skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disappointed to see no pre-google references since the technique was well known to parallel practitioners two decades before it was popularized by google.
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I'm not preventing him from living. Doesn't mean this stuff shouldn't be discussed. Otherwise, there would never be any criticism of life choices that have no negative externalities.

And I think geeking out on politics, sports, instruments (when not in the pursuit of beauty), and computer (when not being constructive) is generally negative. Status symbols like flatware, though, are especially pernicious.
"I'm generalizing from one example, here, but everyone generalizes from one example. At least, I do."

- Vladimir Taltos (http://dragaera.wikia.com/wiki/Vlad_Taltos, see also http://lesswrong.com/lw/dr/generalizing_from_one_example/)
Gamers, Relax, Windows 8 is Fine (For Now)
These are some very good advice. Thanks. In coming weekends, I will make improvements suggested by you and everybody else to improve both the offering and landing page.
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I absolutely agree with this comment as well. Regarding having a hard discussion with a co-founder and incorporation being a forcing function for this (from a comment below in this thread)... not the best reasoning. You can and should have this discussion regardless of whether you incorporate.
Thinking globally
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Microsoft launched Windows 8 tablet of its own brand, with the brand name Microsoft Surface. The tablet includes two versions: Surface RT and Surface Pro, for common consumer, facing the challenge of Apple iPad, and for business use capable of operating the full set of Windows software.
How does a non-tech founder build a tech startup?
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Turn it down a notch.
What a silly straw man argument. No doubt why it is the #1 comment. If I write a particularly effusive post about my love of dogs--how I care for mine meticulously and spend time researching the best toys and vets and so forth--am I celebrating Dogism to the detriment of what is "ultimately important?"

The irony of this comment is that your strong discounting of Dustin's point of view is the exact same as your equally strong support of your own. In the same breath you deride him for "being" a materialist and define yourself as "being" the opposite(?) of one. There is no ultimate truth to what is or isn't important in life. What is important in life to you appears to be other people--and strong identification with that position. Maybe Dustin also values other people. Maybe he identifies more with the point of view he presented. Maybe he cares for neither and thought it would be a good story. Who knows. The real question is, why do you care so much?
I'm a producer, not a lawyer, so I can't quote you legal chapter and verse. But as your own link makes clear

"But suppose you took the same movie or TV episode and showed it to patrons at a club or bar that you happen to manage. In that case, you have infringed the copyright in the video work."

Whether a public performance constitutes legal publication is, of course, a separate issue. The point I was making is that copyright law governs both duplication and distribution, not duplication only.
This is a great idea, but it needs some polish. A native speaker needs to proofread the English, and the problems are underspecified
Man, those times my cutlery failed were rough. Glad someone's figuring out the big problems of life.
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The English needs a lot of work, but it's not incomprehensible.

Bigger problems: the first problem's instructions are unclear; the first example is burdened with lines so long that they have to wrap; the first example involves crufty type casting out the gate. This serves not only to confuse newbies, but to visually offend experienced programmers.

The prompt reads as follows:
"Teach Sofia how to use an ATM. The ATM on their home island can give only 5F bills, which means that the machine will not give any bill not divisible by 5F. In addition to that, the commission for each cashing out is 0.5F + 1% from the taken out cash plus the robots cannot go beyond the card’s balance."

The leading comments of the code do not seem to go with it:
"# Withdraw without any incident ... # 120 - 10 - 0.5 - 1% = 109.4"

Neither says anything obvious enough about what sort of code you expect people to write such that the tests are passed. The major failing here isn't one of language, but of design.
Imagine the chaos if my wallet started deforming!

I realise you are being funny, but your comment is analogous to an extrovert going "sheesh, imagine the chaos if you actually came out with your coworkers for one beer!" to an introvert who really really wants to go home. You are trying to assign a seriousness to somebody else's reaction to something. If you are happy with the first wallet you picked up (be it for $10 at Wal-Mart or a more expensive one from a leather goods store) that is great. Some people are just incredibly bothered by things that other people don't notice. For those people, the perfect spoon really does improve their life, the way a neat desk with carefully stacked papers improves the life of a person with OCD, and is totally irrelevant to somebody else.

