skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree...somewhat. Sales is the most important thing that has to happen. I don't think that you have to be an engineers OR "A sales person". Many engineers are focused on sales.
Actually, in a typical MTT short stacks are forced to shove all-in very aggressively, which can be construed as having to make "poor" choices--the decisions aren't actually incorrect, but larger stacks wouldn't have to take such frequent and large risks.
IP address seems incredibly unreliable in this regard. What exactly is to be gained by associating it with an IP? If a company uses one external IP, are all my searches altered/bubbled by what everybody else in the company is querying?
A lot can be attributed to more ads on pages, true. But do people go there to see a page full of ads or "most relevant" and "unbiased results"? How many know ads from content?

But growth in places where Google makes its real money (US, EU, Canada etc) has plateaued for a while, IIRC. Growth in ad clicks mirrors growth in revenue and we know a click from Guatemala is not the same as one from NYC.

>>Besides, without any other data or even a clear mechanism of action, you could just as easily say they're just better achieving their stated goal of only showing ads that the people who see them are interested in seeing.

Maybe, but if you read the comments, people are accusing Google of making results worst to boost the ad click rate. That's wrong on so many levels.
I think the prevailing opinion of most Californians now is "we'd like to, but can't do it as often as we'd like."
Path, as with any Messaging apps that could potentially be successful, are a threat to Facebook.

The other threat is Photos.
http://i.imgur.com/2fhLhPF.png

That's cute.
/opt is justified. /srv is indeed NIH (redundant with /var/whatever).
I do not remember the exact title anymore. It was a book that taught how to build web applications by interleaving data retrieval and html printing, instead of building it up in proper MVC fashion, to name one example of the damage it did.

As for learning Perl, the best resource is http://perl-tutorial.org

You will find an explanation there of how to judge a learning resource and a list of the most current texts that teach modern Perl.
This might be a good guideline for someone who has never had CEO experience (and one day aspires to be a CEO), but I think it's almost offensive for one person to try to write the definitive guide to be a CEO from 0-x employees unless you're the CEO of some Fortune 500 company.
Duck and Cover (1951)
That was me growing up.

I'd go out since my mother had to get up at 5:00. That card allowed us to scrape by during some very rough times. I hate to think where we'd have ended up without it.

I'm glad to see a little sympathetic light being shown on this. It always irritates me a bit to hear these programs and the people they help derided politically.

Today, I pay far more in taxes each month than my entire family consumed in such benefits each year growing up.
Couldn't help but notice the applicants are almost exclusively white people. What do you make of that?
1) Okay.

2) What defines “ground-breaking?”

3) Duplication is a cornerstone of the scientific method. The bill as written would preempt funding for any study checking the results of other recipients’ studies.
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That's how I felt about it before I started using it. If it's more than just startup time holding you back, I'd give it a shot.
Nailgun is an additional dependency. And pretty insecure at that.
Cycling right next to a freeway sounds gross. All you need to do is take some back roads, slap down some speed bumps, sharrows and other things to slightly annoy cars, and call it a day: http://www.portlandoregon.gov/transportation/article/348902

Nice and cheap, plus you get bikes away from cars entirely, not simply relegated to the side of a high traffic, high speed street. I think it's the best option for any city in the US where there just isn't the political will to do anything more.
I have lost all my trust in the Indian government. They have spent 400 Crore rupees on building a content monitoring system, which will monitor our online activities. 4 billion rupees could've helped many people who needed it.
>Incidentally (this is unrealted because BI is not communism), I'm not convinced that the USSR failed because of communism/socialism/stalinism/capitalism/whatever. I'm no historian, but it looks like what happened is that the US fought an economic war with the USSR via an arms race. We spend a $ on our military to force them to sped a $ on theirs. They ran out of money first because they had a smaller economy coming out of WWII. This opinion is not very well researched or highly informed (I base it off starcraft strategy, heh). Please tell me if I have gone wrong; I will be neither surprised nor offended.

I don't know if you are right about this or not, but if it's true it seems ridiculous, at least in hindsight. Once you have nuclear weapons, spending money on the military, at least to deter potential invaders, won't help much more.
The 237 bikeway in the South Bay runs on either side of a 6 lane freeway. Sometimes it's right up next to it (on the other side of a metal fence) and other times it's a few dozen feet away. It can be a little intimidating. I try not to think of those NASCAR crash videos where the cars go right through the (far stronger) fences and just pedal on.

Most of the good bikeways around here are their own routes which exist on their own merits and don't sync up with the roadways. The few which manage to parallel a highway and are still enjoyable have a decent separation.
Do you mean when the latency starts failing, the team migrates to audio for clarity?

How often does this happen? And how often do you have these Skype conversations?

