skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Making outbound calls via a Burner number requires knowing where the call is originating.
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So what would happen if they simply walked away with the money? Or put a million or so into a show of good-faith effort and walked away with the rest? Is there any recourse for the backers?
Requiring facebook connect is a deal breaker. My corporate intranet blocks all facebook request (and I do as well with Ghostly). Please place the facebook connect JavaScript at the bottom of the page.
Most of my music is in iCloud, so it shows up in CloudPlay, but it doesn't actually play. Any way that CloudPlay can fetch songs in iCloud?
So awesome. Thank you Allan.
I have found that even small amounts of money radically changes the social dynamic. Even $1 changes the social dynamic. As long as the advice is free, those giving the advice feel free to show scorn for what they feel are stupid questions.

Isn't this desirable, at times? Do you believe every question submitted to a site like SO is value added? Even stuff like obvious calls for homework help ("I need to write a singly linked list in C++. I haven't tried yet, can someone show me how to do it?")
There are plenty of states without teachers' unions, and guess what- the kids don't perform any better there.

Non-teaching positions are the results of regulations and laws to 'protect' the interests of students. Until someone makes hard decisions that pare back some of those mandated 'services' they're not going to go away.
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Thank you Rust, I forgot about that. Article updated and you got the credit for it :)
Wait wtf is this???
http://reelsurfer.com/watch/clip/share_id/7096/1
No, it would be crazy if the rover failed due to a bad bolt, and no one could explain why the bolt was bad or even where it came from.

Also, no one is stopping you from building, launching, landing, and operating a multi-purpose roving vehicle on the surface of a foreign planet, 50 to 400 million kilometers away, that's designed to last for several years and withstand extremes of temperature, pressure, and radiation.

If you can do better...
Looks very well done.

Although, I wonder how exciting or lucrative this market really is when Venture backed App.net abandoned it in pursuit of other ideas
It shouldn't, but it gets to be a lot of milk. Most people (that aren't dairy sensitive) could probably stomach a few more cups (8 fl oz.) without losing it, maybe up to 1/2 gallon. Throwing up usually happens when people try to drink a whole gallon in an hour type thing.
> Amazon... sell... Kindle Store

UnglueIt could cut Amazon out of that entirely. Rights holders would get the money directly and Amazon would get jack. May be it isn't about that but they would never admit that anyway so who knows.
Why are Americans so... (a map of state stereotypes)
I never heard of that but it could certainly be possible.
the ultimate goal is a "Halliburtinization" of the US...

You could just as well call it the "Swedenization" of the US, since Sweden has adopted the same model for many govt services considerably more extensively than the US. (E.g., Sweden has privatized about 10% of their school system.)

They seem to do alright, but then again they also don't go starting too many wars.
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It gave me a heads up and then moved me automatically like a month or so ago. I think they're just pulling the final trigger on the people resisting a layout change. (That is all it is, there isn't new data...they don't make up stories about you)
hmm.. are you using iTunes Match? I believe iTunes uses a private API to stream music, so unfortunately there's not much I can do until I find another way. In the meantime, I should probably hide non-local iTunes tracks.
I agree. I want SO to approach reference documentation for common questions. When I want to know about the syntax for a Python list comprehension, for example, I want to see a number of examples arguing why they are a best practice in a concise, no bullshit manner.
Ab-so-lute-ly. We agree on pretty much all fronts. (I don't know my mother's stance on unions; and I don't have a stance on unions since I haven't given it any thought).

Since I haven't seen many willing parents (indeed in some situations, the parent isn't a positive or even present factor at all), I've only raised up the factor that I've actually seen make a positive change. It's actually the same way for me with computer science. A good first introduction made all the difference in the world.
Apart from the good things:

1 - You should show more screenshots in the home page, e.g. what the 'submit a ticket' page look like?

2 - Don't use hand-writing style typefaces in the screenshots, that's difficult to read for none-native English speakers (me included).

3 - You might want to check out Freshdesk, I was planning to use it for LIVEditor (http://liveditor.com) after checked a handful online support services, but gave up because the performance (pages took near 10 seconds to load).

Just my 2 cents.
Different people have different tastes, if you don't like it, you can hit the refresh meal button.
Your corporate network is likely blocking FB Connect, which we have on the top of our page. We're working on a fix for it.
What about biological production of plastics?

Or bioinfomatics or computational biology, where they're understanding current biology, not engineering new stuff?

You've discarded all of fundamental science, in favour of teaching your kids programming. Programming's important, but a physics degree _definitely_ teaches programming along with _how the universe works_. And stats. Lots and lots of stats. ",)

I'm just saying; you come across as a little short sighted, here.
And discussion is made better removing social lubrication when intermixed with context? It's not like you see the guys having smalltalk here, we're talking about things like removing thank yous, etc.

