skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ironically the creditors are going to force the city to face FTA potentially 10-25% yearly increases in sewer rates, they'll never make their money back because the portable toilet distributor is going to start selling water by the drum too.

Once people see their neighbour doing it, they'll do it. Especially when it's potentially saving them hundreds of dollars. So then the creditors will want hikes of 50-100% annually.

It's an awful mess of crooks and greed. I don't get why the creditors decided to fight these people in court and add in legal expenses when they could have just said "we'll cut the interest rate if you pay over a longer term".

I'm sorry but my business mind tells me that some money is better than no money.
This type of thing wouldn't help you get a job with me. It could make a difference in getting an interview with me, if you had no real experience on your resume/CV. I want a well-balanced team player, that has a good chance to flourish on my team. Do course grades correlate with real-world flourishing on my team? Of course not.
This reminds me of the Gardening Trolls of Pennadomo, Italy

http://blog.techboy.co.uk/the-gardening-trolls-of-pennadomo-...
Very interesting and insightful on the domain knowledge piece. Thanks for the reply.
Never really touched ruby before and did it without any help other than checking google for some ruby syntax. I highly doubt 99% of "programmers" can't do this.
If you submit it it runs a comparison below and shows what you output and what it's looking for
That's not how it's recounted in the Isaacson biography. Jobs says it was pitched as "Think Different." and that they debated Different vs Differently after it was pitched.

This chokes me up, this really chokes me up. It was so clear that Lee loved Apple so much. Here was the best guy in advertising. And he hadn’t pitched in ten years. Yet here he was, and he was pitching his heart out, because he loved Apple as much as we did. He and his team had come up with this brilliant idea, “Think Different.” And it was ten times better than anything the other agencies showed. It choked me up, and it still makes me cry to think about it, both the fact that Lee cared so much and also how brilliant his “Think Different” idea was. Every once in a while, I find myself in the presence of purity—purity of spirit and love—and I always cry. It always just reaches in and grabs me. That was one of those moments. There was a purity about that I will never forget. I cried in my office as he was showing me the idea, and I still cry when I think about it.

[…]

They debated the grammatical issue: If “different” was supposed to modify the verb “think,” it should be an adverb, as in “think differently.” But Jobs insisted that he wanted “different” to be used as a noun, as in “think victory” or “think beauty.” Also, it echoed colloquial use, as in “think big.” Jobs later explained, “We discussed whether it was correct before we ran it. It’s grammatical, if you think about what we’re trying to say. It’s not think the same, it’s think different. Think a little different, think a lot different, think different. ‘Think differently’ wouldn’t hit the meaning for me.”
Yeah; that's where the definition of "free" market gets really fucked up.
This approach really does away with those issues. At any point a developer can utilize any language or framework they like. The top level language and framework translates to any supported language and framework.

In fact, this reduces fragmentation considerably. (And there is already a community utilizing the pre-cursor to this language.)
I worked for one of the big 5/4/3 music companies and they are actually desperate for physical distribution to go away.

Universal Music (the largest music company) sold its CD manufacturing plants a few years ago and all their focus is on digital exploitations. They are looking to the future and that rarely includes people buying CDs in retail stores.

I can't stress how desperate they are to take advantage of the huge number of digital assets that they own. So, start-ups, don't be too afraid of them. If you have a way for them to make money they will be interested in you, just don't assume they are idiots.

You may also want to start thinking about writing software to help them manage the millions of digital assets that they have - its not a simple problem - imagine the digital rights that needing tracking (for every type of exploitation in every territory), the royalties to be paid, the SOX auditing, the contracts, digital workflows, let alone the challenges with taking digital content and pushing it to a huge variety of downstream partners.
I want to see that traditional investment banking IPO die.

Investment banks surely deserve compensation for their role in securing financing from institutional investors, but 7% of amount raised seems awfully high for what amounts to a few months of low-risk work.

