skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By "works", I think you mean "brings in more revenue than it costs" aka is profitable.

But I think the author brings up a point that it may be hurting the brand unknowingly. just because you can put someone on an email campaign for years because it is super cheap, doesn't mean you are conveying your message well or building a loyal customer.

And don't get me started on list sharing.
I'm almost certain with the latest it ware update this data is available somehwhere. Kindle now estimates time left in a book as a function of your past reading speed.
MMM's main thesis is that the quality of life bit takes care of itself through hedonic adaption [1]. If you can make it to that point.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic_treadmill
Yeah, plus Trillian enables to run msn, g-talk and so on in the same app, and also runs on windows.
The section on your website doesn't mention much about the OS. More details would be great.
I guess it's a matter of perspective.

One could also say that it was an employee retention disaster. Apple could not keep their key engineers happy even after offering millions to stay.

After realizing the full extent of the engineers' value after the fact, Apple had to buy a company that had no viable product just to get the engineers back.
Many of my co-workers are "friends" with me on Facebook anyway, and I post so much pro-gun related material, that no-one has to ask to know that I'm solidly pro-gun. I also login to Facebook from work, on my work laptop (this is considered acceptable at my workplace, as long as you don't spend all day on there, and get your work done).

OTOH, I do my pr0n surfing at home, on my own time, using Chrome in incognito mode, and don't advertise anything about it to anyone.

The moral of this story? Stuff I want kept private, doesn't go on Facebook in the first place. If it's on Facebook, by definition, it's something I don't mind people knowing.
Why wouldn't you do both?
... except for the portion of the funds that are kept by Amazon to support their DRM platform.
You make an excellent point regarding IP, and in fact BG's letter likely set the foundation for the entire software industry as we know today.

However, I believe the point of the article was that Jobs, Woz and BG did something contrarian to the establishment, or an act of disobedience if you will. That is pretty much in line with Swartz's actions which were done as a dissent defending a belief, and not for profit like a pro-IP argument for example.
The point that they gun for everyone is no defense. (That everyone gets shaken down for protection money does not mitigate the immorality of that act in individual cases.)

Such a defense would not only be an admission that the original criticisms against the office were 100% correct, but that the 'problem' of their unethical and immoral behavior is, in fact, much deeper than just Swartz.

Which is, in fact, why Ortiz won't go anywhere near a claim that they treat everyone the way they treat Swartz, with similar disregard for the particulars of their case or any human sense of justice or proportionality.

Attempting that argument would concede that the Swartz case is but today's face on the larger issue of proescutors run amok. [1]

[1]
A subject well covered in a blog post by Charles Pierce, that I previously linked to in a thread on this topic:
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/The_Case_Of_Aaron_Swar...

I'm well aware that they treat everyone this way. That's not a different issue. It is the issue.
Yes. And it has held up.
Examples, please and thank you.
IMO, the big problem with biometric is that it is non revokeable.
University study to determine if the universe is real
They forgot one:

Proper logging.
We do not know whether changing his mac address was in order to get around network blocks

Yes we do, because we aren't stupid, and neither is Aaron.

I could accept, for the sake of argument, that the very first time he changed his MAC it was because he was innocently trying to diagnose a network issue.

By the time JSTOR has cut off all of MIT and he is plugging into a physical port to work around the restrictions on the wireless network, it's no longer acceptable to honest people that he just thinks there was something wrong with the MIT network.

MIT didn't want him on their network. He thought his cause was worth bypassing their controls.
Euthanasia Coaster: die with elegance and euphoria
That was very good; thanks.
I'm not sure stoicism is about denying yourself, it's more about appreciating what you have whilst not being too attached to it.
>most people's incomes have stagnated or decreased

We stopped the high taxes on the rich, let the minimum wage fall in real terms, and made several other policy decisions which have caused the shift to the rich.

It's not retirees pulling us down (except perhaps arguably in the last week or two or life, drumming up huge medical bills), it's rent seeking.
Sorry, CES took up all the bandwidth. Got some time now. Will be making a new video of the OS. Will post it on HN soon.
"Japanese firms make about 35% of the Dreamliner, under a novel system of global outsourcing that cost it years of production delays."

This is not "novel," Boeing has been doing this for decades.

I also doubt that this outsourcing itself is responsible for the delays, but I don't know.
Legibility and readability are intertwined, but still separate criteria.

Sans-serifs have better legibility, that's why they are used for all kinds of signage. Serifs are better for long-form text, they give visual cohesion to lines, making it easier to follow the breaks. That's what the 'myth' is about, not that serif is always better than sans.
If you set up automatic 401k deposits and direct deposit a percentage of your paycheck to Vanguard, you won't stress out about it at all. You'll just see a different number on your take-home paycheck, get used it it quickly, and go on enjoying yourself without stressing out.

