skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
$15B paid out to developers, while the ecosystem is the one what keeps an $500B company on the top - this does not seem to be that much.
I appreciate that the level of detail makes this list something to bookmark and revisit a few times. Huge fan of Bret!
Co3 Systems hires security vet Bruce Schneier as CTO
Ah, it's you again. You are apparently unable to see the difference between squatting and buying something then selling it at a later point in time.

Please read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybersquatting

And note that every domain I have was bought and paid for from whoever owned it previously or registered from the free pool of domains. Also note that a significant portion of those was developed at some point or other but I chose to shut them down.
Location based notifications for your app
They're not gong to be receiving GPS signals in the type of room in which these machines are found.
Dublin Ireland, If you're over digging up ancestors, give me a shout.

And thanks for the compliment :)
College students have no money...
How compatible are your skills with the top IT companies? - NextStack.io
7 and 8 are government sources. The government has an agenda, and by your logic are therefore invalid.

(everyone has an agenda you nut, otherwise they would do nothing)
Used this a good bit over the past year. It's really good for finding some inspiration from better sources than Google Images.
How Much Does A New Hip Cost? Even The Surgeon Doesn't Know
The ones who yell the loudest seem to be favoured in today's society. Without that trait, you're unlikely to be a good politician indeed. And a great deal of other things! For better or worse
Not in Chrome.
If i'm reading correctly, you cannot disable the auto-upload ? awesome...
I read a few blogs as well as subreddits, but at least for now, lack the skill to do real 'art' myself.

A program would be an interesting exercise, I guess.

As for 'inappropriate' advertising to women, I'd say that stuff shouldn't /not/exist any more than ones pitched towards any other specific group too, but the neutral products should be done in a way not to exclude anyone, with the expectation that people will eventually gravitate towards them as they serve different functions - for people already engaged vs getting that initial engagement.
Oh, the eternal sunshine of the spotless mind. The existential immaturity of these actors is profound.
Mashable Announces Its First Capital Raise
I'm uncomfortable because of your comment, where does the line go for having you forcibly removed?
Nobody Needs a New TV Anymore
Lesson learned for me: if I ever discover a trove of old documents, I'll contact the historical society, but I'll also contact a couple of newspapers.
Weathr, a 3D Weather App now on CodePlex
Damn I made it to 1300 karma's!

Now I'm back at 1273.
Tech Gadgets and Services for Designers & Entrepreneurs for 2014
Given a 2 week limit, there is no way someone who has not used Haskell before would be able to contribute to a Haskell code base. Same for someone who has not used Java Spring or any other complex system.

A task that would not be possible in even a 2 year time limit would be to get a random able-bodied human to contribute to a cryptographic standard. Some stuff is difficult and takes years and years to learn and understand. Taking those years and years is actually physically impossible for a large number of people who would simply break down if forced into it.
I think it is very good to view our opinions as a constant process, rather than a collection of results. Almost everything we believe can change. The only permanent thing is when we truly improve how effective we are at processing data.
Honestly, no they shouldn't. It's not their job to know how to write code, or how to design websites. It's their job to hook people who are looking for employees up with people looking for jobs. Do they get it right every time? No they don't. But neither do developers or CEOs. Do tech recruiters need to know the difference between a set of technologies so that they can serve their clients better? Absolutely. Should their contacts be based on more than keyword searches? Yes. Do they need to know how to write code? No
The article focuses on the potential harm to one or more prominent families' reputations; as you deduce, this kind of evidence would not only harm reputations but may also complicate land ownership.
I actually just went and built a new machine...and it wasn't too bad. To put some things in perspective, back in the mid-90s I worked at a computer hardware store, building and repairing machines day-in and day-out, but I haven't been in that kind of business since then. There was almost nothing similar to those days except the basic names of some of the parts "video card", "case" etc. I also build my last machine some 7 years ago and even from then the industry has moved fast enough that almost nothing is recognizable.

Slots are all different, the variety of RAM types is astonishing and there are more form factors, cooling solutions, hard drive types and motherboard types than you can shake a stick at.

Turns out the internet is a very good resource these days for benchmarks, price comparisons, compatibility reports etc. It really only took me 3 or 4 evenings to get back up to speed with the state of the art (ASUS had a great series of videos on NewEgg about their latest motherboard line), put together some rough sketches of systems and started to price them out. A couple iterations later and I settled on a configuration and placed my order.

A few days later everything arrived, and even though I had never touched an SSD before, had everything assembled in 2 very lazy evenings. Instructions are provided these days with most of the parts and aren't too bad. I probably did a couple things not-quite-right, but everything seems to work fine so.

