skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Giving a one-time gift is not "rectifying" a fundamentally inequitable situation.

I was a little lost for a second when you put "rectifying" in quotes and assumed an inequitable situation - I looked if the original poster used it; nope, he didn't. Did I? Nope, I didn't. I was responding to "aforementioned execs take all that for granted and the secretary remains a secretary in terms of pay and appreciation" - which I noted many people have thought before, and sometimes acted a little too hastily after thinking. So, I shared a story as a word of caution to people who think, "Yeah, my secretary does a lot! I should show more appreciation!" Well, yes you probably should, but you should probably think through the best way to do so before doing so.

Also, I should note she was paid quite well. I forget the figures, but it was over market - this guy paid everyone well, my friend did like half his business just being one of his brokers. He paid way over market - which, stereotypes be damned, seems to actually be common among high performing people. They tend to compensate well from my firsthand experience. But I digress, she was paid quite well, so I was referring more to the "appreciation" than the compensation. The gift really was meant to be a gift and to show his appreciation, not as a rectification or a makeup or anything like that.

> Employees should feel like their work is appreciated and correctly valued all the time, not just in a burst of mania every few years.

Fully agreed, that's a good point.
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I read HN despite its design and usability, not because of it. Sure a bad designer would make it worse, but I think a great designer could do wonders for HN.
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That link is to a suggestions for improvements thread from years ago; it's not clear that it is still being used at the HN end.

However, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363#score_1148154 should take you to the OP comment highlighting comment.
Meaning that the perp is now exceedingly rich having been able to purchase $40 shares at near $0 direct cost and been able to perform all sorts of meta transactions on the back of it.
You're kicking yourself for not having a wealthy VC father to give you $100K in seed money when you 18 years old?
Bio-engineering might have been more advanced by now.
"Mouse grimace scale" developed to track pain in lab mice
Young Money / Cash Money Business. Also c.f. Young Money Entertainment.
Agreed. In the mornings I would read NYT, Reuters, Bloomberg, NPR, Google Alerts, and HN. One source isn't good enough.
This feels a little like trying to figure out which butterfly caused the hurricane.
I love Chrome's translate feature.

iret, have you considered creating a Japanese fork of Stackoverflow?
> Everytime I hear of young startups it's always been a young entrepeneur, who happens to have a rich father, who happens to be a VC, who just happens to live in SV. If it's not MyWeboo, it's MyYearbook.

And another: milo.com
Also, it is of note that such behavior is forbidden on eBay and many other marketplaces.

Not on stock exchange though.
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If you host and extend GPL code, your additions become GPL. Stop spreading FUD about the AGPL, please.
I'm definitely leaning that way. Thanks for the suggestion though, I've bookmarked it. Are you one of his customers?
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A bit, perhaps. But the guy asking the question is clearly just offloading his homework to a newsgroup, which is also rude.
This is what I wanted to ask too. What if two users both push updates to their individual .hg folders in the Dropbox location?

I think the author might be sacrificing some reliability for the fact that he/she will be the only one working on the "shared" repo.
What many of those examples really shows is that people will put up with amazing amount of shit to save money. Take the Ryan air site for example. Everybody I know hates that site with a passion and do everything they can to avoid both the site and the airline. Most people check every other available option before reconciling themselves to dealing with Ryan air.

However since they offer a competitive product at very competitive prices people put up with horrible usability and service. So no, ugly design doesn't sell, cheap sells, and if you're cheap enough people are willing to overlook ugly.
I'm not disagreeing, but people email "sensitive" stuff all the time, without encrypting it.
I am actually storing one of my hg repositories on Dropbox. I don't really see the advantage of having a separate "local" repo. either. I hope I'm not missing something...
reality-restoration-field is in effect :)
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As anyone involved in bidding war with limited resources would tell you, "happy" is not a fitting word here. There is a reason why shill bidding (old-school name for what HFT does) is often prohibited or illegal.
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Wait: you read past "Arrington" and then stopped after reading the date?
Dropbox works for me where bitbucket doesn't (jay to corporate firewall).
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WHOSE RESPONSIBLE THIS?
Rude, No. Lazy, yes.
It's not dead. I asked a question about a freezer cartridge on a Commodore 64 newsgroup, and another question about a Star Trek episode, in the past 6 months.

Both replies were exactly what I wanted, and both questions were successfully answered with no spam.
For those who can't afford a premium private repos, it's a good idea. You'd better off not symlinking the repo in Dropbox dir, or you'll keep dropbox very busy when you are editing files.
"In 2007, for example, Kevin Rose surrendered to a mob of Digg users who were upset that Digg was blocking stories publishing the decryption key for HD DVDs."

