skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair, a more plausible explanation for the lawyers giving up after a certain point is that nobody wants to argue with their boss that long.
Did anyone that took the 2011 course share his experience?
What kinds of governance are even required on mediums used to communicate information?
Google Now Song ID broken on the Droid DNA
Whatever they can get away with would be my guess
Yeah I miss the changing Octocat.
There is a reason why interviews don't work.

Because what you know is never a true indicator of what you can do.
I regret losing contact with people who were once friends and drifting out of the network of people I spent a lot of time with in the past, but whom I have virtually no contact with (outside of Facebook) now. Most of the in-Facebook contact is not nearly deep or meaningful enough to rekindle old friendships and its tough when you've drifted so far apart. Hell, a lot of these people have moved away - some to other cities, some to other countries and some to other continents. When I log onto Facebook and see what these people are doing, I remember the times we had together in the past and I regret that I lost touch with them.

I mean, not so much that I'll jump on a plane and try to re-friend them in real life - I too have moved on and have great friends around me (new and old), just like they do. But sometimes I wonder what life would be like if I still hung out with that guy or girl in that photograph posted on their Facebook wall yesterday. Would I have been in it?
This hasn't worked in the Android Gmail app for several years now. The option is there, but no matter what I select when replying to an email it will ALWAYS send it from the address it was sent to.

So let's say I have 2 email address, me@gmail.com and me@mydomain.com. My gmail account is setup so I can send from either one. If I get an email sent to me@mydomain.com and I change the From address to me@gmail.com in my reply, it always sends it from me@mydomain.com anyway. It doesn't matter what I select for the from address. This doesn't happen in the normal gmail web interface, it's only the Android app.

The thing is that this used to work a few years ago (Android 2.2 or very early in 2.3). It was broke in an update at some point and still hasn't been fixed. I've tried reporting the bug, and even had a Google employee verify he has the same problem, but it's unfortunately still there. I've verified it with other people, and it's happened on the past 3 Android phones I've had, so it seems to be a universal problem.
But how much of dealing with the claim is up to the agent? One of the claims about companies using Colossus is that it gives the agent no leeway when handling claims. I'd also hate for my experience to be up to the agent - what happens for example if they were away on holiday when an issue happened?

When I moved from the UK to the US it was rather bizarrely up to individual agents discretion as to taking me on. In general everyone quoted you the same rates as a 16 year old who had never driven before, because you had no insured time in the US. But one agent was prepared to take non-US driving experience into account.
Can you advice on good resources to learn statistics?
I got bit by this today too. It tweets a link to every article you read by default. Big WTF.
Too late to edit, but I realize the problem is more likely to come up in the face of sudden and significant deflation, which isn't something we see in other currencies terribly often.
I concur. Why not spend money disrupting the industry with a decentralized service or similar instead of buying an existing player with all their baggage?

