skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the main problem is cost, Amazon's costs prevent startups like Everpix from existing as does it for video startups and various other startups that require a lot of storage. I think Digital Ocean's disruption of the very established VPS market is the model to follow.

Personally I'd like to have all my data in the cloud.

1. 300GB growing at 25-50GB/year

2. Backup / cloud storage

3. Possibly, though I'd like SFTP access really

4. no

5. Don't lose my data, probably not down for more that 3-4 hours in one go.

6. Enough to stream video to back to my box

7. Not really, I'd assume the chance of data center being down is pretty small.

Hitachi 500GB USB $2.4/month (based on $60 drive with 2 year warranty)
Backblaze $5/month [Unlimited]
Crashplan $5/month [Unlimited]
Amazon charge $22.80/month
Dropbox $50/month [500GB] (though I still need a local copy)
Digital Ocean instance $320/month

I think there is opportunity to come in at half of Amazon's price or less and that could lead to a new set of start-ups that could build on that.
My experience in American corporate is characterized by management organized to eek out every last bit of productivity.

Should that perhaps read: "...management organized to eek out every last bit of activity"?

There is a bias in favour of 7.5 or 8 (or more) hours of "active work", that is, "doing stuff", and many workers figure out how to fill their day with activity in the guise of productivity. Eventually management realizes workers have more time than they need, send in efficiency experts, people are laid off and tasks reassigned, and the cycle begins anew.

Workers tied to tightly synced processes, e.g., production lines, don't have this experience, generally, they are basically self-maintaining production machines themselves (no insult intended, some are highly skilled, but they plugged into an assembly line doing work machines cannot yet do - or for which capable machines are too expensive).

For the rest of the working world, let's baldly and boldly and wrongly say there are two other types of workers, so-called knowledge workers and all others (service industry agents, social workers, etc., etc.).

The latter are effectively in a process-oriented workflow whose event timings are unpredictable but broadly known. Escaping the activity trap would require data and prediction and flexibility that may simply be unfeasible with processes that are nearly 100% person dependent and person oriented. As long as management knows this, and accepts it, then there should be less need to fill in time appearing active, because productivity will occur when it needs to.

But when management loses sight of this, all manner of upset happens.

For the broad knowledge worker class, the solution is milestone-based management, with reasonable consideration given for reasonable downtime, since time spent not on the problem, whatever it is, is often the best time spent on the problem, because of the flashes of insight and mental rest that occur when not working so hard on whatever it is.
Approaching it with the attitude of "how do I add 100k" is the first mistake. You need to find a genuine problem that you can solve. The rest will work itself out.
Hear Hear - let them ride public buses (and eat cake).

Hate it when the great unwashed get uppity.
Virtual Reality Lets Men And Women Swap Bodies
This isn't an answer. It's still a reminder of genderedness just as much as bro is. The word "niggardly" is offensive to some because of its similarity to the n-word. That doesn't make its offense less real.
The flip side of the story is that having RMS pushing for copy left software relentlessly means you have an free OS + kernel and free development tools that can run on practically any given device.

APPLE is one of the few companies that refuses to use GPL because they are staunchly anti copy left. There are many companies out there that feel otherwise.

Before I get too far off the road, the point I am trying to make is that the business models ARE changing back to be more free. They changed in the first place from free to proprietary in the late 70s.
I don't understand what this comment has to do with the article.
If you wait long enough, Steveklabnik will come here to white knight the honour of Rails. Never Fails!
You felt the need to create a troll account just to say this? That's probably more shameful.
Towards a steady job with a successful company with room to move up.
Think less of it being a PC plugged into your television and more of an alternate console platform based on an open ecosystem instead of a walled garden, compared to existing consoles.
Google Bus Protests: In Defense of Direct Action
Don't build something so that you can make $100k. Build something that you want to make and that you will enjoy the process of doing. If you are involved fully in each moment of making whatever it is and not focused on the end result then you will probably be happy, fulfilled and also profitable.
Build a business in the bitcoin economy.
All programmers should realise that being _forced_ to type a word that is loosely tied to a gender that isn't your own is a crushing emotional hit, probably comparable to rape.

I feel ill all of a sudden thinking about all the disabled graphic designers that are forced to use GIMP every day.
JRR Tolkien

Its interesting to compare the Venn diagram of this list of influential books vs "old books you should actually read as opposed to know about to consider yourself educated". I've read Gibbon and Plutarch and Kafka and Orwell and Thucydides and Thoreau and quite a few of the others and enjoyed them immensely. I've read some of the others on the list and not enjoyed them so much. I've glanced at Principia and a couple others and Nope'd. Maxwell, no, not going to happen.

