skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found this a curiously cold, superficial approach to loving another person.

A relationship isn't a software program, or a car. You can't apply discrete rules, algorithms or workflows and assume it'll stay in tip-top condition. You can't debug it, either. Not in a discretely logical way.

This other person who is your more-than-equal, who still gives you butterflies, and who you respect so much that you've entered into a partnership with them with both your lives? Treat them like that. Be open, be responsive to their emotional needs, and be communicative about yours. Like any partnership, don't enter into it lightly; it's okay to take your time. Take them for who they are, and make sure they're taking you for who you are. Turn a blind eye to nothing, but be sure of your priorities. And don't take any of it for granted.
Startup uses consumer survey to validate model pre-launch
It's one thing for us (consumers etc) to go through the typical microsoft bashing, but as the head of Apple I would expect him to at least try it before anything.
Password strength meter not only measures length, but also encourages not to use words and to mix up letters, numbers, special characters and uppercase/lowercase letters.

Not to forget the fact that feeling safe probably is one of the biggest things the strength meter should achieve.
I agree that this is an extroidinary claim, but it is technically named as the Corruption Perception Index, which is relevent to the discussion about the perception of organizations doing business in different countries.

The real question is: Is there any other data on this scale to refute or back this research?
+1 Agreed.

Monarchies were hardly an open political entity and the Middle Ages were hardly tolerant times. So perhaps the base ingredient is rather simple, be open to trade. There have been periods when both China and Japan were inward-looking, and it took gunboat diplomacy to force open trade routes.*

Today, regardless of politics, China is most definitely open for business, and actively courting the world for trade. Many expats choose to live, work and build businesses there. If you don't, thanks to technology, you can still do your business with China while sipping a pumpkin spice latte in Starbucks.

*As an aside, today's multi-national corporations are remarkably similar in many ways to the British East India Company, just without the muskets!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company
Fwiw, my parents argued in front of me all the time, and I also avoided confrontation when I was younger. I think there's a spectrum, and it's important to teach kids how to deal with confrontation productively.
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expired at 12pm PDT (3pm EDT)?

or you tried to get anything other than pure PDF (discount does not apply to dead tree format)
a method to store energy in a dense compact fuel

-- Energy density is almost always overlooked.
This site somehow brings my Firefox 16.0.1 on Ubuntu to its knees -- 100% CPU usage, window goes dark -- every time I try to view it. It literally raised the temperature in the room trying to render it.
Web Application Scanners Challenged By Modern Web Technologies
WMI from linux.
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A relationship isn't a software program, or a car. You can't apply discrete rules, algorithms or workflows and assume it'll stay in tip-top condition. You can't debug it, either. Not in a discretely logical way.

It's also not a completely irrational thing. You can apply some general patterns and usually observe positive results.
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When has a major country ever really paid down its debt?

The US. Of course, that was in 1835: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/04/15/135423586/when-the...
Obfuscated/minified source is still source. I read that part you quoted.
This seems really cool but also completely sketchy. Why is there no info about the organization or who is behind it?

Could someone from one of the companies listed on the site confirm that this is something you're involved in?
None of what you said is wrong, but TFA has some very simple suggestions that anyone can follow that do have the ability to have a significantly positive impact on most marriages.
"[...] is a lamentably cretinous miscreant and a primitive armpit-licking mass of neuroses and pathologies."

"[...] is a sickly backward scoundrel and a belligerent toe-sucking piece of excrement attached to a dogs posterior."

I sense a pattern. Not filching from the classic quotations, such as " with much to be modest about", then.
If you argue in front of your kids, in a way that respects each other and eventually comes to a fair and agreeable result, then your kid will learn valuable conflict resolution skills. On the other hand, if you shout at each other in front of the kids until one of you throws their hands in the air and stomps off, and nothing is resolved and everyone is angry, then your kid will only learn the fine art of temper tantrums. And, as you say, if you do nothing in front of your kids, they will be utterly unequipped to do anything.

As my wrestling coach used to say, practice doesn't make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect. The same holds true for kids and their acquiring habits from their parents: they will pick up the habits you demonstrate in front of them, for better or worse.

Also, this sort of stuff is exactly why I am absolutely terrified of having kids.
I'd love to hear that longer answer, fwiw!
If I had any cash sitting in my brokerage account, I'd probably buy a few more shares of AMZN with it right now.
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I'm genuinely curious... why do so many people seem to think this is a phishing scam?

If your business is registered by a US state, that information is on the public record. It includes your name, business address, and date of registration.

