skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
JPM wasn't doing this out of obligation - he wanted to make money too!

Noblesse Oblige is alive and well - it's called crowdfunding now! ;-)
I like the aesthetic of this and the fact that it's based on the open web, though I wish that you invested your time into making more original video games. There aren't enough of those in the world!
Instead of saying someone is an "expert" or what have you, why not just say "x works very actively with Python" or "x dabbles in Javascript"
Since you mention them together a few times, I think it is worth pointing out that the vast majority of lactose intolerant people simply lack the ability to produce an enzyme that digests lactose, while gluten related conditions mostly seem to involve some sort of immune response. Some people probably do have a genuine milk allergy, but mostly lactose intolerant people are just unable to make lactase.

The discomfort stemming from lactose intolerance comes from bacteria digesting the sugar and making gas, etc. The discomfort (and further problems) from gluten is well understood to be an immune response in some instances (Celiacs, wheat allergies), and still thought to be an immune response in most remaining cases.
I knew this sounded familiar! Thanks for posting the link and explaining why I thought I was having a stroke.
very cute :-)
Almost boggles the mind how far the web has scaled.

"Internet-based selling is expected to quadruple in the next few years from $2.4 billion last year to $12.1 billion by 2000, according to Forrester Research."

Compared to (from March 13th):

"Forrester: U.S. Online Retail Sales To Rise To $370BN By 2017"

http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/13/forrester-2012-2017-ecommer...
Doccy - Create and send personalized documents
Is this for e-commerce? I just suspected you guys didn't seriously consider e-commerce since you don't do pre-auth and settlement. It being illegal to charge the customer before shipping in some countries and such.
Yes, that link works at 11fps and I'm using Firefox 21
Did you read the post?

> If you don't have your own payment processing, you will need to transition to a different solution within six months. To make things easier, we've partnered with Braintree, Shopify and Freshbooks to offer you discounted migration options.

So you have 6 months and several options for migration.
I think this model is flawed.

It tries to boil the problem down to a 'discomfort' level, where what really matters is how long I think I can comfortably stay on the road, how fast I can cross the road, and how long I expect to wait to cross the road.

Let's assume all sections of the road are equally good for crossing (no pedestrian crossings etc). The road will then have a 'maximum angle of attack' which is a function of how fast I am travelling and how long I can stay on the road. I will walk in roughly the same pattern as in the link HOWEVER I will never cross at an angle greater than the maximum and I will potentially cross earlier or later depending on gaps in the traffic; it's faster to keep walking then to wait for a gap in traffic.

The main shortcoming in the model is that there is no upper limit on the angle of attack, and so it is easy to find example situations that are unrealistic.
Nothing will stop them - but, (and I'm just guessing here) - the type of people who host more than one terabyte of photos on flickr probably don't want to screw around with multiple accounts - tracking your detailed stats, alone, gets to be a hassle with multiple accounts. Obviously some people will - but I'm guessing those will be few enough not to matter.

The bulk of the people who want to host 2 Terabytes of Photos will be fine paying $500/year, those who aren't can create multiple accounts. (Those who just want Local+Cloud backups are probably better served by just buying a 2 TB Hard Drive for $90, and backing up with backblaze for $50/year
No S5 for you?
Ask HN: Would you buy a .ar domain name?
Would you buy a .ar domain name if it did not require a suffix like .ar.com?

I have not found a way to register domain names that just end in .ar and I am thinking about undertaking the effort to try to convince members of the Argentinian NIC / government body to open up .ar extensions without any modifying suffixes.

There are numerous words and phrases in languages around the world that end in .ar and the country, businesses, people, and registrars (I am not a registrar) could benefit.

What do you think?
I am genuinely confused. I am currently a Pro user. I'm happy paying $25/year for what I get.

Now, to get all the same benefits that I was getting for $25/year, I can just degrade to a free account? I guess this assumes that there are a lot of mobile users now and installing ad-blockers on mobile is much more difficult.

