skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
if they pay taxes and buy goods and services, why should it matter if the wealth is self-made or inherited?
"Make a boatload of money. Pay your taxes. Lots of taxes. Hire people. Train people. Pay people. Spend money on rent, equipment, services. Pay more taxes."

Don't most wealthy people hire lawyers and lobbyists to help them not pay taxes? Don't they also move jobs overseas to reduce how much they pay to their own economy?

Cuban seems to be living in a dreamworld.
Ask HN:  Can iPhone camera be used to give you a full size keyboard?
The idea is that you would type on the table and the iPhone would watch your fingers and infer which (imaginary) keys you are pushing.
Kudos to the API team for letting developers in on the new API features.

Not to go on a rant but working with the Twitter API restore sanity I lost back when I worked with Facebook's "thing". I don't even want to call it an API, whatever it was.
In both computing and electrical power there's a tension between localization and centralization. As the technology evolves, the relative trade-offs shift. Right now, the rapid development of ever-higher-bandwidth connections tends to favor centralization of computing power (though there's still good reason for a lot of it to be localized in the laptop and cellphone).

With electrical power, the economics have long been mostly in favor of centralization. This started shifting a little with the development of ever-cheaper solar panels, and would shift a lot more were any sort of effective localized power storage possible. And unlike bits, there is a transmission loss for watts.

Though I'm dubious that this technology will ever see the market. When it's for sale to the consumer, then I'll know it's real.
baker talked a bit about the deletionists in his (great) article about wikipedia from last year http://www.nybooks.com/articles/21131
If you combine net metering with time-of-use charges, it might very well be profitable to engage in power arbitrage.

I.e. you buy from the utility when it's cheap and sell it back to them when it's expensive. In this case you'd actually be providing a valuable service.
I couldn't agree with you anymore. I fit your description perfectly too. Albums are a group of songs put together for a reason. They flow, have beginnings and endings. The progression of songs tells a story, it makes sense. I would hate to see this disappear.

I guess I should note that this isn't true for all artists, but for artists like Radiohead, buying a single off one of their albums would only tell a small part of a grand story.

I guess I always knew the day would come where Radiohead stop producing albums, I had just hoped it would be a lot further away.
Amen to that.

Everyone overcomplicated the issue, it's not a difficult issue to solve: whenever untrusted data is to be displayed to a user, escape it. Problem solved.
> How could prevention possibly not reduce costs?

Probably because it keeps people alive longer, so that they need more care. Smokers, allegedly, are much cheaper to care for in the long term than non-smokers, because they die early.
What is "notable" is rather subjective and context-dependant. There ought to be somewhere for all these "non-notable" articles to go. The wikipedia approach to some such articles would be useful even if wikipedia itself doesn't find them notable.
"Its first million articles took five years to put together, but the second was achieved just 12 months later."

"... helped the site reach the 2m article milestone just 17 months after breaking the 1m barrier ..."

From the other numbers in the article 17 months seems right.
How would something like that work? The iPhone would have to be between you and the keyboard which would make for awkward computing. I do like the ideas of using the iPhone's input devices for creative purposes though.
Interestingly, for the average user, Ubuntu provides a much more centralized software repository than either Windows or OS X. Not to say that malware targeting that platform doesn't exist; but it's more likely to be aimed at Firefox than the base OS. It's much harder for a non-computer-savvy person to screw up a modern linux desktop than any version of windows.

But basically what I hear you saying is that Vista was an attempt to catch up to the safety and security of the linux desktop...
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They pay much more in taxes despite the fact that they do this. By "pay more taxes" he means that the more money you make, the more taxes you have to pay. I'm sure that if you asked him, he'd say it's also your duty to pay as little tax as required.
Convertible notes are great bridge instruments that, in practice (at least in my experience), do not create any particular friction between the bridge investors and the later angels or VCs who fund the qualifying round forcing conversion. VCs typically accept the 20% differential without any problem. A bigger practical problem in my experience are bridge investors who push for an even larger discount. On this point, founders just need to hold a firm line.

The biggest practical problem with these notes from the bridge investor's side is what happens if the startup finds an exit path before a qualified funding round occurs. In the worst case, such investors effectively find themselves in a position where they get only their money back with a little interest - and all for having taken the largest funding risk of all (not quantitatively but qualitatively, since the early bridge money comes in at the point where the startup is at its most under-developed).

The problem is mitigated by putting in provisions for a so-called "merger premium" - that is, a 2x (or some other multiple) payout in the event of a liquidation that occurs before a qualified funding. This is not a perfect solution, but it helps. I have also seen the opposite problem here, where bridge investors demand a "merger premium" that becomes almost extortionist - this only works, of course, if the startup is utterly despairing for cash (which does happen from time to time).

