skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Coupling the two creates inefficiency, as individuals receiving the income support are then compelled to devote time to an economically-inefficient job

Economically inefficient jobs like building the triborough bridge.

Or providing healthcare.

Or building dams.

Or building schools.

Or building public art works.

Your entire argument is based upon a theoretical presumption that is disproved by reality: that if the government provides jobs that did not otherwise exist that those jobs will by necessity be make work.

Economic efficiency is also a terrible measure of whether something is worthwhile. Was sending a man to the moon economically efficient? Was it worthwhile?
FBI Arrests Blake “Defcon” Benthall, Alleged Operator of Silk Road 2.0 [Updated]
Loved the Kindle from the beginning. Cheap plastic is part of its advantage. I take it places without the least fear for its safety. Cheap is good here.
You got the wrong phrase. The question is can you build a successful company without working long hours, not "without working very hard". At Quickoffice we worked very hard.

We'd have the occasional long night, but there weren't many even 60 hour weeks being put in.
I've tried it too, and came to pretty much the same conclusion...another place to backup...what I like about Dropbox tho is how they name files with a timestamp of when the picture was taken. I'm reluctant to enable auto-save on my Android because of how files will be named.

What I'll end up doing is going first to Dropbox, then to Amazon as a long-term backup. Annoyingly, I don't think there is a api to script this, so it will have to manual for now.
I think you are confusing working hard vs working to death. I work hard everyday but at some point in a given day I realize that I am not productive anymore.

If something is menial, doesn't require much mental process. Than its okay to keep going but if its something new which require even small amount of mental effort than working super hard is not going to get you anywhere.

I also sometimes work late, because I don't want the context switch that will happen if I leave the task in half completed state right now so I want to take it to logical conclusion where it would easy to pickup next day (in most cases I am excited to see the end product of task).

As with everything in life there is fine line between working hard vs working yourself to death and nobody else can decide this line for you.
This is why it makes sense.

There are a LOT of people that use Amazon to buy things.

A lot of people don't know the difference between phones.

If Amazon has a giant splash screen saying it has a phone, naturally people will buy it just because they don't know any better (eg. 65 yr old Grandmas in Arkansas).

Additionally, Amazon is a long term company and they know that if they want their foot in the phone game they need to start somewhere so they did.

They have never cared about hardcore techies or even their investors. They are one of the most long term focused companies alive right now. They believe in iteration like a religion and they understand the average consumer.

It makes sense because it will make cents.
Anyone with this type of hobby kernel experience, how hard would it be to build the "Ruby on Rails" or "NodeJS" of kernels?

If hard, why so difficult? I'm more referring to a theoretical reason, rather than practical.

Practical Reasons:
- drivers are required
- C/ASM is hard (ie lack of contributors)
- different hardware architectures need to be supported. That part I get.

Why in theory can you not have an operating system framework that allows people to "relatively easily" build a custom kernel (instead of using Linux) the same way something like Go allows me to "relatively easily" build a custom HTTP server (instead of using Apache)?
That's quite the strawman. Nobody is claiming success doesn't require hard work. But there's a serious gap between working hard and working yourself into an early grave.
Chattanooga isn't a very good example. The Internet is cheap because the city already had a fiber network around for the power lines. There is no way that $70 is actually paying for capital costs.

Look at the various information floating around about Verizon's ROI on FiOS. There is a lot of speculation that they don't even break even on the average deployment unless the customer buys the bundled video services.
>If you've got any questions, I'm happy to try to answer.

I'm not really a leet haxor when it comes to fiddling with driver power management and configs. I like linux because I can just fire up powertop and manually switch the config settings to the ones that TLP doesn't flip automatically.

Did you have to do a lot of hacking and do you know if openbsd is comparable in terms of power management?
Really sad for his family and friends. But, what could be the reason for his depression?
I don't see why the the author finds it 'extremely hard for me to understand Amazon’s consumer hardware strategy'.

