skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's in the best interest of the employees may not be in the best interest of the company. I never really thought about it until I interviewed at Amazon and realized that they care a lot more about customers than employees. Great if your a customer, not so great if you work there.
This sounds like a whole lot of pseudo-science to me.
I doubt it https://www.facebook.com/beast.the.dog
It probably bothered them that I walked away from the table with less than 100k, because some how they did not play the game hard enough to get that from me.

And if they read this, they'd be surprised that you're not grateful, since they let you get away with that $100k instead of squeezing everything out. They probably feel they were generous. People, eh.
That's not how security should work. The default should be no-access, so that missing a line of code or making a small mistake leads to too much restriction rather than not enough. That would also help the developer notice the mistake, since the feature wouldn't work.
I felt that the post concluded better at the end of the fast rather than dragging it on, but since breaking the fast I've continued walking daily, I lift weights 3 day a week, I'm eating far more fruits and vegetables (especially apples) and I'm getting about 100g-150g of lean protein per day (from chicken, turkey, occasionally beef, and protein shakes). My water habit from the fast has carried over into everyday life. Lots of water, no sodas or other sugary drinks.

The fasting wasn't the change I was looking for, but a catalyst for that change. It put me on the right path.
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What's your point? Their JS for Modals doesn't let you create modals, just show/hide them and provide a few events.

http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/javascript.html#modal
Do you know if anybody has tried a showroom/ship model for those sorts of purchases at any scale?

I've wanted to see somebody try the model for a while, because without testing I have trouble guessing the balance between 'get to see things in person' and 'still have to wait a day or three for delivery' and I'd love to see the results.
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Yeah, my experience has always been that it's the seemingly little things that get you. I used to be addicted to ice tea. I'd drink a pitcher a day by myself. It's a liquid after all, you don't get fat from liquids, right? 5 ice-cream scoops of sugar per pitcher. Now I have no desire for it, ever.
Update: ”Verizon asked us not to include this functionality in the product.” http://www.splatf.com/2011/12/verizon-google-wallet/
Wow, xpath in a query call. As a cheap and sloppy compromise (NOT for production, obviously), I'll sometimes just throw raw HTML into a database text field, and eat the cost of retrieving it, putting it in memory, and then running a parser on it. I don't know if parsing it in a database call would save much time, but it sure would simply the ORM.

That is, if Postgres integrity checks would even allow HTML, which I'm guessing it probably wouldn't....
First of all, I think it's very likely that one of your own (ex-)employees will either go public with the information or blackmail you in order to buy your silence.

Secondly, a sudden increase in the number of positive reviews should be fairly easy to spot by a competitor who has already hired a developer to watch for such things and do automated sentiment analysis on the reviews of competitors.

Thirdly, it's entirely possible that a broader-spectrum monitoring of reviews (perhaps provided by a third-party service) could identify common authors and/or text that is likely to be fake by analysing the content of the reviews themselves. This would help pick up paid reviews that were placed over a long period of time.
Thanks. Will do!
I can't switch away from Notepad++ to any editor that lacks instantaneous, no-hassle (no extra key presses), buttery smooth current buffer word auto-complete.
That was my initial reaction... I mean it's no mystery that for $100, it simply cannot compete with the iPad and also be profitable.

That said, for only $100 I would be willing to give up a rich multimedia experience/gaming like the iPad for something that did an acceptable job browsing/email.
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Just like amount invested in a company is tenuously related to the returns you'll make.

From the government's perspective, they make a blanket investment in everybody in the form of providing education and services. Some people end up paying huge amounts back in taxes, others pay nothing back.
Amazon's prices are rarely the lowest.
hi-lock-mode!

Hi-lock lets you specify regexes to highlight anywhere in a file; it's like domain-specific font-lock.

It's astoundingly useful in code review. For instance, given a giant blob of J2EE web handler code, I can eyeball one handler, recognize the annotation mapping the method to URL syntax, and then punch in a hi-lock regex to light up similar annotations everywhere in the file, then glance through the whole file looking for color patterns. I can read any of those functions and recognize the code that checks "am I an admin", hi-lock it, and then quickly spot any function mapped to a URL that doesn't check admin credentials.

