skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Managed a fish market for a year. Was working 12 hour days cutting, smoking and preparing fish for customers. YOu'd get home and be so tired and used to the smell that you'd just go to sleep without a shower.

After a certain amount of sleep deprivation you start cutting yourself accidentally pretty often.

Every week we had to open up the counters and chop up the ice underneath because the drain was always clogged. The ice was usually yellow or red. We also had to periodically dump the giant bins of fish refuse and take out the trash to the street. We were pretty universally reviled because we stunk up the entire street.

If I did it now I probably would have gotten laid more, but I didn't then.

But I ate lobsters, blue marlin, and tuna with regularity. So it's not all bad (except that the fish contain potassium benzoate).
Absolutely (though it may not be enough), but not just for the reasons you think: a life jacket will keep the back of your head out of the water - which will help prevent damage to the brain.

You don't want to know where this research comes from, believe me.
IE12 needs to implement macro for this to work.. no?

No, the macros could be expanded into plain old JS by a pre-processor (maybe by your IDE on-save). Browsers only see the expanded code.
Summer job working in a supermarket as a teenager. I actually preferred working the cash register to stocking the aisles. At least at the cash register you can have a little fun & try to rig the total bill. Most stupid job ever: turning apples so the red side points up.
Why randomly? Thinking "our leaders are more stupid than me" seems to be a classic example of Dunning-Kruger?
mousewheel for tilt doesn't work in my MacBook Pro.
Have a look at,
http://www.judahfrangipane.com/blog/?p=237
or
http://brandonaaron.net/code/mousewheel/docs

for ideas on how to solve it.
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"Nobody will be tired if they're going to a party with tons of people and loud music"

I disagree, introverts (like myself and probably others here in HN) find social situations very tiring.
I don't know about that, Jefferson, Einstein and many of the members of the Royal society was quite involved with politics and society.
I'm reminded of the robots from Suspended (Infocom game). We'll have some anybot robots that tuned for audio, some for video, some for ... what were the others?
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>I think the internet has this culture going of generalizing (making rules) even with little experience.

Well said, and probably the biggest issue with HN submission quality.
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I can answer that question right now:

Every bit possible up to a company's limit for losses. I.e. if you're still losing money there are provisions I'm not familiar with for carrying losses forward to when you ideally are earning a profit but I gather these have limits and in that case you might want to e.g. use the 3 year depreciation schedule for computers.

But if you're profitable (even if most of that profit is flowing through to the founders so that they can purchase their ramen :-) then you want to expense what you can immediately instead of paying taxes. Cash is king, especially in a startup.

I expect that this will be a boost to AWS, Rackspace, etc. and a general hit to the nation's capital investment. In relation to this I've read one small tour operator talk about how they were going to have to change their purchasing pattern for vehicles and among other things lay one person off. Multiply that by a few million small businesses that have to regularly buy equipment....

If they use equipment up faster than the official IRS depreciation schedules they're going to take a hit, period (this includes obsolesce, like replacing network gear with faster varieties). If their usage matches the schedules this is going to move earnings into the future, which will hurt, especially if they don't have the cash to spare right now.
Please limit her time on the phone, excessive viewing of screens at a young age can expand one's field of view and cause dyslexia.
It was in the comments section...

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

# Simple HP Printer Hacker

# Written in Ruby by Erik Gregg

# 6/9/06

# Status Usage: hp-message.rb <host> status

# Message Usage: hp-message.rb <host> message "<message>"

require 'net/telnet'

begin

if ARGV[0].nil?

puts "Read the script.

Status Usage: hp-message.rb <host> status

Message Usage: hp-message.rb <host> message \"<message>\""

exit

end

host = Net::Telnet::new("Host" => ARGV[0],

"Port" => 9100,

"Timeout" => 5,

"Prompt" => /\b/n)

if ARGV[1] == "status"

host.cmd("@PJL INFO STATUS") { |c| print c }

elsif ARGV[1] == "message"

host.cmd("@PJL RDYMSG DISPLAY=\""+ARGV[2]+"\"")

else

puts "Oh Cmon. Look at the syntax inside me."

exit

end

host.close

rescue Timeout::Error

puts "Time to go now!"

exit 1

end
Exactly why I've been putting it off. I thought about paying an old school barber for an hour of his time to show me the ropes and the "gotchas"
That looks a lot like Daniel Graystone's household robot (in Caprica)
Thanks! I think I fixed it. Clear your cache and try again.
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I was thinking and working on the same thing, except my RPG would be more self-improvement oriented rather than about sending that email, or buying that cake.

