skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm having a bit of an issue with the buy and sell provision of the option. So, I provide these, and the people who buy these options are people who are doing unethical (in my eyes or others) things. Let's say hiring a gay person to do a webpage for Stormfront, or a feminist's time being sold to a pornography site.

I care deeply who I work for, at least at the edges. My two worst experiences that nearly broke me were for business which I felt I was making a negative impact on society. That's not saying I won't work for a Fortune 500 -- I've done my fair share -- but I can't imagine giving up that kind of control.
Related: http://www.troyhunt.com/2013/05/why-i-am-worlds-greatest-lov... (hn discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5661806)

Looks like Troy picked up the Comodo story and demonstrates a MiTM attack here: http://www.troyhunt.com/2013/05/heres-why-you-cant-trust-ssl...
I've been using a free bootstrap UI toolkit from http://guitoolkits.com/bootstrap-gui-toolkit/. They seem to have it for different tools (including powerpoint).
You'll get a lot of hits on that because the media calls every long gun an AK47. No criminal in his right mind would use one, it's expensive and objectively terrible.
Since producing light costs (large?) amounts of energy, I find it unlikely that glowing plants will outcompete their nonglowing brethren in the wild.
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Are you saying that home builders and engineers should get paid royalties for as long as the house stands?
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Good ol' Arabidopsis! I performed a similar transfection in university, adding blacklight-reactive proteins from jellyfish to A. Thaliana. Things to know:

Arabidopsis is small; in the lab, 10 cm is usual, though they can double this size. It also has a short seed-to-seed cycle; those facts, and the simplicity of the genome, were why it was chosen as the original botanical model organism.

It's a fun project and the biosynthetic pathway should eventually be viable in plants; it's reasonable to think we can achieve glow worm levels of illumination, perhaps higher with further breeding.
Shameless plug for my old room mate's startup, [http://penango.com Penango]. Penango uses a browser plugin to implement S/MIME for GMail and several other popular webmail providers. Your private keys stay on your local machine.
Japan has a very high suicide rate despite near non-existence of guns.
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I just meant that you're not necessarily missing out, IMHO.

Brie in general I love. But the only time I've tried brie de meaux from unpasteurised milk it really, really stank and I didn't care for the taste either. And I will eat most ripe and blue cheeses happily.

I've yet to try surstromming after being warned off it by a Swedish friend. Of course he didn't seem to like any Swedish food so may not be the best person to listen to on that count!
Yes, somewhat. The gallery shows both camera pictures and albums from Google+ Pictures. You can probably get a similar effect with the Google+ app on iOS and deleting pictures from your camera roll.
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I was not hired because I speak slowly.
I was interviewed 2 days ago for a software engineer position and though I'm very confident of my technical skills, the main reason I was rejected is that I speak slow.

As far as I know, I was speaking at a reasonable pace, I was keen at answering all the questions and I elaborate my answers further so that I can express my message clearly. I wasn't trying to answer the questions without even thinking about it so I was careful and keen.

How do you find the interviewer's decision? even if I speak slowly do you think that it is justified for a company to reject their candidate based on how fast one can speak?
Thanks for mentioning. I'll take a look.
Amazing. If we ever find stars orbiting like that, I might start believing in intelligent design.

Imagine living on a planet in the 7-butterfly pattern. Twice a year (or whatever) you'd see the other planets heading straight for you as you whizz through the apex in the middle.
If you set the limit to 10 billion of something, you need to test that 10 billion actually works.
The illusion of simplicity: photographer Peter Belanger on shooting for Apple
Ask HN: Failed Startup, unreasonable clients, where do I go from here?
I put it all on the line on a startup that had good traction, but very low revenue per user, and ended up selling it for a pittance when I couldn't meet obligations. In the end I was dead broke.

I know many would say I didn't manage my finances properly, but at the start I was fresh out of college with no marketable skills and at the end I was a competent developer. Importantly I was so frugal I lived under the poverty level the entire time.

I went into consulting, and worked for a client that despite promises always managed to maneuver into only paying subsistence wages.

I got more jobs, but only from more unreasonable clients, and I made the rookie mistake of charging a flat rate for projects. The scope always expands with these clients.

I got smarter and changed the structure of my business after watching this video called F*ck you Pay Me: http://vimeo.com/22053820

It has been working, the response I get from clients is much better, but I still have not been able to break into the $100+ hour market.

I thought I had found the job that would allow me to break out from this cycle of desperation around rent due dates, pay off the debt I accrued with my startup etc... And start running a serious and professional consultancy.

I did a phone interview, and they were excited and I went in to speak to four people, and at that meeting they said they were ready to go and that we could get started right away.