If Facebook gave this deal to a bank, they'll end up paying $700M, just so that some well connected bankers will call their friends and tell them to invest in Facebook. Fuck that.

And these banks can be vindictive if you decide not to go with them. Several underrwriters told institutional investors NOT to invest in Google, simply because Google shut them out. And although I can't prove it, I think Overstock's decision to do a Dutch auction was partly why they've gotten hammered by investors doing aggressive shorting on the company.

An overarching theme of the current era of the internet is the doing away with middle-men. So maybe I don't want to see investment banks die, but I'd sure want to see the influence of their gatekeeper role reduced significantly.
Rothbard is like Plato. Interesting thinker from a historical perspective, but it's not like we still take the Earth, Wind, Fire, Water thing seriously.

That particular strain of libertarianism is indefensible on anything other than religious grounds ("Property is a god-given right while water isn't") or something equally metaphysical.
I see your point. I agree that sometimes it's hard to decide which "thing" to pursue. I think the key is picking the "right" thing. In my experience, if you choose wisely, it's pretty easy to block out the distractions.
Yes, the problem is Ballmer. He is extremely shortsighted. Witness his scoffing at the iPhone when it was introduced [1]. Then watch his claim that the iPad is just another PC form factor [2]. He also laughed about the Macbook Air [3]. Of course, now there is a push for ultrabooks from Intel.

I saw a Microsoft commercial not too long ago and the lost shot showed a PC and it was a Samsung laptop that looked just like a Macbook Pro. It's a good thing that Metro is not just a copy of iOS. The sooner they fire Ballmer the better.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eywi0h_Y5_U

[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWkRgNTJZuM

[3] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYcxvEfUikg
From the point of view of a photon originating in that gas cloud, it was emitted by an electron in the gas cloud and absorbed by an electron in the telescope sensor at the exact same instant.
I really love the admin interface, so many Rails CMSs I've played with don't look as polished, so something that I can hand off to a client which looks as polished as this is certainly a major plus!

Is it possible to get a demo to play around with without having to pay? I noticed that you list a 30 day free trial, but is that only if I go to make a purchase? (and if I returned it within 30 days?).
I'm sorry I implied that you justified cruelty, that wasn't part of your point. And, I'm actually only deeply emotionally invested in friends and family, too. I might have gone overboard on the emotional, bleeding into the cyberbully arena.

My primary issue is the, "it doesn't matter," as a correct choice. It might be the correct choice that it doesn't matter if someone calls you a fag on the internet, you should shrug it off and carry on, or ignore it altogether. I read angersocks answer as basically saying it's OK to go into online communities and disrupt them because they don't matter, but they do. People wouldn't take time to type all this stuff out, to talk to each other, to engage, if it never mattered.

A community works to create an atmosphere and an environment, if it didn't matter they wouldn't try to maintain it. I do believe that the communities we create online matter and its a wonderful thing when a community can maintain itself respectfully. I guess I just feel that discussion and exchanging ideas is important face-to-face or online, and we should invest enough to show respect.
"I'm actually worried that disagreeing with you will result in me getting hellbanned"

Why do people worry about getting banned? It's just a screen name, it's not like you can't just make another one. Even if it's based on IP address, hacker news should be full of people that know how to get around that.

Just sayin' - if you've got something smart, constructive to say, say it. Who cares about banning if it's what you really believe in?

My personal rule about posting is simple: if a future employer links my HN profile to the "real" me, would that be grounds for not getting the job (or losing a job with my current employer)? If yes, then it's probably neither smart nor constructive, so doesn't belong on HN.
Yes you can. When the answer to a unsolved problem could be either positive or negative, you can always publish negative results.

What you can't publish are things that are not novel and things that are worst than existing methods.
The 2011 list of (over)used buzzwords in LinkedIn profiles
It's pretty clear from the article that JP Morgan is not the sole cause of these problems:

"But the bill soared to $3.1bn after construction problems and a series of bond and derivatives deals that went sour in the financial meltdown of 2008...[the county] faces a budget shortfall next year of $40m after a local tax was declared illegal."

