skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll have to check out Pocket. Do many apps support it? The main reason I use Readability is that many apps I use (like Tweetbot and Alien Blue) support it. Sure, I could always copy and paste the URLs into whatever read-later app I want, but it's so much more convenient to have integration.
People said this about Wave as well.

I'm not convinced. I tried google+, I was really impressed with the UI. I used it for a few days, then a few weeks later I suddenly remembered it existed. I don't think I'm alone.

Presumably they still count me as a 'user', even though I haven't used Google+ for ages.
Pure class. I love this guy.
I assume that was the joke.
But you get all the DRM junk. Better to deal with chmod +x than with DRM restrictions.
This is bigger than what many might think. I'd still be using Linux now if I didn't have to edit xorg.conf just to change the screen resolution. (Yes I'm aware of the http://xkcd.com/963/ comic).

The gap between programmer and user is Linux's biggest fault. For example Unity, developers recognised an issue with the UI. Instead of doing user studies and tweaking it for the better they canned Gnome and reprogrammed it. Now they're in the same situation but with an entirely different codebase.

Having a large company with a product that has to work will add consistency, and hopefully force Linux to start tweaking instead of redeveloping.

I might actually install it on my next machine.
I guess I'll just remain scared and mislead then.
Yeah, I have absolutely no business use case for this, but I do have a spare 30" Dell in my office and would love to play around with this. I wouldn't pay more than $10 or $15 per month, though.
Did they have any engineering folks outside the bay area?
99 cent apps+open source will eventually make it nearly impossible to make a living selling software.
You're discounting two phenomena that helped them weather the tougher times and are unlikely to repeat - Pokemon (you can't really count on another such a massive media franchise popping up) and handheld gaming dominance (iPhone and Android killed this market for standalone devices).
And the API itself is UX for developers...
I'm pretty sure they gave up on the messenger, and decided to put all their effort into the toolbar.
Kudos for not wanting to work for a big corp, though sometimes they choice isn't yours. Your current startup might get acquired by IBM then you become an IBMer:)

I would like to think incubators care more about what you are doing than your platform of choice. At worse they may recommend you switch to some other platform, but no, I don't think any incubator worth being a part of would look down on you just because of your choice of platform.

If Java is the best platform for a product then by all means that's the choice you should make. For instance if you want to build a product that may need to be integrated with other products then that would need to be factored into your platform of choice.
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FYI, if, within the realm of reason, you ask someone to stop doing something that bothers you and they continue to do so, that's usually harassment.
hardcore!!
perhaps somebody should put some scripts together and sell them? I wonder how well would CloudFoundry run on this. The biggest concern is the database, since that'd be the SPOF that is hard to handle.
Facebook Bringing Its Mobile News Feed Redesign To the Web, With Larger Photos
Opting out of vaccinations could get tougher in California
Well, I'd imagine most people earning $400K or more in a year are millionaires. Income <> net worth.
I was expecting this or a shut-down announcement soon. Meebo has never been able to provide something valuable to enough people to become a going concern.
A tornado doesn't create wealth.

Of course it does. It's a catalyst.

On net, it leaves the society poorer than before.

There's no basis for you to make that assertion. If a trailer park is destroyed and a regional business park is what replaces it, there's no way you can argue that there hasn't been a net growth economically. Natural disasters almost always increase GDP in the recovery phase.

We don't see the economic activity that would have otherwise occurred if there had been no tornado.

This is kind of irrelevant since economic activity can't be measured until it actually happens. It's like suggesting that going to the moon was a net loss for humanity because we could have reinvested those funds in going to Mars instead.

We don't see the economic activity that would have otherwise occurred if there had been no tornado.

Again, because said activity is completely irrelevant. The point is that there is economic activity that is a direct result of the event. Is Christmas a wealth creating event? You are suggesting it's not, after all, all the resources used for Christmas presents would have been used somewhere else, no? Using those terms, nothing is a wealth generator, and the economy is zero sum.

