skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The people who buy the devices will create their own apps if nobody else does. The "ecosystem" won't buy houses and cars for high-buck Western commercial developers, but that doesn't mean there will be no ecosystem.
what are CPU/RAM specs?
Seems "Magpie" is a common name for Git-related projects: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7378345
For most people, houses are machines for living in and not "investments". Given large up-front costs, you will almost always be in the hole for some amount of time after you purchase, but depending on what you buy and the alternative it can substantially lower your ongoing costs. Little of this has to do with year-to-year fluctuations in the housing market.

Of course, in SF, buying usually raises your ongoing costs. So...
Here is my process:

1. Talk with the business stakeholder to understand all of the functional requirements (read: things he/she can't live without and nothing regarding colors)

2. I then use Balsamiq to quickly create some low fidelity mockups

3. I then export every action into a PNG and use http://marvelapp.com to add animations between pages

4. Show to the business stakeholder to see if this fits all of their functional requirements

This process typically takes about 2 days
Ah, the NRA part wasn't explicit or something I assumed.
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I was living in Brisbane, Queensland, at the time (in Ferny Hills, if you know it), and the house was a Queenslander. I imagine the house may well have been laundered through such a service.
C++ or Delphi (pascal) via Embarcadero
It's interesting that email send is your take away from that because Android's send icon[1] is also a paper airplane (or at least that's how I interpret the icon.)

[1] http://i.stack.imgur.com/Jg4vi.png
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Has to be one of the more unreliable of the million package managers out there.

Good thing our devs all rely on this for successful app builds...
This is great, my kids love the books.

I work for a cable tv-like operator. I get everything for free, including OTT content on tablets and stuff. My primary-school age kids only watch Netflix. They don't even know the brand name of the TV product I work on day to day.

Thankfully their grandparents don't know what a Netflix is, have no idea that almost everything can be had on demand, and continue to watch and pay for overpriced old-school linear content.
That doesn't seem to have had much activity lately.
Personally I use Torsion
https://github.com/special/torsion/
That's the entire purpose of averages, though.
There doesn't seem to be a problem in Safari OSX, even with older versions.
it really depends on the app developer. He can use packaged apps and go full offline or use HTML5 AppCache and go offline with annoyances :-)

In any way, the developer is in charge of how much bandwidth he uses.
The phones have WIFI
At least you know there's a whole bunch of venture money behind them....
Point: A way to share things you find online
"You'll almost certainly walk away with the equivalent of a few hundred thousand per year"

"Certainly" is an inappropriately strong word. Even if you assume a salary of $150,000/year, in order to reach $300,000/year you would need to make $150,000/year in stock options, which comes out to $450,000 total if you assume it takes 3 years to get from series B+ to an acquisition/IPO. Of course, it could take longer. Or the median outcome could occur and neither event would happen.

So even in the unlikely scenario that the company goes from series B -> liquidation event in 3 years, and you get 0.25% equity (I'm assuming unreasonably generous stock options here for your average engineer, especially given the base salary), the company needs a $180MM liquidation event for the math to work out. This of course assumes that all stock is equal and your investors don't have a liquidation preference or anything like that. It also assumes the company doesn't take additional financing that dilutes the option pool.
I would normally say that a valuable asset that goes a year without being used isn't really lost when it goes missing.

It's like a mining company buying a plot of land that they know has valuable minerals on it for the sake of sitting on it to make their other plots more valuable. It's the exact position I think governments should tax/seize to the point that it is inefficient to sit on.

Thankfully these situations are rarer and rarer with the sharing economy allowing illiquid assets to actually be used for their intended purpose when not used by their owner.
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I am talking about a non US citizen.

N.B. I don't know why somebody downvoted me for clarifying the previous point.
I've posted updated benchmarks with the latest PyPy 2.3.1
http://pythonjs.blogspot.com/2014/06/pythonjs-faster-than-cp...
The P = MVP Problem
npm_lazy to the rescue!
Ah right. I'd confused it with Ubuntu. It's still odd, though. I wonder if other Debian users are seeing similar issues.

Out of curiosity, I ran the tests again on FF30 on Windows and Sunspider is about the same as FF28 was while PeaceKeeper and Dromaeo increased a couple percent.
...obesity which is the real demon.

I've heard that, but then I've also heard that moderate obesity (obviously not 2x "normal" weight, but say 1.25x) is actually associated with longer lifetimes than normal weight. There doesn't actually seem to be much consensus in these areas.
That presumes that they'd be able to get the same fare numbers during those additional 4 hours. I can see 11pm-3am being a fairly high-demand time. Not sure if there's an equivalent time slot with similar demand.
I was using Curdbee. They have been acquired by another company called Hiveage, and we had to migrate our accounts there. So that's what I am using right now.

