skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Jokes on HN are strongly discouraged. As much as people like them, their presence creates a feedback loop that drives the noise-to-signal ratio through the roof. Jokes can be made, understood and voted up very quickly. In a democratic situation like HN, this leads to a large volume of replies and up votes that quickly drowns out all relevant conversation. The more threads that feature jokes, the harder it becomes to discourage them in the future. It seems the fate of all vote-based forums to eventually devolve into a sea of memes (HN -> Reddit -> Digg). HN's anti-humor downvote brigade gets a lot of pushback, but they are so harsh because they are doing their best to hold back that tide.
Incorporation and a TIN takes ~24 hours these days.
Your trolling will work better under a less telegraphic username.

You can give away what you obtain, regardless of who produced it.
The "long tail" phrase came from Chris Anderson. I wouldn't say the phrase implies jerk at all or business type. It's a statistics thing.
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(for the record, my point was that if people expect bad software, ....that's a problem)
That mouse came out of nowhere and scared me.

I think conversion is based largely on who it is visiting your site. It's aimed at the nontechnical type of person, so getting traffic from somewhere like HN is going to kill your conversion rate. What are your traffic sources?
Make Google Home Page
Gameboy always felt cleaner to play, too.
According to the lawyer across the table, privilege starts with the first conversation.
Linux user. LibreOffice on linux....feels like it's been getting better. It doesn't crash "very much" any more, maybe once every two months for me.

I don't use MS Office on windows much, so I can't comment on its stability.
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there is no Stripe for aliens yet
unfortunately
but there is PayPal
Gas stations are incredibly common. Public EV charging stations will never be as common unless a different business model is adopted.

If EVs become common, people will have home charging stations. Demand for non-at-home charging stations will come from (1) folks who drive a lot and need to charge intraday (and who cannot charge at work) and (2) road trippers. The sum of both of these categories is fairly small and less demand means less supply. So if you do fit into one of those two categories, you will need to plan your driving carefully instead of figuring that you'll be able to pick up some gas when you need it. This can be overcome by arranging for the proliferation of public EV charging stations even absent the demand. Perhaps the manufacturer or municipalities will subsidize it.
I think this is exactly it. Speaking as a designer, its hard to just let go and keep things simple because we always want to tinker. I come from a print and graphic design background where form vastly outweighs function, so learning simple web design was something I had to work at and learn in order to get a nice balance of function and form.
What backs it?
Past issues of Marketing Bits are now online. Free to read.
I really like the advice he left at the bottom of the post.
After reading a couple of reviews on glassdoor I don't see much that contradicts their culture as stated in the slides. They actually seem to be applying their culture better than most company. Can you back your statement with specifics?
Seems this whole sport exists almost entirely for the generation of people who were exactly 8 years old when Tetris came out.

And the sport will die when we run out of functioning NES consoles and CRTs.
You need an ITIN, which is the equivalent of an SSN but for non-US taxpayers receiving payments from US sources.

http://www.irs.gov/Individuals/Individual-Taxpayer-Identific...
"You have a problem and decide to use threads. have two Now problems. you"
It seems you're under the impression that real analysis is the foundation of mathematics (I certainly wouldn't consider Cantor sets or Banach spaces in there).

Let's say you invent a new machine learning algorithm, how can you know how well it does? If you invent an algorithm to do anything, how can you be sure it's correct? Well you can always test it some things, but if it's really a new algorithm, then you need to prove it does what you say it does in all possible cases.

It's fine and dandy if someone tells you that there is this function that you can compute and use in this way and it's the best for its purpose, but this is an extremely rare case. I believe I have mentioned this elsewhere in comments, but there is almost never a clear-cut answer in mathematics that someone can just use out of the box. It almost always involves tweaking to fit a particular application, and to really understand how to tweak an algorithm you need to understand why the algorithm works the way it does.
As for opening an account, you could take a trip to Miami and open it by yourself. No need to be a resident. Then make withdrawals in Colombia from an ATM (up to 780k COP at once) at a not too bad exchange rate.
No offense, but "no offense" usually means "I'm going to say something offensive and expect you to suck it up."
Turk laborers are Eastern.
Amen to that. I can't tell you how many research papers I read which muddle around with all the wrong words.
I somehow cannot convince myself that Airbnb not a niche. I do see it as a useful thing under some circumstances like SXSW or the Obama inauguration.
That was a fun paper to skim, thanks for the link. Gonna peek at the other links in the Summary section at the bottom.
Hi, Love this idea. Keep up the good work.
Questions What time zone? And what happens at that time? Where?
Sad story, I agree with folks who say you should seek out legal advice.

HEADS UP FOR ANYONE ELSE CONSIDERING THIS:

If you are going to receive funds with PayPal and they are going to exceed the 'occasional sale' guidelines (which some people interpret to mean the same guidelines at the rule for sending an IRS 1099 form which is < $600 annually.

