skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then the uname -m part from http://docker.io/gettingstarted.html is a lie!

I'll try it on Windows with vagrant then.
It would be more realistic to compare the iPhone with the Galaxy, which is also sold for profit.

The Nexus 4 is sold at a loss or barely break even, following the same model as Amazon's Kindle line. It's a class of devices sold using a different business model, regardless of Android.

It remains to be seen whether these can be manufactured at scale--it costs to commit to large scale production, which can be seen in LG's inability to deliver Nexus 4 devices at launch. And it is also doubtful that they can remain competitive over time. Other loss making devices such as game consoles don't see frequent hardware revisions.
I'm commenting less on Summly and more on the general case. People who bolt together existing tech into something people want are extremely valuable. They have identified demand and found a way to address it using off-the-shelf components. The risk, often, is that someone else can just as easily bolt together the same components. This risk is mitigated by locking in the demand source, e.g. through brand recognition from your first-mover position. Someone able to rapidly bolt together a product that they subsequently ensconce with piercing marketing or another form of customer lock-in is a gold mine.
An iPad Mini 3G is also $450 and while there is no default phone app you can just put Google Voice on it or something. Same difference.
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I think he was more referring to the fact his comment lacked substance other than what amounted to an "Awesome."

Honestly, I think it's fine. Sometimes an up arrow just isn't expressive enough.
There is also this, http://common-lisp.net/project/elephant/
To truely understand what's going on here you have to follow the money. All of the money.

This is not a simple story of a hard working smart kid winning the tech lottery with a hot app/technology going from rags to riches. This is an arranged marriage, a PR stunt and a good-ole-boy deal all rolled into one. It's a VC fuck-you to all people that truly have innovative ideas, viable businesses, and dedicated employees that are trying to get management to notice solutions instead of golfing with "consultants" or blowing big money on solutions that could be built in-house for 1% of the costs.

The kid was born on third base, got home on a wild pitch and some folks think he hit a home run.
Not really. iPad and iPhone have the same chips. iPad retina screens are actually more expensive than iPhone retina screens because they're bigger (they're the same panels, just cut to a different size). The same is true for iPad batteries: they're larger than iPhone batteries and hold way more energy.

I couldn't find Bill-of-Materials cost analysis for the latest models, but let's compare the iPad 3 Wifi+4G with the iPhone 4S:

iPad screen: $127, iPhone screen: $37

iPad battery: $32, iPhone battery: $6

http://www.isuppli.com/Teardowns/News/pages/New-iPad-32-GB-4...

http://www.isuppli.com/Teardowns/News/Pages/iPhone-4S-Carrie...
There's also a selection bias in effect. Plumbr is not yet a household name. Speculating wildly, I suspect that they don't have enough clients using it at scales that would provide meaningful statistical input.

Many Java devs, when looking for object/memory/resource leakage, will turn to the well-known general purpose tools, such as JProbe, YourKit, Introscope, or even just JVM profiling output and verbose gc. Crazy people will start using DTrace or JMX hooks. The rest will just say they need a hardware refresh.

As you say, this is an analysis of metrics gathered from people looking for a 'free' solution. The reason for the 'small' mx settings could be that developers are finding ways around procurement to find leaks on the same machine running their IDE, email, browser, etc.
I'm not sure any of those things would qualify as someone's "greatest weakness"; they're incidental matters. Turning it around, would you say that the ability to be at work at 9:00am every day could be considered to be someone's greatest strength?
That weight over time graph should really be a bar graph and not a line graph.
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Are you really equating finance with Facebook and Apple? L.M.A.O.
A "friend" of mine may have been sharing his Prime account with two unrelated friends who live in totally different parts of the USA for years with no problems.

Perhaps they are making this sort of thing more legitimate but Prime sharing has always been a thing.
They have to, as they are way behind in mobile and nobody good wants to work there.

Sumly is three people and they paid about $30 million for it. Start throwing million dollar /year offers and many "good" programmers will want to work there. This stinks, IMO.
That's true. I was making the point (contra OP) that your owning a gun has little to no impact on the government ability to oppress you. Widespread gun ownership is not some magic pixie dust that will keep the federal government from oppressing us, and strict gun regulation is not some kind emasculation that will prevent the citizenry from rising up against a tyrannical government (c.f. Egypt, Libya).
Well, remember the audience. The hackers here don't really /need/ anything that a company provides (outside, maybe benefits): they can get the same equipment and infrastructure for very little. This is also a start-up site. I think there's a (justified) bias here of looking at employment as an option against founding.

Also, look at the financials of the situation. A software company can (easily) make $1 million/year/engineer, yet the engineer won't see more than a small fraction of that. The other parts of the business: marketing, sales, support, are primary topics on HN.