Or at least that's my theory - I'm setting up that direct deposit situation today, and I'm planning on setting the percentage a lot higher than I would have before reading this article.
You might have made the mistake I don't include certain ladies in "dumb fucking sexists" ^^ And on what planet are downmoderations brownie points?
I wouldn't say work on Dribbble is necessarily best practice. Many of the shots are just concepts by people who care more about "pretty" than how functional and realistically useful they are in the wild.
Greater income only last until you stop working, which may not be very long if you're seriously planning on retiring early. But you can maintain a lower cost-of-living until you stop living, which will hopefully be a much longer time. :)
Nearly perfect ultrathin invisibility cloak with wide applications
Someone who spends $5 on a latte everyday, that would make you no happier than coffee from the break room, is likely not in a stable equilibrium of spending.

If better tasting drinks really did make you happy--something I don't believe--the rational thing would to be to brew your own coffee or tea. This has the added bonus of being a learning experience. The $5 latte drinker, at most income levels, is someone who hasn't evaluated his incentives rationally.

Thinking rationally about money is a muscle. Negotiating a $5000 salary increase then buying $5 lattes is the equivalent of going to the gym, then driving a ten minute walk home.
I'm primarily a Windows user, though I dip into Linux pretty often. The first thing I do in any new install is to disable all but one or maybe two workspaces. Multiple workspaces just strikes me as a hack to get around poor panel design, or to facilitate running a modern PC on an ancient monitor.

If I leave >1 active I'm prone to losing windows on alternate workspaces; if I'd upped the number to 12 like the person who wrote that page, I couldn't even fill them all. You can see even he had trouble making them look "used" so he could take a screenshot. I've been using this PC daily for the 24 or so weeks it's been up, and I've only got 13 windows open.
Aaron's lawyers have said he was facing 7 years, not 35, if he went to trial and lost. Aaron knew this.

You can still find this entirely too long.
I agree it is cruel and unusual. The way it is now there is a strong incentive for innocent people to accept a plea bargain. How could this be remedied? Perhaps there should be a limit on the difference in the years charged and years that can be accepted for a plea?
Which doesn't prove neither disprove it, so we're in exactly the same place.
The Apple Double Standard
Never give out your real email address. When you must give an email away, give out a throwaway account. I keep a Hotmail account around just to catch all of the crap that most retailers feel entitled to send.
Nope. 10 years later you can go screw it all, and still have 35k in passive income a year and a huge nest egg.

You're also probably think 35k in an expensive place, where he lives in a random suburb of boulder I think.
And he almost did it again - if he "exited" at the peak of Color.
Ah, that's a difference between you and me. I need outdoor time to recharge, so that when I am back in front of my computer, I'm productive.
It can't be blamed on Fox News any longer. They're still cheerleaders for the "War on Terror", but these wars now belong to the current president. Do you see other news outlets questioning the current president's military occupations, drone attacks, etc?
If I read this correctly, it excludes dividends (2% a year) and has taxation every year. The last point is very, very important for long term investing; you'll preferably not realize gains and pay taxes for 20 years and hence get interest and compound interest of the part of your profits that you would have paid in tax if you paid every year.

In short, the chart is dishonest. (I am also surprised that is lands to far away from most other people's analysis, but I can't comment on this).
That was also in the Europe too, both before Romans and of course also in their times. Current time Romania's Transylvania for example (Dacia in the Roman's time), is one of the places that was situated at the edge of the Roman Empire. Because of the risk of eastern invasions (migration from east happened all the time), it had an efficient system of fire/smoke outposts signaling the presence of possible enemies over Carpathians, long outside the Roman territory.
Nothing stops them from leaving again. My previous comment was just taking issue with the article describing the move as "genius"
I agree. It reminds me of the story of a low income divorced father barely scraping by month to month, who could have used a several hundred dollar windfall to try his shot at a trade school or some such training program, but instead spent it on a fun weekend with his son when he had a couple days with him. Long term possibly maybe shot at improving his life slightly, or a good life experience with his son now... it's not an obvious decision. And that kind of thinking applies to far less noble uses of the money as well, such as beers with friends and such.
> By "works", I think you mean "brings in more revenue than it costs" aka is profitable.

Yep.

I assume that a monthly or semi-annual newsletter for something that doesn't have a million professional readers is not expensive to build or distribute. If someone in advertising devotes a day or two a month to it, you basically have it covered.

I've always assumed everyone has a newsletter because, well, why not?

It's like spam. Some people can lose face by abusing e-mail, but most people know they won't. It doesn't hurt or cost them anything to stick another e-mail in your inbox, so why not try?
Social Engineering - wow. Should have used that in the title of the blog post.
I agree with some of your points, but disagree with the overriding sentiment that spending less isn't as significant as some other savings.