First establish your business presence in the US, that means creating an LLC, getting an EIN [1] and establishing a relationship with a US based bank.

If you get hung up on those steps, don't start taking money with PayPal because their zealous anti-fraud/laundering/drug program fires on a hair trigger. It didn't help that the OP is a student from Venezuela which is not one of America's trading partners.

I expect you will lose most of this money in legal fees. However, if the business is durable, and you manage to establish your LLC (that lawyer you got can help with that) then you will make it back and PayPal will back down. As long as the money trail can be tracked and everyone in the path reports it to the Federal Government so that they are satisfied it isn't part of a laundering scheme[2], or if it was they can catch the folks involved, you will be ok.

[1] http://www.irs.gov/Individuals/International-Taxpayers/Taxpa...

[2] This is how the laundering scheme would work. Some criminal enterprise hires a bunch of third parties to buy your 'widget' for an inflated price, say $10,000 per copy. You sell the 20 copies, get the $200,000, now you go to a coffee shop owned by the criminal enterprise and buy a Double Vente Latte for $180,000 made out of hand picked coffee beans. The crook now has $180,000 of "legitimate" income from his coffee shop, you have $20,000 in "profits" on your amazing Javascript widget, and 20 drug dealers have a bit of software they just delete from their hard drive (if they down loaded it at all). Everybody "wins." So the US Government wants to be able to subpoena your customer list to track the money from the drug dealers to you and then back to the crooks. Paypal helps with that. If you make it hard for them to do that, they keep you money.
Strong cryptography
Pretty sure that's not correct.

It would destroy the potential for candid consultations to determine whether a case should be taken.

From the attorney's perspective, the inability to guarantee privilege might cause them to incorrectly advise a client on their potential to help.
Huffington Post? Come on now..
Interesting BUT what if the lawyer has a conflict of interest and learns that during the initial conversation before committing to representing you. Does that mean he/she cannot use the information you provided to defend the interest he currently represents assuming he refused to represent you?
http://www.vaclib.org/intro/present/polio.gif

I'm not anti-vaccine, but I am anti-sensational unsubstantiated claims, such as without the polio vaccine there would be epidemics.
INAL either, but I have gone through the ITIN process. If you follow this route you will need to send notarized documents(birth certs, passports). The difficulty is that the US will not recognize notarized by any one out side the US. This was not explicitly stated(a few years ago), after having ITIN applications rejected 3 times, we took the paperwork to the US consulate, they processed it and it was all good.
You do know that Andy Rubin had a track record at General Magic and then went on to make the Danger Sidekick, right?
Agreed, I'm reminded of another SV billionaire, who emphatically chose not to donate to any causes until shortly before his death...and even then, only to causes which would have personally benefited him.
Thanks, that's really good advice about using an alternate service as a backup.

I'm not quite clear on one point: 'non-tangible/service' is something we enter in the shipping info box pre-dispute, right?
A better source:

http://www.universetoday.com/99750/another-weird-shiny-thing...
Yeah sorta got ugly in a hurry there
OK, I spent 30 minutes with it. I didn't sign up, but only because I have no particular need to publish right now. It might be a good thing to have a freebie thing that only lets you do, say, 5 pages; but I appreciate that there's a risk some people will abuse that to suck down the results and re-upload them elsewhere. Maybe a 'try it for 30 days free' option?

I would change up the front page a bit. Currently, the 4th element (the subheading in the caption to the picture under the headline) is what tells me I can edit-in-place. The animation is great, but I opened the page in another tab and then clicked over to it a moment later, by which time the animation had completeed. I didn't see what the big deal was until I read that. Instead, I'd make that the headline: This is your editor. Because the immediate editability is the big win. I loved the UX and how responsive it was.

Minor caveats: some of the fonts don't render right in Chrome, but have the bottom of the letters (descenders etc.) chopped off. I'd really like some toolbar widget to turn on a grid for those times when I want to line things up or maintain a vertical symmetry.

Last issue, the Learn More page. Visually and semantically, it's great - it makes a compelling argument and does so in a humorous fashion. But you don't tell me anything about what I'm publishing - is this flash? HTML+CSS? Something else? That information should be there so I understand whether I'm buying into your hosting walled garden, or renting a general-purpose tool that I can then deploy and further develop as I see fit.

I also think you should put the $ cost up on the Learn More page and offer a link or argument for the price. I hate hate hate not seeing the price information until I get to the sign up screen, it always feels like a gyp. Wear your price on your sleeve; that establishes that your product has value from the outset, and doesn't confront me with an expensive surprise when I try to sign up. Invite me to put my hand in my wallet before signing up, otherwise I feel like there's a little bait-and-switch going on.

