skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't regard that type of behavior as a strength at all.

There are also lots of people who do great work that are not complete assholes in person. They have the same intolerance for crappy work and same ability to give feedback as assholes, but are able to do it in a way that doesn't leave the other party feeling humiliated and angry.

It's not hard to be direct and explicit about what you want without being an asshole. It's just that the assholes don't bother. That's why they're assholes. :)
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No, I would never put critical financial information online, I just about trust my bank not to mess up with my account information but that's as far as it goes.

But that really is my only reason 'against', on the other side of the ledger (pun intended) there are plenty of 'pros', such as the ability to stay current with the tax rules without upgrading your software.

If you use an online accounting service make sure they allow you to export your data in some common format so that you can back it up yourself. Most of these companies will of course do their very best to make sure that you don't lose your data (one should assume) but if anything should happen then you, not they, are responsible as far as the IRS is concerned.
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I'd prefer weighting the karma by comment length until it reaches at least three lines, combined with a markov chain that recognizes vocabulary like that in the linked article and common among insightful posts.
I'm baffled too. The Internet Archive first crawled the site in June 2007, so let's be generous and say they were in business for two years (NYTimes article mentions they closed).

Stunning hubris.
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I really like the analogy used in this article, but would taxpayers really be willing to pay for their government to send out useless emails?
he totally skips operating costs. A trendy office in SF? Bandwidth for a massive site? SMS fees?

$20M doesn't go that far.
Don't you think it would have been more polite to ask him what the name of his site was?
like Wufoo, but not as cool?
does anyone have an examples of VC funded companies that have taken massive amounts of investment, and been unprofitable for many years, and then become hugely profitable?
I did already, and it was helpful. I didn't think my specific sitiuation was that relevant to the question since I'm sure many others have felt the same way.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=228735
Right. A bad first impression is a bad sign. The reverse (A good first impression) is not necessarily the case.
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but do they count as useless in this case?
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Operating costs wise I would expect salaries to be the bigger fraction, bandwidth for a site like twitter is 'manageable' (after all it's not exactly video or high res images), office space is a rougly fixed percentage of salaries (so many people, so many square feet of office space required).
Great points, thanks for the reply. I will likely ask my accountant what his opinion is, of course I'm pretty sure I'll know what he has to say, but it'll be interesting to hear his reasoning.
hackernews effect ?? reminds me off the slashdot effect.
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I have a Blackberry (in the UK) and yes this is how it works. We have, I think, EU servers so I dont know if the US has it's own dedicated servers.
Maybe you didn't care, but I knew exactly who the article was going to be about, and only because there was a lot of interesting discussion in the thread about him awhile ago.

He was one of maybe three or four people that there have been posts about that I've remembered, and it wasn't because of the NYT.
Intel made a similar offer to a group of engineers it laid off when I was working there, around 2003. So many people took them up on it they blew their budget and had to rescind the offer.
Especially in a situation where the prospective client should be on his best behavior.
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That reminds me of the following statement: (I'm probably paraphrasing here -- my Google-fu failed me)

Your arguments can be driven by your emotions but your emotions cannot be your arguments.
When someone dies, people usually add a little warmth to any description of them. And that's the way it should be. Respect.
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How about evolving schemas? Allow for users/developers to collaborate on improving the different data types.

Even though a schema may have a fixed set of core attributes, there's no reason why some app couldn't extend that in any way it sees fit. This way, any "file" generated with this app would be readable by everybody else while at the same time include the application specific extensions. Once the extensions become used by a large enough number of apps, they can be rolled into the standard.
> The folks behind the current CSS spec failed badly

Its not the fault of the CSS spec that Microsoft decided not to implement it. Of course it doesnt change the reality - that cross-browser CSS currently is not powerful enough - but please blame IE, not CSS.
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That was too easy for HN. I was expecting something I didn't know in seventh grade - and I'm no math genius, not by a long shot.
See also accompanying video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1xXTi1nFCo
Exercise doesn't always have to be straight body building. I go rock climbing 2-3 times a week and I absolutely love it. One of the very few hobbies I kept up for well over a year (so far). On my off days, I run and sometimes supplement in the gym.
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Did you try to insert some of the actual free domain names into your ads?
On your point 2, the one thing that I would add is to:

1. Try out the existing implementation (a little gap analysis with your idea)

2. Even though analysis from (1) above does not come out with much pros, the project might still be a viable one, depending on the effort needed
we functionally share our finances...

