skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your factual claim that infrastructure would not exist without the government is actually not true; look at the history of private roads/turnpikes and rail in the US and Britain:

http://eh.net/encyclopedia/article/klein.majewski.turnpikes

> Private road building came and went in waves throughout the nineteenth century and across the country, with between 2,500 and 3,200 companies successfully financing, building, and operating their toll road.
For a random $30mil acquisition (hypothetically), there's a lot of gray area where it's hard to judge whether the overall benefit to the parent company is net positive or net negative. For a $1 bil acquisition, it's a lot easier to judge and the stakes are a lot higher.
depends on your definition of evangelizing... search for Satoshi Nakamoto's voluminous posting history ... just putting software in a forum where people can see it, discussing it at length and getting people to participate and contribute is different from dumping a proof and declining to explain it.

for some definition, Linus Torvalds has awesome collaboration/evangelizing skills. a lot of otherwise great engineers can't be bothered to communicate and get people to adopt/contribute, sometimes they think evangelizing is a dirty word.
A bit disappointed ken Thompson wasn't on it.
I run FreeBSD on my home server (because of ZFS). But I use NetBSD every now and then.

Things I like about NetBSD:

- It has support for both Dom0 and DomU Xen domains.

- It is very clean and portable code, you can build it on any *nix machine and get install media, just do
./build.sh release;
./build.sh iso-image

- There are fun experiments being done. Like rump kernels and Lua in kernel space

- It's dominated by hobbyists.
I run wildly different commands on different hosts so I actually took three hosts I'm often logged into and combined their most run commands in history into one 100 line file.

Fun project, good luck!
Eurograbber is a variation of the Zeus/Sopilka family of malware. I'm surprised his AV didn't pick it up because it's the most popular financial malware after SpyEye and Citadel.

What bank was this with? Did they cover the losses?

I'm assuming something like the following happened:

Your friend → (direct) Mule in your country → (Western Union) to the criminal

I tell my parents to use a linux Mint or Ubuntu live disk whenever they're banking online. It seems to have worked so far.
AllThingsD’s Kara Swisher And Peter Kafka Not Invited To Tomorrow’s Yahoo Event
The original headline from WSJ was “Yahoo to Buy Tumblr for $1.1 Billion” which is obviously questionable since they state in the same article that Tumblr has not actually confirmed the deal.

Now other outlets are reporting it as a done deal when it isn't. http://www.daniellemorrill.com/2013/05/in-race-to-be-first-o...
MergeSort Example using Python Multiprocessing
I did completely the opposite. I like what Yahoo have done with Flickr.
I had to put on a blanket "live action Disney Channel show" ban after my son (10 at the time) started marathoning "Good Luck Charlie" on Netflix and transformed into an obnoxious little jerk, never missing a chance to make a snarky comment. It was very disturbing. Removing the garbage quality tween shows caused an immediate reversal.

Still, not everything Disney makes is bad, Phineas and Ferb is brilliant.
This is a great piece by someone who was with Yahoo for quite some time and really understands the company. Was more interesting to read than all the Facebook & Instagram posts back then.
Philips is pushing Hue platform towards a de-facto standard
Cherish your dad and try to emulate him. I'm lucky to have parents just as supportive, but a lot of my family and friends don't. So when they tell me about their grand plans, I don't second guess their decisions. I might push back a little, just to see if they're serious, but I'm not here to plant seeds of doubt in their mind. If they want it, then I want it to happen for them.
I've been through the exact same thing - med school dropout (1 year from graduation) who got into tech, got zero support from family. It's tough but, hang in there - things will get better.
No the parent can't be talking about why it "got big" because most of those features didn't really exist until it was big.
I'm not sure if it was Eurograbber itself, but a similar attack in any case.

Bank is "trying to help recover the funds" but won't cover if that fails. Part of the problem is that it took him a while to realise this had happened. I think it was the Sparkasse, but not 100% sure.

No idea what state his AV in. He's a smart enough fellow, but definitely non-technical.

