skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"What is Google public stock backed by?"

The equity of Google -- if the company is liquidated, stockholders are entitled to the proceeds after bondholders have been paid. You can read the prospectus if you are curious about what a share of a company's stock actually means.
No, not what the GP said. Simply put, women are overly cautious when evaluating men because they know that they are not very well protected by the law (in as much as the threat of punishment acts as a deterrent, an idea for which the jury is still out) when it comes to rape, so they have to protect themselves by using any little indicator to hint that they are in the presence of a pervert. This is not particularly fair to most men, but I don't know that asking women to assume more risk so that you have an easier time getting laid is very fair either.

Just in case you are unaware of this, most women I know and have discussed this with agree that social awkwardness in men is often correlated with inappropriate sexual behaviour, so yes, if you make an awkward attempt at conversation, you are probably going to get negatively labelled. May I suggest working on your social skills if this bothers you?
Hmm, it's just a standard Flash embed. I wonder if maybe you have the latest version of Flash?
What solution are you comparing it to?

<a id="clickable-link">

And the putting something like the following into a js file:

$('#clickable-link).doSomething()

I find the declarative markup of a well-written angular app to be quite clean and easy to read, much more so than the alternatives.
I would assume tweeting spam is weighed heavily. I doubt they care about simply inactive users.
Google Fiber offers plenty support options. http://support.google.com/fiber/answer/2457687?hl=en
Women are more often the victims, hence more stories about them, hence more discussion. I haven't seen a story yet about a guy who was a victim of sexism in this industry, but I also can't say the stories don't exist just because I haven't seen them.

What I have seen is public acknowledgement from pg that they delete stories that get voted up just because they feel like it. So the community doesn't necessarily get a say.
like most models? many advertising agencies use minors on their "sexy" ads that are specifically targeted to arouse men of all ages. You just don't see it but men are all over younger girls.
I really like the way Mendeley handles notes, specifically highlighting / annotating PDFs. Do you know of any alternatives that include this? I was planning on writing my own at some point but it might be a bit ambitious.
As a .io company... when we bought our domain over a year ago, the only other io I had heard of was http://drop.io (now gone). It has been nuts how many other new companies became .io in the past year.
Hi! I do know about Godwin's Law. I even know Mike Godwin a little. And I'm invoking it as a reminder to avoid hysteria and outrageous hyperbole, which was the original point of his comment.

By the way, I didn't say that discrimination was ok, and I wasn't making a historical analogy. I was pointing out that our existing society is just emerging from that long history of sexism.
A mining pool collects work from miners who are too small to mine on their own. In Bitcoin today, this is basically every miner (other than the bigtime dudes who already got ASICs). Time to complete a block is in the years for GPU miners. Put together hundreds of miners at varying rates and collect their work into a pool, now you can afford to pay small miners something even if their work would not approach a single block in the amount of time that you see them.

A negative buffer means they've been paying per share the going rate per share (however they've calculated that), and not some other way of calculating that avoids negative buffers (say, dynamically calculating the value of the shares based on how many buffers they touched and how much is in the buffer.)

They have missed their projections for too long and they are closing their doors to avoid paying out of pocket, rather than change to a scheme that does not depend so much on the pool's luck.
no, definitely a bug
Interesting--can you elaborate as to how a Google engineer could subvert peer review and the revision control history?
There have been many more stories about sexism targeted at females than the reverse.
With Google Reader recently announcing the shutdown, and now this, closed-source cloud-based solutions for organizing and processing my data have started looking increasingly unattractive to me. I guess the only safe way to retain all of your data and prevent commercial interests from affecting its organization is to organize it using (preferably) open-source tools on your own computers, and use the cloud only for backing up the raw data / generated databases so they can be recovered later.
Right. And yet people stopped doing that when 512 bit wide cache lines pulling at 30-60MHz became the norm. The interconnect just wasn't fast enough, and everything moved onto a single board and stayed there. For almost 20 years the best we've been able to do are things like Infiniband that are far slower than on-board DRAM.

