skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
$98,600, on the other hand, is entirely out of the question. And don't even dream of $99,000 or $100,000.
Even though such issues can be painful for the project, IMO It's good practice to allow some margin in the goal amount.
Stop worrying about where you’re going
I'm a former banker/pe/prop trader and this is completely garbage content. Are you sure you are an investment banker or a quant?

This is stuff almost no banker cares about. Bitcoins? r u kidding me? Most bankers don't even trade b/c they don't know anything about the markets. Who is your intended audience? bankers or traders or everyone in finance? Bc unlike hackers the banking industry is extremely broad, but in this case you should start with a very focused group.

If you want to know how to make this 100x better than you can contact me. (Also it's sad that you would apply a plug and plug model... should have expected that you would as a banker since all bankers love using templates; HN sucks in today's standards and it only works because it has network effect (i.e Craigslist). If you had to make something from scratch why not make it so much better with technology available today?

You want content that's juicy. stick to keycard bumping. that article got spread across every banking anlayst inbox in an hour. or how about $500k upper west side craigslist chick? know your audience and what they want to read about.
i guarantee you it's not 5 more articles on bitcoins.
> "All the power in the world" is overstating the case a bit.

I don't think it is. Einstein said compounding interest is the most powerful force in the universe. That's what it gives you. Higher margins that can be reinvested into growing the company. Over the lifetime of, say, Coca Cola (incorporated 1892), a 2% annual ROI which is then reinvested into the company will result in a company which is not quite 11 times as large. Make the ROI 8% instead and the company will be more than 11,000 times as large.

> Competition isn't turned off because of marketing. Any company that has a poor product with a large margin is subject to a competitor selling a better product at the same price or a similar quality product at a lower price.

This is provided the competition has equivalent marketing. Take the companies that charge you money for getting your credit report even though you can get it for free. Or any of the services offered by local towns (e.g. use of gym at the community center) at or below cost, with any number of for-profit gyms just down the street which charge much higher rates and see no shortage of business. Or the people who pay for proprietary software when there exists superior free software. Or, most relevantly for this place, the scads of companies run by engineers without good marketing (e.g. Novell) that had superior products and failed in the market because someone like Microsoft came in with something inferior and marketed it better.

> McDonald's and Burger King sell competitive (to each other) products at razor thin margins for this reason, and, by the way, not generally at higher prices than smaller competitor with much smaller marketing budgets.

Higher prices, no. Higher margins, yes. Because that market is highly price sensitive so it is more successful to expand margins by reducing quality than by raising prices.
Apple, PrimeSense And Perceptive Computing Or: Why Your Phone Will See In 3D
Youtube is down
http://puu.sh/5BBsH.png
Unlike a complaint naming turnip testicles, one that says tortious interference is less likely to get kicked by the judge in four seconds. Skating ->this<- close to the legal edge is definitely something worth bringing up.
It's a special case of a more general problem of a winner take all economy where almost all profits go to the holders of monopolies on attention and distribution channels.
Whats with the Error.. lol
Kudos to everyone doing a "HN for this" but I feel like there is something else about "HN" that makes it "HN" than just the simple UI. So, I dunno ...
what are the theoretical implications of the fact that any specific real must have a finite representation of some form?

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definable_number
Beyond “Sissy” Resilience: On Becoming Antifragile
Am I the only one who noticed and then though "I bet this is on HN already"?
http://puu.sh/5BBsH.png
yeah... why is that... ? what's going on...?
A team of highly trained monkeys has been dispatched to deal with this situation.
not down here
I find the whole banking world to be fascinating, much in the same way that I find the topic of cancer to be fascinating. Both are extremely complex and yet fundamentally simple. Don't get me wrong, I'd much rather have a bank than have cancer, I'm just saying that I love learning about how these complex systems work, how they work with (and against) other systems, and so forth.

In the case of international finance, I think it's really cool how an institution can help another institution raise capital, move debt, and mitigate losses. Like any system that involves independent actors, banking can (and usually is) diseased by those who are able (both intellectually and financially) to game it for their own gain and to the detriment of the system as a whole.

Banking, it seems, is almost aware of how self-destructive it is. These entities take on complex risks that the smartest people in the world can barely understand and they hope that everything will "just work" or, when things don't work, they rely on their overall value to the system - we can't let banks fail.

Still, I don't think all bankers are socially worthless. They help to create confidence in the banking system and in finance in general. It's only the "bad" bankers that are worthless, and even then they are only worthless to those who stand to lose if they fail.
I wonder what kind of websites are there in "Annoy People" folder.
I mean this in all seriousness ... Is there any evidence that anyone in the NSA is really that scared of stenography?
"the lead developer doesn't know the web" is in no way a legitimate reason.

