skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. Thank you for saying so.

The Chinese army surrounded the block, sent flares up into the sky, and then mowed down the entire crowd with machine guns ... a deliberate massacre.

A few members of the US army, in a tense situation with rocks flying at them, lost it and fired a few shots that shouldn't have been fired. It was over almost immediately when the soldiers realized what they had done. It was terrible, but it was also a mistake, and not an orchestrated, deliberate mass-execution. I don't want to make light of the event; it's just nowhere near the same.

And as you said, every single American student is taught about the Kent State event, and the American military is carefully trained to avoid a repeat. The Chinese government, on the other hand, lets everyone know they'd gladly do it again by working so hard to cover up any knowledge of the event.

So while the one response involves shame and consequences for those involved, the other uses the event to accomplish even more intimidation against free speech.

It's telling that the Tank Man photo is only famous among the 84% of the world outside China. Within, if you ask a young person what it's a picture of and what event it represents, they'll be genuinely confused.

We should also give praise to the heroic measures American journalists of that era used to ensure we had the infamous photo & video footage of the event. They caught it from their hotel rooms, and Chinese officials broke down their doors immediately afterward to confiscate the footage. Let's just say the journalists hid the film really well.
It happened to me once. It was a weird surreal experience. This was back in 2001. Company went under while I was flying across the country. I learned about it as I left the plane at my destination.

I ended up accepting a new job offer later that day and rescheduling my return trip. It's still weird for me to think about that.

I definitely got lucky with that one.
Not to sidetrack too much, but was there ever a postmortem on Referly? I thought it was a great idea, and the Referly homepage currently only shows stats that ostensibly show strong usage. I still think a user-curated affiliate referral platform has a lot of potential. My only criticism of Referly was that it was too overtly publicized as a platform for publisher to make money versus platform to display your curation talents (a la Pinterest, Tumblr, and even other blogging platforms), a subtle but important distinction. I think a platform built with curation in mind first, and then a secondary means to make commissions would do well.
Dissecting the Google MBaaS platform
The hashing for the authentication is intentionally computationally slow (thus mitigating brute force validation). The token issued is basically like a session id - validating a session id is really just like string compare, so it's much much fast.
He's not saying it's bad, he's saying that it won't work for very long. That the person doing it will not be able to keep it up, so it's better to choose something with a longer term success.
His point was that the financial arithmetic isn't prohibitive. A box full of stuff costs the same amount whether you give out 5 million or 300 million (in fact, economics of scale says that the US could probably do it cheaper than Finland can). We have 300 million people (or whatever the birthrate is) which is certainly more than Finland has, but we also then have 300 million taxpayers.

Sure, the absolute cost is higher, but the cost per capita is not.
Can you subscribe to some kind of 'firehose' feed on LinkedIn that lets you get to that information? Or do you have to be connected to each and every person?

(BTW thanks for Chumby while it lasted. Great product.)
There is nothing I dislike more about Silicon Valley than this attitude. Yesterday I saw someone tweet "funny how people who criticize startups usually aren't the ones starting them, might be something to that..."

Or maybe we could realize that this creates a ridiculous logical fallacy on the level of "only god can judge me". Who decided that the only people who can criticize obvious mistakes, shady behavior and being a downright bad person is literally immune to all criticism from 99% of people? How on earth does even a single person think this is passable logic? I get that being a founder is hard, but saying that people literally cannot criticize founders unless they themselves have started a company is absolutely absurd. I cannot believe you and others would lack the self awareness to realize this...

"alluding to all entrepreneurs trying to make it/who have made it as "leeches" and "near-sighted execs" that have "networks of cronies." Stay classy."

Just saw this edit. I really don't know how you managed to read it like that. But yeah, there you go, just create a strawman, tell others to stay classy and smugly believe you're right and you'll never have to actually deal with the idea that you might be wrong.
Doesn't this already happen automatically by default because the first defense is to demand re-examination?
Awesome input. I think a lot of companies overlook testing as a valuable part of their overall development plan. Most just want product pushed out the door. I'm curious as to how we might be able to get an objective measure of this from the company. Perhaps asking for specific methodology, tools, etc?
I admire Tesla for playing hardball with these dealerships.

The deals between manufacturers and their own dealerships can be arranged with contracts. There is no need for a blanket ban on dealers selling directly.

