skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This depends on the civilization and their troops.

Your claim is true for most barbarian, irregulars, and fanatics, but false for regular troops, and some irregulars like Greek style hoplite.

The main things 0ad is missing to reflect ancient combat are:

- Morale, as most fights had been decided by one side fleeing.

- Training, as its a real difference if one side has trained regular legion, hoplites or immortals, and the other side just barbaric irregulars, when it comes to the question if they follow commands, stay in formation, or just fight their own. ( e.g. pursue into a trap )

- Formation, as some troops fight in close formations, others in lose formations.

- Role, some troops are to hold and block, others have a shock of impact (Roman legion) or a shock of momentum (Greek hoplites). Same with ranged combat, as there is a real difference between skirmishers, who charge, throw their javelins or fire their bows, and run away hoping the opponent will break formation and pursue, and archers who stand (behind shield bearers) and deliver.

There are also some weapons missing, e.g.:

- There are no horse archers with bows, witch makes Persian light cavalry feel wrong with their javelins.

- Its not possible to have melee troops with additional ranged weapons, so a typical Roman shock of impact is not possible, as are Persian immortals who are trained with spear and bow, on horse and on foot.

Still, 0ad is one of the best RTS for Linux.
Yes if you stay with ATT/Verizon/Sprint. If you instead choose a MVNO like StraightTalk or Virgin Mobile, you'll pay less. I pay $45/mo on StraightTalk, and when I buy a new phone in the next year or so, I'll jump to $30/mo with Virgin Mobile since I don't need unlimited voice (or text...).
I would suggest that this would be an excellent time for Y Combinator to consult with Holden Karnofsky of Givewell, which has done a large amount of smart investigation into nonprofits. Karnofsky is local to the Bay Area.

Caveat: Givewell tends to focus attention on nonprofits with well-validated, very-high-probability, easily-quantifiable effects which is not where one would expect the greatest expected value from daring new attempts to be located. Nonetheless I would expect that talking to Givewell would be very epistemically profitable if you are just venturing out into the nonprofit space.
- A few questions:
A. Are you undergrad/grad? If undergrad or in MSc program, have you thought of doing two majors and getting the Major in BioEngineering and then Minor in Computer Science or vice-versa? Just remember that getting a degree is more of a theory foundation while freelancing or working for startups is more practical. Also it depends on what your love/passion is, which takes you to my second question.

B. Do you have love/passion for BioEngineering or Computer Science/Engineering? To me both fields are great and both fields are promising in the future, but since we are talking about your career here (something that will last a lifetime), I'll pay more of my time to what I really love and then the less of my time to my second love or to what I have passion for.

Also don't forget that here are free programming books/courses/examples that can always help you build up your skills in coding/programming but as far as BioEngineering, you might need a lab, a license and other more expensive requirements to get you started.
How to write a proper resume
A resume is just a simple piece of paper, but it has to say so much about you in so little time. This is your first impression you will make with a potential employer, so you need to make sure it really stands out.
You poor fool.
That was pretty much my reaction as well. I built a small system similar to this for my grandmother a couple years ago. If I recall I paid about $150 for the base system, and another ~$150 for an SSD for it for a grand total of $300 plus a little extra for a keyboard/mouse and a USB DVD drive. Initially installed Ubuntu on it, but later swapped it out for Mint on account of Unity just getting way too weird.

Basically you could do this yourself for right around the exact same price point if not a bit cheaper with the minor inconvenience of installing the OS yourself.
I'd like to hear how the Volt is a piece of crap.
Elements that Make You the Best Looking Candidate on Paper
You may have the skills, talent, and experience to perfectly fill a job, but if employers don’t notice your resume in the middle of all the other applicants, you’ll never get the chance to prove it.
I guess it depends on your imagination, I thought it was pretty funny.
The classic economic problem with utilities (power, water, phone,gas) is they occupy what is called a natural monopoly[0]. My econ 101 prof explained it thusly: It would be really wasteful if there were 100 different power lines going to your house, yet you'd need at least that many power companies to have something approaching a free market where supply=demand. Not just is the 100 power line outcome wasteful, it won't emerge in a free market.

