skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whoever did this, I'm a newbie to coding, and I'd want to see the code used to pull this. I'm assuming it wasn't done manually. I've been thinking I'd want to do something similar once I get the hang of it, and to play around with it. "Hall of fame" comments or articles aren't the only ones someone new to HN would be interested in, right? How about, for example, the speed at which an article rises to the top? Or how long it remains at the top? And so on and so forth. You could probably try to draw an analogy to music charts. I don't know. But I'm working on knowing. So if you don't mind sharing, I'd appreciate.
>There are valid reasons for doing that

There always are, but it's a question of priorities. VAT handling is optional for small businesses in most European countries and it has nothing to do with device capabilities or types of software. Tell me a reason that is valid for desktop software but not for other types of store apps, a reason that is valid for some device capabilities but not others! They are creating unnecessary dependencies between unrelated things (distribution/deployment, types of software, permissions/capabilities, taxes/social security). That's what incidental complexity is all about.

>But, in European countries at least, you have the option to register as a Sole Proprietorship [...] for developers trying to experiment it is perfect

Registering as a sole trader usually means that you have to pay minimum social security contributions even if you make a loss. In the UK that's just 20 Euros or so, but in most other European countries it's between 200 and 300 Euros per month. If you're self funded that hurts.
It isn't a full solution, but ride sharing sites (some of which highlight people in your social network) might be able to help with this.
I hope they do a more detailed post-mortem. No doubt there is more to this story - why didn't the business scale, why did they fall out of love with it etc?
Oh yeah, plus I keep hearing about how the quality of HN has dropped. I imagine you could selectively pull stuff from back in the day, apply the same popularity criteria to today, and compare the quality of what comes up. It's small curiosities like this I want to learn how to pull off.
“The Department of Defense does engage” in computer network exploitation, according to an e-mailed statement from an NSA spokesman, whose agency is part of the Defense Department. “The department does NOT engage in economic espionage in any domain, including cyber.”

http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-08-30/world/41620705...
From a corporate perspective and from a personal liability perspective, what else is on that laptop and what code/inventions where created when? A big issue is the time/machine/invention intersection. California employment law gives a lot of credence to what you do on your own machine, on your own time is yours. If you use your own hardware for day to day work the lines get muddied.
That's because we still are at the beginning of the process. Once technology is directly melded into the brain we'll start to see people become dysfunctional when they can't get their fix.
And that question is valid for a lot of people in the administration and Congress.
I think the problem is that there is too much content available, and it paradoxically reduces interest.
"California employment law gives a lot of credence to what you do on your own machine, on your own time is yours"

It really doesn't, people just think it does :)

There is a persistent misreading of the law, mostly by engineers.

It's actually pretty close to most other states laws in practice.

If you work for a very very very focused startup, sure, you may end up owning some personal stuff. You would in a lot of other states too.

If you work for any mid-sized tech company or larger, you probably won't own much, unless your interests are really off the wall.

The law allows employers to claim inventions that relate to an employers business, which for most mid-sized or larger tech companies, covers a lot (IE Apple's business is not just phones and computers, it's mapping, video editing, music software, word processing, distributed cloud services, etc).

In addition, if your invention relates to any actual or "demonstrably anticipated research", that would be covered too.

So if's demonstrable that apple was going to start exploring (not producing) social games, any social games you made (direct), or social platforms (they are "related"), or heck probably even social apps ('related' to that research) or ...
would also be arguably be covered.

Over time, the research of most tech companies quickly expands to cover almost everything (since they frequently seek new markets), even if they never do it, ....
Would any company from any country want the NSA to spy on them? If the NSA is passing data about foreign companies to us domestic companies, what says it would pass data on domestic companies to it's "favorites"? That data would be a big bargaining chip and the NSA is aiming for cooperation everywhere.

One would assume that any company anywhere that wasn't beholden to the intelligence community would be presently looking for a secure, open source, open-hardware-if-possible, end-to-end solution for networking their data.
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Thanks for the details! Indeed I hadn't realized that the Pirate Bay trial convictions were based specifically on Swedish law. I figured that international treaties had been involved somehow. Though of course, you've hit the nail on the head: the laws are so similar, and with outcomes so similar, that all copyright law might as well be emulating U.S. policy, even if there are subtle differences in implementations.
Have you tried stuff like the masonry or shapeshift plugins for jquery?
This is a seasonal issue. During the rains shelf life of Onions decreases as they start to sprout. So the onion stock is sold off in may, just before the monsoon. After May, monsoon rains start and they are heavy rains with lot of humidity. This leads to less onion being available. By the time we hit July, onion prices hit the roof. Then again by end of August/mid September, prices start softening. By the time next crop is ready (i.e. end of september) prices dive back to May levels of INR 8 per kg in the wholesale market.
Hah, that is awesome. I wish there had been opportunities like this when I was a kid. I was programming with my dad at about that age, but the internet was only really available at universities back then - there was no chance anything I wrote would ever make it out of my loungeroom.