It's hard to think of a purer example of rent seeking than the protection that dealerships currently have.

I hope Tesla continue to demand what is right and refuse to cut any deals with the dealerships.
"What? You mean that solutions are more wanted than cool products?"

No, that's not what I'm saying. What I'm saying is that "cool" is relative to the customer's needs. There is no such thing as an objectively cool or objectively interesting product. It is the user who determines whether something is cool/wanted, and the coolness/need is determined by the degree to which the product solves something.

I'm not using the word "solution" in the sense of B2B jargon. I'm using it in the sense that you have a Need, and you have a Fulfillment/Resolution of that Need. The need could be trivial, or it could be major. It could be for business utility or for personal entertainment. It could be a need you didn't know you had, or a need you had but weren't totally cognizant of until the solution articulated (and solved) it. Or it could be a need that's been plain and aching for a long time.
I actually skipped Bootstrap for one single reason: everyone uses it. That's not a bad thing per-se, but the problem is that developers don't bother changing anything so each Bootstrapped site looks exactly as the next.

That's why I chose ZURB Foundation (now version 4), I love that it's written in sass out of the box (as opposed to Bootstrap's less), comes as gem, and more importantly, it has a settings file, which is kinda the central point of where you define all variables, from dimensions to colors - so apart from HTML it's very few custom css you need to write and still stand out.
Inflation is only hard to define for those who want there to be something called "inflation" that predicts recessions and is caused by the government. Naturally it's hard to find anything to nail down within those parameters.

In the rest of the world inflation equals price increases and there are standard metrics that have been used for decades. Most economists would probably agree that those metrics have several well-known flaws. But we can agree that inflation according to the definitions and metrics that 99% of the world uses did or did not change by X or Y in a given time period.
You may want to take a look at this post from last week: "Why Using Multi-Currency Makes Cents":
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Right, however given the amount of oil money floating around and people coming in from out-of-town to shop there, it makes sense.
The idea of course is that you'll use Parse for your datastore, authentication, etc. For a number of use cases Express + Parse API is fully adequate.
New Ember.js Podcast
Sam's use of "animal" in #20 is presumably based on the usage in Paul Graham's essay "How to Start a Startup" (http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html, 2005):

One of the best tricks I learned during our startup was a rule for deciding who to hire. Could you describe the person as an animal? It might be hard to translate that into another language, but I think everyone in the US knows what it means. It means someone who takes their work a little too seriously; someone who does what they do so well that they pass right through professional and cross over into obsessive.

In other words, if you might exclaim, "That guy is an animal!", he's a potential hire. Similar terms are monster and beast, and indeed the former makes an appearance in another of pg's early startup essays, "How to Make Wealth" (http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html, 2004):

At Viaweb we had one programmer who was a sort of monster of productivity. I remember watching what he did one long day and estimating that he had added several hundred thousand dollars to the market value of the company.

So, a startup is a group of animals, beasts, and monsters that tries to grow fast by making something people want. To maximize its chances of success, a startup should have a CEO named "Max" who dresses in a wolf costume and sails to where the wild things are.
and more importantly, it has a settings file, which is kinda the central point of where you define all variables, from dimensions to colors

So does Bootstrap, though. It's just that people don't change it.
But what could Robert do better? He answered why he likes Glass, and after a few sentences, he was always interrupted by the interviewer. He couldn't provide any more insight in such a short time he was given. But I agree with you regarding the other two guys.
Different strokes for different folks.

Taxes are certainly not voluntary. If you do not pay them, you will be coerced into doing so. Hence the use of the word.
This was the most awkward interview I've seen in a while...
With leadership responsibilities. Say a medium-to-small sized team, less than 10 people.

One could say the position would be either; Senior Software Engineer or Technical Lead.
Living a year of open source
The Future of Developer Education with Avi Flombaum, Dean of The Flatiron School
Yes, you imputed nothing but noble motives and plans to your tribal group, while for the other tribal group, you set them up with not only a bad plan but explicitly bad motives!

Then brought in some keywords about capitalism (they're trying to destroy it!), the Nanny State (that's what they want!). Frankly, I'm surprised you restrained yourself from accusing them of supporting Josef Stalin.

From here, the conversation goes into nutpicking, you'll find some dreadlocked retard who actually says he opposes all corporations while his parents' investment account pays his college tuition. I'll respond with the "keep government away from my medicare" lady. And so on.

