skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's true that they were very well compensated for the work.

I think it's worth keeping in mind, though, that controlling a large group of cultural natives who've integrated into your cultural leaves a lot of room open for further benefits on both sides of the equation. Of course, that way lies empire - maybe you don't want to take the trouble.

But I think the real reason we don't do it (the reason that the author of this piece brings up and then, rather oddly to my mind, dismisses) is that career politics doesn't reward building up long-term assets (outside of some very specialized circumstances), whereas it most certainly does punish 'letting in the wrong people'. There's little incentive to take the initiative if you haven't already been given an order.
There are many team collaboration and project management tools available in the market (many with leanings towards ease-of-use concept). It is impossible to say how yours will fare without knowing more about your product relative to the market place?

Not to be harsh, just to be direct, does your product solve a problem that other team collaboration and project management tools do not? Or is your product in actuality a tweak on other available products?

If your product has any chance at 60k / month, you should be able to easily answer that question with a problem much more poignant than ease-of-use.
Looking into this right now - in Step 3, did you highlight the quote and click the "Quote It" button? Thanks for letting us know about this.
Why must they ruin the fun? Now games for today are cancelled and my half-day from work is pointless, I'll actually have to code or something.
ZenoArrow is talking about embedded SoCs though. While Kabini is a SoC, it isn't really suited for embedded applications. These chips usually have a ton of GPIO, built-in support for different communication protocols, analog to digital converters, a lower power draw, etc. etc.
I understand this, and any system that needed this information would not work if it relied on a human to decrypt.
> 30 to 60 business days (1.5 to 3 months!)

Someone should check that.
Will Duetto compile to plain JavaScript, or to asm.js? It seems like emscripten + asm.js is already on par with other VM-based languages. (Native Client is faster, but it's not a VM, and it makes compromises for this speed, e.g. it allows modules to segfault and kill the process they're running in to avoid bounds checks.) An approach that compiles to plain JavaScript is unlikely to be faster.

The Duetto folks mention asm.js in passing on the news page, but don't specifically state that it is their compilation target.
You might also be interested in SparkleShare which replicates the functionality of Dropbox using Git http://sparkleshare.org/
Not sure if you are being sarcastic or not.

I think the correlation if it exists is pretty weak. Plenty of good software produced for free. For example linux is still generally "free as in beer" and I at least prefer it to windows. Plenty of bad software produced as a profit motivated venture. I am not going to provide an example of "bad software" to avoid a distracting flame war, but I'm sure everyone can come up with examples.

It is an interesting subject and hopefully someone has done a nice analysis of it, my non-scientific and highly biased assessment is that hobbyist software (read "free as in beer") tends to be higher quality from a technical standpoint but lower quality from a UX standpoint (read UX as friendly to a non-software engineering audience). Whereas the reverse is true with business produced software (UX over technical). Ubuntu managed to marry both worlds and produce noob friendly linux but this is often harder than it looks.
If the cops are known for breaking up parties by beating people to death (and you know of this), don't you hold some responsibility if you call the cops to break up the party? You're not 'solely responsible' for whatever happens, but you have some amount of responsibility.
Experts-Exchange[0], perhaps? There were (are?) some workarounds for getting E-E's full results, but SO/SE is so much better, it doesn't matter what's on E-E anymore.

[0] Don't look here for a link from me, I'd rather not encourage them by sending traffic their way.
I wish to pick one nit: This is not the first chipset to be fully documented and have this sort of massively-parallel structure. GreenArrays is producing hardware right now if you want to go play: http://www.greenarraychips.com/
Was interested in taking a look at your music, but couldn't find any info in your profile. Any chance you could post a link here, or send some info my way (my contact details are in my profile).
> Palo Alto/University Ave is no more the place to be. You have to be in San Franciso.

I agree. The culture, inspiration, community, and experience here is a bit unparalleled. I can just as easily lock myself away to build product as I can go out and get away from marinating in self induced frustrations.

There is also money out here. People are willing to travel and visit, there are a ton of venues for meetups, etc. I couldn't imagine a better place to be (at the moment) for both tech and life.
Let's face it, you weren't in the market anyway. And $1500 won't be the final price point if it goes over well. The point of this is to push the technology more than to satisfy people who expect it to be exactly like an iPhone.

Disclosure: I utterly deplore the effect that this will have on society if it does take off
Of course, the main difference being signed up with such a bank makes is it's now harder to legally dispute fraudulent transactions on your card.
On the contrary it almost always works. Force the quota of women, gays, blacks, Jews, poor etc. to zero and the privileged group will spend almost exactly no time considering the fact that there may have been someone more qualified that could have bumped them imperceptibly down the ranks if that quota wasn't enforced. They'll not even notice after decades of this.