I self educated on what amounts to a great books curricula when I was a kid. Any teenage boy who claims not to like Anabasis or maybe Plutarch either has something wrong with him or is lying about having read it (or maybe got stuck with an awful translation). Some of it was tiresome, having to haul books from old fashioned public library or pay serious money in some cases. The modern tech world should be better but it isn't.

Anyway bringing it on topic for YC / HN we now have the technology to give everyone in the world a handheld device with not only "the" great books curriculum but any collection of great books curricula, although the whole "product" is not quite there... maybe only 99% of the way and terribly expensive. And that last 1% is going to be hard. I have no idea how a startup would fix that last little bit, but I'd love to see one try. Maybe a really good (free, or close to) ereader and study app containing various collections of curricula, some of which like the gutenberg editions require a bit of massaging and tidying up. Also needs some kind of markup language / links to wikipedia / merged with academic notes.

A little more education wouldn't be the end of the world.
Well, it's not that revolutions work - they don't. But the threat of a revolution is the only trick that works, and you need powerfull people to belive that it's a real threat.
Not likely. The irresponsible will always reproduce like rabbits by the drinking age.
In theory if you found 1000 people who would pay you a little over $8/month for a service, you would have about $100k. The hard part is finding out what that service would be, and how to build it while keeping costs low. Alternatively, you could create a product and sell it, like an ebook, or WordPress theme, but these have a limited shelf life.
When the cable money collapses, Disney, HBO/TimeWarner, etc. will just create their own streaming service and charge for it while removing all content from other services. Netflix will just be one streaming channel among many. They will have their own content and probably the content from folks not big enough to do their own channel (assuming Amazon doesn't start stealing that).

Netflix is still the biggest, but so was Blockbuster and then the game changed. When cable rates go poof, the game will change again.
Perkins' post has now topped David Brooks' piece on pot as the worst thing ever written. Well done Tom.

Relevant http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law
>I just don't associate man pages with gender.

You should ask yourself why this is. Would that be the same for an outsider who is trying to find her way around programming?

You don't associate man with gender because in your mind is associated with documentation. The usage of it in that context for X years has superseded the default association with gender. Eventually the same will happen for bropages. Either way, newcomers do not have the luxury of this association so will have to deal with the gender reminder from man and bro pages. Would you be in favor of eliminating the term man pages in favor of making programming more welcoming to women?
If this is true, Stallmann has kept right with all what he said!

>> "by having the GCC developers abandon GCC, switch to working on a fork of LLVM/Clang __relicensed__ to GPLv3"

>> Yeah, not allowed by copyright law. They aren't the authors, so they could only GPL code they wrote.

If even the best developers of the world (allow me to exaggerate a little, it's from my perspective anyways) aren't allowed to work on OSS, then this is really a CUT of Freedom. I would love to see GCC people switch to LLVM GPL.

I see it this ways: GPL is an insurance that guarantees that whatever is made with this code, will benefit this code in a way that everyone can take care of that benefit.

Even though I'm new to this, I don't understand the hate towards Mr. Stallman, he seems to be a fine man and his own strong opinions on a movement he has started. There is nothing wrong with it, he's not beating someone up, just because he's not of the same opinion, he's keeping the premise of his movement alive. That's a good trait, not a bad one, esp. because he keep talking openly about it. He's not wirting private confidential emails to discuss such things, but makes it public, so that everyone can see. it.
Imagine someone publicises only one of your emails attached to your own name, it could be thrown out of context and people could start a shitstorm, just because wrong word was used, or because of your look . Takes guts to say your opinion, non-anonymously, when you already have reputation in stack.
Priorities, apparently. Of course, Ukraine being on fire right now doesn't make all other news disappear, but perhaps we should be paying more attention to the actual revolt.
Agree. Entrepreneurialism is a slow and risky way to make money: if you want money in 2014, get a job.
Steve demoing NeXTSTEP 3.0 in 1992. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gveTy4EmNyk

Fascinating to see the Mac heritage in NeXTSTEP carry through the acquisition and transformation into OSX.

It's hard to remember, but in 1992 Microsoft had just released Windows 3.1 - NeXT was light-years ahead of Microsoft.
Macintosh review from BYTE Magazine (1984)
Yes, I try to socialize more, to do more sporty activities. I consider my week ideal if I leave my laptop in the office 6 out of 7 days and only spend the nights in my apartment. That could also answer the How? portion of your question.

I'm single which is the main reason for this ;)
Seems kind of silly to me, yes this means that many people have to leave the city, but there really is not much that they can do about it. San Francisco's city government is not going to be able to either (a) kick out the tech people nor (b) figure out a way to lower rent (and in turn tax revenue). It's in the cities interest to keep the rent/cost per home as high as possible and in turn keep the tech people around.