Your company URL, and company email as well aren't supposed to be private info. I'd expect you'd have them prominently placed on your website. I know I do.
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The results of my Facebook retargeting with Perfect Audience (YC S11)
There's something interesting in #2: if you look at the examples, AOL was the expensive choice, which won. Today, I see the same thing playing out with github(expensive) over bitbucket(cheap).

Selling expensive stuff makes you able to throw crazy money into marketing (so you can send cds to everybody and their cat). That marketing money will buy you the mindshare you need to win. Most of my friends use github. But nobody knows what/who bitbucket is.

In other words, even when network effects abound, cheap/free products may not beat expensive products with the right marketing.
> People learn conflict resolution by watching others, and that goes for kids.

As someone that grew up watching my parents fight constantly in front of me, I still react to confrontation the same way as your friend. Their fighting frightened me because he was physical, so when I get into [really] overheated situations, I shut down instead because that seems safer to me than risking pressing forward.

In situations where I saw friends' parents fight, it was awkward and equally unsettling.
Compromised? Sure; every tablet is that. Confusing? You just wrote it into a single sentence. Are single sentences really confusing?

"Runs office and metro apps". Five words :)
I think Prospector sounds very interesting, even only from a three word description. I know three friends running startups in the healthcare market and it's a tough one (with a lot of entrenched interests).

"All other things being equal, anything that relies on the judgement of a few people has an element of serendipity to it."

Also recall that the judgement is made on the basis of a 10minute interview. Ask any of these startups if they'd ever hire a group of strangers into their company based on a 10 minute interview. (I'm aware that's not really a fair comparison, but it should still make people think).
I looked for designers willing to take $5 in exchange for logo design. These were people willingly and publicly advertising their service. I didn't pay attention to region at all. I looked at the portfolios and if they weren't horrible, I hired them. Just because it costs nothing to me should have no bearing on this discussion. Do you get upset at Bill Gates for paying retail for his coffee at starbucks?

business/worker friendly: I think it's hard to judge. I had an outsourcing company in Indonesia once. The salaries there, if they could get constant work for $2.50/hour they would have better off than what we were paying.

done better: probably. I invested $30. I hope there are better options. How much money and time they would/will cost is a different matter though.

I actually had a free one designed by a really talented guy here on HN, but it was for a different brand name that we didn't end up being able to use. (If you're curious: http://kevinohashi.com/sites/default/files/mention.png)
Don’t poop with the bathroom door open.

What? Who does this? Why would this ever be ok?
Shares already recovering, loss was "better" than expectations, a lot of their spending is on important business stuff (warehouses, kindle, web properties) that will yield returns later.

In other words, revenue is nearly identical and there's no profit, presumably because of these new things.

Amazon is one of the few very large companies that has extremely high potential for growth. I made an OK amount of money buying them after post-earnings panic and selling 1 day to 60 days later this year and last.

If it ever goes back down to 190 I might throw some % of my long term money their way.

(100% of my long term money, which is about $1000 every two weeks, is currently just going to TGT, another long term big company that already has a dividend but still has plenty growth potential)

((90% of my short term money, on the other hand, was buying 10K shares of OCZ at 4.90. Now its at 1.36. Ouch!))
But in case of OEM Windows licence it is black and white, no?

What would be peoples motivation to buy it for existing computer?

* "It's sorta legal, it's at least some kind of a licence, right?" -- they're misinformed / tricked /fools

* "I want to pay something, but retail costs too much" -- if you pay without getting anything useful in return, you're donating. Why not donate to charity?

* "I want to get Windows Updates" -- cracked copies used to get updates, and they're often bundled with updates already applied

My point is, I don't understand buying half-valid licence. Licence is either valid or you have no licence.
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"He mentions SpaceX, but only in the context that its founder is one of the members of Founders Fund. Not a word about SpaceX building ships to go to Mars."

I have a suspicion that SpaceX going to Mars does not scale. It has the same problem as NASA sending men to the moon: If SpaceX goes to Mars, it'll be because Elon wants to. When the trip to Mars is over, or if Elon gets bored or dies, the game is over. (Unless, of course, I'm wrong and there is some commodity available from there that would make the trip worthwhile.)
For the great argument maybe, but you were using the CPI as evidence against their perceptive anecdote.
I like the company but at 250-300 times earnings it's a darn expensive stock.
spoiler: the rest of that sentence is "though he also admitted that he hasn’t “played with one yet."

too pointless, didn't read.
i like how the kids look super into the new surface (pic 4).. i bet those peeps were either "paid" to be there, or set up so that they would all look so interested in that device.. srsly, why would someone buy a surface?
Aaron from Mixpanel here. Spoke with the founder, I think its just a very new idea and doesn't have any history yet.
Proved it out? Do you have any data to back that up? Everything I've read says that the sales of 7" tablets by Apple's standards have been negligible.

