skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like we are on the same page exactly. That process sounds good. And if you are able to clearly lay out how all the various tools integrate in to a cohesive whole, you'll have solved a very big problem in the Chef community.
You still have to download 81Kb of code whereas native is just that, native ;-)
It's a trade-off. Depends which browser uses your target/customer.
The problem with the OP is that he is combining two separate deals into one point in the story. It sounded like his company was acquired by Symantec, not Yahoo, not Google, and ultimately didn't get all he was promised from Symantec title wise.

The Google interaction with Marissa Mayer was about a product integration partnership. That's completely different than an acquisition type discussion.

I've only met Marissa Mayer once at a conference, and was impressed by her technical knowledge of Google services. I'd also believe she might come off a little aloof at times, as she was a high-level executive at Google and Now CEO at Yahoo.

The fact is that Tumblr has limited cashflow to fund growth, and Yahoo has the cash.
Looks great! So fluid; and my Mac didn't even start a fan running it. cool :)
For me, it is 10M USD considering where I live, what I do and what my interests are.
I would really love to recommend Juju. I used it for a good couple months attempting to get even just a working Openstack deployment. The trouble is that for the bare-metal functionality you guys mean it to be paired with MaaS. Unfortunately the community I found to exist around this combination was basically zero.

Even a simple question went unanswered the couple times I posted it. Eventually I gave up and just went back to Puppet+Openstack modules for the configuration I was working on at the time.
Accept bitcoins?
I object to the math here.

Just because many investors were not taking Yahoo's cash into account in valuing the company does NOT mean that they spent less than 1.1 billion for Tumblr.

The issue with spending 1.1 billion for Tumblr is that this is 108 other companies that they can't buy for 10 million each (assuming $20 million to assess the companies). Which is OK, I suppose, if Tumblr is worth it, but are they?
Google Glass apps: everything you can do right now
Fair enough. I might argue that a company can still have broader goals than just that, but I certainly admit that a company must make money at some point and to some degree! And clearly things do change somewhat if you're talking about a company with outside investors or a public company.

In our case, we are privately held by just the founders, so we only have to focus on "make money" to the extent that that supports out other goals. But we don't have to be the stereotypically ruthless, greedy, evil capitalist pigs who ruthlessly chase every cent they can grab, even it it means stealing from babies and old people, or whatever. :-)
> Without snacking during the day, it is far easier to quantify exactly what I am putting into my body and it is easier to make sure whatever it is, is of a higher quality and is actually what I need (or feel that my body needs).

The "snacks" between meals is for eating something like a fruit, yogurt, nuts... not french fries. Without eating fruits throughout the day you probably don't even meet the minimum fruit intake recommendation. Depending on the country, the average intake is half than the recommended.
Telling his friends to post a message to Twitter sounds like communicating with the outside world via his friends.

Perhaps we need more detail here.
What would be your solution to the problem you pose? Forced education of investors before they invest? Or just banning individual investors from the stock market? I don't really see any other way around the problem.

You do realize that before the widow in question was allowed to invest she had to click through a number of windows that informed her that "past performance is no indication of future performance" and "you're investment is not secured against loss", etc, etc, etc.
1.10 (what's in 13.04) is much more reliable now if you want to give it a shot, here's a PPA: https://launchpad.net/~juju/+archive/devel
500k is the smallest number I've seen for this calculation. What kind of investment are you thinking?
I don't have a definitive answer for the blog, to be honest. I just add four more dynos (to bring it up to five total) and it seems to be fine. I figure it's only for a few hours, so I can be sloppy about it without needing to worry about huge costs. Wish I could be more scientific about it!

As for the number of dynos when Soundslice was on the Reddit homepage, I think was using 10 at that point, but, again, it was a totally non-scientific thing. 10 did the job, but fewer dynos might have been just as fine.
I'm not familiar with your great work. Please elaborate.
I've never been a fan of photo stream. Funny how there always seems to be room for another photo sharing app
I've been struggling with Chef for a few months now and it has repeatedly blown my mind how, for something as popular as it appears to be, there is simply no good reading material for it. This is timely and a really big deal.

Good speed.
You change tack not tact although maybe some companies should change both
This is why you're getting paid late
Wow, may I ask what expensive interest / neighbourhood you have? Just curious ...
Should a graduate with no experience offer to do menial work?
Scooby Doo is still on Boomerang (I think, my TiVo just harvests them). My daughter is a big fan.
Aprenda a documentar seus projetos em Objective-C com appledoc
I know javascript and jQuery suffer from their popularity and utility I think in this analysis. There is also the issue of jQuery and javascript tags being used by people as synonyms. jQuery particularly is a 500 pound gorilla over all the dataset, it shows up everywhere. As I mentioned above there was a joke on SO at one point that the answer to nearly every question was jQuery with a link to the site. Apparently it wasn't a joke.
At a glance I thought this was a book on cooking for developers, this idea pleased me. I think when I finally finish being lazy I might write a book about cooking meant for developers.

