skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They feel offended ?
When they buy a new car, how does that make them feel ?
It's very similar, imo.
You can buy a car as is or you can customize it somewhat but you never start from scratch. You start from an existing design.
On the register page it says

"If your site has more than 1,000,000 daily page views, please contact us before registering!"

I take that to mean they'll work something out with you, and based on their pricing it should be well within your price range.
If you store your food the time between being hungry and eating should be minutes at worst. You're not going to put the bread on when you're hungry, you're going to put the bread on earlier in the day, or the day before even, and just cut a bit off when you want a sandwich. Similarly for anything you can cook without being there or store. Stick the slow cooker on before you go to work and come back to a lovely stew or something. That sort of thing.

It should not take you 3 hours to make a sandwich from the time you decide you're hungry. If it does, then there's something fairly seriously wrong about the way you plan and/or execute procedures. To the point where it seems you end up assuming that their horizon for meaningfully planned actions is less than 3 hours.

> 20 minutes for bolognese sauce (only outta a can I'm thinking, unless you're an iron chef or something)

Dice and fry an onion, fry some minced beef, pour a can of chopped tomatoes into it. That should have taken you 10-15 minutes to do all three, tops. The tomatoes will boil pretty much instantly, maybe throw in a handful of chopped mushrooms, bit of bazil, bit of oregano. Drop of tomatoes purée, maybe a little bit of gravy to thicken if you added too much moisture earlier on.

It's not hard to do in 20 minutes.

If you fry onions for 15 minutes or meat for 15 minutes, getting you up to a 30 minute sort of time span, then you're going to be getting dessicated husks out at the other end. You only fry onions for a handful of minutes with hot oil, 'till they start to go transparent, any longer than that and they start to crisp and blacken. As for meat - it'll just go increasingly rubbery. Yuck. Fry it until you can't see any pink bits left, continually spreading it around with the spoon to make sure it's done all the way through, and then it's pretty much done - get your tomatoes in.
“I have two iPhones, one for day and one for the night. When the day phone runs out, the night phone takes over. I never have to worry.”

It's an advanced Self-Important Internet Dude move. Best not imitated by amateurs.
Morgan Stanley Predicts YouTube to Be a $20B Business
Why do you need a website?
The Internet has revolutionized the way you operate and communicate with your clients. People are online and they expect you to have a website. If you’re looking for more clients, the web is where your business needs to be.
Appeal Over Former RIAA Lobbyist Judge Allowing Prenda To Get Info Moves Forward
People have lost touch with reality a LONG time ago.

They do not care about health (America is the fattest, unhealthiest country on the planet), they don't care about science & technology (Tumblr, IG, FB, reality TV, TMZ, etc. dominate the news/app/entertainment spectrum and bring little to no value), they care about GIFs, cats, Kim Kardashian and other brain dead agenda.

It's very unfortunate but that's the way it is. People could care less about Warner Chilcott. They care about stupidity.

Companies like IG, Tumblr, and others are smart because they seem to employ the "if you can't beat em, join 'em" logic.
Tumblr's a consumer-facing media property. That's why it gets more press. More people know about it and directly use their product. (Same with Yahoo!.)
The results from our pay-what-you-want ebook pricing experiment
Donald Trump is hated because he's a pompous ass. He's got a loud mouth and is just about as crazy as Michelle Bachmann. Now, if he'd let his businesses do the talking for him he would simply be another conservative rich guy.

The liberal media hates the Koch brothers not the masses. If you said 'Koch' to the masses they'd say they preferred 'Classic' over 'Diet'.
One of the most abstract fields in math finds application in the 'real' world
Knives, Forks and Getting Rich on the Web
Apple avoided billions in taxes? Well done!

Apple evaded taxes? Now that's illegal.

I posted it on the story about the Google whistleblower, but I'll post it again here for posterity:

"Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which best pays the treasury. There is not even a patriotic duty to increase one’s taxes. Over and over again the Courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everyone does it, rich and poor alike and all do right, for nobody owes a public duty to pay more than the law demands."
Judge Learned Hand in Helvering vs Gregory, 1934.

We were taught in school that avoiding taxes makes one a good accountant, evading them lands you in Levenworth. (I'm a CPA in Texas)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Penitentiary,_Lea...
I got a news alert for this on my phone. NYT must be trying to appeal to the common American's automatic distaste for any monetary value above their yearly salary. I would expect this from CNN Money, not the NYT. Keep it classy, NYT.
To add to this comment, large correlation between (or among) variables will often inflate estimates of standard error, leading to underestimates of statistical significance.
"So we’re also giving our Flickr users one terabyte of space — for free."

