skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
China is probably instructive. There have been cases where Google has directly defied orders from the Chinese government. The result was that Google ceased doing business in the PRC, followed by a cat & mouse game where Google routed all Chinese searches through Hong Kong, which has a different legal system.

People like to make a lot of noise about the power of multinational corporations, but historically, when a corporation has defied a government the government usually wins. The only exception is when there is a wide disparity in power between the corporation's home country and the government it's in dispute with, and the corporation's own government backs it. (Eg. the British East India company vs. China, Google + Facebook + Twitter vs. Egypt.)

The reason for this is that business requires a stable legal system to work. Without the government's backing, a business's customers could simply run off with its goods & services and the business would have no legal recourse. It becomes impossible to conduct trade when the organization with a monopoly on physical force says "It's open season on Google." (Indeed, relations between Google and China had been frosty for several years before the shut-down because the Chinese government overtly favored Baidu, and the legal system in China is such that you can't conduct any significant business without some bureaucrat's say-so.)
I believe I understand the argument: if the French system has advantages, why should the English-speaking world dictate to France how it should manage its own economy?
Is a loan from the government that was fully repaid the same thing as a subsidy? I thought a subsidy was a grant of free money to services the government felt were important enough to keep afloat when they are unable to do so on their own. A loan is... well... a loan. Am I missing something here?
Sorry, I don't buy that. I pushed a lot of young women into STEM. I've told them many times that it would be a great field for them to get into. 99% of them ARE NOT INTERESTED. They don't care about how exciting it is or how much money they'll be making. Kind of similar in vain to the women who pick "hot" dudes to marry even though they are losers/deadbeats and later complain about said dudes.
It's the job of CrunchBase and AngelList to separate the wheat from the chaff.

There's nothing wrong with hoping a side project becomes a bigger thing, and using available tools to try to make that a reality. Some side projects do go on to be very successful. Like AngelList.
>If the thinking is that "free" leads to "monopoly" which then leads to dramatically increased pricing once all competition is eliminated, this has absolutely, empirically and historically, been shown to be false. It simply never happens. Or more accurately, if/when it has been attempted, this practice has swiftly been defeated by competition.

Unlimited data plans in the US (or almost everywhere else) is where this has happened
Is there a clear distinction between an "assassination" and a "targeted killing of enemy combatants"?
Yes. Check out Interactive Brokers
What is a Platform? - by foursquare's platform lead Akshay
The ROI of community
Ecma Script is the official name, Javascript belongs to Oracle,but since they are not enforcing the trademark , I doubt anybody could get sued over this.
Serious question: I'm familiar with bounties for browsers and OSs, but do most websites offer bug bounties now?
How Mr. Money Mustache Retired At Age 30 And How You Can Too
His title is a red herring. he admits later he didn't actually do this. His point is actually a rebuttal to John Bohannon's submission of a fake article to public/open journals, demonstrating the Science Magazine also makes the same poor errors in review as the open journals.
I've used this service before and can say first hand that it is an amazing product. I think there is tremendous opportunity here in all industries.
This is why organizations like MAPS are important. There could be a lot to learn about chemicals and for the government to say no to research is plain ridiculous IMO. I am no fan of the chemicals that are found on the streets because there is no real knowledge of what goes into such substances. Reading the book on Albert Hoffman's life and research was very enlightening on this kind of situation on scientific research.
The issues do muddy the waters for using them as prediction markets. It is awesome, however for the savvy investor.

My experience has been they are far, far more accurate than the media. It is the nature of the accuracy that is interesting, however. They come to decisions well in advance of the media -- weeks or even months early. A good example would be this last national election cycle, the prediction markets had Rick Perry and Michelle Bachman virtually closed out while their media coverage was still treating them as viable candidates.

They aren't always right in the long run, but they converge on the right answers much sooner than anything else I've seen, Nate Silver's efforts included.

The biggest problem is that in the US they are either illegal (deemed to be gambling) or just too small (IEM).
Facebook started at Harvard, a 20k student school. It might be more of a tradition at the old East Coast institutions - growing up on the West Coast, I've never heard any reference to anything of the like.
Installing Rails Sucks
I came here hoping someone searched for smang. Thank you.
Obviously, it's an approximation. I'm sure you could very easily fit everyone you know in either of these buckets if you had to. And it's pretty accurate.
What's in your food?
They made it into a movie. Good one: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1135503/
Programming Contest for Massachusetts Students
As this article points out, the facts aren't what's at stake here -- it's media/public perception.
This issue has nothing to do with whether patent law is correct or not. It's about Samsung obtaining documents illegally.
I thought that as well when I first read what they posted. Of course even with the NSA revelations I would have expected them to delete the data right away so maybe I am just reading too much into it.
I haven't written anything about it but I will definitely consider it. That would be a good way for me to fully internalize how the stack actually works. I bet I've come across a few weird things given my unconventional use, too.
Heh. Try going to a BMW owners group some time.
Am I not entitled to an opinion? You certainly are. You could tell me _why_ you disagree. And I would listen.

