skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, scary stuff. Last year I had constant, nagging pain in my stomach muscles (always felt like I'd worked out my abs hard the night before) for a few months. I finally started having pain so severe that I could not just take painkillers and suffer through. I go see a doctor, and they diagnose me with pancreatitis and place me in the hospital immediately.

Apparently my pancreas had not been particularly useful for a few months, as they thought I had diabetes (untrue) based on my A1C. Ended up spending 7 of the following 8 weeks either hospitalized or in my bed with a feeding tube in. Fun stuff (note: sarcasm).

Anyway, I waited so long to see a doctor because running a business takes all of your time. If I'd been an employee, wouldn't have even questioned taking a day off to go see one. So meh, have to learn to do better / realize I'm still a person.
I have an older Lexus that is basically the same platform as that. It's great - I've never driven anything that has as painless a UI.

I spent the weekend with a Ferrari and it was pretty unreal how hard it was to use (you can't change the radio station without turning off the nav display, etc.)
>Once I lost my Adsense account, I reported my friends account but nothing ever happened except he kept receiving his check each month.

If that's all there is to the story, you come across as a bit of a dick. If you didn't have any problem with his behaviour when you were getting paid, why did you report him when you were banned? I'm not saying reporting him, out of context, was the wrong thing to do, but the context you provided makes you seem petty.
I tried to use blekko, but I found their search results not very relevant. However I using them from time to time just to show my support and to check if there is any improvement in search relevance.
Terahertz polarizers will create a number of new opportunities and gizmos
FWIW homelink is all but useless in condo buildings as nearly all newer construction uses dynamic codes. Just can't pair them without the building manager. And that's even not getting into strata bylaws explicitly prohibiting in-car gate openers. So it's reasonable to have it as an option.

Automatic keyless entry is likely referring to automatic unlocking based on the proximity of the key fob and/or grabbing a door handle. Though I agree that this should be included by default, the same as Xenons (though these buggers are expensive to replace, could be up to $2K depending on the car).
Doctors are what I had in mind.
Transmission? There is no transmission -- electric motors have flat torque curves, so there's no need. It has a "gearbox," but it's basically just a differential. The transmission is one of the most expensive and arguably the most complex parts of an automobile powered by an internal combustion engine. Ever priced one of these? It's around $4,000-$10,000 for a replacement -- manual or automatic.
Rob Landley sure seems to believe the SFLC is in control, as he repeatedly faults the SFLC for their judgement in what suits to bring regarding busybox. They share a number of directors and staff and a few years ago the conservancy's web presence was hosted on a subdomain of the sflc.

In the SFLC's own press releases on the subject they note that they (the SFLC) identified organizations not in compliance, set the terms for getting into compliance, and decided who and when they should sue. At least at the time, the director of the SFC was a paid staff member of the SFLC.

Doesn't really sound like entirely separate organizations to me.

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/SFC-and-SFLC-sues-Sam...

EDIT: quote: Because many of its clients could benefit from the protections of having a legal entity as well as tax exemption status, but were reluctant to pay the fees associated with formation or dedicate the time necessary to start and maintain a tax exempt nonprofit, the Software Freedom Law Center has established The Software Freedom Conservancy. Since its launch in 2006, the Conservancy has grown to include free and open source software projects active in a wide range of fields.

https://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2008/foss-primer.h...
I wrote stupid because I thought it can sound for people in US weird paying a service for the applications etc.

Yes it's a big market, and it's nice that noone do that job in Germany. For example only from Azerbaijan (a 9 millions small country) we get 40-50 students every month.

That's true that most of our costumers are rich people, and they don't care. Last month we had a costumer asking us for the application for Master degree in Germany. We explained him the process and said that he should pay 950 euros for the service. He said: "I'll give you not 950 but 10.000 euros, just do all the work for me. I have no idea what should I do." And he paid.
Another common aspect of human nature: Interpreting people in the worst possible way.

My opinion of Google has turned from positive to negative in the last 5 years, and it has nothing to do with how big or successful they are.
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So how does one charge these things?
Would like to have seen a larger piece about cheating general, but this is a good article. The SAT committee is looking very bad lately with test-taking scandals and now false reporting
That's what I was thinking, but it just occurred to me that perhaps the position hadn't been created yet. I mean yea, they still could have said something, but if I had been given advanced notice about a job that didn't exist, it would sorta make sense...

