skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If other things in life are higher on your list of priorities, accept that you are making a trade-off that is right for you. [...] You have chosen different rewards.

Yes! I used to work with someone who, when someone suggested, "That's a career-limiting move", would say, "I don't want a career, I want a job." (He is a brilliant engineer, by the way.) His point was that he had other goals than promotions. Having that job was simply his way of having enough money to fund the toys that made his life fun.

Years ago I made a choice to move to a rural area; there are no decent tech jobs within a 1 hour commute. On occasion I've had to work away from home for extended periods, but for the most part I've been a full-time telecommuter. I drive a couple of hours to an office to spend a day every other week, or once a month, depending on the organization. I'm "missing out" on advancing my career, but the money is still decent, I get to put my kids to bed every night, I can water the garden at lunchtime -- and pick a fresh salad, etc.
HN isn't only for tech articles. It's for articles that may interest the tech community. You'll often find posts on politics, finance, and other obscure topics as well.
Can you get an MIT education for less than $2000?
This has always been the rule in Brazil. In Uruguay you can open an account in pesos, dollars, or euros (but it is a very small country that depends on banking, like the swiss). Are there other countries where you can open an account with a foreign currency?
It's easier to forget the dark ages of a company if you didn't use their products while they were struggling. Nobody's perfect over a long enough time frame.
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Don't let the door hit you on your way out of PHP-saloon.
4chan's comment system is awful. I still don't really understand how it works. It seems like they could improve the design and pipe in new comments as they arrive, thus negating all the extra server load caused by browser extensions refreshing every second.

Of course, I have no experience dealing with ~1B page views/month.
This is more of a real-life Surrogates, a movie which focuses on mind-controlled robots, whereas Avatar focuses on mind-controlled human/alien hybrid clones.
Minecraft videos are regularly in the top 10 most viewed on YouTube. I think it's that Minecraft is huge plus the players are very engaged on the internet with it.
hey, that's an excellent definition!
This isn't about changing someone's work, it's about effective collaboration. What's obvious to you may not be obvious to me. Whether it's an application or copy for a homepage, there are subtleties that a reviewer will miss.

What makes a good application "great" isn't obvious. It's the little things hidden in the details. Often, we don't even notice the details. That's what makes great applications so difficult to replicate: you can't enumerate their greatness in a bullet-point list.

Likewise with great copywriting. If you don't trust that every word your co-founder wrote has importance, and that you should at least review with them before making changes, then you didn't pick the right co-founder. It's ok to work toward improvement, but that work shouldn't be performed unilaterally.

Finding it in yourself to trust those around you is a difficult trait to acquire, but it's essential to strong team building.
iOS's launcher looks pretty much exactly like Windows 3.1's program manager. It's almost like grids are a natural way to arrange square icons, or something.
If all utilities are included it is a bit more of a deal if you ask me. That and weekly cleaning and counting the living space as a hacker space (of which membership could cost you a hundred+ a month).
The Ryno: Why two wheels when you need just one?
The costs of shopping is more go beyond money, there's time and bother, too. If I'm out of coffee on Sunday morning, I have an extra trip to the grocery at an inconvenient time. If it's Tuesday morning before work, then my options are more constrained.

The larger amount allows a person to hedge against a future shortage for the same cash outlay. The shopper already planned to spend $10, and getting more today gives them flexibility in the future, e.g. the regular weekly shopping trip can be moved from Saturday morning to Monday after work because there is adequate coffee on hand thereby allowing Saturday morning to be spent gardening.

Conversely, in terms of flexibility, the discounted coffee does not offer any direct correlation to convenience - I cannot hire someone to go coffee shopping for me on Sunday morning with the savings. Furthermore to achieve the flexibility offered by the larger size, I have to spend significantly more than the $10 I intended and purchase two 10 ounce packages - doubling my coffee expenses for the week -- storing an 10 additional ounces may also be more inconvenient than storing 3.3 additional ounces.

People pay for convenience all the time and doing so is economically rational. Without an accounting of how such habits may impact purchase decisions in the overall conclusions are not quite justified.

But more importantly, the design of the study based upon an undergraduate student population performing an activity at which they have little experience - grocery shopping - does not necessarily reflect the purchasing habits of more experienced shoppers with a life time of coffee addiction behind them.
from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash

Hash may refer to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_table

i'm sure it's not just you though, people get annoyed over whole bunch of things
Reminds me of a "datacenter" me and some house-mates built in a basement when in uni.

We stuck the servers on top of a few pallets so they wouldn't be submerged in water when it rained. The power was fed from the living room above and the network cables pushed through gaps in the floor boards to all the bedrooms. The adsl router was nailed to the wall on the top floor above the beer fridge and ran smoothwall I think it was.