I expect this system to give me 5-7 years of service and it ran well under $2k. Has an SSD for the main drive and 4TB of secondary storage, 32GB of RAM, not "quite" top of the line video (but pretty beastly), 4 cores on the latest intel architecture. It chews up games and emulation with ease and I actually do my day-to-day work inside of a couple of VMs that you barely notice are running.

So yeah, it took a few more days of my time for research, but now I know the hardware scene a lot better and the time from order to fully usable system wasn't terribly longer than ordering a complete box.

For fun, I tried to spec out an Alienware and came up with a system not quite as fast, with less storage for about a $1k more.
I certainly don't think a 9% drop in working hours is a 9% drop in GDP.

From my post: "Now, a 9% drop in work will result in less than a 9% drop in GDP..."

The next few lines cite no stats. They just quote someone saying the decline was "undoubtedly compensated in part by other useful activities". As I said, "can someone link to actual studies?"

(Note: I realize studies in Uganda are linked, but I'm talking about the US and Canada studies, which had a 9% and 13% drop in hours worked according to uncited numbers in this article.)
- Play the violin

- Jump higher than the world record holder

And any other task that requires more than just being able-bodies and a sound mind.
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Next year Android is poised to have a 1.9 billion user base [1], or roughly three times that of iOS, and the difference is only going to get bigger as Android with its higher penetration reaches new markets.

I think Apple's ecosystem will inevitably fall to second place in 2 years time, when all developers wake up to the fact that Android will be by far the world's largest platform (and yes, it should be better paid, too, by then, as it already almost caught up with Apple in revenue/app).

[1]- http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/07/gartner-2-5b-pcs-tablets-an...
Misleading to have Marissa Mayer as the face of this article when the vast majority of the CEOs evaluated in the study were men.

Also, this is only "surrounding the first day when the C.E.O. is on the job". Value and long-term growth investors will not even notice.
Um, you stop using the machine? The sort of business that is buying these CNC mills isn't going to be interested in using an out-of-support machine (too much risk) and likely depreciates the machine to $0 value in 5-6 years anyways.
I'm curious than, what's the downside to being able to take a picture of what I'm seeing?
Although this guy is clearly a jerk, I'm crossing DO off my list of providers that I'm willing to use. I sometimes write controversial articles on my own website. These articles can make certain groups of people very angry and have elicited a range of responses up to and including me getting sued for defamation by two public figures (they lost). I have no interest in fighting with my hosting provider in addition to everything else, and don't expect to as long as I don't use their servers for anything illegal.
I have no ideas who Lars Eggert really is, but the quality of the rebuttal is very good. In such a critical field where non expert cannot understand what is going on and where we can only trust the experts, such a nice response on a very controversial and emotionally charged topic is very appreciable.
>I don't see why you assume it wasn't "on the record".

Because it's a nice thing to do when you're dealing with private citizens.

We're talking ethics here, and the thing about ethics is that they can essentially be boiled down to "don't be an asshole".

This blog post can seriously hurt someone who never asked for it and doesn't deserve it. Why not be a little bit fair? If you're not sure if it's "off the record", ask. If you can't ask because the party 'muted' you (!!), assume it is 'off the record' - why? Because that's the ethical thing to do.

I look at this author, and all I see is a bully.

It's good that you always have the presence of mind to censor yourself accordingly. Clearly the Googler made a big mistake because he didn't expect somebody to write an entire blog post from some off-the-cuff remarks he made in a chat room.

>Do I think DO should claim editorial control over it?

They don't. They didn't change his blog post. They asked this guy to anonymize his post because it looks like slander and defamation which is against their TOS. That's how I interpret it as well. AND IT'S THE RIGHT THING TO DO!
Some people really have a problem with mathematics; other people have the creative skills of a lemming. Not everyone can be a grandmaster in chess or win the Olympic marathon, not even if they tried every waking hour.

People are NOT created equal, and your prerequisites ('able-bodied' and 'sound mind') reveal that you know and recognize that.
My Nerd Story
I fear the same. Post anything that DO doesn't like or one of their friends do not like they can take you down. If DO wants to censor honest publications whether legal by their TOS or not then their future customers need to be aware of this as I for one would have never thought it was possible unless doing something illegal with a website.
>It doesn't matter if they were ethical or not, what they did is not right.

Ethics matter to me. And they matter to many people. This guy is pure bully and I feel bad for the Googler. I'm glad DO stepped in and politely asked him to anonymize his post.
You keep saying they are enforcing 'the law,' when in fact they are just enforcing their own TOS, which is perfectly within their rights.

