skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's the Chinese culture. I live in Hong Kong, visit China from time to time and I see it everywhere. In the West, we politely pretend that we don't care about material wealth. The Chinese, on the other hand, spend lots of time and money to show off how rich they are.
Not all of them, obviously, I have some friends who don't share this attitude and I also heard about Chinese moving to the west, because they just couldn't stand it.
I cannot understand why Delicious team doesn't implemented collaborative filtering [1]. I think this is the main benefit that the user can get from a social bookmarking site - the ability to see the "bookmarks of others that are similar to your bookmarks". The implementation is not too complex and nicely covered in the book [2] with examples in Python. The book even has a special section "Building a del.icio.us Link Recommender".

If I'm not mistaken, there were prototypes for doing collaborative filtering of Delicious dataset written by standalone applications. But doing such filtering requires direct access to the database and cannot be done efficiently via HTTP. So, after the current team had bought Delicious from Yahoo, I thought that implementing collaborative filtering would be their main priority. Instead of that, they concentrate forces on worsening and cluttering UI experience along with breaking various Delicious bookmarking plugins for popular browsers.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_filtering
[2] http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596529321.do
Supermarket Lidl launches £12.99 tablet
Every bank I've been with (Commonwealth, ANZ and Bendigo) has instant transfers between accounts within the same bank.
The only thing that kept me on delicious is an unofficial android app (droidicious, if I recall correctly), that keeps all the functionality of their old site. It's ridiculous to the point that I send my browser tabs to my tablet so I don't have to suffer the horrid bookmarklet (pet peeve: add all common tags; are they stupid?)
(Not saying auditing truecrypt is bad; I'll probably donate some $ once I get back to the US)

This problem already exists, and is actually something Mac App Store, iOS/iTunes store, and Google Play do a pretty good job of solving; I assume there are some similar solutions for Windows (I don't really know the windows consumer software distribution space).

The extensions improvements in Chrome/Firefox (and I guess other browsers, but I don't follow them) also are a great step forward toward this.

Ubuntu/Debian do a pretty good job of locking down main repositories, too. It's really just a matter of training users that downloading random code from random URLs is risky.

Once locked-down distribution hits critical mass, you can probably get away with making it even more difficult and obvious-to-the-user-he-is-doing-something-risky in "sideloading" applications. You can also have corp/org security policies which prohibit this kind of thing.

Obviously there are sacrifices for this -- it becomes possible for a platform owner to restrict availability of apps based on non-security considerations, like being anti-porn (Apple), complying with the union of laws of all countries, etc. Or just outright commercial anti-competitiveness (again, mostly Apple...)
This isn't the same loophole, this is for "Ghost Companies" which have no declared tax residency anywhere.
I was just impressed by how the colors of the buttons in the top left corner (when idling at the section with the video background) is synchronized with the color theme of the video background.
In southern Ontario, rabbit is pretty much a niche food for upscale dining. I must admit my taste for braised rabbit increased quite a bit after I started gardening and had to contend with rabbits clearcutting my greens.
I feel it used to be the same in the US at some point in time. Getting rich was seen as a reward since you provided a good solution to consumers and therefore you could gain from the overall value you provided to society.

I don't think that's ever been the case in the US. There's long been an ideal that anyone can become prosperous, in the sense of upper-middle-class; that's the "American Dream". But people have also long been skeptical of the very wealthy, and in the early US there was even an ideal (though a pretty counterfactual one) that the US didn't really have any super-rich, in contrast to the British, but rather was a nation of approximate equals, everyone a tradesman, shopkeeper, yeoman farmer, etc.

The 19th-century industrialists were very unpopular among the general population, especially in the period before several of them made extensive efforts to improve their popularity through PR and philanthropy. Some of the industrialists themselves were even conflicted about the role of extreme wealth in society, which motivated writings like Andrew Carnegie's "Gospel of Wealth", in which he argued that the wealthy had an obligation to spend their wealth to improve society through philanthropy, and ought not to either spend it purely on personal luxury, or to keep it and produce hereditary family fortunes in the old European style.
Good Old Excel is the Ultimate Data Visualization Tool
That isn't usually how headlines work unless there is a stronger connection.

