skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, please. All writing is inherently motivational. Dispassionate writing on the web isn't very inspirational. Write passionately about anything and you'll be bound to piss off some group or constituency. This walking-on-eggshells, I-can't-write-a-line-until-it's-group-vetted stuff kills creativity and makes everything it touches stale.
By running at zero profit margin, Amazon is essentially growing itself as fast as it can manage, i.e. reinvest every dollar. Its current revenue growth is even faster than Google. That ensures itself as the biggest ecommerce platform for years to come. If it wants more profit, it can certainly do it. I believe Amazon will eventually automate most of its systems, like using robots instead of humans for warehouse, and gain significant profit margin. Chinese company Taobao (like eBay) provided free service for 5 years, and gained dominant market share. Now it is hugely profitable.

On the other hand, Jeff is likely more interested in just growing the business than counting profit dollars.
>However a key point that is often missed is that there is very little that shareholders can do to force CEOs to do their bidding. In spite of a lot of talk about activist shareholders, the only real discipline that management face is the thread of being bought out.

Eh? Shareholders elect the board, and the CEO serves at the pleasure of the board. The shareholders can absolutely do something to force the CEO to do their bidding - they can fire him. It happens all the time.
Unreal. I never thought that I'd have enough "fun money" in my life lying around to actually be able to buy a plane in my lifetime but I apparently do now. You are tapping into a pretty healthy market at this price point I think.
I'm running the latest Linux Mint on an old Dell XPS M1330 (Centrino Duo and 2GB Ram, end of 2007) and it runs quite well.
Ubuntu is too heavy for an old machine like the one you're talking about, try Mint
Debian technical committee asked to decide on sysv vs systemd vs upstart
For the record, this can be disabled in the Admin panel, but as said, this is opt-out without much disclosure that it's indeed opt-out.
It doesn't seem to work in OS X 10.8, it starts then closes immediately. Also the choice of wxWIdgets for a new app is quite unfortunate, I think Qt is generally easier to develop with and to make it work on different platforms.

The idea of a minimalist cross-platform and open source Bittorrent client is great though, I really wish there was some good alternative to replace uTorrent.
It would certainly be terrible for the shareholders. The whole point of investing in a company is to share in the profit.
The first computer i donated to my folks was win 3.1 no internet. Then win nt 4 still no internet. Finally xp with a dial up connection. Now in their 70's they don't use a computer at all. Finally no more support issues.
Notezilla (http://notezilla.io) is working on doing this for piano (and vocal/chamber/orchestral music).

It launched on HN a little over 2 months ago and garnered considerable interest: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6226607
After i read this thread and since i was really busy in the past couple of months, i just realized that for the first time ever all my devices (2 laptops, 1 desktop) are all Ubuntu, and yet i didn't feel i needed to change anything, i think the cloud based apps + the nature of my work (programming) made the choice on my behalf and i couldn't agree more!.
Gov't Contractor abuses legal system to attack Open Source Developer
Excellent post, I just started using Pandas last week and this will be helpful.
My first question, is gopher relevant? is answered here http://gopher.floodgap.com/overbite/relevance.html
I forget exactly what we paid, but it was ~$7500, I think. Expensive, but we figured that it would build some trust and wouldn't be an embarrassing domain to have in your blog title (sett.com/alec vs superblog9000.com/alec). I think we bought it through Sedo, where prices vary wildly.

In searching, we also found this seller on ebay (no affiliation) that had a bunch pretty cheaply. I sort of liked omot.com, but not enough to buy. http://stores.ebay.com/Short-Domains/LLLL-com-4-Letter-dot-c...
To bolster @hayksaakian's point (plus I just like the name of the Chair position):

"The current state of patents and patent litigation in this country is shameful," said Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks. "Silly patent lawsuits force prices to go up while competition and innovation suffer. That's bad for consumers and bad for business. It's time to fix our broken system, and EFF can help. So that's why part of my donation funds a new title for EFF Staff Attorney Julie Samuels: 'The Mark Cuban Chair to Eliminate Stupid Patents'."

