skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, Snapchat is much more than a new way to send dick pics to unsuspecting girls. I use it more than SMS these days for legitimate communication with friends. Not the kind of serious communication which requires precision, but the informal type of chitchat you have with people when you hang out. People are underestimating the concept, some form of picture-based communication is around to stay. But I can't say that it'll be Snapchat which is the end of the line, and I do think they will have trouble monetizing.
Snapchat ... $40 billion ... ? Does money not mean anything anymore?
Re-Engineering Art & Tech in the Bay
Perception of reality - illusion of 5 senses
HTC made a $8,000 ugly smartphone trumpet
I'm not sure that Everpix is the case study some are making it out to be.

Yes, there were obviously things the company could have done differently, but at the end of the day, you still have a business that, according to the original Verge article, only generated ~$250,000 in subscription revenue against spend of more than $2 million.

Forget headcount and payroll (both of which are arguably "modest" by Bay Area standards today): operating expenses alone exceeded revenue by $100,000. Everpix could have halved salaries and even if you mistakenly assume that the company could have attracted and retained employees talented and motivated enough to continue building a great product, it wouldn't have made a difference.

If Everpix transitioned from a freemium to paid model, it wouldn't have made a difference either. Operating expenses would decrease, but user acquisition costs would almost certainly skyrocket (as nikcub points out above).

Venture capital can help build great companies, and it can lead companies to pursue a high-risk growth strategy that ends in failure. But in this case, based on the numbers and story as told, it appears that we simply have a very good product that was never likely to be the foundation of a sustainable business, with or without venture capital.
Yea, it probably wasn't the best title, but in terms of "beer nights", they were more frequent than 1, I just don't want to ramble on and on.
clicky:

http://www.gemshelf.com
That's not much of a satire, given that the Nuclear War card game has been around since 1965. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_War_(card_game)
Eric Ries sum it up already in the Lean Startup:

Zero invites imagination, but small numbers invite questions about whether large numbers will ever materialize.
PC's GPU is hidden behind layers of APIs. It does not matter when you compare different hardware on PC as any hardware there is boggled by the same APIs but it makes no sense to compare the same hardware on PC to a game console that exposes GPU directly.

It's like comparing JavaScript to native apps. Yes, sometimes JS can be pretty close and JS on powerful hardware can even beat native code on a weaker platform on some tests. Yet it would be very naive to think that JS nowadays runs faster than any native code on 10 y.o. hardware. Similarly, it will be a long while till DirectX/OpenGL apps will be unquestionably faster than native GPU code.
He sure presages his fate in Infinite Jest. A tragic figure for sure and without peer as a writer/philosopher. I'm 70 and widely read and over those years no author has impacted me like he has (despite his propensity toward shaggy dogs.)

He clearly told us in advance that depression such as his was not to be suffered and when all was said and done he left me sympathetic with that point of view.
AFAIK there's no work-around for mobile GMail on a phone. I've been banging my head against it this week. Given up for now and left native Android/iOS mail app users having the better experience.
Here's What Happens When The Whole Company Knows Your Salary
Or you know, papercraft the suckers, its not like there aren't papercraft versions of it. My roommate made me one.
OpenSSH security advisory
Offtopic

Jacob Gube, how is sixrevisions going? It looks like it is really drying out. Have you abandoned it for designinstruct? A shame because it always had really good articles.
This topic has nearly reached maximum depth, and you clearly aren't interested in a rational discourse at any rate. So I will leave you with two thoughts:

1. Everything you have said about Hindu and Buddhist vegetarianism is poorly researched and inaccurate.

2. If you are going to make extraordinary claims like "vegetarianism inevitably leads to illness and death", you'd better provide some compelling scientific sources rather than "zomg this vegan baby like totally died once lol XD".

Upon reflection I think you have just been trolling me. Poor show, HN is a place for serious conversation, not reddit style childishness. Jog along.
I think we are moving to a such world, albeit slowly.

