skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been wearing a shirt and tie since I was 18. The only t-shirts I own are the oversized ones I pick up on random occasions (get them as a bonus when buying something for example) and I only ever sleep in them.

This isn't to say I wear the same shirt an tie. Obviously I own dozens but the point is when I dress in the morning all I have to do is:

- grab any socks and pants,

- grab any shirt, trousers and jacket (they are all toned down and guaranteed not to clash),

- and now (the ONLY time I exert my half-asleep brain) pick a tie that isn't too offensive

You are dressed for any occasion, regardless how (in)formal. Never need to think about what to wear, don't need to own different clothes for different occasions, never need to buy new clothes simply because of fashion changes - shirt and tie has been around for decades and is likely to stay until well after I'm dead. The only time I buy new clothes is when I retire old ones due to wear and tear.

Served me well all my life. Never felt overdressed and my friends forgive me if I ever am but the point is that perfect strangers will react positively and are more likely to treat you well and trust you.
You guys should show off the real product and its potential without the signups. Work hard on the landing page!
You do not need to run a surplus to pay back government debt. Debt payments are and will be included in the regular annual budget of the U.S. government.

In fact an annual surplus creates additional government debt because the only place the U.S. federal government can store profit is in U.S. Treasury bonds (see: the Social Security "trust fund"). This is why there was so much interest in refunding the surplus to taxpayers.

Now is a great time for the U.S. to be borrowing, because everyone wants to give us their money. Treasury yields continue to hover well below their historical averages. Even at long-run average rates of economic growth and inflation, we will stay ahead of today's Treasury yields and afford our payments.

So: your numbers might be accurate (I don't have the time to check them), but your assumption that we can never pay our debt is flawed.
I suspect it might only be in the Firefox beta stream? (In which case, I'm surprised to see the OP mention iOS).
Wait - that's not a "salesperson" in the traditional sense, is it? A traditional salesperson calls on clients, closes deals, and gets paid a commission for each sale. A "sales team" is a team of such salespeople. A salesperson couldn't care less about a lot of things you listed ("... staying on top of the blogs/social networks"). A salesperson cares about finding qualified leads, calling those leads, following up with those leads, and closing deals (and ideally for 1000+ units at a time in your case).

An "affiliate marketer" posts ads and gets paid a commission per action (account created, sale). The affiliate marketers want to create a buzz and get people talking about a product. Affiliate marketers though are thinking "One sale at a time" rather than "1000 units per sale". I think you could easily find affiliate marketers - that's never, ever going to be difficult as long as you are willing to pay a significant enough percentage (30%-50% will attract the better ones).

I'd just advise caution here and perhaps a little more study. You wouldn't be the first guy who some affiliate marketer "tricked" into signing an exclusive contract only to then learn that the affiliate marketer couldn't/wouldn't really sell your product...
Not at all.

Even from a Bayesian perspective, having a small sample that is too small to reach strong conclusions does not shift your posterior towards 0.
I thought the same, then saw each entry has 'fancy subs', so she would swap the hoodie for a cardigan and a classier t-shirt for the band one (unless, of course, it's one for The Departed)

It seems like she still has quite a lot of clothes to own.

A story from growing up: a friend and I were about to play strip poker with his second cousin. Not wanting to lose too bad, we both put on everything we possibly could, including gloves and even paper face masks (being nervous young teens, we kinda missed the point of strip poker was to lose). In total we were each able to bring our total number of losable items before nakedness to 18. Fronting up to the cousin, she laughed and counted out her clothes - her everyday clothing totalled 18 items... even now, I can't remember what they all were, but I remember being gobsmacked at the time. Parents came home before that story went any further, though.
How is this useful? I don't get it.
There is no way I'd ever remember those dance moves.
By knowing what looks good (in general and on you), you save yourself a lot of time. After a few odd years back in high school when I cared as a function of being different, I started to realize that I can get dressed in a matter of two minutes just by having the predetermined knowledge of what works. Over 15 years later and it hasn't failed me yet. In the end, I look fine or good enough and I don't waste time choosing or caring too much.