We may mean different things by "practitioners." I mean programmers. Unfortunately, your vocabulary is not common to programmers and shows no signs of becoming so.

Mine isn't either. But at least I've only been trying for a week. I know it seems strange to introduce new designs in the 21st century - most people assume, rightly of course, that everything worthwhile got figured out in the 20th.
Twitter founders address all-staff meeting on eve of IPO filing (photos)
...and putting it where the eyeballs are.

He's not trying to protect this information. People are going to be using Facebook regardless of whether he publishes there or not. This is pure pragmatism.
This is a fantastic point.

PG has hinted at this trend already in one of his previous essays: because companies get a shared set of awesome services provided by other YC startups (finance, HR, hosting, etc.), startups can operate as efficiently as much larger and established companies.

In this case, LeadGenius provides access to a shared (and large) sales support team that lets companies compete with bigger salespeople. It's worth mentioning, though, that we don't share lead lists internally – but we do share expertise on finding users and evaluating user outreach, which is in many cases what counts.
I have a very good relevant citation (that ironically I can't copy/paste because it's a kindle book): "You find it at Disneyland, where people flock to stroll up and down a Main Street just like the ones they abandoned wholesale in the 1950s for shopping malls. It happens at restored colonial villages like Williamsburg, Virginia, or Mystic, Connecticut, where visitors pay good money to savour the sort of tranquil village atmosphere that they long ago fled for the happy sprawl of suburbs. You find it at Disneyland, where people flock to stroll up and down a Main Street just like the ones they abandoned wholesale in the 1950s for shopping malls. It happens at restored colonial villages like Williamsburg, Virginia, or Mystic, Connecticut, where visitors pay good money to savour the sort of tranquil village atmosphere that they long ago fled for the happy sprawl of suburbs." Bill Bryson, Notes from a big country.

In France we are trying to manage those shops and this heritage. I don't say that we succeed (because now those shops are mostly franchises form mains brands, banks, assurances ans real estates, who price out independent shops), but at least we try something. We have a big problem: we know what we don't want but we have to invent what we want and the route there.
If the Amazon system has advantages to the individual French citizens, why should the French government dictate how they may spend their money?
And especially Drupal.
Thanks a bunch. I am so glad you liked it.
I would think a Manhattan Chinatown full apt for anything less than 2K would be a unicorn. However the parent is right about Jersey and Queens. Also places on the Metro North or LIRR. It's entirely possible to live near NYC and work there everyday for a reasonable cost of living.
You're throwing out all of the context. If you call the police out of the blue like that, they'll ignore you. If you call them with respect to an employee who was fired and "lost" certain property, that's enough to at least investigate.
Could you use Docker as a backend on Linux? I feel like it would eliminate a lot of the size overhead, and be significantly easier to ship (a single static binary)
Repeating the task over and over again will reinforce good habits ( if you know the language well) and bad habits, if you are learning the language in the absence of a reference solution or someone more experienced to review your work.
My favorite example of a Flash website was Adobe's store, which was 100% Flash for quite some time and virtually unusable (in different ways!) on every platform.
I am part of the generation, but actually agree with what he's saying. The article on HN he was critiquing, I also read, and felt "really, mate, you're complaining about this?"

Hard work sucks, it often involves things you don't want to do, but you must push on... I don't like paying back technical debt, but I have to. It's the most boring work, unglamorous work I can do, but among the most necessary.

As well, often times in start ups, in the beginning you're forced to do work outside of your "role" for better or worse. As a business matures, the need for this reduces and you're left with what you were hired for... this is part of growing a business. It can be viewed as boring, but is sort of the goal. Being over worked, and forced to do tasks outside of your description isn't something people should be fighting for...
Honestly I think roommates isn't a requirement (at least in most of those cities) either.
Anecdotally, the "one domain flaw" has only ever happened for me for two websites over long time I've been using this system: getdropbox.com and amazon.com (using international amazon sites). Worst case scenario, you can request a password reset if the domain changes, because it's not the sort of thing that happens often.

The "one password flaw" has never been an issue, but my bank uses proper two-factor authentication with a physical card-reading device, so maybe that's why... I've never actually encountered a website that places problematic restrictions on passwords except (weirdly) Microsoft.

But they're just personal anecdotes that those flaws haven't been an issue for me, but I agree they exist and could be show-stoppers for others. I certainly wouldn't recommend it to anyone non-tech-literate. If I did need secure storage outside of that system (which, you're right, does happen–mostly for wifi passwords and the like) then I just use the system keychain as intended.

But I do still have concerns about the overall security of the system simply because I don't understand it well enough...

