skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you are in Chicago let me know lanecampbell at outlook dot com
Trello + reportsfortrello.com :)

Both are free. Trello has clients for phones, tablets, and the web.

full disclosure: I created reportsfortrello.com
professional = I want to eat you

nice = I want to help you

professional + nice = I want to eat you and help you?

Now that doesn't work at all.
Here's a good explanation: http://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-run-an-ab-test.html
Don’t operate in a market where a single player can arbitrarily decide to kill you. Especially don’t work in a market that’s controlled by an entity that explicitly refuses to communicate with you (or anyone else) or to explain their guidelines.

That really says it all. As another commenter pointed out, yeah, sometimes you get lucky... but I say "why tempt fate"? Some people go to Vegas and bet their life's savings on the roulette wheel and come out with a bundle. Most people that go to Vegas come back with their wallets lighter than when the went.

Some people bet on a platform that they don't control, with no SLA or contractual agreements to protect themselves, and subject themselves to the capricious whims and foibles of Google, Apple, Microsoft, IBM, Twitter or whoever, and some of them succeed wildly. That doesn't mean it's a good idea to do this.

There's an old saw that says the two worst strategic mistakes you can make are "launching a ground invasion of Russia in the winter, and partnering with Microsoft". I'd like to offer up a new version of that:

"The three worst strategic mistakes you can make are launching a ground invasion of Russia in the winter, partnering with Microsoft, and tying your app to a single-source platform you have no control over".
Almost certainly. Still, surely the patents aren't worth $9B are they?
Yeah, that's smart. The best tool against poverty and violence is education. By enforcing export restrictions on this (and other things like software) the US is doing itself a disfavor.
I think the MS stack has a bad reputation because a lot of developpers come from an academic (undergrad) background, and not that many institutions use MS products (licence fees). When I got out of school I was young and arrogant (still kinda am), and since I only did Java at school in terms of OO languages, I immediately dismissed C# as not good enough.

Then theres the whole anti-MS movement out there that will simply bash MS stack because is it by MS.
Trascript of Snowden's interview
Keeping Your Data Clean
A good place to start programming assembly are on micro controllers (Arduino etc.). They have a more limited set of instructions, registers etc, and an easy to grasp memory layout. The development environments also often come with a pretty good debugger/simulator so you can step through your code and we how it works.

Good luck!
Love it! Simple, clean and really useful. Do you plan to keep adding words as time goes on?
How can you complain about the lack of a free luck, but then not take the free lunch when pointed out that it is indeed present?

People want everyone to be covered, which is how Obamacare got pushed through in the first place. You not getting covored can potential end up costing us more in the healthcare system (healthcare costs being the biggest reason for personal bankruptcy) if you don't take this and use it.
Parallels has gotten extremely good at handling this. Switching from Cmd -> Ctrl actually isn't an issue at all (you don't need to switch at all). It's really seamless - the only problem is having one window from OS X going over to the VM and vice-versa. In addition, some ports running weird when running Redis and Elasticsearch on the Mac but pointed to from the VM.
Give for charity and get $3000
creative or what?
Splashbox

http://www.producthunt.co/posts/868
Very true.

Taking all the money from a coddled, unemployed trust fund child would definitely have no effect on their solvency in the long-term, because money is entirely distributed based on merit.

I mean, thank god, can you imagine if it wasn't?
Except that cost ~$700 for the processor + mobo + NIC, right? Seattle is supposed to be cheaper.
at least 10 ppl have posted this article today. give it up!
In what way do any of these look like an iPad? (apart from being vaguely rectangular)

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=star+trek+padd&num=30&clie...
In a case like that, where clicking on the wrong thing could result in death? I would never allow production database access for anything other than the running app.

I'd have an emergency procedure, sure, one where in some dire circumstance somebody could poke a hole in the firewall, change the database configuration, open a sealed envelope, and then look at/change the real data.

