skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently bought some leathergoods from a company who have a page called "Our Competitors". It's a list of 20 companies who make the same categories of goods.

Nothing quite inspires confidence like that.
My kids know not to run out into traffic and they know to stay at my side when walking in a parking lot because they have been told over and over that it is a dangerous place (and punished for doing otherwise). But, no matter how well they know it if I pull into a parking lot of a restaurant and Grandma and Grandpa are standing there, the kids run for them in excitement. They are smart for their age, but they are still little kids.

That's why public safety has to be a balance between rights and responsibilities that may not always seem "fair" to some. I can not say what my kids would do if I pulled into that cul-de-sac and they hopped out of the car and saw a firetruck sitting right there. I know I would not want any old belligerent "its-my-right-of-way" guy driving that thing but I doubt there will be some sort of epidemic of firetruck driving in my area any time soon.

(As a farmer I think I come to this with a different perspective than most. I work with heavy equipment all the time in a yard where my kids run around, but in a remote yard with just your kids it is pretty easy to do a head-count before you move something.)
FTE -> Full Time Employee
There is a particular use case where output buffering worked better on Apache/mod_php, but I believe it's been fixed.
5 second inhale, 5 second exhale, repeat 5 second inhale/exhale X times or for Y minutes, etc.

Note that 5, 7, and 10 are arbitrary numbers that may change per person. The rate of inhale/exhale should be as constant as possible as well, meaning you don't fill/empty your lungs in the first 3 seconds and start slowing the last 2 seconds.
It's worth noting that advertising is not free: 5% equity or 2% royalty goes to Shark Tank just for appearing. See the last page of http://a.abc.com/media/primetime/sharktank/SharkTank3OpenCal...
This is absolutely brilliant if you want to teach kids lessons about raising money. What better way to teach the barnum lesson about suckers than to take advantage of them? I can fully imagine the mother thinking that this is a lesson she wanted to teach her daughter.
No. I was always taught not to play in the street.
Who's misdirecting? You still haven't cited anything. I'll play along though; which nutrient(s) can only be obtained from animal sources? Even B12 is only accumulated in animal tissue, it's not produced by animals.

Anecdotally, I've been following a thoughtful vegan diet with B12 supplementation for 8 years. The results of my last blood test (including tests for various likely deficiencies) were exemplary. Could you post something other than your opinion? Otherwise, I'm done here.
People have to try not giving a fuck? It comes rather easily to me ;) Maybe I just don't have much to worry about.
It sounds like he's not stealing his fuel or evading taxation on the vehicle, so any problem you have with it is a problem with your local tax structure. Take it up with the government, not HN.

(I think people are upset that clean energy costs more than dirty energy. But I'm guessing I pay a lot less to ride my bike to the grocery store than he pays to drive his fire truck there. So perhaps things are working as intended.)
Best quote from that conversation: "I see kickstarter on the same level as Quibids these days"
Text is very hard to read on that background, barely noticeable. I suggest changing background, or text color and making it slightly larger.
Not right at the moment, but I might put that in later once I've got more of that information. Wikipedia already has this, though:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_requirements_for_United_St...
Show HN: Weekend project - assessment reminders for personal trainers
Thank you so much! Your site saved us big time! My girlfriend is from one of the visa waiver countries, and she is coming to the U.S. to visit me in June. And guess what? We have never heard of the ESTA requirement until today. I wish online travel ticket agency could be more specific and tell us all the required documents. Does anyone know what would happen if you forgot or didn't know about ESTA?
i kept one copy open on my monitor while i read the other on my kindle. far nicer than flipping.
I am the author of the neckbeardrepublic.com that he linked to and I went to great length not to let the name of the site take away from the content and the community I am trying to build.

5% of my subscribers are women, which hopefully goes to show that they too seem to understand lighthearted poke at ourselves.

https://www.neckbeardrepublic.com/faqs/
Our Responsibility to the Thinking Handed Down to Us
>> I do wish people understood why having relying only on even 2-week-old backups is unacceptable

Yes, but i'm not convinced you see that this is EXACTLY what you are exposing yourself to.

