skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was initially thinking about responding to antidaily (huh...didn't realize how relevant that username was until just now) in the same way, but I couldn't decide whether he was against lifting on successive days or against lifting 7-a-week. I disagreed on the former, but agreed on the latter, so I let it lie.
Seconded. I see this (and am guilty myself) often even in workplace emails, etc. where people are supposed to be respectful. It's not so much that you can't put someone on blast, but whether you can live with knowing you just called another thinking human being a scumbag/asshole/dumbass/whatever.
Email is absolutely fine. Just learn to write succinctly.
Then I think the article should explicitly point out that salary is only a piece (and perhaps not the largest piece) of total cash comp. Otherwise it is very misleading to the naive reader.
Unfortunately the license terms are decidedly non-free and antithetical to the released software being used elsewhere.
> I strongly believe that errors are a much more pervasive problem in science and related fields than malice is.

The problem is that economics is not a field related to science. The vast majority of public policy economics starts with a conclusion, and then creates facts to support that conclusion. This is not science, it is religion.

(insert disclamier about this being an overgeneralization)
Samsung Demos a Tablet Controlled by Your Brain
eventedmind is a really great resource. He often posts video. As well as the stackoverflow meteor.js tag and the meteor GitHub wiki.
You are correct, unfortunately there have been times when an app banned by Apple can't be resubmitted because removing the content Apple dislikes would destroy the functionality or purpose of that app.

This is mot a dig at Apple - iOS is their garden and they may do as they wish - but a general reminder that risk assessment is necessary when you build your business on top of anybody else's stack (be it Twitter, FB, Apple, Google or Amazon).
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And my point is that it makes no sense for the ad publisher to target intelligently because Facebook has all the user data that can be used for targeting.

In other words, I think Facebook should be selling advertisers a higher level service than broad demographics.

Theoretically, I should be able to go to Facebook and say, "Here's my product, help me target my advertisements." Then Facebook looks through its data to see who "Likes" similar products or has searched for similar things or whatever, then figures out a target group based on that, and lets me advertise to them.

To be honest, though, I block the ads on Facebook anyway, so I'm not too concerned about it
Reiser4 is in a weird place after the conviction of Hans. I'm not sure I'd want to trust a production system on it. And I've been less than impressed with BtrFS on the test systems I've ran it on (though I'm aware there's others who swear by it - I'm only talking about my experiences).

ZFS is a fantastic file system, but I can't help wondering if part of the issue is the fact that the benchmarking was conducted on a virtual machine. ZFS is better suited for raw disks than virtual devices (again, just my anacdotal evidence. I've never ran benchmarks myself).
We do standups several times per day, one on one with the people we need to talk to. It's called conversation.
Woah, can't believe I missed that! Thanks for the heads up, fixed now. http://www.tweetsfc.com/basketball/team/miami-heat
Booming Sales of Novelty Helmets Boost Toll of Motorcycle Deaths
Isn't handling of spam a major product hurdle for any public data interface?

Requires addressing in angles regarding security, UX, and performance at the very least.
could I see some of your work?
Now on the one hand, we do mail-ins as well whenever someone can't make it to the stand-up, especially since any team member can work from home whenever they like. Plus our starting time is loosely defined as "let's all try to be there around 10-ish", so some people are already in the flow since 8:30 by the time the last team member shows up.

However, every time someone proclaims to have found a better alternative for the stand-up, I always go looking for the "you-were-doing-it-wrong" red flag. One thing stand out:

"No need to take notes in a stand-up or bother someone with questions [...]"

Notes? Bothering someone with questions? These are hints that there was a dysfunctional stand-up in place to begin with, in which case it's hard to judge how well the alternative works.