That's just one tiny use case. I used hi-lock so much I ported it into our web-based code review tool. I converted one person to Emacs just to get that feature (my office would be thrilled if someone could point out the vim package that does the same thing).

CUA column editing (CTR-SPC arrow-arrow-&c type-type-&c) is probably my #2.

Late edit:

Holy hell how do you forget magit! Magit is a near-complete UI for git; it figures out what git repo you're working from, and then gives you up-to-date status on the contents of your checkout, spots untracked files, allows you to visually stage your commits, gives you single-key revert and a browsable repo history.

Magit is one of the rare Emacs extensions that not only improves Emacs but also the external service it integrates with. I am actually a better git user (or, git is just better) when I've got magit running.
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I initially thought this was referring to personal finances, and thought that 18 months seems a little extreme. I have heard people suggest to keep anywhere from 3 to 6 months of living expenses in the bank.
Do I get a cookie?

Let's talk about how doctors die.

God says...
C:\LoseThos\www.losethos.com\text\BIBLE.TXT

side, as
one goeth into them from the utter court.

42:10 The chambers were in the thickness of the wall of the court
toward the east, over against the separate place, and over against the
building.

42:11 And the way before them was like the appearance of the chambers
which were toward the north, as long as they, and as broad as they:
and all their goings out were both according to their fashions, and
according to their doors.

42:12 And according to the doors of the chambers that were toward

--------------

yeah C6H12O6 breaks down to CO2 and H2O. Makes ATP for energy.

Some shit I remember. Now, why I thought hunting bankers in the 1930's would be fun to recreate... or why I thought the American Dream was better than being a professional sports atyhlete. Or, why I thought tanking the ecomony for research pruposes to benefit humanity for centuries. Inspiriting more civil engineers instead of aeronotical. Firemen as role models.

Crazy shit.

God says...
earnest threads on_occassion I'll_get_right_on_it you_know_a_better_God
abnormal these_cans_are_defective sixty_four_bit dude_such_a_scoffer
wrath honesty don't_even_think_about_it Yo nevada who_are_you_to_judge
not_in_my_wildest_dreams little_buddy hilarious man make_my_day
small_talk I_am_not_amused you_never_know Oh_really mundo_stoked
gambling joyful who's_to_say boss do_you_get_a_cookie
nope fabulous ehheh_thats_all_folks CIA wastoid bring_it_on
game_over heathen Zzzzzzzz hollywood you_know_a_better_God
hang_in_there run_away just_lovely husband I_can't_believe_it
rose_colored_glasses crash_and_burn Catastrophic_Success
you're_no_fun rocket_science ipod Oh_really astrophysics
You_get_what_you_pray_for guilty you_talkin'_to_me hopefully
are_you_insane so_let_it_be_done later you're_no_fun hobnob
Paypal rocks, until it doesn't.

I used it for years, mostly selling stuff on ebay. I never had negative feedback, never had an issue. I even used one of their two-factor auth tokens. Then one day, Paypal decided that they needed to review my account, and froze about $900 for 6 months.

The whole process was completely arbitrary and capricious. Haven't done business with Paypal or eBay ever since.
During my six-day fast, I dropped from 252lbs to 228lbs. After the fast, I leveled out at 233lbs and then continued to drop because I didn't return to my old eating and exercise habits.
Have you ever observed a ruminant's behavior even if it has acres and acres of free range?

