skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some (many!) people want to work hard (and expect to be rewarded for success) but prefer to avoid taking all of the risks personally/handling the janitorial work of a business by themselves too.

Exactly. If you're older than 25 and it's no longer socially acceptable to mooch, you recognize that personal financial risk is toxic sludge to be kept out of your life if at all possible.

Why do people take it on when forming businesses? They have no other choice. Bank loans require personal liability, VCs run a reputation economy that's almost certainly illegal.

However, you can give people an environment where they can be truly "intrapreneurial" (this doesn't work in most companies for political reasons, but it can in an open-allocation environment where doing work is more important than controlling it) and participate in the upside (profit-sharing, bonuses, increasing interestingness of work) partially but don't have to take on any personal risk. People won't leave such an environment lightly.
Why be a tattletale when you can solve a problem yourself?
I think the biggest flaw is the assumption that each day must stand on its own. I'd say that its generally much cheaper to make one big meal than to try and make 3 individual meals, but there's no attempt to create large soups or chilis or something in which you CAN use fractional prices because the final product will last several days or can be frozen.
> I think the main weakness of the diet not listed on their weaknesses is they've made no attempt to break it down into a realistic 3x7 meal plan, because it doesn't really make one. Yeah, it's easy to put together a whole load of things cheaply that conform to predetermined values on a spreadsheet, but sometimes sum of the parts does not give you a realistic outcome.

That's a very fair point, but it seemed like premature optimization to try to nail down a meal plan before all the kinks in the nutrition side of things were ironed out. I do plan on getting to that stage in a later version.

Perhaps I should have waited before publishing this post, but honestly, I tend to lose myself in projects like this, and without some indication that other people are interested I often end up leaving the work in an archive somewhere to finish later.

I hope that there's enough data there to be useful/interesting in its current state, but I agree, needs more work
Given that most people nowadays live in towns or agglomerations ...
He does sound quite sane on how the US government should act. Too, bad they spend so much time on theater as opposed to actual risks (heart disease, cancer, public debt, etc.).
So how useful is pedaling a wheel with your upper arms? It seems like such an awkward and weak motion. Would a push/pull action lose too much energy trying to convert it into rotational power?
Using Spring PropertySource and Environment in Configuration
I'd put down everything you have if you are <30. 30+ I'd only bother putting my most recent degree, as at that point workplace experience is more important to include than education as it is more relevant to who you are as an employee/worker.
How long have you been lurking before you registered?
The future of iOS design?
Watching Notch's Ludum Dare videos inspired me to create my first OS X app store app. It takes screenshots at a configurable interval and than creates H.264 encoded video of the resultant timelapse.

Here it is: http://appstore.com/mac/ScreenshotTimelapse

Here are 25 promo codes if anyone wants to try it out: http://pastebin.com/K6Xx59jY
Working back from a government nutritional RDA is not really the best way to shape a diet.

Instead:

1: Uncover your total daily energy expenditure: BMR*activity multiplier

2: Once you have your TDEE set your macro intake, and try to get them from mostly whole foods:

_2a: Set daily intake of protein to around 0.82g/lb of bodyweight. Higher if you're more active, can be lower if you're more sedentary.

_2b: Set daily fat intake to around 0.25-0.5g/lb bodyweight, prioritizing essential fats.

_2c: Fill remaining TDEE with carbohydrates.

_2d: Get adequate fibre: at least 0.15g/lb bodyweight per day, but stay below ~0.4g/lb so that it doesn't begin to negatively affect the absorption of nutrients.

3: Measure intake and body comp over time, adjust diet as required.
Clojure - gen-class – how it works and how to use it
The people who should suffer and eat this loss are the people responsible for letting it happen. Sadly, this will not happen, and the loss will be socialized (and profits capitalized) across the entire people through the form of raised insurance rate policies.

It's the system of insurance that is broken, not the fact that dumb corporations are doing stupid things and losing other people's money.

Socialism doesn't work in any system that you implement it in. When you separate the consequences from the actor, the rational actors will behave in a maximally self-interested way and screw everyone else. When all do this, the nation falls back 100 years. Not remedied, the nation falls back 1000 years.
And the vast majority of traces are mostly useless, either they lead to an already obvious source (including illegal straw purchases, but those are almost never prosecuted) or a theft.
No, because I've seen this with my own eyes and heard it time and again. Landlords quoting a ridiculous rent to someone not from the city -- and getting that rent. Even I was screwed once, thinking I had a reasonable rent and then finding out -- after going to landlord-tenant court -- that the registered rent was actually one-third of what I'd been paying and I'd been illegally overcharged (yes, the landlord was ordered to refund the overage).

