skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not just the semicolons, the excessive use of ellipses............ and many other details of his style left me just skimming over the topics and not reading the whole thing, which felt like it could've been shorter!
Disclaimer: I work at one of said scheduling startups.

I don't want you to think I'm deterring you purposefully, but one hint is that scheduling alone is just not lucrative enough for your goals.

Talk to a few merchants & you will find that restaurants with < 10 employees are going to fight tooth & nail for free features. They are operating on very tight margins and they are not going to pay much for this, if anything at all.

On top of that, the types of businesses/restaurants that will pay $50-100 p/m require a complicated set of features that would be too much for a one-person lifestyle SaaS.

I'd suggest you look to models like Zenefits', who entirely make their revenue from health insurance brokerage.
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Yeah dude, but its almost like application , and is it done with excess?
I'm all for motorcycle gear, as I agree textile is not that great for motorcycle gear(better than shorts) .... Kangaroo leather is best here?
Who is to say that the ad won't be jibberish to the computer? With web fonts you can make the screen say anything to humans while presenting very different text to the machine.
Adding an airport will SHRINK a polygon. A bigger polygon means a greater distance to the nearest airport. Edit: Never mind, on thinking about your comment some more, you probably know that.

Where you will see larger polygons is across the United States, as corrupt local governments get paid by land developers to close airports and sell off the land. Often these kangaroo councils operate under the guise of pandering to local residents, who moved next door to an airport and then started bitching about it in hopes of having it closed and boosting their property values once.

Make no mistake: These people are stealing from all of us. Once an airport is closed, we'll never get it back, and part of our national transportation infrastructure is destroyed. Not to mention the damage to the future of aviation, which can't fund innovation and invention if there's no place to land. See the current scam that's threatening the Santa Monica airport for an example.

This is what happens when clowns and criminals run a city government: We can laugh at them, but they cause real and permanent damage.
It would look like a lead generation system with a payment module. You would direct interested parties to each other, and process payments as directed. What they actually contracted to do you would not track.
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Really? Even if they continue to comment productively afterwards?

I think it's sad to see a hellbanned person contribute productively, since obviously they have no idea they've been banned.
I think it's a stretch of the imagination to suggest that lottery players would be better off at all if they removed the "excise tax" by opening it up to competition. One of the characteristics of monopolies is they tend to profit by selling fewer units than a competitive market does, and fewer lottery tickets sold is a good thing for gamblers.

The comparison to casino games in the article is particularly unhelpful, since the reason why most casino games have low house edges is nothing to do with competition and everything to do with being designed to encourage bigger and more frequent bets by deluding the gambler into believing their small wins are cancelling out their small losses. A roulette player loses 5.3% per spin, not per week, and since bets are sequential and games fairly rapid, a weekly session at a casino don't even have to be unusually long for expected losses to approach 35-55% of the amount bet; the same proportion of principal the participant could otherwise have expected to lose on buying tickets for that week's lottery. But because of the structure of the returns, people tend to bet more in casinos, and they can spend all day every day there if they want to. Bookmakers for horse racing are actually in a more competitive market than casinos in most areas but have much bigger house edges, because races can only happen so fast.

Lotteries are at the other end of the scale, marketing the dream of a weekly opportunity to achieve massive lifestyle changes to people whose decision to play isn't at all affected by whether they can remember ever winning anything from it, and probably have no idea of the expected return from the game they play

And allowing people three different privately-run massive dream jackpots to pursue is probably going to encourage them to buy more tickets. This means that even if margins do come down as a result of competition - despite participants' indifference to expected return and marketers' active avoidance of the subject - a lottery player tempted to buy a ticket in each of three competing weekly lotteries is almost certainly worse off than they would have been had there just been a single lottery in town (and they been happy to settle for a single ticket per week). It seems certain that new entrants pushing similar products will increase rather than decrease the amount wasted on lotteries; demand for lottery tickets simply isn't elastic enough with respect to expected return[1] for the alternate scenario of them succeeding by cannibalising the state lottery's business with juicy jackpots to make sense.

[1]if it was elastic with respect to expected return, demand would be negative!
Well, check for sure but it comes down to opinion at that point. Hellbanning is a pretty extreme choice for someone who made a fairly small mistake like that.
You can write C, and pretend its python, but if you're writing C, why are you pretending your project is written in python?

Text editors are surprisingly demanding; they require complex bulk operations like search, replace and per word highlighting, which is not inconsiderable in magnitude.

