skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maker recently acquired Blip which likely attracted Disney's attention. It seems a lot of their partners in RPM networks(owned by Maker) have high turnover; many smaller channels with new talent. Blip seems like the desired goal here. $500 million seems absurdly high, but I guess they must be worth it.

Most of their channels seem really, really, insanely low-quality. They had a few larger partners like Ray William Johnson, NicePeter, ShayCarl, etc. But what are the long-term value of partnership with these channels? I know Ray William Johnson bailed on Maker pretty publicly recently. Are these artists going to make youtube videos indefinitely? Are they under contract to churn out a specific number of videos per week?

I'm curious how it all works legally given the loose relationship most people have with youtube.
For simple builds with dependencies, I find makefiles hard to beat. The only thing that has me pulling out my hair every time is the whole tabs vs. spaces thing, especially when on a machine that I haven't pulled in my .vimrc yet.
This is a great precedent set by Facebook against a not so great one.I feel that this current trend is quite scary to think about.

Taking away someone's opportunity to be employed elsewhere oversteps the line between the employer and the employee's personal life.
Actually, most contemporary hipster build systems are bad reimplementations of make. Yes, make is a PITA, but every other build system is worse.
I've lost count of the number of different titles that Flappy Bird is supposedly a rip-off of.
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> Given that Obama recently declared all secession movements illegitimate (except those supported by the US Government, of course) it’s unknown how much support Venice can expect from the international community.

What? Obama is clearly off track here. The right to secede is in the American constitution from its very beginning. Any State in the US can decide to become independent if their population really wants to. Whether it makes sense is another story, but it certainly would not regarded as illegitimate.
Avg $126,375 according to GlassDoor for Google SRE
Most Glassdoor numbers are out of date.
No. No. 1/10s / s = 10. so 10 1/10s / 1s. No. s / 1/10s = No. 1/10s / 10.
I wrote this [1] comment when Disney acquired LucasFilm:

This means that Disney now controls Marvel, Pixar, LucasArts, ABC, ESPN, A+E, Disney Channel plus all their own original content and of course the parks and merchandising rights for everything stated above.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4719277
Please share this with your friends. It's a great chance to show people what a dangerous scam homeopathy really is.
Sprint was a last ditch system. It was supposed to intercept the warheads that leaked through the Spartan system, and at only about 100k ft. At that point, the Decora would have burned up. Of course both types of interceptor had nuclear warheads. 100 sprints going off over Grand Forks wouldn't be very pretty... The real point was to defend the missile silos though, and they might have worked for that.
I just read Ben Horowitz's new book, and he describes taking Loudcloud public as a Hail Mary because private markets were essentially too smart to give them any more money at a horrible time (while the original dotcom bubble was in the middle of bursting).

Clearly Box is in much better shape, but it's not too hard to imagine that maybe they are rolling the dice on an IPO during a super-hot market in response to feedback from private investors that they were going to have to raise a down (or otherwise disappointing) round.
The civil war comes to mind.

However, I do wish there were a US state separated from the federal government.
I'm on T-mobile's $30 per month prepaid plan.

You only get 100 minutes but you also get unlimited talk, text, and data at 4G speeds up to 5 gigs.

It's... okay.

The reception can be truly appalling around Palo Alto.

I used to have a dumbphone and the 10 cents per minute plan but it's hard to be a young adult without Google Maps.
They're only public because of a legal requirement that all political donations have your name and employer attached. He never publicized it.
Not exactly a bad association: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAhTt60W7qo

edit: english version - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KewfYKJy8YU
I think this proposal is a real and considerable improvement in the national security apparatus. For which we have Snowden's revelations sparking of a national conversation to thank.

Recall Snowden's original statement [1]:

"these things need to be determined by the public and not by somebody who was simply hired by the government."

The information changed public opinion[2]:

"[In January 2014], 40% approve of the government’s collection of telephone and internet data as part of anti-terrorism efforts, while 53% disapprove. In July [2013], more Americans approved (50%) than disapproved (44%) of the program."

[1] http://www.policymic.com/articles/47355/edward-snowden-inter...

[2] http://www.people-press.org/2014/01/20/obamas-nsa-speech-has...
If you're reading this Ryan: <3
Well, I believe this sort of agreement violates the law and workers' rights. Perhaps people do expect too much of them because of that slogan, but we can condemn any company for illegal, anti-competitive behavior.
> This is a bit different from -- but IMO superior to -- the Chrome Extension and Android models.

Yes please don't emulate the Chrome/Android permissions functionality (particularly Android).

Android apps often ask for broad permissions upfront just to do a one-off thing, like inviting your friends to use the app. Then they get to keep that permission for as long as the app is installed.

