skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, it's probably a good idea, but in order to make statements about effectiveness, you've got to show some numbers.

What I'm thinking is that while the conversion rate may be a lot better than with something like AdSense, how many people are going to find out about this promotion? (that aren't already ubuntu users)
I read it this way: He 'lost' further millions by quitting and foresaking that money. And they were millions that other players made instead of him.
Because this is a bid job, if you'd bothered to see a little further. Maybe you should brush up on your job-hunting skills.
Sorry, that's a common misconception about Henry Ford. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1757576 for a bunch of interesting factoids about early cars and how Ford was not first.
Mr. Macedo speaks perfectly comprehensible English. I understood every single word he uttered. Your comment is unnecessary and hurtful. What would be a "great idea" is if you added value somewhere instead of putting people down.

Mr. Macedo keep up the great job!
I was trying to point out that successful poker players might be a part of the same group they're "preying on" - those with gambling addictions. Of course, as you said, they're successful, so the addiction might not be considered a problem.

However, if it is an addiction they may be financially successful, but unable to psychologically satisfy their their appetite for money or risk.

I wouldn't say that any serial startup founder has an "entrepreneurship problem", but if they were never satisfied with their accomplishments, I would view that as a negative.

The quote from the article was:
>"[T]hey still want more. You're never happy."

I would consider that anyone who repeats a cycle of behaviour with the goal of achieving happiness or satisfaction but who always feels disappointed or unsettled might have a problem.
I'm sure you're right. Just as any restaurant might be kicking ass while one down the street barely, if at all, breaks even.

They'd appear to be executing the same business model, but the devil is in the details, as always
Seriously. Seems to me it's the 'old NASA' that would pick a name like "the Escape Vehicle". The names NASA picks always strike some kind of chord of passion in me.
They can tax stuff to discourage it, or adjust interest rates.

Or borrow and spend, which ought to drive up inflation, but require the BoE to keep inflation low, by artificially holding interest rates low making money too cheap and risk impossible to assess.

I say it again: if you are bank A and you won't lend at a low rate and banks B, C and D do then A goes out of business when its customers desert it for doing the "right thing" and the situation is unchanged. The alternative is for A, B, C and D to get together and fix interest rates (prices) themselves, at which point their CEOs are looking at jail time.

The banks are merely scapegoats for the politicians. And you've fallen for it hook, line and sinker. What would I like the government to do instead? It can start by paying off the deficit...
While I knew this was possible, I'd never considered it. However, with HipHop (http://github.com/facebook/hiphop-php/wiki), this might actually be an acceptable and great way to develop desktop applications.
Thanks for all the advice and different point of views. I though I'd be lucky to get 1 or 2 responses. I hadn't expected more than 40.
It sure offers some food for thought.

Some people said: live with it, people don't read their email. Well, I send at least 20 mails a day at the daytime job, and I know quite well how much the average person reads from your mail and that when you ask a direct question, it usually gets answered.
I've also seen the same email issues with customers.

What does he bring to the table? Well, basically he handles all things I prefer not to. Does he bring something unique that can't be replaced? No.
It's pretty hard to find someone who wants to be an entrepreneur though and who wants to put in hard work that might make a profit later. For me it seems to be an almost impossible task to find someone who wants to be an entrepreneur, that is a complement to my skills, who I get along with and is fairly local to me.

I know lots of competent people, but none of them are interested in becoming an entrepreneur unfortunately.

I know from experience though that when working solo, once the fun technical part is over, it's too easy to find another interesting technology or idea and start hacking at that. I've got several of such unfinished projects. That's a big motivator for me to get a co-founder.

Concerning that it seems that we both like to be boss: well, we both have a management function (during the daytime job) where we need to coordinate/steer people. We both are used to being right.

I don't want to bring any lawyers to the table though and I don't want to just run with the project and leave him in the cold (although I could).
I wouldn't want him to do that to me, so I won't do that to him. I also know that this would make me feel too guilty, which isn't worth it.