Interesting for me, as that was the point where I left digg for greener pastures. My account on reddit iterated up to being 3 years old a couple of weeks ago -- wiki says the HD DVD thing happened May 1, 2007. Makes sense.
I'm not sure, but I think the logic for the latter is that by sending a straight limit order, you would consistently be moving the bid price up by continuing to fill the highest priced bid or filling the highest priced ask, up to the limit.

Of course, this would be true even if there were no algo trading... so... I dunno!

Oh, it's also worth noting that this is not an issue for the individual investor because most individuals buy stocks in very small blocks, usually less than the minimum increment size that shares trade at on the open exchanges. Larger, institutional investors use algorithms from their trading partners.

I guess if you're a millionaire personal investor you're SOL though. But usually people with that much money have a Wealth Management firm to take care of their trading for them.
I'm curious, in which jurisdictions are you not able to generate IP that you choose not to own?
I spent about a decade on the C committee

I know this sounds mean, but whenever they say they spent a decade on a committee, I can almost guarantee you that the next thing they say will be true yet inconsequential.

I say this because I have done my share of proof-reading C and C++ books. And there are a lot of errors. But that's not the worst of it. The worst books don't teach you anything, are full of errors, and the author continues to try to impress you with his work on the standards. The best books teach you and have a few errors that you will figure out on your own.

(I got into the proof-reading and writing biz years ago for a couple of years. How? By writing a letter about how book X was so full of mistakes it was unreadable. So I speak from experience)
Maybe an angle could be targeting parents: hey, setup a Diasporic server for your kids. Their friends' parents do the same, etc.
If I wrote "Flash no longer available, thanks to a change by Apple", I'm pretty sure you'd probably change your mind.

And if I wrote "Linux no longer supports our program due to a change in kernel design. We are asking why it was done. Oh, and Microsoft did the same things 2 years ago and were sued for trying to block competitors. But until we find out, we can't confirm its because they are trying to stop competition."

Both of these statements are obviously heavily biased, and yet, that's what we see in the article, and in the hacker news headline.

If it weren't biased, why would Scroogle even mention the Microsoft thing? It is hardly relevant. It seems like they are trying to invoke anger by the community, so that Google is forced to reinstate the feature. And judging by the headline here, it seems to have worked.

But hey, I guess headlines which are anti-large company on a system which only gets upvotes would generate more attention than neutral ones, because all the Google haters jump on board and vote it up, without reading the article and actually seeing if the headline is remotely accurate.
I'm sure it will turn up in the last place you look for it
India to develop its own OS?
Yeah, a lot of formerly reputable publications have taken to placing incredibly invasive advertisements on their sites.
Please - review this idea - what do you think?
MyBestFace: an OkCupid Experiment
Please don't use News.YC to ask YC questions. If you have a question, send it to info@ycombinator.com.
Who pushes updates? The carrier, handset maker, or Google? Or do hey all have to agree?
Ask HN:HN clone servable through appengine?
I was just wondering if there is a something like HN which can be served using appengine. I need it for a side project. Actually what I really need is a website where people can submit links and talk about it. And that is what HN actually is so please be nice and provide pointers in the right directions.
Is it sexist to picture a woman in such a role? ... it just seems to fit better

although I wouldn't say no to the right male candidate either...
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I subscribed to comp.lang.c for a few months about two years ago when I was taking a course on C. Like a lot of older or more high-volume lists, the regulars are complete characters. Small battles over minor points of style go from 0 to A.E. Housman in no time at all. (If the Housman reference is too odd, substitute Erik Naggum.)

I eventually quit the list because it was too much of a time suck, but it's well worth a half a day swimming through the archives. Heathfield's posts are almost always worth a look.
Google Flatlining in Search Just Means it Needs a New Platform
It appears that anyone who could quickly provide the Mexican variant of the coral snake antivenin would be in a position to profit. Isn't there some room here for an entrepreneur/arbitrageur ("your money or your life!")?
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Four editions worth, too
Method proposal for online direct democracy
the method combines idea markets with delegative voting, communities can now let go with representatives and get online to move on!
How is telling a group "I have made no effort to do this task, can you guys do this for me" not rude?
AT&T exclusive is costing Apple
The article gives an example of Facebook making its profile information privacy change tool difficult to use, to trick users into giving out more information.

Phone companies where I live have some (overtly advertised) special deals - register up to X friend's numbers for YYY minutes free calls per month.

Problem is the online interface is rigged to fail, forcing the subscriber to contact the operator to set it up manually (lengthy waiting times and the call center is outsourced - low audio quality and thick accents).

Someone on HN noted this type of behavior before and I think mentioned that the company then has plausible deniability (and ofcourse the vast vast majority of users won't bother with the (very nice) deal, because they have to jump through so many hoops.)

Another company (free SMS) had a $2 weekly donation checkbox during signup. Fair enough, but it refreshes the page with the checkbox ticked again if you untick the checkbox and try to submit.

