skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The extent to which you have littered your own biases throughout this thread, and then expected everyone to regard them as the true interpretation, is absurd and childish.

If that's doesnt read hollow and pathetic to you I dont know what could. It's complete mythologising of two people "building" a company, it's display of hurt feeling over the fact that $10bn doesnt impress people enough, its utter pre-occupation with self-aggrandizement and money.

For example, this. I'm amazed you can't find one positive interpretation to agree with. The $10bn price tag is a reflection of the company's commercial success -- a reflection of the hard work, smart decisions, luck, timing and scale involved in that success. To an American it's obvious that two people didn't personally build the company, but it's also respectable that they undertook a massive risk to create opportunities for others to join in their effort and partake in the rewards.

The fact that you can only arrive at an extremely cynical interpretation really says more about you, and goes a long way to confirm the assertion of the article.
This is possibly the chrome webfont rendering bug that's been popping up on chrome 33, WordPress sites seem very susceptible to it: https://productforums.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/chrome/tYHS...
That's extremely common in job postings unfortunately.
I wouldn't worry much about POS systems, they have a very small attack surface, given their limited exposure to the Internet.
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I don't have it on chromium nightly, but on current chrome version 33.0.1750.146 it opens on every start. see https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/chrome/6mmohdZd... https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=337734
Seth MacFarlane is one of the producers. He has made big donations to Democrats:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth_MacFarlane#Political_views

Ooga Booga!
I didn't say a homeschooled kid would be fragile. I just think that not being homeschooled might prepare them a bit better for highschool life. But perhaps I'm totally wrong. I'm just reacting to the idea that sending your kids to school is sending them to be bullied.

I definitely do not think being bullied is a good way to learn about life.
Steam, Humble Bundles and sales cannibalization
I'm guessing you have not been to Texas. In Texas you own a car (or more likely truck). If you do not, you are more likely a homeless person or a visitor. The visitors quickly rent a car. The population density of a city like Austin is a literal order of magnitude difference. Things aren't stacked on top of each other so people have to drive to them. Because people have to drive there large parking lots are needed. Large parking lots puts stuff even farther away from each other. Southwestern cities are built on the premise of personal transportation.
Tried it with an empty wallet, just for funsies, looks like it doesn't even work yet, based on this on top of my dashboard, "We're working on a new version- this is not ready for production use!"

Also, looking at the embed code, and from that the embed itself, it looks like its not doing anything. So, I'm guess this is just a very "wouldn't this be nice" demo.
ACAS do arbitrate individual unfair dismissal cases. Often employment contracts from large companies will say "You agree to use ACAS for arbitration".

Large companies like this because it streamlines the process rather than dealing with different individual lawsuits, it also gives HR a number of policies to implement which can tick the boxes and give them a strong position in any dispute. If you have 1000+ employees eventually someone is going to claim unfair dismissal.

Smaller companies with 10 employees or less are more to just hope they don't get sued at all.
Not to mention the millions of small mom and pop shops running that thing. XP's retirement isn't even on their radar.
They are like cockroaches always find their way. There was embargo on Germany during WW2 but IBM was renting their machinery to Nazi. Also Coca Cola was on every corner in Iraq during embargo :-)
LOL, when I was running my own servers it seemed the only time they would go down was when I was on vacation.
Home wine-making kits have been around since forever. Example sites:

http://www.homewinemaking.co.uk/wine_kits.html

http://www.homebrewusa.com/

I guess the main innovation is the sensors and the microcontroller? Is that new? It seems unlikely, but I'm not sure.
I totally agree with you. At some point, it is no longer Microsoft's problem. (Heck, just look at how long OS/2 held on in POS systems after being taken off the market.)
Do you expect Ford to keep making parts for the Model A as well? That would be supporting people that still use it.
CodeCombat's Dungeon Arena
what about C++ers ? :(
IPO Dot-Com Bubble Echo Seen Muted as Older Companies Debut
The PC industry would sell a ton more computers if Microsoft solved the upgrade problem. Why do you keep a computer for 5 years? Only because it hurts too much to upgrade, and no way is this solely about the cost.

