skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It proves that God is a third variable?

Hidden. Unknowable. The connecting thread between two completely unrelated incidents.
Open Road and HarperCollins battle over ebook rights to Julie of the Wolves
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Got super frustrating that my ability to even see how this site worked required me to drag my friends into this mess without their consent.

I'm going to add some explanations to the home page, I definitely agree with you here. It's a lot of trust to let someone access your Facebook, and we are not trying to abuse that trust. Your friend only finds out if someone is interested in talking to them, and if they want to delete their profile, it's easy to do.

Your friend will never find out unless you enter their e-mail address. We don't contact your friends on your behalf, ever. You must allow us to do that explicitly.

And from what I can see, there's no way for me to specify which genders I'm actually interested in meeting.

I don't want to exclude anyone from using this service. We're so early, which is why the feedback really helps me. There are two different things you mentioned here: one is the ability to wing your friends who are not straight. This requires a better filter. I can build that. The other part is creating a profile for your friend and indicating their sexual orientation so that other people on the site can indicate interest. That's a little tricky, but that can be added.

I'm going to e-mail you and see if you'd be open to helping me get this right, or if you know any friends who would be.
I'm not a chef but I can taste food.

That's an unfortunate simplification. Without a technical background, you wouldn't know how long it takes to make a basic CRUD app. "3 weeks? Ok I guess. Oh, 3 months actually? Ok I guess." And what about performance, scalability, costs, etc? You'd have no clue.
Makes sense. It's too bad teachers give lower scores for having too much info on slides that distract them from what the student is saying.
There's something really awesome when you start reading something on the front page of HN and realize the blog post is from someone you know :) Good stuff, David!!!
More like use a generality than lie. I know, while I read some profiles, I don't read any until I am physically attracted to the person.
Quality of software is beyond what it does, it also means how easy is it to maintain and change.
I love bid-week! Wait...
I sent Benioff an email once but never expected a reply, he replied in a couple of minutes as well.
Exactly my thinking I believe that the whole non techincal thing is kinda off a black cloud over my application . Im learning how to basics thru codeacademy but to answer the earlier question . There are tons of ways to assess the quality of the outsourced work...thank you
Just as a point of reference, I have 28 facebook friends, and I've been thinking about trimming that number down... but I'm pretty sure I exist.
You've written the awkward kid character to sound enlightened.
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Working as a programmer at a startup is different than starting one. I don't think that he is saying to start your own.
If you want to really show off the demoscene, try Farbrausch - fr-041.

It's comparatively very big (179KB), but impressive how they were able to squeeze so much stuff there: video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqu_IpkOYBg, official repository: http://j.mp/11ETcY0.

If you want to dig deeper, Farbrausch published most of their material and tools last year including the source code for fr-041. Search for farbrausch on GitHub. But I must say, it's pretty hardcore.
hit the nail on the head nlh. finding that equilibrium price is something we are constantly analyzing data to refine. we need to be careful not to have the upgrade cost so cheap that it cannibalizes ticket sales but also need to make it cheap enough that it makes sense. currently we take into account your original seat value plus time-based price decay. it's up to a venue what percentage discounts they want to apply across their inventory.
Just look up the typical lifespan of fiat currency. It's more of a stretch to say the USD will be here.
I mean the whole idea relying (solely?) on friends to find me dates thing already seems pretty bizarre, but even if you put that aside, the site has a browse functionality for a reason and presumably the intention of it existing is for people to be able to browse...

I mean I love my friends and when opportunities to set people up in good ways come along, I go ahead and make them happen... and I don't mind if a friend sets me up. But the whole feeling of a service where friends are setting up friends without having a dialogue about consent or you know, whether I'm even at all interested in them being involved in my dating life (god knows I have plenty of friends where I'm not interested in their suggestions) is just not really okay. And did I mention creepy? I did. But I should say it again for emphasis, because this doesn't feel like friends helping friends, it's just creepy.

I think adding a social aspect to dating is a great idea, but it's something that has to be done carefully and IMO this implementation seems radically bad.
If it's important never to trust Google with anything mission critical: For a mere $10 a month I'm using a rent-an-Exchange server per email address, and it's $2 a month if you want vanilla email (I still love Outlook all these years later).
I think responsive layouts for a phone screen is fine, and generally better for browsing, although it would be nice to have a button to disable it.

However responsive designs for tablets are pointless. My iPad provides a great experience for browsing full size websites. But even more, I use my browser on my screen with a width of 1078px wide. I use Divvy to manage my window locations and sizes, and on my 1440px wide screen this gives me a space on the left for Twitter or whatever other social network client I want.