Edit: And this is to say nothing of profits.
> Their fighting frightened me because he was physical

Arguing and abuse are two separate things. Watching my parents fight, often over incredibly stupid things using irrational tactics, taught me worlds about the values of patience, understanding, and rationality.
Best comment on that thread (from the bug reporter)

"Those following along at home is probably half the human race, now we have posts on Phoronix, Slashdot and Heise. Who the hell submits things like this to random-terrified-user media outlets before we've even characterized the bloody problem? Every one of those posts is inaccurate, of course, through no fault of their own but merely because we didn't yet know what the problem was ourselves, merely that I and one other person were seeing corruption: we obviously started by assuming that it was something obvious and thus fairly serious, but that didn't mean we expected that to be true: I certainly expected the final problem to be more subtle, if still capable of causing serious disk corruption (my warning here was just in case it was not).

But now there's a wave of self-sustaining accidental lies spreading across the net, damaging the reputation of ext4 unwarrantedly, and I started it without wanting to.

It's times like this when I start to understand why some companies have closed bug trackers."
My SO and I do this. What's wrong with pooping with the door open? We all poop. It's not that big a deal.
This is exactly where I'm at right now. I just built a little prototype and right before launching I don't think the idea is going to pan out. Send me an email and let's chat.
No catch. These businesses are hoping you enjoy the service and continue as a paying customer x years later.
I see what you are saying. Is it anyway I can talk to you over the phone? If so, shoot me an email with your number and good time to call. My email is imomin at gmail
If meetup.com isn't willing to have at least a SINGLE exchange of emails prior to killing your group, they don't deserve your business, or anyone else's. That's just lazy, period. A "specialist" shouldn't be able to close a group without following a procedure. A single opinion is not a procedure.
I should add, or enjoy the service free and refer others to us, some of whom may join as paying users later.
Thanks for detailing the price range you'd pay. I ran some pricing tests (for a different tutorial) and compared offers of $9 for an ebook versus $19/month for a subscription-based online tutorial. Both offers performed well.
This doesn't seem much different than the Rewardlii Hackers & Founders group.

http://hackersandfounders.rewardli.com/offers

If you're a startup with a SaaS product offering, you can submit a perk proposal as well:

http://www.rewardli.com/merchant_proposals/new?group_id=194
I'm guessing everyone is waiting until Amazon is the only game in town and can increase margins every product but those that would allow a new competitor to survive to profitability.

Once they are in a position to increase margins without risk of lost market share, the current valuation will be justified.
I wish I could join this comment and the parent comment at the hip. It is exactly right that your kids learn how to resolve conflicts by the way their parents resolve conflicts. This is one of the benefits of not living in a single parent household.

I liked the list in the article, it summarizes to communicate authentically. But it took me probably the first 15 years of my marriage before I understood the ramifications of that.
Free on DreamSpark or MSDNAA? I can't seem to find it on Dreamspark...
What is your main use case? What is your choice instead of ext*?
Daniel, we are simply too polite to say it. I've been to Calgary a bunch of times, and each one of those times I looked around and I saw AMERICAN SOIL. MY SOIL. MY BIRTHRIGHT. MY SNOW IN AUGUST. You are nuts if you think I'm not training my children to be ready for the inevitable border war.

Also, there are 311 million people in the US, and I think I speak for most of them when I say that very few of us are "over" the Oregon Territory Border Dispute.
Activists trick-or-treat for free software at Windows 8 launch event
I get a similar certificate, but it includes www.technologyreview.com.

They're all being hosted by https://www.acquia.com/, maybe? (Using one certificate seems...suboptimal.)
There is something that your argument misses, I think.

We like to think that our actions follow our emotions. The reasoning goes that if I am making intentional effort to do something that I do not necessarily feel like doing, I am just doing something artificial, and am therefore a hypocrite.

However, one's emotions also follow their actions. If I have to make an effort to choose to act like I am in love, I will feel love from making the effort. I am training my emotions to follow my actions. And then, before long, I am feeling the emotion behind doing the thing that I do. What was first artificial becomes genuine.

It is like teaching your children to say please, thank you, and I'm sorry. Do they actually feel these things when they say them? Not at first. But by ingraining the action, you instill the emotion. I speak from experience. I have six children.
I agree that YC's requirements are more flexible than most jobs.

If you don't have the skills to do statistical modeling, we wouldn't hire you. We gave guidance in the job posting about who was a good candidate. But we didn't prevent anyone from applying.

YC is the same in all those dimensions. If you don't have the skills necessary to build a successful startup, they won't accept you. YC gives guidance on their web page about who was a good candidate. But they don't prevent anyone from applying.

