skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was thinking there was going to be a super bbq deal at the link; there are hilarious quotes instead:

"We need to merge our marketing excellence with our operations excellence and get it all to the same level." . . . "We want to help them not only understand how to use Groupon," [Darren Schwartz, Groupon's SVP of sales] said, "but how to run their business better."
Link goes to #p2: hit Page Up when you get there.
Obviously a psuedonym for Milo Minderbinder.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Catch-22#Chapter_22
Make the Compiz "Grid" plugin enabled by default.
While find still shines for finding files on metadata, I wrote a script elaborating on the 'du -a | grep "search term"' from Kernighan and Pike's The Unix Programming Environment. In many ways it does a better job of finding files by name than find does.

du -a | grep -y "$1" | grep -y "$2" | awk '{print $2}'

I am planning to rewrite to handle more than two search terms, but it works for me good enough for now.
A few ways:

-Ask them when they are inputting in any kind of sign up form for your product (if you have one). Probably best to make it an optional field though

-Mine the data using facebook (if your clients are on your facebook list)

-Send out a survey with some incentive, and with some q's that would gain some knowledge about them plus their date of birth
Yep, I agree entirely. Stop being such sanctimonious fuckwits.
Plenty were proven guilty. They were just rich enough to get away with it.

Birkenfeld was sentenced in August of 2009. UBS paid $780 and avoided all criminal charges. Individuals have since been fined or put on probation, or set free... except for Birkenfeld.

Extremely wealthy tax evaders can afford to pay measly slap-on-the-wrist fines for their crimes. $780 million for UBS is a complete joke compared to the billions in evaded taxes.
Out of their way? What do you mean? They also have a CvsConcepts page....
If I haven't succeeded in my mid 20s, could I be successful?
That's why it's a "pedagogical disaster."
IPhone 5 mobile payment tech rejected by Apple
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Dropbox will react to DMCA notices and "will take whatever action, in its sole discretion, it deems appropriate, including removal of the challenged content from the Site."

http://www.dropbox.com/terms#dmca

As they will probably never receive a DMCA notice for your private folders they won't delete anything. (My opinion, I'm not associated with Dropbox)

edit: replaced provide with private
He probably means that the syntax can vary at compile time. An example:

Actual code I wrote (for https://github.com/stucchio/Mp3FS ):

type Mp3fsM a = ReaderT Mp3fsInternalData IO a

runMp3fsM f r = runReaderT f r
runMp3fsM1 f r = \x -> runReaderT (f x) r
runMp3fsM2 f r = \x -> \y -> runReaderT (f x y) r
runMp3fsM3 f r = \x -> \y -> \z -> runReaderT (f x y z) r
runMp3fsM4 f r = \x -> \y -> \z -> \t -> runReaderT (f x y z t) r

In lisp, this sort of thing could be handled by a macro.
I get it. `my_if` doesn't require separate recompilation of the functions that use it. Well played.

I still see a subset of the functionality of a language with macros over sexprs as the syntax. It will take me some time, however, to come up with a good terse reply to that issue that fits in these tiny text boxes. The gist would probably be; if one is going to really change the syntax of a language, the programs that use the changed bits have to be re-parsed at some point. That's somehow tautological.
I'm confused - I thought GroupOn did one-off offers, not a long-term discount. (Of course, if you're willing to go to a different business every week and there are plenty of one-off deals, the difference isn't that large.)
I'm guessing fake too. If you notice, one of the "demos" splits his video evenly over what appears to be 4 screens. If this were a real device, as described, it probably should have shown the same video on every screen.
"The social animal", a fantastic TED talk by David Brooks
The very first part of it is really the injection of Move specific functions like 'repeat' and 'after'. It's just that they are injected as functions instead of being replaced directly in code.

Then it does the enabling of the ability of calling via hello 'x' or hello {name:'x'}, some syntactic sugar.

