skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, 5 years in the Infantry (Canada). Both sides of the spectrum from a team perspective.

I think one thing the military does really well is critique. Nothing you ever do is perfect. There's always something someone will find for you to do better next time,even if it's the best piece of tactics anyone has ever seen. This is particularly for team leaders.

People see the yelling and screaming of bootcamp and figure that's just the way life in the army is. It isn't. These are shock courses specifically designed for stress purposes. Real learning takes place calmly and with a more cooperative technique, particularly when training leaders, but also when learning more advanced weapon systems and/or techniques, and almost always when discussing tactics.

Thinking back now, there are many periods for peer-review (never lower than peer), but in these instances are almost always done in collaborative training sessions, where it is recognized that people are going to make mistakes and that everyone will receive both positive and negative feedback. One thing I realize is that while they are teaching a future leader on receiving critique, they are also teaching future leaders on how to critique. In the army it's very similar to a post game report of a sports team. I've not seen too much of that in a boardroom... everyone looks to deflect blame instead of improve the team performance.

Your personal performance reviews - where it counts - are always done privately, usually over a set discussion between you and your direct superiors. Publicly shaming a leader in front of junior troops is pretty much forbidden. Regardless of how much of a fuck-up a person may be, you can't have his troops thinking that he's not worth listening too.
If I was Knife Depot, I would focus on brainstorming a single opt-in offer they could use to have all their marketing and advertising channels function as a funnel for growing their email list.

"1 Badass Knife Per Week" is an opt-in offer that would get my attention, even though I'm not a knife guy.

I expand on this idea in this post: http://www.tinylever.com/one-badass-knife-per-week

Why be dependent on Google for your sales? Pay them once up front to help grow your list, and you'll be able monetize each subscriber for their lifetime using email - a FREE channel you own and control 100%.

A list is really where it's at, but to make list-building work you need a single opt-in offer that will cause people to sign up on the spot.

If you'd like some ideas for crafting your opt in offer, reach out right now by email: dan [at] tinylever [dot] com
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Well, I could write a huge long response to this, but it really boils down to one question for me: When one person calls another a cunt on Twitter, what exactly do you think I should do about that?

It's worth noting that every misogynistic, racist, sexist or threatening comment I've seen during this whole thing has been in screen shots because they all get downvoted or reported/removed before they cross my screen, which seems like exactly the right response from the community at large.
Indeed they did:

12/29 - They sent an ACTION REQUIRED email to update my DNS to point my domains to 8.17.82.104

1/8 - More emails to update my domains to 8.17.82.104

1/21 - An email telling me that once "migration is complete" I'll be informed of my new IP address

Since that last email on 1/21? NOTHING.
Yes, but at the same time, if the government does a few things to isolate the hackers from it, it could have its upsides. If the NSA is any indication, it can be done.
Exactly, the anonymous internet reacted in a way unfortunately unsurprising of them, but instead of focusing on the fact that trolls-will-troll, people continued blaming the dev community for adding insult to injury. I'm still getting replies to my response to mr-hank from accounts that were made specifically to comment on the matter. Alex is out of place in speaking down to the community this way; Reddit is a very large reason this place and her Twitter account got hailstormed with assholes on this topic (and misinformation about it) in the first place. He needs to look closer to home before he starts telling other people how to handle the blatant sexism and harassment in their communities.
I think you're supposed to use asterisks instead of saying the D-word now.
Its kind of different though isn't it. Amazon is a very big site and its is pretty unlikely that you would end up at a page that has these knives on it from any of amazons other ads. This is a highly focused website and it is very likely that you will end up on a page with these types of knifes from every single ad that they have.
I know it's not exactly a huge distro, but Chakra did the switch almost two months ago.

http://chakra-project.org/news/index.php?/archives/3-Switchi...
Read the author's previous pieces-- very little logic, lots of California-hate.

The premise of this article, Prop 30, is nothing new. Rehashing of the same things (from the same author no less) must give PandoDaily some page views or something
Although some founders might pursue high valuation as a way to get validation, the majority or at least good founders pursue high valuations to avoid dilution.

Another big reason would for recruiting. I've seen that's become increasingly common that job offers include options as prices instead of percentages. Eg you'll get $500,000 in stock based on the last round valuation as opposed to saying 0.5%. This is increasingly common in later stage companies and it seems to be very effective. Now companies in early stage with high valuations can do the same.
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Out of curiosity, why do you need to use both Postgres and MySQL/MariaDB?
the fcc has nothing to do with it. there are plenty of places on the internet that have pr0n (legally). it is more about american social norms.
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I see only open source applications. Can someone offer commercial applications that are not open source?
Yahoo Buys A Mobile News Startup Founded By A 15-Year-Old For $30 Million
Absolutely spot on. I would even extend this to developers. Why take a week to build a way to automate something that takes a human half a day when you don't know if anyone is ever going to pay for it?

