skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or, my favorites:

* Have CEO live in another state, but not let his absenteeism stop him from insisting the entire company change

* Throw chairs at people who want to release the code after it's feature complete [Ah, TJ, I wanted to give you a big ol' bear hug for finally pressing the point after hitting feature complete more than 10 times and us never releasing]

* Be constantly high on amphetamines

* Steal the identity of a math textbook author in suburban California

* Announce in a quarterly all hands meeting that it was a positive quarter because, even though the business lost money, and lost money faster than last year, the negative year over year growth got smaller (read: closer to zero), so you'll be losing the same amount of money YoY in no time!

If you guys think it's a harsh reality that companies do the stuff in this article... I guess I am curious if you guys have worked at venture funded startups?
Some Java conventions are unfortunate. Setters aren't a great idea, actually. The Guava team recently open-sourced AutoValue as a more modern approach:

https://github.com/google/auto/tree/master/value
If I understand the page correctly, it's about opening up BBC data, but I think it could use more explanation and examples about exactly what data they're opening up, and what you can do with it.

For example, my first search was for 'top gear', and I got 0 results.

I then tried clicking the Politics example, but was still left rather confused.
Yeah, a lot of magic lives at the tooling layer, and Go is going to leverage that with Go Generate in Go 1.4+. A lot of great tools already leverage that core.

I like that fact that a lot of the tooling/editor support is not picking a winner nor demanding an IDE. Tools like errcheck, goimports, gorename (announced today), oracle, gocode, godef, godoc, gofmt, golint, gotags, ... (on and on) ... all can be leverage by IDEs, emacs, sublime, vim and others equally... or just used from a console or in your own stacks.
Up and Running with Metal, Part 3: Lighting and Rendering in 3D
smartmontools work good on the command line in linux. There's also a GUI called palimpsest which makes the SMART numbers easy to read.

On other operating systems any tool that can read the SMART data is what you should look for.
I can see the rationale for a dunce cap in an equitable organization answerable to no one but itself. Like, say, a founding team of four engineers each with 25% equity.

Otherwise I would not advise.
"12. Establish dominance by staring at people, never blinking."

"14. Humiliate people in public."

Sounds like a personality disorder, possibly anti-social personality disorder. See: http://www.wikihow.com/Spot-a-Sociopath, in particular:

"9. See if the person makes uninterrupted eye contact. Sociopaths are known for giving intense uninterrupted eye contact. The person stares because he or she is completely comfortable staring at people to make them uncomfortable. Staring at others intently is a way to further his or her own means."

"1. Look for a lack of shame. Most sociopaths can commit vile actions and not feel the least bit of remorse. Such actions may include physical abuse or public humiliation of others."
The people I've seen calling MOOCs a dud seem to have had the expectation that they'd see completion rates somewhere near traditional courses, which is laughable when you consider the differences in structure, demographics, and buy in. Even despite the high dropout rates, I think they end up teaching more students than the comparable class session at a university.

I took a grad class to completion on Coursera, and I think it was great - I learned quite a lot, it was free, and the quality of instruction was excellent, rivaling that of my non-lab university courses.

That said, how to effectively teach an online course is very much an unsolved problem. It's not nearly as cut and dry as you suggest. As of now, they've mostly just moved the lectures to online video, put up some online quizzes, and some forums. It's promising, but it's a naive implementation still.
But that is a chicken egg problem - with large price fluctuations no mass adoption, without mass adoption large price fluctuations. And except in comparison to the very early days (2011 and before) the price fluctuations did not get smaller over time.
> "SmartThings, released a similar statistic, noting ... users opening the app four times a day and receiving fifteen notifications per day."

This sounds like hell. I don't need my house sending me notifications throughout the day.

When I first bought a home, I was excited about adding automation to the various fixtures and devices. I quickly came the conclusion that the simple light switch is a pretty intuitive UI that doesn't need to be made more complicated. I'm going to bet that's the real reason home automation hasn't taken off.
I find discourse (discourse.org) to be a much better groups replacement than an email list. Email lists are so 1999.
I just store large files I don't want synced in Google Drive and don't run the Google Drive client. Dropbox selective sync is a huge pain when setting up a new machine since it doesn't recognize yet unsynced folders and files.
I'm surprised to see so many people saying they have the same "problem". You don't have to use the extra space. You had less space before and the problem didn't exist, and now suddenly it does?? It makes no sense.

1. It's a good thing for the many people who DO have more space on their computer.

2. It's a good thing because it leaves room for growth.

3. It's a good thing because it makes the service more useful for power users.

hit "Save" and you're done? Newsflash: it STILL works that way!!
Was prepaid debit card their pitch to investors?
Oh hi! Thanks for the response. prostoalex wrote this on the thread:

> It's a prepaid debit card with rewards program.