On this site, a job is just a lower-risk alternative to doing a startup. For all the potential benefits of founding a successful startup, and even the small reputation bonus from founding a failing one, there's a lot that an employer has to offer to compensate.
Really? I haven't seen any. Do you have any links, or any search words?

(I'm putting together a list of HN stuff - extensions, addons, userscripts, userstyles, etc, and this would be handy.)
PeerCast[1] was doing it since 2002.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PeerCast
The scariest part...5-4.

Scalia has his own convictions and sometimes he's a civil libertarian's best friend. Most of the time though...
To put your question more into perspective, I would ask if paying $50 for something that only costs $10 to manufacture, makes sense? Anyone who runs a profitable business will say 'yes'.

Summly is a product, and as such, has been purchased for more than it cost to "manufacture", as you laid out.

$30M is bargain shopping; lest we forget "Draw Something" was bought for $180 million, or "Instagram" was purchased for a whopping $1 billion.
If "brogrammer" is a thing, this picture is next to its definition in the dictionary: http://hackingdistributed.com/images/egs-small.jpg
I didn't expect this to work with so many TLDs, very cool! I haven't really found anything like this before. I wish I had more constructive criticism, the layout is clean and it just works so great. Maybe include a more customized favicon? I'll definitely keep it bookmarked.
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Police officer reports son for fraud after Apple refuse to refund £3,700
What we've found is that different analytics services help us answer different kinds of questions.

For example, here are the tools we use to find each metric he mentions:

Distribution

1. New users by channel: Google Analytics Source breakdown satisfies what I need to know here. If you want to look at conversion to a Goal broken down by source, there's the "Goals" view in GA.

2. Total users: easiest for us here is to just query our database.

3. Cost of customer acquisition, lifetime value, pay back period: again Google Analytics if you're doing adwords advertising.

Engagement

1. Active users: here a tool like KISSmetrics, Keen IO or Mixpanel will let you see how many people are really succeeding in using your service.

2. % of users using top 3 key features in a given month: same tools as active

Revenue

1. Revenue growth: Stripe or w/e your payments solution is.

2. Conversion to paid: KISSmetrics and Mixpanel are the best tools to help you measure conversion rates.

3. Avg spend per paying customer: Stripe or w/e your payments solution is.

4. Churn rate: Mixpanel probably does this best, but querying your database might be a better option depending on how you measure churn.

5. Burn rate: your bank account!

What we've found is that no single tool answers all these questions well. Most companies we talk to use a mix of Google Analytics for basic stats and distribution measurement. KISSmetrics, Mixpanel or Keen IO for engagement metrics and tracking. Customer.io, Vero and Klaviyo for email marketing analytics, etc. etc.

<shameless plug>

This is why we built https://Segment.io, so that we could easily send our data wherever we wanted, and get the best analytics answers from many different, complementary services.

</plug>
Maybe one that sees the risk/reward to be pretty equal to (if not better than) that of some random unknown startup?
Wait, I don't think that JavaScript is homogeneous, not in the least, for me it's really heterogeneous, I can look at 3 or 4 scripts developed by people of different skills and backgrounds and see it done in 3 or 4 completely different styles, visually and syntactically.

Did you messed up the wording over homogeneity?
Are you endorsing TurboTax as some sort of appropriate monopoly on tax prep? My bank can tie in to TurboTax, but why should I have to support a private company lobbying to make the tax code worse on purpose just to do my taxes easily?

I went through the same thing as the commenter above and it was OBNOXIOUS. Even worse, there's no real reason for it be done the way it is.

Oh, and then I realized I'd made a really stupid (but easy to make) mistake that altered the amount I owed by $12 and had to file an amended return.

Really really obnoxious.

I'd bet anything people would care 10x less about getting taxed if filing weren't such a hassle.
GA is just the better known implementation of OATH/TOTP. There are independent third-party implementations; I use a J2ME one, which works fine even with Google's own webapps.
I should not you can be disdainful without being jealous and vice versa.
Edited, sorry for that :)
>Maybe the goal was to get more people who could quickly assemble a MVP from existing APIs that appealed to the emerging cohort of buyers and trendsetters.

There is a lot to be said for building the right thing; but the actual ability to assemble such products are very common and even the very premium skills are definitely for sale at market rates much lower than $15MM per year.
sticking around for 97% drawdown? Sorry.. doing this in real life would be more stupid than anything
Are you kidding? Nutritional yeast is delicious! You can put it on popcorn, include it in any recipe that calls for Parmesan (like risotto or cheesy pastas), use it for breading tofu, use it to make vegan mac n cheese. I love nutritional yeast...in case you can't tell. :) It just has an awful name.
http://wilfra.postach.io

Set that up in under a minute.