What if next time it's a (nasty) bug in git? A push causes corruption perhaps?

Drop the idea of using git itself to host the backup strategy. Switch to plain old backups, if space (or performance - i'd wager the kde git repos must total a good few hundred GB, if not more, if there's artwork or other binaries in there too) is an issue there would be nothing wrong with incrementals for the */30 min backups.
I have a friend who has been doing this at a significant business ($70m/yr) in a very high technology company for over 20 years. When I asked "what if no women apply?" Her answer was "you aren't looking hard enough."
Does this analysis include how many deals actually close? There is a due diligence phase after the show is taped and I'm under the impression very few deals actually complete....
I still believe that Google will reverse course on this greader issue...
So about a year ago, I created Visamapper(www.visamapper.com) for the same purpose.I ended up crowdsourcing the data. Slightly different take on the interface as your project. But I have to say, I'm just a little jealous because visamapper didn't get any attention on HN :-). Anyways, Nice job with the design. Small nitpick: The list of countries at the bottom is unreadable with the current font color.
The Wired PR one is too much. I read WIR :D PR.

I quite like the idea of having a smiley in a company name actually…
Learning JavaScript - my experience and advice
Previous, lively HN discussion, not six hours old at this point: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5433258
nginx has data structures that scale sub-linearly with the number of requests. this is desirable. others usually don't do things this way.
Paul Graham has written essays about this, so I feel like you're muttering to the choir here.

That said, brilliant demonstration of a known failure mode for HN: using copywriting tactic head lines.

Why I ...
How I ...
What You ...
That's so frightening. I was thinking of this exact thing as a business idea on a road trip this weekend. Comfy chairs, a cash bar, maybe pool/foozball/darts. Companies could rent space out for interviews. You could rent rooms to hang out and bounce ideas around, or maybe have an open space where you can just draw up and chat about ideas and allow others to freely come over and weigh in on them. You might meet a new employee or employer this way.

The names I had in mind were ThinkBar and... uh... "Lounge" something.

Anyway, I just thought it interesting that I'd be mulling this over all weekend and jump on Hacker News, only to see this post.
Law schools: Still hiding the sad truth from students
I'm generally a pretty big fan of remote work. I think it reduces overhead, can increase productivity for the right person/teams, and ultimately frees up time for the employee which they return in kind to their employer.

Congress is not an industry I would trust to be away from video monitoring, however lame it may very well be.

Here is 2013 House Calendar: http://i.imgur.com/oxkekO2.png The dark days, 126 in total, are when they are supposed to be working. Catch CSPAN on a lame bill and see how many of them show up. Now imagine what it would be like if those pesky cameras weren't there and/or an aid could dial in.
Is newsjacking the ultimate use of media for companies?
That's interesting. I suggest we get rid of downvotes altogether, and replace upvotes with a tally of click-throughs. If you really find a topic of interest, surely reading it is the one true upvote. To then come back and downvote it can register your disapproval, but not your lack of interest! No interest=no click-through=no upvote.
I don't think "don't end up with a sugar daddy" is an appropriate motivational tactic for a little girl...

But, other than that, I don't see the problem. It seems mom is trying to instill her daughter with some 'how to hustle' life skills.

This seems like a modern-day take on "if you want to go to camp, sell lemonade and pay for it yourself."
Personally, I think it's irrelevant how much money her mom has and this could be a great teaching lesson for her daughter. The modern day lemonade stand.

But...I don't think her daughter has much to do with this: http://i.imgur.com/F03oG3e.png (picture of Larry King & Donald Trump with their "trophy wives") or this http://i.imgur.com/Y0yH2OK.png (I think it's a Greek billionaire w/ younger woman but not sure). If this was a project for a 9 yr old girl it would be much more about the actual project. Instead, it appears the mom is trying to take advantage of feminists who might be down after the whole PyCon fiasco.

