skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Michael Dell lays out his plan
Announcing Google Reader Alerts
I believe (but am not 100%) that the companies listed pay at least $7k not including housing stipend. I could be wrong, so feel free to correct me.
Think of it this way:

Person A: one who gives Bitcoins in exchange for Widgets.
Person B: one who gives Widgets in exchange for Bitcoins.

Notice the symmetry. The name buyer and seller are arbitrary designations depending on what you consider the currency and what you consider the good being sold.

The inflation/deflation symmetry exists but it is not in the same terms. Deflation for bitcoins is the same as inflation for widgets. The widget holders are desperate to trade their widgets for bitcoins since their widgets's purchasing power is decreasing, but bitcoin holders are reluctant to buy widgets since their value is decreasing.
A game when games were new
Remove the non-essential. Figuring out what is essential can be difficult, so prototyping, testing and iterating are crucial.
jacobian,

can we be more clear about tolerance of respectful dissent? I feel like the language in the present draft of the document gives an overbearing feeling and has aspects of thinly veiled political correctness enforcement.

please don't misunderstand my sentiment. i'm not meaning to excuse bigoted language of any kind. i do, however, think that a code of conduct ought to be much much much more clear that it is a set of guidelines for people to interact WITH disagreement, rather than a set of rules for stifling dissent.
You did not answer my questions regarding hoarding. If you don't have an answer, how are you so sure about moral character of "hoarding"?
Google Sleep is coming out with a new method to make people get more sleep utilizing their multiple platforms: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c40V1bCvLAs

It's called "bedtime guard."
I think it's fair to include them don't you think?
No, it is copyright law that is "silly." When we need to build antenna arrays just to get around ludicrously outdated restrictions, the problem is the restrictions. What makes copyright worse is that the restrictions it imposes on our use of modern technology have not remained in place because the wheels of politics are slow, but because our politicians would rather protect anachronistic business models than push society into a new age.
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My point was simply that no currency is backed by "stuff" any more. I was responding to your criticism of Bitcoin ("A currency can't make value out of nothing for long").

Of course Bitcoin is deflating - it was designed that way. And of course fiat currencies are inflating - there is no limit to how much can be printed except reason, which is apparently in short supply.
But there are many exceptions. For example, Cambridge (red), Somerville (yellow), Chelsea (green) and Roxbury (blue) are all within approximately the same distance of the center.
It's a silly, wasteful workaround to a silly, wasteful law. Go technologists! Get with the future, lawyers - it's already turned into the present!
Genius Google April fools joke
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Article read like an episode of Shark Tank. These sorts of real constraints is good information to mix into not-always-related-to-business technical discussions.
To be honest I dont understand what you disagree with in what I wrote.

My point is that how comfortable people are will change over time or depending on their situation.

I might use an ipad for reading instead and thus for me and million of other people that problem is not really there and you have a market.

The only way I can understand your comment is if you don't believe systems can become better over time.

I do.
Mapnificent might be what you're looking for: http://www.mapnificent.net/
DataRPM raises $250,000, launches natural language data service
America's raisin regime
"The concept that 'everyone is in the militia' is not the intent of the second amendment."

I didn't actually suggest that it was. My statement is that the second amendment is an individual right, not confined to the members of a militia, but that even if it were, you needn't be currently involved in a militia to be eligible.

"The Battle of Athens could easily have played out without firearms. Angry mobs marching on courthouses have been around forever. Firearms just makes the process shorter if you start using them."

Maybe. They could have petitioned the state legislature and, assuming they weren't complicit, would have gotten action in as little as a couple of months, during which time the ballots would have been destroyed and the damage done, and the illegal elections may or may not have been ultimately overturned.

"Like the end of Prohibition? Smoking marijuana? Women's vote? Equal rights for minorities? Gay marriage?"