The strategy is simple: If 100 million people only have an Amazon device (and do not have a Google or Apple device) and one of those people wants to watch the latest James Bond film or English Premier League final, then Amazon can take a 30% cut of the price the user (or advertiser) pays.

Amazon's execution may fail because their hardware is crap and are losing to Android and Apple, but their idea is sound.
You should tell them your total comp including benefits. Don't overlook the value of benefits.

At my last job for every hour I worked over my standard 40 hours I got an extra hour of annual leave. Standard hours in my field tends to be at least 45/wk so when I switched jobs I quoted a figure that included the value of this extra leave.
Great point. No matter how engrossing or important the work I'm doing is, I've never been able to push myself to work past midnight. Something biological tells me I am done, my brain turns to soup, and I know I've gone past the point of diminishing returns. I've never been able to fool myself into believing that there is any point in doing any more.

I look at these guys pushing themselves beyond the point of physical, mental and emotion exhaustion, and I just wonder how they do it. I wonder what drives them go on.
Home Depot hackers got in via a vendor, took email adddesses too
Data Science Weekly Newsletter – Issue 50
One reaction: "grow up". Stop letting other people dictate how you live your life. That is what parents do for children. Becoming an adult means making your own decisions about how to spend your time, and when enough is enough. Grow up. Stop putting other people, ones not even that close to you, first. Grow up.
It shouldn't be the way. We met Brad Feld last year in Las Vegas (Up Summit) and he talked about his depression[1]. I suggest everyone to read the depression archives on Brad Feld blog [2]. Pretty insightful posts. I tend to be obsessive and I lost someone I really care about because of focus on money and too much work. At the end of the day, you have to focus on your priorities, your wife/family is one and should deserve a decent amount of attention. Brad said that when Amy call him whenever he's in a meeting he will still answer, because she's a priority.
Outworking yourself is not likely the way you will succeed in the long run. Work hard != work smart

George Bernard Shaw said: "I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it."

1. http://www.inc.com/magazine/201307/brad-feld/many-entreprene...

2. http://www.feld.com/archives/tag/depression
Airbnb Finally Adds a ‘Don’t Secretly Film Guests’ Policy
I agree with everything you've said, but if it's true that you can get rich from a startup without working extremely long hours, we should be able to find some evidence of that. And if there's no evidence, then maybe we should rethink whether it's true.
You've lost me. You're saying that the city has real problems which are being ignored due to the successes?
This page discusses some of those aspects of Viking clothing:

http://www.hurstwic.com/history/articles/daily_living/text/c...
Faking is the New Innovating
I input raw logs to Splunk and built great looking dashboards with full access to raw data.

GA is a free joke.
A way to connect to the Internet without Wifi or cellular plan?
Startup for assasinations
motherboard.vice.com/blog/online-assassination-markets
Twitter's a $25B company with $4B cash in the bank and is at revenue run rate of more than $1B/year. There are some existential questions about whether or not they could be doing more with their reach and influence, but it seems decently managed from my perspective.
And since we're using the criteria of The founders got rich enough not to have to work anymore, or the company went public, which I think is totally accurate in 99% of cases, let's please stop talking about Doing Great Things, which has nothing to do with the above. Let's be honest, most founders are in it to get filthy rich, not to improve the world. Sometimes the two go hand in hand, but less than the startup world thinks.
There will never be a 100 million if the hardware is too crappy, and that's why the strategy is hard to understand; you can't just assume the end point.

That said, Amazon's phone is the only product I thought made little sense. The Kindles are successful and drive ebook consumption. Fire TV I have no idea, but the Roku has proven that the basic idea has a market. What other giant hardware stumbles has Amazon launched?
Assuming an average consumer will spend a constant number of dollars per year - advertising would indeed be a big negative sum for advertisers. Advertisers would make the same number of dollars, except having had to spend on advertising. The problem is those who do not advertise generally lose out to those who do.
So now 25% to 50% of impressions go to ad bots. It's known that most ad clicks from about 10% of human users, who will click on anything but buy little.