Just make sure you don't do it to anyone, like straight, white males who have the political strength to resist it or you'll never hear the end of it.
Nobody said you have to or even should ignore them, just understand that they aren't hard and fast rules. It's incumbent on the language producer to understand the customs that need to be observed to make themselves understood. Not following the custom will seem strange at best and at worst will prevent you from being understood. That's all there is to it.

What is opinion is that some people think that there are hard rules to language and it's simply not the case...it's their opinion that there are such rules, even if fact doesn't support their opinion.
Yes. I was interested in the site, went to the page, saw the signup boxes, and left.
Sorry, but I think you don't understand probability that much and you also underestimate how much people do probability subconsciously in the right way. Also, even experts and scientists studying probability theory are pretty confused when it comes to reasoning correctly with probability.

Look at it this way: the probability of me dying from heart disease is extremely low even though a lot of Americans have a high probability for that.

There are quite genuine concerns in AI that people have messed up uncertainty, probability and statistics.

http://www.agroparistech.fr/mia/agi-workshop/

So please stop the pop sci version of probability and statistics.

Carnap is probably spinning in his grave right now :)

Any good book on probability will show that there a half dozen ways to do probability from first principles and all of them are sort of equally valid but differ greatly.

http://books.google.com/books/about/Universal_Artificial_Int...
I've used Mercurial over Dropbox before and would caution against it. Somehow the repository got corrupted (I'm betting on a bad Dropbox sync) and then all the repositories got corrupted. Since then moved to bitbucket.
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I've been out of work for more than six months and got back into the thick of things. I chose the area of specialization I got back into. I did it by focusing on the project, rather than the company. I think, your chances of employment is actually lower, if you do not focus your search. If you're going to make an effort to focus on your search, you might as well choose, not just simply sending things out and seeing what sticks on the wall.

That you have focus, a drive, a goal, all bleeds through your body language. People want to go where you're going. If you're lost and desperate, people avoid you; it's sad, but people in general avoid needy people like the plague. This "knowing where you are going" is what people are really looking for when they screen out someone who has been unemployed for six months.

I have a friend whose favorite mantra is, "adapt, improvise, overcome." Ok, so recruiters have software that screens out anyone who has been unemployed for more than six months. Adapt. Improvise. Overcome. Don't send out resumes to recruiters; go to where the employers are. Or better yet, stop looking for a "job" (and all the things that go with it, such as social status, peer acceptance, etc.) and look for a project.
Can you point out some similarities between the Taliban's Jihad and the American Revolution?
There is no series A crunch, only too many seed rounds IMHO.

Very few companies need to raise more than $1M to reach profitability any more, so traction should be required before raising money, but if investors wait for traction, they'll miss the really big deals. This sets up a dynamic, particularly influenced by the JOBS act, where unsophisticated investors can flood the market with cheap capital.

When it comes time for a startup to raise money from serious investors, they won't touch it unless it looks like Midas. I'd argue that the Series A levels haven't really changed from year to year, but that we perceive it as a Crunch because of the ridiculously large number of seed rounds.
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Learning, wearing 10 hats, broad range of knowledge from tech, design, hiring, firing, hyper productiveness, fun all the way up to optimized way of buying coffee.

A startup experience will definetly accelerator your career. You are likely to be more valuable than you were x months/years before the startup.
(Can't message you, feel free to send me a mail on the address in my profile):

No, I'm not really the web developer. Atm I'm working on a web-app that allows the journalists to log in and collaborate on articles, see the status on this issue's articles, export them to inDesign and some other book-keeping.
> He wants to use speech instead of text

While the no-talkie and partial talkie DotT are great, full-talkie DotT is absolutely awesome.

> He wants keep the retro aesthetic, which is good, but then wants to include things like DOF and glows...which can technically be done with a palette, but I don't think this is what he is getting at, and could potentially destroy the rigid palettization that makes pixel art what it is

I'm not sure pixel art and retro looks is the solution. There was something unique yet common to all those great games that made them memorable enough that we long for them even today.

As an example, while I don't quite like the whacky universe and style that evolved since Rayman 2, Rayman Origins engine and graphics were stunning, and captures part of that essence. Sadly the gameplay is largely forgettable, almost a rhythm-based party game — I long for something like the first Rayman gameplay — but the graphics part is a step in the right direction.

I feel like Orioto [0-3](browse his tumblr blog for more) tries to captures this essence, and I long for games looking like his work. Given the incredible horsepower we have at hand as of yet, I just can't believe it's not possible.

