skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You should check out the SideProject Book[1]. It's specifically about bootstraped, successful, single owner projects. It features some of the projects that appeared here, actually, like BCC.

As of myself, I am currently trying to educate myself into dividing my time better between my "day job" and my product. Hard to do, though, when your day job absolutely rocks... It's very easy to work all day long without realizing you should have stopped in the middle of the afternoon. Not a bad problem to have, mind you.

[1] http://www.sideprojectbook.com/
And even normalizaing capitalization of names isn't always simple. How do you correctly capitalize "mcgee"? "Mcgee" or "McGee"?
اس ام اس چهارشنبه سوری ۹۲
اس ام اس چهارشنبه سوری ۹۲ ، اس ام اس تبریک چهارشبه سوری ، اس ام اس چهارشنبه سوری عاشقانه ، اس ام اس چهارشنبه سوری خنده دار ، پیامک چهارشنبه سوری باحال تو مسیر رسیدن بهار
Facebook's purchase of Instagram was big news because a lot of people thought of Instagram as an app that lets people post cheesy filtered selfies, and it seemed surprising that that was worth a billion dollars. Google buying Nest has a somewhat similar hook, in the sense that you can tell a story around "WTF is this company doing and why do Google think it's worth so much." Vodafone buying ONO is one telecommunications company buying another telecommunications company; it's not obvious why it would be interesting to anyone outside of the telecommunications industry.
Thanks and yes I've played with those settings.

While much better not quite right still and also I have some screens rotated so I have hrgb and vrgb which looks fuzzy, I played with setting it to gasp/lcd.

Using Terminus because it is a pixel perfect font with no aliasing means that rotation etc just don't matter.
ugh what is this crap doing on Hacker News?

It is election season in India and that throws up all kinds of weirdos with megaphones ranting (and I guess submitting on HN) about various conspiracy theories about historical 'injustices'. This makes as much sense as submitting something from Storm Front.

Flagged.
Oh ok I see now :)

BTW I've been an Amiga enthusiast almost to the very end...
That's great to hear. I love the site and was always wondering if it was just a small side project or something bigger now.
Productivity Tips are the geek's version of Men's Health:

http://blogs.babble.com/famecrawler/files/2012/02/Mens-Healt...

A single issue should drastically change your life (fitness, sex, money, energy, style). Yet this magazine comes out every month... hrm.
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عکس های خنده دار از شلوار پوشیدن پسرهای خارج
شلوارتو بکش بالا پسر ، عکس های جالب از شلوار های فاق بلند ، عکس خنده دار نحوه شلوار پوشیدن پسرا ، عکس های خنده دار از شلوار پوشیدن پسرهای خارج ، عکس های جالب و خنده دار
You would think governments would also avoid such risk, but the top brass of Polish government all got wiped out when a plane crashed in Russia in 2010, including their President. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Polish_Air_Force_TU-154_c... A sad event, but could have been avoided or at least minimised.
This effect even gets reinforced by the European journalists: a German speaking journalist will read German and English sources. A Spanish journalist will read Spanish and English sources, etc. Having the "lingua franca" is a huge asset for the Anglosphere. It not only affects the flow of news, it also leads to cultural dominance (everyone watches Hollywood movies, but European movies are primarily shown in their home countries, same goes for music). I would say that average Jean in many European countries knows more about the Anglosaxon legal system than their own one - just because they get exposed to TV shows about US lawyers all the time. The French try to fight that influence - but I think resistance is futile. Instead, the Europeans should try to find angles to inject their own views into the English news & culture stream. This leads to one large globalized, multi-cultural soup of values - but that's better than an Anglosaxon dominated soup of values. The times where each country could have their own soup are over.
No-one cares primarily because it's not a consumer product. If Pinterest was Spanish and sold for $9.5B, you'd know about it.