Still, what a strange decision.
The Low-Tech Way Guns Get Traced
And Internet forum votes aren't personal. Karma doesn't matter. We downvote bad information, period.
I was thinking to use Yubikey MFA, and _not_ to make there be a link to bypass it if you don't have your key with you, so that no one can brute force anything ever.
I'd say that quote means he is a utopian. Communism describes a particular methodology (e.g. abolition of private property) that is theorized to lead to said utopia. I'm not so certain he is a proponent of Communist methods.
Is this just how it is for local businesses?
David pushed me to do amazing work that I didn’t think was possible.

A quality of a great leader.

Phenomenal post, thanks so much for sharing this.
It's overrated, but all the other competing services are much worse? I'm confused.
I love this post, +100 if I could. Incredibly perceptive and well thought out.
I dislike the word simply because it's vague. If it's fast, just say so. I have yet to see an instance where this word captured some subtle shade of meaning that some other word could not.
Even if they were 'locked' into the shares, they could have always collared them as Mark Cuban did (he was stuck in his Yahoo position when the market imploded, but was protected via the collar he set up with Goldman Sachs to limit the downside).

http://investmentxyz.blogspot.com/2006/05/cubans-collar-anat...
Does it really matter that it isn't tied to Google's ad ecosystem if it has its own revenue stream (paid plans for increased storage)? I know everyone's been a bit shaken up with google's flurry of closures, but this isn't like reader, it's actually being monetized. Not to mention that Google recently consolidated Gmail and Picasa/G+ photo storage into Drive accounts -- this hints that google's long-term plan might be to treat Drive like a sort of unified storage system. This makes sense given google's recent push to unify everything, and should ensure it some stability. If anything, it's more likely that they'll kill off Chrome OS/Chromebooks (which heavily rely on Drive) before they kill off Drive[1], so I feel relatively safe with it. I would go so far as to say that Dropbox feels just as safe because Google isn't exactly a competitor that should be underestimated (despite their many flops).

Either way, I use Docs way too much, to the point where I always have a tab with it open, and Drive really ties everything in quite smoothly for me. I also like the Drive app a bit more than the Dropbox app on my android phone, so not really a strong incentive for me to switch back. I actually never made much of a conscious decision to switch to Drive in the first place, it just kind of happened automatically due to convenience, and now I use it almost exclusively.

The only thing that does bug me is the data-loss. I haven't had it happen in Drive proper, but it happening in the short time I've used Keep certainly lends credibility to it being a wider-spread problem. We'll see...

[1] Not that I feel ChromeOS is 'safe' from the killswitch, but it's still a bit too early to tell what their plan is for that exactly
I was trying to find a good URL for bookmarking and adding to my RSS reader. Is https://www.blossom.io/blog.html the best one?
Show HN: An alternative to flickr's UI that focuses on learning photography
klekr is about a simple mission: helping users discover beautiful photos and expand their own tastes for photography.

How? It's based on a simple assumption: if you like the photos by a photographer, you may also like some of his/her favorite photos, and, even more importantly, you may conceivably learn to appreciate some of them that did not appeal to you at the first sight.

By displaying photos from photographers' works and faves together in a single personalized slideshow, klekr makes it a lot easier to see the favorite photos of your favorite photographers.

On top of this simple concept, klekr is developed with a number of unique features that make such photo discovery as easy as possible.
But Tumblr had $14 million in revenue last year. I suspect they could be in the black on that, and if not, they're within striking range.

Well they clearly aren't. The company has received $125 million in funding to date, including $85 million about 18 months ago. Their costs are obviously well over $14 million a year.
Show HN:  StartupNYC, a job board for NYC startups
Come back when you have something to show us. Invite only w/o a way to request one? Use email cc to send money? Seems pretty damn dangerous to me so you need to explain things in a lot more detail.
I'm not sure what point you're trying to make.

