skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As to the innovation centers of the tech industry, I'd like to see some more decentralization of the hubs. As it evolved, the auto industry benefited greatly from stuff that came out of Europe and Asia. Same cant be said of tech.
"Aut inveniam viam aut faciam", Latin for "I shall either find a way or make one."

Supposed to have been said by Hannibal, but a good phrase for a project manager.
BookScout App Scans a Book's Barcode to Buy its Ebook
They released a short video [1]. It reminds me of video made in 1999 where a Dutch reporter asked people if they have a mobile phone [2]. The majority responded with: no, I don't need it, I have a phone at home, I have an answering machine, etc.

I'm wondering if Google Glass and similar products will change the future the way mobile phones did back in the '90 and early '00. What do you think?

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZtNO2OnSqY
[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0u0RQk2Z1-o
Last time they shared, they were spending ridiculous amounts of money on Amazon ec2 a month. Like ridiculous amounts.

Someday, the money will run out, and they'll have to try and turn a profit.

Their business model is fundamentally bad.
I find that really fascinating. Was it just those things? What about which paren (or brace) opens and which one closes? (I'm not being facetious!)
Internationalize Ruby apps with the i18n gem - HOW TO
One thing to note with Braintree though is that they rolled out in the EU with a flat pricing, but a few months later changed it to having a minimum 100EUR in transaction fees. That is a very big change and it becomes not a good alternative for a small company to start with. Stripe has higher fees but no fixed fees.
Nice. However:

$ curl localhost:8080 & curl localhost:8080
<!doctype html>
[...]
curl: (7) Failed connect to localhost:8080; Connection refused

Yes, the server "restarts" after each request, and during the restart, it's not listening.

That's not what I would call a "server".
I fully understood his point and acknowledged it as pedancy.
People often describe C# as "Java done right" - so Java? Certainly cross platform.
Without cash flow, how far can the site go? Someone needs to pay the bandwidth/server bill. Not to mention it costs time to run a site. If you are working full-time at another job (because you aren't bringing any money in), you won't have any time to work on it.

Reddit succeeded largely because the company that bought them is making money elsewhere.
Look back in time. Read up on other things that had a massive userbase, but were unsustainable.

Checkup alladvantage - they paid people to surf. Had millions of users, but ultimately failed because their "business model" was idiotic.

Getting millions of users is pretty easy if you pay them to be a user. Someday though, it's only worthwhile if you can build a sustainable business which at least doesn't lose money hand over fist.

If Reddit hadn't got bought and supported by other profitable businesses, I doubt it would have survived.
That's a very good point. I recently realized that this bothers me too, especially in business - for example the appointment can be very polite and positive and they then just send a brief message saying that they've chosen someone else for the project without giving any reasons. And I don't even live in an especially polite country (Czech Republic) :)

But:

* I don't think total honesty is always the best amount of honesty, in some situations it's better to twist the truth slightly. I see it as a tradoff between honesty and politeness.

* You can be honest in many different ways. I agree that some of the comments here could be rewritten to be less depressing for the author while staying honest.
The problem here is "done right". Java is certainly not as polished as C# in a lot of senses.
Mono?
Ubuntu sets crowdfund pledge record for Edge smartphone
It's anticompetitive because Google is using its dominant online video platform to promote its mobile OS, even though those are really two separate industries. It's no different from MS selling an internet server that uses nonstandard extensions and only making those available on windows.
See the updated content in the link and the code in here http://www.chaoxuprime.com/posts/2013-08-16-more-algorithms-...
Both in Haskell. you can see how to implement it from scratch...
Apparently it's acceptable to downvote without providing an argument. It's anonymous and requires no thought so it's very popular.
Definitely! I am a big fan myself of Kiva and charity:water. Just saying that a lot of (tech) people have different perceptions of how exactly technology can make an impact. Unfortunately the scale between charity and money driven startups is not exactly well balanced. So lets not praise ourselves too much..
If 'painful barriers' were a good thing, you'd see the world's best capitalists in North Korea and Cuba, no?