As my limited knowledge of coffeescript goes, you advocates on having the generated script as readable as possible, so these kind of sugar may irritate you ;-)
It's true. Something more than lip service is also nice; I'm not sure if I'm one of Zappos' best customers, but I get free overnight shipping with them. That makes me happier than yet another piece of spam in my inbox.
The government stimulus (QEs) can last forever because we have a monopoly on our currency. The Fed can print as much money as it wants. Of course, too much stimulus causes inflation. Banks have the cash, and are lending.
Working now. I'm guessing you recently setup the domain/dns?
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I began learning haskell not so long ago, so i would like to ask you, for how much time have you been using haskell (also interresting for python, although it doesn't say as much IMHO).

Do you think it's really due to the language itself, or may it be a question of familiarity.

I'm really interrested. I would intuitively have the same idea about it than you just exposed, but i'm really far too newbie to haskell to be able to judge.
It's not that it's worse, it's the fact that is different for each platform.
Federal Cyber Security and Trusting the Cloud
The biggest annoyance for me has to be the fact that the gnome panel constantly seems to get confused on the order in which icons and gadgets should appear. I'll spend 30 minutes getting the notification area, icons, menus, etc arranged just as I like them, and then notice the next time I login that they're rearranged. And God help you if you ever resize the panel, even temporarily, because they get completely screwed if that happens. It's very frustrating, and is a problem that's existed since the gnome panel was invented (yes, I've been using it that long). Even more frustrating is that once they're screwed up, they seem to tend to lock in place to the extent that fixing them back the way you like becomes a real exercise.
yep, not long ago (ps sorry can't reply to your comment directly)
Government-supplied insurance is a bit different than private-sector-provided insurance, though. It's essentially the "public option" for banks.
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It's nice to see someone stand up and say whoa. I mean my first youtube post of an arduino project I did - someone had to explain my miss-pronucenation of a word and paid no attention to the project itself. User comment boxes are not always as helpful as it might seem.
My experience as well. Google strong-arms heavy users into its various social projects.
A great feature of OSX is the Apple Disk Image. [1] It lets you have a single file, with AES-256 encryption, that can be mounted and then used as a disk (put files on it, create folders etc). Perfect for keeping anything sensitive in Dropbox, such as passwords, statements from your bank etc etc. Even if your account gets compromised and the file gets copied, your data is safe.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Disk_Image
This joke is starting to get pretty annoying..

There are lots of things we do for conventional reasons, such as having electrons exhibit negative charge.

If you're doing any actual complicated math or physics, the last thing you care about is having a different constant floating around in your terms.

What it is, however, is a great learning tool - This thing called pi, maybe we could get away with, or even be better off calling it 2pi. - Can get lots of people thinking about math and possibly learn something cool like trig. But when used in a psuedo intellectual way, it 'really grinds my gears'.
When your free call to Japan gets dropped, AT&T can blame it on the earthquake.
Regarding the perjury, you're right. I find it somewhat upsetting that after a few years of courts responding to these organizations "accidentally" filing factually incorrect documents by allowing them to foreclose anyway the most we can do is prevent them from gaining anything through further "accidents," but what I think is immaterial to the law.

On the securities fraud side, some action is being taken along those lines. My impression from what I've read is that a group of bondholders whose combined share is a large portion of the offering has to be assembled before they can take any action, so it's moving fairly slowly.
At least then you know which one it is, what properties it has, and how it is initialized. Too few random number libraries document this. But as that is the primary advantage my gut would be to still at least use a library. It's not hard to come up with a Mersenne Twister library, and if you need something cryptographically secure just about the only thing I'd even consider is going straight to the OpenSSL implementation.
To borrow from Babbage, I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
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still, i think hipsters are wannabes, and clothes don't make the man
I'm guessing the guy put his mp3 files in his public folder which is as good as sharing them on the web.
Rochester Institute of Technology (http://www.rit.edu)

Look for recent grads and co-op students. Less experienced -- maybe -- but definitely not less talented.

http://sse.se.rit.edu/
http://www.rit.edu/academicaffairs/centerforstudentinnovatio...
http://www.rit.edu/emcs/oce/
If "fuckwit" adds anything to your comment, can you explain what that is?
How are you getting Fs for using τ?

