skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have no experience doing a PR blitz as you've suggested in your other comment; it would be tough to fill in all the details you didn't spell out. Might be worth it, but it sounds like a lot of work.
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At my company, we like to offer great health insurance, but this can be difficult to provide if you only have a single person in another state or region.

In the US, each state (and regions within a state) have different insurance providers. All providers that I have investigated require a minimum of two people as part of their group. We are just beginning discussions with our agent on this topic, so a good solution may exist that we have not crossed.

For those of you that work distributed in the US, can you tell me a little about your health insurance (+life, dental, etc) and if it is great, average, poor or non-existent?
Android deserves credit for actually delivering. Microsoft has been banging away for 20 years and still hadn't arrived at the optimal solution.
Wow, everything about HN really is the opposite of Reddit.
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You're forgetting to factor in the tire compound. See http://books.google.es/books?id=YY1fx4BOI5UC&pg=PA42&... for more information on optimal slip angles in race cars.

Yes, sliding too much is bad. Sliding just enough is necessary if you want to win.
Not sure I follow -- I was isolating the case of simply launching an external Activity, analogous to clicking a hyperlink to a separate webpage. Just adding data to an Intent (similar to the way you'd add arguments on URL params) can require several extra lines, plus, again the fact that you still haven't accounted for setting up the event handlers, the View object that responds to the click, etc.

I'm not knocking Android -- I'm an Android dev. The point I'm trying to make is that building out an ecosystem of interconnected links is hard. The web accomplished this by making the markup for those links very very simple. The total amount of code and setup for one Android application to launch another is far more complex than writing one anchor tag. This is at least a barrier to more widespread adoption of something like Open Intents, etc.
What about instead using a little base 2 to memorize?
So 'b' can follow 'a' or 'o' and be followed by 'a', 'e', 'i' or 'o'. Take a as 16, e as 8, i as 4, o as 2 and u as 1. So if you memorized '18b30' you could decode that in your mind to the right combinations for 'b'. Obviously this doesn't work for the combinations with two consonants and the words ending in 'y', but it's a start. I think you'd pretty quickly learn common values like 30 is 'aeio'.
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The process for removing content could only be used against websites owned by a corporation.

I.e., rights holders could remove stuff from youtube, but not from yummyfajitas.com.
I think that manic-depression is extremely common among startup entrepreneurs. The emotional roller-coaster one goes through when trying to create a company exacerbates any bipolar tendencies that might already be there. The great news is that when one is in the state of hypomania they are often at your most creative and productive. Read this description from a well-known, UK-based charity in the UK:

"When I'm in a manic phase, I feel as though I am capable of anything and everything. This can be an amazing feeling, but I sometimes get frustrated and angry with people. Ideas flow constantly and quickly, as if my brain is on fast-forward. Everything happening in the world has significance in my life. But when I'm depressed, it's as if I'm completely crushed and living in slow motion. I feel capable of nothing.
"
http://www.mind.org.uk/help/diagnoses_and_conditions/bipolar...
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It's probably my most commonly-used git command, to the point where I have it aliased to "g g".
One way to possibly make this work is to require the money to go into an escrow account at a bank, to be used to guarantee a loan to the business getting funded. The business would put up its stock as collateral. If the business defaulted on the loan, the bank could seize the stock and the escrow account (but only after pursuing all possible avenues to recover from the debtor business). If the loan was paid back, the stock would be disbursed to the investors. This arrangement wouldn't prevent the possibility of a loss, but by introducing the bank as an intermediary (with the attendant requirements for a loan application), it should help weed out complete scams.
Let's ban talking and adjusting the radio, lest you face the wrath of prison/thousands of dollars in fines.
I just heard this on NPR this morning, so I may not have the specifics: Apparently, FB will provide a link that somebody can click if one of their friends writes something that friend thinks indicates their friend may be having suicidal thoughts, and their friend will get a message for a real-time chat with someone from a suicide prevention place.
I suspect that people who actually try Vim are perfectly likely to learn and like it. People who are scared away by comments like yours, on the other hand...
Really important stuff. Man, Raganwald, thanks so much for this blog post.

I think one important thing for anyone who's struggling to remember is that however you're feeling, it's not permanent. It's temporary. It will change. It might feel like things are never going to get better, but they will. It might feel like you're never going to feel better, but you will. You just have to hold tight to that fact, and trust it, even if it seems impossible. Then, six months or a year or three years from now, you'll be so glad that you hung on.

I recently learned that a former student of mine committed suicide, and I think about him all the time. I wish I could have told him all this while he was alive.