That is completely wrong.
Money APIs Power The New Wall Street
There's a third scenario.

Leave the data model alone, and stop thinking about the UI. Do some real design.

Consider a simple example - registering a user account.

Assume the product vision statement calls for a thick client desktop application that synchronises data to other desktop clients via a server. To use the sync service you need an account. On the client, you put up a form that asks the user for a user name and password. Easy. What happens when the call to the server is made to register that account?

Does the UI just lock up until the call returns? Does the UI remain responsive? Does a responsive UI allow the user to cancel the request? Is the technology chosen to build this thing even capable of asynchronous service calls?

When the data is sent over the wire, how is it protected? When it hits the server, how and where is the password stored? Is the request logged? Will server logs be of use to anyone? What error conditions are checked on the server, what corresponding messages are sent back to the client, and how are these communicated to the client? Is there a retry button the user can hit when it bombs? Should the client use a database/temporal cache/config file to store the user name and password in case the server is unreachable?

That was a very simple use case. [Edit] My point is that those questions demonstrate that the data model as well as the UI might radically change based on other design decisions you should be making first. To answer those questions you need to do some design work.

Design work means analysis to get business, user, system, and operational requirements.

Then you need to think about availability, backup and recovery, capacity, communications, deployment, end user support, data migration, monitoring, performance, pilot program, security, system support.

It's called an architecture.

[Second edit] The agile police is probably going to jump on me for what I wrote. Let me pre-empt that by adding that even little web apps have what may appear to be very simple use cases that can bite you in the ass.
Fort 4.5 is released. Encrypt any file. Even for the cloud.
Whether it's Bluetooth, NFC or morse code, the specific technology doesn't matter. It's the user experience, and frankly, searching for and pairing Bluetooth devices is a slow shitty experience.

The article also fails to mention how stores will actually utilize these iWallet phones. The phones need something to pair with and that is something stores will have to install.
It's been many years since I've had to touch xorg.conf to change screen resolution. I can do it on the command line (xrandr) or through gui tools. Do you have significantly unusual hardware?
It's an increase of 0.8% per year. And if the time series happened to have been started at 1988 -- there was a big increase in NASA's budget between 1987 and 1988 -- it would have been about 0.16% per year instead.

(Incidentally, something is definitely wrong with Wikipedia's figures, which show the nominal budget going up $7.6M -> $9.1M but the inflation-adjusted budget going down $17.7M -> $14.5M between 1987 and 1988.)

The goods provided by NASA are things like technological innovation, scientific discovery, and sheer coolness, all of which (it seems to me) provide net benefit proportional to the population. And the tax revenues available to fund it are kinda-sorta proportional to population too, even ignoring economic growth. So an increase of, at most, 22% over a 25-year period during which the population has grown by about 28% and the inflation-adjusted GDP by about 2x ... yes, I think that is too bad.
Only 5M US millionaires. So math problems somewhere: http://www.cnbc.com/id/47631154
I think his point was that it would be better assuming you used the same "grade" resistor.
I don't think that's true. They had a lot of people using their messenger client.

More to do with mistakes and execution. Why did they take $70m in funding? That's a ridiculous amount of investment to take.

Why couldn't they monetize that amount of eyeballs?
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Check out www.demobo.com. It is a poor man's version of xBox SmartGlass. Any web developer can do this easily with demobo api.
According to the WSJ[1], there were 3.1 millionaires in the US in 2010. I'm not sure what he means by "in a random year", but perhaps it means that 1/11 people become a millionaire at some point in their life (even if they don't stay one for long)? Or, he's off by a factor of ten (the coincidence of 3.1MM vs 31MM is hard to discount).

Becoming a millionaire doesn't require an annual income of $400k/yr. Most millionaires probably make far less, (150-250k?), and become millionaires from savings over many years.

