skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"... part of a handful of people who are founding a movement around coffee … We believe Blue Bottle Coffee is at the forefront of a ‘consumer movement’ or mega-trend in which consumers are moving to higher quality, artisanal micro-roasters of coffee"

Mega-Trend?
I'm assuming their exit is via Starbucks
Nice. Screenshots should most definitely be posted somewhere accessible on your web site, they make a big difference.
Google is a mess. Seriously. What happened? It's like there's been a void in their executive leadership in the last couple years.
To say the new MS Office lives in the browser is a bit of an overstatement. There is some support in SkyDrive and SharePoint for opening Office documents in-browser, (in some cases, I think requiring Internet Explorer), but it's feature limited.

Office 2013 is very much a Windows Desktop program. And now a Windows RT App, too.
Neat solution.
I think you're really underestimating the stupid shit companies say and do when dealing with employees, and its the potential for stupid shit that drives the excess of caution. Say an HR drone lays off a woman with kids (or a pregnant lady), and says "sorry! Well at least you'll get to spend a little more time with little Jimmy!" Or, take many blue collar jobs. If you lay off a black or Hispanic employee, there is a very good chance he or she has experienced racism at work. Factories are not exactly politically correct places, after all. In my opinion, a lawsuit in response to something like this is not frivolous litigation. Some of those people really do have legitimate claims, and you can't tell a priori who they are.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bankruptcy_in_the_United_States...

Relevant bit: "Although the individual causes of bankruptcy are complex and multifaceted, the majority of personal bankruptcies involve substantial medical bills"
Where Apple's money comes from
>Google shredded 85% of the $13bn paid for Motorola

http://www.engadget.com/2013/04/17/arris-closes-deal-to-buy-...

To be fair they got $2.2bn of it back by selling off Motorola's cable STB and modem business.
You mean the patents that didn't actually help Google?
http://www.zdnet.com/in-microsoft-patent-spat-ruling-hints-t...
Let's not compare Martin Luther King Jr. to Snowden and Manning.
That is still too much for Motorola handset division. Google must estatic at he chance to recoup that much from one of the worst deals they've ever done.
There are a few things in our stack like Elasticsearch and Redis that we specifically run on the Mac and simply have the VM point to the right ports. This basically requires that we have both running simultaneously.

However, going pure Windows on a Mac is not entirely a bad idea either. There's a mix of devs here that use Mac or Windows - it comes down to personal preference imo
I have a very different view point than most about why I think Node.js is popular. Take it for what it's worth.

I've always sort of laughed at the idea of Front-End developers flocking to Node.js just for the fact that it is the same language. I actually really like Node.js but hardly ever use it for web apps. I think where it shines is as a platform for systems programming and I think when you look at Node.js systems programming was clearly at the forefront of the design.

I can't count how many Front-End-to-Node.js developers I've worked with that have been using Node for a year or more and have no clue about processes, sockets, streams and pipes. Perhaps that is a testament to libraries like Express that hide all of that, but in my opinion the beauty of Node.js is all of that "other stuff" Front-End people ignore. To each their own I guess.

Also, the myth of sharing Server and Client code is almost never done and even when it is, it isn't done well.
I wonder if this has anything to do with Apple's focus on the Chinese market. Google could effectively hand off a tightly wound partnership to an established Chinese company in Lenovo that can then leverage Android more effectively in a head to head battle with Apple.

In the interim, Google keeps its hands clean and doesn't enter into the discussions that plague any sort of success in the Chinese marketplace.
>If they were using Arch or Gentoo at home,

If they are using gentoo, you should be finding someone else. Gentoo users are typically the most dangerous combination of profoundly ignorant, yet absurdly overconfident in their abilities. Seeing a bunch of autotools and gcc output scroll by does not teach you anything. But the mistaken reputation as an "advanced" distro makes people think that by using gentoo, they are therefore "advanced".
An, go figure, smart people think alike :)
I must admit I was somewhat disappointed that the first query did not use icons of apples in the Manipulatives illustration section!
The big unanswered question is how the malware was installed on POS devices in 1,700 stores. The configuration and network connections of these machines would typically be rigorously controlled and audited.