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-patent-project-gets-h...
I'm not aware of a good reason to prefer ClojureScript+Node.js in general. Maybe if you wanted interop with a specific Node library, but otherwise, Clojure on the JVM will tend to have vastly better performance, and the tooling is better.

For example, until recently ClojureScript's :keywords were just strings under the hood and it required a string compare to test equality. Apparently this is no longer the case due to this commit 2 months ago: https://github.com/clojure/clojurescript/commit/2cef52840fcd... but it shows you the kind of stuff you might run into. In a recent talk I saw by David Nolen, the lead maintainer of the ClojureScript compiler, he brought up multimethod dispatch as something that can still be as much as 100 times slower than the JVM.

As a tooling example, Clojure gives you helpful errors if you initialize records the wrong way:

user=> (defrecord Thing [foo bar])
user.Thing
user=> (Thing. 1 2) ; correct usage
#user.Thing{:foo 1, :bar 2}
user=> (Thing. 1) ; wrong number of fields

CompilerException java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No matching ctor found for class user.Thing, compiling:(/tmp/form-init7089728177345913731.clj:1:1)
user=> (Thing 1 2) ; forgetting the dot

RuntimeException Expecting var, but Thing is mapped to class user.Thing clojure.lang.Util.runtimeException (Util.java:219)

That's good! Especially if you're new to the language. You see where you messed up right away.

But ClojureScript just silently gives you nils:

ClojureScript:cljs.user> (defrecord Thing [foo bar])
cljs.user/Thing
ClojureScript:cljs.user> (Thing. 1 2) ; correct usage
#cljs.user.Thing{:foo 1, :bar 2}
ClojureScript:cljs.user> (Thing. 1) ; wrong number of fields
#cljs.user.Thing{:foo 1, :bar nil}
ClojureScript:cljs.user> (Thing 1 2) ; forgetting the dot
nil

This should be a bug report against the CLJS compiler (edit: now it is[1]), and it's probably not that hard to fix. I could fix it. You could fix it. (The CLJS compiler is very approachable and needs contributors, by the way.) But, especially as a newbie, this kind of stuff can bite you. JVM Clojure is more polished.

1. http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJS-639
This sort of thing looks like it could be quite handy, not seen a service like this marketed before.
How judges can be so ignorant and ready to do the bidding of the establishment, is beyond me.
Actually, removing RSS streams is what makes twitter a business. They hold the keys to the data and can charge customers for access to the firehose.

Your assumption is that the news consumption pattern ultimately dictates where the producers flock, which makes sense in the traditional journalistic business model. In a model where individual users contribute, the key factor is which platform gives users an easy way to speak (and I would argue that twitter has done a decent job at reducing the tweet friction)
It's funny; ten years ago the explanation was exactly the opposite. "Maybe young people can pick up Linux, but there's no way my grandma could ever figure it out." I'm inclined to believe that both are post hoc rationalizations of a phenomenon whose true cause is entirely unrelated.
How is a system of axioms different from a system of beliefs?
If you acquired your shares for $0 (for example, you contributed your labor to earn those shares), then upon selling the business in your example you would recognize capital gains of $165k, not $65k.

Yes, I was assuming you purchased at $100k to illustrate the cost basis. I should have been more clear on that point.

