skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At 2% you can just spend the capital and you'll be good for 50 years. Insert 13 year old HN readers looking horrified and 50 year old HN readers looking rather optimistic.

It gets hard to spend lots of money, especially if you are into variety. Yes living 1st class on a cruise ship and touring the world would be expensive, but I'd pretty much sick of it for the rest of my life after about six months. Then its on to camp in each national park for a month, which would take a pretty freaking long time and cost practically nothing other than time. On to the 30ft cruising sailboat until I get sick of that, again not terribly expensive. Maybe tour Europe, rather expensive until I get sick of that.

My grandparents ran out of things they wanted to do before they ran out of wealth and health, which is the best way to go. They eventually settled down in a cottage on a rural lake and just enjoyed life. I'd probably end up about the same place.
Not many :)
I am working on a site right now http://makerops.com that will walk through via screencasts, texts, and interactive learning a lot of the issues described by the OP. How to interact, as a dev with various cloud APIs, to auto scale, manage configurations, etc.
Sure they happen. But what is the basis for assuming so so matter-of-factly in this case? If you ask me I'd expect SV to have higher vim/emacs penetration since it's been tech central since before the invention of the terminal.
A few hypotheticals examples where this data wouldn't necessarily answer the question:

- 100% of mugging victims fight back

- 100% of mugging victims immediately give in

- Muggings turned into murders are reported only as "murders" in UCR (I'm not familiar with this data, random guess)

- Attempted muggings where the victim fights back and the mugger runs away aren't reported as crimes, so aren't included in these statistics

- Muggings of small value might not be reported (I'd report a lost phone to get it blocked, but if someone wanted all the cash in my wallet I probably wouldn't bother calling the police)
I sent you a rather quick email.
I love how Texas, of all places, puts up the most regulatory hurdles against a new technology and business model.
I think the house party analogy is very apt, almost too much. I love house parties precisely for the 'crashing into a new environment' feeling, where you get to meet friends of friends of friends in a relaxed and non-creepy way. Indeed bringing this experience on to the web and making it as cool as Facebook (and the opposite of online dating) would be a killer, sign me up first in line.

The key here is culture, and for now the best way to find people with a culture similar to yours is through friends of friends, which is exactly why house parties are so cool. If a service gets smart enough to find people completely removed from my social circles who do feel like they (should) belong to my social circles, that would be a wonderful use of collective intelligence, machine learning and whatnot. That we could finally have something like this amidst this wave up of big data seems plausible.
It's almost a tautology, but by paying late you keep your cash available for other uses until you pay. Cash flow can be the limiting factor for many (most?) businesses.

Another way of looking at it is that by paying late you pass some risk from yourself to the recipient. Interest rates quantify both the time value of money and the risks associated with payment in the future. Paying late without penalty is an interest free loan.
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This overstates was the vast majority of clients are capable of. The very low-end is definitely eroding though and it's a good thing.

I've used a ton of CMSs and blogging engines and think Squarespace is the future of where this is headed.
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Not trying to mess with you nor troll you but I got a bad vibe about you just from reading your comment. I wonder if the girl got a similar vibe.

One more thing, beauty is on the eye of the beholder and true beauty is within. It sounds cliche but as I've gotten older I've continued to be surprised that this is true. In reality is a combination of both that adds up to make a person truly beautiful.
This is one way to run CUDA on your Radeon card:
https://code.google.com/p/gpuocelot/

Although there's a note on that page saying that they're actively seeking developers for the AMD back-end, so I don't know how solid the support is.
This can work if you get in on the new tools and technologies quickly before everyone else.

Eventually the expectation of price will go down due to competition.
> Okay, I am a bit confused. Right now, most startups are probably advised to make a good-faith effort to ascertain that their investors are indeed accredited.

There's no requirement that I see for "seed capital" (Rule 504) investors to be accredited. Offerings that make use of the Rule 505 or Rule 506 exemptions instead, however, are limited to 35 non-accredited investors (the language of the exemption requirement, in both cases, "There are no more than or the issuer reasonably believes that there are no more than 35 purchasers of securities from the issuer in any offering under this section"; in both cases, accredited investors, and certain other special classes, are excluded from the count of purchasers.)

> If they engage in general solicitations, then the bar is higher for ascertaining this.

Well, we don't know precisely because the rule required under the JOBS Act permitting general solicitation under the Rule 506 exemption haven't been written, but it would seem likely to be so once that is permitted. But the Act itself provides that the elimination of the general solicitation prohibition requires that "all purchasers of the securities are accredited investors", and that the "rules shall require the issuer to take reasonable steps to verify that purchasers of the securities are accredited investors, using such methods as determined by the Commission." This would appear to require a higher bar than the simple "reasonable belief" test in the current exemptions.