I really don't understand why this bothers the others in the city. If they do not own where they live (and chose to rent) then they don't OWN their home and in turn have no right to live there. Rather, it makes much more sense that they should live somewhere within their means. If they are angry about that, it seems to me that they are just throwing a fit.

I personally am from Chicago, and I know there is a similar situation there. Most of the city (even for high paying jobs) commute in because there is a fairly decent train system, but also the prices are 10 times higher per square foot in the city. The people who do live in the city are wealthy or homeless. Though San Francisco's rent is twice as high as Chicago's on average, no one near Chicago wants to waste their money living in the city unless they want to be in the heart of the city and enjoy the scene. If you can't afford that, then perhaps you didn't make very good choices in your life (aka didn't make enough money to obtain what you want) and you should try and find a way to achieve that goal without inflicting pain (stress, wasted time, etc.) on others.
Like I said I've been wrong before. I recall thinking Zuckerberg was a fool for not taking yahoos offer for a billion. I was wrong, but I didn't know about partial liquidation back then. It's not as binary an outcome. Once you get f u money, might as well swing for the fences. Rock on, Spiegel and Murphy. I can't hate.
Oh, great. Those treaties that "kill" industry and agriculture are normaly the best things that can happen for the economy of a country. Just beware the ones that "protect" them.

For all groups on the net, this one should understand quite well the meaning of "creative destruction", and "stale business".
BrainKeys, abusing EC for deterministic ssh keys
After looking at Bitcoin brain wallets, this jumped into my mind.

Use for good or for awesome.
It isn't necessarily the case that Google would shut down their bus service if it had to meet the requirements of public transportation. It looks like Google already funds a free shuttle from the Mountain View Caltrain station to Google HQ and the surrounding area, which actually is public transit.

http://www.caltrain.com/schedules/Shuttles/Shoreline_Shuttle... (See the fine print at the bottom for details.)

It's potentially possible that a similar approach could be done for the SF to Mountain View commute, where Google subsidizes the creation of specific public bus lines in exchange for Google employees riding for free, or something like that. That would probably make the community happier about the bus issue, although it wouldn't fix the rent/displacement issue at all.
Because that's the whole point of an open protocol -- hackers can design new interfaces not imagined by the original designer.

That's what API design is so important, and so difficult. By analogy the DIN connector is simply calling convention and ADB the actual function calls.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svoboda_%28political_party%29

The party that is a significant force behind the protests is definitely ultra-nationalist. You could see it from the statements about Russians and Jews, and from ethno- and language centric political program. If this party wins (and it has up to 40% in western regions of Ukraine), it will mean that Ethnic Russians in the east and other minorities will become second-class citizens.
Why would you "naturally" assume more people voted for Obama due to his "race" (What "race" is he anyway?) than voted against him for the same reason?
" want to 'protect the neighborhood' by which they mean 'keep my cheap rent'. How about you live where you can afford, like everybody else?"

So, there are no rent-controlled places in the USA? How about NYC?

Sure, let's raise your rent disproportionately and drive you to a bigger commute, how about that. What if everything near - let's say a 1h30 commute - is expensive?

Of course there are two sides to raising rents, but usually what happens is that it drives away the people that made the place in high demand in the first place.

There's no lack of space in the USA, or even in SF, but apparently people decide to go for the already dense areas.

Google could build their Google Dorm in a cheaper area and have buses come and go from there, how about it?

Not everybody is a high-payed SW engineer, so sure, their rent can be raised and people that can't afford it move away, causing more traffic (either the Google people moving there - MV is far from SF) and the people that moves out and now have to commute), more social issues, etc
> Is it just me or is there an inordinate amount of failed startup post mortems in the last two months? Is this a sign that the VC market is pulling back and the startup bubble is at least deflating a bit?

Maybe it's a January (new year and all that) thing?
Neat, I'd like this to monitor my Pi... Just because I can.
Hardcore Fans of static typing will always attack our state of well being. We shouldn't feel this good about Python because we are "clearly wrong". Is that it?
Meh, I think this is probably not the best intro to a good discussion. I sympathize with the impulse to mock Tom Perkins (and he probably deserves it), and VCs being idiots is a time-honored genre of tech discussion. But judging by the Slashdot discussion on this same article that started an hour or two ago, it doesn't seem likely to be productive. Either we will all agree "yeah, that was a stupid analogy and also Tom Perkins might be crazy", or a few people will try to defend it and then those threads will trail off into argument, either way, meh.
Conversion experiences never do translate well to other people, do they? :)

But seriously, I hope that a 35-year-old coming to an unexpected new understanding of a concrete issue with measurable consequences for many other people whom he knows personally as a result of reading extensive rational arguments might be judged a little differently than a 15-year-old's enthusiasm about a personal faith experience.