New Jersey is a free rent market. Hoboken and Jersey City rents went sky-high from the 1980s on -- even as ginormous skyscraper apartments were being built on the waterfront as "affordable" (to who!) apartments. Everyone who had lived there for decades got screwed out of living there.
From the guidelines http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Resist complaining about being downmodded. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

Votes count, but flags count more. It only takes 2 or 3 flags to get a new story off the front page. If a story has lots of upvotes it takes more, but not too many.
Spring MVC and the HATEOAS constraint
tq;dr

tq = teaser question
I did an interview with them and it seems like they do hire the cheapest.
And after you spent ten years reformulating basic maths in your fancy new logic, people will look at your papers and won’t understand a word, which appears to be more or less what happened to our poor protagonist in the OP.

Furthermore, I have to admit I don’t see the immediate advantage such a reconstruction would bring with it.
Being an ableton user myself, loved playing with this. Fantastic work!
Ah, the unquantifiable "healthy" designation.
You might also want to read the discussion on the item he links to:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5685482
I am excited as you to use this product.
"14 hours ago you registered your username
7 hours ago you submitted an item that appears to have been flagged off the front page
* 2 hours ago you submit an item about how unfair that is, and how everyone should have instantly realised how valuable your submission was.
* Now you complain that your complaint is being flagged.
* When I explain about how things work, you just continually come back and say that it shouldn't be like that.
Well, that's how it might appear. Welcome to HN."

>Well, that's how it might appear. Welcome to HN.

This is a dead submission. Censored.
> I was able to get her because she was four months pregnant

I love that this is the thing that sold her on his company.

Let's be honest though, the vast majority of businesses are hard, tedious work. Not many founders are smart enough to work smart and so they just work hard. This is why pregnant women get treated as untouchables and it's not their fault, it is the business's fault for being unable to develop the right model.

The knee-jerk reaction by feminists would be to legislate this away but you are more or less asking for businesses to go out of business by hiring employees that are overpaid relative to their coworkers. Productivity cannot be provided by JUST the employee, the business needs to help as well and most do not.
Seems pretty clear this was not the case, since they told him they didn't believe he was working. I think this is just another point in favor of NOT billing by the hour for contract work. If you are billing for the product delivered, rather than your time, it takes your work habits completely off the table.
Perelman did lecture on his proof: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Perelman#Verification
The Liberator Plastic Gun And The Export Regulations Take Down Of It
Only if your time is cheap as well.

If I can make $500 in the few hours a week it takes to tend my garden, then it's better to buy off a local farmer.
In addition to your comment there, I think a few flags will get something off the front page even though it continues to rank highly on page 2+. I suppose I could be wrong though.
I live in the suburbs but with a very small backyard. I have about 60 sq ft of space that provides 90% of my vegetables throughout the year. When I lived in an apartment I had two tomato plants and two squash plants on my deck and it would give me pounds of food a week (squash grows really quickly, tomatoes grow abundantly).

It's not impossible by any means for most people to do so, even in small quantities.
A search for "floppy disk" on newegg.com returned 52 results. There was some noise to deal with, but the most expensive drive I could find was $30. The whole process took less than five minutes. Nothing complicated whatsoever.
‘Worst’ File-Sharing Pirates Spend 300% More on Content Than ‘Honest’ Consumers
> I'm sorry, but if you are literally marching down the street in a parade, you lose the claim of "privacy".

I'm sorry but different countries have different sets of laws, and it turns out there are whole legal systems which disagree with your overly broad assertions.

Actually I'm not sorry at all, you are in serious need of a clue.
The same triple constraint nature of the project management triangle exists, I think, with food intake. Quality, cost, and ease/speed of preparation -- pick two.

Every two days, I cook up 2 lbs ground beef, boil 4 cups beans, and 4 cups rice. I let it cool off, and throw it in Tupperware, and into the fridge. I take from that whenever I'm hungry. It doesn't taste the best, but it fills you up, is cheap, and is good for you! If you're feeling the need for some extra veggies/fruit, avocado, frozen blueberries, and frozen kale offer the most nutritional content at the lowest price and least preparation time.

Like work, I don't think this will ever be 'optimal', but it's good for now, in that it saves me time, money, and waistline. Can tweak it as I go.
Switch from being paid by hour to being paid by task. Client describes a project, together you split it into a list of small tasks, you assign value to each task, client agrees to it, and you get paid by task. Then it is up to you how productive you are..
Time to dredge up out of the tar pits `The Mythical Man Month' and video how much a few lines of debugged code are worth.
A racing Batman Tumbler car replica
Just because you didn't intend to be condescending doesn't mean you weren't.

> I was just speaking from experience.

You ought to recognize that your personal experience is necessarily limited in its scope and applicability to others' lives.
Not so: first, writes are always sent to all replicas, so throughput for ONE and QUORUM is identical. The primary difference is that ONE is allowed to complete when more nodes are down.

