skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
3 skills a Product Manager needs to succeed
Thanks for that although I don't think it backs up the point I was questioning. Your inital quote confirms the commercial hardball that I never doubted and your later links confirm patent licensing demands against Android manufacturers although which isn't really about an "earlier incarnation [of MS]" and they have been making patent licensing deals with a great number of Android manufacturers so I'm not even sure I'd count it as hardball.

Note that I am not a supporter of Microsoft and avoid their products largely because of the commercial hardball they played when they had monopoly power but the original article suggested that they played "legal hardball" with OEMs who wanted to ship devices (I interpreted as PC's) with additional operating systems rather than just MS ones. I had no recollection of this and was looking for a reference before I add it to the list of offences I believe MS to have committed. It is not implausible but it was a new claim and I wanted to understand it.

I'm interested in understanding why you think the B&N case is so sad and telling. I haven't investigated the patents claimed but in principle the idea that MS requests fees for using it's patents isn't actually a problem for me.
Meet the two scottish rappers who conned the world
Twitter pays engineer $10 mln as Silicon Valley tussles for talent
JavaScript Configuration Object Pattern
So, they get a get money for sales? A percentage or something? Genuinely curious.

EDIT: I see you've answered this question above.

When I'm doing serious comparison shopping, I use a subscription site. I feel better about the reduced incentive to inflate recommendations.

Although the subscription site does make mistakes, it's usually in the durability side of things (they can't test a new product for three years and have the results by April).

The comparison shopping sites are quite nice once I know what I'm looking for, however.
Find The Yellers
All I can think is, imagine if Apple did this.
I just downloaded the Bitnami stack instead of going through the login process. Bitnami seems to have added some bloat to themselves, however: they used to provide you with a straight VM image; now they have an installer and what seems to be a self-contained VM. The cynical part of me assumes that something in this stack is phoning home and perhaps making me part of some evil botnet, but hopefully not ;).
The Use of Minimum Viable Products to Engage Users in Emerging Technologies
We all know about using a minimal viable product (MVP) as related to lean startups to learn quickly about user preferences / reactions to a new product. I think that the MVP approach is also a useful mechanism to transition users to an emerging technology platform or user experience that is significantly different than the norm. I believe that this is useful to prevent users from going into a state of "technology shock". For example, many users experienced a significant trauma from the introduction of the Metro interface in Windows 8. Such a radical change in design language consumed all at once can cause a sensory overload. Would it have been better to deliver these changes in bite-sized pieces?
Why You Shouldn't Use Workout Machines
Bill Gates was a genius with an entrepreneurial mind. Do you think his parents taught him to program the machine that he had access to? He is a self-taught programmer and a high-school entrepreneur and as a kid he read encyclopedias front to back.

I know another child entrepreneur, self-taught programmer who read encyclopedias front to back as a kid... elon musk.
Ads make for some interesting doublethink.

One one hand, I hate the consumer oriented society that wastes resources on a ton of useless products; I despise the scummy advertisers who manipulate people into pursuing the wrong goals. On the other, I like having stuff and will happily buy things to put inside my home and on my person. I am totally dependent on the consumer ecosystem and I enjoy creature comforts.

That said, when I truly need something I will make a targeted search for it. It's really rare to see ads that actually interest me. So I am generally extremely hostile to the ad business. I hate everything about them, because they symbolize the uncomfortable truths and compromises our society rests upon. They are everywhere and mostly do nothing but sap your mental energy.
Rant or now, too direct or not this post is spot on. I am not Indian but can relate to what he is writing about. Young Africans are facing the same problem. Its not until recently I decided to take my own path not that which was dictated by family and society. Kudos bra for having the courage to write THIS as it is.
Using a database should really not be a deal-breaker... you should evaluate it on other factors.

My gripe is that it appears tied to SQLite, and I can't use Postgres. Oh well, wasn't planning on using it anyway.
While signing up is mentioned several times on their page it doesn't seem to be required in any way to run your own version. I hope the broken download is just a bug. Signing up just so you can download the package would be pretty annoying.
I think this phenomenon of using house as a place to park money exists mainly in countries with insignificant property tax. For example in India, China and most of Europe people park their money in property rather than stocks. A 2% yearly property tax may change it!
This prize was created by bankers to celebrate their own pseudo(mostly)-science.

Everything I've come across suggest that Alfred Nobel detested their ilk, and wouldn't want his name associated with the prize in any way, shape or form. That's why the title matters.
At any given moment there are "plenty" of people who think the sky is falling. How do you account for survivor bias.
China’s official news agency calls for 'De-Americanization of the World'
Wasn't that Vizzini?
Making of Highway 4k
So the person born in the current Gates' situation would prolly have achieved what Gates did - given that Gates is who he is because he won the ovarian lottery.

