skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, NVidia are currently behind the competition in terms of OpenGL ES support, so they actually need to hope game developers don't decide to take advantage of the newest and greatest hardware features before they're ready. That would leave them without a horse in the race altogether - even their new Tegra 4 chip which hasn't launched yet can't support OpenGL ES 3.0.

Also, whether anyone licenses their hardware in the first place depends on how expensive it is and how much power it sucks down. Remember that we're talking about a full desktop GPU architecture here, the lowest power GPU that currently uses it consumes more power than an entire tablet. NVidia have screwed this up before, and given all the NRE costs of creating a new chip I can't see anyone going for this until they can test the actual power consumption in actual hardware.
The Symbian Experience
Haven't owned a high-end car but friends in college owned maseratis who offered service of this level.
As an aside to (2). You might not even need to go as far as creating and marketing a full SaaS. I know small businesses that are paying $100-$1000/month for small little services or manually doing tasks at similar costs. Automate/replace their stuff with some bespoke code and share the savings.
What's the problem with that? Haha. At least they know they aren't doing the correct thing and people are doing something about it.
Hi all - long-time reader, infrequent poster. McGraw-Hill published my first book today - "Loyalty 3.0: How to Revolutionize Customer and Employee Engagement with Big Data and Gamification"

The basic premise is that we've all become "walking data generators", and smart companies can take that data and use it to motivate better performance - just like video game designers have done for 40 years: http://loyalty30.com/resources/why-did-gamification-come-vid...

If you get a chance to read it, I'd love to hear what you think.

People I really respect have said some nice things, including:

"Loyalty 3.0 is filled with major insights, and does a brilliant job of grounding the reader in fundamental concepts around motivation, big data, and gamification - building on these concepts through real-world case studies that bring the combinations to life – and finishing with actionable ideas and next steps that enable you to test and operationalize these ideas in your own workplace and personal life."
- Brad Smith, President & CEO, Intuit

"A fascinating insight into how companies are exploiting big data."
- Mark Read, CEO, WPP Digital

"Rajat Paharia comprehensively explains how to create loyalty in the modern world full of data and connectivity. If you want to learn how to motivate and inspire employees, you must read this book.”
- Dave Kerpen, New York Times bestselling author of Likeable Social Media and Likeable Business

“Rajat pioneered the business use of big data and game mechanics to transform the customer experience. A decade before anyone else, he saw that the same techniques that video game designers had used for years — fast feedback, badges, competition, goals, and leveling up — were also incredibly powerful for motivating behavior outside of games, and an industry was born. This book shares his secrets."
- Clara Shih, CEO, Hearsay Social, author of The Facebook Era, and Board Member at Starbucks

"Relationships are the single greatest asset for all organizations. Relationships with customers, relationships with employees, relationships with partners. In Loyalty 3.0, Rajat Paharia reveals the new science of relationship building through big data and gamification."
- Tim Brown, CEO, IDEO

“In this powerful and groundbreaking book, Rajat Paharia clearly demonstrates how big data, motivation, and gamification can be utilized to create true engagement and loyalty. We believe Loyalty 3.0 will be a game changer for our associates and guests.”
- Ray Bennett, Chief Lodging Services Officer at Marriott International
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Nuclear is very capital intensive. Historically very much so, since a large amount of the current fleet are all individual designs.

The economics might change when China start stamping them out like a print factory.

As for wind and solar: once you factor in the costs of transmission, storage and duplication, they suck too.

Duplication is particularly wasteful. To provide baseload-ish power, you need multiple installations to cover that different areas receive power at different times in a stochastic fashion and you need backup plants just in case your multiple solar farms are shady or the wind stops in multiple places. Plus, as climate change rolls on, you will need to keep moving the solar farms and wind farms as distributions of clouds and wind changes.

You know which dog is winning this fight? Natural gas. It's flexible, relatively quick to build, relatively low risk and gas prices have dropped like a stone in the past few years thanks to shale and fracking.

