skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But ultimately, at the end of the road, are not all taxes levied against businesses effectively paid by their consumers in the ultimate price of the product/service provided by the business?

The business does not make money appear from thin air. Any money that goes from the business to the tax authority has to have originally arrived in the business from a customer buying the product or service offered.
WPF, DirectX? No...
Nice. But...

You can use the labels themselves as the container for the inputs which leads to simpler markup by removing the divs. Not that it makes much difference in your example though.
Disappointingly, this week's issue has poorly reviewed copy and out of date information (Jquery Ready).
Not sure if $14K/year is for where you went, but that's on the low side. You can do 30K, 40K, 50K+/year at private schools without trying very hard.
Right, I get that. But it is not honest to ask someone "where do you stand on the anthropic principle?" if you assume that they do not know what it is. Asking in that way is a common trickery to get someone to look foolish by attempting to answer a question they have no idea about. Classic douchebaggery.
Show HN: P2P file sharing with WebRTC data channels
You can enable chrome as the default browser and allow it to use the Nitro engine.
"Competition" doesn't just keep prices down magically. Competition keeps prices down when firms compete to increase market share at the price of unit margin.

But the point is, you're weakening that. You're making market share less valuable, and unit margin more valuable. So you'll tip the scale more in the direction of high-margin, low-market-share organizations.
How to Prepare Your Facebook Profile for Graph Search
Ask HN: Should I be using double opt-in for my web app?
I have a web app that is a resource and tutorial database for web developers/designers: http://pineapple.io . There are a few different things I would like to do, and I'm a bit confused as to the best way to proceed.

My goals:

1. Send a welcome email

2. Send an email out to my users if I add a major feature

Secondary goals:

1. I want to include a feature where if they so desire, they can get a 'digest' of the best resources of the week. I guess this should be separate as most people might not want that? Or they may, I am not sure. I think it would definitely help with user retention rate so if people don't want to visit my site they can still stay in the loop.

My questions

1. I really don't want double opt-in. I find this more annoying when sites do this, because it's an extra email. If I want to unsubscribe I'll do it directly from the first unwanted email. Is this a 'required' thing? Everyone says its quite important, yet I'm pretty sure huge websites like twitter don't do it? Mailchimp and aweber advocate it heavily.

2. What might be the best way to handle my secondary goal? Would it be best to take the twitter approach and instantly sign them up to this digest, and let them unsubscribe easily (twitter has user digests, recent 'trending' tweets, etc. A few variations that you unsub from separately). Or, should I make it some kind of secondary feature on my site, maybe in the sidebar?

My ideal scenario: A user signs up to my site and is automatically subscribed to 2 lists. They receive 1 welcome email. The lists they are subbed to are my 'website updates' list (rare.. once a month if that), and my 'weekly digest' list. They can unsub from the weekly resources list on the first one they receive. At some point they may get a website update email, and if they dont want those either they can unsub from that.

I dont want to be irritating to any users though so let me know what you think of this setup.

Thanks
If it's a single-domain hosted email provider, a well-designed system would accept either the local part or the full email address, but using the full email address would avoid problems in the future in case the service expands to a second domain.

The local part of an email address is not an email address. If it asks for an email address during login, assume it means an email address.
Another false-flag operation by the US Government, same as the ussc.gov fiasco. Escalating seems to be very effective at discrediting Anonymous based on the comments here and on reddit.
Thanks. Gearman works out lovely for background tasks like emails, tracking, anything you want to fire and forget. Makes sense though that you can't have the dependency of Gearman for your public library.

Are you guys in San Francisco?
What kind of video codec/protocol/format/platform/whatever does it use? I was having a devil of a time trying to get something up that's real time-ish, lately:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14623963/stream-low-laten...
"Imitation Is The Best Form Of Flattery"

"Lesser artists borrow; great artists steal"

"We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas."

You have recognised that people want to utilise your designs, but you've establish how to leverage that.

Imagine if instead you "called them out", you released it design as open source.

This would be great publicity and it would give you the opportunity to come up with something even better.
I just don't get this. Do these guys not have moms? Sisters? Wives or girlfriends? Daughters? Women friends? I would be incredibly pissed if anyone said those things to my family members; ergo, I can't imagine saying them to someone else.

For me, it really is as simple as that. I want my daughters to feel as welcome in their careers as I hope my sons will be. Anything less than that is utterly unacceptable.

I'm sorry this happened to you and I hope you believe me that not all guys think this way.
>>> It's not like I've never heard of [the concept of natural monopolies].

You have the benefit of the doubt from me, but your specific arguments leave out the installation phase of the electrical grid, which I'm sure you are very familiar with.

>>>First, there are many large companies that could raise the necessary capital to build power plants and electric transmission lines.

