skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nope but even when you add 10-15% it's a pretty good deal.

I recognise your name, are you on the opencoffee mailing list?
Unless you have a relatively rare name with a very popular frontrunner, such as "Cary" or "Dizzy."
A better way (for marketers) of validating an email address.

Technically nothing has been validated. You've proved that the email address exists. But it's deliberate use hasn't been validated. And that's the whole point of validation.
Indie Book Publishing Use Case: Lessons of Starting a Micro Press
We have been very happy with the git branching workflow described and justified here: http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/
The pinnacle of confusion can be seen in the following abomination: x = x + 1

Bill Wadge invented the dataflow language Lucid in the early 1970s by pondering this very paradox. He wrote a nice series of blog posts about it that begins at http://billwadge.wordpress.com/2011/03/23/lucid-the-origins.

His insight was that x = x + 1 isn't contradictory once you recognize that the two x's have implicit temporal subscripts. That is, "the value of x at time t+1 = the value of x at time t, plus 1". Make that temporal dimension explicit in the language and you can go back to having a nice equational semantics.

It's interesting, though, and perhaps germane to your point, that this insight turned out to lead far away from mainstream languages.

I've come to the conclusion that math and programming are very different things because math isn't executable. Programs have to run on a physical machine, math doesn't. The "physical" part changes everything. As someone pointed out in a blog post recently, even programs written in the purest most side-effect-free languages have side-effects when they run. I suspect that functional programming ultimately runs aground on this discrepancy - i.e. on the intrinsic imperativeness of the machine. The "x = x+1" paradox can be seen as a distillation of this imperativeness.

Perhaps we should teach programming not as math but as a kind of mechanics.
I tried to use org mode for this. I honestly found it really difficult to work with. The amount of verbosity required makes the code rather unreadable, and I think that, for truly 'literate' code, babel org mode just doesn't provide great solutions.

I need to write up more about this, but I think it is an area that would be fruitful for research.
somewhat related. Last week a friend of mine that is growing his recruiting business tried to put me in contact with someone at this firm in NYC, for a position that sounds ideal for me and my background. Once he got to the HR department, and as soon as they saw where i currently work, they told him that they have some agreement about not hiring people from my current company and that was it. They didn't even seem to want to explain the details of said agreement. Now, i definitely didn't sign a contract forbidding me from going to that place. Is this even legal?
I agree with that symlink spaghetti for a long time comment..
It seems harsh to fedora to say they feel a need for a revolution..
i really don't follow release cycles/linux versions... close enough.. but my upgrade experiences so far(Fedora 8-13 vs Ubuntu 8-11.10) indicate it's ubuntu that feel a need to make revolutionary change..
i.e: to say, i have gone wtf more times searching for some custom setting on ubuntu menu's than fedora's
How is this different than me typing my name on facebook and seeing what folks look like?

I'm sure I'm missing something..
I asked this on her blog:

As a programmer who's always looking for new projects, this made me curious.

What is a piece of software that would make your life as a used book store owner easier?

What is a piece of software that would help your customers?

Please give me some ideas if you have any :)
I love this. Thanks for the post.
By their founder's own admission, they have three employees. Not sure what they're doing that would burn through that much cash. Either their business model is severely lacking, or their spending is out of control. Of course it is possible that they aren't making any money.
Wonder what makes it different? The USA AFAIK had good viewership figures.
Allangrant,

I do have to say, based on the evidence that DHH keeps unearthing, it does not seem like your company has put forth the immediate effort needed to represent that your company is taking to heart what is being said by DHH and others. That unfortunately is effectively like a strike 2. First for the action, and secondly for the inaction. Yes the inaction is both in relation to PR and actual outcome of change.

For the future viability of your company, you might consider immediately removing all content and styles even remotely considered to be "borrowed" (by any definition)...even if it means your websites are bland and almost blank. That however only closes the door on any indiscretions. Going through the challenges of repentance and acquiring forgiveness, is something only your company's heart can achieve. Seeking guidance would also probably be a good idea to get you through this current PR issue.

On your twitter pic it shows that you wish to stop sopa. In a recent case, GoDaddy had their own PR problem that cost them dearly. Given that your company is a start up, even with $1.2M in funding, appropriately negative PR like this can cost the company it's life.

*PS: 37Signals has 2 good books to read. I believe "Rework" even has some comments regarding when you screw up as a company. However, since it is the authors themselves to which your company has afflicted....

I hope your company is able to make the right choices.
It would be my guess that the origin is electrical. A "driver" is a common term for any subsidiary circuit supplying the needs of the components you really care about. (e.g. mosfet driver).

Unlike a particularly driven SO poster, I'm too lazy to try to search for pre-war EE journals or radio magazines where one might find the term.