I thought having a working product and paying customers is pretty much, but the comments on here have made me realize that this is just the beginning. Which is it, we'd have to grow the number of paying customer at least 10-fold to be able to replace our current income from the daytime job.

Basically I've decided to give it 1 month and then re-evaluate. I'm planning on putting all issues in a notebook or file somewhere together with the date, because I tend to concentrate fully on work and family and forget about what happened when. Sort of a diary, to get a better view on things.

Thanks for all the advice and insight!
> $16: what most millionaires pay for a haircut (including tip)

I wish I knew where to find a decent haircut for $16, including tip. Or are they just so rich and powerful they don't have a use for a decent haircut, and elect for the bargain-sub-basement chop?

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EDIT: I should characterize this statement a bit. My hair is very thick, and has a mind of it's own. It has been my experience, over many many years, that stylists at low-end shops repeatedly

1) fail to blend my hair well, making it look so ragged it looks like a 5yo cut it with craft safety scissors.

2) fail to understand my hair. It won't go the way you want it to go without GLUE, so the stylist has to work WITH my hair.

Mid-range shops usually have barbers who are up to snuff. Costs me $20-25 usually.
Jeff Bezos: What matters more than your talents
HTML5 Web Workers need access to the DOM. And IE9 support
I was provisioned a Small instance (with the 1.7GB ram).
Did everyone else get a Micro?

Unixbench 5.1.2 gave me a score of 133.5 on the one I booted.
Anyone know if this is pretty much par for the course on a EC2.small?

BTW, I've gotten excellent unixbench numbers (around the 500 mark) on one of lsc's smaller Xen instances(512M from prgmr.com)
This is one thing I find very interesting about NPR. They almost have to multi-task listening to the interview and reading the article at the same time. Each add to eachother in their own way.

I hope this isn't planned, sometimes it is impossible to listen to the interview while reading the article.
You don't have to spend money straight away, you can use money to make your life comfortable, or buy crap. Money does not have a time limit on it.

It is not just about spending less, it is about getting people to realize that rich people do not do show of there riches buy buying crap. (86% of luxury cars are owned by people with less than <$1m). So maybe you should not buy that crap either?

It is only a recent event that we have become such a consumer driven society, just after WW2 when we had all this extra factory producing capabilities (due to the war), and the advertising industry really kicked it up a notch.
What about relocating to a place where 16$ is a decent price for a haircut ? That's what I did roughly, and the haircut seems to be welcomed by my wife, too :)
The gist of this article is a paradox. Rich people don't act like rich people? Surely, then, you should act like rich people if rich people are spending less, etc.
Descartes and the Pineal Gland
The Bloomberg helpdesk was never designed to be used in that way, but generally the guys and gals staffing it were given quite a lot of flexibility in answering clients.

Bloomberg actually took quite an interesting approach to staffing their helpdesk, everyone (except for developers) who joins the company from university has to spend a few months working on the help desk. So all the help desk staff are highly educated locals rather than outsourced labour. They probably have some of the most capable helpdesk staff in the technology industry.
Two Plus Two forums are not a bad place.

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/
I'm surprised that WM7 doesn't support OpenGL ES. For the launch of the Xbox, Microsoft was very careful to make it easy on developers (e.g., with XNA, which was useable on the PC, Xbox and Xbox 360). This is in contrast to Sony with the PS3 which wasn't as careful about efforts to support developers.

As a side note, Kaz Hirai, CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment, said this lack of developer support was intentional: "We don't provide the 'easy to program for' console that (developers) want, because 'easy to program for' means that anybody will be able to take advantage of pretty much what the hardware can do, so then the question is, what do you do for the rest of the nine-and-a-half years?" Needless to say, this seems absurd.