Should Congress not try to fix structural problems in the tax code which allow plenty of corporations avoid tax obligations?
I think that if you really control for all else like ethnicity, it would go away, but to condition on that much would miss the point.
I disagree. Google's recent efforts to narrow its focus (i.e. Google+, killing Reader) have been miserable failures. Being able to do 50 things at once, on the other hand, lets them come up with truly groundbreaking things like Glass and the self-driving car.
lol I WANT IT! SOLD!
That's impressive how much performance can be added by simple (uhh, really not at all) compiler optimizations. Is it a language's maximum performance? Don't think so.
Look at javascript (V8) vs Ruby/Python performance. Somehow almost equivalent languages now playing in different leagues - the only differenct in time & money sent for optimizations
Worked quite well for me, then started 404'ing. Load issues I presume.

Either way bravo, great idea.
If you are interested in learning seriously in photography, you might like klekr better. klekr is about a simple mission: helping users discover beautiful photos and expand their own tastes for photography.

How? It's based on a simple assumption: if you like the photos by a photographer, you may also like some of his/her favorite photos, and, even more importantly, you may conceivably learn to appreciate some of them that did not appeal to you at the first sight.

By displaying photos from photographers' works and faves together in a single personalized slideshow, klekr makes it a lot easier to see the favorite photos of your favorite photographers.

On top of this simple concept, klekr is developed with a number of unique features that make such photo discovery as easy as possible.
As a counterpoint, I never use Interac for payments precisely because I can use my credit card and get all the benefits that offers: rewards, zero liability, deferred payment, etc. The only place I use debit is at Tim Horton's if I don't have cash as they don't accept Visa.
No one has pointed out to you that it's $50 a year, not month.
That sentence is confusing at best. "If you don't have your own payment processing" What does that mean? I thought Google Checkout was my payment processor? Do they mean if you already have a payment processor other than Google?

And if I _do_ have my own payment processing then I won't need to "transition to a different solution within six months". What does that mean, are they going to give me all the subscribers credit card info so I can start charging their cards myself? I don't think so.

As far as I know Braintree only does direct credit card processing, similar to Stripe. If they are planning on migrating all the Google Checkout subscriptions to Braintree credit card subscriptions that would be great but it doesn't sound like that to me. And how would that work for the Google Checkout users who were able to manage their subscriptions through the Google Checkout interface? Does Braintree have an interface for all Google Checkout users or do they lose their interface and need to go through the merchant now?
There was a similar problem involving a dog attempting to get to a thrown ball into a lake. The dog wants to minimize its time to the ball, but has a slower swimming speed than running speed.

http://www.maa.org/features/elvisdog.pdf
Prenda Law: The Sound of One Shoe Dropping
Yahoo Back On Top After Purchasing Millions Of 13-Year-Old Girls’ Blogs
OTOH, if tumblr disappeared today, I don't see how that would change the society. Facebook or Reddit - maybe, though even there doubtful, but but I don't see tumblr among the pillars of the society.
"Enthusiasm for tweeting about everything that goes into, and comes out of, your body" = my favorite part.

I don't have a problem with LinkedIn's endorsement system. I think users think they're doing something nice for their friends by endorsing them. But employers and clients probably don't really take the endorsements seriously, so they end up being online noise (like YouTube and newspaper comment threads, which is one of the points you're making here).
Thanks zombio. But it actually DOES send faster. 2x faster than Dropbox and Google Drive...
Video player says "No video with supported format and MIME type found." Using FF 20.0 on OSX.
FWIW, they now let you upload your own epub and PDF files (up to 1,000 items), as of last week. If you enjoy Books as a distribution platform and reader for your devices, but want to buy your books elsewhere.
I think it's different when there're concrete numbers that the company can use to inform their decisions. Apple only does profitable things; if they kill a product, it's because it's no longer making them enough money.
The strategies are to bring about the abolishment of the Law of Value, but they're talking about after that.

