skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unless you have been in his position, running a multi-million dollar public company for the first time in your life, you don't know what mistakes you will make.
Really? It's somewhat of a bad sign that he couldn't even manage that.
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for Nick Kishfy:

I'd be curious what you think of Balanced's product development strategy:

We have an undisputed product leader (our CEO), but we got so much demand for a feature (ACH debits) that we built it, not exactly as our customers wanted, and after originally telling them know. Essentially, we used an issues thread and a public repo on Github to test our assumptions with our developer community. I'd be curious to hear your thoughts. You can read the whole thing here: https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api/issues/2

I also left this comment on the original blog post: http://blog.mojotech.com/post/44224044723/more-features-wont...
"Two Scoops of Django" is out in beta
I started making money online at 14 with $0 and I remember thinking then if I could make $100 online that would be amazing – I made it within 3 days of my decision to start making money online through forum boosting (there’s a load of forum posts where you can see me winning “forum boosting contracts” etc).

There are a load more methods which I have done and what anyone could do as well but, there are some methods you implement to make money online quickly with no capital outlay. I know because these are some of the methods I have used over the years to make money online. I'm going to reveal some of the methods you/your friends can make money with $0 outlay because these are the easiest ones to get them started:

- Create FREE Wordpress Themes & sell the “sponsored” links in the footer = $75 – 150/theme (You can code HTML to Wordpress with ~30ish lines of Code although adding extras takes a little more but it really is that simple).

Sell 3 slots on each design for: $20-25/each

Sell the “designer” slot by for: $30-50/each

Offer the whole theme for: $100-150

Then submit the theme to 100-150 free theme places (you could even pay someone on Fiverr to do it)

- Sell Wordpress Themes on ThemesForest

$30 – 50/each

- Sell Wordpress Plugins

- Code PSD/HTML etc

Offer your services for $30-100/page & charge $50-100 extra to code to Wordpress etc.

- Write an eBook report

Write a report on some aspect to making money online etc & sell it for $7-10 on Webmaster Forums.

- Write a Larger eBook. Sell it on Warrior Forum/ClickBank.

Write a 10-20 page eBook then sell it on Warrior Forum as a WSO or on ClickBank etc.

- Write Articles

500/word articles at $6-8/each.

- Bid for Data Entry/Web Development/Mobile Development on
Freelance Sites

Take small tasks which are easy to do & take a short period of time - $100-200 projects.

- Create Mobile Sites
Charge $100-500 for making existing website owners a simple mobile version of their site.

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There's loads more but there's some quick examples to make some cash online with $0 outlay. Once they're making money online then the question is what to do next (in my opinion those methods are boring although paid Wordpress Themes etc aren't that bad of a business). The possibilities are endless and again I'll be happy to list some of those as well because some of those methods get boring after a while!
yeah, the best workaround is namecheap.com
Foundlings are actually fairly common. The only novelty here is that the adoptive individuals are nontraditional.
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Chris, are you planning to submit a demo for LIVE 2013?
I agree, made a comment about that on another reply
I love you Brad. It's so good to have an actual journalist amongst our ranks.
FWIW, I received spam to my unique address that I only use for turbotax. Mint is owned by Intuit, so it's possible that they lost all their emails.
Recommend an app to stream iMac camera
I'm going to be working remotely for my employer and they wanted to setup an iMac dedicated to VCing with me. I thought it could also be useful to see when folks are around as well. Anyone know of a project to stream the iMac built in iSight?
Why are you trusting any of them to do that anyway. Ecryptfs is your friend.
How many waterboardings did that take?
The point is that the vowels all run on the left hand side.
Using a different nameservice provider only treats the symptom. Name.com is still breaking the internet with this practice.
Is this a big deal? With my limited understanding of networking stuff, couldn't you just set up a CNAME or something? Without showing the user the full url? I agree it's a slight inconvenience, but it's not a huge letdown.
Man, I miss reporting sometimes. Optimizing onboarding processes and answering support requests from Brazil are fun and all, but sharing new stuff with people is a real thrill.
My experience with Arch has frequently been:

1. Run pacman -Syu

2. Pacman failed.

3. Go to Arch website

4. Learn that I shouldn't have run pacman just then, and now I have to follow these steps to un-break my system

The most notable instance was when Arch decided that /usr/lib should be a symlink to /lib. Yeah, barely recovered from that... it was also a reinforcement of my position that basic utilities should be statically linked.

I finally gave up on Arch when a GRUB update broke my system and locked me out of my encrypted root.
What study are you referring to?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspartame_controversy

Aspartame has been deemed safe for human consumption by over 100 regulatory agencies in their respective countries

...are they all financed (corrupted) by your unidentified bogeyman?
Actually, I get better results with http://lmgtfy.com/?q=picnichouse+mason
But there are plenty of other places for that and although these stories are heart warming I come here for technical articles and discussion. These stories just clog that up and keep other more technical stories deeper in the site.
WTF is social hacking? Such a trendy, useless, word.
"I've found this technique gives inferior results to whatever SublimeText is doing."

