skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had the same problem with my girlfriend. We used to work together then I quit to work for myself. Whenever she had a day off she thought I was just playing on the computer too and just couldn't wrap her mind around the idea that despite the fact that I worked from home, I had to get x, y, and z done before I could go out to dinner or lunch or whatever. Its almost a year now and she left me which sucks but as a twenty-something trying to make it in this economy I have to say my business comes first, at least until I've made the progress I set out to make.

These tips were very good and I've found them to be very true though it can be a challenge to implement them even if you know you should.

Those who work from home should heed my warning: it's not just wives and girlfriends who won't get you're actually working, pretty much everyone else will take a while to get that you're working, not living some awesome fantasy life where you do whatever you want, whenever you want and your bank account just fills with magic funds.
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I really like that graph. I suspect the Chinese may well be right in their assumption that "success is outside of their control", but few other countries have the same excuses.

There could be a case to be made that countries should monitor that metric very closely and work hard to improve their "Yes to No" ratio.

Also, having lived and worked in Italy, my number 1 reason for setting up my company (which failed) in the UK was the insane level of bureaucracy in Italy. It's farcical, near impossible to navigate and anyone who's prepared to deal with that level of antiquated incompetence, corruption and inefficiency needs their head looking at. It's a beautiful country, but it's rotten to the core.
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Spanish here, it's the same in my country...

Also you have to deal with stupid bureaucracy and pay a lot of taxes even if you are not profitable.
Some tnooz coverage[1] hit my inbox which answered my question. I love the idea of room concierge and hope you guys can increase the granted request rate. Best of luck.

[1] http://www.tnooz.com/2011/11/10/news/room-77-launches-metase...
Which Apple product is this a copy of?
If you liked this movie, may I suggest the David Mamet movie that inspired it: Glengarry Glen Ross (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104348/).

Brilliant (but NSFW, language) "Always Be Closing" scene to give you a feel for it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-AXTx4PcKI
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I don't see what this offers over Bundler. There's even a `bundle outdated` command coming in v1.1 which is at a release candidate already.
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Unfortunately this applies to Spain, Greece and my home country Portugal. South european countries have the same base mentality when it come to entrepreneurship, you either get mocked/ignored/stigmatized for failing or you get jealousy/ignored when you succeeded.

Also, we don't have the mentality of "self-made man" and "go get it", most of our population expect everything from the government. They get a degree and expect to get a job the next day just because.

I have serious arguments with family members and friends regarding this, because I'm the totally opposite, I strive to succeeded and I'm happy and inspired when I see someone else succeeding. I don't want to be in a safe job for the rest of my life, I want to be in a limbo all the time, that will make me push forward and fight to a have a better life. And to be honest I'm doing a lot better than most of the people here, even if I don't have a "stable" job.

I'm currently working as freelancer for companies outside portugal, and I've just funded my company in the US. I expect to get away from here next year. I just can't stand this mentality
Mobile apps are mouse nuts.
No one's getting MagSafe on a PC until Apple's patent expires or they decide to license it.
I agree completely. I've worked on some fairly cool projects with regard to guerrilla marketing and I'd be happy to help out once you post more info.
Fascinating. I didn't read (yet) the paper linked in the article, but was the prostitution case a male buying service from a female or something else?
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The name Marc Hauser piqued my interest. He has been accused of scientific misconduct [1], and his research has been tainted. Take this article with a suitable grain of salt...

[1] http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2010/08/harvard-de..., via Wikipedia
Looks like the whole site is about 10% done...
In #117, the sentence ends too:

The second regex matches <em>hello</em> because.
I think 0MQ is brilliant. If this is your first time looking at 0MQ, I'd suggest the following:

http://www.zeromq.org/intro:read-the-manual

Watch the first video by Ian Barber. He's an excellent presenter.

The guide ( http://zguide.zeromq.org/page:all ) is very lengthy and comprehensive, but the "hello world" example and the "Divide and Conquer" example (fan out jobs, work, fan in results) will get you up and running and start showing you a sliver of the amazing power of 0MQ.

They've even got a lot of their examples in many languages:

C++ | C# | Clojure | CL | Erlang | F# | Haskell | Haxe | Java | Lua | Node.js | Perl | PHP | Python | Ruby | Scala | Ada | Basic | Go | Objective-C | ooc
A piece of advice that works for me - when you can, change things up by changing your workplace. Once or twice a week, grab your laptop and go working somewhere outside your normal, work environment (like library or college campus) and work from there. Even if you stay as little as few hours, youll be amazed at how refreshing that is and how your creativity and productivity will increase.
No one should be surprised that this is coming from Mark "I Did Every Horrible Thing In The Book Just To Get Revenues" Pincus.