You can't remove the reasons this happens, you can however regulate it to either somehow cause a competitive market or prevent the monopolist from leveraging their position and price gouging.

Now, obviously cell phone carriers are not a monopoly. They are actually an oligopoly[1], but that doesn't change much and the barriers that lead to it are the same.

[0]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligopoly
I'm also not sure how this differentiates itself. I can buy a barebones machine from Dell for $300 with similar specs (2Ghx Celeron, 4Gb RAM) and add a 32GB SSD from Newegg for $50, and that gets me a keyboard and a mouse.

What does ordering it through this indiegogo get me, other than Ubunutu being pre-installed? I can certainly do that myself, and the Dell would be a lot easier to upgrade in the future if I ever had the need.
> However, it is nonsensical for a non-profit startup founder to accept close-to-zero salary.

And yet we do, often for years at a stretch.
Elon Musk said that Tesla is intent on delivering an all-electric sedan that’s sized around a BMW 3 Series, has a range of 200 miles, and costs $35,000 - not including any EV incentives - in about 3-4 years. A smaller, high-volume version of the Model S at about half the price.
PHP as an emergent phenomenon that is forcefully evolved by the sheer amount of need presented by the massive user base, in which any large scale forced reorganization would break the cycle and cause it to die (or at least fork)?

I can see that.
I personally cross-shop the Tesla Model S and the Audi S7. A future Model S AWD and an Audi A7/S7 TDI would be an even more direct comparison. They price out (loaded) to within $5k, if you take into account the $2500 federal tax credit and sales tax exemption in WA. The depreciation on a diesel and on a Tesla are probably comparable. Tesla would be clear savings on fuel costs, maintenance, and probably would have more curb appeal at least in SFBA. I'd probably take the Audi A7 3.0 TDI if I needed AWD today.

What I really want is the Tesla S4/S5 or 335is-equivalent, though.
It wasn't announced, sadly. I consider it a 'best kept secret'.
Haha, I spent the whole summer pronouncing it wrong then.
These tips are all well and good, but what about those of us who can't even get women to respond to our texts?
Why Everyone Hates IT Security And Why They Can’t Do Anything About It
Hyper - a real-time HTML5 editor for desktop
Re: People who are saying the funnel is still there.

This is entirely a perspective thing; the customers see messages and options, not a funnel. You only see a funnel when you think of it as one.

The author describes a deliberate avoidance of business philosophy based around conversion metrics. Hence if your thoughts are to push them back into the conversation, you immediately taint his purpose. Assimilating any one set of metrics into the prime position will essentialize the business into "make those numbers go up," creating a feedback loop that guides future decisions. That feedback loop subsequently creates its own conclusions about how to advance the business. If you break the loop and construct a different one, with different abstractions, you get a different kind of business. That's the big takeaway here.
A lot of things are becoming extremely easy to install though. With the growth of AWS and cloud-services I'd guess there will be movement away over the next 5 years.
because they like to help nonprofits out of the goodness of their hearts, but sometimes what a nonprofit needs is not just money, but infrastructure and connections - and here the ycombinator folks have the opportunity to provide access to those less tangible resources using an organization that doesn't have to be built from scratch.
Of course you are right it would be a complete disaster.
However that might not be the end of it all.

HN's SimonW gave a talk at Electromagnetic Wave 2013 about the fun and frolics of Zepplins.

Apparently plenty of them crashed and burned, but people kept travelling on them. Early aeroplanes would crash too.

http://lanyrd.com/2013/emw/scgptt/
It is priced well below what System76 offers, but the specs aren't in any way compareable. The cheapest System76 desktop comes with an i5 minimum. Your machine is offering a celeron/atom. You are comparing apples to oranges.
I feel the same way. In fact the idea of "flipping" the funnel is not new. Seth Godin wrote an ebook on it: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2006/01/flipping_the... It's a lot easier for sales and marketing manager to think about conversion in terms of funnels, so a lot of analytics startups (kissmetrics, mixpanel) have it as a standard report. It seems that using a strong word like hate gets you attention; hence clicks.
Before Chrome and Firefox there is Pokki, which has been doing this for over 2 years. HTML, JavaScript, and CSS desktop apps, with App Store.

