skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the quotes you've selected are probably some of the most uninteresting quotes in the whole piece. They certainly don't seem like "the story" to me.

I read it as a story about someone who had a passion to build something that was unconventional, or at least outside of existing support structures, and managed to actually do it. Managed to do it really beautifully and really well.

Why instantly reduce a story about someone doing something so potentially inspiring to a question of its marginal legality?
It should be noted that the CBO predicts increased risk of recession in 2013, but a better overall fiscal position in 2022.
I currently use http://lift.do/ (it's an iPhone app) to keep track of what I do and to see my progress. I can also see what my friends are doing and prop them. And they can see what I'm doing and prop me. Every day, I receive an email showing me my progress.
He means the spending that's currently ongoing, but that will abruptly cease. Mostly defense-related.
I targeted the forums where the prospective customers would most hang out at - and it has worked out pretty well - its just not as scalable as I wish it would be. Unfortunately advertising at those same forums has not worked out as well.
It's appropriate for anyone that knows the basics of programming.
Wait, you mean you can't just wrap someone's service in a fancy UI and then sell it as your own? OH THE HUMANITY!

What happened to innovation? All I see these days is a derivative of a derivative of a derivative. Hell even the memes these days are derived from other memes.
Here's an ars technica article going into details about why "STFU and buy an SD card" isn't necessarily a solution.

"As such, even the 16GB that Microsoft promises on the 32GB Surface may not be readily available to end-users. Surface does, at least, have a way of adding storage that Windows itself will never use for its own needs; it has a microSD slot that works with 64GB cards.

There are wrinkles to this support, however. Due to the sandboxing and security used in Windows RT, apps need special permission to use this removable storage. Apps that just have permission to access your music, picture, or document libraries can't use the SD card. Worse, it's not possible to add removable storage to the existing libraries; Windows requires that all library locations be indexed. As a result, it won't index removable storage, presumably on the basis that it might get removed, which would cause the index to include information about files that no longer existed.

There is a trick involving Junction Points to make Windows not realize that the SD card is an SD card, but that is hardly what one would call elegant or easy-to-use."

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/11/surface-disk-space-a-...
I have been using notifications in chrome since they were available, and they don't even come close to growl, AFAICT.
Because they would gladly go work for republicans if Obama did not listen to their opinions?
How tech companies grow
Yeah, that was some time ago, and I've had comments since then so its a little odd.

Thanks for the help.
They seem to have less than $3T [1]. $4.8T seems to be the right figure for intra-governmental debt, which is probably the right thing to be subracting out anyway. Thanks for educating me about this!

[1] - http://www.ssa.gov/oact/progdata/assets.html
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That's all well and good but what do you tell the investors that just gave you millions in order to get returns if you are twitter? That you can't monetize because you gotta be a nice guy and keep giving it all away for free? That will not go over well obviously.
"Also, a lawyer from Apple quietly checked that all the rectangles in the room were just as rectangular as they could be allowed, but not more."
First, the page is cut off on Safari on an iPad. But I can get the gist of it.

More to the point, it's the piracy argument all over again. If I unsubscribe from a retailer's list, I wasn't going to buy anything from their mailings anyway. It's apparent that I had no intention of reading them. They're missing out on nothing.

But maybe I'll buy something in the future, who knows? If it was an otherwise pleasant experience I'll keep them in mind. When I unsubscribe, I hold no ill will toward the sender if they make it a one-click, easy unsubscribe. Make it a pain to unsubscribe, however, and get nothing in the future.

Take Musician's Friend as a prime example. My first and only purchase from them was a Fender Greta amp (highly recommended, BTW). I gave them (my gmail alias)+musiciansfriend@gmail.com. They took it. They also spam me every other day. Fine, I'll unsubscribe. But the unsubscribe form's regex rejects "+" and tells me the address is invalid. Too bad for you, MF, as I'll just filter your mail, the paper catalog that I didn't ask for will go straight to recycling without ever entering the house, and I'll bad-mouth you to anyone that asks. That's because post-sale MF came across as obnoxious.
Passwords... do we really need to kill them?
Can't believe no one has complained about the font-weight/font-color being eye-straining...was HN down or something the past hour? :)

Rather than just a list, it'd be great (as someone else pointed out) to show upvote score. And then a way to show most upvoted in past week/month/year/all-time, as that is a view that is not-at-all easy to get from HN's interface.
Most developers don’t really know any computer language
I generally don't get much value out of things that look like pet libraries on here, but there are a few utilities in here that I have genuinely missed having in the past, so kudos there.

Completely offtopic though, the 'drip' icon actually bugs me, and I actually had to stare at it for a minute before I realized why -- you've got brewed coffee dripping from a pristine filter. S'weird.
From where does the cost come? Magic? Because it is nowhere to be seen.
Why can't modern languages (like ruby) serialize themselves like smalltalk?
In smalltalk, you're able to save the state of the world into an image file. I assume this has to do with Smalltalk's ability to "serialize" itself -- that is, objects can produce their own source code.