> Once you have that secure storage, why not just use it instead, since it can resolve nearly all of the problems?

Because I don't want to pay for 1Password licenses, or be caught out if I'm using someone else's computer, or if all my backups catastrophically fail :)
Evil and lawful are separate axes in morality space.
> I'm curious, is it possible to negotiate 10 weeks vacations in an american company?

You cannot do that for any kind of normal job, no. Maybe you could negotiate 3 weeks at most.

Also a 45 hour work week is now accepted as normal.
There's %wet but no ++wet. The name of the character is actually just the name of a parser function for it.
I'm worried.
It's about Samsung obtaining documents illegally.

Perhaps the parent poster should note that and clarify the fact they're speaking about patent law broadly. Maybe by prefacing the post with something along the lines of "Samsung shouldn't violate court orders. Still, "
I am wondering about your economics. Back of the envelope: 800 usd per month (min 80 hrs of work) translates into max 10 USD hourly revenue. Does not sound like much for "expert knowledge".

I suppose there are different approaches: are you using amazon mechanical Turk (there was a recent HN post on it a few days ago)? Or are you planning to use massive scale effects (as in: build up a contact database that you can reuse)?

Could you elaborate on that?
B2B is a very general term. While some B2B companies sell their products and services broadly (Stripe and Zenefits are good examples of this), many others are vertically-focused.

I'd be curious to know if you have provided your service to vertically-focused companies and, if so, which verticals you have experience with.
Check out https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.premii.hn , it's a fairly clean version for Android.
I've also used this example before. When we lived in Bangladesh, we had a van full of robbers try to break down our gate. The cops took a long time to get there, but they drove away the robbers.

The only thing worse than cops is no cops.
BP's a tremendously large company. I can only expect it will take a lot of time to recover.
i am the guilty party. it was an all up talk + demo of IPython on Azure (on a linux VM!), with the punchline delivered using one of MSR's own libraries (z3), wrapped w Python API's (by leonardo de moura). the big cheeses at the mtg were tony hey (VP) & dennis gannon. i had been encouraging them to do more w python at MSR (research work, wrap existing libs with python, etc.) for a while and everything just came together on that day. i should say that the real credit goes to the IPython team as it demos really really well :).

the donation comes w no strings attached & they can spend it any way they want.
There were investigations of money laundering after the most recent presidential election. They ran into problems letting people from the USA make predictions. I think they are on their way out, they are basically gone already. Sad, since I loved going there!
To heck with that noise. Push the public and media to perceive that facts are important.
Wouldn't being able to afford more books because they are cheaper on Amazon make me effectively more affluent?

I think the argument is that cheaper books might make you more affluent in the sense that you'll have more money, while at the same time promoting a competitive work culture in which it's not possible to use that money to buy time off. In the U.S. I can't trade my money for more vacation. My job is all or nothing. If what I value is time off then what good is money if I can't use it to purchase time off?
The original article also advocates facilitating the child to respond in detail, not simply monologues by a parent. I wouldn't call it de-emphasising speaking; the article describes pretty much the same actions as you do, but labels it 'emphasising', not 'de-emphasising'.

Sure, you need to hold your tongue often to provoke more dialogue (not finish the kids sentences instead of him/her, etc); but in the end it still means much more talking than the 'default' amount.
It can be hard to see if you spend a lot of time in web dev, but he is 100% correct. You confused about what computer scientists are. Think about this, some of the best computer scientists in the world would have difficulty passing fizzbuzz, let alone engineer large projects. Computer science != software engineering

What she did is a niche, but linking to another niche is the whole point, not a counter-argument to what he said. The idea is to expand your view of programming, not spit on things that aren't in your field.
Lego standard colors are limited to about 10 different colors. Is that enough?.
http://creative.lego.com/en-us/products/10664.aspx

Non-standard lego colored bricks can be quite rare/pricey.
Also it automatically respawns :O
How do I kill that thing without restart?
PE has always struck me as more focused on math than programming. The easy problems handle brute force but the hard ones are generally bested by a mathematical understanding of the problem rather than programming prowess & algorithmic kung-fu. I've been meaning to check out Rosalind [1] to see if it opens up the door for more challenging programming or just shifts the problem domain to biology.

[1] http://rosalind.info/
If you're talking about the footwear: http://rapgenius.com/rapstats?q=ugg,uggs
more here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/liveblog-live/liveblog/s...
An Analog Solution to Digital Privacy
> It's this "the customer is just wrong" attitude that makes some of us sense an area ripe for disruption. Pride goeth before a fall.

Doesn't this apply to syntax as well?
This is really cool, and I'm disappointed there's so much hate going on in here.

I agree with points that there is a distribution challenge, but I think if Arc can get small enough, it'll be like SilverLight or Flash. This could make a huge difference for in-browser games that don't want to mess with asm.js.
Congrats. Also cool that you give money back if they don't like the leads.

