skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) I think the author completely misses the point of why tumblr is fascinating to us. But i don't think it matters whether we see tumblr as a cool toy (like an iPhone) or just a well-designed re-tread (like Facebook vs Friendster).

Basically, how many people are able to accomplish a valuation of a billion dollars with just a few years' work? And with almost zero revenue to show for it? A vanishingly small group of folks, who may loom large in the consciousness of the tech world but are such incredible statistical outliers that they become newsworthy.

of course, not to mention that karp accomplished this while he was so young. And people are naturally fascinated with "lottery ticket" type rewards - fantasy money earned from a few year's work.

the man-bites-dog aspect is precisely why we're interested - it isn't what you normally see.

2) we expect old guys to make large business deals - that's what old guys do. and to be honest, the motivations behind M&A generally have nothing to do with "what's good for the customer." it is generally empire building, or reducing competition in the market, improving price negotiation leverage versus major customers.

Since business journalists are afraid or too uninformed to call out these true motivations behind corporate M&A, the journalism becomes frighteningly boring. so there's a decent reason that business news is a backwater. and i'm sure the average writer at fortune is fairly annoyed by that. hence this article.
Nice. a video game pixel art take on github profile art. I first saw a proof of concept on Will Leinweber's profile ( https://github.com/will/ ) The downside is the top place in your 'Contributions' feed gets heavily polluted..
Liked it too much. It made me feel like a star -:).
It's as if you actually life in a world where people with kids don't routinely rent.

Here is a powerful clue for you: if you talk to actual people in the real world, you will find schoolteachers, construction workers, real estate agents, Windows desktop support staff, and even meter readers who are successfully raising children. I know it's jarring to hear this, but software developers do not actually have it hard in this regard.

edited for brevity
I appreciate your thorough responses and patient explanations about the weaknesses of bitcoin. I agree with you that bitcoin is not perfect, nor is Linux, but I enjoy using both. By your standard, we may have to wait a very long time to enjoy decentralized digital currencies. Bitcoin could go the way of Linux and over many years see gradual improvement in security and usability. Or it could suffer a debilitating attack and cause a massive loss of confidence. Either way, it's here today and that's better than potential currencies with formal security proofs that are years off.
Thanks for that. Though there appears to be a bug - it says I have 0 photos (in the thing at the top).
Never knew Google Calculator could be used like that. Thanks.
I'd have to ask one of the guys that put it together for specifics in the morning, but the OS is Ubuntu Linux, and the applications auto launching are of course the FoundationDB server which then connects to the rest of the cluster and begins doing work, and also a client with a Firefox browser running the testing / demo app which increments the counter, changes the circles, and uses (I think) HTML 5 to render the images.
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"In his defense"

Looks like you missed the best part.
Ditto. My only two open projects are in Scala yet I'm an "expert JS" because my own soon to be created blog/website has some js libraries in them.
They actually do send an email alert. I didn't find an authoritative blog post on the subject, but here's a post from a reputable SEO site discussing these email alerts:

http://searchengineland.com/google-warning-more-about-bad-li...
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Thanks a lot, highly appreciated :)
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But here at HN we should be better informed about other businesses and technologies than just Cinderella stories. Yahoo Tumblr deal news were on HN front page probably in 5 separate stories.
If the battery fails, you still have power from the engine, APU generators, and if all else fails the ram air turbine, no? According to [1], one battery is used only for ground operations or backup braking power (so the primary braking ought to still be operational if the battery fails) and the other powers the APU starter motor and provides temporary power in the event of a failure of engine generators until the RAT is operational.

[1] - http://www.aviationweek.com/Article.aspx?id=/article-xml/AW_...
I used it in the past when I learned Python - I built small apps that were just for fun.

It's a powerful engine, and has a lot of nice features.

I'm pretty happy with starting there, because I moved on to Xcode afterwards.
Moreover, paying more taxes than is necessary would be disingenuous to shareholders, especially as that 44 billion would almost certainly make a noticeable dent in profits. If I had a CPA that could have saved me 44 billion in taxes, but didn't, I'd fire them, and almost certainly, so would just about anybody else.

I've said it a million times, complaining about tax avoidance is akin to calling me a cheater for putting a '1' in the 'ones' column while playing Yahtzee. If I roll bunk, and it's fairly early in the game, I have the option of either putting a low value in the ones column (smart, as the max value there is 4), wasting the bonus (dumber, as the max value there is ... uhhh, I dunno, let's say 35 or so), or scratching out the Yahtzee (debatable either way). I am certainly not obligated to scratch the fours column if I was hoping to roll a high number of fours, and am perfectly justified in choosing whichever option suits me best, and that kind of good decision-making prowess is kind of the point of the game, if you ignore all the other random dice-rolling bits.