The real winner in this is Amazon. Amazon doesn't pay anybody when someone clicks on a product listing. They have to buy. Same for eBay. So there's no point in 'bots clicking on those sites.

Online ad rates have been dropping for some time now. Most of the ads run by Google Adsense (the ones on third party sites) are there because Google pushes advertisers hard to use that feature. Most of the conversions from Google Ads come from the ones on search results, which are displayed when the user is looking for something. Those are useful. Most other forms of advertising are interruptions for users interested in something else.

The classic tactic ad-based companies try as ad prices drop is increasing the ad density. That's called "pulling a Myspace". It didn't work for Myspace, which tanked. Twitter seems to be headed that way - usage up, profits not too good.

The way this is going, online advertising is going to have the conversion (to a sale) rate of spam - one in thousands.
If I see good code, I know that (absent some sort of fraud) you are a good coder. That's a pretty solid "lets talk". In numbers, I'll interview 3 people with good code and maybe hire 1.

If I don't see good code, you put yourself into the same category as all the bad coders out there who can't code. I may need to interview 10 or 20 people before I find someone decent - I simply can't differentiate between you and them without spending hours on code interviews.

Obviously I'm going to talk to the people with visible code first, and only hunt for the needle in a haystack if I get desperate.
Thanks for the links, an interesting read!
Yeah you can just keep the old style if you want to. It's the one I still use.
Turn the game of nosy recruiters/employers to your favor - give them what they want i.e. tell them how much you want. How much you're actually making is not their business.
Oh yeah true.
Key gen time probably doesn't matter too much in the particular case of pgp, but key size is a big deal. Keys that you might conceivably type by hand. Keys, not fingerprints, that can fit in tweets. Or tattoos. :)
I call it the "must do something" syndrome.
Vps and managers at some point just "do stuff" to justify being employed and salary. So that means pooping out new products, doesnt matter if its great as long as it sounds like theres a remote chance for it to work.

This is generally where the CEO has to come in and say "no more" - but thats not always that easy. Politics, etc.
Interesting. Are you claiming that OpenBazaar will be free of bugs, exploits, side-channel attacks, etc? Have you done an analysis of the code? Got a link?
:D My name is also Ali, I opened the page and saw it says: "Welcome, Ali" I thought huh, they must have added a new feature that greets you or something!
PDFs have no bookmarks.
One of the most astonishing parts of dark markets is that it flips the drug-dealing paradigm. Instead of watered-down product sold by unsavory people only motivated by profit, we now have what are essentially drug aficionados who are earnestly interested in selling the best possible product.

Which isn't to say they're allergic to profit, but since its closer to an open-market they can no longer rely on being the only game in town. Testimony from buyers on the dark markets shows that some dealers even include free drugs, which is completely unheard of.

If the cocaine cowboys of the 70s and 80s were the first wave and the crack kingpins of the 90s were the second wave, then the cyber vendors are the third wave drug dealers.
Scientists Have Figured Out How Two HIV Patients Were Spontaneously 'Cured'
UAB cures diabetes in lab mice, preparing for human trial
An App Trying to Save Your Office from Dying of Boredom
Start with Jeff Hawkins

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

I remember hearing him lecture where he said he always tried to be home by 5:30 to have dinner with his family.

Grid, Palm, Numenta, Handspring, are all great successes.
http://www.reddit.com/r/askhistorians is a highly moderated (i.e.: nothing like most of Reddit) subreddit that has a lot of historians happy to answer random questions about anything that happened more than 20 years ago.
I thought the question was more open-ended than just IDEs. Clearly there is consumer software designed to be addictive, and other software designed to create things which can empower a user to do more than they could without the software. Propietary vs. open-source isn't the issue so much as whether the core idea behind the software is to serve the user or to capture them.
I'm not sure some of those cases like Severnaya Zemlya are actually "censored". These are seriously remote, uninhabited islands near the North Pole and little else, I suspect the commercially available satellite imagery for them is just crappy (look at the pixelation for anything in Russia at those latitudes!) and there's no pressing reason to get better data. That "giant gray bar" looks like data from a satellite flyover stripe failed for some reason; if you were trying to intentionally hide something, you'd do it on the postprocessed data like the Dutch seem to be doing.
It isn't the best tablet, but it is not bad. ... Ecosystem is subpar, but that is ok.

