skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Dems didn't even bring any of those things up for a vote (even on cloture), so how did the Repubs keep them from passing? (Actually, there were two Senate votes on budget proposals. One was an Obama proposal and it went down something like 97-0. The other was what passed the house, and it went down 47-53. Yup, the Senate Dems haven't voted yes on a budget proposal for three years....)

> a bipartisan spirit of compromise

I see that the repubs have given the dems some things that the dems want and the dems have refused "the deal" because they didn't everything that they wanted. How does that translate to "the repubs won't compromise"?

For example, the Dems claim to want an extension of the payroll tax reduction. The Repubs gave it to them. Is it unreasonable for the Repubs to get something as well?

I'm not saying that the Repubs are blameless, but it's absurd to claim that they're the only ones to blame.

You disagree, so please define this "bipartisan compromise" that the Dems are (at least somewhat) willing to do and that the Repubs are unwilling to do. Do you agree that this definition should be somewhat symmetric?

Note that the payroll tax extension package that passed the House did get some Dem votes. Do you interpret that as "some Dems were willing to compromise" or "Repubs offered a package that was acceptable to some Dems"? How, exactly, did you come to your conclusion?
I don't think this is a viable strategy in the long run. He managed to make it work for now because of all the media attention and sending it viral on social networking sites. In addition, he puts lots of moralistic pressure on the buyer which may work for him because it fits his comedy style. Also, with this experiment we prove a point to the public that this model can work, so that we, the consumers, can continue to torrent high quality entertainment material for free and not having to pay for it. Yes, it's pure selfishness.

In all other cases for all other "content producers", making it easier for people to torrent your stuff is equal to shooting yourself in the foot. That's the only reason people still pay for stuff like this nowadays anyway: (1) They either haven't got a clue what torrenting means or (2) they're too lazy to do it or (3) they're feeling morally generous.

You can combat (1) by keeping silent about it, (2) by putting as much protection on it as possible, (3) having skill in manipulating masses. Yes, it's manipulation. YOU'RE NOT PAYING 5 DOLLARS FOR THE SHOW, YOU'RE PAYING 5 DOLLARS TO FEEL GOOD ABOUT YOURSELF BEING MORAL.

Thanks but no thanks, I can feel good about myself whenever I want to, I don't need to pay 5 dollars to a dude for it. His show is great by the way but let's face it, it's essentially free.
Imho this is somewhat a dead place. There might be a big chunk of semiconductor companies over there (what is the reason that Apple opens up there I guess) but brains wise it's a bad place. It's virtually impossible to hire good developers over there because everybody is located in the center from the beginning or moved to the center because there is no companies in the Haifa to work for (Intel, IBM, Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, Elbit,NDS, Philips, GE, Zoran doesn't really count as work places for most of the people)
First time I've ever seen Blender's website go down.
By just throwing the RJ Metrics data at the VC's like that, aren't you asking them to do a lot of extra work that they shouldn't have to?

Wouldn't it be better to prepare some sort of story for you data, present that to them, then say, "Don't just take our word for it, take a look at the data for yourselves"? That way, they're sure not to miss the major components that differentiate your company.

(I obviously am no expert on this.)
Can you share at all what the projects are?
I don't really think that that is something to admire.
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Specifically thats true. General idea is the same.
Every edit there blows away the original. Perfect example of the power and value of precise, exhaustive editing.

I think the turns of rhetorical device are most notable: why would the original not start with "here's to"?! You don't just rip into a toast mid-paragraph. The pacing and repetition in the first draft had no logic behind the choices, while the final piece is pitch perfect on several levels. Editing!
I have gone through the history of a few people like the ones you mention and I have to say that I didn't really see anything worthy of banning. In every case I looked at (around 10 or 15 I think) I saw comments that were either sincere but not adding too much value (mediocre, let's say) or sometimes just not in agreement with popular opinion.

The really screwed up thing is that I've looked through the comment and submission histories of obvious spammers and I saw a guy with about 132 spam submissions with an account about as old as mine (almost 200 days) and his account wasn't banned. It seems that you can disagree around here but only to a point.

I get that maybe some are afraid of diluting the community but by being so overly sensitive you can really be doing everyone a disservice. Lately I feel like I have to watch out for the karma police. The guys who downvote anything that disagrees too much even if it's totally rational and put in as nice of terms as possible. And despite protests from the "in" crowd it really does seem like what they say gets auto-up voted. Experiments be damned, that reputation and age of any one profile really can make or break you.

Here's an experiment I'd like to see:

Pg, patio11, edw, reagawald, and the others all make new profiles and about commenting as always while not letting slip who they really are. Then let's see if their karma and average end up climbing at their usual rate.
Tokens would not have helped for the first two. They were logic errors; the attacker used Google features in ways they were not expected to.