Now (apparently) there's a new interconnect that can do the job. That's news, not "same old boring stuff".
I had a college class on "Negotiation and Conflict Management." Getting to Yes was one of the required texts for that class. It is research-based and short. So adding my voice to the chorus of recommendations. Our other text was The mind and heart of the negotiator. It is a much meatier book and also reasearch-based. I highly recommend it as well.
Please see http://blog.polychart.com/2013/04/licensing-model-of-polycha...

Polychart.js can now be licensed under a per-domain or per-company license. We continue to offer discounts to startups (as we're one ourself!)
How to complete 'Snake' and accept the emptiness of life
Well, controlled fusion hasn't reached energy breakeven at all, even taking into account the kinetic energy of the reaction products. But the low thrust of current ion engines is mostly due to power restrictions (https://groups.google.com/group/sci.space.science/msg/0cb332...). If your spaceship has a mass of one ton and you want an acceleration of 1 centigee with an exhaust velocity of 30 km/s, you will need at least:

0.5 * thrust * velocity = 0.5 * (0.1 m/s^2 * 1000 kg) * 30 km/s = 0.5 * 100 N * 3E4 m/s = 150E4 W = 1.5 MW

of power.
The Tech Community's #IntegrityChallenged Response to Sexism and Discrimination
Show HN: A phone-based login system in just a few lines of JS
To show off the power of our VeriFi system (https://www.veri.fi/) I've spent some 10 minutes today and created a very simple login system for websites that only requires the user to enter his/her phone number. No usernames, no passwords. It's live at https://www.veri.fi/phonelogin.html , feel free to give it a try.

Your phone number is not sent to the site you're logging on to, it is only sent to our server and replaced with a unique token that the server can use as your user id. When the server requests it, VeriFi places a voice call to your phone number and asks for your permission to log in. If you say "yes", you are logged in.

Comments are welcome!
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I appreciate where you're coming from. But do you really trust, say, Sarah Palin to oversee evolutionary biology research? Exxon to have veto power over climate change articles? Todd Akin to be able to interfere in STD epidemiology?

The open source movement has shown that there's a third way, and I suspect that that's the way to go. It's fault tolerant: if a group of people are detracting from its mission, the others can very easily go on and continue as is.

Science is more expensive than software, though, and therein lies the rub.
I'm saying the word doesn't make sense to me. "Quickly" makes sense. "Jumply" doesn't mean anything.

"Bookify" sort of makes sense, vaguely.
I agree when we're talking about Gmail & YouTube.

But when I'm paying Google several hundred pounds to buy a Nexus device, I think that I am a customer.
You don't build parallel universe within someone's universe (Appgratis).
Apple bans comic from Comixology over sexual content
Thank you very much for this, very helpful. I will get reading.
Interesting. The times I've experimented with serious bows at Renaissance Festivals gave me a healthy respect for their power. I would be too afraid to shoot one in my backyard for fear that if I missed the target I could shoot through my fence or over it and do some damage to the neighbor's house or maybe injure someone. But maybe the solution is to just use a less powerful bow for fun.
JSTOR is not a publisher. They are also a not-for-profit organization. While it would be awesome if all the material they scanned were open access, I think their hearts are probably in the right place. Scanning millions of journal articles isn't cheap, and there's no obvious alternative way to fund that.
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How did you get this from that? I'm curious.
Probably not their public facing website, but most companies run tons of code you'll never see. I've done ColdFusion since 1999, and while it's not a language the cool kids use, I've come across tons of large companies that use it for internal HR sites, internal content management, etc.
This question has been asked a lot, have you used the search yet?