Just write `Let τ = 2π.` at the top of your papers.
As someone that makes content for these types of displays I can almost guarantee that this is fake. Usually, my clients ask for a projector (Flash or maybe Processing) or have an embedded player. They are usually powered by PCs that have a direct connection to the display (or display array).

I’m trying to imaging the signal strength needed to override a cabled connection. I suspect it’s in the “lightning bolt” range of electrical power.
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The login/registration form does not use password inputs for the password box, and shows therefore the password in plain text when trying to login or register.
A "Kindle Color" would hurt the Kindle brand. Whenever I tell someone I have a Nook, they respond with "Oh, the color e-reader?" They don't even know an e-ink Nook exists.

Kindle == e-ink. Anything Amazon Tablet related should stay away from Kindle; closer to the movies and TV on demand.
Just missing a stroke under the horizontal line.
http://www.slate.com/id/2287808/pagenum/all/

That is the link to the entire article instead of half way down, sorry about that.
> In many ways it does a better job of finding files by name than find does.

Your du command is:

du -a | grep -y "$1" | grep -y "$2" | awk '{print $2}'

The find command I would use for the same effect is:

find -iregex ".*$1.*" -a -iregex ".*$2.*"

How does the du command do a better job than the find command?
He's an economist that is not a raving libertarian!
I work in this space and we have received feedback on Groupon from hundreds of merchants. In many cases they were not happy with their promotions for the following reasons:
1) Groupon didn't adhere to the sales limits and oversold vouchers
2) Once the promotion was set in stone (a few months before it ran) the sales reps for Groupon were unreachable. Additionally, merchants could not contact sales reps to run another promotion.
3) Customer retention was very low.

I agree with the comments in the article that the sales force has no idea what is going on operationally. Really all they care about is inking the next deal so they get paid while all other considerations for proper customer service and the well being of the merchant fly out the window.
Borders hopes to exit bankruptcy by September
Regarding a better default terminal app, I use Terminator (http://www.tenshu.net/terminator/). It's by far the best terminal I've found and far superior (imho) to ITerm2 on the mac. apt-get install terminator and spend some time looking at the man page.

Regarding window snapping, if you're talking about win7's ability to drag a window over to one side and have it snap to half the screen, check out the Compiz Grid plugin. It provides similar but far more capable abilities.
I think Amazon has more global reach than Barnes and Noble does. Does B&N even exist outside the US and Canada?

Even Amazon isn't fantastic in Europe, but at least they are here and active.
Neomobile Acquires Mobile Payments Startup Onebip
Kind of a counterpoint to Zed Shaw. Fuck unit tests and their false sense of security.
Agreed. Next time I shall condescendingly refer people to this post with one eyebrow raised if I hear any of those 'lines'.
What Sports Produce the Best Entrepreneurs?
A pleasant surprise for Windows Phone 7 Developers
This article was published on the 4th March and at this moment I can access all sites mentioned in the article and tube8.com without entering any details. I'd suggest the article is a little out of date.

I'm a contract customer so they may have updated their policy to exclude all contract customers (who are all over 18) or they may have dropped it. I don't know.
AC/DC Controversy of the 1880s Applies to Natural Gas Today
they absolutely do not pay an amount commensurate with the amount and risk insured. In a for profit insurance system the insuree is paying more than their expected liability, the banks pay much less than this and the taxpayer adopts the rest of the burden.

also banks use demand deposits to back their loan liabilities. the only reason customers put up with such a thing is again FDIC.
This is exactly the problem, and this is exactly why a lot of nerds don't stand up and talk about what they're doing. They're under the impression that if they're not working at on of MIT's labs, then what they're doing is worthless.

This is absolutely not the case. Some of the things that I've most enjoyed doing recently were a the "automated reddit observation system" (http://thingist.com/t/item/2945/) and my "Jarvis" alarm clock (http://thingist.com/t/item/4329/).