Meanwhile, no common sense reform happens in Washington.
I know some of the women who have volunteered to teach and they love this program. The kids come away with working software and produce something that they can immediately see the value of.

There's a great quote in http://computinged.wordpress.com/2010/05/11/playing-the-card... about relevance of instruction:

"Students abandon classes that they perceive as being irrelevant to them."

App Camp is obviously relevant and is targeting an age group that is vulnerable to permanently dropping out of math and computer-related education.
LinkedIn with Two-factor authentication and Cross Site Scripting Flaw
That's pretty good stuff.

I'd suggest adding an acceleration clause removing the repurchase right upon founder termination by the company if that hasn't been dealt with elsewhere. Four years is a long time.
> I never understand libertarians who love government-granted IP rights.

Under some very influential libertarian theories of property (e.g., John Locke's), IP rights arise as natural rights the same way that rights in real estate or personal property arise, and so should be protected by government to the same extent as any other natural property right.
I wasn't aware of it, thank you for the heads up!
Also being discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5820657

Split discussion, both on the front page.
What is the government really responsible for?

Large and long-term investments. Acting strategically over decades on behalf of millions of people. Most organisations aren't in a position to be acting on those scales.
Also being discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5819222

Split discussion, both on the front page.
You can also get a PDF of Barber's BRML or look in Murphys ML text, which isn't freely available as PDF

Check inside title page, make sure you get 3rd printing of Murphy's: http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~murphyk/MLbook/errata.html

http://web4.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/D.Barber/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=...
Really? Why not?

If the most effective way that you can donate to the needy is to earn big bucks and give them away, then this feels like the essence of charity to me.
There are too many people commenting on Techcrunch that are almost rooting for Zynga to fail and/or finding it amusing -- there are a still good number of people working at Zynga (with families and livelihoods at stake) and I hope they can right the ship and figure this out.
Thanks! I wonder if companies would be willing to share their use of APIs as well. A few of our developers are nuts for API integration. Libraries might be a sensitive subject for companies to display, but would definitely be cool to know.
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/167244/Turning_down_Zynga...
ReKognition team just announced their analytics API
GreyHome: A page packed with torrent searches & curated privacy links
Berlin’s Network Effect Will Make It A Global Startup Center
Obama won because he had a better message. Tech was a great multiplier, but ultimately not the core reason for success. If the message sucked, it would not win no matter how hard it was pushed.
You make some good points but I think you missed a point of the section containing the middle quote. Jason Trigg is, like all of us, subject to the biases and irrational behaviour that occurs in our brains. The best way to erode the drive to help other people in the way that Jason Trigg has set out to do is to spend all your time around people who feel differently and in a system that rewards the opposite. We are social animals, you can't insulate yourself from the social norms you immerse yourself in.

Nevermind the fact that this whole pseudo-utilitarian premise is just a nice way to ignore the harm your day to day activities may have on those you are donating your money to because any harm is spread out among the entire industry and has so many levels of abstraction that a utilitarian analysis is impossible. The whole premise rests on the assumption that the benefit of his donations outweigh his share of any (likely indirect) harm done by his firm or the industry as a whole to those same areas.

I find the general premise of "work like a sociopath to make so much money you can do good with the money", whatever their forms, to be a textbook example of feeling good rather than doing good. You couldn't design a better system if you tried, all harm is abstracted away and very diffuse while the good feelings are attributable directly to yourself.
There were a few companies that attempted to do this ( http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/04/after-its-12-seconds-of-fam... ) but Vine got it right:

* Timing: More people have camera phones / 3G/4G/LTE
* Aping the existing Instagram structure for the news feed
* Probably initially used AWS backend for cheap storage
* Native App focus first and foremost
* Immediate acquisition by Twitter
It's hard to understand the full cultural implications though, at least for me. In some places marriage is a very different thing than it is here. In many places, love isn't even a factor (e.g. in places where spouses are chosen by parents).
Starting with APIs – The Basics
Unfortunately, that is their thought process. I find it hard to believe Rob, Russ, etc actually genuinely have never heard of ML, but everything they ever say on the issue suggests that is the case. And when people keep showing them "hey look, this problem was solved 30 years ago!" they just outright ignore them and don't acknowledge it.
New research shows undocumented immigrants don't hurt low-skill workers' wages
Could someone please explain me, how they are different from any other cloud PaaS?
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5814432
> It is worth noting that all this is not free, but paid for by the tax payers

Not sure why you are saying that. It is something I would tell my 5 year old maybe. Perhaps some do think God makes cardboard boxes magically appear in Finland out of thin air, but is it really worth mentioning that in this forum, if you expect your audience to operate at that level?
They believe that you will see X because you believe Y, while they will see P because they believe Q. They believe that Y-ers' worldviews cause them to interpret P as X, and blind them to seeing X as P. They don't believe that there is a neutral substrate of observation that everyone can agree on beforehand.

