skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some might say that it is in the lawyers' interest at some level that their bosses go against legal advice and open themselves up to lawsuits because when that lawsuit comes in, guess which department stays employed? Now, I think most lawyers operate in good faith and go to great extremes to convince their client of taking the best option but I can see lawyers give up after a certain stage thinking alright whatever, why am I complaining, this just means I'll have enough work for next 2 years because of my client's stupid decision.
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Strictly defined, lobbying is about educating representatives on behalf of special interests. However, lobbying is a lot like sales. Even if what you're selling isn't actually the best product for your customer, you still have a vested (if somewhat conflicted) interest in convincing them to buy it. Similarly, even if your special interest isn't actually the best policy for the public of which you're a part, you still have a vested interest in convincing them to enact it.

Sales and marketing spend a lot of time, money, and effort on building a positive association in your mind with their brand. This is a very standard and well-accepted technique, and it's the same technique that lobbyists apply when they loophole bribery by inviting people to lavish get-togethers for business meetings.

The reason it's okay when it comes to business transactions, but not okay in government policy is simply because it violates the social contract. If not for that, a backroom negotiation that results in a negative government policy is not much different from a big corporation buying your favorite startup and making its product suck as a result. The fundamental problem is identical: the difference is the amount of say you expected to have.
Ah, but how many get the full service, and not just online course material? How do they scale their "one-on-one help" to 11k people?

Thinkful only get paid when a hiring manager employs somebody that they introduced. If I were to be an old curmudgeon, this is PR off the back of bad news, to try and scalp potential leads and resumes.
I think for git diff, this "no wrapping" is a feature not a bug. Git is made for code in general and Linux (as in, the kernel codebase) in particular. If your lines are long enough or your terminal is narrow enough that you need lines to be wrapped, then it may be that your lines are getting too long. The Linux coding style mandates limiting lines to 80 characters and breaking up lines which are longer than this limit. This may seem arbitrary and may not be a great idea in a language which isn't C, but for Linux, this limit allows levels of indentation which are too deep to be more easily seen because when code gets into too many levels of indentation it will become very obvious because several statements end up split across lines. Beyond that, Linus prefers to chop lines over wrapping, and it seems he just put his personal preference into his tool because it isn't that big a deal.
Microsoft Ad Urges Indians Not to be Scared of Windows 8
I'm sorry if I confused you by using the term subjective. You're right, I meant personal. And I certainly care about usability, my point is that no one has ever been able to convince me about why IDEA has better usability, or if the supposed usabilty improvements are things I'll care about.

IDEs are interesting because you get very used to the one you're using. I am much faster and efficient in Eclipse than I am in IDEA (I've used a few times over the years, for about a day each time).

Could I become faster and more efficient in IDEA that I am at Eclipse if I spent a month learning it? Maybe, I don't know. No one has made any arguments convincing enough for me to sink an entire month into finding out.
Yes.

Well, sort of. I don't use an ad blocker, but I do block some ads.

So far, my ad-blocking has been limited to placing a short list of domains in /etc/hosts. My main motivation was not the ads themselves, but rather delays in page-rendering caused by slow ad servers.

One of these days, I may get serious. The ads are getting more intrusive ... pop-over pages, videos that start playing audio automatically ...
I've seen a lot of back-and-forth about using Dribbble as a critiquing platform. People opposed to receiving such feedback say that they didn't ask for it and that it's rude to assume that uploading something to the site means that they're open to suggestions about it. Personally, my stance is that if you knowingly upload something to a site that has a comment boxes, you're asking for it.

That being said, most people use the site as a means of self-promotion, so they use their real names. As such, they aren't comfortable providing the raw feedback a lot of us are looking for. I don't personally have a problem with people being able to anon their comments - obviously someone deemed them worthy enough to be there to begin with - so long as there are ways to mitigate abuse.
That's the thing, though. I'd be awestruck to see a Portal 3D physics-like thing on the 89 and be playable, because I'd have no idea how the person pulled it off and as I said above it'd be mindblowing. If you're familiar with physics engines, perhaps you're familiar with how the GBA works at the hardware level and how a game for it is typically made? Super Monkey Ball Jr. is an example of a game that blew me away and I'm still not really sure how they pulled it off.
I recently turned off AdBlock "just to see" for a few weeks. Maybe I had completely forgotten how bad online ads were but a few things really bothered me. I would get ads for shopping sites in my recent history (while browsing a totally unrelated site) that showed me items related to searches on said shopping website. A few times the ad would show me exact search results. Also it's unnerving seeing my Facebook profile pic right next to an empty comment field.

