skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Silhouette has got the details pretty wrong

How so? All the specific figures I quoted were lifted directly from mainstream reporting of the Fortune 500 for 2012, starting with Fortune's own web site.

This doesn't make much difference to my argument anyway. Whoever's figures you take, it's clear that in raw numbers SMEs are a significant contributor, at least on par with big business. But if we're talking about what really drives an economy and keeps it developing, I would argue that a disproportionate amount of the innovation and a lot more flexibility is found in SMEs. BigCos are good at industrialising and achieving economies of scale, but they aren't particularly good at innovating or creating new markets. All I'm saying in this thread is that SMEs don't sacrifice their own direct contribution to the economy at the same time.
I included this in PPC. Unless you're suggesting spamming people.
Most of the dev team works a very flexible 40 hrs. Some of the more senior folks work a bit more but its all because we want to. It would likely have been too much if we were pulling 60 hr work weeks.
Peter Hamilton's stuff is "classic" space opera, lots of nanotech, AIs, wormholes and what-have-you.

Fairly optimistic vision of the future, with overlaid disaster and chaos :)
This is a good shout, however it isn't a very scalable way to get in front of sales people.
The same here... Spectacle is very simple to setup... But Slate is so much more flexible. After some minutes I covered all my uses of Spectacle and introduced some new ones (moving windows around is just amazing...). Great job from Slate developers, keep up with the good work!
Dimagi didn't pay for anything in this case, it was all self funded by the individuals on the trip. But I think they would all agree it was money very well spent.
Nope, it is not a bank safety campaign, nor is it sponsored by any bank. It comes from the financial minister of Belgium. They do not have acces to your bank account information unless you are under a taxe fraud investigation.
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That's because the screen is the primary UI. But imagine authorizing NFC transactions using audio instead, or something as [currently] outlandish as a neural interface. Perhaps you could pre-emptively allow your phone to collect contact information before hitting the club.
Photos are commonly attached to resumes in the following countries: Germany, Austria, Greece, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Spain. Date of birth or age: Italy, Germany, Austria, France Finland, Norway, Sweden, Portugal, Czech Rep, Hungary, Romania, Greece. Similar for Eastern European countries, or for marital status and/or number of children, place of birth, etc. Does that cover enough Europe/personal information irrelevant to the candidate's ability to perform their job for you?

If anything, the UK CVs stand out among European CVs as being much more like the US resumes, i.e. less invasive. Back to the context of this thread, for the parent to point to Europe as a protector of privacy for the job seeker is disingenuous.
Apparently HN adds http:// to the front of a URL even though I already added http:// (bug), and editing it is disabled (new feature request). Please visit www.fifthshift.com.

I also apparently can't make another similar post to correct this at the moment, maybe due to similarity or limits on the number of posts per hour.
Oh sure, my wing is a hardcore nerd who's been with over 250 girls. He actually has an Excel for past 5 years charting his "lays" per month. Note that this is not typical and I would personally never go to the extreme that he is at.

For me, I know if I talk to 8 random girls on the street on average I will score one date. It is normal for me to get 2-3 dates over the course of a weekend.
The technology is great, but I'm a little confused about your business model. It was not clear at all from the front page who this was for (people who want to show off their models) and whether paying for "models" was paying for being able to upload them or download them.

Why are you not selling models? It's big business, and you have much better technology than the others in the space. As an actual customer of those websites, I would definitely prefer to buy from you if the TOS was reasonable.

Giving people a plugin to show off their 3D models on their website or a social site (as someone else says, like Soundcloud) just doesn't seem like that big a market. Selling models is a huge market and one waiting to be disrupted by an interface and simplicity like this.
At least, it shouldn't be posted to HN when the code is not published yet. As it is now, this doesn't satisfy my intellectual curiosity.
One other way to look at this. When you think you'll do a 12-14 hour day you often waste a lot of time during the that day. Why? Because you don't treat time like a valued resource. Tell yourself you're leaving at 4pm no matter what and you'll find you get almost as much done.
Preferably it would be CSS.

