skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Desktop apps. It's Node and Chromium together, so you can have a desktop app written in HTML and JavaScript and have access to the APIs that come with Node (so you have access to the file system, etc.).
the worst thing about "the hard thing about hard things" is that Ben seems to have slowed his blogging output.
> Many get a lot, actually. Especially in ex-soviet countries. Many have excellent free education systems.

Would you be ok with immigrants from countries where they don't? India provides very little in comparison and also has the highest percentage of H1B applicants. [1]

> Of course not. Nonetheless, the idea that freedom of immigration is an unparalleled good for the country providing the immigrants simply because individually they are better off, should die already.

Shouldn't the State make it more attractive for these citizens to stay there? Especially since they're so valuable? Why is it only the citizens who have this responsibility.

[1] http://www.bloombergview.com/quicktake/skilled-immigrants.
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If I recall correctly they introduced some fiscal incentives for new companies so that they end up paying around 10% in taxes. But that's only as long as the founder is considered "young" or i think as long as the revenue is below a certain limit. The problem is that once the limit is surpassed, the fiscal pressure in Italy is indeed very high. I wouldn't really suggest founding there, unless it's something related to fashion/food/tourism...
After the iPhone launched in 2007 BlackBerry had years to respond and they totally failed to. If they had just admitted defeat as late as 2010 the company could have been sold for tens of billions (I assume).
Switching editors is just as hard as switching languages (2008)
>People hate direct taxes on themselves and don't notice indirect taxes they pay.

I think this is the key. And any restriction can be an indirect tax, e.g. the requirement to serve the whole city, not just the areas that the ISP chooses.
I think this would be a waste of money, does Samsung really have $7,500,000,000 burning a hole in their pocket?
That's both adorable and oddly soothing to watch. Moreso than "nice" graphics, actually. It may be that I'm old enough to remember when text terminals were the way we interfaced with the world on bulletin boards...and animated ASCII art like this was common. I want to set it up just to watch it, not because I need it (we have web-based charts already, and I'm in the midst of making them realtime).
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Inactivity 'kills more than obesity', according to study
Already submitted and shot down: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8889348
Car Removal Auckland offer free car removal in Auckland
The idea that you can automate driving a car between cities seems feasible to you (with traffic, and variable weather), but automating fueling doesn't? Really which seems like a more complex task to you?

Loading and unloading the vehicle at docks will adjust to meet a happy medium. As you already mentioned the single biggest expense is the driver, eliminating that is key, everything else will adjust accordingly.
Speaking of unemployment. I stumbled upon this animation of unemployment rates in europe some days ago:

http://i.imgur.com/ZR1hNnr.gif

The difference between northern and southern Italy is staggering, it's like they're two entirely different countries...
"What is required by Congress is the removal of artificial, arbitrary, and unnecessary barriers to employment when the barriers operate invidiously to discriminate on the basis of racial or other impermissible classification." Saying that the case "banned degree requirements" is putting it too high.
i doubt anyone is going to open up a bakery there. So the worse the economy the better.

now, think all the good engineers you can hire for cheap and churn out products for the US market.
With a market cap of $185B, sure. Does it probably need it, even for patents, market share or other reasons, probably not.
I'm amazed that they're still doing this. Start pushing for Congressional hearings.
I assume you also complain about the availability of microwave meals? That'll only become a problem when you can't buy raw fruits and vegetables anymore, but I didn't see that happen. Likewise, you mention more customizable VPS options in your post.

There's a market for everything. You don't understand my use case. My use case is "I want to click a button and then I want to be able to `apt-get install what-i-want` and then it should work. I don't even care whether it's Debian or Ubuntu, as long as it has apt-get because that's all I understand.

Granted, maybe I shouldn't be running VPSes at all but hey, it works, and I bet DO has many customers like me.
One piece of advice from an Italian, who was born and grew up there: It's a suicide, absolutely do NOT do this.
We have the best weather, culture, food, wine, beaches, etc, you name it. But opening a business in that dysfunctional country? RUN and don't look back.
Between fiscal pressure, crazy laws and compliances, the effective presumption of guilt, completely broken or unavailable infrastructure in the hand of monopolists, it's outright suicide. Companies will favor "friends" and deny you a chance even if you're competitive.
Oh and we haven't touched the criminal issues at all. I was lucky not have the pleasure of such acquaintances but don't worry, if you become large enough or successful enough, they will come to you.
Is it really possible for someone to find motivation to risk their lives to fight for a paycheck?

