skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The interesting part of these trends is for people like me who aren't in the "iPhone class". It used to be my options for a phone I could justify paying for were: garbage, or garbage. Now I can actually have a usable phone that can do the things I want it do without "daily annoyance" (and I sure do know what daily annoyance from a phone is!).

Yes, it's not magically perfect. A coworker made fun of me because I have to dial in to a talking computer to listen to voice mail, for example. But how often do most people get a voice mail anyways? I can text, pictures, email, web and use basic apps, which is all I really need or want to do on such a small screen anyways.

So I'm very excited and happy with the improvements in the low-end phone line.
In Belgium BASE, which is owned by KPN, do a reasonable deal compared to the others with BASE 0. Its technically a monthly invoiced plan but works as a pay as you go card - you only get charged for what you use. Its basically the same price as any of the "outside the bundle" costs for their other plans. If you either use phone calls/internet/text infrequently or highly variable it's very interesting.

https://www.base.be/en/mobile/monthly-plans/base-0.html

Interestingly also in Belgium there is legal requirement that the phone company evaluates your bill every X months and notifies you if you could save money by moving to a different plan. Invariably I used to always be recommended BASE 0 due to my highly variable usage.

I think the UK had a similar thing from O2 but I don't remember if it was a legal requirement. It could be a European thing.
The Morality of Machine Learning
> I recommend ...
> I'm not sure I would [buy] it again.

I'm confused.
True, but consider this from the shitphone piece...

"Things had gradually become slower. They rarely came to a full stop, but they got close. Complicated websites in particular were hard for shitphone. I found myself blaming the websites."

Maybe you would just stop going to horribly designed mobile websites, and you wouldn't be much worse off.
Observing is the foundational skill. Expression is secondary and not what it is cracked up to be.

I've found that most of the time, people don't want to know what you are feeling. They want to know that you are feeling what they are feeling. The most crudest form of that is mirroring techniques, but that's actually not necessary and can be detrimental. It's a bandaid because the person is ignorant or unskilled in healing.

There is a Sanskrit word called "dukkha" that doesn't have an easy English cognate. The closest would be "existential anguish", something that lies underneath every single experience.

There is a particular way of opening yourself up to someone else's dukkha that I've found extremely effective. It's at that point, you forget about yourself ("this isn't about you"), and you drop all your psychological armoring, shielding, interpretations, etc. When I am mindful enough to remember to do that, people tend to walk away feeling better, even if I never say anything. Just listen.

Being able to do that requires meditation, and you first start with observing emotions as they come and go. It does not end there. At some point, you directly experience the insight that your self is an illusion, that this existential misery underlies everything and you cannot escape, and that the ground of being is emptiness. It's at that point you can listen to the dukkha.
I agree with this. I get both sides, I mean, who wouldn't want to have a billion dollar business? But building one is insanely lucky and there are a ton of super talented businessmen and engineers that haven't done it.

The problem with aiming so high, like the article points out, is that you often fail and are left with almost nothing if it fails. You took a low salary with a lot of equity, but if you work for 3-5 years on a project and then it turns out the company fails (which is highly likely), then you just worked for 3-5 years for a cheap discount.

Sure, you might have learned a lot in that time, but if you worked at a better salary for a more stable opportunity, you would have learned stuff as well (different, but maybe not less important stuff).

I get the allure, but as I get older, I don't really see the value. You don't have forever in your career to make below average wages on the lotteries chance you will make millions.
It’s such a common concept that it has its own Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mittelstand
The New Romantics in the Computer Age
>Basic income indexed to a geographical cost of living doesn't have to be a big bureaucracy problem.

See what unabridged said.

>Plus, I think segregating by wealth is a terrible idea.

Giving people more money because the rent is more expensive where they live equates to giving more money to landlords. That is an even more terrible idea.

