skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am in a complicated relationship on FB with my fish. Who has a lot more fish and human friends than me (~800 against 99). Never understood how he gets new friend requests everyday.
The key is that the basics are covered (like in most of Europe)

100% of poor people in Germany own a health insurance

0% own a house (you have to use up your own money first)

100% own a washing machine (paid for by the government)

50& own a car (my guess, but you dont really need it in big cities)
It would be nice if you'd provide DC in the list too. We have a senator, they just don't vote.
Have you needed to enter Facebook about 83 million times? If so, you should let them know they can stop analyzing the problem.
He talks a bit about Hari Seldon in his work.
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Having to spend weeks vigilantly managing how it displays data to you sound like a nightmare.
When I first watched the movie Prometheus my first thought was that there is no friggin way we are going to be traveling planets and have that level of advanced technology by 2089. After listening to Elon Musk and seeing the types of steps he is taking, perhaps Prometheus was not as far fetched as I originally thought.
Given that most law grads I know are buried in debt and thus really can't think about joining a start-up, I find myself wondering whether the author is unique in that he has no debt and therefore has this choice in the first place. For most people in this position, I would argue, there isn't much of a choice.

He does raise good points about raising a family - start-ups can definitely give you more flexibility. But, on the other hand, going home and telling your wife that the start-up you joined has failed and you're out of a job isn't easy. Granted, that can happen at any job.

This post will likely come off as way too negative, but I certainly do wish him well in his path - the legal profession could certainly use the overall.
His model proposes that the timing of the mesocycles of violence is set by the father-grandson dynamic and that the timing of the macrocycles of decline is 3 or 4 mesocycles once the empire has reached its zenith.
I really don't see this happening. They might give it a try, sure, but I'd bet the lion's share of them would be back on Windows in a week. Linux is just not as easy to use for most people, and when push comes to shove they'll go back where they feel safe knowing how things work, and knowing that things will work in the first place.

I know many people are diehard about Linux, but it's a big commitment to switch and it isn't easy. Even so, many users might make the switch to find Linux seems to introduce a lot of headache and perceived restrictions on capabilities that Windows doesn't. Sure, they could probably tweak their way past the difficulties, but after troubleshooting on a wiki or in forums for a couple of hours it would lose the flavor for the masses.
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Suggestion: Give the option to shoot in 8mm mode. Shooting in this mode would apply a filter reminiscant of old 8mm cameras, and would not have any sound. A lot of the reason I dislike watching other people's short videos is the intrusion of the local noise. Shooting video is hard enough to begin with, but getting the sound right is equally difficult. When you take away sound, you take away one more thing that's easy to get wrong. When you apply the 8mm film filter, you mask the typically poor lighting and filming conditions, creating something nostalgic, just like Instagram.
Gumtree (also owned by eBay) is the CL for Australia, and I think they are making roads into the US and UK.
Think about it from Google's perspective. They're indexing billions of pages.. millions of new days every single day. There's a lot of noise, and spam to filter through. LOTS.

Why should they index everything on your site if it's not valuable content? It seems like it's just profile data.. but what exactly should it rank for anyway? Google considers this "thin content", and since the Panda update, they've punished sites that have too much of this content (of course, every site has some thin content, but for you, it's the majority)
Yes, this. Email is broken because people try to (or are forced to) use it as a todo list, and it just doesn't work that way.
Valve has been optimizing Source on Direct3D/Windows for 10 years, so I don't think waiting any longer will help.
And here I hoped that since the last time I tried that it would finally work.. many months have passed since the last time I gave Linux a go on this desktop. The fact that you're saying that you're still having this problem now is not making me feel any happier.

... if in the next 6 months the situation doesn't get any better I feel I am going to physically destroy the GPU with a hammer, send the pic to AMD and buy a nvidia before the need for a hardware upgrade even shows up. The fact that it has drivers problems even under windows doesn't help making AMD's case.
Everywhere in the world, people are getting stuff done.

Don't sweat it, just remember to go at your own pace, challenge yourself on a daily basis, and be proud of your accomplishments. We all run at different strides, don't judge yourself based on someone else's accomplishments.

