skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you don’t know OpenGL already you might be better starting with a library like Three.js: https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js
I haven't ever seriously grown anything, so I admit not knowing much about commercial agriculture operations, but what I was thinking about was the following kind of tradeoff:
You can do one thing (e.g. one crop) very efficiently, if that is the only thing you do, by standardising the operation and using efficient machinery and industrial processes. The downside is that you have all your eggs in the same basket, and compared to growing several crops, the risks are much higher.

When it comes to pruning, weeding and harvesting, a sufficiently smart autonomous robot could do those just as well without everything perfectly flat and in evenly spaced rows. However, it is currently much easier and cheaper to do a "stupid" machine that works only in the controlled environment.
> so what am I missing

A bit of bubbly froth?

It doesn't seem like a great deal to me either, but I suppose it's difficult to tell either way without a concrete way to measure and judge.
Bash One-Liners Explained, Part III: All about redirections
Selling $2,000+ Worth Of My Unfinished Book
Well lets check result of their methodology with other data.
For example for Slashdot. Geeknet provides very different data http://geek.net/our-network/slashdot/
Linked article suggest almost 50% in age 35-54 but geeknet stats says it's only 5%. I cannot find it now but someone wrote that about 1/4 or 1/3 of slashdot audience are female which again differs from result in article.
I looks like that either US audience is very different from global(although it seems unlikely on US centric site like Slashdot) or methodology of linked article indeed is far from perfect. Obviously I checked only one site from article and there are other possibilities (like geeknet lying or having bad methodology itself), but I would take pingdom report with a big grain of salt.
I was thinking the same thing. Is there a version that makes it a paradox?
Rant: Why I Got Rid of the Samsung Galaxy Note
Near-Field Authentication over Avian Carrier
Why A Paid Social App Will Never Work
In the age of smart phones, the car has ceased being a vital communication tool for young people. There's no need to drive to the mall to see if Paul is there hanging out. A text will let me know that he's at Joel's party instead. Another text and Steve will swing by in his car.

The housing situation is another matter. There's a glut. Credit is tight. Jobs are scarce. And housing prices are going down. Millenials aren't stupid.
Well, that would be a bit of a misrepresentation on roofer Bill Keith's part if true. Are you sure?

In May, there was an actual 31% tariff placed by the US Commerce Department on Chinese solar panels:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/18/business/energy-environmen...
> younger generations don't see a house or a car as a symbol of status or wealth, merely as something to be used, as a necessity

And then there are fixies - impractical bikes that cost 700 euro simply because they are cool. Whereas you can get a practical bike for less than 200 euro.

Maybe it is that we are cheap, so those things that cost beyond a certain threshold (like cars and housing) just need to work, whereas things under a threshold need to work and be cool.

iPhones also strike me as an example of this. Ray Ban glasses as well. A lot of clothing stuff ... actually pretty much everything but houses, cars and the big expenses must be cool enough to be bought.
Google does not have a conflict of interest with better browsers/internet and its main revenue sources, Microsoft had this problem and resulted this mess.
I agree. It's a commercial top-down event. It is all about monetization. North Korea could not organize a better 'party'.
Variability in land form may lead to different crops being suited for different parts of the land, which would affect both disease and weather risks.
FTC OKs Facebook’s Instagram Purchase
Yes, I think it's important to point out to people that perhaps weren't active in web development back then that IE6 was a huge leap forward, and at the time was a great browser.

The only reason we hate it now is because it stuck around too long, and arguably that isn't even Microsoft's fault.
Bonobo genius makes stone tools like early humans did
Err, SwiftKey anyone? It's been around since 2008 and even has an xkcd comic featuring it: http://xkcd.com/1068/
That the return (assuming no sale at top of a bubble) for the best companies in the biggest industry of 19C was only 5%-10%. (Based on equity, it seems Harford did not calculate dividend return which may make a difference)

Making 15-20% without an exit is a great deal - supporting I think your point.
Google Building Privacy Red Team (aka Tiger Team)
He is saying the opposite. The downtown train arrives on the hour and the uptown train arrives at 5 minutes after the hour.
But that "system of government granted monopolies" was supposed to channel money to those who create stuff, not from them. The problem with patent law is not that its government granted monopoly but that it's granted to those who do not bring anything to society and is used against those who do.
Google does have a conflict of interest. The best case scenario is a better internet, but only for google products for them.

