skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Internationally, to and from the US? I doubt it. At a smaller scale you may find privately operated ferries, though I think those are usually operated by governments. There are companies like these guys: http://www.stenaline.co.uk/ferry/scandinavia/ but I don't think those sort of companies will do you much good if you are trying to get out of or into the US.

Edit: For non-cruise trans-Atlantic crossing by sea, the best I've been able to find on google is the Queen Mary 2. That seems to be generally considered an ocean liner rather than a cruise ship.

"The Italian Line's SS Michelangelo and SS Raffaello,[4] launched in 1962 and 1963, were two of the last ocean liners to be built primarily for liner service across the North Atlantic. Cunard's transatlantic liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, was also used as a cruise ship.[3] By the early 1970s, many passenger ships continued their service in cruising. By the first decade of the 21st century, only a few former ocean liners were still sailing, while others, like Queen Mary, were preserved as museums or floating hotels. After the retirement of the Queen Elizabeth 2 in 2008, the only ocean liner in service was Queen Mary 2, used for both point-to-point line voyages and for cruising."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_liner#Decline_of_long-dis...
We are already moving to a more and more service base economy though. People still pay in one way or another for movie or television content. Nanofactories won't change that.
First of all you have to be an expert programmer, able to bring in reality your own ideas. Then you will have to do a lot of marketing research and then look at some big companies(like Google, FB,etc.) and try to understand why the became big. Then look at some unsuccessful companies and try to understand why they failed. Hope that helps!
Strictly speaking, a monopoly / cash cow phase creates a context in which bad practices will not kill your company and are not removed by natural selection. It allows these bad practices to survive and thrive, but it does not create the practices themselves.

I think the distinction is important, because removing the cash cow will not fix the problems, but instead let these problems run the company into the ground. RIM is probably a perfect example of this process, and Microsoft is not, which gives credibility to the idea that, for all its failings, Microsoft has in fact been able to embrace a number of innovations and new markets (Xbox, Azure, enterprise...).
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Cool idea! Down the line, it might be in everyone's best interest to have an American English option as well.
Now that I think about it, Princeton University now has this sort of problem (since 2004) with its Grade Inflation policy, where there are quotas for the number of A's and A-'s that can be given out.
> The article states it plainly: the problem with the stack ranking system is that it's a zero-sum game.

Done properly, and used for the right purposes, that actually makes sense. Particularly, in the case of compensation, if overall raises for a group were set (possibly by stack ranking of groups with a supergroup where the overall level was set), and stack ranking was used to determine the distribution within the group.
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I really feel as if when Obama was elected someone walked into the Oval Office and said "Hey. Nice speeches. Now here's how the world works so try to keep the ball rolling as long as you can." and he probably just said "Fuck."

Once someone puts the whole picture together and the middle class continues to decline, and the rich get richer, and the poor get poorer, and the safety net gets dismantled more and more (although Obama Care is at least a step forward I'd say), and the prisons keep expanding, and the endless drug war keeps going on, and the debts keep rising, and the population keeps expanding, and the costs of goods keep going up and up, and the whole myriad of other things that are going on in secret and out in the open, well... I'd imagine it's not going to be pretty at best. Hopefully things can change slowly and we can avoid all the whole house of cards collapsing, but who really knows?
> If I want to fulfill my dream of having an app with 100m users, what should I do?

If one of your readers knew that, why would he tell you? Why wouldn't he instead fulfill his own dream?

> However, I know that there are thousands of programmers and entrepreneurs who built cool stuff, but whose products failed and never gained any traction.

Yes, and the difference between those stories and that of Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg is ... to a large extent chance.

Well, chance and persistence. Successful people try hundreds or thousands of things until one of them works.

“We now know a thousand ways not to build a light bulb” -- Thomas Alva Edison
The problem is what to build.

You're over-thinking things. Easiest actionable advice is to build whatever excites you. A great way to do this is to build something that would have at least one user: you. Maybe it's "just" something "cool" or maybe it solves a pressing problem.

Don't get caught up in all of this up-front analysis where you try to build the perfect thing timed with some magical market moment. Instead, build a quick prototype if and when you feel excited about an idea. If your enthusiasm wanes early or you finish it and you realize it's not going to work out, it's OK ... wrap a bow around it and move on to the next thing.

edit: You seem to be looking for a magic bullet in the form of a Paul Graham essay. If so, this may be your best hope: http://www.paulgraham.com/startupideas.html
Athletes are generally not ranked on the performance in individual events. Aka after wimbledon the #1 men's tennis player is rarely the guy that just won. Simply because individual events are to random and often based around who shows up, what the weather was like etc.

PS: http://xkcd.com/852/
If you need some code to implement this in an app, I wrote an example Simple EULA provider here: http://www.donnfelker.com/android-a-simple-eula-for-your-and...

