skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This attitude doesn't conform to observed practice. Every time this happens people from that community come out, saying the firemen should have stepped up even though that party did not pay. There seems to be a feeling that we are our brother's keeper.

(There's also the other problem that when someone's house burns down, such a person will likely become a ward of the state, and that can't be allowed to happen. That's why in some countries it's mandatory to carry fire insurance.)
Do you know any major players that use this model?
Regarding startup / bootstrap helpdesk tools, I don't have any experience.

At my work, we use HEAT and I hate it so much. Judging by the way it works, I think it would be terrible for any kind of startup to use (IE: not cloud).

However, I am curious to see what people have to say about various cloud based solutions.

Hope this question gets traction.
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It's actually going to be a pretty common problem as we see more and more interfaces being built _visually_ for HTML5, while audio will lag behind due to the non-standard implementations in everything but Chrome. We'll start seeing more and more libraries that do audio heavy lifting in Flash, but expose their functionality over ExternalInterface. So where do you put a small Flash applet that Flash-blocking power users might need to click on, but otherwise shows no graphics whatsoever? How do you make it easy/big-enough for Flash blockers to click, but unobtrusive enough to not intercept any DOM elements?

I'd love to see a replacement for SWFObject that just brings up a modal dialog in the case where Flash is blocked, allowing you to click-to-enable the applet.
how would/could you derive that?
I also missed that there was anything to scroll down to see, before seeing this comment. A very dangerous page design.
The problem with such interpretations is that they violate causality.
Check out Wheeler-Feynman absorber theory for history.
Concepts such as collapse of a wave function aren't necessary when you stop treating the observer in a special way and start considering observer-particle as a big quantum system.
The vaccine is the treatment for human exposure to rabies. Animal vaccination is used to reduce the prevalence of the virus.

The virus moves slowly, so the vaccination is able to prompt an immune response before the infection becomes severe.
The grids or lines on the notebook are dotted. Their algorithm knows the geometry of those dots ahead of time, so it can exploit that fact to figure what the orientation is suppose to be.
Millennials believe it's ok to illegally download anything.
"Is a -2 Hz wave travelling to the right the same as a 2 Hz save travelling to the right, but going backwards in time?"

Yes, all other things being equal. It's a bit less confusing if you leave the signs off and just say that "a wave travelling to the right at f in t is the same as a wave travelling to the left at f in -t.

This is also very much in the "spherical cow" sense of physics - it's true of many ideal cases on chalkboards, but it gets fuzzy in practice due to thermodynamics and other nonidealities. Plus, you can only observe things from the perspective of time moving forwards.

"Could there be something to John G. Cramer's transactional interpretation of Quantum Mechanics?"

There's nothing I'm aware of which is implicitly wrong with a transactional interpretation - you just have no way to empirically prove that it's a valid "why." In physics, we are very often limited to "how" and "what."

It looks to have some ideas in common with Feynman's reaction diagrams and path integrals, so it may be an interesting approach if you're partial to those. The catch is that wavefunction collapse is equally true: it's a model which makes accurate predictions about observable experimental outcomes.
Because Atlassian makes money on the self-install version called Stash http://www.atlassian.com/software/stash/overview

You get the source code when you buy a license but it is not open source.
Very interesting read.

I've had next to no direct experience with narcotics. I've read some about it, and seen the effects on others (many times tragic). I'm familiar with the Opium Wars and the effects of heroin on China under British rule.

There was a book title some years back which rambled for a long sentence to the effect that the problem with smack was that it was so hard to quit and then once you did the worse thing was that it felt do damned good when you did use it again.

An earlier title pretty much sums it up: "It's so good, don't even try it once".
The default HTML styles are fine as they are. You can create a document with no custom styles and it'll be perfectly legible. More to the point, old sites with unstyled HTML documents will remain perfectly legible and structured.

One could argue otherwise that the needs of the web have outgrown HTML as it was originally intended.
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What Benjamin Franklin said centuries ago, when vaccinations were far more dangerous:

> "In 1736 I lost one of my Sons, a fine Boy of 4 Years old, by the Smallpox taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly and still regret that I had not given it to him by Inoculation. This I mention for the Sake of Parents who omit that Operation on the Supposition that they should never forgive themselves if a Child died under it; my Example showing that the Regret may be the same either way, and that therefore the safer should be chosen."
I have seen a negative sign grouped with frequency. Which was used to distinguish directionality. Most of the time it is understood from context what is meant, if not the speakers fall back on to more something more formal to ensure understanding.
Gotcha - so the plan is to make it social, and you need to build a paleo user base.

