skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At the bottom they state "Your ads preferences only apply in this browser on this computer. They are reset if you delete your browser's cookies."

You probably cleared your cookies already or are using a browser you don't normally use. I'm glad this is cookie based and not tied into the actual logged in Google account.
Yes, seems like iPhone Skype client into the 800 numbers over Wi-Fi would probably be the best way to handle that.
If you were guaranteed $250k a year with potential to receive more every 5 years or so, were able to buy a house, nice car, and support a family without worrying about any financial hardships, you think it would be _easier_ to quit? To go to what, the potential for no salary, constant paranoia of whether you made the right decision or not, and get into a field you know relatively nothing about?

It's a pity that these tremendous acts of courage are often overlooked because its _easier_ to walk away from a lot of money.
Only "oop north" probably...
> Startups aren't for everyone and not all startups are created equal. It would be unfair to assume all startups are misdirected and low paying.

True. Didn't mean to imply that. This particular one was misdirected and low-paying.

> You miss out of the potential upside of startup equity

How many startups actually make it to the point where the equity is worth something? I'm guessing it's under 5% of them (even in good times). So at some point you need to make the calculation as to whether the equity that you're trading pay for is going to be worth anything. In my case I determined that it would never be worth anything.
Sounds like a company that did customer development after product development.
We started in 2006 and Prototype was the dominant framework back then, so we're still using that for the editor. Everything else is custom written.
To give some context, most of the people on this site are professional software developers. i.e., my full-time job is writing iPhone apps, so I've been thinking about that process for the last 2-3 years.

For me personally, 75% of my working hours is spent talking to people who have an app idea and don't have the funds to execute, and trying to separate those from paying clients. If I could cut that number in half, I would literally be twice as productive. It would be like adding 3 hours to every workday, or producing an additional ten apps a year.
Just guessing, but it's almost like you have to have an initial "wave" of entrepreneurs that work hard, make it happen, sell or flip, then stay in the area and want to get into something interesting.

The Valley has an advantage here, because you can start, grow, then flip to Google and never leave home. Then when you finally cash out you're still in the same spot.

I think RTP (and a lot of other places) are going to have to count on startups that don't end up moving out of town. That's going to be tough to do, but it's possible. The atmosphere for startups worldwide just keeps getting better and better. It's a numbers game.
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Hugely, massively ignorant. For one, much of the funding for roads comes from taxing gas, which truckers pay proportionately for.

Beyond that, have you ever bothered to notice those little areas on the side of highways called weigh stations? You know, the ones where you don't have to stop? Yeah.

If anything, the subsidy runs from truckers to casual drivers, not the other way around.
The News Merchant
But the actual effective security was squandered for the sake of convenience and compatibility. OSes didn't really want to share the hardware in any meaningful way.

What do you mean?
Well I don't treat them as individual tab, I treat them as a set of groups. Thanks to tree style tabs my tabs are organized as groups manner.

On average I have 5 groups hacker news, reddit, slashdot, google reader, google searching and documentation group. When I work I frequently move around google searching and documentation group. In my leisure time I go to other group.

For example during working I need to search about some feature of a library. I open the top tab of the google searching group middle click on the link I am interested which opens in the new tab in the group. If some time later I need to see the page again just go to the google searching group and get the tab. This way I can easily organize my tabs.
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I wouldn't call anybody because a truck drives slower than traffic but I would have called somebody if he is ever in anything but the right lane on the free way.

It is not to go slow in. It is to go fast.

And really flipping people of is the least you can do.
I hope MS do that. Although they'd have to allow internal syncing servers for it to be acceptable for IS departments.
Wow, what a crazy idea. Decoupling parsing from output generation. What will those crazy Ruby kids think of next?
"but it's not like the bizarre idea is even monetizable"

...and in fact it's what they were trying to monetize that was really funny.
You know the know and understand the goals, but you don't understand the internals.
At a certain point, isn't it easier to just write the HTML?
That's not the way people are talking about it - they're talking about complete contexts.

If we're talking about having them all having access to each other, then I can't see what you gain by putting apps in different VMs.
"- He has skipped meals"

Recently watched a BBC documentary on truck drivers in USA. Apparently majority of truck drivers are constipated. They prefer to eat stuff they can hold in one hand while driving with the other - like beef jerky, cheese sticks, instead of salads. The docu said the average US truck driver visits the restroom only once in 3-4 days. To prove this assertion, they had a group of East-West truck drivers swallow a tiny camera that transmitted pictures of their colon until it was ejected. It was quite gross, vivid and very conclusive evidence. They then had half the group switch to a diet of canned veggies - peas-in-a-can, carrots-in-a-can etc. The truck drivers ended up visiting the restroom 2-3 times per day, were much lighter physically, and a lot more relaxed, chatty and fun.