It will spend the day milling around in the same area with its friends and then lay down in its own excrement for a nap. How is this qualitatively different from a CAFO operation?
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It is difficult arguing with results. I can't personally judge SAP particularly well, but its interesting to me that they are so successful in the long run despite "UX nightmares" & evil sales dept. That to me suggests that they are doing something else right which is worth paying attention to.
18 months does not seem extreme for people paid as well as software developers, although "easily accessible" might be better than sitting in a savings account.
Two words : corporate politics. Working former ex-communist company (~300 workers) where workers own the majority share of stock turned me from a idealistic socialist to a cynical libertarian in just two years.
I had the same confusion too initially lol
No. It asks for your country if you win.
He may not get every single detail right, but his overarching thesis is correct (or at least very useful), IMO. The author provides a good model for /thinking/ about these issues, even if some things could use a cleanup (including the formatting.)
I wish there was a way to assassinate a corporation.
This is a little too meta... I tweeted that (that's me!) but the link to Zuck's photos was found further down in the comments here on HN. That's where I saw it.
as far as personal finances go, there isn't one rule of thumb that works for most. how much you should keep in the bank is very sensitive to things like the job market for your skills, whether you can move back in with your parents (or if they can give you money), what kinds of obligations you have (kids? mortgage?), and probably a lot of others.
"Getting Aunt Martha to trust some sketchy form of 'money' to make an online payment is going to be exceptionally difficult."

Really? Then how did Aunt Martha ever get to trust some sketchy online auction site called "ebay"?
Offtopic - Any idea how to make a graph like that (sure doesn't look like Excel!)?
Let's hope that 1 billion does not give them access to the computer and/or results of certain tests.
1 step closer to full in control government, calculating just how much tax each person will pay without taking action against governments. And much more like that.
So I hope its used scientifically and not for political gains.
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Good god. I've been using emacs since 1981 and this thread is teaching me things.
Your objections are about things that a human can't do much about either, or if they could, a computer could do just as well or better.

(If your plane engine quits - what would a human do? whatever it is, a computer could be programmed to as well. Near collisions - a constantly vigilant computer vision system watching out the window is more likely to avoid collision than a pilot with 30 seconds of reaction time.)
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I think a large part of that low mishap rate is exactly due to automation.
He looks like a really nice guy.
I honestly don't know what to make of this. There are intelligent people involved in it; I've attended talks by some of them.

Its not as crazy as the sensationalist article headline makes it out to be; one excerpt from the "Project Outline" from http://www.futurict.eu/ shows this:

"Most importantly, the FuturICT project will NOT attempt to collect “all the data in the world”, or to represent each individual on the globe by an identical copy in some giant multi-agent simulation, considering private features and preferences of all individuals. Science is the art of abstraction and approximation. Just as maps do not show all the features of our environment, a scientific model is specified such that a particular question can be addressed in the simplest possible way. That is, models are to be problem-specific, and parameters and variables not expected to be relevant for the answer should be neglected."

I don't know much about the details of the specific project; but I think a large degree of scepticism is healthy, when discussing any proposal to build models with very large scope.

People have put a lot of effort into making economic models, but we still aren't much good at predicting the kinds of phenomena that we are interested in, such as the occurrence of crashes.
It can be easy to model large scale social phenomena; but modelling them usefully is very hard.

It sounds very ambitious; but then there are lots of smart people involved; I don't know.
I'll wager the vast majority of the calls that are made from within the store go something like "honey do you need anything, I saw X it reminded me of Y, do you want me to pick one up while I'm here?"
I have stored XML in Oracle XMLType columns off and on as part of a reporting/data warehouse infrastructure with some success.

It is a really cheap way of adding in XML data documents that are small-ish and infrequently used. We typically extract a field or two from the XML doc.

I wouldn't do it for really big XML docs (for some definition of really big) but it is handy for thousands of little XML docs.
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why 10 cents? why not make those apps free, for those 10 days?
When opportunities are often the difference between success and failure, being able to create your own are a valuable skill in highly competitive environments... technical entrepreneurship being the most currently prevalent. Thank you for sharing this! :)
So... I'm curious to know what app market veterans think of this kind of thing. Are fire sales like these actually helpful for fledgling apps or is it really just a blip of sales and then back to business as usual?

I often lament that Google won't let me temporarily drop my Radar Livepaper app to $0, but perhaps I'd be shooting myself in the foot by doing so.
It seems to me that your proposed statement isn't yet out of the question. I interpreted this statement as basically saying "Don't worry, we've got real people on this, but we've not resolved anything yet." To me, that's better than them waiting for days or weeks with no acknowledgement, then issuing a complete statement like you recommended.
I'm interested in hearing what the author has to say about this topic, I'm really not interested in this new FOX/CNN trend of quoting random people on Twitter, even if they're semi-famous.