AdBlock is back on.
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Keeping their code within their own firewall is a big deal for many companies.
I personally use example.invalid. It's immediately obvious that it's an example and invalid :)
Also BetterPrivacy and FlashBlock.
Ask HN: Outsourced sales in Pakistan?
Hey HN! So we're a SaaS biz (vidpresso.com) who's attracted some good interest both in our native US, and abroad. We launched in TechCrunch back in May, and this guy saw us there, and reached out to us offering to sell our product in Pakistan.

He seems like a biz hacker type who was educated in London but moved to Pakistan. He wants to sell our product to other TV stations in Pakistan, in exchange for a good rev share.

It feels weird, but like it might work. Wanted to try to get HN's opinion about this... does it seem like a good idea to proceed? Has anyone ever tried to process payments from Pakistan? Something tells me Stripe won't work. :)
Of couse there is an incentive for me to comment here on HN.

1. It's a community, there's give & take. Who knows one day I may need HN's help. I want to be treated the same way others treat me - golden rule.

2. This place is full of smart people. I'd listen carefully to what everyone has to say. If it's just mass voting from randoms, it'll get nowhere. Hence my 4th point in the original comment.

3. Being part of the community, actively, builds connects and networks. If LaunchSky is going to be community oriented, I think that'd be a great avenue to explore.

So I'd disagree about how there's no incentive or reward for me to comment here.
Working in web development as a UI/UX/front-end coding guy, I make a point out of not installing pop-up/add blockers.

Along with a big portion of power-users, I "suffer" from ad-blindness, so ads don't bug me that much regardless.

The ads that do bug me (generally ads with sound enabled or inappropriate ones), cause me to lodge complaints to sites that show them (if I like said site) or otherwise make me avoid that site in the future.

The reason I don't let a pop-up blocker take care of it all, is that I feel it's my responsibility to improve the web. To do that, I need to know what pains people, but also want to see what ads actually do work. That latter one is very rare though.
Yes, I use Disconnect for all social media (no, as a male, I don't want to accidentally hit the Like button on a page for buying bulk Midol for my girlfriend).

I also use AdBlock, but unblock certain sites that I like, have unobtrusive ads, and need the ad revenue (TechCrunch, Ars, IconPaper, and about two handfuls of others).
I recently switched to FF to start using Pentadactyl. In the process I ended up installing a few things here and there to make things feel just a tad more private, including Adblock Plus. I made a point to disable it on a number of sites I visit regularly with unobtrusive ads and will occasionally flick it off/on to make sure it's not introducing any layout issues or accidentally hiding content.
Glad to hear it. Discovery is always a lot of fun, regardless of latency.

Don't stop there. There were/are many good musicians performing excellent work from the 1950s and 60s on. Please keep looking.

I'll mention just a few I consider deserving of attention (and this is by no means comprehensive): Yusef Lateef, John Coltrane, Eddie Palmieri, Sun Ra, Oliver Nelson, John Hicks, Joe Henderson, Duke Pearson, Cal Tjader, Cannonball Adderley, …, MJQ, …).

If you would like to hear an(other) excellent tune in 5/4 besides /Take Five/ circa nine years later, check out Yusef Lateef's rendition of /Get Over, Get Off and Get On/ on the album "The Blue Yusef Lateef".

There are wonderful contemporary musicians, long-standing and novel, worth seeing at the most intimate of venues, the nightclub, as you have found.

My first nightclub experience, long ago, was Cannonball Adderley at the London House in Chicago, circa 1968, and I've enjoyed such a venue ever since. Nothing is better.
Yes. Since the new Facebook newsfeed ads.
From my experience working at a large Investment Bank, the strong performers normally do keep up to date with new technology developments or have otherwise a strong base knowledge that allows them to pick up new things by themselves.
The masses largely prefer to have a corporate job for as much pay as possible - this was the first workplace where I heard a number of people explicitly say they are only there for the money and in some cases actually want the redundancy packages.

In my view the good opportunity for other companies in these situations is that a number of stronger performers decide to leave by themselves when this happens, for multiple reasons - they are overworked because their teams are reduced, low morale, etc.
These are the ones that are interesting to capture.
I found another rare, but annoying thing - on German keyboards the "~" is hidden away on the combination "Alt Gr and +", when I try to type that into the prompt under Firefox 17.0 nothing happens. Workaround is to copy-paste. Under Chrome 23.0.1271.95 the same key-combination inserts single quotation marks, weirdly enough, same workaround.
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Why so much hate? The foundations of Apple were built by Jobs and Woz. Several days ago someone else on HN pointed out that had it not been for Jobs, Woz probably would have been just another nameless, brilliant engineer at HP. Likewise, without Woz, Jobs probably would not have had a computer to sell.