While it's good to know that my idea have some confirmation in the market, I wish I have gotten there first.
Would you enter a business agreement in which your partner has the right to break the deal whenever he wants and take at least the half of the things that you brought into the relationship (prior and post agreement)?
My company has been switching to CMake over the past 8 months, and it's not that bad.

Well, not usually.

Their conditional expressions are goofy, it's never clear whether mixing variables and lists will do the right thing, and good luck doing something complex using only documentation. So yes, the CMake language is bad.

But once you write a file, it Just Works. I don't usually need to revisit a CMake file to correct something, unless I'm adding/removing files or dependencies. I never had that feeling with bjam or autoconf - small changes to the code always had a major impact on these build systems. We compile code on both Windows and Linux, so it's the only viable option, and thankfully it's not too bad :)
Since some here are suggesting to just use `uname -s` as an autoconf
replacement. I thought I'd provide some data for that. The Git project
is a very good showcase, because it can do both.

Git can optionally use autoconf. To do this you can run make configure
&& ./configure which'll use this configure.ac file to generate the
configure script: http://github.com/git/git/blob/pu/configure.ac#L1

Autoconf will then write out a config.mak file, which is generated
from this template: http://github.com/git/git/blob/pu/config.mak.in#L1

That's where autoconf's involvement ends. All it's doing is turning
simple macros like this:

# Define NO_GETTEXT if you don't have libintl.h
AC_CHECK_HEADER([libintl.h],
[NO_GETTEXT=],
[NO_GETTEXT=YesPlease])
AC_SUBST(NO_GETTEXT)

Into this:

NO_GETTEXT=

Or, if libintl.h doesn't exist:

NO_GETTEXT=YesPlease

Which you would otherwise need to specify manually as arguments to the
Makefile when building the program:
http://github.com/git/git/blob/pu/Makefile#L37, after checking if you
have libintl.h on your system or not.

Autoconf can certainly get hairy, but in most cases using it is a lot
easier than not doing it. Consider this definition:

AC_CHECK_LIB([curl], [curl_global_init],
[NO_CURL=],
[NO_CURL=YesPlease])

That's doing a lot of work checking if there's a libcurl on your
system, and making sure it has a curl_global_init function.

Also note that the autotools are more than just autoconf. You can
stop here, but you can also generate your makefiles with automake, and
create your libraries with libtool.
I wonder why Microsoft insist on using this kind of language when talking to programmers: they're just asking for the hate of the hacker community.

Couldn't they at least try to fake competence? Sentences like:

Today, “M” is not yet a shipping product, so customers should definitely use T-SQL for their mission-critical applications.

Smell like FAILED PROJECT from 1000 miles away.
Can the stats be like this because generally great engineers can chose their time?
On the flip side, I'm a developer looking for someone similar as well. So I'd be interested to know the answer as well.

My luck has been fairly decent - my friends are in some form of graphic design but I haven't truly found someone who can hack it up with me either.
This looks amazing. Combining gaming mechanics with "normal" applications is something I've been interested in.

Does anyone have any idea when this will be coming out?
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Good way to speed up product development - break down the problem you are trying to solve into smaller pieces, and choose just one of the pieces. This is the reason my software is taking months to finish instead of weeks.
Check out meetup.com for tech and entrepreneurship events. Don't worry if the specific topics don't interest you 100% because the point is to network. Go to as many as you can and introduce yourself to people, join conversations, take their business cards, follow up the next day and get involved.

You don't want to partner with someone you haven't met so get out there and say hello.

You can start with me if you like. My email is in my profile so feel free to drop me an email and stay in touch.
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Also, the author of that article only considers two options:

1. Banning the activity.

2. Controlling the activity.

I prefer the third option.
The other terms in the license have the benefit of long-standing, generally accepted legal definitions. I don't think you're going to find definitions for "good" or "evil" in Black's.
Coming from a guy called iFixItYouri that doesn't surprise me. Damn it, I hate it when Apple pulls 2 1st Gen failures in a row, makes me think of the cube days.
I really liked the computers the calculator division made.
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We've built a decent system here that relies on ant, make, vs_2003, .bat files, and some custom python scripts. It even works on both platforms (windows/redhat)! </sarcasm>

I've played around with CMake also, and I've found it to be the most reasonable. This is especially true if you have a diverse team with members that prefer Emacs/VI or Visual Studio and a project that needs to work natively on multiple platforms. Different people work better in different environments, and there's nothing wrong with that.

