skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you disagreeing that investment is often needed in order to gain profit?

I definitely did not advocate gambling money away, but rather that "an objective view of the situation" requires you "to understand the impact existing investment has had on the road to profitability."

In a follow up to another comment in this thread, I specifically call out the difference between gambling, where (usually) any investment so far has no impact on future earnings; and investing (in particular investing in startups), where the time and money invested so far can have an impact on future earnings.

To be concrete, the next spin of the roulette table has no correlation to the amount of money you won or lost on the previous spin, but your chance of selling an app on the app store in the next month is directly correlated to how much of the app has been written already.
Nope. Concurrency and parallelism need different tools.
It's a bit of an unfair comparison. The Mark 1 has something like 200 times more RAM per CPU.
Ah, of course, I should have seen that. Now it all makes sense. Thanks for explaining!
You can use AndroVM for this. It's a VirtualBox image with Google Play and speed like the Intel one.
I guess I do now. I've wanted to transition to a real-name based usernames for some time now, but the universality/inertia of my current user-name is too nice to give up. I guess I'd need just reboot my whole online identity thing one day.
We'll see. In a lot of ways that was already the case with the web. People seem to ignore that email was, and remains, more or less this very ubiquitous web app "dream". Even 10 years ago I could log into hotmail from any computer on any browser, my mail was always "synced" (since I was always more or less directly manipulating the server), and I could see my mail on my phone way before the smartphone revolution. But it remains to be seen whether these technologies will actually make that possible for a wider array of applications. That is to say, is email just a fluke because it happens to have very simple constraints?

The problem of saying "once you can easily write an app you can hit with a URL you get all this for free everywhere!" is that it ignores the "pesky details" of data conflicts and fundamental differences in platforms. Just because my tablet or phone can hit the Photoshop web app URL doesn't mean that app that was designed for a desktop is going to be at all usable on my tablet or phone. No amount of pointer events or reactive layout will fix the problem of sometimes (often? rarely? who knows) needing a truly differently well thought out design for these very different platforms. Is the problem with getting complex apps like these missing "frameworks" or just the leg work of actually rethinking what it means to edit a photo on a tablet vs a desktop. Time will tell I suppose.

Regarding data conflicts, the second you give people the perception that there data is just magically going to always sync and be there when they need it you are going to run into the very real abuse of multiple edits that need to be conflict resolved and the fact you designed your app for a theoretical world where you always have internet when that really isn't the case yet.

All that being said, I agree this is some approximation of the model we will be using some day when we "figure this out".
In contrast, I have learned that I am just as shy in the middle of nowhere as I am at home.
It's all in your expectatives. Stop listening to what people say and start acting as you really want. For some insight look at a youtube channel called "simple pick up" just three guys getting telephone numbers from guirls doing the most ridiculous or supossedly impossible stuff.
Just be confident in youself and make them laugth.
> I have never tried to deal with google customer support,

See, there is an advantage in having no support at all!

We've tried to deal with Google support (AdWords), we can safely say that there is none, even the sales people at Google cannot get any internally (or so they say).
Another great project in the area of DIY GPS is http://gnss-sdr.org/project
It implements a GNSS/GPS receiver using software defined radio (SDR). They also support the RTL2832U based SDR (http://www.rtlsdr.org/), which is a cheap way to get started.
Point well taken but don't we also communicate with our facial expressions something greater than our genes? You are born with the color of your skin but you are not born with the ability to listen to others, and listening is a state of being generally communicated with your facial expressions.

I won't take this as far as it being a good idea to empathize with Tsarnaev but there are definitely important aspects of human communication one has to ignore to suggest facial expressions are as arbitrary as skin color.
Yes, that's one way of doing it. I guess it's not different from the US, where most companies are incorporated in Delaware.
The bottom line is that we all have bills to pay. Get a consulting or contract job and continue with the venture in your spare time until either the founders raise enough investment money to pay your salary or you decide they won't be able to pull it off.

Be open and honest - just tell them that you need a salary. Going a year and a half with no salary is not something anybody has a right to expect from you unless you're already wealthy.
Dalton (and a few other really awesome people) made of my favorite app! In fact its what initiated my transition from "just a phone" to a "smartphone", that app was PicPlz. I look forward to Dalton's vision for YC.
Ask HN: What is the best iOS IDE for Windows users?
I have recently bought myself a new iPhone and would like to start developing apps for it but I use Windows 7.

I have searched for an IDE but they are all either too expensive or not good enough.

What would the users of HN recommend for an IDE?

Bonus points if it's free!
Many people involve themselves in weight training and cardio exercises because of which they miss out on ground exercises. I am sure this app will help them a lot.
> That simply wouldn't be acceptable.

