skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think he means 'get in on the phenomenon in general', not any one particular startup. I mean, looking at the portfolio, I think even with wefunder, most of the companies "look like crap" (although I'm sure that some of them will be alright), and if I could clear the requirements, I'd only invest in two of them.
it all depends on how many people will use SteamOS. Costs of porting games to other platforms will also go down with the next generation as xbox one and ps4 are basically standard PCs.
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Why do all the names link to the page you're currently viewing?
With twitch-based games you'll have to convince twitch-based game players of that. These are people that look up latency specs on wireless keyboards because they think that makes a difference.
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Third one is more interesting since they already announced streaming from Steam to SteamOS.
Thanks! I have the videos on a geo-balanced CDN which is well overprovisioned, so it should be okay. I just tried it myself and everything seemed fine. Of course, because it's geo-balanced, there could be a problem I'm not seeing. If anybody else has problems, could you let me know?
I set up my latest work laptop with puppet - reusing my own set of classes from my servers in part.

You have to be wary when apt-get is only one command away but in general it works quite well - I'm not editing so many global configs and got most of them in my dotfiles repo anyway.
In the UK I started and ran a site listing tech events: https://opentechcalendar.co.uk/index.php It's just had it's first birthday and is doing well.

This was done in a "maybe-a-bit-to-lean" fashion. There was a previous facility run by a local meetup that suddenly stopped, so I knew there was demand before I started. The first version was a MediaWiki site with a hacked open source calendar plugin that took 4 days from buying the domain to public launch. This was then later replaced with custom software.

This now picks up a small amount from direct sponsorship (as in, I directly approach ppl and don't use something like Google AdWords).

It took a bit to write, but I've realised the specific niche functionality could serve others and I'm currently working on turning this into a platform for any area. It's early days for that, but it works and it's up at http://ican.hasacalendar.co.uk/

(I also have some recurring income supporting a freelance contract I did which now takes a couple of days per month but I don't think that's what most ppl here are interested in.)
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This is really killing my productivity today. I don't like being so reliant on email, but I work remotely, so it's a necessary evil. Having worked in operations for prominent companies, I sympathize with the gmail team right now, but my patience is wearing thin with the problem approaching the 5 hour mark.
From the iconography on the main page I'd guess the second announcement will be Steam hardware and the third one will be Half Life 3 (second circle indicates software product again?). Pure speculation on my side here.

http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom/
It's not obscene to work in the adult industry! Good for you for being successful at what you do. €3,500/month isn't something to sneeze at.
Does anybody really care about your GPA when applying for jobs? Resumes are filtered by many random criteria, but I've never seen grades being one of them - most jobs that require a degree won't particularly care about what you majored in, they want someone who can provably do the job - so experience matters, connections matter and can replace experience; knowledge and skills matter, but grades? Not really.
Really depends on the sellers they're targeting. There is a likely segment of sellers who will place a big premium on their time, and even a $5+ premium.

The "money is not a concern; just get this taken care of for me" set is not to be underestimated.
I net roughly $230/month from a rental property I own. I have a realtor I trust manage it for a "first month + 5% of rent" fee. The property is located in a market where rent is much higher than the mortgage (about 150%), so I end up making a profit while building equity into a house at a low interest rate. Not exciting, but it is a viable model and management fees seem very reasonable for the amount of work the realtor does.
On the flip side, as an old friend once said, "Do you have ten years of experience, or one year of experience ten times?"

Highly experienced people can be priceless because they have dealt with similar situations before (and it's not the technology, it's the situations). But if they didn't learn from their experiences, it doesn't help. And imho a majority of the old hands are still doing things wrong - sometimes due to management interference, sometimes due to ignorance, but mostly due to simply not making the effort to do better.

One of my own interviewing mantras is, "I don't care so much what you know how to do, as how you deal with what you don't know how to do." But honestly, this mantra taken to its logical extreme massively favors raw intelligence and flexibility over experience. That's not always a Good Thing.
"porting their AAA releases to this platform"

Play Station 4 is running a modified a Free BSD 9.0 on x86 architecture. So the work to go from a BSD base to Linux I imagine is MUCH easier than what it has been in the past in my opinion.
MBAs are fine. But their job is to take as much money as possible and give back as little as they can. This is fine when they are dealing with other equally equipped parties (YC, vc funds etc). If you don't understand the game, there is almost no doubt that an MBA will try to offer you the worst possible deal for you. If you have no means to examine the details of the deal, that's a guarantee. That's how business works. It is their job and they would be doing a bad job if they do otherwise.
>Why does Apple get a pass on this?

Here's why: Last November when the iPad Mini and the iPad 4 launched, Apple sold 3 million iPads over the weekend. Surface has sold about 1.7 million devices total since it launched. http://bgr.com/2013/07/31/microsoft-surface-sales-2013/

It's hard to argue with success.

