skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is disappointing to me. I see it as Greenwald using his new found publicity for a better deal. After reading the recent Guardian profile in the New Yorker it's hard not to root for them.

It's also upsetting that this will dilute and interrupt the NSA reporting, something Snowden has worked so hard to avoid.
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We're a small dev team but I'm happy to help out. I've submitted code to moz-central before, but I noticed shumway is in anpther repo. What type of help did you have in mind?
I would suggest that if your tooth brushing equipment is not kept inside a bathroom cabinet, but is, instead, left in the open, that the 'toilet lid' solution be adopted in order to prevent the 'micro-droplet problem'. :-)
I am guessing the OP copied the title directly from the article.

[edit: I totally agree, btw]
Wait a minute, "thought to be worth $800m"? Is that "m" for "million" and that dollar sign for "dollars"? Has the whole world gone crazy?
I use Linkdrop for my bookmarks and it does just what you're suggesting. It's still kind of small, sorta new-ish, but works perfect for what I need.

http://www.linkdrop.com/

Here are some of the things it does:

- Permanently stores the link and its full content within seconds

- Takes a screenshot of the page

- Saves the entire HTML for full text searching (like a private search engine of just your links)

- If the bookmark points to a file it downloads a backup copy of the file

- Creates a backup copy of YouTube and other videos that I drop to myself so that I never lose them (This is the feature I upgraded to a paid account for because free accounts get lower quality video backups and it's the same with screenshots. I wanted high quality everything.)

- Connects to Dropbox and copies all of my bookmarks, screenshots, and video / file backups to a folder in Dropbox

- Lets me email links to myself to save them

- Lets me share with other people who have an account

- Notifies me with a text when somebody else sends me a link (I use this all the time, I get random links from people throughout the day)

- Lets me organize, filter, and sort my links like an inbox specifically for links

- Emails me a list of links I've received at a regular interval

- Has a Pinterest-style grid view option

- Works on my phone

- Can send links to Facebook and Twitter at the same time through it

- Can save links with one click using bookmarklets for my folders

There's more, but those are the main features that I think make it worth using. Check out the site to see a better feature list.

It does exactly what I need it to by acting as an endpoint for my links.

If I want to save something and make sure I can find it again later I drop it to myself on Linkdrop which also backs it up to Dropbox. Very useful in my opinion.
I read another Amazon biography sort of thing, and was a bit disappointed because it was clear the author did not have access to Bezos - not even a brief interview, it seemed to me. Access is critical for this kind of book, and it'd be interesting to hear how much the author had, to who.
Are they good? What's the standard, throw a bunch of dried ones into a wok with sesame oil and they're ready to go?
Looks really nice, just today I was working on a new input for our comments and this seems to fit really well. Will give it a try!
That's why the Finance Minister's declarations are quite silly:

"Let me be crystal clear. Ireland wants to be part of the solution to this global tax challenge, not part of the problem," he said.
I don't think they had a good product manager. I quit delicious a few months ago because of their lack of support of browser add-ons. It takes less than one week to develop a good add-on for Chrome!

Another disturbing thing was the UX: delicious was slower in 2013 than in 2009...

Sorry, I can only bash them: it is hard to do a business around Delicious but destroying what worked is irrational. The delicious app for Android goes in the right direction but it's late.
Anyone know a good place to plot the mathematical envolope at the bottom of the page? But like, quite big?

I know it might seem a little facile but a nice plot like that would look pretty cool on my website. :)
Video hosting is a good niche too.
http://www.welton.it/articles/webhosting_market_lemons - this seems somewhat relevant: "Web Hosting - A Market for Lemons".

I'm not sure I got it 100% right, but I think there are some valid points.
Excel is not at all a bad visualization tool...it's just that the lowest-common denominator of white-collar types use it, hence, the seemingly many terrible examples. By the time you're skilled enough to figure out R or D3, you're less likely to do something completely ugly...often because it's hard to add flair. However, D3 is starting to see way too many people who think adding force-directed balls is a good visualization, when such an interface is worse than what most Excel visualizations end up being.

I was hoping the OP would focus on the beauty of the table as a visualization, something I wish was used more often despite its simplicity.

Tufte's small multiples is a kind of table, and a very effective one. This was one of my favorite examples he uses in his books, and helped to get Gotti acquitted:

http://www.thejuryexpert.com/wp-content/uploads/gotti.jpg

Here's a modern take by the NYTimes:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/08/24/sports/top-fin...
Mild disagree on your first sentence: It has featured prominently in several TV profiles of local artists, including in self-aware commentary by artists about the aesthetic values they are aiming for. It's entirely possible that a Japanese person might not be familiar with it, in the same manner that baroque might be a baroque reference to many Americans, but my impression is that it is well within the realm of 常識. My wife (Japanese) was surprised when I asked her to confirm that.