Their fibre push seems to be much more the style I would expect.
Consider yourself lucky you've actually got to see anything. My browser already crashed 3 time before I got a chance to see anything
Julian Assange situation alone speaks volumes about the corruption of the countries involved: USA, Sweden, and EU as a whole for allowing the circus.
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Writer ignores the brand risk to Google by getting involved in a business like this. Consumer facing mobile is a messy business, as is retail. You've always got a ton of pissed off customers mad about something, and it could do a lot of damage to a strong brand like Google.
The story is that he made the posts -- the first news source for that seems to be Gizmodo. (And they provide enough supporting evidence to make it clear it's not pure speculation.)
The main reason is because bitcoins are volatile. Most currencies are fairly stable, there won't be much fluctuation over the course of a week or month, for however long refunds are valid. This isn't true for bitcoins. Once you pay for something in bitcoins, you are trading those bitcoins for something of similar value at that time. I don't know what the bitcoin exchange rate is right now, so I'm just going to make up some numbers for an example. But say you buy a TV that has a value of $1000 USD. Let's say the current exchange rate is 10 bitcoins to 1 USD. Then you have to pay them 10,000 bitcoins for the TV. Say a month later, you decide you want a refund. So you return the TV. Well the TV still has a value of $1000 USD (ignoring deprecation) so you should get that same value back. If the bitcoin market has skyrocketed, to say 5 bitcoins to 1 usd, then you would get 5000bitcoins back, because those bitcoins have the same value. The merchant isn't acting as a bank to hold onto your coins for you, they are trading you something of value for something else, and if you want a refund, you'll get something of the same value back.
Please tell me there's a Youtube clip of you as "Alcatraz Guard" somewhere we can see it.
US House votes 397-0 against ITU plan to regulate the Internet
Traffic Roundtable Convened to Address Safety
Peter Norvig interview on remote learning
Ah, the lesser seen cousin of Poe's Law: any sufficiently confused exchange on the Internet is indistinguishable from an Abbot and Costello routine.
This is a trivial statement. It's an obvious truism that if other manufacturers produced vehicles like Tesla's, then Tesla's vehicles would no longer be unique. What other companies COULD produce is irrelevant - Tesla is making something drastically different from them. You don't agree that engineering an extremely novel product makes a company "different"?
Here is a similar story I saved from a while back:

http://venturebeat.com/2012/02/27/a-classic-startup-horror-s...

I've gone through something similar to this, but since we were nowhere near to a deal being done we weren't getting into trade secrets. The whole thing turned out to be just my psychopath competitor trying to get info or some dirt on me because he knows I know how incompetent he is, the technical problems with his product, etc.
Perhaps more interesting is the fact that the entire rest of his team loved the candidate, and all of their opinions were immediately forfeit because the boss didn't like him. What does this say about the level of confidence and trust that one has in his team when you're so willing to discount their judgment entirely?

I didn't pick this up on the first read, but, yep, there it is, plain as day. Hilarious. A whole team of people interviewed this guy for the role, votes to hire, and then he asks what century of English writing the guy likes best and woosh done.

So at the very least you'd think, this guy should be the first interview anyone gets, because if you're not going to pass the "favorite era of English literature" or "favorite aspect of Sino-Indian relations" or "most preferred basket-weaving maneuver" question, you might as well not waste the time.
If only he would have mentioned who is going to act as his actual advisor when it comes to what 'hacking' really is these days.
"Bath Salts" is not a "thing". "Bath salts" is how "research chemicals" (read: drugs) are imported to the United States and sold under the radar of the FDA and DEA.

These things are sold as: lady bug attractant, plant food, or bath salts.

None of these are actually the intended use, unless you think that head shops are now having crossover with bath and body works.

Here is an excellent [but very depressing] story about how some "lady bug attractant" devastated a town:

http://www.vice.com/read/bath-salts-in-the-wound-0000320-v19...
Anil your representing RTP well!!
This article about Uber founder Travis' disregard for local taxi rules was interesting, I believe I found it through hn.

http://pandodaily.com/2012/10/24/travis-shrugged/
Ha! I doubt it, but I have the DVD in a box somewhere in the attic, I'll upload it when I get back. Edit: apparently it's on Netflix. I'm in the opening scene (in fact I have the first lines in the film), which is a good thing because it will spare you having to watch the rest of it.

I wasn't supposed to act in it; IIRC we were one actor short that day so I got drafted.

It's awful in so many ways. After I played the film for my wife she turned to me and said 'that's 2 hours of my life that I will never get back.' Good times :-)
Do they at least ping you to let you know you're out of funds? In an ideal world I'd hope they'd extend you some credit.
A quick region manager for backbone apps
Thanks for signing up and using the site. Hmm, starting at 1 is not a bad idea, but also, upvoting your own stuff makes sense; you just think the comment is THAT good. :)
Agree. T-mobile fell behind largely in part because they couldn't get the iPhone. I'm not sure Google could have addressed this issue any better than the current T-mobile management team.

