skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would say both sides have had their hand in manipulating things to their own advantage.
Texas teen makes violent joke during video game, is jailed
I agree that its best for Google to focus on enabling Ouya (or any other nascent console developer). I'm not even sure what benefit there is to Google to own a particular piece of hardware, when they could be taking a slice of the pie from lots of hardware manufacturers (through ads, of course, or enabling technologies).

A better place for Google, IMO, would be looking at how they can re-define what the console experience should be - they have a potential Kinect killer in Glass.

I'm afraid that Apple might be out of their league in this regard. Everything about the AppleTV screams "day late and dollar short" to me. I'm not sure their expertise in mobile experience can be easily translated to the big screen in front of the couch. Just throwing some common games on an AppleTv and calling it a gaming console seems a little silly.
he's probably referring to the ever-recurring topic of django not integrating front-end libs out of the box (which I in particular support).
So the ProjectPM site is cached on archive.org, but I really don't know what to make of all the information. Is there a summary of the key findings anywhere?
Um, if Apple makes apps available for the Apple TV and can nail the user experience, they might really have something. A $100 Apple TV with $1-5 games and a lot of free to play would be such a better deal for most consumers than the $500 consoles with $60-70 games.

Also, there is a window for a Steam box to do well too.

OUYA might not be getting rave reviews now, but I think it's going to grow into an interesting niche for sure.
Not really. The Guardian claims to be sitting on a pile of additional information that it hasen't yet released. So blocking the site could be a preemptive measure to deal with potentially classified information potentially being published at any given time in the future.
Looks pretty interesting. I like the embedded use. I submitted a PR to enhance your software: https://github.com/HouzuoGuo/tiedot/pull/6
204 mph world record for electric car, another Le Mans win for diesel
Well, it does look like I am taking the Luddite side of this...

I am stuck with a basic conundrum: There are problems for humans that are larger than any one national government, and it makes logical sense for a world government to exist to address problems of that scale.

But when I stop and think about the types of people that are _attracted_ to positions of power, I shudder and decide I like my congressional deadlock, thank you very much.

And that does not even begin to get to the part where once a problem solving-body exists, all problems begin to look like nails to the hammer...

That brings me back around to potential answers that look much smaller than the current (working?) models.

Humans have conducted commerce well enough before there were national/international banks, since finance is mostly a matter of trust and faith, at the core. I do not doubt that there would continue to be commerce conducted over vast distances, even if our current financial institutions were greatly shrunk back down to something closer to local banks again.

But I agree that my suggestions sure sound like "boy I miss the good old days..."
Could you elaborate on how the government would be able to tax Bitcoin? As I understand, since the government can't see your n number of wallets, all of which are probably anonymous, they would have no idea how much tax you owe.
Microsoft assumed 3rd Place not that long ago, so no, BB isn't hanging on to anything but a thread at this point.
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As a London based entrepreneur, I found the pretext to the article hilarious. Why would a Stanford educated, Silicon Valley pro even consider a backwood like little ol' London?

/s
It will probably get blacklisted by Google like with the .co.cc domains.
There's a big difference between scientists calmly discussing problems with models and the paid shills of various companies who spread lies about the science.

There's no doubt that some people are paid by corporations to distort the truth, and that some of those people are using similar tactics to the ones used during tobacco discussions.

Your comment is true, but not particularly relevant to the "lay person" that parent comment was talking about.

Scientists making mistakes with statistics is bad, but paid scientists deliberately distorting the statistics is worse, and it's those people who manage to get their tripe in op-ed piece in mainstream media.
See also (kind of): YTMND.com
Not nearly so easily and cheaply as they once could on Geocities.

It seems true to me that it is actually more difficult and expensive to put up a simple amateur static arbitrary page of HTML in 2013 than it was in 1999. Even ignoring idealism and nostalgia aside, there is clearly an unfilled niche here.
The nav tree doesn't seem to remember which items I had expanded if I collapse the parent and then open it back up. Is this intentional?

Very cool resource, though. Thanks!
it's just the author establishing a context; it's not sour grapes in her case is what she is trying to say.
> You're missing part of the picture here - time spend helping other employees is time that an employee isn't making commits.

Actually I do get that, that's why I said its binary. Don't compare Bob, Steve and John. Look at them individually and see if they're contributing. Set a minimum standard and stop caring about squeezing every little bit out of them. You might run into a problem if all you ever do is mentor, but then your manager should be aware of that and view you in that context.

> Or, conversely, unless you're looking into the contents of a commit, you don't know the difference between someone making many, regular commits on an easy issue and the person that commits relatively seldom, but contributes code to address harder/meatier problems.

Following my advice doesn't preclude you from looking at the context of the commits, my point was leave the fucking team members alone unless you have a good reason. Bobs not doing a lot of projects, look at what he actually does and validate him. Steven has almost low commits? Look at it in the context of the problem he's working on and judge him based on that. Only step in when theres a real need, otherwise leave them alone, you'll just make things worse.