I just needed a simple invoicing app which generates and sends clean invoices, so their free plans work perfectly for me.

Links: http://www.curdbee.com http://www.hiveage.com/
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I'd like to make a small observation here, $10 - 15MM after taxes is fine. That is where you earn $240K after taxes and fees during a recession, or $20K a month free and clear. You live in a nice single family home that is paid for anywhere in the US, and you spend a lot of time travelling and sight seeing. Or if your more entrepreneurial you spend your time building things, coaching youngsters, collecting old cars or steam locomotives and restoring them to original condition. You never run out of money, you never run out of health care, toys, or shelter. If you're working 9 to 5 somewhere its because its fun and you "like to keep your hand in the game."

Pretty much anyone would call that "rich." The exception are people who have a issues around money and their only definition of rich is 'more than everyone else.'
TLDR: We're all evil - but it's ok (as long as you write your congressman)!
hey pistle, quote doesn't work on hn

what does, on a mac, is

pbpaste | fold -s -w 77 | sed "s/^/ /" | pbcopy

that's 3 spaces in the sed command
Outage status pages:

NPM: http://status.npmjs.org/incidents/nz0kw54kdvfq

Fastly: http://status.fastly.com/incidents/381z6ydt7ddb
Well, I think this is not the case in practice, only in ideal. Russia is democratic by definition (far more so than China is communist), so is almost all of South America, at least a third of Africa, most of Europe, and several Asian countries including India (Which just had the biggest democratic election in the world), and most of coastal Asia. There are a few in the middle east, but those have yet to really take fruit. Democracy in practice only means the people get to choose from one or more preselected individuals.
It's easy to setup a private cache to keep your builds going while npm is down: http://eng.yammer.com/a-private-npm-cache/
Guru Meditation?!?
Agreed. Buy for utility rather than as an investment. If you end up making money selling the house at some point in the future net transaction costs I'd consider it a bonus.

That said, IMO buying a house with the goal of selling it in a 2-5 years is foolish.
Thought for sure this was going to be an article about Martin's Beach.
Which puts you in the same position as an employee paying top tax rates. It's the pre-tax deductions (cost of doing business expenses) that differentiate working for yourself or for someone else.
Several years ago, I asked a friend who worked for a Cable company in their Video-on-Demand division what the most popular show was in their catalog.

He answered that the most popular shows were kids shows (Teletubbies, Wiggles) at 2AM or 3AM in the morning. Imagine a crying toddler being soothed by the glow of their favorite show while the exhausted parent relaxes for a brief moment.

Netflix has the data and like it did with House of Cards it knows that it should partner with and/or create the content that its youngest viewers are demanding (especially at 3AM). The Netflix addiction might start even younger now...
This makes way more sense.. Sounded too good to be true
Conejo is spanish for rabbit.
In the '70's a research equipment supplier named Instruments for Research & Industry (now part of Glas-Col) would not sell to the military.
Company was founded in 1939, I do not know if that was their policy as far back as WWII but it definitely was during Vietnam War.

Since those times as a teenager my greatest hesitation to growth is due to the possibility of my technology getting out of control with negative net consequences, and have put significant effort to avoid that happening.

Over 40years the one constant which would appear to allow growth without this risk is to choose a capitalist more carefully than one would choose me.

I may be weird but I'm not just being weird.

I was influenced by Wall Street (I was a teenage stockbroker) and would still look forward to a corporation exploiting one of my efforts in a positive way if the structure was properly supportive.
FirefoxOS has lower resource requirements than Android - for example this $25 device has only 128MB of RAM. FxOS (an it's app ecosystem) is still very young (1.3 just came out, and the first release came out at the end of 2012). I'm positive that we'll continue to see dramatic performance improvements as well as feature parity with the dominant platforms, along with the app ecosystem continuing to mature.

On the app developer side, making apps requires no specialized development environments or knowing anything beyond web technologies (HTML/JS/CSS), which dramatically lowers the bar for making apps.

I'm not sure what counts as "truly remarkable", personally I am pretty impressed by games like Cut the Rope on my FirefoxOS phone. I also carry and regularly use an outdated Android device that has very similar specs, and it's not particularly responsive. More apps are available, but the average quality is not very high.
Yeah, just wanted to ask this. Is it going to be open? And protocol documented?
The original Pwn Plug was just a SheevaPlug:

https://www.pwnieexpress.com/penetration-testing-vulnerabili...

https://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/p-46-sheevaplug-dev-...

I don't begrudge them, they assembled it and created a simple to use interface for administration, created docs and bundled it for one price. It's worth the money for some people.
My kids use my Netflix account way more than I do.