Unfortunately, in the last few months I've noticed a few sites that I use regularly now have far too much padding at the sides and show less content, all because it's supposedly a tablet. The recent rise in this is mostly due to Bootstrap, which is convinced my browser is a tablet. In the past I have found the width to be perfect for displaying almost every site I encountered.
OpenSuse uses it, and I run it as my root partition. The snapshots are a wonderful system restore mechanism, and I have a cron script to snapshot root after a boot.

The only time I've ever had a problem with btrfs was after a power failure, but btrfsck worked to fix it (although since it isn't in fsck.btrfs, it doesn't automatically run on boot, so I had to use the repair partition).

I've been using it for a year. I have around 8 hard disks in my machine, running half a dozen filesystems from fat32 to ntfs to ext4 to xfs, but I like btrfs the most of the native linux FSes atm.
Thank you!

It is very obvious that this is a flawed study to begin with as it's being conducted by a company with a very obvious conflict of interest. For example, I hadn't heard of "atheist" shoes until now... PR stunt? Possibly!

The USPS is under serious attack by conservatives already, do we really need to lull liberals into hating it too with this strange sneaker campaign?

USPS has taken no government funding for decades and is the second largest employer in the US after walmart. It's time they got some help.
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Actually, it doesn't satisfy the second one. Unit of account traditionally has meant that it can settle all debts "public and private". It might allow you to settle private debts, but it will never allow you to settle public debts (which is really what drives a currency's value).
It uses google. I use Rover instead; they do the routing themselves based on the real-time arrival data (and they include sidecar and instantcab, though not lyft.

http://www.roversf.com/
[insert obligatory copy-and-paste of Man in the Arena]
I hope this is not true.
So far we have had a positive response from the various ticketing services in regards to partnering. We are currently deeply integrated with Ticketmaster's Archtics ticketing system and are working on completing the same for Tickets.com.
"Gold was seized by Roosevelt with Executive Order 6102 to prevent people from using gold as a currency"

That is not accurate. People were hoarding gold at the time, which was harming the economy. Gold currency was taken out of circulation by the government and replaced by a currency less prone to hoarding. Hoarding stopped because people were given money that was not worth hoarding -- which is a good thing for the economy.

"today physical gold has been bought by millions of people as a hedge against the world financial crisis"

Which is not a currency, any more than a building, a field, or a gun is currency.

"On these occasions and more people would use gold as a currency if they weren't prevented by law"

Nobody in this century is prevented from using gold as a currency, just like nobody is prevented from using Bitcoin as a currency. The only difference is that gold is not legal tender. People tend to gravitate towards legal tender as a currency, probably because people live in a society governed by laws and need to legally repay their debts (taxes and others).
There are a lot of negative comments about LivingSocial's business model. The irony is that a lot of what I see on HN and in tech is about mobile, social media, and games.
TL;DR: Startups=good

Thanks, good to know.
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Harsh! To be fair, it's meant for students at the university to see a real-life success story from their program. My school had these all the time and used them as a way to keep people engaged.
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Most of my sites generate HTML programmatically, so it has always been relatively easy for me to add semantic markup to my sites.

An OK article, except I don't particularly like the emphasis on SEO. SEO in general turns me off - wasted effort when time is better spent on producing useful and/or interesting content.

Good semantic markup in all forms, RDF files to match HTML content files, etc., etc., all move us towards an much more useful web. Admittedly, adoption has been slow, but in my opinion semantic markup is so worth doing because everyone benefits in the long term.
I'm inclined to agree with robgough's response.

Jobs didn't need to respond if he thought it was a waste of time and/or didn't care. He simply needed to give approval - not much else needed to be said.
All life advice is like this.

If you made a gigantic list of every piece of unique and actionable life advice you've ever heard or given, you could probably find 30% of them contradicting another 30%.

I am hedging by giving a number as low as 30.
Even though I'm sure just about everyone here on HN will somewhat agree with the gist of the slides (startups are fun!), I'm not sure if this is good advice for students. I'm 27 and just now finishing up my undergraduate degree (at a top 10 US university) as I took several years doing various startup stuff and working. Most of my friends have already been done with their degrees for a while -- a very small minority work in start-ups. The start-up world is NOT for most people. To be successful (which I am not, don't get me wrong) you have to be very smart and technical, but you also need luck, good timing, and (most importantly) persistence.

In many ways, the start-up world is like professional body-building. Sure genes can help (genius prodigy 16 year old goes to MIT), but what really makes you a winner is persistence. Also, steroids can't hurt (connections in the Valley).