'Police catch one thief but leave all others on the street'
Pared down to its barest essence, wabi-sabi is the Japanese art of finding beauty in imperfection and profundity in nature, of accepting the natural cycle of growth, decay, and death. It’s simple, slow, and uncluttered-and it reveres authenticity above all. Wabi-sabi is flea markets, not warehouse stores; aged wood, not Pergo; rice paper, not glass. It celebrates cracks and crevices and all the other marks that time, weather, and loving use leave behind. It reminds us that we are all but transient beings on this planet-that our bodies as well as the material world around us are in the process of returning to the dust from which we came. Through wabi-sabi, we learn to embrace liver spots, rust, and frayed edges, and the march of time they represent.

-Tadao Ando

It's another way I guess about looking at fashion and what you wear without care (or a little bit of care at least).
The latter half of your comment answers the objection you raise in the former half. Gmail is a classic worse-is-better disruption of an existing superior product.
Ask HN: Best tech companies (of any size) to work for in Vancouver, Canada?
Considering a move to Vancouver - I've been a full-time developer who generally has worked in startups with over six years dev experience in java, ruby and iOS.<p>Feel free to shout to me on twitter @modernprogrammr
Yucks...!! Cockroch Farming and that for use in medicines and cosmetics?? then why we do paste control??
Worth noting that Pierre Omidyar has been a non-stop critic of the NSA's spying activities since the Snowden leaks first broke:

https://twitter.com/pierre

Given the extraordinary power of the villains on the other side of this, Omidyar seems to be taking a lot of risk here. It's trivially easy for the US Government to burn a billionaire on any number of trumped up SEC charges. Whoops, small trading rule infraction, better be careful not to declare your innocence in a way that materially affects a stock price or it's off to prison for you.
Russian scientist photographs the soul leaving the body at death
If you happen to be doing Rails development, it may be worth checking out Ninefold: http://ninefold.com/pricing [no affiliation of mine]
It says that the Dutch Railways company (Nederlandse spoorwegen) uses that scheme, which is interesting, because that company is state-owned. You wouldn't say that that company is interested in tax evasion. Crazy world that we live in.
Indeed we run all of these things (and more) on linux. We use the most appropriate architecture we can come up with at the time. When a better overall option appears, we do that. New information and technology makes our decisions change, that's how brains are supposed to work, I think.

We use linux for: redis, elasticsearch, HAProxy, DNS (bind), nginx, mail (exim) apache, wordpress, mysql, nexpose, backups, puppet, asterix, android builds and our internal mercurial.

As Opserver grows we will be monitoring Windows and Linux with our solution, but simple to setup via polling, or more advanced monitoring via an agent (puppet and DSC configurable/installable). We plan to have agents for both Windows and Linux open sourced, both using a standard communication format so that anyone can write additional agents, or add to them, or...whatever really. We haven't started building this yet, a complete monitoring solution is what we'll be working on over the next 6-12 months. It will be in the open as we go, with lots of internal dogfooding to prove things out.
An emoji artist fights back against Katy Perry's crimes against Emoji
@Author : What you should do ?

Use Angular. Every single thing you mentioned there is covered. Except coffeescript, but thats unrelated anyway.

Whats covered ?

Async code : check. ( timeout flush )

Wrapper for XHR : check ($httpBackend ).

DOM abstraction : check ( No DOM Manipulation in controllers! )

fast feedback : check ( karma ) .
> The automatic-authorization appears to only apply when it's between two previously validated parties.

This doesn't feel quite right, as you describe it you'd validated that it's ok to receive money from them, not send it. I'd be more comfortable if it was validated in some way when you first send something to a person. Receiving money doesn't mean I trust a person.