In my experience, mailing in works fine as a workaround for situations where having a physical standup is impossible or disruptive, but certainly no equal alternative to spending a few minutes actually sharing information face to face with all the non-verbal high bandwidth communication that goes with it. One look, one gesture can say more than an entire email.
You Tried to Find a Technical Cofounder and This is What Happened...
Wow, this sounds like much less cruft compared to iOS or Android development.
This link I submitted is partially out-of-date and really does not do the consulting service justice:

1) The service is open to everyone, not just to Stanford affiliates--we'd love to hear about statistical problems that startups are facing.
2) The talk about first and second meetings is nonsense--the consulting service is friendly and informal and some people come week after week.
3) The times and locations, however, are accurate, and the service is completely free.

Personally, I work at the Friday 2:30-4:30 session. I'd love to hear about Statistical or data-science problems you have and help you to solve them!
Anything besides Social Security itself, that is.
I think you're thinking of the difference between robusta and arabica beans. Arabica has less caffeine than robusta, and -- at least in America -- more espresso roasts are arabica.
The Nature of Problems
You have to move your mouth into a strange position to say the word's single syllable. And it's an opinion, as common as it may be, that Bing is an awful name for a search engine.

When I first heard of the search engine google, I was immediately reminded of those childhood conversations about a number with 100 zeros following it. So yes, instant evocation. And maybe this would only happen with geeks, but that's exactly who they needed to convince to use their search engine.

Microsoft seems to have decided to ignore geeks and just markets directly to 'average users'. This to me seems like a very poor strategy. No smart people telling you to use Bing or Windows 8 and guess what...
When I notice that people have a habit of ignoring my emails, I instant-message them after I send the email. If that doesn't work, I call them. If that doesn't work I walk over to their desk. If they're not at their desk, or in another building, I email their boss and ask whether the person is taking a day off.

Believe it or not, people stopped ignoring my emails.
My 19-year-old kid sister left for the PCT trailhead yesterday; she's planning to spend the next six months hiking from the Mexican border to the Canadian. I wish I could have shown her this link before she left!
I like this, especially because of Bruce Lee.
I think they're referring to the dotcom era when other companies tried same-day delivery.
Espresso has a lower volume of caffeine, but it definitely has a higher concentration.

http://www.mayoclinic.com/print/caffeine/AN01211/METHOD=prin...

Espresso, restaurant-style	1 oz. (30 mL)	40-75 mg

Generic brewed	8 oz. (240 mL)	95-200 mg

The brewed coffee thus has between 11.9 mg and 25 mg of caffeine per oz.

If you added a shot of espresso (let's assume the weakest one at 40 mg of caffeine) to an 8 oz of very strong coffee (at 200 mg of caffeine), you'd still be increasing the concentration to ~26.7 mg/oz.

And that's stretching the limits of these calculations; a 200 mg 8 oz coffee is crazy strong, amounting to two and a half cans of Red Bull.
they are more boring to follow too :/ (except the last one, nobody expected the NPD to grab the opposition)
Rm -r *
A search for volcanoes in Russia turned up this article, which has more information:

http://rt.com/news/volcano-erupts-russia-kamchatka-810

"Torrents of lava are coming down the magnificent slopes of Plosky Tolbachik, one of the biggest volcanoes in Russia’s Far East region. The volcano 'woke up' in November last year - after more than thirty-five years of being dormant. ..."

A short video of the eruption can be found here:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/9908...
Just added Github support to Blimp
I know the difference between probabilistic and deterministic encryption but I did not think of it at the time I read the PDF and posted the comment. »[Our] product is NOT deterministic.« instead of »Our encryption algorithm is not deterministic.« tricked my brain into visualizing their software as a random number generator. So it is good that you point that out, I misinterpreted their statement.
It was a great little phone. I actually owned two of them (not because of breakage...a friend got a dev phone from Google for free and gave it to me, so I gave the original G1 I'd bought to a friend). I loved the keyboard, and miss it pretty regularly with touchscreen-only phones. Maybe that's why I didn't mind the touchscreen...a keyboard is better.

