skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Karma. You're in a business that's easy for ordinary people and makes a lot money and is arguably exploiting people who develop a habit. You are competing with the illicit drug industry. In societies eyes, anything goes, so if someone with a little power wants to strongarm you there will be no one anywhere on your side. If you have any success someone will just come and take it from you. Many people won't even do business with you. Good luck even renting a space. There are much better industries and opportunities to be in.
Germany: US May Have Targeted Merkel's Cellphone
Ouch.

But I can hardly see why that could reduce battery life so much. The new power-saving features in Mavericks shouldn't, in theory, lower the battery life. The OS should act like it did under SL unless lots of RAM is needed (I'm at 50%). I'll let the computer go through a couple of power cycles, maybe that'll fix it.
The 2013 Mac Pro summed up in one picture
Torvalds: SteamOS will "really help" Linux on desktop
Oil is not a net positive on the energy; gasoline consumes more in electricity during the refining process than it contains; it's just in a much more useful form.
Over the past few years I have found myself respecting Microsoft and losing faith in Google. I actually feel bad for Microsoft's missteps, but maybe that is what is making them a more respectable company.
Are you certain that providing infrastructure to an illegal industry is not illegal in itself?

And I guess illegal industries have high barriers of entry as participants tend to be a bit paranoid.
The first quantum entanglement of photons through space and time
It depends on the kind of game you're making, but C# is a less ideal language because of garbage collection. Fighting GC pauses are no fun when you're trying to make a real-time game.

C++ is largely used because of speed, memory control, and momentum with tools, libraries and experience.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_gravity
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I'm glad you liked it!

I have a "day job". I run another company with a dozen employees. I love creating things, too. I'm like a construction foreman that loves what he does so much that he builds birdhouses on the weekends. Most of the work was done in the morning, over the weekend or at night while watching MasterChef on Hulu with my wife.

I've been following Patrick Rhone for years. He was begging for a letter.ly replacement for a while. Each time he asked, I always thought it was fascinating that no one was taking him up on it.

I built HappyLetter for the fun and sport of it. I saw it as an opportunity to practice some things I need to do more often and better, like writing, sharing, teaching, being transparent, accepting constraints, accepting perfection isn't always necessary, etc. I'm as proud of the HappyLetter blog as I am the product. There are many hard-learned lessons buried in those posts.

I've built many things like HappyLetter that never saw the light of day. Blogging about it forced me to ship.
I think this is an excellent point. A related trend I see is in kickstarters. If you look at many of the big successes, they have pledge levels closer to $50-100 than to $15-20. For example in the board games category, many card games will raise $10-20k, but games with miniatures usually have higher pledge levels, and raise more like $80k-100k.

I am not sure if the actual lesson is, "charge more," or "sell to people who are willing to pay more," but I think both of these are valid pieces of advice.
Can you shoot me any more info on what you guys are doing?
yeah weed isn't like that

if you can produce good shit, there will be a market for it

but the real startup opportunities (for now) are not in mass production
There's a bill introduced in the Senate that would restrict antibiotics that are approved in humans from being used in agricultural in a prophylactic way.[1] A similar bill has been introduced in the House[2] by Rep. Louise Slaughter who has degrees in microbiology and public health.

Given the pernicious and undemocratic over-representation of rural interests embodied in the structure of the Senate, I don't expect them to go anywhere.

[1] Preventing Antibiotic Resistance Act of 2013 -- http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c113:S.1256.IS:/

[2] Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act of 2013 -- http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d113:H.R.1150:@@@L
Please check out the demo at http://bitmonet.com/demo/
LinkedIn Launches Intro That Embeds Rapportive Info Into The iOS Mail App
Also the code is open-source and can be found at https://github.com/bitmonet/bitmonet
Pretty nice. It could deal with weird java specific stuff like for example \p{javaWhitespace} - it deals with \s by saying it is "any whitespace", but it seems to think \p{javaWhitespace} is a character sequence, rather than an odd java-specific character class.
Interesting. This is something we've thought about as we're designing our product. Would a little "powered by Balanced" image at the bottom help you think?
today i recovered this http://web.archive.org/web/20080426161839/http://www.fragmen... via waybackmachine. i coded this in 2006 (its optimized for IE6 and the (at that time cutting edge now for a long time deprecated) adobe svg plugin). basically a LOGO like language in svg and js.

the good news is: it still works (webkit), the bad news is that i still dont believe that SVG is the future. fool me once ...
News flash: most technology companies...

While its true that lack of profits limit dividends, return on invested capital is measured using other metrics. So the question of dividends "not a news flash", in the sense that it's not central to the topic.