Oh boy this one we're going to hear for a long time ain't we!?
Any thoughts on the Afghan civilians that US patrols were keeping a protective eye on because those civilians were doing things that would make them Taliban targets if the Taliban found out (such as cooperating with the Afghan government, or helping girls go to school). The reports of those patrols contained the names, addresses, and GPS coordinates of those civilians. Manning's leak basically gave the Taliban a target list of such people.

How about human rights workers and democracy activists in repressive regimes like Iran, who rely on keeping anonymous to avoid jail, torture, and execution? Some of them secretly asked US diplomats for help. Well, secret until Manning released diplomatic cables concerning those requests.

The above people were already in danger--educating girls in Afghanistan, or working underground against Iran is risky business--so we can't say for SURE that any deaths of such people since the leaks were due to information from the leaks, but the odds are pretty damn good that some were.

What specific things in the leaks do you think were important enough to justify endangering and very likely killing innocent people such as those Afghan civilians, or freedom fighters in repressive regimes?
It is great to see more interest in neural networks, but the types of neural networks the author describes are missing some key aspects of what the brain is doing. I work with Jeff Hawkins at Numenta, and while our product is based on a type of neural network, it is quite different from the class of NN described in this post. For background:

A recent blog post by Jeff:
https://grok.numenta.com/blog/not-your-fathers-neural-networ...

And more detailed information on the technology (I would recommend the CLA white paper):
https://grok.numenta.com/technology.html
In this case, it might extend beyond rats being uglier. There is research supporting the idea that the human/dog relationship is a case of coevalution [1]

[1]http://theacademy.typepad.com/files/coevolution03.pdf
I consider your hypothetical question to be a legitimate one.

The problem is that these sorts of questions are often the precursor to banning unconventional families until someone proves that no harm is done. That sort of thinking is harmful, but I don't think asking the questions is harmful.
drone killings is not war , it is state terrorism.
Well don't keep it a secret. Where should we look?
"Nothing in his life
Became him like the leaving it."

King Duncan:
Is execution done on Cawdor? Are not
Those in commission yet return'd?

Malcolm:
My liege,
They are not yet come back. But I have spoke
With one that saw him die; who did report
That very frankly he confessed his treasons,
Implor'd your Highness' pardon, and set forth
A deep repentance. Nothing in his life
Became him like the leaving it.

Macbeth Act 1, scene 4, 1–8
Thanks for the detailed explanation. The kanye video just looked like a corrupted low res video, I didn't understand that one. But i get the idea, its about extrapolation of moving pixels in 2D.
there might some minor glitch on Ipad, main banner on zurb's website doesn't fit properly into viewport.
Ergo it has everything to do with HN.
What is the point of posting this? This letter doesn't seem to be of any significance.
I was being sensationalist, but that Apache footage has always stuck in my mind. Even if it was manipulated
The quick answer is (feel free to disagree!), this is a great way to style a blog or microsite, but quickly gets out of hand. Using presentational classes bloats your markup but the size of your CSS assets will remain relatively constant, while using semantic class names requires writing new CSS for each new piece of content. The return you get on sacrificing some legibility in your markup increases with the size of your site. Large applications (or multiple applications that share the same CSS codebase) can also quickly run into the 4095 selector limit in (older versions of?) internet explorer. Using presentational classes has the added benefit of not requiring back end developers to write CSS (nobody likes writing CSS). It's mostly a matter of taste, but I can tell you from personal experience that CSS bloat in a large web application is easy to avoid and a nightmare to fix.
I don't know if I am blinded by my environs or by the 7 years since this, but how did the idea of selling his idea and then building it ever sound good?
"Sunlight is the best disinfectant" --U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis

Would we really go to war if we knew the true extent of human suffering? Maybe, but visibility to such suffering at least allows people to feel sympathy, instead of simply being ignorant to suffering.
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I don't think Joe is missing the point at all. As he states: "Being analytical should never mean there isn’t time to do the right thing if a customer is getting “fucked.”
The problem isn't the CEO, it's the business model.
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> handing over control of your boot to some 3rd party...a horrible idea

It's actually a good idea if you're the party who's getting authority over the world's computers handed over to it.

> use permissions and ACL

I still have no idea how these work in the Windows world [1]. There's nowhere obvious in the UI or the "dir" command that shows you what the ownership and permission is [2], unlike Linux's ls -al.

My one experience with Windows permissions is, in the early '00s, I put an NTFS partition on an external drive because I wanted to put >4GB files on it. I copied them and got a bunch of permissions errors opening them on another computer. My impression of Windows access controls from this: They're invisible things the OS attaches to your files which will potentially make them unreadable later.