It was on Discovery I think...if you have a link pls post.
Let me tell you his future. He/She will be replaced by a self driving truck.
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Well, another fundamental problem is the US government subsidies trucks by providing them with roads. Railroads have to make their own tracks.

Truck and cars do pay taxes but they don't pay sufficient taxes to pay the entire cost of roads (http://moderntransit.org/letters/budget.html).
There are no real thresholds. As entrepreneur, you're the one who sets the timing for each stage. Managing beta vs launch has several goals that go beyond media coverage. 1, When talking to users it's a way to tell them that your product is not quite ready yet. It's expectation mngmt but it works. Users are more likely to help you fixing bugs if you're in beta than if you're live. 2, When talking to investors is a way to gain time. If you're live you need to show traction. If you're beta you can go a little slower. You can use your beta stage to create some buzz so then when you officially launch you can actually see decent traction. 3, When talking to the media, it's about getting the big 'launch' coverage and possibly allow for an exclusive. If you're already launched there are no real news.
My point was simply that SETI isn't related to the NASA funding debate, and the OP wanted to connect the two via an emotional space shuttle reference.

>Why don't we devote more to exploration?

Maybe because people are failing to communicate its benefits clearly? For instance, the OP:

war==bad + assertion of disgust --> X==good

X could be anything. ANYTHING. Why aren't we investing more in wooden shoes? Didn't you know war is bad? Even if X==good, I hope people are inoculated against these type of arguments.
What does this allow me to do that I couldn't before? (Serious question - this article is over my head).
Except cats don't hibernate. Hint: it's an adjective, like feline, except descriptive of a different species of animal.
Is there any plan for a designer API? I'd love to automate some of the functions on the designer platform for an idea I have.
I have to think that maybe truckers aren't going to be as disappointed as I thought when the entire industry workforce is displaced in 15 years with self-driving trucks.

Don't be so sure. Just because some jobs are truly shitty doesn't mean people won't fight to the death to keep them. Just look at coal miners.
Absolutely, it's in the pipeworks!
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I hadn't thought to call them privateers, but it's an excellent comparison. You've hit the nail on the head.

The next wars will be waged by private contractors and privateers, hovered over by swarms of drones.

Replace "will" with "is" whenever you feel like it.
I used to work at a company that worked in Logistics. I don't know if it's gotten better, but at least at that point there really was no good solution for multi-modal loads. If you wanted to go truck->train->truck, you were on your own for arranging all of the details. It was far easier to just use a truck from point to point than the other solutions.

It might have improved in the last 10 years though :)
I agree that that's probably a good way to mitigate the problem, but the U.S. already does transport a surprisingly large amount of freight by rail, with relatively little fanfare. It's a lot more than Europe, for example, which has much more high-profile passenger trains, but much lower use of freight rail. The last time I looked up statistics, it was about 35% of American freight going by rail, versus about 10% of EU-nation freight. Obviously 35% could go up, but it's not too bad. It just feels like we have fewer trains than we do, because as a human wanting to get places you can't easily take them.

A bigger problem might be the geographic distribution of truck vs. rail traffic. Rail traffic dominates in the transcontinental trips, because it's a lot cheaper to ship bulk cargo or shipping containers by rail from LA to Chicago, than by truck. But open-road inter-city trucking from LA to Chicago is relatively safe. Where trucks are most dangerous is within-urban-area transit, in congested metropolitan areas, but those are also the hardest to replace. For example, Safeway alone sends thousands of trucks out daily to supply its grocery stores; much of the produce is moved from ships to a local staging area by rail, but the last 10 miles to the actual store goes by truck. It'll be very difficult to replace that, unless we return to the days of a dense rail network where businesses had their own local rail sidings for deliveries.
This is from March 2011, from their last(?) newsletter:

Who Reads Quantly?

Based on our web server logs, here are the top firms accessing Quantly over the past six weeks. The firms are listed in order, most traffic first. I've highlighted some of the more hardcore quant outfits.