A lot of credit should go to whomever had the insight to create the Wii client and dump the viewer directly into the "For Kids" UI. That was genius.
Would be cool if it was available as a screensaver :)
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Skype was never purely P2P anyway.
But those pre-tax deductions are pretty limited in the software development field. More code written != more deductions taken.
Thanks for the link thats very helpful.
It would be nice if they had this in their error logs.
I wish there was news about the rumor that Netflix might produce another Star Trek series.
True, but most people only have credit to buy a home, which is another matter.
You don't need to setup a corporation or payroll to get these benefits. Anyone can deduct business expenses. You end up paying the same payroll taxes either way.
Montreal’s mapping database to be made publicly available
I could write a whole essay on this topic, believe me... so lets go with the short version.

First is that most of the phones out there are running Firefox OS 1.1 and this version is not as snappy as Firefox OS 1.3 which is probably the next version those phones will upgrade to. Firefox OS 1.3 is much faster and solved a lot of bugs.

HTML5 is the native thing in Firefox OS. All apps and parts of the system itself are built with it. Thats how good it is when we build Telephony stuff in Javascript.

The thing is that Firefox OS is also the easiest platform to develop for. Its much easier to develop for web technologies than it is to learn ObjC and Java. That being said, lots of new developers are coming on board are still learning the best practices so we see a lot of apps that could be better just like you see a lot of pages that could be better on the web.

The Gecko engine and its WebAPI provide the developer with all that is needed to create good quality apps but since this is our first year, some of our third party developers are still learning the trade. Its getting a lot better.

There are 8 million web developers in the world. They could all be shipping apps on Firefox OS if they wanted to. Its free and we provide all the docs, also, its quite easy to develop for Firefox OS first and then pass thru Cordova or similar tech and deploy on other platforms.

We believe that the web will win in the long run and that a "web first" mentality will emerge where people will opt to go with an HTML5 solution instead of ObjC/Java/C# threesome.

I invite you all to explore our rich APIs at https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebAPI and see how every time we feel that something can't be done in HTML5 we try to come with a proposed standard. Its this type of evolution of web standards that moves the web forward in all platforms such as desktops, laptops, TVs and more.

As for used cellphones being sold, that doesn't really count in the larger scheme of things. Specially when dealing with Apple. As an exercise try picking an iPhone 3GS and installing random stuff from the App Store... its very hard because developers in those platforms are always developing for the new shiny and forget old customers with outdated hardware very easily. Now try installing an old web browser, something like the same Firefox that was available at that time and browsing the web. It will work because thats how web stuff is made, its made to keep working or degrade nicely. This means that what we call "open web apps" not only are easier to build but they can be used by more people with different hardware and thats why we have the world wide web and not some strange silo such as compuserve...

Think of yourself in five years: What type of world do you want? A world where web standards and engines have evolved to the point where you can do all you wish as a developer without moving away from web technologies and you're free to run your app in different platforms and systems or a world where you need to ask "pretty please" to a company in the north region of california every time you want to ship an app?

Sorry for making this long...
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Fun fact: we once interviewed at Y Combinator, we did not get in but we're bouncing back so much stronger.

Join us if you're keen on wearable technology and ready to be a part of a promising young startup!
> I believe that there is research showing that physical activities has, at the most, an indirect effect on obesity.

Whether an effect is "indirect" or not is an orthogonal consideration to whether it is significant. Most effects are indirect on close enough analysis (gunshot wounds other than those inflicting direct trauma to the central nervous system only indirectly produce death, but that's doesn't mean getting shot in the heart has an insignificant effect on your chance of dying.)
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lol iOS rebelling against its maker. apple.guru
If only it were even just the apps. Check out this blog post by the Tor project and look at what it takes simply securing the OS:

https://blog.torproject.org/blog/mission-impossible-hardenin...

Of particular interest to me was how the captive portal detection reports back to Google everywhere you connect even if everything else is disabled.
nor is mozilla selling anything... mozilla is a global community dedicated to the betterment of the web. We don't have shareholders, we're only accountable to you, the normal web user that we'd like to help and protect ;-)

Cue: Google for "Mozilla is my dinossaur"
There is no doubt in my mind that the "milkshake" one is the most sticky, and once it caught on people would definitely remember it, which is really what you need to make an icon become universal. Getting it to catch on in the first place ... that's probably not going to happen.
That "fortress" was actually a small mission, built in 1697, which served as the capital of Spanish California for a while. It's still there; I visited many years ago.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misi%C3%B3n_Nuestra_Se%C3%B1ora...

The modern town itself left a modest but pleasant impression. The nearby beaches, however, are positively epic!
Who says it is broken ? Most of all what is actually broken ?

We know the outcome, there are fewer woman in IT. However the problem is normally touted in 2 ways .... the first that woman are discriminated against .... and the second that woman need to be more active.

