skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why don't they want to migrate?

In our case, it's the price hike ($29 -> $50).

We're a not-for-profit and have a tough time paying for this stuff; we need to stick with Basecamp "Classic" for the time being.
Or a recipe for a great time?
On the larger exchanges, not really. This would be like a retail investor wanting access to NASDAQ or NYSE rather than Schwab or E-Trade. Some of the 3rd-tier exchanges may be exceptions.
Let's pull another part of that quote:

"John S. Haller, Jr, reminds us that homeopathy in the 19th century rested upon highly specific principles—all of which flowed from Samuel Hahnemann's fundamental axiom that “like cures like”"

Taking a magical axiom as a given and then using scientific principles is not science.

You can make the exact same arguments about alchemists and some schools of occult study. They used careful and meticulous methods, and even made some discoveries in the areas of lab work or procedure that were useful to many areas.

These things don't mean the beliefs are any more true.

So you're mad at Randi for not providing a small piece of historical context in a presentation about protecting people from modern con artists? That just seems like you are looking for something to object to.
The original nexus one dock used a proprietary protocol over Bluetooth.

My bet is that Google will pull a betamax on the Google TV ecosystem
re: hipmunk. It just doesn't 'feel' right. The ideas all seem right but it just doesn't work for me.
I guess it's the way I think of starting conversations when I'm nervous. On the note of my name, that's how I introduced myself to Jak Dorsey the first time I met him and he loved it!
> utterly useless

Proprietary software can be pretty useful to people who find it worth paying for.
The post looked more to me like a plea for them to start trying to call him as well.

Particularly the last line.
No real invite system, I'm just trying to make sure any advertiser's campaigns seem like a good fit for RTB before I push them to test a campaign that probably won't succeed. Can you please reach out through the contact form or email first name @ company domain dot com? Thanks!
> Whether some semi-imaginary particle fits the parameters of some semi-imaginary theory is pretty uninteresting ;-)

I think they prefer it if we call such things "complex" rather than "semi-imaginary" ;-)
Oops, I just saw you said few hundred thousand. I read "a few hundred" at first. Then yes, absolutely.
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I was counting both Macs and Windows PCs with iTunes installed. iTunes can pack up both audio and video and airplay it over to a receiver. "device" was a poor choice of words, apologies.
I think he meant a live thumbnail size video stream of each person.
1) Are you using http://news.ycombinator.com or a forwarder like hackrnews.com ?

2) Are you using the http version of news.yc ? Support for https://news.ycombinator.com is coming in the next version (last time I checked, only http was supported.)

Thanks!
Airfare commissions (especially domestic) are much lower and in many cases are on a flat fee basis like $3/ticket. Travel agencies try and push more packages because you get to wrap in a high margin product like hotels/cars (15-20%+) or by creating a package, they can access wholesale rates for airfare which gives them a larger margin.
What would happen if you collide two Higgs Boson ? A different Boson ?
BSD and Windows don't even belong in the same sentence. Where did you get the idea BSD is like Windows?
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There are a lot of devices and software packages that receive AirPlay streams now; for example I stream to XBMC on a Linux machine - works like a charm.
A few thoughts:

1) Wow, awesome deck. I love the style.

2) How is the vastly superior "git status -sb" not the default? https://speakerdeck.com/u/holman/p/git-and-github-secrets?sl...

