skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After reading some of the comments. What do you think about this approach?

1) Woman sets up the date. Place and time.

2) The system sends an invitation to several men until it gets 3-5 positive responses.

3) The woman chooses one of the candidates.

The advantages for the woman is that she controls the terms of the date. She doesn't have to sort thru tons of messages.

The advantages for the man, is that you don't have to spend a lot of time sending invitations to many women. Invitations that are basically ignored
My guess is that it had nothing to do with that subreddit and more to do with individual people clicking "report" on the links he submitted.
As cool as GoBank and Simple are, financially speaking, how do they improve upon simply switching to credit unions or community banks?
Sales tax is not a 'marginal' tax, and is certainly not unique to BC.
Could you elaborate on this, or share a link or two?
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The big incumbents are all 100+ years old, but Green Dot was founded in 1999, so it's clearly possible to get from point A to point B.
Facebook is one of the few things in this 'ideologyless' world that really makes my blood boil.

From the promo video:

-The world feels smaller…
Yes, I joined the freaking World Wide Web to narrow my world view.
-On Facebook, when two people make the same search, they get completely different results!
That's a feature?

People can't freaking decide where they wan't to eat or go to the movies for themselves?

What's maddening to me is that we are allowing someone like Zuckerberg, who obviously has many talents, but making friends is not one of them, direct our social lives. The sad thing is that it's getting harder and harder to ignore it, from work to friends. I fear that someday I might be forced to join this freakshow.
Dennis Ritchie is an unforgettable person in history because if it weren't for his inventions, most of today's technology wouldn't exist or be very different.

If you have the time, I'd recommend reading one of his books.

R.I.P., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Ritchie
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Not sure why the above links were obfuscated/minimized but this is what they point to:

http://www.amazon.com/Amusing-Ourselves-Death-Discourse-Busi...

http://www.squeakland.org/resources/books/readingList.jsp
A nice disparaging comment of a years worth of work for a supposedly 100-person team but you have to at the very least acknowledge this is certainly in the realm of "hasn't been done before" and "no other company can do it."

I expect this will turn out to be a big deal, though it will take time. People comparing it to Google are missing the point. It's the same fundamental hypothesis of a domain-specific semi-structured search engine like W|A, but I'm much more confident Facebook needs such a thing more than the world needs W|A.
I have no idea how it works in the GoBank app, but in my bank's app I can mark one account as the "quick-check" account, and on the start-screen of the app there is then a pull-down which reveals the balance of that specific account when you activate it. No account numbers or any other info, just the balance.

I love the feature, it literally takes two seconds to find out my balance, but yes, if someone borrows my phone or steals it, they can know how much money I have on one of my accounts. If you're the type of person who worries about that, simply don't activate the feature. :-)

(Oh, and you have to re-authorize the "quick-check" account once a month or something while being fully logged in to the bank app, so it automatically expires if you forget about it, which is a nice feature. Still, that's my boring old bank, and not cool and hip and revolutionizing GoBank... :-) )
You are making a logical argument, but change doesn't come from logic. What you should change should come from logic, but the impetus -- the will -- comes from emotion. People need to be stirred up in order to act. That is human nature. And when the cause of that is a tragedy it breaks our hearts, but that is why we must work to make it so that this does not happen again.

So argue that we should help Bradley Manning, or the inner city victims of the drug war, or children starving in Africa. But argue it somewhere else at some other time. Right now we have a cause. There are a large number of good people who want to fix this now. Let them. Help them. Because this needs to be fixed, and having a singular cause gives us focus. It puts success in reach, more than it is at any other time. You are not helping by distracting people with other serious problems -- all you are doing is making it less likely that anything gets done, by disheartening everyone with the scope of the problems we face.

We do not have to fix every problem in the world at the same time. Now is the time to fix this one.
Obama could ask her to resign then there would be no need for public justification. I doubt it'll happen though. Doing so wouldn't score enough political points, given it's not a sufficiently mainstream issue, to make it worth Obama's while.
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There is an inclination for those suspicious of mass media to believe in a shadow government, etc, pulling the strings of social control. The reality is more disturbing: for the most part, so-called elites conduct their business completely openly, shouting their intentions from the mountaintops, albeit sometimes masked in code, or through narrative framing.
Is there any updated source for the statistics he gives in the first couple chapters? They are about 30 years out of date now, so the book is much less useful from that perspective. The Wikipedia page on media consolidation isn't very detailed, nor do I know of any updates sources for the military/pentagon propaganda budget.
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On immigration target countries (and Aaron Swartz)
Ah, I misread... apologies.
In a sense, that's exactly what Aaron was going for when he was attempting to download JSTORs articles in order to "liberate" them.

Imagine if he had made open information one of the "Campaigns" at Demand Progress instead of getting caught up with the law?