The question of profits, though remains. Three possibilities:

(1) Tax losses & Tax Shields (avoidable, but cash positive)

(2) Obfuscation of earnings (avoidable, but to deter entry)

(3) Stategic operating losses (unavoidable)

_____________

(4) Incompetence (or actual lack of business leverage).

Since no one is really arguing (4) the question is more which of 1-3 is relevant? I don't think avoiding dividends would be a central consideration, but YMMV.
See also this blog post on the technology behind Intro:
http://engineering.linkedin.com/mobile/linkedin-intro-doing-...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6600597
I think the Big Nerd Ranch book covers (at some level) the broad spectrum of iOS. It may have some "beginner" feel but it wasn't one of those books where it goes over simple language constructs for half of the content. I read it about 6 months ago and I felt it met my needs.

http://www.bignerdranch.com/book/ios_programming_the_big_ner...
?? I never wrote "Suffer the same fate as Flash". Please reread my comment. I was referring to the previous poster's apparent pain with Flash. Not the fate of Flash itself.
Big Newspapers Tilted In Favor Of The NSA, Study Finds
Amazon use Royal Mail and generally use 2nd class unless you pay extra for delivery ('Super Saver Delivery'). I'm not going to pay extra just for a day or so.
Levitons: New type of quantum excitation behaves like a solitary particle
Obviously I'm not certain because I'm not a lawyer. But it's hard for me to imagine the Feds arresting the principals of a company that provides inventory tracking to state-legal marijuana dispensaries with the express purpose of helping them to conform to the new laws. Infrastructure startups that help follow regulations are in the best interest of the federal and state governments because it gives them both assuredness that dispensaries and the like will be responsive to new law changes.
Fair point but the point has actually been addressed. The federal government will take no direct intervention in the two states so long as the proposed state laws are followed.
The assumption of course being that it only applies to communities where you have some say in the matter, such as through democracy.
It seems like this is more similar to http://mypaint.intilinux.com/ (which is also not for tablets).
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Why is it not good particularly for gamedev?
Nice and being made by Raphael author certainly does not hurt, still, the examples section could really do with bit of work: out of the 4 examples only 3 works proper for me and only the simply coffee maker and mascot bits are really smooth. The game is jerking about and not working proper on FF24: http://snapsvg.io/demos/#game
I can imagine this having great utility for many businesspeople, but I think anyone mildly privacy or security conscious probably already thinks LinkedIn trends to the spammy. Making them an intermediary to 100% of my email is nuts.

On a lighter note, one of the "shared connections" in the blog screencaps is actually Good Girl Gina, of Reddit meme fame. http://note.io/HfhtzE
People are just so used to the expected email monitoring from their government. So why not just trust everyone with your communications? Abstract thought not required
I'm glad others like it, but I find it a massive pain every time I use it. A million things seem the opposite way than they should be to me. I really, really wish there were more all-purpose lightweight image editors on OS X so I could get away from it. I suppose it's high time I gave Gimp another shot...
Baseball Games Beautifully Visualized Like Transit Maps
Merkel calls Obama about 'US spying on her phone'
Interesting but I see a lot of liability issues on your behalf if you offer consulting services to people who end up breaking the law for some reason 'based on your advice'. Careful.
Is worth remembering that it was the nefarious side who created the technology. Computers were initially invented for cracking and surveillance, everything else is just a bonus.
"damn lagkilling moon noobs!"
How long have you been in design? Do you remember what things were like before Adobe took over Macromedia? If you're still doing the majority of your design with raster graphics then I'd say that leaving Photoshop for Pixelmator is sort of like leaving it for Fireworks– raw feature lists probably won't make you switch, but if you get the workflow it really shines.
Why being a thinker takes quiet time
If someone is going to put a single bullet in his gun, spin the cylinder, point it at someone and fire then I think I would subsequently be quite justified in restraining them even if the gun didn't happen to go off that time. Likewise if the person was doing something that had a 1 in 60 chance of killing 10 people, and likewise if what they were doing had an tiny chance of killing millions of people.
One speed interferes with multi-player twitch FPS here, and it's not the bandwidth - it's the speed of light. Try playing an FPS with 2+ seconds of lag and it'll be very, very unpleasant.
> using electricity to charge them at your house (with 60% lost in transmission)

The overall losses in Germany are 7%. [1]

> It's more efficient to simply use hydrogen.

Only if you fake your numbers by an order of magnitude, see above.

> I don't understand why anyone would be convinced by arguments like this that don't include numbers.

Still better than your astroturf numbers. If hydrogen is better, so be it. However, the Tesla S can go 450km with one charge today and it can be charged everywhere.

An electric car is the nightmare of traditional car manufacturers: an electric motor costs nothing and lasts unlimited kilometers. You need no engine oil change, the brakes last a lot longer and cars will easily last 1.000.000 miles / kilometers and a lot more with little maintenance. You do need to change the battery but this is not money for the car manufacturer.

