skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm late to the thread, but I'd like to share how I use dropbox and share some of my issues.

I have been a long time user, and recently I joined a company which is 100% virtual. We are all consultants who work from our homes - but travel regularly to client sites.

While we are working from our homes - we collaborate and work on the docs needed for our client visits.

Everyone has their own account, and quickly a couple gigs would fill up, due to what i feel is poor logic on dropbox's part, and it is getting to be a bigger and bigger issue.

The issue is that we have ~10 people all sharing project folders. But with the free account, this means we get a lot of duplicated consumption.

If 3 people have 2GB space, and they each share .5GB with eachother, then that .5GB is taking up .5GB from everyones account.

This sucks.

Personally, I have a paid 50GB account, and I created a shared public folder. Everyone on my team joined the public folder - which is always 50GB to ME - but to them it consumes THEIR space - and soon their syncing stops because the folder I made is larger than their box.

This is retarded, I think that if they visit MY folder, this should not count against THEIR storage - especially when I am paying for it.

I do undestand the complexities of this - but then the problem is that the cost to fix this issue is that everyone needs to upgrade their account.

I have looked at the team offering, but then that is too expensive.

I think what is best - is to have one corporate DB account, and have everyone login with that userID - and pay for the upgraded space for that one account.

With this said, based on the current design of dropbox and the fact that it is simply a feature - there is no way this company will be the next Apple, let alone google. Unless Drew is referring to emulating their culture, or maybe brand recognition. certainly he cant be talking about product diversity....

Anyway - I love dropbox, and am happy to pay for it, but as it currently stands, is a half-feature.

I dont even know what kind of use-case model for teams such as mine they are looking at. Perhaps I should send them an email.
Pure opinion, like this, with no explanation or justification, adds nothing to the discussion.

I have explained why I believe it helps small and large business equally. If you'd like to have a discussion, I invite to explain why you think what you think, and open yourself to criticism by the community.

What you think is the "reality of the situation" requires explanation. If you aren't willing to provide that explanation, this discussion forum may not be a good fit for you.
The reality that a counter-claim is simple to make (I've done them) and the problem by and large quickly evaporates?

That reality? Because you're not entitled to your own.
Uh but while the graph may be "full of information", other posters have made good arguments that the information it gives isn't revealing (mixing wealth and incomes, aggregating occupations in confusing ways, etc). A simple graph of the occupations of those in the top of 1% of income and the top 1% of wealth (along with the overall source of that wealth) would be more revealing for the debates that have recently raged.
I've done two stints on Fox News. The best way to prepare is to watch a lot of Fox News. You will see a lot of people bald-face lying about a lot of things. Fox has advanced lying to a fine art. (Yes, I know this was MSNBC, but Fox is the master.)

You're right, if you spew a bunch of technospeak you will lose the audience. It is important to remember that you are engaging in a performance, not a debate. You might want to consider taking some acting lessons.

The most important thing is: don't get emotional. Don't get indignant. Use a tone of voice that you would use with a child who has told you a fib (or made a mistake). So, for example, don't say "That's a lie." Instead say something like, "No, that is simply not true" and then immediately follow that with a short citation that shows it's not true. Example, "SOPA only affects foreign companies." Response, "No, that's simply not true. Section blahdeeblah specifically refers to U.S. companies..." or whatever. Then immediately transition to one of your own talking points. "And even if it were true that the letter of the legislation exempted U.S. companies (which it doesn't) that would be nearly unenforceable because the jurisdictional boundaries on the internet are unclear..." or whatever.

The second most important thing: know what they are going to say before they say it, and have your answers ready. A crucial part of the performance is appearing secure in your position, and any hesitation or stumble hurts you. So be prepared for them to lie. Expect them to lie. Study their arguments ahead of time so you know in advance what the lies will be. This is not hard to do. The lies are carefully crafted and scripted, and it's unlikely that you will hear one that hasn't made an appearance somewhere before.

I'd be happy to do some debate prep with you if you like.
http://redis.io/commands/keys "While the time complexity for this operation is O(N), the constant times are fairly low. For example, Redis running on an entry level laptop can scan a 1 million key database in 40 milliseconds."

You certainly shouldn't use it in production code, but running it on a production database by hand occasionally shouldn't be too bad. (Especially if you have slaves.)
Repetition, Routine, and Relentlessness
By a well known and respected bicycle frame builder. Nice write up and is applicable to startups too!
"If you pick an ambitious idea, you'll have less competition, because everyone else will have been frightened off by the challenges involved. (This is also true of starting a startup generally.)"

Given the right set of circumstances of course this is exactly where
the opportunity is with many things.

Take real estate as another example.

If you buy a nice looking, appealing, ready to go condo or home in a well know building or neighborhood, assuming values aren't rising, there is really no way to make a killing.