3) It would be nice if we could tell linguist to ignore certain directories in our own repos. Not all of us use rails and/or have a /vendor directory.
Excellent write up Teddy! Sorry about the e-mail validation strictness, I've logged the bug and will it fixed soon so .is and any other valid domain doesn't get marked as invalid.
To me, 'hack' and 'unintuitive' carry different meanings. 'Hack' indicates some kind of ad-hoc patch to fix the model. Even if it fits the data, there could be a theoretical irregularity. I suspect that programmers experience this quite often when making a change that keeps the program working. Sure, it is possible that ultimately the hack is indeed how nature works, but its still worth exploring and making precise the nature of the irregularity.
I also want to echo this - I've learned about quite a few packages and discussions that I wouldn't have seen otherwise that have been really beneficial.
You are right - I should correct that. I only did the research for hotel commissions and didn't intend to portray that the average rate for airfare is also ~13%.
That flag is driving me insane, as well as the social bar and the moving "Aaron Dinin", takes up the entire page and won't get out of my way so I can read the text - some of us like reading on phones you know (iOS 5.1.1 here)
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Awesome! Thanks. You're quick :)
Honestly, headhunter contacts are a dime a dozen. Front end, back end, whatever, if you have any visibility at all you get used to ignoring them pretty quickly.
I don't actually know that much about Wolfram or A New Kind of Science, this was my first exposure to either: http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/reviews/wolfram/

Would people who know the book or the man say this is accurate? It's all I associate with the name now.
People do this all the time on the web - see CrazyEgg or Inspectlet.
I agree with a lot of the sentiments here about Wolfram's ego. Aside from all that, I found his blog post interesting. The below items I found the most interesting (note: I haven't read NKS, and I'm aware of the criticisms, but his insistence on the significance of it is intriguing nonetheless):

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> Was it worth spending more than $10 billion to find this out? I definitely think so. Now, what’s actually come out is perhaps not the most exciting thing that could have come out. But there’s absolutely no way one could have been sure of this outcome in advance.

> Perhaps I’m too used to the modern technology industry where billions of dollars get spent on corporate activities and transactions all the time. But to me spending only $10 billion to get this far in investigating the basic theory of physics seems like quite a bargain.

> I think it could be justified almost just for the self-esteem of our species: that despite all our specific issues, we’re continuing a path we’ve been on for hundreds of years, systematically making progress in understanding how our universe works. And somehow there’s something ennobling about seeing what’s effectively a worldwide collaboration of people working together in this direction.

> That in fact there’s no reason all the richness we see in our universe couldn’t arise from some underlying rule—some underlying theory—that’s even quite simple.
There are all sorts of things to say about what that rule might be like, and how one might find it. But what’s important here is that if the rule is indeed simple, then on fundamental grounds one shouldn’t in principle need to know too much information to nail down what it is. But what I suspect is that from the experimental results we have, we already know much more than enough to determine what the correct ultimate theory is—assuming that the theory is indeed simple.
“MG Siegler can’t be trusted.”
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Apologies! I stand corrected.
That depends. If I feel like I've accomplished all I need (or really wanted) to accomplish with the first startup and I'm excited to start another one, then there's no reason not to. Besides, you can probably make more money in the sale than you would need to get the next one off the ground.
The thing is, this isn't a problem space that's unique to web apps. I find nothing more frustrating than native OS X apps that bind over system-wide shortcuts (I'm looking at you, Adobe products). Web apps have a slightly trickier turf to navigate due to also having to watch out for web browser default shortcuts, but that doesn't suddenly make the problem unsolvable.

The problem isn't that keyboard shortcuts for web apps are inherently bad. The problem is application designers who choose their keyboard shortcuts poorly.
In what timeframe did you get to those numbers?

Can you share a graph...would be interesting to see the growth velocity curve.
Haven't touched ad servers for a while but do most ad serving platforms correctly track HTML 5 rich media? I know most of them are setup to correctly hook into Flash (Actionscript) and be able to automatically catch plays, replays, hovers, and other actions.
> Why hasn't the movie/music industry copyright enforcers not capalised on all these wonderfu inventions they portray.