.upArrow {
width: 0;
height: 0;
border-left: 6px solid transparent;
border-right: 6px solid transparent;
border-bottom: 6px solid #828282;
}
I spent my teens and 20s building business after business (and failed for the most part). I had no life. Now that I am older and do have a life (family), I succesfully run one business, and am working on building another. Less time to work on things means I have to produce higher quality. So the waste in process factor is reduced significantly. Before I would just amass a bunch of stuff to test. Now, I do quick/short tests and move on. No sense to waste anytime. After all, I only have so many heart beats left.
> I mentioned that if 15 years ago you had suggested that in 2012 you would need HTML, CSS (and probably LESS), JS (and probably JQuery + CoffeeScript + Backbone), SQL or Mongo and Ruby or PHP or similar just to do a simple form application - we would have laughed.

You can still laugh today, either at the large amount of complexity people invoke for simple tasks or at the notion that the minimal set of these to accomplish the task ("form application") is really complex or hard. 8 years ago you'd use, say, HTML with PHP run from Apache (and Apache is largely out of your mind if you're using shared hosting..), and either text files or a simple SQL table to persist data. (Or depending on the form, just email the data.) You can still be this minimal (or even more minimal--e.g. Flask which comes with its own "Apache", even if you shouldn't use it in production) today. And the basic CSS and JS needed to make the app "pleasant" aren't difficult at all to learn and with only a bit of discipline it's not that hard to keep them from making your page into a complex hairy ball code-wise.

8 years ago was also when AJAX hype was at its greatest. Now it's more about "framework hype"; I keep this in mind: http://marc.info/?l=php-general&m=112198633625636&w=... "Before you blindly install large "AJAX" libraries, have a go at rolling your own functionality so you know exactly how it works and you only make it as complicated as you need."
> The term PUA has a negative association in the mainstream because there is a perception it uses jedi mind tricks to bed the girl.

Maybe among some people. The rest of us look at crap like 'negging' and see that the whole thing's a tactic to get the emotionally damaged to sleep with the socially stunted.
Tea Lounge is bad for working past 9pm or so though once the live music begins. The couches are a bit dusty too.
yes, but the big money for the brokers is in sales. most of them want to concentrate on representing fancy exclusive sales.
What's the relevance of resumes in the age of GitHub, Stack Exchange, & Coursera
> Brick and mortar stores have VIP programs all the time.

Yes. But you can also show up and buy a pair of shoes. I don't believe what you are describing is a fair analogy.

When I order a pair of shoes I expect a pair of shoes. I don't expect a hat, jacket, or a personalized VIP shopper.

On this website if I pretend to order a pair of shoes there isn't anything to indicate (aside from the fine print) that I'll be receiving more than a pair of shoes.

I'd expect this place to suffer a pretty serious class-action lawsuit soon. If I was an investor I'd run as far away as possible.
As GMFlash said, Science, Industry and Business Library (SIBL) on 34th and Madison (http://www.nypl.org/locations/sibl). It's very consistent with comfortable chairs for working.
Do banks have a monopoly on sociapathic culture? I wouldn't disagree with anything in the article, but there are probably companies in other industries that are just as bad as banking, they just don't pay their employees as much. At least if you're going to work with crap get paid reasonably for it.
I think that "great" should be interpreted as "great-for-Amazon".
ITA Software (by Google) — would it be reasonable to guess that this flight tracker is built into http://flights.google.com?
Nifty tool! We'll use it to improve the page load times.
It is worth noting that while Graham's number might have held a record for the largest number used in a serious proof, his up arrow notation does NOT hold the record for the fastest growing computable function used in a serious proof.

The record for that probably is Goodstein's function. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodstein%27s_function#Sequence... for more. At 12 it already has surpassed Graham's number.