Credit Suisse Group,
Bank of America,
Deutsche Bank,
Toronto Dominion Bank,
Citadel Investment Group,
Cooperfund,
JPMorgan Chase,
Susquehanna Ireland Ltd,
Barclays Capital,
Cerebellum Capital,
QCAP Management,
Putnam Investments,
Quantmetrics Ltd,
Tradeworx,
DRW Trading,
Goldman Sachs Group,
UBS,
Timber Hill LLC,
SAC Capital Advisors,
GETCO, LLC,
Light Box Capital,
Morgan Stanley Group,
WH Trading,
Crabel Capital Management,

Top universities accessing the site:

Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Virginia Polytechnic Institute,
Columbia University,
Claremont University Consortium,
University of California, Los Angeles,
Stanford University,
University of Hawaii,
Imperial College London,
University of California at Berkeley,
New York University,
Santa Clara University,
Carnegie Mellon University,
R8 to pass the days, I hope
Well, Rail is efficient in that it ships huge quantities...fifty, or a hundred standardized containers. Trucks do a bit less than one of those, and so are -amazing- if you only have to ship that much between points C and W (point A being a manufacturer in Asia, b being a port, and C being a major freight station)

Rail is a great solution for a specific portion of that network, but it becomes very, very inefficient if you're only moving one box of goods to a town, and in a nation this size, with as dispersed a population as ours, you simply cannot manage the outlay of hundreds of thousands of railway spikes...and taken to the smaller position, you'd still need trucks unless the railways went to each and every department store.
Maybe there will be a followup on the driver-hate generated by lengthy RR crossing waits and some stories about folks dying while trying to beat a train to the crossing.
Mutual fund and kyc compliance
Quitting to start a tech company is much easier when you have had 3 years of banking $250k per year. It reduces the risk and stress of possibly eating ramen daily. Also investors love when entrepreneurs are willing to invest some of their own money into a concept.

More people on HN, in my opinion, would quit today if they had enough money in a war chest to survive for year or more.
Actually, this is related to a question I've thought about but never asked: if you're, say, writing a blog, why use Markdown over standard HTML? Does it give some advantage I'm not aware of?
There is no reason for a truck to be in anything but the right lane unless it is doing or about to left turn.
Fair enough. This is hackernews. I've passed the link to this comment thread along to the writer and we'll slowly educate the client base, one at a time.
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Fascinating - it got my gender right and age right but I have no clue where it got the categories from - books and web development are probably the only two things that are even in the ballpark. "Online Goodies"? - no clue!

Arts & Entertainment - Music & Audio - ... - Song Lyrics & Tabs
Books & Literature
Internet & Telecom - Web Services - Web Design & Development
Jobs & Education - Education
Law & Government
Online Communities - Online Goodies
Online Communities - Online Goodies - Skins Themes & Wallpapers
Demographics - Age - 25-34
Demographics - Gender - Male
The headlight flash is trucker code...if you do it for them they typically flash the trailer lights back...kinda like a salute and I can say they are typically appreciative (BTW...not a high beam flash but an off/on flash).

My father was a long haul truck driver (lower 48 states) for 35 years. 9mos/year on the road, moving furniture, loading his own truck as an owner operator...he was one of the good truckers with over 1 million safe driving miles...I cannot say they are all good drivers but a lot of them are. If they are an owner/operator all expenses are paid out of pocket (fuel, repairs, tires, food, taxes, etc.) so typically an owner operator is going to be more cautious than a driver who doesn't have to pay for damage.

On a side note there are certain trucking companies which hire mostly new drivers (Swift is an example) I typically watch out for those trucks.
We're back up. Turns out hackernews can send quite a bit of traffic.
You can write content faster if you're comfortable with the syntax. It also has the advantage of looking good unstyled and styled. The syntax tends to look like a styled plaintext email.
Haskell Gem – Unwrapping Indented Text
Latest Android Trojan Eavesdrops on Your Calls
Sounds like he wants to have something like Google groups in G+. I don't see why this is a bad idea. In fact i'd also like to see by topic recommended follow list made by people.
To clarify: they're not personally targeted. With re-targeting they target a browser that's been to a site but hasn't converted. No company I know of targets based on specific identity.

It's a 3-way deal. I'd like to see fewer ads, without any obnoxious flash/animation. Also, ads that pay publishers more money for their traffic - and help advertisers find markets. The current market is completely broken; obnoxious ads for consumers, no support for good publishers and bad ROI for advertisers.
Yep...sometimes they have had CB warning of speed traps (or truck stop word of mouth) for many miles before you get there...call it an old school radar detector.
The issue with columns in web browsers is the variance in screen height. Clearly it would be worse to render an entire long-form article in 3 columns, forcing the user to scroll back up to the top of the page to start reading the next column.

