skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just confirmed it's on the eShop for $39.99 (via search) in the 'U' region. I haven't bought it, so maybe it would fail if I tried.
My personal conclusion (as much as people shout at me otherwise) is that geek communities quietly realize they are top-1% users and their usage patterns are subsidized by everybody else

It is true that many of the people reading this thread are top bandwidth users overall, but I question whether their peak-hour contribution to e.g. Netflix congestion is any more or less than the average Netflix subscriber. I also do not accept the claim that advanced users are "subsidized" by the other subscribers. If anything, the higher monthly fees paid for 50, 60, or 100mbit/s are helping to pay for the physical costs of the lower tiered users.

That said, usage-based billing is not a terrible idea, as long as the metering is 100% transparent, standardized, and as dirt cheap as it really should be. The second biggest argument I have against metered billing is that it's mentally taxing to have to think about every bit you send and receive. The first argument against it is that it's a technique to gouge customers.
There are quite a few. Some decent ones I have heard good things about:

* rootbsd.net
* arp networks
* vultr

There are quite a few cheap-ish dedicated server vendors out there that can either be ordered with FreeBSD or provide some means to install it yourself.
As someone who used over 4 terabytes of bandwidth last month...just lol. How sad is it that in the modern world I can be forced to physically move to another city/state just to avoid monopolistic ISP's?
I like how everything people ACTUALLY bother to use is rate/time/bandwidth limited, even though it might have been unlimited before (most mobile plans were unlimited and now the GB limits are going down every year, most cable/DSL plans were unlimited and now are becoming capped...) whereas things DON
'T use as much anymore went from expensive (remember $0.20/min calls and SMS) to free/unlimited/thrown. Hm...
> And now that everybody hates ads, it's suggesting you remove those ads with another Google product. It doesn't get any smarter than that.

...but how will they grow revenue in ~5 years when everyone has paid to remove ads?

Won't they put themselves out of business because if nobody is looking at ads, nobody will be paying for ads, so then there won't be any ads to display, and everyone will stop paying to not see ads.

(genuine question)
Why would you expect your almost-monopoly cable provider to be better than your almost-duopoly wireless provider?

(depending on location)
A co-founder is not somebody you take on 2 years down the road.
That doesn't make sense; There isn't one pool of "upload" data and another of "download" data. Rather, there is one pool of data streaming from edges into the core (upload) and back out again (download). You can either attribute each chunk of data to its uploader or to its downloader, but in either case, the pool is the same size.

Edit: or these metrics don't mean what I think they mean, in which case, please tell me!
I don't see a way to make comments.

Is that feature included?
also, how long did it take to make

i might try it as a learning project
Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer or accountant, and you really should consult one of them about your specific scenario.

Short answer: it's complicated, but probably C Corp. For the reason that if there's any chance you're going to take angel investment or give stock to employees, you almost need a C Corp. In fact, the lack of a standard C Corp just creates complications with investors and employees that puts you at risk. Keep it simple.

*

C Corporations are almost necessary if you are planning on taking investment. They are not as tax-efficient as LLCs because they're taxed twice (once at the corporate level, and another time at the personal income level / capital gains level depending on whether $ is paid out via salary or dividend.) However, they come with the benefit of having different classes of stock (usually required for investors / employee stock options).

LLCs are pass-through entities. They reduce taxes for shareholders by basically eliminating payroll / capital gains taxes.

If you have an LLC and want to take investment, it is relatively straightforward to convert to a C Corp if its early enough in the company's lifespan.

On the other hand, converting from a C Corp to an LLC is a pain (you have to create a separate LLC and have it buy the assets of the C Corp, which creates a taxable event).

An s-election is a good option to reduce tax-liability of a corporation. It grants pass-through status. However, to be eligible, you have to file in the first 75 days of the year, you can only have common stock, and all shareholders have to be US Citizens (no LLCs, etc).
You underestimate the difficulty of compiling from source for the layman. OSX and Windows do not come with compilers out of the box. The user would have to install them and the proper environment for them first. (cygwin, etc...) Then they'd have to get and install the dependencies properly. Finally they'd have to figure out the proper incantations to make it compile, which if you've never done it before can be extremely daunting. How on earth was I supposed to know what an LPATH is or pkgconfig? Not to mention the extremely verbose and scary looking errors from gcc.

That's assuming that it's a program written in C/C++. If it's another language then you might have another huge hurdle to go through. (Properly installing Go in my PATH took me a while). That's also assuming they don't rely on IDE-specific make files. A lot of the time OSX applications rely on xcode project files. The other day I was trying to compile an Android app before realizing that it was written in a language by Adobe which required the purchase of a full suite.

Open source can be really limiting if the developer doesn't make an effort to document the build process well and doesn't use open tools to create the product.
Exclusive cable monopolies have been illegal for over 20 years.
I understand that there are a lot of people who care about chocolate and who don't care about banana. I know plenty in the other direction (majority around me).