Ever tried open a 100MB log file in vim?

Now try that in atom... and javascript is easily a magnitude or more faster than pure python.

I work with python and love it; its hackable, fun to write. ...but fast it is not.
You are asserting the existence of strain and that it is due to immigration, so the burden is rightly on you to explain the appropriate metric, provide evidence of that the level at which you have defined "strain" on that metric is met, and provide evidence that immigration is the cause of that.
I registered my phone but the link to the download page doesn't seem to be working: https://www.drumroll.io/drumroll.io/app

How do you handle security. By allowing anybody to push arbitrary links/text to your phone aren't you opening a vector of attack?
These are good points. I feel the same way as another poster who commented that the maintainer is going after the raspberry pi crowd so during this nascent phase only the techie "masses" are going to use such a thing. Frankly, I see a lot of issues with this project but if the fundamentals were solid I could imagine overlooking them to bring it closer to the broader community space. I suppose if I were a Chinese dissident I might have a compelling reason to go for a turn-key solution but previous commenters nailed it that this thing requires too much trust to be more than an experiment. If I were to run it on a pi I'd be prepared to ditch the pi and attach it only to some open wi-fi network.
Another take on it from Kyle McDonald https://medium.com/@kcimc/comparing-artificial-artists-7d889...
Something behind a firewall for sure and with the browser locked down.
Now that was fun.
Does Ghostery help reduce the load death?

It reports 14 trackers, ads and other crud items.
Awhile back I read another disaster recovery story, along the lines of recovering a long pipeline command from a long-running process by reading the resident memory of the containing shell. I've not managed to find it, but I think it was posted to HN sometime last year or so. Anyone know about it?
Yes. From what I gather the correct way to generate a random number is described here: https://explorer.etherapps.info/dice ... and some background discussion here: https://forum.ethereum.org/discussion/546/lll-question-rando...

However, that game is not totally fair. There's a house edge and of course fees to pay the Ethereum network (the miners).

And stepping back, I think Ethereum overall slightly missed the mark. I like the idea of Turing complete programs verified in a blockchain. But I don't think there should be any cost if you're able to run your own node. Further, it's impossible to know the cost of a Turing complete program (halting problem) which is further compounded by the relatively confusing fee chart (variable based on market demand) and currency unit names.
And then the ad-blocker starts examining the screen itself with OCR as opposed to just fonts.

Again, the cat and mouse game continues. And the ads cannot win while the user has control over their own computer.
This sounds like a fun exercise. I might give it a shot.
So glad to see this get funded!

I'm probably going to try to use this in my project really soon.
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I think this characterisation is excessively persnickety.

Much like many other comments on this article, that seem to have been written in a painful rush to demonstrate just how damn rational the comment author is.

The headline is neither wrong nor sensationalised, and the article is nuanced and cogent.
That's not a commitment, and neither does it imply 4 years, since only 50% of 17 year olds currently have a license and that figure has been dropping anyway.
That's the processor I am looking at, as a matter of fact. That is, assuming that the next gen won't have anything better for my needs.
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Hi, I'm a web-dev from the year 2005, and I am full of shame
Wow, is this in the public domain now?
Yeah, one of the links in that article was to another one she wrote about him, so it seems she plans on getting a lot of mileage out of his misfortune despite not really being in contact with him.
This is one of the reasons that web email clients (as your primary means of access, rather than a backup) were a bad idea.
From WikiSource: Kautilya (Chanakya). Arthashastra. Translated by R. Shamasastry. Bangalore: Government Press, 1915.

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Arthashastra

Vedantic wisdom is like the ripened mango tree that when one fruit is plucked, two more give bloom. From the chapter on corporate espionage:

"THE acquisition of the help of corporations is better than the acquisition of an army, a friend, or profits. By means of conciliation and gifts, the conqueror should secure and enjoy the services of such corporations as are invincible to the enemy and are favourably disposed towards himself. But those who are opposed to him, he should put down by sowing the seeds of dissension among them and by secretly punishing them."
From only having played aruond with this combination for a day:

It made me really appreciate how Google AppEngine is both simple to use and powerful.
I meant "several people on HN mentioned in a post when Chrome was introduced", not "several people in this HN thread". Sorr :/
Though she hasn't spoken to him, that doesn't necessarily mean that she hasn't received permission by some other means (e.g. by letter or via third party).

