skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I attribute part of their success to an attitude they brought to their work. They were extremely serious about their music, about their shows, and about the fans. But they didn't take themselves seriously. Trey pretty much sums all of this up well in one of their documentaries.

With this attitude of theirs they also came on the scene at a good time. In the mid 90s, grunge rock was dying or dead, and the serious bands such as Nirvana gave way to materialistic hip hop, commercial rock, and (remember?) swing. Phish, at least for me, filled the void of grunge rock and opened me up to a whole new world of music. I could get really into Phish because I knew they approached their music with such care. It's hard to invest time in appreciating something and studying it when you have doubt that there's actually no substance or skill underneath, at least when it's not the most approachable material. Phish really never disappointed in that regard.

Further, it's hard to overstate the genius of two people in Phish: Trey and their lyricist Tom. Trey is not only incredibly skilled, he has an enormous amount of energy and enthusiasm powered directly by the crowd. If you watch him play, he's so tuned in to everything around him, you can feel that he's not really focused on the guitar (the physical aspect or the theory). It's not a challenge for him to manipulate it which lets him focus on playing with the rest of the band and the crowd which he does so well. The best analogy I see is what a touch typist experiences with the keyboard. You really don't think about typing. Now imagine being able to type messages live to people and every character you type is truly thrilling and enjoyable to your audience, and oh you can write in rhymed iambic pentameter without trying.

And Tom's lyrics I think are simply fantastic. Round Room I think really shows his true excellence. He can craft together 3 or 4 meaning and themes at once without making it seem like a big stretch. And he has such a soothing tone it sounds like a children's book sometimes, but the meaning is really almost beyond the realm of being able to consciously analyze it, yet not reaching the level of absurd.
Django is close to an MVC framework but not exactly an MVC framework. This link (https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.5/faq/general/#django-ap...) describes the difference better than I ever could.
Probably about 2 days of overcharging of clients by the firm as a whole, but he's blue collar, so off to jail with him. Which about sums it all up, really.
The cached version of the twitter account that was suspended within this article:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttps...
November 2012. The headline was something along the lines of "If X does not fix Y, our Alpaca leave you a voicemail." It improved conversion by about 20% (image vs no image). Same headline.
As sibling comments said, I advocate that I'd defend one's freedom to advocate limiting one's freedom.
In some of the older bus stops there are approximate schedules. Before the stop near my apartment was removed it seemed to match the data on Google maps.

Google maps is much worse than nextmuni. It's one of the first things I was warned about when I moved here.
A Senate in the Gun Lobby’s Grip
> people (maybe) known or close to the owner of domain/forum rule

Any examples of this behavior? Who is currently ruling HSI? I would be very interested in hearing more on this.
Want to design an awesome Landing Page. Design like this.
" The building circular – A cage, glazed – a glass lantern about the Size of Ranelagh – The prisoners in their cells, occupying the circumference – The officers in the centre. By blinds and other contrivances, the inspectors concealed - from the observation of the prisoners: hence the sentiment of a sort of omnipresence – The whole circuit reviewable with little, or if necessary without any, change of place. One station in the inspection part affording the most perfect view of every cell. " [1]

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon
Stand on my hand. It helps to use a wall if do so.
Step 1: Get one of these http://kinesis-ergo.com/contoured.htm along with a trackpad http://kinesis-ergo.com/touchpads.htm which you can tape down to the keyboard in the middle.

Step 2: Posture. Sit up straight, and type such that your upper arms hang down, your forearms are about horizontal, and the tops of your hands bend down just a small bit from the horizontal (fingers should dangle down onto the keys). For me, having the keyboard on my lap --- as well as using a footstool to keep my lap level --- is just right.

If you really want to go all out (say your pinkies are hurting you the most), consider a foot-switch to use in place of the Shift key (note, I've never tried the footswitch).

If you can take the productivity hit for a week or so, consider switching to a keyboard layout such as dvorak. It's not that much faster than qwerty, but it's more comfortable. Find out about crazier (and more optimal) layouts at http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/carpalx/ .

I don't work for or have any other interest in Kinesis other than really liking their Contoured keyboard (combined with the trackpad).
I read the copy several times and watched the video and I still have no idea what it actually is or does... besides blow smoke and generally claim to be revolutionary ...
The site doesn't load if you block Google Analytics. There's nothing nice about it.
What the heck is going on in Waco, Texas? It seems like once a year something f'ed up happens there.
There is a certain STIGMA against MBAs in the valley. Some of it well-found, some of it completely out of context and ridiculous.

I have an MBA, and my sense is that part of the blame has to be on MBA education itself.

MBA programs teach everything but the "Two skills absolutely necessary" as an entrepreneur: 1) ability sale (your idea, vision, team, product, etc.) and 2) ability to execute.

Luckily, I had one professor who focused on execution part of the experience by creating a class that simulated what happens when you start a company.