This is incredible. I remember being blown away with the 1 GB of storage I got with my gmail account back in 2005. I couldn't even fathom needing a terabyte back then. What a fun time to be alive.
Now I can access my high res photos again. I don't know if I can trust them after the shit they pulled.

When I signed up : "You will never lose access to your high res photos".

A few years ago : "Sign up for pro if you want access to high res photos".

Is this a sign that Yahoo isn't going to keep fucking things up?
This is a straight-up technological disruption of an existing sales channel. The third-party dealerships are an artifact of primitive 20th century supply chain management - they're basically a caching mechanism to handle latency in the network, to put it in computerese terms. With the power of computers and online ordering, Tesla has no need for these dinosaurs. They can "cut out the middleman and pass the savings on to you", terms every consumer can understand.

The fear for the dealers is not that Tesla will go around them, but that other manufacturers will follow. The big car makers already have experience setting up alternative brands to play with techniques that are too radical for their mainstream business (remember Saturn?), so it would be easy enough for something like GM spinning the Volt off as a new car company, not just a Chevy, and running Tesla-style sales.

If that happens, dealers are doomed.
Too soon to tell, I'd say.
I don't see how that law comes into effect in this situation unless they left something out of the article. It didn't say Tesla is preventing others from opening services centers, just that Tesla owns them all so far.

There's probably a non-trivial amount of model specific knowledge needed to repair a Tesla that can't be picked up at a general mechanics' school. Maybe when Tesla's sales volume increases there will be a higher demand for mechanics that Tesla couldn't fill and 3rd party shops will open.
Marissa is nearing her 1 year anniversary as Yahoo CEO and it seems that she is turning the company around.
The Story of Dynochemy: A Python library for DynamoDB
It could be worse. You might be acquired by EMC!

You don't know pain and dissatisfaction until this happens to you.
Likely they would only do this the first time you sent money to someone, or depending on a score from their abuse prevention system.
"Sexy", maybe. Depending on how you define that, and on your perspective. But more important in the general sense? I think you'd have a harder time supporting that argument if you tried to make it.

And anyway, I don't think anybody is arguing for a "black and white" world where one or the other of these deals gets all of the media attention and the other goes completely ignored... it seems that the call is to acknowledge both and treat them both as potentially very important.
I wish that the article was true and no one needed to do all this web development work. I truly do not enjoy working with forms and xml.

As many others have commented, its true that the easiest and hastiest form of web development is now "done" through pre-made tools. Sadly, everything else isn't as easy. Building a rest api for cool new stuff X is not very easy, nor is it to present such API on a easy to use designed site. Nor is turning a horror of an XML standard to a useable form and presenting such things to end users.
it's a reference to a segment on the Accidental Tech Podcast (hosted by Marco, John Siracusa and Casey Liss) where at one point they brought up a guy (sorry I can't recall the name) who has two iPhones: one for day use and another for night use. The idea is separation of private info and work info. IIRC Marco could see some merit to it, but certainly couldn't justify the price for himself.

http://atp.fm/
So I take it you don't pay for the service? No offense but if I'm in management at Heroku I say to you "I'm very sorry to hear about that. We'll take your concerns into consideration [as soon as you have something to offer us in return]."
Well done with the timing of all of these announcements. Flickr is finally a modern web app.
I already got a payment from a friend there. It works.
I don't know that Apple is a good model. They have high volume of relatively inexpensive gadgets that they've managed to convince people should not last very long. The lifetime and service expectations of a car are completely different. If I bought a car and the battery went dead, and the manufacturer's solution was 'ship it to us and we'll send you a replacement in x days' that would be a unacceptable. Likewise, people aren't going to put up with streamlining support by saying stuff like 'no you can't replace your battery, if the car dies you just buy a new one.'

My experience with the HPs of the world is on the business purchase side, but I've never bought 'from HP'. I could initiate the conversation with HP, but they always hooked me up with a solution vendor or whatever were calling a dealer at the time. Same w/ Cisco, Dell, IBM, EMC, Microsoft etc.
If he was going to cave, he'd have caved already. There's nothing in it for Tesla now. The whole attempt to force Tesla into the existing supply chain model, at ZERO demonstrable benefit to consumers, looks bad politically. No politician will want to be seen publicly defending the dealers.
Corn pone pinions.
I thought Flickr never charged for disk space... the whole premise was you could store an unlimited number of photos, they'd just make you upgrade to a "pro" account if you wanted to upload new photos beyond a limit or get photos out. How is "1TB free space" a benefit now?
Geany.
We need something better than Syntax Highlighting. Something along the lines of the original Literate Programming. At least different fonts and styles for different syntax elements. Each package or multi-file module should have it's own background texture.