http://developers.pokki.com
The Promise and Perils of Self-Driving Cars – jessica lessin
http://www.comscore.com/Insights/Press_Releases/2013/8/comSc...
Over in Japan (only experience I have of contract-cellphone-ownership) it is spelled out very clearly when you start a 2-year cellphone contract with a 0-yen upfront phone that you're actually buying the handset over a period of 24 months and the cost is x yen per month (and this is broken out in your bill). Do they not do this in the US?
The Mantle of John C. Dvorak has been passed to Paul Krugman.
- Great one xauronx.
Thanks for the reply!

i3 processor or 128 GB SSD it would be worth it probably!
But still, for me it wouldn't be low cost. But in the other hand, I do not live in US.

And I confess, I am not familiar with how popular is System76 and similar machines.

Although, I will say. For 200 euros I get Atom netbook from my local shop, with 50-100 dollar investment I can update to meet your current specs(ram+ssd). So Only difference I see, is that you have ubuntu preloaded. But you do not have screen included.

I think it would be good offer if I would get full deal within 349. Screen, where the PC is built in, keyboard and mouse. It should be hassle free for any grandmom for her internet machine.

Nevertheless,
I wish you good luck. You have become further than most of us, making real difference. I can only talk, you really did something :)
Tocca.js
Super lightweight script ( ~1kB ) to detect via Javascript events like 'tap' 'dbltap' 'swipeup' 'swipedown' 'swipeleft' 'swiperight' on any kind of device.
So now we've gone from adding an 'er' to everything and dropping the 'e' to using Japanese words and proper names for our products. And I was just going to iPost that to my iBlog.
Might be nice to read, but I wouldn't want to edit code written like that, since the symbols could well be harder and slower to write on a normal keyboard / editor.
Your argument seems to be based on the premise that the only sensible purpose that a non-profit founder can be pursuing is personal financial reward; if we assume that a founder can have an interest in the mission of the non-profit, then it makes perfect sense to sacrifice salary (providing that the founder has resources that they can afford to live on during the period when they are sacrificing salary) for a period to advance that interest.
It might be a little tempting to dismiss this as post-Snowden opportunism, but Riseup are used by a lot of campaign groups and I hope they manage to stay in the black.

I wonder why some of the perks are listed twice.
As much as I support ghostery and other non-tracking tools, I believe its a stronger position to not use a service you don't agree with rather than steal it.
A nice, thats good to know, that my money wont bounce back!
Not sure if you are replying to the correct topic. If yes, you do have an active imagination to fill in all the blanks...
An app I just built for insecure people in relationships
Good idea! Thanks
Anyone knows how to bypass OS X 's Gatekeeper to launch the app? Normal app is Ctrl-click to overwrite Gatekeeper blocking. But can't Ctrl -click on the "Launch" button on the page as it pop up context menu.
Swype is a text-entry interface.
Why bother with applications when you can have the OS?
Disciplined Patience
My surname is "D'israeli", with the apostrophe. When I try to submit, it just generates a new captcha and says to try again. If I drop the apostrophe, it works fine.

Articles appear fairly regularly about names and assumptions thereof, and as someone doing stats on surnames, I would have hoped that a little punctuation would have been handled just fine....
Thanks. Definitely make sense.
I think you misunderstood my point. I agree with you that a "non-profit does not have to be equated with near-zero-salary for employees."

My only point is that while there is a __financial__ incentive for for-profit founders to eschew short-term salary, there is no __financial__ incentive for non-profit founders eschew short-term salary.

Despite my financial analysis, I still think this initiative could great for non-profits. I am really excited and optimistic to see what comes out of it.
Take once, use everywhere. We have achieved zen WORA
I think it does.