P.S. There seems to be very few scanned copies of early radio/electronics magazines online. Very sad. I loved leafing through them when I could find them in dead-tree format. Do libraries even archive this tsuff anymore?
We've learned about the benefits of UXPin from our customer interviews. However, we've also learned a lot about the disadvantages of UXPin and paper in general.

We agree with you that paper has a lot of advantages. That's why pentotype aims to keep all the benefits of paper. At the same time we'll enrich the paper experience with the interactivity of software.

Thank you for sharing your thoughts. We'll take them into account to make pentotype even better. ;)
I feel like SOMA is now the center of mass of the tech startup scene. Try 21st Amendment.
thats why i love the feedback from here - its top quality ;)
> The whole point of not loading images is the privacy concern, so if your email client (which is any email client with any kind of traction in the past decade) offers (and defaults to) not loading images, it will indeed not hit the URL.

I'm not sure this is accurate, this link is a little old but it indicates quite a few webmail/desktop clients load images by default: http://www.campaignmonitor.com/blog/post/2559/current-condit...
They didn't copy it pixel-by-pixel because they're either too lazy to do so, too stupid to know how or both. And no, there will be no power to them.
Some of the alleged business practices of United Fruit (Chiquita), De Beers, Monsanto, and APOC (BP) have been comic book levels of evil.
Maybe there could be a bookstore with a bunch of Kindles laying around instead of physical books? Combine this with some kind of café and it might just work.

Of course, it would be hard to charge any kind of margin on the e-books as the customers can just whip out their own Kindle and buy the e-book directly from Amazon. And I don't know if it's even possible to become an e-book reseller like that. (Ie buy the right to re-sell a certain e-book 1000 times or whatever).
Spinning down the hard drive is a pretty bad idea as it doesn't save much power & there is usually a noticeable lag to spinning it back up again. Also most applications & OSes these days expect it to be always on. Your carefully crafted scenario goes up in smoke if your OS likes to log stuff, your browser wants to dump it's cache or your word processor wants to autosave.
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>3) hope that somehow it will become much cheaper through windfall technology developments in other fields (not impossible, but certainly not one that I would bet on)

Brain uploading. I don't know if Kurzweil's "$1000 computer by 2035" prediction is right, but we'll certainly have it by the end of the century.

Accelerando features a good exploration of this. Your interstellar spaceship is a laser-propelled computer the size of a soda can, with everyone's brains simply uploaded into it.
What are you panicking about? A gig of RAM costs less than a fast food meal nowadays.

EDIT: and the cost of programmer hours required to save a gig of RAM is orders of magnitude more.
Yes, about:blank
To add to this, I think it's important that OP knows this is a good thing. I built my computer just over 3 years ago when DDR2 prices bottomed out, so I have 8GB, and this thing is still more computer than I need. I boot up, load all my applications into RAM, and everything is super snappy - because RAM is fast. Prior to this rig I found myself compelled to upgrade at least every 3 years because things would get slow. Times change.
and this would frustate real entrepreneurs because?
Wow, never considered this but you're right. Scary. I'm glad I don't scan QR codes.
I think it can't hurt. I work in a more conservative industry and I sent thank-you emails the day after an interview (I got hired, obviously not only because of the follow up). I would avoid physical mail because it will take too long to reach the recipient and I would keep it short (2 or 3 sentences).

If everyone does it, you'll only stand out by not doing it and in a bad way. If no one does it, you have the possibility of appearing more professional.
Let Your Programmers Be Silly
Thanks for the recommendations, it shows you mean well.
Paulo Coelho is really amazing! He thinks differently. I agree with his ideas that if P2P sharing is the way of introducing artist's work and a good idea doesn't need protection. Of course, if the people know that your book or your music is very good, then for sure, they will buy the hardcopy or the cd because they want to own a product which was written or produced by well-known writer or musician.
I'm surprised that people in these threads say "I'm not at all surprised by this behavior" - It's a sad state of affairs when we, as employees, wholly expect this behavior between the few leading companies in this area.
You can only store about 20 minutes worth of decompressed RGB24 1080p video in 7GB of RAM. There really is no point to doing this.

The only time this would make sense is in a content creation environment where quick access to uncompressed frames makes a difference. However, those environments are already CPU starved. Typical consumers would not see a benefit from this scenario. More benefit will be had with the transition to SSDs, they will be eventually be much much faster & require less power than current hard drives.
Tell me this: How much time spent on education vs experience is worth it? I want to specialize in serving my customers with great data services, not tracking them down. Is reading into this worth my time? Why shouldn't I just hire someone who knows how to do this well?
Harvard Law School's free course on negotiations. Covers all aspects of negotiations.

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcas...
Good luck with going viral. Let us know how did it do.
It is not legal. That is precisely why Apple, Google, etc. are being sued.
Here is a different perspective.

