skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I clicked, expecting it to be an audio/video clip that I'd maybe, possibly get around to listening to/watching. Pleasantly surprised to find it was a transcript of the speech instead.

I still put it into Instapaper, though.
To back up what JofArnold is saying, I have been told that Hon Hai (aka Foxconn) receives about $15 for the assembly of an iPad. I'd bet they get about the same, give or take $10 for assembling each iPhone. As a point of reference an assembly worker there makes about $3,500 USD per year or $1.50 per hour (note, the company provides housing and some food).
I second SEOMoz. First learned of them in Mixergy and I have found his blog to be a great resource.
These are just poorly designed webpages, regardless of when they were made.

After all, Craigslist is also "stuck in the 1990s."
No, travel costs $500-$1000 per month

If you're careful, travelling can be even cheaper. I went travelling through Vietnam, China, Mongolia and Russia on my own this year and probably spent ~$10 a day, and that includes food, accommodation and travel. If you're young, stay in decent hostels and never fly.

Take the train everywhere and even if you don't speak the same language, people are incredibly friendly and generous. One of my best memories was drinking vodka with a group of Russian soldiers whilst on the Trans-Siberian.

- People don't hate Americans

This is totally true, even in some countries you might think differently (e.g. Vietnam). Some of the funniest and best people to be around when I was travelling were from America.
Careful, the expression "every sane person..." treads awfully close to "No True Scotsman..." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman

More importantly, distinguishing gains from risk is only meaningful if gains are entirely decoupled from risk. I claim that many entrepreneurs seek non-monetary gains like prestige or autonomy, and pursue strategies that maximize prestige or autonomy at the expense of their risk-adjusted financial gain.

A taste for risk and/or a taste for the pure satisfaction of managing risk is a non-monetary gain. If we accept my claim that some entrepreneurs seek some non-monetary gains, how can we be certain that no entrepreneur seeks risk as its own reward?

My unprofessional opinion is that some entrepreneurs seek risk and rationalize their risk-seeking behaviour as a quest for maximal financial gains. I'd extend that risk-seeking and rationalizing behavior to explain why many people join early-stage startups. When you look at the average risk-adjusted return of being a startup employee, a great deal of rationalization is necessary to claim that you're in it for the money.
I listen to Macbreak Weekly. Alex Lindsay (founder of Pixel Corps and a regular) constantly bemoans the lack of USB3 for professionals and that it's actually a problem for what he does (as in there are USB3 peripherals he uses).

But Intel is not supporting it so I think Apple's hands are tied until they do. It does seem like a strange thing not to support until of course you factor in Intel pushing their own alternative (Light Peak?).

Intel supports many things long before there's a point to them (eg DDR3 when it had no tangible benefit over DDR2 (initially) and cost 4x as much).

I used to think that Blu-ray would come to Apple when it was sufficiently cheap. I've changed my mind on that. I think there's a fair chance it never will. I can see optical drives disappearing altogether. If you want one, it'll be a USB peripheral.

Some Macbook owners replace the optical drive with an SSD (or their normal HD with an SSD and the optical drive with a spindle HD for storage). I would actually really like to see a Macbook that came as standard with two hard drives.

As it is, Intel is updating their (excellent) X25 HDs at the end of the year (or early 2011). My next MBP will probably get one of those (150 or 300GB).
I remember my college economics professor always made the point that "risk-averse consumers" are the rational decision makers in our economy. I almost totally believed him, and thought hack who'd be that dumb kid taking the extra risk without being benefited from it.

Well, now I realise, that dumb kid is me!
Its using sqlite, which folks say its more for desktop use. I wonder if this would scale.
TED : John Lloyd inventories the invisible
Okay, here's a trick. The goal is to detect people who can't discriminate bad stuff from good, can't restrain themselves from replying to a troll (or can't identify when they are doing so).