I don't remember the company, but I was inspired by a fresh fruit+veg box-delivered-to-your-door founder. He made all the deliveries himself to start with rather than building a grandiose delivery platform or hiring.

I started my B2B company the same way. Initially I copied and pasted my code into customers sites. My 'ordering system' was just a PayPal express checkout. Zero backend. Man was it dull. But as a developer I knew I could automate 90% of what I needed to, when I needed to.

Now it's completely automated apart from support. Meaning my notional margin (cost of sale being my previous contracting rate) is at 85%. And I know I've just written the code I needed to so as to not do the mundane manual tasks anymore.
OP means user generated from google's perspective--Knife Depot is the user doing the generating.
Amazon doesn't do alcohol, either, which could also be for "corporate image" reasons, but does also have compliance issues (federally but mostly state-by-state).

It could also just be an economic decision, but given that Amazon prohibits certain firearms parts which aren't regulated anywhere (except maybe APO mailing to military, or internationally) like trigger assemblies, it seems more likely a corporate image thing.
There are some interesting made-to-measure companies too, like Blank Label and Indochino. Not sure if either lives in L.A., however.
The Inconvenient Truth About Product
"And if you want to say “thank you” you should do so on Jesse’s Gittip page."

OK, seriously?
I'm wondering is there a similar service for audio?
CodeCademy's course is very good, I thought.
Everything I suggested doing is free, so I have nothing to gain. Also, there's no other site that allows you to do what I suggested for free.

But yes, it is my site.
I watched his video that purported to explain the difference between a switchblade and a spring assisted knife. As far as I can tell the only difference is that the location of the switch has changed. This is a distinction without a substantive difference. So yo would need a slightly different hand movement to trigger this alternative spring-assisted knife. Big deal; as someone who used to like knives enough to have a small collection, I think I could get the necessary movement down in 10 or 15 minutes if someone handed me one of these

I have nothing against this guy promoting his business, but this is a switchblade as far as I'm concerned, just a slightly different design.
I largely boycott craigslist for other reasons (how they've treated companies that build on top of craigslist) already, so it's irrelevant to me. I'd still use them if I had no other choice, but they're my last choice.
I think language age is another point in support of your consistency argument. Older languages have had more massive library changes etc. whereas new languages or unused languages have libraries change much less and therefore less churn. It's why Lua can be at one end and Boo at the other. Or C# and Vala despite their similarities. Old languages with lots of users at the low-churn end of the spectrum are something to look at though.
I can't help with exporting tags from Reader but I will add tagging to http://rssident.com

The backend already supports it. I just have to add it to the UI.
The UI kept mostly out of the way. I could read it at any computer (and I read my feeds at at least 3 different machines). And the "killer feature" is/was that my feeds loaded instantly. I did not have to wait for every one of my 250+ feeds to open when I opened my "RSS reader".

I'm currently subscribed to NewsBlur and I have to wait for my feeds to load. It's not such a big deal as the UI is brilliant, but it's still annoying.

I'm trying out Feedly but I'm concerned about the behavior when Google Reader goes away since that's just a UI on top of what Google provides.

I'm still waiting in the import queue in The Old Reader.
These kinds of decisions, where we pick economic winners and losers, are political decisions

== A point, often overlooked.
Evil is a strong word with regards to the original article.

Having a double standard in the commercial world for whatever reason ranks pretty low on my list of evil things. Banks have been far more evil but they are rarely referred to as such. I think when commenting on such matters it's important to remain proportional.
I studied entrepreneurship at USC, and this was one of the big lessons. It's a whole school about startups from a non-Silicon Valley POV, and the point they drill home more than any is to get out and validate your concept in the market as early as possible. Talk to people in your target audience before investing in building a product. Every class in the program requires interviewing 25/50/100/etc. "strangers" in your target audience.

In fact, USC's online graduate program for education started this way. They were trying to decide whether to do it or not, so they put up a landing page with a broken buy button and bought AdSense against it. When they realized how many people were trying to buy, they decided it was a market worth satisfying and built the program behind it.
I used http://namecheap.com earlier today.
I've used BitNami a number of times and their product is incredibly polished and has a huge library of server apps. I needed to test some of our software with a couple of different versions of Drupal and I was able to spin up running instances in just a few minutes, without touching a command line. It's definitely a big step up from just launching an AMI.
No, but I like to keep a folder on the left-hand side with my project files. And 7px is far too uncomfortable for my ever worsening eyesight.
These "sharks" are terrible!