Is that correct, but with the ability to load it with a credit card? Essentially, if I buy into it and use only my debit card and cash with it, it's a prepaid card with bonuses and no fees?
i did read it. ...and several other of her books. good stories, but that's all.
That's not how a democracy is supposed to work. Extreme influence by a small group of individuals outside of the voting process indicated a broken system.
This is an oldie-but-a-goodie.

I made a comment on it (#11) back in 2009, and I have yet to see anyone at all give a decent response to it. My summary:

> ... TCO permits the use of black-box abstractions when a property of an object depends on a property of another object; however, TCO is not sufficient to handle the case when a property of an object depends on properties of two other objects.

It seems we can conclude from this that black-box abstractions in which a property of an object depends on a property of two (or more) other objects, are generally too resource-intensive to scale well.

Doesn't that idea seem like it might be an important one?
New Montreal Coding Bootcamp
not sure if i am following you, but in my apps, the data is always in React state. Whether it came from network or from localstorage is irrelevant. There is some code somewhere that loads data into React state from whatever source. All react is doing is rendering views as a fn of state.
Tico here (I thought it was only me), I almost teared up when I saw it
Unless you're really unlucky/using young tech/bad at programming you won't need that kind of expertise unless you have the kind of traffic which means you can afford to hire that expertise.
I've done similar.. though I will symlink the config directories for some applications, copy others, and have a couple portable apps.

That said, don't put your irc client in there... I wind up forgetting it's connected when I leave work only to get tons of notifications at home...
> That being said, someone should make an aggregate search engine of legally available content through Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, HBO Go, Showtime Anytime, Max Go, etc

http://www.canistream.it/search/movie/gravity
Why hourly time tracking doesn't work for software
Is this the idea that they raised $30 million with? It's essentially Venmo with an opaque "Treats" feature.
I'd give it a try if they had more options that were high protein and low-carb (e.g., if I could customize the salmon dish to increase the number of brussel sprouts and eliminate the quinoa).
awesome, thanks for the info! I will check out OSXFuse.
I was thinking the exact same. I have a very clear image of this domineering, unhinged alpha who ran op's previous company into the ground.
Show HN: Real Time Help Desk Based on Node.js
Works good for me, en_US.
> I remember reading once that part of Apple’s success was owed to their shunning of lean principles, that they only ever ship complete, mature products.

I think I read that, back when the original Macintosh was being developed, some people from Apple toured a Toyota factory to see how things were done there.

Since Toyota pioneered lean, it sounds more like Apple embraced lean principles than that they shunned them. OTOH, this would have been a number of years before Apple was anything like the success they are today.

EDIT: Also, do lean principles have anything to do with not shipping finished products? I thought lean was all about things like minimizing inventory.
Behind the Scenes: Designing a Banking App for Any Device
Neat! Logo is a wonderful, flexible language. I've written a few Logo interpreters myself. My most recent is packaged as a Java library and working it's way both into classroom tools and a puzzle/adventure game I'm developing around it: https://github.com/JohnEarnest/MLogo
No, it is not! And it's buggy. It says I've received 3 verifications already to my phone, when I've never got any, and it's now asking me to send them an email, which they never reply to (I've been thru this a few months ago)! The most annoying onboarding process I've seen! Annoying and irrelevant at that stage low-res videos. Forces you to slide up things when it's not necessary. All that fanfare for nothing!

Google Wallet and PayPal Debit Card (with its 1.5% cashback on everything and the short-term $1,000 credit when your balance is not enough to cover a charge) already work great for me!
> This is just about creating Canadian content for Canadians. It's not about multiculturalism, it's about supporting Canada's homegrown television and film production sectors.

Well, the thing about that is that it's simply not going to work if Canadians themselves don't buy it to begin with. But that's already happening and a few silly media laws requiring the production of content almost nobody wants isn't really going to turn back the tide.

I mean, Tim Hortons sold out. I'm pretty sure that the handwriting on the wall is up to at least 'מנא, מנא, תקל' by now...
Teaching them to learn – Wait, I know that
The SF Public Library has two copies currently available via Link+. Was the author using the card catalog?
Thanks! Spacemonkey looks terrific and is pretty much what I envision! I often feel that with the move to "cloud computing" over the last decade, we have essentially made a dichotomy between working "locally" and working "in the cloud". However, they really should be seamless! The cloud should extend your computational resources and make it more accessible, not replace it! With things like spacemonkey, Office 365 and other "seamless" apps, it seems that we are finally learning how to make things be location and device independent. Cloud computing is the vanishing mediator that is finally starting to vanish!
Startup Divorce: Six Conversations to Have with Your Cofounder
Again, I'd say it depends on the data... either by shape or need. I also wouldn't use NoSQL for highly structured and relational data. For example, a classifieds site, absolutely yes to nosql... for comment threads, I'd favor SQL.

