skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My co-founder is a pothead
My co-founder, who also happens to be my brother, is a chronic pot user. This is getting to the point that it significantly interferes with our business development and progress.

He wakes up late, sometimes 1-2 pm. He lacks any desires to develop the site, to come up with new features or plans. My ideas are dismissed by him because new features/plans mean more work for him. Everything he does relating to our business has absolute lack of interest on his part. Ironically, he makes his living of the site, and I don't. (I am well compensated at my full time job, so the website is a sidekick for me.)

What can I do with him? How do you deal with colleagues like that? It is getting to the point that I fear I will disavow him one day and we will loose the site...
I think this is miss-representing Buffett's position here. First off, he explicitly states that the riskiness of an asset should not be measured by its volatility:

> Assets can fluctuate greatly in price and not be risky as long as they are reasonably certain to deliver increased purchasing power over their holding period. And as we will see, a nonfluctuating asset can be laden with risk.

He goes on to describe what sorts of investments he thinks are worthwhile. Namely investments in assets that will continue to be productive in the long term.

> Investment in productive assets, whether businesses, farms, or real estate. Ideally, these assets should have the ability in inflationary times to deliver output that will retain its purchasing-power value while requiring a minimum of new capital investment.

Again, this isn't framed in terms of risk. Probably because with a diversified portfolio the risk is not at all analogous to flipping a coin (there is obviously still risk, but it's not that simple). Instead, it's framed as current versus future consumption.

As for gold, I don't think he frames it in terms of speculation versus investment at all. Buffett recognizes that gold will probably continue to hold value. Instead, he decides to frame the question in terms of whether gold is a productive asset. It isn't. It will just sit there.

> You can fondle the cube, but it will not respond.
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Yes.

The S&P for example has had a roughly 2% average dividend yield on its basket of stocks over the past several decades. That helps, as without that dividend value the real return for stocks would be even worse the past decade.

For dividends to work in an inflationary environment, you need serious yield. AT&T and Verizon as common stocks would get you close with their 6%x yields. Most people these days of course can't get access to good yield on anything with interest rates on the floor (corporate debt and select few dividends being nearly the sole safe exceptions).
When looking for modules, a good place to start is the list of recommendations in Task::Kensho. https://metacpan.org/module/Task::Kensho

To refresh your Perl skills, there's the Modern Perl book. http://www.onyxneon.com/books/modern_perl/index.html
Former discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3438513
Interesting, could you please elaborate on this use of git. It will be helpful. Thanks.
I worked on an antarctic research project for several years, including one trip to the south pole. Our specific project used Red Hat Linux with a number of open source libraries for communicating with hardware. Interfaces were programmed in Python.
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TT performance really can be a bitch. When I'm profiling Catalyst apps to improve performance I pretty much always assume that the first set of hotspots I'll find will be either Template Toolkit or waiting for database queries. The controller code and the Catalyst stack itself very rarely show up noticeably - and I'd suspect that Catalyst being the heaviest (or most featureful, depending on how you want to lookat it :) of the currently popular frameworks that that's likely to be true of everything else as well.
They have the right to offer anything they want, but ignoring users who want more control over their supposed Gmail space just isn't putting the user first, it's putting profits first. But I guess greed isn't evil, right?
You have a valid point, given such a constrained space makes it easier to recover that stuff. For what it's worth, we used salted SHA-1 hashes, which would make it harder if somebody were to get a hold of the data, but of course, it wouldn't prevent us from doing the hash reversal ourselves if we were to turn "evil" some day.
It's even more unlikely because you then have to find a buyer that's willing to pay market price for the gold wherever you end up at. You'll be reduced to selling it for whatever people are willing to pay.
Thanks for your reference. I'll try it, but after reading its documentation I'm afraid it doesn't have support for the much needed and non-standard CSS properties invented by PrinceXML (http://princexml.com/doc/8.0/properties/)
Do it!!! I've always intended to extend the simulator to support obstacles and directional inputs but never got round to it.

We need more things like this in JS :D
CodeKit seems to have taken your feedback to heart.
Paranoia is not an investment strategy.

There are a whole lot of things that have to go seriously wrong before we revert back to a gold-based currency. Even if we did, all the gold in the world won't help with the food shortages resulting from the collapse of companies like Monsanto.

Most of the grain we use has to be chemically activated to grow. If the country falls apart to the point where those chemicals are not available, there is no amount of gold that will buy a loaf of bread.
Unfortunately it is worth noting that FDR instigated the greatest private wealth seizure in the history of the planet when he stole all of America's privately held gold with force.

