skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It'll be another ceremony. A parade of metal and glass. A celebration of our supposed progress. Another device for consumption. A window into a walled world. Another false need. Another life not really improved despite their insistence that it is

Please at least spare a thought for those around the world who are too busy trying to stay alive on this day to worry about a new monolith to worship.

I like technology, but I'm a human first.
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Talk to a lawyer. Do not make legally binding decisions based on advice you get from the internet.

But as the other commenters have noted (including the dead guy): do not sign an NDA to talk with an investor. NDAs should not be part of the investment relationship. If they are, the fundamental trust necessary for a working relationship is absent and nothing good will come of it.
it doesn't seem steep to me, but where you live and your ages are two factors you didn't mention (deductible amount is another factor).
I agree with you that the mental health profession has this authoritarian bent, and I'd also say that academia in general seems to have this bent, and like his Einstein example, the modern university isn't very conducive for disruptive people. The emphasis on grades, and yes, "compliance" seems to bias them all the same.
Sounds promising, but I wouldn't normally consider a 14-15" screen "thin and light", and I don't see any statistics on thickness or weight to indicate otherwise.

And the biggest open issue from my perspective: will they have an incredibly good warranty? Always a major concern with a new company in a field, particularly when you don't know if they'll remain in that field for the lifetime of the product. To calibrate expectations: I currently have a ThinkPad, and on the rare occasion that something goes wrong with it, it gets fixed the next day for free. I wouldn't buy any laptop without at least a three-year no-questions-asked warranty, and the end of that warranty period indicates the time to buy a new laptop.
That's a great point, I'll do that.
Minor typo on your about page: Yasiv is a visual diScovery engine.
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So "a lot of people" to you means elite athletes training for competition? I think the BBC article is more about regular people, where 4 minutes of training a week is a lot.
1% conversion rate is ambitious for free-to-paid, especially when your downloads have spiked due to changing the price of your app to free.

Hope you are tracking user retention.
For a scientific study it's really lacking facts which makes this is little more than fluff journalism/science.
It states that someone driving a BMW is more likely to cut someone off then someone driving an economy car. However did they try giving the economy car driver a BMW and see if there was any change in his driving habits?

For example I have an Infiniti(G35), a Lexus(IS250) and a Nissan Economy Box (Versa) and I can tell you from experience I Don't drive the same way in the 120HP Versa that I do in my 300HP (G35 Coupe)

So with that said I could spin the story/data in a different way and have it be equally as true "Sports car owners more likely to cut people off" Well thanks Einstein we really needed a study to prove that one.

The logic is so flawed I don't even know where to begin. They know the difference between correlation and dependence? Venn diagrams? Is seems they took a set a statistics and molded it into the conclusion they wanted without establishing a clear cause/effect relationship based on logic. Everything looks like a nail when all you have is a hammer, and in this case they set out to prove that wealthy people where unethical so that's what they found.
Uh, yes? Spending money you don't have -- I'm not talking about lines of credit here -- is stupid. There's no way to soften it up, it's just a stupid thing to do.
Hey gcv,

What do you mean, exactly, by starting a trading shop? If you mean becoming a broker dealer, that will require certificates and capital - and lots of it! :P
Don't even care anymore.
Is PandoDaily the new TechCrunch? I ask because I think a lot of their former staff moved there.
Why not both? I'm not advocating overtime, but if overtime is needed in a certain period then what's wrong with the company gives out bonus?
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That matches the current icon and label for Maps on iPad.
Ahh, I signed up so long ago I had forgotten.
TFA doesn't say anything about education and background here. I'm curious about whether these results are reproducible for people who earned their wealth through mostly honest businesses, through inheritance, through various dealings in third-world countries, for people who majored in philosophy, for lawyers, for MBAs, for bankers, for hackers, for immigrants, etc.
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Why not give back to the root Nginx project rather than fork or have these features as compilable modules?
I'm curious. What library was used to untangle the web of subreddits? It worked quite well? How do you untangle a web of random nodes & connections?

EDIT: apparently https://github.com/anvaka/VivaGraphJS
VPN, email, AES... really everything on the internet. While it is amazing and revolutionary, concern and awe are not mutually exclusive.

Kinda weird you wouldn't be concerned that within 10-15 years all internet banking as it exists today will be compromised.
Self-diagnosing psychological disorders is a VERY bad idea.
The exercises I've suggested for others applies universally, I reckon.

1) Oral communication: Advertise your office/skype/mobile phone number in your sig or any comms with colleagues. Then solicit them to phone you for any reason. You will get calls. Then talk to them instead of letting it go to voicemail.

2) Written: Prefer e-mail over twitter/sms/irc. Never write one word or sentence rattles unless it is a response in kind. If someone has written a thoughtfully written, detailled and professional email to you, return the favor.