Now that you bring it up, I'm really surprised that Google hasn't tried the MVNO route yet.
While I appreciate the new functionality, I find the product pretty ugly now. There's too much bold used, a lack of respect for the Apple HIG, and some of the graphs looks like something you'd see in World of Warcraft.
If only it were so! Profound confusion would be much easier to spot in a world that worked like that.
Ask HN: Please Review My Project (TrepsNation)
Hi Everyone,

My name is Anthony Lawrence, this is the first time that I've submitted anything here, but I read HN daily. I just launched a project that I’ve been working on and would really love your feedback. http://www.TrepsNation.com

Briefly: I was bit with the entrepreneurial bug from an early age but this is my first attempt as an internet entrepreneur. With no prior startup, design, or development experience I was able to teach myself using the same resources found on my site.

Being self-taught, one of the pains I’ve experienced is finding helpful resources without having to waste an entire day doing so. I wanted to create something that would help budding entrepreneurs avoid the same pitfalls and hassles I encountered.

Right now the site is a working prototype and I am planning on launching more features in the coming months. Right now I’m at a point where I would really appreciate any and all feedback for improvement purposes. As excited as I am about being able to learn from the ground up and apply what I’ve learned, I’m more excited to see what HN can do!

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Udacity has a intro to statistics class that you might like.
Wasn't the best but it is good if you are looking to supplement your course material from another similar class.
It's a lot easier for a user to force a link to open in a new tab than it is for the user to force the link to open in the same tab.
Did he get arrested for really bad software?
One upgrade at a time
First, a government-granted monopoly is only one kind of monopoly. Surely you have read enough economics since the 17th century to be aware of that? Even Adam Smith discussed it as a possibility.

Secondly, there is not actually a growing presence of Objectivist philosophers, excluding those who are explicitly bought, like Roderick T. Long. If you want a demolition of her philosophical views from people who are politically sympathetic to libertarianism, see Robert Nozick's "On the Randian Argument", or Murray N. Rothbard's "The Sociology of the Ayn Rand Cult". Rothbard's satirical play, "Mozart was a Red!" [1], is also somewhat funny, though it is not very well-produced.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mGpMpaHGM4
I'd highly recommend The Soul of a New Machine as well.

It definitely fits your quest for capturing a real moment, and anyone who's been an engineer for a any amount of time can go "Oh. I totally know that feeling" after reading any section of it.
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Sure, but your original point seemed to be that any small degree of progress on a Siri variant would be more important than any large degree of progress on a news aggregator. My only point is that the magnitude of the progress matters, and a big change in the "smaller" problem of news aggregation would free up a lot more of my time than a small change in the "bigger" problem. As much as I'd like to be able to dictate research papers and code up a bunch of data analysis over my phone via Siri++ while I'm on a long run on the beach, at some point you have to trust that people choose to work where they think they can make the most progress.
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Hmm, strange symptoms. I haven't any issues like this. I've been using github pages + CNAME + gh-pages as project pages together for over a year without any issues whatsoever. Didn't have to worry about submodules either. Not sure why you're into these issues, kecebongsoft. I've used Jekyll as well as plain old html. I'm sorry you've had issues like this but I wouldn't discourage people from trying it either.
If the UN decided to apply new regulations to the internet would they even have the power to do so?
Did you look at Wepay or authorize.net? They both seem like they do money in and out as well. I'd love to see a neutral party summarize the field for payment processing as it's quite hard to see what the differences are without doing some digging.
when i see comments like this, im curious as to what inspired op to write something more in depth and interesting than the original content (higher word count to boot!) are you an industry insider? just passionate about the subject?
It's unfortunate he's batshit crazy right now or he could probably get the US Embassy involved and fight his extradition and asked that he be deported back to the US, instead of Belize.
The title says 'in 25kb on a graphing calculator'. The only way it's "amazing" is if you know what a graphing calculator is, and if you know that, then it's pretty obvious that the title is a mild form of poetic license rather than a sensationalist attempt to mislead. And really, when people think of "Portal physics", for the most part they think of 'a hole between two non-adjacent surfaces you can travel through', not 'a realistic 3D world where objects behave according to newtonian physics', because the latter is a dime a dozen.