3D printers are a movement in that direction, that ends with mini factories or replicators.

Replicators will be the death kneel of the factories.
Awesome! We used it for http://docs.subtome.com =)
Glad to help. I mostly give advice like this because I'm keenly aware that when I was young and stupid I was often a doormat in e.g. dealing with companies, and despite years of socialization which had suggested to me that being a doormat was praiseworthy, things started to get better in a hurry after I abandoned my default presumption of doormathood.

In your future professional dealings, and those of the peanut gallery, you may find that people often just expect you to agree to their terms because it's easy, and that this is sometimes not in your interest. I've done my fair share of that, and had it blow up in my face once or twice, and almost blow up in my face a few other times.

Not to talk too much of the particulars, but I once signed a fairly straightforward contract which had straightforward terms which I thought I understood. In my ignorance, I did not understand that one paragraph -- which I thought was "the usual boilerplate" -- obligated me to do something which would have been very against my interest. That situation ended up getting resolved amicably, but older and wiser consultants (and my lawyer), when told what I signed, have all the blood drain out of their face.

In the instant case, you've just been dealt a bum hand by an employer, and based on their previous conduct I would not advance them bus fare, to say nothing of going out of my way to help. That "release" might include, hypothetically, an indemnification, a term which sounds almost synonymous to programmers. It isn't. Your competent legal representative would, if they read "indemnification", say Oh Hell No. There are probably even worse terms that could potentially be in there that I'm not even sufficiently creative to dream up.

Why affirmatively ask for that sort of risk by signing a contract which gives you no upside at all? You don't owe them any more than declining politely and asserting that paying your for services rendered is not optional. Asserting yourself there probably isn't nearly as costly in real life as you might be modeling it as.

Anyhow, stuff to keep in mind for next time, and for those in the peanut gallery who might eventually be given a similar ultimatum.

Also, comporting yourself like a Serious Businessman who does Serious Business (like contracts) only when doing Serious Business routine things like asking for a contract review from an actual honest-to-6-minute-billing-increments attorney sends a strong signal to would-be counterparties that they should not attempt to take liberties with you.
This is even better and i like the concept.
Driverless cars to be introduced in Milton Keynes
If you know the private key for a wallet, you can transfer all the coins out to another wallet (i.e. make a real transaction).

Anyone holding BitCoins for someone else should protect the private key for the wallets holding the coins strongly - for example, by moving most coins to a 'cold wallet' where the private key is kept on an airgapped computer encrypted with a long secure password, and only occasionally accessed when the hot wallet runs out of funds, and protecting the computer with the hot wallet strongly as well (with multiple layers of defense and controls to detect and stop activity that might represent an attack).
What really scares me about the US economy is that truly innovative and sustainable companies like Tesla are only possible because there's a single huge investor, and the unwashed masses of investors throw money at handwaving feel-good agencies like Facebook and Twitter.
A classic essay. Consider The Lobster is another great one as well: http://www.gourmet.com/magazine/2000s/2004/08/consider_the_l...
To me its bloody frustrating to look at a problem, and see it wallow around in all its greedy and obese glory. Its really frustrating to think the mechanisms for changing the problem are co-opted. Makes you feel a bit impotent. This overreach, and the general military-industrial complex, to me, are sickening. I don't understand how it survives the light of day.
that sounds great. be sure to write about it when you (or someone else) implements it!
Sony Gives Android 4.4 KitKat/Android 4.3 Jelly Bean Update Details
Also did you send your CV to places that work on free software? I remember reading recently about how nice it was to work with Mozilla for your internship.
Red Dawn was a serious drama. It was also pretty ridiculous. Stuff isn't always black-and-white.

Seriously, there's plenty of reasons not to like Red Dawn, but I get tired of people talking like it's just a bunch of rah-rah America-wins jingoism. You may have forgotten that the movie ends with most of the protagonists dead and no end to the war in sight.
Mmmm.. Probably could do this as well.