I've definitely got one mate like that, but plenty of others are the opposite. Sounds like we're probably not representative of the bulk of married couples though.

In our case, by negotiation really does mean by negotiation: XX wants a new couch. XX either convinces XY a new couch is a great idea and we split it, or XX buys the couch. Works the same way when XY wants to concrete the carport.
I too worked for an asshole, but not in the freelance capacity but as an employee. The worst part was he would recognize that he was an asshole and apologize all the time, only to go back to being an asshole soon after.

I always wanted to tell him that recognizing that you're an asshole and not breaking the behavior was worse than someone who's an asshole and doesn't know it.
Let me ask the question this way: if you have a bug fix or new feature ready to go that would be helpful to your paying customers, why would you delay releasing it?
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Who are you arguing with? Mr. Garrett states very clearly that both tables and CSS have a proper use.
Here's something similar: http://www.theofficeonline.com.
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Now if only they would offer sync of tasks for users of Blackberry and Windows Mobile smart phones they would be on to something.

I've just re-visited Tasks, and it is nice... but to be ubiquitous (and therefore useful enough to displace the paper I carry) it will need to be in my phone.
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I read some of the ML lectures notes from OCW some time back. It was very math heavy. Is that an MIT thing or is that how ML is taught in all universities?
"although crucially it (NK) probably does not have the technology to mount a nuclear device on a long range missile"

Anyone else find that interesting?

Frankly I'm not worried about the North Koreans and their missiles. Japan might be, but I think they got it covered with enough US military tech to trounce any NK aggression.
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Unless this case ends up dismissed or easily won, Google should redirect all Italian IPS to a page explaining what has happened and that they are unable to do business in Italy until the laws are changed.

They should add a "contact your government" feature that lets Italian internet users let their parliament know what's going on.

This isn't punishing Italian internet users it's a necessary safety precaution. It's not worth doing business somewhere that puts your employees in danger of jail time for doing their jobs.
It does exist - I've seen it.
While I generally agree, it's not always the case. News networks will drum up stories like these all the time from a "report" or "undisclosed source" to push an agenda or spice up a slow news day. Just because other new orgs pick up on it doesn't make it any more of a fact, unless they're doing their own verification which sadly I don't think is done enough.
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I fail to see how that is different than #2? Maybe I should have said "don't want to spend $150".
Nothing in the article about US confirmation of this event.

"In August, Iran said it had put a dummy satellite into orbit with a domestically made rocket for the first time. U.S. officials said that launch had ended in failure."

Photoshop FTW?
Sold.

I want one of those peelers.
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His comments about the CSS Garden are extremely misguided: "But how much of the loveliness is due to CSS and how much is due to photoshop is far from clear."

The whole point is that every page of the garden is the same, HTML-wise. CSS transforms each variation completely from the last.
I'm not a SEO expert, but I think the commenter referred to the fact that you can position content before navigation with CSS.
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"Imagine if we still had Bill Clinton"

We can only dream ;)
Oh man, I will miss him. I used to walk past him almost every day around Court St selling those peelers.
i like the layout and design, esp the color scheme, you managed to pull off the brown.
if that noobindex is your site, then you should spend a few weeks and do a complete redesign. Right now(no offense) it looks like crap. You have to play to your audience. Simplicity works on HN, because the site is only text and you get the full experience anyways.

But for a gaming site to be simple is just wrong...look at your competition, all of them have extremely visually appealing designs. So why would a person register for something that looks like crap(pink background..really?) when they can register for a site that looks good.