People love google, but it's a for-profit company, not a foundation. Chrome would not be the first abandoned project, either. Anything can happen. Competition is good.
An IP lawyer on patents, trolls, and entrepreneurship
I can imagine it as I am building out a 30 node hdfs cluster with 10g BNT switches. How do you design 40 nodes to a rack? Just curious...
>> I wonder what all those employees are doing

Finding new ways to limit the api and shoot themselves in the foot.
BTW, I've been struggling with this: why smart people consider buildout pythonic and pip install -r unpythonic? Can anyone defend that position?

Would that change if I were Dutch?
The Great Embeddening
Account by guy wearing anti-TSA T-shirt who was refused flight
Your argument never had any facts. No argument that I have ever seen for religion ever does. What did I say that is a lie? I know how attack on your delusions can feel like aggression but there is never a polite way to tell someone that what they have based their entire life on is in fact a lie.
"MTV Scratch — a corporate cousin of the TV network responsible for Jersey Shore", I like how they say "responsible" akin to a criminal action. +1
Not really. Not all contributions are equal. For every contribution A there is a likelihood L(A, X) that is the chance of someone else making the same contribution within time X.

It seems completely reasonable to rank contributions with low values for L (for a given X) higher than others. People are claiming that Microsofts contributions have very high values for L, ie. if MS hadn't come up with it, someone else would have in short order. Furthermore, people are claiming the same is not true for other contributions, e.g. TBL "inventing" the web, or what have you.
+1 for tmux, I've been using it for a few months and loving every minute of it. One question about tmux/dwm.vim, though: Is there a way we could have the "focus"/automatic layout feature in tmux?

I'd love to press a key combo and have tmux bring my current pane to the large left panel, switching it with whatever I had there before.
Is it really an issue? WinRt is a new platform and if I remember correctly, in the beginning you could not code against anything but the Dalvik VM on Android (that's Java) and iDevices could only be programmed in Objective C. The way I see technology moving anyway is that with cheap boards like Raspberry Pi and other cheap hardware like that, within 7 years, people will be able to mix and match components and build their own tablets just like they build PCs today. Within 4 years the vast majority of Shanzhai tablets will have more than 7 hours of usable battery life AND will be able to accept alternative operating systems like Puppy Linux, Debian or Firefox OS. By that time the new frontier will be wearable smart glasses, but how fancy does humanity need to get for cheap,ubiquitous portable computing? Windows RT, iOS and to a lesser extent, Android might be less relevant by then. Especially when you can run an IDE like GAMBAS on a humble Raspberry Pi with Linux.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not a Linux fanboy; I like Windows too but the industry has a better chance of using a commodity OS than paying royalties to Microsoft for every Android device sold, like some manufacturers are already doing, or even paying $30 per device as in Apple's wet dreams...
مشاهدة مباراة برشلونة وريال مدريد 23/8/2012 
مشاهدة مباراة برشلونة وريال مدريد 23/8/2012

مشاهدة ,مباراة, برشلونة, و,ريال مدريد, 23/8/2012

http://tube.sbayaa.com/1466
Xiaomi hits sales of 200,000 Mi-One S phone units just under 30 minutes
Just another forum focused on startups. My thoughts exactly.