Download, include it in your app. DONE. Move onto the next problem.
Because it doesn't - here's a great article examining the scope of the two.

http://eviltrout.com/2013/06/15/ember-vs-angular.html

It's great to make the decision to focus on simplicity over scope - that's a good, defensible choice and I don't think anyone here will fault you for it. But an honest understanding of the extra features you gave up to make that choice will go a long way.
1. Is it 99c/wk for ad-free listening? (sounds reasonable)
2. Does that also provide API access so I can mess with it for personal use? (would be good)
Interesting point. The document URL in the original link is http://developer.android.com/distribute/googleplay/policies/... , which implies that it's part of the policies. But it may just be a supplement, with examples and guidelines. It's confusing that these guidelines introduces the concept of an ad opt-in which is nowhere mentioned in the actual Content Policy and Developer Agreement.
If you use `configure --prefix=/usr/bin`, you'll end up with sudo installed in /usr/bin/bin/sudo. Instead, try

./configure --prefix=/usr

to use the /usr hierarchy (/usr/bin, /usr/sbin, /usr/share, etc...) instead of the /usr/local hierarchy.

Also, if you're able to run an executable in the current directory without specifying its location, as in configure instead of ./configure, then you have . (pwd) in your $PATH, which isn't recommended because a malicious executable might be in the directory you're in, and it might be named something like ls. Just listing the directory could have you owned.
Bogus Research: The best programmers are 10x better than average programmers.
Hi everyone -- Doug Tygar (the instructor) here again. I just wanted to mention that between a number of drops from the class and what looks like some more resources, I think I will be able to run the course without the draconian conditions in the original syllabus. So, we'll have an updated syllabus on Tuesday. Best wishes everyone!
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Richard Fynman said that there is "no physical law against creating a personal nanofactory", like a 3d printer, to print anything from basically air, dirt and some Acetylene gas (for added carbon).

Just because there's no physical law explicitly prohibiting nanofactories in great mile-high letters of fire doesn't mean there actually exists a practical way to build nanofactories.

Worse, just because there's a practical way to build nanofactories doesn't mean there's a practical way to make them safe for the general population. Be prepared for the biggest, baddest DRM regime the world has ever known, because an unrestricted matter compiler is almost but not quite at the top of my list for "Sci-Fi Doomsday Weapons".

Physical contact between people will happen, but be rarer and and 3d holography will be used to allow this over great distance, to allow you to talk to someone as if they are there, no screen, but if you try to touch them you'll just go through them.

Why would you do that? People like physical contact. Living in a Real Place is interesting to many people, living in Real Nature is interesting to many people, but the in-between of sub/ex-urbia has basically universally failed to please anyone in particular.
The problem doesn't seem to be with stack ranking as with what the rankings are used for: If Group B is performing badly compared to the company as a whole and Group A is performing well, the results of being ranked "average" in Group B should not be the same as the results of being ranked average in Group A.
Thanks! We live in London, so British English was the way to go. If I ever get to work on this full time, not only I will add American English, but also Spanish, German, French ASAP.
Tor hacked
I get to self-pedantipoint myself here, 'ls' does not stand for the Multics 'list segments' as I thought, it didn't mean 'list segments' in Multics either, that's just folk etymology that's made it into Wikipedia (I just took it out).

http://alt.folklore.computers.narkive.com/7q9reknM/1950s-at-...

Author of that post is Tom Van Vleck, who ought to know.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Van_Vleck
Really? She can email her friends the project file or the code. Seems better than linking through some rare cable. And if she really rocks it and makes something people will pay for, she has a venue for it.
Dear lord. Just pick one. Stop. Stop.
Fair enough, but I believe there are patterns to success, and I believe there are people's opinions worth reading. PG's essays have mostly been true to my experiences.

Build something people want, have a co-founder... I don't necessarily need to learn those lessons on my own, yet understanding them gives me a vast advantage over someone who doesn't.
I have a fixed monthly allowance for whimsicalities. I tends to make things a lot more clear and simple. It also makes it more obvious that buying experiences is a MUCH bigger return on investment than buying stuff.

That Moto X you bought recently? It will keep you satisfied for a while - the same kind of satisfaction that comes from a large, copious meal, or really good sex with someone you're attracted to but not really attached to; but it won't make you happy or bring you peace. However, going out camping with the kids for one night - it's 10x cheaper and brings real happiness, peace, and clarity.
On OS X, use mach_absolute_time() to get a monotonic clock. A lot of APIs in OS X use the monotonic clock, e.g. CoreAnimation wraps mach_absolute_time() as CACurrentMediaTime() and uses that to calculate animation start times and delays.
It seems like it should be the other way around.

Suppose you were a member of Congress. And suppose you were an idiot. But I repeat myself.