There is this app too; http://hnpickup.appspot.com/ but it has a big error on the top so I'm not sure if it still works.
Any fun hobby that involves full-body exercise will probably help improve back pain, by strengthening the core muscles that support the back, while at the same time relieving mental stress that causes people to hunch up or sit tightly.
Ten of the Most Common WordPress Problems and Their Solutions
I understand how IMAPS, SMTPS, and SSL work. Not clear text...
The $10 VPS solutions I see out there are either in a European country, or are startup/smaller shops that don't have a proven track record.
Control our office lights from our website
I also have to give a +1 to CodeSchool.
I'm not very familiar with Gandi but I'd suggest you go with Namecheap. I currently host most of my domains with Godaddy, though I've never had any serious problems there there, the terrible customer support and the fact that they try to up-sell me (some crap like a site badge) every time I login is infuriating me.

Namecheap has good customer serivce and IMO is worth paying the little extra. You can hook up Namecheap to Rackspace mail for ($2 a mo).

Location does not matter.
Nope, business or personal, it's totally fine.
Running Calabash-iOS on Jenkins
One of Intel's advantages is being a process node ahead of other foundries: 22nm vs 32nm.
You can't apply this methodology to accounts belonging to such large celebrities for one important reason: when registering for a Twitter account you're prompted to follow "recommended" people. Someone could be told about Twitter, register an account, click "follow all" on the recommended page and then never sign in again... Justin Bieber would have gained a legitimate follower but they wouldn't seem real.

This methodology can only really be applied to smaller accounts, ones that have not had exposure through the Twitter recommended users system.

Here is an example, after creating an account you go through an introductory process that requires you to follow at least 5 people to continue: http://i.imgur.com/xT0tc5c.png and then on the next page you have to follow another 5.
Zotero is unlikely to go the way of Mendeley: may be worth checking out.
I can't reproduce your situation on Google Chrome.

I do these exact steps:
1. Press Compose
2. Enter recipient
3. Press TAB
4. Enter subject
5. Press TAB
6. Enter message
7. Press TAB

At the end the focus is on Send, which is an expected behavior and it displays a tooltip that says "Send (Ctrl-Enter)". I'm able to send the message if I press SPACE or ENTER, but again, it's an expected behavior when you get the focus on a button (the tooltip can be misleading).

Do you have more information that could help finding the cause?
I agree. I've been going through his tutorials and they are great. Fire up sublime with node.js running as a simple http server and you can quickly follow along building simple apps that will get you up to speed.
This was really informative. Are there any other resources that explain coding for performance gain?
Isn't archery kind of a one sided workout for your back? I imagine if you're a right-handed you'd only be effectively working out the right side of your back.

It does sound more fun than doing dumbbell rows.
I did not say "Men are oppressors" or "Blame men". I said, in a nutshell, "Blame our social structures that tend to favor men." There's a very real difference there in terms of the moral claims being made.

And yes, feminism is also concerned about the ways in which this social structure hurts men, very much so. It's just that the consensus is that it hurts women more, so today there are larger and more immediate gains to be made by spending more energy fixing those harms to women.
Here.

And I find all this hilarious.
Did you reply to the wrong post by accident or something? I was asking about the motivation behind strawman arguments, not requesting /b/ tier trolling.
I know a guy. Shoot me an email, let me know what tech you know, and I'll chat with him to see if he's interested.
"Don't you think that by showing that you have negotiation skills, even by employing more or less obvious ploys, you actually show the other part you can play the game just as well as they can?"

No, because automatically rejecting the first offer doesn't show that you have negotiation skills, it shows that you're just cargo-culting a list of negotation tactics.
Of course Springer has one of the most onerous paywalls I've come across. I hadn't heard of the Papers acquisition: I use it on my iPad but only because it sucks less than every other solution I've looked at.
Connecting presentation and behavior has to be done somewhere, otherwise your presentation do nothing and your behavior can't display. You shouldn't confuse "couple" with "connect".