Personally I'd like to have lived in the future where the 1970s energy crisis caused a bootstrapped orbital solar power station industry. Oh well.
Why the Mountain Lion requirement? What tech. are you using that is present in OS X 10.8 only?
100% uptime is impossible. Remember you can get 99% uptime (2 nines) if you're down for 4 days in a year.
Even if nuclear power is to expensive (something I don't agree with. Wind is still only producing ~1/7 of nuclear power in USA, and is only producing ~1/7 of wind... 2011, numbers but I doubt there have been any miracles since then.

http://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/annual/pdf/sec1_7.pdf
It's not customizing, it's just configuration. Have a look at
http://forums.laptopvideo2go.com/topic/9243-forceware-update...
A one-issue voter is bad enough, but an irrelevant non-issue voter really takes the cake. Who gives a flying fuck, are you afraid he'll outlaw evolving or something?

And what does being a medical doctor have to do with evolution? Evolution has no effect on medication at that level.
Where should I start to get into game developing?
Hi, everyone. I want to get into game developing but I don't know where to start. Can anyone give me some suggestions, like which programs should I start one by one?
Hacker News London meetup, Wednesday 10th July
Shameless plug: I'm compiling methods for finding those SaaS patterns: http://howtofindsaasideas.com/

(If you're a HNer, respond to the signup email and I'll give you an extra discount once it comes out.)
Interesting. The moon has Helium 3, but the Earth doesn't?
m = Movie('Casablanca', 97, 102, 964000, 1300000)

del m

Isn't ``m`` going to persist in the ``Movie.rating.data`` dictionary? It seems like this approach would cause a lot of problems for garbage collection.
There's still the issue with emissions with methane though. Better than coal though.
A little Google Analytics Help Please??
Can anybody give me advice on setting up goals in Google Analytics that track conversions that stemmed from social media, like a Facebook Page please?
what would be the equiv. of Mongoid for flask?

Or should I use PyMongo directly?
That second article is definitely less than honest on some of its other points - for example, it turns out that drug dogs in the US alert when their handler wants them to rather than on finding drugs, so if the police have a drug dog with them they can effectively search the car of anyone they take a dislike to. I'm curious as to whether it's omitting important details about the DHS checkpoints too.
The trick is to find them and get them to talk candidly, though.

Example: not everyone wants to admit they have problems in their business, so you have to approach the conversation from an indirect angle.
Something I've been looking for for a while: A Markdown WYSIWYG. I personally dislike WYSIWYG, but for clients, it cannot be beaten. Now, most things that clients do in CMSs can be done with Markdown, and it avoids complications with weird HTML output, them trying to do unconventional styling (aka "ruining the website). So something like CKEditor or TinyMCE but outputting Markdown, and constrained to Markdown's limitations.

Does such a thing exist?
How much could the cost of building nuclear plants be reduced if we were building them on a larger scale.

It seems to me that the high cost of nuclear plants is largely because no one is building nuclear plants.

Regulatory requirements and safety overkill probably play a large role too.
Not when you're the biggest guy on the block. It's the little dogs that need to "force project".
2 reasons why we select SimpleDB instead of DynamoDB
Hey mobile firms: About that Android thing... Did Google add a lockout clause?
Subversion 1.8 released
Pick an app on the iPhone that is currently selling well and you feel you could build, then make a competing app. It's boring, but it works and it's a good confidence builder. A lot of the advice in this thread is to build some cool new tech, but I'm gonna say that's a bad idea because it's very risky to do that. Sounds like you're trying to find a reliable way to make money. Also, online offerings will need constant babysitting to make sure the site is up etc. iPhone apps on the other hand can be fully self contained with just little updates for new iOS versions and phones needed.
And then there's Beppo Grillo and his Five Star movement in Italy.
45  Mobile App Designs For Inspiration
جمال زهران يكتب : مصر تعيش فى «الحرام السياسى» | التيار
> first we have to figure out how to import the fuel back to Earth from places like the surface of the Moon

All we need is a psycho korean holding company and Sam Rockwell and we should be good.

