skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the dissenting opinion.

Is this worse than the sort of thing that goes on in the early days of most startups, including our most revered? People around here have a lot of respect for pg, rtm, tlb and their startup Viaweb - go back to "Founders at Work" and read how they got computer time needed to get the startup going. That kind of thing is practically universal in startups. The good ones, anyway.

So Aaron appears to have cut some corners in getting an interesting project off the ground. Slap him on the wrist.
Everybody is at risk for federal prosecution. Everybody.

http://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent/dp/...
http://www.threefelonies.com/Youtoo/tabid/86/Default.aspx
UI is just an implementation part. If the main point was to improve on the user interaction side, I missed it completely. Only things he provided were an idea roughly equivalent to the existing one and a shell script which needs to be run outside of the browser. It's hardly better than "pick one entry from the dialog box", however ugly that dialog box is.
My post wasn't very clear. I was making two separate points.
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> Perhaps the social safety net steps in for women before they are driven to violent crime?

I can't think of any reason to believe this is the case, nor have you offered any evidence, so I'm going to tentatively reject this hypothesis.

> quit moralizing and start negotiating already . . .

I have no idea what you mean by this. "You guys stop discriminating against us in the workplace and we'll let you down easier when you proposition us on the street?" Something like that?

Re: your feelings of guilt: you probably don't need to feel guilty unless you are exploiting your privilege. Just being aware of it, not being a jerk, and not accepting it when other men act like jerks is all that's needed most of the time.
And if any company has a track record over the past decade of delivering "big things" it's Apple. No company in recent history comes even close. Can they? Who knows, but if anyone can, it's Apple.
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It seems like your server(s) have gone down: I'm getting an '502 Bad Gateway' from nginx.

Would love to try it out!
Well, IBM isn't on markets that grow. Smartphones are obviously really hot right now, even the 'losing' players are growing. By leading the growing markets they can cut the biggest slice of the pie.
They are probably bound by contracts with the actual content owners which limits who they can give access to. Not saying it's right but even the price is probably not all their doing.
Personally i like elementary OS quite a lot, i've been a long time Ubuntu user but i am not really a fan of the new Unity UI and wanted something nice and light for my dev box. It feels snappier than the default Ubuntu install but has the Ubuntu app store so i can just install any apps that i need that aren't present in the default install. The layout is very similar to how i usually set up ubuntu anyway so it seemed like a good option. Also being Ubuntu based setting up a LAMP dev environment takes about 15 minutes including the package downloads.

There are only 2 things i dislike:

1. It looks too much like OSX, i personally prefer dark themes, so I changed it from elementary theme to elegant gnome

2. Midori, it feels super alphaish, it has potential but there is no way i would have included it as the default browser considering it seems to only be about 80% finished.
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Things I don't want:
1. Google branding my checkout process
2. Forcing MY users (who already created an account with me) to create a Google Checkout account.
3. Auto checking a "news and special offers" box to send my users email

Also, is there a support phone number anywhere?
Some things I really like and some I really hate. Overall though I like it (Macbook Pro 13" base model - no upgrades).

I don't know why but I thought it would load applications faster than it does. Though, the overpowered Dell I bought last December is even slower. Why do I have this feeling my Mac should load applications faster? I don't know.

I don't like traversing the file system in the Mac. Perhaps its familiarity with Windows. File search on the Mac is infinitely faster though. I like that Macs are true multi-user operating systems. I can separate work and leisure better that way.

I didn't think I would care but I really like that the battery lasts a long time on the Mac. I pretty never used battery power on Windows laptops because "3 hours time remaining" ended up being 45 minutes.

The overall user experience is much better but I'm still getting used to it. I really hate that I can't create a folder at the time I save a document. Maybe there's a setting I don't know.

The most telling thing I can say is that I'm fairly certain that I'll never get a Windows machine again. With less ram, less video card power, less processing speed, my Macbook is much more responsive and the screen is much better.
There's a great slide from my "Taxes for Hax0rs" (SHDH 44) presentation http://www.transparentaccounting.org regarding the history of the Federal Income Tax. In a nutshell, the way it was originally written was meant to tax corporate income only and only the most wealthy Americans, not common folk.

One needed to make >= $4000/year in deflated 1893 dollars to even be eligible to need to pay any taxes. Not sure, but one computation I came up with (adjusted) puts that around 100K in today's dollars. Imagine making anything up to 100K tax-free.

The goal was always to tax corporations more heavily than people.

Today even the poorest Americans likely end up short more than 2.4 percent (effective annual rate) in tax payments when their employers "withold" earnings.

So when corporations go out of their way and spend a lot of money to accomplish tax avoidance, that seems kinda wrong.
Has been working great for years here, no bugs to speak of across 3 browsers and 3 OSes. Notifo notifications are amazing. UI is second to none. Flawless local/offline sync, so no downtime ever. Tagging system works great, and it's how I know what to do next all day.

