skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"we feel that an entire operating system that has taken years of development and refinement is worth funding."

I think this is also misleading, as they haven't produced an entire operating system so far as I can tell.

They're entitled to charge what they like. Unfortunately for them, everyone else is entitled to redistribute for nothing.
I use chroma doze (net.pmarks.chromadoze), but I'll give yours a shot too! thanks.
Verizon to Buy AOL for $4.4B
That's a very, very bad idea. It's concepts like this that make computing suck so hard (cf. yesterday's discussion about web being broken). A nagging pop-up is literally saying "fuck you" to your users. Sure, it may work in some cases from financial perspective (though probably not here, just like people switch from WinRAR to 7zip mostly because the latter doesn't nag), but it is crapping on your users.

Software vendors should be honest. You want me to pay you? Say it up-front. You offer me a free version? Don't be surprised me, and most of others, are going to take it. Want to make the free version limited? Say it up-front, but don't beg for money.
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For me it communicates a sense of giving someone money because I believe in them and want to support them. OTOH, such nagging communicates the sense of desperation, that the vendor is literally begging for money.
Verizon to buy AOL for $4.4B
It's a bit half-assed, at least on phones, especially with its SMS handling.
I agree. IMHO iTune is definitely a poor excuse for something that would be better run with tabs in a browser but I'm more concerned with things like the Apple Watch application or The Weather Channel that I can't remove from my iPhone.

The non-removable Apple apps on iOS that exist only to up-sell other Apple "value add" services like Newsstand, Apple Watch, iBooks, Game Centre even iCloud to lesser extent are far more annoying to me.
It has nothing to do with any kind of Patriot/equivalent act. The border search exception was authorized by the First Congress in 1789. It is extremely well established that at international borders the government can conduct warrantless searches and seizures, as long as they are reasonable.

In this case, the court did not feel that the search was reasonable, citing such factors as the actual search not taking place until after the person had left, and the search taking place far away from the border.
Moore's Law Reaches 50 as Chip Industry Faces New Challenges
No, and it was pretty clear it wasn't at the time tbh.
I highly doubt many people were paying for WinZip or WinRAR, given that they're a running gag in the IT sector (just like paying for Total Commander). But I'd love to see data on it, if anyone has some.
Verizon Is Buying AOL for $4.4B
Vexing exceptions (2008)
Swiftcourt (http://www.swiftcourt.se/) is doing really cool work and just got a big round of funding to expand to the US. They offer a quicker and cheaper way to solve small disputes.
The same people has no problems accepting n=1 as long as it is an anecdote which purports their world view though.
The difference between Elbrus from 70-th and contemporary one is quite significant.

Old Elbrus was stack based outside and has a level that translated stack-based ops into RISC commands for OoO execution. Stack based instruction set was meant to reduce code size (and complexity of code generation).

New Elbruses are VLIWs and I cannot agree with that architectural decision. They claim their VLIW and compiler solve frequent stalls (a hallmark of any VLIW arch, except in DSP setting where memory is quite predictable) but numbers in benchmarks do not agree with that.

Consider this: http://www.7-cpu.com/

Elbrus with 4 threads is about 15 times as slow in compression as Intel i7 (Intel i7 3770 (Ivy Bridge)). The difference in clock speeds is about sevenfold.

7-zip compression is very memory-intensive, and access memory in rather unfriendly manner - going backwards in dictionary search and forward in comparison.

This great discrepancy means that Elbrus stalls much more heavily than i7. And rightfully so - OoO CPUs like i7 specifically designed to avoid stalls.

Other that CPU architecture decision, Elbrus as a SoC is very good.
Elementry's Dev team doesn't pay for Ubuntu, they don't pay for the Kernel or GNU Tools

This attitude is why we don't see Linux startups -- just volunteer efforts, run on peoples spare time that they eventually get burnt out on and give up.

They are asking for $10. They aren't asking for a huge sum of money. $10 could be a very reasonable amount of money for the effort they've put into it.

Yes, it's built on free software... but when I (and many other people too) build their start up on free software and charge money.. we don't ask how much of that is going to Nginx, Linux, etc... we say, they're charging for the time/effort required to build that service.

And just like how many startups would be forced to charge higher prices if they had to redevelop nginx, etc... elementaryOS wouldn't be $10 if they had to duplicate all of that work.
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Only developers that don't care about stealing other developers work.

I do contribute to projects I use, as I know how hard it is to live from open source.
Have you seen it happen? Heard about it happen? Read about it happening?
Version to Buy AOL for $4.4b in Cash
How does the current Lenovo Thinkpad line fares? I've seen a couple of devices recently and they look solidly built with above-average quality overall. But I didn't own any recently (my last Thinkpad was from IBM), so I cannot comment about details.
Positive discrimination - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhZRDoGZg00
YouTube's Plans for 10 More Years of Video Domination
Not necessarily true, a lot of places allow people to work 4 days with a full time salary. In the end its about the job you do, not how many time you spend on it.
Who said you need more persons for a study like this?

