skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's notable that that quote is not a quote from anyone from the LA government, but from Consumer Watchdog, the same group responsible for that weird Eric Schmidt ice cream man video. AFAIK it was only the LAPD that didn't switch over.

A much better article on the subject: http://arstechnica.com/business/2011/10/google-apps-hasnt-me...
Unvalidated/untested hypothesis are not "pseudoscience".
Your statistic is shockingly meaningless. 2009 was the bottom of a recession and a stock market crash. By 2011 it recovered. If you look at an equivalent measure from 2007-2009, you'd see a negative number.

The top 1% of earners make most of their money due to the stock market and related activity by design, because if you're a shareholder in Coca-Cola, you want a CEO who actually cares about making Coca-Cola profitable over the long term, rather than someone who would collect a pretty salary for a few years and then retire to a life of leisure. You do that with equity compensation, stock options that vest over time - and, since satisfaction with money is logarithmic, you're going to need a lot of them.

Now, the overall level of justice achieved by this current system (or lack thereof) is in fact a valid topic of discussion, though largely outside the scope of the post I make here. By contrast, this cherry-picked number you present INTELLECTUALLY DISHONEST.

I call on you to be ashamed of yourself. Unprincipled yellow journalism of this nature is bad enough in the wild, but HERE of all places we ought to value REAL information and understanding, not rhetoric and obfuscation. (Alternatively, please abandon Engineering and seek employment in the scummiest Marketing department you can find.)
> GIMP doesn't give you a realtime boundary like this does, nor a preview image.

Yes it does. Look at the link in my post - Figure 14.33. The dark blue area is the background that will be removed.
I guess people complain less about javascript because there is no alternative. In web development you are free to choose amount a variety of languages, but in frontend you are trapped.
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At least they're sensitive to the issue. BFL customers who paid in full 11 months ago are pissed to see Ars and Wired (aren't they the same company?) getting free equipment before paying customers.
So what? Burt Rutan didn't build a spaceship, he built a X-prize-winning-machine. Is that a reason to deride his words?

In both cases, the people who set up the competition where perfectly aware of what they would get. Also, they were smart enough to make their challenge hard, but not impossible (some would argue Sikorsky set the target too high, as it took 30+ years to see a worthy challenger, but it is impossible to foresee how hard a problem is, and Gossamer Albatross had flown the channel in 1980. Also, Hilbert surely set some harder problems)
As far as the Aup/Tos for that you can roll your own Smtp. Besides borderline legal is borderline legal. And even things that aren't "legal" are not always prosecuted. Not thinking that someone sending out 5000 spam messages even is going to cause a big prosecution.

More importantly the issue here is the way the post says "a large email campaign". What is defined as "large"?

I don't think taking the time to compile 200 email addresses and send a personal email really is to big of a problem if you've taken the time to go to the effort of doing what the OP is saying (in other words you didn't just buy a list of names). On the other hand if you've gotten mechanical turks and mined 20,000 emails maybe it is.

I don't think (despite the definition) that "spam" is anything unsolicited anymore than calling someone by phone to try to get them to buy something is automatically the same as robo calling or cubicle calling.
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> yes, 121%, that means the other 99% of people's income went down

Your phrasing implies the SAME PEOPLE are in the top 1% each year, which is not the case. And implies that what happens to a cohort also happens to everyone WITHIN that cohort, which is also not the case.

Lastly, we don't have income numbers for "people", we have it for "households". (The "top 1%" contains significantly more than 1% of the people.)
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I think the productivity argument favors MSFT. The time to retrain current employees. The fact that 85% of new employees will have "Proficient in MSFT Word, Excel and Powerpoint" on their application/CV/resume too. "Google Apps? Ain't nobody got time for that!" (ok maybe I shouldn't have added that)
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Thanks! I keep hearing that. Perhaps I should change the defaults.
Ask HN: What's the best source to learn advanced Python?
I have completed all of the codecademy python, javascript and HTML tutorials, I've read the O'reilly's "Head first" python series and completed every other tutorial you can imagine

The basics have been mastered, unfortunately there is no way for me to find out how I could build a mobile app of let's say a mail organizer or a photo sharing app

The tutorials for basic python are plentiful, but is there an A to Z guide to actually build something useful using python?
I think its super important for founders to talk about this stuff, after reading I posted about here, http://getfireplug.com/blog2013/05/10/5-things-founder-willi...
The problem with having the goal of taking Microsoft down is that some new, potentially abusive, power will probably rise in its place. What really matters is people's freedom. You seem to realize this, but I thought it would be worth pointing out anyway.
Businesses big enough to want sophisticated email and calendaring but small enough to need an outside IT contractor.

