skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There will come a point in life where you have enough money, hopefully. At that point, you probably should start ventures that aren't about making money (though money-making businesses are a very robust way to change the world).

My theory is that this rarely actually happens. People rarely reach a point and think "ok, I have enough money now; I'll go work at a charity." Mostly due to the hedonic treadmill:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic_treadmill

This is actually empirically testable to some degree. I recall a recent study asking millionaires if they had enough money, and most of them said something like "no, I won't feel secure until I have 10-20 mil."
Oh, I see now. Thanks for clearing that up.

Thanks again for sharing this. It's been fun.
We use powered pallet jacks (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pallet_jack). The catch with those is that a lot of items are close enough together in the warehouse that most guys end up walking alongside their jack. Still, it beats manually dragging two pallets' worth of product on what could end up being a two mile trip per order.
Still need peripherals though.
"Content" Is the Powerful Black Woman
This is like the strangest blog post I've ever read. He concludes that the best thing is to unfollow people you don't like, and also that you should focus on positivism. Yet apparently something is bugging him enough to write this rant as if any one of those that he calls out even would care? :S

How narcissistic are people these days? You where not born into this world to be exempted from negative people, morons, idiots, insults, offenses and whatever life throws at you!

Edit: Let's all create a blog post and announce it on HN, anytime you unfollow someone because you got a little offended for them speaking their mind. I'm sure this will be a wonderful place then!
So, it's obvious that it's not politically convenient for Germany (or most other western countries) to grant Snowden asylum, even if they wanted to.

But legally, he doesn't have a very clear-cut case: The 1951 United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees which is the legal framework for asylum, defines the criteria as having a well-founded fear of persecution because of one's race,
religion, nationality, political opinion or membership of a particular social group.

The only category that might fit is "political opinion", but holding a certain political opinion is not a license to commit a crime (which, unambiguously, Snowden is guilty of), especially when laws against the exact same activity is on the books in the countries he's applying to.

Has it not been for the much too heavy-handed treatment of Manning, he couldn't even claim fear of prosecution: getting a fair trial in a court of law isn't prosecution.
Have you heard of the term "Up or Out"?
> Normally I'd agree, because the fundraiser is typically a
> startup, perhaps a limited company, with no existing
> business with which to back refunds.

What type of entity is raising the funds (startup, limited company, etc.) is irrelevant. The point is that they are asking for an investment, and yes, as you point out, there are no refunds if an investment doesn't work out.

This is very different from the mindset of a consumer, who is purchasing the product that was created with the investors money. If the investment doesn't pan out, the consumer has nothing to buy. The investor looses their investment.

My concern is that by offering product in exchange for investment (essentially a forward contract[1]), consumers are lured into taking on the risks of investors. The language on the fundraising page is, unfortunately, quite vague about this.

Again, I'm not saying that Canonical can't deliver, and I'm certain that they'll do their best to make this work out. I do wish that they'd make a better effort of warning off people who think they're simply buying a phone that won't be delivered for many months.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward_contract
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Yeah... about as easy as to meet a wild drunken bear with a balalaika on a Moscow street.
It's somewhere in between, I'd say more towards the latter. At around ~60k units it's hardly a "major" commercial product considering even Microsoft sells millions of their Surface RT tablets in a quarter.

I think it's a very cool idea (dual boot and everything). Hardware specs look top notch.
Sheremetyevo airport’s transit zone encompasses three terminals and includes a capsule hotel and a wing of the Novotel.
Some people say a UI must be judged by experienced users, because newbies don't understand it yet. Others say a UI must be judged by newbies, because experienced users get desensitized to UI problems over time. (For example, every programmer can use their own program easily, but that doesn't mean the UI is good.) I think I trust the newbies more, because I've seen many bad UIs that experienced users like, but I haven't seen many bad UIs that newbies like.
Instacart (YC S12) bets the market is ripe again for grocery delivery
Proof, please? Soviet-designed doesn't mean Russian. Soviet designs are in manufacturing all over the world, including countries much closer to Iraq.
"Current democracy as a system optimizes strongly for popularity..."

This is what democracy has always done.
It's quite possible Snowden has already passed on all his information to other parties. There's no need for Snowden to be the messenger any more.
I think they're referring to this: http://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/-/latest/17811861/russias-p...
Or what you've read. I first met Zawinski through Coders at Work and he immediately became my hero. Working on Lucid/XEmacs was but one reason why.
Currently we are using Redis to make the service as fast as possible. Redis gives us a lot of power to improve our query engine. More features on BQL (Backbeam Query Language) are planned so you can make very complex queries very fast. This is mandatory for mobile applications. Other solutions offer very poor query engines so many times you need to do several requests in your mobile application in order to fetch all the data you need. We work hard to avoid that.