1) Is this an accurate understanding?

2) What is the challenge in adding this ability to modern languages (non-lisp, obviously)?

3) Is "serialization" the right word? What's the correct jargon?
This is pretty funny. I was just in SF in June and was waiting around that booth for about 20 minutes while my wife shopped. Overhearing the guy (must have been the same guy Adir) was certainly interesting.

It would start off with the free sample push, often targeting older ladies. "Young lady, free sample for you." Then when there was eye contact, "Where are you from?". Then the sales pitch began in full force.
Just for the record they didn't raise billions of dollars. They raised 100s of millions.

http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/campaign-finance
Don't know how you're scraping this...but why not just keep track of the current upvote totals everytime you crawl the list (up to a certain cutoff point...I don't think upvotes more than three weeks from now really mean anything)...It's nice to see all the Show HN's in one place, but if some of them were flops, then they won't be more interesting when viewed from this app. However, I think it is always useful to see what great Show HN's we might have missed in the week or month...not all of us check the frontpage every day or mark down all the things we wish we had time to visit later.
As a side note, that particular thread has some excellent comments about chargebacks, risk detection etc.,

Gem of a discussion on that thread apart from the scathing attack.
Windows 8 does not run on phones.
Netflix CEO: Amazon Losing Up to $1 Billion a Year on Streaming Video
Hi Joe Doliner, engineer at RethinkDB here. We've talked a lot about having support for an ODM. It will be happening but it's one of many things we want to add so I'm not certain of a timeline yet. I think the main thing we've discussed is an Active Record plugin. I'm not terribly well versed in the various ODMs that are out there and I'd be interested to know which ones you think are good and why if you wouldn't mind. It will help us in designing one that is awesome.
> Has the author considered that she's just playing devil's advocate?

I assumed so when I read it. In fact TFA says

>> Fiona Mactaggart: The point that Helen is rather effectively illustrating

In other words another person in the room understood her in this way.

Is this perhaps a case of British understatement misinterpreted over the interwebs?
After reading the paper, it would seem that for null mass particles (which I assume refers to light particles), when the warp bubble is traveling above the speed of light, there is a point towards the front of the bubble where light particles travelling in the same direction as the bubble are swept up and held (a front horizon). As the bubble decelerates below the speed of light, the front horizon moves forward outside of the warp bubble, at which point these particles are released ahead of the ship at their regular speed of light, but with an observed energy exponentially increased in relation to the time they spent in the bubble. A similar effect is expected with massive particles moving at near the speed of light in the direction of the bubble's travel, which can apparently be accelerated to a speed nearer to that of light upon exiting the front horizon.
The silly thing is here, having looked at their app, it's looks reasonably good, given its age.

The presentation tells us "First impressions
matter."

Looks like decent tech, let by some awful marketing. Now if only that had been done on purpose to prove a point...
Now that it has the userbase, it's milking its situation. The talk in the beginning was "How are they gonna make money out of this?" and the answer is gradually unfolding. Kudos to them or starting the way they did, shame on them for closing out the very things that brought them to where they are.

Late arrivals like identi.ca might not be as polished, but they offer a similar product, with open APIs. Being based on open and federated standards like status.net, it's extremely unlikely that identi.ca will ever get the ego trip twitter got, and in fact is much more likely that it will be more open over time, and more useful even if other competition arises. What it doesn't have, and what we (consumers as well as devs) can help with, is by heading over there and giving them users and status and content.
Haha, that's an MVP animation. The next iteration will have a filter that slowly gets saturated and THEN drips.
Aerial Photos of Giant Google-Funded Solar Farm Caught in Green Energy Debate
Obscuring isn't the method.. it's the goal. The question is how obscure do they make things.
I'm assuming this conversation was being held in discussion about internet policy and potential legislation regarding web filtering. In such case, I must say what I often do:

It is dangerous and immoral for legislators to restrict freedom of choice on the assumption that all people are stupid.
Great stuff. I just played 20 minutes of guitar in a row. That did not happen to me since years.
Thank you very much for this tool.

The one thing I miss: if I search I don't get any video with already made soundslice tabs. Even a search on 'nirvana' returns no result with soundslice annotation even though there are some.
Well on their about page they have this guy listed:
Michael Lucy (@mlucy) - Ruby drivers, protocol API, query execution

Might be a good place to start.
anyone else able to get the seconds to work in the time picker? if not, why even show these?
I wouldn't say Stripe is 'enterprise', but I wouldn't call it consumer either. It probably could generically fall under the category of business-to-business. I'm not sure if the author was lumping in B2B with enterprise. It's possible larger enterprises may use Stripe in the future.
Wow. So much of Hostess' crisis, and the state of California and its cities hinge on pension obligations. It makes me wonder if it is even possible to create a pension plan that isn't eventually toxic.
So sad. Before the Bush tax cuts, we were projecting that the big debt landmark for around that time would be paying it off.
That’s not collapse in any sense of the word.