Having a "onClickButtonA()" function call bound to a button whose id is "A", and then have the logic associated to the click on that button somewhere in the controller is a completely different thing than having "checkAccountBalanceAndSubmit()" directly in the HTML.

Angular remove 80% of explicit HTML/javascript conversation that were only there to dumbly synchronize input views and model. The rest is just really unavoidable.
What was your experience accepting BTC as payments?
I'm interested in accepting Payments via Bitcoin, and I'd love to hear about any experiences the HN community has had.

I know there are a lot of solutions (BitPay, Coinbase, Bips etc) - The merchants will accept and verify the transaction, and notify you - Many will also automatically convert to USD, and save to you bank acct.

I'm curious if anyone in the HN community has setup any of these solutions, and what troubles/surprised have you found?
Isn't is 68% publisher, 32% to Google?
I wonder if this project will be as poignant as other ruby learning projects.
that being said, their description of its original incarnation (solving a data problem specific to their managing their office) was pretty cool. My guess is that, they figure there's some value in this so much as well put it on the app store and generate an extra bit of revenue.
God was here
Malaysia - adopting Google Apps for Education for 10million students
a nicer way to run SICP examples than mit-scheme?
Ridiculous. Bitcoin - as cool as it is and as much as I admire the cleverness of the system - is a FAILED currency. What it MIGHT turn out to be is a store of value once the speculation cools - but that is still a few years away.

If a currency encourages saving and discourages spending, it brings the economy to a screeching halt. This is why Bitcoin fails as a currency. It is also the reason why it will never be accepted commonly as a currency.

However, because the supply will be (artificially) limited in time as all Bitcoins are mined, there is a case to be made that it might emerge like gold as a decentralized store of value. It's anonymous and infinitely portable.

So time will tell.
There used to be a time where people created programming tutorials just for the heck of it: to learn the language better themselves, to do something good, to get some rep, to make a name for themselves. I wrote quite a few myself - enjoyed every minute of it - both the process of writing (writing stuff down forces you to be honest about knowing it well) and the feedback afterwards. Without asking for $10K on Kickstarter!! I see the direction this is going and I don't like it at all. I hope Kickstarter won't end up harming open source.
Angry Birds of JavaScript: Big Brother Bird - Patterns
Abusing Twitter API &  OAuth Implementation
I used Olympic-style lifting (Snatch, C+J and related exercises) for years to improve my other sports. I will take the contrarian argument on lifting to fix back pain. I think they're excellent when performed properly as everyone is saying here, but that's a heavy qualification. Especially if you start with back pain.

If you have access to a proper coach or club, great, go for it. But if that's the case, you already know it's a good exercise and where to find the proper coaching that is absolutely essential to getting results and avoiding injury.

Whereas, if the idea of lifting is relatively new to you and you're figuring it out from reading Hacker News, you need to be very careful before taking it up. Most gyms have personal trainers that don't know 'squat' about proper lifting form and less about dealing with pain.

If you think the software industry is bad for snake-oil, it's only because you haven't been exposed to the world of gyms, personal trainers, and supplements. I wouldn't recommend anything except a University program or gym devoted to actual competition in the Olympic disciplines (not powerlifting or body building of any kind).

Okay, enough ranting. My positive recommendation is rock climbing, specifically bouldering. Find a gym in your city. It's a fun, positive environment, it has plenty of attractive and engaging people of every gender and orientation (there's a fabulous gay climbing club in Toronto). Your core is going to get strong in a hurry.

And if you fall in love with the sport, it will take you around the world. See you in Thailand some time.

:-)
It's probably not a good idea to use a "popular game character" in your example images, even if you don't name him. The sprite itself is copyrighted by Nintendo, and using it in your game like that is probably not going to fall under fair use.
> Working with isolate scope and transclusion is tough, and Angular’s documentation on the subject doesn’t make it easier. We found that before jumping into writing an ambitious directive, it’s best to start by not writing a directive — just using normal templates and controllers — and then roll that code into a directive once you really figure out what your requirements are, or once you start repeating yourself..