Don't take these criticisms as bitter medicine - I think this is a fabulous offering, and that's why I've critiqued it in such detail.
I have no personal experience with this, but several forum members of the site I mentioned above have written that they have never been refused a 120V plug-in (which, again, would have been enough for the author to complete his trip--provided that it wasn't fueled by amphetamines and a mason jar). The have also written that hotel managers are often amiable to allowing 240V charging when there is an available socket.

I also just checked plugshare.com: there are at least half a dozen public J1772 charging stations (which are relatively high power) near the route segment where the author plausibly had range anxiety. Why he chose to charge at Butch's Lunchonette when there was a high power station nearby is baffling. What is doubly baffling is that he launched on a 209 road-mile trip with 185 miles of estimated range, and then made no attempt to recharge the car until he was nearly stuck (if you believe the numbers on the little map inset). So, I'm afraid that I can't escape the conclusion that this is a problem of the author's making.
He seems to be trying to portray himself as a victim here, but he acknowledges that he was the initiator - he spoke out stridently, insultingly in violent and profane language against a whole field. He then explains how terribly he was treated (even though in most of his actual numbers there's a pretty good balance between positive and neutral comments), and characterises it as a "low quality discourse"

His solution is to keep doing it but avoid "public unmoderated fora" because then he can initiate all the monkey dances he wants and apparently he believes people will then civilly discuss what he has said.

I would propose he continue to post publicly (there were valuable things in what he wrote) but if he avoids profanity, insults, extreme and disrespectful statements then he probably won't initiate monkey dances.

NB: the thread about "only two computationally difficult problems" is worth a read as there is definitely more there than his characterisation would leave you to believe:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5123746
I certainly agree that communication can be improved (and this is one of the main reasons I spend so much of my time improving my technical communication skills via blogging). But I stand by my defense of the need for flexibility. It's extremely hard to explain why without delving into technical details, but there are some times when abuses of notation are honestly much more helpful than they are hurtful. Usually they exist to decrease the amount of clutter in syntax, and they are often stated in words during presentation (and the abuses mostly go assumed only in the higher-end research papers, in fields where the fundamental book every practitioner is obligated to read spells out all of those assumptions in full).

Of course, the more of these you add on the harder it becomes to explain it to a newcomer. So I'm not trying to defend the math culture as being right in all ways. I'm just trying to explain why things are the way they are, and rationally see that there is a good reason to do so (or else why would it have been done?). When you learn the stuff in real life, each of these "abuses" are added on one small step at a time (maybe I learn about one new abuse of syntax every month or two) and so absorbing it all simultaneously is not such a big deal.
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If by "work for hire" you mean the company owns the work, I agree completely. But they also, by contract, give royalties when issues (including reprints) sell over a certain amount. (You could also say that their base pay for the work assumes a certain number of sales.)
I meant in the dispute, after it's escalated to a claim. If someone disputes one of your payments, they're asked whether it was for an eBay good, a non-eBay good, a service or a gift, IIRC. If they tell PayPal it's for a good even though it's actually your LSAT prep service, PayPal asks you to either provide a tracking number of a shipment, other evidence of shipment, or to accept liability and refund. Since there's no good place to write that the dispute was miscategorized, I click on the option to provide a tracking number for the shipment, and write "SERVICE/NON-TANGIBLE" in the box. Sometimes it works, the PayPal rep that reviews the case recategorizes it and the buyer doesn't win because there's no Buyer Protection Policy for services.
I started my commercial project in Venezuela, but using a U.S. account.
Jokes are the reason reddit comments deterioted so quickly.
After content, next thing to focus should be operation. For online magazine it should be editorials and technical.

I suggest going the wordpress route as the backend cms. It easy enough to beginner and fast enough for growing audition. Thus you need a person good on it to design and extend the functionality.

But still, good and enganging content always preceed technology. HN is a good example of that.
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Doing a derivation like that is sometimes called a proof by "chaining if and only ifs", though that's far from a standard name taught to students. It's basic, but most certainly a required method of proof to come up with convenient formulas.
He loses me at "zero marginal cost." What is the here or there of the "marginal" part? "Zero marginal cost" is not the same as "zero cost." Since when do people have a right to receive things for their marginal cost? What difference does it make whether that marginal cost is zero or very small?

I love free software. But one of the things I love about the free software community is that it is self-sufficient. It respects that some people don't want to "share" so it shares amongst itself. RMS didn't copy the source code of some commercial compiler and "free it." He wrote his own. Miguel de Icaza didn't copy the source of CDE and put it on Pirate Bay and "free it." He started GNOME and wrote his own desktop.