I remember what she always said: "If you give me a great idea, I'll give a $1 as thats all they are worth. Real value comes from executing it the right away."

Just my $0.02.
Agreed, stunning it is that so common and reasonably safe a thing as a self-serve gas pump is a 22 MW chemical energy delivery system!

Some reflections:

* Perhaps an EV might be 10x as efficient with its input energy as a gasoline powered car. Perhaps 220 KW would do.

* Perhaps a robotically mobile, rather than a counterweighted, manually lifted and connected cable is in order. The present day robotic car wash design where the car stays still while the motile, rotating washing machinery moves around it comes to mind.

* Electrical connectors give me more trouble than wires and cables. A replaceable, quick-disconnect connector capable of 20KA seems more of a design challenge than the cables that would go with it.

* High voltage insulation and wiring is "easier" than high current conductance (low resistance) wiring, for example: Common engineering practice with 30-volt solar panels is to wire them in series so that the total string voltage is 300 to 600 VDC at 8 Amps, rather than in parallel so that the current would be 80 to 160 Amps at 30 Volts. Air is a lousy and unsafe insulator, but there are good liquid insulators which could easily, temporarily fill a two-pole, ground-surround high-voltage connector (displacing the air) before it's allowed to be electrically energized and ramped up to a high voltage. Precise ground fault current detection could make it safe from fault currents (i.e. shocks & shorts) in the milliamp range even as the cable carries hundreds or thousands of Amps. But any HV supply requires up-conversion at the station and down-conversion in the EV; whilst these can be 95% efficient, the effect of each conversion inefficiency is multiplicative, and they add weight.

* Then there's the charging station itself. If it has eight charging stations at, say 250 KW each, that's 2 MW draw from the utility (or an underground group of batteries recharged at a lower rate from utility power?) when all stations are charging cars. Not trivial; just the 500 KVA (call it 500 KW for discussion purposes) utility distribution transformer outside building where I work is the size of four refrigerators, not including its switchgear, all of which is enclosed by a 20 foot tall fence surrounding about 200 sq feet. Multiply that by four in volume to get 2 MW supply required from the utility.
LinkedIn reinvents mobile apps for daily consumption
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Consider Maslow's hierarchy: money solves physiological needs, helps with safety needs, may ease but cannot really solve love/belonging needs, helps a little with esteem needs, and does almost nothing for self-actualization needs.

Money is important - you have to solve your basic needs - but money is not everything, because it cannot solve your most sophisticated needs.
This sounds like a lot of fun. I wish I had an amount of visitors to make A/B testing viable. Maybe in a few months.
There's no need, they have John Gruber.
" There is, unfortunately, only one product that can maintain its value as everything else is devalued under the banner of the noosphere. At the end of the rainbow of open culture lies an eternal spring of advertisements. " - Lanier, Jaron (2010-01-18). You Are Not A Gadget: A Manifesto.
Penguin. Kindle Edition.
Bitcoin for the paranoid
Google "Sarbanes-Oxley" and weep.
I'm not sure if the're using dead reckoning. I just saw one turn. To me this looks more like gps.

Also, Go Wolf Pack!
Ironically, Tide detergent actually is the new drug currency: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5023204
Like many petitions on We The People, the executive hasn't the power to do what this proposes. The president simply doesn't have the power to rewrite state laws.
The judiciary could questionably overturn state laws as overreaching into interstate commerce, but even that requires a case. I'm sure if Tesla believed that it was worth it, they would be bring such litigation.
So, I'm curious what impact a petition like this has on the various actors who have the power to do something: state and federal legislators. Given that there is no way for a legislator to tell how many people in their district support a petition, I would guess very little.
That sounds like every government purchase of IT systems ever.

(I seem to read news about some US govt department buying IT systems for 3~10x the price every month)
Mostly with setup and configuration. Configuring it to work the way I expected required a lot of digging through documentation/code/blogs/fudging around. I don't like it when I have to do that, for a number of reasons -- a. I'm lazy and I don't like spending a lot of time doing upfront configuration, b. when something doesn't come with sensible defaults pre-configured, I assume I'll do something wrong and it'll have non-obvious but bad consequences.

I had this problem with django-compressor as well (but more with configuring 3rd party asset compilation). I usually recommend people use webassets via django-assets. It's easy to configure and very feature-ful.
All I can think is if this guy wasn't convicted: "Please tell us about the time you, most successfully hacked some (non-computer) system to your advantage."
Ask HN: What is the best alternative to Google Reader today??
Ask HN: Just checking... I'm still looking for Google Reader replacement.
I heard about this via the Circa iOS app and then found this Youtube video while CNN was still just showing a map of the area the explosion happened in. The future of news isn't TV.
It's somehow the government's fault that the owners of FT were paying themselves literally hundreds of millions of dollars out of player accounts?