The result that this function was used to prove is that there exist computable functions that cannot be proven to be computable using the Peano axioms. And the reason that it cannot be proven computable is that it grows faster than any function that can be proven computable using the Peano axioms. (Ackermann's function is an example of a fast-growing function that can be proven computable using the Peano axioms, and therefore which must grow more slowly than Goodstein's function.)
I don't understand.

Say I pay a Valve employee a million dollars for the current working source-code of Half-Life 3. I then compile it and release the first couple working levels for $10 a pop... I should easily be able to make 50 million out of that exercise.

What protections would Valve have in your no-copyright, no-ip scenario?
Brazil was (really) very expensive, possibly higher than Boston. So, don't recommend it as a cheap away location unless you have a good lodging option. If you can find good internet, Managua in Nicaragua is a fun city with lots of beaches, volcanoes, and old cities to explore on the weekends.

If you want something logistically easy, the Yucatan in Mexico has tons of options and is relatively cheap. Tulum is not too crowded, lodges have good internet in the commons areas.
Overreaction? You live and die by the sword. Apple's sword has been insanely great products that just work. Insanely, their map offering just works.

If you're Apple then you must expect and accept a lot of pushback when you release something like Maps, not the least because you've proven yourself in the past capable enough to do much better.
You are welcome to judge from behind the monitor but if you actually went out and looked at reality, you'd realize there is nothing magical about negs and that
negs themselves won't get you a girl--whether emotionally damaged or not. It could in certain cases help you increase attraction a wee bit. In that sense, it isn't much different than tips we read about pitching to VCs etc.
Trying to promote your website much huh?
Isn't it much more expensive than QR/barcode though? Since those are just printed on?
> In that sense, it isn't much different than tips we read about pitching to VCs etc.

Except for the moral aspect, which PUAs seem dead-set on ignoring.
It depends what the volatility is. The S&P hasn't dropped below about 14% vol this year, and looks to have been about 18% on average.

If a hedge fund returns 15% at 10% volatility that is much, much better than the market.
And this gives the incentive for sellers who don't use amazon's warehouses incentive to use them.

Really , when you think about that ,classically sellers/wholesellers have the following roles:

1. Finding people/stores willing to buy stuff

2. Financing of buying stuff from many manufacturers(until getting paid)

3. Storing said stuff

4. Distributing said stuff to stores, online stores and users

5. Prediciting demand

6. Marketing to users/stores.

It seems that amazon is attacking/replacing all those roles, and probably doing a better job. The end game seems simple: To skip the sellers(for products sold online), and deal directly with manufacturers(like their doing with ebooks).

It's not unique to them, walmart already did it. But amazon sells almost everything.
I don't subscribe to cable TV (Roku or Mac Mini connected TVs works 4 me) and the antenna service I have in my area is very lacking.

I am excited about Aereo as it is a service I would subscribe to, as well it or something like it will force copyright to offer live local channels via the web.
You should read everything Patrick McKenzie (patio11) has written.

Then double your price.
The New iTunes
Actually the paper specifically rules out energy gain due to surface effects.

" The total energy begins to increase during the windward climb. At the top of the trajectory, the energy gain does not come to a stop, but continues to increase. The total energy finally reaches its maximum value during the leeward descent, after the bird has already started to loose altitude."
Think Coffee on Mercer is a nice work spot when it's not swamped by NYU undergrads (later at night tends to be less crowded).

Also, if you're anywhere near Fort Greene, Smooch is a pretty awesome coffee shop.
I would consider that effective downtime. It doesn't HAVE to be going home to kids or whatever, but I think the point is that there is no value sitting at your monitor for 12 hours half-zoning out staring at code when your tank is empty.
I'm looking into organization of elements so the final formation is pleasing, visually and in other ways. Coming from an engineering background, I had no idea where to start. This helps a lot, thanks!