If he had a twin brother he's be, say Larry Ellison or Warren Buffet?

No doubt knowing that daddy is there for you if you fail and that Harvard will take you back is a huge relief and fall back strategy but Gates did make some amazingly good decisions. Some forty years later his company is worth close to $300 Billion and makes over $20 Billion in profit, year after year.
Man Told By God To Make Operating System For Gamers
I've been looking forward to this release. Not because I want the blogging platform, but to take a look.

In the node world, it's easy to find reference code on libraries and modules, but I always fail to find a source of some practices further developed than todo lists. It is not about the code (which as far as I have looked is Ok), but about tying technologies and practices together.

Here, we got a node express backend with handlebars as the templating engine, defined grunt tasks, some unit tests and backbone on the client.

I am really looking forward to keep diving as the project progresses!
Pouet archive for it http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=61668
I imagine it is harder to get charged with fraud when your accountant files your taxes wrong then when you do your taxes and file them wrong.
Test All the (Network) Things
Those three sites are the correct place to start. They are obnoxious and full of ads, but they provide a good ballpark estimate, even geolocated around your target area.

Now of course, if you're applying to a startup, all bets are off, and you should try to get whatever you can. Large businesses tend to follow the averages more, but startups may be coming from anywhere.
Keep going Brad! It will be interesting to see where code for cures goes, let me know if I can help I am always around. Scott @ Quantified API (Instant API)
Seems completely broken in Firefox (v 25.0 beta). The only thing that happens in the jsFiddle example is that it changes the number, and the github page looks like a web page from in 1994. Switched to Chrome and all is pretty.
The advertising problem is very strange. There is content we do want which we could have by paying a small amount. But we're (by and large) unwilling. So we get ads.

A tiny fraction of the ads are clicked, and a tiny fraction of the money spent on that product goes back to the content producer. And that's enough to fund them.

We could avoid seeing 100 ads which end up giving 10 cents to the site if we'd just pay 10 cents each.[1] It would be nicer for us and simpler for the content producers. But we're not willing, apparently.

It seems perverse to claim that we value good articles and shows if we force the creators to sell us boots in order to make a living.

Oh, micropayments, when will we find a workable system for you?

[1] Made-up numbers
UK startup jobs up 44% in 2013 (infrographics)
I've always wondered about this. It seems from my experience that substituting a letter like z for s in a name or taking out the vowels causes a little bit of unresolved tension in a person's mental process. Perhaps this causes them to consciously or subconsciously pay more attention or the name, giving the marketer a few moments of opening to set the hook?
I had a different funky experience. I at first struggled, then paid attention to what I was doing, and then got it set up and running quite smoothly.

Path A: Warts and Brew:
* Mac OSX 10.9
* latest homebrew

1. brew install npm && brew install node.js
2. gem install bourbon && gem install sass
3. Then: Do the Installation / Setup instructions here:

https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.m...

... because: you have to install some ruby templates and such .. please note that you should also have done 'gem instal sass' step above, before you do step #3 ..

I found it works quite well if you get through that setup. I'm impressed enough to have been using it as an app for the last day or so .. its got a nice interface. I'd love to have time to hack up more templates.

Plan B: The easy route: vagrant
Well, another great use for vagrant. Works very smoothly as well:
https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost-Vagrant
The Best Way to Reheat Leftover Pizza
You don't make them sound desperate, more like a "nice-to have" zone. Most immigrants loose their social network when moving, yet they still do OK.
I'm not sure to understand (I see that you're likely using irony, but I'm not a native english speaker).

Are you suggesting not using SSL?

If not, can you clarify your point?

Thanks.
Rapper Daz Dillinger demands GTA V recall over unlicensed songs
Also Aarhus University, Denmark (http://cs.au.dk/). If I remember correctly, one of the reasons Google chose to have the V8 JavaScript engine developed in Aarhus was the fact that the CS department there is really good.
Honestly, a better Wordpress is something that the majority of people with a reasonable understanding of web development and database design (or hey, with a NoSQL store, maybe not even that! /troll) could do in a weekend. However, as you've said, we all have other things to do, but more importantly, it's the free upgrades and transfer of liability that make Wordpress enticing. I'm sure there are plenty of developers out there (myself included) that are happy to say "there's a bug in Wordpress that we'll need to patch" vs. "there's a bug in my code that we'll need to patch".
I'm disappointed that this fails to mention the impact on locals who relied on the food as a staple and can no longer afford to eat it.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/quinoa-boom-offers-hard-less...
IBM researcher can decipher your personality from 200 of your tweets

memo to self, always keep the total number of avail tweets at 199, or 198 just to be sure.