I'm fairly sure you need to at least show the patent office that you can build this. Otherwise I'd go out and patent everything.
Going to the moon was a huge success that didn't need cheerleading from a faction of operating system fanatics. The success here is the science. The machinery is irrelevant.
I read somewhere that Udacity's long-term business model is to profit through building those networks. Of course business models can change, but as it stands they have a lot of incentive to provide those foundations, more so than the education itself.
Sounds great! Looking forward to checking it out. Very curious to see how the auto-optimization does compared to our current systems.
Absolutely agree. The constant "Get Started" fade in/out box was way too distracting. I haven't seen FlagTap on other sites, but hopefully the behavior isn't the norm!
I'm out of date as well so I don't know. Hopefully someone more current can enlighten us :)
Ask HN: Will a Linux certification make a difference to my career?
All the talk about getting a security certification got me wondering. Is getting a Linux certification worth the effort? I bet a lot of the same arguments for and against apply. Discuss.
It's even aggravating on a desktop. It's distracting, which makes it difficult to read the post. I clicked on it just out of hope that it would make it stop.
If you own the first hop, you can run Tor or a similar proxy from it. There are also local "mesh" networks which are available, though I haven't played with them. They have some level of applicability in oppressive regimes, and if I understand properly are not quite as poorly performing as Tor can be / is.
There must be hundreds of examples of prior art.

I wrote a split screen sprite editor for dos about 20 years ago. I bet it's still on a 720 floppy some place in my basement. In fact, I think I have a source printout filed away too..
There was no national security letter involved here, and as far as I can tell all parties did follow the law. As far as I can tell, it's actually Twitter's terms of service that caused the trouble here, as they deny you ownership of your own content and thus prevented Harris from defending the rights he gave up by tweeting. At any rate, this talk of national security letters sidestepping the law and all that seems quite beside the point. This was just an unfortunate interaction of valid laws and onerous terms of service.
But he's damned good at mind games...
If your cofounder is ready to leave you for one of those companies, then it's only a matter of time before he leaves of his own accord.
> I don't know if the ISP / cable company would "talk" to the new hardware

I honestly, no-ulterior-motive wonder how often this happens. I mean, isn't ADSL governed by real-world written-down standards? Isn't DOCSIS an actual standard? If so, and given the absolute standardization of things like ARP, RARP, DHCP, and so on, where could the problem possibly come in? Do they scan routers and refuse to talk to ones that don't respond with the right software version numbers?
"Taking a magical axiom as a given and then using scientific principles is not science."

If that's true, then modern medicine isn't science because it works exactly the same way. It starts with all sorts of spiritual axioms, like the idea that the most effective drugs are made by isolating one single molecule out of the entire plant. And that's what modern medicine believes is a universal and inviolable law, no matter how much empirical evidence there is that this isn't always the case. (E.g. look at the efficacy trials of marijuana vs. pure THC.)

"So you're mad at Randi for not providing a small piece of historical context in a presentation about protecting people from modern con artists?"

It's not really a small piece of trivia, especially considering the idea that all homeopathy is high dilution was the sine qua non of his argument. And furthermore, low dilution homeopathic treatments still exist today, e.g. those zinc lozenges you see at the checkout counter of every pharmacy. More people probably have exposure to those than every other homeopathic remedy combined.
Wadhwa keeps putting out immigration studies, like this one, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1348616 "Americas Loss is the World's Gain: America's New Immigrant Entrepreneurs" on why immigrant entrepreneurs and skilled tech workers are leaving the U.S. to return home, decrying the brain drain, and that it is devestating the U.S. economy.

The studies consistently show visa issues are almost never the primary reason they are returning to their home countries. Many are going back to India and China because their economies are or at least were booming offering more opportunities, they are more comfortable in their homeland, nearer family and friends, less culture shock, etc.

He will then immediately whipsaw around and insist its urgent the U.S. pass Startup Visa and increase H1-B quotas to somehow solve the pressing visa problem… which isn't actually the problem per his own studies.