Most college students are NOT fit for the start-up world. At all. Especially considering CS departments have taken a dive since the late 90s.
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It was actually the experiement in Omitara, Namibia mentioned on the wikipedia page you linked (thanks) I remembered.
I'd actually disagree with working for a startup when first graduating. The thing to do is get the highest paying job and kill off all your debt, then be picky.
Thanks - their comments (below the infographic) are awesome - very level headed and it looks like they are going to publish a peer-reviewed paper.
I want to know the Github kicked-out-of-bar story.
Thats a pretty cool tool. I think it raises the question though - do startups need a tagline? I don't really believe they do.
As if that matters one iota.

For one, it's merely one of around 20 steps you have to take in either case anyway (steps like: type url, press enter to goto page, wait for page to load, click through some license staff, click to start to play, click for fullscreen if you want, wait for assets and loading, click game settings, suffer through the intro, read help for the game controls, etc). So, yes, you might get rid of one measly step -- all the while introducing other steps, lags and inefficiencies.

Second, this step buys you freedom from having the program run on somebody else's mercy. Of course for networked games and apps with central servers you cannot avoid it.

But I would sure as hell like to avoid it for any program that doesn't need a central server. I don't want to use "Photoshop in the browser" and loose all my stuff when Adobe decides to lock me out or kill the service a la Google Reader. Plus have it be susceptible to internet outages, slowdowns, and using technologies and speeds that's 2-3 generations behind a native app. Not all programs gain from running on the browser. A lot of them lose.
And JDate, BlackPeopleMeet, et al don't solve these culture x problems?
Fair enough. Then I would like to see the speech from the employee who jumped ship from their stable job at BigCorp to a startup that went bust 6 months later. Or the person who works at the slow-growth startup where little exciting happens because the company never really goes viral (or whatever), but he's still expected to work 60 hours a week.

The chances that the startup you go to work for is the next GitHub is incredibly small.
They are 71.
I've felt this myself as well. When I get to the point of being stuck on a question, it is often in such a niche that getting help on it is very difficult.
So...90% of people, give or take, are straight.

Online dating is a clusterfuck of failure for straight people (ask anyone who's tried it, or the OP.)

Online dating mostly works for gays and lesbians (you say so, I've seen the same from others.)

And this guy is an idiot for trying to cater to the straight dating market? Precisely why?
It's quite common to leave school/university and enter a big corporation that provides more than financial benefits. As someone without any experience, surrounding yourself with brilliant people is humbling for one.

Also I found myself learning far more than school ever taught me.

After a tour of duty at a big company then startups make the most sense, bringing your experience and connections into a world where you can learn to think outside your specialities and have a far larger direct impact on a company.
It may not always be about getting a better view, at times you may just want to escape a bad seating situation or impress a date/client/etc
Zoom is also disabled, makes it hard to read on mobile.
This is one smart cookie, and a good egg too [insert your own food metaphor here]. Given Alex's intellectual and human qualities I can't recommend this highly enough!
the new choose-tree commmand is superb, for anyone who regularly uses tmux and already understands how great it is, you should consider upgrading for this alone..

with several sessions running on most of my machines, i frequently found myself `detaching` and `reattaching` to a different session... as the `choose-session` command gives you a full list of all the windows, which tends to obfuscate exactly what's going on, particularly if you have a bunch of sessions and windows..

however, the `choose-tree` gives you a session tree, which you can expand and easily identify... meaning that instead of sending `^a d`, followed by tmux attach sessionname you can comfortably do a `^a s` and get where you want to be (presuming you've remapped ^b to ^a)

also, you should be using the tmux buffers, `^a =`!
At least in my vim, Makefiles are automatically set to noexpandtab even-though I have it set to automatically expand tabs for everything else.
It's easy to hate on this presentation as "unsubstantive" and biased, but if I could had heard this talk when I was in c̶o̶l̶l̶e̶g̶e̶ high school, it would have inspired me in a big way.
Excellent. Unfortunately it may not be adopted because Microsoft is undoubtedly trying to make it "part of the Windows ecosystem."
"The cool thing about bitcoin is that it doesn't matter if you abide by it or not. It doesn't matter what some politicians decide. It doesn't matter who wins the arguments. It doesn't matter who has the guns."

Try telling the IRS that. Then see what happens if the Bitcoin exchanges go away. Bitcoin's survival is completely dependent on your ability to trade Bitcoin units for fiat currencies.

"All that matters is the bits"

No, what matters is the security properties. Usually, digital cash systems try to meet a security property of the form, "No attacker working in polynomial time in the parameters of the system can double-spend the currency." Bitcoin does not meet that property; all an attacker needs to do is work as hard as all the honest parties in the system combined to have a guaranteed success in double spending. Usually we call cryptosystems where the attacker's work scale linearly with the parameters of the system "worthless" or "snake oil."

"It is actually happening, and there is nothing your arguments can do to stop it."