I sound a little preachy, but hey, we all need the pep talk sometimes. :)
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Maxious, you make good points about reachability. We should be as open to criticism on every channel as we are in encouraging it. Right now we are focusing on our web app (krit.com/m) where customers can leave feedback for nearby venues when they see our signage. "Krit.com" is listed as a business on there, and we do respond to feedback. That being said, we should have a phone contact on there.

However, I disagree on the engaged customer phenomenon. Customers would rather have their problem resolved with amazing service than just vent about it on social networks with no resolution. This is bad for the customer and bad business. Managers would rather save face by comping your meal and resolving a problem that would otherwise go unnoticed (to them). If an amicable solution cannot be reached over Krit, then you can always go to Twitter or Facebook, but at least now there's a chance the issue will be resolved harmoniously.
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True, but it better represents the linked article's body IMO.
Honestly, what else would you expect?

Reading the TeX source online?
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You know not my personality or lifestyle. Yes, I would. Also, to get the "right" second I'd need lots to choose from. Yes, I would need a head-mountable life recorder.
> Eliminating abstract math education in the early school years, or allowing young students to opt out of rigorous math classes, will only serve to increase the disparity between those who “get it” and those who don’t. Those who have a grasp of mathematics will have many career paths open to them that will be closed to those who have avoided it.

This is currently true on programming, which is (was?) left out of the basic curriculum.
This looks great, but I'm a bit worried that this will only bring more people RSI or similar problems.

I think that the future of input devices are our brains and a device that can read what's going on in them and translate that to the computer. We really need to move away from devices that use hands because they simply aren't made for such tasks. The only way I see humans still using hands for computer interaction in the future is if we get prosthetic robot hands like in the Deus Ex game for example.
Hey guys, I'm the creator of the site. Thanks for posting it Joel!

I've been trying to delicately balance the line between too many links versus not enough links. I created this site in the first place because I had seen tons of these "best places to learn online" compilations, but all of them had about 200 links. Way too many to actually be useful.

So I sought out to create something where there were only a few websites per category, but you could trust that they were all the best the web has to offer. As you can see from some of the comments on here, it's a fine line between too many and too few. I keep finding new ones that I think are too good not to include.

I've been thinking lately about how I can make this site more useful to my users. It seems like most people come once or twice, see a link they like and don't come back until the next time they want to learn something. Although you could argue that's basically what the site is designed to do, I would like to see more repeat users. Any ideas? I have a few in mind already, but I wanted to see what the general consensus was.
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Thanks for your work, i'm eager to test 0.3 (finally)!
See. Your discussion proves my point perfectly. Too much hassle.
Disabling mouse acceleration in Windows is a single checkbox exactly where you'd expect it: in the mouse control panel.

Disabling it in Linux: depends on the desktop environment. KDE has it on by default, can be disabled in much the same way as on Windows. Same for the GNOME desktop in Ubuntu: enabled by default.

Disabling mouse acceleration if your mouses' firmware does it: hopeless in Linux and in Windows. If you're lucky the mouse vendor has some Windows program that allows access to it.

Note that in all cases, disabling is easier or possible on Windows than on Linux.
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I wouldn't think of Hadoop being a "specific use case", because it's really just a platform that you design around. Of course, everything needs a use case, but Hadoop's place in the industry is not nearly as linear as people think it is.

The problem at the moment is people don't understand or know how to work with Hadoop, and that's what companies like Cloudera and Hortonworks are trying to solve, they are trying to show businesses, 1) How easy it is to deploy and 2) How to actually apply it to their current datasets. As someone who works at a Hadoop company, I can tell you that customers are still trying to wrap their heads around the technology, but the good news is, there is major progress.

I notice that, rather than Hadoop not giving enough to the user, the user is usually not giving enough to Hadoop. Hadoop challenges its users to think differently, which for some businesses can be quite difficult.

Regarding your question about NoSQL, since Hadoop is a platform/framework, there are already efforts to design databases that take advantage of the stack (namely, HDFS <-- Hadoop Distributed Filesystem). The most popular of these contributions is HBase which is a NoSQL (KV) Column Based DB, based on BigTable and much like Cassandra. It's horizontally scalable and is often referred to as "highly consistent".

