skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm going to be a bit contrarian here it seems and say "good for you!"

There are a number of quasi-social-business get organizations which exist for the exact same reasons you outlined in your post. That old chestnut the Chamber of Commerce has been a social get together for small business owners forever where they could get together and share issues and influence the politicians to make a more business friendly environment.

What you have started, could potentially evolve into the technology equivalent of such organizations. Getting together with other entrepreneurs to talk about shared issues and ideas, challenges and various technologies, etc. All while working at your own independent businesses but largely in a similar 'space' (the Internet). There is tremendous efficiency to be gained there, an leverage in making changes.
Wait a minute: does the lack of quotes after "source:" mean you are speaking from personal experience? (Genuine question. At first, I though you were citing the title of some book.)
Best HN post since I've joined. I was in a very similar situation not so long ago. I know a few others as well.

Last month, I watched a lot of snooker as there was a World Championship in Sheffield. Ronnie O'Sullivan [who later won the cup] said something on that same matter. You have a fairly successful life. You have someone who is very close to you. You are good at something. Yet you lack one very important ingredient to achieve total happiness. I don't know what is the word for that ingredient.

Basically, you need to wake up in the morning, (briefly) commute and work from there. Working from home is a great thing but not for everyone. You need an office. You need something away from your flat to work at. You need that commute even if it's just staring at the nature and greeting the doorman or mailman. That's how it works for us (people who have this same problem).

I applaud microha.us. It's a great idea and it crossed my mind to do something similar in the UK.
Your point of differentiation seems to be rating the scene of various venues. I would focus the landing page, app, and pitch on this, because at first pass, it looks like yet another startup that is trying to rate restaurants, stores, and parks. Having a screenshot with "New York City" and "Times Square" is not helpful (btw, note that it's Times Square and not Time Square). I would focus the locations down to just bars and clubs to start and take out anything else. No need rate Starbucks, either -- I already know what kind of place it is, globally.

You would have to talk to more people to get the right questions, but I don't think "how are the boys/girls?" is the right type of question. Is it hip, dive, relaxed, crowded, noisy, lively, chill, etc. I think the best way to think about this is to figure out how people would answer the question, "what kind of place is it?" I also think the response needs to be more than just a single 5-point rating.
Annoying things I found while implementing solaris (open indiana). All my opinion and may not reflect other peoples experiences.

1. Init > SMF - XML manifests instead of text configs? Very unnecessary. svcadmin took some getting used to, consulted the documentation frequently.

2. Packages - Many packages are available, however we ended up compiling most of our software. That inconvenience was one of the main reasons we left FreeBSD.

3. Chef - At the time there was very little we could do to automate these boxes in our infrastructure.

4. SSH keys in LDAP - I don't recall if we ever got this working. (LDAP tree in Zimbra)

5. ZFS Root - Required us to manually install the OS rather than having it provisioned

6. Learning curve - Though not a strong point if you're dropping a new OS you don't know that well in to a production environment things are bound to break.

Those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head. But like I said earlier the performance increase was quite noticeable and worth it to the business.
Seems more likely he is just a regular Google employee who supports what they are doing, albeit a bit aggressively. There are many of them on HN. Not sure why either of you are assuming malice here.
Interesting point. By the way, have you found your match yet?
Facebook Hashtags: When Monetization Clashes With Branding
While I loathe Ayn Rand I have to give her some credit for capturing accurate human behavior in Atlas Shrugged: the D-Wave skeptics seem to behave exactly like Rearden's detractors.

But in the face of it all, D-Wave keeps plugging along, landing larger contracts, and hitting more impressive benchmarks. They may fizzle out in a flame of failure in the end, but as it stands, they seem like they're doing a great job.
What's Going on With Sox?
I'm strongly cross-dominant [1], I write left-handed and mouse right-handed (I also swing right-handed in baseball and golf, but box southpaw so go fig). As a result, I have no comfortable hand to wear a watch. In high school I got by with cheap pocket watches for awhile. But let's be honest, pocket watches are not a great fashion statement.

The mas market adoption of cell-phones was great for me, since they're essentially pocket watches with a phone (and now a computer) attached.

I've seen various smart watches over the years, but I inevitably fall back to "but I'd have to wear a watch".

1 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-dominance
Ugh, and someone else states that XMPP will be disabled for users who chose to upgrade to hangouts.

Why this utter confusion over a simple thing after a whole three hour keynote yesterday and today no one seems to have a clue? Communication fail, if you ask me.

Color me skeptical, but there was similar confusion when SMS search stopped working suddenly,and then people realized Google killed it. XMPP support may stay, but I am not going to bet more than 2 bucks on it.
The MAX7219 LED display controller – real or fake?
I'm curious as to what the cost threshold is (in your opinion). This is good data to understand. May you share more?
Thanks for the feedback, but I meant what I wrote. I'm a big fan of the HackerNode app, but I find it extremely hard to traverse the comment threads when reading with it. I've been contemplating for a while on better ways, but haven't come up with anything yet.