> If I wanted to message all my users and tell them to point their investor friends towards our AngelList profile, wouldn't that be public solicitation?

I suspect so (but I'm not an expert in the application of these regulations): you aren't soliciting investment directly from just the identified users, you are asking them to solicit on your behalf from a vaguely defined group ("investor friends".)

I would suspect that an offering made only to your existing users would not be general solicitation.
Your history of negative experiences is a nice anecdote, despite being extremely subjective.
Anyone know what the fees are?

Standard would be a bit cheaper than Venmo for credit card, will they offer free from a bank account in a similar manner?
"2/10 net 30" mean you need to pay within 30 days, but if you pay within 10 days you'll get a 2% discount. It's called trade credit if you are interested and would like a place to start your research.
I've had the same experience the past few years with car maintenance.

- I can find any owner's manual online.

- I can find detailed instructions for any type of repair in written form or in a Youtube video.

- There are free online courses for anything from changing a tire to becoming a full-fledged mechanic.

- I can find and order any part of my car at wholesale prices.

- The same diagnostic software that repair shops use can be downloaded for free. I can hook up my iPad to my car through a simple USB cable and find out exactly what's wrong with it.

And I still take my car to the local auto repair shop, because I'm not a mechanic.
Slightly off topic, but I didn't understand the first line: "Notorious computer expert Joe Damato explains: “Literally no one knows.”". I guess it's a joke I didn't get?
The page feels like the closest thing I've seen to a TV ad spot on the web.
So, essentially, it's the same as Paypal's free personal transfers, just done through email with a after-the-fact confirmation. Shrug. I'm doing fine with the paypal app today.
Go is never popular among ordinary people in China. I guess one reason is it takes a lot of time to finish a game. However, most chineses know how to play Xiangqi, the chinese counterpart of Chess.
The part you quote was not the only warning sign to stay away from the IPO. Just a quick search brought a whole page (published before IPO day) of reasons to stay away: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/feeds/facebook-ipo-risk-factors-an.... Regardless, big IPOs like Facebook are driven by hype, not sound financials. I'd be willing to bet that Facebook could have used 24 point type on their login page stating: "we're losing money hand over fist" and there would still be people lining up to pay $42/share when that bell rang.

Were insiders withholding information? I'm not going to argue one way or another. How do you "know what you're doing"? Start by knowing that insiders would stick it to their own grandmothers if they could get ten cents more per share. But when one's whole strategy is to hope for a first day "pop", that's playing a lottery ticket, not investing (exhibit: Zynga). For one, if one buys after the opening bell, you're not going to profit from the pop, you are the pop.
I hope it goes without saying that Yahoo!'s architecture is orders of magnitude more robust, complicated and scalable than Tumblr's. [1]

And of course they didn't "buy the architecture". They'll probably fold Tumblr into their own.

[1] Nothing against Tumblr but Yahoo operates at a scale much larger than Tumblr so their architecture isn't of much use.
I'm with you... add to it preso/prezo. Hate it so much.
Ask HN:IT Professionals / Recruitment noise
Question for IT Professionals only : would you be willing to constantly (on a weekly basis, whenever you have some time) respond to some technical questions (under complete anonymity) that could contribute to building a filter mechanism against all those misfit requests from IT recruiters that found you by keyword search ? Collateral : this would also help you find out how good you really are and how much you are worth on various geographical markets.
I think this is a very fair argument.

Although it seems a bit paranoid to think that whenever someone talks to you in real life (or adds you FB for that matter), your thoughts instantly go to "will this person try to stalk/murder me?" But maybe it's not a bad thing to be vigilant.
I pay my cell phone bill (AT&T) late every single month, sometimes two weeks late. Why? Because they don't ever complain. No email, no phone call, nothing. I end up paying it when I'm bored and end up thinking about it.
This is excellent news!

The verdict date of 7 June, is even more critical due to TAFTA's end of June deadline - an agreement and process of negotiation that potentially makes the controversy over ACTA pale in comparison...
I think it's definitely possible. I think more important than where you are from is your grasp of the (spoken) language your project is in and you are communicating with. So if you're communicating with clients in English, writing your code, documentation, and visible interface in English, it's obviously important that you have a very good understanding of English. And as long as you do, I don't think being foreign would be much of a hindrance.
To be fair, 2008 was the year the current financial meltdown started, and stocks were doing pretty poorly even in the run-up to that.

From a quick check of Yahoo Finance, it looks like the Dow dropped from 14k in July 2007 to 8k in January 2009. Sure, a fund is meant to outperform the market as a whole, and sure, most of them don't manage that for obvious reasons, but when the market plunges like that no-one's going to be safe.
It seems fairly clear that Yahoo needs to not mishandle Tumblr in this way, and that Mayer is totally aware that this is a large factor on which she will be judged.

