skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They've reached around $3.2m in their first day, so they're on track, though probably donations will slow down from now on till it nears the end. The price is pretty high, and this is not a mass market device in its current form - it's an interesting strategy to target the high end. Perhaps they see Apple as floundering in years to come, and want to take that slice of the market and work down?

It's interesting that you talk about some kind of installation. Everyone with a desktop PC already has such an installation, and many people with laptops have one too - a screen and keyboard for when they're at home, and a laptop which plugs in there, or can be separated and used independently. Works for me.

So I imagine the target market here is people who use laptops with a screen at home and would be happy with even more convenience and a smaller device to carry around. This probably isn't a realistic convergence device as it is so ambitious, at present it's more dream than reality, but one day we might all work this way.

I find it more attractive to have a hard local store of my data than the alternative of trusting cloud providers with all my data and working from thin clients.
Is there really such a thing as an abstract dependency?

There is such a thing as a tested system (ie two or more Independantly built packages that have been demonstrated to work together). This is the concrete - I have built these things and tested them - now take them both as they are and put them live. I now dislikes the idea that I will build packages (with pip literally from source) on production machines.

No I don't quite get this - dependencies are just that - we depend on the code they provide to run. A library author cares as much as a sysadmin that they avoid a version of dependency that breaks the package.

A better spec might be

Requests=1.1,1.2,1.4 #oops 1.3 broke our tests

And yes, requirements.txt and setup.py conflict. We don't have a clean packaging system in Python and we should accept it and fix it.

None of this Precludes the useful ability to specify which location to retrieve which package from, but these are build instructions, not deployment instructions.
Longing for autoupdated e-books?
Circa 2008, an employee in a 10K+ people outsourcing company, was on bench ("not assigned to any projects") for two years.

He leveraged that time for studies and subsequently got admission to a very prestigious B-School.
I can only talk from my own experience. In this case, I had two processes talking to each other across a PAIR socket in an asynchronous manner. It was really convenient for me to have one thread waiting on messages on the socket and another taking input from other parts of the process and writing to the socket.

You might argue that in this case having two sockets, a PUSH and a PULL might have been better, but the nature of the communication was very much between two processes and I didn't want to weaken that.

Coordination can be expensive and certainly, actors or some sort of channel-based model (which is my preference), have their place, but when you have light-weight communication and coordination primitives, it's not a given.
Sorry about that. I hit the publish button way too early on this one, no excuses.
It's definitely a bit of a fudge. I believe their argument is that the money wasn't required for day to day use in the business or to fuel growth and was really just a way to have someone as key as Bezos associated with the company. If true, I can certainly buy that argument.
Especially welcome are DirectX-porting helpers. Other changes are performance tuning, as far as I have seen.
Selling food is hard, mind you! I used to run a catering business, and you have to deal with all kinds of food safetey regulations, hygiene codes, et al. Which is not a bad thing, because when someting's wrong with food, it can go bad pretty quick. Look at the school food incident in India. Unless you have a professional kitchen at home, you'd better rent licensed kitchen space somewhere. But then there's the matter of delivery and selling. How do you keep your doughnuts cool and your coffee warm?

Take the food truck example: it seems like a good idea since you see so many of them. But if you look on eBay you'll see a graveyard of food truck businesses that didn't make it. It's hard, it's complicated and it usually doesn't pay off running a food truck. I'm not saying it can't be done, but it's much, much more difficult than most people realize.

Second of all, legality. You can't just sell something for profit, at least where I live. Same goes for donating the profits to a student group, which would possibly make you a charity, but here you still need a license for that.

Lastly, there's the marketing point of view. What sets you apart from Dunkin Donuts or Krispy Kreme? They deliver too, in more than one way.

I'm not trying to discourage you, but I am giving you a warning. Selling food for profit is not an easy venture. Let me put it this way: if you cook up a web app and something goes wrong, you get angry users. If you cook up a bad batch of donuts, you get sick customers and massive liability suits.

If you go ahead with this: make sure you get all your bases covered. I was unpleasantly surprised how much time, money and bureaucracy it takes to run a food business. Some people are obviously doing okay, but to me it wasn't worth the risk/reward.

Good luck!
If you aren't using Intel SSD in a server environment, you are going to have a bad time.

They are too relatively slow for home computer use but for servers, much more reliable.

That said, this chart concerns me:

http://www.ssdaddict.com/ss/Endurance_cr_20130122.png

25nm Vs 34nm http://google.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.xtremesy...