I also found that personally, I just want the stories. A lot of the time that I'm on Proggit or HN, I'm not even logged in. So I made an app that did what I want.

Same with voting. I made a reader, not a client.

However, forks and contributions are always welcome, so if you have ideas and are jonesing to contribute, feel free!
>What change in the way servers are provisioned? Many companies still use Windows Server 2003 and even .NET 4.5 is supported on it. That sounds like FUD.

I explained this in my initial post in this thread. Virtual machines are having a major effect on the provisioning of servers, requiring more OS licenses than prior. The person I replied to conceded this point.

>They can also be happy with the ease of use of Active Directory and Group Policy instead of relying on half baked convulted perl scripts cooked up by a long gone sysadmin.

LDAP

>Please, you're just embarassing yourself with your ignorant assumptions.

You weren't capable of processing my first post, and are now harassing me for discussing Microsoft in a MS thread, so who should be the embarrassed one here?
So... you're saying it should have been conceived of as a particular file type and attached, like all other non-message-related elements?

Would Google encode a vcf file in JSON and embed it in the message? How is handling VCF different than handling other optionally-actionable data?
To answer my own question, no SublimeLinter is not fixed. It parses as Python 3 and there doesn't seem to be a way to change it.
Insert Tobias Funke Anywhere. Thank you Arrested Development
“3-4 hours for a portable tablet device is just pathetic.”

True, but I wouldn’t call the Surface Pro ‘tablet portable’. It’s fairer to compare it with a notebook. With TypeCover, the Surface Pro is 2 centimeters thick, while a MacBook Air 11" has an average thickness of 1 centimeter. The Surface Pro is also a little heavier than a MacBook Air. Curiously, both devices have the same CPU, GPU, SSD, and RAM – but a MacBook Air 11" is $30 cheaper and has 5,5 hours of real world battery life.

If we were to compare Surface Pro with a 10" iPad, it would look even worse. The Surface Pro is twice as thick, 3 times as heavy, has one-third of the battery life, has a screen with a lower resolution, and it’s $300 more expensive.
LulzSec four sentenced beween one to three years
What sort of paperwork do participants have to sign in order to join this "incubator"?
Using Commit Messages for Documentation
Sure, that's a plausible vulnerability concept for Go. Someone just has to find a way to do that. :)
Well, here's how I think about it.

If you have an open allocation system where people are free to work directly for the company, then people spend some time on the research work that interests them, and some on the maintenance and upkeep of critical systems. Why do they volunteer for less attractive projects? Because they actually care, because the company is (imagine this) worth caring about. Once the maintenance work is done by volunteers rather than extortion victims, it starts getting a lot of respect and people to do it to be "heroes". So yes, it still gets done.

On the other hand, if you work in a careerist closed-allocation hellhole where your boss has unilateral authority to whip it out and flow a shot on your performance reviews/"calibration score" (i.e. managerial extortion) then, obviously people are going to look out only for themselves and the maintenance won't get done unless someone's forced to do it (in which case, it's done very badly). People will not freely participate in a closed allocation company's upkeep because the work culture of a closed-allocation firm is not worth caring about or protecting.

They're both equilibrium states. In one (open allocation) people see themselves as citizens and do the full mix of the work: the important and fun stuff, but also the less-fun but critical "hero" work. In the other (closed allocation/extortion economy) people realize that the company has no consideration for them and that no one's looking out for their careers, so they take anything that's not nailed down and the critical upkeep work doesn't get done.
We've been using the FDW functionality quite heavily and it works great. Joins and "transactions" between Postgres & MongoDB have been an amazing feature. I can't wait for 9.3 for write functionality, although I'm not looking forward to another database upgrade.
Quite. We also shouldn't forget the Greek city and Roman republics. They are pretty universally and manifestly the earliest.
I've had this happen often enough that when refactoring something tricky I like to copy the function and rework it. Then I'll change references from the old method to the new one one at a time and test. One of my favorite methods returned a Map<Long, Map<Long, Map<Long, Map<Long, Long>>>> with no comment explaining what any of those Long values were...
I'm surprised more companies don't do this, because it seems to me that the impact is clear: Like ambulance chasing, patent trolling relies on the simple principle that it's much, much cheaper to settle than to go to court -- for both sides. It's huge that they won, but they didn't need to. By sending the message that they will always go to court, my guess is they'll stop being sued.