The first was a GET request, not POST. Images have fairly lax cross domain restrictions. So while the attacking website can't see the image loaded from Google they can detect when the image doesn't load. Google was returning a non-200 response code for images the user can't see.

The second wasn't a traditional XSRF. Instead it was making the victim (unknowningly) edit a shared document created by the attacker. The attacker uses the feature of Google docs that shows all current editors to see the victim's Google account name.
Taxes, we have this service tax billed in são paulo that increases the price.
Based on the Nature article abstract images it appears they were able to image the cloud using the VLT telescope. I got confused about L'-band for a second. Thought they were talking about L-band.

Feel free to correct me if someone has read the article.

[1] http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/natu...

[2] http://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/vlt.html

[edited for mistake]
Forbes by and large markets to business types, an audience that's going to be looking for the business side of a win.

Shiny suits don't typically want to hear about engineering heroics because anything that involves success without a bunch of MBA's behind it subtly implies that they're irrelevant.
I just checked your personal site. All I gotta say is you're pretty fucken badass. :)
Amazon doesn't even have cloudfront service there. It is pitiful. The convicts and kiwis are 10% of my business; I wish they got better service.
I'm a resident of Jefferson County and a ratepayer for the sewer system, and as such I can confirm that while the portion of this article dealing with the political history and issues was fine, the opening personal part was quite misleading.

If you have a $300 water/sewer bill you're doing something absurd. We're a family of 6, and I am by no means conservative with my showers, wife takes a bath every night, 4 kids bathing regularly, and our bill has never been more than $100 for a month.

Having the sewer portion of the bill be the same as the water portion is bad, and there's no doubt it's a screwed up situation, but this is a typical case of a reporter seeking out outliers and presenting them as commonplace.
Can you be more explicit about who or what type of people those are that'd be more at home on 4chan? I'm just curious. I often times feel like maybe I shouldn't be here either. It took me a while before I quit being a lurker and sometimes I wonder "am I HN material or do I belong with the rest of the riff raff?"
One way link building 
One way link building refers to a link in a website that directs a user from that web page to a different web page
If you've got incredible data, by all means sell with it.

But FAB.com was never going to have to "go through the typical dog and pony show"

They're crazy hot.

There's "no doubt that [they'll] hit $100M in revenue fairly soon"

Remember the story about Zuck showing up in a bathrobe?

When you're the hot chick, you don't have to play by any rules.
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As as been pointed out repeatedly, the bribes were a small fraction of the total debt. The city got over $2B and that money is gone. The bankers didn't get it.

It appears that the city pissed this money away. Why aren't they responsible for that?
Account balances of major countries 2010: China #1, USA #197
The blind hero worship in this article made me feel embarrassed for the author.

An alternative hypothesis is that Amazon have been good at taking the next good step, without necessarily relying on some flawless uber-strategy. This is sometimes called coup d'oeil -- "stroke of the eye".

A most notable example was Napoleon's willingness to seize opportunities or to avoid battle based on his views of a potential battlefield. If he could see an obvious way to win, he took it. If not, he kept marching. He was sufficiently better at taking the next good step that, for a long time, he was unbeatable.

The chess analogy is common amongst management writers, but it is fatally flawed. Firstly, chess is infinitely simpler than actual life -- not least because 'pawns' in real life resent being treated as pawns. Second because even grandmaster chess players rely on a mix of intuition / associative memory, heuristics and only partly on actual planning to win.
With regards to the first law, you are either misinformed or simplifying: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_National_Fund#Adalah.27s...

With regards to the second law, that is a result of national security concerns. Spouses of Arab citizens are not allowed to obtain citizenship automatically (they can of course, as I stated above, go through a naturalization process) because if that were the case it would effectively be the Right of Return.
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If you are a startup with close to $100M in revenues in someways you want the investors who are willing to do the work themselves. Early stage companies need to sell a story. More established ones want investors who understand the story they are already telling.

This advice is solid but I'd think that there are very few companies which it fits.
Oh good! Closure's been on my To Learn periphery, and I wondered if Monkeybars could be adapted for it, or if the general ideas (e.g. decoupling concerns; using dynamic look-up to drive compiled GUI classes so a WYSIWYG editor can be used) could be employed.
Iphone accessories
Primeiphonestore is leading online store for getting cheap iphone and ipad accessories, it includes iphone cables, earphones, chargers, protectors and stands.
I second that, as do many others on AWS forums (https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?messageID=271852). Other comment in this discussion is that this new Sao Paulo region is more expensive than the rest of them - I guess it would be the same (probably even more expensive) for Australia. However I'm sure that many AWS customers would be more than happy to pay for it. Without it, CloudFront is not truly global.

