skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Going down the list:

- if you are dining with the boss, you're the one who pays ------ No unless you invited them.
- if you're dining with customers, you're the one who pays ----- Yes but hopefully your company reimburses you for that.
- if you're dining with your girlfriend and her female friends, you're the one who pays ----- Maybe in 1980's, in my experience most people want to go dutch nowadays.
- if you're the host in any sense, you're the one who pays ----- Yes but thats not the kind of situation that this would be used in.
- if you're dining with students and you're the only one who has a job, you're the one who pays ---- Only if you invited them. If you made plans for dinner and they couldn't afford it, they should have made it clear before going out.
- if you're the one who went deep on the wine list, you're the one who pays ----- If your the only one drinking wine, your doing it wrong.
The same thing as me apparently. Besides, are we really still using cufon?

It's from here: http://www.splunk.com/company

We're remarking that this is silly, right?
FWIW if you use Bash shell you can also use history expansion to shorten the mkdir && cd line further (the line already includes tilde expansion):

mkdir ~/www/example.com && cd !$

!$ is the last argument of the preceding command
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All that math just complicates the roulette-ness.

How about just toss all the credit cards in a bag/box/etc and ask your nice waiter to pick one at random.
Err, what about rsync? My blog is versioned with git, but compiled with USSM¹. I don't want to version the generated html code, so I deploy it with a one line shell script that just calls rsync through ssh. Simple, and fast.

So in my case, rsync looks better than git at deployment. I can't imagine a scenario where the reverse is true. Does someone have a counterexample?

[1] My home-made Jekyll clone: http://loup-vaillant.fr/projects/ussm/
You're right, that was an insulting way to put it. Sorry if I offended people unnecessarily.

I have made similar comments before, hoping for some type of discussion, and had my comment buried so that no one would even see it, which makes discussion impossible. So I was actually hoping that my comment would somehow remain visible.

This is really about what people believe, which isn't something you can reason about. You just can't reason someone into having different beliefs.

I think that for people to take on a radically different worldview usually requires some extraordinary circumstances, maybe some luck, and some type of emotional subconscious trigger.

Anyway, if you actually want to discuss it, which likely will go in circles since these are belief systems, what do you think a state is, or what the war on terror is?
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It was pretty quickly concluded that that guy was straight out bullshitting.

The quotes are from OBL's videos that he made and leaked out to mainly Al Jazeera. They were made after all of this made happened, and OBL obviously knew to read the papers and know how to make good propaganda.

Be sceptics, fokes!
Imagine how many TrueType instructions this is!
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With good friends I generally just split the bill evenly, but that tends to be non-scalable.

One method I found which seems to work quite nicely is each person puts in what they think they owe, and any difference between that and the total bill is split evenly between the group. This tends to work out nearly-equitable and is very fast.
Hi.

OpenShift is also interesting.
And if you need something to hack on, see

https://github.com/RayRacine/rackos

Almost there.
Ask HN: I have a colocated server that I don't fully use anymore
I have a colocated server(Dell 2950III, 8-core, 16gb ram) that I don't fully use anymore. I don't want to sell it ,because I am using it to make experiments with virtual machines(learning more about devops). It has XenServer on it. What would be the best way to make money from it so that it helps me to pay colocation hosts.

update: you can contact me at obilgic at usc dot edu or fisyonet at gmail dot com
Ask HN: Huge variability in App Store rankings?
Hi HN,

My first iPhone app has been on sale since less than a week, and I've observed huge (and seemingly inexplicable) variability in its ranking on the AppStore.

See for example this chart (thanks to appfigures.com) of its ranking in the Navigation category of the French AppStore:

http://i.imgur.com/YRktW.png

One thing I do not understand is the wide swings and sudden drops. Are there any experienced iPhone developers/marketers here who could shed some light on these strange artifacts?

Thanks!
Nokia did lay off most or all of the Qt developers between then and now...
Unfortunately, this doesn't take into account the fact that stuff you keep in your development repository is almost never identical to stuff you want on your deployment server. There are files you keep in the former but not necessarily want/need in the latter (unit tests, documentation, etc.). Similarly, there are stuff to be put on deployment server which don't want to clutter your dev repository, like compiled CSS/JS assets.

As other have said, deployment should really be done by continuous integration server, and preferably using a protocol that's designed for transmitting files, not version control.
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1. Never bully or allow bullying - ever.

2. make it clear code criticism is a collective learning process and is never personal (we all write terrible code).