Maybe it's naive to think that a new CEO can cut through cultural and corporate cruft well enough to make this happen, but I think Mayer commands respect in a manner radically different to all but a few CEOs - especially among developers.
Ask HN: Culture dilemma, customers r parents, should my team be all parents too?
My company is building "WhatsApp for photos", our target audience is young parents and I'm a parent myself.

I'm looking to make my first hires(iOS and Android devs) and I'm considering hiring only parents, and to make it a company culture thing.

Pros:

- All employees use the product, makes product better.

- Makes my company better work place for parents as working times, atmosphere very parenting and kids friendly.

- Differentiate and make it easier to hire parents that are suitable for the job.

Cons:

- Missing out young, talented developers.

- Maybe too small talent pool(there is talent shortage for
mobile devs anyhow, at least in Israel).

Would love to hear your thoughts.
"Instead of having us create an administrative interface for updating your web content, you could just install Joomla, WordPress or Drupal and do it yourself."

hahaha who? Is your client Stephen Hawking?
There have been attempts in this space before and they haven't worked out real well. AirTime is one such example (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airtime.com)
Reddit also has a tipping point though.

For every subreddit, once that community has reached about 150k users it starts to succumb to the "Reddit" effect - effectively becoming dowsed in memes, puns, gif reactions, etc.

I think it has to do with the fact that people are pandering for self affirmation through upvotes, which can lead to a decreased signal:noise ratio. Reddit recently made vote scores hidden for the first 24 hours, probably in an effort to stop some of this pandering.
The fact is, by and large, guys are creepy. Attractive females are bombarded with guys approaching them in all sorts of ways, constantly. I'm sure you've heard of the kind of garbage that fills OkCupid inboxes. The internet is terrible in that regard because it is so much more accessible (i.e. you don't have to approach them face to face). I completely understand why they default to putting the guardrails up. Yeah it makes things that much more difficult for The Good Guys, but how are they supposed to know from a Facebook friend request?
I'm not sure the answer is just in applications. I think the application can work in partnership with new or existing technology. If a chip can be inserted somewhere in the human body and monitor are heart rate and function, glucose levels, caloric increase/decrease(whether we need to refuel the body), check our white/red blood cell counts, monitor genetic mutations for cancer, know when a virus has entered the body, or some of the other ideas expressed below. I believe this is the future, an application that works in concert with another device not just an application. Although there can be a suite of apps created for general purpose, very similar to "Cardiio" which is truly a genius application and is very, I mean very accurate. But to answer your question as to what app I would build. I would create a neuro technology app that monitors all activity of the brain, to record and know what gives us pleasure, know what makes us angry, happy, sad. What triggers emotion in us.
I find that very greedy.

I was going to say a lot more, but what can I say to a line ending it "but they didn't complain". Pretty sure that would justify a heck of a lot of things.
Not really. A hot mobile app can sell for that much, and doesn't require anything more than a laptop and some time.
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Pretty slick. Could be the seed of a lightweight Browserling competitor, if you could scale it economically.
Given how they say it will stay independent, why do you reason they will ot simply keep using their current stack?
people use things in apparent ignorance of their
historical context

The people behind the Go language are definitely aware of the gopher protocol.
Personally I use jQuery Desconstructed when examining what's under the hood:
http://www.keyframesandcode.com/resources/javascript/deconst...
try Cardiio in the app store for an iphone, not sure if they have it for android
Is Yahoo a media company or a tech company?
Well, I've pretty much only worked at B2B startups (from 3 employees to ~50), but I would assume it's an issue at all scales.

The worst was when I worked for a mom & pop consulting shop. The clients were mostly other local business owners and getting them to pay on time was a serious problem. Law firms were the worst. I assume because threatening them with a lawsuit didn't carry much weight.
No, they made 13 million in their first quarter this year - the same as they did all of the last year.

It is not unreasonable to expect them to reach the 100 million goal. They are growing their income at a fast rate, so it is fair to say they are on track.
Did you add this after the original post or am I just blind? Anyway, signed up and trying it out! Can you comment on the status of the interface on mobile browsers / using touch?
Add Skype to the Microsoft list.
Herodotus or shorten it to Herodo

GetHerodotus.com and GetHerodo.com are both open
I have mixed feelings about this. Looking at Yahoo's balance sheet, it's 100% of its cash equivalents and 25% of its current assets.