I'm not sure how you define "open" so that one of those qualifies and the other does not. If "open" just means that they have more flexible requirements, that is a difference of degree, not kind.

YC is an unusual combination of selective and eclectic. But claims about "the most selective open application in the world" suggests a lack of perspective.
/r/midlyinteresting is that way.
Disturbing is an exaggeration, but it would certainly be just as easy to get read only rights (just to confirm it's you) and also check to see if they're following.
My parents argued badly, as well. Sometimes, not always, you can learn from watching someone do something badly. I like to think I didn't (and don't) make the same mistakes my parents made.

Also, this sort of stuff is exactly why I am absolutely terrified of having kids.

I'm not sure how old you are, but I had the same feeling when I was in my 20's. I gradually lost it, because I realized over time that kids are pretty resilient and it's not that hard to do the right thing. I don't regret it at all.
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And a loan would let you do the same. The comparison is valid. For some reason there's a stigma against debt financing because it has to be "paid back" in installments. Equity financing still has to be paid back, the transaction just has different mechanics.

Equity investments don't "raise the value" of the firm. They simply signal that other people with money believe you will generate X amount of dollars in the future. Debt financing involves signals, too: the interest rate reflects what other people with money think about your ability to generate X amount of dollars in the future (to hopefully pay back your loan). GE pays a very low interest rate on its bonds because of its value and perceived ability to pay back debt.
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Ugh this is a pretty mobile site but scrolling all the way to the top enables some kind of pull to refresh type action that takes me to the next story. Also the now obvious icon for menus on the top left opens something completely different to a site menu. This is a visually appealing but otherwise frustrating mobile site to explore.
Did I say they are identical? Of course they aren't. But one has to be quite out of touch, immature, or just content with corruption to think that expressing a preference for one set of these lesser differences is worth supporting their overriding commonalities.
No, though that's a very common belief. The reality is more complicated.

The directors of a for-profit corporation have to make decisions that they in good faith believe will lead to shareholder value, and there is considerable leeway in determining what that means. It does not always mean maximizing profit, and the timeframe for the increased value can be very long.

In addition, there are a number of other forms of corporations (non-profits, Low-Profit, Benefit, etc) that can expressly put a public good ahead of profits.
> The ext* family of filesystems do not appear to have natural resiliency to this sort of problem.

I believe the fact data corruption on ext4 is rare shows it's not really a huge problem. The only time I lost data on an ext4 filesystem was when I mistyped a wildcard for rm.
Well, it's not like they're trying to take donations for cancer patients or anything.
Hence the store credit!
I'd be interested! I've got plenty of free time on evenings and weekends the entire next month.
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I think it is quite likely that Cook has had competent people look into Windows RT for him. If that is true, he may be excused to have an opinion on it. I do not find it that negative either for a comment on a competitor's product. It leaves out praise, but is in line with what many reviewers say (and Ballmer has had stronger remarks about Apple's products in the past)

Finally, one could say it is honest that he states he has not used it yet. If only all HN commenters would be that frank :-)
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I'm sure there are a lot of people willing to pay the new upgrade price but not willing to spend over $100 on windows.
re: "whole numbers" and "decimal numbers"

The terms don't vary much by district; they vary by age. Kids younger than these use the term "number" to mean positive, decimal, integral numerals. That's all they know.

Kids at this age are introduced to some new distinctions: fraction vs. whole, negative vs. positive, and decimal fraction vs. common fraction. At that point, they will use the term "whole number" to mean not some type of fraction and "decimal" to mean a number that uses this nifty, new fractional notation that has digits on the right side of the decimal point.

A few more years pass, and they no longer see "fractions and decimals" but just "numbers." At that point, they switch over to referring to integers and real numbers (with no emphasis on exactly how a fraction is represented), and if they begin working with binary numbers, they'll use the same term, "decimal", to make the distinction of base, not type of fraction notation.

The term "float" is not a mathematical term. Many older math professors don't know it. It is a tech term for a form of storage and display of approximations of real numbers.

These terms are not regionalisms; they represent the distinctions being made by the students at their stage of development.
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I don't think the confusion would kill Surface since people will still want a Windows-compatible tablet and no other company can possibly deliver that to them except Microsoft.
Dumb question, as I literally know nothing about stock or savings: isn't it generally a bad idea to put 100% of your long term money in any one place?
This is quite cool, the coding alternative to NaNoWriMo.
Books? Just pick a framework and start hacking.
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>a lot of their spending is on important business stuff (warehouses, kindle, web properties) that will yield returns later

This has been the Amazon story basically since founding. At some point, a company needs to yield real returns on their investments.
Microsoft and Windows 8 OEMs.