To attract developers and apps to WM7, Microsoft should be thinking about ways to make it as easy as possible for developers to port apps from existing platforms over to WM7 (particularly from iOS and Android). WM7 is already facing an uphill battle. There's no reason to create more friction in the system.
It seems to me "always wanting more and never being happy" is a pretty common human condition, especially in the west. Hell, the entire advertising industry thrives on reminding us of this condition. A good book that deals with this is "The Happiness Trap" by Russ Harris. I've really enjoyed applying his techniques to my life and being more content because of it.
In SF, Lee Hong in the Mission (http://www.yelp.com/biz/lee-hong-hair-styling-san-francisco), $12 + tip.

Lily has been there almost 30 years.
Speaking of being impressed by Google, I wouldn't have been able to decipher that reference a decade or so ago, but today, I can type "i have no * and i must *" into a text box, and the answer is presented to me. The future is pretty great.
Fun Things to do when the timer hits the low digits:

Start 'sudo rm -rf' ing twigs, branches, trunks of your filesystem.

I took a chance on /var before losing access to the instance. That was fun.
Pedophilia is a sign that a species or a culture has longer term sexual relationships. Which our culture considers to be a good thing. Which makes it ironic that we consider pedophilia a bad thing.

This is a ridiculously disjointed argument. It's like saying our culture considers having more material items a good thing, so it's ironic that we consider theft a bad thing. A minor but controversial "benefit" from pedophilia hardly counteracts the significant negative effects that we rightly frown upon.
"Cars don't come with hidden costs in the form of overdraft charges, late payment fees and foreclosure and the seizure of your assets, if you pay cash for them."

You are mentioning all of them here. Can we really call these costs "hidden"? Many things in life are hidden from ignorant people. This doesn't mean we should ban them from everyone.

"People should not by default be allowed to borrow this much money for simple reasons such as financial health of the nation and (in)solvency of the banks."

This really just means less freedom for people. The government is then deciding what you can and can't do because you may make an irresponsible and wrong decision. When will it end? Should we ban Mcdonalds because it's making people fat?

"Cheap credit has become a way to push the economy forward on money that hasn't been rightfully earned yet, that can't go on forever before it will come back to haunt us, the mortgage crisis is one nice example of what happens when the financial system is rotten. I won't be surprised if there will be another chapter to this based on the amount of credit card debt there and the number of people that find that they are no longer in a position to fulfill their obligations."

I know so many people that are in Credit card debt (I was also in debt myself..and managed to cut back spending for a couple of years to pay it off). Most of them are there because they wanted to buy things they couldn't afford.

The mortgage crises can also be blamed on irresponsibility. I saw a dateline special where a woman lied on her application to get a house she couldn't afford it ended up going into foreclosure. She blamed the banks. She said they shouldn't have allowed her to get the loan in the first place. It's this line of thinking that is destroying the US.
Australia's largest telco slams Apple's "walled garden"
The overcomingbias.com crew's mission to construct a New Libertian Man is taking a weird turn.
I would be very surprised if the average pedophile even had one victim. I think you do not know or do not want to know the meaning of the term pedophile. A pedophile is simply someone who is attracted to prepubescent people—nothing more. Most of them are probably not acting on it.

The article seems to me to be relatively good and—to me—contains no obvious fallacies. (What the author means is actually ephebophilia, but that's probably not that important.)
This article is very relevant to our company as we redesign our social product to better achieve the network effect and reduce this exact issue. Thanks for the great insights.
Loans and mortgages don't come with hidden costs, either--it's all in the paperwork if you can be arsed to read it or hire a lawyer to read it for you. And by that standard, cars come with "hidden" costs too, in terms of maintenance and insurance. (And the maintenance costs can be pretty well hidden, too. Who knows whether your car's going to be a falling-apart piece of shit in five years?)
Didn't work for me. At least not with ssh-key based auth, don't know what user name to use. too bad.
It's a specious argument, sure, but offensive? It's a potential (IMHO: deeply flawed) alternate take on explaining the prevalence of a sociological phenomenon.