I could send you a dollar, and when you accept it I could fake an email back giving me 100. I hope this only happens with signed emails.

About DKIM, does it stop someone from repeating an email? Could I fake an identical email that has been sent before? If so, that's something that normally wouldn't be an issue (duplicate emails aren't really a problem, you can't inject any information, change links to dodgy sites) but would be huge for sending money.

EDIT - from the DKIM site

> DKIM does not protect against re-sending (replay of) a message that already has a valid signature; therefore a transit intermediary or a recipient can re-post the message in such a way that the signature would remain valid, although the new recipient(s) would not have been specified by the originator.

EDIT2 - Squares security page is brief and, well, sounds odd

> detects suspicious behavior in real-time, and in many instances, even before it happens.

How do you detect behaviour before it happens? Isn't that inherently impossible?
You could invest in buro9's http://microco.sm and just use it for both those things instead. Problem solved. :)
The Kickstarter backlash continues
Microsoft Account / Live ID was previously known as Microsoft Passport and it started in 1998 I think. It has been a half-baked attempt, filled with criticism from all sides, as Microsoft wanted it to be a "Internet-wide unified-login system" and they had the muscle to force it. That's the biggest problem with Microsoft in my eyes, as they always tried to coerce the usage of their own standards. Personally seeing Microsoft failing feels like justice brought by the marketplace and I really hope Google won't follow this path, although I'm seeing signs that they will.
I'm in favour as long as there is a reliable way of turning these things off.

The biggest advantage of Flash is that Flashblock fairly reliably turns it off, so that ads that use Flash for animation don't get a chance to run.

In the absence of Flash, I worry about gobs of marketing JS animating pages with fewer generic ways of turning them off.
"Less is more" : love the spirit :) Nice tips.
Ads in front of things
Whenever I read one of these articles, I wonder which medium to large size companies actually are good places to work. This is from a "startup type person perspective" -- i.e. largely defined by work or career, even if you don't want the financial risk of a startup. Lots of places are fine if it's just a job.

Apple seems like it could be awesome if you're on the right time, and horrible otherwise, which is about the best I've seen of anywhere.

By definition, any job where you're not revenue generating and in the main (and especially main and growing) line of business also sucks. I guess there are limited exceptions when it is clear a new product could become the main line of business, and you're early in it.

Amazon, Microsoft, Intel seem painful at best, and Google seems like it had a rough few years with a mass culling of less important products.

On the other hand, even the most pathological organizations (government!) can be ok as a consultant, if you're on an important enough assignment and have buy-in at the right levels. If nothing else, it's an amazing opportunity for comparative anthropology.
Well, I think you are onto something in terms of making the Tweets and things you're interested in as an individual and as a team more visible.

On that... nail on the head.

It would be good if you could add a subtle addition of highlighting the things on the board in that a USV team member has contributed.

I think of VC firms as akin to a curator of interesting companies and opportunities, and that the sum of the portfolio reflects strongly the personal curation of the VCs. It'd be ace to see that shine through this new board.

The only conflict in that is whether you see this board as becoming more than USV, or giving an insight into USV. If the former than you'd be right to hesitate about highlighting the team's contributions, if the latter then do it already.
If you're looking for an aestheticaly pleasing desktop with lots of shiny, Ubuntu and Mint are the still the flavours of the month.
As a proper computer user, mind, add another +1 to CrunchBang Linux. Works great on my desktop as it very nippy without bloat but the laptop was the best to benefit as I can easily get an extra hour or two from the battery life because of it.
I use DigitalOcean for my (rapidly disappearing) PHP stuff and (shameless plug, am co-founder) PythonAnywhere for my Python stuff.
Do you expect difference in the topics shared on USV to the ones on HN/reddit/etc?