I do agree that it gets thrown about as The Essential Guide To The Monolithic Japanese Art Tradition quite frequently on the other side of the Pacific, though. (Those are sarcasm caps.)
Awesome! This could be really significant for us adding mobile event tracking with POST support to Snowplow. (Currently our CloudFront event collector uses GET + access log parsing.)
C++ has become a scripting language
We have strong banking regulations, apparently. I heard somewhere that during the GFC, there were only ten banks of that kind globally that hung on to their AAA credit rating, and all four of the Australian big banks were in that ten.

Our bank regulations are a joke (in the last few years, we just nationalized a fraudulent bank for €2.7 billion and re-sold it for €30 million), and yet we have a similar system, plus free virtual CCs, plus an award-winning ATM network that doesn't charge any fees for usage/withdraws.
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That's why you're more likely to attract HN users than the sites which are trying to compete directly :)

HN used to have a lot more in-depth "AskHNs" before Quora came along. Quora never tried to compete with HN, but rather it solved the problem that people were using HN for.

Plenty of people who use HN want curated startup content and intelligent discussion and will go wherever that's found.

In any-case more high-quality startup communities are good for everyone (YC, VCs, founders, etc.) so I don't think that competition is likely to be a significant issue for anyone.
Sorry, I was asking for general tips (that are better than Enders'game) I can add to my reading list. I loved some of Card's novels, but always looking to expand my horizon and find new stuff.

Thanks.
Globally that may be true but Apple definitively employ more people in Ireland than GE.
I see no reason why flashblock would not work with this. If the embed is has a swf extension then it will be blocked.
So we should either all agree that most CEOs are clueless,
[...] in which case I wonder why we keep paying them so
much.

You know being highly paid doesn't mean someone's good at their job, right?
SEE Finance is the only one that I have found that imports everything correctly
I agree with this, along with sites that throw up a questionnaire as soon as you load up a page. No, I will not fill in your questionnaire before I have looked at the page that might or might not have the information I want!
Yes, libraries have names. Names are meant to represent and be used to refer to these libraries. The same could apply to any web project in any language:

Here, we got a python flask backend with mustache as the templating engine, defined fabric tasks, some unit tests and backbone on the client. CPU sensitive tasks are handled by Celery or RQ, on Redis or RabbitHQ.

Maybe you would prefer:

Here, we got <Insert your language here> , with no templates, some bash scripts to build the project, no unit tests and a half-assed mess of javascript spaghetti code tied together on the client.

I must ask, if you do build websites, how do you (or if you do):

- Use a framework

- Use templates

- Minify and build assets

- Test your code

It's been many years since we have moved from frameworks that do everything, to small libraries that do one thing and to it well, sometimes opinionated or not. For me, choice is better.

It is always a good pass time to look how people build their projects, compare it on how you are doing it, and decide if you can learn something from that. I might be wasting my time, and your comment was just an opportunity to bash on a language or community. I could not care less, as I have no cards on this game. Just use whatever works for you.
But the serving size on yours is two pills. Maybe you need to double up?
I read a few weeks back that Greenwald has wanted to publish more information at a higher pace, and The Guardian didn't as they thought it'd be too much. It's probably a golden opportunity for him to publish as much as he wants, whenever he wants.

Either way it'll be interesting, I certainly can't see The Guardian stopping with it's interest in the security apparatus even without Greenwald.
Why do you need investors? Is a lack of funds holding you back at the moment? I run a site with 6 million uniques a year, and half a million registered users. I do it alone.

Investors sounds like a headache. Right now my site pays for itself, and my life. If I want to take a month long vacation, I go on vacation. If I had an investor, I go back to having a regular job, and answering to someone else. That has very little appeal to me.

This works in my situation because my project is fairly polished at this point, and the content is entirely user driven, so I simply work on sorting out the occasion bug, managing the servers, and carefully planning the direction to take the site, and features to develop. More money, more offices, more employees wouldn't bring anything to the table, aside from more stress. If you have a project that needs people out there selling, that needs people writing content, that needs more developers, or that needs more capital, then maybe you do need an investor. This isn't always the case though.
Perfect title ;)
Very clean implementation. I have a feeling I'll be needing this soon.
Which award is more depressing? "expert in slacking off", "expert in staying poor", "expert in getting wealthy". Also note that it's not an award for "wealthy" but "expert in getting wealthy", and later in the article the award winner is also helping others to do what she does.
Only if you're still tied to the notion that prices are proportional to costs. e-transfers are more convenient for consumers, so they can charge more for them.
It's great, much better than before. Hopefully they continue to improve the service.
They don't seems to have a lot of users anymore tough. When you bookmark, you get the number of person who bookmarked before you and it is usually very low ...
I was going to write exactly this. It was so absurd... there were people who placed the logo on their footer without actually having any service from MT. This certainly marked my impression about MediaTemple, I've always considered them a snobbish, overpriced company.