I am curious the Unique proposition. Why should I join fowndr.com instead of posting my questions on quora/reddit, where there is an already proven userbase actively answering questions?
Sorry. For me it means something that shares the design, the flaws and the criminally undertrained operators. While I wouldn't rate its current relatives as safe, at least they aren't disasters waiting to happen.
You're right that it's the IO (buses and memory) that the main limit. The problem is that a design around a central CPU doesn't scale, there's not enough IO, not enough pins, if you want to DMA packets from 24 interfaces onto main memory and have different cores operate on it is just infeasible with current designs.
You are correct, he messed up telling the story.
The Kindle Touch and Invasive Advertising
I'm a little late to this party, but most of the conversation here has centered our not cleaning your plate, but that is hardly the crux of the problem. Most of the waste happens through the supply chain, from farmers not bring "ugly" produce to the distributors, to food spoilage during transportation, to prepared foods that don't get purchased at the store.

My friend wrote a great book about this last year:

http://www.americanwastelandbook.com/

Since reading this book and Barbara Kingsolvers "Animal Vegetable Miracle" my family gets our food almost exclusively from the farmers market or directly from a farm via a farmshare.
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2040924
FYI I did the Symfony demo, then signed in with Google and got a 404 error. It did save my progress, but I had to re-authorize before I could get back to the list of languages.

Fantastic product, though. I see myself using this a lot. Any chance of a C# version coming along?
You're right: cars are a means to an end. The incremental value provided by a luxury car over a regular car is exceedingly slight, and ends up going negative when you compare long term maintenance and gas prices.

The entire problem with luxury cars is summed up in the word 'luxury': burning cash for social proof.
I should write an eBook called "How to get rich by selling ebooks on how to get rich for $34"
No, he does not say the opposite:

>even though the trains arrive with the same frequency, the downtown train departs just a few minutes after the uptown train has departed. Because of this, there is only a narrow time window in which the man is able to get on the uptown train.

He should say it like you suggested though.
After watching their parents and grandparents obsess over material possessions, why is anyone surprised when Millennials choose to prioritize other things? Owning a bunch of stuff is a giant hassle and doesn't bring you any more happiness. Perhaps they have just learned the lesson their parents taught them.
"After all, the employees could leave the acquirer ASAP"

I'm guessing that most acquihires deal have a clause preventing you from leaving the company ASAP. Or at least an incentive to make you stay with the company (shares, yearly bonus, etc.). I don't think google will buy a company XM$ and see them leave right after.

Another point is that the acquiring is not "hostile". This is a deal between the startup/team being acquired and the large company so they weighed their options and chose to accept the offer - i.e. they want to work for the big company or are interested in the project they are being offered.

There is a lot of threads here on HN describing that talent is hard to find in technology and it's understandable to acquire a team that already work well together and produced something concrete.

One last thing was a comment by pg here : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4366621 saying that
"The article doesn't mention one of the most important reasons companies do HR acquisitions: competition forces them to. If company A offers to acquire a startup and company B merely offers to hire the founders, all other things being equal the founders will take company A's offer."
I'm curious why Fred Wilson would proclaim to the world that investing in his VC firm isn't going to give you the return that you're looking for these days. Is there a short term gain for him that I'm not seeing? Or is Wilson genuinely trying to change an industries path with a few words of wisdom? I'm not suggesting that his advice is bad. It seems to make sense to me.
Using RubyMotion to Build JavaScript Based iOS Apps
Minimum Viable Snippet
Or maybe it's just the generation that realizes that the supply of oil is finite.
What's a tech company? There are certainly examples of small teams or single developers making a living from selling software on the various app stores with no VC funding.
Maturity and intelligence don't go hand in hand. Most of my intelligent friends act immature on a regular basis, and most of the older, 'more mature' people I work with don't display any noteworthy level of intelligence.