Indeed, and a reasonable person would take their business elsewhere instead of attempting to impose their opinion on banks by force (aka law). If you don't think Google offers a fair deal, you should stop using their services. I'm not seeing how this is a problem.
Geocities time came and went, and I don't actually blame Yahoo for that (though I do blame them for the way in which it was shut down, lots of people lost their content forever, we didn't get everything out in time).

As a portal it failed because the basic concepts of free accounts and uploading made it a haven for spammers, as a commercial concept it failed because bulk display advertising rates dropped through the floor during the .com bust and in spite of losing money Yahoo kept it running for many years.

To 'fix' geocities would have meant grandfathering in a few million accounts, re-inventing the service in a way that would make it profitable against the rise of the new homepage provider: facebook.

I personally don't think that is something that they could have done, not with Yahoo's image and the legacy they were still hauling along. It needed a clean break with the past and ditching Geocities gave Yahoo an opportunity to do just that (which they then subsequently mostly wasted).

Yahoo did the right thing, but they went about it in a terribly callous way. All they had to do was to deny google crawling access to geocities, freeze the uploads, allow account archival and deletion in an automated way (easy for them to do). That way we wouldn't have this gaping hole in the web today, and we wouldn't have desperate people trying to find their old stuff through whatever means possible.

I'm sure 1 fte and a few hundred bucks worth of bandwidth would have been a price worth paying for Yahoo given the dent it gave their image, it definitely was worth paying that much to me to try to keep it running.
In 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance' there is a section that discusses using a shim, made from a beer can, to fix loose handlebars on a motorcycle. The bike's owner walks away, preferring loose handlebars to a cheap solution. You need to find the people who want the problem solved so badly that they'll use a beer can, or your ugly/incomplete code, to solve their problem.

To do that, start with a customer profile. Answer the following questions:
What is the problem? How is it solved? What is needed to implement the solution? Who can implement it (are there any barriers like equipment, technical expertise)? How do you reach them?

Once you know who to contact, it is a great deal easier to find them. Contact those people. Listen to what they say about the problem. Ask yourself – does my code address this problem? If not, fix the code, or call a different potential customer (actually, do both).

Document what people say. You'll learn what the real pain point is, you'll learn how other people have dealt with it, and you'll learn whether you are contacting the right potential customers.

If your product does address the problem, ask the person to buy your solution. You can offer a discount rate for being a trial customer. Get their feedback. If you can sell it, as is, to 1% of the people you contact, then you have a business (which is a whole new set of problems). If not, restart at an earlier stage. Maybe the code doesn't solve the right problem, or maybe you pitched the wrong customers?

It should be a creative learning process, and you seem to enjoy that already. If you want to bounce around more ideas, feel free to get in touch.
Lost James Bond Thunderball Geiger counter watch discovered by fans.
We use Mozilla Persona and would argue we get the benefit of a secure system without the detriment of forcing a user to be a member of a social network when they may not wish to be.
Not sure if I follow. If app uses custom styling it means it does not use OS theme, and hence is not influenced by its change.
Also, developers will get an early access so they can test and fix things in advance.
Facebook Tells Court ‘Like’ Feature Vital to Free Speech
So basically you are putting up an act when you post under your real name?
Yahoo have been down this road before - unless there's been a complete 180 in the internal culture (and to be fair, I left there 7 years ago, it's entirely possible it's not a dysfunctional hell of "smart" people any more), the same things will happen as happened to previous acquisitions.
Did you use bitboards or not?
Where does Yahoo keep getting it's money from? I don't now anyone who uses their platform. I'm assuming it must still be fairly popular in the US.
I'm an introvert and had a great time when I was younger travelling with no money. It's not just meeting other people, I would say one of the most satisfying things about travelling is the risk. Risk is scary, it wakes you up, makes you feel alive. Being comfortable is wonderful, but if you are always comfortable I feel like a part of you goes to sleep. I was biking home on my normal comfortable route the other day and starting improvising another way home and got fairly seriously lost. I was late and it rained on me, but I felt happier.
I don't see much about consumer protection in the Constitution, the definitive document of the "government's jobs".

It doesn't mean that there isn't some authority there, but it's silly to act like there is a mandate so explicit that we can legislate things like "make your customers happy within 48 hours of initial contact or the American people will exert physical force against you", which is essentially what people ask for when they say that Google doesn't offer "adequate" service. The proposed laws may not say that verbatim, but that's the idea they'll attempt to convey in typically myopic, broken, unworkable legalese, and to which all companies in the U.S. will have to adhere.