Agree, but capital isn't the only thing. You have to put the electrical lines into the ground, disrupting traffic. The costs and capital of the electrical system are not what makes it a natural monopoly, the physical reality of our current technology does (pending wireless transmission as you mention later).

The current physical reality is solved by having the government own the last mile(for some definition of mile), while electrical providers can connect at hubs. This is how it works in places where the population understands the specifics of natural monopolies.

>>>Third, having deregulated electricity systems would open up the field to innovation, such that we'd probably all have small nuclear reactors at our houses, or wireless power transmission, or something.

The biggest problem is that these technologies do not yet exist. Maybe in the future they will be stymied by regulation, but if they were invented today I can't think of an electrical grid regulation that would stop them. Remember, consumers can hook up power generating technology to the grid already: solar panels.

>>>Second, people can always get together and form a non-profit power company if the normal market isn't providing stable, competitive prices. (By "people" I mean, say, the people of an entire US state.)

Businesses are in the business of making money. When a corporation thinks it can make money by suing municipalities that form broadband networks, they do so. Like in Lafayette.

http://www.broadbandreports.com/shownews/60150
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-02-01/...

Want to know why this isn't all over the news, with the competing ISPs and cable companies badmouthing these bad corporate actions? Because the cable companies and the ISPs and the media companies are largely owned by the same people, and collude monopolistically. This is a very recent accomplishment: regulations existed to prevent it but were overturned by the deregulation achieved through the Telecommunications Act of 1996.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_Act_of_1996
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentration_of_media_ownershi...
I will be there.

Also, if you are a Python person interested in this type of work, we are hiring at Ion Torrent email me at josh@gourneau.com if you are interested.
Yes, UDP is a good solution for analytics. StatsD uses UDP.
I don't understand. Namecoin uses an entirely separate block chain from the currency. How will my 50 BTC be useful if the currency fails?
Really? I tried it on a few sites: Stripe, Bank of America and they all seem to work fine
How Monoprice Is Eating The Tech World From The Inside Out
I'm a regular shopper at Costco, and no, their customer service does not "blow away Amazon." At Amazon I can search for anything I want via any computer anywhere, including my phone, read the specs, customer reviews, compare it to competition, etc. I can see if its in inventory, and have it overnighted to me at work or home. If anything is wrong with it, Amazon has been excellent in taking care of that, usually without talking to a human at all.

But most important! I rarely have to use Amazon customer service, because they so rarely screw up.
> Affirmative action is not when you fire someone to make way for a privileged class.

What's the difference? In one case the less-privileged person had a job for a while and made some money, in the other case they never got a job in the first place.
You would think your psw was safe with Twitter, I guess not.
Samsung Will Invest $1.1 Billion On Innovation
No it's unfair due to the relative profit margin - dell has thin margins so will find a tax on gross to be a far larger slice of profit than a law firm.
I have only seen it happen once or twice in-person, but I've run across it multiple times online. Had one guy, known for being awkwardly friendly (as in, had a motive) with the women in the group, even try to invite himself to stay with me multiple times while he would "be in town" and even when others would say "Dude, please stop," he would retort with "Once she meets me, she can decide!" Wouldn't let up on it, even after personally shooting him down.

Found out later he was doing this same thing with other girls, too, and was kicked out of the group.

Can I get a clarification on the downvote, given that the parent asked for examples and I provided one? I've elaborated on the specific situation.
CL uses # as a special character; I rewrote the idea into the (CL-standard idiom) `make-map` nomenclature: https://gist.github.com/4709844

But yea, I hadn't thought of particularly using this idea. It's a good idea from Python (or maybe its older than that, IDK). :-)
I found it less usable than Subtle Patterns - reason is to switch to new background, I have to 'click', where as on Subtle Patterns I can scroll and see more backgrounds (given that it shows me only the rectangle of background instead of full site background).

If there is a way you can make it keyboard friendly, it would be great.
Why it's important to be picky
That's an interesting concept.
That's a new definition of "engineer" for me. Didn't realize that having a degree was a prerequisite of the title, like getting a PhD gives you "Dr."
there is a official openvpn support in the appstore now, fyi.
> What a nasty bunch of people we are.

Why is wondering aloud how sexist/creepy the bulk of male programmers are more acceptable than wondering aloud how untalented the bulk of female programmers are?

I think both behaviors are rather low shaming behaviors.
Hey Speeder, send me your email. You seem like a interesting person!
Try your left/right keyboard keys––they should be very quick.

