skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would be cool to have the grand canyon, and an efficient eyes free keyboard, a one handed eyes free keyboard with buttons on which you could type at least 80 wpm.
If sold,the brand motorola will surely be killed.Welcome lenovo X!
Depends what you mean by other server side platforms. What does it compete with?

Node.js isn't a web framework so it doesn't compete with Django, Rails, ASP.Net, PHP etc. I generally consider it a tool for building web services, which it's great at.

For example: I've got Node.js servers which host JSON APIs calling Postgres stored procs on a Django app because it's faster than going through Django when you've worked out the interfaces.
Because large groups of people can always be prejudged by which technologies they deploy!
I still don't understand why a consortium of insurance companies doesn't run studies looking for better outcomes with out-of-patent and un-patented drugs.

Their tests would be of already approved drugs.

In many situations they could save a bundle and in others they would dissuade drug companies from pushing the advertising and costs.

The statistics on everything they test would show their general level of bias (assuming drugs aren't getting any worse.)
They have five locations in NY, opened a couple years ago IIRC.
> I apologize if it sounded like I was complaining. I only meant I chose this life.

That's nice, but earlier you did say:

> I don't appreciate the government intruding on my private life, forcing me to buy a product for at least $200/mo, a $200/mo I literally can't afford. (...) People simply have no money for $200/mo of extra costs.

Which seems rather straightforward. You want to be angry at the government for enacting the ACA, for "forcing" this $200/mo charge on not only yourself but also the "many others" in your same position. You're quite upset at this mandate that you and those many apparently can't afford. Backpedaling only after someone points out the obvious (vouchers, tax credits, etc) doesn't change your original message.
Thank you so much. Will do that now!
Modern processors draw very little power at idle; it's only at full load that they reach TDP. If your laptop is constantly doing something with its CPU then it will obviously get much warmer than one that's just idling. I have one with a Core Duo and it barely gets warm if I'm just reading static webpages and editing text, but really heats up if I'm gaming or watching videos.
Much cheaper, doesn't need to plug into wall, more and more open viewing options. Question should probably be reversed (says this Apple fanatic).
If you clear your cache of their cookies, it should let you in.

If that doesn't work, use these 5 other ways:

http://betabeat.com/2013/02/5-ways-you-can-still-get-around-...
That's pretty ridiculous. You are really misrepresenting what happened. Sure, you can say it was little more than for a promissory note of peace, which is what people were saying at the time but this is just too much.
X86 instruction encoding
I wonder if this is the rationale for Patch Tuesday.
The hardware specs as of December 2013 are here: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10369/which-tools-an...
Aren't you instead locked into Google's ecosystem?
You don't achieve impressive sales numbers for a smartphone in one generation, because of the enormous importance of brand recognition. Samsung makes subpar handsets at best, but achieve enormous sales because of their brand recognition. That took them several generations to build up. It wasn't until the S3 that people really started to recognize Samsung phones as a distinct entity.

Google should've given Motorola at least 2 or 3 more years before calling it quits, if they really wanted to gain a foothold in the hardware market.
Seven Years Is Too Long
Yes, given that I'd already released the code on a couple of customer lists but it was tempting to ask for a license fee, particularly given the arrogant first-line support we'd had to slog through to report the bug. “We don't do Microsoft's beta-testing for them. We'll start testing after IE8's released” – a week after the release
Wow, good one, I've never seen as evil an idea as this.
Despite the huge delta in what they paid for Motorola, vs what they're reported to be selling it for, other people have pointed out that the way the deal was structured may not actually wind up making it a huge financial loss for Google.

I certainly can't think of any way to spin the way this turned out to be positive for Google, but I don't think the absolute numbers will worry them all that much.

I haven't seen anyone here mention that at the time of the acquisition, Motorola was attempting to sue all the other Android manufacturers over its patents; and it was posited that Google was basically forced to buy Motorola to keep them from poisoning the ecosystem.

I assume that not happening was probably worth more to Google than what they would up having to pay for Motorola.