I believe there is a reasonable case for governmental standards and penalties relative to things like food or building safety, but "you must have X customer service agents per customer accessible by phone at least 12 hours per day once you reach $100k in revenue", or whatever, is really pushing it. Why do we believe it's reasonable to get the government involved in such minor, everyday living things? We like what Google gives us, but don't like something about the way it's implemented, so instead of working within the market we go whine to our legislators and ask them to force Google to do what we want? The fact that anyone even considers that does not bode well for the future of capitalism.
What a frustrating website. I had to read the comments here to figure out why I might be interested in it.
Great, my employer switched to Microsoft Forefront as a firewall, and now this site is blocked because it has "dong" in the name.
picnichouse

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=picnichouse
Remember Maxpages as well?
I'm tired of this crap. I like HTML. It works, everywhere. Why does everyone hate it so much?
Great timing, I can use this on one of my projects. Nice work.
You should take this seriously and talk to a lawyer about this.
Fake It, Fake It, Till You HACK it
"For instance, the 58 men who scored highest on measurements of “warm relationships” earned an average of $141,000 a year more at their peak salaries (usually between ages 55 and 60) than the 31 men who scored lowest".

Why can't they give an percentage, do these people who scored high earn 40 % more or just 5 % ?

I'm too lazy too check the average salary of Harvard undergraduate men at age 60.
How much does it cost you to host it? How do you host it (from compressed archives)?
Sounds like a corollary to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_white_woman_syndrome
That's a fairly cavalier attitude to a mater that can get very costly. Scare letter or not, this is definitely a case where you better err on the side of caution.
I assumed by "outside of their services" you meant non-google people who want to send email using this. On re-read, you mean it doesn't stop anyone else building a client that can understand these actions, right? That's true.
I had a similar problem with an app service and Google Wallet. I didn't get the satisfaction I wanted from the service nor Google Wallet. So I cancelled the both of them.

I expect limited customer service for a free service; I expect something entirely different for paid service. Even more so when it is a recurring charge, whether $2 or $50/mo I've basically opened my bank account to you so respect it.
Did anyone else notice that they just changed how chat windows look today to be more like the new google plus?
>we know what happens to people who cross Carmen Ortiz.

They get prosecuted, kill themselves in angst, and then are unjustifiably made into martyrs by the tech community?
This is a longitudinal study. They were surveyed every two years.
I think he's referring to people who give no indications for who is being quoted/if the text is their response, /except/ different colors. Its pretty hard to do this without noticing - if you aren't seeing different colors, you should be adding (Tom) or whatever to mark who said what.
D-Wave sells you a "black box" that will solve certain problems. They claim (or at least, used to claim) it's using quantum computing to do so. Without knowing about the internals, there's no way to know if that's true.
I'm sorry but this is just a really poor execution of a simple idea. It was great to rush to market, but the timing is so totally out I find it completely unusable.
This is on a Nexus 4 in Chrome.
They are playing with statistics and montecarlo stuff. Somehow it would work too in rocket science, you just have to try a lot of designs and after a while a significant portion of them will reach the moon, but they deemed the convergence speed to low, or the cost to high, I don't remember wich.

edit: a more serious answer is in the article, entanglement or not the algorithm naturally converge towards the solution. And they did not even check with convergence speed (I think the quantic version is meant to be faster) but they checked on some statistical criterion that is different in the quantic version and the plain version.
Credit cards have nothing to do with bank accounts. Maybe you're thinking of debit cards?
SAMI: API documentation generator for PHP
DB/2 does that for ages.
Fish shell 2.0
AT&T Blocks Google Hangout Video Chat
I really liked that part of the IO.
Which technologies did you use for it ?
Fun fact: the stock used to buy GeoCities would still be worth billions of dollars, even if the vesting/lock-in schedule was extraordinarily long.

Anyway, the interesting thing about a lot of the big late '90s dot-com acquisitions that now look like sheer insanity is that they were all a product of everyone latching onto what they thought the current "big thing" was. Back then it was portals, aggregation, hosting, and ISPs. But it turned out that technological advancements erased a lot of the reasons why those things could be profitable (at least the way they were). Instead the next big things were search, web-apps, and social features (Web 2.0). Livejournal, blogger, flickr, google, google maps, etc. What people figured out, eventually, is that even if you have a million users that doesn't mean that it's easy to make even a million dollars a year.

Now, of course, there are lots of people who think they know what the "big thing" is, and companies are again shelling out billions for acquisitions, few of which will seem sensible in 10 years, or even 5.
Don't leave until you've clarified your equity stake and dotted all your Is and crossed all of your Ts. However, you should then cut your losses and get out of there. Half of a job is with whom you work and you've learned a great lesson with 'idiot' detection. I've worked with assholes recently, and they can actually be amazing assets at a company, but about 10 years ago I stopped working with idiots and I haven't looked back.