Unless someone bothers to attack the system. I can think of a few organizations that have the necessary resources and expertise, and who would probably be motivated if Bitcoin came anywhere near "mainstream:"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_states_government

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_party_of_china
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Correct. We don't just grab seats that are empty and sell them. We currently offer only the venues unsold seat inventory. In the future we plan to allow fans and other third parties to upload their inventory into our system as well.
The author is pretty clear that that isn't how he views his clients. He's saying that a group of his male clients view their lack of handyman skills as being un-masculine.
The number of BTC is not fixed.
Or, because, you know, the many, stated legitimate reasons people have? But yeah, why consider those when you can just pretend like an entire community is dumber you?
bindkey 'a' last-window
bindkey C-a last-window

if you use the command frequently enough, it might be worthwhile binding `^a a` and `^a^a`, similar to the tactic of binding F1 to <esc> in vim
If anything, it helps to have a link-bait title. You read it, didn't you?
Thanks lgray! Those were definitely the early days of pogoseat and I don't think we had quite fleshed everything out well enough at the time.
> I've always wondered what it was with publicizing sheets instead of a talk.

Laziness, mostly. Slides are a printable material and less effort to publish than a transcription or a full article write-up.

> Didn't I get taught in school every year for the past decade that sheets are supposed to support the material I'm talking about and should not say much on their own?

I wasn't aware people were actually teaching decent presentation skills. They certainly weren't while I was pushing for them. But yes, this is correct.

But it's important to recognize that "correct" isn't good enough. If you need to cater to people like CamperBob2 in the sibling comment, you need to structure your existence around his schedule so that he isn't inconvenienced by a desire to know what you want to convey.

http://www.presentationzen.com/presentationzen/2005/06/using...

http://presentationzen.blogs.com/presentationzen/2005/04/han...
I carry an HDMI cable with me to meetings and show the phone on an overhead projector. Although you don't have the benefit of seeing your fingers, it's a readable and digital solution.
Try posting on some Windows-related blogs/forums/sites and get some exposure for the game.
Do you keep a repertoire of your posts handy in an emacs buffer?
There is almost no content here. "Go work at a startup, concentrate on working on the product more and less on bullshit." Yeah, that's great advice. It's like telling someone to get rich by making more money.

There is literally no hard or interesting question that has even the vaguest outline of an answer here.
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If you've already written a paper in LaTeX, it's easy to copy and paste the equations, diagrams, bibliographies, etc. And they'll look good (especially equations, and also diagrams if you've used something like TikZ.)
If he knew he was making a generality (and, for his sake, I hope so), and yet still made that statement, then that's lying (at least, using boolean, and not fuzzy logic) because his statement was absolute and unqualified. Absolute, unqualified statements are not generalities.

"People are dumb" (absolute, unqualified) vs "Most people are dumb" (absolute, qualified) vs "Most people I've met are dumb" (relative, qualified).

A comment like "people are dumb" is usually assumed not to be taken literally, but when you quote a study and say something like "men don't read online dating profiles", you're now in a very different territory, and the misuse of language could give the impression of a deliberate false statement (i.e., a lie).
Total opposite for me, I enjoyed the presentation a lot and he wrote about way more than you're giving him credit for (risk-taking, emotions, power of perseverance; the exact thing a college student would want to know).

As for the self-deprecation; humility is a great trait in someone, it's always reassuring to know successful people still have doubts about themselves. I also enjoyed the fact that I could read the slides and not need to listen to the audio or read a transcript to get the sum of the talk. I generally just want to get to the meat of something and, without actually being at the real talk, I feel like I got a good story out of it.

As for the length, flipping through that many slides when you're presenting is different than just reading them online; you keep the audience engaged by moving their attention around in reasonably short bursts.
When a recruiter offers to talk to you, it's not necessarily a threat that you will be recruited. Some of us are real life human beings, capable of having a conversation without the need to try and push a job or my clients on the other person. I talk to lots of people about their career, give tips, etc. without the thought of possibility of recruiting them. Most of these people are more junior and certainly not as well-known as Steve, but I get requests for career advice often based on my writing.

My business focus is geographic at this point, so unless Steve wanted to move to where my clients are I probably wouldn't have a job for him. My mention of 'probably not have a job for you' could have been clarified as 'I'm quite confident that I won't have any relevant jobs to discuss'. But based on his mention of only having spoken to one recruiter, my offer to discuss his career with him remains open.
You could start a movement with Algol 68 Genie:

http://jmvdveer.home.xs4all.nl/algol.html
I remember typing something similar (but probably more seditious) on the computers at every store I came across and watching the staff not know how to turn it off.

Probably a jerk move in retrospect, but how can you work in a computer store and not play around with the computers?!
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