Initially it looked like the BMC BladeLogic configuration management tool was compromised, which could be the conduit to the POS devices. The POS already trusts BladeLogic for config changes and patches.

But now McAfee and BMC say the malware was just masquerading as BladeLogic. Sure wish Target would explain what happened so the rest of us can protect ourselves.
How Twitter turned out to be the only second screen we really need.
I believe Motorola also had $3B in cash when acquired.
Do hedonistic pleasures increase the quality of life? In my experience, they simply provide temporary distractions from the lack of such quality.
You're right, I was looking at a different article. Source for the 10,000 number is below.

http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/2014-01/30/content_17265533.htm
I think an offline retail business like this one is a perfect LBO candidate.
weird nintendo fanboys downvoting, didnt realize I was on reddit

http://www.rttnews.com/2258993/nintendo-nine-month-profit-do...
The article says they have locations in New York as well.
I am sure I am part of the minority on HN involved in the enterprise market, but I am intrigued by what Lenovo's plans might be for Motorola. With their already established relationships and customer base, Lenovo should have a much easier time selling their hardware than Google did. At the very least, this move might be the final death knell for Blackberry.
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Ugh. HN jerks have already added them all to their carts on 101domains, so you can't check out.
I accidentally deleted all data from live database, thought it was our beta database server. Good thing it is synchronized on our beta servers so was able to bring it back in no time. The moment I clicked that delete button I was like face palming myself all over. I learned from thereon to double check every time especially when working on between production and test servers.
Rich people in general don't have one unified opinion on the topic. Certain rich people are rich because of the Drug War, so they're strongly in favor of it.
There are a lot of Chicago real-estate agents that won't sleep well tonight.

The Mobility move to downtown was supposed to happen in a few months. Google signed a 15-year deal on 750,000 square feet (17+ acres) of office space at the Merchandise Mart. Will Leonovo assume that lease?
"That means that in less than two years, Google shredded 85% of the $13bn paid for Motorola"

http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/12/22/did-motor...

If this story is true, Google keeps accrued losses (you can't sell losses with a division). Add cash on hand, the sales of the STB business, and it's pretty far from $13 billion. By some accounting Google would still come out ahead.

But I have trouble believing this story. Given recent initiatives at Motorola, the light seemed to be appearing at the end of the tunnel.

As one aside, Lenova purportedly wanted to bid on Blackberry, but was blocked by the Canadian government for national security reasons.
Also what % return are mutual fund and mutual fund-like investors looking for over the next decade? If 5-year average is (5-25)% loosely then you're either looking at an investment that blows that return out of the water, or doesn't really impact your overall fund at all.
what kind of Perl skills? sysadmin skills automating server tasks? web framework skills like mason? something else?
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Why the tone? I didn't comment on the ethics of the policy.
So much spin I get dizzy just reading this sentence.
You read the parent wrong. Their point was that you can't take a moral stand and refuse healthcare when the standard of care is to treat emergencies.
Very interesting read, thanks for posting.

Out of curiosity, since you mentioned you're a self-taught programmer -- what did you major in at college?
Food for thought: http://jezebel.com/5973869/women-stop-talking-old-men-dont-l....

I personally find both vocal styles (along with very strong accents: http://paulgraham.com/accents.html) off-putting, but I don't really like the reasons why I do.
Google it. They have a long track record of hiding incidents (not just security).

I will never understand why people act like they are some wonderful company.
This would be straight up illegal in the US due to HIPAA, which guarantees a patient's right to privacy.