Very good points actually, and it is generally why I believe so strongly in our political system, even when it sometimes fails us. I should amend my statement to "seldom" restored, for greater accuracy.
BING & Yahoo Content Testing....
Looks awesome - thanks! Is there a way to display a message when the instructions are opened, so the user knows to click to close?
Hi folks - If you've got feedback that you'd like us to take into account, can you please send it via the form (https://www.djangoproject.com/conduct/#feedback)? I have a shitty memory, and if you just leave suggestions here I'll probably forget 'em. Thanks!
Frames: Good or Bad?
>Morozov is an extremely well-read intellectual (often requiring Wikipedia to grok his allusions) -- he's an important counterbalance to Silicon Valley stupidity (or perhaps, lack of broader education).

Or he is just in love with the allusions. A good essay should not require independent research to figure out an allusion-it should be evident in the essay itself.

The article just doesn't have any sort of flow. It feels like Morozov had a pile of things he wanted to talk about, references he wanted to include, and points he wanted to attempt to make, but wasn't able to(or didn't bother to) make a coherent narrative out of the entire thing. The end result is that it feels disjointed and is very hard to read.

The 13th paragraph starts talking about O'Reilly's origin. But why is it there? The closest reference to his origin is in the 5th paragraph. The next 8 paragraphs are spent jumping all over the last 15 or so years.

Another example is the reference to Neil Postman. The two paragraphs dedicated to him is absolutely worthless, as Postman is used to refer to Alfred Korzybski, who Morozov then related to O'Reilley. There isn't any reason for Postman to be in there other than to have the reference. There is no link to O'Reilly, aside from a throwaway sentence referring to Postman's work 31 paragraphs(and 2 sections) after the last Postman reference.
Read about evergreening first. The issue is not that India is denying some novel invention - but a slightly modified version of an already expired patent.
What time do top CEOs wake up?
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It's a bit slow and prone to crashes, but mapnificent is a decent tool for this: http://www.mapnificent.net/
WIT - Free engineering/networking focused public charter school in Utah (9-12)
Agreed. Well when you have something new to share, i hope i read it. Im really interested in the social dynamics involved in an age we moving to where notions personal data and of privacy are willingly becoming obsolete (as noticed by the apathetic people your bot responded to).
I know little about Django.

Have you really had a problem with the behavior of your participants that requires this formal code of conduct as a solution?

Your code of conduct on its face seems innocuous, but there seems to be an elephant that you are trying not to discuss.

As illustrated by great-grandparent, there seem to be many eager to take your code of conduct and wielding it like a shield use it to bludgeon others with behavior contrary to your intentions.

Excellently written answer to deal with the torrent of complaints spewed by man-children at the requirement they be considerate of others. "My free speeches!" and "How dare you censor me?" and "But what about my get-back-in-the-kitchen and make-me-a-sandwich jokes?! You've killed comedy!"

If I had a suggestion, it would be to take from the Wikipedia and assume good faith which is a principle that your Speak Up! source also dances around, in that it seems a person can "assume bad faith" and still comply with each principle in your code of conduct.

Don't be a dick.
Do unto others....
Assume good faith.

Each of these seem to concisely cover the issues you have without leading to their abuse, or tyranny of the (majority, minority).
Could they sell you the DVD while you are streaming it and then they buy it back when the stream is done. This could all be done automatically.
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Let me guess - it was another engineering sweatshop with sleep deprivation, redbull, adderall, pizza, and body odour. How fun.
The academic requirement is just one year of post-secondary, even an abandoned degree would work.
looks amazing !

Will this be open-sourced one day ? Or maybe integrated into TileMill ?
"Palo Alto . . . is very clearly a college town".

I think it's worth noting that Palo Alto is not very much of a college town at all.
> In fact our instructors are paid when students complete a task, not when students sign-up.

Interesting model. I like the thought of trying to align student and instructor motivations. Getting paid for engagement is a great way to do that.

I wonder, though, if it puts pressure on the difficulty of the tasks? Can instructors game this system (if they wanted to, as I'm sure most don't) by the types of tasks they assign, thereby potentially impacting the quality of your content?
Current intern in SF at the moment...