But there are two points. First is that you are underestimating the kind of role a crop can play in a culture. It is not just a matter of replacing Banana with another crop. It is a matter of changing significant cultural traditions going back hundreds of years. If you think about it, the importance of chocolate is also largely cultural.

Second, it is a philosophical debate that what is more important - something that is basic nutrition for one group or something that is cultural/emotional/luxury/(I can't find the right word for the role chocolate plays) for another. Where the resources will be allocated will depend on who controls those resources and which camp they fall in.
"syntax on" is complex?
European Science’s Great Leap Backward
I think the parent is talking about a response to this point of view. Historically, people first wondered whether QM could be explained by hidden variables. Then they proved it could not, which seemed to imply "spooky action at a distance". But now, Susskind is arguing that actually the logic of the 'hidden variable' gives the right intuition, even though there isn't actually a hidden variable.

Here's how I have come to think of it: When you create the two opposite-spin particles and send them to opposite ends of the galaxy, they exist in a superposition of states which follows QM probabilities. The spins are anti-aligned in all of these possible states , but pointing in a different direction in each state. When one person observes his/her particle, you can imagine it's like they are 'masking out' many of the possible states, leaving just one of the possible "universes". But no matter which "universe" gets masked out, in the "surviving universe" the spins are going to be anti-aligned.

This is a lot like the 'hidden variable' picture where the spins were pre-decided and put into boxes, and when person A opened her box and saw "up" she knew that the other person must have the "down" spin. The difference is that QM probabilities are not consistent with the probabilities you would get from such a boxing procedure (in particular when the observers measure the spin at different angles). But conceptually, opening the box and realizing that you have the "up" spin and therefore the other person has down is a lot like doing a spin measurement and masking out many of the superpositions, and concluding that the other person must have the opposite spin from what you measured.
It's especially weird, considering that I see Sphinx-based docs: https://github.com/joyent/libuv/tree/master/docs/src

Seems like they could at least post them in whatever state they are in. Couldn't be any worse than a directory index with some release tarballs.

If I didn't know what libuv was, I'd take one look at libuv.org and immediately look elsewhere (as silly as that is). It'd be very much worth it to get a basic page up that tosses out some links to Github and/or tutorials and stuff!
It sounds like the universe may be built on lazy expression evaluation.
What I mean about "spread"... You can use facebook comments, genius annotations or even ask for comments in leaderboards platforms like reddit or HN.

Thinking about delegated systems I can only see two purposes: a) Make your project/content be acknowledged by the people (Spread by piggybacking) or b) Cut off engineering resources regarding to the lack of value created through those comments.

At some point, we need to decide if the comments are a value to keep or to trade.
Perhaps this is a controversial idea, but is this not just someone finally taking the tried and true Open Source "advice" to heart?

That is, every time I've reported something is broken, wonky, doesn't work reliably, et cetera, I've been told, "Submit a patch.", "Write some code.", or worse, "Implement it yourself."

Someone finally got fed up with the haphazard state of affairs in Linux-land. Fed up with the fragmented and sometimes many places you have to look for error logs. Fed up with the many files you have to edit to configure the network correctly (different on every major distribution). Fed up with the half dozen ways to configure X, where X is a common function to every modern operating system.

It seems Lennart has taken the advice and followed through, and distribution maintainers liked it. They liked the idea that someone was taking all this complicated work - this dirty, boring to write and maintain code - and making their lives easier. Why else would nearly every distribution be on board?

Systemd is offering a more compelling solution than anyone else, and if you don't like it, well, you should submit a patch, write some code, or implement it yourself.
As I said, generally speaking. Obviously, there are exceptions - like the FCC - that stand out for one unique reason or another (directly managing a publicly-held resource like the wireless spectrum, for instance, or the Dept. of the Interior, which issues oil and gas leases).

And I'm not saying that having industry experience by itself is a problem - although it can be with shadier lines of work. No, it becomes a problem when people can ping-pong back and forth between rule making and profit making roles in the same sector. The worst of it is seen not in people coming from the private sector, but from people going to the private sector - frequently to collect their rewards for having exercised a "light touch" when they were with the government.

That's the point at which a big salary for a cushy gig looks less like compensation for the job you're doing now, and more like a reward for the job you didn't do as a regulator.
This https://www.ibisworld.com/industry/default.aspx?indid=1951 implies 1-year revenue is $11 billion. It's different from valuation unless 1x happens to be the valuation multiple.
Even if Screeps had one fixed plan, it would still be possible for anyone to launch "ally" programs on behalf of several users and thus get the same total CPU increase.