Funnily enough, the dev phone (the second G1 I owned) is still in use today. I gave it to a friend a few years ago when I got the Nexus One, and she is still using it and still loving it. She had never had a smart phone. When her phone died, I gave her the dev phone, because I was tired or her calling rather than texting (and because I'm nice like that). It's taken a lot of abuse, but it's still ticking, and is more reliable than the Nexus One I replaced it with (which died), and the Sensation 4G (which has several hardware problems, in addition to the software being more than a little quirky). I'm still really impressed by that old phone.
Then there's lesswrong.com, where I've never felt qualified to even comment at all.
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"Wer hat uns verraten... Sozialdemokraten" is a rhyme and means "Who betrayed us? Sozialdemocrates!" originally used by communist because the Sozialdemocrates never where revolutionary or anti-capitalist.

The slogan is used right now to say the SPD is very weak on all their positions and a fan of half hearted compromises.
People have been warned about relying on web services already:

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-s...
You can have just the PCB part (without components) made at any of the places on this page:

http://www.ladyada.net/library/pcb/manufacturers.html

You'll have to buy the connectors and solder them on yourself.

It sounds like an adapter kit might have a little market when shipped with a displayport plug, a small power supply, and a fully assembled PCB. Small kickstarter?
I would just like a nice way of using my nexus 10 as an external monitor -- I have tried a few things in Linux but nothing which really worked well.
I want to see a Wt (witty) benchmark.

C++ is welcome here too.
Hardly. Highlight is pretty active still.
"Eleven is the best. You'll cry your eyes out".
Agreed. It depends a lot on the team and the project. Our team of six devs had stand-ups every 90 minutes all day every day for 9 months when were all touching the same app. It was appropriate and we got a lot done. When the nature of our work changed, we switched back to a daily stand-up.
You can buy off costco's website without a membership. They just tack on a 5% fee for doing so.
I want one.

Seriously though, I really want one. At 70 USD it's incredible.

Dreaming of all the places I want a screen in my future house
Nit-pick: The "real" "Mordor on earth" is Mt. Tongariro on the north island of New Zealand. The 3-4 day trail around Mt. Tongariro and Mt. Ngauruhoe is one of New Zealand's spectacular "Great Walks." If you have the opportunity to visit New Zealand, you should take the time for at least one of these walks.

http://www.tongarirocrossing.org.nz/the-lord-of-the-rings.ht...
Espresso has a higher concentration of caffeine. Most espresso drinks are mixed with a ton of milk, so lattes, etc. do end up being less concentrated than drip. But dropping a shot of espresso in your coffee will up the caffeine concentration slightly.
Really nice to be able to get at the full-sized (albeit watermarked) versions. http://lusika33.livejournal.com/ has all of the lava albums and much more!
Google already has a system in place for managing apps and services' access to your account[1]. Not to mention if you install crappy apps you are already going to have issues[2]. People need to be careful of what they install and give access to their account, I can't see how a Google Now API would make this problem worse.

[1]http://support.google.com/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&a...

[2]http://www.androidguys.com/2012/02/28/airpush-ad-network-con...
Thanks for that kvb, I've edited my previous post
PCB-Pool ( http://www.pcb-pool.com ) is a big player and should be shipping to the UK. But they are on the expensive side (production in germany).

Batch-PCB ( http://www.batchpcb.com/ ) takes longer (they have the boards made in china, at a reputable manufacurer), but cheaper.

Itead Studio ( http://imall.iteadstudio.com/ ) China, Very cheap (they buy empty spaces in fabs, you get 5 (or 10) PCBs buts its possible that one or two arent working.

Bilex-Lp ( http://www.bilex-lp.com ), Bulgaria I think.

Multi-CB ( http://www.multi-circuit-boards.eu/ ) I think they are a british company.

I have no personal experience with any of those companies, though. Small batch PCB manufacturing is always expensive. Get in touch with a local hackerspace and etch it yourself ;-)
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The really sad part? The entire build cost less than the replacement LCD element to revive my old thinkpad.
Remember, journalists are always biased for the story. Given a piece of information, it is the journalist's job to come up with an exciting interpretation of that event, and present it in a way that will make their audience respond.