See: pretty much all of history. Generals routinely promised wealth from invasion of neighboring places. In fact, rare is the case where the promise for fighting in a large scale war was not one of wealth, but of some derivative resource ( freedom, religious reasons, pride ). That is a relatively recent construct (maybe last 200 years).
Given both Samsung [1] and BlackBerry [2] have denied this it sounds more like market manipulation to me.

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/14/7549547/samsung-no-plans-t...

[2] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2015-01-14/blackberry-climbs-o...
Third party "analytics" services are highly suspect. They often (usually?) aren't even within the ballpark, either in trend or quantity analysis.

http://moz.com/blog/testing-accuracy-visitor-data-alexa-comp...

Why these services still exist is beyond me. At best they are worthless, at worst they are fraudulent.
I wasn't arguing against arbitrage. I was arguing that investors don't care if HFT #1 arbitrages at 12:00:032 or HFT #2 arbitrages at 12:00:074.
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I agree with your friend. Avoid Italy.

There's no good reason to open in Italy, especially when in EU you can open in many other places which are much cheaper and easier to deal with.
Can someone explain the magic sauce that makes this work?
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Packet loss on wireless networks often have a certain rate of packet loss unrelated to congestion, due to having not a great signal or interference.

It's somewhat humorous because wireless networks are one of the main purported benefits of SPDY.
Google has published a lot of work recently about using deep learning for language translation with really impressive results. Anyone know if Google Translate is now neural net based? Or would a many-layered net not scale to the amount of API calls that Google translate receives?
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Well since the connection is tunneled to the VPN server, the shortest hop in that topology will be the IP of the VPN server anyway for the CDN.

And you would locate the VPN server inside the same country, unless those services are blocking by ISP or similar.
If you don't find it funny initially, then it is very unlikely that you will find it funny after it's been explained.

Nevertheless, I find it humorous because it is very unexpected, quite extreme, and seems to prove itself in a way (one of the ideas that it presents is that his coworkers don't give a shit about what he is doing. That he was able to get away with putting this into his acknowledgements seems to suggest there is some truth in that (of course, realistically, he wasn't going to be fired for it)).

Kind of a combination of surrealist humor and shock humor. Today this sort of humor may seem a bit tired, but keep in mind that this was published a few years before Fight Club.

"Jack 'n Zac" always kills me too. Such a great name for such an improbable drink.
> MySpace reached 50.6 million unique users in the U.S. in November.

So that is actually a hell of a lot better than the headline leads you to believe. That's about 1/6th of the entire US population that - according to the article - checked in on Myspace last November.

Yes, I also find that hard to believe.
I agree BlackBerry completely dropped the ball in responding to iPhone - but how would a company admitting defeat be sold for tens of billions?

They're only worth that much if they're a viable contender in the phone/mobile wars - without continued products they're worth about as much as their patent portfolio, which is substantial but not that much.

Having reluctantly been convinced to try the BlackBerry passport recently I have to say I'm very impressed with the work BB is doing right now. The new OS is fast and snappy in a way only iOS can match, and even the most recent Androids can't dream of. They are innovating in both UX and typing in interesting (and IMO mostly successful) ways - I'm convinced that if it weren't for the stigma of sitting on their asses doing nothing for years about the smartphone revolution that these phones would be selling better than they are.

At this point the associative value of BlackBerry to quality - in the eyes of consumers anyways - may in fact be negative.
I fail to see the connection between opening a startup and the current crisis, honestly. Or with the closure of 30% (?) of the local shops.

Also, there are a few interesting tax incentives that are finally available. For example, a law passed last month introduced 25% and 50% tax credits (depending on the expense category) on R&D investments, including labour costs for "highly trained" (MSc or PhD) workers.

Sure, Italian bureaucracy is not straightforward for a foreigner and you'll need to speak the language, but generalisations like that quoted above are misleading exaggerations.

Italians, especially expats (I am one), tend to victimise themselves and to reason with stereotypes. The "even without reading" part sounds like that.
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I never cease to be amazed at how old web brands can straggle on.

Excite.com is still an approximately top 3,000 US site. As is MyWay.com, which is owned by the same parent as Excite, and looks like it hasn't seen a design update in a decade plus.

Lycos still gets a modest amount of traffic.

And Digg is still a roughly top 500 site in the US. I put them in the same zombie-former-big-web-brand category as those other sites.
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Do you have any data to back that up? Don't mean that in a snipey kind of way. Fascinating observation.
...great way to get promoted?
Russia tried to open Skolkovo, Italy tries to do this. These are nice attempts, but the best way to attract startups is to first reduce government corruption that would pressure businesses that do well.
Ndrangheta is not in Naples, organized crimes has different names in different parts of the southern Italy.
That unfortunately doesn't change the fact that we have organized crime in Naples (Camorra).
And I'm sorry and sad to say it but northern Italy has been reached by organized crime a long time ago (they have different businesses, they work in different ways, but they are there).