My, what a ringing endorsement.
Depression needs no reason.
I find codezero's lack of historical perspective rather uninformed and somewhat naïve.

"how can you afford..." People at the time didn't always have the money (or trade goods) and some lived in squalor (not all food/shelter/clothing needs met).

"hand made items like clothing..." Everything was handmade, so it was the norm. A shirt would be essentially worth the food required during the time it took you or the village weaver/tailor to make it. Fine clothes, such as those worn by nobles were notoriously expensive, often with a person's wardrobe being worth half of their entire estate (including land and buildings).

"which requires precious natural resources..." Many resources were more bountiful at the time, with more open areas and less population. Commons and wilderness closer by gave resources for the time to gather them.

"and time to create..." People had more time, without modern leisure pursuits. When you eat the subsistence level, you spend whatever time it takes to meet your needs (food, shelter, fuel, clothing).

But all these details were dependent on the time and place you're interested in. Feudal Europe had peasants living in squalor while the nobles controlled the land/resources and got rich off peasant labor. In places like the Pacific Northwest of North America, the salmon run was so abundant and nutritious that food was not lacking and I imagine people had time to hunt for furs and sew them into clothing before winter, as well as develop other arts and crafts.
Not everyone is a single male with no wife or kids. :-)
Not the city - certainly nothing that's can be solved by city hall. But tech as a whole, and even moreso in SF specifically, is a pretty hostile-to-mental-health place to work. Everyone being shitty to themselves (and those around them) because of the 1-in-a-some-large-number-here chance of becoming an instant millionaire.
Nice, I've been using http://www.slant.co for this sort of thing. Different stacks and commentary from folks on plusses and minuses. The rating system is nice but the question I'm always trying to answer is "Can I solve problem X with Stack Y?"
Rip 3D Blu-ray to 3D M2TS
There's also this: https://github.com/bitxbay/BitXBay
This is pretty great!

I think maybe there's a little too much averaging going on? I get a lot of muted colors and way more browns than expected. For example, try "America" or "France" or "China" (I actually first tried "murica") and you might expect to see pretty standard bright colors, but it's not so much the case. The query where I got exactly what I expected was "fabulous".
BitXBay is another concept, using Bitmessage as its primary protocol.

https://github.com/bitxbay/BitXBay
Where did all that cash come from?
No, I've never used EtherPad before. It's probably Google Wave I'm thinking of.
Does anyone have a mirror for those of us without LinkedIn accounts?
In case anyone else is wondering why the article is linked to LinkedIn, Jay Kreps, co-founder/CEO was previously with LinkedIn. LinkedIn is also an investor of Confluence.
http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=Z6bRDA7V
You can find out per-tab memory usage in Chrome by visiting chrome://memory-redirect/
The HP garage was a part time venture.
I talk to him regularly. I'm sure Bungie has his info, but if anyone is reading this and wants to contact him directly, I can provide an intro.
The saddest thing about this post to me is the fact that he could only write it because his startup is apparently doing great.

Most startups aren't, despite the fact that lots of the folks there are in effectively the same personal position and feeling the exact same thing - in addition to the added pressure of not feeling like they measure up to stories like this one because their quarter didn't go nearly as well. I really feel for those people, and I wish they felt more freedom to be honest and public about these kinds of feelings.

Rather tangentially - I have a one and a half year old daughter who recently turned a question we posed her ("Woah, kiddo. Are you freaking out!?") on it's head. Now sometimes when she gets wound up she goes full-meta and runs back and forth in the kitchen waving her hands in the air yelling "freaking out!", in self-parody.