See also: http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/03/zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...
Atari ST introduced in 1984 while Commodore released the C128? Er... No?
Google faces up to $5B fine from Competition Commission of India
" richest and most powerful country in the history of the world..."

not even close

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pre-modern_great_powers
And E-Plus the third biggest German carrier gets sold to Telefonica for $11.8 billion.
Did anybody hear about that?

Telcos wanna deny it but it's close to a commodity.
This is mostly money shifting around. When was the last time they introduced a game changer?
Google Fiber is something else, it's simply 50 times faster than the average Internet connection.
I don't like lists of claims that don't really aim for openness towards discussion.

This post is definitely one of those.
Also according to AVHerald, it is now reported that one of the Chinese individuals identified on the manifest never left China. It seems to me that this is almost certainly about illegal immigration and/or stateless individuals than it is anything nefarious.
22-Year Veteran Of Startups Says Employees Are Getting Screwed By VCs And CEOs
I notice you had a lifehacker mention, that must have been a huge boost?
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I'm Spanish, more or less watch the Spanish media (around 3-4 times per week during lunchtime, usually I don't check most news) and I wasn't aware. So not even our media cares.
I don't think touch and discoverability are mutually exclusive. I do think that discoverability is very difficult to do on 5" screens but that doesn't mean discoverability must be equally bad on a 10" or 20" or 24" screen.

Microsoft can't just do a u-turn and go back to the traditional desktop. What they need to do is to scrap the old desktop altogether and use the screen real estate that's there.

Why not implement a fully featured tiling window manager? On a small screen, you see only one or two tiles and you have no discoverability. On a larger screen you get extra tiles that show available commands and help text. Once you learned your shortcuts you can remove those tiles.
Europeans arent as unreflectingly captialistic and "frontier"sy. Americans have always seen success in business as an crowning achievement. Europeans have traditionally found this kind of pre-occupation with monetary success somewhat crass or trivial.

> Europeans don’t realize that if a company that went from nothing to connecting 7 million homes is not celebrated...

That's total BS. You dont need a culture of fanatical adoration of business success for their to be successful businesses.

> if a company ... is not celebrated ... we will not get young Europeans on the right track

It really worrisome how these people have to go around reminding everyone how amazing they are. I think our children will do just fine without being propagandised by self-aggrandizing money-chasers.
P.G. is right about PHP. This language is better than Python in various ways. For ex. it does not scare people away if you want to sell your project, because everyone and their grandma knows PHP. Most successful web pages (eg. FB) started out with PHP, not Lisp, C++, Python, Java, but PHP.
You begin with a valid point, that many English speaking technology blogs are US based, and therefore have a (valid) US bias.

That said, the idea that the coverage of US based acquisitions are inherently more important than elsewhere worldwide is utter nonsense.

As other comments point out, many, many large nontechnical acquisitions get very little coverage outside their respective channels. There are a handful of tech companies who have become media darlings and/or are considered within the community to be thought leaders or industry shapers, who make headlines with every move.

But the OP makes a great point, in that when some successful founders reach at least sudo celebrity status (eg: Jack Dorsey), and can be used as examples they can be magnets that encourage the next generation of entrepreneurs.
How do you market your site? Do you advertise (adwords perhaps)?

How do you get stores to partner with you?
tv/vcr/radios/etc are all for content consumption - it's generally a read-only experience. "computers" have a (imo) somewhat "hard to define" level of interactivity that wasn't taken in to account. For execs that hadn't worked with personal computers before, this would be an unknown.
The mainstream don't care about telco markets and it's not major news in telco terms. A 10bn acquisition is a third tier telco M&A deal.

Think about it this way in 2012 "mobile networks revenues were larger than all revenue combined from mobile phone sales, PCs, online ads, books, recorded music, watches, Apple, Amazon, Google & Facebook."
English MF English
No its not. I wonder where people get these ideas...
You may be watching regular news, here he is talking about the tech news scene... if there isn't one in Spain, then that's the problem.
Language is culture, good luck injecting chinese expressions into english... they just don't work.

Language is the way we think, translating the way we think to one language changes how we think (i.e things are lost).

