skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bankruptcy is normal in a free market. Let's let Airbnb disappear and make room for better companies.
Censorship is evil, I could agree with that.

About your second phrase now, you need to take into account the entire picture:

* If you plan to sell an app on Windows Store you will need Microsoft approval, no app will be published without that. Also, Microsoft will take 30% from your app price (until you make $20k, after which the cut is 20%).

* The only free market seems to be Google Play, after you pay a fixed fee you can publish your app. I'm sure even Google has the right to remove your app if you infringe the rules of your developer contract.
+1

My side project is http://drop.sc - profitable and self-sustained.

I don't have the time to develop the site and I'm not really into Starcraft anymore. The site is very popular amongst the Starcraft 2 community.

An old version is available at https://github.com/alexhanh/drop.sc

Interested? Shoot me an email at alexhanh@gmail.com.
reminds me of : http://www.ouverture-facile.com/riddles/
Seems like a big trap; they will get bolted on after much of the std library is frozen without them.
The vagueness which applies to the actual situation today is: did they really mean desktop PCs only, or did they mean consumer computing, with desktop PCs being the only pertinent example of it in 2004? And, did they mean no proprietary software on a majority, or just no MS software?

Because right now, MS does not have a majority in consumer computing, but the majority is no longer desktop PCs, and the majority still ships with plenty of proprietary software. It's not possible to know whether or not this fits with the intent of the bug, because it's not sufficiently clear.
When you're assessing the viability of microdata or any SEO strategy for that matter, you have to consider the context and whether or not it works for the market that you're in.

I don't see this as an indictment of Google Authorship at all; rather this is an example of a situation where user intention is misaligned with what a webmaster is showing. If I'm looking for content (particularly the originator of said content), having the author's name and face is exactly what I'm looking for. When you're searching for car parts or baby strollers or software, that same name/face is going to throw you off.
Cookie clearing on pwd reset on HN broken
Reset my password and wasn't able to log in afterward on two browsers (both Chrome). Had to delete the "user" cookie for news.ycombinator.com before I was able to log in.
I stopped having that thought when I realised only thing I could see was war and servitude. These days I try not to think about the future.

It was all very well for Turner, he was painting from the vantage point of an empire on the ascendancy.

Is anyone else here terrified by the feeling of geopolitics shifting under their feet? I think it's a bit too specific for a support group...
At I/O they said the SDK is on the way.
Fresh-out-of-school salaries at Google/Facebook/Twitter are in the low six figures (2 years ago I think they were around $105K), get promoted to senior dev after 2-3 years and $150K/year is very doable. It's probably lower at J-random-startup that nobody has ever heard of, but most VC-funded startups will pay market rates.
How We Decided What The Internet Looks Like
PG himself suggested that investors should let founders cash out partially during investment rounds, so they're less uncomfortable about swinging for the fences: http://www.paulgraham.com/vcsqueeze.html
Ouverture facile definitely was an inspiration. This is more developper/hacker oriented though.
There have been numerous cases where heavy rocks and the like were tossed from pedestrian-accessible overpasses over highways. Not pleasant. Neither are underpasses, for some reason, unless well-lit and regularly maintained, they attract undesirables, vandalism, and trash. These can be mitigated by clever design though: clean, immaculate look, enough (pale/white) lighting, enough vertical space, plenty of traffic, and visibility.
Singapore’s Pirate3D raises USD 100k in 10 minutes for 3D printer
Bad Rap
A drone following you like a puppy
OT: Wow, that's a messy desktop. Makes me feel a little better about my own desktop.
Don't get yourself a pink eye tough! Hint: I'd be very surprised if you could see "it" with your naked eyes. You'd better fire up your favorite image editor ;-)
Perhaps the downvotes will encourage this person to be more eloquent when stating their opinions in the future. Then again, perhaps it will just cause them to rage.
The only relatively free market is the web (which doesn't mean all the products sold through it are free, of course).
Your address for Brasília looks strange to me. Typically I recall them being like:

SQS 102, Bloco A, Apt 100
Brasília, DF
70000-000

That is SQS or SQN and the number indicating which wing and which section. And the Block and Building are also the same. Are there places in the city that actually require the long format you describe?
This infographic has exactly zero reasons why a business owner would choose to use this technology. The people who hold the purse strings don't care if its popular, trending, or used by big companies. The questions that need answers are:

* is it the right tool for the job?
* is it better then our other options?
* will it save us money and/or development time?
* will it save us money and/or maintenance effort?