So if the guy is willing to ignore the results from his own study because its inconvenient to the agenda he is pushing, this latest episode surprises me not at all. Once he latches on to something he seems to stick to it, regardless of what the data says. His long running primary agenda seems to be he wants the U.S. to throw the doors open to all Indian engineers and entrepeneurs who want to come. This also happens to be a popular agenda with a lot of big tech companies and VC's which contributes to his popularity among certain circles.
It may becoming less true, with less meaning 95 rather than 100 percent of the time. There is tremendous inertia and precedent in the legal system to side with the officer over the citizen. This, along with judicial familiarity with local law enforcement (most traffic and municipal disputes by definition are raised by a few officers in a given jurisdiction) almost guarantee the lack of the possibility of fairness.
Actually, the wikipedia article on teleology has a pretty nice discussion of the issues of teleology and misleadingly-teleological statements in biology.
Not sure what to think of this blog post. Though it appears flagtap.com does not currently load. So, about that office next to his...
Yeah, I'd ignore all the industry "insight" here and consume that as a user opinion on travel sites.
Seriously, just having a basic LinkedIn profile will get you a couple recruitment messages a week. If your co-founder tempted by standard form letter recruitment emails then you have bigger problems.
It's also a DOM disaster... for some curious reason, a new one is faded in and then faded out and hidden instead of being removed. What a nightmare.
I am an absolute fan of all weekly emails. Peters are excellent and I would highly recommend signing up for each of them. I also run a weekly newsletter called Web Design Weekly which might be worth a look... http://web-design-weekly.com :D
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Yeah, either way it's spun... seems like a pretty good arrangement for their platform, and should work out well for all involved. Seems to solve the problem of ad exchanges having heavily-manual interfaces, or having to setup a 3rd party tracking system for helping optimize spends.

The system sounds pretty slick, and if does what it says it will, I think their UI will go a long way towards helping them gain traction with the smaller firms.

If it truly makes things as easy as it wants/claims to, it should find a pretty solid base of users fairly quick.
I'm really confused by your rant on a story that is not about journalism and is being reported by Simon Johnson who is one of the "old white men" you seem to prefer. You use the weak link of "The press is the watchdog" and then pivot into an ad-hominem attack against a reporter that has nothing to do with this story and that you apparently know a lot about for some reason. It's kind of weird.
So it has a name! +1 for entropic gravity.
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Meanwhile Clojure makes obvious improvements over CL

I would beg to differ. The features you note are pretty subjective and not obvious improvements at all. I've done a few small non-trivial prototypes in Clojure. I cannot stand the syntax for literals. Or the mangled hell that is the literal for lambda. At least CL lets you define your own reader macros -- something that Clojure cannot do (yet). These features you mention are not improvements over CL IMO.
the HN title is a bit misleading. i clicked on this link expecting to read about google's hiring practices and how they judge talent in candidates.
This happens all the time on the web as best practice. Don't see how mobile is different, especially when they seem to have the privacy options built in.
We don't need patents in any industries at all if you judge them based upon their original intent -- to further the public knowledge (the temporary monopoly was meant to be a reward for that, not the main reason for patents).

It is difficult to overestimate our combined ability to reverse engineer virtually any type of product made these days and in that sense patents aren't very useful anymore relative to their original purpose.
Well, the French Revolution solved the problem in a bit over three years. Perhaps that's a model worth investigating?
Existing users still have access, not sure why you'd need a warning in that case.
> I really don't think that this has anything whatsoever to do with closed vs. open source.

[...]

> Would open-source prevent this kind of thing? Probably.

I don't think I could have made the argument better than you have.