Google and Facebook might, simply because they know everything about you and sites you visit.
Does Homebrew work on 10.9? Have you seen any problems?
Thank you, this award is really a joke.

Economists, generally, don't use their models in the real world. And when they do, they lose billions of dollars.

See Myron Scholes. He did it twice.

Because his "science" was flawed.

It drives me crazy that these guys not only get awards, but influence government financial policy.
Julian Assange steps up war on 'The Fifth Estate,'
I'm glad they have a separate package just for the tracking system. I listened to a podcast with Jerri that was posted here, that I can't find at the moment, where she discusses the details of the work that went into building the ASIC that performs the positional tracking, and I see tons of potential for this in other projects as well.
HP Chromebook 11 First Notebook to Use Analogix’s SlimPort
What feeds do you have in your RSS reader?
I've been puzzled for some time: Is anyone / why isn't anyone working on more flexible and responsive coal and nuclear plants? Instead of storing renewable energy, it would be more efficient, less complex, and less capital-intensive (one would think) to consume the renewable energy immediately and make up the difference between supply and demand with flexible traditionally-fueled plants.

I'm sure there's a good reason. I just don't know what it is.
Oh, I just figured that sign-up was required from reading the copy:

> Open Signup on Ghost.org
The most important piece of news, of course, is that Ghost.org is now open for signups from everybody. Get over there, create your account, grab your username, download Ghost, and check out the forums.

The top comment only confirmed my suspicions.
How to Secure Your VPN on Mac OSX
CSS Rule Saver
The blame does indeed lie closer than we think. That's exactly my point. The problem is that those that are within that region are not recognising this fact until much later in their lives compared to their Western Counterparts. Only when you live in it, breathe it and feel it can you really recognise it's impact. It takes a long time to realise that this is where the problem lies. Not least because no one, and I mean NO ONE is talking about it. They're not talking about it, because they don't KNOW about it.

I don't disagree for a second that the only person responsible for their success or lack thereof is that person themselves, but to get to that realisation takes those in the eastern culture much longer. The weight of the emotional baggage is huge.

No Eric Ries, Tim Ferriss or any other 'Start-up Celebrity' is even mentioning it, because it's not even on their radar. If there had been a movement such as the Lean Start-Up movement that had addressed this problem, then those in the East would have recognised this issue much sooner and done something about it. We've had to do this all on our own.

If you haven't experienced it for yourself personally, then taking a stance such as the above is presumptious - and it's not your statement of the facts that perturbs me, it's your lack of empathy.

Edit: Spelling/Grammar
Is there anyone who can share the results of the advertising using Foursquare?
It uses a similar build process to what you and I are already used to, so in a way it is indeed easy. Despite that the git version is not something the average user should use.

The download link seems to have been fixed so I'll take a look at the packaged version. I reckon it requires nothing more than unpacking and installing the dependencies.

Of course there are installers as well which probably require no user input at all.
Yes, they are separate, but the history of the names is complicated. See "why are the names so similar?" on https://getadblock.com/adblock-is-not-adblock-plus
Shouldn't be tied to SQLite (the underlying query builder/orm support Postgres), it's just not "officially" supported yet.

So in theory putting in the correct connection config should allow you to use Postgres.
+1 docker and jenkins and is a happy medium between speed and isolation.
I won't ever understand some trendy foods. This stuff costs 10 times a much as rice and is a bit more annoying to prepare. Then you have to adapt your recipes and such.

After a while I told my girlfriend I'm just going to make rice because quinoa is just silly, so she decided to make it herself. She's not a very experienced cook, but she tries, and as she tried rinsing it half of the stuff went down the sync, she yelled out in frustration... But she continues to cook and eat it to this day for it's 'amazing health benefits'.
From the article:

Of course, the challenges continue. Today, rising demand for quinoa has led its price to skyrocket in poorer Bolivian communities, which still depend on the crop as a protein source, making it unaffordable for some families.
How does it compare to Harbin? I was just there and it was also lovely (a bit too much like a resort than i'd prefer, though)

Also off of the scientific tangent: If you find yourself in a hot tub with a beautiful nude and no idea what to say, compare poetry to liquid thermodynamics. "Rock Star" doesn't begin to cover it.
> Yes. I started writing my test program to see if hash
> collisions actually happen - and are not just a theoretical construct.

This should be no surprise. The birthday paradox, as Knuth points in in TAoCP,
makes it clear why collisions happen. Given 23 people in a room, there is a greater
that 50% chance that at least two have the same birthday.