It not just looks bad. It IS bad. Arbitrarily deciding who does and who does not deserve to vest is ridiculous. If the person is not performing, let them go. They are an at-will employee.

By negotiating them to keep their job by giving stock options back, they are simply trying to keep that employee at a cheaper rate. The employees must be performing effectively if they want to keep them. The notion that these people are doing nothing and still employed by Zynga is disingenuous.

The naivete (or CEO apologism) around here is astounding. I understand keeping an unbalanced and impassionate point of view but at some point if it sounds like a duck and looks like a duck it IS a duck.
I know exactly what you mean -- but perhaps it doesn't even have to be a macro, but a more powerful search-and-replace, with changing replacements.

My lisp-fu isn't good enough to implement this today, but I would find it really easy to:

* copy `#define a 0` with C-k, M-w, C-y, RET, C-y, RET, C-y, RET, ... (so copy the line and paste N times)

* begin interactive search-and-replace, with usual keybindings (Y for replace, N for skip, . for replace and stop)

* but with additional keybinding, e.g. + for change replacement and apply

Alternatively, the replace argument in M-% would be a [somehow-delimited] list of replacements, and + or capital Y would pop off the next replacement and begin using that.
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I don't mean to turn this into a information design critique, but that infographic is a hot-mess. I'm sure it has some really interesting information in it, but the presentation is so cluttered and distracting that it's hard to really get to the meat and potatoes of the message. Good information design is about making data more accessible and digestible, not about how much data can we cram into a given space.
Not obvious.

The data protection laws in Europe are enforcement laws and provide detailed instruction on the enforcement of the treaties that make up the "European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms"... basically what is referred to as just "Human Rights".

As governments and companies in Europe keep finding, no laws trump that EU treaty.

A wikipedia licence won't cut it.

Further the 1995 data protection laws already stated that any data which could identify the person is covered. That definitely includes meta data, hence my comment about needing to disassociate the data to anonymise it. A person can request any identifying information be deleted, including pseudonyms as it's conceivable that a pseudonym used on multiple services is identifying.

Which leaves anonymous contributions to a project... then how can you continue to enforce anti-spam/troll policies when most of the existing methods rely on spotting the spammers/trolls based on signals from IP, user-agent, emails, usage... if you can identify a spammer, then you can identify a person (given access to enough data), and therefore it's identifying.

These new proposals strengthen the existing laws, which are actually already pretty good. I'm basically saying that there is an edge case here, and it could lead to problems. The law being black and white needs exceptions clarified in writing and not left to assumption.
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So I am actually far less concerned about a computer doing my job very well, which is actually looking at a piece of tissue on a slide and making a tumor versus not-tumor distinction. This is very hard to do and I think will continue to be even harder for computers/computer-vision/AI to do for a long time to come.

Can you elaborate?
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Simply writing, performing, and recording the songs on an album is
comparatively cheap compared to:

- Polishing the album.

- Releasing the album.

- Marketing the album.

- Promoting tours, shows, ads, interviews.

- Building and supporting a fanbase through blogs, forums, and so forth

These problems have subproblems, and even the following list is grossly over-simplified:

- Polishing: Remastering is time-consuming and boring. Hiring a designer to design the album cover and CD inserts is time-consuming and boring.

- Releasing: Publishing to iTunes, Amazon, and other music distributors is peanuts compared to the actual logistics of printing, pressing, and shipping 100,000 CDs to paying customers.

- Marketing: What advertising do you want to do to promote the album? What markets exist? How will you reach them? Who will pay for it? How will you get radio stations to play your artist's music?

- Promoting tours: How will you come up with the $10,000 fee to reserve a mid/low-range venue for a single night? How can you convince the venue that you have enough fans to make it worth their trouble? Who will you hire for sound/lights/mixing duty? How on earth will you get there? How will you pay for the flights? Hotels? Bus or car rental? Do you really have time to plan all that?

- Building a fanbase: How will people promote your artist? What keeps the fans coming back? Who writes/edits your artist's blog? Does your artist have a forum? If so, who installs it? Who moderates it and keeps the spambots out? Are there any community events? Who plans and hosts those? Who reports them? Who promotes them?

- Website hosting: Who will you pay to design your website? How will you pay for hosting / sysadmin / content distribution? What happens on release day when a million people visit the website once and your bill is $100k/month? What happens the week after release day and you get 30 hits/month but your hosting bill is still $100k/month because you've upgraded all your hardware?