Even if I were to agree with you on the collapse, that’s not all Euro countries. Germany, for example, had never any problems or trouble that could by any sane person be described as collapse.
> I was masterfully manipulated, and I have little choice but to admit that I received an unexpectedly expensive lesson in the art of selling.

How would you be sure it was that masterful? From your description it sounds pretty much like a standard sales pitch. It could just as well be that you're simply rationalizing being talked into spending $100 on something you didn't want to buy. You seem to be thinking "He was so good, he even managed to get me to buy this stuff", but the truth may unfortunately just as well be "Gee, I fall for this kind of stuff much more easily than I would have liked/thought".

Doing a postmortem of such a sales-pitch as a target yourself seems to be loaded with subjectivity problems.
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Anything that reduces the chance of my ever again having to write one of these can only be a good thing.
Craft your own knife out of locally sourced iron ore (Slideshow)
Yes but early-days Twitter did not have to compete with current-day Twitter when it was trying to grow.
No, it's supposed to raise taxes and cut spending, which will send us into another recession. The recession will drastically lower tax revenues, creating the need to further cut spending and further raise taxes.
I'm a bit lost on why you would want to use this rather than regular sms/iMessage. There's clearly a market for this kind of thing (WhatsApp), but could somebody explain why?
U.S. Copyright Surveillance Machine About To Be Switched On
Mobile Payments Will Top $1 Trillion Worldwide by 2017
I realize this is post is intended as a light-hearted sales pitch rather than a deep analysis, but I think the conclusions are misguided.

The overriding problem is that you are trying to presenting conclusions based on 300 responses out of 10,000 people surveyed, but never mention the possibility of measurement error. Even ignoring intentionally incorrect responses, considering that these respondents appear "cranky", how many might inverted the 1 to 4 scale? How many might have been one row off?

To go further and break down this 3% of respondents into age, region, and income is very prone to overfitting. Are these conclusions consistent across the multiple years of the survey? How many "over 74" tree-haters were there each year? Are they more or less likely to miskey an answer?

How do you feel about the current number of trees in your city? Too many? About right? Not enough? You probably didn’t answer “Too many."

Why presume that everyone wants more trees? Is it hard to believe that there might be a point where a neighborhood could have too many, and that different people might have different thresholds for this? Your rhetorical question presumes a strange form of cultural diversity bounded by moral certitude.

I've met many Americans raised in the rural West who feel hemmed in by trees. I've met Australian ranchers who consider them to be weeds that steal ground water that could otherwise grow grass. There are numerous accidents caused by obscured street signs, and cities remove trees all the time. I know allergy sufferers everywhere who have very strong opinions on which trees they like and which they despise. And while I love fruit trees, many see them mostly as food for rats.

Going one step further, even if you think the study is completely accurate, and the demographic numbers large enough to be significant, the post misses what to me seems like the obvious question: do the responses correlate to the number of trees in each area? Do the areas with fewer trees have more people who want more? Do the areas with the most have the most who are satisfied? If not, why not?

Sorry for the vehemence. I'm reading lots of articles lately that misuse statistics, and I don't think this post puts your company in a good light.
I suppose the question is how recognizable are tumbling services? Do they create new wallets regularly, and does the resulting traffic leave a fuzzy line between what is "in" the service and what is "out"? It could be that using a tumbling service looks fairly similar to giving money to somebody/somebodies who themselves uses the service.
This doesn't work for them because Twitter has had 1.16 billion dollars in funding.

Getting money from teeny little twitter apps is not the sort of plan they are going to make that money back with. Imagine if they charged a buck per username per year.

This would probably be enough money to put tweetro out of business (say 100k dollar per year), but it would not come close to the amount of money they need to make.

Even if something makes you good money, often you have to scrap it if it isn't or even endangers your core product.
The book INFLUENCE does a good job of categorizing and explaining these factors. Though a lot of it comes off as common sense, I never realized how widespread these tactics were until I read this book. I highly recommend it.

http://www.amazon.com/Influence-Psychology-Persuasion-Busine...
That is not necessarily bad though, MindShift properly has a lot more experience in that area and the tech support is likely the same as what they normally sell. Orca (and Narwhale) on the other hand -- they are more of a once in a lifetime app.
I have re-read this argument "design patents have a very limited scope" a few times over the latest Apple patent craze.

It's not an argument, it's a fact. Design patents are not utility patents. Utility patents are not design patents. They work differently, and the objections people have to "questionable" utility patents do not apply equally to design patents.