In essence, I suppose I've created a "reminder app" for myself in the sense that I've freed myself of having to think too much about things that should be automated.
In an ideal universe I think they did everything right. On the other hand, knowing what we know about the state of the popular press and the imagination of the internet it might have been worth being a little more careful to make it clearer that this is probably just an experimental error.
So you think you want to teach HS computer science?
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shrug That's not too much different than "It sure seems like I spent a long time thinking about how to not think about how to build and deploy my app". Put think time in now, so that you don't have to spend it later (or every day)
Painting, modelling and theory; writing, reading & comprehension. These are practice. Getting your painting into a gallery or your book into the hands of an unobligated reader - that is execution.

In Civil Engineering, we ran problem after problem in school. Nothing I do now professionally in civil design resembles the practice I did in school.

Which is just to say, execution should be the goal of ALL programs, but none seem to come close.

[edit] it's Friday morning and I'm done; any suggestions for a synonym for 'unobligated'?
Highly doubt this would just be about taxing U.S.-based websites. Clearly the article is biased. Anyone know what the benefits of such a tax could bring? Let's see the other side of the coin..
Thanks for pointing that out. I'll work on it to make it better.
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It's amazing how right, and wrong, Mark Cuban was. He correctly identified several aspects of the video market over a 15 year period, although he was a little optimistic with his timeline. IMO, timelines are the hardest part of prognostication. It's easy to say "X, Y, and Z are going to happen." It's much, much harder to say when those things are going to happen.

It's also funny/interesting to read perceptions on how dominant everyone anticipated Intel becoming. In the context of this interview, it really becomes clear just how bad a job Intel has done at reaching the non-PC market. Intel is still fighting to become the dominant player for devices like set-top-boxes.
You have to adjust the work factor to keep up with the computing power of your potential attackers. The number and total power of computers connected to the Internet available to do work for crackers will increase faster than the power available to your web server for authentication.

And it also depends on people actually making the adjustment (and creating the infrastructure to support those changes over time). We already have big organizations failing to keep up in so many ways. Why would we expect them to continue fine-tuning their bcrypt parameters?

As I said, bcrypt is an arms race.
If either Presidential candidate put software patent abolition as a primary platform topic, that'd be an automatic vote from me.
I am getting quite sick of this. I have no interest in an iPhone and was looking forward to the Galaxy S III (have a Nexus S currently).

Why is Apple so fearful of competition?

Companies learn from each other. That is how we progress. Especially when it comes to designs.

Imagine the early car manufacturers would have behaved like Apple... "Hey, you can't have a slanted windshield, because I have a design patent on it". Bah.
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I think I'm at 3 decent pairs of pants. Light, dark, black. Maybe 8-10 dress shirts/polos to go with them in total.

Boatload of old tshirts though.
A good point and one that I've also made further down. Spend it initially so you don't have to spend it later. Can't explain how much time it's saved me over the years.
Maybe they are troubled of competition with the Galaxy phones that is why they are moving this kind of move.
Red Hat deal with Microsoft is a bad idea
Considerations when sharding
...she came off as a stylish

The author is definitely NOT stylish by any reasonable definition of this word. Hence the difference in the wardrobe size. Things like "ethical" or "green" consumption only make situation worse.
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The trouble with defense in depth is that you have to admit your existing defenses may be inadequate. I can see how that could be politically difficult in a large organization.
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I was expecting this to be a password strength checker, that showed a woman stripping based on how strong your password was... As an insentive
Not entirely on-topic but SuperGenPass and probably similar bookmarklets has a security problem:

http://akibjorklund.com/2009/supergenpass-is-not-that-secure
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This may be just speaking from my own experience, but I think a lot of women do appreciate the uniformity in men's clothing. And frankly, are jealous as hell.

Its much more difficult, IMO, to be a woman and dress simply and look consistently "nice" than it is for a man, who can throw on pants and a polo/dress shirt and look classy.
It is entirely appropriate to criticize Iran on its own merits. You can argue that it is hypocritical to do so, but it does nothing to mitigate the facts against the Iranian government, which are many. And while it is true that there are executions in Texas, a lack of rights for gays in the US, etc, you wouldn't want to try to argue that Iranians have it better...or would you?
Interesting,
try typing in "handsup"
or "handsdown"
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Will write code for a couch
I am coming to San Fransisco for WWDC this weekend and I need a place to stay. Trying to save some money... if you have a spare room (or couch) for nextweek, I'd like to write some code in trade. Either your existing project or creating a concept/prototype. I do iOS, Rails and .Net for living. Could be fun!
> Why is Apple so fearful of competition?

