skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, got it wrong :-) That's the way it works - you type in an address which becomes a search center. You can bring up a map (an icon on the right) and specify the search area (by changing the radius) but the address will always be precise.
> It may be gratifying, but you've constrained your future options without gaining anything decisive.

My point is that you don't know that. Different people have different goals and metrics for success. Avoiding dealing with annoying people may rate much higher for this person than for you.

Too little self discipline is a problem, where "too little" means not enough to allow you to do what you consider important. This doesn't mean that more is better. Discipline is a tool, not an end (unless that's your personal definition of success).
Let's say you got laid off from GitHub - would you pursue another equally-rare company, or then try to found your own?
As a father of two (both under 3) I want to (obviously) supplement my childrens official education with home encouragement - but resources and kicking off points like that above are - well I am sure they are around, I just don't know where.

I am half considering starting the Concerned Parent (tm) github repo

Is there any value in a github repo on recommended books and practises to help polyfilla in the cracks in the school system?- different approaches could have their own branches, commits could be discussed (Did you like that book The Teaching Gap? Should it be recommended? etc)

No I am not trying to recreate mumsnet. How crazy is this?
Then we are giving you the wrong impression. I'm the founder, I'm a programmer. The biggest team we have here are the programmers - not sales, marketing, support - programmers.
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I'm not sure. I'll personally track this startup wherever it goes. Generalization: usually well-designed iPhone apps are very well funded and tend to get traction and keep it steady.
If you do it right, you can support bookmarking pages and cmd-clicking links in your web apps.

Also, an Ember app could be designed to function seamlessly with an intermittent connection where a normal website would just be unavailable. Also, many pages will just continue to function without doing any extra work, provided the user doesn't post to the server until the connection comes back.
That might sometimes be true, but the textbook the OP referred to is less than $16.00:

http://www.amazon.com/Calculus-Made-Easy-Silvanus-Thompson/d...
I agree that the GP comment is uncalled for - we have no way of knowing if this company will help or hurt families, so let's give them the benefit of the doubt.

But let me address your second question.

The way that a trust is set up, it's not always the best solution for reducing the cost of college, particularly if you think you will qualify for financial aid (though that's a very difficult projection to make for the year 2030 at this point).

The way financial aid is calculated, these assets count against your eligibility. So while having the money won't 'hurt' you in some sense, there's the possibility that you'd receive that money from financial aid anyway, and by saving e.g. $10,000, you've reduced your financial aid eligibility by the same amount.

Of course, if you are able to save up the cost of college (>$200,000 for private schools) over two decades - or at least come reasonably close - then yes, it is good to have that money at the end of the term in case you wouldn't have qualified for financial aid anyway, but as you can see, having the fund doesn't necessarily leave you better off than the alternative.

The kicker is that the very-wealthy are able to secure vast amounts of financial aid for their children. I went to an Ivy League school, so I'll speak to their policies, as all Ivy League schools but one have the same financial aid policy: guaranteed to meet 100% of 'demonstrated need'. The problem is that 'demonstrated need' is very easy to manipulate if you're savvy enough to know how to reduce your taxable income, reduce your child's net worth to zero (or less), and exploit several other loopholes that are nevertheless entirely legal.

The end result is that I had some classmates whose families were wealthy enough to donate tens of thousands of dollars in charitable donations, and yet they also received the top financial aid packages reserved for the 'high need' (ie, very poor) families.

All of that is orthogonal to the company we're discussing: it's possible they may help, and it's possible that they may 'do no harm' (ie, it will be a wash for the family). Or they may be able to help educate these families how to take advantage of those same loopholes, but that would be difficult, and it's completely unrelated to the business of simply having a trust.
Blit (68K ) ==> DMD5620 ( WE32K ) ==> 630MTG (68K) == 730MTG (68K)

The 630 was also know as the "Son of a Blit"

Piece of humor. The graphics workstation for Plan9 was a 68020 board put into a 630/730MTG chassis, but with a DMD5620 keyboard. People would walk up to it and ask if it was 630. To which, the response was, it's not. It was later simply named, the Gnot.
Also, I would imagine that you can have that electronically triggered jolt of adrenalin today, too.
Did you even look at it?
Don't forget the cost of improvements and remodeling for a home you own? Home owners will probably need to update at least the bathrooms and kitchens before they sell, which can be an investment of >$20k. Not to mention the costs of repair, which you don't take on in a rental...
So does Facebook, and Myspace.
>>but sometimes I just have to wait

Not anymore you don't, welcome to the 21st century. Things are instant, information travels at the speed of light. The masses on twitter break stories and start revolutions before mass media can blink. The worlds-a-changin. If content I want is out there, I'll get it.