> The times where each country could have their own soup are over.

There are more people who don't care about the anglosaxon world than there are people who do care (China is a prime example here).
Hey, thanks for the catch.

yeah, the link is https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/track-your-product...
A plane doesn't need flight computers, it just needs control systems that react to inputs. These kinds of systems can be totally mechanical, totally digital, or a mixture of both. In the 60's, many of these systems would have been mechanical, with the digital circuitry operating at a higher level to provide the pilots with operational control.

You also have to remember that many of the cycles on a modern desktop are wasted, dealing with the gui, and lots of abstraction layers. Most embedded control systems are much simpler, and are closer to the baremetal, so they don't need GHz of computing power.
See http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2012-09-04-why-tarsnap-doesn...
properly designing the software costs too much, requires too much time and effort and too much iterative testing. You can see why they just skip to MVP (for watches).
>Anglosphere dominated by the US because it's

Is because is perceived as such, regardless if it's true or not. Because under measures such as the GDP is far from the top[0]

[0]http://travel.fyicenter.com/Country/List_of_Countries_by_GDP...
"If someone has worked as a software engineer for more than 6 months, that someone already knows how to "use IDEs" and version control."

Are you serious? I'm continually saddened by how many software people I run in to that do not know either one. FTP and Notepad++ are their 'tools of choice', and that's it.
If I understand correctly, this will post automatically to a Facebook page when users sign up. Any trouble with token expiration? I think it was changed from unlimited to a shorter time recently.
Graphdown: Markdown extension for embedding graphs
Won't someone think of those poor non-english billionaires?
I wrote a book[1] that generates about $2k of revenue per month. Not quite your definition of success, but it's given me a taste. I'm now in the beta testing process for my next thing[2].

[1]: https://www.petekeen.net/mastering-modern-payments

[2]: http://www.pagesnap.io
You would probably benefit from reading "The improbability principle: why coincidences, miracles, and rare events happen every day" by David J. Hand
We're talking about nations, not people, so I don't think "GDP per capita" is relevant. USA has by far the highest total GDP. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomin...
I'm really looking forward to the new and improved version of Cogmind, which also started out as a 7DRL:

http://www.gridsagegames.com/blog/

Prettiest ASCII graphics since Brogue, and I like how the developer puts a lot of thought into the mouse interface as well without dumbing the game down (as far as I can tell).
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Well, we don't hear much about cops shooting other cops so I think your friends will be ok.

How do your friends explain the deaths of various young black men shot by the police who were unarmed and had not committed crimes or violent crimes? One is too many.
Ten handy phrases for bluffing your way through the Ukraine crisis
Thank you for the link, some amazing sounds, but the Sharp x68000 wasn't an MSX machine, it was pretty much the most powerful home computer available at the time of release (1987, IIRC).
People in general don't care about telco acquisitions unless there's a major strategic consequence. The example the author gives “Google buys Spanish Ono for $9.5bn to start Google Fiber throughout Europe” would have huge consequences for everyone from consumers to device manufacturers to content providers throughout Europe. Normal telco consolidation is rarely anything other than the slow march of monopoly.

A 16 year old cable company is barely a startup, and highly unrelatable to the startup community at large. The same story about a US company wouldn't get coverage here unless there was a major strategic element. Kudos to the founders and funders, but it's not a particularly inspirational story for other entrepreneurs. The kinds of companies that get the most coverage here are very young and generally have a global reach. A regional company (which most telcos are) in say New England wouldn't get much coverage in the pacific northwest. This isn't a regional or even a cultural issue, just a significance issue.
"If the watch was so smart, why didn't it tell me at 9 PM that it was low on energy and that I should put it on the charger overnight."

A watch that needs to be put on a charger? Smart is not exactly the word I would use for such revolutionary design.

Presumably this is a product for the same market that wants to plug in their glasses :P
Some India nigger? India niggers and Chinese people "Goliath kills David unless he is clever." Gee thanks, nigger.