HIPAA = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_Insurance_Portability_an...
As a web hosting devops engineer I'd disagree with your last assertion. Our Windows environments are managed remotely and just as easily as our unix stacks. You just need the right tools and in the past five or six years life has improved significantly when it comes to tooling.
When I press escape on your blog page, I get redirected to a login page at "https://jon-chan-wz68.squarespace.com/config" - is that normal?
I think this is right. To answer some of the other comments, yes, c# has a better ratio than does PHP, but it has a much worse ratio than to Python, Ruby, Scala, Clojure, Go, and possibly even javascript.

All that is a shame, because I think C# is fantastic, as is SQL Server. The rest of the MS stack is mostly so-so.
The original post may have overstated the matter somewhat, but in the responses it received, the underlying issue was clarified to the point where it is easily recognizable and can be trivially addressed by the site developers if they so choose. That being the case, I can see a reasonable amount of utility in the original post, if only in that it prompted the analysis it did.

In general, I'm not fond of seeing "now, then, let's not be too harsh, shall we?"-type fussing on HN. Welcome to the Internet! People here aren't always as nice as you'd like them to be. This does not mean the things they say, however rudely, necessarily lack value.
You can also use that temp cred to assumerole() to an external IAM role, for example to access a customers account. It's a lot to think about - my ec2 instance role then assuming another 3rd party account's IAM role - but its quite secure; neither you or the customer have any private secrets or rotation headaches.
I often turn on my performance-based ad campaigns before going into the office, as they are very predictable at the beginning (slow ramp up to spend). However this time the CTR was through the roof for something new and spent $15,000 by the time I could turn them off when I got to the office. It only brought in about $5,000 in revenue. Not the end of the world in the grand scheme of the monthly P&L, but still not something to replicate.
3Billion dollars? Wasn't Lenovo going to pay close to 4.5 Billion for RIM in october? Either RIM was overvalued or this is a steal
maxima code follows

fpprintprec:100; fpprec:100;
s : string(bfloat(1)/bfloat(9998));
makelist(substring(s,3+4i,7+4i),i,0,15);
[0002, 0004, 0008, 0016, 0032, 0064, 0128, 0256, 0512, 1024, 2048,4096, 8193,broken pattern,6387, 2774, 5549]
After "you have no job," all they want to hear is dates, severance, and benefits. Anything else is just wasting everyone's time, because they are in their own heads and not listening.
OT: Why on earth did they decide that double clicking should change the font size? Is the NYT a front for some kind of crazy UI study firm? IIRC, they used to pop-up things when you selected text.
If you live longer, you can make a bigger impact. Especially if you're someone like Bill Gates.

Imagine if the great thinkers and inventors of past times were still alive today.

Imagine if someone like Elon Musk could live forever.

edit: gotta love it when drive-by downvoters just cast their vote without adding anything to the discussion.
I haven't got nearly that much experience (in my opinion but just realized I have ~4 yrs...). Anyway if the job said X yrs/senior and was for a company that I really wanted (not just would) work for I would apply anyways.

Worst case they would reject me like other places but they might have had an opening for something lower and given me a chance.
Not if it's diesel - it'll be heated up (so it'll partially vaporize) and it'll be under pressure. There'll be air in there as well. Could quite happily combust if it got warm enough!
Nope, but you are now. Thanks for speaking up!
I was approached by a recruiter with the same line for Patch about 6-8 months ago. Listening to this conference call, I am so glad that I did not take it seriously.
What was their primary reason for getting one?
I'm pretty sure you missed the point.

You are right that there is near to zero chance of that occuring. Which is probably what the previous poster meant. Since you can show up with a life threatening issue at a hospital and get stabilizing life saving treatment regardless of your insurance anyone who doesn't have insurance is effectively already leeching.
http://www.forbes.com/2010/03/25/why-people-go-bankrupt-pers... Here's a citation on the bankruptcy statistic. Its corroborated by many other sources (and many other studies).

No matter what your intentions on the topic, if you end up in the emergency room for a preventable condition (which will lead to more treatment), you will end up costing everybody much more than simply taking the vouchers... take that fact as you will, but statistically speaking it's very likely you'll end up "costing" society more by not participating in the healthcare system.
This makes this tweet[1] from Chris Dixon hilarious:

"Which strategy wins the future: stock buybacks or investing in AI + robots + smart devices?"

