skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By your logic, few people get wealthy off their businesses, so hey, don't start a business.

The reality is you have to figure out what is going to sell. I have no interest in writing books, but if I did, and I wanted to make money. You can bet it's not going to be a technical book. I'll be going after a market that is large and hot, think books like Harry Porter or 50 shades of gray.

Make no mistake about it, the business doesn't start until the book is done, the business is not writing the book but selling the book. Most authors just write and then sit and hope it get's popular. You have to hustle and push and sell and sell, so it get's popular.

I watched MJ write this book, he mentioned he was going to write it on his forum, then he did. Did he make any money? Nope! Then he got into marketing/sales mode and pushed it, and it sold. Got lot's of review on amazon and sales took off, I don't know his numbers but I betcha it's much much larger than your average technical books.

I won't be surprised if he is well into the 5 digits. He also self published, so he's collecting pretty much most of the income. How did I reach 10k? 4 hour workweek has sold about 1,350,000 copies and has almost ~3k reviews, amazon MJ's book has a little bit 1/6th ~500+ reviews on amazon. They both have 4.5/5 stars.
Because anti-islamic comments may lead to rather large riots obviously. Because of the mohammed cartoons.

Which is of course exactly what terror is trying to achieve. I wouldn't say they've succeeded very well, but I doubt we've seen the last of it.
Game developers embraced VR at GDC 2014 like it was 1994
Sorry, you're right, I didn't provide enough detail.

If the average user can figure out how to use bitcoin, then they can figure out how to use Armory. Most people have an old laptop or computer that they can afford to keep disconnected from the internet. If it's not connected to the internet, then it's not susceptible to hacks. It also offers a way of doing secure backups, so that if your computer is lost in a house fire, you'll still have your coins.

Even if they don't have an old computer, spending $100 on one off of Ebay or whatever is possibly the best insurance payment they could make, because it's just a matter of time until any bitcoin exchange dies. Not only do you have yourself to worry about, but if you have children then you'll want them to inherit your wealth. Hard to do if your wealth vanishes because your preferred exchange went under.
Another one with a server in the middle: https://wsend.net/upload
Queue the report showing that users who review their privacy/sharing settings on Facebook end up sharing more, not less...
You can get the same performance for less money with a normal graphics card. Assuming you need a workstation card (for support or something), http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814133... the Quadro K600 also has 192 cores and similar ~330 GFLOPS performance. It will probably use more power, but it's about the same price. If you use gaming cards instead of workstation cards, it gets much cheaper.
"If you had acquired them through a dividend reinvestment plan (DRIP) average market price over time is exactly what you'd use."

I think that is allowed for mutual funds, but not stocks.

http://www.irs.gov/Help-&-Resources/Tools-&-FAQs/FAQs-for-In...
> 'Operating system' is stretching it. 'Disk Operating System' is one of those phrases like 'ice creme' that implies 'ice cream'.

And if I want to run a TOS (Tape Operating System), how should I call it? The naming is correct and comes from IBM mainframe operating systems from the 60's.
It's actually very different. I don't know why they are called the same, but yours allow distribution

You may use, copy, reproduce, and distribute this Software for any non-commercial purpose
you may create derivative works of such portions of the Software and distribute the modified Software for non-commercial purposes

While the one used here explicitly deny it:

You may not distribute or publish the software or Derivative Works.
Don't forget the voyeurs...

With the changing attitudes toward privacy, I wouldn't be surprised if in a few decades you would be considered stupid/crazy/insane to not have a Glass-like device recording your life. with which you could easily find out e.g. what you did, where you put something, etc. Reviewing what you did during the past few days could definitely be a beneficial thing.

(And personally, I don't have a problem with being recorded in public. I value privacy, but that's privacy in private places, not out in public.)
Agreed. Especially when they can get a giant Google-sized, caching reverse proxy (CDN) simply by setting cache headers appropriately.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5617322/how-to-enable-cac...
Anybody know if the FPGA's branching model has been improved?
This isn't the case. Google now sells raw VMs as well as their AppEngine PaaS.
Have a Great Product? Want to Tell the World?
Do you have an awesome product that's helping people? That makes peoples' lives better? You're changing the world. So why not tell the world about it?