Just to make a point though, there is so much that runs on the Hadoop platform. Top level projects like

* Pig (Scripting language developed by Yahoo, think SQL meets Python)

* Hive (Map RDBMS style schemas to data after it's been stored, let's you query data with SQL)

* HBase (NoSQL column based database store based on Google's BigTable, think Cassandra but very consistent)

* HDFS (Highly scalable and consistent distributed FS that was designed with MapReduce in mind)

^^ Some people use this JUST for storage since it's so easily scalable.

* There are others like Mahout which is machine learning, and in my opinion, black magic :P

Hope this helps :D
"Xtra Features: Icon Buttons."

Is this all it adds? Bootstrap already supports adding icons to buttons..

edit: Actually, the Github page for Bootstrap Xtra[1] says "DEPRECATED - Use Font-Awesome or Font-Awesome-More"

[1] https://github.com/lightglitch/bootstrap-xtra
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What a bunch of lazy, biased nonsense. There is absolutely nothing of value in that accumulation of words. I am neither for or against either the USA or Germany, but I am for unbiased and accurate assessment.
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Are these the same sort of people that quit their other companies a year before the IPO for Facebook stock?
This is actually something I was thinking about. For instance, say someone wants to learn Ruby. They could go to noexcuselist and find a step-by-step process that someone has made using only free resources. Does that sound like something that would be useful? The hard part is, I'd have to expand the site and make it social, so people can post their own guides. I definitely don't have the technical expertise for that.
Services companies, of which consulting companies are a subset, typically receive 1.5x to 2x multiples. [n.b. Your math does not match my math.] Why is this less than product companies get? That's less because consulting companies are a bad place to be and more because successful products are an awesome place to be.

It is totally reasonable to have a product company do $7 million of revenue on, say, $2 million of costs. (Let's see: four devs, two sales guys, one marketing, two founders... throw in overhead and we're there.) An acquiring company might have an easy, obvious path to turning that into $70 million of revenue on $5 million of costs. (For example: "We change essentially nothing about your company. We hawk your product to our customer base, using our sales guys, who 6 weeks ago only uttered your name if a customer brought it up, to disparage you. This makes us a mountain of money.")

A services company, on the other hand, might have $7 million revenue on $4 million in costs (16 consultants, 1 business manager, 2 founders). The most straightforward pathway to take this business from $7 million to $70 million is to add 144 consultants. They cost ~$40 million a year. This would be a radically less attractive proposition if it were even possible, but if hiring 144 consultants was easy, you wouldn't have to buy a company to find only 16 of them.

Also, with a dev company you're buying some capital (software) plus renting access to brains. With a consulting company, you're renting access to brains. In all circumstances, brains can move. Software rarely decides to do that spontaneously.

Edit to elaborate: The above is not a strike against doing consulting, by the way. Thomas, for example, has frequently mentioned on HN two true, salient facts: a) almost all products fail miserably and b) the principals at a consulting company beat BigCo salaries approximately the second they call themselves "principals at a consulting company", which is very much not the case at most product companies.
You just come ten miles behind the cable laying ship and splice it before it's ever terminated. I don't know if cable laying ships keep a connection to land over the cable as it's laid, but even if they do, you just place somebody on the ship to notify you when they're asleep or to tamper with the monitoring system.
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So how about finding the chromosomes using some sort of molecular sieve? Or thousands and thousands of them, if they don't work very well.

I'm asking that from a completely naive point of view, but it seems to me that there is a good chance of completely new methods being created, not just the scaling down of existing methods.
Sorry, but you apparently have no understanding for the topic or you would not say that it is a good article. As much as you are bothered that people "talk about Americans generically", it should provide you a slight understanding for how poor this "article" is.
We do an internal hack day modeled after Atlassian ShipIt (or as they called it and we do 'Fedex Day'). We've only had two since we started (year and a half) but aim to have one per quarter or every other quarter.

In our experience, they were a major boost to morale and some really interesting ideas came out of them, several of which have been implemented fully in our core products.