[1] I understand there's something called ACL's in Linux too, but I never use them.

[2] I don't have much experience with multi-user Windows systems, and Linux has been my main OS for 3-4 years so I don't have as much experience with post-XP OS's.
Being Honest (a.k.a. thoughts on Andrew Mason and Groupon)
It's not just a 10-character address. It's a 10-character address on a non-standard domain (or so the conversation led me to believe). All without getting another email on that domain's catch-all address. If it was a spammer, who randomly-generated addresses on this domain, I would imagine that they would have been shotgunned across the whole domain. Not just hit that one single address.
Ah. I didn't get that far. I expected some instructions before hitting go.

I still see potential problems, though, with things like third party hosting that may not be so happy about you doing this even though they don't explicitly disallow it in their TOS. I can make a github pages site have the specified url, for example.
A rant for the haters of Andrew Mason
I think that entrepreneurs should build to ship to customers rather than to court VCs.
This is a great post. I'm currently building an API that's really inspired by Stripe's API. I'm trying to mimic a lot of these elements, from the easy authentication through to the really useful error messages.

One of the things I'm not so sure about is the local bindings for each language. I'm tempted to just use off-the-shelf HTTP clients or a very thin wrapper in each language and write code snippets based on them. I'm not sure I see the value in writing full client bindings - I've often found it harder to use in many cases when I use these 'opinionated' bindings in the past. You often end up with a choice of entirely following the libraries views on error handling or digging around and breaking upgrades by modifying these libraries directly. I've always preferred much thinner wrappers that have no knowledge of the underlying API calls. Would love more opinions!
I would have thought the word "Hacker" in the title would give away the fact that yes, it is in fact a site for technical discussions.
Beautiful Editor.
I'd switch to it completely if it supported a more complete vim emulation -- for now I use it as a repl
Why should they? Its the responsibility of USPTO to ensure its agents are acting appropriately by following the rules and standards they set out. Unless the person responsible was doing something malicious, I don't see why they should be reprimanded.
Army Private Admits Giving Military Files to WikiLeaks
kadavy and brad in the same HN post, about Andrew Mason. Chicago Strong ;)
In taking responsibility, he's holding his head high, not cowering behind attorneys and HTTP proxies.

You might be reading too much into this (or not). In the context of a plea bargain in the United States, "accepting responsibility" is a keyword. It triggers a significant reduction in your sentence.
Can this “Photon Shower” from Delta eliminate jet lag?
Exotic geometry system for art and games and such. Open source.
I just open sourced it. It's got grammar and generator functions too. Have at it.
He also leaked a trove of diplomatic communications that revealed corruption all over the world. I'd imagine many in Tunisia would consider Manning a hero.
I didn't go in with any assumptions. There's been lots of advice given that using transform:translate() is always the fastest path; the point of this was to measure and see. Also knowing something is faster isn't the same as knowing how much faster. This can have implications when deciding what technology and tradeoffs to use.

Besides, is it really obvious that top/left would be faster (in a non-transition case)? It requires an additional layout phase compared to transforms:translate().

On the common sense of transitions being faster, it is true that there will be overhead in running JavaScript code. But at the same time, 1/60th of a second is a very long time for a computer and (for me) the overhead of crossing the bridge and running a minimal amount of JavaScript was an unknown.

Being from the "show me state" I like to measure before doing any performance optimization work or making general claims.
If a soldier thinks something is wrong, he might talk to a reporter and even provide classified examples if necessary to prove his point.

That is not what Bradley Manning did. He did a full dump of information regardless of whether or not the information was related to his cause. That's not a courageous protest: that is playing God with other's lives on the line. In his delusion of Godhood, he literally committed treason.

Sorry for the harshness of this, but it genuinely outrages me that people see heroism in this guy. His behavior is outside even the most liberal interpretations of the concept of non-violent protest or civil disobedience.
Why is it "war" if done by humans holding machines and "state terrorism" if done by humans controlling machines from a greater distance?
This blog is pretty thorough in going through their past accounting issues: http://blogs.smeal.psu.edu/grumpyoldaccountants/archives/281

One of their obvious no-nos was that they were booking the total amount of the deal as recognized revenue, instead of their fees. Also they came up with non-GAAP accepted metrics to measure their performance which were deemed dubious by outsiders.
> edit : after doing some further reading, I realize I was judging it based on a completely incorrect set of criteria. It's intended purpose was for non typists, single-hand typing or "environments where conventional two-handed keyboarding does not work"

