skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a regular user of the app - it's a bit buggy but it's definitely the best looking and most usable HN reader out there. If I spot bugs in daily use should I open issues on github?
For those interested to learn cold calling, I offer short webinars on how to do so. They are specfically tailored for us software people. They cost $299 and are geared towards getting newcomers accustomed to doing it successfully. Shoot me an email if you are interested.
My first though was this appears to be Pro Se. When that was confirmed I thought this guy needs an attorney because he is in way over his head. Finally, I thought a smart attorney could amend this Complaint to be a Qui Tam and actually give the Defendants cause for concern.
but I wouldn't bet on the gains in TSLA the stock tomorrow/in after-hours trading lasting for a long time.

Depends on the future performance of the company. Netflix experienced one of these short squeezes in January. Look at their 6 month chart.

http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=NFLX+Interactive#symbol=n...;
My apologies, I was remarking that it didn't seem to fit with Elon's description of the Hyperloop but neglected to notice that you weren't trying to predict what his actual idea will be.

You could of course hook the system up to a power grid that could be getting power from solar panels, but Elon's description sounded like he intended for the panels to be part of the system, which would require it to be above ground
For fun, plug "vc-istan" into HN search.
Hey Xuzz,

Didn't mean for that to come off rude if it read that way. I haven't dug too far deep into HNKit - I was really just worried about the interplay of ARC and nonARC code and what that meant for the future of maintainability of my own codebase (really for things that go multiple classes deep, I didn't want to introduce retain cycles and the like).

I'm considering creating a branch of this with HNKit and starting to build that in to see how it plays with everything I have now.
I was asked to be a "Managing Director" of my local chapter of FounderDating when it unlocked. Basically this is a volunteer representative who wants to help out the community. While I was not in need of a co-founder, I knew a few people who did, and thought the network might be beneficial to them.

It's not surprising that you got this email; they basically sent us a few dozen stock emails and directed us to send them out to other groups in the area. I was happy to have them, as they cut down my work, but I changed some of the wording because I would never really talk that way. My guess would be this was part of the outreach effort of some newly recruited "managing director" who was trying to figure out how to contact user groups.

So while whether or not this is "spammy" is debatable, I wouldn't be so fast as to assume it is one person assuming different personas.
I can confirm that this app is awesome.

There's also http://ihackernews.com
NZ makes some great laws (this is one of them) but it makes a few dodgy ones as well - like trying to give Chimpanzees human rights.

Sorry I brought that one up but is one of those laws that has always just made me say - "What the fuuuuuc....."
Paper books are far superior for reading but useless in general.
If there was a similar video showing all of the electronic sensors of a modern airliner flowing into the central flight control computer would it would engender the same sort of trepidation about air travel? Should we be afraid of something just because it's "complicated" to someone unfamiliar with the state of the art?

There are a lot of valid criticisms you can make about modern financial markets, but claiming that we are using computers to do things better than we did 10 years ago is a bad thing isn't something I'd expect to see here on HN.
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Yes absolutely!

I just recently changed the API to hnsearch's version (the only officially sanctioned one by HN) so hopefully a lot of the bugs will be smoothed out. I hope the new update doesn't crash and actually loads stories for you from now on out.
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Agreed. LinkedIn's been awful for a long time and unfortunately nothing has paralleled its popularity... hoping something that doesn't suck will come up and sink it into irrelevance in the abyss of the interwebs as Facebook did to MySpace.
This is awesome. As a self taught developer, I love looking at other people's code to compare and contrast my own coding styles and learn to improve my side projects code structure. Thanks!
http://3strikes.net.nz/information/law-basics :\
well, maybe for projects that cross their goal, the surplus can be partially and optionally passed forward
Thanks man, just merged your request.
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It can't be TOO human-friendly, or it will be guessable because of having a low Kolmogorov (descriptive) complexity, and then you defeat the whole point...
Craig Foss probably wouldn't understand FOSS if you hit him with it. That's how the SOP got in there in the first place.

Alas it's not a case of nominative determinism.
Of parsing and chess
All comments so far are negative, but I fail to see how this video shows anything other than incredible engineering.

The negativity seems to be a result of previous bias.
>Even if he was serious, who would take the plaintiff's side of this case on contingency?