Directives are, IMO, the most powerful parts of angular. They're also the most confusing. OP makes a great suggestion here that I'd recommend as well: Start with a normal template & controller then refactor into a directive later. In my experience, I've found that it's been useful to focus less on the DOM manipulation that needs to take place and more on the where the data collected needs to flow. In this way the directive just becomes the "glue" between a tiny area of the DOM and a parent controller and/or scope.

I guess you could liken them to the behavior/logic you'd have in a backbone view? That may be a stretch though. Powerful nonetheless.
It's a lot easier to injure or kill someone with a car on a road than on the internet, though. I hope nothing like an internet license happens.
Google Fibre isn't even on the radar for me. I'm in the UK and, as far as I can tell, it's only available to half-a-dozen people in the middle of nowhere.

If people are paying Google to be their ISP, I'd like an even higher level of customer support compared to the competition.

However, I'd expect it to be worse.
"they agreed that if our team is accepted to Y-Combinator, they will let me drop out of college and let me pursue my dream"

Sounds like a good deal to me. I would only like to add that you should at least "consider" the other side of the equation and be prepared in case. What if you don't get accepted to YC ? What will be your back-up plan then ? You seem like a smart person who knows his priorities which is always a good thing. Just make sure you are not putting all your eggs in one basket.
I apologize if this offended you in any way, I think you get that I am mocking apple fanboys and their love for shiny things.

Disclaimer would be that I have a lot of apple gadgets and am happy owner of several Panic sw titles.
One. If you don't deliver some valuable content in one second. it's faster for the user to click back and click the next search result.
The underappreciated power of common courtesy
There's the old quote attributed to Djikstra:

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

But who cares about titles, really? Why do they matter?

The article makes the claim that you can tell someone's not a scientist if they have 'scientist' in their title. I'd argue for a corollary: you can tell someone probably doesn't deserve their title if they spend any significant amount of time worrying about it.
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Would love to have this build full raps that have a chorus and verses. For example - 16 bars and then a catchy hook. Really cool start, though.
It's actually very hard (at least or even) for humans to categorize twitter users as spammer/fake or real.
What is ASICs? Google is giving me tennis shoes.
In enterprise sales, setting a common open price is very hard. If you look at the current offerings of Optimizely, they want to call you if you want to buy a package that is > $360/mo. The reason is, it might be based on the site traffic, level of service you are picking and a few other factors. Also, each sale will have legal contracts that might drag on for months with pitches to several members from the buying organization and negotiations.

In addition, your product offerings keep getting better every quarter and you also want to test varying price points, offer discounts and compete well against several competitors in the process. If you are going after a market trying to acquire 1000s of customers paying $xxx/month having a transparent open pricing works great but it doesn't when you are targeting enterprises.

Disclaimer: I work for monetate and we do have a pricing page that explains to the buyers on what to expect. http://monetate.com/products/packages-and-pricing. Also, most of the enterprise buyers are used to this kind of setup and putting a price tag on your website doesn't really work.
MIT offers "How to Stage a Revolution" http://web.mit.edu/~21h.001/www/
Spot on.
Outsource everything, pay less, keep more.
You must have been one of the lucky ones. We too managed an account (several years back) with AdWords spending nearly twice that and never got any sort of dedicated rep.
My experience with Angular.js was not that good though. May be I am real dumb, I can't see anyone with similar experience. I was totally frustrated with the amount of things I had to handle to bind my backend API. And also there were several issues like $scope.variables going wild.
In short, it was a total mess in my case. I rather decided to roll out with Jquery instead.
The code got totally cluttered I accept, but Angular.js frustrated to the point that 'elegant code' was least of my concerns, I just wanted to finish it somehow and run away and never look back.
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I wouldn't say that they don't care. They certainly appear not to prioritise the customer, who when selling services should always be the single most important priority.
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