Psychologically, it does help reinforce the idea that Google really doesn't know what it's doing with regards to hardware (although hey, they just paid more for Nest than potentially what they're selling Motorola for).
I hope to use it for programming in forth sometime soon. Forth is ideal for steno because it is word based and unstructured.
Accidental sudo chown www-data:www-data /. on the production server.

Thoughtful pause "Why is this taking so long!?"

"OH FUCK"
At the opposite extreme, one thing I've noticed is that some cafes in London have differential pricing for take-out versus stay in. (I'm not sure if this is true in the rest of the UK)

As in, you pay a little more if you occupy a seat for some time. If you walk in and walk out, then you pay less.

On the other hand, McDonalds has kind of developed the reputation as a place where you can just stay and stay after buying something cheap. I've certainly bought a black coffee for $1 and sat there for a couple of hours with a book if I had time to pass, and no one seemed to care. But that was off peak hours and there was no demand for tables.

Not sure there's a perfect solution to this that will satisfy everyone.
Now all Last.fm tracks are playable on Spotify
I did something similar once. Always be careful with rm and the star. Don't let him get away from its character neighbours.
the main problem with this analogy is that you have it structured so that Bjork is the "daughter", which is what your whole denouement relies on (where we're supposed to be pissed at Icelandi for not covering for Bjork's mistakes). Bjork and Icelandi are, in a much more accurate version of this story, just friends, and Bjork lives in Icelandi's house. Icelandi is in no reasonable world culpable for Bjork's fuckups.

oh, and as others have mentioned, you also glossed over the fact that Icelandi "repo's all of Bjork's stuff" and effectively "kicks her out of the house".
Great write-up. Thank you for sharing. I like the billing triggers. In hindsight very obvious. Good to learn it without getting burned. :-)
I have a related suspicion ... that Google made the deal in part because they believe Lenovo will run Motorola well, with goals compatible to Google and Android.

I don't think Google was ever into Motorola to make it pay. They were there for strategy, and Lenovo can do that too.

(Don't forget that Lenovo just bought IBM's x86 server business, and so is "going big.")

Update, sorry for the bad link http://www.pcworld.com/article/2090680/lenovo-agrees-to-buy-...
First on the left has similarities. It is indeed not that close. It's the space odyssey one that is much closer.
They might look awesome in the pictures. I was testing their handsets while visiting Thailand and the only good thing about them was that they were cheap. The builds were pretty bulky and the OS felt quite slow when comparing to the Nexus 5 right next to them. Of course you paid 3000-6000 THB from then when Nexus was 16900 THB...
You are a racist. He is talking about his own race, so can't logically be. However, he is just being an elitist here. A lot of Indian people start thinking high of themselves once they arrive to the US. It's in our blood, since we were ruled by Europeans for 190 years. :)

The thing common between you two here is that both are drawing wrong and uneducated conclusions here. There is no causal relationship between being an Indian and being 'unkind' (Yes, I still know you didn't use a direct word, but you didn't reply to my next comment to you, so I assume you meant something very similar to that).
Google just confirmed it, and explained some of their reasoning: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2014/01/lenovo-to-acquire-mot...

I'm inexplicably bummed about this. I was excited to see what Google would do long term with Motorola, and I thought the Moto X and Moto G was a great start. I thought eventually, a Google+Motorola powerhouse could provide a nice yin to Apple's yang.
I'm going down this route right now and it's definitely tough. Meetup are usually very impersonal and most people arent very willing to help out strangers.
I have Googled it. I found mention of a couple of compromises, both of which I already knew about and which haven't substantially damaged my opinion of the company. I have yet to find any information regarding Linode attempting to conceal either those compromises or any others, which is the sort of thing I'd expect would be all over the web. What do you know that I don't?
Where? In The US? I also live in apartment building and some UPS drivers will try and deliver to the apartments and if there is no one home, they deliver to the office; while other UPS drivers just skip it and deliver everything straight to the office. The office never delivers to the apartments, we have to go and pick them up. It's in the lease that they cannot enter to deliver a package. (Other than an emergency, they have to give advance notice and it does not apply to packages.) It's been the same in three different apartment buildings in Virginia, over the last 25 years.
Ask HN: Made 1 iOS app – does it qualify?
I'm an iOS developer, I have been developing and sustaining 1 to-do app for 3 years now. I'm stilling working on it (the 2.0 version of it, is in the works), but was wondering if freelancing would be an option if, say I chose not to continue working on it. Does it depend on the type of apps I built or the experience I had building them?