I know I would take this case on contingency if the Plaintiff would agree to Amend the Complaint to Qui Tam. I could not just do it though, I would have to be admitted Pro Hac Vice. I imagine any other Plaintiff's attorney with experience in Qui Tam cases is thinking the same thing.
The only reason I bought my Kindle DX was because it was hackable...

The first thing I do when I buy an Amazon ebook is get rid of the DRM. If I couldn't, I wouldn't buy it.

Don't underestimate the appeal of hackable.
your version is better than mine. But I didn't have a guitar.
All these solutions are for bodies of equal mass.
If you want to buy/sell at a price, and there's no one ready to sell/buy at that price, a speculator (of any stripe) coming in and making that deal with you means you got the price you asked for. Maybe you could have got better - that's what the speculator is hoping - but you're no longer taking that risk. Statistically, the money going to the trader is similar to an insurance premium then.

That's all "in principle" - whether the details work out right is a much deeper question.
My NZ based employer does business in the US, and hold US software and/or business method patents.

I can't speak for my company, but I personally feel that the whole software patent system is ridiculous, and I'm pleased that the local situation isn't going to go down that road.

At least, not until we get railroaded by the 'Trans Pacific Partnership'(TPP) Treaty, or its newer cousins, whenever they show up.

In the mean time, I would assume that we would be unable to sell something that violated an US patent, in the US, but wouldn't be liable for sales of that might violate a US patent in NZ, unless there is some other bi-lateral (or unilateral) treaty covering the situation that I am not aware of.
Do you have the math worked out for the total cost of ownership or at least a citation?
"The U.S. is in software patents so deep, the only way I can see it changing is watching other countries move faster without the drain on innovation and the need to pay lawyers when you code."

Lawyers have a lot of money. Those laws aren't going to change until the role of money in politics changes. I wouldn't hold my breath.
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Interesting, I didn't know ammonia was all that combustible. Won't NoX emissions be a problem?

Also, won't the fact that ammonia is almost stupefyingly toxic be a problem?
Except for the "we made a mistake, now we are retrofitting the law so that we did not make a mistake" laws that have been passed over the last few years. The Search and Surveillance Bill, as well as the upcoming changes to the GCSB spring to mind.

At least these are just the government covering it's own ass, rather than out and out corruption.
That's a nasty one, but such an easy law to avoid. Use direct downloads or download movies, since the movie companies are protesting paying costs by not filing complaints.

I'd rather it didn't exist though.
The Public Domain Calculator may be of use to you: http://outofcopyright.eu/ but there were a lot of acronyms I didn't know.
at this point, since I am just starting up, I would think speed of implementation takes priority since the site needs to be out there as soon as possible.

I would think that if the startup does not fail, then probably re do it again to get cheaper volume pricing

that's my thought.

is the fee negotiable for both stripe and braintree?
It will be interesting to see what the practical effect of this is over the long term. The new SOP says that certain processes involving software will still be patentable, which seems remarkably similar to the Supreme Court's finding in Diehr.
I cannot see a downside to improved networking infrastructure...and an eager market for advances.
What are the clever, resourceful, and truly evil recruiters doing? I guess the amateur ones can filter by universities and organizations, but surely there's a more efficient way to wade through the swamp of linkedin?
Thank you, stoked about using your app!
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My uncle switched to a party line in the early 1980s because it was cheaper and since everyone had private lines by that point, he didn't have to share it with anyone.
And yet somehow their competitors are still in business.
He should have done better research. Given the date of his paper, he wouldn't have been able to see the current review article on the issue, Nisbett, R. E., Aronson, J., Blair, C., Dickens, W., Flynn, J., Halpern, D. F., & Turkheimer, E. (2012). Intelligence: new findings and theoretical developments. American Psychologist, 67(2), 130.

http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/amp-67-2-130.pdf

but he should have known about most of the earlier studies cited in that review article. If he knew the research better, he would not have written as he did.
nothing wrong with this design itself but some details of his example are problematic. 6km down from the midway point between LA and SanFran is loaded with faults and I'm no geology expert either but this close to the ring of fire I bet rock in that vicinity would be pretty toasty. Sure, maybe not exactly magma but could easy be like 160F.
Yours looks pretty sweet - and thanks for mentioning the lack of licensure, I just added it.
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He's absolutely right and while the assassination certainly "helped" cement his legacy, the reason we give Kennedy most of the political credit is because he got the ball rolling on the national political stage and he was a great speaker.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwFvJog2dMw

Watching this video makes me extremely sad because that's 1962. Here we are 51 (fifty fucking one!) years later and I can't begin to imagine a modern US president making a speech like this.