It is entirely possible that the dude is happier purely because he feels he has the best fork he could have and that makes the fork "disappear". I feel happy because I have a keyboard that "disappears" when I use it (I never think about my keyboard). I am under no delusion that it makes me a discerning hacker while he is a shallow materialist. Everybody tries to maximise their happiness by smoothing out the bumps of life. If you have a psychology with better suspension, just be grateful and carry on.
Play Halo 4 for six hours every day this month and receiver £5.1
Ask HN: Looking for great startups in need of design work 
Hey all,

I'm looking to see if any interesting startups out there are looking for a design refresh. I've got some time freed up to take on some more projects. I'll blog about the redesign as well (per your permission), so email me if you're interested. My email is in my profile.
I don't think people are that deterministic. There's still internal factors that could cause them to change their vote; not everyone has everything 100% decided when they step in the polling booth.

But yeah, it'd be pretty close.
They are related terms.

I thought of consumerism because I don't see perfection as necessarily implying materialism. When I think about materialism, I think of someone who likes to show off their flashy car -- this is about having something expensive, a little bit opulent and excessive. Like how people buy expensive SUVs that are perfectly optimized for off-road driving, but they use it to drive to the mall and back. That's just stupid.

Something that's over-engineered is not perfect, even though it might be "the best" in the totally abstract sense, removed from any real-world implications, of having the best specifications. For most people, the perfect car is probably a Camry -- or something else ordinary and ubiquitous, not a status symbol at all, but perfect for solving their problem.
I've been wondering about this for week. Is there a statistical smoking gun anywhere?
First article I've seen approaching emotional state in this manner, so kudos to that. Back at MIT, I also came to this realization and my friends and I used to say "it's all about the ddt" whenever life got us down (or even up, as a cautionary tale to not get too excited and watch out). We were of course referring to d/dt of life, and how that had more influence on our states than the absolute position of our lives. Nothing proven, but an observation that held up very well in all our lives. We still have this saying amongst ourselves - glad to see others thinking along this path now.
I was going to say that not everybody can drop $200 on 4 table settings worth of flatware...

But yeah, that's pretty much it. People living paycheck-to-paycheck really just can't afford the best because they have needs that pop up and make it next to impossible to save a lot of money when you can just as easily buy flatware that will last for years for $10 from a thrift store.
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I don't no why you would want to use a different type of hashing. As for the changing passwords issue you could bump your sitename. For example...

site: 1twitter

site: bump-facebook

Just use a bumping method, it isn't the best... but it works. You could always change the number of characters around also.
Nice work! I'm literally sitting here working on some routes for my MVC4 project right now. Are you familiar with the AttributeRouting project? I'm curious to learn about what makes yours special.

http://attributerouting.net

https://github.com/mccalltd/AttributeRouting
I own an expensive pair of jeans and although their materials and construction quality is far superior than any other pair of jeans I own, they are far less comfortable. The expensive pair sits on the shelf (trotted out for special occasions, the San Francisco equivalent of a suit) and the pairs I wear are all from Target.
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Because if you trust your gut, you will often be wrong. There's a reason why the most successful companies regularly A/B test.

We have seen some very significant (and surprising!) results at our startup from A/B testing in terms of registration rate, customer lifetime value and other key metrics.
You have to pick the things you maximize vs. the things you satisfice.

If you're a foodie, you might maximize food, while economizing on other areas.

Steve Jobs lived in a fairly modest home, but maximized the beauty and utility of the everyday objects around him, while Bill Gates built a technology showcase.
As someone who knows nothing about Ramen and Tokyo. Could you explain what he missed? I may have missed it too.
These things don't magically appear as a result of obsession. The best things are crafted in a meticulous process by... people! Taking the time to appreciate the things you buy and get the very best gives the craftsman the (very human!) appreciation he or she deserves. Appreciating human effort in everyday items has just as much merit as appreciating art or making any other connections with humans.
I've been a startup founder of one form or another for pretty much my whole adult life.

I have stress or anxiety when things are up in the air (positive or negative), but happiness or unhappiness has a lot more to do with factors other than the startup. Mostly because I believe in expected value and statistics -- there's a lot of randomness in everything, and you can do things which influence probabilities substantially, but if you've done that and there's an 80% chance of a good outcome, the actual result doesn't mean you're doing well or poorly as much as whether the odds were 80% or 30%.

My goal is to try to use skill, connections, effort, etc. to raise the expected returns as much as possible, then just take a lot of shots to get the right returns. Worry before things are resolved, not after.
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His Crimson Text font is very attraactive:

http://aldusleaf.org/crimson.php#download
Could use different passwords for different levels, no need to different hashing algorithms.

And its pretty much the same thing isn't it - different salt vs bumping the site name.
Yes, there's no question federal law has precedence in this area. The best a state can do is pass a law stating state and local authorities are not allowed to cooperate in federal drug cases.