Also, is this a one on one conversation that you're having?
No doubt variance swamps our puny personal experiences, but for the little that it's worth I've had the opposite: instant return at Costco no questions asked, and a half hour lineup to return a wrong product I'd just mistakenly bought at Walmart. To be fair to Walmart, though, it wasn't their cashiers' fault. There were only two customers in front of me and both were so obstreperously difficult that it became an amusement to watch what ridiculous thing would happen next. One was returning a shopping cart full of dozens of items of clothing. The other was returning a single can of soup. Soup guy was the harder of the two.
Finally we're #1 at something good!
I'm tired of being the worst run city in the nation, and a few other horrible things.
Exactly. I'd say it happens less than five times daily. Usually just once or twice. Yes, these conversations are usually one-on-one. Although most of our team is located in one main office, so occasionally they'll be two or three people on one end of the call. For team meetings, we use Google Hangouts.
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Maybe it's the culture that makes it work in India although a billion people and so many levels of culture it's hard to say if that even true.

Doesn't the UK have a huge problem with generations of families on welfare who never work?

I can't see this working in Canada either a lot people on EI (employment insurance) are on it for decades, some all their lives. I know some people who just become accustomed to living on $8,000 per year just enough to get drunk and buy smokes. Although a lot of them have cash under the table jobs too so in a way they do want to or need to work.
Putting aside fees and whatever, that was straight-up unpleasant. I watched about 10 videos, between recent, popular and random. I appreciate the people for submitting videos and such, but this is a serious endeavor and none of them would have a chance in a real mission. I suspect most are treating it like a vanity exercise. This felt more like a reality TV show about going to Mars. Unfortunately, seriously interested and competent folks were probably mixed into the rabble clamoring for attention.

I seriously respect the [real] folks that sign up for the eventual, one-way trip to Mars, but these seem not to be the folks. It's going to be hard. It's going to be unpleasant. And it's going to end both badly [in a sense] and gloriously. I didn't see that gravitas reflected in the folks I watched.
Neither the basic needs were covered very well in the USSR, at least as I've been growing up in 80s. E.g. jeans already had been a luxury item. Housing, medicine etc. available for the most people were way below "poor" of the western world. I grew up in a 12 m^2 room in a 3-room flat shared with another family and was lucky, because many of my parents colleagues lived in dorms.

I am aware that the BI proponents believe that jealousy is a stronger drive than apathy. And this is undoubtedly true for some fraction of humanity. I just think they overestimate how big is this fraction.
I'm not familiar with the compromises of clojurescript nor running node.js as a CLI platform. Got any links that can help explain? Can it be compiled to a static executable?
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>The supply of labor exceeds demand right now which sends the price to 0

That's not quite how prices work. There is always a demand for labor. If the price of labor fell low enough there would be plenty of jobs. Though no one would want to work at those wages, it's even illegal to do so. The point is just that the price will never really fall to zero, even if it gets low.

>If everybody stops working, the price of services skyrockets. But the problem (soaring cost of services) and the solution (soaring reward for labor) are one and the same. This is how the free market is supposed to work. In fact, I'd go so far to say that BI presents a closer approximation to a free market than the system we have now (where the government price-controls labor).

That's not the intention of guaranteed minimum income at all, and not a good thing either. You are just cutting off one place (higher prices) to feed the other (higher wages). At least if I understand what you mean correctly, which I'm not sure. But the idea of the system is that it will balance out wealth disparities over time, but not too unfairly on people who do succeed. As well as provide a safety net. And get rid of all the bad incentives and complications created by other systems which attempt to do the same.
Poor people don't buy Big Macs, they load up on dollar menu double cheeseburgers / McDoubles to maximize calories+nutrition per dollar. And the burgers are a better nutritional bet if you're poor.
Ask HN: Do high quality work environments exist in India for programmers?
Today, I saw the Jobs section of Disqus[1] and was really startled at what they offer. Brand new Apple computers with 30'' monitors, free lunches, games and what not. With offices like this, I would love to go every day and thats not Disqus alone. Companies like Google, Facebook, Majority of startups, Fog Creek offer the same, at least in USA but I am not sure if such offices exist in India. Do they?

[1]: http://disqus.com/jobs/
Just a guess: I think they're exactly where they want to be. They're taking the "don't end the party at 11" principle to the extreme and refusing to (openly) monetize until the end of the world. Gold seems intentionally silly, almost like they're playing dumb. If I were a betting man, I'd say their route to bags of money would be to "fake upvote" certain posts. Like Twitter's paid endorsements, only super sneaky. Ask Taco Bell or Coca-Cola or whoever to come up with something interesting they can throw on r/funny or r/TIL or whatever, and as long as it doesn't scream "phony," Reddit will make sure it gets to the top. (That's not an accusation, just a hunch.)

>It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes.