> the fact is he paid for a service which the provider terminated

This makes it sound like they just shut down his account, when in fact they communicated with him, telling him exactly what he would need to do to bring his content into compliance with their TOS, at which point he would presumably have continued access to his account. At this point, it would be his choice about whether to continue his relationship with DO, or to move to another provider.
Build your own PaaS with Docker
Thinking back on this, I think it's entirely possible to build this product without an RTC or microcontroller. It should be entirely possible to wire up a switch, 555 timer(s), vibrator, and a battery... and easily build it for less than $10 in electronic parts.
The circumstances of this one are, well, interesting. And worrying. I offer these links:

Two links[0][1], very heavily upvoted, not enough comments to trigger the flame-war detector:

Both reached #1 on the front page, then vanished very quickly:

http://hnrankings.info/6456034,6455391/

Possibly dropping faster than normal flagging from ordinary users

The question was asked[2] - why did they vanish so quickly?

Since then jacquesm has been banned from making submissions. Turn on "Show Dead" and see here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=jacquesm

Number 3 on the leader board[3] and yet banned from posting.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6455391

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6456034

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6458470

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders
The Period Has Become a Sign of Anger
You also need to be able to identify the individuals that your competitors are targeting and counteract their brand message before it does harm to your prospects. Tightly targeted aggressive messaging is where the industry will go next.
Could a lawyer (preferably from NC) chime in about real estate law and if there's something like a "statute of limitations"? Would adverse possession (or something like it) in effect wipe away any crime committed in coming to possess a piece of land?
I must say I find this fascinating, esp two aspects:
First, great idea to train on number sequences instead of single characters. That's certainly a lesson which is applicable in many other situation, too.
Second, 11 levels and deep learning -- a bold approach, since (from what I know) the paradigm is that deep networks are generally not working well. They even found that performance improves with the levels (they just stopped at 11, probably because of resource limitations). As mentioned in the paper, this is probably due to the fact that the network ist trained with a huge dataset, so the size of the dataset really is the relevant factor.
I'm tone deaf but otherwise reasonably smart. Teach me to play the violin.
Although the state was in fact responsible for preserving the documents in the first place. In fact, for requiring documentation of transfers. I think the message is: someone in North Carolina needs to go to jail.
Remember the homeless guy who coded an app? Imagine what a basic income could do to the millions of people whose brainpower is mostly dedicated to surviving day to day, week to week, month to month. (Because indeed, poverty taxes our brain [1])

The article provides really strong examples in why a 9% drop in working hours does not necessarily mean a drop in "created wealth". (In fact, I'd argue that many European social democracies work on average less than US workers, yet still maintain a very high GDP)

[1] http://www.theatlanticcities.com/jobs-and-economy/2013/08/ho...
I disagree. It seems to me that they wanted editorial control via proxy. "You change this for me or I'll delete your droplet."

The thing in this which really irks me is that the staff were neither co-operative nor reasonable. If you're a paying customer, the least they could do is put the complaint into a state of investigation whilst they looked into the claim. Instant ultimatum seems a bit steep.

I use Digital Ocean and like the service, but I really disagree with how they've handled this. I'm sure I won't be the only one moving providers this weekend.
Playng with Scala
Thanks for detailed response.

Is this a typical cost for VA's, or is there a way to save substantial money compared to hiring a US employee?
Cryogenic Engine GSLV-D5 launch successful
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6942145
> Anyway global regulators are doing all they can to clean up the banks and have them pay restitution for their actions. So it's not like they are being allowed to carry on either.

Oh, you mean like how the credit default swap market is back to 2008 levels already? Perhaps you're referring to how clearly illegal behavior (HSBC) was settled without any well-earned prosecutions? Yes, they are definitely on the case! Just after we remove some of these undesirables first...
The prompt and parental controls were added only after lots of complaints and a class-action suit involving minors purchasing IAPs and apps:

http://www.itunesinapppurchasesettlement.com/

Since parent didn't supply a date, it's possible he was recounting experiences before the changes were made.
BTW I just realised that Chrome has been serving me a cached version of HN the whole time. Didn't realise it was up again. When did it go back on-line? An hour ago? More?
At least some of those working hours were probably spent doing work that, if supply and demand actually functioned normally in the job market, could not exist because the employers valued it at less than the cost of supplying that work in terms of keeping the workers fed, housed and capable of work.
Knowledge of testing essential for successful agile development
The best of the internet: breathless, half-informed, speculative, and emotionally-manipulative.

More information, please. Otherwise this isn't much more than a rumor from a backyard gossip.
The US would barely call any of our conservative parties right wing, so it's a matter of perspective on this stuff.
Quora doesn't agree. http://www.hanselman.com/blog/IdLikeToUseTheWebMyWayThankYou...
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>That complaint has been raised against Google many times, because Google's index captures not only what you say in public, but what others say about you, even if you feel that it is misleading.

What does have to do with anything?!
Who is TJ Holowaychuk?
"all I see is a bully."