Here in California medical dispensaries are legal under state law, but occasionally (quite often, really) the feds will come in and arrest anyone involved.
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> Status symbols like flatware, though, are especially pernicious.

Jeez, I just use my flatware to eat with. I had no idea it was an "especially pernicious" status symbol. Silly me.
Also some weird coding choices...

The first problem has a function 'prototyped' as:

def checkio(data):
balance, withdrawal = data

Where 'data' is a list, the first element being the initial balance, the second element being a list of withdrawals (plural... despite the fact that it's called 'withdrawal' when it's unpacked).

Why bother with the list unpacking?

Why not just define the function as:

def checkio(balance, widthdrawals):
pass

EDIT: Giving it some thought, I assume future problems will use the same 'checkio' function, so it has to have the same argument list...

Using kwargs might be more Pythonic, if that's a design constraint...
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Thanks to the Internet it's really easy for people to build and share a consensus on what is worthwhile. Dustin can let us know what the best flatware is, and someone else can spend some time figuring out the best shoes out there. Nobody has to do it all on their own. So of course, just look it up, and don't waste your time trying to figure it all out for yourself.
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I agree with you that he takes this to an extreme. I considered buying that silverware set before I realized to host a dinner party with it, I'd actually need $250 to buy 5 sets, not $50.

Still, I'd like to play the devil's advocate.

4 years ago I bought a car. A 1996 Geo Metro with a 3 cylinder 1.0L engine. It served my needs. It was fuel efficient, got me from point A to point B and was generally cheap to maintain. This was good for me since I had little money and wanted to figure things out about my career goals. That went hand-in-hand with making little money.

I performed many repairs on the Metro. I rebuilt the engine. Twice. Remove the head, replace the valves.

Those made for some good life experiences. They also started to feel like they were getting in the way of doing more important things to me, like learning how to be a better developer.

So now, I'm looking for something that won't break down on me every 3 months. I'm looking for something better--in the direction of the "best". This is useful for me. I'm investing more time now to save me time later.

...but again, this mentality can be taken too far. I wouldn't buy a $50 set of silverware for one...but then again, I haven't created a Svbtle yet...
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Thanks for posting, Ray. Off to a good start
You're the one who took a condesending tone, and gives the impression that you don't even want to hear both sides of the story....

You're the only person on this whole page who looks like they're trying to start a flamewar. recoiledsnake and cooldeal are just presenting an unpopular perspective, which is always welcome. I for one dont understand all the microsoft hate here either. Its like everyone still harbors resentment for microsoft from the late 90's, and wont even give them a chance anymore.

I love the open source movement as much as the next guy, but Microsoft is still relevant and good, despite everyones affection for Apple and Google here.
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I'm the developer who wrote the long blog post about the issues with submitting to the Windows Store. My app then finally got listed after the post hit slashot, reddit and here.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4701603

Now that it is in the store, it's already over 5,000 downloads, so things are definitely looking better than before the post. As I mentioned, despite the initial troubles, which should be easy for them to fix eventually, it still looks like the Windows store is a great opportunity for developers, due to how little competition there is, vs the size of the market that is rising quickly.
I uninstalled a bunch of them when I did a fresh install of Windows 8, so you can uninstall them from a clean install.
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Yeah. My reply to that message would have been "I only give my mobile phone number to friends. Please use my office line between the hours of 9 AM and 5 PM EST."

But honestly, a lot of people seem to like doing business deals while walking around with their cell phones, so perhaps this is not actually a power play.
Different levels still doesn't work when changing your password. If twitter made me change my password, it wouldn't increase or decrease on my level of importance scale.
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Programmer here.
A bit more context about your situation would be helpful.

How many of them are there?
How long have you been working with them?
How long is it before they lose focus before you need to re-motivate them?
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If you want to point to general manufacturing processes and advancements as one of "civilization's greatest accomplishments", that's one thing, but you appear to be specifically talking about the iPhone as if that product itself is anywhere near a greatest accomplishment of civilization.
I'm not sure what you are referring to with the x : x.ssn % 104 == 7 bit

There are many statistically disadvantaged subsets of humanity. For example:

Group A = disadvantaged OR ssn % 104 == 7

If you object to SSN, choose A = disadvantaged OR last 4 genes = GATTACA.

Group B = black

You seem to assign a lot of moral weight to group B but none to group A. Why?

