skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
New tech starts out expensive then drops in price after adoption/volume and competition. That seems so obvious, I'm not sure why the article is essentially saying that it's expensive now, so will never go anywhere.
Impractical now, but cool as a tech-demo.
i7-2640M cpu usage is at 24% on Chrome Canary 21 with this.
According to Asus, the dock comes with a “full QWERTY keyboard” (as opposed to those pesky keyboards that leave off the “s” and “a” keys), offers “comprehensive connectivity” (hilariously defined as one USB port and a built-in SD card reader) and “prolonged battery life” with a 22Wh battery.

Seriously? Are comments like this necessary? It just shows a lack of understanding (or they're being willfully disingenuous). I don't think anyone is astonished that a niche add-on like a dock isn't selling like gangbusters. And why doesn't Ford sell me a car for $5000? That's all the individual parts are worth if I sold it for scrap! What do you mean engineering costs? What do you mean production costs? What do you mean software development costs?

ExtremeTech has some good nuggets of articles, wrapped in a whole bunch of distasteful, disparaging, and often off-the-mark commentary. It leaves a bad taste in my mouth. This would be a good editorial, almost on par with Ars Technica, if they just threw away the third and fourth paragraphs.

Do the editors force these comments into the articles against the will of the authors, or is it a problem right from the ground up?
Why is "reducing air pollution" a potential application of driverless cars? The other benefits allow people to driver faster and safer on the same amount of roads, but I don't see how that would encourage less driving that would lead to less air pollution.

Faster driving = less gas mileage, and if driverless cars dramatically lowers the opportunity cost of driving people may be encouraged to put even more miles on their car. Wouldn't that all increase air pollution? Don't get me wrong, I think the other benefits are enormous, but am I missing something obvious?

Edit: Thanks for the great answers below.
It's safer to follow trends.
I'll be spending the night trying to switch all the central datastructures of our service over to an arena allocator, since I'm pretty sure it'll be a nice win. And, with any luck, I'll sleep most of tomorrow.
Bing Launches Its Paid Search API, But Will Still Offer A Free Tier
Technically that's correct, but it's a red herring. The top 1% currently take a little over 20% of the total income in the country and pay about 40% of federal income taxes. From the end of WW II to the 1980's, the top 1% took between about 8% and 12% of the total income in the country and their share of the tax burden was lower. The federal tax base was also much wider since there were far fewer tax credits available to average people and there weren't any common refundable tax credits.
Comcast suspends data caps... for now
Where are the examples?
Facebook's I.P.O. roadshow movie is better than 'The Social Network'
Vendor lock-in is a real issue in terms of pricing and downtime: http://gigaom.com/2011/09/24/5-ways-to-protect-against-vendo...
Growing Wealth & Lingering Unexpected Food Crisis
Was attending Harvard free? Don't think so

I have no idea. I don't think the government provided him with a free apartment or car either. It's not really central to my argument. My point is that he earned this money while living in the United States as a citizen of the United States, even if he didn't realize the gains until later.

so would a founder get some money back if his startup bombed and he lost his money? Or is all the downside on him while the upside must be shared?

This is pretty much how taxes work. You generally pay more in taxes when you make money than when you lose money.

EDIT: One thing I would say - if he has legally paid his taxes, then I don't think he should be barred from re-entry into the United States. I may not like the strategy, but I don't see how you can be accused of having renounced your citizenship for the purpose of avoiding taxes if the US imposed an exit tax on you and you paid it!
It depends on the size. Big FPGA's are amongst the most expensive chips that you can buy ($10K and up), but small ones are affordable. The amount of logic in an 80's era game computer should be within the gate budget of a small to mid sized FPGA.

See http://www.fpgaarcade.com/ for many examples of this.
Ask HN: Does technology stack really matter in the beginning of a startup
I am wondering if it really matters what technology stack you select in the beginning phase of your startup. Should we spend too much time deciding on a technology stack ? How do you guys decide ? What if I am good with both Python and Ruby ? What about frameworks ? Databases ?
What channel was this on? I want to follow this on TV but have not seen this reported yet.
Wishful Thinking — Something To Think About
Ok, so I thought, let me check on ours. Boom. Went from #1 when searching for our company name to not even present in the results.

What gives? We had perfect placement, built not through any SEO, but just a lot of people talking about us - had the proper config and everything, recently had a site overhaul that was handled properly, using webmaster tools, and everything was updated in google indexes within a day.
Given that a simple Ethernet shield for Arduino costs upwards of 40$ (last time I checked), this sounds very interesting to me (wannabe for-fun hardware hacker).
I would love to see Mac version!
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Still number one on Duck Duck Go as well.
http://duckduckgo.com/?q=safe%20shepherd
</evangelizing>
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60minutemortgage is the dominating company for Netherlands people, which provides the best remortgage rates for commercial and financial service at the reasonable rates. With simple way, you can get mortgage as soon as possible.
Same for me in France.
Morale probably took a big hit when cofounder Ilya Alekseevich Zhitomirskiy died :(
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/16/technology/ilya-zhitomirsk...

