skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that a company dependent on the JOBS act to raise money is less attractive, but that's only one of several profiles of folks who would take advantage of the JOBS act (that's a terrible sentence, forgive me).

Companies with founders who have a fundamental problem with the VC/Entrepreneur relationship may see this as an opportunity to take their business to the people they really want to serve. The visionary customers who will be buying the first release of your product may also be interested in making a (small) early investment in your company.

There's certainly a great deal of risk for these more casual investors. They need to really understand the risk before they get involved, but investors are supposed to be evaluating their risk anyway. Hopefully companies like wefunder will do a good job of helping investors identify risk and opportunity. If they don't, other services will likely take their place.
That's pretty much how all the money move around. What's $200-$300 for most people here as fun money on KickStarter is what it would be for some people for 10-100x that sum.
I'd like to put some math with this because this is the path I took too. 4 years ago I was offered a job with a startup and a job with a government contractor at the same time. The contractor was offering 15k/year more and I took that offer and saved all 15k of it every year (index fund investing). 4 years in, with reinvesting dividends, my passive income from the money is around 400/month. Very happy I made the choice I did.
semi-legal stuff

Ummmmm, I'm going to call BS on that. If What RA was doing was illegal Apple would have shut it down ASAP - especially if it was with regard to using some undocumented features of the core OS that Apple wanted to protect. We're talking about streaming audio here - locally on your network (yes, there is the possibility of routing this across networks but if you're going through that much trouble you can implement a homegrown system much more reliably).

I find it interesting people go to bat for Apple when Apple screws over devs that makes a great product - and obviously are fans of Apple, and no, nothing RA was selling was illegal, that's just unfounded FUD. I've asked RA repeatedly to just build an interoperable product that has it's own streaming components that runs this way on Linux. At the time they said they had no plans - I really hope Apple pushes these guys over the edge to build products that can bridge the OS gap. Apple won't ever do anything along those lines.
Valve has a lot of power. They can offer discounts and say that instead of taking 30% of every game purchased through steam we will only take 20% if it supports steam os. I'm sure developers would consider it when they can be making 10% more from every sale.
Ransack looks great, thanks for the recommendation!
ActiveAdmin is now compatible with Rails 4 on master, unsure if they've released it yet: https://github.com/gregbell/active_admin/blob/master/activea...
Yes? For those who bother to learn about it.
I know you are nitpicking but the point to using a library or embedded DSL is that you can run completely arbitrary logic inside it. For example, instead of just checking servers to see if they are in the qa_servers list he might have selected the servers that have a name starting with the letter "N" or dynamically fetch a list of server names...
Ageism should scare you--and it should scare the author of this post. The inevitable forward progress of time means that literally every, single one of us will be on the wrong end of this equation at some point.

The (possible) saving grace is that a lot of people who came up in the 2000s tech scene are now on the "other side of 30" and becoming quite "experienced" themselves. Hopefully, that group's attitude will change these biases. Too often though, you can read between the lines and discover what they're really talking about is: "You can't convince experienced people to take less money to work obscene hours--especially when their perception is likely that much of their job will cleaning up for all the 'inexperienced' folks you hired."

The idea that "great companies are not usually created by experienced people" strikes me as exceptionally hyperbolic and based more on the publicity of Wall Street Darlings than any evidence that highly experienced people can't (or don't) build something great.

[edit: Just thought that I'd add that I agree with just about every other point made in this post and focusing on one issue generally isn't constructive so I apologize for going down the rant hole without first acknowledging that the post, overall, is quite spot on.]
ping uses whatever size packet you tell it to:

$ ping -s 1450 192.168.11.10
PING 192.168.11.10 (192.168.11.10): 1450 data bytes
1458 bytes from 192.168.11.10: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=0.646 ms
1458 bytes from 192.168.11.10: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=0.478 ms
1458 bytes from 192.168.11.10: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=0.469 ms
My Linux server tutorial course site http://GREP101.com brings in $700 on a good month and $100 on a bad one. Simply a reflection of the fact that I don't have the necessary things in place to drive consistant traffic to the site - when traffic comes then I get good conversion and a full course, but if not, not.

I keep it going mainly because the feedback is very encouraging, (people really do get a buzz out of learning this stuff!). It requires only a small bit of work each week to keep ticking over, but honestly it doesn't make enough to justify that if money was the only issue.
I really hope this is not a front for a patent troll. I know 4.7B is a lot for a patent troll to spend but the most valuable assets BB holds right now are its patents. A tech player is not going to (rather should not) buy BB because a negative momentum is much more dangerous than a non-existent one.
Investors on Wefunder are investing on the same terms as the professional investors. It's possible that investments could get squished, but that would lead to a lot of pissed off people, not just the smaller investors in the fund.
Emulating an x86 on an ARM like the Tegra 4 would probably result in a pretty unsatisfying experience. Apple was doing the opposite: Emulating a processor with worse single threaded performance and (arguably) a simpler ISA.