I think the problem is people try to cold turkey everything at once, last a couple of days, then say "screw this". Keep TV, cut out lattes, then later you can downsize your TV (switch to netflix and OTA maybe?), etc. Track your savings and get competitive with it (make a game out of it).

Above and beyond current savings, our consumption is out of control. There's a decent chance that the average person's consumption level, if unchanged, will become increasingly expensive as there's more competition for the resources required to feed it (China, India, etc.). I'm not trying to be alarmist about it or anything, but I think it's safe to assume we're at least dealing with a moderate increase in resource prices compared to salaries (which are stagnant) year after year until we retire. It follows that consuming less (and getting used to consuming less) will have increasing returns. So working on consuming and spending less seems like a worthwhile goal, just don't go all hardcore off the bat.
Sharp has nearly halted production of 9.7-inch screens for Apple's iPad
Obviously that was a rotten thing to do, and it hurt their relationship in a major way.

However, that incident was an exception, not the rule. You literally can't become fabulously wealthy and keep it long-term by cheating people. (Bernie Madoff is penniless, and in jail.)

For evidence, I submit the wider context. Without Jobs, Woz would now be a retired HP engineer. No Apple, no IPO, no hundreds of millions. (And of course the reverse is true: no Woz, no Apple.) None of those original Apple IPO millionaires, nor any of the people that made it big the second time around, are complaining of "exploitation."
That means no political views, no off-color humor, NOTHING that I would not say or post in public, in broad daylight.

I also have no fear of an employer "finding" my Facebook profile (actually, my boss at my current job is Facebook friends with me, as is his wife, the co-owner of the company)... but I have a different take on it than you do. I absolutely post political opinions, off-color humour and all manner of controversial items to my FB wall. I just don't care who sees any of that stuff, since A. I doubt most potential future employers are going to care about any of it and B. IF by some amazing chance they did, then - by definition - I don't want to work for them.

So, if $BIGCORP is bothered by the fact that I'm a pro-gun, Libertarian atheist with a "thing" for tall redheads that look like Karen Gillan, then f%^# $BIGCORP, as far as I'm concerned. There are enough other employers out there, I'm not going to waste my time trying to appease every Tom, Dick and Harry that comes along.
Yup - we are aware. That's one of the perils of a having a graphic designer rather than a web designer on board. We are nearing the end of a major overhaul (visually), so that should address these issues.
> Our linux installer has never been a problem. Not only that Valve released their software just for one distribution. Within hours you had people working out how to get it to work on the distribution of their choice. So the fragmentation is not a problem, but more of a benefit where users do the work for you.

Direct quote from the guy you are in the thread with. If you put it on one distro, the others will port it for you.
Lots of people do not know what they want. Hardly anyone knew they "wanted" FB because nobody actually thought they'd be needing it. Less alone pay for it.

If it's really "killer" (not as in: "I'm creating a social app where people hunting cows with bows can use their smarthpone to share videos of arrows piercing bows in real-time") then people may not know they'll actually want this.

I don't disagree that having other buying apps using your idea is good in that it shows there's a market.

But then you don't "Have a great idea". Because you're idea simply is "My idea is to copy another product".

Not that I have anything against it: it's what I do for a living : )
Please checkout emo2.com - our product website if you like.
So if they are shamelessly using any means available to try to convict everyone they prosecute, say to increase their rate of successful prosecutions and thus professional status, then by your definition then they aren't gunning for anyone?

I'd say in that case they would be gunning for everyone they prosecute. As opposed to the people they aren't prosecuting. An alien invader could be gunning for everyone on Earth. "Gunning for" doesn't have some distribution defined definition when enacted by a single individual - an individual can "gun for" everyone in context and some do.
We should note how fortunate many of us are to be working in an industry where increasing your salary by 30% doesn't require a ton of extra work or going back to school and obtaining an advanced degree. For software developers, increasing your salary by 30% usually just requires:
- A little extra work after-hours and weekends, improving on your craft.
- Changing the company you work for.

I don't think this is quite so easy for say, an educator, or a firefighter, or a plethora of other occupations.
Edge's 2013 Question: "What *should* we be worried about?"
They also say that an Office replacement "comes with" Linux. LibreOffice is definitely cross platform...
I love that competition idea.

For non-drawing features I definitely agree. Linking would save lots of work.
Thanks for mentioning, and using, Virtualmin!

We're not very good designers, I'm afraid. We're aware of our deficiencies in the area of UX and design (in Virtualmin/Webmin/Cloudmin themselves and the websites), and have been working hard on a new design for Virtualmin (with outside help). It's slow going, due to the size and complexity of the codebase, at about half a million lines of code developed over 14 years, but it is happening. But, as you note, it is definitely well-maintained...we do a new release of Virtualmin and Cloudmin roughly monthly, and a new release of Webmin every couple of months.