Honestly, how many people who know what a graphic calculator was would seriously think that they "remade the Source engine", misled by the 'sensationalist' title?
Apple used tomtom's map, now what? Please, it's not that naive.
Paranoia is obvious, psychosis I can believe as a side-effect from the drugs, but I'm not sure how you arrived at mania, especially in this case since the definition says the mood cannot be due to drugs/medication and it's not even clear that he has an elevated (or irritable) mood. If it isn't the drugs, it could just as likely be some kind of schizophrenia (no mania) as bipolar (implied by mania).

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mania#Signs_and_symptoms

A manic episode is defined in the American Psychiatric Association's diagnostic manual as a period of seven or more days (or any period if admission to hospital is required) of unusually and continuously effusive and open elated or irritable mood, where the mood is not caused by drugs/medication or a medical illness (e.g., hyperthyroidism), and (a) is causing obvious difficulties at work or in social relationships and activities, or (b) requires admission to hospital to protect the person or others, or (c) the person is suffering psychosis.

To be classed as a manic episode, while the disturbed mood is present at least three (or four if only irritability is present) of the following must have been consistently prominent: grand or extravagant style, or expanded self-esteem; reduced need of sleep (e.g. three hours may be sufficient); talks more often and feels the urge to talk longer; ideas flit through the mind in quick succession, or thoughts race and preoccupy the person; over indulgence in enjoyable behaviors with high risk of a negative outcome (e.g., extravagant shopping, sexual adventures or improbable commercial schemes).
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They're lyrics from an Alanis Morisette song, "Ironic."
Since Bitcoin is unregulated, if they wanted to I guess Coinbase could lock in exchange rates at any time they choose (e.g. the time of the transaction) and then do the exchange later. Since that effectively shifts the currency risk from the merchant to Coinbase, they could choose to charge extra for such a service.
Not anymore. Andoid phones and tablets are way ahead of what Apple is offering, spec-wise. Android OS is even further ahead of iOS, which has been a stale grid of icons for what, almost a decade now.

I agree that Apple used to be on the cutting edge of technology and innovation. Now they are desperately trying to catch up with the competition, and fail every time. They still do have good sales, but that won't last.
I think that this is what most government default to on most things.
Yeah if you want to get an accurate portrayal and clear up media inventions, you might want to start with the right name of what you're portraying.
Github pages is a fantastic service. I use it as an automatic archive for a daily mailing list: https://github.com/simon-weber/the-listserve-archive.

Basically, Github is my free host, database and api.
Except it didn't work out: EFE reports that the speaker of the Guatemaltecan government, Francisco Cuevas, announced that McAfee will be returned to Belize in the next hours.
I took it at Stanford, but it was using the same online content.

The course is probably way more theoretical than you'd expect. It goes a lot into relational algebra, schema design, and UML.

The online SQL quizzes are pretty cool little puzzles but the only truly exciting part of the class was creating a website using a large database as the final project, which I can't imagine will be offered in the online version.

If you don't know anything about databases or are trying to learn SQL, it could definitely be worthwhile.
How 500friends hires top talent
http://www.inc.com/paul-spiegelman/hiring-recruiting-top-talent-justin-yoshimura.html

On that note...if you are a really strong hacker, please reach out to justin(at)500friends.com. You won't regret it.
> people who can't show any passion or interest for anything or hold a decent conversation are probably worth avoiding

He's claiming to have some kind of 6th sense for hiring, without any proof.
Wow. I am really happy with Congress. On a side note, I think we should add the phrase "United Nations Internet Governance" to every bill so that both parties come together to solve challenges in the future.
fyi, the mysterious cluster of lights in northwest Siberia (Yamalia) is Gazprom
Just a thought. You could charge for submissions to be displayed publicly as a five star rating based on some metric to obscure the exact numbers. This would protect the submitters to a degree from poachers as people can only see with low resolution if the project is desirable. It would also be a source or revenue.