The mechanism is, counter-intuitively, to allow people to rate their own comments. However, this rating is not to be directly used to affect how the comment is displayed, since that would obviously be easy to game. Instead, it would be used to identify people who can't restrain themselves from engaging in a low quality discussion; ie, replying to a troll or similar.

Obviously we can't expect trolls to rate their own post as trollish, but we can expect at least some people to have the self-knowledge required to admit when they are posting while annoyed or similar.

So, the system assumes that a comment is only as good quality as its parent, or at least, not much better. Obviously, one can make a good contribution in reply to a bad one, but it's not necessarily a problem to discourage this - since the reader of such a contribution has to read the bad contribution to get to the good one.

Internally, each user has their own scale, which their replies - and the replies to their comments - relate to the scales of other users, using the above assumption. A user would then be shown only comments to which they are likely to reply; this means trolls see all the trolls, but quality users see only other quality comments.

There are a couple of potential problems. One is that it would bias people against replying to deeply nested comments; and ultimately, towards making submissions instead of replies. One rather drastic way to deal with this would be to remove the submission mechanism, and only have one conversation tree; the frontpage items would then be the roots of current discussions inferred from the structure of the tree.

The second problem is that while this mechanism would help current users filter out trolls, it would do nothing to help new users find the best discussions. There is a conflict between preventing the system being gamed, and allowing new users to find the best discussions; because the former would prefer the ratings to be secret, but the latter would allow information about them to be public. It is not obvious that there is a workable trade-off.
The technology stack of StackOverflow is excellent. The scalability potential is rationally limitless.

Joel, Jeff and crew did a great job. Huge kudos to them.
If we're going to discuss this again, I might as well introduce an expression I didn't see in the last piece on HTML5 vs. Silverlight:

"Embrace. Extend. Extinguish."

Perhaps Microsoft embracing HTML5 is merely a return to their old strategy of luring customers into using their technologies in the hopes of introducing enough incompatibility over time that the "standard" becomes useless and dies?
Cat Stevens (yusuf Islam) and Ozzy Osbourne on Stage
The ranking is based on visitors, not page views. Based on the graphs posted a few weeks ago at http://imgur.com/a/haHHz, it looks like you have about 2.8 million unique visitors per month to SO's 8.6 million in Quantcast
That's quite a negative word about someone else on a thread about negative comments.
I object to the line about farmers living in shacks of mud and cow dung. This is probably going to sound weird to most readers, but cow dung is actually an excellent building material for plastering walls. Seriously. When it's dry you can mix it with water and a bit of straw and make an excellent plaster. It doesn't smell at all and for some reason it discourages flies. If I lived in rural India again I'd make sure my kitchen walls were plastered with cow dung.
About Denis Ouellette and Robert Berry
Denis Ouellette, Founder and CEO, entrepreneur and music enthusiast. Over 35 years Denis was involved in numerous commercial real estate projects as a broker, developer and investor. Denis has held executive level management positions in various companies including CareCall a call center start up. Design Repeats, a consignment furniture and new home accessories retail store in Denver, CO, is a current start up Denis started with his wife of 29 years with 2010 sales growing over 300% from 2009. Raised in a musical home Denis has always had a love of music. As a stage dad he has nurtured many young musicians including his daughter Rose, a young budding musical theater star. He also served on the non-profit board of The Colorado Children’s Chorale.

Robert Berry, Co-founder and Chief Musical Officer, entrepreneur, accomplished performing and recording artist for over 40 years. Robert is the owner of Soundtek Studios in Campbell, CA. Robert’s award winning work has appeared in film and TV and he has recorded sound-alike songs for clients including Guitar Hero, Apple, San Jose Sharks and Nokia. Years of touring with artists such as Keith Emerson, Carl Palmer, Ambrosia and Hush provides a long list of music industry friends who are excited to contribute to DAWsome’s success. For more information on Robert visit www.robertberry.com
"It's better to be a pirate than join the navy"

http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Pirate_Flag.txt
This is uniques? Ah, that changes things then ha. Although none of those graphs there list our uniques (I don't think? Don't match the figures I have here and GA calls them "Uniques" explicitly, they're visitors in those graphs) we are definitely lower than the 8m SO has.