As an entreppreneur, I would not want my employees poached. I do not miind them seeking out other opportunities, but I would want them to make the move, not an external entity. Poaching can create artificial demand.

A satisfied employee an become unsatisfied overnight if he is offered a higher salary elsewhere which you don't/can't match.

If I had the way to stop poaching, I will. If my employee wants to seek new opportunities, I will not stop him.

The sacking of the person that was doing the recruiting is totally unacceptable to me. He was just doiing his job
Who's Telling You The Truth About Dating Algorithms?
> It's more of a "dude, not cool" thing to me.

I think it's more of an issue that calls into serious question their integrity, motivations and skills. It's pretty hard to start a company out of an incubator with community support when you'e signaled that you've no ethical regard for the very community that supports you.
My favorite as well. I've found myself in discussion with many on this logic for some time but rarely does it go mainstream. On a logical stance, all these moves represent honesty and no BS. Similar to when General Motors launched the Saturn line of cars with flat pricing. We owned a few in my family growing up and I remember my dad telling me one of the biggest reasons he bought it was because he knew no one else paid a dime less than he did for the same car.
Artistic Freedom Technology Act
That is pretty much what I wrote here: https://plus.google.com/104656859697947622609/posts/2LHxjAnQ...

And yes, I still believe it would really help salvage G+ from the situation it is in right now...
Action vs. learning? A false dichotomy, my friend
You could fairly easily add conneg (yuk) or an alternate json representation to the atom feed... Given that the headers are name value pairs it shouldnt be too hard to standardize.
"The advent of sudo"...

As someone with only 2 years Linux experience, this blows my mind
A local git branch is super-cheap, so there's hardly any downside to using them. The upside, even for a single developer, is the ability to work on multiple features/bugfixes simultaneously, and merge them into master only when they're ready.
The reason is to write standardized webmail applications and other javascript apps that want to interact with the email universe.
Professors need to be paid, buildings maintained. Historically, Western educational institutions had no state support.
Yes, but you can also put a sticker that says "Go to www.bankofamerica-manage-account.com". Although, it's easier to notice, of course.
Just another PHP hacker
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I realize I'm not your target user-base, (I browse with no-script and don't own any social media accounts) but you should know that without javascript to load your fonts the default "cursive" font for most people is going to be (what appears to be) comic sans....

https://imgur.com/p1i6P
It's also a popular French name (I know 2 Loics personally...) No idea why this particular user uses this username but, it might not be for the reasons you think...
Why are people defending these practices? This is not a personal attack, but are you so deluded to think that your 2-person startup is in the same league as Apple, Google and Intel?
The photo associated with the "The World Through a Looking Glass" post contradicts the theme of the "The impact of humanity on Earth is humbling from orbit." paragraph. Also it's a bit of a downer to read something like "We are wedded to this planet, for better or for worse, until mass extinction do us part." from an astronaut. I would have hoped for a more Extropian outlook. Does he honestly not think that there's any hope of humanity expanding beyond the Earth and surviving? If so, that's a shame.
Several of the clients that is listed as displaying images by default doesn't do so any more. Yahoo, Hotmail, Apple Mail, Thunderbird, Outlook Express and Entourage are among these IIRC.

Perhaps "decade" was too generous a word to use. Certainly any client that has traction today defaults to not loading images. Now, that certainly doesn't mean that there are no clients that does this, and that no-one changed that setting.
This is referred to as the "fast fashion" business model. H&M and Zara in Europe has been doing it for quite a while already. Wikipedia article here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_fashion

It's not so surprising that they go for this business model, since "fast fashion" retailers have an average profit margin of 16%, compared to 7% for typical retailers, at least according to this source: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&#...

Basically it's "just-in-time" production coupled with "agile"-type response with regards to fashion trends and customer wants.
Hacker News for Marketing?
I'm wondering if there's a Hacker News type site for marketing. I've found a few forums for design.

Browsing forums seems to help me learn through osmosis. Are there any quality forums that discuss marketing?
Twenty years ago I read "Getting to Yes" (http://www.amazon.com/Getting-Yes-Negotiating-Agreement-With...) before I had to negotiate something I really wanted. The skills I learned in that book has helped me every subsequent job I've ever had.

Much of the periodic blogosphere churning about salary negotiation should be eliminated by just posting links to this book.

I'm shocked that the book is not required reading for EVERYONE in the job market.
First: it's the law. Copyright covers "original works of authorship fixed in any tangible medium". It expressly does not cover "procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery". http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/102.html

Second: if curebit used Highrise code verbatim in their product, I bet hell yes there would be tantrum about it.
> I'm not sure I can think of a good reason not to make the switch.

IDLE? Tagged, out-of-order replies?