(See "Moon" if you haven't. It's amazingly excellent.)
Was it arbitrage or trading with some risk involved? For the former, there is this: https://github.com/maxme/bitcoin-arbitrage

I've tried it, and even extended it to support a certain Swedish exchange, but it seems to me the pay off is small and the unreliability of the exchanges means it's not true arbitrage.
Pretty good!

It's great to be able to run it locally too, so I can run it offline! But how do you open another file when you're offline? (So no dropbox etc)
Russell Brand Shows MSNBC [HD] How a Guest Should be Interviewed
>If it doesn't creak when you hold it at the corners, I could be sold. The airs aluminium case makes it "feel" sturdy, and silent.

It's a duralium casing, it feels very solid. You do have to manually switch the power profile (at least, I found the automatic power balance unreliable) with a keyboard shortcut; in low power it's quiet, in high performance the fan whines.

I very much like the keyboard, and use it a lot, but my taste in keyboards is known to be weird.

I'm very surprised to hear of apple being cheaper for the same spec, but I'll admit I didn't really buy by the numbers. It's powerful enough to run eclipse or play supreme commander forged alliance, which are my use cases.
I'd love to see something like the editor in Medium, but implementing the whole markdown and that can run offline.
Two years of success on Windows Phones
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The bank account is not anonymous, true. But you may be in situations where you are not concerned about your anonymity, but in protection against someone discovering your location.
Japan: Animal-human embryo test clears first hurdle
Interns Must Be Paid - A good precedent
I use Pingdom's 1-minute monitoring for this, which is included on the Free plan. No joke, it hits up my pseudo-cron Task Processing route which fires up and reschedules all tasks needing doing, and it never fails. And it provides uptime and failure reports on my scheduled tasks!
For me, it doesn't feel like cheating. The way I see it, the normal way to earn money (ie employment) is the inefficient/underpaid way.

It's not cheating if you're merely getting your fair share :)
A sustainable start-up
Given your market, it may be of interest to know that anyone with a NoScript plugin who goes to your site (on FF, anyway) sees a blank page until they enable Javascript.

That's likely to cost you a few sales - particularly since you're in the "make money online" space, people tend to be a little hesitant to enable foreign code.

I've signed up, btw.
It does, but only in rather small quantities. In fact it seems that most He-3 that's used is produced in Tritium decay reactions rather than extracted.
Logitech will also do that, had a mouse die, call them:

> Yeah so my mouse doesn't work anymore, it's a <whatever model>

>> Ok do you have a serial number?

> Sure it's <serial number>

>> Could I have your address to send a replacement?

> <address>

>> OK thanks a lot, we'll get the new one send right away

> How do I send the old one back?

>> It's broken yeah?

> Yeah

>> Then you just throw it out or whatever, try to repair it if you enjoy that

No charge, no fuss, no bother. Love it when companies do that.
We also have a discourse page for any feedback/suggestions/general meetup chat - http://discourse.hnlondon.com/
A small product built in one of today's modern frameworks? Sure, that'll be much faster. 5+ years ago when 99designs was kicked off, the landscape looked much different.

Importantly, the founders choices allowed them to iterate quickly and essentially capture global Anglophone market for our product. If that made i18n a little harder, it was no doubt still a good trade-off to make.
Totally agree - in my experience, passive income is anything but passive. It's more involved than most 'real jobs' I've worked.

Have you tried negotiating tax forms, outsourcing (ha) customer support, maintaining a partially hacked-together codebase, or even having legal documents written that cost an entire month's salary?

There are a great many unsexy things that need doing when you run your own business, which regular jobs shield you from (my next 8 weeks' task list is currently averaging 300 items) - that's the trade-off. And then there's the 12-hour days you'll put in for months, while setting it up...