A book on Chef is also cool.
Helper Robots Are Steered, Tentatively, to Care for the Aging
Honey, I think you're whining. Just sayin.
Obvious next question is exactly how many of the top 500 internet retailers use a hosted store platform...
Incidentally, that's the number George Soros had in mind when he decided to go into finance to support his dream of being a philosopher. He ended up making a little more than that, however.
500k at 7% per year (common number used for the growth of the market as a whole, and thus the average growth of index funds) means $35k/year, not an unreasonable salary to live on.
Clone of Heroku? None I'm aware of. A bring-your-own PaaS? Many. I work with Cloudify myself: http://www.cloudifysource.org/

Nice things: It integrates with Chef/Puppet, allows built-in auto-scaling so it's cloud independent... has recipes for many applications and services ready to go: https://github.com/CloudifySource/cloudify-recipes

Drawbacks in my mind are that it's based off of Groovy which may or may not be helpful to some people. The other thing is that it doesn't have a direct method to do source/application deployment so you kind of have to roll your own via 'Custom Commands'+Groovy.
This article takes a fairly narrow-minded look at the work done by lots of "website developer" professionals, and an even narrower look at what clients want from a website, app, etc.. It's like saying that Graphic Design will cease to be a profession because there's free photo manipulation tools.

There's a valid point that, sooner or later, CMS/app farming isn't a valid long-term business. But, thankfully, what you don't typically find at these shops, or on free/cheap online tools is the creativity that many clients demand.

The author does bring up "Marketing and branding consulting" as one of the two continuing successful business models. Ok, halfway there. However, anyone that's worked in marketing or branding knows that ideas are just a fraction of a successful campaign. A great idea will fail if it's not executed well.
Here is the trick:

All of the technologies that your customers supposedly now use to replace the services you used to offer them, can also be used by YOU... to replace the services you used to offer with better services in much less time.

Proper use of today's tools will make your customers think you have somehow gained super powers as you deliver them better results, faster, and with much less effort than when you had to spend time custom coding solutions that are now implemented as easily as pasting some javascript code onto your customer's website.
Flickr is dead? Not quite. There's a Flickr press event in NYC happening later this afternoon (5 EST), so expect some announcements. Live stream @ http://screen.yahoo.com/yahoo-event-155000760.html
What language was your re-write done in?
How we got 700 recurring, paying customers in 3 months.
Show HN: Gautimes - Now Gautrain commuters can easily plan their train trips.
If its good enough for George Soros, is good enough for me :-)
To put it into perspective here's Felix Dennis's wealth classification table:

£1m-£2m: The comfortable poor
£2m-£5m: The comfortably off
£5m-£15m: The comfortably wealthy
£15m-£40m: The lesser rich
£40m-£75m: The comfortably rich
£75m-£100m: The rich
£100m-£200m: The seriously rich
£200m-£400m: The truly rich
£400m-£999m: The filthy rich
More than £999m: The super rich

http://www.businesswings.co.uk/articles/Felix-Dennis
33.5M so far.

Twilio has the best documentation of any Communications API vendor, but their issue when working with large operators is their inability to work inside the corporate firewall. They're on AWS with a lot of servers and it is not a part of their strategy to build a new infrastructure inside of someone else's firewall. Voxeo does build inside the firewall, but they're a lot harder to understand.

There's a lot of confusion about who does what in our industry, even Twilio is what I'd describe as an access-innovator.

In Telecom the change that's happening right now is the exposure of underlying communications services. Companies like Twilio are taking services like calls, SMS and Video connections and creating APIs to consume these services. Right now, there's no easy way to do these things programmatically.

Companies like 2600hz, where I work, take a different approach where we're actually working on the underlying infrastructure (not so much on the API). In this respect a company like Voxeo is much more competitive to Twilio.

Callfire is a call-application service and not really competitive to a Twilio or a Plivo.

So yeah, lots of stuff going on, very complicated. Most folks are working on the access layers or applications and not the underlying infrastructure.
Tragic, but I have to ask, is this on HN because it was an iPad?

Would there have been a difference if the item involved was a watch?
And they are great stories!
Since those two things aren't really the same, I'd say this is a terrible example (a strawman even). If you want the clientWidth, use the clientWidth. jQuery works in tandem with the native DOM, and is not meant to be a wholesale replacement:

$("div").sort(function(a, b) {
return a.clientWidth * a.clientHeight - (b.clientWidth * b.clientHeight);
});

The speed for this is slower, as expected, but comparable to native. http://jsperf.com/d97b341f-cfc1-4057-bdc9-60e80adb5cf6/4
Who is getting that impression that css is supposed to be used this way? It's meant to show what is possible. That's it. I think it's already absurd that most of the posts here are dog piling on the creator for "using the wrong tool" but to say it decreases his credibility for not mentioning this is not what css was meant for? That's just plain wrong in my opinion. It's a fun thing, let it be what it is.
I live in the US (expensive east coast). Here, you get average of 1% yield on your bank which is considered high yield btw. So 1% per year before taxes is 100,000. Thats a min. pre-tax that I need.