That said, the utility of such notes is beyond question. The problem of a premature value put on a startup's stock based on an arms-length investment is huge. It messes up option grants to early-stage people. It enhances tax risks for the founders if a valuation is done too closely to the time of the founder grants. And it puts the company in a position where it needs to start doing 409A valuations at a time when money is particularly tight and they can least afford to part with the cash needed to do them. The convertible note eliminates all of these problems with a pretty elegant solution. That is why it has become a staple in the startup world.

Such a note can also be prepared at the cost of a few thousand dollars max in a typical case, which is another plus that gives it large appeal among founders looking for bridge solutions to their funding needs.
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Why is this such a Big DealTM? @replies becoming a part of the API were a big deal because you could follow the conversation thread using them, RTs don't really have any other context and we're already doing pretty well reposting a tweet with RT <nickname> in front of it.

The only important ramification I can now see is that it will become easier to track what content is being spread from person-to-person without having to rely on searching for "RT" or "via"...
neat idea! that would apply to any smartphone I would think...

have you seen these ?

http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/keyboards-mice/8193/
and your 3rd [thought] should be a recognition that in paying your taxes you are helping to support millions of Americans that are not as fortunate as you.

So just to clarify-- if you become successful, it was a combination of hard work and good fortune but if don't become successful, it was just poor fortune?
Could someone explain why you would want to retweet? I am not a regular user of twitter, but it would seem to me that retweeting just adds to the noise. Aren't you supposed to tweet original stuff, or is it all about trying to get a topic to trend?
Most self-made rich people get there by (I'll bet you've heard this before...) making something people want. It's a rare buyer who buys something for $20 and values it at exactly $20 -- most buyers think it's worth a little more, or a lot more. That difference means that most purchases are not only beneficial to the maker/inventor (who is making money on the transaction), but also to the buyer (who believes their life will be better because of the transaction).

So, if you set everything else equal (purchase of goods and services, payment of taxes, etc.) the self-made rich are doing a lot more for others than the rich-by-inheritance.
What I propose wouldn't require a laser. It might work with the iPhone as is.
Just bought it and synced up to a Google Apps hosted IMAP account with about 3500 emails. It is extremely fast, though in my case, unfortunately very buggy. It crashes when there are no search results, returns emails with the incorrect senders attached to the body and sometimes clicking a search result goes to the wrong email.
Except you know what happens as soon as you send an IT recruiter a PDF resume? They call you five minutes later to ask if you can re-send it as a word document.
Damnit. Is there any country with reasonable laws left? Or do I have to make my own?
There are comments in a thread from yesterday that seem relevant to this thread as well.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=759881
domain tasting refers to the ability to return a domain within a certain amount of time and to get a refund.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_tasting

In the case above the domain would no longer be interesting for spammers because the traffic would have died down, substantially increasing your chances of getting it for legit purposes.

It would also reduce the chances of expired domains being used for phishing.
"And thats what this country is built on. Entrepreneurship. Creating something from nothing, and making the process better, more efficient, and productive each time."

I'm pretty sure that if this country was "built on" a concept, it was intellectual freedom. Entrepreneurship is perhaps a nice consequence of that legacy, but let's not confuse which end wags the dog.
I think so.

Consciousness is a gift through fortune. Through consciousness, you eventually come to a realization that you should work hard and endeavor to become successful. The less fortunate never reach such a level of consciousness.
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People don't move jobs abroad. Corporations (with a legal mandate to make as much profit for their shareholders as possible) move jobs abroad.
You'd need some form of delineator.
"Yes...[iPad]."
I'm almost certain there there may be flaws in this though but:

Isn't there a limited monetary supply at any given time? So the richer I get, the less rich other people become. Even after I pay rents and salaries and everything else, if I'm richer than I was before, then there is less wealth available for everyone else.
Yes, I got that, I was just wondering if you had seen that device.
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very pithy - which probably explains why J.B. hasn't penned his own "how to succeed in business" book yet. Just a few more reptilian metaphors, and he'll be on his way to a bestseller.
Wouldn't relative finger position be sufficient?
Startups Having Easier Time Paying Bills, Bank Says
Playing Chicken With Antibiotic Resistance
It seems that commercial flywheels are about 7 times more expensive than batteries per kWh. The article mentions 24 batteries at ~$1,500 each providing "3 days" of power at an average of 2500 watts, so 180 kWh for $36,000. A recent blog post regarding Beacon Power flywheel systems quotes them at ~$1,400 per kWh, or ~$250,000 for 180 kWh.

http://neuralenergy.blogspot.com/2009/06/flywheel.html
Often retweets contains links to things that matter, or ideas that should be spread, or funny things. It's the same reason people quote and link on blogs etc.
this is cool...national calls are easy enough, I only use internet calling for international.
To share good content from people you follow to your followers
Sometimes someone says something that you might agree with, or you think your followers might agree with it, so you RT.
It matters for analytics and tools that would like to have a structured wrapper around the data. Also, small changes to @replies like in_reply_to explicitly stated matter a lot for how structured that data is.