This forces the designer to break the content up into multiple column blocks based on a target screen height... so now we have the same problem, only on a different axis.
Machine Learning Markets
Three weeks ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2757047

Last week: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2816556

Not much discussion. I'm sure there was at least one other with more discussion.
Your point is plain to see, and it is correct in principle, but there are plenty of bindings for Lisps too. As far as I understand, making CL talk to Oracle is a battery included in the commercial implementations, or available through CLSQL (and therefore through higher-level libraries built on top of it such as Elephant). Sure, CL may not have all of the latest and greatest, but plenty of languages don't either. While I cannot pretend to approach any sort of "hacker-level" competence in Lisp (I'm not even a programmer really), I have yet to find a relatively trivial task (where my definition of trivial is "included in Python's standard library or a very widely used / de facto standard module", since I'm coming from Python) for which there isn't a usable (and often excellent) Lisp tool. YMMV, of course.
I use free internet services in exchange to being brainwashed. If I get an option to be brainwashed less efficiently, I take it.
You seriously underestimate exactly how hard being a truck driver is.

Random internet challenge: Be a truck driver for a month. Then come back to this thread.
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Wow...the comments on this thread are more callous than I had anticipated. The story is a good story. Sure, these things happen in all professions - that policewoman that put her life on the line chasing some young drug kingpin in the back of an alley last week, just lost her baby 2 months ago - but that doesn't make this story less true and require less empathy.

I never understood the road rage thing.

If you know that there is a big truck in front of you (or near you) on the freeway, and you know they might drive aggressively, do what you need to get away as quickly as you can. Either slow down, or overtake, in a responsible way.

But no need to be a douchebag about it. Sure, you may have been bad-driven by truck drivers in the past, but believe me...that's not bad driving.

Come to Jamaica where EVERYBODY bad drives EVERYBODY, it's a regular occurrence. You can either get pissed and cuss everybody, or you can let it roll off your shoulders and not let it bother you.

Just protect yourself, drive responsibly and don't get flustered.
I think that we just gave up on it. Another thing that I remember being really annoying is that there was no easy way to break out of iterating closures other than to throw an exception. I ended up writing a "BreakClosure" exception specifically for this. (The return value of the closure goes nowhere, and breaking out of one closure just causes the next iteration to run.)
For blog posts, README's for github and stuff like that the source in markdown kind of looks better than the equivalent HTML tag soup.

In fact, I wouldn't mind if javadoc supported it too.
A Blooming Garden of Codenames
Agreed. It gracefully degrades into something readable if parsing fails, which is not applicable to HTML.
Aren't trucks much more flexible than trains? Roads are already here, they're everywhere, and they go everywhere. Rails would have to be built, and even if they were, they would never be as extensive as roads are.

Assuming comparable existing infrastructure, trains might be more efficient, but isn't it much more efficient to use the existing infrastructure, to the point that it mitigates the efficiency of a train?
Nice. I like the idea with the renderers. I'm going to this idea a try too for my Python binding.
Nested tables worked, but they were incredibly hard to write/edit by hand. This gives us a way of using those layout concepts while still maintaining some separation of document structure and layout definition.
What irks me is they they expect us to understand they're limited to a certain speed, but when there's a down hill and drivers need to brake to stop going over the speed limit, we get gestures made at us. Double standards.
How does LMAX's disruptor pattern work (concurrency)
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MS, Twitter, and Google debate if HTML5 is the "Holy Grail"
Moment of Clarity – Why Being in the Trough of Sorrows is a Good Thing.
Should you program like a writer/painter/architect?
This. I use Markdown syntax when writing blog posts since Posterous formats Markdown just fine and it lets me view my writing (mostly) unstyled in vim, which I personally find much more comfortable than some web-based editor.
Imagine having to write a few lists or tables in HTML. I think writing Markdown in those cases is a bit faster and much more pleasant.
The issue isn't so much the distance from the train, so much as once you take it off the train, you split it up into much smaller loads....with different owners and destinations, and those loads probably change hands, and are pretty hard to put -back- onto trains.
The problem is what kind of society are we going to have once average human cannot produce anything tangible enough to support himself.

I like to think about this question a lot.

My mind keep going back to Rome's slave based economy. There were a lot of slaves doing all kinds work, and rich people, and politicians, and a whole lot of average people who got government bread and circuses.

And if you kind of squint and look the situation we have today, huge inequality, a disappearing middle class, and ever more people dependent on government... it kind of starts to look familiar.

So maybe our future is just more of that. A few very rich people, politicians, a lot of fully automated production in factories, farms, and even most of the service sector, and a lot of people permanently on government support.

I honestly can't quite tell if that's a utopian or dystopian world. If you think about it in terms of how America handles its poor people, it looks kind of grim. If you look at how the Scandinavian countries, along with Holland and Germany, and few others, deal with the same problem - its not so bad.

Either way, the coming decades will be interesting.
Shouldn't a guide of dos and don't of video pitches be a video rather than article??

They don't follow their own advice.. 'Perhaps the worst crime you could possibly commit as a video pitch-maker is telling your story, rather than showing it.'