EDIT: Missed your line about the live CD. I considered that, but I find rebooting a major PITA, hence the VM-on-stick idea. How is it working out for your parents?
I didn't say anything about Moxie.
How many of Tumblr's employees have been with the company more than a year or two? It sounds like they were only 20 employees at the end of 2010 [1] so I'm curious how many people actually got significant enough vesting to get the cash to call themselves entrepreneur-investors.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/19/tumblr-funding-office-hires...
What Every Startup CEO Needs to Know About Copyright & Intellectual Property
I'd love it if you blogged the book as you write it. I'm always looking for new ways to engage my 4yo daughter with this stuff as she grows up.
I think you want s///g on your second sed... Also that doesn't work in Mac OS X for some reason (their sed doesn't appear to interpret \n in the replacement text). I replaced it with perl to make that part work:

perl -pe 's/ *\| */\n/g'

I still haven't gotten the whole thing to work yet because my history contains the above history pipeline and so it's splitting the "|" that inside the sed command onto multiple lines which is causing "xargs which" to balk because quotes are not matching or something:

xargs: unterminated quote

Shells are amazing until spaces or quotes are involved! :-)
TLDR: You can use this url http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=9c88dd117c9c12408e...

Just change the username parameter at the end.
Ted Nelson, Computers for Cynics — The Myth of Technology (2012)
It was a wakeup call for me when I literally heard the Disney channel coming out of the mouth of my 7 year old girl. I spent a day and actually watched that stuff. Day-um. It was good for a life lesson about how tv is a huge exaggeration of real life and you probably shouldn't talk like the characters on tv until you can appreciate the impact of those words and attitudes.
Yahoo has to make acquisitions like this.

There is room for more full-service Internet ecosystems. Microsoft has under-invested in their ecosystem. Or maybe they can't decide if they want a full-service consumer-oriented ecosystem.

No overseas-based ecosystems are strong enough to enter the US market. Yahoo is strong in some markets in Asia. If they can buy a couple more top brands and shine-up Flikr, Yahoo Finance, and some others, they will be in good shape.
Slightly off topic - that kind of design (cloning and changing colors a bit) - where it stands on copyright/trademark ?
Yes, this was what I took away from the article: "Micecraft is cool, I guess, but anything is better than Disney tween sitcoms."
Possibly, however the better you are the faster you work the higher your value per hour. If I can be 3x as efficient as a junior dev I'm still worth more.
churn - for a recurring service the number of people who leave in a given time period. Also represented as a percentage of total customers at the beginning of the time period. related: leaky bucket.
Mercedes-Benz shows off self-driving car technology in its new $100,000 S-Class
If someone makes a comment that sounds like they state a fact, I want to know who or what they are quoting. That's usually how it's being done in academia. I don't know why some people think that HN, or any other forum for that matter, isn't worth doing the same. You can't just throw something in and expect people to take it.
My point was that it hasn't stopped Java from becoming popular--more popular than Python, even! After all, people do choose to deal with all the wanton complexity of Java.

Also, the example of hello world doesn't show much about complexity. After all, in Haskell it's just:

main = putStr "Hello World"
Interesting. I never knew PC-BSD did this. Been probably 10 years since I gave a BSD variant a try.
Some people just don't have any sense for humour. Don't laugh! Don't have fun! Be serious! Because the world is not serious enough!
But these are not necessarily "beginner" jobs: these unemployed people may have been hired back for the same types of jobs they had before, but at lower salaries. If you've been unemployed for a couple of years, you're probably willing to settle for less money just so you could have a job again.
I prefer to tell people I'm the Chief Email Officer. It accurately describes what I do most of the time as CEO.
Does anyone know how they get traction the very first time ? It's interesting how they got this far while the initial reception seems cold [1]. What kind of marketing they do ? what's the vertical ? answer from quora[2] doesnt satisfy me.

1. https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=tu...