Although outrage is easier and feels better, I think that condemning the bad needs to go hand-in-hand with promoting the good. Yes, titstare is a dumb app and it was dumb to put it on stage, but it was only one presentation. Even if well-intentioned, I think overemphasising bad behaviour can amplify its effect by making the industry seem worse than it really is.

Bravo to your daughter and to you. I'm sure there are other kids who will hear about this story and say "well, hey, I could do that". It must make you proud to have raised a 9-year-old role model.
Lets see how many startups start selling onions to India.
I don't call it cheating... I call it simulation of the effects of cropping.

But seriously though, I was quite was surprised by how little is lost if you repeatedly encode the same image. Then again, it makes a lot of sense if you look at how blocks are encoded.
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Thank you!
Sales is a bitch if you are not good in it. I complete agree that almost everyone can learn to become a mediocre sales person, yet this is not what you want foe your B2B start-up. But yes, chances are that you will ultimately find someone to sell your product. Even it is not a trivial task to do so.

The pint where I realy don't agree are relationships the typical start-up founder can leverage. My impression is that this kind of decisions are met in a, for me, not really understandable way at levels a founder that worked for a couple of years in company X in industry Y is unlikely to have. These kinds of caontacts don't come from domain knowledge alone.

Agree on most of the rest, although I would stress the importance of sales in a B2B environment even more. Would help to get really early on some good business guys for that. And I mean business in terms of I-did-sell-fridges-to-escimos sales people, not I-had-a-good-prof-during-my-MBA types.
freelancer.com doesn't work with Ghostery turned on. Not a good sign.
can anyone recommend any good android/iOS devs on these sites?
Here's a good post on Ansible vs Saltstack

http://missingm.co/2013/06/ansible-and-salt-a-detailed-compa...
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Yup, and my sister's is 9/11.
Not every parser is for a programming language. Often you need something to parse a specific file format you need to handle or made up. Although back at university my job was working on a large-ish modelling and simulation framework, and we had all kinds of parsers because each simulator needed some way of storing its initial state or the model configuration. Simply shoe-horning all of those things somehow into XML, JSON, YAML or CSV doesn't always work.
reading local news.
reading hackernews and reddit.
looking tweets if I see any interesting links, I click and carry on reading it.
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This is nothing but a marketing ploy.

Firstly, selling any commodity for 10-15% of its market value will attract lots of opportunistic buyers. This isn't an "Indian" thing. You could try this in other countries by selling, say, Kale or Chicken Breast or Soylent, and people would still sign up. A deal's a deal in every country.

Secondly, Groupon was selling 3000 kg per day, with a limit of 1 kg per order. Some sites mention they sold out the first day within 80 minutes. Other than that, I haven't seen any evidence/data about the incoming traffic that caused the site to crash. So till I do, I'll treat news of the "crash" like a marketing gimmick from the company.

Lastly, as other folks have commented, Groupon India isn't exactly the platinum standard for ecommerce website design or operations in India.

In 2011, they (specifically, the Indian company they acquired and later folded into Groupon India) leaked 300,000 user passwords that were stored as cleartext (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/28/groupon_india_privac...)

The same year they decided to rebrand themselves to Crazeal.com (http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/03/no-groupon-in-india-company...), only to re-re-brand themselves as Groupon India in Nov 2012 (http://www.afaqs.com/news/company_briefs/?id=55477_Groupon+I...)

Given this history - of poor design, senseless acquisitions and multiple u-turns in strategy - I wouldn't be surprised if their code is a taped-up patchwork that will crash regardless of 90% discounted onions.
Ugh. Please stop creating accounts just to make some vague, inaccurate and misinformed political point.
I'm finding quite the opposite. IMHO saltstack, more importantly sls files are insanely simple and clear whereas ansible playbooks appear very "busy" for lack of a better term. It's likely a personal preference in my case but I've found salt to have a relatively clean interface and to be very readable even when coupled with templating.
I love the pun in that domain: I con the record.
>Isn't this the whole point of the perk?

why it is considered a perk? Ability to configure tools/workspace (at the $3-5K cost) by an employee (who costs $200K+ to the company) to maximize productivity of the employee and/or time the employee spends working productively at the workspace - doesn't it sound like a "perk" for the employer?
Not yet. To be honest, I've just decided to focus on backend features, put a locked height on items and to get back to this in the "let iterate on design details before releasing" phase.