> Documentation is great, but it's time consuming and much can change in a few weeks time. Write down the stuff worth keeping around for months, and let go of the rest -- giving a new hire volumes of text regarding irrelevant conversations/processes is a sure way to increase spin-up time.

No, you should give a new hire a piece of A4 that tells him how to get up and running. You need a network login? It should tell him where to go. Need to do something to project? Get it from git, vagrant up. Expected to be on IRC? Heres the creds. Need more info? Heres the Wiki.

In the wiki, you only need to give specific minimal information such as specific repo the project is in, steps to push your changes, etc. Anything non-standard as your hires should know how to do their job or to google it and figure out. I never said anything about giving them irrelevant conversations or processes, I said the info needed to be a remote worker is exactly the same as one in the office and it's pretty much always the same a) Where do I find this shit? b) what does it use? c) Any gotchas? d) Ok fixed, how do I make my changes live?

The only exception is if you're training juniors, they might need you to actually talk to them about work now and again, everyone else should get on with it from the above.
I find it interesting that the entire debate has shifted from US surveillance to be about what is happening to Snowden and whether he is/isn't a traitor and now even about Ecuador and how they do/don't protect their citizens.

Personally, as a non-US citizen outside the US, I feel incredibly uncomfortable that the US govt spies on me and everything I do online as much as it can. As far as I know, Ecuador or any other government doesn't yet exercise such monitoring, I'm pretty sure they don't poke into my facebook messages or worse, can look at my Gmail hosted emails.

I know that the big deal is that US citizens got spied on [because that's illegal .. apparently], but to me, it's equally bad that innocent civilians around the world have their data up for grabs. You never know when and where and how this kind of stuff can be used against you. I don't like the fact that the US can make laws within their borders and get access to my data (which may even practically be hosted outside their borders). So where it's convenient, i.e. US citizens cannot be spied on, the concept of a nation state is invoked, but then non-US citizens basically have no right to privacy, not even the ones their governments give them, because the US can look at anything. Not cool.

Why don't we look at it from the perspective that the US government can pretty much see what any online Ecuadorean is up to. That's a big enough offense in itself, Ecuador is just working on of buying some surveillance stuff, the US has already been doing this for years. Smells like a smear campaign.

Again, I just find it interesting how quickly this became about Snowden this and Ecuador that, etc. rather than the central debate which is on my mind "What about my data ?!!"

The US government can obviously spend a lot of marketing $$$ and basically keep repeating "Snowden = Traitor" until everyone believes it and don't even remember why. It's almost like 1984 ... I'm scared.
You know you're screwed when you start hoping Congress will save you.
The patrons of a restaurant contribute their appearance. A fancy restaurant is going to want to exclude people that aren't fancy, because that would be contributing "garbage" to the atmosphere.

If you were a librarian, would you only make the top 100 novels available? Why circulate books that aren't the best?
you need right of residence to register for a National Insurance number, but after that you're good to go
Is it possible for my belief in congress to reach negative numbers?
That's because game pricing operates under the cartel model.
Don't worry, it appears this was just a topic made-up as an excuse to namedrop and self-promote. The US is a massive country of early adopters in a single, standardized market with the same language, same culture, same media [for publicity purposes], etc etc... and a culture, tax code, legal system, and governance that supports entrepreneurialism (yes, it's far from perfect, but it's generally better than western Europe, look at the ridiculous policies promoted by Hollande in France and his mocking of startups). Like you said, why would you make things harder for yourself when doing something already very difficult?
Why http://neocities.org/blog and not http://blog.neocoties.org ?
The difference is that the president and congress are in on it, they approved these measures and had been briefed (at least supposedly to some extent).

Also, based on what I currently know from watching and reading about the current situation, there is suppose to be SOME form of checks and balances between the FBI, NSA, CIA, some members Congress, judicial committees set up, and the president. What is that committee going to find? That a large portion of the government was doing something wrong, I doubt it.
As someone who uses sublime everyday let's go through that list...

Syntax / Code folding

- feature for dealing with bad code. Solution: write good code. We don't need additional cruft in the editor slowing it down.

Terminal panel (specifically for windows)

- Would actually be nice for windows users. I am not one. Probably why the console in sublime is so limited, supporting windows in this regard is terribly difficult.

Matching HTML/XML tags

- A package called 'All Autocomplete' already does this.

Side by side comparison

- use a diff tool.

Theming of the sidebar

- http://sublimetext.userecho.com/topic/19274-theming-of-the-s...

Printing

- surprised this doesn't exist, surprised I never noticed.

Armv7 or armv6 version of sublime text 2 for linux

- I don't even know what to say about this one.