You make a killing by transforming something. By adding value.
You take an unappealing piece of real estate and you transform it.
Or you buy a piece of land and you build something on it ready to go.
It's well known that people buy on an emotional level.
And if they can't get attached to something they won't
pay as much. (This is why homes are staged for example or cars are shined
up at the dealer).
As a SEAS alum (bioengineering 07) I'm so glad that events like this are going on at Penn the last few years
The reality where hosting companies and ISPs cave immediately to the side that has more lawyers. The reality where companies spray DMCA takedowns to intimidate lone hackers they dislike, in situations they would never dare actually take that person to court under. The reality where large companies form backroom deals to "streamline" DMCA takedowns so that dissident voices can be silenced with a keypress, limiting exposure.

"That reality? Because you're not entitled to your own."

Ok troll. Fuck off.
Was this open to non-Penn students?
Get in front of the camera as much as you can Alexis, great job for your first showing. Don't be afraid to show how passionate you are about the ramifications and the importance of freedom.

Point out that it's the media companies that are eroding any goodwill that remains for them by criminalising their best customers instead of taking the opportunity to listen to them. Unless I'm very wrong, a majority of the audience will be people who both pirate at times and consume legal content when its easy and fairly priced. I think the average Joe would be against SOPA if they realised the ramifications - don't be afraid to point out horrible scenarious that could happen uner the letter fo the law, and don't accept "oh it would never realistically be used in that way". Make people realise what is being given away here.
Dropbox's idea of the cloud is file based. Apple's idea of the future of computing (iOS and iCloud) is no files, you just assume apps will use the cloud. It's clunky because it's not what we are used to, nor the app makers.
You bet. This week I switched from Mizuno Wave Fortis to Wave Rider (simply because I couldn't find Fortis in shops for months), and my right foot began to hurt after only 20 km, though they're supposedly nearly identical shoes from the same make. I'll have to very gradually switch, alternating shoes between short runs, or maybe even give up the Rider entirely...
Note that the size of the boxes isn't really the relevant metric, but rather the color (which indicates the likelihood of someone in the profession being part of a household in the 1%). A darker color indicates a higher correlation between the profession and the income (ie, less likely that they simply married into wealth). Looking at the color, we see doctors, lawyers, and brokers, which is about what you'd expect.

If the data set was narrowed further to the top 0.1%, you would probably see the fee-based professions drop off and the high-end brokers dominate. There are only so many hours to bill or patients to serve in a day, while there is no limit to the size of a transaction from which a broker can skim a percentage.
One of the great things about iCloud is that you don't actually "use" it. It just sort of works (yeah yeah I know).

Dropbox is for file sharing. iCloud lets you forget about files. I don't really view them as competitors, at least not direct competitors.
Redis should get an an HTTP API. Would enable you to implement something like this purely in the browser.
UIs are really useful from a sys admin point of view. I can also imagine adoption increasing if Redis supported a UI out-of-the-box.
Here's a good developer's postmortem from Secret of Evermore. I am including the web archive link because the original site is now hijacked by online casino spam.

There are lots of interesting nuggets about the scripting language developed for the game, banging against hard limits with cartridge sizes, multiple domain-specific compression schemes, etc...

He also talks about the making of the soundtrack, which was the first project done by the then-19 year old Jeremy Soule, who has gone on to developing the soundtracks for big games like Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim, etc.

http://web.archive.org/web/20080701132130/http://www.super-n...
It's a mistake to get into a shouting match with someone who has the money to shout much louder than you.
I am looking for programming work, preferably in any of C, JavaScript, Python, PHP, or Lua. I'm graduating with a Masters in CS in May, and I'm looking for something that starts in May or June.

Quick resume:

* Professional experience (2 yrs combined) in C#/.NET, JavaScript, Objective-C/Cocoa, and PHP.

* Side-project experience in JavaScript, Lua, PHP, and Python.

* Recent classroom project experience in C, Java, Verilog.

I'm willing to relocate within the Western US.
try learning vim
"small and large business equally."

Who said anything about businesses?
What? An accelerometer does measure acceleration, but relative to the free-fall acceleration.

That's different than measuring the change in acceleration.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerometer)
A very nice talk from the creator of OTR explaining why traditional encryption tools are not the best pick (i.e. deniability and perfect forward secrecy):

http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/media/Off-the-Record%20Messaging:...
Yep, I thought it was perpetually though after my first year they started charging me for it.
GoDaddy, Still censoring
Godaddy's CEO addressed their new-found opposition to Sopa here:
http://support.godaddy.com/godaddy/statement-about-sopa/comment-page-1/#comment-11003

They deleted my response to the article:
http://i1242.photobucket.com/albums/gg538/pws5068/godaddy_moderated_post.png

Glad to see they're sticking to their guns and stopping internet censorship.
I'm a little confused about this article. Its a little all over the place and not very helpful. First of all #10 has nothing to do with node at all and is quite obvious for anyone dealing with mobile web.