If you've got a government that is willing to plunder like that, there's no great way to keep your wealth safe except to get yourself and your wealth out of the country.
App Store bot farms are mobile's 'dirty little secret'
A snarky reply about me having previously rolled my own divide and square root functions on videogame consoles in assembler, happy?
Thanks Matt, everyone I was in touch with at Google made me feel super comfortable, you guys are doing it right :)
I'm referring to the wording. The author never hesitates to exclaim genius compliments, but equally opinionated proclamations about the negative aspects of his character not proclaimed. Facts are stated, but there are no proclamations describing what type of person that means SJ to be.
Absolutely amazing for the edtech space to see high profile, tech elite join the industry.
The problem with gold in times of turmoil basically boils down to you saying "here's (insert weight) of gold that I'll use to pay for this", and the person you're dealing with saying "yeah, and I'm the Queen of England".

Without some sort of neutral respected authority to assay and say "yup, it's gold", you just have shiny pebbles and/or dust. And when everything around you has collapsed, reliable access to a trusted assayer may not be so... reliable.
And then there's my actual simulator -- who needs comments? :D facepalm
You can call it libgit [0]

[0] http://libgit2.github.com/
The remarkable thing about Firefox is not how much it compromised on implementing IE-specific features, but rather how much market share it gained in spite of the fact that it didn't compromise on implementing IE-specific features. To name a few off the top of my head: ActiveX, filter:progid:DXImageTransform, CSS "zoom" property, insertAdjacentElement(), etc.
I think a simpler way would be to cache the value of `_.template($().html());`.
Do you want to sell advertising the rest of your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world of education?
I've been following Buffett for a long time. I've read all of the BErkshire letters and most of the partnership letters. I've read 2 biographies of him and watched and read dozens of interviews.

He was making a general abstract point, not a specific prediction. That's just the way he talks, and maybe it could be confusing if you are not used to it, but that still what it is.

And btw, MidAmerican Energy, a Berkshire owned utility, is the biggest investor in wind power in the US and just bought huge solar power projects.
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I wouldn't expect Moo to gain you much over Moose in terms of runtime performance, except in the very simple cases where Moo can use Class::XSAccessor instead of generating a perl accessor method. What you probably want instead is to profile and selectively remove type constraints - perhaps only for runtime but not for the test suite. Consider:

package MyApp::AssertIsa;

use strictures 1;
use base qw(Exporter);

our @EXPORT = qw(assert_isa);

sub assert_isa { $ENV{SOMETHING} ? @_ : () }

and then

use Moose;
use MyApp::AssertIsa;

has foo => (is => 'ro', assert_isa(isa => 'Bar'));

and flip the relevant env var for your test suite (or perhaps use one of the test harness env vars to trip it automatically for t/)
Lets listen to the jailer tell the inmates that shackles are better than manacles.. grabs popcorn
I think it's the cause that attracts people. Silicon Valley repeatedly talks about Changing The World and all that people do in the end is to create another web app. Khan Academy gives a lucky few the means to truly change the entire world by working on education, one of the most basic aspects of modern societies.
> My co-founder, who also happens to be my brother

There is your problem. Out of all the family- and friend- run businesses I know most end ruining the business and the family (or friendship).
Or these high profile people really believe in the idea of KA
What they're doing is what carries the charisma.
Visualizing The Connected Brain
I read your words, but all I hear is "I want to use the police and courts to demand income in perpetuity because I thought up something somebody thought was clever once."

"I don't think you should restrict sharing" is not the same thing as "I don't think you deserve to be paid". Find a business model that isn't based on prohibiting what everyone's mother has encouraged them to do since they were toddlers.

Sharing is good. Information flow is good. Impeding either of those things impedes human progress. Creation is also good, but modern technology proves it can be encouraged and compensated without strong arming society as a whole.
Switching from a car to a bicycle will indeed decrease your gas consumption but that does not turn bicycles into acceptable substitutes for cars, even if you jury-rig a horn on them.

WordPress is, far and away, the best blog software (and particularly software ecosystem) out there. I wish there was a Railsy alternative a fifth as good, but there isn't.
Just because there are business reasons for making SaaS webapps doesn't change the fact that they do in fact collect private information -- and that brings with it all the potential for abuse, leaks, sale of the information without my consent, tracking, spying, etc.

Call it what you will, but I certainly don't want my private information in the hands of some person or entity I don't trust.

As for who cares what jobs I apply to, you might not have noticed but there's something called datamining that can link all sorts of innocuous-seeming information to draw conclusions with serious privacy implications.

For example, before some researchers actually went ahead and did this, who would have guessed that your Netflix viewing habits could be used to determine your political preferences or sexual orientation? And would you really want Netflix and anyone who they sell the information to or anyone who manages to hack their servers knowing these?

You might not mind, but I bet a lot of other people do. Unfortunately, plenty of Netflix users probably still don't know that this kind of abuse -- and it is abuse -- is possible.