If they support custom domains I'm in - but don't really like using subdomains.

edit: they don't seem to support images, i uploaded a screenshot of the admin area and it didn't render on my blog.
Which brokerages do you see yourself allowing? I'm thinking of opening one
Looks awesome! I would like the ability to choose both Hacker and Designer though. :)
One point in the graph shows a -144% return. How do you even get a -144% return? Debt?
I also had a 2 folder system, but subscribe to so few feeds that going away for a weekend only leaves me with a few hundred unread articles. Since many sites overlap in terms of content, I don't even always need to read every article anyway.
Having to pay $10 million per person is how far behind Yahoo! is at the moment.
I also include a lot of "Show HN" posts in Hacker Newsletter as well: http://hackernewsletter.com
In terms of the first three, a lot of the value is in what economists call "positive network externalities", or "network effects".

If you walked out the door of Apple with source code and "source code" for their hardware, you could replicate a lot of their value for the immediate future, until they had time to cook up new stuff.
Ruby-like programming language which compiles to PHP
I named it Iced Tea, but the name might change in a future. As you might have guessed is heavily inspired by Coffeescript. It's my first try at a programming language, and I had a lot of fun working on it!

Please let me know what you guys think!

Here's the repo: https://github.com/gosukiwi/IcedTea/
Our approach is that you need both:

* A free, public mirror (comparable to pypi or the ubuntu mirrors) makes docker instantly more useful. You're 1 command away from sharing a ready-to-use image with the whole world, or trying someone else's image.

* Docker definitely also needs a mechanism for moving images in a peer-to-peer fashion as you see fit - ala git pull. This is actually more work to get right, but we are working on it (and pull requests are always welcome :). Any docker will be able to target any other docker for push/pull.

Hope this helps.
Tinkercad to close down
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"Rather than cram these things into Dark Sky, we decided to do something grander: create our own full-featured weather service from scratch, complete with 7-day forecasts that cover the whole world, beautiful weather visualizations, and a time machine for exploring the weather in the past and far future. You can access it from all of your devices, whether it be your laptop, iPhone, Android phone, or tablet."
All of the sites you mentioned don't play to the strength of RSS. RSS is great for YOUR interests, not a crowd's interest. It's the difference between following an author or artist versus following a publication or radio station.
Thanks for that! I see it's almost 100% for pt-BR! awesome :)
I'll definetly try it soon
Ada Initiative has its own problems, but PyCon seems to be one of the few "clean" parties in this whole snafu.
Plenty of Tier-2 successful people here on HN itself.
This is a very interesting use case, particularly in investment analysis, my area of specialty.

The problem of obscure, rarely updated blogs with fantastic information (but no reader base) is plainly evident here. I can think of a blogger who is a fixture on "who's who" lists, but publishes a blog so ill-trafficked you can hear the crickets chirping. There are hundreds of these guys.

I'm at work on a finance-specific version of this. Hopefully we can announce something before the readerpocalypse.
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No Betable? Just curious given Sohail's real money gambling role at Zynga.
Which is why this acquisition was more about PR than talent or technology. It says (or tries to say), "You might think we're just dusty old Yahoo!, but we're hiring 17-year-old wunderkind too! We're hip to the next big thing! And remember we have a new CEO..."
i only see the option to add family members.
Just FYI, IcedTea is a pretty big thing in the java world.

http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/Main_Page
Well, at least you found out right away your architecture wasn't supported :)
Interactive Brokers will be our first integration.
What this really underscores is that conventional capitalism provides little incentive for fundamental innovation.

All this stuff we're gluing together is the product of state-funded research, mostly from the cold war era. DARPANet, the web (CERN), DARPA research on "augmented human intelligence," etc.

Stuff like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY

(I bet you thought Xerox PARC invented that stuff, right? Or Apple? Nope. DARPA and SRI invented the entire modern user experience in the 1960s.)

Few companies ever fund that kind of thing. There's two reasons. One is risk vs. reward-- such projects are typically "high risk, high payoff" as DARPA likes to say. Most lead nowhere. The second reason is that there is no good mechanism for monetizing the result. Fundamental innovations are often too fundamental to patent effectively, and are easy to copy once understood. They're also often worthless in themselves. They are enablers of value that is built on top of them.

Fundamental innovation is a lot like infrastructure -- something else free market players seldom invest in.

This is a problem for today's generation of enthusiastic free-market proponents. Who is going to pay for the next generation of innovation?

It's also very unjust. Where were Douglas Engelbart's billions? Tim Berners-Lee, is he a billionaire? No, we have 17 year olds making quick millions gluing together the work of dozens of Ph.D's who will never see that kind of money in their lifetimes.