I think you could benefit more from automatically analyzing links from many sources than to implement a sharing service yourself.
A slightly offtopic question: can anybody point me to a js lib, which converted tabs pressed when inside a textarea into spaces and indented the text below accordingly?
Google bills most non US clients from Google Ireland too. Obviously there are tax considerations. But Google (non US) and Linkedin genuinely have big presences in Ireland. They do account management, customer service, accounting, etc out of massive Dublin offices. Language, availability of educated generalists and willingness of European employees to immigrate to Dublin are also big considerations. They aren't billing to shell companies.

This is a genuine loophole that is being closed, not an intentional piece of policy.
Android developer's notes III. Simple DOF effect with OpenGL ES 2.0
The trend for anti-Apple posts here on HN frontpage seems to be growing. Yet we see positive news from Google almost everyday. Anyone else?
Even having studied relativity and such at Uni I haven't come across this particular illustration before.

It should be called the Fing-long-er Gedanken.

Thanks for sharing.
Seconded. When Dreamhost works, it is excellent. When it fails, it fails really, really badly and the support is often shockingly inept.

Just two examples from my painful membership:

1. I transferred a domain back into Dreamhost. Due to a bug in their system, it was immediately dropped and entered the redemption period, and asked me for a large redemption fee. Support was wholly unable to acknowledge any problem on their part, and only resolved it when I posted the issue on Webhostingtalk.com

2. After requesting a refund onto my credit card after another hideous incident, rather than crediting my card, they debited it. Again, support were completely unable to acknowledge any problem on their part. Instead, when I asked the reason why my card was debited, they said I was charged for "services" - but were unable to itemise the services I had been charged for when challenged. They only refunded the money as "courtesy" rather than an acknowledgement on their part.

Dreadful.

If your storage requirements are small, I strongly recommend medialayer.com. For a budget option, I recommend asmallorange.com
Not just in the US. If it includes pictures, it'd potentially be so most places depending on how explicit the pictures are.
Wasn't lobster used to be called the "cockroach of the sea"?

If they change their names and brand them as something else, they could probably sell very well as expensive food, too.
Lighting everything is a fashion which will disappear. People need to BE ABLE to read as FAST as they can. Light fonts are that perk which makes things 'look' great but convey little information.

Otherwise, great and clear ideas.
This is a good point, and I have to admit I hadn't thought of it from quite that angle. I guess I'd have to reiterate my point to diminoten; that being in the same risk pool as people with a higher risk is a questionable decision. Certainly my risk might not be perfectly predictable, but to the extent that it is predictable, I don't see why I should pay for you as well.

If I set up a company that just took enough from you to cover your predicted risk - and the risks of people like you - plus some small charge for me, I could charge you less for it than a company that tried to cover everyone.
Inviting PC and Phone app creators to distribute freely
Dear HNers,
I'd like to formally invite all publishers of Software be it in PC/Mac/Lunux arena or Android phones to submit their apps for download over at http://forums.gamingio.com which is specially geared to providing the best experience in terms of user experience and brings both casual and advanced users in one place. While it's user base is small we have over 15K unique visitors a month and growing exponentially.

You can Submit your downloads (let us deal with Bandwidth and Speed) and get good feedback from veteran users from different segments. We are primarily focusing on Gaming/High-Tec and Smartphones.

Please contact me in the forums to get a Special Tag to officially represent your product.

We'll be adding a new interface to highlight the best of apps on our main domain with professional reviews as found on http://www.gamingio.com (50K+ UV/month)

I am pretty excited about this project because I have been a tech enthusiast for over 2 decades and only now have managed to bring together the people and the resources to actually share with everyone. Bringing more eye-balls to great products out there who are not getting the eye-balls and marketing support they deserve.

best
Van
What were they investing in?
The first website ever
As a 21 year old, "stopout/dropout" computer programmer that is living in Boston, competing with new grads with cs degrees and such, this advice is my exact mentality. Im not going to try to game my resume and cover letter, Im going to submit the application and make myself a better engineer day by day, I dont need a company's validation or permission to do so.
Actually, it may be true for other areas as well, I thought about this few days ago in the context of free market and choice.