If the sample is representative (and they don't even claim ot attempt to study something that would only affect a particular group) then 60 are fine, in fact they could do with even less.

Besides, what correlation? This is direct observation, there's no other parameter in play in the test setup.
Has Elementary ever considered joining the Ubuntu family? That would qualify you for http://community.ubuntu.com/help-information/funding/ I think.
It sounds awful that people have to work all of their lives, so they have built up enough social security and pension that they can spend all of this when they're too old and weak to actually enjoy it.

I retired at 30, not willing to take part in this craziness anymore, to live fully now and only work every now and then when I need money, although I'm also working hard on a solution that eliminates the need for money at all (and not only for myself, but for anyone willing to participate).

My motto about the future: If in my life I haven't made such an impact on at least one person that nobody is willing to take care of me when I'm not capable anymore myself, I have either done something wrong or society has become something I'm not willing to live in anymore anyway.
This kind of app can be super useful to do background check in other situations (startups, so called head hunters).
I agree with your sentiment. I also find it funny that this sort of illegal government activity actually caught someone selling weapon parts to Iran. Does the NSA system actually work? Random success? Statistically speaking you will eventually catch something, right?
> I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss .. contribution

I am not dismissing their work, I just find the attitude a little snobbish. Just like if you gift-wrap something and you take credit for everything that's inside. The attitude is just wrong.
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I agree.

It's mainly semantics, but "shareholder value" sounds a bit narrow for me.

I would say the goal would be to improve the employer's idea/product/business. Or even a step further: society as a whole.
Although shareholder value is the consequence in many cases, I personally wouldn't be motivated if I worded the goal of my collaborative relationship like that.

Also, while money is a useful result of this relationship, creating progress/improvement is the awesome part.
Yes, but different religions inspire different propensities towards violence in their hosts.

Remember the Broadway musical The Book of Mormon? I doubt the Mormons liked the play's content, but they responded to it positively. In some venues, they even took out ads in the playbill.

Do you think it would be possible for Trey Parker and Matt Stone to make a similar production about the Qu'ran? Even in the US, it would be a security nightmare. Venue owners, audiences, and production staff would all fear attacks.
Unpaywalled: https://archive.is/kVlwE
> A correlation in your sample (especially at that size) does not imply a correlation in the population

At least quote the article correctly.

> That is, correlation in the data you happen to have (even if it happens to be “statistically significant”) does not necessarily imply correlation in the population of interest.

(Emphasis mine)

Otherwise you might as well throw out centuries of mathematical, statistical and scientific progress. That laptop of yours? Throw it in the trash as it is the culmination of thousands of sham tests and correlations and is therefore clearly impossible.
The Science of Cycology (2004)
orik isn't criticizing them for charging, though, but for calling some users "cheaters" for doing essentially the same they are doing - getting Free Software for free.
I think it fits into the "perfectionist fallacy"[1] category. I don't really know how widespread the name of this fallacy though.

[1] http://www.mhhe.com/mayfieldpub/ct/ch06/glossary.htm
The chart / figures are a bit misleading though; it lists an age range of 15-64. People in the 15-25 age range will generally work part-time (if they work) because they're still in school/college/university. Also, people above 55 (iirc) get 'free' days off (because they're old), I'm not sure if that counts as part-time (since iirc they get paid full-time).f
Revenues of WinZip Computing (WinZip)
2003 - $25,259,000
2004 - $24,928,000
2005 - $22,700,000

(from Corel's IPO filings, http://blog.goodsol.com/2006/04/winzip_and_jasc.html)
This was an interesting read, thank you. Did you do much research around the pricing and if so what prompted the final choice?
My sister is an anesthesiologists. She sometimes anesthetize heart or brain surgery patients without putting them to sleep, because they're too old or unhealthy but need the surgery asap. These people normally cannot come back to life from anesthesia, which is just making someone dead by stopping heartbeat and respiratory functions with anesthetic agents and then animating them with machines. So the creepy state of having your heart worked out while you're awake. I believe this is something that can be fully automated by a machine in the future.

But she also holds the hand of a child to calm her while preparing her to a scary surgery, or talks to relatives waiting outside of intensive care, sometimes tells people that they lost their loved one, or a miracle just happened and they're good.
This is why after my open source phase as university student back in the mid-90's, I ended up doing mostly commercial software.

Unless one hits jackpot a la RedHat, or is doing consulting/teaching/web paywalls, open source seldom pays bills.
Please don't get me started on Odoo.
We've tried to use Odoo as the base system for an ERP for a customer from us. We've started with OpenERP (7 ? - the last version).

