skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn't work on an iPad. I type in my search term, press enter, and nothing happens. Furthermore, when I enter my search term, the "Filter by tag (e.g. javascript)" text doesn't disappear.
ARPU, ARPPU, MAU, DAU, MAUDAU, MUU, ping me

You should hear these jokers have actual conversations with each other.
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Full fledged "ideas" aren't what you'd post. What you would see would be discussions about problems. A site for open consultations where people can express pain points in their daily lives. Of course you'd have to make it conversational enough to where people without the ability to adequately identify and express their pain points can do so with ease. Often people don't realize a pain point until a solution is available.

People with the power to reduce/remove such pain points would stand a better chance at identifying real need and business opportunities.

You can do this with your friends, co-workers, family, or neighbors. You may find a few problems to fix and may even come up with a few solutions. And you might get lucky with a viable solution.

But, expand that premise to the country or the world. Now you're talking about learning about problems you didn't even know existed. Problems that you personally might be able to solve. And you have a community of "solvers" waiting to help. The "co-founder" website finder is built right in.
>The problem with taxing people instead of profit is that it is easier for a person to move to a low-tax jurisdiction than is is for a company to move the place where it adds value.

What makes you think that? Here's one example: California has some of the highest taxes in the U.S, but everyone in Silicon Valley and Hollywood making big money still lives there. Why don't all of those people leave and move to Texas or Nevada to take advantage of lower personal income and sales taxes?

It's far easier for the corporation to "move" because the corporation only exists on paper. It can incorporate and hold its trademarks and copyrights in Delaware or an offshore subsidiary even though its headquarters is in California, etc.

> If the average profit margin in the widget industry is 10%, your widget subsidiary might be able to book a transfer profit of say 20%, but not 200%.

But they don't need 200%. They only need 20%, which when applied systematically is enough to erase the 10% profit margin they might have made in the high tax jurisdiction.

There is also the matter of what an "independent supplier" would actually be charging. Suppose the international operation decided that it would like to close all of its offices in the UK and stop doing business there, but continue selling software licenses in bulk to third party UK distributors who come to do business with it at its headquarters in Ireland. In that relationship the international operation is an independent supplier, but they have all the power. The third party distributors have no other source for licenses, but the international corporation has a large variety of willing distributors, so it can force them to sell at razor-thin margins in the UK and claim all the profits for itself in Ireland. What you see them doing is largely what you would see if they were independent entities.
Somebody has watched Iron Man recently.
This is nicely done, but so far isn't returning anything interesting for me. All the results are very basic (Django docs, PHP docs, etc), which makes sense, the most often cited will be the most general.

What about a change in algorithm to try and add some discovery here. What if you look at votes for answers vs cites? So things that have a high average vote:cite ratio rank?
The big difference is that it's statically computed.

Rust also has a Maybe type as well. You use it like this:

use core::io::{Reader,ReaderUtil};
use core::io::println;

fn main() {
let in = io::stdin().read_line();
println("INPUT:");
println(int::str(int::from_str(in)));
}

This code will produce an error, because `int::from_str` can fail. Imagine trying to convert a number from the string "foobar".

$ make
rustc option.rs
option.rs.rs:125:23: 125:41 error: mismatched types: expected `int` but found
`core::option::Option<int>` (expected int but found enum core::option::Option)
option.rs:125 io::println(int::str(int::from_str(in)));
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
error: aborting due to previous error
make: *** [build] Error 101

What Rust is saying here is that we don't have the right types: `int::str` takes an int, but `int::from_str` returns an `Option<int>`.

We can make the compiler satisfied by pattern matching over the return value:

use core::io::{Reader,ReaderUtil};
use core::io::println;

fn main() {
let in = io::stdin().read_line();

match int::from_str(in) {
Some(number_string) => println(int::to_str(number_string)),
None => println("Hey, put in a number.")
}
}

Now, we explicitly handle both cases (Some(x) being a success, and None being the failure), and the compiler is happy.

This is where the advantages of Maybe come into play. In dynamic languages, you don't get the advantage of always making sure you handle the degenerate case.

Now, what the Maybe _monad_ does is allow you to chain multiple things that work with Maybe together. I don't have a Rust example of this handy. Like "Do this, do that, do the other thing, and then let's see if that failed anywhere along the way."
There's http://forrst.com/posts It's invite only (and I'm out of invites...) Haven't been there for a while but there were some good design discussions over there. It's more of a forum than newsfeed though...
Working as a CEO, being and entrepreneur
It'd be better with proper meta tags. Think: people come to HN, click your link, and bookmark your site. Will they ever remember what the heck "firespotting.com/newest" was about? Not likely, unless you add some decent meta!
Pushups. Something about the large body movements, maybe the strengthening, kills any RSI issues very quickly. This has made a huge difference for me and I've had others mention the same thing.