If you suck at visual design hire a designer to build you something that is visually appealing. Probably will run you something like 500 bucks on one of those freelancer sites.
and comedy:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article47...
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I don't know why they would get a patent on something that obvious. They could simply do it without needing a patent.
I for one would be interested in an HN submission that fleshes out the suggestions you're making here.
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You seem to suggest that CSS is good enough to do what we would want, but necessary parts of it are unsupported on IE. However, the article describes a problem (content order matters in the presentation) that is due to the rules of the CSS spec and has nothing to do with IE incompatibility.
Once again: you need to put some information in your profile if you want anyone to be able to do more than just say "oh, ok".
I have an article which explains when to use tables: http://olav.dk/articles/tables.html

But now that the pendumlum seem to have swung from never use tables for layout to always use tables for layout, I suppose it should be extended with an explanation of when not to use tables :-)
You're talking about cultures that already value education, hard work, and obedience to elders. I'm talking about Americans. We have less automatic respect for elders, so poor parents have very little credibility with their kids. Poor kids tend to disregard their parents' urgings to get an education -- in the American mentality, you don't get ahead by paying attention to broke-ass chumps. (Kids still unconsciously emulate their parents, but that's also bad news for the lower class.)

Americans are capitalists -- we only do things when we understand the investment and have confidence in the return. The more educated and successful the parents, the more credibility they have, and the more likely their kids are to work hard in school. Plus, the main effect is still emulation, which works in their favor. So the rich get richer while the poor get poorer.

It would help if poor kids had some exposure to normal well-off people, but their only exposure is through television, and normal people are frickin' boring on TV and therefore invisible. People glamorous enough to shine on TV tend to be terrible role models.
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Well I took a chance and it worked out alright, but it could be more difficult depending on the med... There is so much spam in the online pharmacy space you do have to cut through the clutter... I waded through as many forums and blog posts as possible to narrow my list down, then just started with a small order to see what would happen. Then as long as you get them and they look legit you will probably be okay. Also, find a place that will accept a credit cards... I've noticed legit places are really responsive in order to avoid charge backs.
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The arguments presented seem like a half truth to me.

1 HTML multiple CSS
not 1 CSS multiple HTML

The whole concept should be that HTML should be written to have 100% accessibility across all readers (browsers and mobile devices), meaning someone with the most ancient browser can read the page and understand the content of everything without any form of presentation.

What the author has done essentially is the following:
Try reversing some words in a sentence and then later complain that English is flawed because the sentence no longer makes sense reading it left to right.

The HTML won't make any sense if you start reversing it... I mean what is the point of putting <h2> tags below your <p> when it's obvious that the <h2> tag is acting as the heading for the <p> below. I wouldn't be able to read that, so why is CSS @ fault?

The logical flow of the content should be based upon the reading the raw HTML in a procedural order.
This will keep it simple for coders to update the content, and css artists can pump many different layouts and show many different layouts to clients in a matter of seconds.

Good CSS also requires good HTML.
Why the author of the article is using a div container to wrap them all when a body tag exists is beyond me.

I think as much as we point our fingers at css as a flawed language, we need to point our fingers at how write our HTML as well.

www.csszengarden.com
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Okay maybe we mean different things - when I talk to people who complain that a boss or coworker is treating them like an asshole, when I ask for more details I find that by "asshole behavior" they just mean that they are being direct and explicit in their criticism. Hell, I've spoken with people who think that any critical comment is asshole behavior. I don't see how it's possible to be direct and explicit in criticism without offending some people. I've gotten called out on bad work before and it's painful, but without this feedback it's difficult to improve.

A good friend of mine thinks that their advisor is an asshole because if they aren't there on the weekend running their experiment their advisor will come in and do it. Now I agree that this is borderline jerk behavior / micromanagement, but what do you do if you hire someone that doesn't work to your standards? Leave the machines idle?
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Respect where it's due. I have no more respect for a guy who sold potato peelers than for anyone else, whether or not he had good street sales skills. The fact that he was mentioned on HN and his sales skill was discussed doesn't make him a hero - and certainly not my hero. It's a sad thing when anyone dies, but I feel no need to put dead people on a pedestal. Do you?