Positive answers to those questions are a reason to use node for a particular project. Not the fact its popular with developers who, as a group, always want to play with new toys.
I noticed this morning that I wasn't able to browse my files on my mobile.
The parent comment has been removed but I think it's fair to add the missing context: http://i.imgur.com/xx7WLkx.png
The only things that really bothers me about Go is how difficult is to contribute a patch (even when I'm listed as a contributor). First, you have to sign an agreement to give an unlimited license to Google to use your code as they see fit, then you have to use a special HG extension to get your patches uploaded to codereview.google.com (which disables branches/commits/etc, and doesn't let you submit multiple patches affecting the same files) and, finally, the patches may sit in review for a few weeks until someone from the core dev team takes a look at them.
We were told about them in school - I use them when looking at my phone with headphones in when walking around cities. Maybe telling people about them is now more relevant than it was when I was in school, for just this reason.
If someone was looking for macro-recorder, they probably just wanted a download link.

His authorship link makes it look like a review of some macro recorder software. I would actually consider an authorship link that's being triggered by a product page a bug that needs to be corrected ASAP.

EDIT: Strangely enough his authorship image is still triggered by a search for "macro-recorder". Did he reactivate it?

Now imagine if Google allowed him to tag his page with a "Software Download" tag.. and enabled him to attach a appstore like icon next to the search result instead of his face. Would that drive more clicks?
There are a lot more who use their ecosystem than you think. All of their services work very well together, the Music and Video services have anything I could ever want (seriously, more current TV shows than anywhere else I've seen), the email calendar and other things work together, Skydrive is incredibly useful.

If you don't think Microsoft's ecosystem is competitive, it tells me you haven't tried it.
I'm going to have to infer what you mean by that snark.

Assuming you are saying that those things are a contradiction I don't agree. It's a perfectly legitimate position to design a language to have fewer 'advanced' features; it makes it easier to learn, there are fewer ways to trip yourself up unexpectedly. Of course on the other hand you may find yourself re-inventing the advanced language features yourself, probably not as well, or committing errors that could have been prevented. I don't think there is a right answer. Go takes a position, and that position is similar to the one taken by the original Java.

Anyway, you took my post in the wrong light. I used insults like those because I was using the language of Java critics[1], which was, you know, the joke. The intelligence one in particular was a riff on an insult by a good friend of yours:

Like the creators of sitcoms or junk food or package tours, Java’s designers were consciously designing a product for people not as smart as them. — Paul Graham

[1] http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/java
This article is missing the most important one! Zip codes are not always numerical, nor do they have 5 characters!
Jkl - Simply building a static site and publishing to S3 or Qiniu
jkl is a static site generator written in Golang, based on Jekyll. It is a quick and easy way to build static sites and supports publish to S3 or Qiniu Cloud Storage by run one command. No more databases, language execution environments or other dependencies needs.
Your comment really hit a nerve with me, probably because I'm the same age as the OP and playing around with programming language implementations is a bit of a hobby for me, so I'll apologize for my reaction ahead of time, I tried to tone down what follows from the screed I initially wrote.