[1]: http://blogs.wsj.com/wealth/2011/06/22/u-s-has-record-number...
Movile launches Zeewe TV, A New Social Video Service
Programming, conflicting perspectives
I think valve's core games on linux will be there at the same time the linux steam client arrives to give it that push. It was that way with the mac. However, I think there will still be some time before we start seeing the majority of games ported to the three platforms.

Sometimes, mac ports that are done by third parties are not on steam because they can't split the revenue, so you still have to get the mac version separately.

But even with all the hurdles, I think this is a great step in the right direction.
Panic Goes Hawaii
The Amazon reviews of Keen's book (linked from the article) are priceless.
Christian leaders are powerhouses on Twitter
That link is talking about people with $1M in investible assets; I'm guessing the original link is counting people with $1M net worth.
NYC-Based Entrepreneurs Roundtable
Cue the sound of a thousand palms hitting faces at Microsoft HQ.
Taking a single economics course is a sure way to pollute your thinking about what value is.

The idea of "worth" or "value" precedes economics as a discipline. Vulgarized economics might offer really weird and ideological versions of them, but it can't demand that everyone stop using them as normal people do.

Anyone can think of instances where someone at their company performs better than someone else but is not well-compensated, relatively-speaking. But no one seriously thinks that someone is inherently more valuable just because they're paid more.

If you think about it, anytime you buy a stock or engage in a market transaction you're rejecting the idea that the price of something is its value. If you exchange money for a good, what you're saying is that that good has more value to you than the price you're paying. The person you're bargaining with thinks the converse. Or if you're purchasing an equity, what you're effectively saying is that you have some non-public knowledge that that equity has more value than what the market price suggests (if you buy equities on a different basis, you should probably stop and move to index funds).

In Groupon's case, its econo-speak "value" came about because everyone assumed that they could gamble and win on the theory that there's someone who's making the same assumption that they could gamble and win on the same theory as them but who is slightly less savvy. Just because a bunch of people are collectively changing their minds about how many idiots are out there who are slightly less savvy than them doesn't change the actual value Groupon ever had.
"after much deliberation the <bold>Chrome team is now experimenting with building its own DNS resolver</bold>"

With all due respect, I think you have missed the point.
Michael Lewis meet Quora; Quora meet Michael Lewis: http://www.quora.com/Wealthy-People-and-Families/Why-dont-so...

The question I want answered is:

How do you optimise for luck?

I've come to the conclusion that one most work very hard on something with a scalable market value for a long period of time.

You continue to do this (repeatedly if need be), until you either, in order of likelihood:

a) Quit

b) Die

c) Get lucky

How does one optimise for luck? How can one work "luckier" - not smarter (which is necessary but not sufficient for success)?

Bill Gates is a very smart man, I'm sure, but I highly doubt that he was the smartest, or the hardest working at the time he founded Microsoft (many people that run/found companies are very hard working/intelligent - but most fail).

If I recall correctly the founder of Digital Research and the creator of the CP/M operating system Gary Kildall (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Kildall) could've become Bill Gates.

Apparently Bill Gates bought a clone of CP/M for ~$50K and sold it back to IBM with a blanket license for ~$100K, whilst holding onto the rights to exclusively sell to other manufacturers without IBM's permission.

The IBM PC blew up all the sales records, and quickly became the dominant PC platform.

The market was soon flooded with reverse engineered copies created by manufacturers hoping to ride the IBM wave by producing clones that were cheaper.

Every single one of them required an operating system that was compatible with IBM.

And who had the exclusive license to sell them the software IBM used?

Microsoft

I just want to know how does one get lucky, if that isn't such a stupid question to ask.