No, you're right. They could have at least acknowledged my existence =\
Not that too many people will notice, but this will be very important in the next 5 - 10 years. Hand held terahertz instruments which are frequency agile can do the kinds of things you heard about on Star Trek, scan for chemicals, identify things that are unknown, see bombs in boxes, show insects in walls, show bedbugs, etc etc.

The reason is because of the interesting place where tHz waves sit in the spectrum, between what we think of as radio and light.
Do they help?
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I was thinking that, but a small part of me feels like that would come across poorly. I mean I know I am supposed to be looking for the best that is available to me, but I don't wanna turn them off by asking so bluntly.
Love how they did it through github api, simple and effective implementation.
An M5's handling would probably spank the Model S.

Sadly, Maserati/Jag/Aston aren't that fast. I used to want a Vantage V8 but then I drove one.
Proud of my country! Let's hope other countries follow suit quickly.
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Often these problems are solved through complexity. ICEs have very limited ranges of torque efficiency, so we work around them using a complex transmission. Other complexity eliminated by an electric vehicle: induction & emissions systems, environmental controls, ECU/fuel control & associated sensor networks, NVH suppression, fuel storage & delivery, belt-driven accessories (inverter, A/C, power steering).
The bigger problem with standups is when you are in a role such as operations, where you are often involved (extremely peripherally) with many development teams, each of which wants you at their "20 minute" standup.

I regularly spend a full hour a day in standups, and the useful content to me in them could be communicated in 5 minutes or in 2 emails.
Without knowing much about Ron Paul, I was shocked to see you call Paul for females by repealing Roe vs Wade! Abortion should always be a womans own choice, not something the government should meddle with.
You can buy a charger from Nissan for $2,000.
http://www.nissanusa.com/leaf-electric-car/faq/list/charging...
How to find a bilingual lead developer in China?
Title says it all really. My social games startup would like to hire a lead developer in China. I know the default reply is 'job boards and weibo's' but I'm looking for something a bit more targeted. What do the big Silicon Valley companies do when they decide to setup shop in China?
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Same in New Zealand. Free for under 18, but after that you have to pay. However, if you have an accident and need medical care, it's covered under the government. If it's due to negligence, then, well, you're responsible.

When I was a child (8 or 9, can't remember) I chipped my front tooth on a trampoline. All my checkups, x-rays, caps, etc., and eventually a root canal and crown were covered, even 10 years afterwards.
lol I know exactly what you mean. they don't know the process and they don't want to know. their only goal is that you fill the application, write the essays, get the recommendations, create a resume if necessary. if you could take their toefl and any other standard exam for them, they'd pay you 5 times that amount.

i've done a similar business in the past. its great moneys short term but its a bitch long term because its so draining dealing with these people. I definitely agree that you wont be able to keep the sales up long term with you being part of the company because no one cares.

The only two options you have is to get a partner who'll work on commission that's desperate (not likely) or just slash the company down to as lean as possible and just accept much less in revenue.

Otherwise you're going to just have to suck it up haha.
@wisty ++1. I dont like talking too much around certain people (too argumentative, talk from their @r$3 just to hear their own voices) but I am too polite to tell them that but they are ofcourse free to stick the "introvert-notsocial" tag on me. Fun! </sarcasm>
It's a stupid name, because it also parses as a sentence, and a wrong sentence at that.

The product seems fine, but the name is irreparably bad.
Touchscreen is a must have for the nav unit, specifically for browsing the map with the pinch zoom and drag panning. Multi-purpose programmable physical buttons are nice in theory but in practice they suck donkeys balls if you pardon my French. Inconvenient and more importantly they make the UI feel unfinished and temporary. Should they have customizable labels similar to those of the Optimus keyboard - that would've solved the problem, but at what cost.

With regards to a good voice recognition - the current generation on BMWs is really good, especially compared to the one from two years ago that was bloody awful. One thing that I do miss from the handsfree system is an ability to use different voice packs. It'd be super cool to have a dude with a heavy Indian accent :)
I benchmarked pymongo vs. asyncmongo and found no performance gain (or even negative gain) with the latter unless making relatively heavy/slow queries. So, the asynch spaghetti is not worth of it in most cases, just like the authors experienced with MySQL.
> My wisdom teeth actually fit in my mouth. Because
> I took care of them

I think this is the point of contention...

Whether or not your wisdom teeth fit into your mouth or grow in the right direction is not a matter of 'proper dental hygiene.'
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Hear..Hear...Maybe HN should do a list of US companies that indulge in illegal stuff like unpaid internships. For starters, http://www.8thlight.com/apprenticeship is one such company where a friend interns for free -- The Ruby switch (from Php) was so great that she is doing an unpaid internship there.
It's a personal story of when someone stopped believing Google, not a deep analyses of why Google is "evil".