Apple did not invent the graphical user interface or multitouch displays. However, you cannot deny that Jobs was a driving force behind the Lisa/Macintosh and the iPhone. Without those products, the technology innovations that supported them might still be languishing in expensive, niche markets.
sourceforge.net went with constantly more and more annoying advertising because its customers were advertisers, while github.com makes better and better tools because its customers care about managing their source code.
At least in Canada cases of corruption and collusion can be publicly aired, criminal cases launched, and the most corrupt/dishonest politicians removed. There are at least two countries in the top 15 I know from first-hand experience where this is not occurring. There is direct interference and collusion on a huge scale in the economy by politicians, their families, and friends. Transparency International does not generally include this in their assessment, unless their are other market distorting factors, such as outright bribery or use of the judiciary for economic reasons, not just political.
Do you really read them all?

Ha! No. Not even remotely. Neither do I read every HN comment or every HN post.

I don't drink the river. I dip in a cup occasionally.

I do read anything that's directed at me as an individual.

I have a couple of twitter lists that friends are on that I pay a little bit more attention to (twitter lists are ways of grouping people in twitter - think Google Circles with an even worse UX ;-).

I have a computationally generated twitter list of folk I've 'talked' to recently (via http://conversationlist.com/).

I have a couple of topic-specific lists I glance a weather eye over every day or so to see if anything interesting pops up.

Otherwise it's just serendipitous access when I feel the need for brain popcorn.

For example earlier this evening I came across http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/Online/Blogs/Off-the-Beat-Br... via a retweet from somebody I follow. Which interested me.

If I go look now at 23:42..... and by 23:43 I'm reading about Papa Mau - robot that holds the world record for distance traveled by an autonomous vehicle on land or in the sea http://www.fastcoexist.com/1681003/this-surfboard-sized-robo... via this tweet https://twitter.com/DanAsadorian/status/276360715865038849 retweeted by somebody I follow.

I do not sit on twitter 24/7 reading every tweet that rolls past. That way lies madness (for the way I use twitter anyway ;-)
Could use categories rather than subclassing at first glance.

Of course, usually my first glances are wrong.
I strongly agree with the overall direction of your comments on this subject, rayiner, and I think the workability of a median income in North America is vastly underrated.

... but it makes me a little sad that the median family household in this model requires both parents to be out of the house for 40 hours per week plus lunch hour plus commute. I mean, I think the Ward&June Cleaver myth was a little silly, and I don't think it's an Inalienable Right that every single family should be able to afford indefinitely supporting 4 people on one income.... but it seems like it would be better for society if kids got more parental energy than I can imagine them getting in this circumstance.

I mean, I'm not complaining about my job (ha, not at all), but I note that I'm barely a functional spouse when I get home after work, much less able to be a great father (not that I have kids). And even if I was, I'm not getting home until 7 or 8. Suppose my wife had the same schedule, what kind of (hypothetical) parents would we be?

I'm not saying it's Wrong or Unjust. I'm just saying it seems a little sad.
And if every plugin was supported in the community edition, they would be out of business.
FTC:Apple v. Motorola sales bans in FRAND patent cases 'inappropriate'
If they were one country, NZ'ers wouldn't be so offended (real or faked) that you called them Australians. :-D
Bluntly: Aside from slightly cheaper holidays, I'm not seeing the advantages for Scandanavia. I'm also confused as to why you think that you would need some political union to benefit from their examples? Not so much for France, but a lot of Eastern Euro countries have huge problems with corruption and I'd love to see evidence that political union with, e.g. Sweden, will help, e.g. Bulgaria, aside from enabling mass-migration.
This Surfboard-Sized Robot Just Propelled Itself Across The Ocean
Golden Spike plans to offer private moon missions by 2020
I thought that's exactly what he meant by "Tesla is the Apple of anything that moves".
Sorry. My response was to the parent.
Ha, I just requested that two weeks ago via their feedback page. They didn't really told me that they were so close to implement that.

Now I'm still missing to configure the default settings of the builtin editor.
I think it's less about promoting their native client as it is about making Github (and Git) less daunting for command-line-evading users. Just so happens their own client is the most user friendly, but it could have been any other, hence not tying the benefit (cloning in the OS with a click) to the implementation.
Does the financing come from the funds operating budget, or what?
In reflection, I suppose this is more about making any live-action promo video, rather than being app-specific.
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The default is just to receive bitcoins.

Cashing out to a bank account is optional and not on by default.
Yes. Every browser, every install. Porn sites would be unbearable without one.
Disclaimer this is a shameless but timely plug for my company's product.

I've been building a solution to enterprise GitHub's pull request model for the last year. I believe they have a great product but their current pull request system will never meet a large organizations requirements which are process heavy.

For example it's not easy to assign something like a risk value to a pull request. You also can't assign a required approvers list to a pull request. Basically you can't assign arbitrary meta data to a pull request. Enterprise is driven by process and everybody seems to want to do things there way so you'll have to have a very flexible system. You can probably hack something together with tags but this will never fly in a process heavy enterprise which adheres to strict ISO standards.