Not siding with "BigCorp Musicmonster Co." here, but these are unsolved problems and every single one is an obstacle. Independent artists have neither the time nor money to worry about it.

No wonder so many musicians decide to sign the recording deal and make all of these problems disappear. At what cost to their soul?

The music industry needs a reboot.
I approach these articles as a way to show off the expressive abilities of a language, not to provide code snippets for cut-and-paste.

As others have mentioned (and as the articles themselves repeatedly mention), most of the time, if you have a common problem, you should find and use a CPAN module already built to solve it.

I have never used a code snippet from a one-liner compilation in one of my programs, but I have learned a lot of new constructs by reading them.

EDIT: Or, what tikhonj (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3219843) said.
It will fall back to Sprint's wireless network.
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Imperative programmers all secretly believe in a declarative style, that's why they compile with -O and hope the compiler's "query optimizer" will make it fast for them.
You should check out the EmacsWiki macro tricks page:

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/KeyboardMacrosTricks

From there:

If you want to produce this list:

test1
test2
test3
...

Do like this:

C-x r n q (store the number 1 in register q)
C-x ( (start macro recording)
test C-x r i q (insert contents of register q)
C-x r + q (increment register q by 1)
RET (new line)
C-x ) (stop macro recording)
In addition to the other suggestions, send a note to Facebook that you purchased their "FaceBook for iPad" app (include a link to the app store page) and are extremely disappointed with the functionality. After Facebook legal complains to Apple about the app perhaps the submitter will be banned and all their apps removed or at least their apps will be under much stricter scrutiny. And a request of your own to remove the "Pro" app may be better received. Also, contact the other devs who had their apps ripped off and urge them to complain about this submitter as well.
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The expected value of illiquid non-controlling stock is 0. There is no problem here. Don't take a job that pays you in unicorn horns and pegassus tails, folks.
Curious, what is the name of the app?
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I don't think that's representative. The costs of printing the first CD far outweigh the costs of printing all the rest.
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Yes, this startup has been working on this idea since 2008/2009. My main fear would be much of a cost benefit this is versus the outcome of a company switching to ARM over the coming years.
I am italian, I have a full-time job in an IT private company, I own an house and I know why you can't create a startup in Italy: money, burocracy and taxes.

In Italy banks or companies will never invest money in your startup if you can't cover at least all the money you need in 4/5 years. If you dare to found a new company and you fail then your life is destroyed. You are tagged as "cattivo pagatore" (bad payer) and you will never obtain money in form of loans.

Italy is a very bad place if you want to make something innovative.
> Meanwhile, having penalties for issuing faulty takedowns means it's impractical for owners to police things fast enough ...

Automated video analytics to the rescue.
Suggestion: The "Mentioned by" section would be more informative if the links pointed to the actual articles.
For a game it really depends on scope of the game as the money for assets can rack up quickly.

What is really important is if you don't mind outsourcing outside of your comfort zone, to places with lower cost of living (Portugal here, for example). For example, for code development only I charge around 50 USD/hr now, and I'm going from experience here, small games can take from about 60-80 billable hours to make of course, depending on scope bringing the value to about $4000.

Send me an email if you are interested in discussing it further.
Regarding the Linda the Bank Teller Question: Here is an analogous numbers only probability question:

You are told that the test administrator is thinking of a number between 1 and 100, and that the number is odd. What is more likely?

A. The number is greater than 50.
B. The number is greater than 50 and ends with a 3, 5, 7 or 9

Answer A and you have a 50% chance of being correct.
Answer B and you only have a 40% chance of being correct.
Outlook isn't nearly the majority email client, it's just the one most likely to not block img bugs.

Do you have anything to support that claim?
It's not an unreasonable approach, if they wanted to migrate passwords they'd have to modify the new system to support the hashing system used by the old system.

In this case I'm guessing that they've outsourced the process to Taleo's SaaS system so that's not feasible, but even if it would be it may well make sense to take this approach. After all you should avoid modifying a tried-and-tested authentication system whenever possible, you're just asking for security vulnerabilities when you do so.

