skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I _think_ the difference is google and microsoft are using a different loophole (double irish), which by the way wouldn't be closed by this change.

EDIT: to clarify: apple is playing with one subsidiary being resident "nowhere", whereas other companies have subsidiaries being resident in tax havens. The reform will forbid the former, not the latter.
USD being used in Katana:
https://vimeo.com/76739820
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it won't get deleted if its not spam

and everyone gets a vote up or down so the best links will rise to the top
"Wait! Hang on! Let me launch this app... Here put your details in."

Another trick I use is if we've been chatting a while and I forget, I say lets add facebook details and give them opened to facebook people search for them to put their name in.
Mobile friendly means iPhone friendly. People test on what they have, and most web designers have iPhones.
African mosquitoes or European mosquitoes?
The definition of "proper warrant" is rather shaky as it is these days. Besides that, there methods (short of shuttering your business in protest) to prevent access to data without denying access to law enforcement. You can't divulge what you don't know: https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/felten/a-court-order-is-a...

Of course, this is complicated for images, not to mention resource intensive, but it's entirely possible to lock down your services to a point where you literally cannot divulge information on your users since you don't have it.
No who uses snapchat think it's super secure as everyone realises you can just take a screenshot (app detects this and notifies the sender), or you can just take a photo with another camera.

It's just about making it harder for the average user to save a potentially embarrassing photo and allow you to send fun pics that are too crappy to put onto facebook/twitter.
'Striking differences' in health between sitting and standing
He says "Gmail was laughable early on". I got a Gmail invitation, through an acquaintance, before it was generally available to the public. I remember how awesome it felt in comparison to Yahoo Mail: (1) file uploads were handled after hitting "Send", instead of disrupting the writing of your message like the other web interfaces did, (2) it came with huge online storage, (3) searching emails actually worked which in combination with the huge storage meant that I stopped deleting emails, (4) spam simply stopped hitting my Inbox (a real problem with my Yahoo Mail account, which made my Y! account unusable), (5) it was the only free email service I knew that provided POP3/SMTP access and then later I noticed (6) conversation threads.

Ever since Gmail was invitation-only, it has been awesome on multiple levels. It has its ups and downs, but if I am to think of products that have been almost perfect ever since version 1, Gmail is right up there with iPhone 1 - i.e. missing features, but so useful and refreshing.

How can you fail to mention that Internet Explorer, ever since version 6, became the main barrier for adopting web standards, as development on it simply stopped for several years, with the team being sent to work on other things, like Silverlight? How can you fail to mention Firefox for that matter? In 2006 Firefox version 2 was barely released. It then grew to over 20% of market-share, without Mozilla making aggressive deals for prebundling it. Internet Explorer isn't losing to Chrome only, it's losing to Firefox and Safari too and they ended up in this position by their own incompetence or malevolence.

There was a time when Microsoft was serving their customer's needs. They stopped doing that in 2001, after Windows XP was released.
we are not trying to compete with HN. We use it every day and find it invaluable.

what we are trying to do is open up our link sharing to the public so everyone can see what we are thinking about, reading, and discussing

and while doing that, we thought it would be great to let others do the same

i did give PG a preview of this about a month ago in case he was upset about it. he replied to me and did not seem to be
Are there really quarterbacks who reason in euro??? ;)
These guys need to go through that Yahoo process of changing designs and logos everyday for a month and choose a popular one.

Even Digg seems to have diluted and become like a content aggregation site than what it used to be
New superconductor is first predicted then created
So the headline should be, "Ireland to close Apple's tax loophole, but leave bigger one open"
Always there will be the suspicion that that is what they are admitting to but what are they not (or are not allowed) to admit.

They may be storing all snaps. They say they aren't but who knows.
this is not about you reading us

this is about us reading you
It is sad to see that people have such a bad attitude towards the pharmaceutical and chemical industries. Many of my friends work in that sector, and I assure you that their motivation and interest in the their work comes in part from helping people.