Besides, Manhattan isn't that good of a place to live. Specially when you aren't tied to the job market and can take more risks.
> No one accidentally builds a Billion dollar business

Mojang?
Yev from Backblaze here -> Unfortunately we aren't large enough to negotiate with hard drive manufacturers. We've tried, believe me, but since we're not putting in order of 10,000 drives at a time, they refuse to speak with us. The closest we get is an introduction to their preferred vendor channels, but we have to go through them like anyone else. At the time we did the "farming" it was because those channels had dried up and risen in price by almost 3x, and we were faced with going out of business or getting creative. I assure you, we would RATHER work with manufacturers directly, but it's not as easy as calling up Seagate and asking for a bunch of drives on the cheap (especially when computer companies like Dell and Apple need those drives to make THEIR product lines works). They can raise prices of their computers by a few dollars and not really feel an impact, we can't!
That's right I do have a broad definition. "Work" to me is the thing that you are putting most of your effort to. Maybe you are a stay at home mom, and your work is raising children - you have to be all in for that. Same goes for anything.

If one venture fails completely, then you take what you learned and start again when you can.

If you are in a position that you can start your own company and raise money for it, the worst that can happen is that you have to go find a job. Lets even assume that you lose your house in the process. Ok, well downsize, keep your head down till the next opportunity arises and keep moving forward. I don't see any other way to live.

People have these marginal goals of working 9-5 going to the beach on the weekend, having a couple kids, then retiring at 65/70 and traveling or whatever till they die at 85. That sounds terrible to me - and my guess is that would sound terrible to anyone who worked on something that people gain value from (Salk, Scorsese, Musk etc...).
This Q&A is hilarious. The CEO is just giving the same PR-approved answer to a politically sensitive question. The real and politically-incorrect reason for the higher prices is that the cost of doing business is higher in Australia. For example, the minimum wage is very high and consumer protection laws require the company to provide a 2-year warranty at no additional cost. It sounds like some people want to have their cake and eat it too. They want Australia's high minimum wage and strong consumer protection laws, but they don't want to pay for it. There's no free lunch in this world.

As for the demand side of things, Australians must be sufficiently willing to pay the higher price.

The Australian dollar has gotten weaker since this video was taken, so now Adobe's prices are almost at parity with the US. I'm sure the risk of foreign exchange fluctuations is part of Adobe's pricing strategy.
I hope you fed it that all at the same time.
Try otters. They'll eat the zebra mussels when they're done.
And I'm accepting that but pointing out that it still applies to many.
Is this credible? This sounds extremely horrific -- warranting immediate changes of law.
So if instead of $100/yr they had raised the price to $500 but you "own" the software, you would have been okay with that?
Let me make sure I understand you since I didn't understand why you were "remarkably insulted". The system fine-tuned by evolution is the human mind. Sociopathy and psychopathy seem to be genetically based and may occur in anywhere from 1% to 10% of the population based on various ballpark estimates. IQ is in no way related to moral behavior, smart people can be sincerely kind people or sociopathic, people of low-IQ can be sincerely kind or sociopathic. A person of low-IQ who is a sociopath ends up in jail most likely, a person of high-IQ who is a sociopath damages society far more by cleverly staying out of jail and may often land themselves high positions as they manipulate people's social intuitions without remorse. I suspect (but can't prove) that sociopathy has no correlation with IQ whatsoever.

> But theory-of-mind is a distinct cognitive module from intellectual intelligence. You can enhance one without enhancing the other.

I agree. However, I think theory-of-mind is one part of the puzzle. Another is moral reasoning and how it shapes social interaction. This, too, needs to be carefully understood because we know that authority and purity concerns, for example, both allow people to effectively turn off empathy. Turning off theory-of-mind when it is inconvenient is a potentially frightening ability.
I agree. Maybe rakudobrew should have a target that hits install, panda and p6doc and that being the default for new setups.

FYI, you can install p6doc with "panda install p6doc", which is the Perl 6 equivalent of perldoc. I don't believe it has in-language methods yet, but I imagine it wouldn't be that hard. For now, it's a CLI tool.