Question: do you consider an 'entry' plan as well (say 150 dollar)?
Evidence the patent system is functioning properly.
They didn't.
All the badges were either offered on Adafruit, a few non-BSA sites, or designed by Hacker Scouts. Hacker Scouts has permission to use all the badges for the skills it teaches. For reference, here are the BSA badges: http://www.boyscouttrail.com/boy-scouts/bsa-merit-badges.asp
Why don't we just accept the fact that there are going to be constant shootings and move on? These stories don't even phase me any more. Americans have decided they love their guns more than they love themselves and this is what you have to expect with our "gun culture." We've made our bed so let's just sleep in it and shut the f@#k up.
I'm also dying to know who was rapping about web development from ~2003-2009:

http://rapgenius.com/rapstats?q=html%2C%20javascript
Let's not have another semantic argument (hacking vs cracking), the term "girl" (and the term "boy" for that matter) has both the meanings of an child of the given gender but also the informal friendly meaning for an adult of that gender.

For example "lets check with the (boys|girls)" is a pretty common usage casual usage of the term for adults, especially in the 18-35 age bracket. The term boy is actually very common in uniformed occupations (military, police, etc).

Depending on the context using "women" implies a level of formality and abstraction that some could find more offensive. So whatever word gets chosen carries some risk of offence, but it's best not to get hung up on subtitles especially when so many people are non-native english speakers.
I do them in my free time, like most. Oftentimes when I'm not cutting as much code as I want to at work (requirements gathering, meetings, etc) it makes me feel better to finish a little coding exercise (I like /r/dailyprogrammer) at night.
You make it seem so easy.

Let me ask you: How well did that work for Toyota?
Well, first of all, he didn't have to trade! Bets are be settled normally on the event happening or not, regardless of trading or of the motivation of the bettor.

Secondly, just because he traded, doesn't mean he was solely betting on the beliefs of others. Odds can change over time because of betting activity caused by events, news and information. e.g. news stories, statements, etc. If those changes mean that the OP could trade out, good for him.

Another example: Let's say NASA spots a huge asteriod in space, zooming towards earth. To pass the time, people are betting on whether or not it hits. (Let's not worry about how the bets get paid out!) Common consensus is that there is a 10% chance of a collision, but using your awesome physics knowledge, you reckon there's actually a 30% chance, give-or-take. So, you bet ON the asteroid hitting.

A few days later, a news release from an esteemed astronomer reports that her calculations show that the asteroid is more likely to collide than previously thought. As a result, betting activity on the exchange adjusts and the consensus moves to 28%. Now, you might well be tempted to trade out of your bet at this point, and "lock in" a profit. After all, the odds are close to your own beliefs.

Did you trade because of guessing the beliefs of others? No. You traded because the odds changed as a result of information changes, new info becoming public knowledge. You thought the original bet was value, and you traded out at zero cost to get certainty.
Installable home screen web apps in Chrome Beta for Android
Microsoft has not been directly involved with IronPython for several years now. the community is active and doing well. we do fully support it in Python Tools for Visual Studio and lurk on the alias to answer questions. We're committed to continuing support in PTVS.
It fell to its price from two weeks ago in less than a day. That's around 20x faster. So yeah, I would use more excited terminology.
How do you differentiate a criminal spending ill-gained funds from an innocent spending his rightful property?

In those cases, usually you can distinguish ill-gained funds from rightful property only after the court decision, and the presumption of innocence would require allowing the innocent to spend his property on the defence until (and if) [s]he is convicted.
The Snowden files: why the British public should be worried about GCHQ
Thanks! Tech-savvy folks with great products and no salesforces have certainly been using us a lot, but we're also seeing more experienced and high-paid salespeople using us who just don't want to prospect on their own.

To answer the question: we'll certainly be able to help you from day one, but it's a good idea to do some basic market research first -- you'll be spending money on paid user acquisition before you're confident that people will actually buy what you're offering. However, we can definitely help you experiment with researching new segments and types of customers, and it compares favorably against other kinds of acquisition channels in an early stage (Adwords, for example!)

Where LeadGeni.us really shines is when you have a core group of users and you're ready to kick it up a notch and scale things out users -- we can get you conversations, but if your product is still nascent and changing, these may not be the users you want to talk with.
So to continue the analogy, she will now get bored with it and move on to the next interesting thing. Don't feel bad unless she continues at that pace for the next 5 years.

It's easy to be excited about something new. It's not so easy to be excited when you've picked all of the low hanging fruit and you have to do the dirty work for a living.
Lawyer's fees will be higher dollar all around if loser is forced to pay.
Yesterday's discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6475285

Article: http://www.creativeapplications.net/objects/lego-calendar-by...