Clearly, someone involved with the construction is partially at fault, as are politicians for basing their budget on an illegal tax.

So it would certainly be excessive and unfair for JP Morgan to foot the bill for the entire sewer and water system.
Same here in regards to time, family, etc. I'm hoping they keep the videos up for some time after the last week, I missed a few during the more hectic times. Regardless I've learned tons that I'm already implementing in code (and daily life, like actual planning methods and such.)

That said I have a job I like already, and plan on using what I learned here.

Those 1000 with more time and drive to be the best probably are some of the best job candidates though. Plus chances are they do need a job after all.
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The problem is that the people making the bad decisions and the people suffering for those decisions are not the same people.
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One problem might be you seem "too new" to trust to give money to, and the site doesn't have the following 'signals' that will help someone trust you ... (the site could just be a shell designed to siphon credit card numbers from folks ...)
- no customer service page with email address or method for inquiries
- generally no contact info that includes legal company name, address, local phone number
- No 'login' link on the home page that would indicate an account is set up after the first order, that would allow you to manage orders once placed.
- A blurry photo with only twitter IDs for contact
- No references or recommendations or affiliations that help me trust you.
- No conditions of use, or copyright, or privacy notice which are kind of standard on commerce sites.

I get you are probably in a YC cohort based on the orange Y background in the fuzzy photo. But unless you are only marketing to others in YC, the 800# and lack of all other ways to contact you is not at all confidence inspiring in terms of giving money to you, to the general public.

All that, combined with a business model where you bill it all up front, it could be perceived as a little suspect. So not one specific thing, for me a bundle of indicators. Hope that helps.
My (small) office has our first AI Ph.D starting next month.

You sound like a qualified candidate, if only you'd sent your resume our way.

Sorry 'bout that.
Microsoft does enterprise very well.

Glow-in-the-dark PR for hot, trendy products, not so well.
On the other hand it would be impressive if they correctly predicted it from 24-millenia-old data.
lol, good point :)
I hate it when I don't know why I'm being downvoted---did I make some kind of error? did I word things wrong? or do people just disagree with me?

What if there were a separate "flag" that people could click for trolls and spam, but when you downvoted someone, you were forced to post a reply explaining why?
I normally find that, unless an essay is about mathematics, if it is based on a binary argument then it's just false because it's too simplistic to be based in reality. In this case saying there's only "trolls" and "super awesome people!" is childish. There's a much more interesting spectrum of human behavior online that doesn't fit into these convenient categories. To then say there's only two types of "trolls" is again to reduce the argument to just two boolean options.

For example: I know for a fact that the various people who run HN use it to selectively market what they want, but maintain that it is some trust worthy news source for hackers. Since there's no way to distinguish between the astroturfed "top stories" advertising for YC companies and a real news story the entire forum becomes suspect. I consider this just as bad as trolling, except the leadership does it so people don't comment on it.

I've also seen huge double standards on here, again because people in charge can do whatever they want. They'll yell about ad hominem attacks and then do them two comments down. They'll post one-liner attack comments and call that "enlightened discourse", then call someone else's similar comment a "troll". Shit, people on here have outright called me a cocksucker and posted whole presentations vilifying me personally and nobody bats a wee little eyelash at it.

All of you are heavily manipulated on this forum and yet, here you are complaining about trolls? At least trolls can't hellban you to defend their little astroturf empire.
> I think the first thing holding back Windows Phone in the markeplace is the name. "Windows Phone" inherits the baggage of desktop Windows and of Windows Mobile, neither of which is that positive.

I think so too. Calling it "Windows Phone" makes as much sense as calling the XBOX something like "Windows Console" would have (i.e., very little).