2. http://www.quora.com/Tumblr/How-did-Tumblr-get-traction
I wholeheartedly support the idea of children using interactive creative environments rather than just watch TV. However, as a non-parent, I can't figure out why cursing is such a big deal. Many parents wouldn't bat at eye at some pretty awful violence in movies(think Batman or something), but feel "fuck" is cause for evacuation. I have the same issue with fear of nudity.
Windows 8: 5 Hopeful Signs
Motorola stands out as a clunker. It is very expensive, even for Google. It is a distraction for management. It is a threat to Google's culture. It fails to be a stick to beat patent trolls. It has all the problems of an underperforming mobile OEM, while breeding doubt among Google's important partners. And all these criticisms were leveled by many people before Google bought Motorola. Some things really are plain to see.

So far, Meyer is doing what needs to be done to turn Yahoo into a first tier competitor. Who knows if she will succeed, but it's good to see them try.
Another two months and we should see the headline, "How and Why We Switched from Python to Go."
I don't use it myself, but perhaps this is an option for you http://github.com/fatih/subvim
Ask HN: Ecommerce,how do you improve your sales in Europe?
I ordered about 50 different things form the far east to try whats going well ins sales,but overall the interest is piss poor.
Its not comparable to sales in the USA, so European Ecommerce specialists what should i do ?
Welcome Arduino Yún
Google needs to be finished with Motorola.

"Just getting started" is what you hear from Nokia. That's not a good sound.
ISO efficiency: when are time hacks worth the effort?
Or, you know, just use elasticsearch.
Yes, I've inserted the "g" in the appropriate sed commands. Thanks - good catch.

Some systems seem to require \r instead of \n - I know vim's behavior differs from sed's in this, so that might be an issue.

With xargs balking, you can throw the error stream at that point, for convert it to a loop over the alleged commands:

for c in $( long thing before the xargs )
do
which $c
done \
| long thing after the xargs.

Specifically:

for f in $( \
history \
| sed "s/^[0-9 ]*//" \
| sed "s/ *| */\n/g" \
| awk '{print $1}' \
)
do
which $f 2> /dev/null
done \
| sed "s.^/usr.." \
| grep ^.bin \
| sed "s/^.*\///" \
| sort \
| uniq -c \
| sort -rn \
> commands.txt

And yes spaces are a pig, and can lead to all sorts of ambiguities that don't have reasonable ways of resolving them, especially in filenames.
Super-facile gpm plopping grabs across six nox tty consoles onto emacs and as apps arguments is the most pleasant, productive, and relaxed user interface I know.
I compiled a jargon list when I did a summer internship in finance. They're less frequently used in startups (thank god) but I still hear them used by business types:

- Human capital: "People", often referring to your employees.

- Reach out: call or email.

- Leverage: Basically equivalent to "use". "We will leverage our human capital to generate exciting new products in this space." You should leverage this word as frequently as possible when talking to finance people.
This thread sounds like "he said, she said".

Anyone got a nice spreadsheet of who has acquired what, with the fate of the acquired unit and people? How long did they stick around? That seems like the minimum - maybe there are clever ways to add information to it.
I always thought Growth Hacker was an engineer who specialised in scaling a product (making sure the servers didn't fall down under load etc.) I guess the OP's cheat sheet could come in handy! :)
More valuable than stock ex ante, obviously not always ex post.

Since the price of a publicly traded stock reflects expectations about future valuations, but also has some additional risk, the cash is usually going to be valued more. "indefensible" is too strong, "not true in every single possible case" might be more accurate. Even then, your examples aren't that helpful; an example of a publicly traded company whose shares were widely thought to be underpriced would be better.
Personally never heard of PEMDAS before this video. Seems like a straw man. He begins by evaluating 8-2+1 as 8-(2+1) and all mistakes flow from there. Where I come from -2+1 = -1. Order of evaluation between addition and subtraction doesn't matter, because it's all addition. Likewise, order between multiplication and division doesn't matter, because it's all multiplication.
wow didn't know this was fsf approved.

the in-your-face-ness of the name makes it a great tool for talking about copyright with someone and making a point.
From a deployment point of view, environment variables are a pretty good choice.