It's not perfect, but I find myself saying 'WTF' less when using CMake. I have no idea why they decided to make their own little language, but its syntax is super-simple, and very well documented.
There are enough NY tech-related events and meetups each week that you could be networking just about every single day if you wanted to.
It's harmful to the $7.99-a-month-for-GPS model.

(Of course, GPS navigation is already 100% free on Android. But only hippies and communists use Linux, so...)
You're dreaming. There is no pool of millions of non-creators willing to jump through hoops and sign up for a recurring monthly for your article. And there never will be an article worth doing that for, and they will never join. The only people who will ever join are the pie-in-the-sky dreamers who desperately want this to work on their blog. It's just a giant pyramid scheme. The suckers are the blog owners, and the lies to make them join are the millions on non-creators who will never exist.
Conferences. I found my current partner at a Barcamp. He was pitching an idea I liked but which had many flaws. I explained him the flaws I saw, convinced him to change & now we're building the product together. He's the hustler, I'm the hacker.
He doesn't mention automake or libtool; he must be saving them for a separate rant :P

Much of what he says is fair. Many decisions made way back when would be different now. But the autotools are well-documented, well-maintained, and they do work.

The way forward (for the autotool-friendly audience anyway) is likely something like Tromey's quagmire -- http://code.google.com/p/quagmire/.
Similarly, as demonstrated by the fact that we aren't all using LispM's today, Stallman could copy features from Symbolics but he couldn't compete per se, as he had no way of doing the hard part, which was figuring out what the end users wanted.
I know something like this is useful but there are other devices that cost < $1000 that do the same thing.

For example: If you put the head/camera of the Rovio on a stick you essentially have the same thing, except this device costs only $300. What is the extra $14,700 for? It just doesn't make sense to spend so much on a simple device.
http://www.slashgear.com/wowwee-rovio-videos-wifi-remote-web...
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You were saying...?

People will always be interested in winning. Doesn't matter if the software is for self-fulfillment.
What Rust has that the D programming language doesn't have?
I counter that the real "EpicWin" would be making a to-do app that gets you more things for a virtual farm you tend.
Isn't the standard practice on windows to rely on the supplier's final binary version? Since you have a limited set (7, vista, xp) to care about and they're sometimes the same, why would you actually compile third party libs like that?

Most of the libs I've used under VC had their own build files for just that environment exactly because you don't really need all the autoconf / make crap in there. This doesn't have anything to do with MS's balance sheets imho, simply because you'd have a much better experience compiling gnu make-based ODE libs under a ...nix system. The things you have to fight with so much create a build system, which you can take for granted on a target system (as in `apt-get install build-essentials`).

Your issue seems to me orthogonal to what the article is about, on many levels. Spending more time in ...nix environments, I could just as well wonder: "Why is it so hard to have a sane POSIX-friendly, command-line build environment in MS systems? At that point I don't understood why Microsoft still has a positive balance sheet."
Alas, the sarcasm which is tagged as sarcasm is no longer sarcasm.
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I work in the travel industry & the ITA deal and now this is certainly of concern for us. It seems as if the big search (Google) & networking (Facebook) players have decided to move into the content business. I can't blame them because the whole travel sector is ripe for some major changes. Specifically for Facebook it makes total sense to move into the content/recommendation field: why should I trust a random review site when I can get recommendations directly from my friends? The next logical step would be for Google of Facebook to introduce an ecommerce component, then they will really stir up the commission-based travel sector. Killing off the traditional real-life travel agency was only the beginning ...
That's a great reply. Thanks
You live in NYC? Go to hacker/startup meetups. Easy.
This still doesn't work. For the flattr buttons to be there, there must be mugs paying for the system. Those mugs are doing it becuase they think they are going to be taking money out - but, like any pyramid scheme, only the people at the top of the pile will make any money. How long do you think those mugs will keep paying in without getting anything out?

I'm willing to go on record with the following predictions:

1. No big site will get enough money to be worth the pixels the button takes up.
2. No small site will get back as much as they put in.
3. The number of people who pay in without expecting to get anything out will be essentially zero.
4. Flattr will shut down entirely within 2 years from today.
I'm definitely keeping an eye on these guys too.
Here is a discussion from a few days ago about Game Mechanics in normal applications.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1483216
"...$15,000 per unit. That may sound a little steep, but keep in mind that the robot can be used by multiple people, though only one can be logged in at a time."