EDIT: please fill out this AWS survey, apparently this could potentially speed up adding the Australian region: http://aws.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_9yvAN5PK8abJIFK
The visualization successfully captures two important aspects. That’s actually pretty damn good for a visualization, I think. It’s ok to simplify and the visualization isn’t even lying about what it is: Everyone can plainly hear that the music is recognizable but not quite there. It’s practically screaming at you that it shows those two aspects but can’t and doesn’t want to give you the whole picture.

This is the best kind of visualization: It does make things simpler in order to make the easier to understand but it doesn’t claim for one second to show all the complexities.
I think anyone who has any idea what goes on inside Amazon, coupled with shopping on Amazon's store, knows that it is both strategy and technology that fuel its progress. In short: equal parts engineering and business skills.

eBooks are the engineering afterthought that careful business planning brought to fruition. Amazon never set out as a business to upset the book industry, just like Apple/Google never set out as a business to upset the mobile handset industry.

I see many plays Amazon has made as a sort of hydra start-up company. Take a piece of technology: how can we turn this into a business nobody has tapped into? How can we use pre-existing models that work well to push our form further?

I remember years ago when Amazon was bringing its clusters into the grid-computing-for-pay arena, now known as "cloud computing services". I thought it was kind of a joke; they had too many servers and needed a way to pay for it all. Turns out they found repeat customers.

I remember when people started telling me they bought all their books on Amazon, and tons more of them since they were so cheap. I thought, oh great, a book wholesaler; probably not the same thing as getting the newest books quickly and at a competitive price. Turns out when you own the entire process of putting words to eyes it becomes a pretty good repeat business.

I don't think the execs of Amazon live in a bubble. I think they share information and work toward solutions like engineers do. That isn't to say they aren't vulnerable of classic business blunders, but if their corporate culture remains one of vision AND simple problem-solving they might just accomplish some more monumental feats - all the while staying in the black.
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This is such fluff, guys. These things have been vomited up by writers with nothing to say for forever.

Basically, stop getting distracted. Multitasking is impossible. Okay, we get it.

The real question should be "why is this same old, same old advice not working despite being common knowledge"? I know not to do this stuff. I try to follow the rules. I end up screwing up eventually. How come? Is there a way to cut that out? What we really need is an advice article about how to make sure we stick to the advice of other advice articles.

I'm not trying to be sarcastic so please don't take it that way. I'm really just so frustrated with the same old advice that just doesn't add anything new or special. It's easy to tell me not to get distracted and offer up a few half-hearted ways to follow through but what about pointing us to the root of the problem. I think this generic advice is best left for the trash. What we really need is something each of us will have to work out on our own.
Netflix, Rd.io, Senzari and iTunes Store have launched locally in just the past 2 months. Next year I think we'll watch a few good fights on the consumer apps and SaaS spaces. Internet usage will hit the 100m mark.
That is, half of the files in their perforce are "touched in the last 30 days".

I was there, live in this presentation, more than a year ago, at Hyderabad and got this clarification from the speaker.
I completely agree with all your arguments except for one , writing proper English is really a skill that a developer need to have.
On this post http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/CollegeAdvice.html
the first advice that Joe gives to the college student is Learn to Communicate and he has some good arguments for it.
I too am not a native English speaker by the way.
Fully fund Pacific Fibre (a non-consortium, private fiber link to AU/NZ/SG/US) at 512 Tbps, and then bandwidth should get a whole lot cheaper.
And he wasn't grammatically correct!

"The guy who helped bring you Crate, a dead simple file-sharing service, are now testing something called Gumroad, a way to ask folks to pay for downloads."
People vote based on bikeshed issues. Absolutely everyone has an opinion on gay marriage even it affects about 50,000 gay people who want to get married nationwide. However, people are bored to death by and largely ignore financial and patent reform even though it directly affects the future of almost everyone in the country.
Code generators like ATLAS let you generate a thousand variations of the code and pick the fastest one.
Maybe the first founder didn't know the right people?
Probably.

Music companies are entertainment companies so are still extremely relationship-oriented businesses - far beyond the way conventional businesses are (such as software companies, manufacturers, retailers, etc). To be a top exec at a music company does not necessarily depend on skill or acumen.

Music execs can fail horribly at one company and then effortlessly transition into another great exec job at a competing music company. It's a small world. The music industry has this idea that its very complex and difficult and needs years of experience - but its really not.