I made an account but it never really took off since none of my friends made the switch. I think the idea of a distributed social network isn't flawed but I have a feeling that a successful implementation won't look like a clone of Facebook/Twitter.
Multi Color Funny Bumper Stickers Bring a Smile on Viewers’ Face
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I don't have much opinion either way. However, always-on encryption and compression is one of the best bits about SPDY.
The fact that people try to avoid paying taxes does not mean that we should never charge them.

Also in recent decades the most successful tax avoidance system has been the systemic pressure from Grover Norquist and allies to reduce taxes at every opportunity and never, ever, let them come back up. We're now at historically low tax rates with a broken budget. Raising taxes can't solve the underlying fiscal problems by itself. But a refusal to do so does make them impossible to solve. (At least without a dramatic restructuring of our country that most would not like.)
One common factor with the dotcom and then the housing bubble was the democratization of access to previously restricted forms of economic behavior. They both liberalized of credit and investing. Day trading and online brokers that emerged with the dotcom bubble helped fuel the investment that drove it. Subprime lending and the mad financial engineering that supported it made a home mortgage available to almost anyone. Both innovations facilitated a lot of shadiness.

The other morning I caught a segment on CNBC talking about some financial company that wanted to make startups more accessible to ordinary investors. That's already a reality to some extent, at the grassroots level, with kickstarter. These seem like the sort of innovations that would again liberate a lot investment and speculation.

They're sort of unrelated to the Groupon and Facebook IPOs -- those IPOs don't have anything to do with them. And yet at the same time they are trends that draw momentum from the buzz surrounding Groupon and Facebook.

I keep looking for the next bubble, more as a casual student of human nature than any sort of financial whiz. McIPOs for the masses seems like it could deliver on that promise.

But I agree that we aren't necessarily there yet.
I've even gone in to Alexa to start verifying all of our back-links. All of our links are from blogs / news / twitter , et al. That said, it doesn't mean Penguin didn't hurt us. Algorithms have corner cases.
Well the other thing is: people act like migrations are the devil.

Yes, moving your data from Mongo to PgSql, MySql, MSSql, Oracle, etc. is going to be difficult.

However: why start with a production level Oracle install anticipating "web scale" when you're not going to have more than ~1k users at launch.

People look to Google and Twitter and Facebook for advice on how to scale. They then apply this advice far before they need to.

I don't think you should plan to be large scale from the get-go. I think you should have a plan for what you're going to do if you get big.

My $.02
Same here. Maybe a kickstarter project could bring the price down.
Good post, thank you. Now:

> Pinterest: [...]

- how do you see them dealing with copyrights of content? I don't think they will make much of profit if are willing to share $ with photography owners. The majority of value in Pinterest's user experience is that its fresh and content is created (pinned) by other users, NOT by corporations. The moment you will see every other picture a picture of an Ikea Kettle (or desk, or anything else thats been uploaded as "promoted pin") that resembles in color, shape, etc to what you were looking for, entire experience will loose its cool and Pinterest will start to stink!

> Youtube: [...]

- this was a huge gamble from many perspectives and owners had amazing amount of luck. Due to copyright issues, some board members were pressed very hard to vote with for a buy, but were strongly against (sorry I cannot back this up, but I read it somewhere couple years ago). Further, Viacom shoot itself in the foot by uploading their own material, but during discovery it clearly came up that owners knew about copyright infringement (duh!) and were willing to "slow down" with taking content down to gain more attraction. Clearly, in # of users AND eventual exit, they benefit in huge way off of Viacom content. Again, they were extremely lucky and in the light of recent Kim DotCom case, even more lucky Mashable is not interviewing them in a jail cell. But AFAIK some court cases Goog vs Viacom are still pending. As of whether it will turn out to be a huge success, I think we still need to wait. People are social today like never before. Instagram you mentioned was bought because FB was afraid of its growing userbase. As we both know, YouTube is only a little bit social -- not as social as comparing Instagram to Flickr, for example. If the userbase of the next thing (video) of sites like viddly will keep growing, and at some point owners will tell Google "fuck off, we ain't selling!", I say YouTube will be screwed. Also, if you look even further in the future, it obviously won't be as cool as today, or 3 years ago. Its like with Caddilac - they are building amazing cars for 110 years now, but if you ask your son: do you want Caddilac or Honda, guess what he will say.
Not all the speeches make it from the conference to the website. My TedX speech also didn't make it :)
Management Nightmare - Company runs with 5 CEOs
While social mobility is important, look at the speed at which the economy transitions. There are tremendous costs imposed by corporate/social welfare programs that prop up industries... they insulate workers from economic reality for a while and then suddenly reality catches up.