(And Marxism is specifically a critique of Utopianism...)
62% unrelated: Nikola Tesla vs Thomas Edison (Epic Rap Battes of History):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ1Mz7kGVf0
"____ Ruined ____ for Me"
Yahoo! has a history with screwing up while trying to integrate acquisitions into their ecosystem (e.g. forcing people to drop their old account for a Yahoo! account, with an email address, etc, etc). Yahoo! will honor these promises for a while if they don't want to drive the Tumblr users away to other microblogging platforms.
It's not profitable, at least it wasn't six months ago, and very likely is not today.

http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/12v8y3/now_is_the_time...
Yahoo's stock is indeed at the highest point since 2008, but so is the NASDAQ. While part of the growth may be from Meyer, a huge portion of the growth is simply because the market as a whole is on a major upswing:

https://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1...
Wait what is this? I thought I was looking at Reddit's pitch deck.
You're not familiar with tax law. What you just said is emphatically NOT true, even for private citizens. As an American citizen you are not liable to pay federal income taxes on income earned overseas until it exceeds a specified amount (>$100,000) - even if you aren't paying any local taxes on it.
Hey, creator here, happy to answer any questions people might have (or get your startup listed). I'm drawing primarily on the Made in NY list of companies as the seed list, filling in the company information from Crunchbase and Angel List, and getting jobs from AngelList, Startuply, the resumator, indeed, jobscore, stackoverflow, simply hired and some manual scraping.
Not sure how I feel about these "Being a sys-admin is hard, I'd rather not do it" type posts. This is literally THE CORE OF YOUR COMPANY, your site not working is inexcusable!

I think this is going to be an emerging problem for many startups these days. Patterns of completely unstable products because "ops is hard LOL" followed by a desperate attempt to hire actual sysadmins for their company and excuse after excuse of how "awesome we are for growing so quickly!".
http://www.gwern.net/Google%20shutdowns may be of interest to you.
Go Long on Yahoo. I betting the general consensus is optimistic about Yahoo....like I said in a different post, Yahoo is making great headlines, or what was the term at Google when Mayer was there (buzz,JK).

As for what I believe, I REALLY hope Yahoo keeps it up, but I like rooting for the underdog...ditch the contract with bing searches, and redesign the homepage already. Keep up the good PR...now back it with the good products
Yes but they are predicated on his successful career.
Ask HN: How do I cut the other cord?
Help, I just moved into my new place and found out that Comcast has a monopoly over the building.

Are there any other options out there for me? I know Verizon offers 4G cards, etc. Are those comparable in terms of speed/price/reliance? Or am I doomed to use Comcast?
Up 1.4% at the most, day close of up .23%, given tech stock, would prefer to say that it has little relation to tumblr acquisition today
The Q is pretty much dead at this point, the new Play Music update no longer allows you to stream to it. Google TV just got an update to 4.2.2, and I think it will be updated for the time being.
Celluon Epic Released to Media
I'm on the media mailing list for Celluon, so I'll go ahead and "leak" the email.

Dear valuable media partners,

Celluon is happy to announce our official release of new product, Epic.
We worked around the clock to address the form factor of our products. Epic is now the size of two matchboxes. It has gotten 50% slimmer and sits 1cm shorter. We completely redesigned the optics to improve usability by adding smart tip tracking, which blocks out objects that do not resemble a keystroke. To improve user experience, Epic now connects via simplified Bluetooth pairing that does not require pass codes.
In addition, new pairing button has been implemented for easy access and connection with latest and popular devices. Speaking of new devices, Epic is compatible with Blackberry 10 devices, notably the Blackberry Z10 and upcoming Q10 models.

Spec Sheet: http://d.pr/i/MjKe

I'll hopefully be writing a blog post about this shortly.
Yahoo Finance is better if you want news and other infotainment to go along with your quotes. If you just want data, G Finance is significantly better and is the go-to resource for sophisticated investors/traders etc.

What I think you meant to say was 'unsophisticated market participants choose Yahoo Finance' in which case you're probably correct.
What's this non-NSFW madness you talk about? Most of the beauty of Tumblr for many of us has been the lax of TOS enforcement from the people at Tumblr, this has rendered countless of blogs ranging from vanilla porn to the most gore-ish and deviated pictures I have seen in my life.
I think I'll just sit back and watch how this develops, I am an avid Tumblr user and I would really hate it if they started to take away my much beloved NSFW blogs.
Does Fermat's principle allow for variable refractions?