XP was able to upgrade to Vista, but nobody did.

XP could not upgrade to Windows 7, so nobody did. Microsoft advertises third-party migration tools, rather than owning this problem and building out of it. They've had years to get it right.

And yes, the cost in reality is not just an OS upgrade. It's sometimes a new machine, and also $300 for Office and peripherals without updated drivers.

But it is mostly convenience: preserving apps, preferences, and licenses is important to regular people. It also isn't that hard, because they did the work for migrating XP to 32-bit Vista.

I've been consistently amazed that my Mac has updated from version to version perfectly, even 32-to-64. Windows has been a disaster every time.

Preserve people's state, preserve their data, and they will buy your software.
At SXSW, thousands get a Kevin Bacon number of one
~ nope ~

An overweight person can be eating caloric diet equal to a skinny person and not only not lose any fat, but also be painfully constantly hungry, and be technically starving themselves as their body leeches what it needs to run from their vital organs.

Meanwhile a fit person can be eating excess amounts of calories, but because they eat minimal carbs/sugars their body doesn't hold onto the extra calories they are eating (mostly eating fats, veg, meat) and they more easily lose body fat, and not only that but be constantly feeling full and never have hunger on their mind.

Obesity is an inflammatory disease. It's not as simple as the amount of food you eat irregardless of what you eat. What you eat is extremely important, and when you eat right portion size is less important because your body won't allow you to eat more than what you need.
Ah that makes sense now. Had to reread it a few times to get it
Tell that to my company HR that runs a shuttle jet between midwest and east 2-3 times a week on a 35 seater plane. lol

I think two employees rule applies to VP (or MD if you work in finance)
How much advertising do you do? I notice you're buying ads on search for key terms. Do you do much display advertising. I'm sure you've figured out the lifetime value of your customers and you buy advertising based on that. If your margin's decent, you can probably get more aggressive with display ads to scale the business. I think the business has a ton of potential.
You could argue the same about any old piece of software. The thing is that people working on xp cost money, they cost time. Both of those could be spent doing something that makes Microsoft money or at least advances a product that is not 3 OS releases back. This is a pretty simple choice for Microsoft's side.

Supporting people who run at 13 year old 32 bit desktop OS is a money losing proposition all the way around from Microsoft at this point, both in lost time and in lost sales of later version of windows.

The thing is that Microsoft's profits is what matters here. IT is their product.

As a developer, I actually loathe XP, simply because It's another platform I should test things on before I can consider it working. Generally, the users running it are doing so because of 2 things: lock in by a different vendor or a total lack of IT budget. Either of those things is just asking for trouble, So, when a client starts to ask about XP support I start to get worried about the bigger picture.

To put it another way, Would you want to write extra code and run extra tests to support windows 98 today? What about windows 95? 3.1?

I really don't.
His last clause is interesting:

> Last, because two thirds of employees know squat about acquisition-based vesting acceleration triggers, they often sign offer letters that give them no protection against being demoted or fired before or after (but in connection with) an acquisition.

How would one negotiate something like that into their contract?
Amtrak must go really slow. In Europe, with a considerably higher population density, and thus more stops, 800 miles can be traversed in 10-11 hours. That train apparently takes somewhere close to 20.
Ramsey makes it pretty easy.