Even now, what was supposed to be the one issue that motivated Aaron to break the law isn't even listed as one of the Campaigns at Demand Progress:

http://blog.demandprogress.org/campaigns

Where is JSTOR and PACER on that list?

If you want to go and double down on his mistake, fine. Just don't expect a different response from the government when you do so.

Or, perhaps, instead of promoting "vigilante justice", you could make a rational argument and campaign with your local representatives to get these overly generalized laws and overly punitives sentencing guidelines changed.
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A lot of hate for graph search going on but I am pretty excited.

> photos I like taken in New York in 2010 - great way to find something again without filtering through activity log or remembering (all the) details

> friends in Austin, Texas - because _people move_ and I travel

> friends who like ultimate frisbee - I meet a lot of people and play a lot of frisbee, it would be stellar to have an auto-populated list of friends (not just the regulars) who would be down to play

> friends who like Book of Mormon - who should I be asking for a recommendation?

> people who going to event X and event Y - now we can carpool

> people in group X and group Y and group Z - similarly

> Stephanie who went to Mike's event and is friends with James - use case from below (that I encounter about once a month) of trying to find someone with a sparsity of details.

I can't think of any way to (nearly as easily) get this information without graph search, and frankly I think it's awesome.
I don't know how much cheaper it is than real Helvetica. It's still pretty expensive.
>If they tag you in something that's set to 'public', that thing could now be seen by far more strangers far more frequently. There's no good solution to this: You can harrass your friends about their tagging habits, waste countless hours un-tagging yourself every month, or delete your profile altogether.

You can also change your profile settings so you have to approve all posts you are tagged in before the tag can be viewed by the public. I've found this to work a lot better for me than untagging
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While you seem to imply that the FTB could simply change the rules, everyone else on this thread seems to think the FTB is not able to alter the rules at all (as that would require the legislative authority they do not have). Are you sure the FTB has the power you ascribe?
I am just a user, but this is a beautiful site. I just archived 7,340 in about 5 minutes, and it felt great.
Mexico has the 3rd highest number of murders, not the third highest murder rate. It's also the 11th most populous country.

Mexico's murder rate per capita is 22.7 per 100,000, compared to Brazil's 21.0, the US' 4.8, and India's 3.4. While these are hugely different, they're also not even close to the 3rd highest murder rate in the world, with Honduras leading the pack at 91.6.
Google can't even get it's own GAE team to use G+ or is that down too?
"The court's decision made California's entire QSBS statute invalid and unenforceable"

https://www.ftb.ca.gov/law/Qualified_Small_Business_Stock_an...
Show HN: Rejected from kickstarter, so we forked selfstarter.us
To some extent I would find a shadowy conspiracy more comforting than what I perceive to be the truth: That plenty of intelligent people do considerable damage to the world without it being their intention. At least a shadowy conspiracy sounds like it would be relatively easy to fix.
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The company I work for got rejected from kickstarter so we decided to use the open source selfstarter.us platform instead. We're really happy with it, but it was missing a few key features for us, so I forked it, added the features/fixes and made a pull request. Curious what others think about building a stand alone site instead of going on kickstarter.

Here's what I added back:

* New "payment options" component, that creates a list of radio buttons on the checkout page for choosing from various packages/levels.

* Lots of IE fixes - the base selfstarter didn't really work at all in IE < 9

* Option to use an image file as a placeholder for the video - gets replaced on click with the video

* Numerous other small fixes

Here's the fork: https://github.com/jes5e/selfstarter

And here's our finished site based off of it: http://www.bytelight.com/

Thanks to lockitron for open sourcing selfstarter.
We know what the weather is.

The word 'April' tells us it's a time and place similar to today.

Clocks striking thirteen tells us it's somewhere different.

Thirteen is a traditionally unlucky number.

It's a classic science fiction method of establishing setting. We're someplace similar to today but a little different, all transmitted in very few words. The effect is a tiny bit unsettling... if they changed the clocks to chime on thirteen, what else is wrong?

It's similar to Heinlein's famous way of indicating we're in the future in a single line: "The door dilated."

More here:

http://fritzfreiheit.com/wiki/About_Five_Thousand_Seven_Hund...
If you judge Chomsky by his fans, it is easy to dismiss him as a conspiracy theorist. That's not what he's doing.

He's presenting another view of the world where, even in a free and democratic society, the media has institutional, structural weaknesses that cause it to serve power. To amplify certain messages, and attenuate others.

It's an attempt to explain how a free society could have committed such atrocities as the Vietnam War, and later, gotten suckered into the Iraq War.

