skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe they were dictating, or inputting handwriting. They're close in sound and spelling.

Edit: Should've opened the darn thing first. It's a transcript, so probably just the speech conversion.
It would be nice to have a very basic starter's tutorial involving stuff like 'how to install and setup python, how to work with python shell' absolute beginners might find it useful...
To be honest, any other cloud provider suffering the same persistent outages would be losing customers left and right. AWS is a testament to vendor lock in, both in mindshare and technology. Heroku being down, no clue what to say to that, they've been bitten by this so many times...
HTML is great, it's just a little more verbose.

I like PHP because I can wrap logic around HTML so that documents are described in document markup and code is in code.

I like Mustache because I can write a document in document markup and then pass in the variables like a MS Word "mail merge".

Using HTML means less things to learn, which is very good.

However, HTML is definitely not the perfect language. Things like HAML and Slim are attempts to make a cleaner, less verbose document language. (However, they are mixing the ideas of document markup with code, since they are trying to solve "templating" together and not just one problem at a time.) So I appreciate things like this, but I still choose not to use them unless I'm forced to.
I think the author is overlooking one of the
great benefits of elliptical trainers.

I think the greatest benefit of ellipticals is the opportunity to read while exercising. I have a computer and monitor dedicated to my elliptical with the monitor raised to eye level.
Or open the Inspector and add some rules for body:

margin: auto 20%;
background-color: whitesmoke;
color: black;
Just like the OP says in an above comment:

working on 25 hours for free on someone else's project is more likely to lead to future paid work than working for 25 hours on my own projects.

25 hours is almost certainly not enough to get an MVP done, so whoever he works for will likely need to 'pay their way' through the remainder of the project if they want to get it finished.
> Our standard policy is that we always pay above the 50th percentile and below the 90th percentile based on available salary data.

That's such a confusing standard. It means that a majority of your employees could get a nice raise by changing companies, no?
This is stupid. Why is it on Hacker News?
To all the people saying "These are all Steve Jobs's traits":

Steve Jobs was an asshole and would have got nowhere if he hadn't met Wozniak.

When Jobs set out on his own, he got the flaming defeat that was Next Computer.

Maybe his traits should be seen as negative, but he was lucky other talent at Apple could compensate for them.
Compared to something like a keyboard, I'd say the bathroom handles are the least of your worries

http://women.webmd.com/home-health-and-safety-9/places-germs...
Correct, so we would be replacing "let's be on time for meetings with our business partners because we respect them" social norms, with "is it worth $50 to be 5 minutes late for this meeting with a company we invested in?" for ... a venture capitalist. People who have, er, lots of money. That's why they're in the room.

I'm not clear what you thought I misunderstood here.
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>That might explain its complicated syntax.

Not at all. The syntax was modelled after C++ which was what SUN wanted Java to replace at the time (generally it is a C-family style syntax).

Smalltalk itself has better syntax than any of the bunch.

>Better than obj-c but worse than nice languages like Ruby or Python.

Ruby and Python are not statically typed languages, which covers a lot of the simplicity in their syntaxes.

And while they did exist at the time, they were far from anybody's attention at the time Java emerged. It took 3-5 years after that for Python to make a strong appearance in some circles, and another 3-5 years for Ruby to emerge.
It's so terribly written - I lost track several times and had to keep flicking back and forth to make sure I was reading it right.

She starts of talking about her half-brother and then "her brother is sick" - I thought she meant the half-brother (as he was the only one introduced till that point), but, no. She talks about "his first family" when she really means his "other" family (she never says which family came first, so you have to assume until you're proven right or wrong). As to the geography - I have no clue. She throws places like "India," "Hanoi," "Thailand," "Seattle," "USA" without any proper sequence of events.

Clearly written by someone in a rage, no doubt.
I personally think CoffeeScript is ugly. I don't know why so much of the HN internet seems to disagree.

Consequently I don't think being nearer to plain CoffeeScript is helpful at all.

(CS leaves out too much and has the oddest tricks to save characters that cause confusion, or sometimes force you to arrange your function parameters the right way to best use the CS syntax. Too bad setTimeout has params in the wrong order.)
I think there's a lot more meaning in the difference between 0 and 600 karma, than the difference between 600 and 23,000 karma. I was only speaking to my willingness to believe this guy wasn't flat lying or exaggerating about his position, or simply trolling. But tips hat point taken.
Can anyone explain why some random mountain in China is the most viewed article on the Dutch wikipedia, so much so that it's 12x more popular than the next most popular article?
If it were real, names would have been changed to anonymize it. No search replace in those days, so it's an easy way for such a mistake to creep in.

I still suspect it's a fictional or largely fictional piece though.
I agree 100%. I would actually be interested in reading an article about fitness but I've decided to steer away from any articles with such bombastic headlines.
One thing Rand's company does is reimburse vacation expenses (up to $3k per year) which is use it or lose it. It is an extra bit of incentive to take a vacation.