However, keep in mind, that Screeps is not about having many creeps but about controlling them properly. More CPU, more rooms, and more creeps often don't offer any advantage over another player if you can't manage all this.
Free Apps on the App Store
Please keep in mind that it is still alpha development version. We are still working on it, please get back soon! :)
why? we already have sublime, vim, atom.. not to mention IDE's like IntelliJ
Sweet! Having 500+ starred repos, I wanted to build this myself to help with organization.

It would be nice if tag names didn't have min. length. I can't tag stuff with "ui", "d3" etc.
You can't say 'no' on HM without being downvoted by the hivemind for not having an agreeable opinion.

Then the "why is everyone being so negative and critical?" comment rises to the top.
This will certainly make our lives easier.

BUT.

1) Why store a package, wouldn't an index rather than another repository be more efficient and flexible.

Cargo already has the capability to get packages from git urls...

I had some other nicks but I see this is on github so I'll try and contribute there.

I like the site, and can't wait to test it out. Thanks to all who have been working hard on this!
Bet the message appears at noon, midsummer's day.
I used Gentoo for 10 years, and I can't figure out how to get a Systemd configuration working with XFCE. Indeed, most of the existing documentation has greatly slowed me down.
Where can you get wholesale bandwidth at $0.001/GB?
Despite Amazon's open platform, I'm fairly sure that her phrase:

"We just saw a profiteer try to punish a publisher for disobedience..."

refers to Amazon's conflict with Hachette.
Here's a really old post on hackernews about this kind of concept:

"Ask HN: Would you play a distributed, programmable MMO?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1538171

Nice to see something like this begin to take shape.
I would recommend Pankaj Mishra if you are interested in this topic. Specifically for China, here is an article: http://www.outlookindia.com/article/A-Poet-Unwelcome/281819
>>Why not save money and outsource?

To be frank, I tried this for C++, and found that 'engineers' in India sucked and the competent ones cost almost the same as in the USA (70k/80k).

On the flip side I was able to find a really cheap graphics/publishing workflow (they clean MS word documents) but with 5x margins on our product, I didn't care nearly as much if we/I was paying people in India half the wages.

In truth, I think there are highly skilled jobs that can't be outsourced or rather have an even playing field.
> Wholesale bandwidth costs about 0.1 cents per GB.

Source? I've often wondered what this number is when viewed in aggregate across carriers - I can just never find it.
Well, AWS doesn't charge at all for inbound traffic, so you're looking at even worse than 1000x in one direction.
HT Leadership Summit 2014 (India)
Various public restrooms in San Francisco work like that. I have heard of people trying to stay inside to watch the washing happen by tricking the occupancy sensors. I'm not sure if this ends well ever.
Lennart Poettering works for Red Hat, btw.
Apple’s Newest Designer Reimagines the Shotgun
The Navy’s Developing Little Autonomous Boats to Defend Its Ships
How to deal with loss and startup stress
Am I missing something?
Yes. See: "http://reproductiverights.org/en/project/contraceptive-acces...
A crummy commercial? Sonofabitch.
The second screen shows the search an replace dialogue, which is its own floating window. I can't tell from the screen shot whether it is modal.

Anyway, search is an incredibly crucial feature for navigation. It has to be fast, and non-modal. Even having it in a separate screen is suspect in my book.
I am working on a project that I need to incorporate soon, but I have no plans to take on any investors at all if I can manage it (i.e. and grow organically).

Any reason to do a C-corp vs. LLC in that scenario? (Either way I was planning on using Delaware even before watching this video)
What a bizarre connection! Disputing the divine right of kings had to be a private act or you faced the consequences; you and I, the consumers, ultimately decide the fate of the millions of businesses that constitute the system we call capitalism within a free market.
No, it is not a joke. See the earlier discussion for elaboration.
Startup: The Ultimate Heist
Were JustFab ever legally punished for their deceptive "payment" process? I'm guessing not. Their current site now shows regular and membership options (like they did on their German site 1-2 years ago), but they still don't state it's a subscription up-front or in the costs box.
"The developers of Go argue that the maintenance of your dependencies is your responsibility" THIS!

I should also state I fall on the extreme end of the spectrum. My belief is that the moment you depend on upstream package X it is wholly your responsibility to track changes and adapt your code accordingly. I don't believe software versioning does anything but encourage poor security, performance and general fragmentation.

I believe that before pushing your changes to a remote repo, you locally check that everything is stable, meaning there is no dev branch or stable releases just one true master branch!

If you don't want the bleeding edge then don't 'git pull'. simple!
You are not alone if you are pained by AutoTools
Thanks for this. I always wondered why Github doesn't have this by default. This actually solve a problem for me.
"Comments moved to..." means that your comment, which used to be here in a duplicate thread, has been moved into the main thread on the same story. That's HN's current way of merging threads. We don't do it without reporting that we did it.
I don't get why Nintendo doesn't have a public SDK. Charge for it (e.g. $100 a year), and have an "Indie eShop" along with the "eShop". The open app store models works great for companies that control both hardware and software, and all video game companies fit perfectly in that niche.