What does that even mean?
You're not a marketer are you? It's not an anti-marriage platform, it's anti-government platform.
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Vimcasts is so good, I likely would have done the same, if I hadn't just donated via PayPal.
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I'm not sure if I buy this "earth orbit will be dangerously crowded with debris" business there is a LOT of room up there, the volume of space we are discussing is bigger then the volume of earth, and even if there is a high density of debris most of it is small bits of metal at orbital velocities, which would likely cause similar danger to micrometeorites: which are an engineering problem we need to solve anyway (the whole pray it does not hit anything that goes boom and throw a patch over it fast plan is not acceptable)
I would love to get a couple and race them around the office. Friday afternoons just got more interesting!
I can't find a citation for this now, but I recall reading somewhere that he had a higher ratio of brown fat than is normal. I.e. just being fat isn't enough, it has to be the right sort of fat.
I think they mean you can't have two or more people trying to control the bot at the same time.
Thanks, I'll post my question there.
Boies-Schiller up to their old tricks.
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Some quick examples:

Garden path: "The horse raced past the barn fell."

The whole meaning is changed by adding one word to the end of the sentence, and you have to read the whole thing again to get it right. Makes hell for software trying to parse the sentence.

Paraprosdokian: "It's too bad that whole families have to be torn apart by something as simple as wild dogs."

The whole meaning is changed (and made funny!) by an unexpected series of words at the end. I love the examples on the wikipedia page.
There is a long gap between stuff that gets pulled from the Appstore and stuff pulled from off your iPhone. In the later, stuff gets pulled from the store all the time. Either it's broken, violates a license agreement, or is malicious (ie. steals stuff from your addressbook). I've yet to encounter an app that was taken off the iPhone. I do have apps that were taken from the appstore.

Which is why I found this article a bit unconvincing. "Users reported...." How many? 1? 10? 10000?
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You can also have one Makefile that contains conditionals (http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/make/Conditional...) based on $(uname -s). I agree with the rant, autoconf has outlived it's purpose.
I had something like this happen - except for the 'fatally' part of course.

I was in a canoe race on a cold spring day in cold water. At the beginning of the race I ended up jumping into the river in waste deep water. My jeans stayed wet the whole race. My legs were cold wet and immobile for over an hour while my upper body was 'working out' paddling the canoe.

All was good until the race ended. I got out of the canoe to walk the 1/2 mile back home. As soon as I started walking I felt the cold blood from my legs rush up to my torso & started seriously shivering. Continuing to walk made it worse. Made it home anyway & collapsed under a hot shower. I felt at the time that if I'd have tried to walk much further I'd have had a real bad day.
I too had an early invite, and was all excited to click to register. Once I saw there had to be a minimum monthly payment, I was extremely disappointed and didn't sign up.

Supposing the current implementation is extremely successful, it would be the equivalent to signing up for a monthly service with Disney (or Sony Entertainment, or <insert your favorite content megacorporation name here>) : you pay the middleman, who redistributes appropriately to the content creators.

What's the problem here? This month if I want to buy 1 or 20 CD/DVD, I choose how much money I give. With the monthly service model, my entertainment disposable revenue gets converted to monthly preauthorized payments - along with all my utility bills. Not good.
Mine (1990) has done me neither harm nor good. I'm considering framing it and hanging it in my office, just to piss off people with fancy book learnin' and enormous loans.
If you don't remember the 'brushing your teeth = points thing', here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FSsztwbRW0
I find that extremely unbecoming for a PM. Probably trying to seem down to earth but I just think its very embarrassing.
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What the coalition government is trying to do in terms of soliciting ideas and having more engagement with the public via the internet is very welcome. There is a signal/noise issue though and a lot of silly suggestions are made, so I think that better rating systems are required - perhaps similar to HN.

However, I'm also wary that the previous administration also tried to court popularity and "listen to the people" during the early years. Everything hinges upon whether the new government actually makes constructive use of good suggestions by the public. If they subsequently ignore highly rated suggestions then there could be a backlash - as there was against Tony Blair when he built up great expectations of change only to subsequently dash them later.
The default tilt angle make the controls seem weird, until I tilted down a bit. Might want to make the default angle lower?
All but certainly unrelated, but using constructs like NO_FOO=YesPlease is a wretched idea.

On the bright side, there aren't no triple negatives neither.
Marriage is a way to call a guys' bluffs. Plenty of guys will say they are in love and committed forever to keep a relationship going. But the reality is they would move on to a younger girlfriend every 5-10 years if they could. Marriage makes men put their money where their mouth is.
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