Using the term "Windows" everywhere is good for the Windows brand. But Windows is already doing fine. Prioritizing the Windows brand over the success of Windows Phone is an odd decision.
I don't think the racist and similar ones are the worst. Usually people will just ignore them and they'll get downvoted to hell anyway. Example from Slashdot: "You forgot to mention that you're still gay."
I read it and forget it. It doesn't mean anything.

The worst are the flamebaters. Another example from Slashdot (context is Firefox compilation hitting memory limits):

A- My resource usage rarely goes about 1 GB with multiple applications open.
B- If your usage rarely goes above 1GB then you're not a user of Firefox

The problem with this is that it's poised to incite a discussion between the people who feel strongly about the issue without adding anything new or useful.
I can confirm that you are NOT hellbanned. One way to see if you are is logging out and see if your comment is still there. If it is not, you are banned.
Yet there are AI applications coming from Google, Apple, Microsoft and many other companies (voice products, kinect, etc.), and service based companies that work on these advanced topics too like ITA used to be. Why do you think those companies weren't interested in you? or weren't you interested in the projects they had to offer? (I'm guessing it's the latter but I could be wrong)

Edit: for example some opportunities here http://www.kdnuggets.com/jobs/
Interestingly, since it is easy to highlight and read them, I almost always read downvoted comments. Even in a post, like this one, with lots of comments, where I start to skim them, but I still read most of the downvoted ones.
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My favorite answer. You can even leave out the "" around the numbers.
I'm surprised the lower case fizz and buzz passed--the directions definitely say "Fizz" and "Buzz" (I got a 503, so I haven't been able to get to the unit tests).
So Hackernews is the new slash-dot yawn. I'm all about lamernews. You can't change a community you can only leave it.
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I'm passionate about the class but I also have to juggle it with a new job and family life which made approaching the class casually the best option for me.

So their metric isn't ideal for identifying passionate poeple ;-)
I made only one mistake (98% in homework 6) and haven't got the letter.
If I send a slow, waddling mobster to go break your kneecaps, are you affected when I give the order or two weeks later when Guido knocks on your door?
You are not hellbanned, but you won't see this unless I'm not hellbanned.
"Windows Phone" inherits the baggage of desktop Windows and of Windows Mobile, neither of which is that positive.

To developers, perhaps. To the average user, Windows is what runs on their computer at home. Most people I meet are perfectly happy with Windows, too. So a Windows Phone really isn't a terrible marketing proposition.
The only requirement to become an Israeli citizen is a religious claim.

Unless you misunderstand the meaning of "requirement," you're either misinformed or making things up. There are plenty of Christian and Muslim citizens of Israel. There are even Muslim Israeli Arabs in the Knesset, Israel's version of the Parliament. In short: being Jewish is not a "requirement" of citizenship.
I had a hellbanned account before this one, and the other thing I noticed is that each page load took forever (10+ seconds) instead of the basically instantaneous loading of my current account. A very passive-aggressive way to annoy someone enough to stop posting in my opinion.
I passed with this :
class FizzBuzz
def self.run
for i in (1..100)
if((i.modulo(3)==0) && (i.modulo(5)==0))
puts "FizzBuzz"
elsif(i.modulo(3)==0)
puts "Fizz"
elsif (i.modulo(5)==0)
puts "Buzz"
else
puts i
end
end
end
end

and got this :

"Nice job, you beat the FizzBuzz test! If you believe in the rumors, you are officially better than 99.5% of programmers."

--

I'm new to ruby, is there any way to "optimize" that code?
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Edit : I don't know how to format code for HN.
Sometimes, even GS finds itself on the wrong side of a bet. This certainly doesn't invalidate your point, but might give you the tiniest bit of solace.

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-12-14/aluminum-glut-at...

"Dec. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Aluminum stockpiles rose to a record and orders to withdraw metal from warehouses fell to a 15-month low amid speculation traders are adding to bets the commodity will extend its biggest slump since the global recession."
Submitted a (locally tested as working) program, got "0 errors found" and an error message. The ironing is delicious.