Otherwise the only idiots in the world would be Congressman.
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Good marketing, perfect timing!
And if you can take away the right to fly in a Star Chamber proceeding you can presumably take away the right to ride trains and boats.
This guy wants to have his cake and eat it too.

From my count, he has had 3-4 jobs in 3 years. Why would you want to hire someone who can't even stick with his own company?

So, this isn't a parable to apply to entrepreneurs in general. It only applies to quitters.
Bullshit Interviewers
> Its not a matter of doing, I'm motivated enough to put time in. The problem is what to build.

You need to wake up to the fact that no one is going to reveal specific steps to personal success. At least, not ones that work. If someone knew a surefire way to achieve success, he would do it himself and leave you out.
Dissent: accountable anonymous group communication
A related ruling earlier this year by Judge Alsup (of Oracle v Google fame) involving a Stanford graduate student:

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Secret-no-fly-evidence...
Just to be fair here, the practice of applying stack ranking to very small populations was not standard across the company. I worked in Office for about 8 years. During those years I found that:

- Stack ranking is communicated up front and the process is very transparent. Managers let you know how the process works, what they're doing, how you get bucketed, what they talk about behind the door, and will discuss your "calibration card" with you (the 3-5 high and low points they'll bring into stack ranking meetings).

- The curve is not enforced on the level of a development team. It's not enforced in a product group. You don't see the hammer starting to come down until you get to populations of at least hundreds of employees.

I disliked the system (despite generally getting strong reviews) but it was not everywhere as demonic as it is depicted here.
On the one hand, I think people are downvoting you out of moral feeling rather than geopolitical argument.

On the other hand, the geopolitical argument is simple: all that needs to happen is that someone anti-scarcity takes over the world and enforces their tyrannical power on everyone looking to reimpose scarcity and resource competition.

You're welcome to have moral qualms with that, but it's basically just the capital-F Futuristic version of Communism.
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I believe that some cargo ships have space for a very, very small number of paying passengers. I've read articles about this in the past, but have nothing to hand right now on how you can do this.

Not a core source of revenue, but possible for someone needing to travel without using planes.

You are traveling on a working ship, with a very small crew, and not a lot of provided entertainment,(or internet access), so be prepared to look after yourself during these passages
> there's a level of cost below which I can just buy something on a whim without worrying about whether I can afford it at all, and above which I need to think about it for a minute. When I was in college, that level was about $10. It was a kinda weird transition when I got my first professional job out of college, and I had to get used to that threshold being closer to $1000 instead.

And then you get two kids and a mortgage, and that threshold drops like a comet into a neutron star.
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This is pretty cool. I think titles for posts are sufficiently important to include. I think you could add titles on the screenshots as a text on slightly opaque background.

Right click on photos twice makes the link stay on HN side permanently
I honestly don't know much about the visa situation that everyone is talking about, but it really sounds to me like you should first leave on a tourist visa (vacation, conference, whatever), ASAP, and then figure out the actual legal situation.

You could just go to a different country that doesn't have a war, rent an apartment there with an internet connection, and continue to work for the Australian company. You are already remote, what does it matter where you live?
To reduce this article to one sentence: The answer to the question "Which happened first, Event A or Event B?" depends on where you are.
I've an architect's chair I got second hand. Sitting our standing takes no effort at all.
Why aren't rings 1 and 2 used?
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The idea is similar; First thing is to setup a situation where few people can access the data in an unmonitored way.
Have you read PG's essays?

They are the closest thing you can get to a guideline to success. They make complete sense, and they are insanely valuable. His essays on wealth and startup ideas are absolutely true.

I don't think you understand what I'm asking for.
I looked into those sort of trips a while ago and was surprised by the large prices I saw quoted. I think the fact that you are basically paying for accommodations for several days keeps the price higher than you might expect.
Actually, our pirates are not solving a problem of how to get more people to click on ads, but rather how to create a better way for users to engage with video on sites, Facebook, mobile phones and how for developers to better integrate it with their properties without hindering user experience.

Yes, we are not introducing a Radio, TV or Computer. But surely the quality of content and success of each platform has been guaranteed by powerful monetization efforts. In the case of TV, Radio, NewsPaper - it was advertisement. We want to help developers better monetize their properties, so that they can provide richer, more valuable content to the end user. We too hate intrusive advertisement and we too have ad-block installed. For this reason, we realize that someone ought to find a better solution. That's where Virool comes in.
Nice timing :)

Will definitely check this one out.
Ok, so what does this mean to those of us who don't do deep neuroscience-based machine learning that often?

Basically, what problem (problems?) does this algorithm actually solve?
> to your existing email accounts

This implies to me that it will work on top of my existing gmail/yahoo accounts. I take it that's not the case?