We even tried running a serial link for a monitoring terminal in the living room over standard audio cable .. it kinda worked .. and was called teethanet for some reason.

Overall it worked like a charm and I don't remember there ever being downtime .. even when there was a foot of water surrounding the servers.
Airbnb: No place like someone else's home
Thank you for that deeplearning link; I guess that's my missing link! I did Google for that many times and it's the first hit, so I have no clue how I missed that. Anyway, thanks!
Immutable simply means there is no way to change the data once you are given the object. That does not mean the impl is a clone.

In any case, ruby is really missing something as good as this. Very nice stuff. Wish that it did not require "new" syntax compared to ruby's nice [ ] and { }. But whatever. This is a problem that will exist on any collection innovation.
Ask HN: How many visitors make registration on your web tools sites?
I have had more than 100 unique visitors and only one inactive registration.

The main idea is: Track numbers, prices on other sites,watch changes on charts. Share on your sites or social networks.

The first fail was that I had only one button signup on default page.
I corrected it, put on all pages with description “Create your own charts,track numbers and prices. ” , but no changes.

Usually people come to example pages
like “Codeproject members count” http://tracknums.com/Sh/Page/2e0346ac-ed58-487f-8154-3396e94a2533

or “Barack Obama vs Mitt Romney "Talking" on Facebook” http://tracknums.com/Sh/Page/47c02aaf-ea52-4fd8-a213-86acff4c2f44

or C# jobs count
http://tracknums.com/Sh/Page/04ba6fcb-20a8-47a4-b12c-7d3feff89160

Maybe people don’t understand idea of site or idea isn’t interesting ?

P.S.
Thank you for your attention.
Could you elaborate on this? Seems like an interesting point.
The guidelines indicate that most political articles are off topic:

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. it's probably off-topic.

Political articles really should not be here: it's a poisonous topic that, on a site like this, usually just rehashes the same old things, which makes them not particularly 'gratifying of one's intellectual curiosity'.

This article isn't really obscure, it appeared on Bloomberg.com, and the Argentinean government fooling around with foreign exchange, banks, and statistics is not really news either.

An example of an article that I think would be more in the spirit of hacker news might be something about options trading evolving between medieval Florence and Flanders, or something like that...
Kind of funny that the Chicago Tribune turns to Reuters to report the opinions of a man who lives in Chicago.
And as I mentioned, several of those bugs in Chrome had been reported, and subsequently closed without the root cause ever being identified and fixed.

Link?
I am not sure if this helps but posted yesterday on HN - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4200931 (Good for newbies like myself)
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Is this actually more powerful hardware than the Nexus 7? I don't get the impression that the CPU is faster. And it while it does have an amp, it does not have a 7" IPS display with a capacitive touchscreen. If anything, I would expect the Nexus Q to be cheaper to build if they were built in the same quantities.
You can open dollar and euro accounts in the UK. Don't know if it gets any more niche than that (aside from being able to open accounts in £ ;).
This is one reason why Bitcoin can be useful. Maybe this will lead to additional Bitcoin adoption in Argentina.
There are many more papers and presentations on this topic at Ron Kohavi's MS group's home page, http://www.exp-platform.com/Pages/default.aspx. Most of these papers are worth a read, as they dissect how and where online experimentation can really muck things up if not handled properly. Some are more statistical than others, but most all are relatively easy reads.
Microsoft to patch three critical vulnerabilities on Tuesday
>The discussion on meta shows no appreciation of the quality of btilly's contributions to the site. I'm not surprised he's leaving, and I agree StackOverflow will be worse without his answers. What do you think?

It's not about the "quality of the contributions", it's about their appropriateness.

If a great chef goes to a Burger King and starts making his own stuff when asked for a burger, he might make very high quality stuff, but that doesn't mean he wont be fired.

Same here, there might be "serious research into a similar problem", but that doesn't mean it's appropriate for Stack Overflow. They want more of the "I face this particular problem in my project" type of stuff.

Practical things, like, e.g "how can I store a blob into Oracle from Python" or "why does this html5 canvas project get a low framerate".
That's a decent analogy, since McDonald's is a huge success and a model of efficiency in business.
Actual link to the Bloomberg story I referenced:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-05/samsung-2nd-quarter...

(I'm not sure if sfgate.com edits content they re-publish.)
Thanks for sharing xd.
We had our share of problems initially, but now pretty stabilized with hardly any downtime.
I can't decide whose grammar I hate more: Anonymous's grammar or Copyright Labs's. Why add an ignorant and incomprehensible rant to a legal notice when you can materially alter its content and actually cause major problems? And who would ever use the word "u" when apologizing for a malformed legal notice?

Anyway, I would have changed the infringement notice to:

Dear $site,

Copyright Labs, registered copyright agent for $big_studio, has recently done a survey of the content on your website, $site_url. This letter is notice that $big_studio has granted you an irrevocable license to distribute $infringing_content indefinitely. There is no need to respond to this letter.