I have seen the debate about this shift in my lifetime. In the early 90s, when the Manufacturing Consent movie came out, I was in a journalism program and even interviewed the makers of that film. Many of the other students in my classes found the film bewildering. They quite honestly believed the media were just serving the people in the great engine of democracy.

Nowadays everyone is aware of how badly the media is failing the public. There are satirists who make this point on a literally Daily basis.

Of course, the general public's cynicism is often unsophisticated, and manifests itself as accusations of intentional bias. But there is more and more awareness of how the structure of the media itself affects what gets covered - perhaps because the Internet offers a counterexample.
I took this a while ago. The quality is exceptional and the explications very good and intuitive. Can't recommend it enough for people who want to learn about databases.
Be careful. You might face 35 years in prison :-/
I'm doing an extraordinarily poor job of communicating today.

I've had the Black Dog, as Churchill called depression, at my heels since I was a kid. Hereditary type thing, history of suicide in the family. 11 years ago I saw myself headed towards the edge of a cliff and made a phone call that saved and ultimately changed my life.

Having dealt with the type of depression that leads one to that edge, I also know that one of the side effects is extreme self-absorption. You feel so shitty and hopeless that all you can think about is how shitty and hopeless things are, which creates a downward spiral that can ultimately lead to someone deciding to take their own life. Everything becomes about you and your pain, and there is not a way to just "suck it up" and get out of the pit, because depression doesn't work like that. It takes help from without. I.e., counseling, medication, etc, but because the person is so down just reaching out for those things can be like trying to reverse gravity.

But I've also been on the other side of things, where a friend decided to kill himself, and I've seen how his decision emotionally eviscerated the people that loved him. Suicide truly is an incredibly self-centered act; the self-centeredness isn't a character flaw, it's an outgrowth of the disease. But that doesn't make it different from what it is, and it doesn't make the effects of that decision any less devastating to a person's loved ones.

I fully realize that the above two paragraphs are somewhat ambivalent and that's because I'm pretty ambivalent towards those who commit suicide. Part of me feels sorrow that they got to that point, the other part feels like they're selfish a-holes. And somehow each part makes up more than half.
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FYI, this appears to be not a new bank, but an extension of Green Dot, the prepaid debit card company. From the fine print on gobank.com:

GoBank is a brand of Green Dot Bank, Member FDIC, which also operates under the brands Green Dot Bank and Bonneville Bank. Deposits under any of these trade names are deposits with a single FDIC-insured bank, Green Dot Bank, and are aggregated for deposit insurance coverage.
This is a great idea. I want this.
Jeez, I'm surprised that the people who created this filth aren't in prison. It's one TINY step away from botnet territory, which actually lands people in prison.
Are you suggesting that older people are not allowed to have ideals?
As much as I liked reading the Holmes' stories, every time I think about his genius, it always leads back to this. Deductive reasoning is always going to be easier when the answer is know ahead of time. (Of course, then it ceases to be deductive).

That said, I still enjoy the books as well as the RDJr Movies.
Dedicated to a long list of people who influenced my decision leave the office.
We just switched to this kind of unlimited PTO policy here at VMware. It remains to be seen how it works out but I'm optimistic.
1. Most of the murders in Mexico are from drug cartels. Are you saying that the cartels are NOT a form of organized crime??

2. If you go to the URL I posted, Mexico and the US are broken down by states. The are only 3 states in Mexico with a murder rate below the US average.
What never cease to amaze me and fascinates me is how people can rationalize away simple concept like:

When the public pays for knowledge to be created, it should be that the public owns the knowledge it paid for, of all people Americans should live this truth.

But no, the majority really thinks that a small elite has the right to usurp this knowledge not paid by them and let the public that paid for it, pay more and more.

Who are guilty here? The oportunists that took the chance to usurp the knowledge, or the public that let it steal from under their nose and let the oportunists be oportunistic?

Who here dares to answer my amazement? I dare you to enter this debate!!
allowed post 2008 QSB exclusions under revised terms.

I'm not at all sure that the FTB has the authority to do that. It's a statute that was struck down, not an agency rule. If the CA legislature wants to make it up to everyone, it could craft some legislation to that effect, but I don't see how the FTB is empowered to start issuing checks on its own authority.
Great observation. When I clicked "Try a search" it pulled up people I am friends with who live in my city, but as I scrolled down I saw people I am not friends with included as well. Seems like the next logical step.
It was more than a little tongue in cheek since AAPL is getting roiled in the press today and yesterday over probably nothing.
is this a 1994 post?
> Nowadays everyone is aware of how badly the media is failing the public.

I so hope that you are right about that one.
You are correct. I did mean "3rd highest number of murders." I corrected my post.

My point was, here is a country with 36% the population of the US, and yet has a much higher number of murders annually (most caused by drug cartels).