I checked, the graphs you linked are visits. As of today our visits is at just shy of 11,000,000.

Edit: Ah, you're right. I see, under "visitors". Yeah, that looks about right, we have closer to 3m uniques. So many different terms in stats :D I wonder what the value of uniques vs. page views is.
It's accurate though. Hopefully more people will take your comments about real world identities in context.
My old roommate knew he'd really aced his interview to be an assistant english teacher there when they asked him who the prime minister was and were flabbergasted that he could reply off the cuff.
Ask HN: How to explain value of co-op in one line?
I am a huge fan of cooperatives, and I think the Internet opens up some unique opportunities for cooperative ventures.

Over the years, I've thought up a handful of web-based cooperative business ideas -- such as a web hosting company, or an Amazon alternative -- but I have always failed at coming up with a one-line "here's the value of a co-op" marketing pitch that would immediately resonate with a visitor to the site.

I'd love to hear suggestions from people about how to concisely communicate this value to people.

Just to give you a little Cooperative 101: Unlike nonprofits, cooperatives do exist to make a profit. But unlike regular companies, they are 100-percent owned by their members, not outside investors. With consumer cooperatives, the members are the people who buy things from the business. And the cool thing is, when a co-op makes a profit, it goes back to the members, either in the form of refunds or lower prices.

My instinct is to emphasize the ownership aspect -- e.g., "When we profit, you profit."

But is that the best angle to play up?
http://sandersn.com/blog//index.php/2008/06/06/math_notation...
similar thought to jffio is behind why i try remember to tell people "because i don't make time" in stead of "i dont have time" when they ask why i havent started/finished the projects i talk about.

making time aka passion, drive, determination is major factor in peoples "sucess"
Perhaps they're taking advantage of BizSpark or WebSpark or a similar programs. If they aren't, the dual CPU machine they mention would require $14,000 of SQL Server licenses (if you paid list).

EDIT: Actually there's a newer "Web Edition" targeted to roles like this that halves the price. So $7,000 for that server (the details are sparse, but it also sounds like you can opt into it for $15 / month / processor).

That's a lot to someone trying to shoehorn a startup, but is it really a lot for real businesses?

On the server end they still have tremendous headroom in the scaling up department...and that's before the Westmere-EX drops and bumps the top up quite a significant amount. You can add 1TB of memory, and four 8-core processors, to commodity Dell servers. That's before you get into the serious business.
For low level software architecture, at the level of the firmware that drives processors (plus the electronics that are below that), as NonEUCitizen recommended MIT's 6.004 is a good bet (http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...).

For the medium level, assembly language and on up a fair bit (at least to C), CMU's got what looks like a great course and book: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~213/ There's enough meat on the web page for the course that it should give you an idea if you want to get the book.

For the higher levels, in addition to the MIT Computer System Engineering courses mentioned by Mithrandir (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1850311), especially 6.033, check out this classic from the '70s: Lions' Commentary on UNIX 6th Edition, with Source Code (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lions%27_Commentary_on_UNIX_6th...).

Me and a lot of other people learned the basics from it, and while it's certainly dated, it has the advantage of being lucid and complete while not being too big or overwhelming, and of course nowadays if you want to go so far as running a Version 6 UNIX there are PDP-11 simulators that you can use for the purpose. I.e. it's a good foundation, like SICP is for languages and TAOCP is for algorithms (although there are less detailed and difficult books to get you started on algorithms that you might want to try first).

Good luck and enjoy!
> I think a big problem with a "harsh debate climate" is that the people who can provide real value with experience, knowledge and insight will stay away.