>As a consequence, this is one area where MS is ahead of Apple

The numbers seem to disagree with you. The reason Apple doesn't put touch on their Macbooks is cause no one wants it.
great. What's next? Tax money used to secure all of slashdot first posts to prevent trolls from getting it?
I just crossed 500$/mo with https://www.wisecashhq.com (cash flow forecasting for freelancers and small businesses, launched officially 2.5 months ago).

This is far away from passive income since I'm actively working on it (I'm bootstrapping it + consulting/freelancing the other days).
This is genius. All you need now is a micro box running windows with appropriate video card that you can stick in the corner next to your router and never have to look at again. Assuming the streaming and UX works half as well as they're playing at, they've just managed to commoditize hardware compatibility.

I don't think the importance of this can be understated.
I'd say the Ultrabook family is Microsoft's macbook air equivalent. I'm a big fan of the Samsung Series 9, and I don't think I could go back to a bulkier form factor for my next machine.

Disclaimer: I work at Microsoft, not in anything related.
That seems really unlikely. Steam for Linux runs on Ubuntu as it's platform of choice, and installs via apt-get. They're already running all their games under X and the standard Ubuntu userspace tools, with BigPicture, it would be very surprising for them to fork the platform at this point.

Android made sense because standard linux/X windows applications didn't work on a multi-touch mobile device for a whole host of reasons. PC games work fine on Linux and X.
As evil as this sounds, exclusivity works for the other consoles.
It sounds quite action movie, but in reality it's pretty damn simple

Also in reality it will foil over 99% of potential unauthorized activation attempts as most people aren't going to craft fingerprints to get into someone's device.

If reality is the bar you're using, TouchID still wins.
BlackBerry Acquired for $4.7 Billion
Does programming do something to the mind?
Unfortunately it's US only right now. It appears to default to 'just between Tuvalu & Tokelau in the South Pacific' if no results are found - I'll fix that.

Thanks for the feedback.
"Not so open minded that our brains drop out" [image & text]
You're painting "MBAs" with too wide a brush. There are MBAs in marketing, MBAs in health care, MBA software engineers, MBAs in consulting, MBAs in advertising, MBAs founding companies, MBAs in production and creative fields, MBAs in media, etc.

"MBA" is not a job title; it's a degree. I think the term you're looking for is "finance" or "Corp Dev," which is more of a specific job role that often fields MBAs to fill it. Their job is to get the most favorable terms possible in a deal, but not at the expense of the deal itself. So yes, go into a deal with a finance or corp dev person with your eyes wide open -- but they lose more than they gain if they develop a reputation for completely screwing people over again and again. It pays to know what their incentives are, how their firm makes money, and what your alternatives are to a deal with them (and often, your alternatives involve deals with other finance types).
It's very likely obvious astroturfing. Microsoft does this a lot. Keep this incident in mind next time you hear someone extolling the virtues of Win8-style "flat design".
This post is probably not useful to most because "the application deadline has now passed."
I think you're too quick to imply that I don't know the difference between "revenue" and "profit". :-)

Note my phrasing: "made ... in revenue". The word "revenue" means what you're implying with "brought in", which is the top-line number.

My apologies if I'm misinterpreting.
BlackBerry goes private; sells itself for $4.7 billion
I have been doing martial arts for about 6 years with different teachers. I think they have taught me how to work out properly. What I've seen is that exercising gets you diminished benefits as training tome increases. For now, 7 minutes a day is just fine.
For candidates who already have jobs, how would "auditioning" work? Is it assumed that they'd take time off from their current job to do it?
>Consider the stress imposed by 24-hour surveillance. Every moment of your life, you would have to dedicate part of your consciousness to calculating how your actions may be interpreted by others, some of whom may be hostile to you.

That stress only need exist when the lack of privacy is asymmetrical. When everybody has dirt on everybody else, it gets a whole lot harder to shame someone.

I do find myself wondering what a completely post-privacy society would look like and how/if it would function...
By "heavily restrict" I mean they only allow certain vegetable oils to be used.
Which works out to $25 million to get the E.T. license, $100 million to make millions of cartridges to bury in the desert, and $200,000 on actual development.
isn't this yelp's job to police? Why is taxpayer money going into propping up yelp's reputation?
Okay I have 1 beefy PC. I want a second machine upstairs.

Old Way) I have to spend all the money for equally good hardware. I also need a copy of Windows.

New Way) Just get something that can render YouTube videos well. I now have a second Gaming PC. No copy of Windows!
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Don't know we also need to know how much good was actually done? Can that be quantified? (Can we name somebody who wasn't murdered because of the leaks?)
I don't think Schneier's intention was to call President Obama a liar. Rather, I think he intended to say that, even if we accept President Obama's factual claims, we should still take issue with the government's actions.