Second of all, some things not mentioned, don't use node.js to gzip stuff. Put nginx as a proxy and make THAT gzip stuff that node sends through. You really don't want node doing expensive operations like that on each request. nginx will do it faster and avoid blocking.

Rendering server side is fine if done right and you're not using a CDN. Storing all parts of a template in an array and using Array.join() is fast, clean and will reduce a lot of overhead vs. having two separate requests from the same client for a single webpage. But node isn't really made for templating where RoR/Django is so pick your tech stack better if you need templating.

This article boils down to user node as a JSON relay. Which in all honesty is probably the best thing to use node for. Have node format json data and send that around.
The extradition treaty is widely thought to be very biased to the USA, legal wording of [1]. The USA DA's office can withhold evidence, and only need to provide reasonable suspicion, but CPS need to provide probable cause. It's difficult to tell if this law will ever be reversed, maybe it will have to wait for the 'special relationship' to weaken.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extradition_Act_2003
Wasn't this same book on the front page of HN just a few weeks ago?

It just seems so random to see it appear again today? Was there a special release announcement that I'm not seeing?
I still don't really "get" the syllable perspective but it seems like it's just a mapping of one stroke (I think my confusion is what constitutes a "stroke") on specialized hardware to several on a qwerty board?

As far as I can tell, steno works by mapping a "stroke" (a combination of keys pressed at once -- like a chord on a musical instrument) to a "syllable" which appears to be a chunk of a word for prose but apparently can be any chunk of text for things like programming. I think this is why she recommends a 45$ "gamer's keyboard", most regular keyboards have a limit to the number of simultaneous key presses that will be registered. Also it appears that when using a keyboard for steno you still only use a limited number of keys. From the video it looks like she barely strayed from the home position.
I don't think so. Photography as art has never been just pointing and shooting. You have to find the right natural lightning, or the right facial expression, or the right color composition, etc. All those restrictions make the photography an art that no anyone can achieve (at least, without extensive training and effort).
But if they move you have to restart :\
Agreed/is there a way for alumni/others to get involved? SAS '09 up in NYC and would love to be notified when these are happening if to just come down and see them in person (would also be glad to help out).
What's your evidence for those statements?

I'm especially skeptical about teachers; I don't know anybody who avoided becoming a teacher because the certifications or the jobs were too hard to get, but I know a number of people who didn't do it (or did it and quit) because the pay and social standing was too low compared with the difficulty of the work.
http://www.windwalkerfootwear.com/

It's not so much a brand as a husband & wife team that travels to various fairs, making custom fit boots & shoes. They make them by putting a sock on your foot, covering it in duct tape so that it holds its shape, then cutting the sock off your foot. I think that you need to see them IRL for this process, but maybe it's possible to make other arrangements.

The waiting list is severe. It has always taken me ~11 months, but they will contact you when its your turn. They have a cool way of lacing them, so that the knot to tie them is one-handed. For me, that means that I can tie both shoes at the same time, but I hear there are people who only have one useable hand that appreciate it for more practical reasons.
Check your mail :)
Thinking and debugging take up a lot of time, but typing time is still nontrivial and worth optimizing. Especially in debugging where moving around the file quickly is important, vim's movement commands make this quicker.
The Rise and Consequences of Inequality
I actually wish they'd done the infographic with single taxpayers instead of households. The household numbers are confounded a lot by marriage - a hedge fund manager who marries a teacher is in the 1%, but that doesn't itself mean that teaching gets you into the 1%.

It'd skew younger as well - I suspect you'd see many more software developers, lawyers, and physicians, and fewer CEOs and managers.
I agree, taste is super hard to figure out -

Maybe if you ran some kind of candy A/B Test.

Send two different kinds of envelopes to people, and keep track of who got what. Then, send a survey to these people to have them rate the candy's they received. After a few months, you should start to have a general idea on what types of candies are liked more and what types are liked less. Even though you'll never have a taste-consensus, you can get a general idea, and modify what kinds of candy you send and the amounts of the kinds of candies you do send.

Or, another way would be to send all the same candy to everyone and send out a survey. Then the next two weeks send another set of candy and run another survey.

Whatever you do / don't do, getting stats and info is really nice.

You can't, unfortunately, please everyone :( so might as well please a group of people _a lot_ and get a group of really evangelical fans, I think.
Yep. This is the big American secret the working class can't seem to discover.

The elite have busted the unions, but professional associations are stronger than ever. Doctors do it to avoid free trade, they are protectionist, and surprise! They get paid for it.

The primary purpose of professional associations is to protect the wealth of the members, and this is done by lobbying for protectionism.
It's not start-up-y, but via my day job I might be able to hook you up with a programming internship at a very large professional member association.