Are you using YouTube to promote your product?
"If it's not connected to the internet, then it's not susceptible to hacks."

Or less susceptible, anyway... didn't Stuxnet hitch a ride on a thumb drive?
Can the Bitcoin market absorb hundreds of millions in institutional capital?
At the time he was elected in 2008, a majority of Americans did not favor same-sex marriage.

At the time he changed his public stance, a majority of Americans favored same-sex marriage.

Seems coherent.
Looks like a clone of my friends page: http://www.sumodrop.com

*edit: I guess 'clone' is too strong. I meant to imply it has similar functionality, not that it is carbon copied. Yes, I goofed.
The observation that Netflix's infrastructure relies on oe of their biggest competitors isn't one that had occurred to me before. Altogether a really interesting take on the situation.
I don't think this has anything to do with basis. The difference is that mining the coin is considered a tax event -- so you pay tax on the mined value -- with the cost being deductible. This makes sense because the coin is liquid and can be sold in part without reducing the utility of the remainder.

That is not true of a house. It isn't as liquid and it's hard to sell part of the house to cover tax.
Does the use of the word signal spawn from its application in communications theory? I've never found it strange using the word signal but it might be because of my EE background. Frequency domain and time domain never irked me either :/
Samsung Galaxy S5: Hands-on Preview
Samsung’s Galaxy S5 is the latest flagship from the Korean electronics giant. While we covered the general design of the phone in our writeup of the announcement, I spent a few minutes last night getting to know the new smartphone.
that's totally fair. i get pitched all the time... and hit up on linkedin among other places. for some reason I have a very negative gross feeling when I hear these words, and am curious if other's in the community have the same reaction.
I think you're looking for "paintflashing". Open the Developer Toolbar (shift+f2) and type "paintflashing on".
This could be a scale effect. Asset management is (approximately) a fix cost business to run, so if your company only has 1/4 the assets under management then their comment might be true.
I have and forgot to mention it. Good IDE, but still not on par with VS IMO.
More cynically, it's also a great way to get people to tolerate high-value google ads in their inbox.
Sure, if you only need to hire 1 or 2 people then good people aren't terribly hard to find.

Once you get to 10 it's a very different ballgame.
Better yet, isn't that what the State Monad[1] is doing internally?

[1]: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/State_Monad
Why does "ID" have a capital D?
You can get the daily historical prices since July 17th 2010 from [1].
Here's some quick calculation of the yearly averages (until yesterday):

2010: 0.14$
2011: 5.43$
2012: 8.25$
2013: 191.90$
2014: 717.93$

Looks like average price didn't move that much in 2012.

[1]: https://api.bitcoinaverage.com/history/USD/per_day_all_time_...
It would not be prudent to exercise options that are not liquid. There is no benefit to doing that.

You don't, for example, usually get meaningful voting rights with those shares.
Your "trust is fragile" thing is kind of the point. Of course Amazon can lose it, but they haven't yet. Any vendor might screw up. Google has, Amazon hasn't.
Show HN: Codebox – Open Source Alternative to Atom
I've been wanting to build a quick side project for a couple weeks, so decided to give it a try today and put it up in App Engine instead of heroku.

Put simply, App Engine has a higher learning curve. I remember using heroku for the first time a couple years ago, and it was smooth and seamless. Can't say the same about App Engine. Installation isn't a blink, docs are scattered around, and even a simple Flask app isn't straightforward.