[0]: http://www.redbubble.com/people/orioto/works/8245345-through...

[1]: http://www.redbubble.com/people/orioto/works/8290902-city-bo...

[2]: http://orioto.tumblr.com/post/15721511369/1200p-1080p-print

[3]: http://orioto.tumblr.com/post/15627728854/1200p-1080p-print
The problem with your assertion is that it is inappropriate as a response to a concise description of what linguistics is. Linguistics is not the study of how to be a more effective writer or a great communicator. Linguistics is the study of the "basic" language communication skills that nearly everyone possesses. When you study linguistics, you discover that even what many people would consider to be poor speech or writing is still remarkably sophisticated and complex.
Penta-cat, they must mean.
Our course was taught using NetLogo which is very nice, but not necessarily the same kind of simulation that you have in mind.
I'm fairly certain yours is not an objective opinion.
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I don't understand. Were you trying to put your repository and your working directory in Dropbox? That does, indeed, sound like a very bad idea.

Putting just `.git` in Dropbox seems like it would be fine, though.
You implicitly assume that it's better to have a larger count of apps ("much software"). Looking at current app stores, this isn't really true. Not only are most apps terrible or useless, but among the somewhat useful ones, most of them are copies of each other's functionality.

A hundred fart apps and ten todo apps might be 110 apps, but even taken together they aren't any better than just the best todo app.
So what is all the extra markup supposed to indicate?

([_] - [great _]) * ([great _] - [great green _])

What is the first [_] ? Why do you alternate between *s and -s? What is the point of "[x _] denotes the expected number of substitutions admitted by the hole (_) in the context x." if everything seems to have the same number of substitutions?

When I first saw the markup without examining it closely I was excited that I might learn a new markup/sentence diagramming format. Upon closer inspection it seems its just a bunch of characters that when interrogated closely add very little value.

I think smackfu was correct: substituting different adjectives of the same type should not change the order of the adjectives. How are people supposed to discuss things they are not familiar with? What should I do if I do not know what portion of houses are brick? What proportion are colonial versus modern? Or what proportion of craftsman style houses are brick?

It is beyond me why this is the lead thread under a pretty interesting and out of the ordinary link on HN.
Thanks! Evernote do let you save different text snippets and links but they are more geared toward "private". On QuoteRed, everything is public. We may add a private board or two later.
Not really, plenty of people do software projects as a hobby and there is evidence that people tend do a better job at creative endeavors (discussed here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc) when they find the work intrinsically rewarding rather than extrinsically rewarding (read, for cash). In fact extrinsic rewards such as payment can reduce the quality of work.
You're right, of course. Another comment fallen victim to the Ruby==Rails laziness fallacy :-)
Nice post dudes!
I'm guessing here, but if Glass delivers on its promises, it would be much more expensive not to develop for Glass.

I see it this way: if today everyone on the internet started using Adblock, and I mean every single internet user, most companies would still have a website, because the money they would be losing to the competition would be much more than the cost of keeping their servers up - it would just be part of the cost of the business, just like paying for ads now.

So coming to glass, if your competitor has an app in what promises to be the next revolution on computing, can you really afford not having a presence into that market?
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It's also a Nobel prize winning novel by J. M. Cotzee. The allusion works either way.
I do this for several years with lots of repos. Not a single problem ever.
Where are the hobbyist mobile operating systems?
I don't remember what it used to look like, which, I suppose, means they did a good job ;)
Tagging or a mention about beginner, intermediate or other skill level might be good. It's great as it is though, there aren't a lot of good resources like this that round up books in this niche. Maybe do a top 10 list for beginners and link to each review?
It seems that GitHub wants a more "serious" look. I wonder why that is. Do managers dismiss GitHub for Enterprise as a possibility because it feels hackish/unprofessional?
I use and adore Omnigraffle. It is hands down the best diagraming software I've ever seen.
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Oh, and Google glass is a freaking disaster. If someone has one at a party at my house, I will kindly ask them to take them off and put them in their car. If they refuse, I will kindly ask them to leave. If they refuse I will kindly remind them that the Los Angeles Police Department will help remind them that in my house, I get to say who gets to stay.
I think the other thing I'd say is that while journalists are ethical, news is a business. News will be reported only insofar as the commercial interests overlap with journalistic interests.

Of course there is a LOT of overlap. Among other things, news that inspires fear or titillates sells particularly well. But that should maybe be cause for consideration, that regardless of ethics they have strong financial incentives behind what they report.