> Mailelf is built to make running your own server easy

Elsewhere it says that you simply download and run the app from your computer. How is that 'running a mail server'?

In order to back, I'd need a lot more detail to convince me that the project author has a deep understanding of how the proposed system will work. A good start would be to outline how email works now, and how Mailelf will differ from e.g. Thunderbird setup with a PGP plugin.

Additionally, how the recipient is supposed to read the encrypted email isn't addressed in the description.
Oh my Cthulhu, thanks for a depression :-( :-)

I had forgotten about the Tor network and most of the other craziness.

So, the last dictators kept the church down and the coming one one hugs it closely? Re religion...

As a hard line atheist, I have to admit the Orthodox churches I saw in a short St Petersburg visit long ago impressed me.

You know Scandinavian "taste"? One extra line in a design is a bit... brave. Two lines is, well, avantgarde. Three -- beyond tacky. The churches there made my eyes bleed from the sheer amount of details, while they blew me away with sheer beauty. Cool feeling.

I exaggerated the drinking. I was outsourced to Romania a couple of years back and am still here. People here are nice but just don't drink for fun. (In the small villages they are said to drink like sponges, I'll avoid moving there. :-) )
I’m tired of the poverty..." & "Brooks is getting some air in Thailand..."

Not sure what type of poverty he's talking about, but I certainly cant afford to fly off to Thailand at the moment...
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What is 'British' English?

No such thing exists really, at least not in the spoken word form.

You'll also find that regional accents are considered more favourable/likeable than 'the Queens English' so the premise of this may not be 100% correct...

(Brummie is not included in the favourable dialects because it's not considered nice by anyone in the UK except those in that area.)
You might add something on the landing page saying what exactly you do. I read through everything and it doesn't specify how it'll improve English; is it just drills? A therapist to coach people? Pronunciation checking software?
The thing is, you don't zero-sum it if your goal is to become or remain a leader of innovation and a paragon of creativity.
Looks interesting. Just a heads up that the video on the home page doesn't want to load for me. I'm getting a javascript error about the youtube frame trying to access the sayafter.me frame.
There are modern calculators: Mathematica, Matlab, and the most used: Excel

For tasks that need to be done away from a computer sure a calculator is handy but that has rather dwindled down to basic calculations. Schoolwork sure calculators are great but I never needed more than my HP-48 and when I did it was usually an assignment meant more for MATLAB/Mathematica.

Now for your point of building it on top of android, what I want is not another device but I want a new calculator built for android. Everyone has a smartphone these days why should I have to buy a calculator when I have a strong computer in my pocket. We just need an interface for smartphones and the appropriately strong (Programmable) back end.

This looks nice but I don't have an iPhone https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nd1/id368497993?mt=8
https://www.google.com/search?q=jews+hollywood

https://www.google.com/search?q=jews+wall+street
It makes no mention of disclosure of ads either.
I was referring to Chrome on Android, that is not where it is.
The correct pronunication is “John Wookuh-shev-eetch”, according to my decoding of the IPA notation [ˈjan wukaˈɕɛvʲitʂ] from Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_%C5%81ukasiewicz) using Wikipedia’s help page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_Polish.
I wouldn't go as far as calling him names but I do agree with the sentiment. In the corporate world its weird if you leave more than one job in a row before the 18 month mark, managers will start asking if the person is worth training and investing in. With more well defined jobs the day you get hired your essentially a net loss to the company costing in benefits, training , the recruitment process, etc etc. You start chipping away at that and in the end you are usually a huge gain in favor of the company - if you leave early you mess with the break even point.
Scarcity of what, and over what time scale?

Human time will always be scarce, and it is valuable to each of us. We can also never have enough knowledge, so that is scarce in some senses, though it is a non-exclusionary good. Material goods fluctuate in scarcity, one can look at metals, silks, porcelain, and many other examples of commodities and their products which vary in price by region and era.
Yup. And even if they don't actually bother to do that, just being on the airplane list effects your ability to travel by ship: "For example, she wrote, the FBI's Terrorist Screening Center shares watchlist information with 22 governments, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection also makes recommendations to ship captains, which could interfere with a person's travels."
Independent music isn't on a major label (or often a label at all). That's it.
Sadly a majority of the American public is completely okay with being spied on. [1] Given that is the customer base for these tech companies, I don't see them fighting very valiantly, if at all. Especially when the government can put on pressure via political prosecutions. [2]

1: http://www.people-press.org/2013/06/10/majority-views-nsa-ph...
2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nacchio
Thanks for the report, I will look into it.
I couldn't find your pricing anywhere... I'm a native English speaker, so this product isn't relevant to me, but I wouldn't want be comfortable recommending it to anyone without knowing how much it'd cost after those first 3 months. Really critical to have in an easy-to-find place on the website IMO.
Survivorship bias!

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