That reminds me, a little bit, of our startup-culture's relationship to overwork... and don't get me wrong, I don't think articles like this are the ridiculous self-parody, I think they're the really troubling and all-too-real consequence.

Put simply I think we need to do a little more wiggling our toes in the carpet and chilling the fuck out. The world's not suffering from a shortage of first-world martyrs.

Take a breath, go home, do great work tomorrow, and for God's sake appreciate the fact that you're in the hilariously small fraction of people who get to blog about the pains of working too hard by choice.
South Park Craps All Over Free-To-Play Games
I've actually been thinking about doing exactly this for a 68K-based computer I'm building. This will be a big help! Awesome project.
I wonder if Ali found a next Twitter from the YC batch, does he allow to jump into that opportunity?
You are right. It isn't a problem with the site. I miswrote that.

If anything, the site is actually fun, since you're not under the time pressure that you are in during an interview.
Awesome, thank you! This is a great example. It's strange to see evidence that founders don't always have to work most evenings. I wonder why the culture surrounding startups has gone in the opposite direction.
"all products on Assembly are licensed under AGPL, and by agreeing to our terms of service you also are granting non-exclusive rights to Assembly to monetize this IP on behalf of the community (and you)."
You don't need an account to read the post.
Not "all" profit is sucked out of the equation by the time a DVD or video gets to retail. But a lot of it is. It's not so much a retail margin issue per se. It's that lots of stakeholders have contractual claims against the top-line sales ("front end") and bottom-line profits ("back end") of any given entertainment property. Producers, talent, studios, production companies, DVD distributors, film financing companies, investment banks, licensors and licensees, etc. Depending upon their clout and their contribution, each may get a cut of either the front-end or back-end of the property. Some of them might double-dip, taking a cut of revenues, in addition to producer's fees.

All of these shares are negotiated and locked before a single DVD (or Blu-ray, or digital download, or what have you) goes on sale. As you might imagine, it's extremely hard to price an entertainment product profitably at retail, given how little flexibility the retailer has on its pricing to begin with. Sure, a retailer could set the price high -- but every other retailer is pricing low, so that won't work. It's a tough racket. Even still, these properties sell like hotcakes, so at least some money's being made. And entertainment sales are often correlated with sales of other big categories (electronics, toys, etc.), so retailers feel the need to keep the category around as a sort of proof point.

The death of the DVD is inevitable, but it's not as imminent as people would like to think. In the meantime, the life of the DVD is kind of a pain in the ass. :)
Down. Google's cache:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:bwQO1V7...
> They make a product, they market the product on Amazon.com, they sell the product to Amazon.com customers, they get a false sense of success,

Also called "success."

You can make a business selling cheap crap with powerful marketing. It's not noble, but it's probably the norm.

Amazon just hasn't realized yet that it needs to stop competing with Apple and Google and start competing with SkyMall, As Seen on TV, and the dollar stores.

(Half joking. But only half.)
Yep, and there's still the issue of some vendors not accepting purchases based on credit card address too. Partial solution, but ultimately geo-blocking should be canned.
This - so long as Amazon understands this.

Amazon has to remember they're in the product sales business, and their hardware exists ONLY to facilitate sales where some customers otherwise have trouble figuring out how to get it. Kindle is great for people who don't have another ebook reader; make sure every platform imaginable has Kindle software available. Fire is great for people who aren't buying into any other tablet ecosystem; make sure good content consumption apps are available on all other tablets. Fire Phone should be a decent phone for those wanting a phone and otherwise uncommitted to other makers; make sure all other phones consume Amazon content easily. Fire TV should be a fine media player; get Amazon Video onto AppleTV and Roku ASAP. Amazon should view their own hardware as nothing more than gap filler where customers haven't committed to other options which should be pursued by Amazon with equal vigor.

For Amazon, exclusive hardware is dangerous. It should complement the competition, not compete where others are superior.