I don't think Tyson really needs the project, and at least Seth MacFarlane (one of the producers) is coming at it from a perspective of really having enjoyed Sagan's work.
Would that be anything like LLVM and Emscripten?
Even then, there's still Android 2.x, currently 1/4 of the Android population. Though it's a safe bet that WinXP will be the more tenacious of the two.
Austin is incredibly hilly.
Sounds like we are in the same boat, er, treadmill. I always want to develop more products because I don't scale.
But she doesn't just comment negatively when they make mistakes; she also comments positively when they play well. That's in the article too. If she were using fear motivation, she wouldn't say anything when they play well.
Or people who are poor and don't want to upgrade to a new OS or buy a computer that will support one. Or old people who have only just got used to using the XP computer that someone gave them for free as a hand-me-down (or up).
That's an interesting theory, but I wonder if it's true? Does it happen that someone would read productivity posts for years, and then suddenly start acting on the accumulated wisdom? I've never seen that...
Does this depend on using --harmony? Or are you faking the generators?
Awesome idea. I wish coding counted. :)
We should go back to cooking with lard. Animal fat is far better than Sugar.
For your consideration: http://weknowmemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/pro-vs-ant...
Instapaper has become my bookmarking tool. I don't even really sort it out anymore. I know it should be there when I need it and mostly the actual article is saved.
And? What is your point then? Would you be upset if the gold mine you discovered took 100' of digging before it yielded even an ounce, but your neighbor picked a spot where he only needed to dig 10' to get a pound of it?

The fact that the risk wasn't called in, so to speak -- that the worst case scenarios did not come to pass -- in no way diminishes what was risked. Beside, you have cherry-picked two cases where it is quite easy to construct a plausible a sounding (and factually false) "no risk" argument. HN routinely features entrepreneurship efforts where much was gained and much was won. Your main gripe appears to be that the risk-reward maxim is not describing a literal, linear relationship.

Next up, the sun doesn't always set in the west! (provided certain map orientations, times of the year and fluctuations in magnetic north)
Cool tech if it actually delivers on the promise, but I'm going to need more than just one of the founders word that the wine it produces is indistinguishable from that which costs $20 per bottle. The name they have chosen doesn't help, a miracle machine should do something like cure cancer, not get people drunk. Even something like 'Wine-o-matic 4000' would have gone down better with me.
Exactly. Sometimes the mindset is to get somewhere fast. What we really want? A teleport. But we have to settle for air travel.

Whereas sometimes the mindset "the journey not the destination". That's when you can appreciate a train, ocean liner, bicycle, or feet.

Having said that, Acela is usually the best of both worlds.
They should upgrade, you are perfectly correct.

But suppose that you are the manager of an organisation with just over 1 million PCs running XP, and those PCs are used to access hundreds of applications that are only guaranteed/certified to work with XP[1]. What do you do?

At present, you pay at least $200 for each one of those PCs. And the associated servers. Let us just say some in Whitehall do not like having to pay that kind of money for updates that Microsoft is already committed to provide for XP Embedded customers. The result[2] may be an interesting change in attitude towards Microsoft in government circles.

[1] http://www.bcs.org/content/conWebDoc/51393

[2] http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jan/29/uk-governm...

That could be some pony :-)
Related, wrt to romanticization of long rail journeys -- NPR reporter traveled from Moscow to Vladivostok: http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/143016679/russia-by-rai...

Also, this guy documented his trip from Vienna to Pyongyang, North Korea: http://vienna-pyongyang.blogspot.com/
A friend of mine used to brew beer, a lot of the recipe books were written by this guy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Line

I particularly remember a 7.3%ABV stout with strong overtones of "candied orange peel" among other things.
I think that for many people music is deeply connected with ideas about identity, such as "this is the kind of music I like" and "I am the kind of person who likes this kind of music". This is very visible in popular music, where how the performers look and who they are is as important as the music itself.

Because of this, the satisfaction of listening to music isn't only auditory or aesthetic, but also an identity satisfaction, of feeling one's ideas about oneself confirmed.