And her mom's previous attempt to raise $20k for making capes has to make one wonder how much of the cash is going to her pocket. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/susanwilson/the-cape-pro...

Edit: Fact that mom has a debt collection business - maybe it's just me but makes it feel more likely the intentions aren't completely honorable.
I think my favourite one is the Robarov logo
How Harvard became part of the problem with college sports.
The first one of those has some rather questionable information, so I wouldn't plan your trip based on what it says. For example, it claims Australians can get a visa on arrival in East Timor, which isn't true.

I've not come across visamapper.com, but it looks good.
Hacker news should be above this salacious crap. This is a distraction of little consequence.
The article's statement "Putting them within a transaction is also no good, as you can't read and make decisions on the result (is the result of the select null?)" is not correct. You can implement task assignment in a SERIALIZABLE-capable RDBMS using a single "UPDATE ... SET assigned_to = 'me' WHERE assigned_to IS NULL" statement, or the equivalent of "SELECT FOR UPDATE" at the beginning of a transaction in order to examine the row in advance.
Lemme give a counterpoint:

What if the lesson here were to teach how to raise money? What if it were to go through the actual process of building a game (which includes far more than just writing the game)? Instead of looking at it as a scam, this is a mother who is trying to teach her daughter some valuable life lessons that I wish I learned when I was young (I'm male, but that's beside the point).

To put it in terms more germane to technology, she has a brilliant pitch (appealing to gender issues), really good reward items (lots of people get burned by underpricing those) and a really modest goal (even if she doesn't finish the game, everyone chipping money into the kickstarter feels good)
US will scan private traffic in name of Cyber-Security
A counter.
I've heard Cuban interviewed a couple times. A tiny fraction of what gets a deal on the show actually close the deal. Once they do the due-diligence with facts and actual numbers, things tend to fall apart. More on that: http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/tv/deal_interrupted_cP...
The law hasn't caught up to today's social standards quite yet. Just like you can fire someone because you don't like how they dress, you can fire someone for being gay, as choice in clothes and sexual orientation aren't "protected classes":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_class
Really well done and love the SEO-ness that provides real value for folks! Nice tool
Zokos: Has anyone in SF tried it?
The address isn't the private bit, it's the association of the address with the leaking organization that's private.
As a 56 year old gay man, and defender of women (I have two sisters), I applaud your bravery and standing up for your beliefs. Much congrats to you! You stood up for yourself, and you are a winner! Thanks for doing so.

Sincerely, Tim Monteith
I don't think the fact she is obviously very wealthy is the issue here. Sure, there are some who have the attitude, "She's rich, she doesn't need the money" the Kickstarter is for her kid. Perhaps to teach her daughter a lesson in entrepreneurialism, to teach her daughter a life lesson. It would be too easy for a parent like Susan Wilson to throw money at this RPG camp and say, "There you go have fun". The real problem here is the fact Susan is making her sons public villains here, posting a photo of them and making them out to be really horrible people when in reality what brother isn't horrible to his sisters when growing up? I was horrible and terrorised my 5 sisters (only boy), it's how things go. I would hate to think how I would feel if my parents exploited this very normal fact.

When I was a kid and wanted money (I was around 10) my parents gave me a proposition. My dad is a small engine mechanic, so he gave me a mower and a whipper snipper and said if I wanted to earn money I should go knock on doors and ask if they wanted to mow their lawn. And who honestly would say no to a 10 year old kid (I was quite small for 10 too)? The catch here was any money I earned had to be invested in paying for fuel (fuel was way under a $1 when I was 10), they supplied the fuel initially and then I had to keep buying my own. While Kickstarter doesn't involve any effort, it seems Susan is teaching her kid how to hustle much like my parents did when I was younger. If my parents were rich, would it have been a low thing for them to do? Definitely not. My parents weren't rich, but if they were I can't see the harm in making your kids work for their money (no matter which way they decide to do so).