BTW, Teensy 3.0 just recently came out : http://www.pjrc.com/store/teensy3.html

It's only slightly bigger than the 2.0, but you get 3 more PWM pins (10 total) and 34 I/O and 3.3V out.
The web (http) is a subset of the Internet, so by definition Internet scale would be bigger.
Is it possible to create a desktop app like this, for web sites of my choice, without using the Marketplace? It occurs to me that Firefox is very nearly able to provide a site-specific browser experience, like Fluid[1], but I'm not sure how to do it.

[1] http://fluidapp.com/
Cory Booker Quitting Waywire Start-Up
> my coffee will now start randomly tasting like artificial chicken flavor

Don't forget coffee flavored chicken!
Fix Bugs and Climb the Apple App Store Ranks
If you're paying for yourself and either buying used or slightly outdated hardware(or getting a new Nexus 4), this is probably completely true. If you're bundling several smartphones and regular phones, the contract price can win out. You still need to shop around to see what the best price is if you're going with iOS or the more expensive Android devices.

For example, since I'm sharing a plan with my family, the ATT contract comes out to around 20% cheaper than a similar contractless byo device Virgin Mobile service for iPhones, upgrading only after the contract is up.
There are no manufacturer in the USA would allow us to produce one garment at a time. Most mfr. have minimum order requirements of approx. 1,000 pcs per style per color. We would not have been able to offer custom styling NOR custom fitting. We would just be another mass production brand, which is counter to what are purpose is. Unique style and size for every customer. Also, we could have processed orders through a network of tailors, but most tailors do not have patterns for sportswear, including polo shirts. And that would not have been a scalable model. hope that makes sense.
in the claim that this is apple's worst nightmare, they jump very quickly to the implication that this will be a high end device.

"It is also shows that Apple’s worst nightmare may be coming true: prices could fall not just for cheap phones in developing markets but higher-end ones too."

But there is no discussion of wether this really is a high end phone. Looking at existing Kindle tablet, I'm going to guess that it will be mid-range or upper low end, depending on how you define those terms. Free low end could force prices down on the high end, but thats not really a slam dunk case.
I had trouble reading The Awl's piece. Seemed verbose and off-point.
> I could care less about how great cars that cost as much as some homes do.

Good luck finding a home in the UK for the same price as a Tesla S.
From what he says, it appears they didn't poll employees about values but about what particular design aspects they preferred.
Ask HN: How much activity did you get on Developer Auction?
For those of you that have used Developer Auction before, how much activity did you see on your profile once it was approved/public? How long did your auction run for? Approximately how many profile views did you get? How many offers did you receive? What was your time-to-first-offer? How many years of developer experience did you have at the time (if you don't mind sharing)?
San Francisco Launches Tech Incubator To Transform Governments
The futile exercise of writing about Burning Man
> My only point is that while there is a __financial__ incentive for for-profit founders to eschew short-term salary, there is no __financial__ incentive for non-profit founders eschew short-term salary.

Even that's not necessarily true; sacrificing short-term salary to stablish an organization where you could have a long-term, modest salary doing something you care about (and therefore can stay with over the long term) is a financial incentive. It may not appeal to the same people that a big cash-out payday from a for-profit startup appeals to, but its still a financial incentive.
I can't give you any advice but I can tell you how my setup changed my wrist and elbow pain

This is the current setup I have; (https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-e7NziCicKmw/UipPp8ZC4qI/A...)

Freestyle2 keyboard with ascent setup. Basically a vertical keyboard, with a distance of 36cm between the two splits (about my width)

regular mouse. (always thought a vertical mouse would be good, but I don't want to shell out $100 for that)

distance between my hand: 6cm, at most.

This seems to work for me and has taken lot of pain away from my wrists and elbows

I switch between standing desk and sitting on a chair. My wrists are never twisted and that seems to have had the most effect. My typing speed never took a hit (probably because I touch type)

Also the biggest thing for me is I use a lot less mouse in anycase because I do most of the stuff with keyboard shortcuts. Pentadactyl for firefox is a lot more useful because I can pretty much avoid using the mouse even when I'm browsing the web.

Emacs is a little problematic but I remapped the ctrl key to caps lock and that took out half the issues

So, even when I use the mouse (very rarely) I don't have to reach out a big distance, it's at most 6cms away.