I understand they might offer more features, better prices, so side-projects are unlikely their target audience, but nevertheless if they want developers love, it should "just work".
Sorry, I meant at its peak BEFORE dealers revolted.
It doesn't seem fair or correct to compare Bitcoin to employer stock programs. The IRS seems to be doing this as well. Stock and stock options are generally granted in exchange for work performed for an employer so you have earned those amounts but Bitcoins are created through mining not given by an employer.
Function to me implies something with known characteristics. I suppose this is true when performing analytic FTs, but I think signal makes more sense when dealing with unknown inputs and numerical solutions. Regardless the relationship (or distinction) should be made clear when learning!
>If someone really wants to break into your house, they are going to

That's the basic principle of security. Be it crypto, physical security or anything else.

You're always just buying time. So the question is how much time do you want to buy.

If you can kick down the door in 2 seconds you just have a very low security margin. Compare this with crypto where you measure security margins in years.
I'm just a bit baffled that it's that low for apartments in the US.

You probably couldn't kick down most doors here. Well at least I couldn't.
No central server to intercept the file in transit
This one even works on Firefox. Nice.
It would a) have to be a first-party cover (preferably by Google) b) have some symbols that indicate 'not recording', c) easy to demonstrate to nearby folks what it's function is (i.e., by removing it and putting it back on).

If Google pushed this and marketed it, it'd really take the edge off the privacy concerns about Glass (I'd still not buy one but I wouldn't necessarily force a wearer to put them away before entering my house).

Relying on your userbase to "not be glass holes" is a recipe for backlash, even against those who "use responsibly".
How to Break News While You Sleep
Could be a great platform for WPA2 key cracking and encryption bruteforcing when paired with tools like Pyrit or HashCat
Shadow DOM: "We Need a Way Out"
We at the jsPDF Team will be pleased if you help us fixing that issue, rather than just waiting for it to be fixed.
DevOps is dead; long live DevOps
Dropcanvas – The easiest file-sharing service I've ever used
How would that be any different then if you paid Bitcoins for a car or a boat? Once you convert it into something tangible it's easier for the IRS to figure out.
Work well, or show significant performance gains?

Because I haven't found a single game that doesn't work or has SLI specific bugs. Crossfire however....
Git repositories are open and free on Geeklist. Feedback if any please.
Intel has previously said they're working on a smartwatch. Though Intel and Basis are saying that the band will continue to be sold, I can't help but wonder if this is going to be a key part of the technology for what Intel is trying to build -- and if so, if the band will eventually be discontinued.
Disabling the cache by default can be troublesome. I'd say it breaks the principle of least surprise - I wasn't aware of this behavior in Chrome, and it's a good thing I develop with Firefox, as I just resolved a bug that only manifested itself when bypassing the browser cache. If the browser cache had been linked to dev tools being open in my case, I probably would have ended up down some false causality rathole around dev tools.
Thanks for pointing this out. That's totally a mistake on my part. I've updated the table to include the CRDT result, showing Riak's 0% data loss.
The IRS literally said exactly that, assuming you run your business like a business. This would require, among other things, adequate record keeping to substantiate what portion of your electrical costs were necessary and customary in your business, since you can't deduct the personal use portion of the bill.

You'd probably have to depreciate equipment rather than deducting it, unless it has an expected useful life under a year or hits some de minimis threshold. (The IRS rule on this one is really wonky. Suffice it to say that most Bitcoin miners have to depreciate not deduct.)
http://rr-project.org/rr.html has all the gory details.
Hopefully, we'll add sending files between networks pretty soon as well.

However, it's already possible with similar WebRTC based services like https://www.sharefest.me/ or https://rtccopy.com/.
Something like that can be true for nuclear weapons related stuff: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_secret
My dual 670s handles 5760x1200 pretty well.
It's completely arbitrary. But giving the title of cofounder might make them feel more invested in the company. It'll be their "baby" as well.
Ahh. By the time this information filtered to me in 2001/2, it became -- exercising options is always a taxable event. So that's the rule I live by and always make sure that there is a way to get cash simultaneously. I didn't realize it was because of the AMT.
Very cool! I love the P2P aspect.