Would also appreciate any other pointers/links/books/courses you'd recommend, just finished reading the Laws of Simplicity by John Maeda.
From where I'm standing the negative association is largely due to the "pick up" part.
The Cosi on 8th between Greene and Mercer by NYU is the same way. Even when I can't get a seat at any of the surrounding coffee shops this place is mostly empty with plenty of outlets and free wifi.
In the filing (which rabidsnail quoted above) Oman makes the argument that not enjoining use of a technology (rather than an identifiable act of infringement of a particular work in a specified context) is to exempt the distribution technology from copyright liability. That is clearly nonsense -- find a user using it for an act of blatant infringement and you'll be able to collect damages or enjoin that infringement. But that isn't what they're asking for. They aren't trying to stop just the infringement, they are (as I said) trying to stop the technology itself.

They're asking for a veto -- not on using new technology to distribute Mickey Mouse, but on using new technology for anything because someone could (and probably will) use it to distribute Mickey Mouse.
I've also found my Scala experience to feel disturbingly reminiscent of C++ (and I have grown to love Scala). I find a significant difference, though, in that C++ has a lot of complexity, while Scala has a lot of complex emergent behavior from a few simple core ideas (and the complexities needed to work out their details).

Then there's the library, where yes, you see a hairy mess like that. Very difficult to read and understand, but it is a powerful combination of relatively simple and orthogonal concepts. Which doesn't necessarily mitigate the complexity.

FWIW, you rarely need to write code with types that complex, and there is talk in the Scala community of how to simplify the presentation of methods with complex types in the documentation. But that doesn't make it more approachable today.
most traders cannot simply move out and start their own fund. Their skills are not directly transferable to fund management and the risks in trying to set up a new fund are high.
> I'm kind of surprised no one has started a service for merchants to warn them of chargeback prone customers (there are people who go straight for the chargeback without even trying for a refund first).

There are plenty of such services. You don't see them because they don't normally operate on the merchant level, they operate on the IPSP / processor / card company level.

The reason why they don't usually operate on the merchant level is because that would allow a merchant to pollute the pool with their 'known good' cards to stop people from buying a product with competitors. You have to wonder when you buy this information as a merchant whether it is clean or not. But when an IPSP / processor or card company uses their aggregate knowledge then it starts to be really useful.

You can do AVR checks and so on all by yourself as a merchant but most if not all reputable IPSPs will have an anti-fraud system in place that does all kinds of checks.
Bridgewater Associates catches my eye as a firm that has fun with economics - they pioneered risk parity in the 1990s and have invested so much in intelligence and analytics that Paul Volcker commented that they have "a bigger staff, and produce more relevant statistics and analyses, than the Federal Reserve" [1]. Another one, going off the academic papers coming out of the firm and conversations with people I know there, may be AQR.

Note that it's more fun to prance around the trading floor Gangnam Style than compose oneself as an extra-dimensional intelligence, a memo the tech industry has taken to heart. The loudest kid isn't driving the bus.

[1] http://www.economist.com/node/21549968
Surging solar in 2011 proof of Ray Kurzweil’s bold prediction?
If you live in London, Matt Parker (one of the guys in the video) regularly does various comedy gigs in the area. I highly recommend them, they're always mathematical or scientific and a lot of fun.

He's done his bit on Graham's number in a couple of them before.
Yes, perhaps.
Saying that the vendor of a product carries the burden of persuasion that their product isn't solely intended for infringement is very different from suggesting that all technology should be enjoined by default. Do you think Oman is also arguing that copy shops should be enjoined by print rightsholders? If you'd read the whole amicus, rather than a quote out of context, you might have to ask yourself that question.
a website dedicated to parodies...
"The Kauffman Foundation surveyed 550 successful entrepreneurs across multiple sectors, determined by profitability and being named a “high-valued” business by their peers. Their data suggests that most successful founders are in their mid-30s and married with children."