My only gripes are

1) no mobile version (it works on my iPhone, but it's not the optimal experience to have to drag left and right. a dedicated app would be better imo)

2) there's no faqs/documentation/getting started guide/features/nada. No help desk if you're stuck or having problems. Despite all this, it has lots of users still apparently. Contacting the developer valentin shergin (yandex guy) is a shoot and miss. Development seems to have slowed down a lot, but there's some new features popping up here and there. Mostly active in Russian community.
its not like it was years ago when CitiCorp set up theri stock trading units in the Islands for a similar purpose..
I saw that - the revenue projection for next quarter is $3.5b less than revenue for this quarter.

I don't understand this. Are there any rules for making accurate revenue projections?
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That's a good point. I didn't think about that. But people mostly go to the Mall of America to browse and don't go there for a specific store. That's my impression at least.
Landscape on android phone as well. Many slide out keyboards are to the side.

Getting a 502 bad gateway from nginx on the web version at the moment.
Who cares? IRS can't trace bitcoins to real people.
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Well, when there is greater equality, this sort of group pride would naturally disappear. A small price to pay for getting rid of inequality.
Aaron's Twitter page which has been active today.

http://twitter.com/#!/aaronsw
Solar composting outhouses? Just like already exist in some campgrounds?

Is this really a problem that needs a new solution?
Just like that, the iPad is already bigger than the Mac
modifying humans to not feel the need for children would make us much less human than replacing our body parts with pieces made from silicon.
It is easy imagining living a 1000 happy years, but would you experience happiness at all if you were less human?

When you rephrase that to: "150,000 people die every day, and you want that to continue because changing the definition of 'human' feels a bit weird" it starts to look like less of a compelling argument.

There are lots of reasons why developing life extension technologies will cause social and economic upheavals and potentially huge ripples, but fear of possible problems is not enough to make me say "well, I'm glad people died to avoid those problems".

And I am aware that happiness could be faked, but then what incentive would you have for living a good life and accomplishing stuff instead of living like a vegetable, as many drug addicts are doing?

Am I a drug addict today? Why would I be more likely to be a drug addict in 100 years?

And if you can't be happy, since that's the ultimate goal of everybody, than what's the point to all this?

Because we can (maybe) and because if we can, it's worse if we don't.
My lone search found what I think used to be called "executive office" space; hardly co-working, at all.
Yes sir, I am a native speaker of english. That is a rule up with which I will not put.
The next Google is "IBM's Watson" patched in through your smart phone so someone can punch in a natural language question and get back a reasonable natural language response from a simulated person with IQ of 5000.

If you can build even a primitive version of this deployed well, it would be the Google-killer. Have it answer everything from 'how do you make a for loop in php' to 'what cinemas near 32807 are playing Cars 2'? I don't want pages of links, I want concise understandable objective correct answers.
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I'm not sure what definition of multiuser you're using, but all the Windows NT-based OSes meet the normal definition of multiuser.
The company is based in Costa Rica.
Evidently you're unaware of MIT's history of pranks.
command-shift-n to create a new folder even in a save dialog.

command-shift-g to quickly go to a filesystem path (supports tab completion. It's unix filesystem, so ~/ == your home directory. ~/Doc[tab] will take you to your Documents folder, etc).

As for speed - RAM upgrade and an SSD make all the difference in the world (as they would for windows as well).

Oh, also, if you're new to the mac, you might need some of these:

* Quicksilver http://qsapp.com/ - quick app launcher and much more.

* Adium http://adium.im/ - the only IM client you'll need

* Colloquy http://colloquy.info/ - IRC client

* DTerm or iTerm - somewhat better than default Terminal.app

* Hex Fiend - awesome hex editor

* HandBrake - video conversion

* Sublime Text / Textmate - really excellent programmer editors

* XLD - lossless audio conversion
Yes, enterprise value (EV) is equity market capitalization (stock price times # of shares) plus the market value of debt (this can be lower than the book value of debt). Financial analysts often prefer to calculate something called "Net Enterprise Value", which is EV minus "excess cash" (total cash minus "required cash", where required cash is usually calculated as a certain % of sales). Net Enterprise Value gives you the present value of all future cash flows to the firm (you are ignoring the value of today's excess cash, which doesn't come from future cash flows). This is particularly useful when looking at companies like AAPL with tons of cash.
I really hate that I can't create a folder at the time I save a document.

There is a "New Folder" button in the bottom left corner of the (expanded) save dialogue box. But it is true that you can't edit folder names or move files around from within the save dialogue.