Just because you're happy with terse robotic communication doesn't mean you should make everyone talk robotically, especially when you're changing their payment for an answer (which was likely upvotes, selected answers and sincere appreciation) for what was perhaps a protracted effort on the part of the answerer.

It's rudeness equivalent of yelling "IRRELEVANT" over people small-talking at a technical talk.
In my case, I simply was not allowed to study in any post-secondary school. I applied to many, but was rejected from them all. Higher education is not accessible to a large number of people.

I have never found it to be limiting to my career though. In fact, I feel I am in a much better position because I was able to use those four+ years more effectively doing my own thing which has made me more marketable than a typical college grad.
I absolutely LOVE this app. I'm very into fitness and getting recipes for my kind of diet can be pretty difficult. You definitely need to add some more recipes though as I keep getting a "simple fish chowder" for breakfast/meal 3/meal 4/meal 5
which is a little too much of the same thing.

Im looking forward to using this to track my macros.
Very cool.

Feature suggestions:

* Add last.fm scrobbling

* Add Grooveshark as a source

* Group tracks into albums (you can get the metadata from musicbrainz and last.fm)

* Use last.fm similar tracks (http://www.last.fm/api/show/track.getSimilar) to automatically queue up the next track
Eh? It's easy to move cars between GB and Europe, because there are car-carrying Chunnel trains and ferries that help you do so.

EBay Germany has plenty of RHD cars listed from German sellers.

And what side the steering is on doesn't really matter if you're just going to chop it up for parts.
I mistakenly included a great deal of peripheral detail in the first draft. It's not as complex as all that. It is sufficient to provide only 2 versions of each asset: the 1:1 default and a higher-res version, whether it's 2x or 15MP.

You mention an HTTP header indicating DPI. Sending device pixel ratio is already a major part of the HAIR proposal; see Example 2. If that's all that got added to browsers and servers, it would eliminate most of the app-level solutions out there.
Feynman biography as a comic book
Can't stand ST2 either, if Chocolat is still going in a few months and TM2 flops I'll get it.
You still have not provided a rational explanation as to why removing "thanks" is encouraged.
You can if you download our mobile apps. Our web application, however, does require a sign-up.
Check out the preview: http://www.gt-labs.com/web_extras/feynman_excerpt.pdf, I really enjoyed it.
When I read this discussion I had to go back and see it for myself. I read the whole thing and apparently my brain autocorrected the whole mess for me.
Oh, no, I wasn’t claiming that this change had anything to do with money. In this case it was clearly related to risk. I was just trying to make a general point.
I'm not ignoring the politics, but science does have an obviously large part to play when it comes to teaching science, irrespective of the politics.

Also, to insist on evolution and climate science to be taught in a way that practitioners in those disciplines would at least recognise, is not pretending to be above politics, it is trying to meet the politics head on.
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> "But there are also plenty of businesses with millions of users that only get revenue later in their life."

No. No. NO. This is one of the most common stories told in the Valley, but it's also an immense case of confirmation bias.

How many companies with millions users had no revenue for a long time and then became immensely successful later on with a viable monetization strategy?

Google. Maaaaaybe Facebook, the jury is still out on that... aaaaaand that's about it.

The overwhelming, typical case for the "no revenue, all traction" business is death, an acquihire if you're lucky. The fact that there exist a few (by a few I mean one or two) huge outliers does not represent 'plenty of businesses', nor does it represent some kind of trend. Traction-first business with no revenue model baked in have always been the longest throws in software business.

So no, traction is absolutely not an acceptable replacement for revenue when representing a business' viability.
The theory of evolution has pretty much zero value in competing globally, the way I see it (although it's good to know). Global competition is a major contributor to climate change.
Strictly speaking I believe that if the defamation is published in the UK (including available on the internet and one person in the UK reading it) then the UK courts might still have a go even where neither the author or the defamed are UK based.

It is however an expensive path to bring a case (and defend one) and damages aren't always massive so it isn't really worthwhile unless you have money to burn scaring people away from telling stories (true or not) about you.
I've heard this complaint before, and I kind of understand where it comes from, but removing politeness isn't the same as rudeness. I'm not replacing "thanks" with "suck it." I'm just removing "thanks." It really doesn't belong where most people put it (as part of a question or posted separately as an answer).
Very interesting that they didn't mention James Proud's Giglocator exit. Maybe they didn't reach out/he decided not to participate in this article, but if you're going for the revenue angle then it should be noted[1]

There are also two fellows in YC right now and are literally days from launching their startups.