Regards,

Copyright Labs on behalf of $big_studio

If you're going to commit a crime, you might as well do a good job.
If I understood it correctly, this framework is only used for the mobile site.

I can hardly think of any other well-known website that is more complex than Facebook. Every little screen space is used, you can click anywhere and it has hundreds of millions of users.

Compare the Facebook interface to the Google Interfaces and you know what I mean.
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Re: odd pricing. I've seen in store saying "discount bla-bla-bla do not applies to items with price ending with .94." So they used price as unique feature to see if item was already discounted.
I've always seen 4chan as the scumhole of the internet. It scares me that it's so huge. Do I have a wrong impression of it?
And this is why many of the poor stay poor, and many in the middle class stay middle class. The poor don't have the capital to take advantage of the greater discount and the middle class tend to value short term "convenience" over long term savings.

If a poor family of four spends $600/month on groceries at standard pricing, their inability to "afford" the 33% discount costs them $2376 a year. For a middle class family spending $1200/month, that's $4752.

Many of the successful poverty programs try to elevate the savings of poor families so that they can stop buying groceries and supplies at the "convenient" prices.
Looks a bit shonky to me, but if it works, good for you.

I worked for a design agency back in about 2004 which had the same sort of infrastructure internally. They had a cheap desktop Exchange 2003 box, cheap desktop Fileserver, cheap desktop SQL + App server, cheap desktop mp3 server, big old DLT drive, SDSL router, switch, a KVM, cranky old monitor, keyboard, mouse, mounds of cable, a well underpowered UPS and a garfield all wedged under a couple of tables.

Some muppet knocked over a coffee cup and it spilled through the gap between the tables into the monitor causing a cascade failure and a small fire which melted pretty much everything under the table. It took the company out for 2 weeks until Dell could ship new kit in.

There is a reason to do it properly IMHO (and experience!)
You can have performant codes?
This is one of a couple moves by the Argentinian government that slows down tech innovation and development.

You neither can import any electronics (or anything at all, except you also export for an equivalent amount). So you're stuck with what the government held companies provide.
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this links summarizes it all! other links are needed in order to strengthen your knowledge!
If you find this interesting, there is a great book called "Thinking, Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman[1]. Highly recommend it if you're interested in understanding buying behavior and the psychology behind many of these economic decisions. It's also largely based on the research from Richard Thaler in his book Nudge.[2]

[1]- http://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-Slow-Daniel-Kahneman/dp/...

[2]- http://www.amazon.com/Nudge-Improving-Decisions-Health-Happi...
I guess you should pay more attention to the software you use. Gmails or Docs have similar problems. They are not so visible though because most people's mailboxes don't exceed 1 GB and Docs is rarely used.

Comparing that to the variety of gadgets and clickables on Facebook's website, the complexity of other Webapps looks like a joke.

Most stuff you mention are issues you see in a lot of heavy-load AJAX-Apps.

"chat windows show inconsistent messages between two tabs on the same browser"
That's XMPP, mate.
This doesn't seem to account for the fact that multiple people can have the same name. I don't play hockey, nor am I Canadian: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Picard
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That's the end goal, unfortunately there are plenty of cargo cultists that don't really understand it and think the process is the important part.

I've worked on scrum teams before, it can be done well if no one takes it too seriously IMO. Once you start guilting the team over the artifacts of scrum, it's fallen apart and become a detriment to your goal of Getting Shit Done.
I began the mlclass from coursera but I'd like a more advanced approach.

I found some courses(I don't know if there are more):

Andrew Ng Stanford CS229: http://cs229.stanford.edu/info.html

Caltech(the one from the OP link): http://work.caltech.edu/telecourse.html

Tom Mitchell Carnegie Mellon: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom/10701_sp11/

I'm considering following the Tom Mitchell course as it seems to go deeper into the details, also because it uses a pretty cool bibliography.

What do you think, am I making the right choice?
Samsung profits surge by 79% as Galaxy smartphone demand outstrips Apple's icon
The comment system is part of its charm, it comes from the japanese imageboards.
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God damnit. I read the previous line as "I prefer the iPad to it", not "I prefer it to the iPad". Hence my original comment.

Stupid dyslexia.
Before I write my advice, I want you to hear this. "Do not worry about the fact that you are not finishing your side projects. The idea is to learn and not necessarily get to the end goal i.e a working app". I am usually in same boat as you but many of my unfinished side projects have taught me tremendously. For example, I recently worked on a python program to covert financial trasactions in OFX format to csv. It taught me how to use lists, dictionaries in python, file input/output etc. I never finished it actually to the point where my dream was to release it as open source library and I even have a git page for it but I moved on. Even then, I learnt a heck of a lot.