While I realize that a save dialogue should be focused on saving, it annoys me to no end that I can't do some basic editing while I'm in there.
I don't think they have publically announced anything. TechCrunch reported 1M$ in mobile transactions per day [1] which they didn't deny. If they were a 1% transaction fee business that would be $10K/day in revenue, $300K/month. At 2% that would be $600K/month.

Having seen first hand with the hassle of what it was like to take payments before them I understand their value proposition better than I did the one for pets.com (and I do have a dog so presumably was in the pets.com target market)

Of course the whole NFC thing could crimp Square's growth but that is more along the lines of yet-another-disruptive-payment scheme rather than the old system was good enough.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/02/square-now-processing-1-mil...
Agreed about the email checkbox - I don't want anyone emailing a user I've spent time and money to get without me getting a cut.

Piggybacking their own bulk email lists on top is a no-no, even if it is part of the Google Checkout option, imho.
Ironically, corporate taxes these days generates less than 20% of the fiscal revenues for the government. Generally, 1040 individual taxes still make up the bulk of the taxes paid.

In addition, more than 35% of all taxpayers pay zero tax or pay no tax and get refunds. This number is constantly changing, especially recently with the economy. I've seen it go as high as 60%.

Lastly, when the government talks about corporate tax breaks and etc. Honestly, they barely matter anymore because we've essentially marginalized the revenue generated from corporations and businesses already. So, the amount of revenue and savings potential in the greater scheme of things is almost non-consequential.
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The Finder sucks, a lot, so file system traversal can be a pain. There are free alternatives though nothing comes to mind right now.

You can create a folder at save-time - there should be a disclosure/down-arrow button to the right of your file name textbox (this is a universal cue for "click here for advanced options"). This will roll out the advanced settings.

This gives you all the standard file system manipulation abilities you're looking for, including New Folder.
Aren't all funds, in a sense, like that?

You typically get much further from an invitation or an introduction than anything else.
> Founder AndroidWorks consulting

And most of your posts are mindless anti Apple rambling. Doesn't make you any better then the fanboys that you accuse other people to be. As a founder representing a company you might want to show a bit more professionalism.
Item #7 in More Effective C++ is to "never overload &&, || or ," because it changes the order of evaluation (with the boolean logic operators, it changes because the usual short-circuiting behavior is gone since the second argument has to be evaluated to pass it as an argument).
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Typical chicken/egg problem. They're over 10k because of low production runs and they're targeted towards industries that spend big, like the medical industry. If they were sold to the mass market then they would be close in price to your typical 32" LCD TV. Why are 16:9 ~21" 1080p screens so cheap, because they're parts from small LCD TVs! It's really the lack of demand that causes it. The sony LCD projector screen I quoted for example (it didn't have a backlight, it was just the lcd), you could purchase for around or under a $100.
I think it was 4 million articles in the JSTOR database that he downloaded.
Thanks... yeah I'm also working on a selector filter to do partial matches on html5 data attribute names.

So if you have data-mytype & data-mytyphoon you can match both of them with one selector doing a starts with type syntax.

The idea is similar to the attribute selectors native in jQuery. I should be posting it soon.
Hackers found loophole on Google Adsense
Recently, I noticed that my site's (HerveLegerObsessed.com) google traffic was REALLY low. I searched some common terms that I normally rank first on, such as "Herve Leger Authenticate" or "Herve Leger tagging."

To my surprise, my site was not even listed on the first page.

But, THAT was not the biggest surprise. Chinese hackers have figured a way to re-route Google adsense links to their site. For instance, there are ads that are ALWAYS at the top who are supposedly my site, but when you click on them, it
redirects from this (spammy?) site:

http://www.hpihgthky.co.cc

To:

http://www.officialhervelegermall.com/

This is clearly not my domain -- they are an illegal counterfeit seller! This ad is using my domain name in their Google Ad to redirect to an illegal site.

Now, I don't know if this has anything to do with the decrease in Google referrals, but the two seemed to happen oddly at the same time.

I'm not even a Google advertiser either!!
For example australia has employer sponsored permanent immigrant work visas that are processed fairly quickly.
Do you think all developers are running VIM and Firefox and developing JavaScript?
Thats CloudFlare, which this site uses
Are you serious? The goal of RAID is to eliminate downtime; a drive fails and you pop in a new one. All without ever having to reboot or even stop working.

With Time Machine, you still have to manually rebuild your system after your drive fails. This is not what Time Machine is for; it's for, "oops, I shouldn't have deleted that file". (Which, incidentally, RAID is not for.)
It's probably early days, spotty and highly variable from region to region.

I found exactly one place in my metro area, a desk for $75/month. It was four desks jammed up against each other in a 2x2 grid. Do-able, if I absolutely needed it, but at the price and distance from my place I'm more likely to stay at home or in the coffee shop.
Why do you need Eclipse?
> Too bad Apple patented calling an address book "Address Book,"

Are you joking? I didn't think that was possible, it's too generic and I couldn't find anything on Google regarding the matter.
Get yourself an SSD pronto.