Is it template specific (eg. Bootstrap?)
Trello. I have lists for daily, monthly, and yearly goals. There's a calendar view and due date feature now too, although I don't use it very much.
How Aaron Brown, a Fake Person, Was Created for Real on the Deep Web
I hope you left this company anyways as soon as you found something looking better.
Creating stretchable image views with cap insets
People are too in love with the idea of seeing others get "nailed" for being hypocrites. All you have to do is say something that sounds vaguely clever or ironic in a snarky manner and people go "Ooooh, snap" even if it really makes not much sense. For instance: "Julian Assange of Wikileaks wants to protect his own privacy." "Ooooh, snap."
Debian Stable seems to be unaffected: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-4548
that might not be so easy. not every cache is something like memcached or redis. a caching web proxy (like varnish) can't be warmed that easily.
I hear what you are saying. But i still feel like there is some mixture of thought that should let these guys take a shot at a 50 to 100m exit, without (on the one hand) tripping over 35k aws bill; and on the other blowing through 50-100m of invested capital. because clearly, if the team is pitching those are the only options, its gonna make people nervous. but now it seems the mirror is pointing back at the guys and not at the VCs...
You can start lower, if you want to.

{} == 0

{{}} == 1

...
Global Entrepreneurship Week - Kids to Take the DIY Entrepreneurship Challenge
Odds are that, if you read the book first, you'll probably hate the movie. They really are totally different. Personally, I don't believe fidelity to the source is necessary for an adaptation to be successful. Plenty of films have been made that are slaves to the source and are terrible as a result! Great films are often made from bad books, so why can't great films just be different from the great books they're based on?

I do think there's room for a more faithful adaptation of the book, but that doesn't change the fact that Verhoeven's film is brilliant and hilarious. If you go in expecting it to be faithful to the book (or you're a bit of a hawk yourself to begin with), I can see why you might interpret it as a serious, but bad flick. Great films aren't always intended for all audiences however!

If Verhoeven can be faulted, it's for making "Hollow Man". Now that flick sucked!
I dont want to sound negative but now that we have Docker I feel like this approach is generally outdated. And the AWS EC2 prices are so much higher than smaller VPS providers.
I can't believe the UK is that low either. I wonder if it's because of the clinical depression is defined as something more serious than "taking anti-depressants or having CBT/Counselling"?
I think your numbers are way off, the entire worldwide video game revenue is not anywhere around $12B[1]

Also margins are not as high as you seem to imagine, look at any 3d party publisher reports (they are all public corps).

[1] http://in.reuters.com/article/2013/06/10/gameshow-e-idINDEE9...
Could you elaborate a bit? I know the Japanese generally work long hours, and would love to hear an eyewitness' account of how things are done there and how you were dealing with the status quo (i.e. what you told your bosses, did you experience peer pressure).
The future of search will be visual
I live in Russia, but I don't know anybody who diagnosed with depression. This is very uncommon diagnosis. I think that these researchers used invalid data.
Then again, in reality NSA wouldn't have been able to wiretap him or track him down independently, since they can't conduct direct surveillance domestically by policy.

Except when they do it by mistake during a presidential election:

In one instance, the NSA decided that it need not report the unintended surveillance of Americans. A notable example in 2008 was the interception of a “large number” of calls placed from Washington when a programming error confused the U.S. area code 202 for 20, the international dialing code for Egypt, according to a “quality assurance” review that was not distributed to the NSA’s oversight staff. [1]

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-br...
That scene originally lasted much longer. The robot spends ages shooting the guy. So long that it becomes ridiculous, comical.

Censors didn't like that scene, and they insisted it was cut down, with a shorter amount of time for shooting.

The effect is to turn something almost funny into something chilling and horrific.