I think the author's approach is a great one, ignore the diatribe and get in there and do. If woman are being treated as second class then doing shows that it is a wrong opinion, if woman are less active then having them do is also solving the issue.

However if the issue is caused by factors such as a lack of interest in the industry by women, or the lack of study in the field by woman, then how are going to "fix" it, force women into tech ?

There are many industries where woman are a majority, should we "fix" these industries also ? Maybe all these tech savvy people who are focused on the tech industry can come up with some sort of algorithm to "fix" all of this issues.
Firefox OS has 22 carriers and 5 manufacturers last time I counted: LG, Alcatel, ZTE, Huawei, Geeksphone, Spreadtrum and Sony said it was working on a device but no one saw it...

The carriers include: Telefonica, DT, Telenor and more...

This is not a fly-by-night project, it has already launched in 14 countries.
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There should be a general backup NPM service somewhere though. Just like there are with Linux distro package systems. Maybe it could be a few hours behind in terms of replication, but generally that is good enough for nearly everyone.
If you're in a company that's series B+, a $180M liquidation event is a fail, and you shouldn't expect to make anything.

I'm not counting angel rounds as a series A here. I'm talking about the big rounds that are invested to scale the business of an already-successful product. Companies that take these kinds of rounds can still fail, but the rate is nowhere near the same as for an early stage startup. And there's still upside in it for the employees: if you get .01% at a $100M series B valuation, and the company eventually IPOs for $1B, you've walked away with a grant worth $100,000.

We're only a factor of ~4 apart -- make that .02% and a $2B exit (or .01% at 50M for a $2B exit, or...), and you're basically there. And we haven't even talked about raises and/or retention grants, yet. So perhaps "certainly" was a strong choice of words, but it isn't totally ridiculous, either. Being a later stage employee at a hot company is a pretty good deal.
Are you from the UK? I feel you may have a higher standard of taxi drivers that is far above expectations that you would expect stateside.

If I wasn't comfortable letting my daughter ride an uber, I sure as hell wouldn't be comfortable letting my daughter ride a taxi. Thus far, Uber has consistently provided a far better and comfortable ride than a standard taxi. If regulation hasn't prevented taxi drivers that have, in my experience talked on the phone while driving, lied to me and said they don't accept credit cards, or are just plain hard to flag down. From my, single POV, Uber drivers are that much better and the belief that regulation has 1.) created an acceptable minimum taxi service (it hasn't) 2.) will ensure Uber has a high quality (it already does) is one I can't fully swallow.

Uber already does a great job of vetting their drivers (I've heard drivers who receive even a few bad ratings are sacked) and honestly if the service was so dangerous it wouldn't be such a sought after alternatives to Taxis.
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/sad

I think multimedia computing, as introduced by Amiga did more for AI, speaking in terms of games, than the Lisp Machines. I do think the jack of all trades approach is useful for sharing data across computers and professions.

It's sad to see the demise of the professional multimedia computer to tablets and tablet-laptops.
> Did Brazilian diets change recently to include a bunch of meat?

Yes, for some values of "recently" (past 20 years).

We had a sort of economic renaissance in the 90s, when the government finally managed to control hyperinflation amongst other reforms (slashing tariffs, privatization of several state companies, etc).

One of the consequences is that people started eating more meat. The chart in this page shows the chicken consumption per capita (in kg):

http://revistaepoca.globo.com/Revista/Epoca/0,,EDG51460-6009...
> architectures that don't support NEON (they often lack them in Marvell and Allwinner).

I'm probably nitpicking here, but:

* All Allwinner SoCs have NEON[0]

* Most current ARMv7 processors have NEON. Of the current ARM cores, only Cortex-A5 and Cortex-A9 don't have mandatory NEON support (it's optional). Cortex-A5 is intended for embedded applications. Of the existing Cortex-A9 processors, AFAIK the only somewhat popular one without NEON support is NVIDIA Tegra 2, which is retired. Out of the third party cores, all Qualcomm and Apple ones have NEON support.

[0] http://linux-sunxi.org/Allwinner_SoC_Family
Why is that even a thing?
Can someone please explain how can light be used to transfer data in computers?
Anyone know where they're getting their market data for price history and volume? Perhaps not as important after the collapse of Gox, but the market is still illiquid enough that there can be substantial spreads between exchanges.
Mirrors, anyone? CPAN has like 50,000,000 mirrors. NPM could get at least three.
Can people actually write apps using only a Firefox OS device? I'm not being flippant. I think this is an interesting question for sustainability of the Firefox OS ecosystem.
This happens every single day in Brazil.

Most of my friends had their whole houses wiped out on holidays. Once a year it happens to one of my friends that have houses on non closed streets at least.
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