My first personal computer SSD is going to be the Samsung 830 from different batches in Raid1

Also, when someone else builds your servers, you should query the smart info from the drive to make sure they aren't used SSD.
It's "common knowledge" that you will lose money, asymptotically, at a casino or playing the lottery. Yet casinos and lotteries thrive.
You can buy bags of dried beans at the grocery store for around a dollar each. The bagged beans actually taste better than the canned beans, and they are much cheaper. Just remember, some beans need to be soaked overnight before being cooked!

For example, you can make a giant pot of lentil soup that will have 10 servings for maybe $4 worth of ingredients. And it's healthy.

Split pea soup is another good one.
MIT Researchers Develop Computer-Generated TCP That is Twice as Fast
Probably you should read last Paul article on his blog, that will give you some insights.
They were bootstrapped. They basically 'made it' on their own, and later took some money. They didn't depend on the investment to get big, it only came along much later. At least, that's what I've read.
As someone that speaks English "reel gud" I can understand that the test was "reeli harrd". It's amazing how many people have problems with tests of their own first language just for the fact that they have never learned grammatical rules and that they can't distinguish between "standard" language and a local dialect they are used to. After all, it's native speakers that are guilty of "their" and "there's" confusion.
There's a picture of me in one of those photos, yay!
I'd say you qualify as an extremely eccentric investor. Most "fool" investors would never say "I have no use for more money", or be willing to write off their investment based on arbitrary criteria like their birthday being divisible by 7! :-)
You can always open a company and apply as a company manager. Also, you can get a Blue Card if you pay yourself at least 1.5x the average salary in a given country, which in the case of a funded startup should not be a problem. German immigration system is very kind to tech founders.
Not until way after they were profitable. And they took him on as an adviser more or less, they didn't need the cash. Tell if me Jeff Bezos said he wanted to buy a part of your company (which gave you some access to him) you would say no??!
"The funny thing is that when you look busy yet can still ‘find the time’ to help others, people hold you in high regard."

You could well have been adding value with the help you were giving, depending on how messed up their information flow/systems were.
Do you have a good suggestions for buy this certificates, I always struggle buying one that is acceptable (affoortable) for a startup.
Why do people still try to DDOS CloudFlare protected websites? The Cyberbunker-Spamhaus incident showed they can survive 300 Gbit/s, I thought after that everyone would just back off.
Our highest law court in Germany made a judgement recently which can make selling that kind of games a lot harder here in the future. They forbid advertisement for online game items if the advertisement is targeted at children. The concrete example which triggered this could be translated as "Take the chance bargain and give your armor and weapons that certain something." German link: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/BGH-verbietet-Interne...
Is this available somewhere public?
Yes, correct, people keep making this mistake. 37s only accidentally featured Shopify who took seed money, but they corrected it and removed them from the roll once it was pointed out.
Taking VC money when your company is already successful makes a huge difference. If you already have a decent valuation, you can raise money while keeping a majority stake.

The difference is:

* Taking VC money from day 1 and have a founder with a 10% stake

* Taking VC money when the company is already successful and highly valuated, so it can raises millions while the founder retains 70% of the capital

That's day and night. In the first case the VCs decide, and they can fire the founder if they don't like it.

In the second case, the founder controls the company and can tell the VC "thank you for your advice but I'm doing it my way" during board meetings.
That's what I thought, too, You can't just pass both Facility Management AND Procurement. Don't you know we have contracts with preferred suppliers?
Besides, why are you spending time on something that's clearly not your job? Does that mean you're having unaccounted time? Let's reflect on that in the next 360-degree feedback...

EDIT
Maybe I'm a bit sarcastic, but I've seen this happen. I actually had to write down everything I did in blocks of 15 minutes. I even had a 15-minute block for writing down what I did. Which is very depressing in a meta kind of way...
OpenCL 2.0: What's New
A global perspective is now a requirement for Internet businesses
Because Android 2.3 is pretty badly broken these days, and is a ever shrinking portion of new app installs.
I have an use-case, but I doubt it's very widespread: I always carry my DSLR around, and wouldn't mind a few extra pounds in the bag.. so instead of a phone, I'd rather see a small brick; not even meant to be held to your face ever, but used with a headset, and with plenty of USB ports on it.

I mean sure, phones will get as fast as desktops are today, but then a bigger computer will still be faster, and I would still have to do any heavy lifting on the desktop.

I don't do video myself, but even "just" processing photos and using Renoise requires more resources than I think even this thing can offer; basically, I have songs I can't work on unless the machine is at least as fast as my current desktop. The same would apply for doing stuff with WebGL: it doesn't have to be a gamer GPU, but it can't be a phone either. For me, that at best does for consuming, but not for creating. Especially since creating becomes more fun when it's more fluid, the minimum requirements don't cut it and more is better.

