skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See OpenRuko:

https://github.com/openruko

I haven't used it myself, but it seems to be a Heroku clone written in Node.js.

There's also CloudFoundry, which used to be quite different but is now adding support for Heroku-style buildpacks in V2:

http://docs.cloudfoundry.com/
'posts_per_page' => 'all' is not a valid value.
Geocoding is relatively tricky, was there something weird about your address?
I don't know the market that well, aside from doing some analysis on some of the telco securities (for my own use). Though they seem to be building themselves to be a next-gen telco.
Manage Your Robot Army (startup launch)
The author's central point of tech leaders needing to be sensitive to the overriding social issue of the time (jobs) is an extremely important one. You can wax philosophical about "disruption" all you want, but keep in mind that in the common parlance, "disruption" is a negative word. People don't want their lives and livelihoods "disrupted" and to the extent that such disruption is inevitable, they need to feel like there is a clear path from there to stability. This is a central point of conservatism that seems to be lost on both sides of the political aisle today: to a point, stability is a good and desirable thing.
"start or buy a small local business (restaurant, cafe, club, etc.)"

Looking at the life experience of local pro athletes, the most likely way to retire with a very small fortune while owning a small business is to start it with a very large fortune. There's actually a business model oriented around taking money from athletes and home equity loan cash out refinancer types, then buying the asset back for pennies on the dollar at the bankruptcy to resell back to the next sucker with some money. At least in the cash businesses, you can never undercut the people who are a front for laundering money, like the recently busted local candle (and weed) store.

Also the experience seems to bifurcate where the owners are either stuck working 80 hour weeks, or they hire someone else to be the general manager in which case owning the business but having nothing to do with day to day operations has all the interest and excitement of buying stock online.
To be fair, if you have the time and the room, it really does make a lot of sense to learn some items in care repair. Similarly, being a fully trained plumber is a daunting task. Fixing most problems in your bathroom is actually straight forward.

Of course, some of this comes down to a value judgement. How much is it worth it to you, personally, to not have to mess with a broken toilette? :)
This is a great comment for perspective. I rarely comment on anything. The reason is that HN is full of folks who spend all day posting about issues that they've yet to contribute even something small, let alone something of significance in the topic area they pretend to be an "expert".

I'll share a personal example. I've not been a fan of your approach to RSS in the past. I was especially frustrated when developing a parser and having a fragmented landscape because of RSS 2.0, and other developers lack of understanding that your blog didn't represent a standards body. However, I never publicly complained about it because I understand why it happened, so I just shut my mouth and get back to making my parser work. At the time, even now, publicly complaining about your contributions would be incredibly disrespectful to your body of work.

The only way I would ever be in any position of criticism is if I had a similar body of work to compare. I didn't then, and I sure don't now, so I just respectfully keep my mouth shut and work on what I can contribute.
She shouldn't have taken such a large position in a single stock. As a retail investor, that is stupidity.

As a retail investor, it is your job to find someone who knows what they are doing and can teach you how to invest or manage your investments for you. After that, if you are investing over 10% of your portfolio in one stock you are asking to be broke.

Your car analogy doesn't work because there is really no way to diversify your car whereas there are plenty of ways to avoid this kind of bad decision with your investments.
Kinda good idea, but maybe not. Major problem being that it's too easy to accidentally interrupt (even temporarily) a transfer that you had already forgotten because you thought of it as "sent"/"done" by eg shutting/sleeping your computer down.
I think this is why facebook won't be the company to capitalize on this possible niche. People's facebook friends, and the things they share on facebook are all very personal. You share way too much for people to just talk to and friend anyone on facebook.

When you go to a house party, all you bring is yourself, and your social skills. You don't show people your baby pictures, grandma's birthday presents, or your relationship status. Other than name and face, you can be fairly anonymous. There is also the aspect of a host introducing you to others, or forcing some kind of mingling of different circles of friends.

That all seems like it would translate well into a social platform. Mutual friends, forcing some kinds of interactions between their acquaintances, where there is at least some anonymity, but not total anonymity.
Oh god. I am so tired of hearing that bullshit "einstein was wrong" line.

People always toss that around as code for "nyah nyah! I'm even SMARTER than einstein" or "hey guys, physics is in crisis mode because einstein was actually dumb. also, the sky is falling."

Come on. Wrong about "what"? That you CAN'T transform matter into energy? That heavier elements DON'T form as a byproduct of stellar processes? Okay, guy. Go prove that. Or next time be specific about precisely WHAT will be proven wrong.
Florida's Natural (a national orange juice brand in the US) is also organized as a grower's cooperative, which is similar but not identical to consumer coops like REI.
This happens in every services industry, not just website development. A combination of new technology, experience, and the dispersion of knowledge drive down costs and margins. Nobody hires accountants to do their adding and subtracting, but there's still demand for experts in new regulations or the eccentricities of the tax code.