I don't know if you have this in mind, but some features around food intolerances could be useful. For instance, I can't eat tomatoes - so I spend a lot of time sifting through paleo recipes to get rid of ones that don't have tomatoes (or the various other things I can't eat). I suspect that many other paleo eaters are in a similar situation.

Not sure how easy that will be though, as it can be hard to link various forms of the food that you are intolerant to.

Good luck with this, it looks promising. If you have a list, let me if you ever decide to make an android/webapp/windows/linux version.
You had developers do WHATTTTT????
My expirience (x201 Lenovo laptop) with external monitors is excellent. I use 'grandr' for setting up the VGA display and I'm used to work with the maximum resolution supported by the laptop (2048x1536) and works smoothly and fine.

Sleep mode and WiFi works natively too. I have had some problems with hibernate mode but I'm not using anyway. The only think you cannot use under Linux is the fingerprint reader. Everything else works like a charm.
This [1] is from their user guide for the notebook.

Device Support

Page Camera is currently available only on iOS (iPhone / iPad), but will be added to Android and other mobile platforms in the future. iPhone 3Gs, iPad 2, and earlier models are not optimal for Page Camera due to absence of flash and low camera resolution.

EDIT: Formatting.

[1]: http://evernote.com/getting_started/moleskine/#5
So what? The document you linked to says the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommends "universal vaccination of infants; catch-up vaccination of unvaccinated children and adolescents; and vaccination of unvaccinated adults at increased risk for infection. " It does not recommend universal vaccination of adults for Hep B.

The main recommended one for adults is a tetanus/diphtheria/pertussis booster every 10 years. My last tetanus shot was about 2 years ago. I got my last MMR shot as an adult - there was an outbreak in Florida and the colleges required MMR boosters for all students.

The other vaccines in the US are recommended only "if you have a specific risk factor" or for "certain medical or other indications."
I'd also be skeptical of a benchmark created by a company that has a pretty big dog in the fight.
Not sure, might have something to do with the ACLU/AMP wanting to set a wide reaching precedent that patents of endogenous DNA sequences are not ok? They won't just want to win the single case, they want to change the wider legal landscape concerning patents and biological science.
I bet $50 the old iCal, Address Book and Front Row are not compatible with new security restrictions introduced in ML, so again you should be happy Apple has blacklisted them.

That doesn't mean that I like the current state of these apps any more than you.
Or measuring it inaccurately. Various estimation methods break down at extreme (high or low) BF%.
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Looks like Mozilla tries to compensate for the slowness of Firefox compared to Chrome each time a new JavaScript benchmark is released.
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That's true and most if not all programmers know that. Shareholders are a different story.

They might look at this as frivolous waste of money that should rather go towards "restoring" Facebook's image that has declined in the past months.

I think this is fantastic and I look forward to seeing the outcome of this, secretly envying the employees from my cubicle :)
More difficult than hotel locks? :)
> I immediately jumped to the conclusion that Apple was “blacklisting” the app for political reasons

> Wow, they really don’t want me to open this app!

I can't really imagine why one would instantly jump to the first conclusion, and then after a kernel panic still believe it to be malice on the part of the operating system developer. The instant a kernel panic is thrown into the mix, you barely need to check the crash log to realize that there's something fundamentally incompatible.

I was nearly expecting a follow-up line to say "It looks like Apple is patching the VMware modules at runtime, to cause them to crash!"

> ... it’s worth considering whether they will be tempted to use these powers for less honorable goals.

In addition to the version blacklist described here, there's the much-bandied-about "killswitch" in the iOS app store. In the years since iPhoneOS 2.0, has Apple used it for less honourable goals than platform security?

Come to think of it, has Apple used it at all?
He's saying that the Chinese are prone to stealing/copying. I'm saying that stealing/copying is happening everywhere so you can't really pin this behaviour on one race/culture. I'm not saying that it's okay either. People will often use the "everybody's doing it" argument to justify something. Not me.
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I can personally attest to you being wrong. I skinned the hell out of Sexymap. Thanks, btw, you made my life a lot easier, and I actually primarily used your mod to figure out LUA.
Causality would not seem to be broken if the effects were shunted to an adjacent universe. This would directly assume that MWT is indeed true.
I'd be interested in hearing about how you used CrowdBooster to build a following. Care to elaborate?
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What is the definition of "result". My point is that result in this case is a "change of state" vs "no change in state".
Most email IMAP servers provide both Date Sent and Date Received properties for each message, allowing the client to sort by either. Even in active mailing list threads, I've found that it's not that common for messages to get too out of order.