There's a difference between impossible barriers and painful barriers. Just because a wall exist doesn't mean you can't climb over it. My point is a psychological one - that perhaps it's the personality and characteristic of a person who is willing to circumvent government barriers that makes them so appealing to start a successful business. Honestly, I don't know, it's just food for thought.

Predicting the future is often difficult.

So who are we to judge who should be allowed in not allowed in?

Don't have time for the other points, I have some barbecue to attend to:-)

Hehe, no worries. I appreciate the fruitful discussion.
Borlaug has nothing to do with CS.
It'll be interesting to see if he ends up in jail over something similar to to the former Qwest CEO was charged with...

It does seem like publicity (and public opinion) is the only defence, that works, to a certain extent:

- William Binney (NSA) - "tricked" FBI to record evidence of malicious prosecution

- Bradly Manning - got publicity, but was under military jurisdiction

- Snowden - got publicity - is still(?) alive

- Joseph Nacchio (qwest ceo) - was first indicted, then tried to claim being framed (not commenting on the truth of this, just the (public perception of) sequence of events

- lavabit - early publicity, rides "Snowden"-wave. Hopefully that'll work.

[edit: formatting]
How to build a large Angular.js application
The science behind Breaking Bad
The only thing I’ve encountered in modern day programming which is really as evil as goto is aspect oriented programming (AOP). Maybe there are different implementations of AOP but in the one I’ve used you were basically able to hook into every method from everywhere and it was impossible to have any grasp on the flow of the program. That is besides using a debugger.
From the horse's mouth (18th of July, 2013):

Yep, the site is still in the red. We are trying to finish the year at break-even (or slightly above, to have a margin of error) though. [1]

1: http://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/1ihwy8/rathe...
Can you honestly name other people in the computer business that during their lives lived with that much charisma

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charisma

as Steve Jobs? His life is up to the very end the stuff many a film can be made of.

Imagine just one of the most recent the scenes: being on the hospital bed weighting like 50 pounds and rejecting the medicine equipment that was "not designed nicely enough!"

Even his "bad" side is what makes his life more thankful for films.
For anyone interested, that's these guys: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestapo
The 100 EUR minimum fee per month in Europe was a show-stopper for us. We were about to develop an integration with Braintree in our SaaS (http://makeplans.net - online appointment scheduling) but as our clients are small and have little volume Braintree was not an option after changing from no fixed fees to 100 EUR / month.
Akka adds something similar in Scala land (and Java) called Dataflow concurrency.

http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/snapshot/scala/dataflow.html
How can this HAPPEN?!
Ah, but you can read the articles and be in agreement with the government, rather than a dissenter. Commentary (i.e. dissent) makes you a marked man, reading does not.
Seriously though?
Google confirms bitcoin theft vulnerability
And it happened TWICE?!
What does it mean to "computerize" how a business operates?
Made a lot of sense, thanks for the writeup. Probably I am just silly for not understanding why our society doesn't cherish people who had so much more impact on our lives.
Quite thats the point I was making there is no God given "correct wage" just the market unless saraid216 thinks we should move to a fully communist model where the state says what job you get and how much you get paid?
My understanding of the article is that Microsoft IS using the APIs to their fullest extent. Google does not provide a public API that can allow Microsoft to serve the "correct" ads before a video.

Google often talks about the broader web and services in ways that encourage openness and standards. Yet here they are making it difficult for someone who wants to hook into their data while respecting the content owners' rights.
Any plans to roll out in Norway soon? All alternatives here have a very poor technical offering (bad docs, SOAP, errors, downtime) and are expensive for low volume.

We are looking for a payment provider we can integrate in http://makeplans.net but it has to be with no fixed costs as our clients are small businesses. Please get in touch if you need someone to be part of the beta rollout here in Norway: espen@makeplans.no
Bombaim Recebe Conferência Sobre Projeto de Fachadas de Edifícios
So money is the answer? Have you never observed a well paid developer who "failed miserably on a day to day basis"?
Using the Web Speech API to Create Voice Driven HTML5 Games
Yes, or everyone that said something is simply getting arrested, barred from speaking about his charges, and possibly thrown into one of those cozy off-shore facilities with unclear legal status.