It's a big thing that turned me off the Ph.D path. I don't feel like taking a vow of poverty and toiling in the dungeons to develop some fundamental, difficult concept that someone else then takes, glues to something else, flips, and gets rich.
Shorting is also a possibility.
I wonder if Yahoo has got the rights to make a movie about this fairy tale. That's about the only way I can think of for them to cash-in. But it seems more likely that they just got sucker-punched.
Outsourced to companies like Capgemini who deliver as little as they can get away with
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This, I agree with. In general, very few companies make up a large percentage of the profits, illustrated perfectly by the whale curve. It is quite shocking to see that thing pop up when you run it across real data, but it shows you instantly who to keep happy.

It's a terrible strategy to play Pokemon (gotta get 'em all) with your business. No matter how hard you try, you simply cannot increase profits over certain customers and you risk collapsing your profits if you place your effort there.
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I wish there were more examples on the site -- I hate giving my email if I don't see the product first (outside of a single screen shot.) I like seeing what was given in the last few newsletters before I decide.

I'm subscribed to so many curated HN newsletters so far, they are all starting to look the same.
I wouldn't think any significant form of active transport would be going on in a dead bird. Also, I think the sodium-potassium pump pumps sodium out, not in, although you could be talking about a different pump?

In the absence of any pumps going on, I would imagine a 35% solution would be extremely hypertonic compared to the interior of the cells, and water would definitely flow out.
How about risk and money management?
Google Wallet.
btw, good work nginx. I'm always interested in you guys' work :)
Why is it aufs instead of unionfs? Not that I have a preference for either but I am curious :)
Yeah. This algo is highly leveraged - like 15X. It's possible to really lose your shirt if you trade this algo exactly.

Taibo's algo is interesting as a starting point. It's not one that that you just take off the shelf and start trading with. But, you can take it and learn from it and develop an alternative strategy. Presumably one with less risk!
Yes, Thanks! I saw it, that's why I said I'll need to change the name (and I'm open to suggestions!). I just wanted a name for the repo while I worked on the language and that's the first thing that came to my mind
The one I was thinking about when I wrote this was http://sideshowhq.com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5372680

If you are looking for an easy way to get HN data, the people who maintain the search mechanism have an API: https://www.hnsearch.com/api (and https://github.com/priestc/hnpercentile is an example service that leverages the API)
I think that, while the "5 minutes and you're done" thing can be understood as marketing spin, it would not be tremendously hard for any IRS service to provide the same kind of itemized listing that most tax softwares do to handle credits and deductions.

My tax experience is light–it takes me maybe an hour of data entry after all my stuff is gathered–so this wouldn't actually help me at all. But for others? If you could shave off as little as 20% from time spent on taxes, that sounds worthwhile to me.
I try terminus every now and again, but I always have trouble installing my own fonts (timeshare, not my box) and terminus isn't nice enough to motivate me to struggle through.
As part of google apps, it's a mediocre solution. It's not good for collaborating with people outside your organization (clients, patients, whatever else ends in -ients) but it's just good enough to prevent me from going with a hosted Exchange solution or to go back to administering our own infrastructure. I suspect it's prioritized to remain at that level.
I'm an indie game dev who has used Indievania for a previous release -- it's same kind of PayPal-powered setup, only they ask customers to tip them at time of purchase instead of taking a cut of every sale. Could you explain why I should consider using you instead of Indievania?
Images should be working, I'll check that out. As for custom domains, we absolute support it, just getting ready to roll it out. You can see custom domains in action on my site (also run via Postach.io) http://geekforbrains.com

Cheers
The rss2email script apparently works like a charm but it isn't suitable for large number of feed subscription. This is where Google Reader came in handy because I didn't have to care how long it takes to grab however many feeds I have under my account. Ultimately, all RSS feed readers (old and new) are going to be suffering from this issue of retrieving large number of feeds.
Well, yes, but I already covered that: if the names don't fit within the tradition that imparts meaning to them, then you need more descriptive names.
The HTTP 2.0 draft is using SPDY as a starting point for "asynchronous connection multiplexing, header compression, and request-response pipelining, while maintaining full backwards compatibility with the transaction semantics of HTTP 1.1"

So while Google may have come up with SPDY, we may get it as part of HTTP 2.0, from a standards organization. So it's not totally in Google's hands. It's being used as a starting point for a standard.

http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-httpbis-http2/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_2.0
Let me ask you this; what kind if person has enough free time and is a large enough ass to go about calling people idiots for making minor grammatical errors? My guess is... an idiot.
Ah, so the present Silicon Valley bubble is about to pop.
Ahh okay, just wanted to make sure. I hate when I accidentally grab names for things that have already been used famously.
Red and blue are connected by purple!
Because all software bugs are a result of dynamic typing? What?
The fact is that technology is in almost every facet of the world. However we view Yahoo!, they must know that technology is foundational relationship to cultivate and enhance.
Ha ha yea, I'm a big fan of Markdown, one of the main reasons we added it. Can't beat normalized data ;)

Would love to hear any other suggestions/feature ideas you have.