Most of the places where I've seen this scenario had between 10 and 50 employees. There are a lot of companies in this range, and the only software company that seems to be catering to their needs is Microsoft (which is drastic overkill in functionality, complexity, and price compared to most of their needs).
Only in fevered dreams. The original was a psy op against the Germans. It was also VASTLY superior to this plastic gizmo.

"Most of the cartridge's hot gas spills out of the muzzle without getting a chance to do any work on the bullet, which is the main reason the cruddy "barrel" doesn't (always) come to bits on the first shot and the cartridge case (probably) doesn't just spit backward into the user's face."

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/05/10/oh_no_its_the_plasti...
I think your pitch is absolutely wrong. Instead of invest in adam, it should be invest in $Product. Otherwise, given how bad this is being pitched right now, I think a week is too little time.
Well it's kind of a false equivalency to try to say that 30 minutes cooking dinner is the same as 30 minutes preparing convenience food. Cooking meat, cooking beans, cooking rice, sauteing veggies, preparing a salad, whatever, is not the same as putting a frozen lasagna in the oven for 30 minutes while you veg out on the couch and unwind.

Sure, it's 30 minutes, but what really counts is what you're doing in that 30 minutes. If you're watching your food, you're working. If you're watching TV while your food cooks to the tune of the prepared directions, that's completely different. That doesn't even take into account the time spent at the store picking out individual ingredients vs just grabbing a frozen meal and running out the door.

I'm not defending poor eating habits, at least I'm not trying to. The point of my post was to point out how self-righteous ctdonath is being in the majority of his posts in this topic. "You're not tired unless you're passing out standing up" is just bullshit. Mental stress is a real thing, and it cannot be discounted. I don't know you, but I can guess that if you're doing a PhD, you have what it takes to handle significant amounts of mental stress. You have to, or you wouldn't have even gotten through undergrad with the will to pursue two more difficult degrees. Your single parent dual factory worker who grew up in a blue collar family and sees no prospect for future success might not have that same level of motivation, which is why I called out ctdonath for being a motivational speaker.

What works for you will not work for everyone. It's difficult to see mental injury and duress. Stress is not as visible as a broken leg, nor as easy to treat. People should eat proper, yes, but telling them "it's not hard, you're just lazy" is by far not the proper way to get them motivated.
In my screwing around with oDesk, I've selected flat per-project fees; no snooping and its a lot easier not to worry about hourly fees and angry clients imo.
Check out Firefly.
In USA 90+ people (including children) die EVERY DAY due to firearm accidents.

Again, these are toys to make some men feel powerful.
Awesome tool - love it! Reminds me of https://lilnub.com
I wouldn't be surprised if Google agreed to pay for overruns. The revenue is recurring and the expenses that can overrun should be limited to one-time training / switching costs.
> #31: Once in a while, when you feel strongly about it, break a rule.

Also, it's not unsolicited when people are voluntarily reading what he wrote.
I once recommended a 12 person company move from a self-hosted, internal exchange server to Google for email. They ignored me until a truck hit a telephone pole and we lost email for 2 days.
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For the last 20 oldest, the five person rolling length of time as oldest seems to be hanging around 200 days.
I wasn't at the company for much longer after that. No, I wasn't fired. ;)

The company was very East Coast, very sales-driven, not very tech-driven at the time. I don't like using age as a proxy for tech-savviness since there are plenty of tech-savvy older folks, but this was a bit of an older organization as well.

But yeah, people adapt. They will kick and scream and claim that their world is ending and then a month later they'll forget about the old way of doing things. (Or, as was often the case, IT just set up their Outlook to pull their emails from Gmail's servers.) And then the anger subsided.
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If we're waxing lyrical, there was a research paper out of Ireland from a small telecoms research outfit, circa 1996 describing pretty much this, but using teletext subtitles.

In addition to capturing and indexing the subtitles, it also captured the video, and so allowed the captions to be used as an index to the video.

I don't doubt someone can come up with an even earlier incarnation!
And some places it isn't: I've struck up conversations with complete strangers in India where "What salary?" comes up right at the beginning.
More like: we agree together to set up a society, then people in it have to follow the rules. If you don't like that, there are rules that let you change the rules.
What makes you think it's SEO related? I don't think any search index would do anything with HTML comments.
Yeah...we scattered some ASCII easter eggs around the site. Favorite practitioners of various subjects. PG wins for programming (duh).

We'll send a tshirt to the first person to find them all :).
and it really holds us back. Which means that the fear of being called a salesman/spammer/sleaze ball costs you hundreds of thousands of dollars each year in sales. Thats the truth about this attitude. But, on the other hand, I love that people act like this. It makes making money sooooooooooo much easier for me.
What if Microsoft does something stupid, like making all menu and toolbar muscle memory obsolete with that damn Ribbon?
I think he was joking :p
Yup! I'm not sure what you mean by "never looks quite as polished". Paparazzi is like a little Webkit browser, so you're seeing the page exactly as it would be rendered in Safari. You have to click the little hand icon (bottom left) to interact with the site itself though, otherwise it looks like it's just taking a static image of the URL. The screenshots make it look like it's literally making little thumbnails, but it's really rendering at the dimensions you set.
> Personally, I assume google will make money selling a car (or the tech), just like any other business.