Also GitHub's pull request/code review doesn't handle large changes well. When the number of changes get's into the few dozens, hundreds or thousands, using their interface is just impossible and impractical. And yes changes of this size is not uncommon in the enterprise world.

I've attached some screen shots that shows how I'm planning on improving GitHub's pull request model. Note I haven't included any examples that showcases my programmable context aware smart attributes technology as I'm still keeping this under wraps. But the smart attributes are what should allow GitHub's pull request model to work in any process heavy enterprise environment. In a nutshell, you can think of the smart attributes as meta data that you can attach to a GitHub pull request, a file, a diff, etc. These meta data are context aware, programmable and can be assigned a value based on the smart attribute data type.

Searching for pull requests across multiple branches

http://6b507fb6377c7b2ce0ed-f6f6a52addfcf546a4b633fce1dd247e...

Viewing the pull request detail

http://6b507fb6377c7b2ce0ed-f6f6a52addfcf546a4b633fce1dd247e...

Viewing the code churn that is generated by the pull request as a churn tree

http://6b507fb6377c7b2ce0ed-f6f6a52addfcf546a4b633fce1dd247e...

Viewing the commits that are part of the pull request. Note the revisions tree on the left. It'll show you all the revisions that in all the commits.

http://6b507fb6377c7b2ce0ed-f6f6a52addfcf546a4b633fce1dd247e...
I don't use an Adblocker, but I did recently disable plugins by default because I was getting some massive performance issues from Flash (Chrome on Ubuntu 12.10).

It has massively improved my browsing experience having grey place-holder boxes where mostly ads were before.
Sadly, luck is as important as good execution.
You can do your own logins such that every employee immediately has their own login and ability to create infinitely private and public repos visible only by others in the org.

Stuff like that.
Whatever floats your boat. I bet you would be happy using notepad to write Java too. Eclipse might be Yugo, but using Emacs to write Java is like using Fred Flinstone's car. Hope you got thick callouses ;)
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I run Opera, which has a built-in content blocker. As a rule, I don't block ads because they're a revenue source for many sites and I consider them the cost of admission. If I consider the annoyance a fair exchange for the content then I'll accept the ads, and if I don't think the content is worth the ads then I won't use the site.

I will disable particular ads on a case-by-case basis that I consider pathologically aggravating (less than 1%), or when they disrupt page functionality. I also block several types of tracking functions that can aggregate an identity across multiple domains (I find no privacy issues with first-party analytics).

In the special case of floating overlays, I am a strange, strange person. I will not click on the close button, because I don't like clicking on an ad, even to close it. Instead, I will fire up the debugger and delete the ad from the DOM.
Only wimps use tape backup: real men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it. - Linus Torvalds

Paranoids don't make backups, they just stream their hard drive across the Internet and let the NSA archive it.
The headline suggested that something specific about Windows 8 was "scary" or offensive to Indians. The article, however, just describes a Microsoft commercial and the "scary" part is probably just the perceived complexity of the Metro/Modern GUI.
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You don't think that ionforce is over-egging the criticism pudding by throwing in inferred claims about graphics, too?

I find it ironic that such a tactic should be used in a criticism that strongly applies the 'shameful' label.
Does disabling Flash and JavaScript on all but approved sites count? I've not noticed an ad in ages.
I use Adblock Plus, but I really need to start looking for a new adblocker, because Adblock Plus has started adding various anti-features like an on-by-default ad whitelist and a horribly broken domain "typo correction" mechanism. These annoyances add extra prompts and configuration work needed at installation time, and make it more difficult to maintain unobtrusive Adblock Plus installations for non-technical users.
Hell yeah i use an Adblocker, and i love having an outgoing firewall on my jailbroken ios devices -- I explicitly block all applications from contacting the advertising providers.

Advertising is evil and I will have no part of it. I don't care if your business model is advertising, you wont make a dime out of me.
As far as I can tell, it's not possible to go through the lesson using just a keyboard; a mouse is required to scroll or to change focus from the embedded interpreter back to the page itself so that the arrow keys will scroll.
Tell HN: Open spot at a Hacker House in Palo Alto
I'm moving out of a Hacker House in Palo Alto at the end of December (earlier if needed). Rent is reasonable at $880/mo in a shared room. It's a great place if you're moving out here or wanting to relocate to Palo Alto in a nice neighborhood. Email me in my profile if interested and I'll get you more information.
I don't see the point, really. My brain began unconsciously filtering out ads many years ago. At this point they barely register.
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This is really cool! One tiny feature request: Remember my last settings for tabs/indentation.
I REALLY want something like this. Like the others said, it must use appearance proxies whenever possible. I literally want to add the source files, edit the .nss file and it works.
Good ideas are essential - but they have no value by themselves.
I use an adblocker for everything. I do try to buy stuff from the stores of websites that I like to support them and encourage a revenue model that does not annoy me.
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