Since when did we become anti-intellectual to the point where we will get our panties in a bunch over the idle thoughts of a blog? It may be a dumb post, full of errors and bad assumptions, etc etc, but offensive?
It's possible it's even older than this, but the earliest mention I can find of that quote has it being attributed to a Reverend T. Garrott Benjamin, Jr. in 1987: http://books.google.com/books?id=2bMDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA16
For a quad rotor this is the most important part, once the feedback loop for the ideal position is in place in order to control the quad rotor you simply change the ideal position using a similar feedback loop from the controller (only a feedback loop if your controllers have servos to provide tactile feedback).
I notice that you're using a polling thread keep track of modification times. I know that linux has inotify: http://github.com/seb-m/pyinotify and OsX has something similar with FSEvents: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/MacFSEvents
If you don't have a RSA key stored in your Ubuntu SSO account, they will provide a temporary password, that you have to change immediately after login.
The costs of finding replacements for apps you (think you) need and of getting used to them can be way higher than that of buying them.
1. It's a slow Sunday, go outside.
2. There are not millions of web servers, unless you mean deployed then there are way more than millions.
3. You're right, the only reason anyone cares is because I wrote it. Just move along and don't go use it. Nothing for you here.
4. You're right, this being on HN is absolutely stupid. But hey, people try to have lives any way they can.
> OpenGL ES 2.0 (which I believe Angry Birds uses heavily).

I don't think the exact version of OpenGL ES Angry Bird uses for its implementation is very relevant considering WP7 doesn't support it at all, in any version.
That add-on looks bad ass. Thanks!
Have you seen donald trump?

But seriously, what is a decent haircut? Unless you are getting something fancy, short back and sides should suit most people.
I wonder in which (if not all) ways this applies to Clojure.
Your comment would be more effective without the parts on either end.
Silly, rich people don't drive cars, their chauffeurs do.
Home, jeeves.
Make Your Husband Fall in Love With You
You can also make your husband fall in love with you again by taking a look at your own qualities which first attracted him. In any case, you should enhance these qualities and he will start noticing them again.
I don't see anything in there that would indicate the readers were tampered at the factory. Am I missing it or is there another source that says this?
Ask HN: Thoughts on GWT?
I've been a little dismissive of GWT as a tool for creating complex front-end logic and interfaces mostly because I prefer writing JS code. But I am curious: where do other developers stand on JS vs GWT? Is anyone other than Google building major apps with it?

EDIT: left out "logic and interfaces"
Why? Do you really believe that driving a fancy car and buying expensive wine actually makes you happier? This is the illusion.

It seems better to me to be able to buy a fancy car and know that you don't want one, than it is to live in a fantasy world were buying stuff makes you happy.
mmm NZ seems very high in the rankings but the vc/angel investment community very immature over here... possible opportunity for low hanging fruit just across the ditch for a few valley based investors perhaps ? ;-)
I believe free markets are competitive and hobbled markets are not and non-voluntary government is monopolistic.

When our activities impose costs on others, that should be remedied. If my making a buck creates a nickel's worth of pollution damage to you, I should be made to pay that nickel.

That doesn't make a market less free, as one has the right to be free of the pollution of others too. A "free" market recognizes the rights of all involved.

And it actually makes markets more efficient. If I am making a buck and it costs you $5 in pollution, an efficient market sends me a clear signal to stop.

But it seems to me that government is more in the business of shifting benefits to some for political purposes and shifting costs to its opponents. And that is not helping protect anybody's rights.
Indeed. But then I recall the time - a few months ago - when I saw a Bugatti Veyron in Bond Street here in London. Those guys - and it's usually guys - are millionaires for sure.

(Bond Street is famous for its jewellers, Sotheby's, etc.)
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No, people want to live how they actually believe the rich live, from watching too much tv, rather the truth.
When you travel a lot, or are not near a computer often the spare battery pain becomes mightily obvious. The typical I'm at home/work pattern has plenty of chances to charge.
> I'm surprised that WM7 doesn't support OpenGL ES.