PS: it's so worth it.
To me this article feels so wrong. I couldn't care less if nuclear power is a bit more expensive than its alternatives if it offered advantages over them. But there is a single point that makes nuclear power so unattractive - if something goes seriously wrong, you are really screwed.
I thought OpenGL ES was just a restricted subset of OpenGL, and old versions of it at that. It seems kind of weird for them to be behind if this is the case so maybe I don't understand this correctly.
The freedom to have a power is also a freedom. We as a society often want to restrict such powers though.
Open source does not matter if they aren't able to deliver the performance professional developers require.
When clicking the "add new station" button on the favourites tab, I would expect the newly added station to appear in my favorites (as well as the stations tab).

It doesn't - After adding it (on the favourites tab), I have to go to the stations tab, search for it (which causes UI lag), then mark it a favourite.

Also: lose the spaces between the labels and the ellipsis ("...") on the edit and delete buttons.

Also: Make the "Ok" button the default (enter) on the add new station pane
The problem is that the overhyped risks of nuclear power have driven the costs way up. For decades almost all effort has gone into increasing safety not reducing costs which utilities have little incentive to control because they are passed on to customers.
YES.

New = risky. Risky = bad if you're just looking for income.

One of the biggest lightbulb moments I ever had in online business was when I realised that if I saw a whole bunch of competitors in a given niche, that meant there was definitely profit to be made there.
some good points, and while i haven't read his other articles, i don't think he grasps the gravity of what "baseline supply" means on the power grid. these are powerplants that are on 24/7 -reliably- always supplying ~40% of energy on the grid. coal, hydro, and natural-gas based facilities do "baseline load" well, although in many places, natural-gas facilities are used for spinning reserve, since generation costs (in $/kw) are higher than the coal and nuclear.

renewables are cool, zero carbon, etc., but NONE of them can generate reliable, 24/7 power. what we really need is energy storage tech to move renewable energy generation from when it's available to when it's needed.

i wish we could see more research in alternative nuclear technologies. why is India the only country trying out thorium reactors? our entire nuclear infrastructure is based on tech that could use waste fuel to make bombs. time to move on to a more practical strategy.
Maybe. I've never had to deal with a recall but, when my Alfa was serviced the dealership collected it from my workplace, dropping off a courtesy car (a better model than mine) for me to use.

I did need to drive to the dealership to collect it again, but I also had to be there to pay for the work done (giving me a chance to talk to the mechanic at the time).
Ttip: l’accordo commerciale tra Europa e Stati Uniti. Miraggio o nuova era?
"Of course just looking at what is archievable today, we will have a lack of performance, features and tooling, but thats not how technology adoption and performance increases work"

Well yes, but that's what I mean when I say I wouldn't want to take it to production. Maybe in the future, but it's not ready yet. I think it has some way to go before it's viable, and a long way to go before it competes with the likes of Source, Unreal and Unity.

" imagine developing a product once and being able to ship it to any device"

Always a worrying promise, as you need to write one product that works on multiple, slightly different setups. Browser Y supports the CSS selectors you're using, but there's a rendering issue on Browser Z 2.9.0.1 - 2.9.1.3. Browser X renders it correctly but doesn't yet support hardware acceleration so it doesn't run so well.

It's also not the only cross platform option there is, and I'm not sure trying to target vastly different devices with the exact same code is a great idea. Why would we expect to be able to write a game for a phone with a touchscreen that also works on a desktop with a keyboard and mouse? Why is it better to have one product with internal switches "if mobile..." rather than two with shared code? You've now got a lot of regression testing to make sure you're not affecting the desktop experience when you update something that 'should only change the mobile bits'.

"Additionally: think about the time and cost that go into developing cross-platform engines - is this approach able to compete on a long run?"

It depends on the quality of what each side can offer, and the difficulty in adding to it. A cross-platform game engine can add support for a new feature of graphics cards and be ready quickly rather than having to draft an addition to a spec which you hope the browser manufacturers implement similarly, then watching until the market penetration of the version of the browsers you want reaches the right level.