The alternative is a full port of Win32, which I imagine Microsoft considered and rejected. Even after they incurred all the time and development cost, ISVs would still have to at least recompile.
Depends on what you mean. It is specifically designed to be a "living room" OS, like steam's big picture mode not a desktop system. So yeah not a traditional desktop experience.

Nothing in the release said steam only or no desktop, and they call out the ability to create content on the platform specifically Users can alter or replace any part of the software or hardware they want. Gamers are empowered to join in the creation of the games they love. Rather sounds like what they are doing is going to be open source and allow non games to run. Even if they don't ship with KDE or Gnome by default it should be possible to get something up and running.
Been earning a couple hundred per year with a time-tracking/report-generating site for therapists-in-training. I think one of the big downfalls of the concept was that I chose too small of a niche to serve (marriage and family therapists in training in the US). The most tangible benefit from building the service was the coding knowledge gained which serves my freelance work very well. http://www.therapyhourstracker.com/
This has nothing to do with the local streaming issue. Playing via AirPlay is a different delivery mechanism and is tied to the hardware. No impact to Apple since RA doesn't participate in this mode of operation.
So x% carry means that the other party gets x% of your profit from a particular investment? Got it, thanks.
Wow this is really cool!

I considering putting mine in there too:
http://memberwing.com/

CodeCanyon seems like a really growing marketplace.
Time to pony up the cash for your very own ASIC!
Way to give us no useful info.
Ansible doesn't seek to be programming, so my guess is no. I generally am not a fan of that syntax and would disagree that that is the way most administrators and developers brains work -- but I guess I can see it for some who do think that way.

Multiple OSes are pretty straightforward though. Look at the 'group_by' module for dynamically carving up machines based on operating system, and things like the 'when' statement for introducing conditional behavior.

Variables can also be overriden based on groups, so you can define defaults in one group and then have different settings in other groups.
Well the announcement you are referring to is the layoffs and quarterly losses and not the letter of intent.

This news solidified what the street thought about Blackberry's recent BB10 sales. Its sort of like saying this house was worth 1 million before the fire. How can someone get away with paying on 300,000 for it now that its been burned to the ground.

The answer is that given the new news( poor sales, layoffs, write downs of inventory, etc) that BB is no longer worth 10.50/share.

So to answer you question, yes they probably will get that price.
Some of the Valve documents explicitly sell the porting to Linux/OpenGL process as a stepping stone to mobile. And given their talk of breaking pointless silos I can imagine a steam store on Android that can play any Steam game you've got the horsepower for.
Given the current high-end game engines that seem to support all the popular platforms out of the box (Windows, Mac, consoles), how difficult is it really to ship a game with Linux support?
How to get longer LTV on mobile game users?
I'd also highly recommend maintaining a local mirror, regardless of your CM system.

Makes things faster and ensures even if you don't pin versions you are not going to get upstream surprises.
>Having some shiny new method does not mean these people that do not currently use a pin/password will magically start using this.

It actually does mean exactly that in the aggregate. There are huge number of people that don't use pass codes not because they don't care, but because they are inconvenient. This technology is for them, and it will have nothing to do with "magic" when they adopt this fundamental improvement (that happens to be also a heavily marketed main differentiation from the previous model).

As for the people that never used a pass code because they weren't aware/didn't care... probably less adoption, but just because the feature is so heavily marketed, many of them will also use it.

But yeah. Significant numbers of people who didn't secure their devices with pass codes will now do so. No magic required.
This is meant in the best possible way: I hate you. My hate is constructed entirely of jealousy.
Most of the letters are freely available on Berkshire's website. The "extra material" includes a few early letters not on the web (got these from Buffett so the collection would be complete), and charts/tables/indexes that I put together myself.

The income is not shared with Buffett, but any income I receive is "return on capital" from me taking inventory risk. So I do have to invest some of my $$$ to buy the book inventory, and as it's sold to Amazon I make (great) return on that money. But the profit per book is actually pretty low compared to other published books -- I could be charging much more for the book, but it was part of our "agreement" that I make the total price of the book as cheap as possible. (Which I think is accomplished with Amazon's price of $19-25 for a 700 page textbook-size book.)
Are you sure about that? Why wouldn't this be more similar to Android than, say, Linux Mint? Who says they're even using any of the typical userspace bits?