Having the ED 209 be unable to tackle stairs is another example of the robot failing.
As satire the brilliant part about that, and a few of the other really shocking things like the drill sergeant beating up a new recruit to establish himself as head of the pack, or the whipping, is that it's lifted fairly directly from the book.

A subset of the fans of the book get mad because the violence and fascism seemed so much cooler in their heads. Other fans recognize that Heinlein's books were to some degree experimental (it's science fiction!) and enjoy the joke. I've always been surprised at how many people who knew the book didn't get it, but that's life.
I still don't understand why didn't they just bomb-carpet that worthless bug planet.
Editorials are meant as an expression of opinion, not a comprehensive description. I don't find the secrecy an automatic negative; very often it's a prerequisite for brokering deals, especially at the international level.

Too many participants and too much scrutiny can lead to paralysis. I thought this was one f the major weaknesses of the Occupy Wall Street movement; for some reason they decided their general assemblies should run without any procedure for terminating discussion, and that no resolution could be passed without 90% agreement. Predictably they never managed to settle on a list of demands before the momentum evaporated.

I appreciate that you may find my realpolitik approach somewhat lizard-like.
>> "That still doesn't solve the fact that pressing delete will send to trash instead of the archive, in the past it just sent to the archive."

That doesn't sound like a problem. The delete button deletes and the archive button archives. Why would you want it backwards?
Sure it can. It just did. It can also write an angry letter to itself to say that it disagrees with the statement previously put out. Or are you trying to tell us that it's decentralised, except for the decision that people can't write open letters in their name, which is centralised with you?
Definitely. That is actually outlook express's current incarnation and it's pretty good for the money ($0). Also it does newsgroups still.
I was living in the US at the time and I assure you, lots of people, critics and magazine writers didn't quite 'get' it. Which in some ways made the movie's message even more powerful.
I guess ZoF has addressed your misunderstanding about mentioning Foxconn.

> The main thing I got from this is that we should find another mask, or face, for Anonymous and activism/protesting in general. One that maybe holds more significant value in freedom of mankind

The write-up already quotes “Wear anything you want to #MillionMaskMarch, including Guy Fawkes. We just want people to be conscious about their consumer choices.”

Do you want something free of copyright? Cut out a circle from thick paper, poke holes for eyes and nose, draw a smiley, attach a band, and wear it.
I suspect they were projecting the book onto the movie so strongly that it actually drown out the movie. That or they were just upset that the movie didn't feature the wildly unfilmable powered suits.
I never said Stack Exchange websites were “perfect” for anything. I’ve just been using it today and I hate it. Stack Exchange websites use competition to achieve answers to questions a paradigm that is completely at odds with collaboration and understanding necessary to actually have conversations in which multiple opinions can coexist and learning can occur.
> “WOULD ANY SANE PERSON think dumpster diving would have stopped Hitler, or that composting would have ended slavery or brought about the eight-hour workday, or that chopping wood and carrying water would have gotten people out of Tsarist prisons, or that dancing naked around a fire would have helped put in place the Voting Rights Act of 1957 or the Civil Rights Act of 1964? Then why now, with all the world at stake, do so many people retreat into these entirely personal “solutions”?"

Now what kind of fucking straw man is this?
If your new job was paying 2x, then the sooner you quit your old job the better it is for you financially.
Perhaps a remote work setup would be better for you both.
This isn't about the beer parties, or the linkedin profile, or the personal website. It's about a petty PM with no legitimate complaints who has the misguided notion that you should be working 70 hours, and he is casting about for stupid reasons to call you "not committed." If that PM had any actual authority, then the author was 100% right to leave. Even if he didn't, that may not have been an environment you want to work in anyway if that sort of manipulation flies, so leaving might have been good. But I've been in situations like this where some clueless guy in a polo shirt and khakis thinks he's going to jedi mind trick you into working harder, and sometimes the correct response is to just ignore him instead of deciding the whole environment is toxic. It's a matter of how much influence this guy really had over the team.