Getting users to go through a password reset process is a relatively painless process.
Ow, that hurts my brain more than usual. How would one leverage registers with text instead of incremental numbers? (I will have to RTFW later.)
I don’t know Emacs, but I know a way to do that in Vim, and Emacs might support a similar method. In Vim, Ctrl-A and Ctrl-X increment and decrement the number the cursor is over. You can generate a list by recording a macro that duplicates the current line and then increments its number (qqVyp ^a q), and running that macro repeatedly (10@q). Emacs might also have a function for incrementing characters, not just numbers.
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Nothing wrong to marvel about getting 120K readers to your post.But in a startup community like HN, people put much more value on how many conversions happened, or in this case how many real critical comments from which you learnt something , how many new feed subscribers etc
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It isn't the default action in smalltalk. nil does not silently absorb messages in smalltalk.
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Which may be important, or may be utterly worthless. It's like "total cost of ownership" FUD, numbers are useless outside their original context, and everybody has a different context.
I've seen a lot of doctors chime in
various threads and say
their jobs couldn't possible
be done by machine learning.
The same thing was said about
self driving cars before the darpa
challenges - when some profs
actually put their mind to it,
it was done in a couple of years.
. If the data was available,
there is probably quite a few
people who can actually detect
cancer in slides.
BTW, I hope you and all the other Italians reading have taken a moment to sign the petition (and help in any other ways that you can) here:

http://www.srlfacile.org

What with the crisis, these sorts of reforms actually have a chance.
Bingo. If a company stops paying you as much, stop working as much. If you are annoyed that you aren't getting paid for as much as you were contributing before, you learn for next time to pay attention and adjust course before waiting a whole year for a payday.
I agree. I just wanted to question your use of the term over-nourished. My understanding is that we are generally over-fed (myself included ... but now actively working on it) but woefully under-nourished.

Jon Gabriel (sp?) teaches that most people are low on Omega-3's and that the first step on any diet is to add Omega-3 before changing or subtracting anything. I did this and while I'm only a single data point, I found that I was less fanatical about food afterwards.
For site videos, if your users are loading them a lot I'd recommend setting far-future expires headers.

But what you probably want in this case is a CDN. Amazon's Cloudfront is easy to set up, but there are many to choose from and they each have their own advantages.
A rich man who made his money any way he could, ethics be damned, is trying to steal money from the people who helped make him incredibly wealthy. Is this really shocking?
I have this phone as a spare, it's not amazing but for a phone it's perfectly fine and decent battery usage, signal quality etc.
Mechanical disk supply chains are increasing platter drive costs significantly while at the same time improvements in reliability and cost for SSDs are bringing costs lower. And yes, there have been large deployments: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9218811/EBay_attacks_...
> Since most people using Youtube, et al, are not making that much profit, the DMCA-issuers won't face significant penalties for misusing DMCAs.

Issuing a false DMCA takedown is perjury, and the victims may have standing for a Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations civil lawsuit with substantial damages.
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>The housing price data shows a run-up then.

Price data isn't what we're looking at here - we're looking at subprime mortgage origination.

>Like I said, there were other factors, but without the "encouragment" to issue subprime, things would likely have been different.

It is a bit laughable that you think companies like Countrywide had to be forced or encouraged into issuing subprime. Nothing could further from the truth - they were issuing the loans hand over fist, and constantly pushing the boundaries of acceptable loan documentation (such as giving loans to illegal immigrants). No one forced these guys to give loans - they did it because they were making a ton of money.

But let's say what your saying is true - show me documentation that shows banks actually being forced to give loans where they didn't want to. What you have is a document outlining a policy, but no data or evidence showing that it actually happened.

You really need to read this:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/what-caused-the-finan...
I have a dog, which is great. Dogs are pretty good company, and it forces you to go for walks every 4 hours or so.
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It is true for some users. Like many others, I have requested my data as suggested here-

http://europe-v-facebook.org/

And, like many others, they told me they couldn't handle my request on time, it may contain intellectual property, whatever- I haven't received my data. Unless they've really found a legit loophole by calling my data their IP, they are violating existing EU law right now.
Yep. I'm one of the locked up employees at LinkedIn and I can't buy options (puts or calls) as part of my agreement. So there's no way to hedge.

I should note though that the executives and venture capitalists are ALSO locked out, which is why you don't see LinkedIn stock entering the market currently.
I guess you're new around here ;-)
Why? Zynga hit the (hypothetical) $20B in far less time and employees than Apple did. That is far more return on invested capital.
I notice that most of the people in this thread talking about how they do successfully work from home talk about their wives and children.

Living alone and working alone sounds like a recipe for insanity. You've gotta have some time with other people, regardless of how much of an introvert you may be.
I think you should just enjoy your workout.
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I work from home now, I could go take a walk - right now!
I work from home now, I could ride a bike - right now!

Then freaking do it and return to your work with new vigor.

Stop feeling guilty about it. This always makes you more productive. If you were stuck in a cube you'd just be miserable and reading reddit anyway, or you'd walk around the campus. No different.
Looks like weak AI is making inroads all over the medical industry. Here is predictive ai technology for heart failure that works better/faster than human diagnosis.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multifunction_cardiogram