Your comment comes off as a little bit condescending and presumptuous. There's this underlying judgement about the relative worth of writing a Brainfuck interpreter and environment versus drinking in some bar in Guatemala or starting a company, like the latter is obviously a better use of time and energy. Aside from the fact that doing the things you mention aren't mutually exclusive with this little project, it's really tiring to hear (older) people constantly beat the drum of "you're young! go travel! drink!" on top of the "start your own company!" startup mantra. Maybe you wish you did more of those things when you were younger, or maybe you wish you were doing more of them now, and maybe I will wish the same thing when I'm older...

But they are absolutely not for everyone. I think it's disingenuous to just throw out "take that energy and try to build a company" as an alternative. Not everyone has it in them to do all the schlep work required to succeed at their own startup, so why assume this person hasn't considered it and chosen not to follow that path? Furthermore, I would personally prefer to tinker with a Brainfuck implementation than spend any amount of time in any bar, even it's in Guatemala or Colombia. I usually find them noisy and unpleasant, and I would find "partying the night away" to be a boring waste of time. But I would never suggest someone else shouldn't spend their time that way because that would be assuming a great deal about what's important to them.

Maybe this was just a little flip remark on your behalf, not meant to be taken seriously. I'm probably projecting a little bit, and reacting to something you may not have intended to imply. For that, I apologize again.
Australian blocks that have been sub-divided (Turned into some form of Duplex) will often have an A and a B. So you will have 17A Station St.

I also lived on a street (~15 years ago -- without numbers. Small country town, the Postman knew who we were -- only 5 houses on the street)
I don't think they particularly have screwed up. Sure, removing the start button was a bad idea, but it's been blown way out of proportion. It was pretty obvious that the media and a lot of users were going to hate Windows 8 regardless of how good or bad it was, so Microsoft have to just keep pushing with the marketingspeak/bullshit. To "admit failure" would be to play into the hands of those trying to paint Windows 8 (completely unfairly) as New Coke.

That being said, why not move to Linux now? Ubuntu and many other distributions are already excellent desktop environments and are great for programming. What sort of work are you doing? You're probably either stuck in Windows, or you may as well move now.
A Day in the Life of an App Developer
Part of the "functionality" was UX. The start menu was designed to be easy to use with a mouse. The layout was compact, it was heirarchical and made heavy use of hover as a mechanic, and it tended to weight important things toward the bottom left quadrant of the screen, where the user's mouse already was. Metro is designed touch-first: full-screen, spread out, no hover events, heavy use of drag and swipe. Yes they fill the same basic need with the same fundamental abstraction, but on a traditional desktop with a mouse as the main pointing device using Metro is a much worse experience.
This might help but I think everyone is missing one of the reasons why desktop sales have tanked: Their screens.

People who are using tablets don't want to look at grainy big screens. These screens look blurry. Stop in any store and check out the all-in-one Win 8 touch desktops. Their screens are awful.

And yes blah blah blah higher-res NON-touchscreen with mouse -- but going back to a mouse after touch? That's another step back.
Remembering why I don't like OAuth
Ask HN: Experience with Hetzner?
I am considering going for a dedicated server from Hetzner (http://www.hetzner.de/). They seem to offer some really good deals. However, I stumbled on a HN thread [1] where quite a few were talking about frequent hard-disk problems.

Does anyone here host stuff on Hetzner? Would you recommend their dedicated server offering (especially the lower-end plans)?

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4063761
Guardian explains why Apple does't pay taxes in Ireland
Money quote:

Their boards have been able to tell the Irish tax authorities that Kearney, the sole Irish-resident director, cannot be judged to manage or control these companies, and that important decision-making rests in California.

As a result, AOI and others are not deemed tax resident in Ireland.

Meanwhile, because these same companies are incorporated at addresses in Ireland, under US law they appeared not to be tax resident in the US either. "Magically," observed Senate committee chair Carl Levin, "it's neither here nor there."
That only follows if you think that a language being made for "people of a certain level of intelligence" is a negative assessment (even if I find the wording crude). I don't think that, because I don't think it precludes "more intelligent" people from getting good use out of it.

The designers are not omniscient, and their desires mean nothing in the real world, beyond how the product of their will is actually used.