# p6doc Str.tclc
routine tclc

multi sub tclc(Str:D ) returns Str:D multi method tclc(Str:D:)
returns Str:D

Turns the first character to title case, and all other characters to lower case

(not implemented in Niecza)
Which do you think you have a higher chance of encountering: a computer glitch or a bad/impaired human driver?
Yeah, if you didn't see this coming, you haven't been keeping up. Their yearly upgrades? It's no coincidence that intellij 14 came out in 2014, 13 in 2013...

If you have kept up versions as I have, it's practically no different. If this means we get features sooner rather than waiting for a whole major version upgrade, I'm happy.

Yes, Adobe had a big clusterfuck when they did it, but you know who hasn't had as big of one? Microsoft Office. I subscribe to their office 365. 10 bucks a month for 5 computers, the whole office suite. I'll happily pay that.

And besides, there's always the community edition if for some reason your 120k/yr job doesn't let you afford 100 bucks per year...

People just have a meltdown anytime anything changes... chill the fuck out for a few minutes and let's see what happens.
The odds of a $10,000,000 business are also approximately zero, not 1:10 or even 1:1000. That's what the article ignores. The important choice is starting something or not. The bigger the business the more numerous the possible beneficial outcomes. A billion dollar business can 1.2% fail at $12,000,000.
Which can be anti-gamed by charging $50 for new installs then $10/mo for each consecutive monthly renewal
(What's this weird 9m.no redirect?)
I don't think you actually read that book. Disruptive innovation is moving a technology designed for one market, possibly a new one, into another existing market. Existing market participants focus on 'sustaining' innovations like reducing costs and inventing more expensive products. In today's environment, think using ARM processors, intentionally designed for low power draw in mobile phones, into laptops, desktops and eventually servers.

ZTE's success is just price differentiation within an existing market. Their 'innovation' is selling phone technology from 2 years ago at a discount. I don't think that even counts as a sustaining innovation, and the article notes that sales doubled but profits growing only 4 percent-- this implies huge cuts to profit margins. The same article also notes that this 'reduced margins' strategy might be subsidized by Chinese security interests.
I hope someone can record video of the gameplay.
original link: http://www.top5techs.com/2015/09/how-googles-new-logo-is-jus...
Ok. Command-line history/editing works now. I wiped out ~/.rakudobrew and started over:

rakudobrew build moar
rakudobrew build-panda
panda install Linenoise

Thanks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giSot42sK5I
Kyle Neath wrote a very similar post last week, which IMHO is more developer-centric and less VC-centric:

http://warpspire.com/posts/million-dollar-products/
I put in about 5-8 hours into Cities: Skylines before I got distracted by something else and put it aside. Enough time to put in a pretty great small town bus system. Cities: Skylines has great transportation options, much better than Sim City, but it still has a few things it needs to add if one wanted to build modern cities using modern urbanist thinking (eg. Copenhagen).

I noticed when I was playing that you could build pedestrian paths, but it seemed like they were in the context of a park path, not a pedestrian only commercial district. From some Googling it seems that this is the case, that you can't really build for example a downtown commercial core that would be pedestrian only.

The bus system in Skylines is great, and I didn't play long enough to experiment with subways, but I noticed that there didn't seem to be streetcars. I've been to a lot of cities that mix pedestrian streets and street cars and it works very well. That's something I'd really like to see in the game.

I'm glad to see they are adding bike lanes. They're an essential part of the transportation system.

Even though I'm complaining about it, I do want to underline that Cities: Skylines is a great game and a big step forward for SimCity type games. I'm really glad Paradox is continuing to improve the game.
>>Why is this surprising?

Because it goes against intuition?

The whole point of a higher level language is an abstraction over these kind of problems anyway.
It's quite interesting to see how the new logo can be deconstructed to simple shapes.