We define ourselves by our training, our job, and we expect the economy to stand still and allow us to continue doing something we were trained to do decades ago... all the way until retirement.

We feel indignation when a job goes away, and we feel that it's appropriate to be proud of skills that the economy no longer needs. This is absurd. Learn something new.

Society provides plenty of opportunity, the problem is that people have unrealistic expectations of what amount of effort ought to result in a particular standard of living and a particular level of job security.
Mindscape has a Visual Studio extension called "Web Workbench" that makes installing and using SASS really easy (as well as LESS and CoffeeScript). I installed via NuGet and I don't remember ever having to leave Visual Studio. The installer took care of all the dependencies and I was up and running right away.
Oh whoa, totally misunderstood the site. I would suggest keeping this definition:

unglue (v. t.) 1. To pay an author or publisher in full, up front, for publishing a Creative Commons ebook.

At the top of the site (had to click through a few times to find it)
Spotify founder Daniel Ek's Playlist for Entrepreneurs
Who's your target audience?
Have you thought to tap out the Japanese Expat market as an advertising/marketing opportunity?

That might include Japanese people living abroad, students, workers living in the middle east for 12 months, etc

The service could very easily appeal to people living abroad and wanting a reminder of home every month.
Not my site but this may help you:
http://www.sxw.org.uk/computing/robots/check.html

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Results for https://safeshepherd.com/robots.txt
Error at line number 1:

User-Agent: *
Capitalization. Field names are case sensitive - the User-agent field should be written with that capitalization
Error at line number 2:

Allow: /
No User Agent. An Allow line must have a User-agent line before it. As records are delimited by newlines, there cannot be new-lines between the User-agent and Allow lines.
Warning at line number 2:

Allow: /
Allow is not widely supported. The Allow field was a late addition to the robots.txt standard, and is not currently widely supported by crawlers. You should consider alternative ways of constructing your robots.txt file

Error at line number 3:

Disallow: /login/auth
No User Agent. A Disallow line must have a User-agent line before it. As records are delimited by newlines, there cannot be newlines between the User-agent and Disallow lines.
Error at line number 4:

Disallow: /users
No User Agent. A Disallow line must have a User-agent line before it. As records are delimited by newlines, there cannot be newlines between the User-agent and Disallow lines.
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Disallow: /signin
No User Agent. A Disallow line must have a User-agent line before it. As records are delimited by newlines, there cannot be newlines between the User-agent and Disallow lines.
Error at line number 6:

Disallow: /upgrade/submit
No User Agent. A Disallow line must have a User-agent line before it. As records are delimited by newlines, there cannot be newlines between the User-agent and Disallow lines.
Working at Singly looks fun:
I get their blog as the first search result, but at least their blog links to their home page. I'm surprised by how often I see company blogs that don't link to their main site or make to hunt around the side bar for a link.
if you're going to add hardware you might as well just get a real SNES from eBay and use a memory cart.
need a name change : i read it as : CROWD TIT!
How about:

"I don't see any similarity between the two. Gays were trying to obtain equal rights. The right to be a black man and vote is one that no one has, not just black people."

Straight people have the right to marry. Gay people don't. Same exact issue. If you're not gay, you by default don't need the right to marry same-sex, just like if you're not black, you don't need the right to be black and vote.
Self-driving cars could form convoys to utilize slipstream. You could reduce the safety distance, because the reaction time compared to a human driver is massively reduced. Additionally, the driving style of the average driver leaves a lot of room for improvement.
boom! I run a mobile app advertising company and see hundreds of apps a week. Get It Now is one of the most disruptive mobile first technologies I've seen.

I use it at least once a day.
I think this is a non sequitur. (IMO) the stuff about "people are colorblind until society teaches them otherwise" is ridiculous, so you put these kids in an environment with no yellow children? Of course they are going to see yellow children as strange- they haven't had the opportunity to interact and learn otherwise. It doesn't have to have anything to do with racist comments from their parents.

Labeling anyone of any color is racicst period. There is only one race called the Human Race!

If everyone recognized this and stopped describing one another in terms of colors, we could end fucking bullshit!
Given the context of the article I think the argument can be made that: even _if_ people are willing to pay a couple dollars and in aggregate a billion dollars it doesn't mean that the money is being well spent or that the product actually provides value.

Thought at that point I think we're dipping into issues of free market and a consumer driven bubble.

Either way, your point is well taken.
> More precisely, that was the marginal rate on income over $1 million/year

There has not been a bracket that high since 1941. http://www.hkmscpa.com/hist%20tax%20rates.htm#5

> (And given those taxes, CEOs had less incentive to increase their salaries.)