Nobody else in the office who isn't trying to pull this lame bullshit gives a damn if you go to the beer parties or not. Some people like them, some people don't. Some people just want a chance to unwind after work and shoot the breeze over a beer. Some people want to fuck off at 5:00 sharp on friday and go home and drink beers by themselves or with their real friends. Some people don't drink. Nobody cares. Sure, there are brogrammers in the world who are going to diss you or think you're lame for not doing it, but this is on the level of people who would diss you for wearing the wrong brand of shoes, so fuck 'em. Same with the linkedin and website stuff: nobody cares unless they're trying to use it as a pathetically ineffective lever against you. It would be like complaining that you haven't posted any Facebook updates gushing about your new job. You'd just laugh in their faces or ignore them, because it's just so ludicrously irrelevant.

Through reading the article, I waffled between sympathizing with the author and thinking he sounds like someone who doesn't have the backbone to say "come back to me when you have concerns based on something real." The impression that I got was that the author accepted that these factors were the measure of his contribution in this particular team, and thus decided that this was not the team for him, whereas what was needed was to put his foot down and say "no, you're not measuring me that way." Because unless the whole company really was toxic, I doubt many others would have gone along with such a weak bunch of evidence that he's "not committed."
Thorium: the element that can power the world
Anki Drive Brings Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Into Our Daily Lives
First introduced at WWDC, Anki’s iOS-controlled AI-based racing game is set to debut later this month — Unlike standard racing toys, Anki Drive is largely self-operating and is described by the company as a “video game in the real world.” The concept is similar to slot car racing, with added enhancements that include artificial intelligence, machine learning, and smartphone-based controls.
The Most Creative Projects from Kickstarter #Week3
Some of you may already know that we have launched various weekly series such as this one in which we showcase the most creative projects we find on kickstarter. This week we got our eyes on the astronomy diary, the cut/once rulers, keydisk and Brewbot. Interested on showcasing your project next week? Sent us a tweet @thegadgetflow including #cp_gdgtflow
The masks represent:
Unity
Equality
Struggle against oppression

That is all. Fuck warner brothers

Guy Fawkes was the only person to enter the houses of parliament with honourable intentions
Please add attribution before the beginning of the quote; otherwise it looks like the quote is from the open letter itself.
Not mentioned in that story, but relevant.

Modern cruise ships for the most part are equipped with medical facilities and staff of high standard, certainly higher than most destinations they set out for. It's mainly because that's regulation.

If a passanger falls seriously ill however, those facilities are merely the temporary means to keep you alive until the cruise ship arrives at the nearest port where it leaves you in the capable hands of local healthcare.

As it turns out, most of the time it means they kick you out of the ship to die. Because local healthcare of the garden variety is for the most part not capable of keeping a patient alive, unlike the shipborne medical facilities.

If you have the particular misfortune to be befallen of some sickness that looks anything like it could infect fellow passengers, no matter if serious or not, you might also be entirely on your own. Because things like quarantine facilities are not regulation. Because decontaminating a room is expensive, you'll likely spend the duration to the next port in a bare cell that's easy to disinfect afterwards. Should you die in there, they'll make it look like they cared for you, and if not, well they acted by the book.

The reason this macabre theatre happens is because of this. Should a passanger die on your ship, it's a huge headache for the cruise operator involving inspections, tons of paperwork, possibly a being forced to stay in port, missing a schedule and so forth. But if you can shuffle a passenger off to die somewhere else, it's no longer your problem.

There is just one thing worse for the cruise operator than having somebody die on his ship. It would be for multiple people to die, or many to fall sick, for which the hassle would be exponentially worse than a single dead passanger.
That actually made me laugh. I was just having a discussion with a colleague on this matter. He suggested that we don't need to know about the OS these days with Heroku, Azure, GAE etc. My argument is that is fine until something goes wrong or you need something slightly outside the comfort zone of those products.

comes down to generalised knowledge versus product knowledge.