I'm a big advocate for these. We couldn't really pull off 20% but giving developers opportunities to work on their ideas within the company is really important.
You could pull together different courses and show how they complement each other to create tracts.

Sure, you can just organize them and leave them as they are right now and let people pick what they want, but if you vetted the courses and had suggested tracts to send people through, that could be pretty valuable.
> Obviously the earth hasn't latched into a "permanent irreversible hotter state". The present climate and the fact that we even exist to talk about it demonstrates that. What exactly are you trying to say?

There are two ways that we might not have latched into a runaway greenhouse effect:

1) the effect exists with a trigger temperature, and we have never hit that trigger temperature

2) the effect does not exist.

The fact that Antarctica has been tropical and is not now suggests that #1 is false.

> Inferring from this that global temperatures are following a declining trend is extremely misleading.

WHERE did you get the belief that I was suggesting that?

All I said was that apparently there is not an unrecoverable latch-up in the next 10-20 degrees.
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GLES2, GL3 and GL4 are the "clean parts" only, OpenGL 1.x features have been removed. But the API is still a mess and has all the design mistakes dating back to 1992.
> If you’re writing an application that will likely only be communicating with an API or back-end data service, where much of the heavy lifting for viewing or manipulating that data will be occurring in the browser, you may find a JavaScript MV* framework useful.

This, in my opinion is the most critical point when thinking about which framework you want. Once you know that, for example, you are going to do a lot of heavy UI manipulation and you do want an MV* framework, I think you end up splitting hairs about the differences between the frameworks. Spine or Backbone or Ember or whatever. At the end of the day, those frameworks are just the starting point and with any application of significance, the custom standards you put in place will have a much bigger impact than the framework you start off with.
Zappos actually wants little things to go wrong so they can go over-the-top in fixing them. I would not be surprised if they intentionally engineered service failures.
Don't use it, never will. All the privacy related issues keep me from going there. There are also more pleasant ways to waste time...
I agree with you on 'picking one' and sticking to it. Maybe I should highlight one source for each that I strongly recommend or something?

Also, thanks for the heads up about the Dreamspark link. Looks like windows recently redirected it to the same site. You used to be able to download Windows 7 and other resources for free as a student...
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It was pretty annoying, not gonna lie, but weeks may have been a bit of a stretch - I have about 450 friends and I'd say after a couple days of 'vigilance' I was 90% of the way there, but there were stragglers that showed up for a while after that. It wasn't until everything reverted and started showing up again that it truly felt like a nightmare.
We need more entrepreneurs like this guys, really trying to solve hard problems that can secure the long lasting existence of humanity.
I think that every time I hear him or read about him. It's astonishing and inspiring to see someone so successful have such an optimal perspective.

And beyond that, he acts on it on a very large scale!
cards are very different, even the driver is open sourced, I don't think other cards can benefit from it.
So the question is, if there comes a period of upheaval in the next decade ... what could a well-meaning entrepreneur work on now that will either help socially (secure communications, ad-hoc networking to avoid government lockdowns). Or maybe even position themselves for profit (3d printing tech to manufacture weapons, for example)?
Were you able to find out when they first started programming? My experience is that BS candidates who started programming way before college were much better than the ones who started only after joining a CS program. I think it's a combination of longer experience programming, plus once you have some practice at programming, it's much easier to learn and understand the theoretical underpinnings of CS.
I've personally only used the one at the Gristedes in Sheridan Square, but based on their locator (http://www.amazon.com/gp/css/account/address/view.html/ref=l...) it looks like they have a good 15-16 in Manhattan and 3-4 in Queens/Brooklyn.
But who'd pay for it? We Finns are more than used to paying taxes for everything we do. Even candies(and other sweets, such as soft drinks) have additional taxing.

It's just a matter of different welfare system(if you could say so, it applies well to the cultural differences between European countries - might be a bit of a stretch to compare it to the States... :))
a car dealership doesn't make money selling cars, but makes it selling financing.

This also scales to the production level. Prior to the recent troubles, GMAC, the financing arm, was larger and more profitable than GM, the auto maker.