There is an understandable fear that a large bureaucracy is simply going to go through with whatever they think 'is the law' no matter how many people state their request. This isn't some irrational fear out of the blue, people see it happening in their daily lives on much less threating topics and history has seen it happen on an existential level. Not everybody is important enough to be granted temporary asylum by some adversary of the 'Big Satan' and some of us life in countries that have already handed over their own citizens to some of its torture facilities without asking questions.

Simply encouraging people to say things out loud when the system has already spun out of control so much is endangering them. We should rather educate people on forms of protest which are not going to be subdued so easily.
Hey guys, our startup, Fohr, just launched today and this is the first article we've put up about why we're doing what we're doing.

Any feedback is appreciated!
He hasn't actually been arrested yet for not cooperating with a secret court order. This case has much higher profile than the CEO who got in trouble a while ago. Lots of international newspapers have written stories about Lavabit after the shutdown.

I think if Levison was arreted, it would be a turning point in the political implications of this case. From the slow response, it seems like the authorities are worried about doing this. And rightfully so.
How can you expand your entrepreneurial skills?
That was more of a general statement than a comment specifically on reddit's position.

I can make millions of dollars selling condom wrappers, but just because I have made millions of dollars does not mean that I have done something important. I may catch quite a bit of hate for this, but a large portion of HN's content is on things that make money, but are not truly important.
More algorithms on perfectly balanced photo gallery
is he suggesting his gold/silver stash is at 38.800542, -94.687884? google maps puts it in the middle of the woods south of kansas city

http://martinmanleylifeanddeath.com.nyud.net/suicide_preface

EDIT: Reddit is already on the case:
http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1khajk/real_life_treas...
> Reddit's not profitable though..

Source?
Today is also day 6 of DebConf13 [1]. They're live streaming many of the talks. Downloadable videos, slides, and the talk schedule are also linked to from that page.

[1] http://debconf13.debconf.org
Another similar option is Mailinator: http://mailinator.com/
These entrepreneurs all appear to be legal immigrants. Most of the "ranting" in the U.S. is towards the law-breaking immigrants who now want amnesty. There is a consensus in America in favor of legal immigration, the political fight is over the inability of America to secure its borders and how to assimilate the millions of people who entered the country illegally.
Amazon MWS documentation is now available in HTML
"I confirm that reddit is not profitable." Yishan Wong, CEO

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/CrazyIdeas/comments/1i7crj/antigold_...

[2] http://blog.reddit.com/2013/08/reddit-myth-busters_6.html
His quality as a human being has no impact on his quality as a writer. The guy was a genius and an all out asshole
I'm all in agreement on the hypocrisy of Google's "open" bullshit train but isn't the central issue here that the gd brand mark for YouTube is simply not free to use?

I think Google is within their rights to put whatever limits they want in that area, even unreasonable ones.

And while 2/3 of HN is happy to swallow the open kool aid, last I checked MS wore big boy pants and surely they can do better than crying about their big unfair rival on their blog.
If you're willing to excuse the language in the reviewer I genuinely cried with laughter when I read this. The review probably cried too but for different reasons.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews/B000KKNQBK

(The most helpful review - not linking directly to the review so you can see the product.)
Simple. C or C++. Highly portable, C++ is widely used by Game Devs.
Its not because you have charisma that it necessarily means you use it in a positive way in the world. Drm, walled gardens, patent mentality, i can name a few reasons why Jobs should not be glorified.
>It's nothing new, they have had so-called 'private' APIs since the early days of Windows

Point to a single "private" API. There is no such thing. Preemptive apologies if you're a non technical person as these things are obvious to most programmers so I don't really want to berate anyone for simply not having sufficient information.
I would probably pick C++ then. Like it better than Java, but unfortunately not as good as C#.
oh man. i was reading this quite seriously until he gets to the point where he starts going on about global economic collapse, which in turn changed my perception about him selling his house and buying gold/silver.

i am not sure wether to consider this brave or tragic anymore.
This almost sounds like what happens at the start of Vernor Vinge's True Names a book written in late 1970s and still relevant.
For payments, you could check out pin.net.au

They're monthly rate is pretty steep but they've got a pretty convincing clone of the stripe API and they accept AUD and work without needing a merchant account...