It seems that it will be that way soon because MS, Sony, and Nintendo have been increasingly more open to indies in the past decade- for the very good reason that it makes business sense. It'd be very surprising if the trend reversed- and it's surprising that it's taking so long for it to reach its logical conclusion.

Particularly for Nintendo: if they make the 3DS an openly programmable computer with an app store, there could be some very unexpected apps (not video game related) that would open up new revenue streams. I believe that they've been needing that recently, and it seems unlikely that selling plastic figures is more of a viable long term strategy than Zynga freemium crap.
You basically need to know about everything. I personally like reading about this sort of stuff. What I did is just look up the reading lists of the appropriate subjects at the university I was at and started reading down the list. Since these are on the reading list the university will have dozens of copies of the books on the shelf - just make sure you do this out of cycle (i.e. Read the term 1 books during term 2 and vice versa) or else you will be fighting with the students to get hold of them.
Time for the Timex Datalink Watch to make a comeback?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timex_Datalink#Optical_sensor

Upon closer inspection however a small lens at the position of 12 o' clock on the watch face indicated the mode of the wireless data transmission through visible light.[4][16] Data was transmitted from the CRT of the computer through a series of pulsating horizontal bars,[17][18] that were then focused by the tiny lens and inputted into the watch EEPROM memory through an optoelectronic transducer operating in the visible light spectrum and employing optical scanning technology.[19][20]
The CRT synchronization was possible only for systems operating on Windows 95 and Windows 98. The watch was compatible with Schedule+ and for the Datalink 70 model the time needed to download seventy phone numbers was about twenty seconds.[14][17]
> Has anyone succeeded in deliberately changing editors, even when not feeling like it's necessary? I'm especially curious how I could start using emacs, and actually get up to speed with it instead of using it as Notepad/TextEdit (as I would do if I started today)?

I used to use Textmate at the University. Then XCode at my first job. Then I learned Vim, since every hacker in the internet seemed to love it, the usual story... (big plus: many IDEs have very good Vim key bindings)

Then I simply wanted to know what Emacs would be like. I took a bit of a productivity hit for about a week or two, but not more. Over the next year or so I read the Emacs manual and dove deeply down the rabbit hole. It has been four years now. Somewhere along the way I picked up enough elisp to be dangerous.

TL;DR: Want to learn a new editor? Just do it. There's no magic to it. Do the tutorial, RTFM, take the short-term productivity hit.
TestDouble
Sitting here in Finland on my open, unmetered, 350mbit home internet connection, not worrying about how many HD YouTube videos I can stream, vagrant images I can clone or RAW images I can sync to the cloud - I wonder how a country which has so many smart, gifted people hasn't yet realised that the Internet should be a human right, without caps, slow lanes or censorship.
Not complaining too much as long as there's fair warning when hitting certain thresholds of the cap. Worst thing I want is not unknowingly exceeding the threshold and getting billed an extra 100$
Wow, great comment -- and one that all who endeavor to innovate in systems should take to heart. As my former colleague Bart Smaalders was fond of saying, "the hardest software to upgrade is the software in our brains"; when inventing new abstraction, it must be done so sparingly and (as much as reasonable) by leveraging extant notions. This isn't merely to allow a technology to be readily understood (though that too, certainly); it also requires thinking in terms of reinvention versus reuse. This thinking enforces a kind of humility: you must learn about the systems that have come before, if only to understand which of their abstractions can be reused. I think it is a perceived lack of this kind of humility in systemd that has been so alienating for those who have a long history with Unix: it's not as if other approaches are being rejected so much as they are not being considered at all.
Finally. I have been running Notepad in Parallels just to get a decent editor for the last 3 years.
That sounds cool
I love Ursula Le Guin's books.

My favourite quote by her (if not in general) in this one:

“If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.”
That's a list of "Best-sellers initially rejected", though. Not quite the same as quality initially unrecognized. Some of them could still be books of low quality, that happen to be popular.
Great post and I agree with nearly everything you have said especially on the importance of the idea. Good ideas are rare and valuble. If you think an idea is nothing then you don't have a good idea.
Having read the book myself, I'm confident it has a lot of intrinsic merit.
Whenever I see someone say a certain market or industry's valuation, I've always wondered what would be a good place to source that kind of information.

IBIS seems to be focused on the US market. Do you know someplace focused on the global market?
WatchOS-Headers
nice work, few suggestions:

* I created two tags with the same name 'Python' accidentally and I can't delete neither of them

* when adding tag to a repo, it would be nice to have a "Everyone else have tagged xxxx" helper, so I can add common tags with one click
Nobody has found a reliable metric to determine the quality of art, not even close, other than what others are freely willing to pay for it.