I have a similar project that drops files in your dropbox account: http://dbinbox.com
Ukrainian navy decimated by Russian move into Crimea
Parallel Machine Learning (GLM, SVM, AdaBoost) in R
>In this case, we're talking about an energy consumption penalty imposed solely at the software layer.

The point is that we may be wasting time talking about a negligible amount of the total battery assumption.
In our case, the vast majority of the data is not ever served up and is removed via lifecycle rules. However, just the fact that we have the data serves a number of our customer's use cases.
Absorb it? It can make it DISAPPEAR COMPLETELY!
Complex Systems May be More Controllable Than They Appear
Here's more technical specification: http://goo.gl/AigVq5
Though I can't find its power consumption info anywhere. If anyone happens to stumble upon it, please let me know.
Unfortunately you're focused too much on the investor, and not on the entrepreneur.

Investors have the luxury of spraying and praying because they primarily invest capital; founders, whose investment consists of time and opportunity cost, don't have this luxury. In simple terms, your investors have n lottery tickets, and you have one.

Statistically, as a founder, you are not likely to build a billion dollar business. That is worth repeating, often. Pretending that your odds are better than they really are and working yourself into the ground because Silicon Valley culture has convinced you that it's the only way is foolish.

Which leads to my final point: if you're an entrepreneur, it's worth thinking long and hard about the path you take. If you're convinced that your ambitions should be measured in 9 and 10 figures and you are enticed by the funding game, you're often not just unnecessarily sacrificing your quality of life, you may be sacrificing the potential to build a successful 7 or 8 figure business.
IBM can use Twitter to track you down
EE here, same for me. Although, it is true that the first two classes of my signal theory course consisted entirely of restating high school results, with "signal" replaced for "function"...
Many people have mined across dozens of different pools over the years (and for different currencies as well), and many of those pools are now defunct.
> Looks like a clone...

Sorry, I know you probably feel very strongly about your friend's app, but it doesn't LOOK anything like it, and the functionality is clearly copied from AirDrop. I doubt the ShareDrop developers had ever heard of your friend's app.
Payward Raises $5M From Hummingbird To Fund Kraken Bitcoin Exchange
The heckler's veto http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heckler's_veto
I found this to be interesting, specifically walks through a 2 container deployment http://blog.tutum.co/2014/02/06/how-to-build-a-2-container-a...
but just in case someone considering clojure is worried about missing something like haskell's typeclasses (or whatever they're called in scala), it's worth mentioning that clojure does have some notions of "protocols" and "datatypes" that seem pretty similar.
Thanks for the feedback. Things like these should help us to improve our website :)
I didn't imply the scripting engine was to blame. It's unchecked use and the lack of tools for debugging it were mostly to blame ... of course crunching amplified all these problems
Ah, yes. Don't you love that we live in a day and age where you make a donation to a political movement and people who disagree with it call for your job? (A mainstream political movement, for that matter. Mainstream enough that they won.) Next step, I expect, will be the Spanish Inquisition. :P

... Sorry, everybody. I'd missed that one yesterday. :( We now return you to your regularly scheduled Google-skepticism
Perhaps 200+ dpi or the equivalent in metric.
I had the same ambiguity when visiting the page: is this intended for desktop apps (mac, linux, windows), or mobile (iPhone, Android, Windows)? What platforms does it currently support, and which does it plan to?
This would be a problem if bitcoins were illiquid. They are not, so it's easily solved. The IRS simple rule is to treat all income as incurring tax on the moment it is received.

They make allowances for things that are not liquid.
Blog spam. Original article is here: http://www.technologyreview.com/view/525741/how-your-tweets-...
Have you ever opened a bug for Chrome DevTools? I opened one for filtering computed CSS properties a year ago. It's not even triaged yet!
Pretty cool. It does upload the files to S3 though, right?