Something else that was in the news about a year ago or so is the recent trend of companies trolling through Facebook to see who your friends are, and determine from that whether they think you're credit-worth (or worthy of employment). Again, something apparently innocuous being subverted to have serious unintended consequences for the victims who were naive enough to give out their private information.

There are hundreds of examples like these -- there have been many books and articles written about the trend towards a surveillance society and the loss of privacy that's overcoming our world, with the advent of highly sophisticated technologies and the internet.

SaaS sites and the invasion of privacy that they encourage and participate in are a big part of this problem.
A very prevalent allergy.

It's a bit buried, but Tableau Public is available for free download.

http://www.tableausoftware.com/public

I forget what its limitations are but I remember thinking they weren't too bad.

Also I think your larger point still stands. Tableau is great, but there's still room for more vertically customized analytical reporting.
Because that allows for more casual conversations than "So what are you working on here?" - "Oh, can't tell you".
Netvibes is now part of Dassault Systèmes
FBI’s Steve Jobs file: He will ‘distort reality ... to achieve his goals’
So the point is, "don't ask me to solve extremely common and easy-to-explain problems, because someone else has already written good solutions?" What are the alternatives? Questions about things nobody uses? Questions that are hard or lengthy to explain?

The best alternative I've heard about is something like a trial period, internship, or culinary "stage." That's a big investment for both parties to make without even finding out if someone can write and debug a simple program to solve a well-defined and familiar problem.
So what is your investment recommendation then? Avoid the market and invest in Gold?
I'd suggest also adding miyagawa to that list for Plack, cpanminus and Carton ... but then if we start adding people we'll never stop. I've given out hundreds of commit bits over the year just to the projects we provide hosting on http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/ for - CPAN's a big big place and that never ceases to make me happy.
It's great for calculations, conversions, and random information. Examples:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1%2F2+an+avacado
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1.8TB+in+kilobytes

There are some other cool ones you can use, such as "planes overhead", "satellites overhead"

All that said: I generally think that if I was smarter I'd be able to use it for more stuff :)
Thanks atacrawl. Neither of us is designer and we've received the msg loud & clear from HN that we've got some work to do in that department! Will take all your feedback to heart. Updates coming soon.
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The Teaser Image For Tesla's Model X SUV Contains A Hidden Message
Are you asking what startup to invest in or to start?

Startups are extremely high risk and the only way people make money investing in them is to invest in a lot of them. Given the amount of money you have, investing in startups would essentially be gambling. If you had 25x that amount, you could diversify enough to maybe see a positive return in 5 years, but even then it would be a gamble especially if you don't have any experience evaluating startups.

If you want to start a company, well that's different. I still wouldn't invest more than say, a quarter of that, but at least you'll have enough money in the bank that you don't have as much pressure on you.
CouchDB? http://couchdb.apache.org/docs/intro.html
> stole all of America's privately held gold

Except for the bit where he, y'know, paid for it at the then-prevailing rate. (Which was defined by law, since at that point the US dollar was still on the gold standard.)
What about Coen brothers? They make pretty good movies.
"[Jobs] would have made an excellent King of France." --Jef Raskin [1]

Betting it's him.

http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s...
we use them at work and it makes our laptops unbearably slow.
i'm having a hard time imagining a realistic scenario where political turmoil is strong enough to make all stocks worthless, yet my gold bullions at the bank are still mine. unless you think you could keep a meaningful amount at home, and then how will you protect it?

if the nazis invade, if the bolsheviks take over, if society breaks down and roving bands of cannibals are out there plundering, chances are your gold is either not yours anymore, or there is no society to trade it with.
Obama joins Spotify, shares his 2012 campaign playlist
"In reality, the Dow is not at 13,000 today as we knew 13k to be back in 1998/99 during the huge stock market bubble. Inflation has eroded that nominal value by at least half. The Dow is more likely at 5,000 to 6,500 depending on what you believe real inflation has been over the past 14 years (not the Fed's bogus CPI numbers)."

...

"Nearly all of his big market gains peg to one period of time, the 1970s, when stocks were once-in-a-generation cheap; his timing was brilliant, but it was an exceedingly rare scenario."

You are on to something here, and you don't recognize it.
I made this for my own project (which uses all those), but you have a point.

I just removed the Modernizr dependency. I kept jQuery 1.7. I kept underscore.js for the great _.debounce function.
As pointed out below, versions can be garbaged by an efficient Database administrator.
It's not full 10 years, I started when I was 17. By 2012 I am on my 10th year. I was born in 22 july 1986. After few month I will be 26.
Dang. The general HN feedback seems to be: great idea, lousy initial messaging :). Back to the drawing board. Thanks for the feedback - will update.
I didn't need it for anything else. Feel free to send a pull request if you find it useful for more things.
I wonder when they'll start hiring, well, educators. While engineering challenges may exist, Khan Academy's biggest scaling problem seems to be Khan's ability to produce solid content. His biology stuff, for instance, is decidedly worse than the mathematics.

