skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't have to be everyone verifying everyone - just that a reproducible result tends to be more trustworthy. This is why reproducing results from other studies are also valuable scientific endeavours.
Mining is what makes the bitcoin network secure. The higher the hashrate, the more secure the bitcoin network. As I mentioned in another comment, if you compare the resources required to secure the bitcoin network vs the resources required to secure any other financial networks, it's miniscule.
GitHub ceo ditches meritocracy rug
tl,dr new ceo says meritocracy is overrated, white men are all racist/sexist

rip github
DDoS and Malware Attacks between GCHQ Anonymous and LulzSec Hacktivists
> Why you saying Why should Internet companies be taxed?

Because all other companies are being taxed when offering products or services to citizens of the given country, within the legislation of that country. Certain Internet companies use questionable tax planning strategies (in Europe as well as the US) to pay a ridiculously small amount of taxes and thus gaining an unfair advantage.

> Or Why should taxes exist at all?

Because running a country costs money which is required to provide services such as law enforcement and a regulated banking system. These services are required by citizens and corporations alike.

But going further down this argument is obviously not in the scope of this discussion thread and will not end up being a fruitful conversation. We're talking about a small-ish change to the tax system rather than a full blown anarchist revolution here.
Since you claim not to be a statistician, pardon me if I also ignore your unsubstantiated opinion that the null hypothesis was "so shitty that they practically guaranteed p<.05".
Here is a good explanation on the subject: http://lesswrong.com/lw/pm/identity_isnt_in_specific_atoms/

But the singularity is more than just mind uploading. Technology could advance and people just choose not to upload. You could probably live at least a few thousand years with advanced nanotechnology repairing your brain and body.
Sorry, you're on the frontpage, it's going to be taken too seriously.

I don't think anyone is actually going to catch the joke that generally speaking, entrepreneurs and ladies magnets are not actually "something bigger" at all.
it has impact on your disposable income if you are buying Google services.
The total computing of the Bitcoin network consumes many orders of magnitude less power than all of the world's computers combined.
tl,dr new ceo says meritocracy is overrated, white men are all racist/sexist

rip github
Mediatised attack. Their actions are at much smaller scale than any other criminal organization that operates in the shadows (hacking is more profitable than the drug market).

Anonymous is a threat not because of their actions but because they challenge the established powers.
Things I learned by pretending to be blind for a week (2013)
Conversely people doing this has usually led to hilarious and expensive individual losses.
It's a bit of a stretch but it has some truth...

On one extreme, Google keeps it's prices static and it's customers don't change their buy resulting in the tax coming only out of Google's profit.

On the other extreme, Google raises it's prices exactly proportional to the tax, it's customers buy the same amount of ads and raise their prices exactly proportional to the increase and you pay them for service or good $x. Your income stays the same but it buys less because everything is more expensive.

The real result is in the middle, google eats some of the loss from tax, raises it's prices and customers somewhat lower their ad spend and somewhat raise their own prices eating some of the loss from tax. Which extreme any individual believes is more accurate has more to do with political bias than truth.
which is why it's crazy that they get to decide what funding science research gets!
It's a bad argument because it can work the other way around. If I kill a single neuron from your brain are you still you? If I keep killing them 1 by 1, at no point is the transition very big, but at some point you are certainly not "you" anymore, maybe not even conscious.
I think some crossing [of fingers] might be in order. HN has a weird hatred of Quora, so if anyone ever finds out how internet-famous you are there, there could be trouble!
If you can't even get your foot in the door there's no way you're going to get in.

That's why most chips are priced out of reach of small companies. Even if they have something revolutionary they may never get the chance to get started without a huge risk.
Shame. My mums Vaio Pro (in red) is awesome.
Watching Beaglerush lose at X-Com impossible is great.
This is what this article http://www.bfmtv.com/economie/enquete-google-france-sorganis... ( in french ) explain.

Realising this was a mistake everything was renamed in 2011, apparently.
What about: You'll never win.
The Web is/was a threat to Microsoft because if everything is a web app you suddenly have no platform lock in. I think Google foresaw this, or is at-least betting on it, with Chrome OS. Why would anyone use Windows; an expensive, proprietary, bug ridden OS when they can use Linux or Chrome OS to perform the same tasks?
when the real possibility that your company's product is harmful, or detrimental to the environment, you could use your resources to continue researching it, at the cost of losing your profitability, or use your resources to vilify the researcher and stop the research from going, and continue to gain profit selling the product.

A human would feel guilt. A corporation would feel nothing, except for the sound of money.
Satya Nadella, First Thought
Even if you have the resources to support something, should you if its not your core focus?
Personal I feel that Google is still run as a startup, which is fantastic however people expect Google to be a corporate company.
Your first point is false -- in some countries bauxite is processed with power from coal-fired plants. Your other points seem valid.
As far as I can see, the only unexplained acronym is "SoC". The first result on Google for that term is the wikipedia article explaining "System on a Chip".