If you've got time and money to spare, and want to improve the editor you produce (not just use) then learn from the $300 SlickEdit editor. It does a lot of things right. And there's a go package for it.
That photostream looks lovely.
They're grasping at straws
What is wrong with web analytics in 2012? (And how SnowPlow fixes it)
Quality only matters after the cost accounting is done. It's kind of a Maslow Hierarchy for large corporations.
> There is not even a patriotic duty to increase one’s taxes

Yes, yes there is. The quotes of a single person do not change this fact. The greatest good for the greatest number is achieved through the state. Witholding taxes for the purposes of greed is immoral and unpatriotic.
well said... stay smart, you'll live a good life:)
“future-proof” is a feature I want to see more services offer
The fact that Audi had to write this says that they feel threatened. And while Tesla does only sell one model at a time, they are able to produce cheaper models and sell more of them. As for the question posed by USA Today:

There are questions, too, about whether it can keep its order books full, or whether the number of people who crave electric cars is limited.

With the new financing offer, a Tesla is within reach for many people, but I think we'll see a tipping point once they can get below $50k.
1TB free space eh....

I wonder if there are any strings attached.
> People could care less about Warner Chilcott

Couldn't. "People couldn't care less ..."
There are many key attributes of cash that this system, despite it's ease of use, ignores.

I rarely try to be pedantic, but two fundamental attributes of cash is that it can be used without a transaction record and often anonymously.

Can this system?
From the FAQ [1]:

What’s the difference between a Free, Ad Free, and Doublr account?

There are three kinds of accounts to choose from at Flickr, and all of them are awesome in their own way.

Free:
1 Terabyte of photo and video storage
Upload photos of up to 200MB per photo
Upload 1080p HD videos of up to 1GB each
Video playback of up to 3 minutes each
Upload and download in full original quality

Ad Free:
$49.99 per year
All the benefits of a free account
No ads in your browsing experience
Doublr:

$499.99 per year
2 Terabytes of photo and video space
All the benefits of a free account

Links:
[1] http://www.flickr.com/help/limits/#150470666
This is fantastic. And it's interesting to see the influences from Facebook Timeline in the design.
> Breaking News: 300 million americans avoided paying the maximum amount of tax possible through legal deductions because they also like to keep as much of their money as possible.

Breaking News: America lacking social care facilities of other first world nations. Personal greed and lack of social conscience confirmed factors. No self awareness in sight.
> But more important in the general sense? I think you'd have a harder time supporting that argument if you tried to make it.

I'm not suggesting it's more important - quite the opposite. Pharma is very important. It's just not as accessible or comprehensible to the general public. So if you're looking to start a company, on average, you'll find that the competition is scarcer in pharma than in tech. How often does a 17 year old singlehandledly found and sell a company for $30 million to big pharma?
Can someone please explain to me how on each they're able to do this? They're valuing each of their users at the cost of 1TB (plus bandwidth, electricity, etc.) Like in the hosting industry, "unlimited space" means "fuck you, don't host shit here other than files that serve your content."
> No politician will want to be seen publicly defending the dealers.

Defending "local small business owners" on the other hand...
Points for where she announced it. Guess that other announcement wasn't a one time gimmick.
Go to carmax.

full disclosure: I work in the automotive industry. (Although not for them)
Breaking news: American corporations "avoid" hundreds of billions of tax dollars every year, and it's all completely legal because of a terrible tax code that hinders individuals and bolsters companies.

Wait, this isn't breaking news.
Yes, exactly. A next gen telco will simply use the infrastructure that is already there. No need to re-invent the wheel. It is paid off and profitable. All the next-gen telco needs to do is simply open it through APIs. That would allow them to circumvent a lot of the issues with doing a completely new telco from the gound up.
It's also how civilization stagnates. Stories have value, but not to diminish someone else's achievement or to argue against progress.
> it's a big player in a fast growing economic sector

I have the impression that the blogging market is actually kind of over-saturated.
I wish people didn't yell out dogmatic axioms like this. It is your opinion that the greatest good is achieved through the state; I can provide counterexamples where this has historically not been true.

When it comes to taxes, I believe everyone can, and will, do everything they can to avoid paying taxes they don't believe they owe. If you want people to pay more taxes, tell them to pay more taxes by changing the law; it's unrealistic to imagine anyone voluntarily contributing more to the state than necessary.
> the audaciousness of the company’s assertion that its subsidiaries are beyond the reach of any taxing authority because they are stateless.

> ...Apple Operations International, which is incorporated in Ireland but keeps its bank accounts and records in the United States, and holds board meetings in California. Because the United States bases residency on where companies are incorporated, while Ireland focuses on where they are managed and controlled, Apple Operations International was able to fall neatly between the cracks of the two countries’ jurisdiction.