Give me one industial sector where greed - nature of man - is not a problem.
A more extensive and detailed explanation here: http://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/ireland/ireland-w...
I am Italian, I have at least a vague idea of what Wabi Sabi is (I study ShoDo with a Japanese teacher), and you are wrong: the two terms are not even close, sorry.
Coke VS Pepsi Twitter Heat Map
"It's like saying if Windows were a bit cheaper Linux wouldn't exist." Actually, Windows can be had for free, while iOS devices can't. If it weren't that way, I bet that Linux would have a huge user base by now.
UX Designers: Stop Being Mythical
Yes. I am reading this on a free newspaper in a tube. I expect the rest to be free.
er... no!

Said car is so not wabi-sabi on so many levels it is hard to begin. It has no character, as in the character that an object develops over time. It is not natural or made from materials that are on their way back to nature. Sure it is asymmetrical but all cars are - the exhaust pipe, the petrol cap and the steering wheel.

If you want an automotive analogy, I would look a lot further back, to those cars you find in Cuba, to that Fordson tractor abandoned in a field or a Soviet era truck somewhere in East Europe.
The implication comes from the phrase "I was presented with a once-in-a-career dream journalistic opportunity that no journalist could possibly decline.", i.e. he isn't being fired or something.
Me too. It's not great, UI needs a bit of polish, feels like the Java app that it is but it does the job.

I am looking for alternatives though.
only those who use the euro as their reserve currency :-p

I was looking at iPhone prices on the German Apple site, hence the euro explanation. The US Apple site is a pain if you want to compare unsubsidised iPhone prices.
The BBC is known to be often critical of Apple. I don't know if this is a good or a bad thing.
This is super exciting. My only concern on cost relates not to CloudFront itself, but rather the burden of using your own SSL certificate, as mpetrov mentioned.

I wonder if this will be improved as well? I personally wouldn't want to accept user data without SSL.

> Pricing for Custom SSL Certificates is simple. We charge a fixed monthly fee of $600 for each custom SSL certificate you associate with your CloudFront distributions, pro-rated by the hour. For example, if you had your custom SSL certificate associated with at least one CloudFront distribution for just 24 hours (i.e. 1 day) in the month of June, your total charge for using the custom SSL certificate feature in June will be (1 day / 30 days) * $600 = $20. Detailed pricing information for the Custom SSL Certificate feature is available on the CloudFront Pricing Page.

http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/custom-ssl-domains/
I think it is actually the Ruby Pool is increasing much faster then there are Ruby Devs.
I feel like Delicious was trapped into thinking they were just about "bookmarks" and never were able to really articulate or grow into a more mature service.

Consider them against something like Bitly - which presents itself as a link shortening service, but is really an analytics company.

I've always felt like Delicious could have grown into this much more fantastic organizational or promotional tool, but instead went far the other direction in trying to make the service into a "social news" site instead.

This re-launch is nice and a good step, but seems like too little too late.
Of course they can, but as a parent, I find it easier to supervise their store purchases than their online purchases, because they have to physically go there, and I can notice it.
When it comes to operating systems, sure. But that's not Google's real target.

However, many everyday tasks that we carry out in our PC are done on the Web browser. Google has a very strong position in search, email and other services. Even the leading Web browser is theirs.

When your PC becomes just another way to run a Google browser to use Google services, I'd call that success.

Not in a small part because it lowers the barrier to doing a larger and larger share of your computing outside of a Windows PC, on mobile. Where Google leads as well.
No, because just before the quoted sentence he qualifies the success criteria to be largest share of the only growing PC segment.