If your founder happened to know the right exec in an e-commerce department and was able to show a demo/trial you could have been in with a chance. Anything related to billing software always has a good chance because its easy to make a case how it is generating revenue from day one. That's a difficult thing to do.
I prefer using mintty with cygwin. This hole is absent from there since you'd be using openssh to manage logins.
Mozilla leaders to DC: “There are alternatives to SOPA”
At big corporations you needs fame and "eminence" to land a job in a specialized field. You need to showboat and schmooze into these places. They want to hire the Sanjay Gupta of AI, writing code while also talking to refugees on CNN, or something.
edit: tell me why you think I'm wrong if you think I'm wrong.
Not only was it technical wizardry, but it was a huge gamble.

According to the article, Take AWS for instance. The business had no right to succeed. It violated all sorts of textbook rules about brand elasticity, market positioning, core competency management and so forth.

He lambasts Google for the same risk taking with Google+
Or in this case it was simply a matter of drawing attention for any who appreciated our entry to show appreciation by helping us win. Considering this was my project, I felt obliged to bring attention to something I felt warranted it. I was neither being rude, nor would it be rude in person (as is often emphasized in the guidelines) to speak loudly in a crowded noisy room filled with people gathering to appreciate what you've built. I often host developer events, and as a host this type of behavior is not only not rude, but often necessary and appreciated. The notion that all caps are "very rude" is at best contextual. In this case, it would seem to be ignorance on the part of the admins to recognize such a purpose and intention.

However, it would appear I stand corrected as I missed the following:

"Please don't use uppercase for emphasis." [1]

However, I stand by the ridiculousness of banning a sincere contributer that's bringing traffic to the site solely due to (positive constructive) ignorance of the rules.

Would you kick a guest out from your home without warning for temporarily speaking loudly in good intention, and exclude them from all future discussions? It would seem in this case HN violates their own rule regarding civility treating people online as you would in a face to face conversation, and please don't give me the excuse of this being necessary in order to deal with spambots. Such an argument defends rudeness and laziness as a better algorithm could easily be written.

[1] http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The two 50-line files will probably have better internal cohesion, making them easier to test and review than one 100-line file.
I've been hearing stronger and stronger rumours about them opening in Sydney sometime soon, most often linked to a partnership with Equinix's big new datacenter in Alexandria...

(google google google) here: http://www.itnews.com.au/News/280702,amazon-chooses-sydney-f...

And searching Amazon.com's careers section shows vacancies for Data Center Ops Manager and various other management positions.

_Surely_ it'll be soon?
How about the TV shows you watch, the books you read, and whether you call things "Grape Juice" or "Grape Drink". The problem with bad Fico is that it in itself can create self-fulfilling prophesies. Just look at Italy.
This is a top notch effort. As someone who has recently started looking at JS MVC frameworks, I've found there are a lot of options and not a huge amount of documentation or tutorials.

When it comes to differentiating between frameworks, tutorials like this go a long way, and help the entire JS community. I look forward to other JS frameworks coming out with similar, and getting more opinionated about conventions.
you need to reward yourself, it is part of our makeup to need the pleasure part of the brain to fire after work and to activate the reward pathways (like dopamine being released post-exercise). If you aren't firing it is because you aren't interested in the work or the payoff.

I motivate myself to do the mundane tasks by using some sort of reward. I do it with cigarettes, you should probably pick something else.
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It seems like the dots are making sound when they hit the edge of the string, whether it's vibrating or not. This makes sound come out early from a string that happens to be vibrating in the direction of the dots, and the rhythm is un-naturally syncopated.

I believe in playing rubato. To my knowledge, Bach did not.
You're wrong about not being able to live happily ever after: It's never accepting you'll be forever unhappy -- it's accepting you can't be without aid or intervention (e.g. medication, therapy, etc). I never stated that they're doomed to feel depressed, just that they're doomed to feel depressed if they don't do something other than sit and think. Depression tends to lead to a lot of rumination anyways, so it probably will seem pretty ridiculous to them to be told to be more introspective.

To clarify, I put those (schizophrenia, homosexuality, transgender) as examples of brain structure and wiring (just like clinical depression) and mentioned homosexuality explicitly because it seems less stigmatized than mental illness currently. A gay person can accept being gay and live a happy life, but they can't think themselves into being straight if they try hard enough. An individual diagnosed with major depressive disorder can accept they are clinically depressed and require treatment, then take the treatment and live a happy life, but they can't think themselves into not requiring outside aid to be in a non-depressed state. Society is a lot more accepting of the gay person than the depressed one though.
Social bookmarking service
http://www.blurbpoint.com/social-bookmarking.php - Social bookmarking refers to the action of tagging a particular site and saving it for use at a later date. In this case however, the web pages are actually saved on the web rather than on the web browser.