>>They demand things to be exactly their way

Also, maybe some people demand things to be their way, because they see how their world should be, and they go after it. Accepting the role cast to you in life is NOT the American way. If you see something you don't like, you get up and change it. If you see something you want, you got after it.

(I don't mean for this to sound rude or argumentative, it's just the way I thought it.)
So does anybody have tips about how to take good/useful notes? I feel like my stuff, while organized by topic, ends up being disorganized and quite ad-hoc. I feel like I'm missing out on something since I don't have any real system or technique beyond "write down stuff like you're explaining it to your future self" or some such. Maybe it's enough just to be writing all that down.
Why is your ego struck by politely leaving in the midst of a series of interviews but not by a polite post-interview rejection? Where do you draw the line?
How does this compare with e.g. Timsort[0]?

[0]: http://svn.python.org/projects/python/trunk/Objects/listsort...
> Yes, but even from a user's point of view I'm delighted when I use stateless web "apps". Facebook is an excellent example: There's quite a lot of AJAX-magic, but it still feels (and functions) as a stateless web site.

> No silly "double loading";

What does double-loading mean?

> easy to bookmark; links I can Cmd-Tab;

The primary goal of the Ember router is to provide this functionality out of the box. The reason you get a single callback with an object regardless of how you arrived at a given state to is to ensure that entering through the router (cmd-tab, bookmark) is the same as transitioning in the app.

If you use the router with the Ember `{{action}}` helper, there isn't really any way to have URLs that don't have the features you desire.

> the page doesn't magically fail when my internet connection is broken.

I don't know exactly what this means. Surely when your internet connection is broken, regular "stateless" pages don't work either?

Are you just saying that there are fewer problem states as an end user? Either the page loaded or it didn't? I've personally had a ton of issues with Facebook Ajax requests failing when I'm in a flaky connection scenario resulting in a generally unusable page.

Can you elaborate on what you mean here?
TuneIn adding preroll ads to stations, "would rather you listen to the free app"
This is a worthwhile point. The non-alternating sequence, 1/(2n + 1), when summed, diverges. So if you cut it at the 100th term, or the 1000000th term, the sum of the tail will not be negligible, it will be infinite.

It's only the fact that it's alternating that makes it summable. The alternating series converges like 1/n^2.

This is the kind of thing that, if it's noted in an interview situation, marks a better than average candidate. It could also allow such a candidate to go on about problems with summing series, and really show off. (One secret to interviewing well being to make the given question into a question you know something about already.)
It's an excellent question to bring up, though. You note that a civilized society gives people food if they absolutely need it. Do we then want to be a civilized society?

The core assumption is that it is morally correct to distribute value from the taxpayer base into the hands of those whose lives depend on it. In essence, the many are forced to save the few. This force is measured in terms of the amount of money redistributed; if it costs €10 a month to provide basic food to those who need it, and there are 10 taxpayers for every 1 person who qualifies for welfare, the institution manifests as all people in the country being required to pay €1 per month to contribute 10% of saving a person.

So the core question is, then, what is the moral justification for this force? In what way are people obligated to help their neighbors, such that society has moral grounds to force them to help their neighbors if they don't want to?
Lots of big companies, mostly infrastructure like telecom or tv, use Solaris still. Unless the project aims to support those uses, it usually isn't worth their time.
I love this.

My office is really quiet, putting this on alongside some music with my headphones is actually making me more productive!
What makes timsort fast is how it adapts to common patterns in the data (sorted runs, etc). Paul isn't trying to do any of that.
Ember looks cool, but knockout lets me ship fast and it's less "magic".

Also, I think single page apps have a place as part of a greater architecture, but not as the entire app. If I wanted an entire app everything to be JS, fine, use Ember or something like it, but most parts of the web don't need this and single page apps make the web a bit worse if not done correctly.

Single page apps are the new hotness, but once the fad is over and the newness wears off, they'll be fit into their proper place over time and won't take over the entire app.
I think the main value for 3d printing is its easier to create the casts for molds. (that still raises the matter of whether or not casting is suitable in those application domains)
16 megapixels packed into a 1/2.3" sensor? Ouch. That's the smallest sensor size on this image: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sensor_sizes_overlaid_ins...

I hope DPReview does a review on this camera -- I suspect it's going to produce extremely poor photos.
They know the gig is up and their ad platform is not as great as anyone thought it would be so now they're trying to get it while the getting is still good? My theory at least.
i just had my bike stolen on 8/3 in portland. the thief tried selling it on craigslist up in seattle, and i made a youtube video about it...

http://www.break.com/index/bike-thief-tracked-down-and-buste...

i've been looking into the thief... his usual m.o. is to take them down to eugene. he also picks up different ones while he's down there, and sells them here in portland and seattle. i think his theft ring has a couple of other people involved, but i haven't been able to confirm it. i am hoping to do a follow-up video about this.
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I'm taking handouts for my education. I'm also on foodstamps to make sure I can eat healthy foods as I learn. When I am done with my educational program (draftsman, and then mechanical engineering), I will be able to support myself and others via taxes.