Autocomplete hints

- Sublime is a text editor, not an IDE.

Have an API for Tooltips

- Reasonible request.

Documentation!!!

- Reasonible request.

Icons in the sidebar

- Checkout 'Theme - Flatland' to see how this is done.

Background transparency at the color scheme level

- Couldn't care less.

Move tabs to the title bar like in Google Chrome

- Not sure what this means.

Rename files/folders via Project Sidebar

- Feature added.

Better, or customizable match_brackets style

- Can't say I've looked into this, probably a package exists.

Add intellisense-like support

- Sublime is a text editor, not an IDE.

Double clicking in an empty tab area should create a new tab

- Feature added.

Side Bar API

- Reasonible request.

SCM integration

- Packages exist.

feature is useful

Quickly going through that list, the biggest outstanding issues are documentation and printing. It's not really legitimate to say the developer is ignoring user feedback. It would appear that bad feedback is being ignored and good feedback is being added.
You can't scale a typical startup in Europe.

If you rely on pageviews alone, maybe, but your audience then is English anyhow, as local language stuff just doesn't bring enough eyeballs.

If you rely on selling shit, then any US startup has a homogenous market of 313 million people, one legal framework and (roughly) one tax framework. In Europe? You're quite literally fucked.

A startup, by definition, is supposed to grow quickly. Which is inherently harder in Europe. Not starting in the US is quite frankly asinine.

/European myself, working for US startup, moving to US
BlackBerry announces BB10 is not coming to PlayBook
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Tricks to speed up Eclipse
Neocities is just so handy. Like last night, I read the 2012 doomsday forum was going read only, and the search feature was being disabled. So I made a quick google custom search feature: http://2012forum.neocities.org/ and asked the maintainer to link it on the site.
To get a true perspective on the startup/tech scene in London then the next HN London meetup should be top of your agenda - http://www.meetup.com/HNLondon/events/125382282/
I'm thrilled about this particular release, because it includes a significant overhaul of the way joins are built (or rather, trimmed) in the ORM and almost certainly makes your project faster if you do even relatively complex queries:

The original bug:
https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/10790

Got even worse in 1.4
https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/18785

Thanks Anssi!
Short key IDs aren't. Just use longer ones. No format or protocol change is required.
Yerevan apartments – Mashtots street
This nice, modern style apartment is situated in the central Yerevan within 2 minutes of walking distance from the Opera House on Mashtots street. Around the building are located various shops, grocery stores, restaurants, cafes, tea houses, bars, discos, and many more. This area is the most beloved site for Armenians and foreigners. The apartment has a comfortable living room, 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, a kitchen furnished with all necessary utensils.
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The huge list of lists of the world some countries it is divided and organization so that everyone works with ease, and has a huge list of European countries, and another for America and Canada , and other Arab countries ..In there is also the largest list of International .
If you mean the charged with != sentenced to thing, I should hope that anyone reading Popehat would know the difference. There are plenty of countries that do not do things that way and even though that is perfectly normal here, that doesn't mean it's not broken.
"My Homer is not a communist. He may be a liar, a pig, an idiot, a communist, but he is not a porn star!"

I know, I know: this isn't Reddit, but I couldn't resist.
I wanna share a thought I had about this a couple years ago.

I'm 33, so I was 14 in 1994, the first time I got onto the web. It was as bare bones as it got. I think I beat the IMG tag by a few months, maybe. Anyways, don't hold me to facts here, I am just imparting a general time frame.

The idea of the Internet, and the world wide web, was terribly abstract, new, confusing, delightful. It made wizards of us that could navigate it. As a burgeoning geek in desperate need of a personal identity, this digital playground was an infinite resource to push against. Each chance encounter with an online stranger a blank slate. It was exotic and alluring and exciting.

During this era, a huge swath of us all were experiencing this at the same time. It was an overlap of our youth, the loss of innocence, and the explosion of this new universe. It was a hell of a drug.

And we got addicted to the newness of it all. There's a word for this.

Neophilia.

And this concept, I feel, best describes the ennui I have felt for years now, the booming homogeny the web has turned into. The web has long since succeeded, but we were children of the laboratory. We lost our home and we've been trying, in vain, to find a new one ever since. I can't believe I am alone in this sensation.
There is really no difference between perceived value and value.

If that were true, a large part of the marketing profession wouldn't exist.

Marketing is mostly about figuring out what has actual value to the market so you can build something valuable, and then presenting that something to the market such that hopefully the perceived value does reflect the actual value so they go ahead with a purchase.

The second part is much harder if you're in a crowded market and your competition are pitching low than it is if you can get your potential customers to focus on your own offer in isolation.