This is the question you've been ducking for the entirety of this conversation.
In addition to what you're saying, it could have made sense to buy Obama calls, so to speak, if you think your taxes are going to go up significantly under his second term. That behavior would severely distort Intrade's purpose as a prediction market.
Did you read the article? Google took longer than 30 days to close the deal, and their term sheet with Mangrove was about to expire.

He had no choice but to accept the VC funding.
Intrade accepts U.S. customers. Betfair does not. This is a huge intrinsic difference considering the U.S. was the focus of the bet.
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pretty sure it's because they're all mentally ill, delusional, narcissistic egomaniacs with technology addictions and nothing meaningful to live for besides Y Combinator
Well, the obvious answer is that many people value variety.

Also, many people would find the task of choosing "the best" items to be stuck with "forever" a difficult and stressful task.

But certainly for some people (Aspie's, especially), fewer/better quality is a great way to go. I just don't think it generalizes as a life strategy for everyone, even those who can afford it.
Which means you'll have to sleep after midnight if you want your Android phone to wake you, or wait for an update (like Sleeping Beauty.)
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I saw it appeared once and then I couldn't find it anymore. Is it a bug or is there some mysterious force that deleted my post?
Hotel taxes are one of a class of taxes specifically designed to burden non-residents, regardless of the value they bring to the city.[1]

On the other example, SOMA et al, Tech offices have only been in SOMA follwing the rapid gentrification that followed ca 1995/96. For the origins of this change, see reference>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentrification#Impact_on_artist...

________

[1] If you don't believe this, based on the logic, feel free to research the topic historically.
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Does anyone have an idea what the impact of burning the trash has on the air pollution?
Then get yourself a Nexus Android phone today. The OS is completely open source, with a whole community built around hacking phones, XDA. You can get much better performance out of Java than you could ever dream to with JavaScript. Many of FF OS's hardware APIs are Mozilla specific, no different than Android's.
I think you underestimate the sophistication of techniques of the past. They may have had less raw data, but what makes you think they didn't know precisely who they were talking to?
Logo inspired by Picasa I see :)
Anything can be a status symbol, but it doesn't mean everything is a status symbol.
Not really. If we're talking about abstract probability over hash functions it's the same no matter how many fixed points SHA1 happens to have. If we talk about concrete numbers then it's actually 1 or 0 for each hash.
Mozilla has lost their way with Firefox, and are becoming like MS. They have a slow, bloated browser that runs terribly on Android. Instead of trying to make the best browser for the platform, they created FF OS, locking the user into their platform and API standards, just like MS tried to do when it bundled IE in Windows.

I had a WebOS phone and despite loving the beautiful UI and it being ahead of iOS in many ways like notifications and task switching, I dumped it. HTML5 killed the user experience. I need fast, responsive apps that only Android and iOS can deliver.

There's no way I'd ever go back to generic, laggy, HTML5 Apps.
I'm not sure what you mean here (and why you'd use 'laypeople')
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My friend and I also did some 'arbitrage', we almost didn't do it because we were sure we had something wrong, I mean, aren't markets supposed to be efficient? We even made a program that calculated optimal amounts and alerted us when the odds were aligned to a particular criteria taking into account exctraction fees, exchange rates, commission and stuff.

Our only explanation was that betfair (our other side) was mostly European while Intrade was mostly American so it is possible that lots of Intrade betters were buying into the media's attempt to try to make the race a lot closer than it was while the Europeans were not so biased. I don't know but it is a simpler explanation than someone purposely losing money because they think influencing a prediction market would affect the actual outcome?
Wow, what a beautiful site, and beautiful typeface (reminds me a great deal of Minion, which was chosen to set The Elements of Typographic Style).

And an absolutely fascinating investigation. It's almost like the famous quote of not being able to define something (pornography), but knowing it when you see it. [1]

Typography, with its rhythms, is almost the purest example of this. It's so easy for a good designer to kern, set linespacing, etc. until it "looks right" to your eye. But I wouldn't even know where to begin to try to translate this into an algorithm -- because it's not just about spacing between letters, but having that spacing be harmonious as well with the structures within letters (like the horizontal rhythm of an "m").

I personally suspect it's something close to trying to equalize the "area" between adjacent letterforms, but the problem is that depending on angles, case, etc. that "area" is a "blob" we feel, not an easy calculation. I wouldn't be suprised if the best approximation involves some kind of fuzzy-bitmap blobs, rather than any hard of hard exact calculations.

I look forward to reading more research results!

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_it_when_I_see_it
I've only been yelled at by a boss once, and I immediately filed a complaint with HR. When they did nothing to follow up, even after there were numerous complaints (one employee even quit), I resigned a week later.