My email is jason.oneil@gmail.com. On holiday down south for the next week, but if you email me I'll get in touch once I'm back in Perth
For me link works only in safari. Firefox plays only video and chrome just does not work.
Happy birthday to my first permanent GNU/Linux distribution, from Etch all the way to Jessie. It's --you've, we've-- come a long way. I hope to see the community remain as strong as ever. The Debian forums were always my weapon of last resort when Google didn't have the answer to my problem, and not once was I let down. And best of luck to the new DPL!
True but everything is there if you dig deep enough.

You say you are looking for an alternative to C# and with Linux support - why is that - what are you looking for in addition to what C# has to offer on that platform?

[Edit]Comment indentation limits stop me replying to the reply below so. OK, you can't run visual Studio on Linux but you can code in C# against the .NET framework. Have you looked at the Mono project?
Can you please elaborate on why & how the withholding taxes in other countries are affecting you? I assume that you sell software or services from your company's web site.

Somehow this does not click with my CFO experience.
> The core app is 9K lines of code.

I don't think 9K is "large" for an application. At all.
There already is a Borlaug movie (Freedom from Famine)
What I'm really looking for is a language suited for gamedev. And I've found C# with Visual Studio fits that very well. Unfortunately I mostly use Linux.
I think that it's in the 'The Gulag Archipelago' where Solzhenitsyn says that by contrast with the NKVD/KGB, the gestapo look like gentlemen.
One of my favorite :-

"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty six times, I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." —Michael Jordan
>> Reddit succeeded largely because the company that bought them is making money elsewhere.

Such a nonsense makes me angry. Surely you've heard about companies called Google, Facebook, Linkedin, that succeeded without being bought and for a long time not making a profit.
I don't get it. Why doesn't someone just speak out on principle. Out of everyone who "can't" speak I would expect at least one to come out and do it even though it might get them into "trouble."
Agreed. It's probably closer to small. The insights are still worth considering, however.
This thread is showing the US bias of the forum again. Some of aren't earning enough to run a car let alone a modest one.
Here is a crazy theory: Say you have a really big oil field. Really really big. Unimaginally huge wealth flows in every day because the world wants, nay needs this modern lifeblood.
How do you store that wealth. Do you stack IOU's from those countries in the form of currency? Nah. They will just inflate the currency to pay you back after they burn up all that precious oil? How about you just meter out enough oil to meet your life needs? Nah, they'll call your country a terrorist axis of evil and invade to help the oil flow.

ok how about this. How about you do a deal and pump as much oil as possible as long as you can exchange it for something real. and you have a long time cultural affilation for a yellow shiny metal. yeah that will do. How about we do a deal. We keep the oil pumping as long as we can exchange a ratio of oil barrels for this shiny metal. When the oil runs out in a hundred years or so we will have a stack of shiny metal to trade back.

More reading at this blog:
http://fofoa.blogspot.com.au/2009/08/call-of-century.html
Answering your own question at first place.. fail!
Interactive 3D Visualizations with C#: ILView
I don't quite buy your argument - yes these professions may work long days, but generally the upkeep of skills falls into those allotted working hours. Programmers should do this too, when it is helpful to their work. But suggesting that someone should add a whole new project to their resume on the weekend is akin to saying a lawyer should take on a pro-bono case just to buff their CV. If they want to do that, more power to them, but it shouldn't be expected of everyone.