If you want to argue that double taxation is justified as the price of limited liability, go ahead. But it's silly to compare the capital gains rate to the income tax and then ignore the corporate tax rate. Combined they amount to a lot more than personal income taxes. This is why the wealthy contribute such a disproportionate amount to the US treasury.
I did this for a while, but mintty is good enough now and comes in Cygwin's standard packages.
Yes, it does indeed happen occasionally. However, such actions are relatively rare, hence the term "wall street walk" for large block holders selling their shares when they are unhappy with management, rather than trying to influence them.
No subsidy. Most of my non-wall street friends pay in the $600-800 range as well. Among this subset, the farthest one to the south is on 106th, and the farthest one north is on 160th. I'm 1/2 a block from the nearest A/C/E station and about 4 streets/a 5 minute walk from the 1.
That's all true, but Amazon is free cash flow positive. So it's not like they're making huge "losses" after deducting capex.
Nobody has mentions the UI. I know Ubuntu has come a long way but Windows' UI is much, much nicer. It may sound silly but I think it's a valid reason for some. The same reason why one would buy an iPhone over another less expensive (or non-apple) phone, you pay for looks (it may not be the only reason of course but it is part of it). People like nice-looking stuff, and older folks seem to care (or notice) less these things, especially if they're not technologically inclined.
That's only the rub if the plaintiff is a producing entity. Some of the patent litigation has been from NPE's, and in others I can't imagine that there is often a tit-for-tat counter suit opportunity. My gut feel is that this article is taking a hot topic (the twitter IPO) and blowing one angle of it out of proportion.
Cool! Its amazing what we can do with WebRTC. I create this site (https://github.com/imomin/videoChat) just for fun.
Are you guys trying to replace Skype? Because, that is what most freelancers and contractors are using it.
SearchTempest (http://www.searchtempest.com/) -- Search multiple craigslist cities, eBay, Amazon, etc., in a single search. Cool because it's all based on Google Custom Search, so we can do it without scraping craigslist (or indeed, accessing them at all).

AutoTempest (http://www.autotempest.com/) -- Similar idea, except searches multiple used car classifieds sites: craigslist (via SearchTempest), AutoTrader, Cars.com, eBay Motors, Oodle, CarsDirect... We're affiliated with some of the sites, and for the others we use Google Custom Search, and/or link to their results pages in new windows.
There's also a demo online at http://demo.keystonejs.com - it's very simple but you get the idea of how to structure an app, the source code is on github.

If you want to check out the admin ui, you can sign in to the demo at http://demo.keystonejs.com/keystone with the username demo@keystonejs.com and the password demo.
The headless daemon works great on a Raspberry Pi, too (assuming the Pi has some storage to use). Transmission-remote-gtk used as a client for it is heavenly.
Well that is pretty tempting! I would be inclined to contribute if I was working on some project where it made sense to use ClojureScript. Perhaps in a couple months when I start working on front end stuff I'll have the chance!

Thanks!
(wasn't sure if that LOD was called for, or in good taste, considering that this is not a site about pharmacology or neurochemistry).

In my experience, detailed knowledge is always welcome on Hacker News, especially if it comes from another highly technical field outside software.
Twitter's patent portfolio (not including patents not assigned to Twitter, Inc. that may be held by Twitter employee inventors):

http://www.plainsite.org/flashlight/index.html?id=467846&tab...
The article doesn't support the claim that the NSA is for hire, or even the Boeing knew what was going on. You can only take from it that the NSA may act in US corporate interests.
Nah, the Mexican government imposes a $100 tax on all international flights.
Awesome Initiative!!!
Right, I'm getting that, but what exactly is the fear? Can you give me a specific scenario?
Steve Young Is Still Earning Millions Off His USFL Contract From 1984
A couple of years ago, our home desktop which had windows 7 died. My parents needed a new desktop and i gave them my old laptop running ubuntu. Most of the time, my parents use it to browse websites and little bit of spreadsheet and powerpoint. The default ubuntu installation had all that.

Also the flash support has increased considerably. There was a time when hangouts or facebook video chat had issues. now it works butter smooth
Unsolicited advice, but: I'm not sure that's the best business model for a tool aimed at writers. Github's model succeeded because there was already a thriving community of people contributing open-source work; with writing, most FOSS licenses don't make sense for the way that the content is consumed, and there isn't much of a pre-existing community built up around it that you can lean on. Most importantly, though, and unlike OSS, even people who publish in the public domain generally don't write drafts in it: they release articles and stories when they're finished.

I'd try to structure your business model more along the lines of behavior that people already have. Some ideas off the top of my head:

1. Notebooks. All writers are intimately familiar with the concept, and having separate notebooks is a useful organizational tool. First notebook's free, and you can pay for the rest.

2. Blogging. You can have one private working document at a time, and unlimited number of public blog posts. The private document is important — no one wants to publish half-finished. Want more working documents? Pay up.