In the case of selling professional or high-end software via mobile app stores, we concluded a long time ago that the WarGames principle usually applies. Alternative business models, such as giving away free mobile apps used to access resources that are purchased independently, or going Web-based rather than mobile-based, seem to be much more reasonable bets commercially in the current environment.
As a plugin developer (sublimelint), it's far easier to make fast plugins in ST3. I had to do major hacks in ST2 to not block UI.
Let "Max" Be Your Netflix Guide
Ha, what a strange place to find my weekend project[1] appearing on. I didn't put it up on that site, though I don't really mind it being there. If you look on the bottom of the page, you'll find the source on GitHub, and yes, it does take a bit more expertise than reading "HTML for Dummies" to create.

Surprising you should mention GitHub pages, because that's where the original is hosted on.

[1]: http://zhangyijiang.github.io/mlp-guide/
Fellow Austrian here. I was in your exact boat about 6 months ago. Startup "scene" in Vienna is sad. Immigrating into the US is hard so I looked at Berlin and London.

For now I'm living in London. I considered Berlin, but I think the English practice here is invaluable. My English was already quite good when I came here, but it's improved LOADS. Also there's much more going on in general (culturally, socially), and there's more and bigger startups here (e.g. compare HN Who's hiring / startup city rankings).
Instead of having adventures into the great unknowns of the web, we instead now spend most of our time on social networks: boring, suburban gated communities, where everybody's "profile" looks exactly the same, and presents exactly the same content, in the same arrangement.

It's funny, because I've always felt Facebook was a huge improvement over MySpace for exactly this reason. Now, reading this article, I thought "Wait a second, have I gotten it backwards? Crazy adventures do sound more fun than clinical suburbs." On the other hand, what people did with the old MySpace was actually pretty terrible, and maybe this is just tapping into GeoCities nostalgia. I don't know, the jury's still out.

But, here's one issue: the freedom and low barrier to entry of GeoCities led to a lot of basic and poorly thought out designs. Many were not really "designed" at all, and that certainly led to some wacky surfing safaris. One reason that things have homogenized is that we've developed a much stronger expectation for how websites should look and act. But, these are complex to design and develop - well out of reach of the average individual - so we glom onto template services that provide a nice design and out-of-the-box functionality: comments, social, CMS, etc. And yeah, most sites on the respective platforms look relatively the same. In order to break that, there's going to be a necessary degradation in sophistication. Which is fine with me, I'm down for the punky DIY vibe. But, this quote worries me a little:

And we have great CSS frameworks like Bootstrap and a new, even simpler one that Scott O'Hara is working on called Ground Floor, that makes web sites look pretty good even if the designer doesn't use or understand CSS at all.

What's everyone's #1 criticism of Bootstrap websites? They all look the same. What happens if this turns into BootstrapCities?
AT&T Gets Patent to Monitor and Track File-Sharing Traffic
I think at this point in time we can assume the Government gets the right to define what is a traitor and what is not a traitor.

Thus, if the Government says Snowden is a traitor then Snowdon is a traitor. I don't think Snowden is a traitor but the Government gets the final say.

Different Governments might have different definitions of what would be a traitor but any sufficiently powerful Government can turn anyone into a traitor if they want to.

EDIT: I don't think this is right, but thats the way they work.
I'm not sure what this is trying to be. If it's supposed to get people who know nothing about web to create pages, it should really have some handrails and tutorials (or at least links to tutorials). As far as I can tell the new user creating their first page basically just gets a huge wall of xml in their face. If it's really just trying to be hosting for people who know what they're doing and that's it, well, I'm a cheap bastard and I host my static page on Dropbox for thousands of times the free storage. I guess here the ugly url would be slightly shorter?
Xbox One dashboard has been created “with advertising in mind”
No. The Python API is being significantly improved in Vim 7.4, but there has been no notion of moving away from Vimscript or even dropping support for the other languages (Ruby, TCL, Lua, MzScheme and Perl (i'm probably missing 1, but meh)).
I think both do in various forms. I'm sure they'd be acceptable to the 90% of people who aren't involved in the tech scene, or are overly fussed on design.
Tonio K said "you never tangle with the ruling class unless you;re prepared to take it..."
Well, presumably the alternative is to die...
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If you consider the amount of negative foreign influence that some Swiss corporations have across the globe for their, this statement might not that accurate (I'm thinking Glencore and others)
Is this list real? I cant imagine it being true...
Since we are discussing the questions. Here is one I can't forget, it was one of the tough Physics question in the year when I took JEE.

Here goes (text from my memory):
There is a rolled carpet of length, L, kept on an even floor. A person gives it a gentle push, and the carpet starts to unroll. What will be the velocity of the unrolled piece of the carpet, when the carpet is half unrolled?
(You can ignore the contribution of the initial push, for this computation)

PS: I will look for answers, here tomorrow ... :-)
Thank you Scribd for caching this; the original seems to have gotten pulled.
I sometimes find it amazing how partisan people can get over such simple concepts.