An overly civil debate climate, viewed as a "circle jerk", might also keep some valuable contributors away. Whether that is a good thing or not is up for debate of some sort.
This is the same name as is on my id card, and has been for years now.
Look at what works in selling to yuppies: community, environment, social responsibility, sense of meaning, etc etc. You're offering money. Screw money. They have money. What can you give them in exchange for money? They'll pay five bucks for coffee if it makes a statement of how righteous they are.
This to counter number 1, but I see other issues too:

2. Trolls do not care who replies. This can avoid the argument between the OP and the troll, but does not prevent the latter to post the snarky comment in the first place. Some people just want to express their frustration attacking someone, they do not care about replies. Moreover, the lack of chance for the OP to reply could even incentivize the bad behaviour, giving the flamer a sort of "revenge" weapon. People often find gratification in silencing others.

3. Some discussions give value to the community because they happen in a short lapse of time. If someone needs 2 hours to reply, then there is a chance fewer people will see it.

4. As I said, trolls just want replies, from anyone. Flaming the full community could even be more satisfactory to him.

5. Unfortunately often there is no way of doing this because some users do not have their address in their profile.
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Ive, not Ives.

Secondly, as an Industrial Design graduate, I believe Ive has more of a functional knowledge of subjects like strength of materials. The rest is just experiential from working with industrial engineers and others at Apple. For example, what you hear him saying in the iPhone commercial about the manufacturing is experiential knowledge. His job is to design the form. It's the people under him who give him the best materials based on his requirements.

A good way to understand what the process from top to bottom is, is to hear Jobs explain how they came up with the idea for the iPhone at D8. It starts with an idea that is then handed down to relevant people to think and work on.

Both Jobs and Ive are fantastic at what they do, don't get me wrong. But the truth is they're run as much by other people's ideas as they're run by their own.
Apple "Slams" Motorola With Multitouch Lawsuit
Exactly.

USB3 currently requires an extra chip to implement, and Intel isn't going to release an on-chipset USB3 controller in the immediate future, if roadmaps are to be believed.

Apple packs things tight in their laptops (where high speed expansion is most needed) - adding an extra chip would cause design challenges.

See also why Apple is staying with the Core2Duo in their 13" and smaller laptops.
Absolutely fantastic presentation, filled with clear information I didn't know yet. (box-shadow has a spread value too? cool!)
Yup - that wouldn't be very nice :)
There are a lot of life safety devices which are made by someone other than an end user, after competitive bidding.

You either need to do testing of every article delivered, or set up something like ISO 9000/9001 quality management and accept that you will be paying a premium for a documented, repeatable process.

Counterfeit parts getting into the supply chain (which might be visually identical, and may even appear identical to testing) are a problem, but that's where having documented/audited suppliers comes in.
Double sourcing is standard. It helps also when you try to get lower prices.
I'm embarrassed to say that I have accidentally upvoted many times. This always happen on a particularly egregious comment that caused you to be distracted while clicking.

We should not remove down votes outright. I've seen a comment get downvoted to -4 because people didn't like the commentary, but then shoot back up to +10 when it was shown that they were correct after all.
Yup - no pragmatic advice offered really, just a theoretical idea. Perhaps the most interesting point is simply that it's hard to put a value to the work of a teacher.
I use:

(defmacro str (string &rest strings)

`(concatenate 'string ,string ,@strings))
Give me a plausible scenario where a company with no physical inventory to sell is making $1.5 Billion in revenue and un-profitable.
In general, text like that is never read on websites. It just adds clutter.
Thanks for the link. For anyone who prefers a downloadable version:

http://leaverou.me/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/ft2010.zip
The flag button doesn't appear until you get to the reply page - making sure people know they can flag comments would be a good start.