God says...

atrocious dignity a_likely_story Enough praying study here_now
that's_no_fun you_see_the_light rich depressing as_a_matter_of_fact
I_hate_when_that_happens furious uh_huh umm_what_now who_are_you_to_judge
I'm_busy let's_see Jedi_mind_trick Vegas nut_job where's_the_love
humongous You_know you're_out_of_your_mind I'll_be_back
HolySpirit mocking where's_the_love can_you_hear_me_now
incredibly meh fool obviously I'm_impressed mine Jesus
vengeful shucks but_of_course not_in_my_wildest_dreams
thats_just_wrong not_the_sharpest_knife_in_the_drawer
how's_the_weather piety envy CIA no_you_cant I'm_in_suspense
handyman are_you_deaf check_this_out are_you_feeling_lucky
God what_a_mess Ivy_league absolutely SupremerCourt no_way_dude
piety blessing I_see_nothing hype you_should_be_so_lucky
threads test_pilot chill_out cracks_me_up thats_just_wrong
huh whoo_whoo Dad what_do_you_expect don't_you_love_me
take_your_pick uh_huh manufacturing bye not_too_shabby
What_I_want hi
wysiwyg is fundamentally flawed because the web is not wysiwyg. And HTML is a semantic description of content, not its formatting. We fought long and hard for that to be recognised, only for people to come along and try to derail that effort with wysiwyg editors.

Case in point: the markup in your final link is terrible: tables for layout, inline styles, DIVs containing nothing by BRs, etc. I could never sanction the use of an editor that produces that kind of garbage.

Don't get me wrong, Markdown is not the solution either. For the novice, it shares the same sort of cognitive barrier as HTML - confusing symbols that take time and effort to understand, the whole notion of plaintext being rendered as formatted text - without the huge benefit of flexibility - many things just can't be done in Markdown.

I don't really know what the solution is, but - in my experience - reducing the problem set from a general purpose editor to do 50% of what HTML does, to context-specific 'wysiwyg-like' editors is a step in the right direction.
Sample bias. The Millenials who are good at what we do and not spoiled brats? We mostly don't bother with these threads on the internet, because we have actual work to do.

I'm gonna get back to that now.
Well, people aren't 6 year olds and the Police isn't their parents. The Police saying something doesn't mean their words shouldn't be let to be gone with the wind, whose direction is, well, south by south west.

In case you're wondering, what I said above is a tactful way to say "Fuck off".
I understand it should be bigger news, but I don't understand why should anyone be celebrating. Other than the ones who are making a killing out of this deal, of course.

The Spanish telecom market is not a competitive market, it's enormously rigged and regulated. Success in this market doesn't come from innovation or better business practices, but as a result from politics and power struggles. This is probably true for any other telecom market nowadays.

Also, who in his right mind would consider ONO a startup these days?
On the other hand (no pun intended), I think the only things at the moment that seem almost close enough to be called "smart" are smartphones.
I think the 17 in the article is a typo for 27. He picked up programming in his teenage years, and the article mentions a "10 years later". Also, it'd be extremely surprising (possible, but surprising) that a 17 year old would have "won awards and travelled all around the country to meet people and attend or speak at conferences."
Indeed. I'm often amazed at the kind of American news reported by the Portuguese media and think "Why aren't we getting these news about European countries?". At the same time, I'm part of the problem: I know more about American politics than German politics, even though the latter affects me a lot more.
I thought it was going to be a transistor-level one, like this: http://visual6502.org/wiki/index.php?title=Motorola_6800
I like the idea. I just think it needs work. As such I've left the app installed. :)
Oops, bit of a mix up! Can confirm the guy uses MML to create the music though.
Minimally (i.e. small logo).
Probably the only real performance hog here is the Aero Glass and maybe backup. I doubt that the other have any meaningful impact.
And a bus crash will not normally have a 100% fatality rate
"It needs to be pointed out that for this effort to be sustainable actual contributions by interested parties are required. squeeze-lts is not something that will magically fall from the sky. If you're dependent/interested in extended security support you should make an effort to contribute, either by contributing on your own or by paying a Debian developer/consultant to contribute for you."