Even a mouse I have to lug around, and a foldable full keyboard, sound better than a laptop keyboard to me - I can't stand touchpads, or keys with 50 functions on them to save space. I could even get used to running around with a backpack if it meant I could have a real keyboard. And of course there's always internet cafes, which I would expect to offer a working spaces where you use your own computer, if stuff like this became reality.
But I'm a developer, so I don't know what the best wording for this is. The point is, some of the functionality of the site is broken when not using Javascript because it's AJAXed and there is no <form> fallback with POSTs and so forth (that's not in the development budget)
Reactive monitoring via Riemann: http://riemann.io/

We use this to monitor services at the application level.
Isn't that a passive income that we all try to achieve here?
I guess I'm arguing that this is a premature optimization.
NewsforAmericans
Voodoo has been open sourced
One-liner JavaScript browser detection (2009)
BBM = brilliant bipolar mind
What are quasi-particles? Why do phonons and photons have such similar names?
Wow. I'm a student in a research microbiology lab and I could give a rough overview of the projects of everyone in my lab, and the neighbouring sister microbiolgy lab too. There's no room for charades because one of the first questions scientists ask each other at social events of any kind is "so, what do you do/ work on?" Not to mention how much you need to rely on others just to get basic experiments in reasonable shape.
Direct link to the Glassdoor report that this post is based on:
http://www.glassdoor.com/Top-Companies-for-Work-Life-Balance...

It's interesting, although not surprising, to see the top companies being dominated by tech.
It's a TCP issue. When the other end of the connection goes away silently (power goes of, cable is cut off etc.) TCP doesn't inform ZeroMQ that the connection is broken, so ZeroMQ uses it furthe without trying to handle the error.
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Oh, I was! Truth is, I actually liked some of my co-workers, so I'd be more than happy to jump in for them for helpdesk duty, during one of their weekly all-morning meetings. It gave me something to do, and it gave me the feeling that I wasn't a complete fraudster.
Related discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6012730
If it is their time and their equipment, then it's their IP. Even if they didn't know about it. In that situation, the last thing you need is the legal department on your case.

Plus, what if the project got bug? How can you base something on shaky legal grounds?
I was actually thinking about this the other day - It'd be awesome to have an app designed specifically for that use case. So it'd stream a version that's as high res as your connection can support to the server, broadcasting it live to anyone on the site/app who could tag it, share etc.

Meanwhile, it's saving the full res to the phone and also trying to backfill with that as the connection allows, you could even have it use wifi direct or bluetooth to stream to other devices in the area. That way someone could have their phone inconspicuously in their pocket, backing up and uploading the content from the people recording. It'd also keep recording with the screen locked, record the location, maybe even integrate remote wiping.
The Coming Push For Open Source Everything
Isn't this the same explanation publicized yesterday?

http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/21/apple-confirms-that-the-dev...

Word is out that it was caused by some Turkish curious guy who claims that he did not intend to "hack"

http://www.engadget.com/2013/07/22/turkish-researcher-apple-...
> if you simply want to test drive Ubuntu for Phones, it's already been ported to 40+ platforms

Isn't it just for OEMs? Or am I missing something?
This is weird,

I read this on reddit last night under /r/askreddit or something, it was a comment buried half the page down 2 comments up. I stayed up WAY past my bed time to read it, amusing story.

THEN i find out it is the top spot here :| what am i going to read this morning !!!!!:(
Agreed.
It's still more than 45% of the new installs of my app though, even today :).
Arms dealing has a long and profitable history.

Is the dynamic different, for the consumer, in an artificial world? Even cyclists happily pay top dollar for fancy components - and though they may appreciate the engineering, advantage and prestige are the key motivation. (note: prestige is also zero-sum).
I call them abstract for lack of a better word. Referenced by name?

It's not about providing versions of code that does or doesn't pass tests. It's about where that code is fetched from. If you reference the dependency by name then you can easily switch it out for something that looks like the code the author originally developed against, but actually has some changes (patches, bugfix, whatever).

Where to retrieve packages from is both a build and a deployment instruction. After all you need to fetch the built packages from soemwhere yes? In general "reference by name and version/abstract" allows you to easily swap in a built package for a source package as well. Otherwise you'd be stuck with whatever formats the author published because the dependencies would be pointing to a specific url (likely outside your control).

The very fact you can build a binary package and host it yourself works because of what I call abstract dependencies (for lack of a better name). If they wern't abstract then you'd have to fork the dependent package in order to point it at your built package/repository instead.
> Sorry, but isn't science about more than one person getting access to the data and re-running the experiments?