HN has always been for technical news. There is always some domain specific knowledge required in technical topics. Judging by the comments here though, it's obvious that the domain specific knowledge this article assumes (which isn't particularly great - not much more than a rudimental understanding of the components that make up a computer) overlaps with quite a number of HN readers.

If you read an article that you don't understand, use it as a learning opportunity. The resources are at your fingertips!
and they didn't need or want to grow fast for growth's sake.

The HN/YC model of a "startup" is something that is growing rapidly, as per http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html, so perhaps 37signals was never a startup in the HN use of the term ;-)
Sorry – "crossing"?
Why your business needs an NFC Business Card
Enjoyed all of this aside from the "finding a partner" section.
Finding a partner is trivial, keeping that partner is the hard part. Unless you want to keep finding new partners all the time (some do).
Another French there, but with hopefully more insight on the why.

If France alone stands up for this one, it's meaningless because they'll find a loop (or carry on with the Double Irish and Dutch sandwich) and we'll just look like communist heaven (hyperbole) while not reaping anything.

We need to do it at the EU level, with a law which overrules local business taxations settings if the company is owned by a non EU entity.

Of course, the only way to push for it is to have champion country doing the dirty work, so I guess we're stuck with that.
No. I complain that Red Hat support a bastardised version of Java (and Eclipse) that ships with their OS meaning that for the sake of sanity you have to deal with Oracle and RH to get a cohesive platform versus the single vendor. Subtly different.
"Who is Mike Lynch and What's the Deal with Autonomy and Hewlett-Packard?"

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/who-mike-lynch-whats-deal-autonomy-...

"So what's Lynch up to now? He, together with some former Autonomy bosses, have started technology investment firm Invoke Capital, which has a $1bn fund to play with.

Its first investment was in Darktrace, which calls itself "the world's first Behavioural Cyber Defence platform" "
Then Microsoft would be just another provider of virtual servers. I dont think thats a good future goal for a 300 billion dollar company.

Conversely to Gruber, I see Microsofts future in client software and hardware. Apple and Google have put computers in every pocket. But only the consumption part of it. The race for the production tablet has just started. And with the Surface Pro, Microsoft has the first product out there.
"Ernst & Young, the auditor hired by HP, had not signed off Autonomy's restated accounts."

Which basically makes this a non-story. If the independent auditor you hired isn't willing to stand behind your view you probably shouldn't announce it.
I think it'd be fair if companies like Google that have their corporate EU base in Ireland were taxed in the EU at Ireland's corporate tax rate, in full. It's low, but higher than what they effectively pay.
Nice. Can also add-

Cheat codes:
There are no cheat codes.

Or if you want to be controversial-

Cheat codes:
- Find a rich partner
- Win a lottery
- Get born in a rich family (random)
I had to look up what you were talking about:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Robertson_%27%27GQ%27%27_i...

I had no idea about that, it's a US thing :) .
All those "BE PRODUCTIVE" subliminal messages are somehow damaging my willpower.
Linus Torvalds: How can we encourage kids to learn how to code? (video)
Every time I see an article like this I just want to grab the readers and shout "Read a philosophy book!" to them[1].

Literally every point in every article on how to live a happy life was being made by the likes of Seneca and Aristotle thousands of years ago, and there are good reasons why those writers are still the foundation for philosophy today - they were right.

[1] I would recommend something like "Philosophy For Life (And Other Dangerous Situations)" by Jules Evans or "Consolations of Philosophy" by Alain De Botton as a starting point.
How To Save VC’s Thousands Using The Lean StartUp Methodology
Speak English: Racist Revolt As Coca-Cola Airs Multilingual SuperBowl Ad
Life may have started in warmish carbon-water chemistry and humans may currently run on meat brains, but there's no reason to assume we have to stay limited to that sphere.

So far as I'm concerned, anything which computes accurately "what I would think" is a copy of me. And anything which computes a mind and is temporally descended from me is me, even if we wouldn't recognize each other.
"A company that's not good at marketing and
sales doesn't stay a company - no matter how
good the products are ;-)".

does a product that grows due to word of mouth amount to good marketing? i believe not. dropbox, github and recently put.io. i learnt about these products because of word of mouth e.g show hn not Google ads or some youtube marketing gimmick. i tend to use a product if a friend i know is immune to FOMO recommends it to me.
This is a fun little post. I did have a nitpick with the points about willpower, though. There's evidence that's it's limited if you believe willpower is limited, and nonlimited if you believe willpower is nonlimited (http://www.stanford.edu/~gwalton/home/Publications_files/Job...). (And in other ego depletion literature, loss of willpower may just be reflecting lower glucose levels.)