For big projects (> 50Gb data) we are going to combine Redis with a disk-based database. We are testing this integration right now.
Ispex project - measure aerosols with your smartphone
You can't simply pay with your credit card on Paypal without an account?
It's not quite possible, it's factual: http://rt.com/news/snowden-leaks-guardian-greenwald-264/

(well, maybe 'almost all' rather than 'all.')
Why should C programmer learn Erlang?
Why should a font be treated like a suit? Why not a car, or a house, or another infinitely reproducible digital good? I don't see why you chose that analogy except to set the price expectation at a certain level.
> For one random example (not being a huge student of 21st century Russia), he promised Bush that he wasn't arming Saddam's troops. Turned out they were outfitted with a lot of Russian anti-tank and night vision gear when we got there.

That doesn't say anything about Russia arming Saddam's troops. I'm sure there are a lot of cases U.S. arming their "allies" and then these weapons in some way became available to terrorists...

I simply don't think it is possible to know and predict how and by whom weapons will be used.
I don't think there is harm too, but there is a distinct quality difference in taste and nutrition, which would be a terrible thing to waste from good eggs. Overall I think it is beneficial, but since some people are against eating yolks, I hedge my advice by stating yolk from good eggs.
Mostly; Paul Graham being an exception.
Reason? He's politician.
Just used it, very awesome!!

I ran a handful of product name searches that usually appear on reddit every few weeks and found it very strong at finding recent posts but struggling to find comments older than a month I know exist.

I'm assuming a richer interface is on its way in the next update.

Thanks for sharing!
> The problem is, the line of what's acceptable communication is different for every user.

Make each bit opt-in. Problem solved. These emails really should be off by default.
I don't think it's unreasonable to expect that kind of coordination from employees in a large firm. Joke as we may about how big firms are inefficient how else are you going to get health, safety and legal compliance coordinated for hundreds of people. For procurement, you might see 2x the price on custom install on the glass door, but big picture the company may get special discounts, loose return rules and save a bundle across the board.
As for 360 degree feedback- the last time I checked it was counted among the best methodologies for giving real employee feedback. Maybe your boss only sees your low productivity but your peers see that you spend 7 hours a day helping everyone else succeed.
What?! Fixed function rendering pipeline continues to be fairly widely used because it's easier to develop. While I agree that modern programmable pipeline has its advantages, but backwards compatibility is crap? Why?
Devshops of HN - How do you track which projects/ employees are most profitable?
What tool do you use to track your profitability ?
How do you know if you made enough income for this month?
how do you track growth in hours billed?
I think the idea is that it is both a PC and a phone. This allows you to plug in your phone as your PC (like those cheap micro desktops), and have a working cell phone.

One thing I find really interesting is that for a galaxy 4S or iPhone5 the cost is somewhere between $650-$800 for a uncontracted phone. That being said, this Ubuntu phone would be both a Cheap micro desktop as well as a presumably good phone running either android or Ubuntu mobile and both for roughly the same price as the other "nice" phones out there.

Beyond this specific phone, I am guessing their real purpose is to break into the mobile OS industry using this Ubuntu phone because it would make headlines and in turn give a nice PR campaign. Not to mention it would prove that there is a sizable market for higher end phones which can support the Ubuntu desktop/cell phone idea and push the technology forward quicker.
Especially terrible timing for me. I hadn't gotten around to updating my phone off the original iOS 7 beta. Guess what expired yesterday? The original iOS 7 beta. My phone is essentially a brick now until I can update to a non-expired version of iOS.
You got a 3/260 on your first day? Lucky! I got a Sun i386, but quickly replaced it with a 3/260, and then, eventually, a Sparcstation.

I built SWAN out of 3/260s as routers. Those were good machines. :-)
He didn't like it much because, amongst other things, OpenGL ES removes (completely) a number of older OpenGL features. Features which he was using in xscreensaver.

If you're not porting OpenGL 1.x software (and thus not using APIs long considered deprecated/to avoid) there's no big issue with OpenGL ES as far as I know.
I mean, if you have a keyboard & monitor handy, how hard is it to have a PC too?

If your phone supports use as a full computer, then the need for a PC is obviated. In my case, I have roughly 3500 employees, of which approximately 2000 have computers. Almost all of them carry smart phones. I envision a future state where those smart phones are also their PCs...they become more mobile and can easily access their data at any of our locations and I've just cut 2000 computers out of my budget. Sure, an Ubuntu desktop won't work for all, but it would work for many of our staff...70% of what we do is web-based already.
Both fonts and suits are about fashion, and not simply the marginal cost of the goods that go into their production. Clothing fashions could also be made drastically cheaper were it not unlawful to counterfeit them.