It's probably true that humans inject identity ideas into everything, so this is nothing special to music. But it's a strange situation, since music per se is the most abstract of the arts and this extra layer we put on top of it is so obviously extrinsic.
Another reason for people keeping their computer & OS for five or more years is that it might have just worked for them. So there was no pressing need to upgrade.
It may be stuck in the 60's but HF radios work

sure you can create an automated dispatch system on an iPad. How do you authenticate it? how do you tell if its not working? does it fail safe? Making safe software is hard, and well beyond the wit of your standard programmer.

After all, can you gaurentee your software when the CPU is at 100%? can you say with certainty what happens when your CPU is hammered by all the interrupts at the same time?

Everything in the whole stack has to be verified. Thats means no virutalisation, no ruby, no perl, no python no ethernet. You can have firewire 400 though.

One can almost guarantee that this plane crash did not crash because of a failure in ATC<->Pilot communication.
Amtrak from San Diego to LA is quite pleasant, though I can't speak for other west coast routes.
Building and maintaining muscle consumes lots of calories in the long run. But then again, it takes lots of time and hard work too, so there's that. And of course, to actually gain any considerable muscle you need to eat relatively clean, so there's that too.

But of course, 90 % is diet. 10 % is hard work. And these numbers come from my hat.

Effort and discipline -- everybody knows those can get us anything, but the question is, how can we minimize effort and discipline and still get what we want?
Tests as part of your code
1,200 miles Bullet train is just awesome! For railfans out there, I'd like to mention about Indian Railways' Himsagar Express[1]. It's one of the longest running trains in India, covering 2,306 miles from southern tip to northern tip. Average speed is only 33mph :)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himsagar_Express
Can you elaborate? This is really interesting.

Do you have any (basic?) license enforcement and anti-reversal protection in your code?

What do you mean by toxic search engine landscape?
Impossible, water does not contain the type off chemical elements needed to make wine.
I'm not giving anybody any benefits of the doubt nor am I giving any conclusion about anything. As a person of science, I do not judge or make any conclusion without actually trying it myself in person.

I don't care about the president. This whole thing is about a potential important science show and you're attacking it because of some few minutes of introduction from the most important man in the country. The president may be doing the show a favor to bring in more viewers. Without viewers, the show will fail.

The president giving the introduction HAS NO IMPACT of how I'm going to feel about the actual show itself. You know why? Because I'll base my opinion AFTER I watch it, NOT BEFORE.

You're accusing the show of lacking of integrity and won't watch it because some guy is introducing the show, rather than actually watching the show first and then come up with your own opinion, which will then be more of a solid foundation.

If the show and the introduction made me feel like it was bastardized by politics, then I will be happy with agree with you. I just can't agree with you without watching this in the first place.
It's in Reason, a libertarian magazine (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reason_%28magazine%29), so it's not surprising that it views Amtrak, which is funded by the government, as History's Greatest Monster.

That being said, there is definitely a drop-off in quality of service on Amtrak between the Northeast Corridor (DC to Boston) and the routes covering the rest of the country. Because the Northeast Corridor is by far the most heavily traveled and profitable part of Amtrak's network (see http://www.brookings.edu/research/interactives/2013/amtrakro...), it gets a level of service that other long-haul routes unfortunately do not.
You should sort out how to use cabal sandboxing

http://www.haskell.org/cabal/users-guide/installing-packages...
Pretty much this.

One of my clients has a set of 7 or so touchscreen POS systems at a restaurant. They are all older XP embedded machines and the software they run has no upgrade path to a newer OS. It will take somewhere around $20k to put in new computers and do the initial inventory setup.
Cabal still has a little ways to go, but it has been improving rapidly. Sandboxes came out recently and have helped a lot.
Google faces up to $5-bn CCI fine; says cooperating in probe
Apparently, he is.

As a science enthusiast, I completely accept this.

I don't care if the president is Republican or Democrat; I don't care if this is Obama just trying to improve his images; I don't care about the politics of this; introducing this program is good for science education.