I think this project is a good idea and look forward to seeing it live.
I understand this point of view, but it doesn't seem likely to me that the expected future profits of Amazon can be realistically expected to be 283x the expected future profits of Apple. I just don't see any way to support such a big multiplier.
Sorry for the ignorance, but could someone explain what an "analytical model" is, and what it composes?
The old joke is that the reason why R is awesome is that it was created by statisticians, and the reason why R sucks is that it was created by statisticians. As an every-day user of R, I can't help but think that description is perfect.

It also means that R isn't going away. It is getting more popular, and there is a ton of work on improving the runtime, which will only mitigate people's itches to move away from it. But most importantly, it has the network effects to its advantage.

Even as a Clojure lover, I can't see R ever being substituted. I see more hope for the Renjin project than I see for alternatives like Pandas/SciPi/NumPy, Julia, or Incanter.
Wow, what a disingenuous, bullshit comment you've made here.

From the article:

>We need to send a strong message to the world that the Internet has thrived under a decentralized, bottom-up, multi-stakeholder governance model.

While that statement was made by a Republican Congresswoman, I see no reason to think that it doesn't accurately represent the thoughts of most of the House - including Democrats - because, as she points out, it is a multi-stakeholder model. Some of the proposals before the ITU, the very ones the House is united against, would put significantly more power in the hands of the federal government - not less.

Why do Democrats oppose it anyway? Because they aren't fascists. Sorry to be the one to have to tell you.
I like the way the tutorials are on the right side there. I'd work extra hard on building an awesome "tutorial ladder" designed to take people from "What is HTML?" all the way up to monetizing a working site with Stripe et al.

It did however take me a few to figure out wtf a 'trep' was. Guess I'm slow but I kept wanting to think it was a football player from the University of Maryland. (Note: I'm both old-ish and ridiculously dyslexic.)
I wonder if people start abusing this if Github were to put any restrictions on it somehow. For quick one off single page things sure why not, but if people start trying to host huge websites on Github? I'd be curious as to their response.
Sorry, my wording was ambiguous. I meant to say that he founded one of the first racially integrated bands in the US armed forces.

http://www.pbs.org/brubeck/theMan/cowboyToJazzman.htm
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Quite often you can figure out the essence of the sentences even if you don't know all the words. Of course, you do need to have a basic vocabulary. While speaking/writing it is possible for you to convey what you want to without using complicated words. If you can simplify your thought and strip out all that's non-essential, you will be able to convey the essence of your thought.

However, if you don't have a grasp of the basic grammar you're prone to confuse the person you're talking to. If you're reading, then you lose the context.

Exceptions abound, but I have found this to be true quite often while studying French.
If Tech Is So Important, Why Are IT Wages Flat?
That's a bit of a disingenuous charaterization. The internet is not just HTML anymore. It's a platform for commerce, education, entertainment, etc.

That said, I don't think we particularly need governance on the internet, but more because we have adequate tools to achieve regulatory goals by asserting jurisdiction over meat-space endpoints. E.g. if some phony educational site is scamming people, I think it's adequate to be able to get the operator sitting in Nebraska instead of leveraging regulation on the internet itself.
Does anyone know what the dark area on the FL/GA border is? I never realized it was unpopulated and Google Maps doesn't give much information about the area as a whole.
In principal, as a non-US citizen, why would I want the US to control the internet as opposed to the UN?

This is not a reflection of what is currently being considered at the UN which from what I have read I don't support.

What do other international people think?
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