But in normal circumstances, anybody who really needed to see prod data would look at a read-only copy. (Or better, would look at an identity-scrambled version of it.) Any anybody who needed to change it would write a bit of code to do the work and take it through the normal review and push process.
Huge announcement if true, and if this accounts for the entirety of the Motorola purchase that Google made.

That means that in less than two years, Google shredded 85% of the $13bn paid for Motorola. At the time, the high price paid was excused for the patents, because the business itself did not generate nearly enough earnings to justify the price. Now, if it is true that the patents are part of the deal, it's proof that these did not have nearly the value anticipated.

It's also a big statement on Google's ability to succeed in the hardware market, where they've never seemed to be able to gain real success despite their attempts with notebooks and phones.
very strange decision by google
Step 1: Buy Motorola Mobility

Step 2: Firewall the two companies

Step 3: Extract patents from Motorola through the firewall

Step 4: Profit???
I led an engineering team that almost sent out a demo on tens of thousands of IBM CDs (this was 1998) that contained test data that included some that had been sourced from the worst possible alt.* newgroup.

As it turned out the only data that did go out was the single word "sheep" in the search index.
The Rapidly Escalating Price of Cancer Drugs
Can you add sorting by characters?
Are your kids addicted to the Internet? It may be your parenting style
Use this bookmarklet and stop the page before it finishes reloading:

javascript:(function() %7Bvar s%3Ddocument.createElement(%27script%27)%3Bs.setAttribute(%27src%27,%27http://toys.euri.ca/nyt.js%27)%3Bdocument.getElementsByTagNa...
That's actually what I am doing (I'm an oddball, I prefer Apple hardware and Microsoft software). I have an iMac running windows 8.1 and an external Cinema Display. So far, everything works and runs great. I would suspect if I did anything graphically heavy, I would run into some problems though.
Lawyers tell you not to apologize for fear of what else you might say while apologizing ("oh I'm so sorry, I was on my cell phone!"). It's not because courts or juries will interpret a mere "I'm sorry!" as an admission of guilt.
Different cultures, different speech styles. I've noticed a lot of non-native English speakers tend to greatly misinterpret language nuances.
True, however, I am also surprised that it's getting this much attention.
also, when it comes to remote management and headless machines, the unix-like family rule the roost.

Maybe. I bet remote management of desktops with Group Policy, and a whole slew of Microsoft and 3rd party management services, is more common in Windows-land.

In headless server terms, you've been able to install and run headless Windows Server for years now. It won't be as common because it hasn't been around as long, but it's certainly possible now.

And in remote management on the server side, Server Manager shows other servers in your organization (by default?) in Windows Server 2012, and PowerShell was designed with remoting support since its inception.

And WMI and Remote Desktop for server administration both should count as well, having being in Windows for many many years.

The most popular 'remote management' thing missing from Windows is SSH, which seems a bit of a deliberately biased way to look at things. If you work in a Windows environment, there are plenty of ways to remotely manage your servers/services.
> If I can't afford my lunch after being given so many opportunities to earn it myself, then it would be unfair for me to ask my countrymen to foot the bill.

No it wouldn't. I provide it to my countrymen no matter their condition.

> Perhaps I should be trying to maximize every possible opportunity offered to me. But I just can't stomach the idea of taking money away from other people to pay for my own personal problems.

You live in a world where your tax money already is pooled and so you already do take money from people to pay for things as simple as the roads you drive on, or the emergency services you use.

There's no moral argument to not participating. You've paid the taxes and you have a right to the return.
I think their disagreement stems from the difference in how they define "poor". Gates is certainly right (it just takes a bit of traveling to agree with him) that hungry-and-dying type of poor is rapidly disappearing all over the world.

But if you look at living-hand-to-mouth poor, I can understand John's reasoning. Yes, average incomes (productivity) have gone up but you also see how prices on commodities are rapidly raising in the developed countries to make up for that. [1]

This makes me wonder if the universal basic income is ever going to work. Look at insane costs of healthcare/education in the US - no doubt caused, in part, by "free money" either through government-assisted programs or employer-sponsored insurance.