She made a comment in the Verge forums clarifying that she did in fact have his permission.

http://www.theverge.com/2015/9/2/9247915/addiction-feature#3...
Yes but can you provide a single instance in which the state did any of those things because someone chose not to play the lottery?

I'm usually the first guy ranting about excessive state power. I won't be hard to convince. Convince me.
bonitas, mas não gostei.
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I don't understand it, but it is awesome.
For a human in Santiago or California, life is juuuust right.
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-- which is one reason I disabled web fonts (by setting gfx.downloadable_fonts.enabled to false in about:config in Firefox).
Every time I want to look at my calendar I need to re-remember where the hell they hid it at.

I expect it to be in the drop down on the left, since Gmail and Google Calendar are otherwise so well integrate, but nope, it is hidden in the little square.

The first couple times I had to actually Google how to access my calendar from within Gmail (I can always go to calendar.google.com of course)
Very cool! I thought it was interesting that you're getting good, usable data despite using untrained tasters - have you ever experimented with using some kind of calibrated tasters, like BJCP judges or something? Do you think it would lead you to get the same kind of data, but with a smaller sample size? Or would it not really make a difference?

EDIT: never mind, I just saw in another comment that you're using your own, trained staff - I miss-read the article.
Space shuttle cargo was something like $20,000/pound. If each astronaut needs a pound of paperwork for contingencies (which seems like a vast overestimate) then that's $20,000 each, which is tiny. And the marginal cost per pound was small. Given that you're doing a launch anyway, you're probably not exactly at the mass limit, so a few extra pounds of paperwork costs almost nothing.
Very well said.
It also sent the cpu usage for chrome on my macbook skyrocketing from 5% to 106%. Pretty impressive. I ended up reading it in readability instead.[0]

[0]: https://www.readability.com/articles/v5jqgcjf
Isn't this what capacitors do?
Anyone verifying the blockchain will have to run the programs in it. So it makes sense to charge a little bit for people to be able to put programs in there.
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An interesting counter point, VC's as an industry average significantly lower ROI than the boring old S&P 500. One way to look at the VC industry is to realize VC's can make millions even if there portfolios have negative ROI. What they need is to manage lot's of money and being in on the ground floor of the Next Twitter buy's lot's of credibility.

In that context, a company that reaches 50 billion in 30 years is far less valuable to a VC than a company that hit's 10 billion in 3 years and then goes bust in 10 years.
In the process of switching to this implementation.
Looks like PlaySkool to me...
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I, personally, don't care about blocking ads.

I wish to block a few things, and ads tend to fall under these categories. If ads did not fall under these categories, I wouldn't mind them:

-I wish to minimize my attack surface.

-I wish to minimize resource consumption.

-I wish to use my display to see the content I am focused on.

-I wish to not worry about distracting / annoying / being judged by others.

-I wish to not be tracked - preferably not by the site I am visiting, and definitely not by random third parties, and certainly not by random third parties in countries with questionable laws.

Unfortunately, most ads seem to fall under all of these categories.
You are AWESOME! That's the one. I was off by 5 years too. Thank you so much for finding it. I will enjoy reading it again!
At this time, it is kind of wild that handling rich text content editing is so hard on the web. It is understandable, but a bummer, that really good content tools (google docs, office 365, medium) do not open source their editors. There are some good tools (textbox, aloha, hallo, quill) and some decent legacy ones (ck, mce), but nothing that is clearly a go-to tool that handles rich text, structured text (tables and lists), operational transforms, and sanitizing input well. It's always like: choose two.

Kudos to ProseMirror for tackling this. I can't wait to see how this works out. Also, it is kind of nice to have a way to contribute monetarily; I don't have the time (or expertise) to really contribute code. I would, given the need.
Today I learned that the Windows version of Perl is somehow associated with criminal behavior on the high seas.
It’s projecting thousands of sphere geodesics at pixel precision via breaking them into a large number (hundreds of thousands?) of little line segments and evaluating several expensive nonlinear functions at each of those points with considerable Javascript dataflow overhead for each one, not to mention the cost of putting thousands of polygons with dozens or hundreds of points each into SVG.

It would take either a domain expert or someone willing to spend a few months studying the problem to write an optimized version, but then it could probably be made to run a couple orders of magnitude faster by using slightly coarser approximations for various function evaluations (no need for 10^-15 precision for drawing on screen), or by simplifying the problem to require fewer function evaluations overall (e.g. by using Bézier curve segments instead of straight line segments), rewriting the core of the library to be vectorized, and rendering via a raster- rather than DOM-based drawing system. I’m sure a GPU could handle such a problem very effectively, though working with WebGL might be a pain.