Also get a mechanical keyboard, or any keyboard which will give you tactile feedback of keys being registered. Also which require lot less force to actuate the keys (cherry mx brown, blue, clear keys or some topre switches)

I also got a kbt pure keyboard (a 60% keyboard), so even with that the travel between the jkl; row and mouse is short.
It's an interesting idea, but I'm not sure how the gender inequality expressed in the introduction will fare. Ladies cheat too.
I am aware of that. That is a classification that the UN statistics division does for analysis purposes.
President Obama learns what the NSA is doing from the press
Yes, we have been approached by folks with physical disabilities that need custom solutions. We have been looking into that.
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~mc2zk/cs451/mco_P4.ppt

Does that work?

I copied and pasted it from a Google search result (because otherwise the file downloads without showing me the URL). Google of course has decided "copy link to" shouldn't work.
In Romania I pay 15€ monthly for a PrePay plan with 1 GB of data, 3000 minutes in the same network and 150 national/international minutes. It's a PrePay, no contract, and I've seen similar deals in other European countries.

Trust me, you're being ripped off.
Wireless Cherry MX Blue Keyboard (pre-order at KBtalKing)
Who said he was a "worthless schmuck"?

Geniuses can have temper-tantrums, too. Just because he has made worthy contributions doesn't mean that he isn't acting like a drama queen.
In my experience, Ubuntu doesn't run well on Atom. Perceived performance is far inferior to, say a $260 Nexus 7. Even if I knew someone who wanted a low-end desktop, I would not recommend they support this project because of the enormous performance disparity between the two possible processor families (Atom vs. Celeron). If the project were to come to fruition, and you ended up with an Atom, it would be enormously disappointing.

And let's face it, these days, if you're not willing to put together a desktop (which you can trivially do at this price point assuming you're willing to make the same price/performance tradeoffs), you're probably not in the market for a desktop, but rather a laptop or a tablet. That's just where the market is at these days.
Still Mexico is not in Central America.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_America
A total yearly cost of $70K isn't all that bad when you break down the numbers. Software engineer salaries are typically much higher, let alone considering HR & insurance expenses.

So that's one employee you don't have to hire. I was on a team of 4 that, among other responsibilities, managed several TeamCity instances, all of them pretty large.

Generally speaking, once it was up and running, it was pretty low overhead and easy to automate. So I think it really is worth thinking hard about the cost before people dive in and roll their own solutions.

And there's always the argument of: instead of building your own, why not work to improve an existing OSS solution?
You should check out http://www.bogleheads.org/ and post a question to the crowd over there. Review the forum and you'll find quite a bit of general information.
Apparently IndieGoGo do not accept PayPal for non-profit organisations.
Nope, I missed that in the example -- the enum should be in square brackets.
marketing/PR has been focused on mobile so that we can shift as much focus there as possible. The dilemma is that most devs are not spending time to make their apps work on mobile devices. However, a miniscule amount of people use Firefox OS on their phone so it would have been nice to use desktop apps to bootstrap the ecosystem.
You make great points. We should talk.
"Elon Musk took the futuristic gesture interface from Iron Man and made it real"

Which futuristic gesture interface did he create exactly? I am sorry I missed this in the article. He used the LEAP motion device to interact with a 3D software.

The truth here is nothing has been created, new use cases have not been thought up, actually there is very little news contained within the article. Yet we have a sensational headline at the top of hacker news simply because it is Elon Musk.
Scientists use DNA to assemble a transistor from graphene
White People Love Hiking. Minorities Don't. Here's Why.
I do realize that my partner is heavily dependent on me.
And he definitely wants to make an exit with big profits.

Yes I am learning fast about human nature, and big money being a huge motivator for people, and how far they are willing to go.

Thanks.

BTW: he was not interested in buying out the departing founder, he said, he wanted us to have equal share.
I admire the effort

I can't help mentioning though that the buildapc sub-reddit has had some threads on PCs for under 350: http://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/1khff2/we_need_to_...

But it would be nicer for more novice folks to be able to buy one pre-built.