Even the incumbent is the largest, as long as it is declining, and the challenger, albeit small, but is growing, the challenger is usually considered a success in the market place.
> I remember how awesome it felt in comparison to Yahoo Mail

The author is comparing it to Outlook and other email clients, not to the existing webmail applications when Gmail launched.
Not that I like the design either, but a successful guy has taken a non-trivial amount of time to share his experience/wisdom, so the only think I can say is "thank you".
At.js – A GitHub-like textarea autocomplete library
Booring as usual. "Great" job, AVOS Systems. :/
There's one overriding factor that's preventing Microsoft from holding on to its reins. The company doesn't really understand simplicity.

I remember a post here about someone who worked at MS and how everyone just sorta waft through their jobs without wondering what else is out there. No one worries about Linux or other platforms really. No one explores new ways to do things or even fixing things that aren't solving an immediate problem. The description is hard to believe and reads like a dystopian city, but it's a good indication of why MS is going the way of the dinosaur.

In many ways it's the opposite problem Google has. They've gone above and beyond the simplifying and basically circled everything they offer around one account. So far, the closest thing MS has to offer is Live sign in, and even that is well after Chromebook in Windows 8.

Microsoft has always been about making it easy to buy. Not necessarily to keep and maintain. With most services Google offer, I literally expend no effort with upkeep. It's simple and it just works... well the Gmail UI is arguably worse now, but that's another topic.
Nonsense. A Court Order is a Legal Requirement. Same as having your company registered somewhere, or having all your invoices sorted out. If you want to do business, you have to respect local laws.
Is this going to hurt the (currently thriving) tech/startup scene in Ireland?
Inflation rising... I don't know what you are on about. Check your facts laddy :)
http://www.tradingeconomics.com/thailand/inflation-cpi

Interesting story, however.
Don't ask me exactly how, but Apple (and others i guess) manages to get paid by Spanish taxing organism by declaring negative results. They do redirect the benefits and payment of taxes to Ireland, where i guess that happens again. Spain pays Apple in concept of fiscal help, they might need some, right?

http://cincodias.com/cincodias/2013/05/22/empresas/136920666...
What also doesn't help is that sites like Facebook leak personal information like sieves. I've been receiving the spam e-mails claiming to be from various of my Facebook friends for some time.
World's first Android Kitkats review
If possible, please substantiate that?
Actually EFT does have fees. Typically between 10c - 25c / transaction.

They are minimal, but they are there.

Plus the fee for the terminal of course. Which varies significantly between banks in AU.
I would say having the big tech giants in Ireland has virtually no impact whatsoever on the Irish tech scene. There doesn't seem to be any movement of staff from tech giants to startups for example, or any investments by tech giants in Irish startups. Israel is way more successful at the latter, also at achieving acquisitions by major US tech companies.

Disclaimer: I live in Ireland, and have worked in a startup and interned in Apple.
I happen to know that sector very well (among others) and it has always struck me how dirty it has always been. Paying doctors to go to the tropical islands for so called "scientific conferences", giving kickbacks vs the number of subscriptions for your drug, manipulating the studies results to make them look better than they actually are, cherry picking the results to get an approval... just list any of the worst practices ever and you can be sure the pharma industry has it. And you get random news here and there on how X big company did this or that (recently Pfizer caught red handed in Japan) but still business continues as usual.

The motivation of your friends may be noble, but that's probably because they don't work in the functions which directly relate to these activities. Just open your eyes (and the news).
Maybe you're being over-sensitive as I don't see anything hostile to .NET. The closest I saw was the comment that reading C# seemed odd compared to most of today's start-ups (which you could probably say about Java as well).

EDIT: Somehow I had showdead off, and now see the "punched in the gut comment" ... the fact that it's dead shows that the community doesn't really put up with non-productive comments.
> All forms of EFT take 1-2 business days between banks,
> pretty much all the time; and they're universally free for > the payer.

Other people have already weighed in on the fact that actually not all of the payment systems are free for the payer (even EFT via a terminal costs).

But ask yourself, why does it take 1-2 business day for this to happen? In the UK, the worst case scenario is 2 hours between different banks. And if the account transfer is within the same bank, it is instant.