And it's "take it or leave it". If you're not happy you get to stop using the app/service, or you just have to bite your tongue and install anyways. Ugh.
>The pervasive attempt by large tech companies to suppress wages by diminishing their employees’ rights to choose where they work is not merely selfish in the extreme, but is counter to the very market principles that made these companies so successful to begin with.

The "free market" system is just an illusion. When you are on the side of those with the lowest power (e.g. the workforce), the system does not work.

So much about the notion, that the "free market" system will correct itself.
No, this is not what happened. They converted the 24 bit fixed point value into a different format using different algorithms in different places of the system resulting in slightly different values. The failure was then caused by the difference between these values, i.e. different parts of the system did not agree on what the current time is.
The civil war was unlawful. Lincoln was against the secession and waged war against the States which were in their Right from the beginning. It's not because Lincoln's side won that it made it right.
From Reddit 28 days ago (http://www.reddit.com/r/rails/comments/1ysbdb/any_news_about...):

"I am a friend of Ryan's, and know his dad as well. I haven't talked to Ryan directly, but his dad assures me Ryan is doing very well, and has just been on a very much needed break.
He also does plan to return to Railscasts."
you don't have to keep making vids but don't pull a why__ lol
Ask HN: What is the best major for a start up?
I am a high school senior about to go into college, and I wish to work for or found a start up in the future. My most immediate plans are to go to college next year, and I have disregarded the possibility of dropping out, since 1. As Paul Graham says, waiting a few years to do a startup isn't a big deal, 2. A degree sounds like a good backup plan in case things go south. With that being said, I'm deliberating in what to major in. Computer Science seems like an obvious choice, but I'm also considering Electrical Engineering or Physics since they seem more broad-based and will teach things impossible to learn by myself. Does HN have any advice?
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Let's say the JS framework is Grunt.

If you are using Grunt everyday, doesn't that mean you are modifying it? Then you would be in the same exact place as with a Makefile.
I don't understand this theory that monoculture is safer in a corporate environment. Any interesting organization has more than one secret recipe. Virtually everyone has different access to different systems. If they are all vulnerable to the same bug, the attacker quickly gains control of everything. If they gain control of a single segment, then they can be detected.

The odds of the attack being identified once that segment is compromised is much higher, since everyone else has the opportunity to identify the bad behavior.
> Given that Obama recently declared all secession movements illegitimate…

Source for this?
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By the way, as the article mentions, Italy was almost never unified as a country in History. It's a VERY recent creation (just before WW1) and during more than 1000 years it was actually a jigsaw puzzle of small states. Germany has a longer History of federation, though.

EDIT: You can actually see this very clearly in the video showing the evolution of borders in Europe (that was shared last week on HN).
Respectfully, I think you've completely missed my point. Here's what tipped me off:

> In short, your beef is mostly with straight people

No. It's very much not with straight people. It's with the State. The State is the one suppressing people (not just gays) by giving special privileges to a preferred class of people.

> but you're willing to take it out on the gays anyway, just because they're politically weaker.

Uh, no, I'm not... This is exactly why I don't vote and don't contribute to political campaigns.

> And for the record, I agree that some of said privileges should be available to single people as well, like control over hospital visitation. I just think this is a completely orthogonal issue to gay marriage.

Then you haven't appreciated what it means to be against the State's involvement with marriage.

Against State privileged marriage => against all forms of State privileged marriage.

Once again, my point remains the same: being against State privileged marriage (and therefore State privileged gay marriage) does not make one a bigot. This runs contrary to what the lynch mob would like to assume.
On an iPad I long-tapped one of the plates and the highlight animation got really funky.
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7461210
I guess this ?

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/mar/16/crimea-votes...

Over the Crimean situation.
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It is fun to go through the list and check off the worst possible IDE. A monster truly lacking is redeeming features.
> The right to secede is in the American constitution from its very beginning. Any State in the US can decide to become independent if their population really wants to. Whether it makes sense is another story, but it certainly would not regarded as illegitimate.

I'm pretty sure Lincoln would argue with you there.
'Move numbered tiles around a tiny 2-dimensional grid, combining same-numbered tiles to create higher-numbered tiles in their place. New tiles spawn each time you make a move, and the game continues until the board is completely full and you can't make a further move. Score points for higher-numbered tiles.' There are nuances, but that pretty much sums up most of the gameplay of Threes and the 2048 clones; I don't know how you can claim, with a straight face, that the latter are not clones of the former. Even if some ancient prior art surfaces, the timing and the direct references in app descriptions pretty much guarantees this.
The constitution did not give states the right to secede. Please stop spouting this nonsense before you embarrass yourself further.
The worst thing about this oligopoly/cartel is that during the period they were refusing to poach, they accrued billions cash reserves while spending only a little on R&D (which I assume is mostly engineering salaries).