As to academia... don't get me started. That is a strange and unusual profession which lies somewhere between 'hobby as job' and 'slave until you're tenured'.
‘The Idiot’s Guide to Bitcoin’ Book Released – Bitcoin Explained
Ask HN: Collaborative improvement web application
Problem:

The concept of a book in its current form, is pretty much an outdated concept in fields such as Computer Science, Life Sciences and pretty much any field in science for that matter.

Existing solutions:

Hackernews, Reddit, Stackoverflow, ....

Proposed solution:

Collaborative learning using the collective wisdom of crowds.

Syndicating the answers from existing solutions into a Topic driven, living document (AKA: Book) that attempts to become the authoritative answer to a particular subject field while maintaining up to date content, that is constantly evolving and improving.

I see this fitting in somewhere between a Stackoverflow & MOOC's such a cousera / codeschool.

A logical progression for a scholar would be:

1. Learn through MOOC's, with course content using the proposed solution. (Solves Book problem)

2. Questions being asked on hackernews, stackoverflow, ... and being syndicated into a central stream.

3. Validation of learning / knowledge through challenges & contests. (Real world applications of this knowledge, less theoretical and more practical application). (Solving the experience problem students face after graduation, quality of contribution could be the new Grading standard)

Practical example:
Topic -> Computer Science -> Cryptography -> PKI
Question -> ECDSA...
A recent practical example is Hyperloop, I feel that this field could greatly benefit from this approach in turning it into a potentially viable solution, with practical applications in many countries, especially in the developing world. Where the difference between a $77 billion dollar solution and a $7 billion dollar means millions of mouths can be fed, infrastructure can be built, ....

Question:
Would you use and more importantly contribute to a collaborative approach such as this?
From what I've read the 'trouble' they can get into is serious prison time. I'm sure for most of these people it's not worth the risk considering how brazen the US government has been recently.
NSA establishes $60 million data analytics lab at NC State
I like how they picked Arianna Huffington as one of the immigrants. She came from well-to-do family, studied in England. By the 70s, she was already some kind of elite person in London, came over here, married a wealthy politician, became a well known right-wing pundit, divorced when he came out as gay, changed political direction to liberal and started the HuffPo.
On the other hand the state machine C# compiler generates is a lot more efficient than the IL an F# async workflow compiles to.
No, just there are people who understand why physical abuse and violence is not tolerable in _any_ situation, especially not against the weak. People who equate physical and verbal violence (by verbal violence I mean anything not physical) either have no idea what they're talking about or they're mentally ill.
>And Windows detected DR-DOS and crashed your computer to kill DR-DOS and MS paid a paltry $150M to Caldera later but they got to upkeep their monopoly in the PC market.

Actually Windows ran perfectly fine over DR-DOS. Perhaps you're thinking of the beta version which included the code to not allow Windows to run on any dos other than MS-DOS. The reason obviously is purely technical. Because of the way Windows 3.1 worked it required access to internal MS-DOS undocumented data structures which could not be guaranteed to work on any other DOS clone.

In fact Windows crashed on MS-DOS 4.0 because the internal data structures changed. MS-DOS 4.0 contains special code for backwards compatibility to trick Windows into thinking its running on the older version.
NEVCA Report Reveals Positive Trends for Innovation Ecosystem [Infographic]
This guy's credibility was shot down pretty well here on HN and elsewhere earlier in the week. I wouldn't place much credence into anything he says.
Actually the CLR GC vastly outperforms the Oracle JVM GC in many scenarios, like a native Win app.
Kudos. So large, so reliable and for so long. Rare feat.
Interesting fact: 100usd in 1969 bought you nearly 3 ounces of gold. Price of gold today is 1350usd. Today's value of 100usd in 1969 would be about $4k. Not bad at all.
Surely async isn't meant to replace events—it's just in some cases, when you expect events to happen in particular order, such as in help tutorial, async gives an advantage.
you would speak out against the surveillance of a government that likes to torture people, put people into inhuman prisons without trial, kill people without trial, kill people outside war, etc etc.