They are worth the money, and as many software luminaries have said, they are the best upgrade money can buy right now.

You can take a Sandforce (or any TRIM enabled) ~64GB SSD and an optibay kit or similar and double to triple your load speed. Cost me ~$200 total.

Here's my account of an optibay-like installation on my 2010 MBP:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=10814085&post...
OK so a ship's wheel is again in the nautical ballpark, but not really the same thing as a compass
Yeah, fortunately they don't appear to actually enforce that regularly through technical measures. As a researcher with legitimate paid access (via my institution) to JSTOR, it would be absurd if this were enforced. If there is a special issue of a journal exactly in my research area, I pretty much need to read all the articles in it, or at least skim them. To comply with the terms, do I really have to choose an article to avoid reading, so I only download (N-1) of the articles in the issue?
One decade is great. Plenty of companies have had their one decade in the sun - Microsoft, Cisco, IBM... Standard Oil.

I think your comment is a bit of hyperbole, the success of a company like Apple is not unprecedented in history. Apple could continue doing "big things" over the next decade, I just seriously doubt their ability to continue their growth and justify their market cap over the next 5-10 years. That's all. Possible, yes, in my opinion extremely, extremely unlikely.

And also like clockwork, I had a comment explaining why I thought they would fail, and have downvotes.
Does enterprise value consider the uplift of actually paying cash? At $33.75 [1] EBAY has a market cap of just under $44B but to actually buy the company for cash and get everyone to tender their shares you would probably have to pay $80B+ and that would not include assumption of debt. I guess I don't get how EBAY is valued at less than their market cap.

[1] http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:EBAY
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Virus scan your machine, check for browser malware. Sounds like it's more likely to be a client problem than a Google problem.
For the hard of understanding (like me), why is this particularly worthwhile?
It's mostly a journalistic device, but the notion of the next ______ (Google, Scorcese, insert popular thing) is flawed. There won't be a next ______, and that is okay.
Are you happy with your web host (whom I will not name) in Panama? I've been looking for decent overseas hosting.
I got the impression Demand Progress was referring in that sentence to MIT as the "alleged victim", which seems slightly disingenuous to me. It also seems plausible that MIT would behave in the manner described. However I have not yet seen a statement from MIT that would corroborate this, either.
Awesome. Anything that brings more interest to math and sciences is good in my book.
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What? I'm on GNOME2 and my fonts are gorgeous. Far superior to Windows's ClearType or my MBP's blurry rendering.

Also, not sure how the appearance of buttons plays into UX... it's not like Wine comes with Windows 2000 or Windows 7 applications. I assume you're referring to the visual style of the buttons. It's a very small issue that affects people dependent on Windows applications... and besides, you can use Windows themes in Wine... very, very easily. That feature's existed for years and years.
> So, where I work, in my one-man department, I have 40 repositories, and that is so low because there are some things that are in one big repository that should logically be separate repositories.

In my small (12-person) design agency we have 244 repositories and we have a custom plan with Github just to pay for it. Other than rent and hosting, it's the most expensive thing that we pay for on a monthly basis.

I'd like to just stop using Github for older projects but it's not worth the headache on the off-chance that an old client pops up and needs a five-minute change that we can't then just cap deploy.

I understand the business side of this, of course. We're paying the money, so it must be a good idea for Github. However, we do have the time and inclination to find a cheaper way of doing it, and once we do, will Github's pricing be in their best interest? I guess time will tell.
Really? Have a look into Thatcher's pre-political career: her biggest achievement was finding a way to cheaply boost the volume of ice cream using an additive extracted from seaweed that was cheaper than using more milk. When you get into arguing about whether people were true ideologues or just going through the motions, you are essentially offering religious arguments. Being Irish and having later in lived in London for a decade, I have little sympathy for ideological purity as a political desideratum. All politicians are self-interested to some degree. It is naive to think you can discuss the quality of others' motives in objective terms.
Well, they've got one part right: tech centers flow from strong universities, not industrial parks. That said, I think the focus on entrepreneurship may be misguided. MIT, CMU, Stanford, and Berkeley didn't spawn tech loci because they focussed on entrepreneurship, they did so because they were destination schools for the best and brightest Eng and CS students from around the world. If they focussed on building the best possible engineering school, rather than the one most likely to spawn startups, they would paradoxically have a much better chance of spawning startups.

Also, I can't speak for anyone else, but New York simply doesn't appeal to me as a wannabe hacker. I like San Francisco and the surrounding area. I like the culture and the people. New York really doesn't have that same draw for me. That said, for those from the East Coast who would otherwise go to MIT or CMU, a top tier engineering school in New York might well be a viable alternative.