It's true that QUORUM reads will have half (in a 3-replica system) the throughput as ONE, but with Cassandra reads up to 8x as fast as HBase [1], it still wins handily.

Finally, the reason this is worth making configurable in the first place is that almost all applications do just fine with most operations at ONE.

[1] http://vldb.org/pvldb/vol5/p1724_tilmannrabl_vldb2012.pdf
Looks cool, I grabbed AKMYPYNNRPP9

Thanks!
Can you point me to specific case studies or research papers? I think they would be an interesting read.

Many thanks in advance!
c1u: You're hellbanned.

But in any case, if you can trade a few hours for $500 at will, you probably can spend more than £1/day in food. Most people can't just work a few more hours (if they have a job at all) though.
What Apple really means when it says it has “sold” a product
Hackers Steal $45 Million From ATMs
It's not dead, because I can still see it, and I haven't got "ShowDead" turned on. It's not censored, it's just been flagged.

You don't seem to understand the culture here, and you seem unwilling to try to learn. Meta-discussions are almost invariably flagged, because all too often other forums drown in a self-inflicted morass of navel-gazing.

Are you really surprised that people are flagging your complaint about how not everyone realized the value of your second ever submission? And now I see you've made another complaint.

I've tried to help you see how things work here, but you haven't yet even got enough karma to see the "flag" link, you appear not to have read the guidelines, and all you seem to be doing is complaining that people are behaving in ways you don't understand.

If you insist on putting your own uninformed interpretations on things and not listening to explanations from people who have been here five years, I don't know how to help you.
Ok. Then I missed the post you're talking about. My apologies. Nothing to see here....
Amazing work, a real musical treat.
Absolutely impressive.
Simple alerts via their iPhone application of every debit card transaction made -showing the places name, and a location on a map at the same time.

Because there is no cut off, other than turning off notifications, this sounds like it could be annoying. But in practice, it’s just nice, and gives you a sense of security.

And when looking back over transactions at the end of the month - the maps are dang handy for jogging my memory…
> It is reality what drives mathematicians to work, not a pure abstraction.

In general, no.

> It is because of reality that maths is interesting. It is because of Geo-metry that algebra is so relevant.

Perhaps to you, but not to most mathematicians, certainly not those working in academical settings. Have you ever looked at group theory or topology?

I don't think you've ever done the kind of math that mathematicians do. What you learn in school is not math, it's calculating. What mathematicians do is to invent constructs that have no basis in reality and prove statements about them, then come up with more constructs based on those statements, ad infinitum.

Sometimes those constructs may be designed to model real world problems, and getting funding is probably easier in those areas, but just as often the applicability is only discovered afterwards - or not at all.

The best example (because it's something we've actually all learned about) is complex numbers. They were first invented in teh 16th century and considered pointless and irrelevant at first. People soon discovered that they could be useful in proofs about non-complex numbers as well, but it took several centuries before they were found to be directly applicable in electrical engineering (many more applications have been discovered since).
I'll keep it short and sweet: Surely if the client has already agreed the price/signed the contract, they have indicated that they are happy to pay the given amount of money for the software they are getting in return. Even if it takes you 20% of the time you quoted and you spent the other 80% masturbating and browsing reddit, it doesn't matter because it wouldn't affect the price either way.
I like your company website. Funny thing is, I thought the tab was on French but the copy on the page was English! Then I clicked the EN tab which looked recessed to me, and suddenly the text switched to French. Am I the only person who has ever seen it backwards like this? I'm seriously curious!
I would guess that has as much to do with storage and bandwidth as it does camera quality.
Unfortunately we're just as much to blame for the red tape. It didn't get created out of a vacuum, it was created to protect people. I wrote a whole blog post called Why Does a Hammer Costs $5000 at http://www.followsteph.com/2011/11/22/why-does-a-hammer-cost...
Why? They're investigating the issue, what would you do in their situation?
Yet another reason why non-SI should die a fiery death. 1J is always exactly one joule and nobody talks about 1kJ as ‘large joule’.
Huh? So you want the head of security at the hacked bank to pay for the losses personally?
Beautiful post. Wish I'd had it decades ago. "Wait for the corn" will become a mantra.
If you want to save some money, save some time and eat healthy, try this:

Go to the grocery store, buy these 3 items:

1 bag of frozen vegetables.

3 chicken breasts

1 bag of dried lentils.

Sunday night:

Cook lentils in water, don't add anything
Slice chicken breasts down the side, add seasoning, no oil, just seasoning, don't bread it etc.
Bake the chicken breasts

Monday for lunch:

Microwave a bunch of the vegetables,
grab your chicken breast, and precooked lentils mix lentils in with vegetables and throw the chicken breast on top, cook together.

Repeat that 4-5 days a week. Your energy will be higher, you will start loosing weight, and you will save money. Its the only meal I have found that does all three.