I maintain that the title of this thread is unnecessary hyperbole, and if we're talking about respect, I'd appreciate it if the hordes of people who are downmodding me in some sort of sheeple momentum voting would take a second and consider whether my comments really deserve that kind of downvoting (which should only be reserved for things that are truly offensive, trolling, or spammy).
Already posted:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=463600
I also knew who the article was talking about. That doesn't make him a hero, let alone an "HN Salesmanship hero".
The narrative suggests another reason for the "legend."

He wrote a manuscript spelling them out when he was 20, the night before he was killed in a duel. A Norwegian mathematician and contemporary of Galois's named Niels H. Abel died of tuberculosis at age 26 after solving a 300-year-old problem and discovering what are now known as Abelian functions.

Life expectancy has increased dramatically in the last century, so results from before that would be skewed young.
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Obviously, neither option is ideal, or this discussion wouldn't keep happening. However, I think it's much easier to prove a purist wrong than to prove a pragmatist wrong. The pragmatists just change their position.

Separating layout and content for purity's sake doesn't make sense, because the ordering of the divs in the html affects the layout. If you want to separate content and presentation, use XML and XSL. That should cure any ambitions along those lines. HTML is a presentation language, not a content definition language.

I was on the tables side, but some of the new grid layout CSS things like Blueprint are almost as easy. However, Blueprint makes it easy by putting the presentation back into the HTML page- you don't have semantic markup, you have styles that define the height and width of your element. So, it gives us the simplest thing (mixed content and presentation) but in a way that looks like it complies with the "no tables for layout" dictum sent down from CSS heaven.
The main site (http://cydia.hackulo.us) is a scam too. It says: "Please wait as cydia loads!" and then "Not loading? Get help at http://hackulo.us!". But of course it'll never load: it's a static page without javascript or a meta refresh tag!
kind of clever, but uhh, someone should tell him about gmail.
I hear this logic about low prices being good for poor people all the time, and I can never understand it. If prices are low because labor is cheap, then it seems that the employer/merchant will always make out. It's simple math. Try applying your logic to every wage earner in the world. If a price is reduced by 10% because wages are reduces by 20%, then the employee loses 10%. Sure they can buy everything they need 10% cheaper, but they lost 20% of their pay check. This only helps two types of consumers, investors and people on welfare.
On the good news side, if your peeler ever breaks, it's also sold in most supermarkets in Europe and Asia - and most of the ones you can buy here aren't made of scrap metal, but of ergonomic, comfortable plastic.
Has anyone gotten this to work using the Google Apps version of Gmail?
the example investments they include are:

Pet owner social network

Eons "baby boomer" social network

School Pulse online calendar for moms

no offensive but are you really suprised investors are running away? Really?
IIRC several years ago the Linux virtual memory manager started to optimistically write pages to swap when it was idle. If the VMM is tuned to do this more aggressively, and not to invalidate the page file on reboot, you get the benefits of Phantom without the whole hassle of writing a new OS.
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But teachers pay is only a function of seniority. The system doesn't care whether a teacher is good or bad, the pay's the same if they've been in the job as long.

Most people simply do not want to work in an environment like that.
The CSS spec supports the same display model as HTML tables (using display:table|table-row|table-cell). So if tables work for you, CSS (when fully implemented) should work too.

Regarding a display order independent of content order: Neither CSS 2.1 nor HTML-tables were designed to support this.

Tables only support content-reordering using some ugly hacks with merged cells. CSS have much more powerfull suport - using absolute positioning you can place anything anywhere you want, regardless of document order. However this comes at the cost of flexibility.

Some new CSS proposals suggest a layout model where visual placment of elements in a grid can be totally independant of document order. However, since IE have taken more than a decade to implement the relatively simple table display model from CSS, this will propably not become a reality for the foreseable future.
Honest question, with all the exercising and I assume working, how do you get 9 hours of sleep every night?
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No surprise the investors are running from those sites. I was more interested in the comments from the VCs that social sites are a 'black hole'.