In AU, even between St. George accounts you can see delays of up to 1 day. Insane! Especially since the money isn't changing banks but accounts within the bank.

The AU transfer delay is bizarre.
I was just kidding of course - moreover I live in Italy ;)
Web Community Outraged as GoDaddy Buys Media Temple
It would be useful if someone can tag the topics.

HN is useful to see what is hot. Hot does not mean it is relevant to all of us. If I am raising money, I would be interested in topics tagged to raising money - the fact that you (fred wilson) posted, up voted, commented the topic is a good signal that topic is relevant.

I also like the idea of commenting system that rapgenius and medium deploys. I believe that the idea of seeing the most up voted comment is broken. You might have something to say on a particular sentence in fund raising article- I'm interested to see that. Others may have interesting things to say about other sentences. If USV can pull content online and allow people to comment each sentence, I believe this would really add value to our community.
more anecdata: I very specifically remember thinking "wow, this kicks yahoo and hotmails' butts!" I never bothered with outlook or other non-web-based clients
Just YES. +1
I think a lot of VPS hosting is for personal projects or very small business.
I noticed something interesting the other day on my bank statement as I pay for a LinkedIn premium account and it says, "LinkedIn Ireland" or something along those lines. LinkedIn uses Ireland to dodgily get out of paying tax too. Every major company does, its been a known loophole for a long time now.
Yes, but then you're comparing apples with oranges, as Gmail wasn't initially meant to be an Exchange/Outlook replacement, being in a different league entirely and useful on its own merits. That along with Google Apps, Gmail is suddenly viewed as a replacement for Outlook/Exchange, well that's a classic innovator's dilemma.
Two 15 year olds sexting is mutual pornography production in the US?
AIUI the other companies on your list are using a Dutch Sandwich, which is not plugged by this.
All true but there is still quite a bit of inefficiency involved if you need a team that is both proficient in deploying & running Linux infrastructure tools as well as Windows servers.

And given that this discussion is taking place in the comments section of a link to a custom-made monitoring dashboard that quite possibly wouldn't be needed* if SO was a Linux-only shop doesn't exactly devalue my previous statement.

*I have no idea whether this could be replaced with Nagios or Munin
With it's low price point and a very user friendly admin panel, I too would recommend Dreamhost's shared hosting service. I've had a good experience with their customer service and they have some nice bells and whistles such as automated backups, PageSpeed, Railgun (cloudflare), being carbon neutral, etc.

We have to remember that shared hosting is not for heavy or critical websites. There are always some unwritten, but well-intentioned rules attached to unlimited hosting plans. As you would imagine, the server performance on any shared hosting depends on you and your neighbors adhering to them.

I'll agree with you, shutting down a customer without notice is not acceptable. Maybe if a customer is actively trying to scam the hosting provider by violating the terms... but I think even in that case, customer should be given a 24 hour eviction notice so that they have time to transition elsewhere.
Same issue here, just different Win version. In my case it was easy to solve since I didn't really need 3D acceleration, so I ended up disabling it.
Show HN: Timetastic. An Online Staff Leave Planner
> When the Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner made his great leap from space last year...

It's a long way to space from where he jumped. The Karman line is at 100 km altitude.
It is disingenuous period. Google was not a competitor 10 years ago. As the article points out, Google only started competing about 5 years ago after Microsoft had started failing in those categories.

Firefox had been eroding at IE and changing people perception of internet and web browsers for more than a decade. Failure by MS to compete with Firefox is what allowed Google to put the last nail in IE coffin.

Mobile OS war really started 6 years ago after the iPhone basically reset the expectations. Google and Microsoft started at the same stage to compete against Apple. Ballmer could not have had the foresight that Google would compete in a category that did not exist yet. Or if he could predict the smartphone/tablet resolution they would just have bought Android before Google.