You don't need to do a ton, just some regularly. The http://www.hundredpushups.com program is actually very good for this, it provides a schedule and ramps up slowly. And hey, you're improving your health in the process.
I recommend as well,

Why the Allies Won, by Richard Overy
It's not self-entitlement, the OP is not obligated to help Yahoo! and simply states that there will be no more work for free.

It's in Yahoo!'s incentive to provide whitehats incentive, because people with malicious intent already have incentive and Yahoo! should want legitimate security research types to find vulnerabilities before attackers do.
Have you used Hipmunk? It's NOTHING like that at all.

Those sidebar features are the same on every travel website, except Hipmunk. The linear bar graph display of flights is, for me, infinitely superior than a data tabel that I can drag sliders around to change the wall of text. It takes me a glance to see that there are great options or shitty options on a given hipmunk search, even on my iphone. Momondo and basically every other site require significantly more cognitive work on my part to piece apart their text boxes full of information to figure out if that flight is a good fit for my needs or not.
...acceptable? Confusing them is like saying ultraviolet is infrared. They're both non-visible, sure, but for completely different reasons because they're on completely different extremes.
"(not risky) choices about my career."

The difference between salaried and self employment is the self employed guy know his own burn rate and knows when he goes out of business if he just coasts, perhaps to the very day well in advance and truthfully, but the salaried guy just shows up to work one day and the security guard hands him a cardboard box and see ya.

I think its also a cultural drag thing. The WWII generation would think you're crazy, you work for the same bigcorp for 40 years and get a gold watch and great pension, right? LOL that died before my dad's generation. I'm not even sure if that cultural mythology was even true, most of those people are all dead now. Certainly not like that now.
Created to support this http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dorrian/a-statue-of-niko...
The reason we haven't seen a successful idea website like that is because it's a classic marketplace problem.

Such a solution would have to evolve out of an existing platform that has already attracted a diverse community. My guess is sites like Reddit or Quora are best positioned to solve this problem. I have seen several questions on Quora that were basically along the lines of, "I have problem X, can you recommend a tool to solve it?" Either people provide suggestions, or a developer comes along and says "Hey I have this problem too, I'm going to build a solution and let you know when it's live in a few weeks."

I could imagine HN creating IHAP (I Have a Problem) posts where somebody shares a problem they have and others from the community can either provide suggestions or offer to build a solution.

What I can't see happening is a new marketplace forming around this concept. Why would I post a problem to Firespotting, when I'd get a much better response posting to HN or Quora?
Well ... that implies a long-term strategy with the actor assuming it's a zero-sum game. The other possibility is that Google is simply following a completely economic strategy and that each of the decisions described would end up maximizing their return.

I think the real question is "why did we accept so many Beta services, knowing that there was no guarantee they'd be brought to market". If we'd only let them be a search company, would this even be a problem?
For anyone wondering:

ARPU: Average Revenue Per User
ARPPU: Average Revenue Per Paying User
MAU: Monthly Active Users
DAU: Daily Active Users
MUU: Monthly Unique Users
My gamedev bros use this for our libraries, and I'd love to see wider adoption of it--mostly due to the spirit of the thing.

However, the number of people who come out and bawww about not picking a more widely recognized license (generally, LGPL or BSD) is disappointing; folks, if you want good licenses, you have to set an example.

I implore my fellow developers to use this wherever feasible--show some guts.
the choice of projects seems somewhat arbitrary. i've only contributed to one (python), but i can definitely say that many of these codebases are total messes (drupal, libreoffice for sure) which would make me _not_ want to work on these projects. in reality, the easiest way to get introduced to open source is to start your own projects to build the kind of reputation and experience necessary to contribute to bigger projects.
Show HN: wikitranslation - free human translation
talent acquisition or acquihire. Even if I did know what that meant I didn't know how to spot one initially.
You might be able to go much cheaper, if you managed to share audio between customers. Very personalised information wouldn't work. But you could e.g. tag your service on something like Pocket (getpocket.com). I already queue up articles on pocket to read later, and I can imagine paying for some of them to be read out to me instead. (I don't know about the legal situation about reading out someone else's content, though.)
- Vest (realized options)

- Cliff (point in time where your options start vesting)

I still have to wrap my head around the different types of shares there are.

As an aside, InvestoPedia is, by far, the best online resource on financial definitions and explanations. Use it often: http://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/cliffvesting.asp.
Well, it sounds like the author feels entitled to a 'thank you'.

Trouble is, it's not necessarily in the company's interest to acknowledge a past vulnerability in writing. Security team could've called him though; no paper trail, and it would've felt very authentic and personal.
Totally feasible, but it'd probably have to talk dirty too.

(For you Something Positive fans: "It's like Nerdrotica meets New Relic" )

(oh god thats amazing)
Very interesting theory. Maybe that's why Microsoft is doing the same to desktop OS? Apple must act quickly to destroy the smartphones.
Ha, the top result for C is the spec. Every other language is a popular library.