Also, number of retweets and likes is more important than number of followers for authority measurement.
Not the same though - in HN the rest of the community would be affected by celeb gossip links because we'd have to look at them on the main page.

But who really cares if these pages exist on Wikipedia? It's not as if you have to even see that they exist, much less actively ignore them.
bit.ly struck a partnership with twitter, tr.im decided there weren't other markets for tiny url services, nor was it worth trying to compete on innovation vs bit.ly so decided to "sell" trim. Capitalizing on the "oh noes when tinyurl services die we lose links" they decided to announce closure for PR and slyly note "PS: we're for sale"

But then everyone hated them, they got techcrunch'd and so on, probably got an ego boosting amount of traffic and thought they would compete ("with this traffic burst we'll convert x% and we'll be able to compete - because investors only care about traffic in a recession for early stage stuff!!!11).

So they didn't want to give up whilst everyone was watching them and be "those guys" so they're stuck with the service.

maybe. I didn't bother listening. TinyURL services are possibly a market where a monopoly is the best thing for it to be.
10 great ideas from five great bosses
You're telling me that the guy who founded girls gone wild (and became fabulously wealthy thereby) did more good than someone like Eunice Shriver who never held a paid job in her life?

The bottom line is that it's infinitely more important what you do with your wealth than whether it was handed to you or you earned it.
In many ways Vista surpassed Linux. Linux has very rough process/file levels (user, group, root). Vista allows you to have your processes (or root's processes, IIRC) not be able to write to your files.

Which is a big win when a user level process (e.g. firefox) gets hosed (which can happen quite easily to things like browsers).

Now this is wholy for the OS. The user issue you bring up still exists (and I don't think Microsoft can fix that one).
I watched that a few months ago. Quite good.
"[when that tax bill comes your thought should be]... a recognition that in paying your taxes you are helping to support millions of Americans that are not as fortunate as you."

Right, so I bust my ass in school, non-paid internships, contracting as much as possible, and 50 hour work weeks on my startup... and the reason I'm making money is b/c I'm more "fortunate" than the slob who is still playing video games in college after 6 years and the idiot who chooses to have kids he can't afford?

OK, got it... making wise choices makes you "fortunate"... and it's "unfortunate" when idiots who make poor decisions just don't make quite enough money to afford cigarettes, bling for his car, and health insurance.

Another serious flaw in this article, besides his inept philosophy: money stolen from us by the government is not "helping to support millions of americans"... it's being completely wasted by GovCo, for the most part, or at minimum used very inefficiently.
"a legal mandate to make as much profit for their shareholders as possible".

I have never seen a law that says such a thing. Shareholders get to vote respective to the rights of their share class...That's about it. Other than embezzlement and other forms of fraud, a company can do as they like.
Your comment should have been an upvote on his post. Just a friendly reminder.
I think it will be neat to see the most retweeted content from your friends and reduce the noise and let people disable it if they like.

That's the sort of thing I'll think we will do on friendbinder with it.
I think "faster discharge" rates is being noted for their ability to dump large amounts of current very quickly. This is useful for large surges of power. It's not referring to some sort of parasitic leakage.
http://paulgraham.com/wealth.html

he presents a great example of a couple of friends with beat up cars....

If 4 guys all have old beaters worth 1000 each. in total they have $4000 split evenly. Each has 25% of the wealth. If one guy goes, and decides to fix up his car, and his car is suddenly worth $3000, then suddenly he has 50% of the wealth, and the other three guys only have 16%. But the face value of the other three cars did not change.

That's what screws up the old 80-20 rule... you think it's unfair until you realize that the 20% created most of the wealth they control.
Right, the media always does this. They aren't going to come out with an album for the current release cycle. Next release cycle 5 years from now, sure.
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Suppose you started volunteering on Wikipedia years ago and for one reason or another you've acquired "insider status" in the form of admin priviledges or alliances with other insiders. Well, there is a natural human tendency to hoard power, that is, to navigate yourself in a position where your decisions matter. Sometimes this is called making your mark on the world or "working for change". Suppose further that it occurs to you to ask yourself whether you support the deletionists or the inclusionists. Well, it is difficult for a human being to make that choice without being influenced (consciously or unconsciously) by the knowledge that under a deletionist policy, insiders such as yourself and your allies make more decisions that matter (and consequently are in a position to earn the indebtedness of people with a stake in those decisions, e.g., over whether the 'pedia includes a bio of themselves or one of their allies).
I flipped Hacker News back, notability is already established by the included references, as per Wikipedia rules. I've already had this argument on Wikipedia, but Wikipedia pages tend to unravel if you don't check them continuously.