The raw facts are rarely exciting enough, and therefore journalists always put a spin on it. Which way, doesn't matter. But a journalist can be depended upon to have somehow spun it to be more exciting. (All the while pretending to be neutral.)
Why? If I got 50 million dollars in funding or 400k, I'd still probably pay myself only what I need to survive/present myself and pour as much into the business as possible, at least until profitability and even then my salary would remain low until profitability was maintained and began to increase rather than be an issue.

Then again, I don't have a family.
In Berlin the situation is quite bad. There are these moronic DSL providers, which deliver the connection when they feel like it. It's quite expensive, slow and there are interruptions quite often.

The alternative is Kabel Deutchland. Their connection quality is pretty ok, but the throttling every evening when I get home from work is annoying as hell.

What I really miss from Helsinki is that when you order e.g. a cable connection, they'll deliver it the same day when you made the contract. It's fast and reliable. No throttling, no limits.

Although I understand why the situation is what it is. And still I'm not complaining, this connection is good enough for the most of the time.
Nice, I should update my old blog post about this: http://denis.papathanasiou.org/2010/08/24/spam-apalooza-a-su...
The innovation is the crowd-funding model used to seed non-mainstream (in the sense that these games are all fairly "nerdy" compared to the average Facebook user) stuff with real budgets.
Same as every other “cloud provider”, yet somehow Google is the one subjected to these overwritten accounts and the almost mandatory pseudo law/policy musings that follow.

You might want to take a look at some policies from others in the industry to get a more accurate picture of this landscape.

These policies are constructed as such to mitigate litigation, which the author concedes. Regardless I'm glad this instance had a happy ending.

It’s also worth mentioning the the paid tier of Google Apps operates under completely different TOS: http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/terms/premier_terms.html
I just wanted to say, I LOVE your product - it's simple yet flexible...and it lives right where I need it. :)
The pivot of TACODA occurred more than 3 years after launching the business and a lot of work in the product. We weren't pressured into the pivot. But, as Fred Wilson related, we were working super-hard at the business and only had a modest technology license business to show for it. Our board - Fred, Brad Burnham, Rich Levandov (Masthead/Avalon), Habib Kairouz (Rho) and Curt Viebranz (COO) - was composed of folks who were long-time VC's and very strategic and senior, so they were comfortable with the idea that we should try to go big. We knew that our clients couldn't exploit our platform as well as we could. So, when Brad pushed us to really evaluate whether we couldn't build a bigger (and easier) business doing what our clients weren't doing well - using our platform to deliver and sell better targeted online ads - it didn't take long for all of us to realize that we should take the chance and pivot.

As for post-AOL ... a lot was going on at that time that makes it hard to analyze without the advantage of hindsight. While most of the team didn't end up staying with AOL very long, the technology still powers most of Aol's targeted ad business, I believe, and the team has spread out and populate dozens of adtech start=-ups today.
"We do this as well, for a product that has a low per-seat price, and it's a huge competitive advantage"

Bingo. It really is a huge competive advantage. I mean, do you know anyone who likes going through those automated voice calls, or has to be put on hold for 15 minutes to just speak with someone about a discrepancy?

You could argue that companies like Zappos wouldn't have been as successful if they didn't value customer service so much. It's the same with non-tech companies like Nordstrom's, Patagonia or Whole Foods. People like being treated well and they remember that the next time they shop.
This isn't the first time benchmarks like this have been done and these results are consistent with the earlier ones.

It shouldn't surprise most people that enabling transparent compression gives these benefits. Why you ask? Well what is the largest bottleneck in a system? Disk IO - by far. So all ZFS is doing is transferring workload to a subsystem you likely have plenty of(CPU) from one that you have the least of(Disk IO/latency)
Completely anecdotal, but when we had our child I did night shifts, and wife decided to use plugs to make sure she'd get enough sleep to be ready to go for the morning.

She settled in on the soft silicone variety, like these http://www.amazon.com/Macks-Pillow-Silicone-Earplugs-Value/d... but she gets the pharmacy or grocery store brand. They let in enough noise that you're not completely isolated, but dampen enough that you're able to sleep through usual noise like spouse snoring, dogs waking up to stretch/scratch/re-position, baby gurgling over the monitor, etc.