http://www.12factor.net/config
Tumblr posts tagged with yahoo
And when you do deliver the product, don't chase away half the people who show up with stupid, arbitrary, exclusionary restrictions and rules. Because smart people won't dance on your little strings.
I have four children between the ages of 9 and 17 and they all play Minecraft. One of the most interesting things about them playing it is that they'll play together as a team building elaborate home structures. At one point, they built an amusement park with roller coaster rides and everything. One of the other games I have introduced them to is the game Fez. It allows them to simply explore another colorful 2d/3d world as a single player.
This dead post on HN made the same claim: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5692179

Was there a date on Nelson's? I don't really buy it as being correct, but hey.
I think it's fascinating. If you read his other comments he's obviously brilliant. That said, he seems to be somewhat detached from reality over his episode at Google. Not that perf isn't shitty just that he seems to think he alone can do anything about it. It's like the endearing megalomania of a child who honestly believes he'll grow up to single handedly end world hunger or cure cancer. You just hope that after he realizes his limitations he isn't so distraught that it keeps him from accomplishing what he's clearly capable of.
Quantum Computing is Real (But Not Very Useful): Research on The D-Wave Two
"Your factual claim that infrastructure would not exist without the government". Your desire to reduce this to black and white statements tells me you're only interested in convincing yourself you're right.
"private telephone companies (dial up) would never have bothered wiring huge swaths of this country where houses or farms are miles apart." It's not too hard to deduce from my statement that private telephone companies would have wired parts of the country where homes were very close together and they could therefore reasonably price their services and capture a profit. And roads would be built to the most populous towns and cities where there would be enough traffic to create tolls low enough that people would adopt the roads.

Again, government investment in infrastructure makes a lot of sense, and happens, when the economics do not make sense for a private company.
Control Groups (cgroups)

https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt

https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_E...
I did history | grep -v "=" | .... to ensure that commands where I specified environment variables are ignored.
Sure, elasticsearch is absolutely great, no question on that. Nevertheless, a) it requires running Java and configuring JVM, b) Sphinx full-text search engine is really powerful, reliable and fast. So why not build a handy interface around Sphinx also? There is always room for more open-source software :).
Yahoo 'to buy Tumblr for $1.1bn'
What is the best tablet/laptop for Ubuntu + Android for development?
As the title asks, i'm looking for a tablet/laptop/ultrabook with the following configuration:
1. 8GB DDR3 minimum
2. Ability to dual boot between Android (AOSP preferbaly) and Ubuntu
3. Greater than 10.1 inches (with a decent resolution ofcourse, 1080s would be awesome)
4. 3G is not necessary but awesome if it has capability.
5. Touch screen (if its a tablet)

Main purpose of usage - Development - Android and Web Dev are main processes.

The recent news of the Italian company which released a tablet which supports Ubuntu, Android (and Win8 which i'm not interested in) spiked my curiosity as to whether there are any other such devices out there.
Yes! I remember reading this, it is notable that Facegroup failed to mention this, or to even spot that the "viral" nature was being pushed by particular groups.

Oh, "Each video was led by an individual or organization with massive reach – YouTube", yeah, real deep analysis. Much more interesting would be to break down into who posted what videos, who was hyping them on twitter, and so on.

Could the influencers and their actions described in the qz article be spotted by some form of algorithmic analysis? Now that would be interesting.
Bootstrap has always meant starting a business using your own money/resources. I guess that's why the Twitter guys named their framework it - you can get a website together to a decent standard without needing to pay for a designer (the 'bootstrap framework' helps you bootstrap a business).
Ted's impression of a Sherlock, Watson conversation alone is worth the price of admission.
"Barista" seems to fit the bill.
"This doesn't make sense. Which CEO doesn't believe that their stock won't go up in 3 years? If they don't believe it, they should be fired."

Yes, they should be fired, but that's not how business works. In reality executives are self-dealing all of the time and corporations survive due to the constant small wins and losses between large groups of self-dealing people.