But those plugins are a perfect fit that I didn't know of, thanks for it !

It's still something that have to be done through javascript, though. So I guess we probably have to consider cards canvas as a feature rather than as a design element (like calendars, graphs, etc).
There was a nice article about that: http://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/355-How...

Turns out, not every JPEG encoder is identical in that regard and Photoshop destroys more than others.
It would be nice to have a proper capitalization on those titles.. What Go? "to Go"? I'm not even native speaker and it looks very confusing to me..
I believe Groupon runs many infrastructures. The US and Canadian platform, the CityDeal platform, and dozens of local acquisitions. India is almost certainly a local acquisition divorced from all the european and united states talent.
BBC News

Hacker News

Winterhighland http://www.winterhighland.info/ (from ~October to ~May)
At first I thought unlimited vacation would be a good idea. After all, it was in Netflix’s famed “Culture Deck,” and it seemed to work well for them. However, this seemed to put more pressure on employees — the good ones might worry that they were taking too much vacation and not take any.

I agree. It's better to give a generous amount of vacations every year (5-6 weeks) than say "it's unlimited!". Also make sure you "punish" people not taking any vacations.

Also related, we don't have "hours". To avoid the perverse effect of people working 10h/day, I make it clear by showing up at 11h some days or leaving a 15h00.

Working hard is important, working a lot, not that important: I pay you for results, not for presence.
I read a little of this book when it was on Hacker News a few months ago, but only half a chapter. Did anyone read through the whole book and do you have a review?
Some of us already referred to the internet as web, before mosaic came to life.
I personally recommend everyone to not use Freelancer.com. I learned in this thread that they also bought vWorker, and I am not surprised to read that it has turned for the worse after being acquired.

In short, they steal from both the freelancers and the outsourcers - stories aplenty about this [1]. I only know about these stories because I started looking into them after being bamboozled myself, luckily for only a small amount, which would have been larger had I not managed to cancel the additional payments Freelancer.com had booked against my credit card without permission. This was my experience as an outsourcer, apparently the freelancers have it far worse.

Elance on the other hand has seen more than $20k of my business and will continue to in the foreseeable future. Have not had experience with the other services (there's a strong lock-in effect in this market because your job history itself becomes a valuable thing).

[1] http://www.sitejabber.com/reviews/www.freelancer.com
> Given this history - of poor design, senseless acquisitions and multiple u-turns in strategy - I wouldn't be surprised if their code is a taped-up patchwork that will crash regardless of 90% discounted onions.

Can you qualify your comments with what is good design, sensible acquisitions and what you'd call the "correct" strategy? Have you ever started or steered a company that went on to become something? Even half as big and inspirational as Groupon?

[Edited]
Looking forward to read Chapters X1, X2 for Machine Learning. Thanks for all the work.
That's a great startup idea...
Fuck you for making this, I'm serious. You ruined my pseudo-art tumblr now.
I'll second that.

If - nay when - you screw up, admit it right away and figure out how to fix it. It really will make a huge difference in how useful you are. Goes for other parts of life too.
correct title should have been "Technology is Dopamine". It is really surprising to not see a mentioning of dopamine in an article on addiction of technology.

Btw, dopamine is also key player in heroin addiction.

>Yet people take breaks from technology and the internet all the time and are perfectly fine.

people take breaks from smoking, for example, all the time (i'm saying this as a 10 years long smoker - i was taking breaks from smoking and i was perfectly fine, just wanted to smoke the way i want to check email periodically. Quit smoking 10+ years ago, still check email/stocks/news looking for the "rush" though :)
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I really love the UI. Big ass photo with magazine like header. And followed by article. Salute.
Just finished writing a book where I compare the experience of using Puppet, Chef, Salt, and Ansible. I use each tool to build an identical system so you can get a sense of how each one approaches the same problem.

The most valuable thing I got from that project was my introduction to Ansible. It was really a shining star in the pack.

I have to give credit to its predecessors (CFEngine/Puppet/Chef) and its competitor Salt all for being great tools in their own right. But it is Ansible that has the power and simplicity to really take on the ultimate competitor: manual installs and hodge-podge shell scripts.

Many of you would be shocked at how many tech companies still don't use any kind of configuration management (CM) tool.

When you think about it, a company's server setup is essentially the foundational "app" that the actual business app runs on. So, not using a CM tool is kinda like having no tests and no version control for your most important software.

Sound insane? It is.

Most developers would laugh at a company that had zero tests and didn't version control or even backup their code. But that's exactly what many companies do with their systems.