Even after the class action lawsuit is settled, it's likely the penalty won't be anywhere near the amount of profit that was illegally captured.

Furthermore, think about what these companies would have chosen to work on had engineers been more expensive. Would we have seen more useful products coming out of the valley if staff allocations had worked out differently?

When people are cheap, throwing them into doomed ventures like Google Buzz or Apple's awful Samba clone isn't nearly so devastating to whatever middle manager chain dreamed them up.
Never be afraid to bet on yourself
If Disney wanted Blip and that's the reason for this price then not buying it seems like an insane strategic mistake. I found this article [0] which says Maker paid less than $10M for Blip.. and that Blip had funding of at least $24M. Seems like Disney could have made that acquisition an order of magnitude cheaper than this one - and Blip's investors would probably force the higher offer.

[0] http://allthingsd.com/20130906/maker-studios-finishes-buying...
I'm not passing judgment... the reality is likely that Washington wouldn't allow it.
I do wish they would tell us if EMET[1] is an effective mitigation for this vulnerability or not. Considering it involves memory corruption it's likely.. But finding out the hard way would be no fun.

[1] http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2458544
I think one of the lessons we'll take away from the 19th and 20th centuries is that just smashing some things together and calling it a "country" by fiat from people hundreds or thousands of miles away doesn't do anybody any good.
Man, Glassdoor is making me jealous. Kids with 1-3 years experience making 204K in NYC?

BRB, applying to Google SRE.
That's a GNU autotools setup, not a pure Makefile setup. A simple Makefile setup is much much easier. A current C project I'm working on has around 150 lines worth of Makefile stuff, and that includes both compiling source, running flex over lexer files, an option for creating a .tar.gz of the current source, and also an option to run tests on the compiled object files. It's also dead simple to maintain (The only time it requires a direct update is when adding test cases, and that's because you have to specify which source .c files to test).

Now to be fair, I am sacrificing some options here. The biggest is that autotools runs tests on the installation environment and tests the available functions and standards compliance, which in theory allows compiling the source on any system with has autotools for it, which is why it's so huge. You can't do that with standard Makefiles. I just stick close to the standard and avoid any non-standard extensions that I don't need.
For someone supposedly upset about generalizations, busting out "brogrammer" in the first paragraph is not a good look.
What? Obama is clearly off track here.

No, the article is pretty clearly off track. Obama hardly said that all secession movements are illegitimate. He said that the secession vote in the Crimea was illegitimate.
Journalism Is Not Content Production
Here's an excellent run-down of the inherent flaws in the EU institutional arrangements. http://www.lrb.co.uk/v14/n19/wynne-godley/maastricht-and-all...

tl;dr everyone can't be a net exporter at the same time
"You can’t just free market part of the time. Good on Facebook for not being party to the shenanigans."

I'm always fascinated by what people don't understand about free markets. The author appears to think "free market" means lots of government enforced market controls (which would be an obvious contradiction in terms).

In an actual free market, it's not illegal to collude to suppress wages, just like it's not illegal for employees to form unions, leave for other better jobs, or start their own companies to compete and pay superior wages to steal talent.

In intentionally overly simplified terms, "free market" means a lack of, or severe limitation of, government controls. How is it possible the author doesn't know that?
I do not think of the problem as scaling the time by a factor - although this is the correct description - but as adding a constant offset. I think this is justified because the small drift is not significant during the relative brief period of time a target approaches. The offset builds up over time but only in the parts of the system that did not receive the improved algorithm and therefore these different parts disagree more and more on what the current time is.
Well there's no way that the writer would ever misrepresent Obama's position with a little hyperbole, is there. the article is of course referring to US condemnation of the sham vote in Crimea. Also, I would like you to show me where the Constitution talks about secession.
This is amazing, literally the best way I've ever seen for teaching about CSS selectors. I'm very grateful you made this open source so more levels and features can be added.
Well the American States were BORN from the right to secede from the English Crown, and they clearly kept that Right in their constitution before of their very History on that matter.
There are reasons why this kind of thing is usually regulated. For excellent historical and introductory material, look at the coursera course "Financial Markets" from Yale (also on Youtube).

Actually while I have never seen a legitimate use for binary options elsewhere, they are more attractive in the bitcoin domain, where you really really want to limit downside risk. even at the expense of all other aspects of risk management...
This is great. Although, at first I thought it was one of those codepen CSS creations.

For # 16, I tried the following which did not work:

pickle:only-child, apple:only-child

However, this worked:

apple:only-child, pickle:only-child
Serious question, about the practicality of using a technology most people forgot still work: Do your friends know how to reach your pager?
Microsoft offers users $100 credit on a new PC to switch from XP
It doesn't take more than a click to see that passage in TFA.
There are several US states that would be happy with a 77% return on federal tax revenues collected from their residents.