3) When it is more convenient to fire off a quick email or text to someone sitting across the hall, get up and go talk to them instead. This is even more important if you don't know them personally. Introduce yourself, engage in conversation.

4) Nerves are for the nervous. If you aren't nervous in front of friends, relatives, or complete strangers at the grocery store, you shouldn't be nervous in front of your colleagues or bosses. They cut and bleed just as readily as the rest of those you know.
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Never heard of this until now, so was very interested to see the list of enhancements that they have made to nginx. Some of them look quite useful e.g. the logging enhancements and Input body filter support.

This feature caught my eye:
- Combines multiple CSS or JavasScript requests into one request to reduce the downloading time

I wonder how they achieve this at the webserver level? Normally something like this is done as part of the deployment/compile process. Anybody familiar with Tengine care to comment?
Apple better shut down, give up, and let Dell run everything. Apple doesn't stand a chance.

http://news.cnet.com/2100-1001-203937.html (1997)
We have a home-brewed scraper and parser (written in C#) at Feedity - http://feedity.com and let me tell you - it's one thing to scrape data but to derive information out of it is not as easy.
I would actually suggest a third alternative, the Macbook Pro 13". I have had all three laptops:

1. Macbook 15": Awesome specs, but it is pretty heavy and is not the most convenient if you want to code on the plane.
2. Macbook 13": Middling specs with a DVD drive. It is almost as small and almost as light as the Air.
3. Macbook Air: It is extremely light but I find the fact that I can't upgrade the RAM annoying. The battery life is pretty good but my main gripe against the Air is the fact that the keyboard is subtly more cramped as compared to the Pros. (This becomes an issue when you press the power button instead of the delete).
If you hate your job and have no interest in the success of your company, good advice. If you love your job, there's nothing wrong doing it a bit more. I sometimes see myself work 12 hours a day just because I can't get my mind of a coding problem. And I sincerely hope the company I work for become successful.
I'm just gonna think outloud here, stream of consciousness style, cuz I think this is an interesting debate, and I've reached the end of my usefulness for the day. Here goes:

I believe there are several degrees to which "adapting the world to oneself" could apply. You're clearly state an example where one goes too far, but at that point, is the person changed from anti-authoritarian, to THE authoritarian?

In general, I see what you are getting at, but I think you are taking parts too literally. Or, at least the way I see it, "kites rise against the wind" is the kind of mentality.

Another possible answer to your question: Who is defining progress? Did Hitler "make progress"? Not in our eyes, not it today's society, but would a German from the 30's tell you that? He certainly changed the world, I think we can hold that to fact.

I'm just going to spew another quote, cuz my brain just leaks inspirational bumper stickers... "Those crazy enough to think they can change the world, are often those who do."
I agree. Nothing in the feature list looks compelling for a fork versus making modules or submitting a patch back.
It looks like a classic innovator's dilemma case - moving upmarket because they can't beat the disruptive competition at the "lower-end". I expect most "PC leaders" to follow Dell's strategy in the next 5-10 years. Intel and Microsoft will be forced to do the same, if nothing else because they will still consider them their customers.
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Non-conformance, and non-compliance against authority runs the risk of being separated out from the pack, and being treated differently... Does this have any relevance to the debate over ADHD - i.e. there are some that believe a 'good old-fashioned spanking' would set things right.
If I were you I wouldn't be feeling guilty. Its not the design that made me feel guilty. It was knowing that the author deserved to get paid for the work while not paying. So in my case I got something valuable for free. I think it's great to be able to get it, read a bit, then decide its not worth money and not pay if you don't find it valuable. But while this is great, I think there's danger on both sides. The author is giving it for free, allowing you to preview and decide the worth. Awesome. But if you've gotten it already for free and decide its worth your money, like in my case, what's to stop you from never going back to pay. You have to find the link again (which admittedly is super easy to remember -good job) then go through the payment process. There's not much of a barrier to paying after the fact but there still is one. I promised to pay but how will anyone ever know?

So what's the best thing to do? Give it away free and hope the honor system works or force payment and have unhappy customers? I don't see a best answer here, unfortunately.
Obligatory XKCD:
http://xkcd.com/678/
Come to Texas. We have cheap cost of living and baller-as-hell problems to work on, whether you want games or graphics or oil & gas.
I am working at a Big4 company and thinking about having a side income, eventually full time. I am able to code tweak some php/rails/html/css.

Have you ever thought about starting out with niche sites for your/our industry? Please leave your email somewhere, i think we should talk; i have some thoughts floating around (niche websites for CPAs/ACCA members). Let me know if you're interested.
Except that it's not legally valid in the U.S. or in Europe, where courts will not and cannot enforce a copyright which has not been registered with a recognized copyright authority (i.e., the U.S. copyright office or its equivalents in the European Union).