Because the battle with Android is going to have the same result as Windows vs. Mac did back in the 90s. If you look at the market share numbers, it's clearly trending in that direction. Apple is, of course, desperate to stop this by any means necessary, and that includes litigation.
Aren't you going to have a really hard time being at all price-competitive with all that middleman-ness?
They are fearful maybe because they might be beaten by the small player.
if you have a product thats selling so well, is growing organically, and is already build...why would you ever consider outside funding?
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I think it comes from a background of having to decide what to wear to make a statement, something that men don't usually have to do on a daily basis, but is common for a lot of women, especially women in some form of design industry. I guess changing the training of years can be a major mental shift - good luck to her, and it can be thinned out even more as time goes on.
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My first thought was that they probably couldn't fit much into the front page unless they're just going to make it up.
Theoretically, sure. But I can't think of a nice way to authorise users on something like [1]. They'd then need a computer with the radio to provide some kind of access code, I guess?

[1] http://www.robertsradio.co.uk/Products/Internet_radios/STREA...
This is a drastic move for Apple
I disagree. There's simply no way that the IDE can know everything about a variable without running the code and I don't believe that eclipse does this.

It's ok at refactoring but it breaks down all the time for me, renaming unrelated variables or missing cases. I don't believe it can handle kwargs for example (no computer in front of me, feel free to prove me wrong)
Like the idea. One suggestion - the value at json._links.self will often be a unique identifier. Maybe some provision can be made for this to live at a top level, like json._id

There are strong arguments against that idea I'm sure, but consider the boon to adoption you can get by having the only required thing be a top-level element not a nested attribute
Fashion makes a lot more sense when it's treated as a language (and one that women have a multiple-decade head start on versus men in our society). Then this article is less about how the author found a way to think less about fashion and more about how the author is using the language of fashion to communicate something different and interesting about herself. Regardless of the "reasoning" for doing it, that's what's really happening here: she's expressing herself through this medium, in a surprisingly different and interesting way.
I agree - the connection string does look ugly and isn't very node-like, but you don't have to write it that often. It's also the standard for connection strings as mentioned by others, so other Windows/Microsoft devs will find it familiar.

The big deal about all of this is that Node.js can now connect to SQL Server, through a Microsoft developed module. For anyone working at a company that is a Microsoft-based shop (like myself), this is big step to getting to use Node.js at work.

Regarding being Windows only, if an enterprise is running SQL Server, they are probably running Windows enterprise wide, or have at lease a couple application servers running windows. I don't think it is that harsh of a limitation.
That must suck on really hot days. Where does this guy live?

Having read this whole thread, y'know what's even better than wearing the same thing every day? Not wearing the same thing every day. I have a bunch of different clothes, and deciding which of 'em to put on really doesn't take that much time out of my day.
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I'd agree with that statement - however I really don't feel that that happened here. I guy did they a favor, and wanted to give them ownership over it. Im sure he would have removed it if requested.
The author appears to misunderstand statistical significance when he makes claims such as "the existence of a static type system has neither a positive nor a negative impact on ... development time."

The mean development time for dynamically typed languages is about 30% shorter in his first experiment, and it is about 20% shorter in the second experiment.

Statistical significance test determines how likely this difference would be if the difference development time in a large population was 0... It doesn't mean that the true effect actually is 0... it's just addressing whether we can completely rule that out.

A more accurate summary of his results would be "Dynamic type systems allowed 20% to 30% faster development in my experiments, but I had too few participants to reject equality."
"If given a complete lack of want, I'm convinced the majority of the world's population will choose to do nothing creative with it"

I don't know if I agree - I think if you move up Maslow's hierarchy of needs and they no longer 'want' the basics, they will allow themselves to advance into the 'higher stages' and then desire to fulfill those needs such as socializing, sex, etc. But presumably if those things all come easily as well, they will then move further up the line into creative expression, etc.

I know I've been most creative when I didn't need to be, and everything else in my life was more or less 'taken care of', and I suspect many people would have the same experience.
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This study starts with a bizarre premise. I've never heard anyone, ever suggest that statically typed languages make initially writing a program faster. Very much the opposite, java apologists claim that their slower development time is offset by easier maintenance and less bugs, explicitly acknowledging that initial development is slower in a java-esque static language.