It looked pretty good - there were books available which showed how to customize OpenERP for your workflows. We've started planning the ERP solution for our customers.

Then one of our bosses had the idea to update to Odoo, because it was the "current version". I don't think that it is automatically bad if you change the reporting system completely - but I've hardly seen such a half ass job of documenting the new version. The last time I was working on it the only "documentation" was a 3 page presentation from the Odoo days.
Half of the plugins we used with OpenERP didn't work any more, and some functionality was in the GUI(updating plugins) but didn't work (in a stable and released version).

When searching for answers Stackoverflow didn't really work and the whole vibe in the forums was along the line "I've finally got it working - it was not that hard after I found out how to do it" or "you just have to pay company x a certain amount they will gladly do that for you".

I was really lucky that I got transfered to other projects and was able to stop working on this project.
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Only when one forgets that most of those developers:

- were payed to work on GNU/Linux by their employers

- had a different source of income

- were students with their parents paying for their bills

- were building a portfolio for a job change

So money did change hands, even if indirectly.
To me it communicates unwillingness to assume responsibility of selling something (ensure it actually works, refunds, etc)
Several legal startups exist but maybe they are not sexy enough to be profiled. Much of the law is local, down to the municipal level. What works in Amsterdam won't in NYC. What works in LA won't in San Francisco. Tough to scale. I think because so much of the legal profession is based on relationships and creative arguments we'd see much of the legal landscape off limits to what HN would call a startup. Would Watson come up with, "if the glove don't fit you must aquit?"
I've come across these two:

* http://reyesr.github.io/fullproof/
* http://www.tipue.com/search/

Might be interesting to see how these also stack up.
This made me wonder how Puppy Linux and Damn Small Linux are doing these days:

http://puppylinux.org/main/Overview%20and%20Getting%20Starte...

http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/
Verizon to Acquire AOL
I'm disappointed that it isn't powered by the kinetic energy of the pressing: I heard some Philips Zigbee control devices work that way (but Wifi might be too power hungry for that).
And I was expecting them to use the ESP8266 for this: Does anybody know if (at scale) that would have been cheaper?
As reported here http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?biz.5.331272.2... :

Revenues of WinZip Computing (WinZip)

2003 - $25,259,000

2004 - $24,928,000

2005 - $22,700,000

Peanuts?
Huffington Post, TechCrunch and Engadget how do these fit? Does this mean these might go away??????

Can one be so lucky?
The removal tool still need to be downloaded and run as per lenovo's website (http://news.lenovo.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=1931&v...). The malware still exist in laptops today and a professional would have to download the file, run it, and verify the removal of the infected malware to repair the machine.
Considering how irrelevant AOL itself has been to the mainstream internet for some time now that price tag seems awfully high. They do own a bunch of popular bligs/websites though. So maybe that's it.
The internal memo: http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/12/verizon-aol-4-4b/
As a reminder, AOL bought Time Warner for $180 billion 15 years ago.
In the UK, the lights go [red] → [red+amber] →​ [green], so that drivers are ready to move as soon as the light turns green. People don't run red lights.
To give you some perspective.

When Time Warner and AOL merged back in 1999, AOL was valued at $166 Billion.
Official announcement : http://www.verizon.com/about/news/verizon-acquire-aol
Oliver North had his laptop confiscated?
Thanks!

I honestly am very surprised by this. Does WinZip have any other potential revenue source that could explain this, or is it definitely from WinZip the software?

EDIT Joel's post above hints about enterprise licenses. That changes the equation a bit - enterprises have to pay, and it's very easy to get that money from them.
He devoted the last few years of his life attempting to prove himself wrong by sharing his property and belongings with the homeless, only to become more depressed when some of them stole from him and he was eventually evicted. No wonder his biography is called The Price of Altruism.

As one of the most important figures in the last forty years of evolutionary theory, he would make an excellent addition to this list of geniuses with bizarre beliefs: http://kruel.co/2014/05/30/highly-intelligent-and-successful...

For me, stories like this symbolize the incredible compartmentalization of the brain - we can think with complete clarity about the focus of our intellectual passions, and still not have a clue about the rest.
That's good. Thanks!
Yes I went up to Oxford in 1983 to read Natural Science and although I was mad on computers that meant simply that I had done some z80 and BASIC programming and read a few books on e.g. PL/1 programming and AI (i.e. lisp) from the local library. There was no internet then :-)
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The plastic has a lower quality feel to it compared with the old IBMs.

For example, in some areas close to the keyboard you can make it bend by applying a little pressure.

