skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Curious, without HTML do you expect everyone to copy-paste confirmation and password reset links?

Yes, I do.

> How do you account for broken links due to message truncate or unicode rendering?

I've never encountered a broken hyperlink due to message truncation or Unicode rendering. My terminal emulator is set to use the UTF-8 character-set. Please provide an example or demonstration of this.

> What about aligning various sections of the message?

Text comes left-aligned in most of the world and right-aligned elsewhere. What kind of alignment are you referring to here?

> Controlling the font size of header, body and footer?

What's the value in altering the appearance of the text you want to send to someone?

> HTML has as much history in emails as it does in the web.

Incorrect.

> Taking HTML out of email is as hard as trying to take the Smart Phone out of phones today.

I don't have a "smart" phone. What can I gain by owning one?
At the current exchange rate, his loss is now down to $2100...
I worked for probably the largest hosting providor in the UK and directly worked on their email system which largely consisted of genric marketing emails.

They had a lot of data from these emails and it's hard to argue with the sheer size of the company, but data I'm pretty sure they didn't have is whether or not this type of behaviour turned off more customers than it turned on.

Like I said, it's hard to argue with the sheer size of the company but they were living off of momentum gained from companies which were bought, with churn rates forever growing in just about every brand.

While I'm not going to suggest this is all down to sending a few dodgy emails, it did feel like it had a lot to do with putting the marketing department before technical competency.
Why do you think so many books don't use colors, images and other ways to convey information?
Why do you think comments on this website don't let you use colors, images and videos?
Of course they're wagging the dog, unless NK secretly wants to be obliterated or invaded and converted to a corporatist oligarchy they'll call a "democracy".
Most open source projects do not require $100K to get completed nor hundreds of developers working on it at the same time.

This is a great example of small scale open source initiative.
Droid Sans is a font for Android. How exactly is that a "common font"? I mean, there's a lot of Android users out there, but I would have to assume "common font" means fonts that are available on multiple different platforms.
And Amazon doesn't have a "disgustingly high volume"...??
Cool.. Is this still an active project? It says © 2011 but it's still in beta and there isn't much on the site.

What I'm thinking of is like an open source project for a "one-click" installer that deploys a default/pre-configured Rails application, with a GUI wrapper (similar to Wordpress) that allows you to visually design the database schema, generate the scaffolding with the click of a button, and swap out themes for style and plugins for added functionality.

I don't think this idea (RailsPress?) is so original that no one's thought of it before, but it doesn't seem like anyone's really executed it yet. I'm thinking about starting a Github repo for this if there isn't already an existing one I can contribute to.

Edit: It looks like there is a repo called "RailsPress" but it's just a port of WordPress to Ruby on Rails, not a framework for allowing non-programmers to generate generic RoR applications.
I'm surprised you can access hacker news back there in 1994.
This case only proves that posting about work stuff on your personal Twitter account now makes it your alternate work Twitter account.
Splitting the Glyphicons into individual SVGs and PDFs
> It's not news to anyone except the writer on a site looking for link bait (and it worked).

Sounds like most of what currently passes for news on CNN and FOX.
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Agreed. I've worked many days of long hours, and like many of those with a creative/programmer/entrepreneurial bent, my work and drive consumes me, far beyond 8-5. But the reality is that work and projects come and go - I can, and will, always make more - but my family will not come and go and the rewards of a lifetime of shared history and experiences are truly impossible to build without years of serious commitment.

As I look around today, I'm not working on what I was working on five years ago. I'm not working on what I was ten years ago.

But my family is the same family. My daughter is barreling towards college and my wife and I have a few more grey hairs, but we're all still here. Most projects have been completed, faded into digital dust in my mind and I've kept on going. But my family and the life I built outside of those projects is constant.

I know this only comes as the wisdom of age, but every time I hear about startup culture I snicker. Because in reality I pound out work. A lot of work. A TON of work. I take pride in the fact that I smoke young kids and their recently acquired ruby skills or whatever they have.

And I get home by 5:30 on most days, too.
One thing I absolutely do not agree with is Bryan Caplan’s laughably narrow-minded view on people that do not attend college.

Not everyone turns 18 and suddenly has everything they need but simply decides not go to because, like, non-conformity, man!

It is just as likely that <insert life> happened. Is someone who decided to raise an unexpected child a non-conformist? The oldest child staying home to work because the breadwinner in the family died... clearly that person is a non-conformist.

Are you serious?
It sounds like they started buying long before this latest hype cycle:

"The 31-year-old identical twins have amassed since last summer what appears to be one of the single largest portfolios of the online currency that has caused such a stir in financial and technology circles."

Though I do wonder about the timing of them going public with this fact. Perhaps they're trying to dampen the crash.
> the amount of effort you are expending trying to undermine my opinion by personal attacks and misdirection strongly suggests you find my beliefs threatening, but lack either the evidence or the intellectual capabilities to produce a counterargument.