Joseph Stalin
How do you guys handle ES authentication? It isn't really clear from the curl snippets posted on the homepage.
When you say "go out there and beat the bushes" what exactly do you mean? I have tried networking a little bit at one or too networking events but few people seemed interested in my help.
Presented at Black Hat USA 2009: Global Spying: Realistic Probabilities In Modern Signals Intelligence

https://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-usa-09/TOPLETZ/BHU...
CSS lets you color links based on whether the user has visited them or not.

Most of the Asteroids in the game are links - they use those same CSS rules to color themselves based on whether you've visited them or not.

Script on the page can't tell what color the asteroids are, but it can tell what asteroids you've clicked on. By making the visited-link color the same as the background color of the webpage, we get the user to give away the color of the links, because they'd only be clicking on the links that they can see - the ones with a color different to the background.
^ Soon you start to attribute dollar amounts to all of the time in your life.

This assumes you can work 24 hours a day, which you can't. I know that I can work X hours per day broken up into X periods of the day before I start entering burnout territory. For those periods, time is money.

^ Seriously, mom… hang up the phone. I don’t need an $80 call about dad’s knee surgery.

You wouldn't think this way when you are outside of your work period, but this sort of thinking would be fine when you are in your zone. In other words, when you are "jacked in" you don't want anyone distracting you.
Using design as a weapon to affect perspectives on race & culture
The readme for ClojureC says it's still experimental at this point. I'm not sure how far along it is. You might poke around its tests to see what it does so far.
Let's ask God His favorite thing in calculus.

I like... ummm... taylor.

God says...

left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all
these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.

2:45 Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the
mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the
brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made
known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is
certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.

2:46 Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face, and worshipped
Daniel, and commanded that they should offer an oblation and sweet
odours unto him.

2:47 The king answered unto Daniel, and said, Of a truth it is, that
your God is a God of gods, and a Lord of kings, and a revealer of
secrets, seeing thou couldest reveal this secret.

2:48 Then the king made Daniel a great man, and gave him many great
gifts, and made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon, and
chief of the governors over all the wise men of Babylon.

2:49 Then Daniel requested of the king, and he set Shadrach, Meshach,
and Abednego, over the affairs of the province of Babylon: but Daniel
sat in the gate of the king.

----

How about la grange multipliers?

That was a dud, basically.
Nailgun is not a good solution to the problem. If the JVM startup speed is a problem, your best option is to use something not on the JVM and not use hacks that make it feel faster.
he's tossing a bunch of link elements that are 0x0 px with an 8px border at your ship for you to click on. Only ones with addresses you've visited are visible:

a:visited { background-color:pink;}

Because you're clicking the border and not the element which is 0x0 you're not redirected but he knows the mouse position and from there can figure out which link you clicked on.
I'm not saying it's true, but in all of those cases it intuitively seems like a bad idea to encourage/not discourage those behaviors. Giving people handouts might give them an incentive not to work, giving corporations handouts lessens the incentive to not fail (and keeps the competitors which did better from gaining a larger market share), refusing drug addicts welfare might encourage them to get help, etc.

I'm not saying these things are necessarily true, but it certainly seems reasonable if you don't know otherwise. The point being that it's not because people necessarily see these things as moral issues, but just possible incentive problems.
It's amazing how many people ware willing to let Google (or anyone for that matter) see and keep their most private information for ever. Your online searches and emails can truly show what's on your mind, there's no way I am going to let an advertising company connect them to my real name and address and /or catalog them forever.

Nope, not even if you show me what movie is playing when I pass near a theater. I'll manage to do without that or associated advertising that will almost certainly come.
I think my choice of the word "great" in the second paragraph was off, but I'll stand by the rest. I have a legitimate learning disability when it comes to aesthetics, going as far as not being able to recall what shape almost anything was 5 seconds after seeing it. I'm also excellent at web design, because it's really a logical, emotional, and time/test driven process more than aesthetic.
I ran into this today when buying TP. I actually just wrote about it.

http://stfudamnit.com/2013/05/04/poverty-toilet-paper-and-th...
The application fee varies from country to country [1].

[1] http://mars-one.com/en/faq-en/29-faq-registration-fee/408-wh...
Networking events are generally not the best place to meet people with business problems -- they tend to attract a bit more of an aspirational audience. Business owners with budget congregate in predictable places: conferences for their industry, their own offices, locally organized meetups, the Chamber of Commerce, etc etc. If you absolutely can't find an appropriate event, throw one yourself. I'm totally serious. Throw a seminar on How to (Put Any Business Goal Here) With (Pick A Technology They Have Heard About Recently) For (Pick An Industry). Rent out a room for a few hours at the local civic center or whatever you have in your neck of the woods. Buy coffee/donuts for everyone. Teach folks for an hour. Give a five minute sales pitch at the end. Let folks mingle for a while so they can enjoy your coffee and donuts. Many people will come up and introduce themselves to you.