Although Hondorus is higher, if you notice, the worst Mexican state is at 111.
I'm also thinking of something similar as a potential part of my 'tiny-chunks-of-reference-info' project. That is, some of the chunks would be parameterizable with active computation.

There might be a bunch usable from the desktop 'Qalculate!' for formula/units interpretation:

http://qalculate.sourceforge.net/

(Converting 'Qalculate!' into an all-Javascript, single-web-page application might be an interesting project, too...)
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You can make tag approval mandatory, but people can still tag you and you will be bombarded with spam about that tag until you remove it.
Gotta watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvgN5gCuLac
Those are warnings to let you know that you are using deprecated functionality. Everything should still work, but you'll want to switch to the updated versions soon.

Instead of $.browser, use $.support, and instead of .live(), use .on().
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Fateful Triangle is another fascinating book. Highly recommended, especially in times like these. Chomsky is marvellous.
Move to Sao Paulo. I had to, so do you.
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I agree with you. We must change the laws that allowed this to happen.

But we can do both.
But that is kind of the point. These startups scale from the get-go. They will want to reach outside of their initial markets soon. It is not just feature set, but forward scaling vision with that feature set.

Most multi-national banks have a hard time with 'world-wide' scale and prefer to cordon off geo-markets behind local corps, going so far as to have separate C-level management. Imagine how hard it is to get financial level integration?

In this day and age those layers, that lack of true inner-corp transparency, and integration is what will kill these 'traditional' enterprises.
US here, and my bank does all this too. Though, most of it has only been recent. Picture of a check to deposit, finance works thingies to make pretty graphs and sort my finances, atm refunds, etc. I get a bit excited that these folk have a MUCH more attractive website, but beyond that and maybe a pretty looking card, i just see no need to switch.
It's funny that you mention Babylon - I've talked to one of the devs who was in the core of developing their "toolbar" and it is essentially malware which hooks anything and everything possible in Windows and tries its best not to give up when being uninstalled.

Things like it and Conduit (another toolbar/malware company) are probably the biggest "botnets" out there, all "legal".
Ask HN: I just sold the company… now what?
Background, I started a B2B data backup company at the end of 2005/early 2006 worked on it for several years before realizing that I was missing something in my personal development that was limiting my success.

I love solving hard problems, building products, love hardware and building/maintaining bare metal servers. I did not like the sales/biz dev side of things. In an effort to continue my professional development, I decided to move to NYC and get a masters degree. Before the move I turned over the management of the business to others. While in NYC I was fortunate to work at two of the hottest startups in town, I learned a lot about myself and scaling businesses.

Fast forward six years, the business continued to grow even in the face of stiff competition and plunging prices for cloud storage/online backup. A month ago the business sold to a larger competitor.

Over the years we moved data centers (twice!) and completely rebuilt our infrastructure three times. We made mistakes and a few good decisions. The best decision we made was in our last data center move.

HN, here is where I need some help: I'm left with a few things… lots of hardware, storage, bandwidth, and rack space.

At this point I'm trying to figure out what do with all of this stuff. I don't want to shell out the cash for the data center space each month if I don't have a use for it, however I will never get a deal like this again and don't want to give it up… I really love not being a slave to Amazon/Linode and hosting with my own servers.

If someone has any ideas I'd love to hear em… or if you have servers that would be too expensive to host elsewhere because of bandwidth costs, I'd be happy to host them for you without any bandwidth fees. Just cover the costs of power. I've got a gigabit right now that is billed at a flat rate so bandwidth hogs and services like that are ideal.
well it's still pretty bad ass and rock star that you can measure server load by looking at "event loop lag", that's actually really neat... how do you do that with threads?
I really hate google on some days. More days as of late.

Anyway, if you google "the herman chomsky propaganda model twenty years on" and then click the pdf link you may find what you want.

I can't post the link here because google is so paranoid about being crawled that they obfuscate links to the point where you can't get easily get a link to a pdf without going through the search manually.
Digressing . . . centrifugal force is a non-inertial force.

It's roughly equivalent to being in a car which accelerates quickly so that you feel pressure from the seat on your back. The centrifugal force in this case would be the pseudo force that's propelling you backward with respect to the car.

The seat's force pushing you forward is analogous to centripetal force.

So I would argue it's a full truth with a pedantic asterisk - you can make any force appear by moving the reference frame. The same "force" would be present if you were standing stationary on the sidewalk and the car were accelerating toward you.
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> Mathematica needs an open-source equivalent.

Mathematica _has_ open source equivalents. It has equivalents that predate Mathematica. Their libraries just aren't as extensive.
I'm interested in the 39,975 party poopers. Does that mean they kicked 39,975 users out for abuse?
Because then there would be a flood of revised tax returns from corporations previously excluded in past years.

Probably this is not the last we have heard of this story.