On the T440p you can somehow notice the screen matrix.
My mother was a nurse anesthetist like Bill Clinton's mother, and she had some horror stories that some of her colleagues had experienced, like a child who hid some gum under his tongue who then required some furious suctioning after being put under and it migrating to his airway. Add the providing comfort function that gokhan mentions and that I remember from when my tonsils and adenoids were removed in the late '60s when I was in first grade, or that my brother mentioned from surgery in the last decade or so, and it's clear there will still be a human involved even if a machine takes over some functions.

ADDED: your impression of what they do, their focus on a patients vital signs, easily measurable or subtle, their focus on keeping the patient alive, is correct as I understand it from my mother.
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It was a very abusive process. I've never been in another situation where you ask how much something costs, and they say "make an offer!"

Corporate IT sales. Try to get a straight answer for buying 100 + Switches, Servers, etc. It's ridiculous. The only reason someone hides their pricing structure, is so they can over charge some people.

Very similar to the grocery store leaving bad fruit hidden out with the good fruit in hopes someone will buy it without checking.
This is not true at elite universities. If you are already attending the top ranked university in your field and you want to go to graduate school, they will generally not make you go elsewhere. One of the reasons for this is that students from less rigorous universities my not have enough background to deal with the academic expectations of an elite university.
NL is too densely populated to live off the land, and the cost of living is rather high, so I'm not sure how you're doing it. But as long as you're not on welfare, don't have kids in school or use other tax payer funded facilities, I'm totally fine with your choice. It just wouldn't be my choice.

What also helps is that I don't hate my job. Maybe you just chose a career that didn't make you happy. Isn't there another kind of job that would make you want to work more?
Now that the FCC is involved with internet regulation, why do away with them? Verizon can use them to put out talking points and keep competitors out by getting favorable regulation passed.
I agree...

IBM thinkpad not just has better quality, but also many good design ideas that were later overridden by Lenovo -- such as the original keyboard layout, as well as that you don't have to take apart the whole bottom board to swap a hard drive...
Thanks for that particular link, it highlights possible explanation - "Never subestimate the power of enterprise licenses". So it's entirely possible that almost no user buys it, but they get their money from enterprises. I'd love to see a breakdown if one's available.
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I'm new to HN and do not understand why I cannot edit the post above, but there was something I wanted to add:

elementary does try to use its limited funding to support things outside of the project, for example putting out bug bounties for bugs or features in other FOSS projects that everyone would benefit of. And there was some money for debconf15 as well: http://debconf15.debconf.org/sponsors.xhtml
Would that make AOL the first company to provide Fiber and Cable?
>Yes, but different religions inspire different propensities towards violence in their hosts.

It is more complex than that. There is no on one side "good religions" and on the other side "bad religions". It is rather a combination of social and economics factors (education, poverty, exposure to other cultures, frustration, feeling of injustice (real or imagined), corruption, etc)

The debate does not really interest me, but since you mentioned Mormon particularly, you are probably familiar with the following story :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Meadows_massacre
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Care to link to sources on that?

From what I read on hunter-gatherers they were very egalitarian - and there was no need for strict rules controlling every aspect of the life of the members. Unlike in pastoral and settled cultures they did not have any way to accumulate wealth and they did not need to defend it later.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter-gatherer#Social_and_econ...

In fact the ways hunter-gatherers enforced their rules were often playful:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freedom-learn/201105/ho...
(lots of other interesting material at this site).
In practice, things are a little bit more one-sided. Also:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/07/university-mary-was...
I read another blog about someone who tested that (don't have the url, but it was easy to find), and their conclusion was that the crawler won't wait for any Ajax request to finish to let you render that content. If you want to render with Javascript, you need to make that data a part of the initial payload and render that data during onload.
there are some powerful interests that oppose this.

Not long ago I read quite a disturbing article in the wall street journal, that went on at length about the threat that wind and solar power presented to traditional electrical generation.

The article concluded with the statement that we could not let a trillion dollar investment go to waste.

So let's suppose we preserve that trillion dollar investment: mercury in our fish from burning coal, burning innocent people when oil trains derail, up to our eyeballs in nuclear waste for the next half million years.

That doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but the kind of people who read WSJ, that are concerned about their trillion dollar investment, are the same kind of folks with the spare cash required to attend $35,000.00 per plate dinners, as was held by President Obama here in Portland a few days ago.
2,000,000 * (100 - 99.875) / 100 * (10 + 1) / 2 = 13750
They piss everybody off for literally nothing.
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Not just bend. My 530 cracked a couple of months out of warranty, and Lenovo flat-out refused to repair it although they're obliged to do so under Australian Consumer Law. Writing a complaint to CAV is on my TODO list.

https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/General-Discussion/Cracked-palm...
Yes, exactly, you're misusing the word by widening its definition unnaturally. Which you're aware of, so the question becomes: why? Who knows, you might find out that the reason could be ascribed to "selfishness" in a much more narrow (and appropriate) way.