"Start Small". But what does that mean really ? It means that focus on a specific topic and give yourself a task/side project out of it. For example, "Build a user registration system". Now pick the language/framework etc. You seem to be using Python/Django already so that could work in your case.

Keep hacking even if not finished. "It is about the journey not the destination" (cheap attempt at using a favorite quote).
Thanks for this. I'm launching an app soon, and these ideas really help, as well as the comments.
I misread - see my reply to my original comment.
Why Killing Time Isn’t a Sin
I'm not trying to be argumentative here, but in my view, the article isn't just 'political'. With currency and money involved, there is an 'economic' angle that I, personally, want to learn about. And with a government being involved, there are moral/philosophical issues that I, personally, want to learn about. So for me, this article gratifies my intellectual curiosity.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that the link may seem off-topic to you, but it's highly relevant to me. And there's nothing wrong with any of that. And of course, just because an article shows up here doesn't mean you have to read it :)
Well: http://quotes.cat-v.org/programming/

Choose your mockin nerd.

You can rephrase most of these sometimes 20 years old+ quotes for each technical news we have seen recently.

A lulz is just another caricature of a nerd. Mimicking a trait like a monkey is not capturing the essence of the thing.

Science is the belief in the ignorance of the expert
-- Feynman
I think in this context (and usually) hipster means "someone who pretends to like something new or unusual in order to broadcast their superiority." That's why everyone thinks someone else is a hipster -- it's a claim about sincerity. As in "I've always enjoyed Pabst Blue Ribbon because I like the taste, but that guy over there is just a hipster."

That's also why it's a pretty jerk thing to call someone on the internet. Hipster-slingers: you have no frickin idea why people like the things they like. But try assuming it's because they actually like them. It makes the conversation a lot more fun.
"Trust" isn't the issue. I doubt they could have convinced a bank that they were low-risk enough to open a merchant account.
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London, UK. Full time

Ruby on Rails Developer
http://careers.stackoverflow.com/employer/jobs/29111/listing
Another thought would be to give the government the option to purchase drug patents from industry at some fixed multiplier of research costs and profits during the lifespan of the patent. That way if the public thought that it was truly in the public good for a drug to be available, people could campaign on the promise of purchasing certain patents.
As someone who hasn't used Flask before, this makes me not want to try. I'm not even sure what problem is being solved in this presentation.

Anyone care to explain what these advanced patterns are useful for?
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It obviously depends on the kind of people you're working with. If it's with someone who you've been in the trenches with for a while, then formality is often something you both discard.
Is Mark Zuckerberg stealing our identities and storing it on disks too?
It's broken. Link results in database error.
At Dixons in the UK (when I briefly worked there 10 years or so ago) the pence were used in a similar way to signal things to floor staff. For example, IIRC, prices ending .98 signalled a discontinued product.

Additional staff signalling was provided by messages on price tags. For example, 'please ask if you need help' meant 'high-margin, high-commission item', whereas 'have you remembered your spares and accessories?' meant 'low-margin, low-commission, item'.
It's also the reason why it's so important in investing not to lose your principle (Warren Buffet's #1 rule - don't lose money #2 - see #1):

If you start with $100 and you want to make $150 you need to make a 50% return. If your $100 drops to $50 you need to make a 100% return just to get back where you started, let alone where you want to end up at $150.
Interestingly out of date information in the piece given that it was written yesterday.

Marcus Agius resigned on the 2nd and was reinstated on the 3rd following the resignation of CEO Bob Diamond (a far more significant resignation as you'd expect the CEO to be closer to this sort of thing).

Diamond was (rather ineffectually) questioned by MPs earlier this week about it but little of any real interest came out other than that he still seems to be intent on pursuing a financial settlement for his leaving Barclays, however the whole matter is going to be the subject of a parliamentary enquiry (though given that that will be being led by an MP rather than a judge it's not clear how useful it will be as it's already taken a political twist).

But as the piece says, it looks likely that other banks may have been doing the same which is still to come out.

(Far) more here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/libor
I believe it's the rule in the U.S. as well; deposit accounts must be in dollars. Several American banks offer business accounts that let you maintain multiple currencies, but they do so by storing (on paper) the other currencies in the care of a foreign branch (see the asterisk note at the bottom of Wells Fargo's info: https://www.wellsfargo.com/com/international/businesses/acco...).
Not really, no. I think it's size is more indicative of the standard age range it draws (a younger audience).

People keep telling me that there are decent parts of the place. Each time I try to venture in it is such a dizzying mess that I stopped trying.

It makes me feel old.
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The strong momentum for physician adoption of EHRs achieved in 2011 seems to have hit a speed bump.
In the US, Everbank offers accounts in several currencies.
Update: Now debit card payments on Venmo are free