One of them offered him 75% equity for a $150K investment? The other one wants 100% equity and he'll give the entrepreneur a 4% royalty on gross revenue? What planet are they living on?

Anyway, the negotiation by the entrepreneur was very well done.
I took another look at the open source mail client "Evolution" last night after being a Thunderbird user for many years. I'm surprised how far it has come since last time I checked it out. Nice fast clean interface. Worked with PGP out of the box. Worked with my LDAP address book out of the box, including adding/editing entries. Worked with my Google calendars out of the box.
> How does Google think they can tell people what products to sell on their own shops?

They don't. They tell you that if you want to advertise with them then you can't sell that stuff. Big difference.

The problem is that Google is heading into monopoly territory - the same as MS back in the 90s, same as all the old telecomms companies, etc. At some point in the near future they'll be hit with anti-monopoly legislation, not sure whether it'll be the EU or US that does it first, but I don't think it's far off.
You can easily turn that off in the preferences http://i.imgur.com/fm8jEnY.png
That's roughly how it works in the UK: it's illegal to carry any knife besides a pocket knife in public without good reason. If you use knives at work, taking them to and from work is considered good reason.
Just a heads up. The logo looks like this on a retina display: http://i.imgur.com/eERXdzo.png
I agree, Google has had a contribution to the openness of the web. Unfortunately, in their haste to follow the paths of Apple and Facebook, they no longer seem to be making a contribution anymore. If anything, they are now actively "closing" the web.
There are lots of cases where third party cookies are used as auth tokens, not tracking tokens. Seems to me that the browser vendors should get together and come up with a better solution for browsers to store and manage auth tokens.

Right now it is done piecemeal by websites, but is confusing to end users. Having a direct, first-class API and UI in the browser that can show the user exactly what third party sites they are "logged into" and have a "Logout/Deauthorize" button next to them would be worthwhile, and have less of a chance of "breaking the web", or imposing workarounds that might hurt user experience.

BTW, how does Firefox treat a CORS XHR response? Does it allow a cookie to be set? Seems to be ad trackers could then just run a server that permits CORS, have a bit of JS that makes the request to opt it back in.
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You do know that 'hysterics' is specifically a reference to women being irrational, correct? Using a gendered insult isn't really helping your cause, there.
Google is behind it this year.

Next year, who knows?
Hey man, thanks for your reply.

From above:

> Context. You are supposed to comment on HN. You are not supposed to play in the street. If you played in a park, I'd expect you not to get hit by a car. If someone does get hit by a car while playing in a park, you don't suggest to that person they should avoid playing in the park.

What can I say, I just genuinely don't understand why this isn't a straw man. Part of this has to do with me not being the sharpest knife in the block. Of course, if someone just randomly posted a comment here and received one death threat for doing so, I wouldn't say that they shouldn't post anymore. Isn't that the closest interpretation of your analogy? I'm serious.

The reason I think the analogy doesn't fit is due to a few differences. First, the person in question has a history of writing fairly inflammatory comments, based on my personal reaction, based on the comments containing curse words, sarcasm, insults, and all-caps (more recently), and finally based on the comments receiving downvotes. The second difference is that it's not one death threat, but multiple death threats that were alleged. The third difference is that I didn't say don't post at all, I just said don't post in such an inflammatory way. Given these three fairly significant differences, I concluded that your argument was a straw man. I could be wrong about that, but you'll have to convince me.

I now believe she was referring to Adria and not herself, so I'm really just interested in understanding whether or not the claim of it being a straw man is correct. I mean, I don't want to accuse other people of throwing up straw men if I'm just making a fool of myself. And you're right, although I've known about logic for a while, it's only recently that I started taking it more seriously in the context of discussions. I linked to Wikipedia because I thought you didn't know what a straw man was, I apologize for the insult.

Whether or not I'm trolling, I don't know what to say. It strikes me that a lot of people who troll don't even realize that this is what they're doing, so maybe I am, I don't know. It's not conscious, if so. Apologies in advance?
I am a woman, and I work in software development, so I'm assuming I fit in your group called "women in tech". I have no idea what insults, abuse, threats, contempt, ridicule, disdain, and disregard I apparently have been routinely facing.

If "women in tech" did suffer so severely on a daily basis, it would not be relevant to Richards. Her job description seems to be "Developer Evangelist". I'm not sure what that specifically means, but I do know it isn't technical, and thus she isn't a "woman in tech".