This spring/summer we're building out a client-side-templating-oriented CMS framework, likely in Node.js or Ruby or some hybrid of the two. If that sounds interesting to you (or other HN-ers) feel free to reach out to me (email adderess in profile).
Someone introduce her to APL.
This is pretty cool. Simple idea, simple interface. There seems to be an issue on my machine though, where the color picker for function colors seems to change the background color instead. But it's still really nice.
Wait... 98% of deaf and hard-of-hearing people don't know ASL?
Sure, native tweening is fast and great, but don't show it by performing a false comparison.

The CSS transition is performing a single tween on a CSS rule; the div tags just inherit the result.
The jQuery test is performing inline style tweens ... on every div! First of all you're performing redundant/duplicate calculations. Second of all, you're throwing away all performance gains you had by having shared css render style objects.

A better test would of been to update the style sheet via JS.
Zed, I admire you immensely. Please don't feed the trolls.
it was only never refuted because Cotton simply wouldn't allow it to be. Any time someone tried to explain why, he would interrupt and say "That's not true, you're wrong."

To me, that made him a clear loser.
The Financiers are spread over several boxes, but taken together they are indeed right where we'd expect them (hated or not).
This would be really nice. I tried (unsuccessfully) to get this running locally on OS X. The amount of dependencies required seemed very long.
I'm Charles. I'm looking for contract or fulltime. Local to San Francisco.

I run http://jsonip.com and created Helium CSS.

Been doing web development for 10+ years. Have a lot of experience doing full stack development with Python/Django, Node.js, and php a long time ago. Javascript is my main language these days.

Primarily have been focused on frontend development, so I know how to optimize the hell out of what's delivered to the browser. Very good at writing cross-browser code, though fortunately IE isn't as much of an issue these days.

I've done quite a bit of mobile-focused development using html5/css3 for multiple platforms. Have also done some work with Phonegap to publish apps on the Apple App Store.

I also like writing tools to help other developers do their jobs better.

You can contact me via geuis.teses@gmail.com or @geuis on Twitter.

My github profile, https://github.com/geuis.
Doctors are really the last strong professional association, though.

Lawyers have a cabal, but it's pretty weak. There's no cap on new lawyers or people attending law school. If you are dumb and/or have bad grades you can always attend a 4th tier law school. In contrast, there aren't 4th tier med schools. Someone who gets their MD at University of North Dakota is still going to be making $150K, worst case scenario. Lawyers on the other hand have lower average wages than one might think. http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos053.htm#earnings It's just that a handful of certain lawyers, like trial lawyers, can make infinite money so others assume all types of lawyers are rich.
Identity is the operating system
because Cotton interrupted and got the host to change the subject EVERY TIME. Cotton seemed like a huge jerk because he wouldn't let anyone finish a sentence.
Point of usage - "Schlep" is most commonly used as a verb. As in, "Oy, you had to drop out of college and schlep all the way to California, just to listen to some schmuck make himself a macher?" It's true, you could say "that was a long schlep" - but other than meaning a long or difficult physical journey, (think getting home from Vegas on a Sunday), when schlep is used as a noun, it almost always refers to a person, short for schlepper, or one who schleps. This is someone at the bottom of the totem pole. As in "what kind of schlep wants to deal with this guy's verkakte ego?"
Richard Cotton is general council AND EVP of NBCUniversal: http://www.nbcuni.com/corporate/management/senior-corporate-...
How are domain name sales taxed (esp in CA)?
Say you bought a domain name a year or two ago, then recently sold it for $50,000 to a well-funded startup. How much of that would you need to reserve for Federal, State, and Local taxes come tax day? Is that profit counted as Capital Gains, or something else?
"And since this is a tech/programmer site, the relatively low numbers of computer science/software people in the 1% seems to indicate that our chosen profession "tops out" at a certain income level below that 1%."

That could be misleading. A technical founder/co-founder of a very successful company would likely end up being categorized as a "manager". Bill Gates and Steve Jobs almost certainly would be classified as such and not as "cs/software" people.
I know vim, that's irrelevant. My typing is too slow, nothing to do with the tools. And about 40% of my writing is long text not code
New South Wales quietly compiling mathematical maps of all adult's faces
Before Python
I didn't mean to "alienate the president" from this in policy position terms, but speaking of rhetorical style and flourishes, it seems a little silly to use "Obama says" to cover anything written by anyone officially on behalf of his administration.
System analyst
The required analysis is done by the System analyst. He is the one responsible for handling the overall project from a higher level of view, managing within it the specifics of and integrity with the lower programming level of perspective. With sufficient knowledge about the dynamics of every aspect of the system, interactions with programmers, customers and other relevant people System analyst’s job is to get the right solution in the most efficient way.
Reddit: "Unbeknown to many, drug culture at startups is a huge problem."