Why are these entrepreneurs named "high-valued" by their peers? Because they worked their butts off in their 20s and early 30s. Being named "high-valued" is a reverse-looking statement based on the entrepreneur's past achievements.
I got sued for $3 Million by a religious cult
This is relevant to any webmaster who keeps a Web2.0 website. Interesting searching the footer I can't spot any legal terms of use?!
Per the sister comment it seems this is a known technique in glider circles, but a more interesting question is what sort of sensors would be required to capture airflow information such that an aircraft on autopilot could do it. Or more specifically as the authors of the paper suggest, a UAV.

If the flight modality could be maintained without net energy input then any energy collection on the wings in the form of solar panels could be used for sensors in the payload.
"decent chance" implies you have quantified the probability and concluded it is somewhere between unlikely and likely. It needn't be precise, but it implies a quantity. There is a 0.001% chance of my dying in a car accident this year. If someone said "you shouldn't move to the suburbs because there is a decent chance you'll die commuting" you'd probably shrug that off as hyperbole. There is a 1-3% chance of pregnancy each year despite use of birth control. Would you say "there is a decent chance of knocking up your girlfriend even with condom use?" Possibly, but I think most people consider that probability "remote" rather than "decent." There is a 10% chance of being audited as a small business. Is that "decent"? I think most people would say "keep your books carefully, there is a decent chance of yor being audited."
That's a fair point. To that I would say once you lift the curtains and take a peek, you will find many different school of thoughts within this. Some of the most famous personalities and ideas about PUAs in the mainstream isn't even very popular inside the PUA community.

On the other hand, there are entire "systems" that are premised on being dead honest about your intention.
Just move on. You're assuming too much significance in where you are, will be or have been in your life. The universe, and most relevantly Company A, doesn't care.

We are merely instances of fungible transactions in the retail employment economy, notwithstanding the mutual stroking we and our employers give each other.

You'll probably enjoy the extra freedom from not giving this any more attention.
Convertible Debt, Priced Equity Rounds and the First Penguin In The Water
C as an intermediate language for Forth
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldwin_effect ?
I wonder how this company (and these kind of companies) can keep their merchant account open for so long. There has to be some trick here.

For example, maybe they keep enough to funds for last 6 months of chargebacks and have some special kick-back to bank? Or maybe the game plan is to always open a new merchant account after the first one is closed? Or maybe the bar is so low and they never need to worry to lose their merchant account?
What I was trying to express. I can't really have a deep relationship with somebody who doesn't understand these things.
Makes sense. A lot of new gen PUAs who offer coaching call themselves a dating coach to dodge the pick up association.
To some extent, yes of course. But I think one consequence of this kind of easy to access information is the term has become much less pejorative.
Just curious, why there are still adsense units in your site.
This may be an entrepreneurial Freudian slip, but the sentence "It is okay to spend people you love." should probably be revised.
In iOS 6 You Can Now Type to Siri
Monsanto, http://geneticroulettemovie.com
Here's how you make a tasty burger: make a tasty chicken sandwich instead. :P

The issue affects websites as well as hybrid apps. Given that this change is poorly documented by Apple, and it directly affects a JS plugin I'm working on, I'm quite grateful for the OP sharing their findings.
Generally speaking, you could just add it as another layer of security for proximity-based interaction as a three-factor authentication of sorts.

For instance, people can't open X without (1) a key/password, (2) a OTP password, and (3) an NFC device. It seems like a good way to add a proximity factor to authentication.

It doesn't have to replace something; it can also augment them. Especially when it's an automated process, not a manual one.
But to be fair this fund might be market neutral, so his investors might be enjoying lower volatility than an index fund, yet with similar gains.
The grandparent's link says "Each credit can be redeemed for any JustFab style on the site."

Seems to me that they're saying if you're a member but didn't make your decision for your free (sunk cost) product by the 6th, they charge you and turn it into store credit. It's not like they're charging you and saying "too bad, you don't get anything."