Even if you do consider her a "woman in tech", the abuse Richards suffered while wrong is not something routinely faced by "women in tech". I understand that genitalia aren't generally supposed to be discussed at professional conferences, but am finding it very hard to see why this is an issue of harassment towards "women in tech" when no women were in the conversation at all. Since Richards felt it was, she was entitled to follow up with the conference leaders, and ask that they handle the situation appropriately, which she did. At this point in time, she could have enjoyed the rest of PyCon and gone home without suffering any abuse at all, happy that she spoke up about the conversation that she took offense to.

Instead she publicly posted the photos of the men who dared discuss genitalia amongst themselves in her presence in order to shame them. This is when she opened her self to (and received) abuse. She had already had the situation handled by the conference organizers, and thus had already spoken up about it without any abuse at all.

It is unfortunate that Richards received the huge storms of abuse that she did. But she chose to handle the situation in a way that invited that abuse, when there were clear ways to "speak up" that would not have resulted in such abuse.

This has everything to do with reacting to situations in a professional manner, and nothing to do with "women in tech" being able to speak up about legitimate sexual harassment.
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I dislike "Mindfulness in Plain English". I have not spent more than a few hours trying any specific technique it advocates, so it's really the writing and reasoning I recommend against.

I reviewed the author's claims in some depth a couple years ago:

http://jonathan.graehl.org/vipassana-meditation-part-1

http://jonathan.graehl.org/vipassana-meditation-part-2

http://jonathan.graehl.org/vipassana-meditation-part-3

I think, before adopting a regimen, we ought to ask ourselves: is there evidence that the advocates of it arrived at it by a reasonable process? Or, if they didn't, are the benefits (compared to alternatives) compelling enough to override the risk of your spending time making an assessment and making an error in the direction of credulity? (see http://lesswrong.com/lw/19m/privileging_the_hypothesis/ )
For others unfamiliar with the reference: http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2006/05/remember_the_co.html?c...
I Googled first and it took me to this page.

http://go-lang.cat-v.org/pure-go-libs

Next thing I did was ask on IRC, and there wasn't a consensus on which driver to use.
How do you believe they are "closing the web"?
Debian stable: Probably not for a while.

Ubuntu and Debian testing and up maybe sooner.
What is wrong with giving the organizer of the conference a tip if you think he deserves it?
This has certainly removed any lingering desire I might have had to visit Philadelphia.
What credentials does Google have to decide what is bogus versus what is not? Why should they get to decide what ads (for legal products) have a chance of being shown to me? Perhaps more importantly, especially for entrepreneurs, why should the effective "gateway to the Internet" be allowed to capriciously choose to favor established brands over small companies?
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Thanks for the feedback!

Yes, that's correct, but everything is relative. The recommended daily intake is the recommended nutrient amount divided by 2000 calories, and this value is then compared against every other food. The bars for each nutrient are calculated according to the formula ((nutrient/calorie)/maxValue), where maxValue is the highest (nutrient/calorie) in the comparison set, and the result is a percentage of the maxValue, and is the percentage the bar is filled. So it's all relative - the highest value will always be a full bar. If something has half as much per calorie, the bar will be half-full. On the nutrients page, there is no daily value that's being compared against - it's just foods against each other.

Measuring something per-serving isn't something that you can glean from the data as presented. For amaranth, if you compare it to the recommended daily intake, you'll see a full bar for amaranth and just a sliver for the recommended daily intake, meaning 2000 calories of amaranth would have way more calcium than you need. More usefully, the app can show you how amaranth compares against other foods to help you make choices. I'll think about how per-serving data could be included - thanks!
>I feel like this was a con, and yet I also feel strong social pressure to not share this opinion with my friends and co-workers.

Thank you. I feel the same way. I think that "feminism" like this - where a girl and her mom show how she's better than her stupid older brothers - is divisive, plays on peoples' emotions, and really makes things worse for all of us. It's not pushing equality, it's responding to "boys are better" with "no, girls are better." Yet if I were to say this openly, I'd be called a misogynist.
The big problem with recording any kind of video or audio on the web is Flash. It's a nightmare with well-known _major_ bugs in Chrome (good luck clicking on "Allow" if you're a Macbook Pro with Retina display user). If you guys can find a way to (a) solve that, and (b) take away that pain for other users, then you have real value here.
Seriously, I can't wait for HTML5 to be fully supported.
According to their site the assisted-opening knives are legal in all states, whereas switchblades aren't, so there must be some meaningful distinction (unless the law just hasn't caught up yet).
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The Georgia legislature recently rewrote our concealed carry laws to allow license holders to carry knives as well.