I wonder if there are more RTFM-type responses for C than other languages.
Unfortunately the local First Bus monopoly doesn't provide real-time data, even though they have WiFi on all their buses (so therefore adding real-time location-data would likely be trivial - if they don't have it privately already, which I strongly suspect they do).

From what I've been told they don't provide this data because they don't want people to figure out how late their services run, and that information could also be used by local councils to do performance analysis (since local council subsidies their services massively, making competition impossible, assuming competition could get a licence at all).

Basically the local bus company acts in a selfish way and we all get to stand in the rain for an extra ten minutes as a direct result of that.
Not exactly. You have to talk to it in order for it to translate a text. Something like "OK Glass, say something something in Japanese".
Sorry, service was turned off momentarily, feel free to try it again!
Thank you for your answer.

I've took a look at the Matasano project.
It seems terribly interesting for me and it fits with my expectations.

Unfortunately, they recquire to work in their office, as an european (french) guy, I can't afford to move in America : I'd like to stay not too far from my family and friends if possible. I love programming / computer security very much, but I think I'd suffer from not seeing them anymore.

I'm looking for an french/european job, similar to the one proposed for Matasano Project. AFAIK, it doesn't exist...
I consider moving to America if it isn't possible, but I'd like to avoid that if possible.
Disrupt.
Everyone's ideas are 'valid' to them, thus validated (in their minds). And "well thought-out"... we've all run in to people who've been thinking about their ideas for years, but that doesn't mean the ideas are really implementable, or that the problems are truly solvable (or solvable beyond that one person).
> He started a war with more than 30 million deaths, but hey, at least he built some Motorways!

That isn't the same thing as merely pointing out he built motorways. Specifically the "but hey, at least" is making the intent of most Germans to be awful when it probably isn't.
Containers are nice for putting some distance between the compromised app and the OS. Especially useful when combined with a system for mandatory access controls (SELinux, Smack, etc). If you can attempt to limit the exposure of a compromise... you should!

Having said that... If someone has enough determination, they will manage to compromise your system regardless of how 'secure' it's has been made. :)

I generally like to use containers in addition to a virtual machine. I do find it a bit shocking when I see a company offering up containers as an alternative to a VM though. I suppose it's a compromise some companies are willing to make for the additional performance.
In other communities, new tools and abstractions are generally "sold" by explaining how they are useful for solving specific problems. Not so in the Haskell community though.

The Haskell community has a longstanding tradition of using condescending language ("fmap is from the street, fmap is hip to contexts."), and deliberate childrens-book style metaphors and illustrations in tutorials.

The theory seem to be that if monads haven't been adopted by mainstream developers yet, it is just because the presentations haven't been dumbed-down and kiddie-friendly enough yet. (If only they from the onset had called "monads" for "warm fuzzy things" instead, surely developers would not be so scared of them!)

The strategy have not yet borne fruit, though.
I don't see why you're angry about this. Bad people are allowed to produce good effects.
Agreed, the prefix letters are going to go.
> but because after two years no one on staff was proficient in the language

Hm, I wonder if they tried to train someone or if they waited to see if someone would study Erlang at home for free.
Genocide was not the Mongols goal. They did not pick some segment of China's population and decide they needed to die. They like the Romans where conquerors. And as all large civilizations have done so at some point there viewed less hardly, and perhaps with a little awe as they created the largest empire in history granted a short lived one.

Pol Pot is an example of the other archetype of mass murder. He killed 1/4 of his country's population in 3 years in truly horrific fashion. But, in doing so he caused great harm to his own country's economy. What separates the Nazis is they efficiently eliminated large segments of the population without destroying society. It's horrific but also demonstrates at a somewhat visceral level that a large chunk of society is not that important. If 3/4 of the worlds bankers died tomorrow not much would change, if 3/4 of the worlds farmers died tomorrow there would be huge issues.
There are many other licenses that are similarly permissive, but that lawyers actually have vetted.

If you ever want interesting commercial adoption of software, you need to make sure the associated ip / software licenses are solid
> Apple will switch its default search engine to Bing

Speculation, or has there been some indication of this?
I was working on a site and noticed a 500kb background image was taking 2 seconds to load and around the same time I saw that the spotify homepage was streaming a fullscreen video instantly

I don't think that's a fair comparison - it seems unlikely to me that the video requires much data to get started, or a sustained 250kB/s (about 2 megabits/s) connection to play.
Good point. I think you half misunderstood; their certificate should be replaceable so that you disallow third-party software from developers in their developer program and allow it from your company only or vendor A only. Obviously one would need to implicitly allow certain OS processes and Finder for the system to work, but my point is basically that we should not be beholden to Apple beyond that, the CA should be something we can choose.
Amazon Cloud doesn't seem to scale, site is slow. Please use better service platform. (Yeah, I know.)
There are international agreements about a lot of things. Doesn't make American law apply to non-American companies.
What are some crowdfunding equity business models?
We've been looking into a wide-variety of equity based crowdfunding business models, but the Total Addressable Market never quite adds up to the $1B+ revenue opportunity VCs are typically looking for.