You are on the border line of committing fraud when you state that your are providing free copyright registration, because you are not. You are providing free third-party copyright registration, but that is not the same thing.

(IAAL, and I have done copyright litigation.)
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There were a lot of people (9to5mac, mashable, etc) talking about this picture on the invite. They're talking about an iPad in portrait mode, and without the home button. Whole long comments about this new iPad without the home button, etc. Does anyone else think this is a touch TV? There's nothing in the invite pic to preclude TV-like dimensions for this device. My money is on an iPad event, and a "oh. One more thing!" TV unveiling at the end...
It's incredibly frustrating to want, more than anything, to build a cross-platform mobile app that _feels_ native and still it's not a realistic expectation.

I'm still pushing my team forward on using jQuery Mobile. I was hoping, praying, that the biggest UX issues would be solved by the time we were ready to launch our app. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like that will be the case.

My biggest issue is one that seems minor on paper, but is infuriating as a user. I'm talking about the 200ms tap delay that is prevalent inside any Mobile Safari instance. I've seen dozens of "fixes" for this issue published in jQuery Mobile builds, but here we are, at March of 2012, and apps still feel incredibly sluggish due to this tap delay.

I'm going to have my devs take a hard look at the behavior to see if they can code up a bespoke solution, but golly, I was really hoping we wouldn't need to waste our time.
Very interesting, however it makes Firefox 10.0.2 crash if you refresh the page or click off the collusion tab then back on to it. At least it does in Linux.

Will try it out on OS X later ...
TechCrunch was always shitty, people are just noticing now.
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I was thinking more along the lines of proprietary trading. There is no regulatory oversight for risking your own money, and the amounts required to get started are reasonably modest. See, e.g., http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9s9d7/iama_100_automat...
Modern telecoms cable is some amazing stuff. These days there's no metal in the entire cable. Instead, it's all lasers through glass fiber, and when the signal attenuates, it gets boosted by passing through sections of doped fiber that lase using power from another beam, adding power to the signal. And we can do this just as easily as the people back then dropped telegraph cable. For me, at least, there's always something to be impressed by.
With all due respect, I don't think this is a strong enough reason against Sencha.

Just because jQuery Mobile lets you use HTML, it doesn't mean that it's easy to swap it with some other library. I think jQuery Mobile will dictate how your HTML looks like to a certain degree. If you ever decide to change the library, I think you will have to re-do the whole UI anyway just like Sencha.

I am not saying that there can not be other reasons to not use Sencha, but in my opinion, this one is not.
What took you so long?
I get told fairly often that I write/communicate well. I learned a lot of that by participating in online discussions. Trying to say something clearly so it is not wildly misinterpretted is really challenging. Having the chance to clarify when it has been wildly misinterpretted is a valuable growth experience. I suggest you start posting a lot more than you do currently, if not here than elsewhere.
I'd say it's certainly unethical to hoard wealth, because you've taken money out of the pool, so no one else can access it, and you really have no use for it (except maybe as an instrument to acquire more wealth). However, I don't think that becoming wealthy is necessarily an unethical act, because you could use that wealth to do ethically justifiable things.
I just shot you an email, but this seems like a reasonable place to note that my employer (Twitter) is hiring like mad, and we definitely have some big data to work with:

https://twitter.com/jobs/home
Though Apple may be impressive, I actually find Dell's complete supply chain much much more impressive. Sure they're rough around the edges for the "experience", but nothing a couple of expensive consultants can't fix. Maybe a mindset change is needed though. I think with some reinventing they can pull it off. Creating a tablet (Dell Streak), pulling back and then planning more tablets is such a "half move"...
The opensource page suggests they're open to merging with 1.1. I'm hopeful that happens. It would be a shame for these patches to live on a fork.

Unfortunately the more interesting features -- input filters and file composition -- appear undocumented.
A Wikipedia entry on this very dilemma/process: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie-to-children .. It's also known as Wittgenstein's Ladder based on this proposition in Ludwig Wittgenstein's work:

My propositions serve as elucidations in the following way: anyone who understands me eventually recognizes them as nonsensical, when he has used them - as steps - to climb beyond them. He must, so to speak, throw away the ladder after he has climbed up it.
I have not heard about Roganwald until this thread, and feel this is a great opportunity to learn about him. I will check out the book for free, and if it offers value for me (teach me stuff i did not already know), i will happily go back and make a contribution.
This headline is rather link-baity. In the context of the full quote, it's clear that he isn't saying they're not a PC company, but that they aren't just a PC company. Similarly, someone at Apple might say, "We aren't a company that designs cool phone hardware."
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Yes, a reviewer just hits "reply" and either adds an "Acked-by: Full Name <email@example.com>" or responds to individual bits of the quoted patch with feedback on what needs fixing. Exactly the process followed on lists like LKML.