Moreover, like an expensive suit (note: I don't own one of those), there is little intrinsic utility in a premium font; it's practically the definition of a digital luxury. It can thus be priced as a Veblen good --- which it in effect is, to its real market (publications, agencies).
Compatibility. Every device that supports OpenGL also supports OpenGL ES, but not vice versa.
Any unsolicited company marketing email is, to me, spam. Spam is very relevant here.
RackSpace VS AWS: What John Engates Rebuttal Didn’t Say
And a lot (including my app) that plenty of people will have heard of. I do agree though, there's a lot of apps in that directory and elsewhere that will end up being well known (or at least acquired) in the next 5-10 years.

The network (cloud) is where you sell your consumer or enterprise application now, not Windows.
It's hard to go bad on this article given the source, no?

I find it more interesting for insight into Matz than anything about emacs. The idea that his text editor got him excited about programming is pretty powerful. Yes it could have been written in a 1 page memo, but who cares?
I'm in that class. I really liked it at the start, but that week and a half where they had issues really threw my schedule off. Probably going to have to drop if I can't catch up tonight.

IMHO, the class is much more useful for understanding the business and marketing side of things (the "philosophical" side of the class) than for the tech they are presenting. Sadly, there hasn't been as much of the philosophical as I would have liked and some of their early tech suggestions seem odd (at least to someone already familiar with a linux environment).
It's Teddy Ruxpin, but instead of "reading" cassette tapes it has a space for a smartphone.

The (user supplier) smart phone does all the work. Except, even then, chatbots are hopeless and even Siri is often weird and sub-optimal.

I get terrible results from normal questions. I speak with children. They have wondrous, amazing, confusing, marvelous, off-the-wall ideas. If anything can make a computer fail a Turing Test it's the questions of a child.
The Edge is trying to solve a problem in hardware which is best left to software.

The problem: when you move between your devices, your apps look and act different, and they don't auto resume your state. But that's just because the software isn't mature yet. Eventually you will be able to compose a draft in Gmail online, unfinished, and the Gmail app on your smartphone will open to the draft automatically, and cloud apps will work the same everywhere--on the phone, on the desktop, and on the web.

And even if the apps are not completely identical, they will be good enough: I can switch from driving my car to a rental car without any issue; the interfaces to a car are fundamentally similar across all cars. So too with apps on various devices. It's just not a big deal. This is actually good for the Edge as most desktop displays do not support touch (and wouldn't work well if they did) so you'll still be shifting between touch and mouse, or touch and keyboard.

Solving this problem in hardware is sub-optimal: you'll always be fiddling around with monitor, keyboard, and mouse cables; your CPU, GPU, and RAM is limited; and your Internet connection will be slower from the phone than it would be had you plugged in to your 100Mbps+ cable connection from your cheap Ubuntu or Mac desktop.
The bomb in the garden
It was a really bad idea to plan a "complete overhaul" and "rebuild" everything, over the weekend. Some manager must've thought that they could wave a wand and get shit done.
Also, somehow keeping your competitor's console from being available to real buyers will dramatically reduce the sales of actual games, since all of the sold-at-a-loss consoles will be sitting in a warehouse somewhere.

The really sneaky thing would be to figure out some non-game thing to do with the "enemy" consoles, like turning them into a supercomputer, or scrapping for parts, or whatever.
This is slightly tangential, but bear with me. I'm mid-50's, and when I started programming it was a weird thing. I'd say I was a computer programmer, and I might have been the first one that normal people had actually met.

It is amazing now to see the world buried in programmers (and more being produced with people from Pakistan & etc. in Coursera's Startup Engineering).

More amazing that a lot of really good work is being done.

So how does it graph? Plateau or Vinge-ian take-off?

Is the flocking around software apps appropriate or an over-concentration of human capital?
I actually hope he stays put in Russia. These Latin American countries would be an easy target for the American govt to bully.
Come on, seriously. How to deal with negativity on Twitter and he's complaining about people he has been actively following?

Is this some better-by-proximity thing? Am I missing why it's so important to follow person X that apparently his sanity is being compromised (though granted I've no idea who these people are)?

Oh but I'm so inspired by their code. So look at their github repos instead. But then I guess we will have another tedious blog post on how people are discourteous and abrupt in pull request responses. Or have we done that already? I've lost count.
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This is a real world example of the Sustainable Growth Rate, which is a financial concept that applies to any business.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_growth_rate
It is more specific than that. Mr Cameron has recently upset quite a few very influential bigots over the gay marriage thing (something to be applauded IMO) and is now trying to sweeten them back up ready for the next time he needs their vote or party donation by tackling an issue that they care about but which won't overly irritate too many other people. The porn access issue is a gift to him in this respect.