These projects were both probably done "wrong". The way I'm parsing RSS on Jarvis is probably "wrong" and I was nervous about publishing the code because I thought people would call me out on it.

But who cares. These things are hella fun. As one person said "Build shit. Do shit. Write Shit. Fuck the Haters. Let them know by the trail of Original Content you leave behind."
Is it Moodle?
There are already plenty of ways to check one's grades, actually. Colleges often use Blackboard - although I think students and professors alike would agree that using Blackboard is only a little bit better than having cancer. I want to fill in the gap where there is no system offered or it's incomplete, leaving students on their own. Of course, there are already two players - Schoolhouse, a quite sexy (if over-featured) Mac app, and some outdated online grade tracker.
The article mentions TrueCrypt, which is a better option for people who are using multiple platforms. However, neither TrueCrypt nor Apple Disk Image are appropriate for people who need to access their Dropbox files from their Android phone, which is what the article discusses.
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yes, currency creation is public via legal tender laws.
I'm having difficulty reconciling these two statements,

His best shot at it took somewhere between 11 to 12 hours to compile the results...or crash sometime during the night.

the developer, in keeping things simple for himself was storing all of the data for aggregation in associative arrays

With this one,

I say fantastic because he managed to write a rock solid, very scalable e-commerce back-end for a very large and very active site. It was seriously impressive stuff.

My reason is that I have difficulty calling someone a "fantastic developer" if they don't have a basic understanding of algorithms, data structures and systems. (If something takes a long time or crashes, run-away memory usage should be high on the list of suspects if you have basic systems knowledge.)
Palm's Approach to Elegant Design
Bullies, anonymous smartasses. The internet brings out the teenager out of people of all ages, that's what makes it addictive and fun isn't it? It's not the real world, you are not forced to be a grey, conventional and kind person.

There's this trend to kill anonymity on the internet, blogs switching to facebook comments etc. There's a value to anonymity, it facilitates criticism and that's what scientific journals have been doing for decades. It's also known that eponymous product reviews tend to be 20% more positive. The world is cruel, the world is pretentious. Take your pick (or don't)
Well, GDP growth doesn't exist in a vacuum. It's spread throughout every demographic. Every demographic is consuming more than it's ever consumed (highest GDP). Now, I'm assuming you might mean high unemployment as your main complaint. We have more funds now than we've ever had to subsidize unemployment checks without affecting inflation rates. The unemployment checks are going out to many and are in abundant supply. Contrary to what you might hear, the most disadvantaged brackets are being taken care of.
TaggingRobot is Delicious
I can't check at the moment, but it's worth noting that this is the direct opposite of what is claimed in the linked forum thread:

http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=24507
Just think of 2π as a single symbol — the circle constant. Why do we need another name for 2π?
It is so easy to be a snarky Internet bully until something like this happens to restore your sense of shame.

It reminds me a bit of a situation that happened back when I was blogging instead of doing, when I wrote some rather unkind things about the design and aesthetics of Wesabe. I didn't really have anything to contribute - I was just being critical for the sake of being critical. The next day, the CEO of the company wrote a long comment on my blog defending his employee's tastes and (rather politely) pointing out what a dick I was being. Reading that comment made me feel like I was three inches tall.

Since then, while I don't always succeed, I try to think before I type.
His hit job on Paul Ryan:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/06/opinion/06krugman.html

Rebuttals: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2010/08/krugman-... http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2010/08/paul-kru...

Here is a his attempt to debunk the hypothesis that job losses are concentrated in a few sectors. Of course, he doesn't actually present job loss numbers, but instead ratios of people who want a job and are actively looking to people who have one:

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/13/whos-unemployed/

Of course, if you look at actual job numbers, you see huge losses in construction and much smaller losses in other sectors: http://crazybear.posterous.com/structural-shift-in-the-econo...

Here is Krugman relying on Simpson's Paradox to argue that education is better in Wisconsin than in Texas:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/28/opinion/28krugman.html?par...