[it should go without saying, but there is no dressing added, no butters, oils etc. once you start adding that stuff you might as well just grab a burger or some Chinese food]

[ADDED] I am not advocating this be your only meal. Its just a meal that replaces the normal garbage that I would eat if I didn't have a good, low-cost, delicious alternative.

If you are fully aware of your diet and are in good shape, then by all means, add whatever you think you want to make it taste better, but this meal really doesn't need it.

My comment about not adding butters/oils etc. is aimed at people who think they are eating healthy by having a salad with blue cheese dressing.

Also, for those of you in your early 20s who think you know how to eat well, prepare yourself. Once you get to your late 20s, early 30s, it starts getting much tougher.
The submission is going to get censored, even if there is a proportion of people interested in talking about the topic.

It's a shame, but there's no point in talking about it.
In case anyone wants to give it a try, here is the paper: http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~motizuki/Invitation%20to%20... and it looks like he is about to give a lecture in Tokyo: http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~motizuki/news-english.html

And here is a FAQ on the theory: http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~motizuki/FAQ%20on%20Inter-U...
assholes often don't pay their bills.
They are stable. They are just not practical.
“Look, you may hate me”: 90 minutes with John Steele, porn troll
Having lived in Germany (Muenster) for 4 months, I noticed they have many such laws Americans would be aghast at. For example: blue laws that enforce family friendly working hours for stores (i.e. 9-6), laws that keep your employer from snooping on you, a two year required warranty on consumer electronics.

It comes down to how you want to live your life. While Zuck bombastically preaches that "privacy is dead" and the rest of us American sheeple fall in line, those in Germany have seen the worst of authoritarianism under the Nazis and the Soviets and have chosen how they want to live. Not a bad idea.
This really makes me angry. Not only the fact that there are actually customers out there who demand such outrageous bullshit from their contractors but also that most certainly there are freelancers who put up with that sort of behaviour.

What makes this all the more infuriating is that both the original poster and lots of commenters waste a considerable amount of their valuable time for justifying or coming up with a solution for weaseling out of the contract with the customer while the only reasonable answer to said customer is to bugger off.
Am I the only one unduly annoyed by the ubiquitous slogan "fruits and vegetables"? Fruit is full of fructose AKA sugar. They are worth eating some of, but it's bizarre that they've come to occupy this front and centre position in diet advice.
This is a reason I just switched jobs from the services/consulting industry to a startup with a product. I just dislike working with clients.

I think most software engineers prefer this. But I'm not sure.
You didn't answer the question.

> The submission is going to get censored, ...

You keep using that word. I do not think
it means what you think it means.

You submissions aren't being censored. Ordinary, everyday members of HN are flagging them as not adding value. If you spent some time here learning about these things you'd understand the dynamics better, but after our discussion on the other item you submitted complaining about how things work, I doubt you'll do that.
First, there is no reason to believe outsiders to NYC have a better or worse grasp of the underlying economics than insiders to NYC.

Prices in NYC do go down. Rents in NYC fell 10-12% during the down turn (and of course 2-3 months of "free" rent is economically indistinguishable from a drop in rents).

Moreover, rents are sticky like most prices. What increased supply does is keep the rent from going up so quickly.
Dont be afraid of not having a job, 'cause someones gonna call you about one
Some stupid ass movies we made 2 years ago when we we started making a ton of cash consulting (software).
Sadly, some people are looking forward to the compulsory anal probes that are on deck.
There is plenty of engineering left to do once the $250k is in pocket.
Oh wow. Thanks for that recommendation. That looks like it belongs with Kay Redfield Jamison's book and Arnold Ludwig's.
Go hunt doves in park or forest, eat it raw = should be OK with 1 or 2 per day.
All world hungers solved.
Occasional berries you pick up(from street vendors when they are not looking).
Hi mike_tan, I didn't realize there was already some discussion with you here. Two major points:

1. This does get discussed from time to time. Here is a post from the creator of the site, and a long discussion where members of the site hash things out. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=459289

2. Everyone knows that "flags" are more powerful than upvotes, and therefore they only flag things that they really think shouldn't be on this site. Flags are not used as downvotes.

Some users can still see "dead" submissions. Go to your preferences and turn on "showdead" to see auto-killed spam submissions, comments from known trolls, etc.
Interesting that this is PEP 435 and the prior attempt was PEP 354.
One important reason is to have students "get their hands dirty". There is a skill to performing (and observing) experiments which is different than just reading in books, and a skill in working with biological organisms that is different from chemistry experiments. If every pair of lab partners dissects a frog there is sure to be some organ that some teams don't find, and not every frog will look the same. Experiencing this is an important pedagogical activity.
CrackDown on 3D printable Guns: Security or Censorship?
How many record stores are still at your local mall?
I think we can agree that the bonds of an SLS gun are going to be stronger than that of an ABS plastic printed gun.