I am a Googler and I've heard Larry, Sergey, and many on the self-driving car team talk about the project. While I'm sure monetization is on their minds as well, the very clear message from them is that they view this project as changing the world for the better.

In today's world, it is very hard not to be cynical, and it's especially hard not to be cynical online without looking like a Pollyanna or a corporate shill but in this case, I believe the opportunity for public good is the strongest motivator for the project.

Much like NASA, Google gets tons of ancillary benefits from doing all of this R&D so even if the project itself isn't a revenue generator, it will still deliver value to Google, but I think what gets many of the people working on it up in the morning is the chance to reduce the number of traffic fatalities, to turn parking lots back into parks, and to let people spend time on the road enjoying themselves and not grimly staring at the car in front of them.
Brilliant -- I love source code easter eggs

One of my favorites is on Vimeo - if you crack open the JS console, it pitches you on applying for front in dev work with them.
I assume the giant comment is what we're supposed to see, but I'm not sure how that's supposed to have any impact on SEO at all. Seems more like a tribute than a SEO hack.
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I'm pretty sure John McCarthy was the creator of Lisp, not pg...
People. Read this every day. Then hit the phones. Patio just made you a million bucks with this comment.
Why don't you try to use http://upstart.com?
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nice idea!

if i choose "light" i get WarsteinerPremiumDunkel, SpatenDunkel, HofbräuDunkel, etc. "Dunkel" means "dark", so they are no light beers. And the camelCase should be with spaces instead.
You are pretty violent against MongoDB. Any reason why?
Do you really think this hasn't been asked by Boston or any of the other very large Google Apps deployments? The answer is a single Google Search away...

https://www.google.com/enterprise/apps/government/benefits.h...

> Google Apps for Government includes dozens of security features specifically designed to keep your data safe, secure and in your control. This segregated system, for government customers in the U.S. only, was the first cloud-based email application to receive FISMA accreditation from the U.S. federal government.
> PIOPs are the way around this but local instance storage is also an option.

PIOP is not ringing a bell - I'll stick my neck out and ask what it is.
There is a technical reason why the class name is passed into the API, and it's the same for other functions which create types (collections.namedtuple(), and type(), for example). You want to be able to print out the class name when you print an enum, but there is no other reliable way to figure out the class name. In Python, a class is just another value, like functions and integers and its name is nothing special. When you define a class normally, the name and dictionary get passed to the type() function.
This is one of the reasons I prefer to use Linux over systems such as Windows or OSX. I love the public discussion over the direction of technical details; the to-and-fro on the benefits of esoteric technologies.

The whole openness of the culture.
I've worked at several companies who paid for Google Apps; I have spoken to a live support rep when issues have occurred. Problem?
The OP didn't say they ought to open source it, just that they cannot justify using it because it is closed source. There is a huge difference.
I feel like there is a lot of context missing for some of these slides. Will there be video available of the talk?
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And I'm the only guy who likes to target shoot that I know (now, haven't done it in a long while).

I didn't ignore it; one of my sources, which I now see reading it is useless/I misread the headline, was a 1 to 5 ratio of hunters to gun owners, using a fairly low estimate for the latter (about 3/4th of the estimate I use; we only have hard numbers on hunters because they have to buy licenses). Many of those 5 could be target shooters ... but how many of them have them exclusively for target shooting? Ditto guns, e.g. look at Remington's hunting optimized R-15 and R-25 versions of the AR-15 and AR-10; I know one person who bought one because its also very good for self-defense.

Heck, VP Joe Biden shoots clay pigeons with a double-barreled shotgun and is full of advice about how it is great for self-defense (note, don't follow much of it unless you want to end up in jail).
I've done the same thing on one of my sites, it shows my gravatar image: view-source:http://permutationer.com/
Hi Jason,

Great work! The website has a great feel to it and it seems like a good first project to get out in the open. Definitely looks/works a gazillion times better than my first website!

There's an issue I'd like to point out that I've seen come up over and over again with people like yourself who've taught themselves to code via treehouse, codecademy or some of the other webdev-education based startups. I've met developers with 10+ years of experience who make the same error though, so I wouldn't beat yourself up too much about it.

This may have been deliberate, but it appears as though you can view all the rewards on the site (including other users) simply by modifying the URL. It also seems like you can modify or delete any of the rewards on the site too (try changing the form action/fields using chrome web inspector and submit the form). Since this is your first rails app and I'm assuming you're not hoping it's going to hold any sensitive data, this isn't that big a deal.