On the other hand, the trolls know this, and may react by targeting companies that do this to demonstrate that it's not an effective strategy.
I don't know what he's doing to get that kind of battery life. I've had my SP for a few months now, and it consistently gets 5-6 hours of actual usage, even heavy things like streaming HBO. It's not 12+, but there's a Core i5 behind the glass, and my Core i5 laptop doesn't get half that running time.
Is there any way to get around the fact that adding a new machine involves adding N*2 remotes? (That is, one remote on each of the current machines to represent the new one; and then on the new machine, one remote for each existing machine). This seems like it would be the sticking point with Git annex.
The revival of Multicast
A law not universally and consistently enforced is not a law.

As for the financial penalties, the directly culpable individuals do not pay them. Nor, in the long run for such "too big to fail" institutions, do the shareholders.

The customers pay them. Especially when you have companies in an oligarchical, if not monopolistic, position. Penalties become a cost of business that gets passed on.

In several of these penalties of very large institutions, people have "crunched the numbers" and found that, at most, the penalty represents a quarter or two's profit.

Measure that against the years of outsized profit gained during and often in good part due to the abuse being penalized, and "cost of doing business" is all the further put in context.

As an individual, when you go to jail, it doesn't as much matter what your assets are. While you're in jail, you don't get to enjoy them. (This is not entirely true, and we also have now the example of Skilling (Enron) essentially spending his way out of prison. But, he still suffered some direct, personal hardship.)

As a corporation, such costs are spread over a large institution and number of people, and individuals may face little or no hardship. Even those senior executives who "resign", "take the fall", or are booted out often continue to receive millions in compensation, on top of what they've already squirreled away.

(Lower level members can and are screwed over -- "sacrifices" to the good of the institution that has chosen to excise them.)

I think respect for such senior executives among the larger population these days is really largely a matter of envy. An envy often driven in turn by one's fear for one's own increasingly precarious financial and physical circumstances. Respect for such people as "leaders" continues to decline.

Look at the bottom basement approval ratings for members of Congress. People have figured out that those people do not play by the same rules -- do not exist in the same legal and financial world, as the normal population does.

We in the U.S. expostulate that we are a "nation founded on laws". When the application of those laws becomes selective and overtly subject to finance -- justice, or its absence, "for sale" -- you weaken that very foundation.

(As a complementary point, arguments can be made that efforts to define and apply the law more universally have strengthened the country. For example, the suffrage and civil rights movements.)

P.S. I'll add that Warren, and Sheila Baer, and a few others are actually responsible for forcing through some of the few real and at least somewhat effective consumer (i.e. "normal person") protections in the mess of activity that constitute's the U.S.'s "financial bailout" efforts.

Finally, as to the politics, that whole "Native American" thing is a red herring -- emblematic of much bigger liars (as compared to their claims rather than facts) who make strident declamations to divert attention from their own atrocious behavior.
As a scala user/fan I spend a lot of time thinking about this; I think the scala community is at a crossroads in terms of syntactic convention.

Personally I feel symbols make a language less readable, and I'd hold up python as the best example. It's more readable than either perl or lisp; the larger-scale structure of a program is immediately apparent (partly thanks to "the whitespace thing") as with perl, but then in the small the use of words rather than symbols ("or", "in") makes it readable without learning, like lisp. One has to rely on syntax highlighting to show the differences between values and operators - but even in a language that uses symbols for operators, one needs to be able to distinguish between values and functions (and in scala in particular, a visual distinction between functions and operators would be actively unhelpful).

I know usability studies have found buttons with text are easier to understand than those with icons; I wonder if the comparison extends to symbols.
The problem there is that the changes we're hearing about for 8.1 (bringing back the Start button, letting you boot straight to the desktop, etc.) are all changes that will move 8's center of gravity closer to the traditional Windows experience and farther from the new Metro experience. And from the article it sounds like the new Metro experience is the only one that really feels right on Surface.

Making it easier for people to skip Metro will only result in fewer developers writing Metro apps, not more, so it's hard to see 8.1 as a positive for Surface users. They need the Windows world to be more Metro, not less.
What do you do if they have your cell phone number or other ways of getting a hold of you outside of work? How do you say "no" tactfully when there is big, important, release looming?
It blows my mind that all that complexity is baked into your smartphone
AndroVM moving to a commercial product
That! For years I've believed we conflate 'race' with culture.
Especially considering that the RT fits that particular use case pretty well all on its own, and does have excellent battery life as well.

My only gripe about the RT is that even though I like the UI better, it's every bit as useful (and useless) as an iPad.
Smarter than ever?
Michael, there's an order and law to be respected

Is there? The people in charge of this society have made themselves above all laws and order.

If murder were truly illegal for everyone, explain health insurance. Why do rich people get to hide behind their companies when they let people die for profit? Highly inconsistent, that is.

I think indeed you'll only find success in the fights of injustices if you walk in an avenue already established

Well, I have mixed feelings about that. Nonviolent overthrow of an oppressor is always better than the violent kind, but violence is better than doing nothing and letting an evil elite reign.