I am seeking to better myself so I can be a productive member of US society. Is what I am doing wrong?
Best way to teach math? Same way as with other science. Use it.

- Agree with this. "By doing, we Become"
To quote another post earlier in this thread

> And this is actually a salient point - subsidy and direct-aid programs like this are never meant as a permanent solution to anything. Nobody is dumb enough to believe this. These programs buy time to find a systemic solution - because it's better to keep these people hobbling along while we try to fix the larger systemic issues that perpetuate their poverty, than to simply let them all die while we tinker with the knobs and switches.
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Letting Twitter audit your company and plans and then shortlist you if you're doing something worth doing sounds like a great plan.
Btw, I know it's empty but if you want to see how the search works and how the result page looks like (if you don't feel like you want to post something), try specifying "Aarhus, Denmark" (the place where I currently live) as an address and setting a price range from $1, you'll get some results.
Can you talk a little more about how you're doing this? And have you been successful so far? I'd love to use ember in a few areas of our app while keeping most of the existing structure in rails views, but my (limited) experience with ember is that it looks to be more all or nothing. I'd love to be wrong about that though!
Arguing about the niceties of the UI is all well and good but the actually problem is far more fundamental.

What killed the linux desktop? Drivers. Mostly graphics drivers but some others as well. Who cares if the UI isn't ideal if the damn thing can't sleep and wake up properly, or if it spazs out every time I plug in an external monitor.
Possibly I would have gone the registered agent account, as long as the price was close to how much it would cost to register it myself, and the registered agent was someone recommended to me personally (not found on the internet).

I've found that many registered agents will also send you a bunch of crap (official letter heads, a seal stamper, binders with your company name) and then charge you $500 more for their service vs. doing it yourself.

For NYC, I would recommend Dmitriy at www.dgatax.com. The consulting fee to sit down and talk won't be very much (I'm thinking $50-$100).
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Ask HN: Best compact news sources outside tech news?
I often lose track of news outside the technology spectrum. What is the single best source of news on the Internet which offers it in a comprehensive, compact, and perhaps even in an aggregated form for all major events around the globe.

After some research, the following are the best bets:

1. Evening Edition: http://evening-edition.com

2. Sub-Reddit World News: http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews

3. NYTimes: http://global.nytimes.com

However, I still feel unsatisfied, as these aren't comprehensive enough.

If you have anything to add, please do us geeks a favour, and let us know.

Thanks!
Thanks for bullet pointing, was going to do the same thing.

I wish people would at least read the link they paste, if they intend to use it for their arguments. The link answered/refuted his own 'claims'.
It was, especially, the jump and slide problem. The WE32100 and WE32200 rocked.
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I'm acb9ad, whats yours?
I miss gebaca.
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funny; I am using a linux desktop right now. not dead yet.
As mentioned in the reddit thread[1], the occasional mentions of 'Python' refer to the SBCL compiler[2] rather than the little-p python language. This confused me for a little while as I tried to figure out how they were running on the python VM.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/yy6e4/tabasco_s...

[2] http://insidelisp.blogspot.co.uk/2010/04/book-chapter-11-wha...
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It's funny, because the product we're working on is targeted at an existing Google product that is used a lot in the enterprise.

"What would I do if Google enters your space" is largely backwards, we're going after the space Google is already in.
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You're just a little obsessed with parsing his every word. Maybe he did find Groupon's growth absolutely disgusting. Maybe he didn't. Either way, he was asked to participate and give advice, which is what he did. One can do that and not be thrilled with everything going on. We're not talking about criminal activity here, just one of many ways to run a business.
There is a clear definition for "Opportunity Cost". It's an accepted principal with a long history. From my other comment, I was under the impression that you were not aware of it. Maybe you still aren't. My point is, you are creating the fallacy in your argument by not acknowledging the entire principal. Your use of money as the only driver in the personal decision provides a false conclusion to the "statement you often hear". The conclusion you left me with is: given you're a "High Paid" engineer, you should not fix your own car or help out your community restaurant because the math doesn't work out. However, if you want to screw around with "non-billable" tasks, that's cool, you'll just pay for it.