In other words, Schneier's not disputing the facts, but suggesting we ascribe different value to them.

So when you say "That he so happens to use 'metadata' does not make his argument wrong or misleading," you're correct. But that also doesn't make Schneier incorrect. (Not that you said he was.)
So you're saying that government shouldn't attempt to identify and prosecute those who it believes "breached laws against false advertising and deceptive business practices."
We have a failure to communicate. I sit in knowledge of God. You are an atheist. You are, simply, ignorant. Retard-nigger.

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It still doesn't really strike me as crowd-funding so much when the minimum investment is still $1000. Is that some legal limitation in the US?

In the UK we can do equity-crowd investments as small as £10 - as I did when I raised money on Seedrs: http://www.seedrs.com/startups/satago?promo_code=V5EKZUV4

Disclosure: That is a referral link - Seedrs give me 5% to invest myself if anyone invests an amount through that link, which I think is astonishing in itself and worthy of comment.
Even then I don't feel too good about it. You're still relying on Apple's good graces to keep them from revoking your cert.
clearly we need a stdaffirmation.
Didn't they spend 2 billion buying the 111 Eighth Avenue office in Manhatten at the end of 2010? I believe that is data center realestate.
Users can alter or replace any part of the software

Sounds open source to me, or did you mean the games?

This press release isn't targeted at technical people so the jargon isn't there to definitively say one way or the other.
would you mind sharing the source of these coupon codes.
I am trying to come up something like this other niche area. But struck in getting the sources for these kinds of codes/deals. Thanks in advance.
It's a little cleaner in our ERB files :)

Your messages will only be visible to others who have signed up at your company. We won't be storing your company email, so it's impossible for us (or anyone) to correlate your messages to who wrote them. We'll allow you to store a personal email along with your account, but we'll leave securing/anonymizing that up to you.
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Not the OP, but I can put forth that perhaps it's an ethical dilemma? Objections could be raised to collecting money without expending effort. Similar to objections to copyrights that last indefinitely.
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wow, direct support, this does not have price, you made my day.

Will research more about the connection options, did go through the available tutorials, and as it did work with the defaults, I did skip the connections part.

Thanks for all the efforts put in this project.

P.S. A way to iterate over remote files could be nice. Something like with_remote_fileglob:
Exceptionally well put; and good that you're aware of the shortcomings of looking too closely at dealing with the unknown. I love the succinctness of, "It's not the technology, it's the situations."

Obviously, crappy people with 10 years of experience are useless in any situation--it's just easier for them to blend in at Big Company X where they are one of a hundred. The rest of the article already applies well to how to weed those people out. Sadly, they're not always super-easy to spot.
Depending on who makes the hardware in the upcoming Steambox, we might finally get some decent drivers for 3D hardware acceleration. I would imagine Valve has the pull to entice AMD, nvidia, or maybe Intel to devote additional resources to it.
The situation is actually a bit worse than that. As soon as Barry replies, Adam becomes the only person on the to line and everybody else is moved to cc despite all of Adam's hard work to distinguish recipient types up front. To vs CC is basically broken in threaded conversations. Moreover, unless you turn on some hidden options there is no visual indicator telling you who was on the to line vs the cc line in the Gmail inbox anyway. The distinction has become meaningless for the vast majority of cases.
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Not much. They benefit a lot from the open image and maintenance model. Going proprietary on the platform side makes zero sense and would just increase the cost and bind a lot of resources better used for generating money with their core business.
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Sorry, I meant who is Fairfax representing?

"Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. has put together an equity consortium..."

"Fairfax’s equity partners want to remain anonymous until the due diligence is completed."
I get about $100/month from:

* Lending out my cameras/lenses
* The cut that CameraLends takes off other transactions
* Affiliate marketing

for my side project CameraLends.com
"But their job is to take as much money as possible and give back as little as they can."

Nice one with the sweeping and insulting generalisation. How dare you say that.
From my post:

"...in revenue"

The lowest-cost iPhone launched over the weekend is $549. So they likely didn't make as little as $400 in revenue on any new iPhone unit over the weekend. We don't know the aggregate carrier discount, but we do know that 1) the historical average ASP for iPhones is over $600, and 2) the just-launched lineup is roughly the same price as last year.
The best engineers build each other up.
PS3 ran on Cell CPU Architecture. Now PS4 run FreeBSD 9.0 modified BUT x86 architecture!

Android = Linux
Ubuntu = Linux
they both run the same exact kernel!
BSD != Linux because they are 2 different kernels.

Why do people always try to say Android is not Linux?????
>It's harder to do immigration formalities without a degree, no disagreement there. Although I believe that's somewhat true in the U.S., too:

Oh yeah; from what I understand, it's even more true here than anywhere else. But I was born here, so it's not a problem I deal with directly.