Of course, the static typing proponents you find on HN are generally not advocating incredibly limited type systems like java or the one used in this "study". I find it hard to believe that a language with such a limited type system is representative of languages with useful type systems like ocaml or haskell.
This approach also seems to include a dependency on being in San Francisco or other places like much of California where weather remains rather constant during the year. A New Yorker wouldn't be wearing a hoodie in July or August or a T-shirt in January.
Here's my pet unprovable theory. Development time is dominated by a programmer's understanding of a problem. Static languages force programmers to say a lot about their understanding of a problem.

Dynamic code can be very fast, but in lisp, after algorithms, that means actually going and finding all of the calls to elt and replacing them by calls to nth. With a static language the compiler has a much better chance of specializing the code for you.
I'm curious what impact such actions have on the market visibility of the product being sued. Basically, will this make more people take a closer notice of the Samsung Galaxy S III and pay attention to it, then would have otherwise, and then have a positive impact on sales (unless some stupid judge blocks the sale).

In other words, will the impact on Apple be more adverse than if it would have not sued at all.

Some of this data might help convince litigious companies that this does not help them in the long run.
this will not end well for you.
Does this fit your needs ?
wget -q -O - http://www.ec2instances.info/ | perl -nl0e 'print "\n" if /<.tr>/;print "$1;" if /<td.>(.)<.td>/ or /<th.>(.)<.th>/'
Well, I'm certainly glad they managed to fit a legible advert on the front page.
Could not have said it better myself. It kind of makes me like a product more.
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I agree that they are practice in some sense, but the end result is valuable immediately. When I was a young student, I would take my painting, science experiment or short story home to show my mom. When I did well in math I showed my grade, not the actual work. Here is where we find perception of activity vs. successful comprehension.

Math is not valuable unless it has purpose and if some are not given purpose they will stop investigating it. It's easy to categorize those who have that viewpoint. As someone who found math later in life on my own terms, I can say that it was much more enjoyable than what was being taught as a student.

This was foretold in each math class I had in the schools I attended. There was always a "Math is necessary for..." poster on the wall in the classroom, and yet, no other class had a "Art is necessary for..." or "History is necessary for..." poster. We've identified the problem. Now what do we do about it?

Language Studies (aside from immersion) also could benefit from being more execution-oriented. For me, 4 years of French class was easily lapped by a month in Quebec.
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I wish I had that kind of freedom while deciding what to wear at work.

Right now it's dockers, dress shoes and dress shirts every single day.

I really never understood what forcing a strict dress code on your employees is supposed to accomplish.
For the past 5 years I've been owning a single pair of shoes. In January of each year I give away the old pair and get a new one.
I like cubiq's solution:

http://cubiq.org/remove-onclick-delay-on-webkit-for-iphone

It uses event capturing so you can bind the listener to an outer div containing many buttons, rather than each button individually.
I haven't seen evidence of that. Also note that this model opens up many potential revenue streams for us and our partnered forums.

For reference, to list a part on eBay Motors at the average value of a part in this market without any of their upgrades, and including PayPal fees it costs a seller about 13% to sell on eBay.

For buyers products purchased on Styckyd may end up being lower cost than on other sites. This is because we handle and pay for the shipping. When volume increases we will have the advantages of economies of scale and can pass savings in shipping costs to the end user. So selling on Styckyd would make it cheaper to the buyer than selling anywhere else (assuming the same sale value of the part).

With that said, we're not aiming to be the lowest priced.

Edit for clarity.
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In either a daily or weekly version, you'll get links to great HN articles from the past five years. A great way to see how HN has grown and changed, plus see what was going on at different times. Lastly, there are a ton of great reads to learn from that I never saw the first go around. Would love to get feedback and my goal is to expand this past HN in the future.
I thought that was how you were supposed to adjust the mirrors!

Though I think on some cars this arrangement can leave a blind spot one more lane over (the one next to the one next to you) which isn't as big of a deal since they won't normally be able to cause a problem or even exist on most roads. I haven't finished reading the article but if his mirror solves that issue too it's still an improvement.
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It also helps a little with reverse parking.
Samsung's a bit larger than Apple.

And Apple has said before that they'd rather have these companies (Samsung, HTC, etc) make a license agreement for the patents (like Microsoft's and HTC's deal with each other) rather than sue them or try to block the sale of their products.

It's not like Apple's the only one that does this either, most recently Motorola/Google tried to block iPhone/iPad sales in Germany over iCloud.
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Same reason two plus two equals four.
My father has minor tremors. I wonder to what extent the feature purposefully -- or inadvertently -- assists such people.