3. Make sure everyone is clear about objectives both short and long term.

4. Encourage everyone to have fun doing what they are doing.

<edit> 4a. If you are the manager/team leader - make sure you spot when things are going right and give praise and encouragement. Try catching people doing things right instead of wrong.
</edit>

5. If someone is consistently failing or getting in the way of the others then it is time for them to part - quickly.
I thought SCP was the new FTP. Or rsync.
You're making extraordinary claims regarding the parallels with the Reichtag fire. I won't ask for extraordinary evidence, just reasonable evidence.

The part I don't get is why it seems to matter so much whether 9/11 was an unexpected attack or a planned conspiracy, or whether it was anticipated but not orchestrated by the government. The effect is all that matters, and the effect was, in fact, exactly the same as the Reichstag fire... which is itself not universally agreed to have been sanctioned by the Nazis.
Yep, you're right and my post is asinine.
If you're a 'web designer', why didn't you design the website yourself instead of downloading a themeforest theme and purging the reference line from the source?

visit: www.melaniebarnett.com
(I found a site that uses the exact same theme!)
Without having to install a client, this is a very awesome system, on par with adobe connect.

So, the only thing left to see how far this thing goes is to see how you are going to monetize this?

I see you have plans to offer "Pro" features in the future... so does that mean limiting the current features?
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The reason for Amazon to build a phone is for distribution of digital content. As Apple proved with the iPod and then the iPhone, the device is the distributor. Music, movies, video, books, and apps are all multi-billion dollar industries. In a fragmented world of content producers, power goes to the distributor. The decreasing costs of producing quality content means the world will only become more fragmented, hence distribution becomes more critical.
This is a good intro: http://www.udel.edu/educ/gottfredson/reprints/1997whygmatter...
Whoa!!! Hold on there a second:

"This is really about what people believe, which isn't something you can reason about."

I would hope that reason and logic take precedent over existing belief. At least among the somewhat rational subset of individuals that tend to lurk in these corners.
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Registering your political party is a state thing, not federal. Nor does every state require it. My state, Texas, does not.

You can see all the information asked for when registering to vote here:

https://webservices.sos.state.tx.us/vrapp/index.asp
I solved this recursively, but with a different algorithm... will try this out now :)
Looks like fun!
I very nearly bought one of these a few months ago, but it was sold out.
No it's not. Let's revisit this in 5 years. We'll still be using FTP. Thanks though. :)
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Bin Laden's aim was to push the US into a war that would bankrupt them. I'd call that mission accomplished.
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Been dabbling with OS stuff for a while now, looking at xv6 sources and using Tanenbaum's Minix book.

Have got to say I'm very excited about this site, it looks incredibly useful.
An alternative, if you do want to use VCS for deployment, is rather than versioning the compiled HTML, create a hook that compiles it.

My website is stored in mercurial currently, and when I push to the server it runs bundle and compiles the site.
The basic version of Screenleap will always be free. We will be offering Pro accounts which include premium features in the coming months.
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I think the real beauty of this method is that you don't have to figure out what everyone ordered (only a few people usually).
I didn't really mean to offend SICP. I suspect it's overrated a bit, but since I've never actually tried it I'm not qualified.

What I was arguing for, is that you should not call "immutable data structures" and "referential transparency" basics of programming.
They're assuming high level people don't know who, or where the cartel people are.

Stand outside of the ferrari dealership and jewelry stores in MX, I'll bet they'll find plenty of what they're supposed to.
Nitpicking but this seems like a contradiction:
"It is noteworthy, for example, that at a given level of IQ, Chinese have smaller frontal cortexes than Americans (Chee,
Zheng, Goh, & Park, 2011), although Chinese brains as a
whole may be larger than those of Americans (Rushton,
2010). Even with brain size equated between Chinese and
Americans, the frontal cortex is larger in Americans (Chee
et al., 2011)."
I re-read them a few years ago, they were still fun. Combining the pioneer days feel with complicated schemes is a winning plan.

Other favorite childhood series- The Mad Scientists Club and The Three Investigators.
What algorithm? I think these problems are fun.
We've done all these research and development on hardware. Do we really need to throw it all in the garbage just reinvent all these technologies to work in the browser? What is the real benefit of this? I mean kudos to this team my but my question is a bit broader/fundamental.
CIA's Facebook Program Dramatically Cuts Agency's Costs [The Onion]:

http://www.theonion.com/video/cias-facebook-program-dramatic...
There is no need to guess—look at the screenshots and screencasts at:

http://www.palantir.com
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This attitude got plenty of usenet posters in trouble. [0]

[0]: Exhibit A; http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?hl=en&lr=&safe=o...
Your location can be triangulated even if you don't use a cell phone registered to yourself.