(and I didn't ask for reasons at any point but hey whatever)
The reason they temporarily raise their apogee so high is that it reduces the delta-v cost of changing inclination. The cost of changing inclination is directly proportional to your speed at the moment when you do the inclination change. When you are in a highly eccentric orbit, your speed at apoapsis is much lower than your speed in a circular orbit.

Also, inclination burns can be combined with raising periapsis, which allows you to save some fuel thanks to the way they are at a 90 degree angle.

Another advantage is that it provides an easy and cheap way to deliver the spacecraft into the correct position in the stationary orbit, by controlling the orbital period of the eccentric orbit so that the periapsis will be where you want it to be (possibly after several orbits).

Because of this, the best possible way to launch from far away from the equator to a geostationary orbit is to launch to a highly eccentric orbit, at apoapsis when you intersect the equator simultaneously raise your periapsis to geostationary and fix your inclination, and then circularize at periapsis.

If this is interesting, and you don't already own kerbal space program, head over to the steam store right now.
can someone tell me bLhmfvFrxb85hdv8o0RqUlIQRlylHYNfpg9SMQXcM4aiFHYjPUGgctNTB1ww
xcxDe6ACXUi77iM_venx6vLbJF...... what is meaning of message. ? (you can see in youtube error.)
where is 'here'?
Koala Cage Fight
Not keen on letting Amazon hog the PR spotlight, Google lets Andy Rubin out of the doghouse because the X Labs are all tapped out.
:) :P
The best kind.
:( Are you one of those people that doesn't like to call things what they are? I have noticed many problems in life are due to people know wanting to call things what they are.
You're right. That's fucking genius.

Talk about a work-from-home desk...
Sounds like a really interesting talk -- do you know if it was recorded & posted anywhere?
Couple of refreshes brought the homepage up in Safari, Chrome doesnt.
"Just saw a nerd flamewar debating if I'm a bad programmer. I'm self-taught, prefer working along, and program for fun. Don't learn from me."

https://twitter.com/notch/status/408011329237049344

Gotta feel sorry for him, he didnt ask to be or not to be an idol, must be disconcerting to have a bunch of random strangers talking about how good you are.
I'm trying to figure out how to hack this psychology. I'm starting at 1/10 what I NEED, and running it into a phase II. That way we can declare an initial victory to capture the 'people like to back a winner' and then leverage the donor network to go the whole way.
We, as a polity, control the rules of the system in which all this stuff happens. If the system we've built exhibits behaviors that we find undesirable, then we can change the rules.

For example, pollution is an activity which is often commercially valuable (in that polluting can help a factory produce a given product without paying the costs of mitigating the pollution). But it's socially undesirable, and we restrict it. We don't just throw up our hands and say, "well, it's commercially valuable, that's how the free market works, I guess we just have to breathe brown air".
Amazon To Look Into Deliveries By Self-Driving Car
Sounds like it's time for a new edition of this classic:

http://www.amazon.com/Dow-100-000-Fact-Fiction/dp/0735201374

Make sure to read the 1999 reviews.
Why I disabled GMail Tab view
Canada Is About To Change Its Laws To Support ACTA
Why is he in the dog house?
Ben Noordhuis's Departure
> So skimping on security is always a terrible idea. If you know of a way to increase security, then you should increase it.

This is what all of the "security" vendors would like you to believe. It completely ignores the value of the assets you are securing.

How many rounds do you use with PBKDF2 if you want to slow down attackers? You can always add more rounds to slow down brute forcing, so how would you reconcile this with your statement of always increasing security. The same applies to bcrypt.
Andy Rubin Poses With Same Drone in 2007 & 2013 NYTimes Articles...
> Spotify relative to other services

This section is highly misleading. US terrestrial radio mainly pays song writers not "artists", and it pays them decently well. This section should be regarded as a solid lie.
Study: Data Center Downtime Costs $7,900 Per Minute
Youtube is down?
Youtube shows a pretty funny 500 internal server error.
Instruction per clock, not iteration per clock. Each iteration of the tight loop takes 6 cycles there.
Previously debunked: the actual number is 1 or 2 orders of magnitude lower. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6829860
From an artist's perspective, the decision to sign up for Spotify basically comes down to one question:

Does the benefit in music discovery make up for the cost of losing album/download sales?

I did the calculations once and I forget the details, but the gist is that without factoring in music discovery benefit, an indie artist probably only hopes someone chooses to stream instead of download if the listener is going to stream the song around 1,000 times or more. Otherwise, you get more financial upside if they buy the download.

So the question is if any discovery benefit will shrink that number enough. This would include the people who stream and don't buy but would never have bought in the first place, as well as the people who stream and then buy.