And then nothing. No response to email. Nothing. I feel sort of crushed by the flakiness. I know I am only one good client away from all of this changing, but it feels right now like it's never going to happen.

I was wondering if other developers have had similar experiences. I'm competent at what I do, it gets better, right?
Is it possible that the rise from 2001 to 2011 has to do with the recession rather than a general upward trend? Would it be possible to see statistics from 2001 to say 2007 instead? Or even better the last 20 years.
> "What Europe did: Banned all forms of animal protein, including chicken litter, in cow feed in 2001."

I think this came in the aftermath of the Mad Cow Disease that affected the UK in the mid-'90s (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bovine_spongiform_encephalopat...). I know that UK does not necessarily mean Europe, but nevertheless, that was really huge no matter where in Europe you happened to live, it showed that an entire industry could vanish over night just because of bad industry practices.
When you're targeting Linux, it's easier in the long-run to just use Linux. The base system isn't the same between the two because Mac OS X uses BSD versions of important things like SED, grep, etc. There are subtle differences that most Mac OS X users I've met don't know and can lead to weird problems like "why doesn't X work; it works fine on my mac!!".

If everyone's on Linux, the dev and productions systems are more similar, so less scripting issues can arise. I personally use Arch, other coworkers use Mint or Ubuntu, and only one developer uses Mac OS X (others switched because of above problems; he couldn't switch because of EFI problems). Even devs new to Linux (from Windows) love Mint, and all is well and good in the world. Servers run Debian or Ubuntu, so I test my changes in a VM because Arch has noticeably newer software in the repos, but that's because I can't stand Debian as a desktop system (package manager too slow).

Also, the Mac OS X user uses his Mac like a Linux box. He only ever touches his trackpad to use non-keyboard friendly apps (uses Vimium for Chromium, tmux/vim for terminal/editing, etc). Our devs not familiar with the keyboard generally use Sublime on Linux, which is a fantastic editor as GUI editors go.

The trackpad drivers aren't that bad, but may require some configuration in the xorg conf (I got multitouch working, but disabled it because I find it annoying).

We don't standardize on a single dev platform because each developer is different. The developer understands that using Linux is going to be easier in the long-run, but he/she must understand that his/her choice of OS must not negatively impact productivity. We've had a few developers try starting on Windows, but we'd refuse to support any dev environment besides Ubuntu Linux, and when they ran into problems, they switched to Mint/Ubuntu.

I've never seen a developer be more productive on Mac OS X than Linux. In fact, those gesture usually end up slowing him/her down from what should be easy using the keyboard (and all that switching from trackpad to keyboard is not productive).
Well, I suspect SSH is going to be faster than using the VM terminal in any case. But I'd set it up to watch the directory and compile/restart automatically, if you can.
Most shootings are survived, something like 80% for handguns.
I can't link you to the Chinese or Japanese materials, because I bought them in Shanghai and Tokyo. Also, they aren't written in English. The Googlers next door use Russian materials from Moscow, also not written in English.

It's hard to do better than Singaporean materials, which are in English and modified (not in a bad way) for the US market, which you can find at SingaporeMath.com. Their Primary Mathematics series is superb. I use the Standards Edition, which is said to track the California State Math Standards. That sounds ominous, but actually the state standards are excellent. The districts essentially ignore them by using a ridiculous "reform" curriculum that, being "a mile wide and an inch deep," will always include a checkmark every year for any topic you can think of, thereby covering anything mentioned in the state standards (superficially and in random order).

Note that for these Asian curricula, you REALLY need to know how to teach the math. The textbooks only provide visual aids and example problems, not the tutorial text (paragraphs of explanation) typical in US books. If you go for Singapore Math, you should get the Home Instructors Guide (at least for a few levels), which teaches you how to teach it.

And DON'T start a kid at too high a level. Use the placement tests downloadable from singaporemath.com to decide where to start. It's all about carefully building up from the bottom, mastering each level before moving on.
We use a true hybrid approach for the mobile app, meaning in addition to using phonegap we also use some native UI elements; namely the top and bottom nav bars. It does add some overhead because you have to write that stuff in java/objective-c but it helps the app feel much closer to a native app than pure HTML5 does at this point. I would check out http://trigger.io if you're not interested in writing any native code and don't have any special requirements for your UI design.

Our backend is a ruby on rails app.
We do, in some sense. The <video> tag is hardware accelerated on many platforms. It's not a direct "decode this frame using the hardware" API, but if you're trying to serve up a video, it does the job. Is there something specific you're looking to do with a lower-level API?
This is fine for some scenarios but I've had a series of problems which drove me away from this kind of setup.