Perhaps it's an inherent property of capitalism: some things always end up barely within reach of a lower class.

[1] Hence the need for things like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Mac_Index
Ask HN: Steps for securing and configuring a new VPS?
I have been reading a lot about the necessary steps to take to prepare a secure and comfortable VPS LAMP site hosting environment from linode or digitalocean.

Google is full of articles and posts with recommended checklists but wondering if HN had a list or a resource a majority would agree on...

Some of the initial findings were the following:

1) Set up login with SSH keys for convenience

2) Update everything with sudo apt-get update

3) Change SSH port to 4437 or something like that

4) Install HTOP instead of TOP

5) Configure PHP to run as CGI with CGIWRAP (for security)

-- I am sure there are a dozen more steps we all take after provisioning a server - anybody have further suggestions or posts with good lists?

(EDIT: for markup)
You need some form of structure unless you want a zillion roundtrips. JSON is cool because it provides the basic structures (scalar, list, map) in a consistent and reliably parsable form. You don't need a context-aware 50 page ABNF to be able to parse it cleanly.

(don't even get me started on trying to write a proxy for IMAP that's aware of the connection state)
What is the arch-shaped object to the left of his keyboard in the picture of his new Mac?

Edit: Nevermind, found it under Accessories on Apple.com. It's a BookArc Pro by Twelve South - http://store.apple.com/us/product/HA242ZM/A/twelve-south-boo...
Because there are people suffering right now who could use some help.
Here's a few things I couldn't easily figure out on your site:
What is a best new product?
How is this different than a linked list on a blog?
How would I find the best X app? e.g. Best new iOS note app?
Is this site for me or for someone else? Am I a product person?
Blue Bottle does seem to be a great company. I have (and have had) may friends who have worked there over the years. It isn't quite clear to me how they're going to bring in VC-needed returns on this kind of investment.

Anyone else care to comment? It just doesn't intuitively make sense to me.
And to think that they've just released the MotoX, and now this.
I'm wondering the same. Visual Studio can be quite demanding (especially with Demon installed and Resharper)
> I have no idea why anyone would just click on a word because it's bigger than other words.

The point is that the size of a word means something. A large word is typically intended to indicate, "Here is something that his person is talking about, that a lot of other people are also talking about. Click here to see what others have to say."

> Can someone explain why these became popular?

I suppose this happened, in part, because they seemed to have some reasonable-sounding theory behind them (see above).

The cool factor was probably more important, though. UI trends often ignore usability issues, after all, and tag clouds are an automatically generated example of the kind of "messy" art that became popular a decade or two ago.
Huge announcement if true, and if this accounts for the entirety of the Motorola purchase that Google made.

That means that in less than two years, Google shredded 85% of the $13bn paid for Motorola. At the time, the high price paid was excused for the patents, because the business itself did not generate nearly enough earnings to justify the price. Now, if it is true that the patents are part of the deal (the article states they are), it's proof that these did not have nearly the value anticipated.

It's also a big statement on Google's ability to succeed in the hardware market, where they've never seemed to be able to gain real success despite their attempts with notebooks and phones.

Edit: the article states the deal would include more than 10,000 patents. Originally Motorola was estimated to have 17,000 patents at the time of its purchase by Google. So while this is still speculation, and we do not know full details, there's a good chance Google may have cherry-picked the patents they felt were important to retain.