I'll also mention that we have an active community of several tens of thousands of users, and a full-time person working on providing great support in our forums and ticket tracker and on twitter, so it's usually very easy to get help, whether you're using the Open Source version or the commercial version.

And, while Virtualmin is lighter weight than cPanel, it does quite a bit more, particularly for developers and technical users. Being Open Source, the types of folks who use it tend to be a lot more demanding of some types of functionality and behavior (like being able to edit config files outside of Virtualmin). IPv6 is one example of our users being a lot more demanding and technically advanced than cPanel; I'm shocked they could hold off this long. We were being hounded at conferences and in our forums about the issue years ago.
"A language is a dialect with an army."
The Overzealous Prosecution of Aaron Swartz
> It's similar to the Tyler Clementi case, who killed himself because he was being videotaped in gay acts by his roommate. I never thought it was fair that the bully in this case would be held accountable . . .

This is an unfair analogy. Don't compare a college roommate with a US Attorney. First, they don't have the same moral training: the roommate is young and still in school, while the prosecutor has spent years in school studing justice and is near the top of a profession with the primary goal of doing justice. Second, their acts aren't comparable: the roommate acted on a sick, misguided impulse intending to embarrass, while the prosecutor deliberately over the course of many months and spending many thousands of dollars intended to force a kid to admitting to a felony and to agree to spend months in prison.

There is a clear bully here and it's not the people protesting Carmen Ortiz's actions.
| we believe it was hung over his head to extort a
| plea deal, while remaining a real possibility

All you have to go by are public statements/press releases though. All of the private communications between Aaron (and his lawyers) and the prosecution are relevant here. It sounds like, while quoting 'up to' numbers in public, they were telling his defence that they planned to seek 6-7 years at trial (without a plea bargain). Obviously this wasn't something they were bound to (they could change their mind and seek maximum penalties at trial).

That said, if they were telling him behind closed doors that they would seek 6-7 years, I don't think we can claim that they were holding the possible 35 year sentence over his head. As others have said in other discussions, if a judge had ignored the prosecutor and thrown the maximum sentence at him, it would almost certainly be overturned on appeal (max. penalties for a first time offender are almost always overturned on appeal).

I think one of the biggest factors was that he was facing a possible $1+ million trial with no funds to pay for it. Also, 6-7 years in prison isn't anything to laugh at.
Why can't we just all get along, and say, for example - instead - that "rsa_key.pub" is all we need, and if we ever get a logon prompt, look for that file on USB media instead ..

I mean, that would work, wouldn't it? I suppose for it to work, though, we'd have to have an actual .. you know .. OS Company .. again.
Nokia releases 3D printing files for Lumia phone cases
Even the both examples on the wikipedia article are sans-serif! Serifs have very little to do with ink properties. Probably more to do with ancient romans and their chisels if you want a technological explanation for serifs.
Unless it's you know not open source or something.

Even with open source , you get version lag between distros.
The sack of bricks that broke the camels back, so to speak.
Given that you are going to work for a company for months or years, and interview with them for hours, you care much much more about the quality of the coworkers than the quality of the interviewers.
To what extent is it true to say "SWARTZ faces up to 35 years in prison" if there is a 0% chance he'll face that penalty? Wouldn't it be more accurate to say "his alleged crimes are punishable by up to 35 years in prison"? Or was there actually a small but non-zero chance he'd face 35 years?

By analogy, imagine a 3-strikes state where the 3rd strike results in life imprisonment. If someone is accused of committing their first felony, is it accurate to say "he faces up to life in prison" when that is not possible given his lack of criminal history?
By that conspiracy theory logic, I'd expect that no pharmaceutical company has ever done a clinical trial on a gene therapy based cure for a disease. But in reality... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_therapy
Five grand a year is probably too extreme, that's less than $15/day. But $15k/year is definitely doable with a $400K nest egg. 16 million households in the U.S. survive on less than that and most of them have to work to do so.
Engineer at Cue here.

We haven't been able to reliably reproduce the problem and haven't found much about it online. I've filed a bug report here if you'd like to add your two cents:

https://bugreport.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/RadarWeb.woa/...
I don't think that the severity of a crime should be judged by a victim's reaction to it.

I agree with this, but it's not the same as saying that the bully's conduct was OK. Even if it's true that there has been overreaction to the treatment of Aaron Swartz, to the point of that being bullying as well, that just means there is wrong on both sides.
I've seen the number for "civilian owned guns" reported as being much higher, more like 310M. Not sure which number is most accurate, and it's entirely possible that none of them are, since we have no central firearms registry. But I would guess that the actual percentage of homes with at least one gun is higher than 40%.
It will be on all personnal data. These APIs will have to open all these data to the user, so he would be able to connect to other 3rd party services with all these personnal data he wants to share.
If these companies don't open, the'll have to pay Numerical Value Added Taxes according to the document