I'm sure he knows the measures are going to be ineffective, if he doesn't he needs to sack a few advisers, but it is important for him to be seen to be "thinking of the children" on this issue.
> Anything that runs on ES should also run on standard OpenGL implementations but the reverse is not true.

Not exactly true, AFAIK, OpenGL 4.1 was the first "full" OpenGL version which was fully API-compatible with ES (2.0, you need OpenGL 4.3 for ES 3.0 API-compatibility).

IIRC, none of the OpenGL versions prior to 4.1 were complete supersets of OpenGL ES.
What drives android app downloads?
Background: I'm a 16 yr old, and in April I came out with my first app for android. (Brick breaker free by RobbinsDev). I've been studying the download patterns of my app, and I'm curious as to what exactly causes these trends. Dos anyone have some insight?
Thanks!
I doubt it would be superior.. . Seems to me the specs for the processor are not set yet and Apple, Samsung, HTC etc don't currently have a phone up to par. Meaning AT BEST they would be equivalent.
I find the crowd that pooh-poohs lifestyle businesses while working for someone else particularly amusing. You are much more likely to accumulate real wealth with a lifestyle business that you own than you are working for someone else.
Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't really see what's wrong with this.

The angel paid for his shares with cash. If he's also working for the business -- and driving significant value, it sounds like -- he has a right to ask for compensation for his work. And the founders have a right to say no.

Now if he's threatening to torpedo the current deal, that's just childish and stupid.
The situation is still evolving. The article has been updated since the initial HN posting and the title now reads 'Snowden asylum still under review, stays in airport for now - lawyer'.
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> 30 foot razor wire fences, and mile wide minefields.

LOL OMFG!

MILE WIDE !!! MINEFIELDS !!!

May be the confusion is with USA-Mexico border? o_O
"Snowden's temporary asylum request is still undecided and he is to remain in Sheremetyevo airport's transit zone for now, Reuters is reporting, citing the whistleblower's lawyer."

Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/24/edward-snowden-m...
IANAL, but as far as I understand a company director only has a 'duty to promote the success of the company' in the UK [1]. I think it is similar in the US. 'Success of the company' doesn't strictly have to mean making a profit, if the shareholders don't want it to.

[1] http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2013/01/07/companies-do-n...
You do have a point, especially in your first paragraph, but I think it's important to separate the goals of the business from the goals of it's founders, management and employees. The latter probably have goals of at least making a decent living, and that of course impacts the profit-making goal of the business.

However, I also think you're confusing profits with wages. Non-profit organization employees can have quite high wages, but that doesn't impact whether the goal of the organization is to turn a profit.
I am glad somebody else out there is interested in the debate that lies at the intersection of the surveillance state and the "internet of things".
Heh, he looks like Marv from Home Alone.
I am sure it is, everyone still gets the cut of the donations so you'll still be paying them for their services.
Why do you want to track which employees are most profitable? How do you define profitable?
Photoshop has a lot more stuff, but when I just want to draw a circle or something I can actually find where to do it. Gimp is a real mess.
Great post.

Before changing the world, change the world inside you and directly around you.

One of the things that gets missed in "making money" is how a sliver of tech talent can solve such huge problems for the average person.

PG hit the nail on the head in encouraging everyone to simply solving problems the average non-tech person has, whom are the majority. Solving your own problems has merit if your problems aren't rare, or can be a financial engine.

It's an opportunity to grow beyond where too many techs are today... they simply don't see how many people are so passionate about what they do that they are willing to do the most unreasonable thing: calculate, track, and manage things by pen and paper, or whatever they can get in a spreadsheet.

To me, when I see someone do something by hand, manually, because they're so passionate to get it done, or have no choice, it's a mirror to me. How the hell do my talents add value if others are stuck with what they're doing because no one is giving them any attention?

Instead, we have techs justify what they're doing to be something grand and great to "make it up", or some how make life more worthwhile?

Maybe, part of this is from an preference to relate to a keyboard instead of relating to others. Maybe its a part of maturity and starting to see one's self as part of a bigger whole. The need for an ability to shift lenses is critical, because hiding behind a keyboard is not ok anymore, the world has arrived on our doorsteps asking to solve problems with tech.

Software can either make people's lives much harder or easier. Being on the right side of the equation, even if it's giving up a few hours a week just to solve anyone's problems with a script will uncover more opportunities for creating value (read: the right ones will be dying to pay you something to keep your attention).

Ironically perhaps, most of all, is the fact that having a financial engine lets you drive and pursue more of the things you want with your time and by being able to pay for the time of others.
Could this be a new Up-trend Starting, as gold deliveries new gains.
Reversing the Tide of Declining Expectations