All that's just a long winded way of saying that who it's made for and who finds good use out of it are not entirely equivalent. As such the tptacek's statement seemed very neutral to me.
Alibaba’s Logistics Gamble: Difficulty Ahead
> Hollywood doesn't need nor care about the web or the w3c apart from as a marketing avenue. They would be just as happy delivering all content through a standalone application, as they are doing currently.

If they do not care, why are they pushing for getting a W3C stamp on their DRM system?

> There are no "CDMs in HTML5" , this is a nonesense statement.

To accept EME because proprietary CDM are outside of the spec is pure hypocrisy. To say that EME is okay because it would be working with clear-key systems too is complete BS, because such systems already exist and do not need EME. Hence the EME spec is only here to get standardised API for proprietary CDMs, which is why no one else but Hollywood, Netflix and Google & al. are pushing for this.

I would not care about EME, if they were not trying to integrate that into the W3C, which should stand for an open web, where free technologies are on equal footing with proprietary ones. EME would de facto force web users to have proprietary software installed in the form of CDM (which is DRM). Unacceptable.
Smartphones, Google Glass? And next? Interactive Storefronts with Inet Access.
Smartphones, Google Glass, Is this it ? What's next ? Interactive Retail Storefronts with Internet Access.
Nice, I got the first one. This is fun.
Plenty of British English speakers would use the word "knob", for example I have no idea what I would call the knobs on the cooker other than knobs.

Or the knobs on amplifiers, or door knobs - well I suppose door handle works but door knobs are distinctly different from handles in my mind.
Thank you rjh29 for your feedbacks about the installation script. Here are some additional informations:

* The script installs with apt-get what is possible to install with this tools. The tarballs downloaded are not random tarballs, they are specific version of the required modules.

* About the debian package, that's really an hard job to set-up a proper package when so many modules are involved. But you're right it would make things cleaner.

* Remember that Cozy is a FOSS project. We'll be glad to discuss about it through our issue list. You can propose improvements via a pull request too.
Link to relevant place in video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3OC_mKo2Fk&t=341s

(Somewhere along the way the & in the parent's URL turned into #)
Here's a funny UK one.

I was opening an account at the Lloyd's TSB Branch in Hanover Square (http://www.allinlondon.co.uk/directory/1063/11849.php). Turns out their address form requires the first half of a postcode to end in a number, even though the address of the branch itself ends in a letter.
It's fairly common for options to expire shortly after leaving employment, regardless of vesting: you have to either buy them out or lose them.

Options are not shares. They are a contract that allows you to buy shares. When options vest over time, you become eligible to buy actual shares. In your case it seems that the options do have actually vested: but you still need to pay $150k out of pocket to own real shares in the company.

This is not an issue when the company gets acquired, because you can buy the shares and then sell them on immediately, pocketing the difference.

In summary this means that your choices are:

1. Stay employed with the company until it gets acquired or goes public. If the final valuation is over $30m, you can at best earn (X-$30m)*0.005. For example, at a $40m sale, you could make up to $50k (minus taxes, or the investors' preferred share payouts). If the company is sold for less than $30m, the options are worthless.

2. Leave now, and just before that spend $150k of cash to exercise the options, buying shares. The profit calculation is still the same, but in addition you have to risk actual cash.

3. Leave now, and don't exercise the options.

The second choice is extremely risky, especially when you don't have $150k to blow on investments, or when you don't believe that the company's value has increased far above $30m.
The hint in the source is a little strange...it's not really a hint at all.
Go and Java are both opinionated languages, and the first release of Java was a small language, but the opinions they embody are quite different.