If there's a nonviolent way to get rid of the current global elite, I'd love to hear it. Technology is supposed to deliver on that; we don't "overthrow" them, we just outperform them. In practice, though, they seem to have redefined the rules to suit them (see: VC-istan) and keep us "in our place".
There're two possibilities, either it goes to Google or the video producer. I would hope - the latter.
Speed of the FPGA? FPGAs are given speed grades, but the actual design dictates the max speed. Different logic sections, depending on pipelining, size, which pins they are connected to can run at different speeds. You might have an overall max speed/critical path of say 50mhz, but you might be able to safely run a small section of the design at 200mhz.
This, exactly. You should always be looking to improve code. If you have a truly comprehensive test suite, there is no danger in always improving code. It's easier to make refactoring continuous than it is to figure out a checklist of when to do it. The answer is "always".
The Grommet Leads Wave of “Anti-Amazon” E-Commerce 
Rakuten is sometimes referred to as the “Amazon of Japan.” But it sells itself culturally as the opposite of Amazon. “Rakuten doesn’t undermine its partners,” Pieri says. “A lot of our vendors have a problem with Amazon.”
Something similar - a hand drawn picture of a woman in a fantasy equivalent of a bikini (lots of skin, no nipples, no groin) - has actually gotten me fired from a very large internet company, so...

It's basically considered a fireable offense under the sexual harassment policy.
Nonsense. There are DNA tests that can track race like a fingerprint.

This foggy PC attitude about race is not doing anybody any service. Stop apologizing for race; recognize it, celebrate it, then Move On! People are individuals, treat them that way and live a happy life.
Same here. I just put a Surface Pro in one of my Customers' user's hands last week. I tried it out for a couple days as my primary machine and got 5 hours out if the battery the two times I elected to run w/o AC power.
I really, really want to add support for plugins/extensions to support custom data visualizers, but it still needs a bit of work on the web client side, mainly some code cleanup and some new ui functionality, and possibly a bit of work on the server side for easier message receiving. I'll definitely add the plugin functionality for the next version. You can send me a pm/email to discuss it further, so that I'll have a better idea on what kind of functionality you need for your custom visualizers.
Pebble releases 2-way communication update for SDK
The MBA 11" is 0.68" thick. The Surface Pro is 0.53" thick. The Type Cover adds .23"; the Touch Cover only .08".

It gets the same run time per charge.

It weighs less, not more; less than 2 pounds versus 2.38.

The difference is that you can snap off the optional keyboard in a split second if you really care about thickness -- well, that and the fact that it's a tablet with a touch digitizer behind the glass too.
Brent the author here. I'm doing basic productivity work while listening to music, doing email, and leaving Twitter & Hipchat open. Engadget and The Verge both noted sub-4-hour battery life in their reviews too. I'm glad you're getting more life though.
I've migrated all my project submodules to subtree after a number of frustrations, culminating in finding out that Heroku doesn't support submodules. But it's still a huge pain to actually push changes upstream.

Not counting the issues of submodule support by services that interact directly with Git repos, I think the big question is how often do you need to hit the upstream repo for pulls/pushes. If the answer is "not super often", subtree is probably lower maintenance. I think submodules are a little bit more natural in cases when you are making a lot of changes to the subrepo, particularly when it's more standalone. But even then, subtree is probably worth the extra bit of effort.

Actually, in cases when the coupling is very loose, I forgo both options and just check out the subrepo directly into the superrepo, and rely on .gitignore in the superrepo to keep them seperated.

At the end of the day, I think there really needs to be another strategy, and it would be great if there were a way it could be implemented in to the Git core. The concept of a modular project just doesn't seem to completely jive with the Git architecture. Anyone have any ideas how this could work?
Yes, me. And the hand drawn character was not nude. Fell under the "sexual harassment" clause, because the co-worker who saw it was female and offended.
My boss uses a Surface Pro like a laptop and is happy with it.

Add a good quality wireless mouse and a USB 3 hub, leave the keyboard at the desk and you've got a docking station as good in practice as anything on the market.
Laser images hint at archaeological discoveries
NZ Supreme Court to hear appeal on whether Dotcom can see US evidence
thats a silly thing to say. BSD licensed Unix already exists. if they wanted to build a proprietary OS on top of it (as Apple did) they would have. the fact that they already decided not to is the entire point here. Google chose GPL Licensed Linux over BSD Licensed Unix. From a technical perspective there's not a whole lot of difference. The license is the more important difference and we already know which they chose.
> maybe even get rid of your own login altogether to make it easier for people

Please never suggest this to anyone ever again. I'm so sick of having to authorize apps with vague descriptions of what they'll have access to.
Lavabit free accounts deleted?
Seems that there is some problem with Lavabit today: people around the Internet is reporting they can't logging to their free accounts.

Anyone knows what's going on? everything was working fine until last night...
Considering that they only enabled federation again a little while ago it's not like that's something new.