That said, shouldn't the link be directly to the article instead of through a URL shortener?
You're right. I was going off their "all products" list:

https://www.jetbrains.com/products.html?fromMenu

I guess it's not "all" products.
Thanks, kbenson; missed that. Works now!
Why? So much energy and desire should be channeled into a community-supported and owned effort, not to impress some headhunter in Apple to get hired.
At least you'll have paid for 6 months right away; and if you lapse, when you go to renew you pay for another 6 months upfront.

If you're going to all this trouble just to skimp £100 per year on your main development tool you're probably the type of customer who will simply not buy into a SaaS model anyway, so there is no point in chasing your pennies.

You could unofficially make the "skimping" into the reduced price option, removing the current "personal" licenses and removing complexity. Cheap "Personals" will pay a 6-months fee once a year or less, losing updates, and "Companies" will happily pay full whack (because they value predictability and opex vs capex) for the full monty. Win-win, and nobody gets hurt in the feelings.
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We don't have the final wording all worked out for all of that stuff. We've been pretty focused on product stuff for the past while, and only recently got to a point where we have a product actually available for sell, and we're still working on contracts / licenses and all that. But what I can tell you is that our approach will probably look a lot like what Red Hat does[1].

Basically, it's a guarantee that if you get sued for using our software (patent infringement, whatever) then we protect you from any fallout from that.

[1]: http://www.redhat.com/en/about/open-source-assurance
"Anxious to avoid accusations of selling filth to minors, Sierra came up with the clever idea of a trivia quiz using questions stemming from the 1970s and earlier to make the player “prove” that she really was as old as she said she was. Some of the questions are decidedly obscure, to such an extent that they create quite a challenge to those of us today who are well over the the age of eighteen, but, what with almost thirty years having gone by, aren’t quite up to scratch on our Baby Boomer trivia. Thankfully we have a secret weapon in Wikipedia."

Or, if I remember correctly, you could just use alt+x to skip the quiz :) Played this a lot as an 8 year old kid.
6 myths about depression
> created:	2 minutes ago

Please stop. You clearly don’t know who Mike Ash is. If he wanted to work at Apple he wouldn’t need a blog post.
The 717 is also one of the few large jets readily converted for gravel runways, giving it a long future in northern operations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravelkit
Be very good at what you do and then age won't matter. - 40 year old
How Secure Channels Attempted to Intimidate a Critic and Failed Spectacularly
It doesn't work, unfortunately. I get "device not present error" when I try the LOAD.
so don't fucking use it. if it's literally not valuable enough to justify 100/yr, just let it go and use eclipse or notepad or something.
They would tend to own a lot of these tools. As in their spanner or their CNC mill does not phone home and then stop working if they fail to keep paying the monthly rent on it.
If you didn't also play the Leisure Suit Larry series, you have really missed out. Hopefully that was included in your "etc."!
I agree with you about Sleepy Puppy not being a universal solution - however this is true for almost every tool.

The big wins with SP:

* automated

* narrows what kind of XSS can be present.

Security seems to be like quantum mechanics: there is always an uncertainty principle that prevents perfection.
What did we learn from the Steve Jobs documentary?
If you want you can actually play it yourself, you only need a c64 emulator and the game(which you can find at the bottom of the article).
The Movies of My Youth by Italo Calvino
Good objection, but the article also mentions other sources like time use diaries.
Nope. Mojang CEO Carl Manneh made a conscious decision to push Markus to sell to MSFT after Markus was starting to get burned out. Mojang could have stayed small, reorganized and kept moving forward but they decided to go for a big win and sell to MSFT.

So it wasn't an accident, as it happens it lined up so that interests aligned for the buyout.
I bet you could do something neat with small tethered submersibles that you remotely control. Of course, they might not be small enough, but at least it would be safer.
If you want to change the world significantly, you will need significant numbers of customers, and associated revenue. Nothing wrong with wanting to change the world.