Pretty much like Apple.
In the UK, yes, but Starbucks doesn't do much tax avoidance in Ireland; Google, Microsoft and Apple are the big ones here.
Headline should be 'Apple forced to use other Irish tax loophole'
MS, Apple & Google have very different traits. MS' aren't just a disadvantage, they're also an advantage sometimes. One such trait is stick-to-itness.

They release something. If it sucks and it's important, it will probably get better. They will live with mess. Office applications are a mess of features. Some are hard to find or hard to learn. But they don't avoid a feature altogether if its hard to implement in an elegant intuitive way. They get the feature out there and to some customers that feature is very useful, even if it is irritating & complicated. Apple just wouldn't implement it.

This is super important in corporate IT. The IT manager want something done. MS software doesn't argue with them. It doesn't tell her that she shouldn't be doing this in the first place. It just lets her do it (after spending a few weeks reviewing licenses, versions and creating a 3 year roll out plan).

That's why they do so well in the corporate market. They're not afraid of the schlep, the long sales cycle, 2 years of user complaints before a product is really good enough.
Hello world! There is more than Berlin in Germany :)
Probably not. As noted in the article, it just requires them to proxy to a company in a tax haven (Bermuda etc) instead of to a company with no domicile. Ireland is still required as part of the loop.
Its free to download, over at Github.
Please don't lower the quality of conversation further. Vladimir Nesov is already gone, we don't need more normal people.
People continually discover this and are shocked to learn that the authors are anonymous. This has been a known fact since at least 2005. The authors of TC are anonymous and have been for a very, very long time.
I think that the bureaucracy is what is really killing entrepreneurship in Germany. Right now I'm wrapping my head about opening an UG (small GmbH) company, but when I think about all the regulations and associated costs, I'm not sure it's worth it. That's probably the reason many people do contracting as "selbständige" instead through their own companies. I wish there would be a real equivalent of LLC or Ltd company in Germany.
impossible to find in ireland? I have shot and eaten rabbit in ireland.

interesting fact: you can starve if your diet only consists of eating rabbit
As posted in comment on site:

"the interview is lacking the most important question: What are the legal requirements and steps for a foreigner coming from outside Europe to fund a company in Germany and to become resident."

perhaps someone here knows?
Found this submission because you mentioned Laravel, good choice. Am learning it right now and are really happy with it.

From the website:

> Did we mention it's 100% free? ... Because it is.

How do you make money? What's the business model?

From your post here:

> First, we aim to create liquidity in markets that traditionally do not have it. Our users can add an item to a "wantlist", which when a particular item reaches a significant amount of wants a feed is sent to a list of dealers. They compete to claim the 'bounty' of the item based on how many wants it has.

You lost me at "liquidity in markets". What? What's "a feed"? What's the bounty? How does this competition work?

> Additionally, our transaction platform is decoupled from the site listings... users need not go through our site to track a transaction using our platform and feedback tools. External transactions can be brought in (from forums, blogs, craigslist, whatever) for free.

Is this still in the planning stage? Couldn't find it on the page.

Site feedback:

- "Publisher" in the blue bubble looks like a button, or at least clickable tag.

- The wording of "how this works" seems suboptimal. The focus should be more on what exactly I do and what my benefits are

- "Wantlist" isn't explained on the comic page, best add ad (?) behind it that opens help

- Facebook login should work really good for your customers

- Help and support section would probably improve customer trust (and conversion). See ebay and other big names for inspiration, but keep it small, personal and fun

And because this looks and reads quite negative now: Awesome site. I love it, good luck!
I totally agree. If I needed validation from someone, I'd not go starting up a company...
The man who put a hole in your pen lid and child-proof lids on medicine bottles
28 things people had achieved at the age of 28
This is very impressive. The code is very readable, even the asm.js based code (which is probably written by hand). You can find the CPU code in js/worker/cpu.

On Chrome I get about 30 MIPS while running scummvm. On Firefox I get about 6 MIPS on the standard core and about 40 MIPS on the asm.js core.

I must say that I am impressed by Chrome performance on the standard core. However, sometime Chrome drops to about 6 MIPS for no discernible reason.