I'm starting a cloud company in Nairobi if you want to do something totally crazy ....
If you can convince a machine to boot from USB, then one could make a liveUSB distro which automatically boots the first hard drive in a fullscreen VM (+ remote access), so it would appear to the user and network to be unchanged.

(Not sure how well that works for windows, which freaks out at the slightest hardware change, but it seems to work great for linux - I'm doing that at work to get modern hardware and software support of ubuntu while the software we use is only for centos; if I ever want to go back I just remove my extra hard drive and boot from the original again :) )
VIM is all about its legacy, huge ecosystem and hype

I don't agree with the "hype" part. Where's the hype? I use vim because it gets the job done.
What will the Instagram acquisition look like in 10 years time?
What if NewEgg offered a membership for small tech businesses? The businesses would pay $x for year, and would get either a nominal discount on orders, or cheaper shipping, or faster shipping, or a super-special support contact, or whatever. But the kicker would be that it would include patent defense insurance. Then, anytime one of those small companies would get patent trolled, NewEgg and Cheng could go to bat for them.

I'm not suggesting this should be cheap. Adjust the value of x until the scheme is appropriately profitable for NewEgg, and Cheng can keep fighting the good fight.
I think the efficiency of markets is based around marginal costs and benefits, not absolute costs and benefits. The cost of goods are set by looking at the intersection of the people willing and able to supply the good, and the set of people willing to pay for the good. See, for example, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply_and_demand

But the point is that you've found an equilibrium in the system with the current price, current suppliers, and current customers. There are customers would would have happily paid more. There are people who WOULD have bought the good if it cost less, but it doesn't so they didn't. There are people who are happily supplying it and making mad bank. There are people who are supplying it and making a razor-thin margin. There are people who WOULD supply it if the available price were higher, so they're not supplying it right now. The price is an efficient equilibrium point, but it's not the global arbiter of value.
What other tools did you use to make this?
What does the "foreign" have to do with it?
It cannot be denied, and to my understanding most ADHD research seems to support this, that the social environment and family circumstances have a great influence on the child's behavior. As a parent to two pretty active pre-schoolers, I can attest that their behavior will frequently mirror that of their parents and other significant adults. In other words - if their father behaves in a calm and patient manner, they will tend to do the same, subsequently if not immediately.

Also, the education system in the western world has become increasingly standardized and formalized in the last few decades, especially in primary education, to the point that all kids from kindergarten on are expected to conform to a standard of behavior and development. Unfortunately, not all kids are the same. Some find it harder to sit down for prolonged periods, some have a healthy amount of energy and need an outlet, like those puppies who can go out in the yard and chase their own tail for half an hour.

This raises a lot of questions, not only about ADHD, but also about retarded mental development or other disabilities. I believe for those kids, the worst thing one can do is to label them as ADHD and medicate them. They just need a different approach, or a different rhythm.

To me it seems that the real difference between countries like France and countries like the US really has to do with the way so-called abnormal kids (or adults for that matter) are received in society. Based on my experience, it seems that the French are more tolerant.
They posed this question to the now over-aged Professor who started this study as a Bachelor's project.

He replied: "Tenure."
I was kind of surprised to discover a few months back that altavista.com still exists and is serving-up search results.
If a database system does not support joins, aggregations or subqueries like most realtime NoSQL solutions do, an optimizer becomes pretty trivial. Optimizers are needed for analytical stuff. That's why most optimizers are evaluated on analytic workloads (e.g. TPC-H, TPC-W) not transactional / realtime (TPC-C).
The sad thing about that is that there have been actual applications with actual users that require unique passwords.
I've heard it suggested that a very good way of practicing conversation with people you don't know is to talk to people who are paid to talk to you - shop assistants, baristas, waiters, etc. There is no social cost in getting it wrong, and it helps build conversation skills

I haven't tried it myself, but it's plausible
After having read your comment, I googled "zirself"... Is is a commonly used pronoun, or more of a quirk/very new feature of the language that gets used rarely? Interesting concept though!
AndroVM is now a commercial product; I'd rather Google just improve the experience of the official SDK tools.
Ahhhh I am getting so nostalgic. Remember when the HTML marquee tag was a thing.
I do the the opposite with user names. I randomize all the accounts on every site I go so there would be no link between those (except the fact that all of them look random), But I don't hide anything and always assume that even the passwords to these accounts are public. As a matter of fact I literally have them all in a file as plain text username/password. So, it keeps me from doing anything I would not like anyone to see me doing, but when somebody enters my name in a search bar they don't automatically get to see everything I like to do on my free time.
Very cool. I liked the Androids in the orbit[1] bit.

Is there a "making of" post or video? How do you start? Are those objects, like the bridge, taken from real photographs? What tools are you using?

[1] http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2013/02/android...