Do keep in mind though that in its current state, it's trivial to create a script that deletes all the rewards on the website or worse, fills all the reward info with spam data.

For the last person I pointed this out to, I put together a gist of what the before => after of the code should look like for fixing this https://gist.github.com/Najaf/5431024 (tl&dr, you need to whitelist those params and implement authorization).

If you'd like any further help with this, feel free to ping me via email.

Best of luck!
Well, it turned a profit it's most recently reported quarter and has indicated expectations for a profitable 2013. It arguably is defining the customer experience for low/mid-cost airline travel.
Ad supported?

I really don't understand why advertising supports so much superficial BS when at the same time their customers want better targeting.

The fact that so much worthless stuff gets supported to me implies there is huge scope for those wasted ad dollars to be redirected to more utilitarian ends.
I'm sure you can acquire a taste for drinking lemon juice as well, but I see no need to. :-)

My life isn't missing anything by having a nice martini or port while everyone else has a Glenfiddick.
Or that they made their website interesting enough for us to and link back to the website, talk about it here, and possibly increase traffic ;)
You can't learn advanced features in tutorials. Advanced features are usually solutions to complex problems in software design and development. And unless you're already an accomplished software developer, you'll have to start working on real-purpose programs to fully grasp, what an advanced is about and why it might be useful for you to make use of it in the task at hand.
Whoops - good point. Fixing now. I'll take the blame on that one. Meant to write ARC.
Does anyone know who the person in the homepage source code is?

view-source:http://www.tutorspree.com/
I worked for a similarly sized firm a few years ago and we also moved from Exchange to Gmail, partly because we had had a few severe outages with Exchange for various reasons. From a technical perspective, the migration went pretty smoothly. But there were at least a couple non-technical people on the business side who always hated the new system, partly because Gmail didn't have the hierarchical folder system they were used to. (And I don't think Gmail had sublabels at the time.)
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http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2013/03/py3k-status-update-10.h...
Ask HN: Would a NATO like pact against software patents work?
One of the reasons given for filing patents is that they are filed for defensive purposes. Wondering some kind of a NATO like collective defense pact has not emerged amongst startups/large software companies, where if a single company gets sued for a software patent infringement, then all other companies in the pact agree to sue the plaintiff. While this probably wouldn't work against patent trolls, wouldn't this take software patents out of play for many cases? And since I seem to hear many people/companies take the position that "software patents are evil, but we only need it for defensive purposes", would this not solve the problem cheaper? Membership fees could be in either in terms of patents or money (interchangeable).
Wondering what I'm missing because at least I'm not aware something like this has emerged.
(This of course assumes that software patents are detrimental to innovation in the industry)
The $2,499 miner is 10x the speed of the $274 dollar miner, so the ROI is actually better.
They're switching to a managed service that works with open source software and open file formats. That's not too shabby. Open source is great, but it doesn't come with experts to manage it. Boston's job isn't to run a data center, it's to run a city.
Python is a strongly-typed language.

Perhaps you're thinking of static versus dynamic typing?
I just don't like the "right tool for the job" argument.

Then say the "right technology for the task" then.

There is no ONE database that works perfectly in every situation.
This is really true in my case. Last year I called up 100 of our highest GMV customers at Shopify – these were busy merchants who almost certainly had better things to do than talk to me about how they felt about Shopify.

Out of those 100 customers, 81 picked up the phone, and of the 81 that did, exactly 3 didn't want to talk to me. The rest graciously provided amazing, actionable feedback.
I have neither included transport cost nor sales nor waste.

If you live in the UK you might immediately know what including these in that completely unrealistic article would mean.

(1) You have to go to one of the superstores to get these prices - Tesco Express, Sainsbury's Local e.a. almost never store the cheapest goods and normally mark up all other goods by a substantial amount (30%+). Next cheapest goods on the list are often 100%+ more than the prices used in the article (that's the superstore price of course) - most extreme (from my own experience) with rice - the cheapest rice you most likely find in a Tesco Express is £4+ vs. 40p quoted, that's 1000%.

(2) Getting to a superstore can be rather costly - assuming about £3.2 for bus tickets (that's £6.4 per week uups just doubled your weekly budget by only adding the transport cost) - you might alternatively walk about 10-16 miles each time (both ways, can be more if you live on the countryside) - guess that's the healthy part of that diet - walking 32 miles each week (you should than of course also adjust you calories / fat / vitamin intake which gets us to about e.g. £12 actual vs £7 and 12 hours spent walking).

(3) To use sales most effectively you have to have a budget to vary your diet, buy larger quantities when available etc - neither of this is possible in the constraints of this assumption - hence I also did not use sales prices.