Output:

<title>Application Error</title>
<iframe src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/heroku_pages/error.html">
<p>Application Error</p>
</iframe>
Its officially criminal that Ballmer hasn't been removed yet.
I have sort of the opposite view: asynchronous modes of communication promote single-tasking by letting me batch up replies at my convenience (I can spend an hour answering 7 different people), whereas synchronous modes of communication promote multitasking/fragmentation by making it hard to batch them (and in the worst case, ringing RIGHT NOW demanding I interrupt what I'm doing and answer).
I tried just hitting "Grade it" and got this reply:

> Oops, looks like we found 0 errors in your code. Try again and click "Grade it!"

So I guess that means I passed?

(After reloading the page it seemed to work better)
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"It is the presence of success stories that will get more and more people to move this way."

Absolutely. There's a very recent (<60 years) misconception (among artists and fans alike) that creating (as opposed to performing) music is a standard career choice and if you're at all good at it, you should be able to make a living off of it, and if you're not it's because the labels screwed you over. This causes musicians to vie for the favors of the industry they profess to despise.

These guys going out and actually making it happen on their own (even if the initial entrants have a historical advantage) will erode that sense of entitlement, and thus erode the willingness to submit to the industry that artists have.

Eventually, hopefully, musicians will be busting ass, giving away their music to fans early in their career, and getting increased funding/patronage as they go along, just like every other artist has since ancient times, not positioning themselves for a deal and being depressed if there's no A&R people at their big show. The most talented will likely still get rich, the one-hit wonders will go back to their day jobs, and if we're lucky, music will again be created by those who love doing so.
A survey of steganographic and steganalytic tools [pdf]
I'm OK at it, but it's the practice I enjoy.
The fun thing about these sorts of tests if in figuring out how to do it a little bit differently. For example, I wanted to see if I could do it with a true one-liner (ie, no semicolons) with piecewise construction (ie, no nested ternaries). Here's my solution.

(Yes, it's ugly. But it works!)

(1..100).each { |i| puts [i % 3 == 0 ? "Fizz" : nil, i % 5 == 0 ? "Buzz" : nil].join.first || i }
There's something I'm often wondering why it doesn't exist: A standard, community-based document specifying a protocol for commons html/css constructs. For instance, specifically saying what is a header, what's the best html structure for it and a couple css examples.

Some might think it's stupid or impossible, but I don't think so. How many simple header/2 columns/footer websites are they? Why are they all differently constructed.. Some uses #contents, others #main-container, others #wrapper, others #wrap, etc etc.

With a great specification for common patterns, it would be possible to document a HTML document by saying, for instance, this page respect the design #18. By that, you could clearly see the doc and it'd show a clear header/3 columns/footer page with all ids and classes used.

It'd make it easier for designers to submit design for project (Think Zen Css for instance). A css could be shared with different websites that use the same 'patterns'.

Think a little bit like the Gammas pattern; some love them, some have them, but we can't deny their usefulness when communicating or documenting a page. For instance, it's way easier to say: I've used the visitor and composite pattern for this tree of blabla rather than describing all the inner details. (Please, don't reply how Gamma patterns are in fact anti-patterns or lack of features of the language, I'm just stating that as example as what I mean by protocol, interface or pattern.)

Finally, it would just plainly make html, css (and maybe even Javascript) code less randomly hacked and easier to maintain. It'll be even easier for beginners to get started. (Take the html code of the pattern #18 and choose a css file from the list associated to the #18) - Dang, a righly constructed 3 columns html page, compliant which work out of the box.
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Your teacher may have modified the problem so students couldn't just copy-paste a solution off the Internet. Sounds like a good teacher.
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I suffered in Birmingham for almost 3yrs of my life. I realized the error in my ways and moved. The closet thing to a real politician was forced out a few years ago. Everyone else is bought