Placing only 23 keys into a hash table with 365 entries with a perfectly
random hash function will probably result in at least one collision.
You assume that Alice is the sole provider of the product, which is by and large false. In practice Alice shows an ad to Bob at the $2 price point, while Claire and Darcy have the same product for $0.5. Furthermore, Alice creates an entire marketing literature designed to obfuscate the fact that Claire and Darcy products are the exact same product, at times produced by the exact same manufacturing plant. Bob doesn't have enough time to cut through the bullshit, so never learns about Claire or Darcy, and ends up overpaying $1.50, which is then split $.50 to the marketing department of Alice, $.50 to ADVERT_CO and $.50 to Alice's shareholders.

PS. The "value" that B derives from the product is not quantifiable within the orthodox economic framework, as "value" is an arbitrary number that can only be determined by a buyer meeting a seller's price in a competitive market.
Here's some links of interest:

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/interv...

http://www.quora.com/Programming-Interview-Questions
This is an important distinction, though not iron clad. Lavabit could in theory be ordered to retain records for x days in general.

More importantly, though it's obvious to anyone who thinks about how "encrypted" mail works, many people(possibly including Lavabit's founder ... it appears he asserted to the fed's he couldn't give them envelope information) assumed encrypted meant nothing can be handed over ever, even with a court order.
Even if one does use advanced coolant cycles of some sort, water is extremely effective as a coolant. It has one of the highest volumetric heat capacities of any pumpable liquid at low temperatures, a very low viscosity and manageable reactivity, and a very low-temperature, high-energy phase transition that we understand well for higher temperature applications, which does not even require exotic pressure conditions to achieve. Water is likely to show up at some stage of the cycle in any complex thermodynamic infrastructural engineering.
One easy step to increase your iOS/Android app downloads
But, what about a C++ programmer who knows the quirks of C?
It does mention: "Of course, the challenges continue. Today, rising demand for quinoa has led its price to skyrocket in poorer Bolivian communities, which still depend on the crop as a protein source, making it unaffordable for some families."
Bitcoin Network Doubles to 2 PH/s in Four Weeks; the First 1 PH/s Took 4.7 Years
There was another quinoa-related article discussed here that talks about that:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6028905
I use "Adblock Edge" as an alternative. It's basically a fork of adblock plus but without the "acceptable ads" feature.
Where did you get this information from? What tools / services did you use? Strange for HN, but I am not being argumentative; I would just like to use similar tools myself. :-)
Am I the only person around here who thinks that the correct solution to prompt textbook delivery around campus is a wifi or 3G network and an ebook reader, rather than a noisy flying machine of questionable safety?

(Five stars for WTF-grade novelty of start-up proposal, one star for safety and efficacy.)
This seems like banal common sense. If these points aren't obvious to you, no amount of advice will help.
Trak.io blog gives good advice on where to get beta testers
Funny... I have ghostery, noscript (with some whitelisting) and a bunch of other plugins but it worked just fine for me. Something else than ghostery, perhaps?
Microsoft's phone update to feature driving mode
Treat Yourself Like a Startup
How does one get to the point of making this video and posting it online without realizing that this amount of effort is completely antithetical to the idea of eating day-old pizza?
No junk food, no television, no Facebook, opportunity to learn practical skills, exposure to mild pathogens in the first five years of life to help the immune system develop properly; most aspects of the lifestyle would be good for children.

Of course, you would still want to make an exception to the lifestyle to get the children the usual set of vaccines; nothing puts a damper on a healthy childhood like dying of whooping cough. All things in moderation, including moderation.
"I fear that people will take this article to heart without realizing that it wasn't Bill Gates background that allowed him to succeed, but it was his instinct and drive."

False. Both of things things enormously contributed to his success. There are tons of people with drive who never even got close to his achievements, and tons more with ideal situations who never created anything of value. Gates had an ideal mix of character and good fortune.

There's also the sad fact that personality derives a lot from upbringing and genetics, so you could say that the "instinct and drive" Gates had was also a facet of luck. In a way, most of what we are is roughly predetermined. Our character is a throw of the dice. We don't even know if free will exists at all. This is why I tend to laugh at libertarians who believe they owe nothing to anyone.

Face it, luck is perhaps 90% of any tremendous success. Just because Gladwell wrote about this doesn't mean it's not true. It's not a reason to diss Gates and his ilk and stay envious and bitter; it just means we should stop basing our self worth on whether we've changed the world or not, and stop adulating important figures or trying to derive lessons from their every move. Plenty of innately great people have failed and plenty of less than adequate people have succeeded immensely.
Weren't they talking about the search engines that allowed to buy organic placements in the results?
The truism is this: those who ignore history are liable to repeat it. This works in code thus: if you haven't got an implementation, implement. Dodgy stuff, that 'got'.