One of the author's arguments is that you will dilute your ownership by taking on the "required" investment needed to have a chance at reaching the magic 1B. Is this true? Of the 40 mentioned private >1B firms, what fraction raised lots of VC money and experienced significant founder dilution? My guess is not that many of them; the author simply assumes it is the case.
Besides calling home, what motivation do they have to improve their tools under the subscription model? Upgrades have to be appealing enough to bother paying – built-in motivation to produce a superior product.

With subscriptions, they don't have to improve the software; it's guaranteed revenue as long as one wants to use the tool. Eventually a competitor might step in and create something better, but until then you're stuck paying whether or not the software is improving.
On the other hand, some of the best ideas in any field can come from outside that field. There is benefit to not being constrained by conventional wisdom (which often times can be outdated or just wrong).
The use of an annotative '#e' to get an exact number contrasts with Perl 6's choices for the default interpretation of number literals. The Perl 6 choice adopts scientific notation to correspond to floats:

200000000000000000000 # exact (integer) 2 * 10 ** 20
0.00000000000000000002 # exact (rational) 2 * 10 ** -20
0.2e-19 # inexact (float) 2 * 10 ** -20
2e20 # inexact (float) 2 * 10 ** 20
Cofactor Genomics (YC S15) plans to analyze cRNA for consumer diagnostics
> bug fixes don't make sales.

Has anybody ever tested that hypothesis?
I'm hoping that Android gets a lot better on the battery usage before that happens in earnest though. I've read they've focused on this recently but I haven't had time to drill into details.

I love Windows Phone and have had 3 different models since Windows Phone 7. I'm currently on a Lumia 830 for my private phone and get about 3.5-4 days of battery life. Granted I don't call/text a lot relying on email, Lync and Skype. My previous Lumia 520 was about the same, and the previous LG E900 was 2.5-3 days.

My partner has a Moto G (1st Generation) and loves it but only gets about 1-1.5 days of battery life. Good phone, similar price levels after offers on the Lumia 830, but dramatically lower battery life.
To learn.

Mike Ash is a well known developer with a lot of great things to say about Apple technologies (I believe his day job is with Rogue Amoeba). He regularly breaks down notable parts of the Apple software stack and reimplements them as a learning exercise. His entire blog is worth a read.
I installed this Emulator http://www.ccs64.com/
It linked the file extensions of the game to the emulator, hence I only needed to double click the game file.
My first impression: Had my volume turned up and accidentally moved my cursor over the power button. Now I'm deaf and never coming back. I can't think of a recent example where playing sound effects when hovering over an element has been a good idea.
I agree with the article when it poses that a product should be built because you enjoy doing so and when it becomes a company you should do it to generate revenue and not an exit.

However, it's incoherent that an article that is against the "Go big or go home" philosophy discusses how much your company valuation needs to multiply given you sell X% of shares in T amount of time.

At least in today's macroeconomic context, a company is the best platform to scale something valuable, and investors are there to help with that scaling process.
People have these marginal goals of working 9-5 going to the beach on the weekend, having a couple kids, then retiring at 65/70 and traveling or whatever till they die at 85.

You're drawing lines where there are none. Why, exactly, is striving for but not necessarily achieving a billion dollar company a more worthwhile pursuit than raising children and traveling the world?

If you are in a position that you can start your own company and raise money for it, the worst that can happen is that you have to go find a job.

No, the worst that can happen is that you waste years of your life, and look back as an old man and only see a series of failed ventures to your name.
Hey! On an unrelated note I just noticed your name and thought I'd pop by to thank you. You released the Gr8W8UpD8M8, and I used that as a base for me to set up my own version of it. I still use it daily, so thanks for that! My code is available on GitHub as well[1], forked from your own. I never did get around to making it simple enough for other people to start using it out of the box, but I came pretty close. Just thought I'd say thanks for making your project open source!

[1]https://github.com/Ryan-Myers/Wiiboard-Net