3. Collaborators. You can collaborate with one person for free; if you want multiple collaborators, you have to pay.

I'm sure you can come up with others. My point just is: structure your company around your customers.
I've been using another one in pure Javascript for testing WebGL Scenes: https://github.com/danielribeiro/threejs-test
If you haven't yet done so, I also recommend reading the article posted here (Confessions of a Drone Warrior) -- I think quite a few of these commenters either commented before reading, didn't read the article very thoroughly, or took the article with quite a few pounds of salt. It references the study/report on PTSD among drone pilots, among other things.
http://cyclingplanner.com -- a season planner and training/results tracker for competitive cyclists.

It's cool because:

* A lot of cyclists are still planning on paper or spreadsheet, including me before I started working on this. It scratches my own itch and I believe I can make the experience a lot better.

* It collaborates instead of competes with services like Strava and Garmin Connect. Because it's using their API's cyclists can keep logging their workouts on those services and view detailed analytics on cyclingplanner.

* It's my first serious attempt at bootstrapping a software product and I've learned a ton of interesting stuff aside from coding so far.
That sounds nice and all, but the real solution is to have the government respect the constitutionally protected free press.
What is the basis of your question? Are you interested in why those particular changes have not yet occurred? Or are you looking for the answer to why further error reduction methodologies have not yet been incorporated into our cellular mechanics, as mentioned by brianchu?
Let me start by say that I am actually a fan of Linux, but not much of a fan of the community that surrounds it and for what it's worth, this is just my opinion. Obviously everybody's milage will undoubtedly vary! My personal experience of Gnome 3 is the polar opposite of yours. I cannot stand it. The UI elements are just horrible and I find the paradigm clunky and lacking in coherence. In fact I find the experience similar to Windows 8, with it's confused metaphors. Unity, while visually more appealing is not much better in terms of usability; the lens paradigm I find irksome. While there is no doubt, IMHO, that it should be surprising that anyone can get "real" work done with the software available on the various Linux desktops available, I feel that there has be a regression in the UX that really does need addressing.
My mom is 50+ and used XP for a couple of years before my dad installed Xubuntu on her netbook. Turned out she didn't really need Microsoft Word for writing, she only used it because she knows it from work. Same with Outlook. I think many users are in a similar situation and could easily switch platforms saving money for both hardware and software. The only reason why there is still an old Windows PC at my parents home is the Adobe Software for their Sony ebook reader. (Damn you, DRM!)
You really want Transmission.

http://www.transmissionbt.com/
It's deeper than that. The difference in views influences everything you compute. For example, Frequentists compute p-values, which is P(reject null hypothesis | null hypothesis is true) [1].

In contrast, Bayesians compute P(null hypothesis is false | prior knowledge).

Similarly, Frequentists compute confidence intervals (say at 5%), which is an interval that represents the set of null hypothesis you can't reject with a 5% p-value cutoff. In contrast, Bayesians compute credible intervals, which represent a region having a 95% probability of containing the true value.

Personally, I'm solidly in the Bayesian camp simply because I can actually understand it. To take an example, consider Bem's "Feeling the Future" paper [2] which suggests that psychic powers exist. From a Bayesian perspective, I understand exactly how to interpret this - my prior suggests psychic powers are unlikely, and my posterior after reading Bem's paper is only a little different from my prior. I don't know how to interpret his paper from a Frequentist perspective.

[1] http://www.bayesianwitch.com/blog/2013/godexplainspvalues.ht...

[2] http://www.dbem.ws/FeelingFuture.pdf For background, his statistical methods were fairly good, and more or less the standard of psychology research. If you reject his paper on methodological grounds, you need to reject almost everything.
This is by far the best presentation at StartupSchool 2013. I was in awe when I saw it from the 9th row.
Awesome. I'll keep an eye on this, thanks.
I have to refute that statement in regards of Windows 8 on desktop. The amount of confusion in that UI, even for me, is a handful.

If we ignore the metro side of things, I agree with you however.
Having done several years of college using LaTeX religiously, I can safely say it isn't a replacement for Word. I found my documents were immaculate, but I wasted a lot of time on relatively simple things (getting the pt's right, margin's, title pages, etc..)
> I want to challenge implicit assumptions about the audience of technical writing.