This is amazing, and awfully clever. A "stateless" corporation? Is this a common thing?
Props to her, but to be fair, it's not hard to say "Hey look, a wall!" and go the other direction.
Ok, great. The iPad experience has gone from mediocre to terrible. Hit targets are too small, figuring out how to click through to detail pages is non obvious, and it just feels slow as molasses on my 3rd gen iPad.
Thanks for the explanation - it was helpful
An excellent Tumblr post breaking down that Vanity Fair interview: http://jesuschristsiliconvalley.tumblr.com/post/46539276780/...
Many of the comments seem to justify Apple's tax avoidance by pointing out (as the top comment says)"Investigators have not accused Apple of breaking any laws, and the company is hardly the only American multinational to face scrutiny for using complex corporate structures and tax havens to sidestep taxes."

However, it should be troubling that

1. Deception is considered excusable and that Companies care little about ethics and break the spirit of tax laws (if not the letter).

Redirecting US profits or European profits to other unrelated countries (on paper) and then claiming tax exemption clearly indicates deception. If they made their money in the US and claim that all of this money belongs to a subsidiary in Bermuda, that should be a matter of concern to everyone (regardless of whether this deception is legal or not)

2. It is true that many companies indulge in this type of deception and defend it as "legal" Often, it is the companies (through their lobbyists) who created these legalities. So it is disingenuous to defend their practices as legal. Obviously, Microsoft, Google and other large companies do the same (or similar) things. However, that doesn't do much to dispel the fact that each company engages in deception.
Congrats Marco. You rock and deserve it.
Kind of like how republicans are all anti-gay until their first kid comes out?
Statistics, most likely. If the average Flickr user only uses 10GB, for example, then it doesn't matter what the upper bound is aside for the 1% of power users.
Writing a RSS parser is horrible - been there, done that. Everyone who had to go through that hell has my deepest compassion!
Interesting. The problem you addressed about interacting with new people in a comfortable way is a problem we're trying to tackle at Uni+ http://uniplus.me

Right now we automatically match users similar to Facebook Graph, but we do it specifically on things people care about - people nearby who share your interests, hometown, classes, industry, etc. Our app is also university-only at the moment to filter out the creeps. We've also recently experimented with a location-based group chat feature in order to promote local interaction.

I wouldn't categorize this issue in the same domain as Facebook though. Facebook is about two things -- sharing and friends. There's a mental divide between the friends and strangers, so users would never use it to meet new people. There's already platform to share things between strangers (reddit), but a platform to "interact" with strangers (which is what facebook used to do, but with friends) still has yet to emerge.
When things break ... but websites for SMBs break less and less.
When are we going to talk about the oil industry avoiding billions in taxes through laws specifically designed for them so that "they can be competitive with overseas oil companies"?

edit: example - The administration estimates closing these Big Oil tax loopholes would save "approximately $4 billion per year in tax subsidies to oil, gas, and other fossil fuel producers."

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/green/news/2011/01/31...
Amusingly, in the Yahoo/Tumblr acquisition thread, I complained about how little Yahoo has improved on Flickr...but otherwise, I was a happy paying customer.

Currently, I pay $25 for a year's worth of unlimited photo storage and being ad-free. With this new plan, I have to pay twice as much for what I have now...because even as a 3+ year (almost 4 now) member, I haven't uploaded enough to fill a terabyte. Kind of a bummer, though allowing more than 200 photos (which was the Free offering until now) is absolutely critical for Flickr to be a success.

edit: one of the things I complained about was how the horizontal-masonry that was implemented months (if not a year) ago had been limited to just parts of the site...and how the default logged in userpage was dull and photoless...with the new redesign, both of these complaints are wiped out. Nicely done Yahoo, I will complain more on HN in the future.

edit2: Unless I'm missing something obvious, I don't see a "let me see the old version for now" button...Which I think underscores my opinion of how outdated the old site design was.
Markets discover correct prices. Technology drives up the value of some humans and drives down the value of others. We are already seeing entities fight to prevent the market from discovering the correct price for many sorts of labor. Expect this to increase. The resources being expended on this doomed to fail enterprise should instead be focused on turning the sorts of people whose value gets driven down by tech into the sorts of people whose value gets driven up by tech.

In other words: it is the industrial revolution and the price of crops is dropping rapidly. Do you institute price controls or figure out how to retrain farmers? It is worth noting that we STILL have price controls on crops left over from the last paradigm shift. I'm not optimistic about our ability to meet this one.
Ask HN: Who uses Google App Engine
What do you use it for? Why did you choose it? Are you happy with your decision?
So far, the response from Flickr power users looks overwhelmingly negative: http://www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/72157633547442506/