skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Inflation gets figured into the withdrawal rates - you subtract the inflation rate from your nominal return to figure your real rate of return, and then the real rate is whatever passive income you have available to live on. I'm guessing that the 4% withdrawal figure is calculated by figuring a 7% average nominal return (seems to be a common historical number for balanced portfolios), subtracting 3% inflation, and the remainder is a 4% real return. So you can pull out 4% of your portfolio each year and have it maintain the same real value, after inflation.
How do they deal with firewalls? Could make p2p chatting difficult.
> ... there is no way MS would be let to get away with such practices ...

You mean like the Zune or XBox?
A nice use for this would be peer to peer in the browser.
EDIT: I mean distributed p2p, since this is already p2p by itself.
I think that internet based services are so great because they free users from technical details like "files", "sharing", "web servers" etc and let them focus on features - "communicating", "editing". That's why it's strange to see Opera promoting the old all-in-one idiom leaving user with a bunch of files on his personal computer again. Maybe I just don't get all the details and will gladly accept counter-arguments.
It was a generalisation to save my having to type a string of browsers, not a suggestion that Safari/etc don't support those things. The point being that until Internet Explorer supports anywhere near as much as [the rest], or somehow loses a huge chunk of its market share, there is little point in dicking about with CSS3.
This is great!

Now when someone asks me what the phrase "jumping the shark" means, I will have an example to give them.

EDIT: A second look at Opera Unite tells me this is a neat idea, but only if it ships as a separate product and not as part of the browser. Imagine a one-click webserver you can use to share music, files and photos from your PC without having to put them "in the cloud". Opera could have charged for this service, and people would have paid gladly.

Putting this in the browser is, IMO, stupidity on a whole new level.
How do we encourage healthcare startups?

At one point in time, the HMO pioneer Group Health was a startup of a sort.

One never hears about someone going bankrupt from paying for medical care in Japan. They have a lot of regulations on what you can charge for health care.
That's 4% nominal returns though - you have to subtract inflation from that. TIPS are going for less than 2% yield.

For 3% inflation, you need 7% nominal returns to make 4%. You're already into pretty risky territory there.
Opera had P2P (bittorrent) client for ages (even though it's implementation was(probably still is) really disappointing).

Edit: "Distributed P2P"?? You need to clarify that, since this sounds like like "Database-ready MySQL". (P2P is "distributed" by design)
Not if you live here (Thailand) and contract for westerm companies.
This is a huge development IMHO. If executed correctly, this has the potential to change how we look at the web. This is something that can be the starting point of web 3.0.

[EDIT: I agree. The example applications given are not that appealing.]

I have an opinion that instead of some crappy and difficult to use address like unite://mymac.chrismills.operaunite.com/ they should register a TLD (I guess it is possible. Isn't it?) like .OP or something and start using that. So my address will be simply niyaz.op

I think, (as always) someone else will come along and do it better than Opera does and opera will be forgotten again. Sad, but true.

Anyway I love the Opera for these innovations. They are the pioneers in many cool things in the web. Kudos guys!
I wonder how this compares to the volume of other popular services.
What does this have to do with Opera Unite? It has the word "server" in the API name. Does that mean I can link to Apache and say that they beat Opera to the idea? Opera's not saying they came up with the first local server; they're just giving the end-user the ability to serve their own content easily and without relying on the cloud.
This stat is not surprising. The tone of the article assumes acquisition is the only interesting result. I prefer profitability. Stats on profitability of startups is sparse. I would guess some locations would show higher rates of profitable startups simply because its your only meaningful goal.
Doing it in Thailand (have been for almost 5 years):

rent: 90 euro, car: 65 euro, food/drinks: 300 euro, visa: 10 euro, health insurance: 15 euro, other: 50 euro

Me and my girlfriend life a very comfortable lifestyle and we really don't cut back that much; eating out here is cheap (as long as you stay away from tourist spots) and we take regular short trips around Thailand and other parts of south east asia.
/They do have "Use uPnP from my router for port forwarding" option when installing/

...also how do they deal with NAT (1 external IP for a whole office/city region)?

Update: Being behind NAT I WAS able to see my computer from other computer via Internet. Kudos, Opera!
There is no mention of security in the PR article.

Wondering how easy or difficult it would be for someone to hack into my local opera web server? Possibly the answer is as much as they can hack into your normal web server.