I would bet a money (albeit a small amount) that, to a first approximation, they're really only using the Linux kernel.
Given the streaming feature they've mentioned I think it would be safe to assume that you'll at the very least be able to have two machines signed in.
Will this be a game only platform or can I do work on it too?
FT232R chip with a few resistors and caps will get the serial to USB set-up. Its fairly simple and in the 232R datasheet.
I wouldn't make a blanket statement like that. Depends what VPN and how you're using it and what you're doing on the internet and (in particular) what threat you're trying to protect yourself against. PIA will do a good job of protecting the contents of your messages from someone sniffing your wifi hotspot, but is useless against someone with the ability to monitor all internet traffic. The data leaving the PIA proxy is just as unencrypted as it would be if you weren't using a VPN, except your attempt to secure it will likely draw extra attention. There's strong evidence [1] that the NSA has special rules that allow enhanced collection and analysis of encrypted traffic.

[1] "...the NSA is allowed to hold onto communications solely because you use encryption." https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/06/depth-review-new-nsa-d...
Introducing parallelRandomForest: faster, leaner, parallelized
What the JOBS Act means for startup funding: beware the cookie lickers
I'd love to see them just publish docs

They have in the past, and got nothing but flak.
Do non-US investors need certification?
The Trial-and-error Developer
Irregardless of this deal...I'm still skeptical of where BlackBerry goes from here. They said they are out of the consumer handset market yet the consumer handsets were what gave BlackBerry those huge revenues/profits.

The corporate-only strategy I read about seems like if even successful would be much smaller in scope. There seems to be no real idea of what BlackBerry has to offer anymore??
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Your demo video is stuttering and unwatchable. I'm guessing it's getting hammered from this post.

The site looks really nice, and appears to have really great content. Signup achieved.
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Yeah, but you know that we'll only get two announcements and the third will be delayed indefinitely.
Hmm, I haven't heard that feedback before. I'd be very interested in hearing what the last 20% you found complicated was. Drop me an email at michael AT ansibleworks DOT com if you like.
I have thought of this but haven't really pursued anything yet. I also have permission from Buffett to publish his early partnership/hedge fund letters from the '60s, so will probably be doing that in the next year.
What I'm curious of is most of Steam's users are probably avid PC gaming fans that prefer PC gaming over console gaming

At least that's true for me and various of my 'internet friends'
A small single-page info-site I made in a day or two some time ago started picking up traffic and now makes around $500/month from adsense ads. Quite nice for the work put into it, but of course if you take into account all my sites and apps that made nothing it's not much for the total effort. But now that it's getting traffic I have some ideas for building it out into a larger site, but I haven't found the time yet.
I'd love if more companies adopted auditioning over the traditional interview process.

It was counter intuitive to me at first but it's potentially a cheaper way to hire. There's less downtime for the hiring team - everyone can more or less continue what they're working on.

It's a better quality of interview too - candidates have a more realistic platform to show their worth.
Google Fairfax and Prem Watsa. He is sort of like Canada's Warren Buffett and a large existing BBRY shareholder. Not saying he won't monetize their IP portfolio, but it's not a front for a patent troll.
Based on my experience this morning, I'd say that 15% of our 300 or so Gmail users over about 25 domains were effected. In my opinion, their initial estimate was way too low and seemed dismissive.
A Cosmonaut's Fiery Death Retold (2011)
Suppose you search for something like [pinched nerve ibuprofen]. The top two results currently are http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/pinched-nerve/DS00879/DSECT... and http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071010035254AA...

Almost anyone would agree that the mayoclinic result is higher quality. It's written by professional physicians at a world renowned institution. However, getting the answer to your question requires reading a lot of text. You have to be comfortable with words like "Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs," which a lot of people aren't. Half of people aren't literate enough to read their prescription drug labels: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1831578/

The answer on yahoo answers is provided by "auntcookie84." I have no idea who she is, whether she's qualified to provide this information, or whether the information is correct. However, I have no trouble whatsoever reading what she wrote, regardless of how literate I am.

That's the balance we have to strike. You could imagine that the most accurate and up to date information would be in the midst of a recent academic paper, but ranking that at 1 wouldn't actually help many people. This is likely what's going on between w3schools and MDN. MDN might be higher quality, better information, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's more useful to everyone.
First Valve Announcement Due Later Today
Same guys same country :). My personal favourite is Enclave - IMHO way under-appreciated.
Absolutely, trust is a massive part of this. Many people have accountants so trust can be be given. Perhaps accounting institutes would be in a good place to do something like this. I'm probably going to be giving the organisation a limited Power of Attorney so they will need some serious credentials. Don't forget that your financial information will have real value which you may be willing to trade for the benefit of better deals i.e. they don't charge actual money for the service but get access to your spending pattern.

Lots of issues but the point I was making was simply that a) I want the best deal possible b) I'm lazy. I reckon I'm not alone either.
1080p video is nowhere near 1458 bytes.