Pokerstars was subject to the same laws, yet they had fully segregated accounts and could pay everyone 100% of their account balance.

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According to a balance sheet prepared by Full Tilt Poker, as of March 31, 2011, Full Tilt Poker owed players from around the world over approximately $390,695,788 but had only approximately $59,579,413 in its bank accounts. Full Tilt Poker relied on new deposits from players to ensure its ability to fund withdrawals to players’ accounts.

Rather than protect player funds as promised, Full Tilt Poker distributed hundreds of millions of dollars to its owners…

Defendant Lederer personally received at least approximately $42 million, including approximately $37,856,010.92 in ownership distributions and at least $4 million in “profit sharing” payments…

Defendant Ferguson was allocated approximately $85,161,305.88 in distributions. Tiltware records reflect that approximately $25 million of this sum was actually transferred to Ferguson’s personal accounts, with the remaining balance characterized as “owed” to Ferguson.

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Should internet gambling be illegal? Probably not.

Was it illegal when FT was operating? Definitely.

Is that somehow an excuse to engage in massive fraud?
Webplatform.org: Your Web, documented
I agree with you on the relative long-term safety of U.S. debt instruments, especially compared to a volatile commodity like gold.

I still disagree that bond prices are good forward looking indicators about the health of a national economy. From January to September 2009, yields on Greek bonds actually fell almost a point--by your criteria, seeming to indicate strengthening future prospects for the Greek economy. Instead we all know what happened next.
I would love to turn up.
Isn't there a difference between limiting what you can do with a free Chromebook and limiting what you can do with something you pay $1500 to acquire?
Wow! Very inspiring story! I'm glad to hear you stuck to your strengths and didn't desperately force a non-programmer to learn programming. It was a critical part of your business but your full-time employees focusing on their expertise worked out for the best.
Yep, FTC doesn't like that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2009/10/endortest.shtm
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I wonder what these requests for help look like. I idle in a handful of IRC channels devoted to various frameworks and languages. There are a handful of people who get berated, but it's nearly always people who come in and demand answers and are unwilling to do any leg work to describe their problem.

If it's gotten to the point where every single time you ask for help you're being bullied or berated, the common denominator is you. How are you going about asking? What venues are you asking in? What do you do to properly describe your problem? When people ask you to try things do you do it or argue that whatever they're suggesting can't be related?
That sounds good. Think about how, e.g., Gmail lets you persist sessions on each device. They're doing a password auth over HTTPS and leaving a cookie with some session token.
I for one am glad to see the legislation shot down. It's not common sense and it won't stop a criminal from using a gun while breaking the law. All it does is give the government more control over gun buyers and open the door to taking those guns away from law-abiding citizens.

I applaud the senate for not enacting this obviously knee-jerk legislation.

When logic prevails, we all win.
Is it me or are these petitions almost worse than doing nothing? These petitions show over & over again that they don't actually do anything to change policies.

It's almost like a release valve so people feel like they're being democratic without even really doing anything at all.
> The entire purpose of them is to prevent people with the same password having the same password hash.

... which helps prevent against the use of existing rainbow tables, as the hash from site A won't be the same as site B, even if the underlying password is the same.
I have no clue either, it seems like a pyramid scheme of some sort to get everyone's email address
I haven't seen any such behaviour on HSI. Prateek even goes out of his way to keep a low profile there.
Another great (and much more complete) set of Ember tutorials are on tutsplus.com:

https://tutsplus.com/course/lets-learn-ember/

It has 14 videos including a section that walks you through the making of a bookmark manager from scratch.
That explosion was really shocking. Lesson - get far away from burning chemical plants.
Internet Comes Up With 8.5 Million Leads On Potential Boston Bombing Suspect
Just for the record, this explosion happened 20 miles outside of Waco, and the thing everyone seems to conflate with craziness in regards to Waco happened like ten miles away.

Bad shit happens everywhere on a regular basis. Waco is close to Fort Hood, Baylor and Crawford, so yeah... maybe it can on occasion be a nexus of oddness. But it's not like it's Bartertown or something. Mostly it's boring beyond reason.

(disclaimer - I used to live there)
To add to the Wadjet Eye love, I also enjoyed the entire Blackwell series.

And Machinarium is definitely charming.
KickBorn is a startup and i am trying to reach out to the people and then simply work on feedback.
Here in Santa Cruz, bike seat posts and rims are recycled by junkies to get their next hit.

Frames and other less desirable/recyclable parts are just left as trash.
I do not know how prominent it is, but Pansenti's wearableX project is very worth a look.
Hmmm, it loaded for me (and looked great) and I use noscript to block everything.
Probably? Someone went to a meeting one day, heard about a new fraud technique, told a junior analyst to run a SQL query and figure out which B2C accounts at this line of business had anomalously high numbers of incoming transfers, and BCC had 20x~50x the mean, so I was identified as one of a few hundred accounts to pare to reduce risk.
He didn't truly hack the system as much as he committed a very dumb theft/crime.