I mean it really shouldn't surprise anyone that a VC would be cheerleading expensive acquisitions with no regard for shareholder value or whether it has any hope of making a significant return.

But the real answer to his question is: organic growth. And if you are confident in your ability to create organic growth, then the best way to use large amounts of cash to create shareholder value over the long-term is stock buybacks (assuming you have the cash to fund that organic growth and your shares are undervalued, which in Apple's case, both are true).

[1]https://twitter.com/cdixon/status/427602474086584320
How To Slow Down Time: A non-technical lesson from an intense software school.
Lenovo is already making decent phones and in china are quite big. Perhaps they want on US market.
What are the advantages of Chromecast over something like Apple TV?
This is Motorola Mobility though, which only includes the cell phone business and was spun off from Motorola (not called Motorola Solutions) and later sold to Google.
On a newer Macbook Air, I can even game in a Windows 8 VM. They've come quite far, and with things like unity mode in VMWare Fusion (don't know what it's called in Parallels) you get your VMs applications like they are somewhat native OS X applications.

There isn't much of a speed penalty, and especially not in "simple" things like an IDE.
How far do we take this? This is a conversation about the actions of these people. It is not coder pedantry to refer to Manning with male gendered pronouns. Are we now required to know how everyone feels about their gender before we use any pronouns describing them in every context? In fact, we have to keep with everyone's opinions about their genders throughout their whole lives. This is impractical.

I think here, we just have delusion of persecution.
The article states that it happened immediately after Google released a very similar feature on Android.
Just curious - what do you usually use Chromecast for? I got it specifically to stream Youtube on my TV, and found that there was usually a > 1 second lag between the image on the TV and the sound on the TV. This has given me a pretty negative view of Chromecast - basically that it's just good for streaming visual-only things like slideshows etc. Have you found this not to be the case?
A pity the title doesn't mention rethinkdb at all. A new driver with generator support is very exciting news.

By the way, for those that are interested, here's a link you can use to learn/understand how generators can help with async control flow:
http://blogs.atlassian.com/2013/11/harmony-generators-and-pr...
It's from China Daily: "The acquisition, worth at least $2 billion, will include more than 10,000 mobile communications patents currently held by the United States company, according to a person familiar with the matter." [1]

Wikipedia said of the original Google purchase: "Motorola Mobility has 17,000 patents with 7,500 more patents pending."

[1] http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/2014-01/30/content_17265533.htm
Why wouldn't you invest in superior artificial intelligence? Once we create that, it could solve all of our problems.
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It'll never play in the UK. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calliphoridae
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Yeah, I'm not sure how straightforward it all was, but according to this article:

> At $12.5B, Motorola is Google’s largest acquisition to date. Google paid $40 / share in cash, but received ~$11 / share in cash and $8 / share in deferred tax assets. Thus the value ascribed to operations + patents was about $21 / share, or $6.3B, reflecting a multiple of ~0.5x sales and 12x EBITDA. Now adjusting this further for the $2.35B total consideration Google is expected to receive for the Motorola Home business, we get a purchase price of just under $4B for Motorola's handset business and patent portfolio (17K patents and 7.5K patent applications).

http://www.zdnet.com/googles-motorola-purchase-was-it-worth-...

So it seems like it would end up being $1 billion for a bunch of patents. The whole process has been rather weird, in the end.
I think the "screw up" was disagreeing with his boss, and thus losing his job.
Closer to $7 billion. They have made $5 billion together with the set top box acquisition.
The more similar you are, the more incompatible goals you'll have; your culture informs your goals.

You're primarily interpreting goals solely as "taking limited resource X". Nothing about political desires, entertainment desires, preferred styles of food, family structures (eg nuclear vs extended), so on and so forth.