I think the advocates of Go who say "it is supposed to be boring" are giving a mistaken impression. Java was "talking down" to replaceable cog programmers, by having "one way to do it" that fronts the then-popular inheritance based OO, and syntax that spells everything out. Go is "talking up" to a programmer who is expected to want to see the algorithm in stark brush strokes against an uncluttered page, by having "one way to do it" that fronts the imperative algorithm and very light very regular syntax that doesn't obtrude. Go is not for people who want to program the language (try Haskell or a lisp). Go is for people who want to program the program.
Well, it's more to do with white box crypto ;-)
Maybe you could offer no tracking or tracking by cookies or something like a password after each puzzle as an alternative.
Temporarily add behavior to Ruby objects with Casting
Yup.

It screams blog/editorial content. I'm very, very rarely interested in blogs or editorials. Usually I seem to be after hard data or documentation.
I can't just go and install those where my servers are located.
The Puzzle of Motivation
But signing in is only required after you finished the first one.
Yes. IMHO a smart programmer does not use a complex or a language "by smart people for smart people" because "he can".

He will use the best language for the problem/domain at hand.

Even if OP is right and GO is a "simpler" language than others, if it allows to solve a range of problems without the added mental load required by, say, C++ why should't he use it ?
Heh, I should probably have known better than to mention generics in relation to Go. Replace it with option types if you like, I don't think it changes the argument.
Big data, big problems? Nate Silver interview
This really gets to the heart of this debate in many ways:

But, financial equality has never been, and will never be, a goal of the Internet economy. The goal is wealth creation.

Some people value equality for equality's sake... others value freedom for freedom's sake. Those two camps are constantly at odds with each other, and caught in the middle is the phenomenon where increasing prosperity benefits everybody, even if it benefits some people more than others.

IOW, "a rising tide lifts all boats". Even the poorest of the poor in the US have a standard of living that would seem like royalty to someone from 200 years ago. I've lived below the official "poverty line" and we still had a color television, VCR, cable TV, microwave oven, etc. So what if the richer people had Rolls-Royce Silver Ghosts and servants and a mansion with a diamond lined swimming pool?

Unfortunately, human nature is such that we find it hard to to compare our position with others in relative terms, and feel subjective pain over our position, no matter how well off we are in absolute terms.

But inequality does have actual, measurable negative consequences for society. So what to do? I stand by the position that the best answer is to focus on education, promoting financial literacy, encouraging entrepreneurship and decreasing artificial restrictions on the ability to create wealth (IOW, I'm a Libertarian). No, the Libertarian vision does not guarantee a world of perfect equality, and yes it has its pathologies... but so does every other system. But I'm biased, since I fall into the "freedom is it's own end" camp.

(Note: when I use the term "freedom" I very specifically mean "freedom of choice, vis-a-vis use of coercive force").
I'm debating going to XFCE too. The only thing I'll miss is extending my desktop with Javascript. I see XFCE has extensions too, but they're in C. I like C, but when I see how many lines a simple CPU frequency plugin needs [0], while a comparable extension for GNOME would only be a few hundred lines...

0: http://git.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-cpufreq-plugin/tree/...
If Google offers official support for a second language on Android, it will almost certainly be another JVM based language like Scala or (my personal dream) Clojure. They can already be used to write native apps, and would allow Google to continue to use Dalvik and the all the tooling surrounding it, which they've invested a tremendous amount of resources in.
I know it's relatively early-stage research as yet, but have you come across Helminthic Therapy? I believe that's had some promising initial results for UC patients.

Obviously not the sort of thing many people would want to consider before the intestine-removal stage, but at that point it might be worth looking into.
Once you pass level 1 you are asked to login with Twitter to continue.
Did that for 30 minutes.
Sau a flower, pikatchu, a leaf, and a half avocado.
Wow thats a cool tool… Makes sense also, after all not many operators to worry about :)
I've got 4 dedicated root servers at Hetzner for some years now. They've been quite worth their money. Regarding the HD-issue: just recently one of my servers got an issue but that's also the first time since ever, plus if you're having a RAID it's just a matter of contacting the support.
Running on dedicated hardware always comes with such risks, I'd say..
Don't hotels usually take your ID at the front desk when you check in?