"The entry barrier into web-based products comparatively vanishes: no downloads"

No downloads? So why did it take so long for me to load the demo? I'd like to know how I can get your product over the internet without downloading it.

"Imagine having a release cycle that always instantly pushes out the newest version of your product to all users in realtime - no update processes on client-side"

Imagine having to load large parts of a game online every time you want to play it, rather than just opening a program. Also, realtime updates? Sounds awful. Fix one JS file and watch the fun as some people load an older cached version, others a new one, others loading in that file on level three after loading the older assets on level two. Something that was loaded 5 minutes ago is now trying to call a function on an object that's been renamed in the latest push. Not being able to load level 4 because the server is under strain...

As I say, it's got positives and negatives.
PDP-11 implemented with more recent hardware:

http://www.migrationspecialties.com/pdf/OspreyHardwareOvervi...
The Offline Glass Ensures You Talk, Not Text, At The Bar
What does "global non-US maps service" mean?

Does it mean a service which provides worldwide mapping that's not based in the US?
I find energy generation a really difficult topic.

I really want to remain unbiased and reach my own conclusions based on solid data but there seem to be so many reports and cost estimates that come to opposing views it makes it very difficult to do that without spending a long time in research. Hence I worry that even analytical people seem to give up and choose what 'feels right' to them.

Its like the global warming debate all over again.
Ubuntu Phone: 8 majors sign up for Ubuntu Carrier Advisory Group with Canonical
Maybe "socialism" is too specific, but there's an American culture of individualism that you find to a certain extent in Italy/France/Spain that's absent in much of Asia. Germany is... different. I guess any attempt to reduce cultures to a single dimension is probably futile.
> Of course I'd rather we all use solar panels, but until that becomes viable on a large scale

Nuclear plants take tens of years to build, and it looks like solar will become viable on a large scale faster than that.
An interview with Dan Eden (_dte)
Internet Explorer 6: The legacy
Sell an information product. They don't really have to have either maintainance or support.

I have an ebook out there that I haven't touched for about 2 years. I check the email address associated with it about once every three months. It's still selling.

However, you are absolutely right - maintainance and support can turn a passive product into something Not Passive At All. It's something to watch out for very carefully if you genuinely want passive income.
Freelancer or Entrepreneur? Seth Godin cares and so should you.
Yes my PDP experience runs from 11/40's double cabinet systems down to the PDT150's (basically a desktop 11/03)

PDP's where built like a brick outhouse I can recall helping to install a twin floppy drive on or 11/40 took two guys to lift the thing it was so heavy.
They would never get it out of the door if it wasn't based on the JVM. The reason is Haskell. JVM mandates certain imperative tools in the Scala language; if you subtract these, you end up with Haskell, and Haskell is big enough that you'll have hard time reinventing it.
Welcome to the United Prisons of Americal where the only thing preventing you from being forced to walk to your destination is the fact that using a car is still legal... for now.
Squeryl doesn't allow you to drop down to raw SQL, so I'd suggest avoiding it.
My LSI-11 was no bigger than my current generic PC box.
appreciate your points, software is a very different beast and it is probably true that the incentive structure is incidental to saas..

i just happen to think this is the reason for its success

also for a while i used, and loved, zipcar in london and i guess i saw the possibilities..
Now that is smart business.
Wouter van Oortmerssen is someone anyone interested in programming languages should be aware of - he's developed a ridiculous number of languages ranging from the very useful to bizarre and novel experimental.

I've been a fan ever since I was programming AmigaE, and it was the first and only development tool I've spent money on.
I am currently working on one! It is not release ready but if want here is a simple demo.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/52646091/syntax/selectio...

I want to totally abolish two window mode and all uncertainties about how the output will look like. my target the same as yours, to make the learning curve less steep.
Same as Nokia, their cartography is based on Navteq (US).
How to Protect Against Slow HTTP Attacks (2011)
IOS 7: Flat, or not?
Making sense of data