One likely difference: I don't expect my account of coming to this realization to be what changes anyone's mind. (I'd be uncomfortable if it were.) I shared it here just to illustrate that a more or less rational person can make the shift that I did. Whether you make that same transition tomorrow or ten years from now or never isn't something I can control. It depends on how well you listen, and to whom, and how well you relate to what you've heard at any given time.
I know every HN reader will hate this, but my advice, try to add $100M to your 2016 income.

Why so?

If you aim for $100M, after 3-4 years it is possible that you land somewhere between $5M-10M.

However, if you aim for $100k, you will land at around $0. If you aim for $1M, you will land at $50k. If you aim for $10M, you will land at $1M.

You need to aim for the stars if you want to land on the moon, because everybody and everything will try to prevent you from doing it. Aim for the stars.
There have been a fair few posts about this on HN. I think some people are actually quite glad of a HN blackout.

I did decide one year that I would not check those sites at work. And it helped. I didn't have the time or space at home to bother also, through exhaustion. I now only briefly fire up HN at work at lunchtime, and just scan the post titles. I'm not as disciplined at home.

At home I was lucky to have my battery die on my laptop, which has stopped me moving the laptop around the house. I'm actually quite glad of the little headspace that it gives me.

My partner cheats on me, by sneaking a tablet into the lounge, and that can feel a little weird. I think this has been discussed before. Couples spending more time with their phones/tablets at the expense of their relationship.

I still idle too much time on the PC. I remember a good activity. Time at the computer isn't that memorable. What happened to the last decade?

See also 'News is bad for you':
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6894244

Oh the paradox.
I saw another suggestion elsewhere for 'tldr'
> Shock fronts - akin to sonic booms - caused by the expanding cavities and the release of energy by sound waves reverberating through the hot gas provide a source of heat that prevents most of the gas from cooling and forming new stars.

OK, it’s not perfect vacuum, so there is a very cold and very thin gas, so it can transmit sound. It is theoretically correct, but nevertheless I feel it’s very strange to read about sound in the middle of the space.
Priorities, and making fun of San Francisco's "revolt" for not actually being a revolt.
As is Mr Raymond, to whom Mr Stallman was replying.

Another HN thread pointed out a subsequent email in which Mr Raymond realised that the GCC compiler did in fact have a sort of plug-in system.
>If it was public transport non-Googlers would ride for similar tariffs

...and be subsidized by tax-payers (because public transit systems in big cities don't break-even on fares - and forget about capital projects, those always need government funds). So this is still a net-win for the city. Googlers subsidize a system they don't use to get to work.
It'd be great if you could demonstrate actual compassion and understanding of other human beings instead of pushing your stupid "I should be able to say whatever I want without social consequences" agenda down everyone's throat.
Is there a tool that would allow collecting historical data on memory and CPU usage patterns of individual processes? In troubleshooting you are frequently dealing with the situation that some process is "exploding" in memory or/and CPU usage and either you are not there at the moment to run htop or you might not even be able to easily log in on the server to do checks.
There is a lot of misdirected anger in this world and attacks upon symptoms of problems instead of their underlying causes.
Googlers, what is your opinion on relaxing the remote work rules? Seems like a very direct way to ease this tension, but I have no perspective on how detrimental it would be to Google's culture.
A computer is a tool, like any other. If your career uses that tool, it doesn't mean that you need avoid the tool in your off hours. Especially if it gives you joy. My buddy drives truck, and loves to drive on the weekends. My uncle is a carpenter, and on his free time, makes furniture in his garage for fun. I'm sure some TV exec at HBO still sits down on a Sunday to watch Breaking Bad (or whatever the hot water cooler show is).

You'll probably see a lot of studies quoted on here about moderation being the key to success. But keep in mind, that a study only looks at the averages, and we know that outliers exist. So as long as you're not hurting yourself or others, do what you feel is right and works for you.
I have a power strip to which the wireless router and modem are connected that can be turned off and off by remote control. Click!
> At the same prices as the MacBooks, you actually get way better specs and extremely solid build as well

You keep saying that without providing any examples. Care to enlighten all of the people who have apparently been buying the wrong laptops?
Could you add installation/setup instructions?
Starting a company is like landing on the shore of a deserted island by ev
There's that as well.

As I understand, Googlers "work remotely" already, meaning, no development is done in their desktop machine, but on remote servers, maybe someone can confirm.

EDIT: I am apparently wrong as some mentioned, so I would expect a more detailed explanation.
I'm pretty sure the San Fran downtown is already in-demand, and as I said before, you can't have everything.
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