I don't completely disagree with what you're saying, I am just trying to point out that the game goes many levels deep. A strategy that leads to victory on level 1, "tell me more about this dragon", is not going to work on level 2.
Workers Playing With Power Lines - Amazing High Voltage Electricity
Flat UI Updated to Version 2.0
Version 2.0 Compatibility with Flat UI Pro (Less instead of Sass), Bootstrap upgraded to 2.3.1, grids refinements, various Less compiler bug-fixes, Video module bug-fix, various small bug-fixes.
Hao2: the British startup built by an autistic workforce
Dr. Google and Mr. Android
Obviously the opportunities afforded in your own country weren't sufficient and you should probably work on that rather than crippling children.
Yes, but once you get it you have it :-)
China's Branded OEMs to dominate smartphone market
If you're suggesting that health and parental attention does not contribute to a quality upbringing, I'd like to see some studies cited.
I am from Brazil, I dunno how it works in the US, but here, "junk cars" are for illegally bringing back to streets illegal cars for some reason or another.

Here the system is very simple, yet efficient and lucrative: You steal a car (for example a BMW, here in Brazil those get 2, even 3 times the US price).

Then, you buy a junked BMW, maybe even a totalled one, with roughly the same model.

Then you "mashup" the two, mixing the two cars into one, making sure the serial numbers on the chassis and engine end being the least illegal ones.

Then you bribe some officials... And you can resell your "refurbished" and "used" BMW for the US market price (that here is 1/3 of the normal price), you can even claim to clueless buyers that you bought the car in the US and is reselling here (this is illegal here, reason why the car is so expensive, you need a special permit to buy a car outside Brazil), to make them think the car is legal.

Of course, since you made the car using two cheaply obtained cars, this is very lucrative.

Some people don't even steal cars, if the model is popular enough (And still lucrative) you can just keep buying junked cars until you have enough parts to build a sell-able one.
A three page term sheet? Wow.
Longer-term successes do occur(Minecraft, the Sims, League of Legends are some of the biggest ones from the past decade or so) but the industry tends to quietly ignore them because they don't fit well into established models and formulas. The "blockbuster hit" model itself is a legacy of games being intertwined with the early-adopter consumer tech business, and has lately been challenged by an array of slower-growth stories that are essentially community-oriented service businesses.
I think a lot of banks just send a confirmation email.

That's actually fine, because due to the non instantaneous nature of today's banks, they can cancel the transactions for the next day or so.
LCD temperature specs are for ATP, where heat transfer functions very differently from vacuum. With radiation being the only way energy enters or leaves the satellite's thermal system, all the satellite has to do is heat the LCD faster than it is radiating heat. This is the case for most instrumentation on satellites and thermal is one of the most important and well understood systems.

Colloid thrusters (or other ionic propulsion), or even a chemical hybergolic propellant (hydrazine + oxygen for example) would work perfectly for propulsion. This is a solved problem, so much so that there are off the shelf modules for cubesat propulsion.
Ah, I see. It's legal to own dildos, it's illegal to promote dildos (so that's, what, selling a dildo, or does telling people how awesome dildo are count as promotion too?), and if you've got more than six dildos, or two the same, that's too many for personal consumption and you must be an illegal dildo-dealer.

If I made this up, people would tell me it was laughably unrealistic :)
Seems to be very useful UI.

Is Flat Design good for people of all ages and skill level ? I am wondering if such usability testing has been done ?

Isn't depending too much on colors cause color blind people to get confused ? How would you distinguish your app from other apps in flat design, won't everything look the same eventually ?
Show HN: Kuhcoon
A list of actively used technologies is key...
So many 'new' technologies to play with, so little time :(. These are awesome web dev times we are living in.
here you are: http://www.viennareview.net/news/austria-briefs (just one of many similar cases)