I have the feeling that anything up to some arbitrary limit (60K-150K a year) you can state that skill may probably have been a major component. But anything above that, and I'm pretty sure you are in very lucky territory. Does this make sense, or is everything mostly luck, and just a teensy bit of skill?
Well, yes, you can interpolate in the frequency domain like that, which works pretty well for resampling 2D data as well. However, it does not transition shapes from location to location; instead, it looks like one frame is fading into another. What's fascinating about this multiscale algorithm is that it appears to actually exaggerate the motions rather than merely increasing the contrast of the changes.
If you need startup code let me know. I built holoklip.com as a video clipping and commenting tool for education. Comments are based on clips not just the whole video.

You may find it useful, if so, we can discuss terms:)

here is an example of a long video clipped and ready for commenting: http://holoklip.blogspot.com/

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I had a great time reading the following group of related books.

How To Beat the Dealer by Ed Thorp.

You might think this is lame and outdated, but it will clue you into how bond traders think. In fact, Bill Gross of pimco was so inspired by the book that he went to Vegas and became a gambler (before pimco but OTW). That book also is the holy grail for card counting. It will up your blackjack at least, and prepare you for the next book.

Liars Poker by M.Lewis

Lewis actually mentions Thorp, b/c Thorp went on to become a wildly successful trader throughout the 90s: he even called out B.Madoff as a crook in the early 90s (dude knew his finance games and clearly the SEC did not), and Thorp developed a lot of arbitrage trade strategies that are common today. All of this and more as M.Lewis clues you into wallstreet cronies and big bond trading, insider talk about salmon smith barney, and just how sketchy that industry really is ...

Ok now you know a few things about wallstreet and trading, now go to:

The Big Short by M.Lewis

Lewis again with an awesome breakdown of how/what of the credit bubble and various characters betting against that massive momentum as it builds. Really this book is about personal fortitude: having a vision as a trader and sticking to it, even when the rest of the world is betting against you, even when your vision implies the rest of the world is d0000med in an almost end-of-money kind of way :)

Now move into an interesting layer of finance, which all of us Hackers will enjoy ...

The Quants by S. Patterson

This has the making of a great movie if only hacking were interesting on film (too bad its not really like Hugh Jackman in Swordfish!). Buffet: "beware of geeks bearing formulas" ... exactly and this book is all about the buildup of these trading systems and the people behind them, the little bill gates (relative to bank-account) characters that run those giant quant funds ... And just questions on layering probability and the feasibility of trading into this complexity.

Read on ...
Im guessing author used data like this (http://blogs.wsj.com/wealth/2007/02/01/rich-o-meter-20/) which is household, not individual
How LogMeIn is enabling scammers to profit
Welcome to the real world. :-) Google-fu is critical.

That said, things like rvm and rbenv can help with the version problem.
My definition of seriousness includes some relatively large scale. Your definition of seriousness appears to mean any site that is important to the person or business running it. Is that a fair assessment?

I think your definition is better, and I should've said "a potentially-large site" or something like that.
The Mysterious Arc of Venus
Now I see why the government is in so much debt. Building something they already had two of, saving potentially billions in research & development creating another telescope. This is ridiculous. What else have they got two of just "sitting around"
I wonder if this will stop at games?

If Valve manage to deliver a platform with an easy-install that works cross distro it would seem a very good place for developers who want to port to Linux but are scared of distro fragmentation issues.

I hope that I will be able to run games under Linux that I have already bought for windows without having to re-buy them.
I know they had a lot of users, but I don't see how they were making money off the client and they had a lot of employees.

Maybe the spam thing was working for them but I don't think they would have folded if so.
Drew is a really bright guy, you have to give him credit for standing in front of an audience like that and speaking without any sort of presentation aide.