Disclaimer: I'm Italian, and I'm from Naples.
9/10 of workers are not out of a job. Unemployment is not 90%.
This documentation is for RethinkDB 1.15, but the cool features in Slava's presentation are arriving in RethinkDB 1.16.
Samsung debuts its first Tizen phone – the Z1– in India
Google Translate came pre-installed on my handy, but since data is expensive- at least here in Germany- I removed it and defaulted to an offline German <=> English dictionary. After reading this post and watching the video I decided I'd give it another go and I'm glad I did.

In order to do translation w/out using data each and every time you have to:

1. Open the Translate app

2. Tap the options icon; top right

3. Tap "Settings"

4. Tap "Manage Offline Languages"

5. Select the language you would like available offline and how you'd like to download it( wifi only, wifi 3G, etc )

The German language pack is about 300mb, but that's nothing compared to the cost over time of using the app; data cost. Let's just hope they don't pull a SketchUp with this.
If you accept credit cards, and sell to people in California, you have committed a crime good for six months in prison. See http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=bpc&gr...

(d) A vendor conducting business through the Internet or any other electronic means of communication shall do all of the following when the transaction involves a buyer located in this state:

(1) Before accepting any payment or processing any debit or credit charge or funds transfer, the vendor shall disclose to the buyer in writing or by electronic means of communication, such as e-mail or an on-screen notice, the vendor's return and refund policy, the legal name under which the business is conducted and, except as provided in paragraph (3), the complete street address from which the business is actually conducted.

(2) If the disclosure of the vendor's legal name and address information required by this subdivision is made by on-screen notice, all of the following shall apply:
(A) The disclosure of the legal name and address information shall appear on any of the following:
(i) the first screen displayed when the vendor's electronic site is accessed,
(ii) on the screen on which goods or services are first offered,
(iii) on the screen on which a buyer may place the order for goods or services,
(iv) on the screen on which the buyer may enter payment information, such as a credit card account number, or
(v) for nonbrowser-based technologies, in a manner that gives the user a reasonable opportunity to review that information. The communication of that disclosure shall not be structured to be smaller or less legible than the text of the offer of the goods or services.
(B) The disclosure of the legal name and address information shall be accompanied by an adjacent statement describing how the buyer may receive the information at the buyer's e-mail address. The vendor shall provide the disclosure information to the buyer at the buyer's e-mail address within five days of receiving the buyer's request.
(C) Until the vendor complies with subdivision (a) in connection with all buyers of the vendor's goods or services, the vendor shall make available to a buyer and any person or entity who may enforce this section pursuant to Section 17535 on-screen access to the information required to be disclosed under this subdivision.

(g) Any violation of the provisions of this section is a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months, by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by both that imprisonment and fine.
Regarding this statement:

"if you become large enough or successful enough, they will come to you"

I wonder how you can back it up with data (see also my comments below regarding stereotypes).
As a former wall climber (Squamish, UBC Varsity Outdoors Club) I've been laughing all day at the coverage of this. The reporters cannot get their story strait. This isn't a first assent. This isn't even a free climb by some standards. And the ropes are definitely not "only for safety". Ropes are everywhere on a big wall, from hauling gear to hanging belays. They catch falls, but often also hold people to the wall (belays/rests/sleeping ect). Dawn Wall was first ascended in 1970. This is a first "free" assent as in it is the first non-aid assent.

The various forms of assent range from "getting to the top by whatever means" through "betas" to a true "on-sight" and even the ridiculous "free solo". There are plenty of records still to be set on this route. An on-sight is pretty much inconceivable on a big wall (no prior knowledge, just show up and climb) but clean assents (no falls on any pitch) will happen one day.

The history of the Yosemite decimal system speaks to the increased ability of modern climbing. A 5.10 free route was once considered the hardest thing humanly possible. Now we have 5.14 as 5.10, with modern rubber, is easy. I've seen noobs do 5.10a top-rope (no fall risk) on their first day. Not everyone can, but most noobs can battle their way up a 5.8 once they get the hang of things. A 5.10 near the ground is a totally different beast than the same pitch up on a wall, but concepts such as "exposure" danger and distance are not part of the yosemite decimal system, only technical difficulty.