Are we forgetting gaming companies and people in the industry with money have been exploiting Kickstarter in the same kind of ways, why is Susan any different? She even discloses some information about herself on her Kickstarter bio, it doesn't appear she is trying to hide who she really is, what's the problem with exception of the exploitation here? Maybe her daughter really wants to go to this camp and make a game. The thing that irks me is the high tiered rewards, if the camp is only just under a $1000, what is the rest of the money going towards? Why a $10,000 tier?
You get denied boarding - airlines have access to the ESTA system at check-in. Glad to have been of help!
Predicting Cereal Brand Marketshare
The problem with this and your comparison to lemonade sales is that the lemonade-sale is honest. You bought lemonade and you paid 50 cents. This KS thing was just a big lie designed to pull on heart-strings. Little girl at the corner maybe makes $100 if it's a nice neighborhood and the weather is hot. This KS looks to have collected about 20 grand, for a millionaire mom.
I assume(wrongly?) that the girl selling lemonade at the corner is not rich.
MongoDB 2.4.1 available with fix for critical replica set issue
This is me lighting my own fire.
I've always held back and down played my emotions because I was afraid of being embarrassed or ridiculed. I've never fully expressed what I want, gotten passionate about it, and then dedicated myself and believed in myself to do something. Until now.

I'm a fat, lazy, and cowardly shell of a person. I'm a naturally gifted person so growing up I was always praised and never pushed, even though I've never given 100% of myself to anything. Most would call me accomplished - I graduated with two separate, difficult degrees with honors and make a nice living building iPad apps. But on the inside I know that I'm living an incredibly small proportion of who I can be and who I want to be.

I gained 70 pounds in college and haven't lost hardly any of it since graduating two years ago. I try to prepare for ridiculous interview questions for jobs that I probably won't be happy at.

Fear of failing and a disbelief in myself have held me back and resorted me to begging people for a chance to get them coffee and tell them how lovely their new Ferrari looks. Well fuck that.

It took me long enough, but I've finally realized that I need to let my passion out and I have to be the source of my own motivation. When I played sports in high school, I was mediocre in practices until one of the coaches would spark a fire in me by yelling at me. Then, I beat everyone in everything. Sprints, weights, endurance - you name it. Once my fire was lit, I was unstoppable.

And this is me lighting my own fire. I'm going to be unstoppable.

In the next year, I'm going to:

1. Lose 70 pounds.
2. Build a team and a business plan to make the world a better place.
3. Execute, execute, execute.

I'm posting this here under my real name to hold myself accountable and to begin to allow my passion to inspire others to join me. Contact me at miles.matthias [at] gmail if you're interested in building something awesome, making the world a better place, and not taking shit from anyone.
I already reported her campaign to kickstarter. I did my duty.
See, you didn't actually say story, you said experiment. I wouldn't base my theories on a single story. Instead I've been following this experiment for a year, during which many of the people involved seem to think that sexism actually is one of the factors.

Hacker school amended their policy with "no subtle sexism", the CTO of Etsy said that it was harder to hire great women because they tend to have a history of bad experience and one of the attendees, which was later hired by Etsy, specifically pointed out sexism as a problem within the tech community.

This of course also make me think that sexism or, like I said, something devolved from sexism actually is a factor for women. It was at least definitely part of the experiment.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4LExVkv4Pw
http://firstround.com/article/How-Etsy-Grew-their-Number-of-...
http://marthakelly.github.com/blog/2013/03/10/an-open-letter...
And perhaps the greatest of them all... FedEx. (see http://www.fastcodesign.com/1671067/the-story-behind-the-fam...)
This is quite cool. I wish we had something like this in Beijing. Also, nice Sherlock Holmes reference.
"This KS thing was just a big lie designed to pull on heart-strings."

I don't doubt that every single contributor feels better about himself or herself, even though they essentially purchased overpriced clothes. The lemonade itself is overpriced: You could squeeze lemonade yourself or get one of those packets for far less than 50 cents. In both case, the appeal is to emotion.
Correction, if you want to teach your children how to be sleezeballs and raise money the huckster way.