I hate companies like this with a vengeance.
No, but he does discover that the guard/prisoner relationship is a lot more complex than he expected, relying for the most part on subtle persuasion and negotiation by the guard not raw coercion. He also show how much time prisoners devote to getting inside their guards' heads, since they often were manipulative and amoral personalities on the outside and now they have nothing else to vent those skills on.
Report: The iPad won’t go mass market anytime soon
I filled out the beta-request form. You have this very large text-entry box asking "How we can help" (or something like that), then after typing a few sentences and filling about 30% of the text box I get an error that the input is limited to 60 chars.

Make the text box smaller. And how did you come up with a 60 character limit? Seems like a strange value.
why? or would that be considered a spoiler to the book?
> I'm having a hard time writing a code for this one. I tried several

> times, but I can't get it to work properly. I live in Japan and I take

> an online C++ course. The instructor lives in the US so whenever I am

> awake, he's asleep. Therefore, I cannot contact him directly when I

> need help. I have to get this program up and running ASAP. I tried

> searching everywhere for help, but there's none except for this group.

> My textbook isn't much of a help either. I WILL GREATLY APPRECIATE THE

> HELP I WILL GET!

This is what he said. And trust me I have seen people struggle with writing a function to add two numbers after taking a college course of 1 year in C. I don't think he didn't try at all.
If the HFT trader offers a lower price, and you offer a higher price, the exchange will fill your order first.
I agree with you, except I'd say "a lot of bullshit." I also find it kind of ironic that the theme of the article is basically "Kevin, stop listening to your users and listen to ME." Personally I think that's actually a bigger problem - there's so many pundits (and Kevin knows them all) who pontificate endlessly about what he should do. The best thing he could probably do is get out of Norcal.
From what I've heard, the 2.1 update for Hero is not HTC's fault, but Sprint's.

That said, HTC cranks out more Android phones than god, so I can imagine they'd potentially drop the ball on supporting old phones to get new ones to market, if it is indeed them with the holdup.

BTW, May 21st is the latest "release day" now.
India wants to develop its own OS
How Open Data Saved Canada $3.2 Billion
Very true. I'm sure ENSIME will certainly make use of it for Emacs, which at some point I'll take advantage of.
Good point! We will update this.
Surely, Digg's biggest problem is Kevin Rose. Everything else seems to flow from Rose's 'persona'.
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EPIC, the end of email
I'd suggest that it is a problem. It's something that Harry G. Frankfurt examined in his essay "On Bullshit" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_bullshit and http://press.princeton.edu/titles/7929.html). I listened to an audio version of it and it was quite fascinating. As the Wikipedia article suggests, Frankfurt posits that bullshit is more corrosive than lies because bullshit bears no relation whatsoever to the truth.

This is exactly what makes Fox News, as an example, so dangerous. They don't care about the truth when they report; they only care about getting more eyeballs. I suspect that ANY spam that humans have to deal with to determine if it's useful is much the same.
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Google Social Circle - Scary amounts of Data about YOU
Available at http://www.google.com/s2/search/social#socialcircle

And this is really scary. (You need to view the page while you are logged into your Google Account)

They have SO much of information (all obtained from their data and from around the web that they index so well) that it is really scary.
Well it allows you to test your theories of what is important to people, (and maybe how you judge them based on sex, race, nationality) to what people actually say.

For start-ups, it would be nice to be able to parse all of the things people want to do, and see if you could make that happen. If the site had enough answers (lets say if everyone on facebook did this, so say 400 million) and you could parse all the info to classify it into discrete groups, then maybe you'd find that 15 million people want to ride an elephant in the antarctic before they die. It could uncover some interesting business ideas.

And for the more technically inclined you could take the images and text as a training set for AI handwriting recognition, with the added help that each piece of handwriting starts with the same words. Or face-recog to match sex, race, age, then read the words and come up with some generalizations of who wants what.

All in all, I think there is plenty of material which can make this gratify your intellectual curiosity. Depends if you want to look for it, or want to be spoon fed it.
I guess you could life-flight the patient out of reach of the FDA, if they could afford it.
Flash orders have lower commissions, and always give the best available price[1] to the buyer.

The mechanics: best asking price is 10.0 on INET, 9.90 on ARCA. You place a buy order on INET. INET is obligated to route your order to ARCA (where the cheapest price is available) rather than filling it at 10.0 locally, and you get charged 9.90 + routing fee [2].

If INET flashes your order, it gives an HFT trader on INET the opportunity to fill your order at 9.90. In that case, you pay 9.90 for the trade and avoid the routing fee.

[1] A better price may be available on a darkpool, but the exchange would not have routed your order to the darkpool since the exchange did not know about it.

[2] There are flags you can set so that your order is canceled rather than routed.
>Ever heard of the iTunes music store?