If you really want to scare yourself, look at aid climbing standards. Aid climbing is where you use devices to actually pull yourself up the rock. This is how Dawn Wall has been tackled since the 70s. Aid pitches are graded from A0 to A6 based not so much on difficulty but fall danger. A0 is basically a 5.xx route with some pulling on gear. A3 means many not-solid pieces in a row, resulting in 10-20 meter fall potential. A5 means only the belay will hold a fall, so you could go 70+meters before the rope catches. Basically, A4 and above means fall = hospital. The legendary A6, which I doubt exists, means even the belay stations won't hold = certain death.

Oh, and "big wall" means climbing that could/should involve sleeping on the wall. But elite climbers regularly flash up well-traveled yosemite walls in hours, They are still big walls.
I think Aviator doesn't support cookies, among other privacy features:

https://www.whitehatsec.com/aviator/

EFF is working on a "HTTP Nowhere" option for HTTPS Everywhere, which only allows HTTPS connections. On Firefox there already is an HTTP Nowhere addon from someone else.

But as others have said, it's probably easier to just use Tor.
EDIT: I stand corrected, the comment below is bollocks. Honest apologies.

That's about 1/6th of the entire US population

It baffles me every time when Americans think that the world stops at their borders.

What makes you think all these people are Americans? We're talking a 120th of the world's population, what do you find hard to believe?
I don't find Tor that slow. Unless you're talking watching videos or something.
OmniOS should be perfect for you: designed for traditional server installs and with good package support. Hit me (@bcantrill), @postwait or @danmcd up on twitter or drop into #illumos on Freenode if you run into turbulence!
Point taken and thanks for the correction. I would have to ask however, would mafia tentacles reach into software based businesses if it's basically a development office?
The new Digg is* awesome, and doesn't share any ties with the old Digg. It was bought for a modest amount by this pretty cool company: http://betaworks.com/

* or used to be? I haven't checked it in ~1 year
+1, Compete et al are not only usually an order of magnitude off for our sites, they're not even directionally accurate.
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IIRC, Salyut-7 was gravity-stabilized on orbit - not spinning - by the time Dzhanibekov and Savinykh got to it.
I'm familiar with the story, I just don't regard what they're doing as much more than temporarily riding on the glory of the former site, much as MySpace is doing today.

Is it a great product? An innovative product? I don't think so, every time I visit digg it comes across as just another aggregator, and there isn't much special about that.
It depends on the route. Place bolts beside a crack to facilitate sport climbing and you should expect the hangars to be bashed flat (pulling out the actual bolt is often very difficult). I've participated in this myself.

And before anyone screams, the debate on "fixed protection" is something best left to experienced local climbers. Every climbing area has their own traditions on the subject. The first rule is most always: Don't change the nature of the route to suit your climbing style. Respect those who setup the route before you. Putting new metal on an existing route, camo or not, is akin to spray-painting a Rembrandt.

Replacement of old/weak hardware is a different matter. Absent immediate safety, this should still be left to experienced locals.
There is more to it than an extern file if you want a well designed wrapper which is idiomatic.

Regardless, the smiley in my original post indicates I was just teasing. I think you need to calm yourself down.
"Italy tax collectors took millions for parties, yachts" http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2012/10/03/20255286.html
Lots of impressive numbers being thrown around. Seems like they're offering up some stats to get some hype before another sale?
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I'm replying to your repliers in total, not you.

001sky clearly understands what 'free climbing' means. What is being questioned is whether we should lump such different things under the same term. Yes, of course everyone here understands that free is referring to the lack of aid in making vertical progress. But base stations, hauling food up, all that stuff, is just a different thing from a ground up, self sufficient effort. Why not look for a better term for that? When the Huber brothers do an ascent in a couple of hours we don't just call it "free" or "aid" (depending on whether they pulled on gear or not); we distinguish it by calling it a 'speed ascent'. Likewise, in the big mountains we characterize climbs as being 'siege', 'alpine style', and so on.

None of that is meant to put down the climbers. We still have climbs that require siege tactics, and that is fine. Why not look to be not just accurate, but also precise in our language?

Anyway, I agree with 001sky. If someone said they freed a route, I would not envision a base camp along the wall, even if it is accurate in that they used no aid. It's different, not better or worse, than what, say Lynn Hill did when she freed the Nose. A different term is perhaps warranted.
And why would you want to do that?
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Ah, when you said sysctl(2) I thought you were talking about the linux call - which is basically dead code. Yeah I don't really have a beef with the whole "everything is a file" design, I actually quite like it, but I really like how well freebsd has done sysctl - both the subroutine (3) and the command (8).