Also, 20% of karma isn't very useful for troll / griefers on throwaway accounts. A fixed value (-100?) might be better.
They do: http://www.google.com/phone/
+1 for Redmine. The windows story is a lot better, too (Apache on windows = suck). Multi-project/repo out of the box with no kludgey plugins. Custom workflow is configurable through the web interface vs. text config.. in fact, MUCH more of Redmine's config is exposed via the web interface vs text files (pretty much source control binaries, email and database provider/location is the only stuff you need to configure via config file ootb).

Really, Redmine is very similar, in my opinion to Trac. But I think it benefits from hindsight and doesn't carry any of the historical implementation limitations/baggage of Trac.
Apple is responsible for shockingly little of the innovation in the smartphone field.

They didn't create their processor (though they managed to brand it and fool a lot of people for a while). They didn't create the GPU.

They didn't create the "Retina display" or their memory or their touchscreen sensor.

They are a software company that other companies -- like LG and Samsung -- supply with hardware.

The electronics market has traditionally been a very low margin industry (which is good for consumers). Apple has managed a pretty remarkable game of finding a very profitable niche and exploiting it as it exploded, with them in a leadership position, however it is not sustainable, which Apple realizes.

And it is simply perverse seeing people actually bragging on behalf of Apple about the fact that they are rolling in cash.
Ask HN: Selling old Project Assets
Hey HN -- I've got tons of old and new project assets, and I'm sure many others do too. Does anyone know a place to sell these, or some sort of place where HackersNews members could sell old assets to each other such as:

Site designs

Old code or programs

Domains, etc
Thanks for the response!

I hear you. The reason I'm pursuing the project is because the product is nontechnical, cheap to build, and has mainstream appeal. There is no rocket science involved here. I'm taking existing tech and combining it in a new way that I think (and everybody says this, I know) could be really exciting.

I am looking for a technical cofounder and I might have one with my current coder. We're just phasing our way through the initial build of the site to see if we work well together. He's had some success on previous projects but we just met a couple of months ago. It's going to take time for us to figure out if we can work well together. Things are going well so far, so that's encouraging.

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Edit Note: I don't know why the comment above was downvoted. I tried to upvote it but it stayed at 0. No offense taken by me whatsoever.
Materiality comes from the effect of the acquired company on the purchaser's assets or income (I forget if it's pretax or net). Google has so many assets and so much in income that over half a billion dollars doesn't cross the threshold.

When you do a material acquisition, you have to file financial statements for the acquired company. If it's 40% or more, you have to file pro forma financials, restating historical numbers for the go-forward entity as if it was one company for the past year (maybe two - again, I forget the specific details). The non-materiality is why we don't have financials for AdMob, even though Google paid $750MM for it.
I joke many programmers switch to an "autistic mode", when they shut off everything around them and focus completely on the computer in front of them and the code they are writing. Myself included.
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Growth of Network Consulting Training Seminars
Right, and there's a lot of good research into why people become criminals, and most do not do it because they're thrill seekers.

Instead, it mostly has to do with their expected costs and benefits, just like any other choice. If one comes from a poor background and lives in a society with poor upward mobility, your quality of life as well as life expectancy is low anyway, so the risk of crime is less severe compared to the expected gains.

No wealthy people became pirates. If risk aversion/attraction was all there was to it, they would.
Site doesn't seem to work in Chrome 7 on Mac OS X 10.6 -- or maybe I just couldn't figure out how to use it.
This SO question does a pretty good job of running down my opinions on Fogbugz (used it once at a former client, wasn't really overwhelmed).

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14293/are-there-any-unhap...
We use Lighthouse http://lighthouseapp.com/
We needed a simple tool which can also be used by people who have minimal computer knowledge...
Two improvements:

1. Make it a checkbox people have to check. Just to force people to take one minor action, and read it.

2. Rotate the text with a variety of different statements, just to mix it up:

"Are you being nice?"
"Does this contribute to the conversation?"
"Following the golden rule here?"

and most importantly:

"Will this get upvoted?"

:P

It's a low tech solution which focuses on fostering community values.