Really? They have their own platform, tools and technologies which they're clearly trying to push and which unify their offerings, how is that surprising exactly? Last time I checked, the 360 offered absolutely no support for OpenGL.

> Microsoft was very careful to make it easy on developers

For developers using Microsoft technology. Windows Phone 7 mandates .net for development, either Silverlight or XNA (for games) and forbids C or raw C++. As with Android, WP7 will be launching without an NDK.
I see a lot of economists making arguments of this form:

1. There is this social norm I observe. ("Which makes it ironic that we consider pedophilia a bad thing.")

2. The social norm is justified by some sort of moral/psychological factor. ("So why are we so offended? Perhaps the key is our extending kid dependency further via more years of school....")

3. However, science tells us that the social norm is bad for some reason. ("Pedophilia is a sign that a species or a culture has longer term sexual relationships.")

4. Thus, we are silly and irrational people for believing the social norm in the face of science. ("Count this as another way we have not fully adapted to industry era novelties.")

Now where does this argument fall apart?

A. The step of 1 to 2 is unjustified. There are plenty of other reasons behind a particular social norm besides the one proposed, often more attractive than that one proposed. For example, most people probably consider sexual relationships between an older man and a teenage woman unacceptable because of unequal dominance factors, because it curtails the teenager's formative development years, etc.

B. The step of 3 is unjustified. The mere fact that science leads to one conclusion does not mean that it leads to other conclusions. There are, perhaps, scientific reasons why pedophilia is good, if the author's views are taken as true. But the author ignores the fact that there may well be scientific evidence in the other direction.

C. The step of 3 to 4 is unjustified. The mere fact that science leads to one conclusion does not mean that it trumps all. Indeed, the triumph of humanity is often that it can overcome factors that might otherwise be considered "innate" or "natural." For example, it is in the nature of some people to go around killing others; we do not say that this is permissible because it is simply in those people's natures.
I skimmed this briefly, saw the sentence "qmail is horrid, non-free software", and didn't bother to read closely, knowing that it was written by someone who hasn't even taken the time to learn that qmail is in the public domain. You probably aren't even engaging the argument, which does not revolve around Bernstein's software being bad.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_1-litre_car#Producti...

Volkswagen approved a limited production by 2010. However, production has been delayed until 2013. The initial price is still unknown.
What should one look for to identify the availability of these "new" groups?
Yea that could be quite cool.

When I saw the web cam version I also envisioned something like chatroulette -- but where you move pieces around. Maybe that could be turned into a game of some sort..
Link to Tim Jackson's TED talk (~20 min): http://www.ted.com/talks/tim_jackson_s_economic_reality_chec...

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Anti-Consumerism was a main theme in the movie Fight Club. This scene, where Norman describes his "perfect" apartment, will always be memorable to me (partially edited):

Like so many others, I had become a slave to the Ikea nesting instinct. Like a coffee table in the shape of a yin-yang, I had to have it. The Klipsk personal office unit. The Hovetrekke home exerbike. Or the Ohamshab sofa with the Strinne green stripe pattern. Even the Ryslampa wire lamps of environmentally-friendly unbleached paper.

I'd flip through catalogues and wonder "What kind of dining set defines me as a person?"

I had it all. Even the glass dishes with tiny bubbles and imperfections, proof that they were crafted by the honest, hard-working, indigenous peoples of...

...wherever.
Haircut is $2.5 here :D
Snapshot of the new workplace and the symbolism of “horizontal academics”
>>apps are somehow completely different (ephemeral, cheap, disposable).

For many, it might be a time investment to evaluate apps in different areas to find those which solves their problems.
> Now what about bicycles traveling around 20 mph in the right-hand side of the lane?

What worries more is the bicycles travelling around 10mph or less, in the bike lane, on the wrong side of the road. The number of times I've seen this since coming to America made me seriously wonder if the road traffic laws were that different here.

It's almost as bad as bicycles on the pavement, but at least people cycling on the wrong side of the road are somewhat predictable, whereas pavement bikers could do anything at any time. Grr!