Yet, plenty of these kinds of startups are raising institutional money.

Anyone game to share?
I quit my job in October. I made the mistake of telling my parents too soon. I told them I was planning to quit on Halloween and I'm sure their parental instincts kicked in trying to convince me not to quit.

I would recommend not telling your parents at least till the week of. Then there isn't much for them to do but to wish you the best of luck because you've already made up your mind.

My parents now support me a lot and I definitely dont think i disappointed them.
There's reasons to think that a Keynesian program (even one which focused on war, not building useful infrastructure) could have ended up fixing a truly out-of-kilter economy.

But it only fixes medium term (~10 year horizon) problems. Once the monetary / investment system is fixed, Germany would have stalled. It suffered from massive brain drain (if you literally have Einstein, making him flee isn't a great idea). And totalitarianism isn't great for creating an innovative workforce, even if you can keep your population from fleeing.
Creating a Hacker News clone for X does not actually create a Hacker News for X, because HN is the community, the people, not the product itself.

Yes PG has created an awesome backend and easy to use front end free of complexities that other forums have, BUT its value is in the people, not the product.
The problem is that none of us agree what "Nazi efficiency" is.

E.g. Mao Zedong killed a much larger number of people through his policies than the Nazis did, but letting your own population starve is not defined as "efficiency", rather the opposite of it. The grandparent apparently thinks of efficiency as in technology/engineering, and nothing that the Mongols used to kill people sounds very advanced to us. The Nazis had a very distinct way of using technology and bureaucracy for evil IMHO. And the OP seems to think in terms of economic efficiency.
Is there any way to migrate running containers to another physical machine if you need to do maintenance on the underlining system?
> Containers are nice for putting some distance between the compromised app and the OS.

Some distance. But now a days when you can own the kernel, that distance shrinks to zero.

I just saw these a few seconds ago:
http://grsecurity.net/~spender/logs2.txt
https://twitter.com/grsecurity/status/335963659337601024
Sorry to enter so late but: the reason he will not do it seems to be "that does not fit with my way either of seeing it or of explaining it". I tend to agree with him on that.

I guess learning emacs requires some will to learn the environment and this implies reading text.

As for cheat-sheets there must be hundreds. If all you want is basic editing, jus anyone including save, open, quit and search must be sufficient.
Given Apple's response to Maps, doesn't it seem as likely that they are building their own replacement?
We rarely act in our own collective best interest. Rather individuals for a variety of reasons start using Beta services. Many of them end up burned as it shuts down, but far more move on to the next new thing.
Hahaha, this is great! 3 weeks ago, I turned down some fairly decent jobs for my startup and let my parents know the fact. They were very supportive, pointing out only that I be doing it for the right reasons.

One point of contention may be that we, or at least I, have much much more in the way of opportunities in that I can realistically dream of an ambition that my parents did not have access to. It's deceptively understanding of them to be able to not only comprehend this but also support me in it and for this I am thankful.
See Capsule.fm, http://capsule.fm for how one team is doing this.
Well, the FSF has approved the WTFPL as compatible with the GPL. [1] Certainly that doesn't mean it's been as vetted as the other licenses, but it counts for something IMO.

[1] - http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#WTFPL
Coffee Rites, and the Stories They Tell
The beauty of being a leader is that when you require metrics to be reported at a certain level, on pain of a bad annual review or a firing squad, then those metrics will almost certainly be reported at the required level or better. Which makes you look good when you report to your leader.
I know who 'Satoshi Nakamoto' is, says Ted Nelson
It's not so much hearing a visual pattern as it is to speak it. Subvocalization engages the voice apparatus in a way that is very close to actually speaking.
Has PEMDAS a been a lie all this time?
Nature's High
The flaw in this reasoning is that just because Google kills a product it doesn't kill the protocol underneath it. Killing off Blogger won't kill Tumblr, or Wordpress for that matter. It will make it possible to create value in that space again though since Google will have left.

Google cannot "kill" RSS, they can only kill Reader, and if people are so dependent on Reader then someone will make a Reader replacement that makes them enough money to keep it running. If nobody can do that, then the business model for Reader (and RSS for that matter) is in doubt.
The Yahoo board has approved a deal to pay $1.1 billion in cash for Tumblr
Release of Diaspora v0.1.0.0
As said I agree that an "additional" test with a faraday cage should have been done, but not by the children. I expect the scientists to come up with that idea. Having too high expectations from children is counterproductive.