The answer is difficult to prove because you get into weird counterfactual questions, and there really aren't any good studies out there from unbiased experimenters. But it's pretty reasonable for a rational musician to decide that any discovery benefit will not make up for the cost in losing album or download sales.
I agree. I'd say the real lesson to learn here is to be _observant_ of your handshakes and other social acclimates. All of those things will appear confident if you practice awareness and true fulfillment and backing of what you are doing. Deception and deceit, ulterior motives, are what _kill_ genuineness. So put your mind in the positive zone when meeting potential partners. They may want to take you for a ride but probably less so if they like you. And thus, perception without deflection, is a true rule of executive sportsmanship.
I've got an even better idea that will reduce security hassles... Ditch the TSA and the screening program.
This is really interesting and clean implementation. Nice work.
Appears to only be the homepage, Direct video urls work fine.
It's down right now: http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/youtube.com
the screenshot http://imm.io/1lvtF shows really funny message. Any help what this message could mean?
Yeah, but it's sort of just a comical thing that is getting tired and played out... Let's be honest, it was a slow news day for the Atlantic.
"Somebody is saying this is inevitable - and whenever you hear somebody saying that, it's very likely to be a set of businesses campaigning to make it true." -- Richard Stallman

"Futilism is futile." -- Imade Thatup
The real magic is:

customer acquisition cost < customer lifetime value

Now, one way to get there is referrals. But other ways to get there is to have a product good enough that at least you get repeat customers, and still yet another way is to find a way to cheaply acquire new customers through advertising/marketing/distribution channels/etc (i.e., "growth hacker" route). That last one is pretty hard to sustain if your product is "bad" but might work if your product is "ok". The other two require varying degrees of positive customer experiences.

Generally the tried and true way to get the job done is to build a product that reliably gets return customers to maximize customer lifetime value. Then you continually reinvest every dime you've got on sales/marketing to drive out that fast growth to give yourself advantages of scale as quickly as you possibly can.

This tried and true approach works better where you aren't in a market where you are constantly reinventing your product/company (i.e., not the tech business). For tech companies, the referral approach is the easier one to pull off.

So while I wouldn't entirely disagree with the article, I think as a consequence of perhaps being overly focused on tech, it's under appreciating the value of a proper marketing & sales strategy.
Looked like the developer was notified in 2013, not 2010. The flaw was just posted somewhere in 2010.
you'll need to ask those monkeys!
That's interesting. While it may be slightly less particular it allows for more organic conversation. I appreciate your insight.
I think many of your examples are wrong.

Time magazine, Warner Bros, TBS and HBO all benefitted immensely from excellent products and word of mouth.

Regarding Comcast, I know you're hung up on the use of "only" but being a government-issued monopoly probably makes it a less interesting example for this topic. Despite that, we would need to go back in Comcast's history to really understand how it grew.

Oracle and Cisco are terrible examples since they originally produced market-leading products and gained very strong word-of-mouth.

From a cursory reading of Epic history, it also sounds like a bad example for you since it relied heavily on reference customers.

Drugs obviously have huge word-of-mouth spread.
This is one of those zombie beliefs that never die. I can't blame any particular person for holding it, but it's really not accurate. Touring and merch is just as much of a grind as music sales.
Do what you love http://www.paulgraham.com/love.html

Think twice about collage degree. Your view may be biased because of the environment.
Ask HN: Can Khan Academy replace a standard high school math course?
I've been following Kahn Academy's math videos / quiz's and find them excellent. I sucked at math during school, mostly due to bad teachers early on which lead to a fear of math in later years when it got more advanced and my foundations were weak. I would like to re-teach myself math from the absolute beginnings, covering everything that my high school education would of covered if I had of taken advanced math subjects in my final years. If I were to do ALL of Kahn's math content, would that more or less cover everything and leave me as equipped? The topics listed seem pretty extensive.

It might help to know I'm in Australia and high school for us goes to year 12, after which we go to University. The final year more advanced math subjects covers topics such as differential calculus, integral calculus, circular functions, probability and the behaviour of functions with a single real variable, conic sections, complex numbers, differential equations, kinematics, vector calculus and mechanics (taken from a wikipedia description of the subject).

Thoughts and suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
he's subsumed his identity so far into 'becoming a copyright wonk' that he can't see how people DO make it without copyrighting (and who are even more radical about it than the pirate party). Nina Paley, for example.
Nice, we are currently implementing the rest of the Stackexchange sites, as we started with just Stackoverflow. The caliber of content on the stackexchange network is phenomenal. Is there a specific stackexchange site that you would be proud to display your credentials from? Thanks!
> If this is interesting, and you don't already own kerbal space program, head over to the steam store right now.