It's also pretty easy for anyone to act politely if they want to. Combine this with the generally accepted notion that a lot of intelligent young people are cocky and egotistical and maturity doesn't have much to do with intelligence at all (IMHO).
Well this is written from the perspective of economists who lack imagination. If consumers don't spend money on cars then they will just spend it on other things. It means car companies will get smaller, less influential, and probably go out of business in many cases. I assume the public doesn't have the stomach for another round of bailouts for car makers but it's not like we were consulted about that anyway so who knows if it matters.
I don't have £100,000 in student debt - because I didn't go to university. I'm not rich, but I'm financially independent. The only thing that would push me to get a nicer car would be better reliability, or better gas mileage - which both save you money (in gas, and repair bills / wasted time) in the long run. Car ownership is purely financial for me.
"New codebase... Twisted." Is this satire?
Not sure it provides "90% of this". Your mappings ARE really cool (in fact I've just added them to my .vimrc, thanks).

I think the nicest feature of dwm.vim, though, is the "focus" and automatic layout of windows. Big left pane + lots of small panes on the right seems like a nice way of doing things...
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An "acquihire" says a lot about the founders of the company being acquired. It usually means they're burnt out, or aren't convinced that what they've built is a viable company. It's a "let's cut our losses" move.

That's not to say it isn't a good deal for the founders, but it's certainly not a good deal for many other people. The mindset isn't "let's create 1,000 jobs where there weren't any before," it's "let's make enough money to feel comfortable again."

That said, they can't just leave their acquirer immediately. Typically there's a time _and_ performance-based earn out applied to the terms, so they need to stay (and perform well) at the acquiring company for a set amount of time. Usually two to four years.
I've realized that for my mobile phone the typing speed will just never be great regardless of the input method. Tools like this (and SwiftKey) improve that a bit but not to a life-changing degree.

For the desktop this might be quite amazing however since, unless you're a perfect touch typist, you will always make a small number of mistakes.

These small mistakes can be caught fairly easily (especially given the much larger training set you'll gather on a desktop) and since you're looking at the screen anyhow it's fairly easy to detect damn-you-autocorrect mistakes before they slip through.

TL;DR; Don't use this to make inherently slow data entry a bit faster; use it to make fast data entry even faster.
Among the interesting data, this stood out to me: The committee
experienced some difficulty in analysing the available information because of
the time synchronisation problems at various stations.
For VCs. Just VCs.
Having been there at the time, IE on Mac was the best browser on that system at the time, by far. Netscape 4 looked like a bloated piece of crap that emulated random bits of Appearance Manager, crashed constantly, and had a nasty tendency of not yielding the event loop, which effectively locked the system. IE, by contrast, was fast, stable, used Appearance Manager, looked native and matched the Macs coming out at the time, and had better privacy controls, and other stuff that I don't even remember. Getting IE on our Macs was a big deal when I was in school, and it was pretty much the first thing I downloaded on a new Mac--the second being Outlook Express.

Now, by the time OS X rolled around, IE was aging very quickly, and by the time Safari 1.0 finally came out, anyone who cared about that sort of thing had jumped to Camino. But that was long after the initial IE port, and I don't think you can possibly say that IE 5 on Mac was crap from the antitrust effort.
Same here, $34 is a little steep, college student here too.
Ubuntu 12:04 with Webmin: Bootup and Shutdown Module
I remember joining up about a year ago (?) & thinking "man, this is an awesome idea, it just needs more users". Congrats on launching, Stu!
Ok, maybe I am extremely daft but how do you turn off the voice reading out each word you type? I turned my device on vibrate/silent mode - no dice, then I tried turning the system volume down to nothing - no dice. What am I missing here?
indeed, by freeing up the money that is tied up in mortgages/car loans and burnt as oil, can't we put that money and those resources to far more productive endeavours.
The people who are being acquired are usually tied to the acquirer via 'golden handcuffs', so they can't leave. Why just not lure these employees by giving them better offers? Probably because everyone knows that the acquihires are common so it's stupid to leave the startup 'for free' instead of waiting it to be acquired, and get some cash. If the new employer will give a signing bonus big enough to each of them it won't be much cheaper than acquihire, but he will get individual guys, not some company with established leadership, structure and culture.
I'm not sure. But I was confused about how an "import policy" could result in him being "fined as much as 250 percent on his solar panels." That didn't seem like the result of any sort of tariff I've ever seen.