Yet, for many businesses, they don't realize the astronomical risks and costs of this neglect.

At a recent client job, the former system administrator set up all their servers manually and left ZERO documentation. I had to spend a few weeks devining what he did and try to capture everything into a CM tool (Chef in this case). Not one week after I finished doing that, one of their key servers inexplicably failed. Fortunately, I had done the work needed and they were able to bring up a replacement within minutes. Had that work not been done, the company would have been severly crippled and might have even died due to the days of downtime that would have been inevitable.

That's just a tiny example. The cost savings for a business are huge when the team uses a CM tool. When it takes a couple minutes to bring up a new server instead of hours/days/weeks, that's a huge savings (assuming your engineers cost greater than $0).

With Ansible, there is no more an excuse for not using a CM tool. It's so simple that it can actually be easier than doing a manual install or writing a shell script. Some of the more complex CM tools take difficult weeks to learn, but with Ansible you can be up and running with confidence in a couple hours.

Not only that, but Ansible gives you robust remote execution capabilities right out of the box along with a lot of other cool stuff.

Shameless plug:

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Onions cost much more than 100 rupees around here. My advice to Indians: raise your prices! Don't work for less than a European salary, so that you may buy onions at a European price! That was the purpose of globalisation since the start: to equalize level of life, salaries and prices (on a global market).
Probably not - think DigiNotar on a global scale. Now which of the tens of CAs trusted by your browser are cooperating with NSA? That's the actual question, IMNSHO.
The reason the unlimited vacation policy works so well at Netflix is because the execs set a good example by taking plenty of vacation.
the nature of the app might make the women in the audience feel a bit odd, that the big punchline was an app about looking at their breasts.

The app was about photos of men staring at breasts, not about actually looking at breasts - the butt of the joke were the men who selfishly stereotype women as being defined by their breasts and act as if their breasts are there for men (e.g. the reference to the recent news story that looking at breasts makes men more healthy even if women don't appreciate being reduced to an object that makes men more healthy).

> why not "DongStare"

Because it is very common for people (plenty of women have also internalized this behavior) to stereotype women based on their breasts, but it is orders of magnitude less common for people to stereotype men by the bulge in their pants. The joke was about the people who do the stereotyping not about the anatomy itself.
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> But our SGX-isolated VMs have one significant advantage over the other VM technologies we got used to in the last decade or so – namely those VMs can now be impenetrable to any other entity outside of the VM. No kernel or hypervisor can peek into its memory. Neither can the SMM, AMT, or even a determined physical attacker with DRAM emulator, because SGX automatically encrypts any data that leave the processor, so everything that is in the DRAM is encrypted and useless to the physical attacker.

So basically, when used for real security, it is a more modular substitute for a subset of the functionality of secure boot that has the dubious benefit of protecting against an attacker with a DRAM emulator - except it currently doesn't even do that, because there is no way to secure user input.

When used for DRM, of course, it works just fine. It's basically the rebirth of the whole Trusted Computing brouhaha, but worse, because it doesn't depend on securing the entire boot path and is thus actually practical to implement in some browser plugin. While it will not be possible to depend on this feature being present in users' CPUs for the next few years, it could become very dangerous after that.

Ugh.
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And you saved me the trouble of pointing out that very thing :-)
Poor design = storing passwords in cleartext

Senseless acquisition = entering a fast-growing market like India by acquiring a 2nd or 3rd tier player like SoSasta.com(http://www.techinasia.com/groupon-india/). Instead, they should either have entered directly, or bought out a leading player.

Multiple u-turns in strategy = going from SoSasta.com to Crazeal.com to Groupon.in in the space of 2 years, without any traffic or revenue results to show for it.

I'll ignore your last question asking about my qualification to comment. Because it has no relevance at HN.
> Registering as a sole trader usually means that you have to pay minimum social security contributions even if you make a loss ... in most other European countries it's between 200 and 300 Euros per month

That's true, unfortunately, although these social contributions means you get access to healthcare, which is always nice to have even when starting out.

A minimum of 200 EUR seems too much though, are you sure?
In Romania, you get taxed with a percentage of the revenue for healthcare, the tax for unemployment benefits is optional and the only tax that would be required is the pension fund contribution which would amount to 32 EUR per month or something like that.
Yep, I played around a couple of hours yesterday and it is amazing how quickly you get up to speed (some basic NodeJS knowledge is obviously required). I'm trying to build some single-page app prototype, so I'll see how it performs once things get a little more complex.

But I generally like how it approaches policies, data store abstraction and seemless REST http and real-time socket routing. Awesome stuff.
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