It comes up a lot because the press seems to be willfully ignorant of the distinction, and the people arguing about the reports tend to be universally clueless.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_patent
Ayo from Hipmob here. Apps like Pair serve a specific niche in that their private/undistracted, and in addition using an app format as well as data (rather than pure sms) allows you to do more interesting things (Pair for example has shared sketches, video chat and the "thumbkiss"). Our specific goal at Hipmob was to release something lots of developers can play with, that's pretty simple, so they could get comfortable writing chat/messaging apps with our libraries.
I was approached by the same sellers in a mall. I got the exact same samples of "dead cells" cream. It was a lady the one that gave me the samples. Very convincing. If it wasn't because I was with my wife at the time, who happens to be a person that does not bend to that kind of selling techniques (I call it her super-power :P) I would've walked with $100 less, at least.

One bad thing about this selling technique, which might be effective in selling you stuff, is that right after walking out, you feel bad. You know you did not do the right choice and the probabilities of you walking again to buy more stuff from them or telling your friends how awesome these products are is so small, that they seem to aim to one-sell only. Maybe that's why they're so expensive: they know you're not going back for more. It's a cheap technique and it probably is not looking for anything long term... But in any case, you can always move to another mall or create a new crappy-good-looking product to scam more people.
Small percentages like these aren't necessarily worth reading much into, and they don't necessarily have anything to do with the question being asked.

It could very well be that lower-income, older people (who would disproportionately live in the southwest) are disproportionately likely to make mistakes when filling out surveys.

Use of a letter-grade system also introduces error, since the value of a particular letter grade is subjective and has varied over time. It could very well be that older people, who received their own grades before the grade inflation of the last generation, have stricter standards when it comes to assigning letter grades to things.
This is a good book. Yes, a lot of it comes off as common sense, but it's still worth reading.
Sounds great until you look more closely. Here's the plan:

1) Gather up all your treasured books and send them to us
2) We'll make scans of them
3) We'll then grind your favorite books into compost, so you can Save The Planet! Yay!

$1500 Google design I still have to build myself that only damages 45% of my books? No, thanks.

Scanning service that only charges me 1$/book to destroy my books for me? No, thanks.

I think I'll just look around, thank you.
Sorry for the eye-strain; I switched it from #777 to #444 just now, so hopefully there's a marginal improvement.

My scraper isn't currently set to get that deep, but the most upvoted per time period is a good idea that I'll look into.
No, as pointed out it's basically never right for anyone[1]. It doesn't cover huge deductions like mortgage interest, it doesn't include the EITC at all, which means that it's wildly overestimating tax liability at the bottom of the chart (where it's routinely negative for families with children).

Tax analysis is hard (and yes, that's a bug not a feature) and not well served by charts like this, nor by ridiculous labels like "fiscal cliff".

[1] With the exception that probably explains your comment: a single mid-income individual without dependents living in rental housing is going to pay pretty much what this chart shows. Obviously that covers a lot of the demographic here, but it's terrible advice for everyone else.
A lot of these seem really useful -- a nice set of things I've grumbled at having to write myself before as well as things that I haven't had a need for but I could very easily see being useful.

Out of curiosity, is there a reason you're actively marketing it as CoffeeScript helpers? For people using it as a drop-in library, it shouldn't make a lick of difference whether it's written in CS or vanilla JS, especially since you have the compiled JS in the GitHub repo. That isn't to say that you should be obscuring the fact, but right now the name says to me that being written in CoffeeScript is a significant part of the value being provided, which doesn't really seem to be the case.
Apple And Motorola Mobility Looking At Arbitration For Patent Dispute Resolution
Except for when the browsers implement standards differently, e.g. appcache, localstorage, etc.
Hopefully this team can use their brownie points with the Obama administration to encourage some more tech-friendly policies (immigration, patents, etc).

Also, we should be clear, that Orca was not going to change the outcome or make even a dent.
> So if you stopped people unsubscribing $5.8 billion more would be spent on retail? No, people have, roughly, a fixed amount to spend, stopping them unsubscribing isn't going to give them more money.

Yep. One retailer's loss is another retailer's gain.
While this may not be the case for all of the dead sea related skin care booths (though I know it accounts for a large chunk of them in my area) - these people often have major quotas to reach in exchange for the room & board and small pocket money they get in exchange. A lot of them are brought to the U.S. with the promise of a job lined up and when they get here they are in a small apartment with 5 or 6 others. Just a slight insight as to why they are often so aggressive in their sales pitches.
The standard deduction is the minimum deduction. A simple calculator indeed should take this into account since it will affect everyone's tax liability. A recent study showed only about 1/3 of tax returns used itemized deductions [1].

[1]: http://taxfoundation.org/article/most-americans-dont-itemize...

edit: good point on the EITC as well. This also severely affects the bottom of the scale and you don't need to itemize to take advantage of it.