Follow-up edit: the 10,000 patent number comes from this article:
http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/2014-01/30/content_17265533.htm

Edit 3: The value destruction here isn't so bad as 85%. See Magicalist's comment below for a good summary - Google picked up a lot of cash, tax loss assets, and $2.2bn from the sale of one of Motorola's subsidiary businesses as part of that $13bn original purchase price. Still a loss but not as dramatic as the headline number.
In the event that you find yourself wondering how these newfangled generators (used by the rethinkdash driver) work, see the following:

http://blog.carbonfive.com/2013/12/01/hanging-up-on-callback...
Very odd news. Was looking forward to seeing what Google could do with their weight thrown behind hardware.
check out tulip
If the DJ's name wasn't incredibly obvious ("DJ Robert Jonathan Swift"), this was satire—and not particularly funny satire at that.
A good explanation of the scheme, from Dr Neil Bhatia can be found at http://care-data.info/

It includes details of how to opt-out.
The article suggests that 10,000 patents are part of the deal. I'm not sure if that's the same number as were originally purchased, but I have to think it's the lion's share of them.
I'm very interested in seeing how they can scale their training when opening new cafes. It's some of the best coffee I've had in SF/NYC.
The only thing that really hurts are the SQL Server licenses. Everything else (MSDN licenses for devs, OS licenses, etc.) are small percentages on the cost of hiring a dev or building a server. SQL Server pricing is a beast -- they know you're locked in, and it's carefully priced just under the "what if we just hired several people to do nothing but move us off of SQL Server" price point.

With that said, we're getting amazing performance out of SQL Server without having to shard, etc: all of Stack Overflow runs off a single server, and most of the rest of Stack Exchange runs off a second server.
My gut reaction is that if you could get in early enough on the next Starbucks it could return a large enough payoff to be worth the risk.
Even if customers are scatterbrained and unwilling to accept responsibility for themselves, it's still better to keep them on board and making money than trying to teach them a lesson out of principle that probably won't even stick.

How well any policies are actually thought through is another matter.
It's really the value of their paychecks relative to imports. (In a small country, you do have to export a lot relative to GDP, but you can wind up exporting cheaper too)
For your first job, sure. After that, nobody cares.
We could just hide in one of the lukewarm stars? Brown dwarf stars would be perfect to live inside.
Google looks a lot smarter to me now. They paid way too much for Motorola Mobility just to get the patents. Maybe they were forced to buy a bunch of stuff they didn't want? It makes sense to recoup as much of the money as they can by selling off what they didn't even want.
As long as you're cool with bleeding to death on the steps of the emergency room, I'm ok with your not having insurance. But expecting US taxpayers to pay for your treatment (indirectly via higher premiums) while complaining about being forced to buy insurance is, at best, inconsistent.
Dogecoin's genius is that they looked at how people actually act and saw "Many people have trouble grasping the concept of decimals", and then figured "Hey, we'll solve this by inflating the currency so that 0.005 BTC = 500 Doge!" It's an incredibly elegant solution to a real problem.

Logical fallacies that exist in people's heads are every bit as real as technical limitations, and much harder to work around. You can fix your product; you cannot fix a few hundred million peoples' inability to do math. So work around it and adapt your product (or currency) to the world as it actually exists rather than the world that you would like to see.
Article was written in 2001, at which point it was hard to foresee the lasting implications.

Also, he didn't scare people. US government did by waiving the terrorism banner for all these years.
Slightly disappointed this is happening, Google having its own place to start really getting invested in consumer hardware seemed like a good thing (getting "pure" experiences without having to pay top dollar). I got the Moto G and it's probably one of the better value propositions out there.

I wonder how things will go with Lenovo in charge.
There's a lot of issues in finding job and/or finding someone to hire. It feels like trying to tackle the whole problem is a bit brutal.

Here are some areas that I find irritating;

- Finding companies that I want to work for, other than well known companies. Indeed sucks, I don't trust it.

-Terrible job descriptions i.e. this recent one I saw for a technical project manager: "Expert in python, php, ruby on rails, and Java Spring. 10 yrs exper required and we will pay up to 55K"

-Getting resumes to speak to the position, keyword loading, properly listing skills, achievements, etc,

-Disorganized contact with recruitment teams. ie. I had an amazing phone conversation with a hiring manager, at the end he asked which of his two positions I was interested in. A week later recruiter turns me down for one the positions.

-Complete lack of knowledge from recruiters: ie. We use a framework you haven't used before, I'm not sure you can make that switch.