ShareDrop in theory should be much faster (especially on local network) and more secure, as it sends files directly between devices without any server in the middle.
What a silly thing to have a 'cut off' age for techies. Like a good Single Malt or Wine, we get better and better with time. Age delivers on certain pragmatism not found in the youth of today :)
I believe we're already seeing this as a valid business market in the sense that a well designed app often finds a market against the less designed more utilitarian open source competitor. I think this is in line with the "luxury" business model where designers and engineers focused on "the experience" are the new craftsmen.
This is a good distinction to make. The term "signal" implies an information carrier (as in the expression "the signal in the noise"), which in light of information theory can be interpreted to mean an unknown variation (as modelled by, e.g. a stochastic process). This is philosophically distinct from the interpretation of a mathematical function as analytically defined and completely known.
Right. And by your smart ass tine you act like there is a third way. Which will it be? Winning the lottery or your boss suddenly decides to give you a 500k per year salary increase?

Really. It us like criticising a book on becoming a sumo champion by saying it is yet another book advocating weight gain for those under 120lbs soaking wet.
As we say in Quebec: 'Din Dents...'
Ah interesting. Would price volatility make this practice too difficult? Or would the market eventually reach a basic equilibrium price?
I think my preferred solution is to not hang out with anyone who uses google glass, ever. Come to think of it, this was my attitude before any spyware came out for it.
Ask HN: Google search results vary in chrome and Firefox
I am aware of google search results personalizations. But shouldn't search results across different browser in private mode remain the same ?<p>image1: http://imagebin.org/301492
Google chrome + Normal connected account search<p>image2: http://imagebin.org/301494
Google chrome + incognito mode<p>image3: http://imagebin.org/301498
Firefox + private mode<p>From what I understand results in image 3 & 2 should have some similarity. Instead it seems they differ totally. Image 2 & 1 seems to have similarity while image 3 is totally different. Any ideas ?
Still not clear on what the situation is on stocks that are denominated in bitcoins, and that pay out dividends in bitcoins, such as ASICMINER.

Is it possible for the dividends to be treated as qualified dividends?
I think it's only 32 if you're relatively unknown or unproven. If you're Biz Stone, raising outside financing (in addition to your own cash) shouldn't be a huge barrier. Likewise, I doubt Uri will have a hard time with that 32-year cutoff now that he's had a $1.1 billion exit.
Apple itself is the halo.
Or... he's just lying.

Anyone can append a disclaimer to an anonymous comment claiming all sort of stuff.

Also one would expect Google employees to be smart his/her comment conveys the opposite: there is no inherent conflict between being mostly about mobile while providing developers with a backend on which to build their wares which are also becoming increasingly mobile.

There is a large amount of malice targeted at Google and much of it manifests in HN comments, as this threat would suggest.
"Now that we have our v1.0 behind us and we’re moving forward with even more partners, we’re going to do our best to bring Firefox OS back into our heartbeat and will make quarterly feature releases available to partners along with six-weekly security updates for the previous two feature releases. As far as I know, that’s the most aggressive mobile OS release strategy out there (and may still require some tweaking)."

https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2013/07/19/mozillas-...

You have nonetheless to consider that is the manufacturer who holds responsability for the avalaible images.

Firefox OS 1.1 was delivered by Mozilla on October 9th 2013.

https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2013/10/09/firefox-o...
You can use the "inassignee" and "ininventor" operators to restrict the search, e.g. inassignee:microsoft.
The best kept secret about linear and logistic regression
192 kepler cores: don't bother. this is just a desperate attempt to get someone to take TK1 chips off their hands. coincidentally, I'm sure, but AMD is shipping their AM1 platform.
Author notes that, while Eich doesn't enforce his personal beliefs at work, he may be forcing them through his political donations.

Which raises the point: same criticism goes to anyone who votes for anything you don't like--as long as you have democracy as well as acknowledging your government's authority, you will from time to time find yourself put-upon by somebody else voting to support something you don't like.

Tough shit--don't let it get in the way of your work. The old saying "I disagree with what you say, but I'll gladly defend your right to say it" is perhaps more relevant today than ever before.