So there are two huge industries for which e-cars are a nightmare: petrol and classic car manufacturers.

Disclosure: I drive an MiEV an it works amazingly well.

[1] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Cbertragungsverlust (german)
That's mostly an issue of marketing, and not too difficult if you're familiar with the illegal, legal and medical markets that currently exist.

For example my fantasy business plan for Washington, the easiest way to get started, would have been to establish a "Dutch coffeeshop" brand, with Cannabis Cup winners and other famous strains. It's easy to go out and buy the genetics which already have an established reputation.
The New Dandelion: a plan for highly functional autistic employment
Because Pages and Numbers are free? Oh no, no no. You misunderstand how this works...
Not all factual discussions free of fallacy are productive. An Emacs user and I could easily talk past each other for hours.
Indeed we are in the same space as Twilio. However, we do have quite a number of differences. On the technical side, we have dedicated hardware for our media, which means that our call qualities are consistently great and drastically increases the number calls which can happen concurrently on our box. Our framework is also written on FreeSwitch, an open-source telephony platform. On the non-technical side offer 24/7 chat support at no extra cost and competitive pricing that just gets better with higher volumes. :)
This sort of thing is exactly why I didn't install Sublime Text on my new laptop. After using v2 for nearly a year and buying a license, I became more and more uncomfortable that if there was a problem with the product, I couldn't fix it myself. Having already been burned by TextMate, I decided enough was enough and only installed Emacs. That was last December, and I'd say I'm much happier - but I also spend a bit more time tweaking my editor than I probably should.

This is not to say I have anything against Sublime Text. It's a beautiful piece of work. It's simply not open source, and that's a deal breaker for a tool as integral to my day to day as a text editor.
> Greg still doesn't get it. He hasn't seen much of the world outside Microsoft, and still wonders why people don't want Silverlight. Still tells me how WPF is so much better that anything else out there.

Aren't both of those technologies, if not actually dead, certainly not the things that even _Microsoft_ wants people to be using these days?
Good summary of lessons learnt!
Who said C++ is bad?
While I can understand the sentiment (barely), the way it's written comes off as "F U".

Better might be "I welcome all feature requests but please understand I am one person with a day job. I would be thrilled for anyone to contribute coded features and pull requests.".
Love to hear what everyone thinks. I'm sure there will be questions, happy to answer them.
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Feinstein defends NSA data collection and insists program is 'not surveillance'
It turns out there is a whole sub-field of interaction between medicine and finance devoted to the economics of drug discovery. You can google it, but here's one example:

http://www.nature.com/clpt/journal/v87/n3/pdf/clpt2009298a.p...

I attended a talk by an economist (whose name I don't recall, alas) who discussed establishing a futures market for drugs, with portfolios which would smooth out variabilities in what works and does not. It's pretty much the same as what you described.
Without knowing this fact about Raphael, I was about to reply to another comment prematurely. I was going to complain that having the same author as Raphael doesn't explain why Snap.js exists, instead of a better version of Raphael.

Thank you.
SSL explained
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Even for the same method each version of Mac OS X can behave slightly different, which causes pains for the users due to crashes and the developers to scratch their heads to reproduce. I've read quite a number of blog posts that the developers tried to reproduce a bug only happens to Snow Leopard. Extra code had to be written only for that. You can imagine how the code will smell if extra efforts need to be made for each version. That's the fragmentation issue I talked about and had concerns with.
Keep in mind that Pfizer's strategy is in response to the incentives offered by the marketplace including regulations set forth by the FDA and patent office. It's not a free market that sense.

It's not hard for the FDA to streamline approval process so that development costs are lowered or for them to offer extended periods of market exclusivity so that costs can be recouped over a longer period of time.

The FDA has already moved on the regulatory aspect and companies have responded. Antibacterials is a much more attractive market now than it was 5 years ago.
And history repeats itself.

A new generation of webdevelopers using Wingdings when designing pages in Microsoft Frontpage.... sigh.
And that could change at the drop of a hat when a new president steps in - it's simply too risky a business proposition.
But _clang_ wasn't; it didn't exist. Clang isn't just another name for LLVM or something; it's a compiler using LLVM.
I regret having lived, for a short time, within trebuchet range of these folks and not doing anything with it.
The reason is in chrome the background tabs don't get frozen and stop executing etc...

Safari has had a huge makeover to improve the amount of energy use for things like background tabs/etc.... Or even not running when occluded by another window. Small things like that add up overall.

I think this is the way forward for improving the efficiency of our software in general. I'm glad someone is bringing power use to light alongside cpu/memory/disk/network.