Of course. So they just gave themselves company cars and executive washrooms and million dollar desks.

> Deductions have a tendency to accumulate over time. There were a bunch of deductions, but fewer than today.

We got rid of a bunch in the early 80's. As a simple example, all interest (not just interest on primary housing) was deductible before then.

> but historically stock options were a much smaller portion of executive compensation than is the case today

I wasn't suggesting stock options. You don't have to rely on stock options to convert your salary into capital gains. If you were a doctor or a lawyer pulling down a lot of money, you just formed a company and left the money you weren't consuming immediately in the company's bank account.
Its quite true that driverless cars per se would have just the effects you mention. But if driverless cars mean that suddenly nobody owns a car and just rents a car from the automated taxi fleet when they need a ride we'd probably see most of them be lightweight single occupancy vehicles, meaning less pollution overall.
Basically the idea is to use the marketing budget as cash back instead of spending it in the usual marketing channels.
My thoughts about this are; great, your app can make a large volume of messages, how do you deliver them to the carrier? Most carriers do not have a good interface for bulk acceptance of data. If you send them through a third party, you have no real control or metrics. Its also fairly simple to write a program that generates 500,000 messages per second per CPU core dumped onto the wire so the rates aren't particularly interesting.

Basically this is kinda like saying "hey, I built this awesome car, but it doesn't have an engine", its just anticlimactic.
Don't be silly.

The right to marry (publicaly declare love and live as a family unit) is one that straight couples have and gay couples do not. Equal rights.
It's come out that for a few thousand, you can buy black hat's who will do crappy link building for your competitors. So, possible scenario: Safe Shepard stepped on somebody's toes and they retaliated by hiring (or creating) a ton of crappy back links to the website. Unlikely, but possible.
Not every standard is targeted to the mass market. TB is a high end niche. Nothing wrong with that. If you need the unique features or capabilities it offers price probably wot be a huge concern. The Mac alone will support this niche. higher end PCs will probably also need to support TB as there really isn't any other high end alternative.
I don't think investor money is the main driver of increased demand for hackers. The biggest sources of demand are the big companies, like Google and Facebook, and they're paying the hackers' salaries out of revenues.
I'd be interested to know how Google protects trusty-worthy sites from the SEO equivalent of joe-jobbing.
We're building a SaaS product without freemium and the three points apply perfectly in our case.

I'm curious to know what you consider most important?
Thanks! I will be writing a proper About soon, and it really helps to have feedback from people who haven't been following us and talking to us for months. Turns out my brain is too everywhere-all-at-once on launch day for me to write coherent sentences right now, but it'll be coming soon.
Not that I'm arguing against your point, but you've made me curious. Is there actual DRM on photos? I know videos, music, games, books... but I haven't heard of a DRM'd picture before. Any insight?

Personally, I would predict incompatible formats with no decryption program available. Will Photoshop and .psd still be around in 50 years?
I don't know if your statement about economists is intending to be a factual statement of economists' view of the state of economic science, or your opinion on what modern economic theories are good at. It's not clear to me personally, to be frank, that economics know a lot about how to create wealth either.

That said, this is not an acknowledged weakness -- Keynes' magnum opus was The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, which spells out in great detail how these things are related. The core of this theory is still widely held in economic circles, which is why the mandate of the Federal Reserve keeps shifting from "controlling inflation" to "maximizing employment" -- because this is thought to be something that is controllable through manipulation of interest and money.
Wow, enlightened white people. We sure are good at patting ourselves on the back, aren't we?

Reality check: in 1962, every American city, north or south, with a substantial black population had a thriving black business district and a commercial middle class. Example: Bronzeville in Chicago.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas,_Chicago#Bronzeville

Enlightened white people destroyed these worlds and the people who lived in them. The replacement was this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Taylor_Homes

In San Francisco those neighborhoods were Third Street and the Fillmore. Pictures of Third Street from the 1950s show fancy cars, fancy clothes, fancy shops, not a white face in sight. Pictures of Third Street today show someone about to sucker-punch the photographer and steal his camera.

In 1962 there were no no-go zones anywhere in America. Today I could walk five miles from my home and be in a place where my life wasn't safe. Black America in 2012:

http://tosh.comedycentral.com/video-clips/uncensored---video...

Upside: black people can vote. For the same party, every time. For a black (or, well, half-East-African) president whose campaign office looks as white as a Romney family reunion:

http://freebeacon.com/minority-report/

I think the enlightened people of 1962 might be a little incredulous at all the back-patting going on in 2012. Nice job you've done of uplifting black America, 2012. With successes like this, who needs failures?
Where to go to start programming, free online resources.
He is refering to paid-only (or mostly-paid) SaaS a la 37Signals products, etc.