I think this is the problem other people are picking up on. Implicit in the idea that you need special technical explanations targeted to women is some notion that women have difficulty with "regular" tutorials. What is that notion? Is there a gender bias to most technical explanations? If so, how does it work, and how is this different? Perhaps there is something, but it needs to be stated and applied.

Without making your "we need explanations specifically targeted to women" theory explicit and robust, you just come off as saying "women need tutorials, so I made you one", which is why it comes off as condescending. Worse, since the tutorial seems perfectly "normal", it's easy to think you're just name-checking a concern as intro boilerplate and then writing a totally unrelated thing about Clojure.

The thing is, it's good article about Clojure. It can stand on its own, and women will read it because it's useful and because they want to know about the language. Perhaps they do need a tutorial, but not because they're women.
Upbeat (https://www.upbeatapp.com/) -- hackernews meets soundcloud.

It's cool because:

* Users can democratically decide which music is popular.

* Music is browseable by genre, and filterable by sub genre.

* Users can save songs and add them to a queue for later listening.

* Powered by Angular.js, Node.js, Redis.

* Average server response time: 9ms

* Bootstrapped by 3 friends, in less than 1 month, only working nights and weekends.

* Already profitable.
It's both the shell and the terminal software that's awful.

Conemu comes pretty close to solving the terminal software problem, and there are alternatie shells, e.g. Powershell or bash from cygwin.
2. You really don't need to know about automata theory, linear algebra or whatever to be a good developer. Brings me back to what I said in 1.

No, but all of those things (like the Fourier transform you skipped mentioning) can be used to turn difficult problems into simple ones, making you an even better developer.
Michelle Obama's Princeton classmate is top executive at CGI Federal
One word: Cinnamon

It's what Ubuntu should be, its what Windows 8 should be! it's classic and yet functional and customizable, both my parents laptops are using it as UI and I hear no complaints.
It's been a while since I've used Cygwin (using Linux Mint for everything except gaming and music editing now), so I hadn't even heard of mintty. I'll check it out if I find a need for a good console in Windows again.
People in wintery climates who want SUVs want them because the roads are frequently uncleared, or because they need to travel at night during a blizzard when the snow is piling high. If snow and ice removal operated 24/7, I agree that a smaller car would be just fine.
I'm curious, have any of you consulted a MD before taking the doses you are taking right now? WebMD doesn't count.
"I'm the sort of guy who tells everyone he knows "buy a Mac!". I'm now hesitant, for the first time in a long while. "

You can still buy a Mac and use Office (MS Excel best spreadsheet on the planet), or Scrivener, etc...

Apple is distracted (perhaps correctly so) by the MASSIVE revenue/profit stream that is iOS. The Software revenue for the Mac is minuscule in comparison. All of their attention/energy will be pouring gasoline on the iOS platform, possibly to the exclusion of everything else.

The good news is we can ignore the Apps that Apple is churning out, and use the ones that make sense for us. I'm a 4+ year Aperture user who probably is going to have to bite the bullet and shift to Lightroom (perhaps 2 years later than I should). On the pro-side, nobody in business was using the Numbers product, so they aren't in any way impacted by the iWork news.

I do feel for those who used Pages (I actually know quite a few who preferred it to Word) - but, the old version of Pages still works, even after Upgrade, and, eventually, the Pages product will start to move forward again as the iOS platform evolves.

Overall rational and profit seeking move by Apple, even if it does screw a lot of their power users.
What??

Unless you have an express license or permission to make use of a derived work of Coors's trademarks, I'd just say that this is not so cool. Specifically, I doubt that you actually registered a "CorsLit" trademark, which completely mimicks the one by Coors Light, by keeping the ® symbol in place. Any trademark office would have rejected this registration.

I'm just an engineer, telling you this nicely. I'm sure, Coors will find other words, should your tool become more popular.
Cool! How do you plan to deal with theft? Most bike lights are trivial to steal. I tend to avoid the fancy ones since in my experience lights disappear immediately as soon as the bike's parked (unless I remove them and put them in a bag every time I park, but that's a pain). Curious how you're addressing that.
Windows 8.1 downloads drivers without prompt.