The same thing is happening in website development (and really, all sorts of technology related services businesses). Over time, the low hanging fruit gets automated, and margins get compressed.

As your firm evolves, you find margin in one of two ways. You either stay at the high end, and continuously learn new technologies and how to solve higher level problems for clients. You are continuously jettisoning your old bread-and-butter projects to work on the latest and greatest thing, solving new problems that didn't exist a short time ago.

Or you follow the work down-market and focus on scale and efficiency. You figure out that you can get profit from process and automation, you turn your toolkit into an offering that you can sell at a high margin.

Either approach works, but firms tend to get in trouble when they try to straddle the middle, and just sort of hope that clients will still pay big margins for work that's become routinized.
“Acquisition should never be the goal. Build something people love, and build revenue to keep it sustainable. After that, the decision to sell is very personal.”

He's right about that. At the same time, for the founders, especially selling for cash like tumblr, it would be silly for them not to accept the deal and get a couple hundred million each. The rest will get a decent bonus.

The tech industry has a very short memory. It's ridiculous to see the same companies making the same mistakes year after year. Let's face it Yahoo, you've been a zombie for awhile now. I just wonder what the headshot will finally look like.
The child, the tablet and the developing mind
Is it me, or that's like eleventh time this has been posted here in the last 12 months?
Perhaps not what? The OP didn't mention anything that "perhaps not" would even be remotely warranted as an answer to.

It sounds like you were just looking for an opportunity to discredit the guy and got tired of waiting.
Freelancer Accountability Service?
My startup is approaching our second birthday. Its been a wild ride, and I've certainly learned a lot, but something has always bothered me about the path we took...

We've worked with a good amount of technical contractors over the life of this company. These days we have a solid core of full time and part time workers, and we're doing well enough that we can start to hire some of our best. Times are good, and the world is looking up.

But I remember the 'dark days' that we were in only a dozen months ago. We were three young guys with a solid business idea, hunting for reliable, capable, and honest technical ability that would help us create the company of our dreams. We struck out with a few of our contractors - they simply ran away with the first one or two payments, or were completely incapable of accomplishing the task, and slowed us down because of their obvious incompetence.

Sure, in hindsight it might seem so obvious that you're going to get 'played', but the fact is I'm sure its happened to more companies than my own. I diligently researched our contractors as best as possible, and it just seems like a fact of life that there are wolves (or simply dumb-dumbs with a heavy dosage of confidence) out there.

Last week I was consulting a friend of mine who is looking for his own technical resources, and it really started to irk me - I wish I would have `known` about these guys, or had somewhere to go out to and ask about their character and reliability (aside from the always positive references they provide).

Is there a database for this stuff? An Angie's List for developers? If not, who wants to make one with me?
Well, why was it posted to HN in the first place? Because of the Yahoo/Tumblr sale. That makes it relevant.
lol I don't buy this, just take a look at pretty much every CMS (hosted or otherwise) and weep if you think as a complete amateur you're going to create a site with their wysiwyg content editable that actually looks half way decent.

Website design isn't just about being able to create a site without touching html, it's actually about it looking like a grown up made it. As soon as you're a few hours into your new creation you're going to want to tweak it (a lot), good luck sifting through the html soup the editor created for you.
..because the main reason it’s [jobs leaving US] happening is a radical increase in automation and robotics driven by the very set of technologies so fabulously enriching Silicon Valley’s .01%

Not so sure, I was involuntarily involved in shipping my own manufacturing engineering job along with many of our production staff's jobs overseas and it was not due to robotics and automation. We had a lot of automation in our US manufacturing but when production went overseas the robots went away and were replaced with manual labor. Most of our US jobs were higher qualified with operators and engineers working alongside automated equipment but our partners in Asia found that the robots were more expensive than manual workbenches and that it was hard to find operators and technicians that could keep up with automated manufacturing.
I see email spoofing being a problem with this.
Or "1000 paying users", which could still be impressive, depending on conversion rates.
Or they will pay in 45-60 days and take the discount anyway.
yeah, I'm super impressed.
Agreed! Looks like it was a slight hypocricy on my part :D
Suggest moving sideways to CentOS/Scientific Linux/Springdale Linux (RHEL 6 clones) if Fedora 12/13 based desktop with some updated packages is not too old for you.
Thats an excellent suggestion. We do have plans to modularize the browser component to offer browser as a web service.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxv7iXwIgno
"All I remember of it was there came a point in the conversation when Mayer had had enough. She just got up and left."