-Location - I'm looking to leave my current location and have targeted a city, I'm getting turned down because I don't live there.
> It's also a big statement on Google's ability to succeed in the hardware market, where they've never seemed to be able to gain real success despite their attempts with notebooks and phones.

And Google TV. Let's not forget that huge failure.

"By the summer of 2012, the majority of the televisions you see in stores will have Google TV embedded in it."
-Eric Schmidt
Balancing Security with Usability
Wow, that seems... sudden. If the Motorola Mobility purchase was meant to be strategic (and surely a purchase that big was), how could they have possibly had time to implement that strategy and truly gauge its effectiveness?

I'd say this announcement, if true, is downright shocking. Not saying it's wrong, mind you, just that it's very, very surprising. At least from the Google perspective.

Now, Lenovo, OTOH, this seems to fit the "PC Plus" view very well. If this is true, it could be a huge win for Lenovo.
Short version:

I was a stock analyst, for a firm with dozens of institutional salesmen and thousands of retail brokers. Some of my recommendations were very, very wrong.

The right thing to do is stand up, take the heat, and explain what you now know as best you can. I learned that watching a colleague who I thought was otherwise an unserious ass.
Ember core member Erik Bryn talks HTMLBars, React, testing, and the Ember economy
I'm curious as to what exactly Lenovo is getting out of the deal. I hear good things about the new Motorola phones, but is the midlevel handset business really that attractive a one? I doubt HTC or Sony are feeling particularly good about their exposure to it.
we are forgetting something here at least the TC post did

Moto still has Fed/Military contracts as this is why foreign buyers were nto considered the first time around.

This might not go through to completion
I'm sure there's something in the deal for Google to at least retain rights to use the patents. Likewise Lenovo wouldn't buy Motorola without the patents.
In my work, developers only have read access to production servers (for checking logs etc). If you want to make a change to a production system, you need to go formally request it through OTRS. So this sort of situation can't really arise. You can of course still cock-up live systems through asking the sysadmins to do something stupid, but then the problem is stupidity, not carelessness.

P.S. You poor soul! I feel your pain.
They already have real revenue. It could be a lot worse.
Smart move from Google, they remove the possibility of being suspected of favoritism. And I suppose they keep the patents, which is what they were really interested in all along.
> Now, if it is true that the patents are part of the deal (the article states they are)

It says "certain patents", which would suggest a minor amount.
Indeed.

If you ever watch Shark Tank (which has become remarkably redundant), you'll note that each shark has a certain style (no doubt born of his/her own experience/personality).

Cuban is always harping about sacrifice, breathing the dream, not taking a salary, etc. The story goes that if you want it bad enough, you'll make the sacrifices. This has become a common belief that is propagated about entrepreneurship.

I've come to believe that it's absolute nonsense. Engaging in self-destructive behavior does not have to be a core tenant of entrepreneurship nor some proof of passion or dedication. And, at what point is the entrepreneur just a slave to the investor? Some will say, "well, the investor is risking her money". Sure, but she is only doing so because, presumably, she can afford it. In other words, it is a discretionary "luxury" for the investor to invest, whereas it can be a subsistence-level sacrifice for the entrepreneur to go without a salary.

Whether it's a failing bootstrapped company or funded venture wherein investors require an unreasonably small salary or none at all, this is not good. And, for people who go the entrepreneurship route for "freedom", the effect can be the opposite. Not having an income introduces stresses and risks that represent anything but freedom.
I wonder if Samsung was aware of this? Were Motorola patents part of the cross-licensing?
Canada soon? :)
I wonder if it's true that G did buy it in somewhat of a panic due to what was happening with patents at the time, as some have speculated. I dunno how something as protracted as an acquisition can happen as a result of panicking, though.
I don't see how they would even be able to break out of SF in general.

I'm on the other side of the country, and our small town has 3 independent coffee shops, multiple local roasters, and a Starbucks. This is your average college town, and there isn't an icebergs chance in hell you'd be able to get market penetration here.