There are more than a few ways to make money, raise money, and live life that don't involve being a scumbag.
relevant.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/susanwilson/9-year-old-b...
There are many problems with the theory you espouse here but I will pick on just one thing. The idea that over the last X number of years you can reasonably compare one item to another for many things. A car or a house in the 1950's does not remotely compare to one today, the technology and the safety elements in a 1950's "box with wheels" compared to what you get with a modern car?

Incomes are stagnant or declining in real terms we can agree on that. While low interest rates and easy credit are an element of that, why blame it on the "Fed" when easy money is happening the world over? After all, it is easy for average or poor people to shield their income for inflation, it is called getting a raise. Problems arise when the economy and tax system values capital over work - which was my original point.
If we truly value discussion above all else, then the optimum metric for link quality should be the ratio of comments to click-throughs. When people are going to the article and then coming back to discuss it, the article must be a quality cause for discussion.
My experiences in tech: Death by 1000 paper cuts
I hear you, but with respect think you have misconstrued the quotation. Montaigne is saying that the law is so wide and so complex that without knowing it we are constantly committing crimes, for which no fair judge would try us and for which we will never be punished, but nonetheless we are committing.

He exaggerates for effect both in the extent of the crimes and the extent of the punishment but, as a complement to the idea that an employer (if you will, a potentially "unfair judge") can extend their checks from criminal activity to all online activity and in so doing legitimately dismiss an employee, it seems an appropriate "polite" reply to my comment's parent.
Interesting. I'm sure they gained some customers due to that confidence, but I wonder how many they lost.
Robopocalypse, Daniel Wilson.

http://www.amazon.com/Robopocalypse-Novel-Daniel-H-Wilson/dp...
Access to HN posts
I am trying to use ec2 machines to scrape HN posts, but it isn't working. Specifically, it seems like HN is rate limiting request from ec2 machines. Does HN not want people scraping HN? How can I get access to all HN posts?
An HTTP level load balancer like nginx can do session affinity, which is helpful when your application server isn't stateless.

I guess a TCP load balancer could do them based on IP as well, but IPs don't identify sessions as well as cookies can.
Yes, that kind of focus, or 'being in the now' is an example of mindfulness. It's great, isn't it?

The idea of meditation is to exercise that ability so that you can bring it to the rest of your life. Ideally, you should have that state in everything: relationships, work, doing dishes...

There's a mistaken notion that meditation is something you do and then you go about the rest of your life, somehow magically more focused, calm, together. It's more like training for an athlete, who then goes on and uses that training (knowledge & fitness) in what they do.
good call, I'll update that.

I generally assume mySQL's feature-set, which I probably shouldn't do without clarification.
PostgreSQL does NOT have the capacity to scale enormously and to scale at all is far more complex than products like Cassandra or Riak.

http://labs.spotify.com/tag/postgresql/

And MySQL Cluster is a cohesive, built-in, well supported version for scaling MySQL. PostgreSQL has no equivalent.
The lemonade isn't necessarily overpriced. It involved a cost of time and labor. You're exchanging not having to make that time and labor investment for money.

You have to buy lemons. You have to squeeze the lemons. You have to blend the lemonade right to get a good flavor. You have to refrigerate the lemonade.

Also, one of those little packets != actual lemonade.
Indeed! but there is also some benefit with open plan. You can fire ideas and questions away without picking up the phone or walk down the hallway to reach your coworker cubicle or office. It also let you know your teammate better. With that being said, I am all for private space since I can think better in quiet place and dislike having people walking around my back and staring at my screen.
United States -> China (a pretty important route that does require a visa) says no information.
So you said you "love being able" to do something that you have not tried (since you didn't know it was impossible you must not have tried it)? I think you should evaluate systems based on how they work for your use case, not by how they might work if you wanted to do something later.
Perhaps you're right. I guess to bring it to a finer point, I assume(wrongly?) that the girl I'm buying lemonade from desperately needs the money.
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