I'll try to make it more clear you can do this on the landing page.
What HTML editor do you use for email composition? (e.g. TinyMCE, CKEditor)
Hey there, to the people recommending good books to "introduce you to stoicism" I would say: Um, the originals are probably the easiest and most straight forward philosophy ever written. Just read those.
Pretty much. I for one have had it up to here though. The next incidence I encounter will be called out at the very least to the person's face on the spot, if not also online.
Perhaps this is the difference in where we live. I live in New York. Never is anything more than an expensive small gourmet grocery store or a pharmacy possibly "on the way." Things also tend to be much more expensive than average here. Costco is out of the way and would probably require the rental of a car, or paying for a taxi. Returning something to Costco would be a big hassle compared with just leaving a UPS package for my doorman. Further, I don't have the apartment space necessary for Costco quantities. I prefer to buy smaller quantities (even at higher per unit prices) if it means that I don't fill up my small apartment with paper towel rolls.
Essential things for me: having openSSH running so I can upload files to my device from linux, and installing a custom "hosts" file to get rid of advertising.
The Bootstrap framework can't be used for commercial purposes?
A friend down the hall could learn a Caltech course in a few hours by flipping through the textbook. I was nowhere near as smart as him.

Now I'm curious. Do you know what he ended up doing?
Well a bit of healthy competition would be good for both of us!
# define all the 'magic letters here' (perhaps some if statements for various platforms):

CURL_FLAG_SILENT=s

# Then call them here:

curl -$CURL_FLAG_SILENT ifconfig.me
Silent Circle's latest app democratizes encryption
claws-mail is really nice. Highly recommended if you don't mind fiddling to get things set up the way you want.
Recommended reading/watching list for community builders
Does it mean that the Microsoft acquisition was a bad decision? it seems like a lot of features end in the browser.
> It is scary how many people out there calling themselves sysadmins use the same password for everything to do with a given service, or even for everything

That should immediately mark them as a Dunning-Krueger victim/hack and you should get someone else. If you're not using something equivalent to a password vault or something equivalent, you're not as security savvy as you think you are.
The Android version is in private beta, shoot me your email and I'll email you when it's ready. I've got a release planned for Valentine's day!
But they did air it.
In my scenario, the luxury company is smaller than the economy company in terms of gross sales, but bigger in terms of earnings.

The economy company is often going to have a hard time managing a split-up. It presumably benefits from economies of scale at the size that it is, and it is not clear that two companies half its size could get the same deals from suppliers etc. that allow it to make its products relatively cheaply. At the very least, the "two smaller companies" version of it will almost certainly increase administrative overhead.

But, more so, it's unclear that the economy company is a bigger problem than the luxury company in this scenario. To the extent that it is lobbying for its interests, the luxury company has more money with which to do this than the economy company. The economy company probably employs more people, and puts more money into the local economy, and it can use those as a bludgeon. That is, in fact, the dynamic that Stallman appears to be envisioning.

My point is that this dynamic that he is envisioning is a very narrow view of the entire situation.
If I understand both correctly, the issue with network jitters is you need a large number of samples for each packet from which you are trying to get timing information. This causes the total samples to increase to less obtainable numbers.
Nor good design. With a little tweaking, Gmail is absolute minimalist nirvana.

http://i.minus.com/ib0I7hmj8fzm2b.png

(User stylesheet here: https://gist.github.com/4650448)
Neither long flags or short flags should change meaning. I'm not sure where you got the idea that short flags do.
I'm not sure how this is at all suitable for Hacker News but I really enjoyed that, so thanks :)
Long-promised $25 Raspberry Pi finally goes on sale
> Why can't a college graduate be happy with his accomplishments and regret not starting a successful business during those years?

If you regret a choice, it means you wish you had made some other choice.

It doesn't make any sense to regret not making a business when you're happy with your current accomplishments... unless you're asking why someone couldn't have done both simultaneously, in which case the answer is: most people can't run a successful business and a successful college career simultaneously. One is already hard enough.
Parental leave, and childcare more generally. In a society with privatized child-rearing where increasingly both parents work, the childcare issues are just brutal. For parents and children.
iOS appearance proxy is good at setting a few styles on standard apple components. But CSS is more powerful, easily shared and cross platform then iOS code!
This article is skeptical, but in a strange way. The basic argument amounts to "the existing models work so why would netflix do anything else". Useless.
Emigrate. You speak English, Portuguese and ... ? You've got tech skills, there are tech visas for a lot of developed countries. Spend < 10 years working abroad and pay off your loan and move back to Brazil with some wonderful life experience. Also, in a native English-speaking (British Isles, US, Canada, Oz and Kiwiland) country the second language is a total bonus a lot of time ... If you've got commitments that tie you to Brazil see if they can be loosened for a few years :)
I think you give the US government too much credit.
Awesome great idea!
The "secret" part of "secret police" refers to the hidden identity of the members of the secret police, not that the mere existence of the secret police is a secret.
I'm currently using offlineimap and notmuch. Have you tried that?
So if we encrypt stuff we are not spied on? Naive....
Agreed. Stoicism is not "philosophy" as we've been taught to think of it (that is, dense, boring, confusing).