Assuming federated social services keep track of Date Received, it'd probably be okay to just sort by that.
It would be incredible to me if someone could write some commentary about this for the non-lisper. Skimming it now, it seems very familiar to me (as in, I don't really see anything about it that expresses anything particularly beautifully), but I might be missing some of the finer points. Overall, I recognize a lot of familiar code that I've written for games in javascript. It's hard to appreciate the aesthetics of this, since I'm not familiar with the language.
"If you enjoy thoughtful and smart writing, and being a part of a meaningful conversation ..."

Then don't read this guy apparently. A page of snarky comments? When YC invests in a promising team that has yet to have an idea that is "investing in nothing", but a MacArthur Genius Grant is "investing in the future" ?

I understand that to a lot of people outside of the startup eco-system or outside of technology in general don't "get" what it is we do, they also don't "get" how Google makes billions shoving just the right advertisement in front of them at just the right time, and they don't "get" that they haven't looked in a paper copy of the Yellow Pages in years or cracked open any of the 27 volumes of the World Book Encyclopedia on their shelf that they got for their kids 10 years ago. But to spend time and energy hating on something you don't understand, well that isn't really a meaningful use of your time is it? And telling someone who is having a great time doing something they love that it isn't "meaningful" is also just mean.
I got a similar message when I found I'd had to reinstall git. Pulled down an image from google code, then git-scm and received a ~"cannot install from unsigned source."

I'm not sure why I had to reinstall in the first place. Specifying "Allow software from ANYWHERE to run" did the trick. This might be off-putting to some.
I'd be glad to pay extra to get rid of it.unfortunately they don't offer that. The only time when I use it is when I push it by accident along with one of the keys.
Why is this a danger?
This reminds me of P and N silicon; the negative frequency light is like hole current. (N silicon has "extra" electrons. P silicon has "missing" electrons that leave "holes", and you can have current where it's the holes that are moving.)
This is like... a sarcastic blow from the inside of tech journalism directed back at itself... right? I can't even believe so much was written on ridiculous self-serving inside baseball if the author actually believes his sentiment from the last paragraph - that people should really get to hear about this project and the amazing team behind it.

"Nah, instead people will just get to hear me whine about my own insecurity instead."

"No one ever wants to follow someone else's story" because these are just glorified press releases. If they believed in their own writing and ability to share something unique about their subject, they'd still release their version of the story.

Instead, we get this LiveJournal quality BS about other writers not playing by the rules, which justifies the author's own shitty behavior.
Good insight about the functions of a web front-end. I totally agree. And I think the first two are a priority before slapping features on top.

Gitlab is build on top of Gitolite so setting granular permissions should be doable. I worry that the combination of groups and branch settings will be hard to maintain unless you name your branches consistently.

I'm very interested in talking to you to learn from your thinking. I've set my email on HN, my Skype handle is sytses and my contact info is on http://sytse.com/contact
How is this different from taking notes on any physical paper and take a photo of it? My Galaxy SII camera takes real good pictures of papers. They are readable, good focused and sharp.

I just see a marketing partnering stunt here?? Am I missing something?
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and
there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism
has been a constant thread winding its way through our
political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion
that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as
your knowledge."

-- Isaac Asimov

I sometimes wonder if this is the "true price of freedom"...
the definitive research paper on it right now which was titled "The Origins and Ends of Giftedness"

It seems this is it http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.110...
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder I guess. I mean, take a look this screenshot:

http://worldofgnome.org/uploads/2012/08/app-overview-700x400...

How can you take that serious? I call that a waste of precious screen real estate. A desktop workstation is not a freaking tablet...
What's a tech startup worth?
So I've applied to y-combinator in the past, I have sat across from investors before like a deer in the headlights.

That was before I got into the financial industry. Now I develop apps for that industry and I was thinking about an app to help small tech startups familiarize themselves with the financial industry and valuations by way of a quick valuation.

You would respond to 50 or so questions, if you have financial info for your company, insert it, then for a fee it gets sent straight over to a valuation pro who looks it over, crunches out a value range for your venture along with an A-F grade in 8 categories important to investors. This report gets sent back to you within 24 hours.

The value range certainly isn't a science and couldn't be relied on for tax purposes or anything like that, small tech startups are so difficult to value. But I wanted to gauge potential interest in a service like this.

I'd use valuation methods commonly used by investors and valuation professionals and send a report along with the value range and grades so that businesses have a better idea of what to expect to hear when they sit across from an actual investor or get a value from someone like y-combinator or others. I'd also have valuation professionals with many years in the business and all sorts of fancy degrees to build the methodology of valuation and to look over the generated reports. As a value added service, you could purchase a half hour or hour or so to speak with a valuation pro to go over your report with you.