So I went to his website, saw the tax credit advertisement, figured that might have something to do with it and googled it.

And while your linked 31% tariff may be the "tough import policy" referenced in the article, I'm still having trouble understanding how that turns into a 250% fine.
Yeah, good catch. I was hoping no one would notice that goof :)
"ttymouse=xterm2 doesn't work with tmux"

Works For Me™

Using lilyterm[0], a libvte based terminal.

[0] http://lilyterm.luna.com.tw/
It all depends on where you live and what your local market is like. I have a kid, and still don't need a car or house. I also live in NYC, so it's easy to do that. If I lived someplace like Houston, where there is almost zero public transport and houses are crazy cheap I might rethink things. That said, don't buy into social groupthink, don't buy a house if it doesn't fit your sensibilities.
Cromañon was issued permits because the regulations weren't enforced, because the city government was corrupt. How is that an argument for not having or not enforcing the regulations?
To me "Pythonic" means "according to the values of the Python community". More than idiomatic, there is a set of normative values involving design, interfaces, etc. inherent in the term "pythonic" and the judgement it implies.
I find this strange as it has been explained a lot of times that the reason they will not question him on the UK is because he not only may be arrested after the questioning, but he may need to do more questioning after one round is done. Basically, they need him in Sweden because anything can happens in the questioning. Also, although it has been done in the past (the questioning not in Sweden soil), it wasn't done to the accused but to people related with the case.

Also, did he really said that or are those quotations mark artistic license?
Racks come in all heights, we have 3 42u racks here populted with 1u boxes.
There's also many designs around smaller half depth servers, enabling you to fill servers from the front and back.
The description has it the other way.

"The solution is that, even though the trains arrive with the same frequency, the downtown train departs just a few minutes after the uptown train has departed. Because of this, there is only a narrow time window in which the man is able to get on the uptown train."

s/after/before/ to fix the explanation.
I thought that assumption throughout the article strange, too. A factor no one else seems to have mentioned (which admittedly only applies to transport, not housing) is that public transport is, overall, getting better. In London I have an Oyster card which actually gets me all the way to my dad's house too, even though he lives well outside London. Something like this just would not have been possible in the 90s, and now I can check how much money is on my Oyster from my phone, and see live train and bus (!) times on it as well. Not to mention that having tools like Google Maps makes using public transport in an unfamiliar city a doddle, I just punch in a postcode and it tells me which bus to get on, and which stop to get off at.
Manage your entire startup using "Linked Boards" on ThetaBoard Θ
Impressive stuff, although the book promotion page looks slightly off. Reminds me of those 'free make money' ebook pop-up's I got in 2005.
What Do Those Deal Terms Mean? - Part 2
The advantage for those employees being acquired is (typically) a liquidity event for their current shares. Say Acme, Inc. buys Little Guys N Me for 10 mil....and you are an employee of Little Guys N Me to the tune of 1% (or such). Depending on wording of your shares, this could mean a quick 100k..or there could be another cliffing / vesting situation. Also there will often be golden handcuffs put on (that are nicer than coming to the company independently)...so more shares of Acme, Inc. than one would get independently.
Lessons GrubHub's CEO Learned Using Freemium
Could one then attack their standing as a lawyer, i.e. pursue seeing them disbarred?
My recollection is that this number is based on a percentage of individuals seeking paternity tests-- where obviously we would expect to see a much larger number of false paternities showing up than in the general population.
Same problem with fr_FR on an azerty keyboard (Ubuntu or Windows 7). For example I can only type </> by typing <:> instead of the correct <shift> + <:>. For a <$> I would type <shift> + <'>.

It occurs both in Chrome and Firefox.
Developers, just get over yourself