Thanks again for this post.
If you want to talk in private about things, email me. phzbox at gmail.com. I know life is not supposed to be easy, but sometime it helps to be listened to.
Maybe if it's a video decoder that uses special video decoding instructions. For real world code, though, a good JIT is going to make most code very fast, and you will actually be able to maintain it. I don't think Java is any harder to maintain than PHP, but it runs much faster. (I think Perl and Python are much easier to maintain, however, so if that was what we were arguing about, then it would make sense. PHP is objectively the worst "P" language.)
Notch was hardly nobody. He was already a seasoned programmer who had worked on hits like "Luxor."

"Overnight success" usually takes years.
I think a bigger problem is that there should be more standardized transparency in selecting a major: there should be data on failure rates based on high school gpa levels, salary information, % of jobs that were directly related to the field of study - all in the hopes to empower students to make more informed decisions
When, and what was the bit?

Also: you've seen him live, right? How much did you pay for the tickets? Both times for me, the face was over $30, and both times the house was packed.

Do the math on how many shows he does. He tours constantly; a new one every year.

I don't think he's hurting. I think he's "only serious" when he jokes about having more money than everyone in the whole audience.
No blow should pass, without two blows returned:

* http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/SudoSave

* http://stackoverflow.com/questions/95631/open-a-file-with-su...

(I jest. Vim is an awesome editor and I recommend it to all my friends using Eclipse, Visual Studio, and XCode. But true enlightenment lies in Emacs, where vim is only another mode called evil: http://emacswiki.org/emacs/Evil)
Short answer: I didn't. The sleeping dog is an Adium icon, ask them how it works. I assume that the other icon is the "Fr" icon. That's Flush.app that flushes Flash cookies. The icons just looks like that, it never changes. Sorry to disappoint.

But based on Adium, I assume that Mac OS X somehow allows you to change icons when the application starts. I would assume that it's something that the application need to handle.
Living by Default
unchanged? Are they doing massiv typeanalisis? What are the tradeoffs? This seams to "to good to be true". Everybody else that tries to staticlly compling dynamic languages has more or less failed.
I think this is fine, because of course it's dangerous, but the same should go for many other activities behind the wheel. Eating, doing your makeup, any kind of reading... cell phone usage is so not the only thing distracting drivers behind the wheel.
A good friend of mine wrote Jamestown- kick ass game, and way to go!
I don't really understand why the application has to support full screen mode. Isn't that something the window manager should really be doing?
Facebook already got started.

Let's be honest. 99% of the people that start a PHP project have it fail before it ever needs to scale. The people that do need to scale, though, are up a creek, because if you started your project with PHP, you probably don't know how to write a better VM for it. Consider, as proof, the fact that there is no better VM for PHP.
Humble bundles are now back to back. Indie Royal is every 2 weeks, and 2-3 other copy-cat bundles come out pretty often too.

Also, I don't know how often steam sales happen, but every time I go online there is one going on (~50-90% off kind of sales).
Succeeded? I don't think he did. He ended up just getting a different apartment I thought.
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"we are holding back"

so you mean there's more than 1 person sitting doing nothing for over 2 years?
For my money this is the best bundle so far. Cave Story+, Bit Trip Runner, Super Meat Boy, and Jamestown are all highly regarded games, which I've been wanting to play for some time. The others I don't know much about, but that's part of the reason why these bundles are cool, to experience some games you wouldn't have come across otherwise?
Name conflict: http://mizage.com/#divvy
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sad that it has to take a frontpage on HN to get them to notice their error...
Not completely sure, Cox (my provider) says in the small print:

"Static IP addresses may be required or dynamic IP addresses may be assigned without a static IP request, depending on location."

http://ww2.cox.com/business/arizona/data/pricing.cox

I don't take notice of my IP address much, so I can't say if they assigned a static IP address in my case. If they're filtering on IP addresses, I imagine that they get a lot of false positives.
We don't own any patents on Mono, so licensing it under GPLv3 would not provide any additional patent protection to anyone.

That said, the code donated by Microsoft has been under Apache2 which does provide patent protection, just like GPLv3.
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hmm, I use a window management app called Divvy. Would you mind renaming this to ember.js?
Yeah. And it's weird because with steam sales I get the opposite feeling. It's because I'm so used to them probably.