Note that I did not mention anything about investing/markets etc. because those are not guaranteed.
When we first met David
It is not possible select content using iframes due to client-side security restrictions imposed by the browser.
Heh. http://paulgraham.stores.yahoo.net/
$5,000,000 with a rather conservative investment strategy yielding 5%/year would give you 250k annually to play with without impacting the principal.
Even assuming that 35k would be satisfying, that doesn't give you much headroom if something goes wrong.
It was not like it got the 832 something million for free. This article just waste a couple minutes of my time.
What Would Elon (Musk) Do? That's your answer to the options that having large amounts of cash provides. He can literally go to the Moon, or Mars, seeded by the cash he got from eBay and Zip2
Thank you for responding. That's exactly what I was looking for, a ballpark figure for what can get you through a peak in traffic.
I've kinda had the number $4,000,000 in mind as my "independent" number. If I could walk away from a transaction with 4MM (net), I figure that would be enough to pay off whatever trivial debt I have now, buy a nice house and a nice car, do a few things for close family and friends, and leave enough to do some travel and exploring while living a reasonable (but not lavish) lifestyle.

And, if I then decided to do another startup at some point, I'd have a little bit of seed capital already handy.
That's highly dependent upon where you live though... but not an unreasonable number for a single person. For me, since I have a family and currently live in CA, the number has to be significantly higher than 500K.
Ce la vie. It wasn't intended as an attack, really. I was sympathizing with you as my greatgrandmother actually had the last name whiner, but I understand how my remarks might've appeared as intended to insult you.

My apologies, I was simply trying to inject a bit of wit into the discussion :(.
> The quip about his name is not an ad hominem because the quip is immaterial to the argument.

That's backwards: ad hominem attacks are considered bad precisely because they're not relevant to the argument. Note that the GP's argument is exactly the opposite: that the attacks aren't ad hominem because they are material in this case.

If you're saying that the original line wasn't meant as support of their argument and therefore doesn't qualify for examination for materiality, I'm finding that hard to swallow too, e.g. "You're wrong, and also incidentally--totally as aside, seriously--you're an idiot."
Yes, and that's my current goal by 40 (34 now). 35K/year might not sound like much, but it is a good chunk of money when you don't have debt. Plus, it doesn't mean you can then go on a start another business for the hell of it.
Facebook's actively trying to discourage the sending of friend requests to people a person doesn't know now [1].

I had the feature suspended before, and it even prevented me from sending messages to chat groups where at least one party was not my friend. (I believe one criterion for getting the feature suspended was the number of people who said that they haven't met you before in real life.)

[1] https://www.facebook.com/help/community/question/?id=4008463...
And the second group is probably not empty.

We know for sure it's non-empty by simple factorial arguments ITT or by appeal to the prime number theorem.
I'm a fan of CFEngine and use it for the things that many use Puppet or Chef to do. I think the key advantage of some kind of system domain specific language, is it helps document how things are configured. The only way to figure out what's going on in AMIs is mounting their file systems and running diffs to see what changed AMI, to AMI. Having a large number of AMI's can also be a problem in the respect that they proliferate, particularly when you deploy new applications, based on old applications, but slightly different.

On the other hand, if you are using auto-scaling, Chef/Puppet/CFEngine may not be able to finish their work in time if they have to do a lot of work. You have to strike the right balance between what needs to be in the AMI (provisioning) and automation (post-install).
The idea that it is an individual’s duty to stand up for their rights by using force has, albeit being somewhat romantic, no place in a modern society.

If someone robs you, the best way is indeed not to resist and let law enforcement and the judicial system to handle the case. This is ideally less risky, less troublesome and also more effective.
5 million. Invested at a modest, low-risk 2% (which you used to be able to get from a standard savings account), that gives you $100,000/year: quite a decent baseline.
You need to subtract ~3% inflation from that number every year to reach "spending power."
Therefore, you're only receiving 20k in spending power and allowing nothing for value appreciation. If you can live on that, more power to you though.
Both companies primary asset at this point is online ordering relationships with a ton of restaurants. There is a significant network benefit to having a larger list of restaurants in a given area, as your service becomes synonymous with ordering food.