Exactly why I couldn't continue responding to him. Everything he says is just some empty non-statement coupled with how I'm "wrong" or "not getting it" when there's nothing even there to get. Keep fighting the good fight.
That's because it is a pipe dream for many (most?) companies, there's just not enough talent. And "good attitude + bad work" is the far shorter end of the stick. And isnt it part of a manager's job to handle the "bad attitude + good work" employee?
"Always has been?" I think your data set is fairly small here.
Why does 36 trillion seem high? Sounds about right, especially since some of the forex trades are for legitimate currency changing, not speculation.
YC W13 Startup is hiring Product Designers
Product Designer
Apply to: design@coin.vc

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We are a YC W13 consumer electronics hardware company. Our current small team is made up of actual rocket scientists and veterans in the design community. We are seed funded by several silicon valley VCs such as Greylock, K9, Redpoint and SoftTechVC.

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You are a UI/UX, visual, graphic, or any other weird subtype of designer you’d like to call yourself. The bottom line is that you are fluent in photoshop and illustrator and sketch on paper frequently. Here are a few key points we are looking for:

-Pride in work but no ego

-Ability to scrap a design and iterate like a cheetah

-Understanding of mobile user patterns across all platforms

-TYPOGRAPHY

-Have a pulse on the web community - responsive design, @font-face, etc

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The Plan

Work in our SOMA San Francisco office with the rest of the team. The atmosphere is casual and we are known to take periodic go-kart breaks.

You will be working as a member of the design team. A few of the major projects you’ll start on are our mobile app and our website.

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To apply send an email to design@coin.vc. My name is Jordan and I’m a designer who will be replying to you.
Those coin renderings look a lot like coins.
You know, Google, the web already had this feature
As a reminder, that did not work for someone, and that's why we have this story on HN.
Uh, interesting reply (because I am unable to imagine why someone would enjoy receiving an email with a "deal"). If true this is an interesting lesson about internet users... Do you have any data proving that such people exist, and even millions of them? Also, what countries?
> Nice try though.

Thanks for playing, Bucky!

And, no, I wouldn't consider myself to be ``butthurt'' over HTML in e-mail.
>Don't be disingenuous

The hypocrisy of that statement is overwhelming.

>Your comment introduced a group opposed to MRA's existence, then argued that they were wrong in doing so.

I did neither of those things, perhaps you should try reading it again.

>That said, the amount of effort you are expending trying to undermine my opinion

I have said absolutely nothing about your opinion in any of my posts, other than that it was entirely unrelated to anything I have said.

>Finally, of course you are angered. On what other basis can you label my comments "inflammatory"?

I possess basic literacy and adult level reading comprehension. If you said "gay rights is largely the same old prejudices, finding renewed strength under a thin mask of collective victimhood, desperately clung to" it would also be obviously intended to be inflammatory. Even if I am not gay, and even if your comment does not make me angry, I am still capable of grasping the obvious inflammatory nature of the statement.
I'm not sure the intersection is necessary. I believe that as long as a character is included in any font on the system it will get shown (in web browsers at least).

It may not be the case on mobile, but it appears to work this way on Windows and Linux.
The total cost of wars since 2001 is estimated at $1.5T [1] which is printed through quantitative easing every 1.5 years as of December 2012 [2].

1 - http://costofwar.com/

2 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_easing#QE1.2C_QE2....

edit: formatting
It's also easier, at least in the U.S., to do more liberal sampling when live than on recordings, since you don't have to clear the samples individually. Most music venues have a blanket license for performance rights with the main rights organizations, which clears the rights for live use of just about anything: stuff like the venue playing a CD as background music during intermission, a band playing a cover song on stage, or a DJ playing tracks or remixing samples.
What makes you think this is a recent realization? World War II was financed in large measure with war bonds, which are also just debt.
http://firstround.com/article/How-Dave-Goldberg-of-SurveyMon...
Watch this instead of TV
Apparently, LinkedIn paid them 90M - http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/11/linkedin-acquires-pulse-for...

Wow. There are so many RSS readers but congrats to Pulse team on executing well.

How it fits into LinkedIn's product roadmap?
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I suffered through childhood lead poisoning and I'm still here on HN!
Git[/SVN/Mercurial] and Growing a FOSS Community
According to Foursquare's co-founder Dennis Crowley, as quoted by TechCrunch, the service saw 5 million checkins per day as of Feb. 2013. But that was the same as per-day checkins as the previous year. Flat growth to me, especially in their space.