Your university system sounds like some kind of socialist paradise. Jesus. Do you know how good a 3 year vacation sounds to an American? (And yes, if I went to school, I'd likely study history, and that can't be rationally counted as anything but a vacation.) Even the top 10% jobs only give you 4 weeks a year of vacation time. (we get another 9 days or so of holidays, usually, which are on fixed days, and, of course, weekends.)
Yeah, in this case it should be Yelp's job to filter out fake reviews. Yelp should foot the bill for operations like this or for engineers to write better algorithms.
I would add that its not realistic as raindrops combine because of surface tension when they touch each other :(
From the article: "In light of the company's current business condition, the company has decided to sell that aircraft along with the two legacy aircraft and will no longer own any planes."

They probably bought it before this slump. Jets take months to deliver.
I'm in Nicaragua and having issues with free accounts and apps accounts.
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It's like oft-touted maxim during the dotcom era: those that made money during the gold rush were selling shovels to those digging for gold.
exactly what I was thinking.
> Why is taxpayer money going into propping up yelp's reputation?

It isn't. It's going into catching people violating various criminal laws against fraud. That stopping such people happens to help Yelp is a side-effect.
Experience itself is usually a good thing; the problem for startups comes when that experience brings with it things that cause issues with the startup--for example, much higher salary requirements.
One of the better actionable guides i've seen, not sure about the suggestion to try out spamming though.
I hope this works out well for everyone involved. I also hope that Fairfax leaves Blackberry alone if the deal goes through. I say this judging ONLY by the state of Fairfax's website: http://www.fairfax.ca/
I think he meant in terms of being the best option available. You would have a hard time arguing that Windows is significantly better than competitors like RHEL in the corporate space. For gaming, on the other hand, no other OS comes close to offering the selection that Windows has, at least for now.
Stinks for you since such people are in a good (the best?) position to comment. That the disclosure was so naked should make you even more comfortable.
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If someone is working a full time job (the currently employed are definitely targeted in the article), and are 'experienced'/older, and thus more likely to have other demands on their time like wife/kids, contracting, even in off hours, becomes more difficult.

It won't be impossible to 'audition' but it will definitely be tougher.

(To say nothing of the intellectual property issues if the possible employee is in a related field and the employer is peeved at them leaving.)

If I was at a stable, good job, and wasn't looking, and someone was trying to poach me with the siren call of 'contract to hire' or 'work this weekend', well, it'd be an uphill battle for the poacher.

Maybe that's why I'm not in the Bay area, working for a startup :).
That's not going to happen any time soon. Wine is in active development by very talented people all the time and they get a lot of the latest AAA stuff running, but generally there are so many corner cases that it would be a support nightmare and financial suicide to attempt this as generic service. Plus they'd probably get some brain-dead software patent lawsuits.
Be sure to read the follow-up, which casts doubt on parts of the story: http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2011/05/03/135919389/a-cos...
It would be insane to do this, but you could shove ATSC between boxes over ethernet by shoving each 188-byte MPEG transport stream packet in an ethernet frame and skipping all the layer 3 stuff. Or UDP it, if you want to route it. They probably like the idea of a difficult to route protocol keeping data on one ethernet segment.

My HDhomerun ATSC receiver certainly has no problem shoving a couple megabits of high def video over ethernet. Nor does my mythtv setup, or even just plain old NFS shares to watch videos.
> When everybody has dirt on everybody else, it gets a whole lot harder to shame someone.

That point of view is a credible hypothesis. Despite being a defender of privacy, I too have wondered whether perfect knowledge, perfectly distributed, might lead to some kind of utopia that we can hardly imagine.

But that's all speculation. I don't want to count on it. It seems equally plausible to me that the abolition of privacy will lead to a nightmare scenario in which everyone has dirt on everyone else, and it's ruthlessly exploited. Everyone is throwing stones from their glass houses. In that scenario, people would no doubt adapt. They would learn to calculate their every action, every facial expression. This is the source of the stress to which I alluded.
tldr: expensive
Yeah, I know it's expensive. I took the "in person" version of this course though and it was phenomenal. I'm not sure if it cost the same (the company I worked for payed for it), but if it is, it works out to $70/hr which is cheaper than getting specialized instructors in other disciplines like flight instruction.

For a virtual version of the course $2750 does sound pretty steep. It'd be nice if there were a "Khan Academy" type version (ie. pre-recorded) for a lot less.
The savant-snake is very common in larger organizations, which are, by rule, more authoritarian.
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The controller is the most interesting hardware component, the rest can improve over time much more easily.
It seems you already found one vector of marketing... dropping links on niche related forums ;)