If you need certain reporting, does it have to be real time, is real time enough okay, and what are the other needs. I find that sometimes duplicating data (one point of authority) is better than using one or the other.
How is Israel any different from any other country? What's so obvious about why they are a close ally?
The "problem" is that they WANT to use the extra remote storage, with a UI as good as DropBox's and consolidated with the other stuff they have on DropBox, but can't because they don't have enough local space or don't want to sync all their remote storage to every machine.

It is true that in some cases they may not have realized they had this desire until ExpanDrive gave them enough storage to think about it, but they do now.
If your goal is to work for a famous company, getting an internship at a famous company doesn't hurt, but in the long run over the course of a career, what a person learns and the reputation they develop among peers is what creates opportunities.

What makes a good internship?

Learning, not the name over the receptionist's desk.
Many of those industries have high attrition and burn-out.
>In fact, we need quite a bit of laws and regulations to ensure an open internet.

Patently false in theory and extremely debatable in practic.
> A random example: The people who don't download your software because they can't find the price might think very negatively about your product.

If that doesn't hurt your profit, shouldn't you still do it?
Thanks Jay! I agree — ingredient transparency and control is one of the big reasons people use Gobble.

freshness + control + speed = our recipe.
I'm not actually sure - I wanted to see if anyone on HN has actually tried it. It seems like a big muddle of half-thought through ideas. I'm curious what the history of the idea was from when they started to when they ended up with 'this'.
I wish they tested a Crucial drive, too. Crucial drives tend to have great dollar/GB ratio.
Clinkle had become a bit infamous in startup circles over the young age of its founder, the large amount he raised from top-tier VCs, and his failure to launch anything. That they have actually launched something is big news to anyone that had been paying attention.
Blue and purple are the same color as far as I can tell.
Yes.

Small note: there will likely still be a risk premium for seed funding.

Thought experiment: isn't it _less_ risky to do your own thing with funding than stay in a corporate gig? I know a lot of people not very trusting of people who have stayed too long in BigCo emeritus positions, as they tend to think everything requires an intra-company social event before, during, and after work gets done.

I am... not sure that's true. But SF culture could get there very soon (assuming it's a social issue of who would want to hire you later -- I think you'd learn more from a startup, so it's not _only_ a social issue). Probably is already there for low-status technology use -- let's say PHP development? -- at giant corporations.
There seems to me, on the surface, to be some very odd statutory construction underlying that analysis (which is presented in a much less full form than a typical opinion letter, because that's not really what this is, so its really hard to form much of an opinion of its conclusion) -- but certainly it at least indicates how the legal authorities of the State may be likely to apply the law, presuming that their construction of the statute hasn't changed in the intervening decade.
Co-founder of Space Monkey here. I can assure you this was not an acquihire. At the highest levels of the org from CEO and down, Vivint believes in the Space Monkey vision. We're super excited to have their backing, and think you will be excited to see where this goes from here.
For people (not just film students) interested in this sort of thing, I recommend "The Grammar of the Film Language" by Daniel Arijon. A fantastic book that's fundamentally changed the way I see movies.

http://www.amazon.com/Grammar-Film-Language-Daniel-Arijon/dp...
New Material (TMDCs) Challenges Graphene
Any reasonable interpretation requires that someone involved (either the traitor or a person specifically aided by the traitor) be engaged in "making war against the US." There being a war isn't anything like sufficient, and not all criminal acts make one "an Enemy of the United States," foreign national or not.
Their original idea was basically Apple Pay.
Microsoft Bug Bounty Evolution: Online Services
It appears to be a visa prepaid credit card. See here: https://www.clinkle.com/legal/bancorp-cardholder-agreement

Treats sound like gamification mixed with gambling, but you can only give the rewards to others?? Check the details here, it's kinda complicated: https://www.clinkle.com/legal/treats
I've recorded my self and many others teaching: there is only terrible teachers, and people who survive the humiliation of seeing themselves try more than twenty times. I would never let anyone watch any of their first five takes first.
Interesting link.

Since the cold war, the US involvement seems to be in non-democracies exclusively. (I thought Venezuela was a case, but the page claims that wasn't proven?) [Edit: Maybe the coup against Aristide in Haiti? I don't know enough.]

Frankly, I see a big difference between on one hand a country and its population -- and on the other, a junta that has stolen a country. If such a junta is ousted it is a good thing, as long as it isn't completely fubared as in Iraq 2003 (Libya might also end up even worse than under the last pack of murdering rapists).