Other than that: great move.
What's the point? Just write your program in Lua and enjoy the speed boost of LuaJIT! ;-)
Mona Simpson is his biological sister. Perhaps he had adoptive sisters?
Business => J-O-B

Job seems to be a four letter word in some circles...
FBI Releases Steve Jobs Dossier: Driven & Deceptive
"It's small, independent businesses and artists who shape, have shaped, and will always shape the world that you live."

General Electric, Du Pont, Mobil, AT&T, Sun, Oracle, Microsoft, and Google certainly have been overshadowed by the powerful snowflakes of the world!
Decent, but still worse than everything else.
And if you'd bought gold at its peak in 1980 you'd still be down money, even 3 decades later.

Adjusted for inflation gold has gone up by a factor of about 4, but almost all of that has been within the last 10 years.

Anyone who thinks that gold is a dandy long-term investment is just as deluded as all of the fools who thought "this time it's different" about the last speculative real-estate bubble.

Edit: to put a finer point on it, if you would have bought gold in 1850 and sold it at any time recently except for during the speculative bubble of the late 70s or the last decade you would have lost money, around a quarter of your initial investment, or around negative 0.2 percent interest rate. If you would have bought gold at its low point in 1919 and held on to it for 80 years then sold it during some time in the 90s you would have just slightly more than doubled your money, for a whopping return of 1.2% per year.
I'd be surprised if more than 1% of household had actually held tech stocks in 2000, also.
Well, I kinda agree with you, especially since he is a younger brother. But the truth of matter, the problem is in his pot smoking, and not in family-run business. There are plenty of family businesses (from Coen brothers to small shops in Calcutta), and they generally do OK.
Is this Hacker News for the UK and Europe?
Sega's past CEO, Isao Okawa, donated $692 million to keep Sega afloat.
Gold is pretty easy to sell and even if you got a terrible price for it, you are still better off than without it.
Kids are the future; teach them how to code
Imagine if gold were a company.

Friend: "Hey man, you gotta get in on this— this stock has gone up 30% in the last year! Nowhere to go but up!"

You: "Wow, that's amazing! What does it do?"

Friend: "Um... it doesn't corrode?"
Glam Media launches social network for food lovers
Risky ideas turn into smart business when your values are clear.
Hey, try saving your lessfile in UTF8 without BOM. Titanium cant handle the BOM and crashes there.
SFORMATO DI PURE' DI PATATE
Seeing the design elements that went into making the Model S from the ground-up, I am excited to see what a "family" all-electric car built from the ground-up will look like. I wonder if there's going to be another HUGE touchscreen panel.

And how many seats? I'm pretty stoked. And maybe my Tesla stock will have a nice bump after the unveiling. [weak disclosure] :)
Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Netscape, Coca-Cola, Wal-Mart, Dow Chemical (lol), Monsanto (lol), Pilgrim's Corp (lol)

EDIT: You didn't say shaped "for the better". :\
Do they need to actually hire educators? I understand that it would raise the level of knowledge but if I remember correctly from the last Google Hangout Khan said that they are currently working on a platform to make it easier for anyone to add things to KhanAcademy without having to do github pull requests.
What a great find! My solution is much more limited but also very lightweight: only textareas, only two scenarios (click or load on demand)
CH blog post comment is so true (can't hard link to it):

There is a fundamental difference in philosophy here.

Some startups work 24/7 because they are “swinging for
the fences” (to use a baseball analogy).

Where other startups, like yourself [37signals] back in
the day, are content with simply hitting “singles”.

....

Here’s the philosophical difference, you can live a good
life on hitting singles, but you’ll never become filthy
rich unless you swing for the fences.
Catalog Choice is a nonprofit which has been around for years and has over a million members. 'Inspiration' clearly flows the other direction.
Thanks. I did do a Google search prior to posting, but didn't see anything.
Actually in the next major update it will be able to do that for some things. ie, you can select what you receive in paper form, & what to receive in your email box. So you can revert & say 'bring back paper V.S.'! Essentially you'll get a dial to control what you get in what form. Will work best mags/cats/etc.
"Tech related startups are most easiest way of making revolutionary things." - I would say Tech related start ups are easier to start, as in lower initial capital investment maybe. However, I won't be too sure about easiest way to make revolutionary things.

Pick a problem that would like/love to work on. Even if its the harder thing to do.
Here's an outline shot Elon Musk just posted with the doors open:
https://twitter.com/#!/elonmusk/status/167648387313840128/ph...

His next tweet said they are not gull-wing. They definitely do something interesting though.
I actually know a lot more successful family-run businesses than non-family-run businesses, but I don't have statistics either, so it'd be interesting if someone does. Of those I personally know about, a restaurant, for example, started by two random people is much more likely to founder over personality issues than a family-run restaurant is.