About the PC OS. So what about the netbooks that had MS sweating years before Google took interest in the category. And again, Google took interest only because it was/is basically abandoned by all the player. (it is fair to say that MS does not give a sh!t about Chrome type laptop)

MS made several failures. (when you are on top ...) It is just chance no prophetic vision that set Google as its arch-enemy today. Had MS competed in the browser and mobile area better, Google would have most likely chosen another road. Google after all is making money selling ads, OS/Browser are just the tools that made sense to invest in, considering MS failing.
I guess your parent referred to the fact that NT didn't start with 1, as your earlier statement sounded like »XP is actually version 5.1 so what's the nonsense with iteration 4?«.
This is an attractive design and it's always good to have another place to discuss things.

My biggest problem, on first impressions, is that the design gives the most emphasis to the least important part: the submitter. What I love about HN and Reddit is that I can get through someone's 600-word comment and be thoroughly enlightened or angered and not care or even notice that it was authored by tptacek or some long-time lurker with just 50 karma. It's only because I've read HN frequently that I quickly associate tptacek's handle (if I stop to look at the handle) with having karma...otherwise, he's just some other commenter with something very insightful or aggravating to read...HN's design rightfully de-eephasizes the authority given by identity to a comment and submission, letting the content stand for itself. This is the exact opposite the USQ forum's current design, with Twitter handles overpowering everything else, even the already too-large and boldened headlines.

Edit: I don't mind the use of Twitter handles. I think the avatars should be axed, though, and perhaps the handles should be moved to the far right so that the user has to read the headline before being able to notice the submitter name. Yes, I realize this would make it very close to a "HN ripoff" but big deal...copy the best parts of HN.
I imagine that 99% of the users on here won't work on any projects that receive the same levels of traffic that Stack Overflow will get, and as such the worries of scaling to this level aren't really an issue.

For the vast majority of websites that developers will build, the .NET stack is absolutely fine. My only gripe with being a .NET developer is that if your professional experience is limited to a Windows based stack you may find it hard to move over to a Unix-based stack.
We indeed use SQL for errors (though Exceptional has a couple of stores...and you can add a new one). The reason a SQL outage isn't an issue is a) we have other alarms for that, and b) Exceptional will fall back to an in-memory exception queue and flush to the DB when it's available again.

In the event of a store loss (file share, SQL server...whatever your store is) then it queues exceptions in memory with rollups to reduce memory usage, and will flush to the store when it's available again. It does a connectivity test every 2 seconds in the event of failure.

Exceptional is open source and is the basis for what's used in Opserver...the UI is even very, very similar it's just that Opserver has more features for a multi-application view. You can see the source here: https://github.com/NickCraver/StackExchange.Exceptional
This is really superb. It's quick and responsive. Looks good. Looks easy to use. Will give a test drive over next few days as have to get my taxes done. I see that many of the plugins are disabled so suspect that's the business model.
The headline is accurate as it is.
Best advice possible. Do not worry about pleasing YC, just make something people want.
The BBC are, according to the complaints, biased for and against everyone. I see them as being pretty fair if everyone complains about them.
Startup launching a project. Feedback would be appreciated.
Look, he's the CEO of the once mightiest tech company in the world and you satisfy yourself with: "he was right about something dismissed by many". I would expect that "[contending] with forces out of [his] control" is exactly the job of a CEO, not something they should get a standing ovation for, if they pull it off once in a decade.

So we should either all agree that most CEOs are clueless, add no value to their companies, and have the anticipating power of dart throwing monkeys in which case I wonder why we keep paying them so much. Or we believe that they have a higher role to play (I do), and we raise our expectations and criticism.

Note 1: that I'm not saying that their job is easy. It's certainly insanely difficult. But they get paid a loooot of money for it, so they have to be held accountable. And being right from time to time, here and there is not enough.

Note 2: my comment is specific to the article. I believe Ballmer did more than just one thing right, also I'm convinced he did many things right.