That's some selective memory Dave Winer has. I wonder what he said? Should I expect to find out on a blog post from Marissa Mayer on the subject, on her brand new Tumbler?
One thing I don't see people talk about enough in the context of home or car repair is liability. Not only do I not want to mess with a broken toilet, but if I screw up and flood my bathroom, it is my fault. If the plumber does it (less likely because they know what they are doing) then they are on the hook. For some things the cost of failure is low, but for many, especially when being paid a programmers salary, the marginal savings (e.g. 15 bucks for an oil change) isn't worth the time and liability.

YMMV (literally :D).
Efficient Forth in 85 Lines of Racket
I think it's all to do with perceived norms. Facebook isn't really designed to be a place for meeting people you don't fully trust - there's too much risk as you're giving them all the information you've ever shared (on facebook) ever and permitting them to clog up your newsfeed - and so anyone that breaks these norms is either a creep or a spammer.

Twitter's a bit better. I've seen that you can slowly form connections there, but only through the internet-equivalent of small talk in the magazine aisle of a supermarket you both shop at.

Back in the days of MySpace it certainly didn't seem quite as closed off - friend requests and messages from strangers because they were cute weren't always creepy (nb. may be a more a symptom of being 14 rather than an intrinsic property of the interaction...). Also, sites like Grindr seemed to have solved one aspect of the meeting strangers problem - albeit only in the gay sex niche.
Google's plan to make Android developers rich
Google’s Android team was clear in its appeal to developers at Google I/O 2013: Google is here to give developers the tools to build better apps and make money in the process. Canalys recently reported that the Apple App Store produced 74% of all app revenue, a key issue for Google in appealing to developers whose business models rely on paid downloads and in-app purchases. Google has introduced improvements to the Developer Console to increase developer revenue. Aligned with its revenue strategy are Google’s improvements in development tools, which aim to make it easier to develop Android apps, accommodate phone and tablet form factors, and design apps to generate international revenue.
I don't know that this is as cast iron as you think. It really depends on what the market does, but I would rather have a large lump sum in a diversified investment than a fixed monthly income. Generally investments return at higher rates in times of inflation where a fixed monthly income will only lose value more quickly.

That said, $5,000 a month is $60K a year, or 6% of $1,000,000. I'd probably take the $5k also since it's a reasonable (and 100% guaranteed) rate of return on the lump sum. I wouldn't feel much safer because it's "cast iron" -- it could still be worthless in 30 years. It's just a slightly better deal in your example.
Or when Apple bought NeXT, and shortly there after Steve became the CEO again. Apple did the buying, but NeXT was still in control.
I'm not sure I understand the apparent surprise here.

Firstly, there is a reason why, when driving through small towns, the names you see on the car dealerships are among the richest (if not the richest) around. Further, it is far from shocking that they have leveraged the power they have to entrench themselves.

What is so special about Texas that you would think they would be unique?
not really. his paper was actually a piece of software written for a specific PLC. he actually had to buy the plc hardware and he used this german software's trial version to get the code on the PLC. the problem was when he tried to retrieve the finished code and the trial expired.

the program itself is incredibly outdated and as my uncle says noone using it in the industry anymore. sadly this one was the only one with trial version
Not saying that cloud over dedicated host is the answer. Saying that it is an important question (and the answer should be application-specific).

When you find your business decisions going against the herd, you should really ask yourself WHY you're going against the herd, because our herd is pretty smart. That doesn't mean you should never go against, just that you should make sure you're thinking it through.
yes. very interested. very very interested :)
I found a lot of early cancellations were due to lack of localization, so yes I do believe that's something a lot of people are looking for. Also, at first I was just letting you change the currency, but now you can choose an output language so the strings on the invoice are internationalized (Rechnung is invoice in German!).

I do have an app empire in the making - and currently have had around $3,500 / month in passive income. I am hoping to grow that to around $6,000 / $7,000.
What happens when you enter a URL is just a specific implementation too. It's going to differ between operating systems, browsers, network setups..
My two year old says it. I really don't think she's jaded or mature, and she has NO IDEA what the word means. All she knows is that mommy or I say it when we are Extremely Frustrated (and don't manage to censor ourselves fast enough).

The worst part is, it's _extremely funny_ to hear her make a frustrated grunt, followed by "fuck!" We can't laugh, or we reward it!
Apple Posts Tim Cook Senate Testimony
Square Cash Will Let You Send Money To Your Friends By Email
The biggest merger you didn't hear about today
I believe EnterpriseDB already offer something like this: http://www.enterprisedb.com/
I know what you're saying, but I dismiss it for two reasons:

First, if Winer wants to get link-baity by piggybacking someone in the news, let's give some scrutiny to the relevance of that case. This is pretty silly-sounding stuff and I'm inclined to come down pretty firmly on Mayer's side by his account.