If I like 3D movies, it doesn't put me at odds with someone else who likes 3D movies. Or, for a stronger example, if I like secular law, it does put me at odds with someone who wants sharia law. This is not something that has an exhaustible quantity - it is a difference of culture, and is one less point of friction if we ameliorate it.

Perhaps a better example. If 9/11 was due to Irish terrorists, the US public would not have signed up in the order of hundreds of thousands to invade England and topple the English government. But this is what happened to Iraq. Iraq had done absolutely nothing, nothing at all, to the US public. Yet because it was in the same geographic region as the guys responsible, the US quite happily used Iraq as a proxy to flex their might. Hell, even if the 9/11 terrorists had been English, the US still wouldn't have invaded England, unless it actually was an action of the English government. If they had been terrorists from any NATO country, that country would have been left alone.

The SF workers and the SF poor fit into the original commentor's statement. They think very much alike, but there are still points of friction where they don't. Nevertheless, they are not actually killing each other en masse - rock-throwing and protests. US and Arab cultures are not so much alike, but the US citizenry volunteers to go to the other side of the globe and kill Arabs that have not wronged them.

The more alike your cultures are, the more difficult it is to demonise the other, and the better you'll get on. Fighting over limited resource X is not the be-all and end-all of cultural dissonance.
What's your Cricketing story?
I picked up a refurbished Chadwick chair (designed by Don Chadwick, one of the designers of the Aeron) from ebay for about $170 on ebay. Its comfortable for being on the computer for long periods of time and was a great bargain for its quality.
If you prefer, you can just write a letter to your surgery:

- State that you wish to opt-out of care.data

- Request that both the 9Nu0 and 9Nu4 codes are added to your GP records

- Remember to include full names and DOBs (and your address if you are happy to)
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Heh, I have a co-worker that recently deployed a production router with a blank administrator password. Fortunately, I've got automated jobs in place that find those kind of things. The password is now a variation of "John is a dumbass" and I'm just waiting for him to ask for the password.
Nice. I like the clean and simple interface, hope it goes well for you guys.
> And Google TV. Let's not forget that huge failure.

Not to mention http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexus_Q
DO is not an alternative to AWS, it is an alternative to EC2. If you want to tell people not to use AWS, you have to provide an alternative to AWS. Even google's AWS-like offering is missing tons of things lots of AWS customers rely on.
I don't know of other IDE's that use the idea. It's a pity as I used this feature a lot when using HD/FD.
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There's a saying in the rates market: "don't counter-trend trade the front end".

I lost $7 million dollars in minutes by being short $700 million of US 2yr notes when the levees failed during the hurricane Katrina disaster.

Although my bet that the 2y point would be under pressure in the intermediate term turned out to be true, I got carried out by fund flows as folks spazzed out to cut risk by rolling into short duration high quality paper.

To his credit, my boss, who sat across from me, said only: "wouldn't want to be short 2 years." He let me make the call, which I did, and I covered my position. (Ouch.)

My book was up considerably on the year already, but this was a huge hit, and nearing year-end. I dialed back the risk of my portfolio and traded mostly convex instruments (options) for the remainder of the year.
...a lot of Motorola's patents are related to underlying voice and networking technologies. Unless Google X is proposing to come out with a replacement for GSM (...and it's not) that stuff isn't changing.
This graph[1] tells some of the story, but the bigger story was they failed to capitalize on the patents, and even got fined by a jury for trying to abuse FRAND patents on WiFi and H.264.

http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/52605103ecad0479335...

http://m.computerworld.com/s/article/9242129/Microsoft_wins_...

Edit: The timing is very interesting too. Google reports its quarterly earnings tomorrow, and was known to have spent about $500M on advertizing the Moto X which hasn't been selling well and which must have dragged Google's earnings down. Releasing this news now will help calm investors tomorrow.
Also, can't imagine that Lenovo will continue subsidizing the Moto X/Moto G, so I expect prices to go up once the acquisition completes.