(disclosure: I'm a Thiel Fellow)

[1]: http://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac/2012/06/20/skip-school-s...
I see it now.
Pledge 1 million dollars (1 of 5 left)and be invited to NASA command center during Rover touchdown. Plus all of the above.
I too still prefer TM1.5. TM2's UI is, quite simply, horrendous. That sidebar looks like something from the OS9 days. This combined with the changes to the menus and the change from ATSUI to CoreText rendering engine results in an app that quite simply isn't TextMate.

If I'm going to be moving away from TextMate as I know it, it's going to be to something better, not TextMate's uglier brother.

I tried ST2 for a month and ultimately decided it wasn't making me any faster or more productive than I was in TM1. When I do finally get to a place where I'm ready to leave TM1, it'll probably be for Chocolat. I've already bought my license.
Not arguing about the evil. Just noting that, unless 95% of the entries on http://trenchescomic.com/tales are fiction… this degree of evil is not uncommon in the games industry.

Zynga does seem to take the cake, though.

I'll never forget the Zynga promotional video that they showed at Startup School several years back. I think it helped that I hadn't really heard the name "Zynga" when I saw it. And, as I recall, the video didn't really explain what Zynga actually did. It had this very odd tone, reminiscent of the greatest hits of 1999. Smiling faces, Nerf darts, quick cuts, breathless optimism, and lack of introspection, just like (as I see in hindsight) a recruitment video made by Lucifer. "We're a hot company! Hot, hot, hot!"
This is basically what I've started setting up for myself too. It's like recreating nutrisystem without the prepackaged foods. I love the idea, it needs more maturity though. Once the recipe database gets larger and there's more controls for foods and meals this will be a great tool.

I'd love the ability to save favorite meals (and to build them myself rather than randomly generate them) which would show up more often in my meal plans.

That said I created an account and will be using it.
Being a former board of education member for a large city, I can say with some experience that "standards" alone will do nothing. Education is so messed up beyond recognition today.

There's so much incredible bureaucracy. So much. Unimaginable. Federal, state, local. School districts have centralized to the point that it's nearly impossible to implement changes unless it's some sort of "one size fits all" scheme. Local schools are hamstrung by work rules, union rules, tenure rules, and then on top of that state and local education "standards."

Then there are socio-economic issues. Parents who themselves never learned to read. Kids living in areas where the person to look up to is a drug dealer. Cultures of dependence and reliance on government handouts. Many (if not most) urban school districts have dropout rates of over 50%.

Even where there is not that sort of culture, there are parents who think that the schools are babysitters and any kid who does something wrong much have done so because it's the <i>school's</i> fault.

And of course, teachers unions, licensing rules, pay scales, and lack of individual accountability contribute as well.

It's such an enormous problem that there's no single answer. I think that decentralizing education would go a long way toward helping to spur innovation. Charter schools, vouchers, and removing attendance boundaries help too.

Centralization has really hurt education and the only answer that seems to be proposed is <i>more centralization.</i>
Congrats, I've heard great things about Reel Surfer. Can't wait to use it
I would probably just say Tarantella.
It only seems to work in Chrome.
Is the evolution of gadgets really the evolution of humans?
what a strange world you live in
Thanks for the pointer. This really brought home to me the 'baud rate' issue of interplanetary communication.

Right now, I'm so used to streaming movies at home that I forget the challenges of communications across such vast distances .

Perhaps our children/grand-children will be using the faster interplanetary internet and will recall these days with the same whimsy as we do now our twisted-pair modem days.
Um, the whole point of LendInk is to not send business their way. Business would imply purchasing. LendInk is a way to avoid purchasing.
I never understood how the semantics of a crowdfunding payment are any different to when your credit card is taken on file at a hotel for room charge bills.

You hand over your credit card upfront in anticipation of a possible payment in the future.

I think the real problem here is classifying crowd funding as a product purchase or an investment.
Tried it in Firefox and IE. It doesn't work at all. It does work in Chrome.

This is really well done. It's easier to use than App.net and the pages look a little nicer. Well done.
I agree with you insofar that I tried it and didn't quite get the appeal personally. But I had alot of experience with VIM coming in.

The degree of success is something I allude to as being congruent with the success of Apple products in general - well designed, cohesive, but definitely not the core demographic being power users. If anything you could probably say it was many's first powerful editor... and as people people grew in their abilities lament formed from its limitations, much of which was to be addressed in TM2, but the extended wait opened the door for people to move onto other, more powerful editors, and esp. set the stage for Sublime - which I'm neither here nor there with and may go back to VIM. But hey, its plugins are in Python and it has a VIM-like mode with an elegant UI so it's definitely a solid step in the right direction.