Maybe free market is harmful for society in the sense that market segmentation creates a choice between high and low quality based on price, and this choice doesn't force people who can afford the more expensive solution to make a fix for everybody.

There is lot of anecdotal evidence about this. For example, there was article about school system in Finland, which is pretty much egalitarian. Still, the quality is great as a side effect probably because if someone improves the system, they improve it for everybody.

Similar things could be said about healthcare system. In fact, probably every successful government-run system is based on belief of participants that it should be egalitarian (and yes, they do exist).

We have negative examples of this as well. Most consumer product have awfully low quality, lower than what we could actually manufacture. The standard response to this is "you have a choice" and indeed, the knowledgeable people can buy quality for much higher price. But in doing so, they won't improve quality for those clueless, leaving them to buy lemons.

Interestingly, even the knowledgeable group is then affected. They have to pay higher price, because they get less market power, because they chose not to extend this power by leaving others to bad choice.
Ace Editor is pretty comfigurable and allows for this as well as syntax highlighting for, say, markdown.
http://ace.c9.io/ is probably what you're looking for.
Corelation between the creations of .fr domain names and start-ups in France
I see parts of cacti, nagios/icinga + graphing, munin, zabbix, sentry (exceptions/errors), shinken, etc. There are many similar projects, but nothing so much integrated as far as I know.
It's not clear to me how one can make themselves dream.

You can stimulate memories and recollection, induce emotional experience, and can initiate learning with known ways that work, even if the understanding of how they work isn't fully developed.

Are there known ways to stimulate a dream?
Apple invented the double Irish Dutch sandwich, and were a pioneer in this space. As usual Google and Microsoft just copied the real pioneer!
GoCardless (YC S11) is looking for software developers in London
GoCardless is a London-based startup building the next generation of online payments. Our team is small and technology-focused. We are growing fast and are backed by some of the world's best investors, including Y Combinator, Accel Partners and Passion Capital.

We are looking for a full-stack software developer to join our team to help build out systems & handle user growth. You'll have the opportunity to contribute to different areas of the code-base and choose which projects interest you.

On a day-to-day basis, you will be:

- Working on systems to intelligently identity-check and risk-assess new customers and merchants. As we grow, this is likely to include a significant machine learning element.

- Building and maintaining client libraries for our API in a number of different languages. These include the usual suspects like PHP, Ruby, Python, .Net, Java etc, and extend to newer (and often experimental) libraries in languages like Go and Clojure.

- Building out internal services to communicate with international banking systems on a programmatic level. Since many of these will be built from scratch, you'll have the opportunity to shape the projects from the beginning.

You should apply if you:

- Are proficient in at least one dynamically-typed, object-oriented language (e.g. Ruby, Python), and have significant experience with a modern web framework, such as Rails or Django.

- Have an awareness of the full web stack. You live and breathe HTTP, feel comfortable optimising SQL queries, and have at least a basic understanding of JavaScript.

- Demand that code be well-tested, and believe that tests are a helpful tool in driving design, not merely a tedious afterthought.

You'd be a particularly good fit if you:

- Have built and scaled web services to perform while serving hundreds of thousands of users.

- Are excited by the world of technology startups. You're a self-starter looking for responsibility and a place you can make an impact.

- Feel comfortable in the UNIX world: you grep, sed, and awk your way through text files, and have experienced the joy of writing SysVinit scripts.

- Are familiar with any of the following: Redis, RabbitMQ, ElasticSearch, Chef.

We have roles for experienced & more junior developers - the salary is extremely competitive and will depend on experience & ability. Stock options will form part of the compensation package.

To apply, email maria@gocardless.com
Why not? Even our Dutch Royal Family have such constructions. (Via the palace and Guernsey).
Not to nit, but General Electric has at least 4 times as many employees as Apple.