> All players die after about 29,000 days, or 80 years. If your stats and skills are good, you might last a little longer. There is no cheat code to extend this.

Wouldn't that be a great hack, to extend this number indefinitely, and share the exploit with everyone else? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methuselah_Foundation et al. are working on it...)
>Considering how many engineers would gladly take a below market wage for an opportunity to work at Apple, I don't think that is necessarily out of line with market forces doing their usual "magic".

There's no such thing as magic. This is just as true in economics as in anything else. If wages are down, then either labor supply is up, or someone is cheating.
yeah it a nice PC even I use it the same.
I am not a Windows user or developer. But JetBrain's Resharper brings much of IntelliJ's refactoring support to Visual Studio.
Ninja Workflow for Capturing, Annotating and Uploading Screenshots in Seconds
No mention of Trello, I see.
Idris: General Purpose Programming with Dependent Types
I'm confused about the exact details here -- does he believe there is an auto plate tracker which shows the name the vehicle is registered to (him) which gets a false-positive on a secondary search for name? It would seem more reasonable to have a list of suspects/warrants, and then a list of their own vehicles, and just pop it up then. You'd also want to find cars the suspect was known to drive, since it's pretty common for a "criminal" to register his property in someone else's name to protect from seizure.

I think it would be more plausible that he was profiled for race/location/type of vehicle/etc., rather than his name, but maybe there are more specifics?
One idea I've had about past civilisations is to do with quantum immortality. Suppose you did a Schroedinger's cat type experiment, but you were the cat. If the multiple universe hypothesis is true, then when the box is opened, two universes form, one in which you're alive and one in which you're dead. Since you're not in the universe where you're dead, subjectively, you would simply always survive the experiment. Now, imagine if you linked the trigger for death to a measurement of energy. You create a box that kills you unless some observed material randomly spikes in energy. It's a bit like a quantum suicide version of Maxwell's demon. Subjectively, you get free energy. More than that, this quantum killer Maxwell demon would be a fairy Godmother in disguise. You could make anything happen as long as it is directly observable and has non-zero probability. However, if you do it enough, anyone who isn't in the box with you, will very likely see you die.

So there's the problem. You have a source of free energy or entropy or free anything, but using it will make you appear dead to everyone you care about. The solution would be to get everyone you care about together in the same box.

From our point of view, when we explore the galaxy in the future and we will keep on finding long dead previously civilised planets which had advanced aliens who one day suddenly bundled everyone on onto a massive spaceship and then blew themselves up. Then one day, we'll start bundling ourselves up and do the same.

In practical terms "bundling everyone together" might mean merging into one consciousness (for convenience). Which would make the whole process a lot like "The Last Question" by Asimov.
Long-life laptop battery the tech industry doesn’t want you to have
Now if they would all have been mapping cancer markers and analyzing gravitational wave fluctuations through BOINC ... :( You can only wish..
Larry Niven posited that a ring-shaped world would be roughly equivalent to a partial Dyson sphere. Although I seem to recall that his were only habitable on the inner surface.

Suddenly I'm wondering how much of this applies to toroidal space stations.
Debunking the UX myth. Over again.
What are really the differences between a UI and a UX designer or how to forget vanity titles and use logic instead.
You really think somebody would do that? Go on the Internet and tell lies?

Seriously, it's an anonymous Internet forum. Anything without proof should be assumed as false.
According to the release notes Flash is fixed. But after updating, I still can't get Flash to work with Firefox on my Android 4.4.2 Nexus 7. Flash works fine with Dolphin though. Bummer.
Funding is there, but investors have a different checklist to 10 years ago.
I thought it was a great article, but I think it would be better if the image of the 'random character's at the start showed racial variation - saying that your character is totally random and then having a picture of 6 white people was a bit incongruent to me. Otherwise excellent.
>Google is some kind of anamoly where they pay high _and_ are a gold-star on your resume; don't know how that works.

I think Google has an extraordinarily high need for engineers due to their blatant attempt to take over the world by moving out ahead of everyone else in every industry they can reach.

When you're trying to corner markets that don't exist yet while also competing to keep other firms taking a slice out of your cash cow core business, you need a lot of R&D.
Is there a nice open-source solution for monitoring multiple servers? I don't want a separate http daemon on every one of them, just so I can log in there occasionally. It would be most helpful to have a separate server, which will collect data and logs from all of my other machines, through a lightweight network interface. SMS/E-mail notifications and a tray app for Mac won't hurt either.

There is always AWS, but for my side projects, I prefer cheaper VPS.
All I can add is that, from a fairly n00by point of view, Windows Azure is easy to use and clear, AWS is messy and difficult. Also the free trial of Azure is brilliant, the AWS is so crippled it makes it feel like their whole service is lame.
Big companies do it too: EADS has become Airbus Group.
For that kind, you don't really need any specific software. You can do it in Ruby/Python/Haskell/Whatever. As long as you can communicate with an API (Yahoo Finance to download the data for example and one broker that allows you API access to issue orders) any language will do. You can run your software once a month or week, analyse the data and issue the orders. If you are keen, you can even use Google News/NLP/Sentiment Analysis in your model, again, in any languages you want.