I think its success was well deserved given its core demographic and esp. tie-in with the Rails community which seemed to grow with it. I'm glad it existed, I consider it a great 'gateway' editor :) And now Sublime is its spiritual successor and I consider that a pretty good thing. Some people, esp. web designers, are just not going to give up UI polish no matter what so it is what it is. And it may very well have introduced others to VIM or EMACS who wouldn't have given them a look initially, finding the old school look and complexity daunting at first blush.
Thanks for the feedback.

1. Your customers 'submit a ticket' by sending you an email, literally. We track threads internally.. A form widget to put on your site is in the works..

2. didn't think about that... thanks

3. You should try SupportFu - we've focussed on UI speed and frendliness :)
The bulk of the reason is antisemitism, with a good dose of groupthink on the side. In other words, it's become fashionable to hate Israel regardless of their actions.

When they make settlements it disturbs the peace process; when they unilaterally remove settlements, it also undermines the peace process. When they bomb or occupy a neighboring country it's an overreaction, but when that neighboring country is firing rockets into Israeli neighborhoods it isn't their responsibility. When a terrorist hate group takes control of Gaza and breaks away from the Palestinian Authority, they aren't disturbing the peace process, but when Israel and Egypt jointly declare a blockade on Gaza and Israel captures a "flotilla" trying to run the blockade, Israel are the oppressors--even though the supplies carried on the flotilla were merely inspected and passed through to Gaza anyway.

It's generous, and likely accurate, to say that those who hate Israel aren't thinking critically. Most people who take up intellectual fashions aren't thinking critically--that's why they take up intellectual fashions in the first place. But the more passionate ones are likely antisemitic. There are fair criticisms to be made, but there are also plenty of double standards at play as well.
No worries, I was being grumpy. It is interesting that their was explaining the business justification for not making a technical change. People can forget about that whole business thing sometimes.
For some reason the underline hadn't been showing up on my laptop and I had to check it out on my phone when you mentioned it to actually see it. Should be fixed now.
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Agreed. As a Ruby/JS programmer I absolutely do not think that JS or Ruby folks can't do hard CS stuff, just that it's really easy to be a commercially successful Ruby or JS programmer and not have any idea what a hash algorithm is. Or know anything about bloom filters.

The problem domain often doesn't expose you to that, and that's unfortunate. There's a lot of research over the last 60 years in CS that can make our lives much easier (obviously lots of research is ongoing, too).
I don't support genetic modification of food, for example.

Then you will be really annoyed when you work out what viruses get up to all on their own. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal_gene_transfer
Or open the case and move a jumper.
This is so awesome, just really wish the recipe database was a lot bigger. As much as I love bacon, not sure I want it for 3 meals a day.
Thanks for the link. From the notes on the page this has been getting excellent press. Don't know how I missed it.
I'd also love to be able to specify that I'm going to eat out for a meal and get suggestions for where to go and what to have.
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Should have been 'times per day.' I made a typo and couldn't edit it; I don't know why HN isn't letting me do so.

Asides from that, why post a correction here? Only other HN readers are going to see it, which inherently means you aren't writing the comment in the hopes of them fixing it, but to show the error to other commenters. Perhaps malicious was the wrong term, but your comment certainly wasn't trying to help them improve their copy.
"Improve syntax highlighting performance"

To be fair… watching a highlighter crawl down a small file is a complete joke
Ha! A user that's not logged in can't even get to your ServerFault link. They're silently redirected to the duplicate. Even more frustrating (to you, I imagine) is that your question was closed unilaterally by a moderator -- the same moderator that asked the question that it's redirecting to.
It's certainly possible that biotech can be employed for the greater good. But I'm confident there will be a ton of competition for that relative sliver of jobs. I know several people with physics degrees. None of them do physics for a living. None could find a decent job doing it. Whereas programming is a very safe bet over the next 20 years, and is better taught by Python courses than physics.

I'd like schools to favor programming over physics and chemistry, but not ignore physics and chemistry altogether.
Yes, that's going to be true anywhere. There are 30,000 posts on Meta already, so it's a good idea to search first. Valid complaints are paid attention though.
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If you are a market participant, you benefit from tighter spreads. If you "regulate HFT out of existence," you will instead get to buy higher and sell lower.
> (Actually, I have another revolting way to use switches to implement interrupt driven state machines but it's too horrid to go into.)

I guess this means like http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/coroutines.html ?
You might find this useful: http://www.opera.com/developer/tools/mobile/
haha thanks james
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