For Trevor and Jessica: shouldn't any of the feature length magazine articles that name them as founders of Y Combinator be enough to establish notability?
If that were the case, we wouldn't have any more wealth that we did when the country was founded.

Don't confuse wealth with money.
If Google and Amazon won't innovate, the rest of us must
I've seen "retweet storms" where my timeline is clogged with duplicate retweets; hopefully this feature will eliminate that.
GraffitiGeo shows first augmented reality app for restaurant recommendations
OK Computer moreso than Kid A.

From stuff he says, sounds like he may be a bit out of gas...
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Have you been keeping up with UBS private banking trial? Many wealthy have access to loopholes or simply hide behind legal and banking confidentiality to illegally hide wealth.

Sure, most wealthy pay more on an absolute scale. Not always so on a relative scale.

Cuban's core rational is that rich people make things move, shape change. I agree somewhat. So it follows that if they make less efficient things more efficient, then removing all tax loopholes and aggressively going after illegal tax behavior would force these wonderful, really smart rich people to make the tax system and government spending of it more efficient. As long as they have a way around paying, they have no incentive to make the tax usage more efficient.
Web reach should be enough to trigger notability. Any website in the top 100,000 in terms of traffic for a year is important enough to merit Wikipedia attention.

Notability should be determined by how useful the knowledge is, not whether or not the mainstream press bothers to pay attention.

The level of notability should be set by Wikipedia's ability to reliably incorporate information, not by some arbitrary standard. As the number and expertise of editors increases, the notability standard should decrease.

The goal of wikipedia is the "sum of human knowledge," (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Free_speech) not to "the sum of human knowledge that has been covered in the mainstream press."
I agree that both are necessary but insufficient conditions independently but I've always been irked by the fact that the hard work/motivation part is always immediately dropped when you talk about average working stiffs.

It's like some bizarre fear that by admitting that some people are simply feckless and/or unmotivated you risk marginalizing everyone hasn't "made it" whereas in reality incentives are a huge part of the productivity equation (as anyone with a knowledge of basic economics can attest).
Ask HN: Proof Based Book on Statistics
Does anyone know of a good statistics text (general overview for undergraduate or graduate level), which builds its material incrementally on proofs, and does not assume too much prior knowledge?
The rules for notability are straightforward. Subjects are notable "by dint of being written about". The notability tag is very easy to dispel: provide references to credible reliable sources. They clearly exist for Blackwell.

The misconception you're fostering here is that the {{Notability}} tag is somehow a black mark on the article. It isn't. The entire encyclopedia is under constant construction. The tags are there to direct the attention of editors.

Your complaint is particularly misleading because the Blackwell article is, in fact, badly sourced; it has "External links", but its "References" all point to Blackwell's own sites. The {{Notability}} tag is correct, not because Blackwell isn't notable (he again clearly is), but because the article doesn't properly establish why.

The rest of your critique may or may not be valid (I have misgivings about WP, too), but the main thrust of your comment here is bogus, and you should acknowledge that.
Happiness comes from you having an interesting life. I recommend reading the "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" to find more about it.
You're mean.
retweets are a community attempt to make up for the fact that "favoriting" something on twitter is largely ignored and hidden and isn't (or at least wasn't traditionally) something easily accessible from the website or as part of someone's regular list of tweets. Favorites are more accessible now to other people, but they don't have the prominence that they should have.
Making a wise decision is a choice.

And, essentially the choice is whether to think or not to think.

The results of that choice are not a random twist of reality that's foisted on an individual... the results are the real and logical outcomes that can be expected using the application of probability.
you'd need to know where 'Q' was , absolutely , for you to know where "W" , "E" , "R" , "T" and "Y" were relative to that.

But pretty cool idea though ...
See http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html
Many of Charles Dickens's books were originally released one chapter at a time just because Radiohead releases songs as singletons doesn't mean you can't put them together to make something greater than the parts.
Awesome, especially if it has alot of reliable reviews. It would be great to just stand on the street and look around you for a good place to eat instead of browsing through yelp or zagat reviews. Great job guys!
I do a lot of organic butter and coconut oil. I talk about that on the site. It's not the only thing I focus on, but it is one of the things that has been helpful.
Yes, I think this is a viable model. Essentially, what folks like JBoss are doing is reducing the cost of acquisition by leveraging lighter-weight distribution techniques.
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