Default CarrierWave (Rails gem) settings try to clean up the tmp files after file uploads. This is a good thing normally, but to Ruby I am on a Linix box, so it tries to `unlink` which fails catastrophically because the mounted drive was NTFS.

Then there are NPM modules. It is kind of funny because Node.js and NPM are actually pretty good on Windows for development purposes anyway, but if I want to run it from my VM it picks up my OS as Linix and tries file system operations like symlinks. I couldn't even install Express.

These are just a few of the things I ran into.
Can't they remove it? Then we can all pretend it's a postit note.
There are more costs attached to it: Using antimicrobial sprays or antibiotics in abundance tends to create resistant strains and the products enrich in the food chain. The same effect could be created by just using proper hygienic conditions in the slaughterhouse - but that would cost more and require some spoilt food to be trashed - such as the trimmings from beef. Instead it's treated with ammonia and sold as ground beef.[1] Enjoy.

[1] http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_19947.cfm
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> 1) you may survive an attack with a firearm

Agreed, my initial claim was hyperbole. I don't think weaking my claim to "serious injury" weakens my point.

> 2) there are guns in the UK, and more gun crime since the ban went into effect. Infer from that what you will.

Twice a tiny amount is still a tiny amount.
Why do you need battery life for development? Most of the time you'd probably be in the office anyway.

Even so, ThinkPads have pretty good battery life, and on some models the CD drive can be replace with an extra battery. I've heard of some that can go nearly two working days before recharging.
Why mobile wallets alone will fail
It does work as a one time thing.

But, having an extension like Stylebot installed and using a tiny custom CSS does offer an advantage - the CSS applies across the domain and takes effect every time the page is loaded.

For example, see this gallery - http://imgur.com/a/MxFtD
Quite true, and indeed, partially-treated municipal sewage is used on crops in many places, which gives me pause. It happens to be the case that this article focuses on deficits in our meat supply, and wider reading suggests that animal food safety is in fact poorer on many spectra.
I didn't read the article, but am going to make a commentary anyway. I take from this declining violent crime stat, that we still have a long way to go in eradicating violent crimes (both gun and non gun related). /soapbox
If you have no coding experience, should you read this?
There would still have to be some right to back out

Ok, that changes things. I'm not quite sure why anyone would pay for the opportunity to offer someone a job, though.

I believe that if the market were well-structured, people would comply (i.e. work at the strike price, even if their market rates improved far beyond it) just to have continuing access to the market, and also for social networking purposes.

You're clearly far more optimistic than I am. :-)
Motherjones also fails to recognize that MANY states already have mandatory "cooling off periods" where if you buy a gun on say Monday you can't pick it up until later in the week.

http://www.ehow.com/list_6745387_illinois-gun-license-requir...

"As with many states, Illinois has a mandatory 72-hour wait period between the time a person purchases a handgun and the time he can take the gun home from a licensed dealer."
Mad Cow Disease did not hit only the UK (France, for instance, was also significantly hit). But anyway, for this kind of regulations, it is definitely at the European level and it is quite likely MCD is the reason for it
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The company told you that?
"They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice; that only a madman could be guilty of it; and other insipidities of the same kind; or else they make the nonsensical remark that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/schopenhauer/arthur/pessimis...
Personally, I like that Aperture (and iPhoto, for that matter) use packages instead of folders. It took away my desire to be a "file location control freak" and just focus on the photos.

Other enthusiast friends of mine hate the package approach because they're very used to the file management approach, so YMMV.
One way you could do it is by using mutable state. Impure languages, such as Scheme or Ocaml, let you use mutable like normal imperative languages do and in Haskell you can use mutable references inside some special monads (and you even ave more than one kind of mutalbe reference, depending on what monad you are on: IORef, STRef, etc)

The other way is to not use state. If you squint a bit, you can see that if you explicitly encode your "state" as function arguments you can kind of update it by calling the function recursively:

go 0 acc = acc
go n acc = go (n-1) (n * acc)

fact n = go n 1

In the previous example, the code I wrote does exactly the same thing as the usual imperative loop might have done, but the accumulator is a parameter on the helper function instead of being a mutable variable.