For people like me, who didn't know what OpenRISC is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenRISC
I never felt any respect for Mr. Ballmer (, unlike Bill Gates), and I am just thinking aloud as to why:

I wonder if, like many other people, Mr. Ballmer found the existence of Google a perfect fit to his personality, which involves finding an anathema, a thing to be hated, and then sublimating one's energies into productivity by feeding on that hatred. Let's call this Hatred-Driven Development. Or rather, considering we are talking about a CEO, Hatred as a Strategy (HaaS). The reason such behaviour feels petty is that these people literally don't exist without the external object which forms the focus of their lives.

As others have pointed out, he had enough time to do something about Google, and failed, and that shows that HaaS is not enough. If you want points just for trying and just for hating the competition ferociously, there's a heaven for that kind of person; middle-management at a large corporation.

I believe that this is a story of how to make $15.2 billion in net worth by being in the right place, a rocket called Microsoft, at the right time.
But Apple makes the headline

If this was 1999 it would have been Microsoft.
If this was 1960 it would have been GE.

Apple get's the headline because it's generating the most profits.
There is also jquery-textcomplete: https://github.com/yuku-t/jquery-textcomplete
Yeah. What Google has done is succeeded at funding their platform of choice without having to charge humans for it, fundamentally altering people's relationships with computer technology. That it happens to (from some angles) look like they're competing with Microsoft in the PC space is purely coincidental; what Google's done is add a layer of indirection that allows them to push the profits in the platform business to 0.

If you think of Microsoft as making their zillions of dollars not by selling software but rather by imposing a tax on every single computer purchase, then you understand why Ballmer was 100% right on the money about Google being by far their most dangerous competitor (and, incidentally, why some people believe that Apple and Google are not fundamentally in competition; and further why some believe that Android is no longer necessary to Google.)
my guess is the '1-2 days' for you to get your cash is how they are monetizing it. Sure, a poster above got $1 almost instantly, but as volume increases, 1-2 days in some form of investment vehicle will add up.
It's actually quite genius as evidenced by other comments in this thread.

People now think the double Irish is closed when it isn't.

And when another country publicly condemns Ireland, the finance minister can say "we've already closed one, we're working on it!".
Go to your local citizen center (Bürgeramt), register for a "Gewerbeschein" as "Einzelunternehmer". It costs 35€ and then you're good to go and do business. Takes 10 minutes.

You can still go for a UG or GmbH later. It's really not necessary in the beginning, especially if you have hardly any revenue.
I really like the idea of standing desks and have loved many of the other articles previously posted on this subject, too.

I don't know what it's like for others but being a freelancer going from hot desk to hot desk, client to client and doing most of the travel by car or train - This is very hard to maintain since everything has been designed for sitting.

I might try standing on the tube from now on though but i might look weird if it's relatively empty.
I think good enough is an excellent lesson for most people, especially me. Fear of not having something polished enough prevents me from getting things launched on a regular basis.
Tax reduction. Tax avoidance or evasion is a crime.

Edit: I'm wrong, see below.
VirtualBox is only partially open source and free:

For example, USB2.0 and RDP support is non-free.

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Licensing_FAQ

Also note that they do openly admit that stopping to release under GPL 2.0 is not planned, but possible and they reserve the right to do so in future.
where is this sounds like the landlord class has manged to corner the market.

Certainly in the UK a mortgage is way cheaper than the equivalent rent when I looked at it recently.
To be honest: Meh. I'm not sure I'd want this product in the first place, let alone pay for it.

For one, I don't need another browser/plugin that could potentially track me. For another, it seems like the novelty would wear off rather quickly with this.
Bitcoin as a law enforcement/natsec honeypot: what is the evidence?
Dotcom days also implies flawed business models that are unlikely to ever be profitable for the company, nevermind investors. I think it was a relevant use of the word considering the point of abalone's argument.
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>Capitalism is stronger than customs.

What you describe below, besides inaccurate (lots of very efficient food sources never made much dent to other cultures, potatoes are more of an exception than an example), is not capitalism, but hunger.

In a famine people will even eat rats (or fellow men).

That's not really about capitalism. It worked that way under every kind of economic system, including ones predating capitalism by milenia.
Why? Do you believe that?
Having created (and failed) a company in Germany, it is true that the bureaucracy and paperwork is especially tough and hard to understand. Administrative German is very hard to ingest. Once started rules of work and leading a company are pretty straightforward
Just FYI, Gandi.net is also offering a free "Simple Hosting" virtual instance for a month with code NODADDY. Size "S", valid for a week.
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