On one other hand, the strategic value could be valuable:
* Product team that understands the uniqueness of creative community (focus on reblogging, photo blogging, media focus)
* Retention of creator community/teen community and its long term SEO potential
* An audience that probably provides augmentation to Yahoo's total sites and probably adds unique users on a de-dup basis
* There's also the viability of monetizing it the way Twitter/YouTube has monetized by carefully monetizing the users will not pissing off the community

On the other hand:
* Yahoo doesn't have a good track record of internal executives working with acquisitions
* They are still at the stage where their M&A integration is probably nascent (sales/marketing integration, executive alignment, OKR alignment)

Hard for me to make an opinion of this, but it is risky give Yahoo's balance sheet.
Actually I would be weirded out, you're 100% correct. But that's exactly my point. I think that whomever solves this problem will bring out the next big thing. There's nothing inherently weird about approaching and/or talking to someone. Maybe because FB has so much personal information, it just becomes awkward.

So here is where FB's Achilles Heel may lie. On one hand, it's great that it stores pictures and stuff. But on the other .. do you really want your pictures and personal information out there? (Besides, even if your profile is private, pictures can still be linked/shared, if you get the raw .jpg url.) Maybe we (as tech nerds) are just more aware of these caveats whereas most people trust FB like they would trust a family photo album under the couch.
It's 50c by transfer (payed by the sender).
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I don't know who Joe Damato is, but I found it hilarious, from the execution alone.
> So a long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, when the network was purportedly the computer, these questions kept me awake at night.

Interesting. That was a bit before "my time". It was just passed down as folk wisdom -- "never make the network transparent, it cannot be done easily" and never quite knew where that came from.

I remember asking a senior developer about RPC after seeing a a bunch of RPC daemons on a Sun machine, and he said, it is some really complicated stuff that you don't really want to know about and unless you absolutely need to use it. I was just a young intern then.

But there are a whole bunch of technologies from that time that try to abstract the network away (I can think of NFS, or I guess pretty much any remote storage that makes itself appear as a local file system).

Then I've seen RPC API philosophies that take 2 sides. Some magically proxy method calls and marshal data between object, others want users to always marshal by hand and send via the sockets.

> You have to be able to know exactly what the lowermost piece of the puzzle is going to do before you can reason about what pieces that depend on that may or may not do.

So it is possible to abstract any of that away? Maybe it is not a horizontal abstraction as in "hide the network away", but maybe a vertical abstraction, as in the creating socket-like objects that have extra features (like ZeroMQ). Connecting, sending, receiving is still there, but there is extra helping on top at each step.

On another side note. I think network topologies and characteristics changed. It used to be that creating consistent distributed systems was easiest even though networks speed were slower. Networks were more likely to be local in a data center. So chance of a network split was much lower. (And I've learned there are fewer more evil things in a general distributed system than a network split). Today's distributed systems are more likely so experience network splits (multi-zone, multi-datacenter clusters I guess are more common + unpredictability added by using VMs). So maybe paradoxically distributed system really got harder not easier.
Petcube - remote cam+laser for pets. As if Internet has not enough cat videos
> the expectation is that the order is cancelled

You need to adjust your expectations. When you enter an order, your only expectation should be that it gets filled, and not necessarily quickly (or at the price you'd like unless it's a limit order). Check with your broker, I'll guess that they make no guarantee about canceling orders. Using Fidelity as an example, when I cancel an order the page comes back with "attempting to cancel order" (emphasis mine). Someone fills the order before the cancellation makes it through? You just bought yourself some stock.
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I guess I should've prefaced my anecdote: I wasn't interested in the girl in any romantic way. We're close friends now and I'm still not interested in her romantically. It was just a random example (I have some guy examples too). I just mentioned that I'm a pretty good looking guy in the sense that I don't have an unkempt look (i.e. unshaved, unwashed, etc.) that would evoke creepiness.

I don't think this is a battle of the sexes kind of deal even though you're completely correct and I don't deny anything you said.
Always true. Clients paying on time is rare for me. Even after complaining and making a fuss about it.
There are a lot of misconceptions about hacking. If someone were to target your site and try to "hack" it, they'd simply be checking for vulnerabilities. A few simple steps can secure you from 99% of them. For example, securing inputs. Any time data is sent to your site, check it for injection attacks or password guessing.

>I don't know how to code

That might be an issue. But, a management console isn't too complex. You just need to offer the ability to turn off, turn on, reboot, and a couple of other functions. I personally use http://www.proxmox.com/proxmox-ve that has an API you can perform most server operations with a line of code.
Supposedly people named Dennis are somewhat more likely to become dentists...
Facebook, One Year Later: What Really Happened in the Biggest IPO Flop Ever
Yeah, exactly. Is this author drunk? Just because they found some cash somewhere else, doesn't mean they didn't spend it...
In addition to what others have said about 5% being hard to achieve conservatively, you have to factor in inflation if you want your principal to remain intact in a meaningful sense. Let's call inflation 3% (it's lower now but there's no obvious reason to assume that'll continue) and you're down to 100k annually in real (inflation-adjusted) terms.
Is it just me or did anyone else see a crazy guy run across the street in front of the car in the video.