I think that's a good word for him. Unfortunately, this is the way many journalists act much of the time - exactly how they create "stories" out of nothing. I guess while playing journalist this guy forgot that the didn't have the resources of a news organization to back him up, and now he has to fend for himself.
This clown covertly recorded (spied on) an established engineer who was casually conversing in a well-known if niche and informal chat room. He then decided he was justified to publish the excerpts of the covertly recorded conversation as if they were journalistic quotes provided to a media outlet. This is the most pathetic kind of muckraking by a would-be engineer drawing attention to himself by attacking an established figure. Unwise, perhaps, for Digital Ocean to TOS him like this, but certainly within their rights as a service provider. As for the original poster, he may in turn feel violated by DO's TOS, but the violation of privacy he committed is without question much more severe.
Coverity releases version 7.0 of its Development Testing Platform
>Post something someone doesn't like, despite it being true? It can be removed.

Which service would allow you to just post anything you like?
Yeah, I have showdead on. My point is more that "That's a first probably" is at least not true anymore (perhaps jacquesm really was the first user to be banned from submitting, but I sort of doubt it).
Are we trying to make Go into Java or JavaScript as it relates to dynamic or static?
Ask PG: Would you consider Riak suitable for HN?
Riak is a distributed database designed for high-availability. It's written in Erlang, and its API has a number of clients in different languages. It is used by Best Buy, Bump (now in Google), Comcast, Turner, NHS, Yammer, Github and a number of others. Riak is specifically designed to help prevent things the recent HN outage. FYI, I am in no way connected with Riak or Basho, other than using Riak and having gone to conferences on it.

What are your thoughts on the idea of using Riak as part of HN?
Look how much 20+ billion revenue is compared to other companies. The iOS division of apple could be one of the largest companies in the world on its own.
From what I've seen, iOS users shell out much more money than android users. Is there any poll or survey suggesting that android users are paying more for apps and IAPs?
What does this work out to per developer? An average? Is there still a way to make significant money selling apps?
If they guaranteed an ad-free paper, and guaranteed that they would not share my info with anyone else, then the price would be more appealing.

But they don't.
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My understanding was you can, but only if you also disable google plus. While relatively few people use it, I'd bet a majority of google glass users will.
Capacity planning memory for real-world JVM applications
How we changed our consulting model for the better.
A Real 'Wolf Of Wall Street' Broker Wouldn't Stop Pitching To An SEC Lawyer
$15B for devs since the ecosystem was created (with most of the growth recent) does not compare to the lifetime value investors place on the entire company.

$15B is two aircraft carriers. In less time to build one.
Agreed. And he famously believed that his "loss" to Kennedy in a televised debate was due to his not shaving.
Many (most?) of those androids are the new feature phones and relatively 0 revenue upside potential for many developers. That won't change in the foreseeable future due to how free and open android is for any manufacturer to shove onto any free with contract device they want.
I dunno, maybe our math is different, but how are you getting $1/month difference?
I understand where you're coming from, but while the shape is similar, "editorial control" and "upholding a ToS" are essentially different things.

For example. Suppose instead that DigitalOcean staff wanted him to write about penguins. If they said "write more about flightless antarctic birds or we will pull the plug", they would be trying to exercise editorial control, because they'd be making positive assertions about the content of the site. And, because they had no previous agreement in place to give them editorial control, they could be rightly told to sit and spin.

But that is not the situation. They have a ToS which forbids certain kinds of content and they are within their rights to terminate service entirely if the terms aren't adhered to by the customer. What they can't do is directly edit, or expect to directly edit, or otherwise direct the content.

When I studied law I learnt that different things, even when they lead to identical outcomes, are different, and should be dealt with independently.

If they made a mistake, it was in trying to be friendly about it, which gave a misleading impression. Sometimes legally-worded requests are best.
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Shareholder Proposals by "Proxy": More Federal Court Lawsuits Against Chevedden
http://www.wral.com/historians-lament-destruction-of-frankli...
Way back to Calder v. Bull in 1798, the U.S. Supreme Court has held that the ex post facto restriction applies to criminal law, not civil matters like taxation.

Unusual retroactive taxation could face a due process challenge, but the basic "pass a tax law January 20 that extends backwards to January 1" kind of retroactivity has been upheld several times.
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I thought so too first but then I read Trevor Perrin's response to Lars Eggert: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/cfrg/current/msg03778.h... and it seems quite clear that Eggert failed to consider a number of important aspects, just one example from Perrin's mail:

> So unlike the title "co-chair" might imply, and unlike in many other organizations, IRTF co-chairs are little more than group secretaries.

The chair is far more than a "group secretary". As RFC 2014 section 5.3 states:

"""
The Research Group Chair is concerned with making forward progress in
the areas under investigation, and has wide discretion in the conduct
of Research Group business. [...] The Chair has ultimate responsibility
for ensuring that a Research Group achieves forward progress.
"""