I actually wonder if this is one of those scenarios where you have to be especially wary; when a person's ethics or morality are incredibly well aligned with their self-interest, it ought to give you pause. It may in fact be more interesting to discuss the kinds of stories journalists won't cover, and why.
Clickable: http://Collaborade.com

Well now that you've built it you're already 5% of the way there. I hope this isn't the first time hearing this, but you'll need an effective way to reach your target market, which isn't easy.

What does your marketing budget look like? If you can't answer bcgraham's question, you're in trouble.

Also, I don't see a demo video on your site, just lots of text.
I am not sure how would interpret my comment as being rooted in confusion. If the claims were legitimate, eBay would be an appropriate defendant since they are publishing the defamatory content. Moreover, if they somehow lost such a case, it would open the floodgates for anyone that has ever received negative feedback to sue them. Thus, eBay will likely try to make this publicly painful for this plaintiff to serve as a warning to others that would pursue such ridiculous cases.
It's correct. Business days = weekdays minus holidays, so about 20 per month. So 30 business days ~= 1.5 months.
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I don't see a big difference between this and "petaflops" measurements that are the de-facto standard in bragging about supercomputers. You really only hit that peak performance for embarrassingly-parallel problems, but unless you have a specific workload or benchmark to talk about, it's the best you have and is a fairly well-accepted practice in the industry.

On a related note "petaflops" would be a great name for a pet bunny.
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I think you have to interpret that snide remark as tongue-in-cheek; he also says SCUMM beat up Lua for its lunch money. And he is playing that "grumpy old developer" role pretty consistently, which means bashing the new and venerating the old. Still, I think his main point is that SCUMM was a higher-level language than Lua that could express actions in a more game-specific form, and that's why it's more suitable (at least to his way of doing things), and that's why he would like to continue the SCUMM way rather than actually use Lua.
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Killing them like osama, blasting them with a drone or detaining them in gitmo means the terrorist have won, because they have dragged the system down to their own level.

Those were acts of war, and prosecuted under those rules (international law, Geneva Convention, etc), rather than domestic criminal law.
Looks good from what I saw during the brief moments I was able to get in. The site currently complains of not being able to make a db connection.
And the US has tons of Vietnamese in it, partly as a result of that
The b in the logo feels a bit strange to me.. anyone else get a comic sans feel with it?
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And I use different OSes – Mac OS X, Windows 7 and XP, sometimes different git versions. And still no problems.
I really liked the Chzo Mythos. It is a mystery / horror point and click adventure, quite short. The atmosphere is really great. http://www.fullyramblomatic.com/5days/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chzo_Mythos#7_Days_a_Skeptic
OK, they were well paid. So what? It seems to me that the purpose of your post may be to impugn their integrity or say that they were collaborating with an evil enterprise, and therefore do not deserve to get a lifeline.
"So it is no surprise that as the Fed readies another round of money printing, more and more Amercians want to experiment with alternative currencies. Hence the intense interest in the digital phenomenon called the Bitcoin."

Get real, Steven.
The problem is, you can discredit any failed startup by saying their MVP just wasn't viable enough. Well, duh. Knowing what's viable and building it is the difficult part, but isn't that what lean methodology is supposed to help with to begin with? Lean methodology inadvertently makes it seem like the hard part is the easy part, and therefore confuses people.
I'd really like to hear their thoughts around the capitalization of GitHub. Everyone who uses git interacts it with it in downcase. To see it upcased like that is unfamiliar.
I feel like you could do even better if you approached a language design from the other side, instead of focussing on the lower-level aspects to instead be thinking of higher level aspects. If I were designing a programming language, I would start with what the development environment would look like, what tools do I want to build to support development in the language, etc., and then build the language to support that.

It seems so often languages are built, and then the tools are an afterthought, things like debugging, visualizing program flow, code assist, whatever it may be. What if program flow (that is, what's going on inside the program) were in mind from the start, instead of something you try and add later.

Just my thoughts. Is this a feasible way to design a language?
They will spend $1500.00 on glass because there are good applications developed for it that they get out of the box (glass with no apps is useless, glass with good free apps is better value than glass with good for-purchase apps). The $1500.00 should be a package deal which includes software and hardware.

* Would people be as likely to buy an ipod if itunes cost an additional $2.99?

*What about if you had to buy an OS with your computer even if it was only $29.99?

Packaging is a powerful marketing concept. I would expect that google is probably paying some developers to create useful apps.
> in Step 3, did you highlight the quote and click the "Quote It" button?

Ah! No, I didn't. I since created a quote and that broke the loop; now when I reach the website I access the list of my quotes.

Sorry for the false alarm (although step 3 is maybe a little obscure?)
Bonus: If you create bare repository in public you can clone(read-only) it with ease from anywhere.