See bullet point #2 (page down) with more detail, the thinking behind it and how they got the idea from another company http://moz.com/rand/keeping-amazing-people-on-the-team/
According to my recruiter's stats he told me that 93% of those that accepted counter-offers from their original company were looking for a job again within 6 months. The two scenarios were a) The company extended the counter offer to keep the employee long enough to carry out the contingency plan (i.e. hire someone to take his place and then fire the guy who they couldn't count on to stick around) or b) all the reasons why the guy wanted to quit are still there, except maybe the money one -- and rarely does someone quit solely over money. People will deal with less money if they love getting up and going to work in the morning.
"Orthogonal" literally means "perpendicular", so your cube analogy is exactly the correct metaphor.
Does anyone have any recommendations about dieting? I don't think that when it comes to strength eating paleo cuts it. Most of the powerlifters don't seem to care about being lean and only care about strength, so they eat a lot.

I've got a lot stronger since I started training strength, but haven't got any leaner. Is there a way to have both or is it impossible?
Union filesystems in linux are like union mounts in plan9, if I understand it correctly. You should be able to get a union filesystem working on a debian-based system, though I have no personal experience with doing so.
Im interested in this space as well so I am curious to poke your brain for a bit, if you dont mind:

> you type in your email address, then it looks up the servers in the MX records of the email's hostname

The MX records store the server receiving mail (i.e. an smtp server). How does this relate to the imap server?

> AUTOMATIC UNSUBSCRIBE BUTTON

This sounds interesting, but how would this work? Often times there are forms that the unsubscribe link leads to, how would it be able to correctly populate and send it?

Furthermore, in my experience, these links dont usually work and the better solution is to forward all mail from that source directly to junk mail. Is your experience different?

> Nice UI for viewing and editing settings. Surprisingly advanced options for eg. caching ...

Do you actually use these? Do you really care how long a message is cached for? I feel like most of these confuse the average user (obviously not you) and provide little value for the more advanced users.

> Didn't interfere with my other email clients, as promised

Is this an issue? How does this happen?

> You didn't even warn me when...

What is the average users response to such a warning? Heck, would you know if there were a man in the middle given the warning? I think that this is one of the shortcomings of the PKI: most warnings are false alarms which lead to mistrusting the system.
This has lots of incorrect (syntactically or semantically) and bad (coding-style-wise) code. I'm afraid there's no way I am going to recommend it to anyone.

As some examples, the first two pages that I looked at:

http://www.pythonforbeginners.com/dictionary/:

- variable shadowing (e.g. naming a list instance `list` and a dict instance `dict`)

- Syntax errors (e.g. ``dict.items.()``)

- Teaching bad methods of iteration (e.g. ``for key in dict: print dict[key]`` rather than ``for value in dict.iteritems(): print value``)

- Also disappointing: no mention of the typically-more-efficient iter* or view* methods.

http://www.pythonforbeginners.com/web-scraping-with-python/s...:

- The written word fails me utterly. Just consider the last example, which is the worst. Just look at it. (Quite apart from some of the code being missing!) Ugh!
Technically NX is the same memory, just different permissions applied to portions. It is possible to have an architecture where code and data are completely separate - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_architecture
Weightlifter here. The squat described in that graphic is high-bar (bar between traps and delts) as opposed to the low-bar form championed by Rippetoe (and powerlifters in general). The back is more upright, so you can't really "trap" the bar just by resting your hands on it and pushing your elbows back, you have to wrap your thumbs around. You should still keep your wrists as straight as possible.

Speaking of women lifting heavy things, my Coach's wife Jo-Ann Aita just set a world record in raw powerlifting last month, and she is far from bulky! See for yourself http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n7c5KoyaLI

Congrats on your heavy lift! 250lbs is no joke.
A really good way to counter this, at least for me, is to keep track of your progress in a notebook or on your phone. It helps a lot to be able to say "oh, I was able to do 2 more reps than average this time" or "Hmm, I've been on this weight for a couple of months, maybe I should go up." Plus it's a good motivator -- it's a lot easier to go the the gym when you can see how much progress you've made.
If you've got the right partner, the size of the diamond won't matter. If you want to buy a diamond based on the size of your or your partner's ego, buy the biggest one you can afford and hope it works.

Avoid Amazon and go for specialty jewelery websites, Blue Nile is definately good. Unless you can afford Tiffany/etc, avoid the chain jewelery stores because they're almost always disappointing in quality. Yelp is sortof helpful in picking a store, but really the best thing here right now is legwork.