Edit: And they're much much more comfortable than the foam varieties tried.
Hey thanks! Yeah I should clarify on the site, I'm just using a few open ESPN APIs. http://developer.espn.com/docs
A few results pop up on Ebay for 'pcb manufacture'.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_odkw=pcb&_osacat=0&...
I love these, they're vastly interesting. While you're pivoting refer.ly I hope you can sustainably produce many more. Thanks dmor
JBoss Application Server renamed "WildFly"
You asked about the same issue I was about to ask about. I just looked around on the site to see a company introduction page

https://medium.com/about/9e53ca408c48

and the more detailed page "How Medium Works"

https://medium.com/about/f13f5eb058c6

I too am wondering what other HN participants think about Medium.com and how it compares as a source of story submissions for HN with other sites.

I see Medium is hiring

https://medium.com/jobs

and I wonder what tells in-the-know people about the company.
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Cool cool, added to the roadmap. Follow @tweetsFC to stay posted!
A label sometimes dooms people to a fate - "I have Aspergers so there's no point in me trying to socialize, I'll never understand it."

Which is tragic, especially if the condition is mild or not entirely cross the big thick fuzzy line of has it/doesn't have it.

I actually think it's standard practice to under-diagnose something like this, because of what it sometimes does to borderline cases. I could be so incredibly wrong, though, so please let me know.
Does Social Crawlytics work on a delayed report basis? Ie. you request a report, and all your AWS instances start building it and you get it X hours later?

What are your monthly costs so far?
Cops to Boston Bombing Crowdsourcers: Please Don’t Try This at Home
If we're really going for brevity above all else, then I think it can be taken for granted that the answer's 'no' if we suggest moving the month—so the 'no' can be dropped, too. (Alternatively, interpreting the reply as "Yes, how about next month?" seems to work perfectly well, though it's unusual.)
Yes. We worked very hard for years to build, sell and service "tools to help web publishers sell more ads for more money." Once we pivoted, we realized that all publishers really wanted was "more money."
Do you have any benchmarks to support your claim? Statements such as "Btrfs ... might currently be a better alternative" without benchmarks are worthless. Anyway -- I'd be interested to see benchmarks of Btrfs on GNU/Linux vs ZFS on illumos -- I suspect that ZFS "might currently be a better alternative".

Simply ratcheting off a set of features and stating that Btrfs is "better" is dubious at best, and perhaps mis-leading. As the OP stated in his blog post, ZFS has a rich feature set -- which we find invaluable in our own postgres stack -- features such as incremental snapshots, a real copy on write filesystem, etc.
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Really interesting read... but out of curiosity, how does exercise play into the sleep schedule? In order to maintain a good sleep rhythm, when is latest one should exercise? Also I'd like to know where you get your supposedly free stopwatches.
What is the point of this? I thought the point of spamming was to insert links to your website or promote some product. This just looks like random compliments.
I imagine the use case on the Facebook side is "viewing the image on Facebook" rather than anything beyond that.
That's pretty awesome, and a pretty grim testament to the lameness of Laptop makers if they aren't willing to put that panel in a laptop! (I mean seriously, you can't pull the display port connection out of an ivy bridge chipset?

Something I have always felt there would be a good market for would be a compact an inexpensive LVDS (TFT-LCD connector) to some sort of driver (small FPGA or maybe SOC). You could then salvage displays from "dead" laptops (where the display works) and build up some pretty awesome sorts of deca-panel UIs :-) I'm thinking 'home star trek bridge' to a whole new level.
> Short Response, Not An Asshole

Heh. Forget IANAL; we need IANAA.
When not to use jQuery and what to do instead.
As a blind person 100 years ago I would have been pushed into being a piano tuner. This is not something I want to do. Maybe rather than having all autistic people be told technology is a great choice for them some effort should be made to treat the underlying condition? If they decide on their own then that they want to work in technology more power to them. We shouldn’t be steering them toward jobs that require limited human interaction as a way to shove the underlying issue under the rug though.