For me Google stopped being credible when it did a 180 on net neutrality. There were good reasons before that, and there were certainly good reasons after that, but when someone or some company loses the benefit of the doubt is a personal thing.

What currently pisses me off most about Google is their blatant disregard for privacy, more specifically their open and arrogant disdain for the way privacy is perceived (and protected by law) outside the US.

In hindsight I "should" have started "hating" Google much earlier, and OMG, I still use Google. Doesn't make any single individual argument criticizing Google any less valid though.

But most of all, the value in this post does not lie in his arguments, but in the fact that it illustrates the way in which Google is losing its supporters and its credibility as an ethical corporation.
Great looking car. But what's with all the bullshit vanity stats like kWh? Is this the new MHz of the electric car age? A meaningless number that consumers mistakenly use to quantify purchases for the next century? Some things never change. Just tell me how far the damn thing drives and I'll dig into the details if I'm really interested.

NB: I realize Tesla buries the actual range in the middle of the page. I'm just pointing out kWh at best meaningless without taking the entire car into consideration and at worst deliberately misleading consumers a la MHz and "megapixels."

What consumers understand: Range in miles, top speed in mph, acceleration (why don't they illustrate this with a graph instead of "0-60?"). What consumers can only vaguely understand: kWh, horsepower, CC of engine, torque.
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I've been using them off and on since learning of their existence on this forum a couple of weeks ago. They are surprisingly good!

But I did have the damnedest time remembering their domain name! "Google" was an inspired name choice, including the trademark-friendly intentional misspelling. "Duckduckgo" not so much! I had to re-find the name several times.

However, DDG has a nice shortcut, which turned out to fit within my limited wet-ware RAM: http://ddg.gg.
The only way in which you're correct is that the supply of skilled practitioners (doctors, nurses, etc.) may well be inelastic, in that only so many of them will be born in a given timeframe and it requires a certain length of time to take a potentially good practitioner all the way up to actually being a good practitioner.
On my previous team, even with 8 people, too much yakking made standups too slow, and indeed you had many people bored just waiting. No one thought eliminating standups was a good idea, though.

So one guy pulled out a timer. You've got one minute. After one minute, if it's so worth saying that you'll keep talking through the "bzzt bzzt bzzt bzzt" of the annoying alarm, you go ahead. But now you're getting direct feedback against talking without need.

Of course, I make no claim this would work for any other group, much less any particular group. But it helped that team get standups done faster and more productively.
What is the intended audience exactly? The language is tense ever for myself with 20 years of coding experience: "To put this into laymen terms, HTML determines the semantic structure of content on a web page..." How is 'semantic structure' a layman term?
It's not a magic touch, it's a learnable skill.

A skill that's damn hard to learn and takes years of dedication, introspection, and humility, but learnable nonetheless.
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For 2, a Siri-like voice command unit would nicely complements the touch control. Touch control requires taking eyes off the road, not good.
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Man. Nostalgia for the old debates about net neutrality just kicked in, and it really pales in comparison to e.g. the SOPA hearings.
Old news. Since that time mobile data subscriptions went up in price with all dutch providers: reason? "data usage for whatsapp and skype etc wasnt accounted for in the initial prices". Also, last month a judge ruled that two ISPs need to block The Pirate Bay. What's that about net neutrality?
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Ask HN: Should kids be learning to code for the real world?
It's great that learning to code is the new literacy, or whichever term you use to express its importance.

But I'm wondering if the growing enthusiasm will lead to too much coding in the abstract.

If you were advising a kid, would you stress the importance of coding for things in the real world, such as gadgets, electronics and machinery?

You might, for example, suggest they learn in parallel with learning Arduino.

Or is all coding good coding?
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I see your point. Paul is against abortion, but because of his strong constitutional stance is for states rights >>> federal mandates.

Whether abortion should be legal or illegal is another discussion I guess.
Looks clean/simple, lessons are well-organized, and the usage of white space / negative space is great. I don't get the font size comments. Command+Shift+'+' peoples.
err and did you read the questions?
not like if he could invent replies.

pretty obviously if he had replied yes to any of those it would mean he had been able to find out what caused adsense to disable his account.
Can't you just use different Google accounts for personal and professional work?