(This can be done on approximately a $100 budget in Ogaki, so that's probably the upper bound for you. If you can't afford that, write up how this advice actually worked out for you in a blog post and I'll reimburse you.)

Invite people via pre-existing networks like e.g. the Chamber of Commerce, which is generally happy to tell their members about free events which aren't (explicit) sales pitches.

When meeting people, ask about their business problems. Listen. Tell them that you understand those problems. If appropriate, say that you think you can produce a solution to those problems, since you are in the business of doing that as a technology consultant, and offer to discuss that problem in more detail after the event.
It's actually a sister company to Conde Nast, owned by Advance Publications:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_Publications
Yeah, I wish we could somehow persuade Mike Pall to work some magic here. LuaJIT's general design sounds like the perfect fit for something like this.
I don't have a good answer to your direct question but questions like this regarding patents are best asked anonymously and with the details of the patent very vague, because if it can be proven that you knew about a patent and you "willfully" violated it and you come out on the losing end you can be held liable for 3 times the usual damages and this post is pretty good future evidence that you were aware of the patent (which sounds like total bullshit, but such is the state of patents today) and willfully violated it.
I have no idea if this is accurate, but here is what Glassdoor has to say about companies based in India ranked from best to worst: http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/india-reviews-SRCH_IL.0,5_I...
Thank you, that was a much clearer explanation of what was happening. Also explains why I'd occasionally see a black circle drift over one of the colored ones.
First of all, gangster rap is still extremely popular among youth.

> Well I could share statistics which clearly show a major rise in violent crime by urban youth in the 90s, with a major decline afterwards, and there could be several explanations for that.

Several easy to spot deterrents of youth crime implemented in the 90s:

- Zero Tolerance in schools (automatic expulsion if you have anything that even looks like a weapon)

- If you commit a violent crime as a juvenile these days you're likely to get tried and sentenced as an adult (specifics depending on state)

As for teen mothers, I can't contribute much to that discussion - but the CDC's data on 15-19 year olds shows a marked and consistent drop in birth rates from 1990 to 2010. [1]

> violence, drug use and drug dealing... done by chronically unemployed males who are feeling disenfranchised and without a purpose.

Although not socially accepted, it is often treated as a job; I'd also advise caution in trying to limit drug use and dealing to specific demographics.

On the topic of welfare, you'd probably be surprised how many college students make use of food stamps these days.

1. http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6118a8.htm?s_cid=...
You seem to be confused about what I'm claiming happened. You say retaliation against groups because of what other members of the same group did because they were members of that group is not reasonable.

On an intellectual level I concur, but I also realize that such a system is easy to game, and therefore cannot exist. Therefore group attacks, and group retaliation are a necessity, and they will exist regardless of what we rationally or morally feel justice should be. It's not a question of having this morally justified, no more than questioning the morality of a volcanic eruption anyway.

As for [1], that happened during the mughal conquest of India. Again, any violence against muslims during that time was as justified as violence against nazis was in WWII. Muslim invaders were genociding through India at the time, loss of life of that conquest, which included the building of that mosque, run from the hundreds of millions up to a billion dead.
Number [4] is such a trivial event I don't get why you even mention it. Drunks do that on a bimonthly basis 200 meter from where I'm sitting. Furthermore I would like to point out that in most muslim countries, those girls would have been slowly stoned to death, as a matter of general policy.

I don't fully get the point your making. When pointing out muslim atrocities, I point to multiple religious genocides, and you say that the other side is "equally guilty" because of the destruction of a building and scaring a few girls. I hope you understand that these things are not comparable.
Yes, but that doesn't actually solve the problem. How is that code going to interact with your existing objects unless those objects are in the global scope?

If both the requester of the AJAX call and the receiver are in the same closure, there's no need for those objects to be globally accessible.
This is what came to my mind: Move out of India. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1088538
The L.A. River bicycle path is at times right in between I-5 and the river. I'm sure there are other paths adjacent to a freeway.
Regarding #2, what is he talking about escaping? A simple call to the j helper (short for escape_javascript) and your render calls are properly escaped.

Regarding #1; AJAX updates are incredibly easy (see the Railscast for review http://railscasts.com/episodes/136-jquery-ajax-revised?view=...). In fact, most of the Backbone BS that people are doing now days could be much more easily accomplished with a simple form_for (:remote => true) with a simple rjs response.

This author appears to have lost the simplicity in it's approach. Review the Railscast and this video of DHH showing off the new Basecamp (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkLVl3gpJP4) and maybe you'll reconsider.
It seems to be just:

O(1) green
O(log n) green
O(n) red
O(n log n) yellow
O(n^2) red

Which is weird, since green-green-red-yellow-red is a really confusing order. I don't know why they did it that way.