I would guess a bulk of internet users would fear to use this service. They would continue to upload than share local directories online.
Ask HN: Will Internet Explorer borwser ever get insignificant to world?
As a web developer my life has turned into a misery when I need to write separate for for IE6 IE7 and IE8. The so called higher versions doesnt seem to be backward compatible.

Adherence to w3c standards is in disarray which makes it difficult to run firefox targeted code on IE.

To add to all these problems the IE developer toolbar sucks a big time (literaly). I can imagine the hours I have wasted figuring out where is the error in my javascript with IE.

PNG transparency is missing in IE6.

Despite of all these problems IE is said to rule the market. how ?

What does statistics suggest ? Will it ever get so insignificant that clients would stop demanding compatibility with IE?
Is that going to come in my lifetime?
I absolutely second this. SICP doesn't just teach you how to program, it compels you to learn about how and why certain concepts in programming languages work. It's really a very fundamental work.
Lose points for continuming to assert something after being told of counter examples.

No, you still don't get it. I'm talking about motivation, not about safety directly. If the motivations of consumers are misplaced, it's harder for the market to work from the right ones.

Trucks exist. So do overpass supports. All other things being equal, mass and distance helps. Bigger vehicles provide more of both.

Yes, mass matters in a collision. I never said it doesn't. I paid attention to momentum in high school physics. Again, it's the prevalence of large vehicles that's the issue. It's the distortion of the North American market that causes many more large vehicles than are actually needed to be on the road.

You're assuming something about them that's false. The fact that someone is driving alone doesn't mean that said someone always drives alone.

Uh, you're assuming the opposite? I'm not assuming anything about a particular individual. I estimate that the prevalence of the phenomenon is out of whack. Please stop putting inaccurate renditions of my ideas into my mouth!

Step 1 - misread other's post. Step 2 - respond to the distorted/simplistic idea you just misread. Step 3 - repeat until you feel smart.

Look, if your brain can't handle the one level of indirection involved with prevalence or motivations in a market, then get out and go back to the mental kiddie pool. At least criticize me for using mental impressions of prevalence instead of hard numbers. Then you'd be actually criticizing my actual idea and not your misreading.

Tiresome.
The EXE installed all the text with its localisation IDs instead of the actual text it is supposed to be localising (eg. D_SERVICE_INSTALL_INTRO). Does this happen for anyone else?
You're an outlier - an oddity. For example, on mibbit.com (Very tech audience) adblock usage is about 6%.
I wonder if this will just be another one of those forgotten features that Opera has. There are LOTS of those, by the way.

Edit: Even diehard Opera fans have to admit there are a lot of cool features barely anyone uses. Opera Widgets? Opera's BitTorrent client?
I don't like that Opera is trying to fit in everything into the browser. I prefer apps per tasks, don't want a OS in a browser, nor browser with the OS.

Was expecting more of Opera, I don't find this very innovative.

However, great job on the publicity :D
I don't think you can say one is necessarily better than the other. Some people may be better at going from zero to something than running a larger, steadier firm. These people are probably better off building and selling. Likewise, some people may be great at profitably running large (or at least more stable) firms, but fail at creating something from nothing.
I'm looking at it right now and it IS actually a button "Enable Opera Unite", with two-click enabling/disabling.
Android doesn't do it for you?
If you have UPnP enabled, all traffic is direct. Otherwise, it's proxied through Opera's servers.

http://unite.opera.com/support/#tech_location
Wait, why would you guess that? There's a rational reason for a higher number of sales in the Valley - there's a concentration of acquirors - but profitability generally has very little to do with proximity to paying users/advertisers, except for very large numbers (i.e. TV and cable networks).
What I meant to say was that this should not be part of the browser. That just bloats it up. A separate app would have been much better.

Opera's target audience consists mostly of geeks, anyway. Downloading and installing a separate app would not have been a problem for these people.
> There are reasons we don't run web servers on our laptops.

Ehrm, I do. It's great for developing on localhost and some quick sharing with someone near me.

> And they want to write web applications on this? Oh, THAT is going to be fun.

I don't think they're aiming to "host" the next Google... From the site I gather that they want to run applications that are for the user of the browser to enjoy by doing something together with his/her buddies.
If kiva ever manages to give a small interest on the loans, I expect it explode in popularity. But there's probably huge legal hurdles to doing that? Or are they ideologically opposed?
"I think, (as always) someone else will come along and do it better than Opera does and opera will be forgotten again. Sad, but true."

You might be right but I think, for better or worse, this is the type of thing Opera should be pursuing. Opera's only chance in the market is to spread virally. To have an Opera user tell an IE/Firefox/Safari user about this cool new feature that they could both use if that IE/Firefox/Safari user would just switch to Opera.