Though even by these criteria it's poorly suited for any language not completely served by ISO-8859-1 (and some languages that even 8859-1 is sufficient for). This includes a number of European languages.
Didn't he basically just dump a bunch of classified information, without actually going through it to see if it was worth releasing or if somethings were worth omitting from the release?
I believe it was President George "Dubya" Bush who said, "You're either with us, or you're against us."
This mentality, coupled with the (unpatriotic) "Patriot Act," leaves a lot of room for defining criminality, which, apparently, the US Supreme Court, by its recent rulings, infers that all US citizens are potential criminals, if not actual.
Thus the domestic surveillance program continues.
Figuring out effective social solutions. The article is a great example of the judge cutting through red tape, a gay couple getting a child without having to fight social crapola tooth and nail, and culminates with a gay marriage which couldn't have previously taken place but is now possible. Plus the couple used the marriage as an opportunity to give some closure to their adopted child. I think it is brilliant on several fronts. And this social stuff is something a lot of hackers seem to feel is a personal weak area, so articles like this potentially have more value for them than for someone like me who already has good skillz in this area.

But thanks for proving my point that it gets way undervalued here.
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guy working on several EU research projects here.

That's barely true. Although there is some certain amount of buzzwords in every proposal (that's kind of bread an butter for tech people anyway), they are far from what OP says.
Sometimes there is some overpromising, but those things are usually secondary aspects, rather than the core idea.
Most of the results are beeing used as some developed components by participating companies, some of the work is dropped, and a lot of work is open sourced and few projects are really successful. But that's research anyway. Not all work lead to success here.
They open sourced their code.
> If a soldier thinks something is wrong, he might talk to a reporter and even provide classified examples if necessary to prove his point.

> That is not what Bradley Manning did.

Did you even read the article linked?

" Manning said he first tried to take his information to the Washington Post, the New York Times and Politico, before contacting WikiLeaks."

"Manning said he tried to talk to an unnamed Washington Post reporter to interest her in the Iraq and Afghanistan documents, but “I did not believe she took me seriously.” He left voicemails with the public editor and the news-tips lines for the New York Times and heard nothing. A blizzard, he said, kept him from driving to Politico’s office to discuss the documents. According to Manning’s account, only after his attempts to give the documents to mainstream media organizations fail did he consider giving them to WikiLeaks."
> He didn't make any argument,

He's making the argument that there exist certain documents that are "better left confidential", and that those documents "eventually make it out". Both statements are highly contestable, and I've offered a fairly extensive source by a Pulitzer prize winner to contradict those points.

His final statement is ironic. We're talking about a man (Manning) who risked his life to uncover information that the government tried to conceal by spreading misinformation. The existence of misinformation about Manning's own story is nothing if not ironic. It's not an insult - to Obama, perhaps, but not OP - and my apologies if anybody took that way. However, taking the time to look me up on Twitter just to call me a 'prick' certainly doesn't offer anything valuable to the discussion and does nothing to keep the level of discourse on HN high.
Michigan could take over financial responsibilities of Detriot
Looks like it contains vast amounts (~30% of the calories in an alleged meat product) of potato starch. How does that work metabolically? If it turns into fructose in the body, we're right back where we started with the sugars...
There is a webkitTransitionEnd callback. But it alone isn't sufficient for complex animations that could be made with Tumult Hype.
I was wondering if it was all the made up numbers he's put out over the years, but that hurt investors rather than customers.
Dropbox should rename mods 'Support Volunteers' or something, just so users know what kind of help they're getting.

I don't understand why the mods were so quick to defend DB, especially since they don't appear to have access to any privileged info. Dropbox has over 200 employees now and whatever precautions they take an occasional slip-up seems entirely possible.
Left unmentioned is Lincoln and Thaddeus Steven's extraordinary achievement of issuing United States Notes, called Greenbacks.

Unfortunately, after Lincoln's assassination, this battle was lost in the years after.
I'm building a registrar we'd want to use. I'd like to hear a list of "love to haves" for people interested in the project. Try out what I have so far http://nametagup.com/
What increases sales: Customer support that turns your customers into loyal fans
From the article: "the first usable PyPy was released in 2010." For most practical purposes PyPy is only two years old, not ten.
I've heard this claim before (he put other's lives in danger), but I haven't seen it backed. As far as I know, even the military operations documents leaked were old (relatively). I haven't come across any sort of news relating to people dying because of these leaks. Or any sort of military or government personnel being put in danger.
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Right, so all of the conventional wisdom that you're putting out (portion control, willpower, "fucking lardass", etc.) has essentially been shown to be wrong. Homeostasis is a bitch.

Weight control is far more about maintaining healthy insulin and hormone levels - more sleep, less sugar, alcohol and carbs, some moderate exercise but not full-on jogging - than denying yourself food.

If you haven't already, I highly recommend reading "Good Calories, Bad Calories" - it goes into a lot of the scientific background, weight loss and overfeeding studies, etc.
Any thoughts on continuing to use this rhetoric despite a lack of any reports that any one of these supposed people got so much as a papercut in the aftermath, despite all the fear mongering suggesting that those people might be "in serious trouble soon" shortly after the release?