The rest, and a fairly critical piece of my statement, about checkins moving to Facebook and Path I admit wholeheartedly was anecdotal and speculative.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/11/foursquares-new-series-d-ro...

http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/16/interview-dennis-crowley-of...
What's ambiguous about it is whether or not I need a Google account (and whether Google having taken away that account, I can still log into your service). The "Understanding TOTP" section seems to be saying that you don't and they can't, in which case there's nothing to object to.
I'm optimistic because I love Pulse and Linkedin has definitely been pushing into the news feed space so it makes a lot of sense.

Slightly concerned though because of what happened to CardMunch.

Either way, grats to the pulse team!
>"How Dave Goldberg Built a Billion-Dollar Business and Still Gets Home By 5:30 PM"

The title is completely misleading.

A. It implies that Dave Goldberg is a founder of SurveyMonkey and built the company from the ground up. He didn't.

To quote the company website [1]:

In 2009, an investor group led by Spectrum Equity
Investors acquired the Company and appointed Dave
Goldberg CEO.

B. Furthermore, SurveyMonkey has been around since 1999 [2] when Goldberg has only joined in the last few recent years.

C. Lastly, SurveyMonkey is not a "Billian-Dollar" business, as the video states in OP link, they did $113M last year in revenue (which is greatly respectable) but a far cry from $1B.

[1] http://www.surveymonkey.com/mp/aboutus/press/surveymonkey-ra...
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SurveyMonkey
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Case in point... https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=165309.0;all
I've heard there was some other trick involved in Amazon's profits, that worked precisely because of high volume, and wouldn't work for middle / small size circulation. Something with reinvesting temporary resources during some time slot and etc. But I'm not sure how valid such claim is.
Also in "In the Plex" they talk about how Google kept a record of everyone's SAT scores and GPA and alma mater and found no correlation between those things and skill/quality/productivity/effectiveness.
You clearly remember a different Sourceforge than I do as it was always clunky and inaccessible.
The Winklevii are two of Bitcoin’s biggest investors
Given NK has been testing long-trance missiles and nuclear weapons quite publicly, claiming the wagging of dogs seems a bit much.

NK doesn't want to be obliterated. It's more like very high stakes poker, where NK is hoping for a lot of aid and international permission to continue their freakish government. That hope is contingent upon an expectation that the US doesn't want another warm especially one where millions of SK civilians could be killed within minutes.

They've got a pretty strong hand.
Way to go Akshay Kothari!
Maybe Droid Sans Mono or Liberation Mono? They both have an extensive range of glyphs but I am not sure about math symbols.
Kinda late to realize that if it's true, no?
> Given the choice between two kinds of arbitrary, intrinsically valueless currency, I'll take the one whose supply we have far more control over.

* Who is this "we" you are referring to? You seem to be implying that the people have some control over the currency when the reality is that the Federal Reserve and in fact all centralized currencies are incredibly corrupt and machined and manipulated for very powerful people. When interest rates are manipulated or certain banks get access to loans and getting money and bailouts through these central banks, that's so obviously not for the people. Gold can't be manipulated in this way, but paper can. That's why the government loves its paper. It can pay for wars and anything it wants through inflation instead of raising taxes. But the end result of wealth getting sucked out of peoples' hands is the same.

* For the record, everything is intrinsically and inherently valueless. You can't use a microscope to examine any type of object and find a tiny particle called "value". All value people place on everything in an economy is subjective in nature, whether its gold or paper or corn or milk or iron or wood. Your argument here for gold being valueless doesn't make a point because that's inherent in anything and everything.

* That being said, gold has successfully been used as a currency throughout the planet's history. It was accepted worldwide with no barriers to its ability to trade throughout countries.

* The argument that people make against gold being suitable as a currency because of its lack of stability compared to paper is unbelievably laughable. What type of event is more likely: gold somehow losing its application in all kinds of industries/mass quantities of gold being suddenly discovered that alters its fundamental market value (events never before seen in human history) or somehow corrupt politicians and powerful people that manage these paper currencies manipulating the currency for their own benefit?

* That being said, regarding this larger argument about Bitcoin, these coins lack any practical value as far as I can see outside of perhaps anonymity. I say perhaps because Bitcoin isn't actually an anonymous currency, but all transactions can ultimately be traced in some fashion. So it remains to be seen if this will work as a currency long-term.
SurveyMonkey has a $1Bn+ valuation. It's not the case that every description of a company as an "X billion dollar business" is referring to top-line revenue. To see why, just observe that no company with a working business model is ever sold for 1x forward revenue.