Between an approximately two year period (Oct 2010 to Dec 2012), he ordered an amount of toners that greatly exceeded the law firm's usage. This jump in cost would have been pretty obvious to an auditor/accountant comparing it to the historical order amount for ink toners & some sanity check.

But because he got away with it for two+ years, makes me wonder whether he greatly increased these orders after the first year of getting away with it.
In what way is any of that worse than doing nothing at all?
Fertilizer plant explodes near Waco, Texas, causing numerous injuries
Feedly.com, I guess. You can set it up to look like Reader, with headlines only.
A business checking account at Bank of America, currently. I should probably have two of them, technically, since I have two LLCs now, but I haven't gotten around to that yet.
What companies have solved the Twitter reputation problem reliably?

Certainly this is just a matter of looking at the followers, seeing how old those accounts are, how long they've been tweeting, and coming up with some sort of normalized score?

I understand there's a ton crawling, but certainly doable. Or am I overlooking something?
Unfortunately, most of the default/large subs are full of jokes/one-liners/"viral marketing" (aka spam).
Mozilla's trademark enforcement experience
It's easier to "sign" an online petition than to send a letter to one of your representatives, if people click once and then feel like they have had their say then much of the people's voice will be lost.
I wish Wikipedia would score their pages based on # of contributors and their past contribution histories, and flag the page at the top for the user if the score is too low. I tend to trust Wikipedia as a legitimate source, but if it can be gamed so easily that trust will quickly be lost.
Here's What A Map Of The Internet Would Look Like
Celery is brittle. If you stop a celery service, odds are, it will either not stop at all or leave stray child processes running.

It is not transactional, at least not with a MongoDB back-end. If you stop a celery service, any tasks that were in progress may or may not complete, but none of them will be picked up again when you resume.

No prioritization of queues or tasks. It is possible to set up separate services that handle different queues, but that's a PITA and there's still no guaranteed order of processing.
They all do this.
Yeah, I do think you are misunderstanding me. Your post says, "If you decide that, just this once, it isn't really imposing your beliefs on others", which is itself an invalid characterization of everything in the thread up to that point. My point is that precisely no-one on the side of the person to whom you were replying is doing that. There is no advocacy of the imposition of belief being performed. There is advocacy for the implementation of policy, but that is not the same thing; nobody's beliefs are even being questioned.

(Claims that the government being permissive on something is an infringement upon those who do not wish to perform that act do not follow logically. Not saying that's what you'd say next, but it's a common enough next step in this conversation so I figured I'd touch on it just-in-case.)
It could be as simple as "We do not have sufficient risk controls on that product to feel comfortable with you moving that velocity of money through it. Given that your use of the product is not very valuable for us, we decline to bear an unknown, uncontrolled risk to secure your business."
On a long enough timeline, anomalies can happen anywhere.
After Sandy in NYC some jerks were raiding houses for copper — just depressing...
Two days of profits having to pay a single employee's wanton ink cartridge spending is pretty serious.
yeah, danellis is right. don't use __complex__ for that. it's for complex numbers:

http://docs.python.org/2/library/functions.html#complex --and--
http://docs.python.org/2/library/cmath.html
"Ethics" in Asia are not the same as the rest of the industrialized world. While I can't speak for Korean ethics, I've had dealings in other Asian countries where business ethics are really more like guidelines, elastic ones at that.

I wouldn't be surprised if the execs who sanctioned this behavior on Samsung's part don't even understand that it was wrong.
Embezzlement, which is what this was [1], is a white-collar crime. Just like overcharging clients. In fact, there's nothing to even suggest that he was a "blue-collar worker", particularly if he was entrusted with making hundreds of thousands of dollars of purchases.

Not everything needs to be a socio-economic conspiracy theory. Justice prevailed here. If you have evidence that this law firm is fraudulently overcharging its clients, I suggest you present that evidence to the authorities. In the meantime, don't try to insinuate that this guy was somehow a victim.

[1] I know technically the conviction was for larceny. Looking at the 3rd paragraph of the following, it can be seen as a pretty blurry line: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embezzlement#Embezzlement_versu.... Based on the example there, it seems like the charge could just have easily fit the definition of embezzlement.
Reinhart/Rogoff and Growth in a Time Before Debt
I'm not sure if this is linkbait or just HN bait.
Why people haven't deployed something like this (http://www.millenniumit.com/capital_market_solutions/) as part of a bank in the Cayman Islands eludes me.

Yes, the upfront cost is large. But it seems likely that you'll own the market basically overnight.
How to Screen Venture Capitalists
What makes frames less desirable than seat posts, may I ask? (I guess if seat posts are steel and the frame is aluminum?)