34% of my salary is going to rent and I get to live in the heart of SF, in SoMa. The place is gorgeous and the location is safe.

It just takes some effort to find a good place.
They need to trust you for 10-20 minutes before confirmation, not forever like with borrowed piece of gold.
Gmail Blue for Android devices is available now (video)
Getting the money and basic policy right is the easiest part. The fact is that it's really really hard to compete with California's intrinsic benefits. If Canada wants to develop its own SV, they need to figure out how to develop single region that's extremely attractive to a wide demographic range of the highest achieving among us. This means cultivating a place with a sophisticated and edgy culture, an awesome lifestyle, and compelling geography.

If I were a Canadian policy maker, I'd probably work from the intrinsic potential of Vancouver. Pour money and talent into UBC and/or SFU, set up hundreds of live-work artist studios, sponsor the construction of maker spaces and publicly accessible wet labs, liberalize drug policy, and set up a visa program to bring in and house the best and the brightest from all over (South America, Europe, Asia), and direct them all to a relatively small and extremely fun area.

And perhaps most of all, avoid "Made in Canada/BC" provincialism.
Sometimes I feel like I'm the only person who scrolls up and down through pages with the arrow keys. I don't like it when sites mess with them.
>All three of the attributes I listed are weaknesses.

According to whom?

>"How to Make Friends and Influence People"

Leadership isn't about making friends; it's about getting people to obey. Hitler, Stalin and Steve Jobs all knew this well.
Rock on, then. If this is the MVP of a bigger, Nest-like vision, and/or a springboard into more projects, all the more power to you.

BTW, I did not intend to come off as a dick in my previous post, and I apologize if I did. What I was trying to say is that I am really more interested in the what-happens-after phase than I am in the fundraising phase, and I don't think we -- meaning we, the community, the press, the readers, etc. -- spend enough time or attention following up with the people who've launched big. And we should certainly root for the success of those who do.
A theory of sky-high company acquisition prices
This was what I was curious about -- let's say, as you work your way up a mountain, the bottom never has snow, the middle has snow 50% of the time, and the top has snow 100% of the time.

How do you decide where the border is? You're going to have a snow cap of some size -- what size is it, and how do you get to look both realistic, and consistent-looking, without artificial-looking borders?

I do like your idea of it being summer everywhere, though, hemisphere be damned! :)
We've slipped from "every mass shooting" to "in many cases." I thought your comment was worth researching, and I should note that I found more mass shootings taking place in gun-free zones than I'd expected -- I'm glad you made the point. But I would also suggest that you may be accepting the research done by gun rights partisans with less skepticism than it deserves.

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?398679-62-Mass-S... is I think my final point here; it's a sympathetic gun rights advocate who went to the trouble of tracking and linking local ordinances where possible. He's only proven the case in about half the incidents. I know John Lott claims he researched all of them. If you happen to know where his supporting documentation is I'd be sincerely interested.
We're going to have bad law that treats bits as physical objects, hyper-technical workarounds and loopholes until we, as voters, confront the reality that content providers are now "charging for smells," and force Congress to do something about it. http://www.paulgraham.com/property.html
I think the main issue is a matter of motiviation for the classes. And I do not mean people being lazy, but the original impetus behind signing up for these classes.

For the Coursera classes I did sign up for, I did it because I am interested in the subject area, know almost nothing currently and wanted to gain some functional understanding. I would say of the classes I signed up for, and probably 50% of those I have seen all the lectures. But then I go off and incorporate into side projects to test out / make sure I understand the materials. I have never turned in an assignment, (almost) never posted on a message board and never opened a final exam. Why should I? I am going straight to the application of the content into my projects, I've already achieved my goal of understanding and expanding my capabilities.

What reasons would someone have for wanting official completion of the course? On most courses, you do not gain any officially recognized credit, the certificate has limited (if any) commercial marketability for someone... so again, why would I want to go through the hassle of officially completing the course?