It's also worth noting that as fuzzy as valuation numbers often are, SurveyMonkey is currently doing the "providing liquidity to equityholders without doing an IPO" dance. They are well past the point where they could be getting their valuation from a publicly traded market cap. They're very probably worth what they say they are.
Our initial plans and pricing are aimed at companies who have events as a core part of their marketing strategy - companies with developer evangelism teams, for example. We're actively seeking feedback on pricing for other kinds of company at the moment. I'd love to hear your thoughts on this - you can reach me at simon at lanyrd dot com.
France threatens EU action over Apple App Store ban
I'm confused as to whether this webapp implements its own search box, or if it is somehow intercepting input into the browser's search box. Could someone shed some light?
Geek Appeal: New York vs. Seattle
Reminds me of Karl Sims' Evolved Virtual Creatures work, except moved to physical reality.
A HUGE reason for Amazon is to build their own transaction network with control over fee structure, security and implementation.
That sort of movie was pretty popular in the early days of film: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_ride
Using a Siphon Coffee Maker
Sure you can. Key Holders, and shift managers earn this part time in limited shifts. When I worked at Radio Shack I was in High School and earned because of commission.

My ExGF did well because it was a part time job and she was Very over qualified. She did a lot of tasks that required managerial experience, like supply re-orders, scheduling, time sheet reconciliation.

I actually almost took a Gig as a 20 hour a week Regional Manager for Ann Taylor when a gal was pregnant and wanted to cut her hours. I'd have been at $35 an hour and mostly doing administration tasks.

Similarly Geek Squad at best buy pays $25 an hour for MCSE's . Car Audio shops pay $35 an hour for qualified installers. There are lots of fill in and week end shift jobs that pay well.

If you are looking to supplement income you can't do better than working Holidays. Time and a half or double time for working days others don't want to adds up fast.
We're not a large company at only 1100 people, but our HR department is excellent. Not only do they help filter for us (I received about 100 applications for a Product Manager position recently), but they also allow us to see all the applications if I want to go spelunking and ignore the system designated ranking.

In short; not sure I agree with your generalized statement. I'm sure there are cases where it is true.
No the irony here is you again completely proving my point by you assuming I'm American just by my "defending" them. I'm British, and I live in Canada. But again, your head has already met your own ass very intimately.
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5 quotes by the creator of PHP, Rasmus Lerdorf
It also means that we can find out who made it by looking at the signature.

Unless there is somewhere you can buy a java signature with bitcoins.
Hyeonseo Lee: My escape from North Korea [w/video Feb 2013]
"Common font" here probably means those fonts that your content is likely to be displayed in. Some Android applications will use Droid Sans, so it counts.
Side view: http://codepen.io/anon/peb/uqbre
You're right that it's social, in that a lot of 25 year olds think that they understand the Internet better because they grew up with it. What it usually really means is that they take a lot of things on faith because it's all they've ever known. I can't tell you how many 20-something "social media experts" have had a hard time answering specific and detailed skeptical questions.
How common is it really to work past 5:30 or 6:00 PM on a daily basis? I mean unless you are working in Investment Banking or Management Consulting at one of the big firms, for the typical software developer (outside of the Silicon Valley /startup crowd) is this even an issue?
In other words, it's not just a payments system, it's also a speculative commodity that subverts that payment system.
"a future where crypto and loose internetworked coordination replaces many old habits and institutions."

Except that Bitcoin is not crypto, it just uses a couple of cryptographic primitives. Cryptographic payment systems have security definitions that do not allow for polynomial time double spending attacks (Bitcoin does not even have a rigorous definition of "double spending").
We implement our own search box, we just made it look like the browser's search box to try to minimize confusion.
And there was I thinking that the whole point of a central bank and fiat currency is so that the ruling elite can fund the things that they want to fund (typically war and standing armies, as the line items that were hardest to pull off without fiat currencies, but also graft, bread, circuses and targeted entitlements for various means ranging from rewarding and enriching key supporters to buying the grudging support of the broader populace) without causing the same level of social unrest as has historically been caused by direct confiscatory taxation or dilution of precious metal coinage.

Compare events relating to coinage, taxation, and war in the Roman era or late Medieval era versus the modern age, or versus the first well-documented Chinese era of paper currency.

There is a lot to be said for having an elite that thinks twice about going to war or enriching their immediate supporters, because raising the funds to do so will cause riots. Unfortunately those at the top can get away with far more in this era of ubiquitous use of fiat currencies, and the world suffers for it.
Google thinks "The C Programming Language" is... English?
Freelancers: any wishes?
My team and I have been working as freelancers for over 10 years now, and we have now formed a startup to create a software that will help the workflow of the freelancers. There is a little teaser video on www.powerlancer.com which can give you an idea on what we are working on.

Our goal is to build a software that can help the freelancers in every aspect of their work, help them become much more productive and save them a lot of time.

However we are very curious about your opinion and feedback! What are the main challenges you face as a freelancer? What do you think is holding you back the most?
Is it finding new clients? Or dealing with the current ones? Not getting payed on time (or at all) after the job has been done? Or is it something else?

We want to create a software that really makes the life of the freelancers easier, so any feedback is much appreciated!

Thanks!