Actual cheating on taxes looks more like turning my dice over to show all sixes, when I obviously rolled something different.

Complaining about someone who played by the rules and made smart choices just seems naive, to me, but in an era where we voted in the guy who promised to tax the rich to pay for the government's bad choices, I suppose it's what we all deserve.
tl;dr it makes your contributions calendar look like this:

https://github.com/gelstudios

great little hack imho
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Interesting. Yes, I'm seeing similarly - $44.95 on a two year basis, renewing next in September.
500px.com seems more geared towards professional photographers, if you're looking for such an option.
Why the new Macbook charger is a serious downgrade
>Lots of people were hired at Yahoo! that probably wouldn’t have been
>appropriate at a startup. I recall a lot of post-interview conversations that
>went something like this – “well, I’m not sure they’re the perfect candidate,
>but they do seem suited for this very specific role, so let’s hire them.” That
>may work fine at a big company, but it’s deadly thinking at a startup.

It's deadly thinking at a big company too. It's just that a big company is, well, bigger, so the effects of the poison take longer to show. But, with time and with enough bad hires like those above, the effects will begin to tell on even the largest of companies. The best companies don't think in terms of, "Is this person well suited for this role?" They think in terms of "Is this person well suited for the company?" At places like Amazon and Google, there is no such thing as "would hire, but not for my team". And the converse, "would hire, but for my team only" doesn't exist either. Why? In both cases, that caveat means that the person is so specialized, they're going to have a hard time adapting months or years down the road when business priorities have changed and the team they were hired for has been reorganized out of existence.
You misread it - they are not using any short keys.
I'm not sure you right on this. The way I'm reading it they generate the keys by sending the same random signals through each set of glass. If they send N signals through the glass and N is >= the message length then it certainly is a one-time pad. The two keys end up being as long as (or likely longer than) the message, so you can't brute force it.
Actually that would have been a more logical way to put it.

edit: IOW I agree with you.
Expert in JS despite my repos being predominantly Python/Clojure/Elisp.

Sigh.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14253116/run-jekyll-serve...
Most businesses fail because they run out of money.
Do you think getting an infusion of millions of dollars makes a business more likely to fail?
i don't think checkout can even be used to exchange money. only pay for stuff... but good point.
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I know :) I'm just giving you a hard time!
What happened to their "only last 80 or 100 or so photos visible for free accounts" feature, is it gone for new free accounts?

People resist change but I really believe the old interface was more photographically inclined! The new interface looks like, how do I say it..., a little too much or just loud, trying to be hip or sth or web n.0. Whatever.

Someone needs to tell me the logic behind Ad-free and Doublr plans' pricing because I just failed to the point! Or it's a typing error, Yahoo might fix in a week or so?

Good to see some change and work at Flickr!.
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IMHO charger on my late 2011 Macbook pro is a better design and i'm not sure why they moved away from it. Without getting into the discussion of the plug face changing, this one does come undone way too easily.
> Go to any online community related to investing

Such as blogs dedicated to investing, like 247wallst.com, analyzing data from comScore? Here's another investment blog discussing which one is "better" (see comments), http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/08/yahoo-finance-vs-google...

Do all the day traders in the Y! Finance message boards qualify as a "online community related to investing"? Do you think they prefer Google Finance? Probably not.

Here's a relevant Quora discussion, "Why did Google Finance never overtake Yahoo! Finance?" http://www.quora.com/Why-did-Google-Finance-never-overtake-Y...

I'm not saying Google Finance doesn't have value, I'm just saying the burden of proof is against you since everything out there points to the opposite of your statement.

I'll close with this NYT article that argues Yahoo dominates Google in Finance products, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/business/23digi.html?_r=0
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Thanks for the post. Would you mind sharing how much you were paying Heroku per month (on average and peak usage)? Thanks again!
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Do you have the numbers to back that up?

Your page mentions uploads to S3 - do you do regional matching with appropriate region buckets? I've seen numbers that are sub 1Mbps when you hit the wrong S3 region yet I can reliably hit 900Kbps - 1.2Mbps, if not faster at times, with Dropbox.

Can you provide some average upload speeds you've seen? (Even from a non-residential connection is fine.)

Also - you state unlimited size, but even multipart upload to S3 claims a 5 TB max object size limit. Did you work around that somehow?
I had actually wondered if there was company that did this yesterday. Bookmarked.
Well if they don't sit on the money for three days (in my experience) I'd gladly pay the fee. Hell I'd pay the fee just so I could use something other than paypal.

40 year old virgin: You don't get the set and I'll throw in the DVD.
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We generally don't have the social care facilities of other first world nations as a matter of choice. A capitalist environment and small federal republic aren't the best equipped to provide them, and our adversarial government system is particularly ill-suited to being efficient at providing such services. Lack of taxes isn't the problem, but Crony Capitalism, powerful lobbying, and government protectionism are almost certainly the more likely culprits.