This is somewhat OT, but can we stop with this? Quoting the immature salvos fired between random people on Twitter doesn't give your blog post any more credibility, and probably less. It's like news networks nowadays - they're more interested in what people on Twitter and YouTube think of some topic rather than seasoned analysts and correspondents.

The whole blog post would've been just as informative and way less irritating if I didn't have to wade through all the Twitspeak.
As a native Chinese speaker it reads like the typical English of someone who has been educated in China.
> We may only hope that somebody like the Daily Show takes them properly to task for this.

I'm probably too old to understand this. How does that solve anything?
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Ireland has an extremely poor socialised health care system, and is in trouble right now. By your logic, the fact that the health care system was gutted in the 1980s should have allowed Ireland to avoid these issues. Sadly, it really isn't that simple.
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Paypal would have been better off without this message.

I read the Regretsy story yesterday, didn't think much of it - typical Paypal customer service, I've read those stories 1000 times. Now that I know it got someone's attention at Paypal that is "important" and could have done "right" in one way or another but they blew it.

At very least they could have refunded them their transactions fees! Paypal now looks worse in my mind than if they would have said nothing.
I've used stripe and it's definitely a breath of fresh air, but as I understand it, most people won't bother switching away from paypal to something without international support. Stripe's working on that: https://stripe.com/global but otherwise there isn't a good international alternative to paypal at the moment.
If you're using a CAS in your graphing system you can probably decompose the function, identify potentially problematic components (e.g. tan(x^2/5+2x)), and identify asymptotes or undefined areas directly using a database of undefined-generating functions.

This would produce a list of X values for which the overall function is not defined. When your pixel plotting passes one or more of those X values, don't draw a line. If you pass several in a single pixel, give up.
Yes, I am sure that they viewed the salary that I drew as compensation for my efforts, never mind the fact that I rarely put in less than 80 hours a week and was under-compensated for even the first 40 of it.

Ah well, You live you, learn if it did not happen, I would not have awesome stories to tell my kids and their buddies when we are hanging out on the porch of our shack in the FL keys. You have to have tales, to be what we call an old salty dog, down there. Half of them are crazy and the other half of them are telling the truth. At least it gives me a good story to tell.
Why does Amazon need to open retail stores? The stores where you can examine Amazon products already exist, they're just called Best Buy, Target, Wal-Mart, etc.
>I think that the underlying discussion is an interesting one.

That it is. Clearly SAP is doing something right.

Somewhat off topic, I'm surprised you say "open technology stack". I'm not particularly familiar with SAP tech, but I always thought they were as closed as it gets (& successfully so). Have I missed something?
After allowing for everything said here - and the PayPal back peddling on this specific issue. If you are serious about taking money for goods, services or worthy causes - do not use PayPal.

After all, what does Paypal say about you that is positive? Nothing! Keywords are "Cheap" "Amateur" etc..
Says the human. To a computer driving is much more difficult than flying.

You could equally say adding up big numbers is much harder for you than walking across the street. To a computer the former is trivial, the latter no walking robot has yet done.
It's nothing unique to Emacs, but I get a lot of use out of M-q.
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It really isn't that bad, under the circumstances. They did some things right:

1) Acknowledge a problem in a timely manner (assuming the really did only get escalation one day ago)
2) Provide specific information on what is being done to fix the problem (working w/account holder, making a donation as a mea culpa)
3) Explain limitations on resolution (legitimate constraints on public comment for privacy-protected matter)

What wasn't done well was:

a) letting it get this far to begin with
b) failing to explain how future problems will be prevented by policy changes
So you're saying that we can't get the weight using it's speed, orbit radius and planet volume? I think I remember this question on my Physics I test!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centripetal_force#Formula

We have: r, v, m-star, f-star - so m-planet follows right?