Will I qualify?

The two versions of the app.

2.0 version: http://northstarco.github.io/timely/

Original version: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/timely/id513332522?mt=8
How To: IPv6 over IPv4 at home, today
wow. having that being already identified to the individual is pretty dumb. what is the excuse for this to even be like so in the first place?
Have you got a good source on that abandoning Nexus thing? I saw in on The Verge forum but the source was just repeating a rumour. (http://www.technobuffalo.com/2014/01/27/google-to-kill-nexus...)
Guy learns to dance in a year (TIME LAPSE)
I hope this video inspires you to do things that you really want to do. The things that makes you feel good and happy while doing it.
We are all unique and we all have a true life purpose which you have to find.
With one year you can make a huge change in your life if you step out from your comfort zone and begin to act.
The idea of the video is to inspire everyone. If you're dreaming about being a successful musician or a businessman, football player, dancer, gamer, blogger, reporter, artist, basketball player etc, then you better be hungry!
Forget the word ''but'' and '' can't ''.
You can be or do anything that you want. Find the way which suits you the best and start working on it.
We create our own life with our thoughts and the action we take.
Live the life you always wanted to live!
Dev Update 4: Master Protocol Wallets and Distributed Exchange
Ask HN: Any opportunities for a CPA?
Hey all,

A very good friend mine works as a CPA for one of the big four accounting companies in San Francisco. The problem is she's been delegated to a dead-end role, and it seems like the company is just waiting for her to quit. I told her I'd reach out and see if anyone could give advice, or opportunities.

Is there a need for an in-house CPA in any of these tech companies? She has a range of talents including amazing people skills that would be very valuable to any company. Thanks!

Edit: She has around two years of experience.
The robot that can print a real house in 24 hours
Which series did you try out? I was thinking K series...
I run a few businesses. My agency site [1] is where my marketing services are. I don't sell through the site - it's all word of mouth / client referrals.

I handled the account with I was still at a desk in agency-world (I've since ejected).

As for what is was like, when I stepped back to think about it, it was a little surreal. But, after a while, they're all just numbers, except with more digits. If you hit your main KPIs and keep things under control, it's fun to be able to scale things up with a client where you didn't have to necessarily worry about cash flow.

[1] http://impossibleagency.com
1/7 does it too. 14 28 56 128 <- too big
I wasn't so interested about them to really write down the numbers. Lots of different letter + four numbers combinations and I remember that none of them was above 10 000 THB.
> I've been with linode a long time and do like them, but as they've gotten larger their support has increasingly gone the way of other large companies...largely useless.

Yup, me too. Been with them since 2005 and the quality of their support has really tanked in the last 2 years. I think once a company becomes a certain size, it's very hard to provide support that's not just a bunch of drones reading from a script. It's very unfortunate.
Yet you still need to write callbacks.Neither async nor promises nor generators solve that issue.Afaik only fibers make the code lighter. ES6, arrow functions will make things less painfull though.
pthreads?
Thank you for sharing. It's interesting (and perhaps obvious in hindsight) that Wolfram has great math in the background, but struggles with the freeform interface.
Shangri-la, became the last nation on earth to introduce television
To be fair, theirs isn't a bot.
Inequality whining has already jumped the shark.
Well said. I'd also like to add that anyone that hasn't already noticed the quality of both their coffee beans and baristas declining in the last 3 years probably doesn't own taste buds, or maybe Starbucks is just that awful.