Most notably, his points about hiring "the best people" (around 20 minutes in) are extremely similar to the notes in the leaked Valve employee handbook on hiring, and the old Jobs quote about "A+ players." For everyone seeking a position somewhere in the industry, the emphasis placed on this element of business is really telling; good people at amazing companies don't want just another guy who can code in C++/Java/D-/ChaiTeaLatte, they want individuals with strengths in all aspects of engineering and business. Thanks for the link, and if Drew still reads HN even though he's in the big time, thanks for the talk and indirect educational advice.
Tips for Innovators from Vijay Vaitheeswaran
This really surprised me:

> They entered the room bearing a plate of cookies. Four cookies. The team consisted of three people, but there were these four cookies. Every team member obviously got one cookie, but that left a fourth cookie, just sitting there. It should have been awkward. But it wasn't. With incredible consistency the person arbitrarily appointed leader of the group grabbed the fourth cookie, and ate it. Not only ate it, but ate it with gusto: lips smacking, mouth open, drool at the corners of their mouths. In the end all that was left of the extra cookie were crumbs on the leader's shirt.

I regularly have shared meals with my team and friends (mostly Brits), and this would never happen.
An example is stack overflow. They've been able to scale up instead of scaling out.

http://highscalability.com/blog/2009/8/5/stack-overflow-arch... is the link I can find right now.
Why do you care if they include you in their user count? Why does it bother you?

I love Google+. I love the UI. I love the interaction I have with the people I follow. They post good content, it's well featured, it's fast on mobile (which is something its competitors flatly can not claim) and the Circles model works really well. For me.

Funny, I also got a shockingly huge amount of value out of Wave. It was for very specific group-school-project sorts of things, but it has been irreplacable in terms of simplicity and strange overlapping feature set. In fact, as others have noted, many features that people wish to see in a "futuristic email 2.0" were embodied by Google Wave.

I guess I reject the notion that since you don't like/use it, no one does.
Ask HN: Review my video startup, mixy.tv
Hey guys,

Me and a couple of buddies started a video aggregation site a few months ago called mixy.tv. We are actively looking for beta users and just recently opened it up out of private beta. We would love any feedback specifically in relation to user flow and UI. Do you guys find our layout appealing and an enjoyable way to find new interesting videos? We also would love any feedback on how useful you think it is to log the videos you watch in order to share those with your friends and followers on mixy. Really appreciate any time and advice in advance!

-Andrew
The price is rumored to be $100M. Google and others regularly pay $2-3M per engineer... More for kickass devs/leaders. And certainly they'd probably pay a premium for larger dev teams. In other words, they'd rather buy 1 company with 25 engineers for $100M than lots of tiny companies (due to the corp dev overhead of buying a company).
I don't think it's very unhealthy for a parent to be obsessed with the health of their child.

To be honest, a soothing green light that indicates a bunch of dangers are not to worry about sounds pretty good to me too.

I think a device malfunction would at worst lead to a baby being forced awake by a worried parent to check everything is ok...
Defining 'millionaire' is always dicey depending on who you talk to. In order of strictness:

$1M or more in adjusted gross income on tax return
$1M or more in gross income (before adjustments)
$1M or more in 'liquid' net worth (cash or cash equivalents)
$1M or more in total net worth.

I know a number of folks who would call themselves a 'millionaire before taxes' which is to say their stock options would give them more than a million dollars when exercised, but since in California you end up withholding 51% for taxes you probably end up with less than a million. There are also folks who bought a house earlier and it has appreciated to be 'worth' more than a million but if they sold it and bought another one they wouldn't want to pay the property taxes on a million dollar house.

And of course a million doesn't go as far as it used to. If you have a couple of kids in elementary school and are planning to pay for their college education, well that's going to be nearly 1/2 million right there depending on school.

Note that there is no dichotomy between more people are millionaires than ones that earn over $400k per year. You can earn $100K per year and invest $20K per year and end up with $1M in savings in 20 years. But it is a long road.
Even less than either has to do with their current business model of being an advertising network through their toolbar.
The guess here: http://www.quora.com/Instapaper/How-much-money-does-Instapap...

Is that Instapaper nets somewhere in the $1-2M range. I'd hardly call that "limited resources." The ability to staff up and/or outsource work effectively is an important skill for a business. You don't get a do-over just because you want to do all the work yourself.