So: Windowshop, Save Up, Hope you picked the right one (ring and future spouse).
OpenFlow released it's toolkit, version 1.3 including OpenFlow Software-switch.
If it wasn't in your best interest as a child for them to act as they did, their mistake was not to put your interests first but to poorly and naively do so, probably by sacrificing the long term to serve the short term. This is isomorphic to the question of naive selfishness vs. enlightened self-interest.
I'm liking it.

couple of observations

- The interface is very clean and very intriguing. I find myself going "I wonder how the decided to do that ... didn't think I'd like it, but it seems to work alright"

- I wish you chose a more attractive font to render emails in. My emails looked alright in postbox but they look crappy in Inky :\

- I would ask that you offer the option to set the threshold at which we "Automatically add recipients of sent messages to the address book". email clients over the years have made my contacts completely worthless with this email-once-add-to-contacts-feature because there are tons of people I email once or twice and never speak to again, but at some point (5 emails in perhaps) ... its a good idea to add that person to your contacts.

- memory usage is about 327MB (Real memory column on OSX), we'll see how it does in the next week or so. Postbox is at 815MB, which is one of the reasons I've fallen out of love with it ... that and the Postbox team's seeming mindset that they've gone as far as they can with it.

- Will also to see how big the index size gets, and how it impacts my cpu usage. Postbox uses 10GB of storage for my 3 email accounts and has my cpu fan constantly blowing hard on cpu idle.

Good first impression. Its seems like a decent email client right now, but I Can't wait to see if you can actually do something truly mindblowing/innovative with it
The porous New York Times paywall works because it effectively segments the market. [1]

The first segment consists of customers with a higher willingness to pay that aren't aware of the paywall workarounds or enjoy accessing the Times without futzing around. Who are these readers? Readers with high disposable income, older readers, and heavy readers.

The second segment consists of customers with a lower willingness to pay, who have identified the workarounds, and are willing to deal with the additional steps involved in bypassing the paywall. Who are these readers? Readers with lower disposable income, younger readers, and light readers.

The result of this segmentation is that the New York Times has been able to attract a significant number of online paying subscribers (segment 1), without decimating its overall readership figures (segment 1 + 2). By maintaining its overall readership figures, the New York Times has been able to preserve its online advertising revenue.

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[1] Since the product is nearly the same for both segments, aside from the steps involved in bypassing the paywall, you might consider this as an example of price discrimination.
How to sell or get rid of your old gadgets
There are many more that normally haven't taken a deep marketing track (and that remains a challenge).

For example check out colama - http://www.colama.net - using VMs for college education; http://www.emee.co.in/ (note - this is my employer's product) - gamification of enterprise workflows, and http://www.kpoint.com/ - which allows you to record videos and embed them in the website (and often used in many conferences, for internal company presentation).
I think it's much harder to remain motivated on your own project on a completely independent basis. This seems like fun, in that he's "being paid" (by himself, admittedly) for the 25 hours and might continue work at his normal rates, so it's extrinsically motivating, but still his choice of work, instead of being whatever-he-can-get-hired-to-do, which is the usual freelancer dog's breakfast.
This is as old as the internet and certainly not front-page material for HN
Is your CDN intentionally hurting your performance?
CUBRID Database support to come to Yii PHP Framework & Propel2 PHP ORM
Clearly not written for you.
This is pretty pointless, most insurance companies will not write policies to pay off on homicidal acts. Accidental, sure, intentional, no. I would argue that people who do not have some sort of personal liability insurance (if they're worth more than $0) to begin with, should probably reconsider.

This also further illustrates the issue that people aren't getting; this is not a problem with a tool, this is user error.
I was in a pretty similar situation recently. After more firewood was thrown on the fire, I decided to start looking, and at that point I had already decided not to accept any counter-offer. Not only was I being shortchanged on salary (significantly), but also in benefits, perks, and working conditions. I'm really happy I found an awesome startup in SF that still after a month feels like an ideal workplace for me.

When I was looking, I was disconcerted when I found companies with no personal growth prospects or that flat out said they wouldn't pay what I was asking (fair) because they didn't want to pay two engineers with the same title too differently. I asked if they would offer bonuses to compensate or if they'd consider paying the other guy the same salary, because he seemed smart enough. No to both, and I felt that alone indicated that management there didn't value engineering talent.

I really hope this treatment of talented workers isn't too pervasive in the industry. Pay people what they're worth. Strive to offer the best working conditions, benefits, and perks. Take the values of your employees into consideration. It really doesn't seem like it's too much to ask for. And personally, I'm all for complete transparency within my company, even to the point of salary information. I think it would resolve more issues than it would cause.
This seems like it could be double sided. What happens when you realize someone hasn't held up to their last evaluation?
I'm not particularly savvy to diamond prices, so all I can offer is my limited experience from 2008 when I was in the market. Further, diamonds aren't really fungible, so it's hard to compare pricing as you're really never going to buy the same diamond in two different contexts. That said, I'll provide the details of my own experience and let you decide whether Blue Nile's prices qualify as "good".