Using a VPN, you reduce the chances that your internet use will be traced back to you.

Facebook has a staggering amount of personal information about most of their users. While not necessarily on the same level as personal phone calls, it should still be a concern of anyone that uses social networks.

Try to actually make a case next time you post. Saying "Nuh uh, nuh uh" over and over makes you look like an ass.
LinkedIn Account hack
Today at my gmail id i got a mail from linked in saying your password is changed.
I followed the link and it asked me for the new password i entered a random password and whoop i was able to login and that was my friend's account.

Is there any password leak from LinkedIn?

Negi
"Also, look at men vs women. How many wars have women started compared to men? Nearly every war, genocide, and conflict has been caused entirely by men. Why is it that we never see the female versions of Hitler, Gangis Kahn, Napoleon, Stalin, etc... Because evolution has created extremely violent men (not all of us of course)."

One thing is to say that a war is unlikely to be started by a woman (your historical observation); another thing is to say that a woman is unlikely to start a war (your claim). That's because, historically, the people in a position to start a war have mostly been men.

If W means that a given leader (i.e., someone who could have started a war if he or she wanted to) was a woman and S means that the leader started a war, by Bayes' theorem the probability of the leader having started a war, given that she was a woman, is

P(S|W) = P(W|S) P(S) / P(W)

Likewise for men (if ~ means negation):

P(S|~W) = P(~W|S) P(S) / P(~W)

You observed that P(W|S) is much smaller than P(~W|S); but to compare P(S|W) and P(S|~W) you also need to take into account how much smaller P(W) is than P(~W).
Every time someone comes up it with a "cool" way to deploy via Git, it turns out their definition of "deployment" is nothing more than dumping something on a server. It completely ignores every aspect of deployment other than putting the files somewhere else, which is 5% of the work and 1% of the complexity of deployment.

That's not even a sufficient professional scenario for anything but the simplest of non-essential website. Hell, this won't even do for the simplest of WordPress sites.

BTW, who on earth still uses FTP?
Note the dreadful UI on their app implementation! (You type something like '100:5,25,60' and invite someone to guess a number on each round)

Why wouldn't they do something like:

1. Enter the subtotal (becomes permanently printed at the top)
2. Enter successive item amounts, after each entry the app says 'pay' or 'continue'
The phrase is "小米加步枪", which comes from a Mao Zedong speech to the 8th route army and militia when fighting the Japanese in WWII. They had no real government or supplies and had to subsist off of millet and fight with single-firing rifles to overthrow their occupiers.

It translates to "millet and rifles", just as the article said. It's pretty common in Chinese to use a part of a famous phrase to refer to its entirety. Actually, Baidu is another company name that does this.
This makes me start thinking what other problems can be handled more efficiently if everyone agreed to be satisfied with an "expectation" of fairness in the long term.

You gain efficiency, at the loss of acquiring short term risk. Might be a useful exchange in some cases.

One good example: in a traffic jam everyone decides to maintain a minimum of 50ft between them and the car in front of them.
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If you read my comment slowly, you'll note that I didn't express any dissatisfaction with Firefox updates, and said "somewhat technically-minded people", which corresponds to your definition of "a section of the geek population".
I hope you just mean for source control... FTP is used all the time!
Most intelligent comment I've ever seen in Hacker News
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Not focusing more on software is, in my opinion, one of the biggest mistake they made so far. They should have increased the price a little bit and at the least sponsored some driver development.
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Well, if you look at it that way, there are overlaps with most social networking services- Facebook also uploads photos, shares with friends, and people comment on them.

What we'd like for Persona or at least how we use it is a way to share our personal interests and connect to people through them. Sometimes when I pull in front of a starbucks in my 87 mr2, people stop me, pull out their phones and show me their mr2s as we talk about cars. I'm attempting to mimick that real life conversation by posting photos of what I'm passionate about, or what I want to talk about on my Persona, a visual diary of my life. People respond using photo comments that shows me their perspective of that shared picture.

It might be a far-fetched goal, but I hope that people all over the word would be able to bond and share a connection over a single photograph that you post. Like a real life conversation when you first meet someone, I want people to be able to recognize and find a common point of interest as a topic to converse upon.