Take a look at: quantstart.com He has some tutorials with Python to do so, and he is releasing a book (hopefully soon) that should give you a good overview of it all. Also, I recommend you read Options, Futures and Other Derivatives to understand how most of this financial instruments work. There is a lot of good information there.
If the front door is not an option, then obviously you try the side or the back... ;)

More seriously, you get to know people who can get you the information/components you need --- often on various Chinese forums. The "guanxi" mentality ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guanxi ) is very strong in Asia; to get to the company directly takes a lot of incremental "relationship-building".
Basecamp turns 10
Nadella as Microsoft CEO: A slap in the face for Indian system
Breaking news : a single caterpillar excavator has more excavating power than all the toy shovels in the world together.
I still find the approach of the article interesting, but what would be relevant is to compare the power consumption of the bitcoins miners compared to the power consumption of all the personal computers in the world.
-Select- your character! Reminded me of a wonderful Louis CK sketch:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG4f9zR5yzY

Of course you can't end up a person of color. Oh heavens no, anything but that!
The history of Wörgl is a bit debatable. There are some accounts that state that their alternative currency quickly devolved to essentially circulating within the city hall, because others became disillusioned about it, in particular its loss of value.

The problem is: I cannot find the link to this article anymore, because searches invariably turn up tons of positive articles that all use suspiciously similar wording - kind of as if somebody with an agenda was consciously working on copy&pasting similar texts all over the internet.

At its core, the idea underlying the Wörgl experiment is actually very simple and most likely true: When a monetarily sovereign government isn't afraid of spending, they can do good things.

You don't actually need an artificially value-losing currency for that, you just need the political will for spending.
A great talk by the creator of Idris, Edwin Brady. Slides here (but you miss out on the demo): http://eb.host.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/writings/idris-lhug0113.p...

http://idris-lang.org/
I really don't understand how the author of the parent post is still angry about this. 37s did the responsible thing by continuing to fully support the old version, giving users time to migrate (or not migrate).

I think there are a lot of 3rd parties that integrate with the new Basecamp to provide time tracking. Harvest is the one that immediately comes to mind. While this might seem to not be as good as a first party experience, I would argue that it is better to use a real time tracking app like Harvest, which is waaaaay more capable than the time tracking in Basecamp Classic.

Whatever criticisms you might have of Basecamp, they are certainly focused on avoiding feature creep and bloat. I suspect they agree with my assessment that Harvest et al. provide a better time tracking experience, so there is no reason to complicate their product with a (poorer) duplication of their features.
Combining 2 devices into 1. This is useful for many people. While there are compromises with hybrids, sometimes the end result is good enough for people, e.g. camera phones.
Human Development Report (USA)
Shades of Blue: How A/B testing earned Google $200m extra
And yet the actual functionality of Bitcoin - a simple ledger - could be implemented using much less resources than are used to maintain the Bitcoin network. It's curious, isn't it?
It's Settled: Silicon Valley Is Dying. So What's Next?
Your statement reminded me of the conclusion Rene Descarte reached a few centuries ago: "I think, therefore I am."
You don't think the success of the Mac over the last 10 years has pushed Windows to become better than it would have been?
Isn't the "bastardized version" of Java actually the "Java as supported by Red Hat"? If you don't want RH's support but still want some support of course you have to depend on some other company.

And the reason why you consider RH's version "bastardized" is, I assume, that it's not "the newest and latest." Which is the main argument with which we started: that RH intentionally doesn't push "newest" all the time in order to have long support cycles.

Your argument for Microsoft was that their technology changes slower, and then complain that RH technology doesn't change fast enough?
From experience at RBI I had one tool that ran on aws in hindsight it woudl have been cheaper to go with linode and that was a single small instance.

I noticed at silcon mikabout that prity much all the start ups where using aws - I suspect that 90% of them would struggle if they had to set up their own colo.
The idea is to "feed off the leftovers" until you grow to the point where you can order above the MOQ directly. It's a very different growth model.
Basicaly those readers try not to waste time on reading old creazy guys from ancient past. It is easier to get pieces here and there on random internet sites.

I would sum this article with such quote:

"It is not that we have a short space of time, but that we waste much of it. Life is long enough, and it has been given in sufficiently generous measure to allow the accomplishment of the very greatest things if the whole of it is well invested. But when it is squandered in luxury and carelessness, when it is devoted to no good end, forced at last by the ultimate necessity we perceive that it has passed away before we were aware that it was passing." On the shortness of life - Seneca
What about: You'll always win.