Even the old translations of Marcus Aurelius, Seneca and Epictetus are straight forward enough for anyone.
On topic: "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity" (according to the guidelines).

Also in the guidelines: "Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site."
I always had trouble with the lack of a folder list in mutt. My friend is close to convincing me to give the mutt-patched package in debian a chance.[1] All I need to do is find a decent muttrc that is not super tweaked like my friend's config and then stumble along until I figure out what I need to change. For some reason I have always been confused/overwhelmed/putt-off by the coloring schemes when I have used mutt in the past.

[1] Patch: http://www.lunar-linux.org/mutt-sidebar/

[2] Screenshot: http://screenshots.debian.net/screenshots/m/mutt-patched/456...
In my opinion it makes the story. I love that they included a provision preventing tag-backs.
If someone with that level of experience can find so many flaws so quickly, why aren't people with that level of domain knowledge brought in when the API is originally being developed? Or, if they are, why isn't there released documentation on why the API isn't as good as they wish it could be?
Front End Development: Fixing The Flexbox "Jumpies"
So phonegap uses CSS to style, but JS as code.

My vision is CSS is great to style, but using standard native components will always be quicker than JS libraries like Phonegap and the sort.
Apple needs to put a feature into Safari that allows you to bypass a stupid "mobile site," if you want, automatically for particular domains. If the likes of Extremetech care nothing for our experience as tablet users, why should we give a damn about their value to their sponsors?
well i heard about it at university but i dislike it since it's not appropriate for those graphical emails that i get
"Your experience doesn't mean we shouldn't work together to support women who are being discriminated."

I never said that I wouldn't. In fact I googled those links yesterday because I am interested in the subject and like to research how to help. Understanding what is really going on seems to be an important first step, and throwing false numbers around won't help with that in my opinion.

"I don't understand why the "inspiration" behind the harassment matters."

That was my original question: what does it matter if it was sexist or not? To classify it as "sexist" seems to be an extremely awkward way to describe a crime of harassment. Imagine somebody with a blue shirt was murdered, and the conclusion was "the murderer really didn't like blue".

I thought sexism was bias or discrimination against people based on their gender. How is posting fake nudes of somebody on the internet bias or discrimination? It's just harassment/stalking. Sure, make it a data point in how likely women are to be victim of such a thing. But I don't see the point of calling it sexist. I don't think anybody at that conference applauded those actions, for example - even if they were sexist (except for the perpetrator, if he was indeed among the audience). Because those actions were simply criminal harassment.
I don't know if its intentional or not, but I've run into several apps where highlight and copy isn't implemented / enabled. That's pretty very frustrating. Sometimes I just want to take notes, or google something, not share whatever it is on facebook / twitter / snapchat.
This is what really excites me. I want to build a P2P DHT in the browser, basically see if I can implement something like Freenet entirely in JS.
I don't understand this.

Big companies are good at finding loopholes. They have the size advantage. Taxes and regulations may slow big companies, but they completely kill small businesses. It's the old proposal to tax the rich and powerful, which doesn't work for the obvious reasons.
Good point, my reasoning was that I kept getting confused between -ncss, -nativecss, -nc, so I kept it -ios and -android.
If I'm not mistaken, UC gets only 13% of it's budget from tuition [1]. I believe this is up from previous years. The CC -> UC route is a very good one - and should be taken guilt free if one decides to go that route.

1. http://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/nov12/f1at...
Definitely still do the kickstarter. What I meant was I think you'll have better luck on the kickstarter if it's open source to begin with. I'd feel uneasy giving money to a kickstarter project that could stay closed source.

I think you should also offer it as a SaaS once you get it up and running. Being open source doesn't stop you from doing that. Then you get the best of both worlds.
A Primer to Front-end SVG Hacking
I can't help but agree with this sentiment. Generally, if the operator doesn't understand what a command line option does and isn't willing to read the man page, they're open to a whole slew of unpleasant surprises (although I think this applies to many things, not just userland utilities). Long options simply provide a false sense of security and may not always do what someone thinks they're supposed to do. Worse, they may not always be available as others have pointed out insofar as the BSD flavors of specific tools provide.

I like what you said about "study." There truly is no shortcut for reading documentation available with the system, and assuming by inference what a command is supposed to do based on its options when neither the command nor options are understood just seems to be horribly, horribly bad practice in my mind.
Agreed. You don't hear people bitching about all the {}'s in C and Java, but when lisp comes up you'd think parens were responsible for the plague.

Get a real editor and deal with it. Once you write your first macro, you'll realize how stupid all the whining was and why homoiconicity is in many aspects superior to other syntaxes without sacrificing much at all.