Kudos to Blue Bottle though. They're probably going to make a ton of money by being marginally (but still noticably) better than Starbucks.
It is confirmed: http://investor.google.com/releases/2014/0129.html
It won't play anywhere but small pockets of a few cities where people have a lot of money and want to pay crazy amounts of money for a cup of coffee. I really don't understand why people are investing so much money in this and why it needs that much investment. I see very nice coffee shops open all the time, sell perfectly fine coffee for a quarter the price and they don't need millions in investment.
"Google will retain the vast majority of Motorola’s patents, which we will continue to use to defend the entire Android ecosystem."

Well that settles that question at least.
Google lost about ~$9 billion on Motorola (~$12 Billion acquisition and now a ~$3 billion sale). This happened in the span of 2 years. You could throw $100 over your shoulder every second for those two years and that still wouldn't amount to $9 billion.

We're the patents really worth that much?

Edit: To anyone who uses the recent news about Google being forced to pay a percentage of their AdWords revenue to a patent troll: couldn't you spend $9 billion on lobbying to end this whole disaster of a patent system forever?
> Therefore, the only rational investment would be in life extension technologies (SENS, advanced prosthesis, etc.).

No, the only rational investment would be in things that give you utility, or in loose terms, make you happy.
The conundrum I have is knowing this has been done.

I wrote a letter with all of this, took it to the GP surgery. The receptionist was bemused. There has been no acknowledgement. Can I tell if I've been opted out, without hassling the already-overworked reception staff?
The Next-Gen Workspace
This is bad news. Motorola handsets were starting to look good. Now that Lenovo is taking over it will definitely go downhill from here.
I had installed "osCommerce - Open source E-Commerce platform" just like Magento on one of our client who had > 500 transactions a day.

Some how in settings, we had flag "Store Credit Card Info" as "Plain Text" enabled. The Admin/Staff of that client could have use this information to make transactions (As in Backend it would show Full CC info into order details)

We didnt realized untill we worked on it again for some bug fixes and adding new features.

Lesson Learned :- When transitioning from DEV to PROD env, make sure to check all these critical flags and correctly set

Luckily, the client didnt had any idea about what was wrong in backend.
sudo chown -R myname:myname /

Learned: Learning on the job as you hack away on problems is great, but recognize that it's one part enthusiasm and one part risk management. Also learned to never try anything on the command line that wouldn't want to see pulled from my bash history and stuck on the breakroom fridge. Also learned to cope with humiliation well.
To get into the linguistic nitty-gritty, perhaps he could have said "elitist strategy". But the point was that Dustin's execution, and the decisions behind it, were based on the marketability of exclusion. The point wasn't that Dustin thinks he is better than others and therefore should be judged negatively.
Because they aren't actually off to a good start.
I agree, its a coffee chain. It has to be hype and marketing. Does this coffee company have patents on a new roasting method that scales, or some breakthrough technique to save on logistics? It seems like it's only a play on perception and hype.

From 2012
http://www.trueventures.com/2012/10/10/welcoming-blue-bottle...

"We’re also pleased to announce that Bryan Meehan, a good friend and an accomplished entrepreneur, has joined Blue Bottle full-time as Executive Chairman, contributing his significant expertise to all areas of strategy, marketing and operations. Bryan previously founded, grew and sold two premium specialty retail chains that share key similarities with Blue Bottle: 1) Fresh & Wild, an organic supermarket chain acquired by Whole Foods in 2004; and 2) Nude Skincare, a luxury natural skincare company acquired by LVMH in 2011."
Announcing Guides
Agreed. We think this approach is brilliant and suggests Google sees the TV as merely another screen. Chromecast combines the web dev model with the processing power of PCs (and mobile devices), making it a more flexible and powerful way to reshape the TV as another computing endpoint. Most importantly, Google innovation no longer is constrained by TV manufacturers and their divergent interests. Here's a Google game console: screen (TV) + processing (PC) + controllers (mobile device).
I dunno, the Q was pretty brilliant as a piece of performance art.
I'd say you're just not thinking creatively enough. Manufactured homes significantly reduced the cost of owning a home, and just the other day I saw an article talking about 3D printing homes with concrete and how it could drive the cost down even further. The same goes for the other things you mentioned....flood the market with doctors and healthcare costs would go down, we just need med schools to accept more people instead of limiting their enrollment to drive up tuition fees because they want their school to be prestigious and 'the best'. The poorest people can and deserve access to the many goods the wealthy enjoy, we just haven't figured out the technology and economics in each of these areas yet to do it :-)
The majority of the country (and the world) isn't going to pay $6 for a cup of coffee. That's reality.