So I applaud them for moving in the right direction.

That said, the problem I see is they are focusing more on the platform than they are on the apps. Being a platform makes sense for web apps that have a large potential audience and can therefore draw developers. But for a browser with 2% of the market I think it makes more sense to roll out a comprehensive suite of apps first and introduce the platform later (the apps they do have are interesting but not enough to get me personally to switch).

I mean honestly, does anyone see a large number of developers making a special effort to develop for Opera?
What you propose is part of the Language Workbench [Fowler] or Intentional Programming ideas [Simonyi].
Downloading an external webserver or ftp is not a problem for most geeks. But it takes configuring, knowing what you're doing, etc.
The goal of Opera Unite is rather to bring this possibility, to another audience, to have easily such services.
My hunch: Opera Unite is going to be used mainly for file sharing. It's not a reinvention of the Web, but a reinvention of DC++
"A startup based in Silicon Valley has a 6.9% chance of being acquired. New York startups come in second with a 4.9% acquisition rate."

Then how do they explain Washington's higher 8.2% rate?
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Now that it's been established that Facebook can do what it wants here, I don't think it's such a great idea for them to host this stuff on their site.

Facebook is a popular networking tool, and allowing this kind of stuff there obviously helps grow the deniers' ranks. Remember that even if it's automatic, Facebook is actively putting resources into hosting and serving these posts. You might say they just host everything and it's not like they're picking and choosing what to host, but if they can employ hundreds of people to find and remove breastfeeding photos and the like, they can regulate this as well.

Upon seeing an anti-Semite somewhere preaching his or her bullshit, there's a difference between leaving him or her alone in recognition of free speech rights and providing the idiot with a megaphone. Facebook is doing the latter.
It would seem to me there's a huge opportunity here for someone else to come in and blow the doors off of them, in terms of developer friendliness, openness, support, price, etc... but in searching for a new phone I didn't see anyone clearly better.

Have you not heard of Android? Developer friendliness? Check. Openness? Check. Support? Check. Price? Check.

Google is spectacular in all of these regards. Android is open source, and Google is throwing serious weight into making things extremely easy for developers. It's not without its problems, but I give it an 'A' in every area you brought up.
Seriously, while I feel for you, get the facts. There is no evidence linking autism to vaccines. While dosing frequency has increased, dosing volume has decreased. Not only that, even if you are right, a lot more kids would die from the vaccinated diseases if we lose herd immunity as a whole.

Don't you find it the least bit suspicious that the only people who "figured out" this mystery are quacks with books and supplements to sell? Isn't it much more likely to be caused by our terrible food, chemical-laced water or other modern issues like proximity to high-strength EM?
I would be impressed if Facebook could just get their act together and fix the damn client.

On slow connections (most of those available in 3rd world countries like Jordan where I am now), Facebook chat delivers messages with huge delays (up to 3 minutes) and out of order. You have no idea how disconcerting it is for 'real-time chat' to behave in this manner, and makes it almost unusable.

Everyone here starts off Facebook conversations with "why are you not on MSN?" because it's a give that you must have a really good reason to be using Facebook's poorly-engineered excuse for a chat client instead of one of the more mature chat services that actually work as expected.
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> they are every bit as evil as Msoft was in their heyday.

A significant portion of the reason why Microsoft dominated is because Apple wanted to control the hardware and the software. Microsoft was more than willing to settle for 'just' the software, running on top of a more or less open hardware platform. The Mac was better, earlier than Windows, and continued to be for a while. But outside of a brief window, you could only buy one from Apple - there was no vendor competition.
An interesting article here about a holocaust deniers conference, a recommended read when looking at this issue: http://www.esquire.com/features/ESQ0201-FEB_DENIERS_rev_2?sr...
Came here to make the same point about breastfeeding.

There is a common theme - that protection of free speech outweighs any damage caused by the existence of this content.

Really? I fail to see this common theme... Let's not pretend that Facebook is a group of libertarian constitutionalists who's first priority is protecting its users free speech rights. I had a friend who was TOSed for uploading innocent pictures from a spa trip where a tiny fraction of a friend's nipple was visible over her towel.