As for the os level stuff, have you tested the actual time under use or just looked at the estimates?
I applaud his approach, at it demonstrates respect to other developers by explicitly communicating what others can expect of him. Although it's not required, I would hope that all devs who open source a project without any intention of heeding public issue trackers follow suit and proactively clarify that intention.

(Nothing--philosophically or legally--requires anyone to maintain an issue tracker for an open source project. There was a time when open source typically amounted to a tarball on an FTP server, and maybe a -dev list.)
Big plans for small spacecraft
That's is roughly my take on the situation. Until it is legal nationally, it is much too risky to make big money investments that would produce at scale, which would compensate for the thinner margins. At this point in time, you essentially have backyard growers competing against each other and those that stay on the black market can compete at lower prices and with higher margins.

If Washington and Colorado both make efforts to punish dealers who don't comply with state law, then that might push the risk-reward balance further to the legal side of things.
Wow, impressive! Will be interested to see how things progress.
Adobe seem to put out some pretty sweet HTML5 stuff. They know flash is going and are jumping on the next big thing in a healthy way.

That IDE he's using in the video is called brackets[1] and it's originally from adobe. I'm watching it closely to jump from sublime to it.

[1]: http://www.brackets.io/
A Java to AS3 compiler
Phages were the subject of one or two novels by Greg Bear. I often wonder when we might see more research in this area bearing fruit.
Wow, super clever guys. It looks really compelling as well. We had been wondering what rapportive was up to, and we're all very impressed.

Well done!
Wouldn't this essentially allow them access to read/analyze/archive all of your email for any account you set up?
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Or "Turn 'good looking' into 'spectacular'".
Scroll Hijacking
I have documented the API in Mashape (Disclaimer: I work for Mashape) - https://www.mashape.com/community/actual-reports#!documentat...
It took evolution billions of years to make machines that can run 60 miles per hour. It took humans a few thousand years to create machines that run about 12 times that fast.

It took evolution billions of years to make machines that could make machines that run about 700 miles per hours.
Hah, I was just having this conversation on Twitter earlier this morning. Patreon seems to be much more about putting out small, self-contained pieces of content; one page of my GN is not something anyone in their right mind would pay for. If I was doing gag-a-day it might be super awesome, though - especially if I had no interest in ever collecting the strips!
I had high hopes for Kod [1] but the developer joined Facebook and stopped developing it.

If Lime is intended for Mac, could do worse than starting with the Kod code base.

1: https://github.com/rsms/kod/
I find it a much bigger "F U" to host an issue tracker and completely ignore it (perhaps while you continue development on other features), or worse, close new items out of hand. At least he's taken the time to clarify what can be expected of him. To me, that's a simple show of respect toward the community.
Also, individuals don't evolve, populations do. So there is no "wanting" whether you've got a brain that can or not.
My guess: before the antibiotic, the minority resistant bacteria have to compete with the majority non-resistant. After, they can proliferate freely. Repeat with the next antibiotic, and soon all the ones we see are resistant to all the antibiotics we have.
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Evolution is actually a really crappy optimization algorithm. The reason it has worked so well is not that it is so effective, but because it's the only game in town. It took evolution billions of years to make machines that can run 60 miles per hour.

You come off as being dismissive of the power and beauty of evolution, although I don't think that's your intent. Evolution assembled the most complex system known to exist, starting from a handful of molecules, without any "thought" or "reasoning." The entire concept/illusion of life and consciousness was fabricated out of simple natural elements and physical processes. Amazing. Sure, once all of that has been put in place, it's trivial to expand upon. I'm sure you agree, I just like to take any opportunity to point this out. :)
"Hmmm, maybe this was a design error on my part, mixing deep thinking in a shooter game, I'm not sure?"

Not at all, sounds like a classic final boss achilles heel to me. I haven't played the game so I don't know how blatant the clue to defeat the boss is.
Evolution doesn't work the same way in bacteria as in other organisms due to horizontal gene transfer[1]. Bacteria can't be split into well-defined lines, because they share a common pool of genetic information.

[2] is a good book to get a perspective on antibiotic resistance.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal_gene_transfer
[2] http://www.perseusbooksgroup.com/dacapo/book_detail.jsp?isbn...
I don't get the sense from this comment that you totally know what you're talking about (neither is it my area of expertise). On the one hand, you're right that many humans are actively working on this problem. On the other hand, the data suggests to me that you might be overly optimistic. Only 2 new classes of antibiotics (oxazolidinones and cyclic lipopeptides) have been developed in the last 40 years. The rate of new antibiotic drugs reaching the market has decreased significantly as well. There are a finite number of biological mechanisms for antibiotics to disrupt, and the methods that bacteria use to develop resistance are quite general.