Thoughts?
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Okay, I understand that the formal definition of "idempotent" is different than what the author means. What is the correct term to use in this case?

Edit: Next paragraph says:

This is a very useful property in many situations, as it means that an operation can
be repeated or retried as often as necessary without causing unintended effects.
With non-idempotent operations, the algorithm may have to keep track of whether the
operation was already performed or not.

"A change in state" would be an unintended effect I think.
Would you rather open a burger joint or franchise a McDonalds? I'm not saying the analogy is perfect, but Apple brings a lot to the table when you work with them (brand recognition, 1 billion itunes accounts w/ linked credit cards and a propensity to use them).
The feature I would really like to see would be a printed title Box in the moleskin notebook, which would allow me to title my written work and then pass that title into Evernote when it's scanned. You could obviously also extrapolate this feature out to tags or other pieces of metadata to be stored in the digital Evernote document.

Just to clarify: this would really be made for those who have awful handwriting (like me), so only a small part of your page would need to be written carefully and eventually digitized to be searchable.
Your web browser is designed to sandbox and safely run code.

Your shell isn't.

(People are working on it though, see for example http://berrange.com/posts/2012/01/17/building-application-sa...)
I think I see the difference being that NYC is very big and tech is a very very small part of what's going on here. SF, on the other hand, is relatively small and tech is a very large part of what's going on there.

Now I could be very wrong about this, but I feel like if you're out in SF and you meet people it's somewhat likely they might be in tech where as in in NYC it's very unlikely. In NYC, you have to go out of your way to find those kinds of people, possibly going to tech events which, in my experience, sometimes feel like you're going on a blind date.

Now it's possible that I just don't know the right people in NYC, but from what I've heard from friends I have in SF, it seems like you're just more likely to run into tech people making it easier to make the right kinds of connections.

My company has business for over two years and is profitable. I'm not just a guy with a laptop and an idea. I'm just not happy with the kinds of connections I'm making in NYC nor the speed at which my company is growing. Both of these could obviously be linked to me and not my city, but I think it's worth finding out.
Indeed. I'm very much looking forward to ditching flash on beatlab.com when I can.

The HTML WebAudio API isn't quite there yet, but it's making great progress. It is already deployed in Chrome, with releases in Safari and iOS on the way. I actually have a branch going that uses the WebAudio API to mix sounds and doesn't rely on flash at all.
Yes. http://dsandler.org/brdfdr/
Nice. Is this app available? The Vidinotes site is down.
“Some of the most successful technology companies haven’t done much for job growth: “Take the ubiquitous iPod. It’s created less than 14,000 jobs in the U.S., Internet giant Google, 20,000 employees, Twitter, a mere 300””

It's absolutely absurd to imply that the extent of Google's effect on our economy is a sum of their employees. That quote completely mis-understands how markets work.

Google provides services that have completely revolutionized how people find information and build buisnesses. Of course that has impacted job growth.
SendHub uses Heroku - it says RIPE on here.
I was just thinking about thathigh the other day and wondering how it was doing :)

What projects are you working on these days?
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My guess is that the author is new to common lisp. It's the only CL project in his github account, and he wrote it using vim. Most people who have been using SBCL for a while will use emacs with SLIME as it is the recommended IDE for using SBCL.

So I wouldn't expect it to contain any particularly awesome lisp-isms. My first read made me think it was using multiple-dispatch, but it isn't doing so in a way that wouldn't also be possible in a language with overloading, as no more than 1 parameter is ambiguously typed at function call time.
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Agree with you Chuck. That's exactly the point made in Startup Principles: http://startupframework.tumblr.com/post/25124056077/startup-... That companies like Google, RIM and 3M take the world by storm by solving real pressure/pain points of customers in a small and disruptive way. There is no overnight success as a case study on 3M concludes: http://brownieinmotion.ca/3m.html
Yes, but in real life we don't have ways of broadcasting to this ever-changing landscape. In fact, we tolerate quite a bit of collateral damage: you tell your brother something in confidence and he goes and tells your mother.

Socially, yes, this is insufficient. But this isn't really about social reality, it's a technical solution to boredom, which means people enjoy putting work in to manage their friends. It's the whole reason they're there.
Sure, and I'm also aware that there is cure for this, but you must go for it. If this story is real, I hope that now that he is aware that he is troubled, he will seek professional help.
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UX31A here. I have no qualms in recommending this as the best 13" ultrabook.
Yeah, I read this sentence

> But I’ll be damned if I’m gonna follow someone’s story 12 hours after the fact.

And I was "what. the. actual. fuck.".