Yes, but that's not happening here. They've not released all the data with explanations of how thing were measured, caveats, and context.

> While I understand that it is politically inconvenient for the scientists, that shouldn't really be what decides what the public gets access to (especially since this is a tax-payer founded study).

You're making it sound like this will never be released. It's not like they'd hide it if the data showed things weren't as bad as expected, in which case a leaked report would be important. This is a leak equivalent to grabbing a corner from the notes on someones desk and then turning it into a news story. This is in no way a report about leaked information that should be public, it will be public. It has nothing to do with "it's my taxes", it'll all be made public. What they want to do first is have it reviewed and checked before slapping their name on it and saying "we're confident in the data and the analysis".

What happens if there's a problem with the way this data was captured, which means there's a particular correlation with something else that must be accounted for before it makes sense? What if there are conclusions that aren't supported by the data, which could be found in review and amended?

> In fact wouldn't it be fair that they are to check their report into a public subversion repository as it is being written?

Fair? Why? Unless you're acting as a reviewer there's no reason to see the paper before it's in its final form. In fact, knowing how bad we are at thinking things are true even when shown to be false, seeing anything that people aren't really quite sure about is an extremely bad idea.

If they were to shelve the whole report, then yes, a leak would be interesting. Otherwise it's a massive waste of time, which can seriously harm the credibility of the final paper.
The question that occurs to me much later is what are the naturally occurring phenomena that hint toward these physics? As far as I know, as an interested layman, is that all experiments can be equated to events happening somewhere in the universe. Everything from black holes to supernovas act like massive particle accelerators. Are their any hypothetical situations that are similar?
consider using a rice cooker to cook all the cheap stuff that you buy - http://blog.priceonomics.com/post/38399141597/using-a-rice-c...
Help your git subdirectory transform to git submodule
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http://www.startssl.com/ - one year free certificate (renewing is free, too) with a distance of one to the root CA.
Now, what if Microsoft purchased Unity Technologies?

Wouldn't that be a thing?
I would say yes in a heartbeat. Would I then make such a noise about being bootstrapped and profitable? Not so sure. Pretty certain I would add a * with an explanation every time I mentioned bootstrapping.

But is your version of events correct? I've never seen the story myself on a 37Signals post.
But ... Their talk and brand and story is "doing it our way, in Chicago, away from all that Silicon Valley VC nonsense"

I'm not disagreeing with their choices (if Bezos offers to in est you say yes) but it does rather dim their core story.

That's fine - this is all part and parcel of HN - the real "how we got there" is always more educational for those following than the story told afterwards
Nokia Unveils The Lumia 625, A $290 4G Windows Phone
What is wrong with 10 hour single player AAA games? These generally offer the most refined interactive story type experiences. I much prefer one of these to most movies.
That criteria is not arbitrary, but can be found in tora part of Shmita jubelee year.
I don't like this article because it lacks a source for the revenue figure, has a tenuous grasp of the English language, and doesn't really add anything to the discussion of the business model (it reads like the author's never heard of "free to play" games before).

As for the business model itself: I prefer Valve's take on it, where paying doesn't give any competitive advantage (all the Team Fortress 2 items that aren't purely cosmetic are random drops for non-paying players, and Dota 2 is all cosmetic items).
you have clearly never written a distributed system or similar. Fail Fast, Fail Often.
And that's how it should be. In fact, that's what you get when you work with task-oriented people who are passionate about their work. In most large corporations however, your initial enthousiasm is smuthered rather quickly by people who just want to keep their jobs. After some 6 to 12 months, you comply. Another year passes by, and you get 'promoted' to a staff function or middle management. When that happens, you're the guy telling newcomers to 'take it easy and just go with the flow'.

Whatever you do in the future, remember the spirit and work ethics of the microbiology lab. If you find yourself working somewhere lacking that spirit but having the 'corporate' attitude instead, quit right away. Seriously. You'll thank me later!
As a game developer in china, We use this story to self-mockery.We work more than 50 hours a week, without girlfriend, without high pay.But We know one day When we has to leave we have another choice. He he~
TCP is certainly overkill in my case, since all my RPCs happens on a very stable network with a small and local-ish topology.

Using "fire and forget" multicast for logging and perception sounds interesting. And modelling systems in terms of perception sounds like it's generally a good idea. For truly "perceptive" systems you shouldn't coordinate the observers, since the death of a single observer should be irrelevant. If all your RPCs are idempotent (such as using "PUT" with a client-generated UUID instead of "POST" with no id) this should work well. You could also use vector clocks for eventual consistency. But I suppose one should also make sure to not re-implement dynamo. Or?