In general, if you are OK with this kind of non-destructive updates that I used here, you can encode all your state as extra parameters that you thread around your functions. You can do this by hand in most cases but in some situations the state is very pervasive and correctly threading it around can be complex and error prone. In that case, you can look into use things like the State monad (not to be confused with the ST monad!) to do that implicitly pass that parameter around for you.
Long-range killings (outside military combat) are extremely rare. Hammer killings aren't in comparison.
It's unfair to compare the best state-sized countries with the entire United States, which has several states 7+ but also several 2 and under. It would be better to compare the US to the closer-sized Europe, which is 3.5. Still a legitimate difference, but not nearly as stark.
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I have no trouble getting access to raw milk cheeses in Chicago.
Waste of money if you ask me. My opinion of this theme is that it provides a very poor user experience. The buttons do not look clickable at all. Unless you hover over them, which is useless on a mobile device

I much prefer Almost flat UI such as Gmail and http://websymphony.net/almost-flat-ui
3 days without a single comment. No one in HN seems to be interested in permanently bootstrapping their startups. They all want to land a big time VC investment as a validation of their business! ;)
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The US has roughly 42,000 reported cases of salmonellosis each year.

The "asthma and other severe respiratory problems, burns, rashes, irritated eyes, and sinus ulcers and other sinus problems" are occupational hazards associated with the practice, not hazards to consumers of the product.

The author is saying that some committee in the EU has banned the practice, and are unlikely to have done so without weighing costs and benefits.
Learn to delete. Not right away, but go through old stuff at least, and be a snob. Your mileage may vary, but the delete button is my number one photography tool. I now actually have less photos than I had after, say, 3 years; simply because my standards of what I consider a keepers rise. I still totally suck at photography, but I have become very good at deleting, even if I say so myself, so people sometimes think I'm quite decent ^^ Maybe try it out with moving them at first, to get a feel for it.
You know a place is hilly when its name is "3-D".
And where are you located?
I agree, it's a signal, but it's not an overall determiner.

An interesting counterpoint is AirBNB spamming Craigslist in their early days.

Another counterpoint is Zynga and their 'scamville'.

With AirBNB, I think all is forgiven - great company thru and thru... one might think it was part of their hustle? With Zynga that DNA was perhaps indicative of something that destined to be very pump and dump.

I hate it, but sometimes a little 'cheating' during a growth phase can make or break the success of a company.
I have to say, with no evidence to back it up, that if you want to die enough to put a barrel in your mouth, if that gun is taken away, you can find another way.
With all the globular clusters out there, some formation like these must've broken away somewhere...amazing! The non-symmetrical one was the coolest.
Yep. SSL is now viewed as a good best practice for data in transit, to the point that Apple was criticized for not enabling it for the App Store (http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57573334-37/).

But the real issue, as you indicate, is stored data. Full Gmail encryption would presumably be done in conjunction with the client via the browser. Because the server wouldn't have access to the plaintext, search becomes tricky and contextual ads problematic. One solution would be for Google to make fully encrypted Gmail a paid service.
Individual healthcare purchases (not insurance) can be deducted from your taxes, either explicitly if you're filing a long form, or implicitly if you're claiming the standard deduction.

I don't see why it would be a huge burden to make individual health insurance tax deductible.
5%, or 1/20, is the commonly reported figure - https://www.google.ca/search?q=percentage+of+canada+hunts

I live in the Toronto area, and around here the percentage is, unsurprisingly, incredibly low. Out of the thousands of people that I engage with, I know one other person who hunts.
Oh, collecting has a lot to do with it even if they're current mass-produced products. It's easy to get into the mode of "I want one of those...and one of those...and one of those...and one of those...and one of those...and one of those...". It's accentuated by political attempts to limit acquisition of guns, leading to "I'd better get everything I want NOW while I still can!"
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I thought this might be a survey or request for users to fill-out a report card, not an informational page. We tried Basecamp once. It seemed like an expensive implementation of something we could easily setup ourselves. Not sure why everyone is so 'ga-ga' for 37signals...
You really do have to get over that psychological block about managing files to enjoy using iPhoto and Aperture.

Personally, I don't mind it, because it's one less thing to think about. I would prefer to buy a bigger drive than to worry about the placement of my photo files beyond the iPhoto/Aperture library package.

On the other hand, I know people with that file management mentality that hate, hate, hate iPhoto and Aperture's way of doing things.
See also "Why American Eggs Would Be Illegal In A British Supermarket, And Vice Versa"

http://www.forbes.com/sites/nadiaarumugam/2012/10/25/why-ame...
+1 for Trovebox. I love that I can use my own domain name (http://photos.masnick.org/) and have Trovebox use my own S3 account for storage.

I haven't had a chance to hack on the source code myself yet, but you actually can contribute to the Trovebox frontend on GitHub (http://github.com/photo/frontend). I've filed a few issues here and fixes were in production on trovebox.com within a few days!
Photography is actually pretty fun. I had my first attempt at it when I was 14 during school. I caught some memorable shots that varied from serious to hilarious. It's great to see technology expand in such a way that anyone can take a picture(e.g. cellphone).
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