I think this merger makes a lot of sense.
> after Yahoo attacked them with patents last year

While that statement is true, worth noting that the Y! CEO who did attack Facebook was fired shortly after and one of Marissa's first moves was to make amends with Facebook.
Yes, it's paulgraham.com. For a long time, it even had the Yahoo favicon.
Based on the tables in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_raising_a_child for the US. I estimated that the cost of raising 2.5 children for 22 years (up to 18 plus college) as nearly $1.4 million. This may be low balling it if you invest heavily in extra educational and extra-circular activities for your children. So I said between 5-10 million as I would also need some margin for me, my wife and retirement. However, I didn't do any calculations on what cost of living expenses could be like in the future.
Significant discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5685166
PayPal On Bitcoin, Vetting Businesses And How Developers Can Get Involved
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbonaceous_chondrite
There's no need to increase dynos yourself. Just use the [Adept Scale](https://www.adeptscale.com/) add-on.
I'd feel more financially independent with a cast iron $5,000 of passive income per month than I would with $1,000,000 in the bank.

Obviously the lump sum would probably be able to yield that sort of money in interest, but the interesting thing is that it should be much easier to secure the monthly passive income than it would the lump sum.
Well - you can use UCR data to check the mugging to murder ratios. I am guessing the overwhelming vast majority of muggings don't result in death, and the overwhelming majority of murders don't occur during muggings.

This would imply that the safe course of action is to give up your stuff.
1 - 500k

Pretty much all I'd have to spend money on would be food, taxes and internet, maybe a computer every half decade to a decade and a few books here and there. Buy a couple of flats or something to set me up with some trickle income to cover the necessities and... yeah. I can see being able to go off and work on the projects I'm interested in with a few hundred k in hand.
There are some FTSE 100 companies with a 7% dividend, if that's too risky for you, buy a fund....
Have a look at http://www.topyields.nl/ also....
I'm confused about them. So I pay them, and only them, and they privision my VPS servers + their magic configuration?

Or do I just pay them on TOP of paying for my VPS of choice?
85.5 million in funding if this round is to be closed. Chump change to what they are working on cracking open. Like you said, the work they are doing is more on the industry than anything else. Who knows where they might pivot to once telecoms open up a bit more.
30-year Treasury yield is about 3.1%
To be clear, this table is considering those with £1m-£2m in assets to be the poor?
The Yahoo-Tumblr Panic Is Both Predictable and Meaningless
If you ever have a decent amount of money to put away please talk to a reputable financial planner.

Also commenting on your "note" that you added on. Investments aren't guaranteed... but putting all that money in a bank isn't guaranteed either. FDIC only insures so much.
Ask HN: Best way to pay international developers?
Hi HN,

We recently hired a remote developer in Moscow & we are currently paying him via wire transfer, which gets pretty pricy. Do any HNers know of other services/ways to pay international devs?
>Congrats on the weight loss.

Thank you. Much appreciated.

>Just because something works doesn't mean your hypothesis as to WHY it works is true.

But in general, it actually does. This is how science works. You get an idea that doing something will produce a result. If you do that thing and see the expected result, that indicates a successful hypothesis. After that the conversation devolves into existential questions on whether humans can really know.
Is there any reason that Tumblr couldn't take the freemium route? It has high engagement, and a passionate audience that might well be willing to pay to keep the same Tumblr they always had, as opposed to a sanitised ad-friendly one.

Of course, there's the possibility that its audience won't have the means to pay up, or that people will just go elsewhere.
One of the historically "American" values is the lack of social and economic barriers to people who want to take risks: the ability for anyone to take a huge risk and earn a huge reward. You don't have to come from wealth or be a banker to take financial risks. If you want to risk your life-savings, no one is going to stop you. Preference is given to the individual freedom over safety.

At the end of the day your life, your choices, and their results are your responsibility. We don't want people/government to protect us from ourselves because that directly limits our personal freedom. The prevailing attitude is that you should be freedom to gamble your own life/possessions and ignore the nay-sayers. You have the right to take on whatever risks you feel you are big enough to handle.

So when someone does something risky, like invest their life-savings, we expect them to own the responsibility for their risk. In our culture risk and responsibility go hand in hand. We have little sympathy when someone gripes about a risky decision that turns badly. It was a risk. If you were not prepared to handle it turning sour you should not have taken the risk. If you did not do even the basic research to understand the nature of the risk we feel even less sorry for you.

We love the story of the underdog who risks it all and wins. We love the story of the underdog who has the courage to risk it all and accepts responsibility when he fails. We dislike the guy who takes a risk capriciously and whines when it fails and we hate the guy who arrogantly takes a risk without spending even a little time to understand it. Playing the stock market is widely known to be a risk. Playing the stock market with your life savings is such a foolish risk it is a stereotype.
>It is not necessarily a number to retire, but a number that will give you the financial freedom to do whatever you want.

For how long? If I were to somehow come across 3-5 years salary, I would probably be tempted to quit my job and work on something else for a while.