That was the whole point of my post. Lots of companies would be tempted to operate something like the iTunes music store at a loss, since it would be seen as driving sales (a marketing expense if you will). For example: Amazon has is known to sell a significant number of ebooks at a loss to keep prices low to drive Kindle sales.

My understanding from everything I have read is that Apple at least breaks even, and may make a small amount of revenue. They do not lose any money on the iTunes store. If there is going to be a free component to MobileMe, they are going to try and generate profits from it somehow.
Usagi Yojimbo is a rabbit samurai, and the plot is really nice (http://www.usagiyojimbo.com/). Rabbits as humanized characters aren't something original on Lugaru, but yeah, it definitely fitted right.

Lugaru seemed nice to me (actually I ended up donating some bucks and getting the 5 games, even though they went open), just didn't have time to play them extensively, except for world of Goo, which is addicting (but that goes for another thread). :)
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Not impressed. I haven't signed over my data life to Google, so this shows almost zip. I'd be impressed if they made the connections between my various online personas.
The way he presents the problem gives no point of reference for a nice person to say "oh, I see where you misunderstood what foo does" and make it a learning experience. He could, for example, have included one of the several some-what working attempts.

The only "good" answers to such a request are a: here's the code and b: lesson one, here's how a for-loop works. Since his textbook doesn't help, option b doesn't seem viable.

Rude, lazy, it's a fine line, I suppose. Being lazy in front of strangers you're asking for help is perhaps not rude, but doesn't exactly scream for a super-constructive response.
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Is this a meta-post ? Did you just link to it for the first time ?
A one-line solution in Python:

print '\n'.join(['%s%s%s' % (' '*((9-step)/2), '*'*step, ' '*((9-step)/2)) for step in [1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 9, 7, 5, 3, 1]])

Not diamond shaped, but moderately obfuscated.
That's quite a difference: http://i.imgur.com/ISCI3.png

Note that the Great Red Spot is in the same location where the stripe used to be. I'm surprised they didn't mean that in the article.

If you look at how the Great Red Spot spins against the southern stripe, you can imagine it gobbling up the stripe: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/790106-02...
I travel a lot and it constantly astounds me how many hotels want me to email them credit card details to secure a reservation. I had a hotel (in Spain) lose my reservation because I insisted on calling them up and reading my number over the phone rather than sending it via email. Frustrates me immensely.
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If you haven't already, get another cat straight away. The value a pet adds to your life is unbelievable and there is a tendency (just going from personal observation) for people who do not replace a pet soon after it has died to simply not get another one at all.

My dog died on March 30 and I had a new puppy by April 21, despite the inevitable feelings of guilt from doing it so soon.

Being a puppy he is a real PITA and lots of work but his presence has given me a real pick-up over the last few weeks.
I think you're wrong about Apple and Facebook. I'd like you to be right, but the fact is, you care about what they do and you feel alienated. You are not the audience they target; you read news.yc. The market this article is talking about will continue to use Facebook and buy new iPhones.
It's not cruel at all. If the Japanese guy could understand that program, he would have no need to do the C++ course anymore.
I think I'd fall into the impulsive group, have a desktop/ laptop/ netbook/ decentish phone but still could see myself buying the ipad if I had a bit more money currently.
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Don't forget the other important question:

WHERE ARE THEY?
That is basically what JIT is. Why reinvent the wheel when they can use the resources that has been poured into JVM research?
It doesn't look like your profile has any way to contact you. If you want to contact me then stop by http://experimentgarden.blogspot.com and use the contact form.
On closer inspection, astronomers detected what appears to be a large and rapidly-growing collection of black rectangles on the surface.
Tell HN: Scroogle's back
Good news, Scrooglers!

http://www.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/scraper.htm

Unadorned:

http://scroogle.org/scraper.html
use http URLs instead of hg://
What if you had a filename like 'gif.gif'? Wouldn't that end up as 'png.png' which would cause it to skip that node?
Ask HN: Recommendation for accounting firm or CPA for Silicon Valley startup?
We're a self-funded startup in Silicon Valley. We're big enough to need help with accounting but small enough to not need to hire a CFO yet.

Do any of you have any recommendations for a good accounting firm or CPA in Silicon Valley that has experience working with startups?
That's it?

In my case, they had SO LITTLE information it was really scary.

I use a good number of Google services on a daily basis, and still they came up with nothing more than my list of e-mail contacts.
That, plus their readers do not seem to be interested in karma and point games.
Maybe you are intentionally using the acronym SMB without explanation as a filter to weed out potential users?
Sounds like it might be easiest to make your own subreddit on reddit.com
Except they can't, really. Dalvik is completely unrelated to Hotspot or any other JVM out there. (Remember that Android doesn't run Java class files natively, it's first compiled into dex.)
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