That may be reality, but it's entirely irrelevant as a cup of coffee at Blue Bottle costs less than $3.

Edit: photo: http://cl.ly/image/1l3b0F243S2d
Crazy that one has to opt OUT of that, seeing as I'd bet only a minuscule fraction of the population would ever opt in...
That's cool, I never knew Stack Overflow was using Node in production.
Patents are messing up valuations of these companies...
>> "Blue Bottle has worked really hard to develop a reputation of really really caring about coffee, from farm to cup"

That's great but how many people (apart from people trying to seem hip) really care? To the vast majority of people (those who get coffee at home/Starbucks/local cafés) it's a cup of coffee. Nothing more. They couldn't tell the difference between a $1.50 cup and a $6 cup and even if they could they'd still go with the $1.50 cup.
Google may not be able to keep all the tax losses. It was originally reported that google would save $700M a year through 2019.* I'm not sure that they those losses are severable from the rest of the company.

* E.g. http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/31/us-motorolamobilit...
I've had worse.

One company I worked for was acquired by a much larger tech company. We were already had about a 1000 employees. After the big announcement that we were being acquired, we all got an invite from the new company to meet the new executive team at their big corporate HQ.

Got bused over, we were all shepherded into a huge auditorium only to have the CEO of the larger company tell us we were all being let go and turn in our ID's to the security folks now standing at the exits.

It was the quietest bus ride I've ever been on during the return trip.
What happened is not exactly that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7147251
we have cafes too. the quaint kind, with the little chairs, rickety metal-and-teak folding tables, and the snooty baristas with tattoos and piercings or neat white aprons.

the reason this is making the news is because it's extraordinary, not because it's ordinary. people don't hang out at mcdonalds.

you are concluding exactly the opposite of what common sense would dictate, probably because you haven't actually thought about what you are thinking. this is called a logical fallacy.

in fact, why am i even explaining this to you... if you're so world wise and savvy, i'm sure you've been to new york to see for yourself.
Do you live in Somalia?
irl, that would have been:

$ ls
$ sleep 5
$ ls
Make your boss pay for your trip with rocketrip
$12 billion - $3 billion - ~$2 billion (motorola home) - $3 billion motorola cash - whatever tax incentives over the period of ownership.

They made it out ok.
Linode Moves From Monthly To Metered Billing
> I suspect you're not really understanding what those ab results are representing

ah. no, no. i'm not adequately explaining where i was going with that. lemme try again.

1) it's not 12% on a web farm. it's 12% on one server.

2) that 12% manifests in a slowly degrading experience. so, it takes 4 seconds to return during peak traffic instead of 3 and a half. meh. whatever.

therefore, if you get hit by something that will actually make a difference, it's not going to be within 12%. it's going to be like 12,000%. so, it's not going to make a whit of difference at that point whether you have httpd.conf or .htaccess.

>You have things completely backwards there

again, i'm not explaining myself well. i fully understand that, in theory, httpd.conf is more secure. i'm not talking about that.

if you have access to httpd.conf, you also probably have access to /etc/ssh/sshd_config -- did you configure that securely? does your server allow root logins? what about your mysql config? what about the latest security update to the distro?

i'm just saying, if you've got access to httpd.conf, you've got the whole server. that means you've probably got bigger fish to fry as to worrying about security than a pretty harmless, defaulted as secure, .htaccess file.
Seems surprising that they have to sell the whole Motorola division for less than they bought this little company Nest for.