I got a "perfect" (D color, brilliant cut, flawless clarity) 0.5 carat diamond in a platinum band for about $4500 all inclusive. Looking at 3 brick and mortar stores, I did not find a single ring that compared in quality with what I bought from Blue Nile. Most retailers seem to cater towards larger diamonds, and I didn't want one of those - diamonds exhibit a serious iceberg effect, and a "larger" diamond doesn't always appear substantially larger when mounted in a ring. Based on what I did see, I expect a comparable ring from a brick and mortar store would be around double the cost and significantly harder to find. I did not check other online retailers.

Also, for what it's worth, I did not involve my wife in the ring-buying decision, favoring the element of surprise (I got her ring size by pretending to talk in my sleep for two months before the purchase and asking her nonsensical ?'s). Blue Nile's interface would be exceptional for involving a significant other, though - you can check pictures of an individual diamond as it would appear mounted in various rings, and I believe you could upload a photo of a hand to see how it would look when worn (I didn't do that - element of surprise and all). If it's not obvious enough from my posts so far, I'm a big fan of the company and would encourage anyone out there who's looking for a diamond to check Blue Nile.

# EDIT - Noticed the caveat about pregnancy. Blue Nile will also resize their rings for free provided you ship it back to them.
I'll agree that JNI is inelegant, but having recently written a small amount of JNI glue with the NDK for a hobby/side project, I have to say, once you get going it won't be a big deal. If that's really the only barrier to an Android port, I say bite the bullet, sit down and do it.
Ask HN: SF Hackers where do you work out?
After reading a post about strength training [1] I'd be curious where people in SF work out.

[1]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4971196
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It'd be cool to know where are people in SF working out. Created a post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4972681
Not entirely, because you do need the file to startup your application. Which makes it a concern that should be checked in imo.

Just not publicly viewable
I think beering was following the old adage:

you can annoy some of the people all the time, or you can annoy all the people some of the time. You can't however annoy all the people all the time.
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It's your life to lead in the way you choose.

Are you happy living like this? It might not be as necessary as it feels. People rely on me; I work 36 hours a week. Amongst my friends and contacts most people do not work until they fall asleep and would be consider the idea of doing so long term deeply unhealthy.

I don't know what the global situation really is, but want to point out that your immediate surroundings might be more local and unusual than they appear.

Why not try accepting 1 hours work less a day for a week and see whether thing get better or worse?
I'm doing Crossfit for about 1.5 years and sometimes it's pretty tough. E.g., last week there was a workout that I was 100% sure I won't be able to finish, though eventually I did even though it took me 20 mins more than more fit people, and I had to scale down couple of parts from prescribed. But thinking back about it, I constantly realize there's no way I'd push myself so hard if I weren't on Crossfit program. And that's probably why previous years of "exercising" here and there did very little for me, but with Crossfit I am feeling real progress. I am still very far from where I want to be, but at least I am feeling some movement towards the goal. And while Crossfit can be very tough sometimes, right on the border of "are you kidding me? you want me to do what how many times?", it usually works out pretty well.
that would be the green plus on the left of your screen shot
I don't work there, but I know several people who do -- outside of great salary/vacation policies, they have pretty great fringe benefits

They've also won numerous awards for being one of the best places to work in Seattle (http://www.seattlemet.com/news-and-profiles/best-places-to-w...)
The GUI of computers could be largely rethought, especially after the introduction of mobile devices which raised consumer expectations of user interfaces. I look forward to more subtle touch gestures.
"thesis that "basically" no important software is written in languages other than C/Cpp", yeah, not one person in this thread said that.
Valencia Street Muscle = cheap and more free weights and barbells than any other gym I've seen. But is old school, broken and dirty. I guess thats what I love about it.

Embarcadero YMCA, also pretty cheap (compared to equinox and other alternatives in SF) and I go here to go swimming and play basketball and lift before heading to work. It's clean so the fiancee will go here (but not valencia st muscle.. where someone in nothing but a codpiece once worked out next to her)
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Apologies if it's off-topic, but it matters for for anyone who wants to read the link in the article from locations where FB/Twitter are blocked.

Is there a bookmarklet that will get rid of Quora's annoying "you must login with FB or Twitter" page blocker?
24 Hour Fitness, because its cheap and everywhere.
Linux Is Coming to Windows 8 PCs... Slowly
Distribution. Distribution. Distribution. Most of us (myself included) tend to make the mistake of focusing purely on product and neglecting distribution, which should be equally important.

Thanks for sharing.
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Yep, it's hard to draw a line in the sand. We're 2.5 years old, profitable and happy. So don't know if we still qualify as a startup! :)
Do they have bumper plates?