The health care system is already broken in this nation because Congress broke it through wage regulation in the 40s. That same government has now professed that they want to fix it by adding more of what broke it in the first place. I think that the Affordable Care Act has some good parts to it, and hopefully it will at least work at an economy of scale to mitigate the additional layer of pay abstraction that broke it in the first place, but by no means do I think that it will fix the more recent problems it has created.
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It doesn't take much commitment... set aside a weekend & you'll learn pretty much all the stuff you really need to know. There are some corner cases of course, but they're pretty dang rare.
Great to see something happening in my part of the world!
I assume the date / venue will be posted here once its decided?
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There's Google Wallet and recently I'e purchased LastPass premium using that, outside Google's shops I mean. So, they just thought it's better to have either of the two - Checkout or Wallet.
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Yes, this is true, but additional incremental revenue is still incremental revenue. It would be a small amount of revenue, some technology press wins, and added thought when purchasing domains.
Pro accounts appear to be grandfathered in - you keep the unlimited space, you can continue to renew at $25/yr, but with the 'Free' account, you can upload larger individual files - 200mb photos in 'Free' vs 50mb photos in 'Pro', 1gb videos in 'Free' vs 500mb in 'Pro' - there are more details at http://www.flickr.com/help/limits/
Are you implying that he is predisposed to blow it like a lottery winner given the fact that hasn't worked there for years and was really just the beneficiary of luck and inflated valuations?
I frequently cross the road near a highway. There is a light in the distance that works in busy times and it tends to be a busy highway around the time I usually cross. When the cars stop for the light I just cross in between them, giving me a straight across path. Otherwise there is too much traffic to attempt to cross while it's moving. I just walk along the road until the cars stop.

Also I never cross in a straight line. Most of the time I cross in an s-curve shape, meaning the road itself has a variable index of refraction for me.
I have to agree with you. I only post my "Art" photography on flickr and all the people I follow do the same. Seeing this huge mashup of all the varying styles and works together is really terrible. It's just not a nice way of presenting photography.
That is even better than random HNer's advice/votes.

Thank you for making the list.
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"I don't think any reasonable person could justify cutting social benefits or healthcare coverage, and so my position outlines itself."

Plenty of people have very convincing arguments for doing both. More to the point though, many who argue at cutting those types of services at the federal level aren't necessarily insisting that they should be cut altogether (though obviously there are those that do).

My personal belief is that the federal government is the American federal government is the least efficient possible organization you can give your money to, for any reason. I would feel much more comfortable paying that money directly to charity (of which I donate considerably to, also which don't include loans to my friends, which by the way aren't tax deductible either way), or failing that, would rather pay it into a state funded initiative, where the dollars will be kept closer to home and be more efficiently spent according to the needs of the state. Obviously this works better in small states like Maryland than larger ones like California or Texas, but it still allows them more control to exercise than something handed down from the federal government.
I'd say it's legitimate. If you're the youngest successful American car company and the only one from this millennium I'd say it's not wrong to do. It's similar to how Stanford is thought of as a relatively new school because it was organized in 1891, much more recently than rival schools.
I think this design looks incredibly bland and uninspired. I really like the old design better.
This paragraph also struck me as very interesting. I wonder how the atmosphere and mindset regarding hiring at Yahoo! is today and whether Marissa brought Googles more healthy philosophy into the company.
Thanks for the heads up. It explains what I was seeing the other day.
Wasn't that the problem? I've never owned a Mac so I don't know, but I thought they changed it because the other plug was too secure, and people tended to pull their laptops off of tables when they tripped on the cord. I'd rather have to plug the charger in more often than have a broken laptop any day.
Are authors unable to downvote replies? That reply definitely deserved downvoting more than my comment.
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what's API look like?
> where else on the Internet will you find more professionally-taken pictures?

The main venue which comes to mind is 500px. However, with its leanings toward a more professional level comes a lack of the fun, informal atmosphere of Flickr. I maintain a presence on both, for now, and thoroughly enjoy Flickr - but, I'll have to keep an eye on what happens there hereon. As they say, the headlines giveth, the fine print taketh away. =:/
I wonder if anyone besides Braintree will step in with a copy of Google's APIs and try to win some easy business?
Dear devs, please do not bring your half baked or invite only apps to the HN front page.

No, I am not doubting one of your Internet rights but people's time is wasted and we(at least me) feel not good having to go to a page and face a smiley saying you are not ready for me yet(or I'm not privileged enough to have an invite) and you just wanted to have my attention from miles away!
Actually, they won't pay any fines whatsoever, as they haven't done anything illegal. They paid the amount of taxes they were legally obligated to pay, and not more. The US tax code enabled them to pay less than what it intended to, but that isn't Apple's fault at all.
My impression is there's often a lot of mis-communication. It could easily be that Google was 100% sincere. When they said they wouldn't give preferential treatment to Blogger they might have only been thinking about search results and nothing else. So in their mind they didn't break any agreement.