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

Good thing Minnesota and Florida are so far away from each other. Ya, you betcha!
Cool! What about the content [1] of emails, text messages, Skype conferences, etc...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
you da man, Ryan!
I agree, yet that's still the model for all the major developed nations around the world. Which is kind of depressing while there could be many more ways to make people participate in how things are run.
Losing a talented employee can hurt regardless of the size of the company that snaps them up. A larger company will often have more resources with which to compete in the job market. A smaller company might (illegally) join such an agreement for the same reason that a weaker nation might sign a defensive pact with a stronger one.
President Obama Joins Quora to Answer Obamacare Queries
Cool, but it's definitely got some issues. For example, this failed:

orange:last-of-type, apple:last-of-type

while this worked:

apple:last-of-type, orange:last-of-type
What's most amazing about this debacle is how clueless the executives seem to be.

From the blatantly illegal smoking gun emails, to Google's almost immediate raise after this scandal became public. It's so coarse.
Stored locally, because I don't feel comfortable trusting a streaming site with my music collection. I use doubletwist to sync it to my Nexus 5 and listen using the Shuttle+ app.
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President Obama can't issue an executive order in the meantime?
Is the argument then they are hurting the environment or want to ergo are attacking your family indirectly?
Unfortunately, I was paywalled.
As I said below in another comment, Lincoln did not recognize the Right to secede, but that was heavily debated at the time of the Civil War (and still is). War does not make things Right by itself - it's just like forcing your view with a gun.

EDIT: this is directly from the Declaration of Independence:

> whenever any form of government becomes destructive of the ends for which it was established, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government

Note the any form of government.
Still have my n95 from 2008. I don't understand when people say things like "I can't use a phone for more than a year. I need to upgrade!"

really?
my n95 has wifi, gps(although hard to get satellite), 5mp camera with flash. Symbian OS was the thing back in the day. People were using the camera's gyroscope to do a lot of cool stuff. I've seen videos of people controlling RC Cars with the gyroscope. I also have python installed in it. Granted it takes a long time to type, but I sometimes open up the interpreter and use the math library!
I think the only losers will be cloud storage companies if the industry is commoditized and margins are pushed towards zero. The industry is only going to grow, and there will always be competition. Meanwhile, cheaper cloud storage is better for almost everyone.

But I don't think full commoditization will ever fully happen - there's a lot of value in trust and dependability in online storage, and these attributes are difficult to quantify. I'm much more likely to go with dropbox or google than some startup, even if the startup is offering much cheaper rates. Also, companies can compete on efficiency and scale, which adds barriers to entry.
Given California gets about $0.80 per $1 of taxes sent to the Federal government back in terms of Federal spending, I can understand the Venetians in this desire.
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There is nothing in the US constitution that actually allows secession. Some people try to imply a right to secede from the declaration of independence or from the history of the US (i.e., the revolutionary war) but there is not actual text in the US constitution that gives anyone the right to secede.

If you disagree, please provide a quote.
> "... creating Open Source counterpart of Google Apps"

I concur and this is the kind of thing I'm working on but we're looking at the components from the ground up. Given how the cloud works today and the coming wave of connected devices (aka internet of things), it's worth re-evaluating the assumptions we've made and looking for ways to improve (even if this takes us somewhere radical). There's a post with some background [1] but in essence we're starting out by creating the basic building blocks to deal with deploying applications, managing identity and connectivity as well as co-ordinating sync/history.

[1] http://nymote.org/blog/2013/introducing-nymote/
I couldn't agree more here. After reading the source code on the twitter css bootstrap makefile a few years ago I got inspired and wrote my own rewrite of what they had... I was blown away by the gains at it gave me. Of note I bound make to cmd+b in Sublime Text, and I just compile when I see fit.

I've now tweaked my make files so they are almost unrecognisable from the twitter ones, it can run PHP, JS unit tests, fires up phantomJS and tests individual modules, can release minified for production, or not for debugging purposes. I can't stress how useful it is being able to just add a line and you get such powerful support.

I haven't had time to add git hooks yet, but thats the next stage, I plan to set the hooks to run tests and clamp down on poor quality code (I work with interns quite often... sometimes I cry for just average quality code coming in).

For a story of the production gains I've had. I moved the whole company CSS into a CSS preprocessor and cleaned up all the existing structures to fit the make file release procedure. It came back a thousand fold away a rebranding and I had everything done in two days. I was blown away with that alone, I've been involved in so many rebrands over the years that go on for months... not hours.

Do it, if you're bit unsure where to start check the twitter bootstrap build file and muck around with what they have done.