I've tried that. It's a pain in the ass. I've pretty much got it down to where I use chrome for one ID and FF for another. But, you know, you get busy and cross the streams every so often anyway, so there's slippage.
What are Blekko's thoughts on 'do no evil'? If they get popular, would they fall into the same trap that Google has, or would they stay pure?
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(sincerely)
Tyrone, you know how much I love watching you work, but I've got my country's
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You and your socialist agenda is destroying this country! Take your 'universal fire protection' and go back to the Soviet Union! </sarcasm>
I could never understand how Scott figured that a jihad against Microsoft was a viable business strategy.
3M has no influence over my life. 3M could disappear tomorrow and I couldn't give a toss. 3M doesn't know enough about me and mine to harm me, and I don't depend on 3M in a way that would hurt me if I could no longer use their products. At worst, it would be slightly annoying.

Google has the power to seriously fuck with my life. I neither love nor hate Google, but I do care about what they do more than most companies, and certainly more than any company in our industry, and for good reasons.

Google is not "that girl we like". Google is "that guy that stands behind us with a big stick", and we don't know if he's going to use it to defend us or beat the shit out of us.
I find it a little ironic that I had to Google "Blekko". Aside from this, Blekko's results are not as good as Google. For me at least.
I imagine the range would be very hard to quantify exactly, since it would probably depend on many many variables, such as driving style, speed, road grade, ambient temp (battery efficiency), head winds etc.
It's an electric car, with the dominating cost being the battery, I think it's a legit headline stat, and probably the dominant variable between the models, except for the performance model, which seems to have a beefier motor controller/inverter.
I saw the roadster just the other week in the parking lot of Alice's Cafe. Very nice looking machine.
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Looks awesome. Wish I could afford it.

Here's an idea, maybe someone could tell me if it's feasible. One of the annoying things about electric cars is the relatively long charge time, which, for day trips, is solved by charging at home overnight. However, a mistake such as forgetting to plug in one night could have dire results the next day. What about having a charging pad for people with garages? When they get home they park the car where the pad is and it starts charging automatically over the air. What are the disadvantages? Efficiency? Price?
This has been a core facet of gmail for years. You get free email + storage - they post contextual ads on the right.

The problem people are discussing here, has nothing to do with some heuristic that runs against your email. It's the advent of the google profile, where all your online searches, mails, posts, rss feeds, and mobile phone now tie together in one place, and google is changing the terms.

>> Haven't made the switch yet, but I'm seriously considering it.

Yeah... sure
One thing no one has mentioned is the tax implications of the different choices for startups - something which can be as important as the technical side of things.

The OECD model tax convention, which has been adopted by many pairs of countries for their double taxation avoidance agreements (DTAAs) uses the term "permanent establishment" - "a fixed place of business through which the business of the an enterprise is wholly or partly carried on". If a business derives income attributable to a fixed place of business in another country, they will likely need to deal with the tax department of that country. At best, this will
mean considerable expenditure (by a bootstrapped startups' standards) on legal compliance, and at worst, could mean considerably more tax is paid.

For hosting stages 1-2 in the article, no fixed place can be attributed to the business purchasing the hosting (CPU resources are shared and no CPU fixed CPU is assigned to the business). Disk space may temporarily be associated with a business, but this is under the control of the service provider - it is disk space and not physical disk sectors which are being rented, and the provider is free to move data.

However, stages 3-5 mean that a business has a very definite physical location (i.e. place of business) in another country.

These types of non-technical issues can often outweigh the technical ones in terms of business priority.
This is highly unlikely. If this is the case then both Google Music and Amazon CloudDrive are both illegal. As of right now there are no lawsuits underway in this case. MP3.com has experienced some of these lawsuits but rulings so far point to this being legal. There is also the fact that emailing an MP3 to yourself would then constitute copyright infringement, which I find even less likely for courts to uphold.

If you have any concrete evidence that storing copyrighted files in non-local storage is copyright infringement I would be very interested in seeing the case law.
That's pretty much the reason, yes.

Justin.tv and TwitchTV are very similar, both technically and in terms of UI.

Socialcam, while related, doesn't really share so much. It made more sense as a separate company.
makes more sense to have it where it is.
at least its "somewhat" complying to the rest of the ui
chrome/IE put it in a relatively arbitrary location.
US health insurance tends to distinguish based on the location whether it's "dental" or "medical": if an infection sends you to the hospital, then it's medical, but if you go to the dentist to get it fixed, then it's dental. Typically the latter wouldn't get covered by health insurance regardless of severity.

There are some miscellaneous oddities; for example, if you visit a dentist and have antibiotics prescribed, typically the visit won't be covered (it's a dentist so counts as dental), but the antibiotics will be covered (they're a medical prescription).