Conversely the other side might have thought "If Google runs a TV ad for Blogger they have to run TV ads for all other competing blogging systems and give them equal time."

Neither side is wrong, they just failed to convey what they were actually thinking when saying "no preferential treatment".

I've been in a similar situation where I has a partner in a small game dev company. We got a contract from a publisher to implement a game they had mostly designed already. When signing the deal we were told we could have input into the design. What the publisher meant was "We'll consider your comments and tweak a few things if we agree with them." What some of my partners heard was "The design can be 100% thrown away and re-created from scratch by us".

Needless to say there was lots of frustration on both sides.
Then they should provide value.
Why are people acting so stupid over this trial?
Yes. It's called fractional reserve banking. It isn't a secret conspiracy, nor a deception http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional_reserve_banking The alternative is full reserve banking. To the best of my knowledge, there are no full reserve banks.
The "only the last 200" photos visible "feature" is now gone, as is the 300MB/month limit. Yahoo has decided to pursue the gmail strategy - offer a huge amount of free storage as compared to the competition.

The ad-free plan is probably most attractive for professional users (pro photographers, business accounts, etc) as it means no ads for anybody when viewing photos of a paid account.

The doublr plan seems pretty clearly targeted at business accounts where $500/year is trivial. It definitely isn't a typo.
I looked up bitprophet's report card (maintainer of Fabric and other cool stuff). Was surprised by this:

I hate to say it but Jeff is becoming—as one of the top 96%
most vulgar users on GitHub—a tad foul-mouthed (with a
particular affinity for filthy words like 'shitty').
As one of the people said on Quora the daytraders are there for the forums and they stay for that reason. If HN started trying to compete with Netflix and I kept coming here, that wouldn't mean HN's streaming videos were superior to Netflix.
It does get to be an issue if your battery no longer holds a charge.
Do you know anything about how BackerKit works? It seems like it's API connected but I'm positive there's no public Kickstarter API.
Apparently this strategy seems to work also for hardware. Look at Samsung.
What is lexical scoping?
You could build containers using Docker (http://docker.io) and Dockerfiles. Here's an example: https://github.com/steeve/docker-opencv
Well, most tech stocks are at their highest in 13 years or so, so this isn't anything special.
On the other hand, check out what happened to Google's stock starting on the day she became CEO of Yahoo. Maybe greater market forces are also at work here.
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They do seem to be adding lots to Dropbox but I don't get the worship myself. Sugarsync offered me exactly what I wanted that Dropbox didn't and I never looked back.
I thought they changed the plug because the old plug was too thick for the design of the Retina MPBs. If you have an old power adapter can compare it to the thickness of the Retina MBP you can see they'd have had to make the Retina MBP thicker or else have it not taper where the power supply meets the body.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/greggman/8760819957/
Einstein wasn't the guy perspiring in the laboratory doing the hard experiments, like, say, Bohr. I think he was the first to admit this. But he was a superlative connector of dots. Another example of dot-connecting was Watson and Crick, who used the tactic to "steal" the Nobel, after Rosalind Franklin's exacting hard work in the lab had laid the perfect foundation. In the case of Einstein, at least, lightening kept striking again and again. He's a great inspiration to everyone that would rather work smart than hard.
Haha, I totally read it wrong.
I thought the old charger connector was very prone to being twisted and breaking?

I had two of my old chargers that broke. I've also never had an issue with the new charger disconnecting during that last month with my new Macbook Air.
And soon you will go to apple and complain about your battery life... It's going to be pretty clear what caused it...

I do agree it's annoying, my solution is to use large kitchen tray so that the whole computer and it's surrounding is protected from my knees.
There are also easy to buy lap-desks (ikea has something), beanie bag underneath and flat plastic top.
Apple's Tim Cook in hot seat as reports detail Apple's tax avoidance
This is a great idea and I think it will be successful, nice work.

However, I wonder how the ability for anyone to ask for money for anything is going to impact the crowdfunding market over time. It seems as the tools become more accessible crowdfunding fatigue will get stronger.
That's the same thing I thought, until I got my Air (2012 model with the new charger).

Within my first half hour I had accidentally unplugged it 5 or 6 times, just by moving it around in my lap. Pick up the cord and plug it back in each time, it starts to get a little annoying.

I've gotten better with it now, but I will still do what this video shows, where it doesn't completely unplug. You don't always notice until you get a low battery warning when you thought it was plugged in the whole time :(