The point isn't that all closed source software does this, or even that most does it. The point is that when you cannot control the software, the abuse can happen. Anyone who has power can abuse it, which means that if you cede control over software in your router to Cisco, you have to trust Cisco not to abuse it. If you don't, then you don't have to worry.
Your extremely talented cofounder put the punchline of intellisult below the fold at 1440x900. I thought the site was broken.

http://imgur.com/EKlmK

Edit: I also didn't see the green flag the first time. When I refreshed it showed up.
As Haldane said

This is a very likely a misattributed quotation.

http://evolvingthoughts.net/2009/09/teleology-as-a-mistress/

Ernst Mayr's discussion in his essay "Teleological and Teleonomic: A New Analysis,"

http://books.google.com/books?id=uJS79Za7WZ0C&pg=PA392&#...

while attributing the saying (without citation of a source) to Haldane, gets to the issue I was getting at in my top-level comment. Evolution happens because chance survival of genes favors the genes that survive to replicate again. But anything about an individual organism's body functions is not a goal of evolution, certainly not in the sense of "If the proposed intervention would result in an enhancement, why have we not already evolved to be that way?" Evolution is not driven by "enhancements," which all of the biologically trained readers of this thread fully understand.
There's a tonal accent, which is not conveyed in writing. I believe there are some regional variations of it, too.

In Japanese, it's related to something called the "accent nucleus." Googling that will give you a lot of random scholarly articles. Oddly enough the best simple explanation I could find was this:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100122132557AA...
#1 - designer needs to put a box that does 'x' on your web app (login, show shiny stars, number of commits, whatever). He writes the HTML and calls on devs to help him implement whatever he needs to make that box happen. Devs implement a template tag, then the function calls that are needed to support it, maybe extend the database models or interfaces they need to make that happen, etc. HTML -> code -> database.

How is that not Kanban/pull? This pattern appears in a lot of places once you start looking for it, from SICP and their 'pretend the function already exists' onwards.

#2 - Testing is part of the feature, not bolted on. If a feature isn't tested, by both QA and your customer, it's not done, is it? Not in traditional Scrum, anyway. If your definition of done includes "ship it, untested, to the customer at the last minute", by all means document that with a poster on your wall ;)

And if the PHBs are defining both the length of the sprint and what goes into it, then it's not really scrum either. The whole point of the timeboxing is not to have a death march, but to avoid a death march, and a whole bunch of features glommed on, untested, at the last minute.
>weigh evidence, arguments, and logic

Philosophy 101
Yeah... Adderall only works effectively if you're getting good quality sleep. Also doesn't prevent you from falling asleep, thats called caffeine or provigil. Additionally, the dosage needed to keep you awake will also likely make you act like a distractable manic mess. that's also ignoring that if you're not sleeping, your backend shit can't be that tricky.

Point being, the metaphors in the blog post are both in bad taste (some people actually need adderall et al for medical reasons), the lifestyle described is unsustainable, and if I'm working with someone who's so widely sought, I'd be celebrating their awesome and feel flattered they think I'm worth their time.
Title is now: 37signals Tada-List is now closed

what was the original title?
I agree completely! Banana plugs are awesome, and nothing prevents you from screwing them onto bare wire. In fact, that's how it's usually done, isn't it? (It's certainly how it's done at my house.)

Screw once, and then you're set for life!

What drives me crazy are those stupid spring-loaded things that many receivers and speakers have these days. The springs eventually get loose and then the connections get flakey.
Hehe and this is great :)

I sat through a brutal pitch practice session this afternoon and I was in the criticism mode.
Er, that's pretty much Scrum in a nutshell :)
It took us about 10 months to get there. I don't have a graph handy but it was pretty linear from month 4 onwards. Before that, we had an accelerating curve because we started at 0 and slowly improved our ratings as more users started liking us.
Something's fishy about this article...feels fabricated. Is this the only way to get attention for your sites on HN these days?
I dig FlagTap. I'd been looking for a decent way to incentivize the users of my dating site into reaching out to other users, and ended up building a rewards module myself. It's been a big hit on the site, but I'd much rather have something easier to implement in the future. Would you be able to do a custom implementation of FlagTap (custom gifts, matching palette, etc)?
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I have no idea what you're trying to say. So... what... you think the police shouldn't endorse recording of police encounters? Because I was giving an example of the police doing that.