It will be interesting to see who contributes to this initiative. Thanks for the reference.
Does any of those countries come close to the GDP of, say, Alabama ($160bn)? Sure, comparing the value of organic wine form Rome to a car from Detroit is not straight-forward but technological progress and compound interest generally ensure that powers of today absolutely dwarf those of even a hundred years ago, not to mention a thousand years ago, or two.

The ancient empires had troubles feeding their populations at times. Today, most Americans are overweight.
A great parable for how we try to make technology more human-friendly with unintended consequences.

I went on a road trip recently and I've been thinking about how advances in car technology change how we view cars. I came to a similar conclusion as Don - specifically the change from manual to automatic gearboxes has meant that people have to concentrate less on driving and can devote their attention to other things.

But that's not necessarily a good thing - by getting rid of the idea that driving is an activity that requires full-time attention we are making it more unsafe because people then feel justified in paying it less attention. The reductio ad absurdum argument is the self-driving cars that he mentions at the end of the article, but this is just the end of the spectrum.

I'm not sure what the solution to this problem is.
Going to HR requires there to be an HR department. In general the ability to do something about bullying in a company or institution depends on there being the management and adminstrative structure to formalise complaints without them going through the bully. I've seen people leave places, especially in the UK civil service, because the bully controlled the access to reporting them.
When analyzing an institution, we look at the results. After all, despite what some would like to pretend, having a black president does not eliminate racist policies.

Same goes for your policeman buddies. It adds nothing to the conversation that there exist at least two black policemen in Austin; we knew that. (Certainly, wavefunction's comment is far more "appreciated" and helpful than your fallacious putdown.)
It's handled gracefully in the app. If it expires and the app tried to post something unsuccessfully the user gets an email asking them to reconnect.

Facebook tokens aren't unlimited but they are long enough such that the user doesn't have to reconnect all the time.
Per-capita is way more important, a rich man doesn't need more than one toothbrush and it's detrimental for a country when other men can't afford a single one.
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Well, you have to put that image into context. The US hasn't been devastated by 2 world wars. I'd say that the graph proves it - the first moment where the US was massively ahead was 1900-1925. Want to bet that 90% of the European companies from that period are pre-1914?

What is more worrying is 1976-2007 -> does that mean that things are ossified already? That there's no room for smaller companies to grow? I'd blame European conservatism for this together with US multinationals.
Remember, Windows 8 was well underway by the RTM of 7 (July 2009). So, they made a guess that touch screens would be everywhere when they were done. Unlike Apple, until recently, never controlled the hardware they run on.

They spent a lot of the post-DOJ years trying to find a way to bully the hardware vendors without getting kicked in the teeth and never found a way. This is why "signature" failed, this is why touch screens failed, this you could even argue is why early tablets failed (way early, 6+ years ago).

MS seems to have learned this, and started building their own hardware. The Surface 2 Pro is a remarkably nice to use device (and I didn't even reinstall the OS, I am using stock... gasp), it is my primary mobile platform replacing a 2013 Macbook Air. Being able to swap it between a (very heavy, but usable) tablet, and a decent laptop is a nice combo for me... and I doodle and write notes on it in meeting, the pen is wonderful and pressure sensitive.
maybe you should ask him what exactly he means with "confidence" ?

In the end, you should be able to get a bet on it. If it fixes the problem, without unwanted side effects, you get X. If it doesn't, you pay Y. See if you can work out X and Y.

If he really insists on 100%, and wants to pay for it, you might get rich in the process.
I think he wants to compare the relative values. The Achaemenid Empire at its peak probably produced half of the world's goods.
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I get around 30-40% of my weekly work done on the single day a week I work from home. Sitting in the office, even with headphones on, I can hear the conversations of about 5 people sitting near me, and I inevitably end up joining in to add my $0.02.