My job is to be willing to be persuaded – not to be a pushover to any opinion. It's the author's job to persuade – and to decide when name dropping is more trouble than it's worth.

The other reason: I'm not going to clap when someone makes an entirely self-evident point for the sole purpose of attaching their name to someone newsworthy.
Anything that lets me not use PayPal is a good thing.
Yay! thanks :) That looks like the Dropbox replacement I was hoping for to use at work.

Some questions:

1. How about transparent GZIP-ing files. For example, I ofter have to send large CSV files, but my recipients are not always skilled enough to unzip them

2. Is there a way for end-to-end encryption, if my recipient also uses your tool? Urls including a ?key=ABCDFGHJKL part come to mind... For example, you could randomly generate an AES CBC key on my machine, use that to encrypt, and produce an URL that my customer can use to decrypt it.

3. How does the mail get sent? Apple Mail? custom server? Do I need to hand out my SMTP login data?

4. How do you make money? Please clarify on your page that this is not one of those "we sell your data" schemes.

This looks promising :) Best regards,
Hajo
Sorry about the delay in answering.

No. Guestrepos does not handle non-hg repositories. I'm not offhand sure how complicated that would be. At some level, it should be very simple: `git clone && git checkout $rev`.

Pretty sure that a simplistic foreign implementation would work quite well.
That metaphor doesn't work for two reasons. First, over time a car has grown MORE complex, while the tools to create a website have grown LESS complex. At the same time, improved quality in engines, motor oil, and service technology has made routine maintenance not only easier, but also less expensive. Second, auto repair, like most skilled trades, is a great example where specialization of workers gets involved. It's not that you can't spend the time to learn how to repair a car, it's that you consider your time worth more. But in many cases, the cost of building a website has come down so rapidly that it doesn't require a big time commitment for many people.

There will always be room at the high end to solve problems that are complicated, large, or rare. But at the low end, things that were new 20 years ago just aren't anymore. Website development is becoming less like a mechanic and more like pumping gas.
Compute Engine looks promising. It used to require a subscription to Gold support ($400/month) before you could create any VMs, but they removed this restriction last week.

It still has very limited quotas, though: Maximum of 8 instances or 8 total CPUs. You can request a quota increase through a web form, but I did this a week ago and haven't heard back yet.

Also, it's still in a "limited preview" period, which means your entire zone can go down for weeks for scheduled maintenance, which is pretty inconvenient:

https://developers.google.com/compute/docs/faq#maintenance
US addresses in major cities (where these companies operate) is largely solved, though. You can just defer to Google Maps (who have the best geocoder I've ever used- still) or set up a GeoCommons geocoder locally, which isn't anywhere near as good, but does work with well formatted addresses.
Here's why you can't simply write like you talk [video]
Btw, the landing page is a Stripe.com rip off.
If you define text color, you should define background color as well. Otherwise you are making unfounded assumptions about the user's default background color.

Of course I can always override the stylesheet.
> To be fair, 2008 was the year the current financial meltdown started

No, that's not being fair at all. That's being irresponsibly optimistic. Let's say it is now 2005, you have a $1,000,000. You follow cpursley's advice, and put it in a well managed ETF/mutual fund, expecting to get 8%-12%. You get that for the first year and second year - and then you get -50% (which, if you look at your starting sum is "just" -40%). Now, you need 8 good years just to go back to where you started.

2005 is unfair? Go back to 1999, and check yourself at the end of 2001.

1999 is unfair? Go back to 1986.

My point being, the "common knowledge" 150 years long term average of 7%/year is irrelevant, for two reasons:

a) market dynamics have changed significantly in the last 10 years or so; the 140 years before that aren't as informative as the last 10 - and the last 10 are abysmal.

b) even if the 150 year statistics were relevant - what you care about is your 10-30 year horizon. There are just too many unlucky events during those 150 years that you are very likely to have a 30-50% loss in one of the years of your 10-30 year horizon -- which might take you 50 years (that you don't have) to average out and come out on top.

Anyone who really believes the 8%-12% numbers can borrow at <6%, invest at >8%, leverage ad absurdum and basically print money. Which, incidentally, is the empirical proof that 8% is not attainable.

(P.S - CALPERS assumed a modest 8% return. That's why they're now only 50% or so funded http://www.calwatchdog.com/2012/03/22/calpers-funding-might-... . If you can get them 8%, they'll give you $20M/year in salary. Really.)
I would love to see someone do a sort of trade deficit analysis to see how many products one of these companies uses versus how many other companies use them on this site. Obviously everyone will have far more export than import but perhaps the ratio would provide some interesting insight into how a company operates or how competitive their industry is.

It would just be a fun fishing expeditions with the data.
I honestly can't tell if the commenter intended their statement as a compliment, an insult, both, or value-neutral.