As almost everyone here has pointed out, that's just NOT what the concept of "Times is Money" is about. BTW, the different reasons ARE the core of the principal. Of course people are going to make different decisions. But, I guess for you it only works when Billable hour > cost of item.
> PG already spoke about how their mishandled IPO could hurt the funding landscape for startups

Do you have a link to this? I'm curious about what he has to say about it.
I think some of this is perceptive. It's true that the attempt by both Canonical (Unity) and Red Hat (Gnome 3) to sort-of-incompatibly break away from the so close to standard that it hurts to type this Gnome 2 environment did a lot more harm than good, at least as far as platform adoption goes.

And clearly OS X is an extremely polished Unix and is going to appeal to the more UI-focused of the hacker set. And Miquel is definitely among the most UI-focused of the hacker set. He's also an inconsolate "platform fan". Much of his early work was chasing Microsoft products and technologies, of course; now he's an iPhone nut apparently, and that doesn't really surprise me.

But at the same time the Linux desktop was never really in the game. I use it (Gnome 3 currently) and prefer it. Lots of others do. For many, it really does just work better. But in a world where super-polished products are the norm, a hacker-focused suite of software isn't ever going to amount to more than a curiosity. (And again, I say this as someone who will likely never work in a Windows or OS X desktop.)

So in that light, I think the idea that the Linux desktop got "killed" is sort of missing the point. It's no more moribund now than it was before. It's more fractured in a sense, as the "Gnome" side of the previous desktop war has split into 3+ camps (Unity, Gnome 3 and Gnome2/Xfce, though there are other spliter camps like Mint/Cinnamon too). But it's here and it works, and it's not going anywhere. Try it!
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Awesome to see an (eventually) open source version!

There's a YC company, Flutter, doing the same thing: https://flutterapp.com/
The problem is that there's not enough money there. Twitter needs 12 - 13 figures, not the paltry 6-7 of these "partners".
The biggest misconception I see here is treating WP8 vs. Android vs. Apple as an isolated purchase.

Microsoft's real opportunity in the mobile space will be anchored by tight integration with the PC/Xbox. If a consumer is already running Win8 on their PC and an Xbox in their living room, why wouldn't a Windows Phone be the next logical step?
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Speaking as someone running a Linux desktop (and am writing this on one) there's not much to say other than I agree. I run linux because work gave me a PC and there's no way I can write software on Windows. Of course we all have servers managed off in the corporate cloud somewhere that run ssh/vnc etc, but there's no way I wanted to install putty again or miss out on the unix commands that make (work) life more enjoyable, so I installed Linux, because I write server software, and client sometimes, but browsers make the operating system moot pretty much. There's more variation between browsers than between operating systems - mobile aside. And when I need to try something on Wintel I spin up a cloud instance and use vnc.

When i'm not on Linux I run OSX everywhere else (and IOS) because its unix-like (is) and because it works so well. I am sure Windows 7 and 8 are great, but I doubt they have gotten rid of c: or \ as path delimiter or any of the other nonsense that DOS introduced (copied from PIP) back in the dark ages. why should they, MSFT still runs DOS apps so they aren't going to change and choosing between OSX and Linux on a non-work desktop is a no-brainer, Netflix, Photoshop etc etc etc...
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> (b) incompatibility across Linux distributions.

This is completely missing the point - a statically compiled end-user binary should be compatible across all distributions of Linux, using the same version of the kernel or any newer version.

The only caveats to that are (a) hardware and (b) poorly-packaged software.

(A) is the fault of hardware manufacturers and is increasingly not an issue these days anyway; driver issues are becoming increasingly rare.

(B) is easy to solve for any open-source software, as it is the responsibility of the community for that distribution to provide the appropriate packaging. They prefer to do it themselves. And they're good at it - it gets done!

If you want to ship a closed-source binary on Linux, just make sure you don't dynamically link it against any libraries that you don't also ship with the binary. Problem solved.

Honestly, I can't remember one single instance ever where I have run into end-user software that will run on one distribution of Linux and not another, as long as that principle was followed.
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That's not really accurate. There are several shorter ways to do that in Ember.

App.UserView = Ember.View.extend({
templateName: 'user',
});

View:

<script>
<div>{{user.firstName}}</div>
</script>

No need for the intermediate bindings. Effectively this is what you're doing in Knockout with the "content." prefix
by choice though, or out of work necessity?
Is someone's "true potential" only reached when they chew up employees during 80 hour weeks? When they have a sales team that will do whatever it takes to land the sale including stretching the truth?

Is 'true potential' only evaluated based on attainment of maximum dollars per day of business? I don't see how he has failed anything but living up to your idea of achievement which, frankly, seems a lot more shallow then his.
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What tax advantages are those?

Low-income families aren't going to be taxed on any of the money they gift to their children.