I'm not arguing the plight of my nippley friend, or that Facebook should allow this or that on their (privately owned) web site. Just that this whole Holocaust-denial debate smells like an opportunistic effort on the part of Facebook to portray themselves as protectors of free speech, when that's nowhere near the truth.
Yeah, with Adium and combined contacts, it's just another service that I've got plugged in and don't even think about. I've got a friend that signs into Facebook or AIM almost always mutually exclusively, but they're just "online" to me, regardless of the medium.
opera unite = web browser over p2p?
I think there might also be an issue with the turkers, since they might be exposed to all kinds of "illegal" stuff that users uploaded.
How do you handle visa? Are you on a tourist visa, working over the internet?
I don't think you can compare 'nipples' to 'the holocaust didn't happen'.

Sadly, a large number of people are offended by pictures of naked or semi naked people. I don't think so many are offended by historical ignorance :/ Anyway, it's apples and oranges.
Here's an interesting article about a four-man game developer working on the iPhone:

http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=23785

"And certainly, we would love to be developing for a Nokia platform if they have solved the same problems as elegantly as Apple has delivered their solution. But the fact is that for the same success as the iPhone has become, you need an unfragmented platform on the hardware level. You need a good SDK."

JL: "Include enough base level of hardware. It can't be some software rendering or no hardware rendering chip. And the fragmentation, it creates this awful disparity of the games, so you have to support software rendering and make everything scale to that. Any high end games use the hardware rendering, but that's a lot of cost to make it two times."

"On the iPhone, you can actually work as an independent publisher, and you can own your IP. You can publish it because there are no huge challenges. If we're bringing that IP to the mobile space, and if we wanted to self-publish it, we would actually have to build the technology or hire hundreds of hourly wageworkers to port to that mass of handsets.

And we can't afford that as an indie. Then we would have to go through a publisher, the publisher would want to own the IP, and then we would be stuck in the same hand-to-mouth loop, the kind of vicious circle that many traditional mobile developers are in. Their only chance is to pitch their next project to the publisher and then work on their mouth opening strategy."

As people that previously worked doing 3D on mobile, which was quite a task, how have you found the iPhone hardware in terms of working with it?

JL: "I think it's absolutely beautiful to work with in the API and the technical side as well. Because it's a standard API, Open GL ES, it's so easy to work with, I think."

"And because the operating system is based on some Unix, even that allows me to deliver all the knowledge that I have. Just pick some code that works in Unix or Linux, and it works on iPhone as well, so mostly, it's much easier. It's one of the easiest platforms that I have ever worked with."
> and you made 6% annually from safe investments

6% and "safe" these days does not sound doable.
Not all people in the US get to have Google food every day. :)

Pretty harsh to say New Zealanders are wasting their 20s and 30s by staying there.
Now if only bitlbee would add support for Facebook chat so that those of us who prefer screen+irssi for our IM contacts can keep in touch with those friends who are on Facebook.

That's the #1 feature bitlbee is missing, IMHO.
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Representing graphs in relational databases seems straightforward enough (not that I have done, but I have an opinion nevertheless). Accessing it efficiently if you want to traverse a graph seems to be the hard problem. I wonder if there are ANY good solutions at all, short of loading the whole graph into memory. Otherwise I suppose one would need a good heuristic for caching the edges and vertices that are most likely to be accessed?
> But your question deserved an answer. And it didn't look like you were able to come up with one.

Actually, my question was rhetorical, and your answer was arrogant.

> In a sham government, it's just some assholes who pretend to represent the people that own the buildings and websites, and they do so by use of force. To attack those websites is to attack those people, and some people deserved to be attacked.

You have no idea whether or not the Iranian government is legitimate, all you know is what you've read on a couple of western websites. To take the higher moral ground based yon your own sense of morality (which may be different to that of those people your purport to defend), and enforce your beliefs by force (by attacking a government website) makes you no better than the 'assholes' you claim to be defending against.
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Certainly not as ridiculous as http://www.theonion.com/content/node/29130
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> Google can afford to pay for them. That's the reason the artists are pissed.

That was my point, exactly.
“Form follows function,” Dr. Moran said. N. lowii’s bowls “even look like toilets,” he added, “though we were too polite to say that in the paper.”

Take note, students! There's no hope of those journal articles becoming less boring anytime soon. The writing process kills even modest attempts at on-topic humor...
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As furyg3 and I pointed out, if Facebook is going to take a self-righteous "We support free speech on our site!" stand on Holocaust denial, it is absurd for them to ban nipples.

And believe me, a lot of people are offended by Holocaust denial. It probably wouldn't be illegal in many Western nations otherwise. (Many Western countries, aside from the US, are not so big on free speech.)
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