I see the "free information" people as the antithesis of that. They don't just want to share what they create. They want to share what you create. And I see that as an impingement on freedom.
Yea, this kind of general advice do not always apply in specific cases like this.
Man, that HuffPo Google Hangout video thing was the most asinine things I've seen online in a while.
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To be completely honest, the more common case is that the mathematicians follow behind physicists and engineers to verify that their applications are theoretically sound. But yes, great breakthroughs do come from pure theory.
Thank you, really. I don't think i have ever seen someone provide citations outside of power-point presentations at school lol, definitely appreciate the response and thanks again.
Why do you think a currency that naturally appreciates over time is desirable?
My upstairs neighbor has this book, and I've been meaning to steal it from him for a few months now :)
In this thread: People posting negative comments with no sense of irony.
Hi HN, I spent quite a bit of time building this app. It is a bit different approach from most standard app so it does take a bit to get used to. I would love to get some valuable HN feedbacks to know how to move forward from here.
If I fat thumbed a down vote on my iPhone i apologize as I was trying to upvote you as I think you expressed this very well. I could get going with Ruby quickly and achieve a result fast which made me happy and want to do more.
Moves for iPhone
As ads go, fake or not, this one didn't captivate me. What's so special about this laptop? The only thing going for it is that it's "designed entirely by Google," which isn't an advantage to some.
> Yeah, maybe they should have sent Aaron off for counselling.

Or maybe some lithium. First he decides that it would be nice to liberated all the world's documents and actually tries to do it. Second his totally irrational "plan" predictably fails, as in smoking crater fails. Third he collapses mentally and commits suicide.

That sure walks and quacks like manic depression.

I keep saying that the prosecutors are a red herring. This case is about Swartz's lunacy first and foremost, and secondly about the digital freedom opinion leaders who knew how the Feds like to make an example of people and egged Swartz on anyway.
Right, it's a self-reinforcing trend. Companies move to locations where talent exists, talented individuals seek those locations out.

But my point was that this makes it really difficult for startups (or any tech company) to make a calculated decision about whether or not location is worth the extra expense. I don't think it's surprising that tech companies are located together, but I think the community would do well to investigate whether the costs provide adequate returns in a majority of cases. (TWGS;IHRTS)[Take with a grain of salt; I haven't researched this shit]
So that's where R2D2 ended up.

It looks almost like molten metal poured into a sand cavity, and then with the sand blown away. I guess you wouldn't get oxidation or similar activity on Mars (?), so it remains nice and shiny. I wonder how far the shape goes down, and what could have caused it?
First, I didn't know about turn.js, just checked it out, it rocks!
Second : You are probably breaking emigration laws. I'd recommend you consult with an emigration lawyer ASAP.
A feeling of winning life's lottery? You've already won:

http://www.globalissues.org/article/26/poverty-facts-and-sta...
It boggles my mind how PayPal can again and again get away with this.

The ability of PayPal to be a bank and yet avoid being one legally is interesting.
If you hold somebody else's money you are a bank, whether you call yourself that way or not.
How is PayPal being unreasonable? A person without a SSN has received $200,000 in their PayPal account. I would be surprised if PayPal didn't freeze that account.
It sounded like you were implying that they were, but the biggest thing they have in common is that their names sound similar.
PayPal doesn't give a shit about claiming the money for the government and they damn sure don't care about his immigration status. They just don't want to get ripped off.
I don't know that this is selective punishment. It does seem to me that Heymann forgot that his job is supposed to be about justice.

The law is about the law, not about justice. They may be related but they are not the same.
Why is PayPal's policy to wait until the account accrues significant funds and then lock it? If the OP doesn't have an SSN then why wouldn't PayPal block the account from being registered in the first place?
I think you flipped principal and interest there.
Why did the reporter have to rope Steven Chu into the article? Even if all the facts are 100% right, it seems lame to try and make this a political issue.

I know people who have done family road trips with the Tesla S already and didn't have those problems in normal weather. One could surmise that pushing the edges of the range AND pushing extreme weather conditions might be risky, and in an EV it is certainly riskier than in a gas car, but like the Top Gear "driving a roadster on a race track drains the battery horrendously", it somewhat reads like an attempt to intentionally push an EV to the breaking limit, and then write a negative article about it. The political angle of trying to make Tesla look like a Steve Chu/DoE failure increases my suspicions.

Could you imagine a reporter writing an article about a gas car that he intentionally drove at the limit of its mileage, got stuck on an interstate, and then turned around and roped in government loans to General Motors?

The Tesla S deserves criticism in order to shake out bugs and improve the software to reduce customer surprise, to better predict battery life, no doubt about that. But this should not be used by the anti-EV crusaders who have an axe to grind to score points against ex-Obama administration officials.
Never thought I could terrify myself so.
I have the opposite feeling - 5 years from now hotels will be a niche to be used only for exceptional circumstances.