Anyway, go for it!
Whoa awesome! And it even shows you props, state, and context for each item.
This may be something the world is needing for a long time.

Who made it? Why?
"There are several similar solutions offered by very large companies."

What? Where? How similar? (I'm not critizing the copy, I'm just asking for more explanation, since I don't know anything about very large companies).
We use our own staff for R&D (training the models), but semi-trained tasters are reviewing the product at the brewery;

we weight individuals on a verity of factors and have a pre-processing method that controls for experience level in expected flavor perception per flaw.

So experience level is important, but we often have to work around it. Most of the employees of a brewery or other beverage manufacturing are relatively experienced anyway!
What about sales tax? Is that not a tax? After all buying things is voluntary, you could (and some people do) live a self sufficient lifestyle and not have to pay any sales tax.
But they can't get anywhere near this energy level. Why not make a piece of metal .xx1% charged and encase it in a big insulator, glass? Seems like it would be an awesome battery no?
If there were no taxes/transaction fees (ultimately the same thing), then E(any lottery) would be unity. Which is exactly why people smugly say "the lottery is a tax on people who are bad at math" - which the article recognizes but discounts just to state it in different terms.

So sure, we can hope that some day that people who desire higher variance can conveniently play non-profit lotteries which won't "cost" them anything in expected value terms. And perhaps separating the nuance between "losing money by playing the lottery" and "being taxed for playing the lottery" is a step on that path. Although I think it's likely that privacy technology solves this problem before the cathedral does.

But this doesn't change GP's implying that not buying alcohol or cigarettes is equivalent to not paying the taxes on what you have bought. I suppose this nitpick is so divisive because people either view playing the lottery as equivalent to paying a tax due to that long held adage and that most every transaction is simply giving money directly to the government, or as the act of playing the lottery with an inbuilt tax as the article has led them to. But IMHO if you want to highlight the nuance of the latter, you'd be better off pointing out how people that run/play private lotteries are thrown in jail rather than equating tangible vices with purely throwing money away.
LanguageTool: open source proofreading program for more than 20 languages
While it doesn't solve the whole problem of a distributed web, something called MORPHiS has a lot of these concepts handled pretty well. It was on HN a while back, the website is morph.is if you'd like to check it out.
Absent evidence that marketing literally compels behavior, arguments against the role of personal accountability are aspirational at best.
Unfortunately, some powerful people are extremely irresponsible.
I don't understand it. When you said "multidimensional" I thought of it as a database that could be displayed as different spreadsheets from different viewpoints, but in the examples I cannot see the multidimensionality, nor where is the data coming from on each calculation, I don't see formulas anywhere also; and I can edit the values manually.

I am probably missing something.
The OpenBSD mailing lists tend to be extremely Spartan.

The guidelines users are expected to learn before using them generally involve (from most accepted to least accepted)

Read the mailing lists.

Read them again.

If you have a problem read the man pages.

If you still have a problem search the mailing lists for similar problems.

Make sure you really understand your problem then search again.

If after research you fully understand the problem but still don't have a solution post to the specific mailing list with diagnostic info.

Consider writing up a bug report/ creating your own solution as necessary.

and way way down the list, in the has virtually never been the correct thing to do category, is ask questions like "Will you support the RPi?" Those sort of questions have been asked for essentially every piece of hardware and subtechnology out there, and the answer is always either "No, because propritery whatever but you're free to do the work yourself" or "No, because we're busy and barely keeping the lights and servers on, but you're free to do the work yourself" or "Yes, and you'd know that if you read the mailing lists".

The mailing lists are famous for their get sh*t done attitude and any information about posting on them will relay that to new users.
There are huge negative externalities to liquor which muddles the issue. If not forcing people to pay a carbon tax is a subsidy then the 'liquor' tax may not be an economic tax.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality

Gas taxes are perhaps the clearest example of this where you can directly compare revenue with costs.
OS X keychain vulnerability stealthily steals passwords via SMS
Why has no one reverse engineered the boot blob on either Pi?
Interesting but not surprising that the frequency/volume of play is an almost perfect example of the 80/20 rule: 20% of the players account for 82% of the sales, while 80% of the players account for 18% of the sales.
Old saying - "the lottery is a tax on stupidity".