And if you like Kerbal Space Program, but you find it isn't quite sadistic enough, go download Orbiter.
World Cup Draw Takes Shape
Time Warner is Time magazine, Warner Bros, HBO and TBS. All having massive word of mouth spread.
Setup a jailed shell with jailkit on ubuntu
There are a ton of comparison charts out there... one thing to keep in mind is that a service like Pandora is completely different than a service like Spotify. Different royalty rates, different implications. It comes down to the fact that on Pandora, you can't request particular songs.

For that reason, artists don't tend to mind Pandora too much, since any royalty income they get from Pandora is basically gravy. It doesn't really rob album sales. You could argue that it robs radio play (since radio is less popular now), leading to lower royalties that way, but it's a different beast than Spotify. For Spotify, a person can request a certain artist/song and listen to the stream, without buying the track/album. It robs album/download sales, and it's debatable (to put it charitably) whether the "music discovery" benefit makes up for that loss.
This is so sad on many different levels. A guy who clearly liked working on this module has to make a choice to walk (which is his choice) because people get offended by pronouns. I seriously don't like where all this is headed: where he, she, they are all NEEDED so people don't get offended. This is the whole christmas thing all over again, and it needs to be enforced by society that just because you don't like something and it "offends" you then it doesn't mean that people can't/won't do it. in this case, a very popular project loses a great contributor but how long before other things like this starts happening because people are "offended" by little things. Good job on Ben for standing on for whats right, and hope more people take his route and say enough is enough.
And I could sue you for libel and have it last more than four seconds, too. You're skating awfully close to the legal edge!

No, actually, you're not, any more than Sam is. This isn't a close call.
This is why Kickstarter is not a store. A pledge is not the purchase of a good, it's a donation towards a goal with an optional reward attached to it.
Reference customers are absolutely critical in the enterprise.
It would be really interesting to see a follow-up post showing the number of sign-ups you got in each 5-minute (or whatever) period subsequent to posting this on HN. I think it's a great idea and long overdue.
'Donglegate' 2.0. Also this submission will not be on the front page in less than 30 minutes.
I don't know if it is a feature ... I mean ... money talks. (I know we are all altruists here though :) )
Does not have an option to flag a submission. First thing i missed.
How does a leaked slide of their desktop roadmap indicate that they will only make APUs now? Wouldn't it be likely that they still make server processors?

I wouldn't be surprised if the ultra high end desktop cpu market isn't that large so they are assuming people who want that sort of power can just buy server processors.
I must've read it wrong, or you fixed it, 'cause I read it as 25 seconds, hence my question! :)
Here are some thoughts about whether the time is right for you to start freelancing:

- Technical ability: I wouldn't worry here; if you have the skills you mention, then you probably have the ability to solve meaningful business problems with them.

- Business ability: This is much more important. Are you able and willing to get out there and network? Can you talk with people and find pain points you can solve? Would you be comfortable constantly working to fill your pipeline, while delivering projects?

- Family state: Are you supporting a spouse or children? Do you need comprehensive health insurance, or are you a twenty-something who is basically invincible?

- Financial state: Do you have some savings that you can use as a runway for ramping up? What yearly income would you need to make to maintain your standard of living?

These are just some discussion-starters, but hopefully they are helpful.
Is it too early to reference Skynet and Terminator?
I'm in support Ben's decision 100%.
Ah! I didn't know that. And of course most (all?) of these cases are civil cases. That makes much more sense to me, thanks!
Bitcoin as Programmable Money
Thanks. All props should go to Paul Haeberli for the original idea.

I should really update it to add controls for mass and friction. Actually I should make a jsfiddle for this. But, I'm in the middle of something else at the moment..
This is the same thing I'd do if I've faced something like this.

All I have to say is Node community is fool enough to lose a talent like Ben.

I've got $250 credits from Joyent as a gift for Node Knockout. I will never it and never suggest any of my clients to choose Joyent.
What I'm saying is that they Founding Fathers feared the BoR would be construed as being such a recipe when it plainly was not intended that way. Willful abuse of logical fallacies is common, needing only a pretext to build them on. The BoR was intended as an emphasis of what was not allowed, addressing key concerns; alas, the malicious point at it and contend that because it does not include every right to the point of encyclopedic completeness, anything not covered must not have been intended - which is obviously absurd, yet proves persuasive to the easily confused.
In case anyone missed it: Prezi finally decided to pay him the bounty.

Still a bad move to have denied him the bounty in the first place, but good to see that they're listening to the outrage.
Surely, the moment to sell is when people believe there's no top?
What kind of background is Google looking for when recruiting people to work on teams like these?
Sure:

http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/webhelp/reloading-classes.html

Mind you it's limited to the built-in method swapping that the JVM offers.

But you can get more; see also:

http://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2013/07/get-true-hot-swap-in-...

It was more than sufficient for my needs.
Mind-Reading Headset Gives You The Power Of The Force
You're lucky you have anyone in your country :) South Africa isn't listed