This might be subjective, but from how I use Instagram and how I see most users use it- it's to post random pictures that you encounter, more to showcase your photographic skills rather than to show what your life is about.
> See what they did and do with Jacob Appelbaum

...and he doesn't even write software!
I think its possible for reason and logic to take precedent over existing belief, but like I said it takes extraordinary circumstances, no matter how rational you are.

That's just the nature of beliefs. They are default terminals in our reality comprehension frameworks. Not easily replaced.
Hasn't OnLive solved essentially all of these problems?
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Just a bit feedback on the blog: The background image was very distracting for me. My eyes were always wandering off from the text. Not sure if that's just me or if others had that problem too.
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A rather poles apart view of kala jadoo is used in the arrangement of Chaos magic. In this local office of occult put into practice, spells every now and then keep up a correspondence to colors, depending on the supposed end product . Black magic, in pandemonium magic, correspond to magic that is perform around the themes of death, disconnection, taking apart and entropy. This can refer to commanding curses meant to bring the strongest effect, spells to sever arousing ties to bits and pieces or people, and so on. White magic would be the original ritual, which embody the tenets of the religious conviction in question. For Buddhism or Hinduism, this might be long and multifaceted prayer sutras. Taoist and Shinto magic would largely be based upon fruitfulness and nature rituals.kala jadoo would be a dishonesty or misuse of such above rituals, using them to self-serving or disparaging ends without regard for the enlightening morals of the religion. This could be impressive such as construction poppets to cause harm.
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Can't think of a better one than Git Magic[1]. It is well written and covers really useful scenarios.

[1]: http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~blynn/gitmagic/
I have exactly the same feeling. I wanted to order at least 2 RPi during the launch (one for me and one for my wife), but now, I didn't even care when Farnell and the other distributor contacted me that they can send it to me as soon as I pay.
BTW. I always thought that the published price is with taxes already and now I see that I have to pay 23% VAT on top of the $35 device (+ shipping, but that's obvious). So it's a real pain. Here in Europe prices shown are most of the time with taxes included (not counting the huge distributors selling only to companies)
It's surprising how much traffic they still get. Our year-old iOS game was just mentioned in a roundup of "top 10 difficult games" on a Yahoo! Games blog (and it wasn't even linked properly to the App Store), sending sales from 2 digits to 4 digits/day. We were floored that this happened due to a Yahoo post of all things...
Where's little bobby tables when you need him?
I'm probably about a year and a half older than you, a US citizen, and I don't feel that way at all. The government used to not be spying on me. Then, in the last decade, the chance that it would started to rise. In the last 5 years, it became likely. Now, with this story, if it's true, we know that it's almost certainly spying on me. (And to clarify, I'm not a criminal or anything remotely criminal in any way, shape or form.)

Right now, spying on me.

Now, it may just be recording the info and looking for triggers. Wonder if this post will be a trigger. It's definitely possible.

So there has been a massive ramp-up in unethical electronic spying, and unlike you, I have (for some reason) been alert to it.
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Anyone else find this incredibly hand-wavy? What happens when the cartels infiltrate ISPs and start randomly butchering people using this new protocol?
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True. The historical reason is that it was (well still is) originally a general biased coin flipper where you could enter any expression that evaluated to a probability. Then we added syntactic sugar for the case of restaurant bill splitting.

UI improvements welcome! Bethany has it on github: https://github.com/bsoule/Expectorant
Original article and discussion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4252955
You mean "$_". !$ refers to the previous command in the history.
On your second point, here's incomplete list of data that facebook stores about its users. Note that they keep all wall posts, messages, tags, and photos even after the user deletes it from his profile

http://europe-v-facebook.org/EN/Data_Pool/data_pool.html

Of course, they won't have any of your data if you don't have an account, which might be what you're trying to get at.
> BTW, who on earth still uses FTP?

Does sftp[0] count?

[0] http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-secsh-filexfer-13
The first point you raised is 'time preference', which is simply the discounting we apply to future or uncertain income over immediate value.

The second one is 'marginal utility', which is perhaps best described as the difference in value of a litre of water to a dehydrated man in a desert vs. a man who owns a desalination plant.
Call me a kook but I personally cannot rule out the possibility that he was made to stand down.
I would like to ask them my hair color, because it's a weird color and I honestly don't know what it is.
This site is great and contains so much information. Unfortunately it's hardly meaningful part of knowledge you need to write any modern OS. Unfortunately, because it's realy good fun to do stuff like that. It's quite hard to enjoy for a long time creating stuff that even you would not use.