I think it's the fact that the bundle used to be a rare happening and now there's a new one at the end of the month. I'll get used to it probably, I hope other people do to. It's a really great project.
Is anyone else not tipping the Humble team anymore? Are you just splitting payment between devs and charities?
Thank you! Yeah, I mentioned the 20hr/7hr thing because that's what it feels like my body is trying to do. It's hard to say for sure because I've never just completely let myself go natural and journaled it for any length of time - I always get caught up in schedule guilt. I'll also randomly have nights where I sleep 12-18 hours straight, then easily stay up with no fatigue for 24-26hrs, then sleep 4, then stay up only 15-16 then sleep 7-8 again and... It just feels like chaos sometimes.

I can definitely relate to the boss saying "your schedule is getting insane." That's where the guilt starts to come in, and boy, all I can say is it's a good thing I'm good at my job and it's worth it to the company to let my schedule fall where I'm most productive. (EDIT: By which I mean, I feel unbelievably grateful and lucky to have such a flexible job.)
For you, maybe. I've found AAC being proprietary is enough to make people buy iPods. Hell, I'm pretty sure you can convert it to MP3 within that piece of shit iTunes.
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As a driver, motorcyclist and bicyclist, I've lost count of how many times I've been nearly killed by someone txt'ing or talking on their cell phone.

The existing laws (I'm in San Francisco) are completely ignored and unenforced as it is. I see people using their cell phones while driving all the time. I'm sure the cops have better things to do with their days than pull over people talking on their cell phones. As a result, I'm now trained to really watch out for drivers who are on phones because I know they are dangerous and not paying attention.

I feel that even hands-free is distracting to drivers, I know it is distracting for me and I'm a great driver. If I need to use the phone while in the car, I either hand the phone to my wife, I pull over or I just hold off until I get to my destination.
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I actually think their business model is perfect for this: right now they get the "honeymoon effect" -- they're new. So every humble bundle is one-time offer.

As time goes by (or maybe it's happening now), they will have to do more market research, find better games, maybe even change their offer so it doesn't expire. I'd personally like to see them directly competing with steam and desura (if the offer doesn't expire, they're directly competing). I think they need that kind of competition to push them.

In short, don't rest on your first success!
Yes, I've seen this app. Hopefully machine learning and window management are different enough that the app's author doesn't mind. Any alternate name suggestions are appreciated :)
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At least it's based on science, unlike what most states are doing with banning only handheld phones even though all the research says they're just as bad as hands-free.
Banning hands-free is inane. Modern cars integrate hands-free operation very well. In many ways it's easier for me to use my integrated phone than it is the sirius radio.
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I could see GitHub adding this in the future, e.g. instead of simply voting on/+1ing an issue, let people attach bounties. Is there proof, though, that this is something people want? It seems like Kickstarter has the "funding for big projects" thing nailed--I'm just wondering if there's really demand for "funding for small features"...
That specific "no money" bit was a long time ago, way before you saw him and before his "Lucky Louie" show. So yes it's possible that at one point he had "no money." He's not the type of comedian that keeps doing a funny bit even if it isn't true.
That UX Sketchbook looks neat, but I wonder why no landscape orientation. Most people I know have the browser maximised and there are still a lot of laptops and desktops out there.
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I agree that the attitude which some torrent users have (feeling good when they actually pay for things) is annoying.

However, nobody can deny that computers and the internet have irreversibly changed the game. It is simply no longer default that one must purchase information. Information doesn't want to be free, it just is free (for better or for worse).
Marriage creates a very deep and important link between two people, but once one of the two sides no longer want to continue, it is better to look forward: you will not lost all the good things about your marriage, they are inside you, but you can discover that you can be so happy, with a different partner, again.

It happened to me in the past, I felt lost, now I'm happy again with my new partner. Time is an important factor, don't be impatient, and focus again on yourself for a while.
Probably better to write for friends of a potentially suicidal person, but in a way that a suicidal person reading it gets the right takeaway.
wow. that is very honest of you avner. dude, keep smiling :) and don't fucking check out. i don't care about your responsibilities. you are more important then all of those and then some. i mean, i have no idea what you're going through, besides what was stated, but i do know that you are more important than anything else in your world (unless you have kids) then they come first, then you ;)

if you live in SF, i'd love to take you out for a drink; sometimes the simple pleasures (a drink, a toke) and a complete stranger to talk with can help..
Really nice service—great UI.

Time for a change after 7yrs Godaddy.
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Got any examples of this? I mean, lots of stuff (gum and "People" magazine at the grocery store, screwdriver bits and flashlights at the hardware store) is priced at impulse levels in lots of stores, lots of types of stores. Whose bottom line is that hurting? Dewalt's or Wrigley's or Maglite's? I don't really think so.
Ok, this is brilliant.
Personally, I am against rules like this at the federal level, and it scares me how much of a nanny-state the US is becoming. This nation was founded on keeping as many freedoms as possible, from my perspective. It is already punishable by law if you cause an accident (or commit vehicular homicide), and this is just one more reason to pull people over and "check'em out."