A breach of integrity? You're talking like the DNC produced the show. At worst they reached out to FOX and offered TV time with the President, which FOX tripped over themselves to agree to. Why can't this just be the President recognizing that our science literacy is falling and offering a small gesture to increase science awareness by introducing the most anticipated science TV program of all time?

It seems a lot like you care more about the politics than how this helps science education.
Yeah, I figure the short lifespan of mobile devices works in our favour there.
It worked really nicely on my iPhone.
Amtrak uses freight lines (which aren't very smooth most of the time), and the maximum train speed is 80 mph.
Many of the comments on this thread are just lazy armchair theories, including this one.

You talk about a "historical precedent" that goes back to when India firmly identified itself as a socialist country. And from that distant, warped past, you fast forward 36 years to the present and to a country that in 1991 began its journey of economic liberation (which included jettisoning its socialist principles for all practical purposes), and expect us to believe that the two incidents are somehow related?

But what better examples to refute your ludicrous theory than Coca-Cola and IBM themselves, both of which came back to post-liberalization India. To the extent that India likely has IBM's largest global workforce [0], and Coca-Cola pours billions of dollars to maintain its leadership over Pepsi [1]

Surely those companies would know a thing or two about "historical precedents", don't you think?

As for the most likely reason behind this $5 billion figure (sorry conspiracy theorists, it isn't extortion either as Indian politicians know Google's power isn't something to be messed with in the age of social/Internet savvy voters) is the old-fashioned plant. I'm guessing Microsoft (the primary shadow-backer behind all anti-Google cases in India) laid out the worst-case scenario off-the-record to a PTI journalist, along with the $5 billion figure. And the journalist was either too lazy to question/research it, or too taken in (journalists like throwing up "exclusives" like this with billions of dollars in the headlines) to reduce it to the decidedly unsexy $~33M.

It's just a theory mind you, but having been a business journalist in India for nearly 6 years (and having done stories severely critical of Google, lest you think I'm a shill for them), I think it's much more likely than some of the other fantastic theories in this thread.

[0] http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9234101/In_a_symbolic...

[1] http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-09-11/coca-cola-masala...
Forgive me for asking, but what is your revenue model? (If you wouldn't mind sharing). Love the service.
When you say, "built on the same platform trusted by Ford, NFL, Sony, eBay, CNN," do you mean they use the same backend technology, or that they're actually customers of yours?
In the "hill country", no less.
I cannot believe I am doing this, but .... how about a few paragraph breaks once in a while?
>> I think the instability of the current government has something to do with it.

Care to elaborate? I don't see the correlation between instability of a government and fining international companies for antitrust. Besides, the current United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government in India has been in power for 2 full terms (10 years). The second term is about to end now and the elections are due in April 2014.
Clearly he means expressions, e.g. idioms and that sort of thing.

It's time to jump off the stage at Kiyomizu

Quick, without using Google tell me what I mean.
TLDRLegal creator here. Let me explain my point of view: the big huge problem is that most people aren't educated in-depth about licensing, yet 90% of the legwork that most people need to determine if a license is usable or not can be done rather quickly in a way that shares commonalities with many others. If you know right away you can't disclose your proprietary source, than knowing about affero, patent rights, warranty, Tivoization, and etc becomes irrelevant. TLDR aims to be a step in the right direction -- to reduce risk and improve the current state of where people who already "TLDR" licenses will at least get the gist of it. Yet it's clearly stated on the site that summaries aren't replacements for license texts. Yet the best part is that all of your ideas can get into the summary pages too. If you think it's important, there are many ways to highlight unannounced features of licenses (full text or expanded license attributes for instance).
Target found that "very small attack surface" isn't the same as "secure".
I think the area between Chicago and New York has a considerably higher population density than most of Europe.

But yes, Amtrak does go very slow, at least the one time I used it it did :)
But isn't the definition of the imaginary unit axiomatic? If so it's indeed true that there is no logical reason why it exists other than it being useful.
They've had a decade to plan an implement upgrades.