You can probably make a SPDY-based protocol that does 99% of IMAP, but HTTP is too limited for current IMAP possibilities.
No Infringement Intended - Copyright for the Digital Age.
There are probably several addons and themes to that end, here's one that seems reasonably popular:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/movable-firef...
The JVM is a absolute dream to work with.
We run it on a multi node Cassandra EC2 cluster and on tiny embedded devices. And develop for both those platforms on OS X.

Java the language is optional - it is simply the lowest common denominator on the JVM.
That's not the definition of a cryptographic hash. One of the four requirements of a function being a cryptographic hash function is that "it is infeasible to find two different messages with the same hash."
And as an added bonus, you're reclaiming a lot of your online privacy. Unless that was your main reason to install all these addons in the first place (as is the case for myself). It also tends to speed up page load times, often by magnitudes, because of all the crap some sites want to load.

I've been doing this since years and I seriously do not understand when people complain about extreme RAM usage of their browser. I have 4GB of RAM and often sit at 50-100+ tabs for weeks and don't really have any issues - Firefox Nightly is currently hogging ~16% of my memory according to htop - which is perfectly okay.
Vellvm: Formalizing the LLVM Intermediate Rep for Verified Program Transforms
CEO to the Board: I am indispensable; therefore I need the 10s of millions of dollars as compensation.

CEO to the employee: You are indispensable; therefore you can't leave for a better paying job.
Is it OK to steal content from Hacker News?
Is it OK to republish someone's blog post under your own name?
Is it OK to steal free coupons from your neighbors' mailbox?
Is it OK to steal free phones provided by phone companies (mostly feature phones) ?

If your answer to any of the above is Yes, you probably will think that stealing "Downtown Abbey" is OK. Otherwise, think really hard and try to explain the difference.
I find myself fumbling with the three scroll bars in GMail: Two are owned by GMail, one for the main pane of the UI, and one for the message pane embedded in it. The browser's scroll bar controls scrolling for the contacts displayed on the right side of the window.

A case can be made for this in that all the scroll bars are closest to the content they scroll. But it also points out the unsatisfactory state of having the browser control some scrolling and the active content inside the browser control some of it. This would never fly in the design of any UI library for creating interactive applications.
Global Warming: The Wall Street Journal vs. Science Magazine
Probably depends on whether your hardware supports WebGL and that it is enabled.
Here: Debian Sid with Awesome, Firefox with 12 tabs right now but open for days, bunch of terminals, MySQL, mpd and torrent client: 473MB of actually used memory.
How did your bookshop turn out?
I'm going to have to buy stock in kleenex tissues if this is how this generation is going to whine. We'll be seeing shutdowns of fertile environments a lot in the future.
Here's an explanation of why you pay so much:

http://www.tnl.net/blog/2011/11/06/live-tv-streams-challenge...
Then a cryptographic hash is not what you need.
Show HN: A smarter alarm clock.
Sure, I wouldn't want my employees poached either; from the employer's perspective, it's a pretty nasty thing to deal with. But taking any steps to prevent offers being made is just not ethical.
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Clearance sales are used to clear stock. Other types of sales are used to get shoppers in the door, like promotional sales and loss leaders.
Same thing with London, the tube was built out to "Metroland" which all grew into London. The system was also immensly profitable back in the 1930s...
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Would appreciate ANY feedback from the HN community!
In east Asia, poaching is viewed as bad taste and disloyal. A person has to leave a job first before looking for next job. A company tries to recruit employees from other companies gets blacklisted for a period.

But despite of distaste, people does it.
FYI, Context.io does something similar to this. I know a few YC companies use them.
Google Plus and What Larry Knows
The OP gives his own definition for rebase: git rebasing is taking all your local changes since the last push and put them ahead of other people’s changes regardless of the date you made the commit.

But fails to explain _why_ you'd want to do that. Can anyone fill in that why for me?
It's kinda frustrating for the time being. Menu & ActivityGroup class make up the majority of my app.
I am a not a big fan of his books, even reading a few of them occasionally. But I am really proud of this guy being a brazilian. Great ideas.
That's not the question.

It would be wrong for him to turn down job applications from one of your two employees [on the grounds that they work for you, not based on their not matching his needs] and then inform you that they applied, allowing you to victimise them while torpedoing their own chances at the other company.
Could you clarify in what situation you think G+ is now?
The ones to read about are I guess Ryanair, Easyjet, Virgin. And Freddie Laker before that...
Johnson pointed out that last year, JC Penney had 590 promotions, which made it seem that everyone was always on sale in some form or another. Honestly, that's tremendously confusing for consumers, as you basically can't keep track of what's on sale.

I agree. I wanted to buy a sports jacket at Macy's, but their continuous sales made me wait for a long time. Every time I would just peek into the store; and then convince myself to wait till the next big "sale" came along.

In a sense, it's like the "secretary problem".
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