Yes, and a common example is how light from the sky can bend to run through a layer of hot air right over hot sand, causing a mirage.

However Fermat's principle is a local rule. That is, there should be no way to improve the path by adjusting it a little bit, but it might not be a global minimum. The classic example demonstrating this is a mirror. The light bouncing off the mirror often had a shorter path available (just go directly there), but there was no local variant of the path which was better than the one that it took.

Fermat's principle holds for different things for different reasons. For instance light follows the principle because of how the wave front expands. Ants follow the principle because ants that followed a faster path tend to lay a fresher scent trail. But my other comments remain true regardless of why it holds for any particular type of thing.
Meh. I only need so much money.
Directly from irs.gov

"If you are a U.S. citizen or resident alien, the rules for filing income, estate, and gift tax returns and paying estimated tax are generally the same whether you are in the United States or abroad. Your worldwide income is subject to U.S. income tax, regardless of where you reside."

"If you are a U.S. citizen or resident alien, you must report income from all sources within and outside of the U.S. This is true whether or not you receive a Form W-2 Wage and Tax Statement, a Form 1099 (Information Return) or the foreign equivalents."
Uh... calling it a "shutdown" isn't all that close to the truth. They're transitioning from Checkout to Wallet.
Most feed readers should be able to find the blog's rss feed. But you can also use our feedburner url if you want to be more explicit: http://feeds.feedburner.com/blossomio

We also have an email newsletter on the right-hand side of the blog (I'm still looking for feedreaders that also support email newsletters btw if anyone knows something in that direction).

hth
So? I can easily write

>> Y = ->(&x) { ->(f) { f[f] }[ ->(g) { x[ ->(*n) { g[g][*n] } ] } ] }
>> fac = Y.call {|this| -> (n) { n > 0 ? n * this[n - 1] : 1 } }
>> fac[5]
=> 120

You can argue that Ruby doesn't lend itself towards higher-order functional programming, but I asserting that Ruby isn't a function language isn't a tenable position.
Some time ago I replaced my HDD with an SSD. I copied all my data over (including metadata). Everything pretty much worked as before, although I had to log into Dropbox and Google Drive again.

Dropbox then continued to index all my files and verify that my Dropbox folder was properly synchronized with the server side of things.

Google Drive, however, told me to delete my Google Drive folder and download all my files again.

Since I had a lot of files in there I proceeded by deleting Google Drive and canceling my paid storage instead.
The 300MB limit might have been removed from the copy, but it's still enforced: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5428533/Capture.PNG
Imagination Experiment: Visualizing Transformative Tech
Weren't you taking a one month break from hacker news?

http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2013/05/18/one-month-bre...
http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=YHOO+Interactive#symbol=Y...
It does not, actually. We encourage discussion.
> you might be able to kill an important deal

That's still stupid and could backfire badly.

No, the best plan is not to want anything out of the acquisition besides the cash. Sell it, walk away, do your next thing.
At this point you may very well not have analytical solutions anymore. But that's fine, you could do a numeric simulation and thereby obtain your maximum-comfort curved trajectory. :)
Awesome. I added it to feedly right after I asked, and it seemed to work fine. Also subscribed to the email newsletter. Keep up the good work!
YHOO was flat until Meyer was hired last July.
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We didn't take a dollar of external funding.

If Tumblr didn't have a way to put capital to use, why did they take almost $100MM in funding? What do you allege they did with it?

You've put a glossy veneer on your argument to be sure, but when I dig into it even a little bit, it seems like there's nothing inside it. That's too bad, because I don't like the venture funded startup ecosystem, and I wish people mounted more effective arguments against it.
If you continue to pay for the Pro account, you get no ads (the free tier is ad supported), unlimited storage space (no new plans get this, so this is a nice grandfathered bonus.. if you need more than 1TB that is) and photo stats.

But yes, the difference between free and Pro is no longer as large of a distinction as it used to be.
So my friend’s grandfather was hit by a car while jaywalking. His widow, who was in operations research said: “he died of premature optimization."
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