Two takeaways from these thoughts are the following: 1) How many people like myself have utilized the content of the course but are not seen as retained due to the fact they do not partake in the academic completion side? 2) What potential motivators can exist in the future to drive completion of the academic side of the coures? (college credit is the first one that comes to mind, but still does not help motivating many users who are above that age). What other drivers could come into being to incentivize?
Okay. In that case, I quite definitely misread. My sincerest apologies, davmre.
HackMyJizz... seriously? What sort of demented mind would come up with an idea like that?
Yes, you should be professional, the same way you'd probably be respectful at a dinner party that occurred outside of work hours. This is about as puritanical as a coffee shop that prevents you from bringing a guitar and amplifier in and playing loud riffs at 4pm. If you want to remove your mask then please, feel free to do so, but maybe find a more appropriate environment for letting loose than the Django community forums.

Also, really? The idea that asking people on Django-hosted channels to "be respectful" will lead to gun violence is pretty out there.
Thanks for response.

I think what you are doing makes sense for most purposes and I look forward to seeing the final layers.

I'm especially interested in snow cover because of a side project of mine (hillmap.com) that is targeted at backcountry travelers (ski tourers, hikers etc...especially winter travelers since it does things like avalanche terrain analysis in a canvas overlay).

Blue marble is cool and there are some overlays from NOAA etc but winter satellite photos good enough to answer questions like "is this typically an open snow field or heinous bushwhack" or "does this lake freeze over" would be really useful for planing trips in winter or colder climates.

If you guys (or someone) hosted the daily datasets it would be possible to do the processing client side in a canvas for a user defined time periods which would be an awesome tool.
I do think the gadget is pretty cool, and I'm interested to see where it goes.
Do banks regularly buy lists of their own compromised accounts? If not, why? Surely it'd be cheaper in the long run?
At work I read about 10x more code than I write.
Great turnout. The enthusiasm and projects were top-notch.
What is Jelly?
Which is the best time for these sort of things.
The ultimate in minimalist wallets
Ugh...episteme's a word that dates back to Plato, although the author seems to use it like Foucault does in 'The Order of Things.'

That is--it's exceptionally NOT "coming up" with the word, assuming you mean to imply he's inventing the word for this article.

I like your first sentence though ;)
Not The Onion. This is really how ridiculous copyright law is.
I was answering a question about my sleeping habits in the face of cable television pricing models. Obviously this discussion has been driven to absurdity (by those who don't like to hear the logic of it).
Got to be the best way books can only teach you so much!
Ok, maybe I'm missing the point of this, but aren't phone numbers, by their nature, mostly public information anyway? There's this big fat book that maps name to phone number, and I'm sure there are a few online versions as well.

If you're not trying to make your Twitter handle anonymous, then why not tweet your phone number?
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Electronics become cheaper due to technological improvements, that is, positive supply shocks. That means our real wealth is increasing. That's a good thing!

Electronics might also became cheaper due to, say, someone setting money on fire, so there's less to go around. Clearly in this case our real wealth would not be increasing, so it's not good. But it's not obvious why it should be bad, either.

The reason it's bad is due to our psychology. If the money supply shrinks (and nothing else changes), prices and wages must both go down. But people hate the idea of negotiating a lower wage, so instead wage drops are accomplished through layoffs and unemployment. That's bad because it means that people aren't working: the economy's real output is reduced.

So inflation provides a buffer that allows the economy to adjust wages downwards in a way that we find more palatable than negotiated nominal wage decreases.
Hi, This is Jim Boykin. I have no records of ever doing anything for onlineslangdictionary.com ...but I guess it "no longer applies here"...but just strange that you'd associate me with this website...hum I wonder who else I'm associated with by google whom I have had nothing to do with...
The Ada template is something different, being mostly designed for in-person events. There's more on that here: https://www.djangoproject.com/conduct/#dsf-events. If you've got further questions, can you leave 'em via the feedback form? Otherwise we might miss 'em.