Here are more detailed numbers: http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2011/03/longhorns-17-ba...

Claims that our current budget deficits are not caused by government spending:

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/17/why-have-deficit...

Rebuttal: http://super-economy.blogspot.com/2010/10/krugman-wrong-abou...

These are just a few that spring to mind.
the number in the world doesn't limit anything. bitcoins float against the dollar. if demand for them increases their value will increase dollar wise.

money is not magical, it is a convenient commodity of exchange. the rules of supply and demand govern it.
I don't see how it is obscene. It makes sense to think about things you can do something about. I am sure in Japan they are also thinking about improving their defenses against Tsunamis right now. Where I live, Tsunamis really aren't a problem, but we do have nuclear power plants. We also have air that can be contaminated.

I actually feel sorry about the deaths and devastation in Japan, but I have no illusions that my feelings will do anything at all to help over there.

Btw., who knows how many people are currently dying in Libya. People are dying all over the place, all the time, unfortunately. I am just saying, maybe it would have been best if I hadn't even switched on the news, and concentrated on things that I CAN do something about.
I'm sorry, but on pi day, I eat a whole pie. I am not settling for half a pie.
The response on this is pathetic. Dropbox was made aware that some people have a valid objection to metadata being plaintext three months ago and now they only take it seriously when it shows up on HN?

As a paid DropBox and Android user I'm second guessing use of the product.

Here is a pro-tip: If your way to get "Speed" involves being "Insecure" than someone needs to get wacked aside the head with the hardest nerf bat you can find. Repeatedly. While screaming "NO NO NO THAT'S STUPID".
Write even when you have nothing to say
Have a mission, not a mission statement
It's called iNow (or maybe STI iNow). Am having trouble finding a link for the company because most of the Google search results are for various school systems that have implemented iNow.
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You will find the following read illuminating.

I’ve been in contact for with attorneys involved in foreclosure defense. One thing they stress is that a significant number of their clients facing foreclosure has made every single mortgage payment. Read that again.

Now how can that be? It’s actually very simple.

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2010/11/servicer-driven-forec...

One number that stood out for me:

Thompson estimates that servicer-driven foreclosures represented about 50% of the cases she handled.
They could use the Pixel Qi screen and have something that is good for reading/ really long battery life but can also do video, color when necessary.

http://pixelqi.com/blog1/2011/01/10/ces-2011-from-a-pixel-qi...

I assumed this was what the article was talking about, instead it's just suggesting a Nook Color without needing the community supported software to access all the full functionality (which would be nice, but not amazing).

ZTE have already announced such a tablet, so Amazon could just use them as OEM if they've not already got something cooking in their labs.

http://pixelqi.com/blog1/2011/02/14/zte-introduces-7%e2%80%9...
Yes, it's called WinSCP: http://winscp.net/eng/index.php. It makes the remote filesystem appear as if it's just a local filesystem (if you choose the explorer interface type).
GNU Free Call has been announced (Skype-like software)
The documents may be up but that site keeps on going down.
Electrons exhibiting negative charge is something that would be difficult to fix because the fix would result in a lot of confusion. Using tau as the circle constant doesn't cause nearly as many problems. I don't see it as a joke; we should do it.
Rather than turn this thread into a lot of "+1s for encryption" or necro the dropbox forums thread, I've made a votebox issue:

https://www.dropbox.com/votebox/4452/enhanced-mobile-client-...
There are scenarios, where a nuclear accident has a damage that makes living in that area impossible for a long time. Then you don't even have a choice whether you want to drive or not. The people of Prypjat had to leave and the region there is uninhabitable for the next 300 years. There are very few car crashes in that area.
Oh, and here I thought it would be difficult even for someone tech savvy. :)(
How can he hate on the idea of a .edu social network optimised for flirting?? As someone who attended university in the US, the idea strikes me as pure genius; I'd love to invest in it if I could.

Edit: added the word 'optimised'