the room - if only AMD would ditch it, make radeon work really well and embrace the kernel people to make it as good as the Intel driver, they would be in a really good spot.

But the drivers are there. If you are running any modern distro worth its salt, your graphics will work out of the box with the FOSS driver, and switching to the proprietary one is little more than a package get. Which is even easier than on Windows where you have to manually get the graphics driver if Windows doesn't recognize the card (sometimes it does).
There's a VC funded Indian burrito joint in Palo Alto. I've eaten lunch there three times, once with a potential investor.

Food's terrible to boot.
Thanks for pointing these out m8. Cheers.