Where I live, these laws only apply to people under 18, and we don't have a motorcycle helmet law either.
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I don't know exactly what sets the flag off, but it is something like IP address, cookies, hardware, or some combination.

I also got the impression from the way they described the multiple phone calls to Amazon CS that the decision was made by an algorithm or some bunkered third party security firm that CS could not contact.

I'll have to check with these folks and see if they are willing to do a blog post about it. The one that is still selling is justifiably afraid of what could happen to that business.
> How exactly to do that is the tricky part, though

A good start might be with the book "Learned Optimism" from Martin Seligman — http://www.amazon.com/Learned-Optimism-Change-Your-Mind/dp/0....

He argues that most depression is just severe learned helplessness caused by your own pessimistic inner explanations of why events happened. He makes a good case for it & suggests techniques to build better explanatory habits. I haven't finished the book yet but so far it's quite compelling.
I'm not sure you can argue that these are the same thing.

When you're talking to someone in the car, they can react to traffic and act as a second set of eyes for you. And, you're not struggling to hear them over all the noise injected by our 1990s-era cell phone networks. Finally, passengers in your car do not suddenly ring, giving you only a few seconds to acknowledge something potentially important (distracting you from the road). I've seen people when their phone rings; they go into crisis mode and mentally drop everything until they've answered the phone or decided to ignore the call. When you're driving, you can't do that. And it's something a passenger wouldn't require you to do.

As for the radio; you have the opportunity to adjust it at your leisure, typically without even moving your hands off the steering wheel. It's simply not as distracting as a phone call.

Passengers and the radio are dangerous, but not as dangerous as talking on your phone.
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There are projects that Kickstarter does not accept.
I know. HN is so cool. And people here never point that out, unlike that lame circle-jerk Reddit.
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As long as there's no decent form of vocational education, training in-house is a huge investment. You can only properly train one junior for every three to four seniors before it becomes disruptive.

Many companies that have already made the mistake of hiring too many juniors in an attempt to deal with the shortage, and have suffered the consequences (huge drops in quality and productivity, and in the worst case, seeing the experienced seniors they did have walk away frustrated).

Where education fails, major companies like Google and Facebook should take the responsibility for training juniors. Instead they spend their fortunes strip-mining the market.
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When I look at most of the comments posted, it is usually from people with accounts less than 1 year old and very rarely from accounts over 2 years old. I wonder what gives ? Could it be that new members simply outnumber the oldies by such a huge factor. Or do people eventually tire of HN
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And why should they? They bought this legislation fair and square!
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Even earlier in some states, too. If I were uninsurable, I'd give serious consideration to moving someplace like Seattle.
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It's opt-in for old projects, but it's as simple as compiling the app with Lion support without code changes or compatibility issues to turn on the flag for the window in IB. (Obviously, for new Lion projects, it's automatically enabled). The issue of checking in code comes when you want to add an "Enter Fullscreen" menu item, which requires a tiny bit of code to make sure you don't call "toggleFullscreen:" on a window that doesn't know about it (or display the menu item on an OS where it will do nothing).

Still. It's pretty basic.

(As for the window manager supporting it, some apps really shouldn't be fullscreen - Address Book, I'm looking at you - so having an easy opt-in/out mechanism seems pretty necessary on the application side.)
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Anyone else experiencing Humble fatigue? When this was a special once a year deal I supported it regardless of the contents of the bundle. Now I feel that there's a Humble Bundle once a week and I've stopped reading their email.
This is the web's biggest advantage, it is frictionless. You "install" Wikipedia the same way you use it, by typing its URL. I dont think native binaries can ever match that.
The problem isn't that developers "expect" this stuff to be free. It's that the quality of a particular development platform is related to how many people are using it - how many tutorials are there out there, how much sample code, how many libraries, etc.

There may be some social bias against paying for stuff, I think partially because people got burned with vendor lock-in. Technology changes so quickly, it's hard to know what a tool is worth before the fact.

But there's also a very real economic reality at play here. The most valuable platforms will be the ones with the most people collaborating on them, and that's always going to be the free or open platforms.

As you move up the infrastructure chain, I think people are more willing to pay for useful libraries or services, especially for ancillary stuff. But what rational person would build their business on something they didn't own?