The patch author then adds the "Acked-by" lines to their commit messages (right after their "Signed-off-by"), and pushes the patches.
Yes, but Apple never shows the Maps icon in the dock of the iPad in PR photography.
Well, say you take a back-lighted image of a person against the sky.

Your camera software chooses the shutter speed, aperture and iso sensitivity according to some formula like average lighting in the scene. But the real world has such huge dynamics so that basically either the whole sky is washed out or then you can't make out the person's face.

So basically all the pixels where the sky light falls on, oversaturate.
If you lower the shutter speed, sensitivity and aperture so that the sky stays just below saturation, then you conversely catch very very few photons from the person. The person may appear pitch black or at best, really noisy, since the photons are so few. With noise, you often actually get color noise since because of the Bayer mask, the single photons hit random color pixels here and there. It looks really bad and cheap. Actually, that's the tell tale sign of low dynamic range and tiny pixels.

What do people do with even 12 megapixel 4000x3000 images? I'd settle with 2000x1500 - still greater than any resolution on any of the screens I own, and the dynamic range could potentially be better. The full res images look really bad and noisy anyway.

Actually, most of internet's picture content is just too large photos which for the most part don't contain any useful information: below some resolution you are just recording noise. I've set my compact to 5 megapixels.

Yet we haven't seen the end of wasted bit proportion. Phones recording full HD video and later 4K and 8K will explode the data demands a thousand times. Everybody will watch those resized to much smaller resolutions too.
The headline is linkbait: they said they're not just a PC company, they're primarily an enterprise-oriented company. Of course, this is a given; that's where most of the profit is.

Dell still makes money off their personal computers, but the margins are simply way higher when selling to corporate. Personal computers have a huge amount of competition and support is expensive.

And though iPads are probably hurting Dell somewhat, I suspect the effect is a little different from 'people switching to tablets'. Rather, most people don't have money to afford both a new iPad and a new PC. While in the past, upgrading ones PC every few years has often been a given, many people will pick the iPad over the the new computer if upgrading doesn't really seem to offer much value in comparison.

They'll keep using their PC -- it's just that they're not buying a new one from Dell.

The low-end PC market is very saturated and very low-margin; even if Dell still has a lot of sales, they're going to talk about the thing that makes them the most profit.
You had a bad experience (and it was a bad experience) with one doctor, and you're writing off two professions?

A simpler course of action would have been to write a gentle complaint letter. In England you'd start by getting advice from Patient Advice and Liaison (PALs) who help you through the process.
The Verge has great content, but damn, does their site design suck. It looks nice enough, but it hangs my browser even on top-of-the-line computers. I usually end up surfing the mobile site (mobile.theverge.com) even on my PCs.
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textbooks - this was a flaw in the kindle for technical books, and Apple has a textbook business in place

consoles - although we might need to wait for the next generation for matching GPU power
Ask HH: Why big companies with very smart engineers stop innovating?
I wonder why companies when then become big stop innovating. All these managers read Innovator Dilemma but still they stop innovating.

For example, we all know that Google has very very smart engineers. So I wonder why Google stop innovating?

The last disruptive innovation by Google was Gmail (I think).

Android is copy of iPhone (not Google innovation), Google+ is essentially copy Facebook, Google App Engine is answer on AWS/Heroku, etc.

I have been reading Innovator Dilemma and other books by Christensen but I would like to understand a little more what are dynamics inside big companies preventing disruptive innovations.

I would like to start discussion and inside stories from big companies about their attempts and failures to start disruptive innovations.
The sentence is mathematically true and also completely useless. Either there will be an Android in every pocket, or not.
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We got a 97.08% increase in our yearly vote to give away a website!
It's funny that some of the areas that he touches on are also things where Windows requires local admin. Clearly a messed up privileged action model seems to be common across OSes.
This is ridiculous. I frequently have 6+ pockets when I leave the apartment, and there is no possible use-case for an android in every one.
Dell's supply chain is very impressive, but so is Apple's.

And user experience is "nothing a couple of expensive consultants can't fix"? Really?
Tests are less expensive to run than a codereview, but they take time to write, and rewrite, and rewrite (you software isn't perfect the first time).
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Last I looked into it, it was valid in most European courts and the exception was U.K. and U.S. who have an extra layer of extortion above the Berne Convention which requires registration with their system in order to be accepted into the court. Spain, Italy and the others accept what MFC provides and is why there are a ton of services started in these countries like the following:
http://www.dmca.com/
http://easytimestamping.com/
http://www.safecreative.org/
http://myows.com/
https://depotcode.com/
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