The CEO, as an insider, has the best knowledge of a company's financial position and estimates of the coming year. Additionally, executives can manipulate earnings and costs by a degree to achieve the outcome they want.

Issuing stock signals to investors that insiders expect the price to go down just as buybacks signal that it will go up. Issuing stock will send the stock lower whether or not the actual numbers show losses in the future.
Thank you for giving me hope about what being a parent can be. I see all my friends who've started having kids over the past few years just plunking junior down in front of the tv to keep her occupied. I want to believe that there are others out there who are willing to try and find another way, but my immediate circles were seeming otherwise.

It's great to hear they have so many friends engaging with them. You can try alternate forms of entertainment like this, but if all the friends just watch tv, you're either ostrisizing your own child or becoming the "bad parent" in their eye because everyone else gets to watch tv.
Depending how much you trust Google's privacy settings, doesn't Google+ fit that bill? I don't think it's what photographers really want, but it sounds like a solid alternative.
How would you correctly pronounce 'Satoshi Nakamoto'?
And they failed to spot that Harlem Shake certainly did have one or two leaders - see the qz.com article linked by sweedy in a previous comment.
18 trackers via Ghostery. Tiny article split into 3 pages. Uber-janky scroll. First on the list is Drupal.

itworld.com, never again.
> Even their own propaganda used the term Diktatur des Proletariats.

You have no idea what this means, do you?
10 lessons from a failed startup
Project looks great. Great Github page too – is this a stock Github template?
aalns [dead] comment:

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Yes, but is it ready for the next Die Hard?
What do you use to keep notes as a developer?
Is Shinichi Mochizuki (of ABC conjecture proof fame) behind Bitcoin?
Yay - thanks for the feedback! Stats page is already in the making... Listing Twitter comments along with the votes and stats have been put on the list :-)
Yeah, it's replaced just a ton of boilerplate `def run(*args):` functions wrapping Popen. I couldn't be happier.
This is assuming that the fixes are necessarily designed to save time. That's not always the case, however: I have some tasks that are fairly quick, but it's far easier to automate them (even though, in time savings, the automation is worthless compared to the effort expended) than to just do them by hand. With manual tasks, there is a certain annoyance factor, and, if you're anything like me, you will forget to do it once or twice and figure out only when someone complains.
> Separation occurs when the rocket is traveling 4x faster then a speeding bullet.
> Nearly 10x the speed of sound.

The captions are a little misleading. The separation occurs in the vacuum so you don't have any structural or temperature problems, no nasty shockwaves. It's not a problem to travel very fast once you are up there. (I like their work, I think it's amazing, but I don't like the unrelated astonishing trivia.)
> FB are proudly on G+, for reasons I don't understand.

A couple reasons I've heard/seen:

* Lots of folks are more trusting of Google with their data than they are of Facebook

* Somewhat related to the above, circle management is a lot easier to get/use than Facebook's groups, and privacy management tends to be easier on G+ as a result

* Facebook makes terrible mobile applications and Google+ has the nicest mobile client for a social networking site
Thanks! It's a custom design. The designer's page is http://danaepanopoulou.com/
"At the height of the Autobahn building phase, in 1935, for every sixty people in Germany there was just one automobile, compared to one for every twenty in France, or one for every twenty-five in Denmark; in the United States, one person out of every five owned a car of their own."

Impossible to believe. If you simply factor in age and sex it seems near impossible that in 1935 1 out of every 5 people owned a car at that time.
Group dynamics: Policing of boundaries
I think even in the Silicon Valley the salaries other than the selective big guys has not even kept up with inflation. A 2 year-experience developer still gets between 80-100k or less. This is what was being paid in 2000 as well. The situation is probably the same elsewhere.

Of course, my numbers above are from my own poor sampling.
I imagine the parent in the OP would also steer her child away from violence the same way she does bad language. That's just how our society is: There are some words and phrases that we have all accepted are improper or "bad", so most of us refrain from allowing children to hear them.
Diaspora highlights my biggest worry as an entrepreneur: building something for the way I wish users were versus the way they actually are.