For raw 720p RGBA you'd send:
1280 * 720 * 32 = 29,491,200 bits but obviously you're not going to do that. Suddenly you're not only sending data but also encoding / decoding it.
> Also hard to audition for longer periods as suggested

He did follow that up by saying you should pay the candidate for the "audition" as a contractor. I've personally experienced this, and love it, and I advocate it strongly if not outright insist on it going forward. It's the employment equivalent of dating before marriage. And it's about Getting Real as much as you can, as early as you can.
Well while this question doesn't really apply to me.. I can at least say one reason not to use Gizzard is that it's deprecated now.
I completly understand the feeling and it's something that I wanted to do for a long time. I thought of starting with LFS but never got much time to play with it.

I'll definetly follow your posts about this.

I don't get why so many negative comments here.
There were many times that I really wanted to understand and configure all my machine just for the sake of it.

Understanding and learning, it's simple. That's the main reason I use Arch, but even with it I don't usually go really under it to understand what program calls what and what is the function of program foobar, why it really is needed or how many switches and power can it give.

This is great :).
PGA Tour reviewing validity of called-in penalties
Curious about if the "duino" part of the name is a little too similar legally wise.
We have a lot more information at our fingertips these days, and 25% of the country is convinced that Barack Obama was born in Kenya.

I feel like we're just running the cycle on this one, someone should put up a countdown to the next Enron and these investments being made illegal again.
Growth hacking a vision: we added this viral loop to our travel manifesto
I sort of worry about that. As a userspace client Steam could never have hoped to lock out non-approved games, but as an OS it probably could. The HN commentariat probably skew pro-curation, but I for one think it would be bad for the future of Indie games if Steambox did not support side loading.
It is a valid question. As a 'brand building' advertiser, I never felt like most of the google products delivered as much value as they claimed; they all seemed to be targeted at products people will buy after the first impression (which is... not, generally, how products in my sector are sold. People buy because they have heard of me. The 'hearing about me' is important, not the last click.) and the tracking mechanisms all seemed... naive. (now, that last part might just be the effect of them dumbing it down to the point where a small business owner, like me, can understand whats going on, but man... in that case, we advertisers trust google a lot.)

Of course, I'm small, cynical, stupid, and don't spend much effort on advertising, so it's possible my impression is wrong.
Thanks for the link! I Googled this half-heartedly this morning while cleaning out my inbox but didn't have time to sift through the results. Funny stuff!
I wish I could do that. At the moment I still use wacom tablet and photoshop+gaming, so I spend most of the time in Win7 :/
Of course it is. Counting the price of the phone and service over two years, the S is less than 5% more expensive than the C.
It does seem that way, but if it's possible to run SteamOS on some sort of custom Linux box, if not a normal Linux PC, for me at least that would be good enough (that way you can enjoy the latest graphics hardware, which is the main draw of PC gaming along with mods).
Meta note: please don't be shy to share links to what it is that's generating your income. I hate reading things like "I have this simple app that's making me $X/month" and not be able to see the context. Who knows, maybe I'll find it useful and pay for it too.
Hmm. Lovely concept, but when I put my address in, it says there are no results - mainly because it thinks my UK address is just between Tuvalu & Tokelau in the South Pacific (so technically, the results were correct - Papa John's are unlikely to deliver there).
On four-year-olds and freedom
There isn't a great story for dropping one more device - the phone. And that story is quite unlikely since you wouldn't want to carry your tablet with you on a night out, etc. I could see myself using this and dropping my phone if I never did things like out of band experiences. I'd eventually have enough situations per year where I wanted my phone, not my tablet, that I'd end up with a phone - but maybe I'd live with a 3-5 year old phone for that...

The wife would not like to see the tablet around 100% of the time since, with LTE, it'd be a physical extension more than PC's and the phone are now.
Phoronix has several articles about the work that Valve has done with Linux GPU drivers (open source and proprietary)

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=17823

That one is about how valve themselves got value out of debugging on open source GPU drivers.
This article was about post industrial United States of America.
Leadership anti-pattern: The savant-snake
"touchable" portfolios, a public interaction trail, and realistic paid short audition contracts are a killer combo and I hope the future for software development hiring. I'm doing my part to promote it.
At the end of the last quarter, the company's book value was $9.4 billion. Even if you leave out intangibles (like patents, which everyone seems to agree is worth something), the value was $5.9 billion. I think the value proposition is easy to see. Heck, current assets minus all liabilities was $3.4 billion which means that they are valuing the patents and buildings at about $1.3 billion (perhaps a bit more if you factor in this quarter's losses). It might be better for shareholders to wind the company down, and pay out the cash as dividends.
With conditional execution, you can do just that. However that is not really the best way to implement the example posited by the OP.