My main problem with the US administration right now is Obama's unwillingness to do something about Syria. Assad is no lesser murderer and torturer than IS.
Branch builds intelligent deeplinks that make apps work like the web
And that, in fact, seems to be the case. I haven't looked at it in depth but at least some of the examples cited by the OP do seem to be available for new purchase from Amazon even though they're not available for DVD rental from Netflix. Given that Netflix has made it quite clear that the DVD rental biz isn't strategic for them, I suspect that they're carefully managing repurchases of seldom-rented back catalog items.
Or they can pay cinephile prices like $80+ for movies. I remember the time of paying $100 for movies on Betamax and it was amazing. But yes it's true NF selection is getting worse for DVD mail order if you are a small audience, like this or foreign films.
Well done. This is a nice tool.

It's interesting how AWS has shot to the top so easily. Super cheap, sure, it's great for big companies. But I found it too complicated to set up a dynamic website.
I've used PouchDB this way in the past, and it worked well for seamlessly enabling offline use/hiding network concerns from the view layer, but it's probably a lot "thicker" than what you have in mind (and isn't completely browser-proof, and requires the server storage to look like a CouchDB).

It's interesting to imagine what the lighter facade you're describing might look like. I guess you'd want the controllers/views to get a key-value style interface, and you'd want the facade to connect with one or more local storage options, and some sort of logic to manage triage between local and remote storage, and syncing between the two, and a well-defined API for connecting the remote storage. Hmmm...
I think this limitation is actually fundamental to Dropbox's (and Google/etc) pricing model. Only a small subset of users can fully utilize the space they pay for, which means the remainder of users are more profitable. If the average user consumed 1TB, or if pricing was by usage rather than tiered, I'd expect the price per GB to go up.
This is exactly right. GNOME, KDE and other out-of-the-box solutions make sure to set the GTK and Qt themes so that everything looks pretty. When you use a WM (window manager) rather than a DE (desktop environment), it is up to you to setup all the ancillary things such as themes and daemons. This is why .xprofile exists!

Also, I find lxappearance an easy and quick way to set GTK themes via GUI rather than having to edit the .gtkrc files for every option.
I think many websites people are going to want to extract from are going to have anti-scraping/anti-robot traffic controls that are going to try to keep out a scraper like this. Amazon.com for instance. Probably google properties.

That they will in the future plan on respecting robots.txt suggests they don't mean to get places content owners don't want them. On the other hand, automatic IP rotation kind of suggests they do mean to (what other purpose is there for that?).

Either way, it might be a limitation on what you might dream of using it for.

My own experiments with scraping Amazon and Google have been stopped in the water by their anti-bot traffic controls. (Amazon recently improved theirs).
Brototype
The problem with your broader definition of front running is that it undermines basic market mechanics. If a participant expresses a desire before entering the market that desire needs to be taken into account for accurate pricing. This is true of buying cars, houses, and cheeseburgers. Why shouldn't it be true of equities?

I think it makes a large difference how that desire is expressed. If you go to a price comparison website, and click on the link that takes you to the seller's website for the item that is priced $100 less than all others, you've expressed some desire to purchase the item. If the comparison website were to sell their real time click flow to the seller, who then raised their price in the milliseconds before servicing your web page request, you'd probably feel duped. Even if there was no breach of fiduciary duty, it would probably be classified as false advertising.

Still, that's not quite parallel. I think a closer example might be domain names. You go to a site to search for whether a $10 domain name is available. It is, but you aren't ready to buy. The search site sells the search information to an HFT who buys the domain for $10 (or better, just reserves it for a month without paying anyone), and then offers to sell it to you for $100. Have they have increased market liquidity in much the same manner as the HFT for a similar degree of public benefit?

What more positive parallel story do see for cars, houses, and cheeseburgers?
In my experience with traditional HDDs, they often drop off the controller and lose your data when they fail. Which means that, at least, SSDs are not worse than HDDs in that regard. And they have the potential for a softer failure mode (going read-only).
They apologize and offer to pay a fair and reasonable licensing fee?

It sounds like someone sold NG a license for art that wasn't theirs. NG was also a victim here, it's not a lottery ticket for the artist.

I'm sorry the art was stolen, I'm glad they are trying to make it right by offering to pay ~10x his going rate.
No, it was a payment system that used high frequencies.
So it's another Color then? Got it.

And I just noticed there's another post about Clinkle on the front page.
“We know where you are. We know where you’ve been. We can more or less know what you’re thinking about.”

But, fair enough about the original article.
I'm not sure how Xmonad and AwesomeWM handle multiple monitors, but in Qtile you have a single set of groups (analagous to tags or workspaces) shared between your monitors, and each monitor displays one group.
If IBM's Watson does not count as "free blue-sky" AI research, I don't know what else counts.

http://youtu.be/P18EdAKuC1U?t=2m20s

https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=an+acco...

Funnily, Google completes my phrase "an account of the principalities of wallachia and moldavia inspired this author's famous novel" but is completely clueless.

As the other poster said, Google seems to be winning the advertising game (after all that is how they make $).
We're allied with Israel so we can get valuable intelligence from Israel on all the people who want to blow us up because we're allied with Israel.