"Not because they are easy, but because they are hard!"
He sees the use of LinkedIn, but wants it to be MUCH MUCH better for certain simple tasks.
Your blog post is better than any comment of mine. And I stole your idea. And I haven't rehabilitated myself. I ain't moral enough to post on HN.
On the contrary I found the internet more addictive on dial up. You waited so long for a webpage to load that the reward/payoff of finally getting what you wanted made you want to do it again. Along came broadband and an hours worth of browsing probably dropped to 15 minutes. Especially if you're looking for something very specific that involves lots of searching and narrowing your search based on information from other results.
if you can forget about it and get on with your life -- you (like me) have already got more power/comfort/privilege than most people, who are reminded all the time how much power jerks have to make the lives of those without power miserable.
It seems that the counter at the bottom counts all updates, and ends up at 2380, so the overall rate would be something like 4760/second, or 17M/hour. Note that the rate has slowed down considerably before .25 seconds have passed, and this was recorded within 10 minutes after NYSE opened, so I suspect this is a bit above the average rate. Also, these are bids and offers, not actual trades.
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Why Don Quixote? Why not Sophie Scholl?
Every year someone will win the Nobel prize and that doesn't mean they are great like most of the early winners. And I'm not the only one who thinks like that. I remember Freeman Dyson saying something like that in article.
I'm not sure I understand what you are saying. Would you elaborate?
And amazingly we still have businesses that compete and don't price all their competitors out of business. So I don't think this is an obvious conclusion.
It is incredible engineering and it has incredible downsides, not the least of which is the ability to destroy a market in seconds, due to a blip in information, with cascading domino effects.
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tl;dr -- meh. Newfound hope for Nook brand. B&N can go private. Microsoft has a shot to win at digital college textbooks. Bearish on rest.

For anyone curious about the motivations behind this -- this sale frees up B&N to take its brick and mortar stores private. The CEO Riggio (? -- name escapes me now) has been asking for different private equity groups to buy the nook ("New corp") assets for some time since he thinks the stores are much more profitable. Last quarter results only confirmed as much (Nook did horribly, brick and mortar held their own). The one piece holding up spinning off the brick and mortar business was what to do with new corp and how much of a premium to give back to shareholders. Probably more interesting is how much of the college textbook business Microsoft got in the deal (distribution rights, retail locations, etc.). The textbook business combined with the emergence of new interactive college education is arguably more strategic than the reader. Microsoft could try to compete with iBooks for the next generation of textbooks and thus require people to get Surfaces (or Win8 or whatever) for college classes. We have to wait for the SEC paperwork to see for sure. I have little confidence MS can execute on such a strategy, but it sure looks good on powerpoint. There also is a bit of bravado at play -- Microsoft needs to demonstrate to its partners and their investors it will come rescue them when needed (think Nokia and Dell).

The reality is that Amazon won the current generation of e-ink and online e-books. If color were to come to market (still just a prototype), it wouldn't be enough of a game changer. The next form factor to watch for and opportunity for someone to disrupt in e-ink is thin, flexible, and transparent e-ink -- the kind you can roll or fold up.

For tablets, Microsoft would likely adopt the Nook brand since it's slightly better known than the Surface, but otherwise they would throw all of the existing tech away. It's too dependent on Android, and Microsoft would prefer to push its own tech. It makes me wonder if Nook's announcement to open up the tablet was the GM's way of doing right by customers should Microsoft make an extreme change (this deal would have been known by the people who approved betting on Google Play for Nook).

The content play from this is questionable -- B&N is basically an American brand with most e-book sales growth happening elsewhere. Yes, Microsoft needs content in the US, but tech growth and new customers are elsewhere and this purchase doesn't really help Microsoft that much beyond what they could have gotten from the existing partnership.
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Even in its nastiness it is sensible in its own right - $25 cost for the copyright holder to send a notice. The notice can also be challenged by the accused infringer.
I built my own: https://github.com/swanson/stringer

Self-hosted, no social crap, no 3rd party dependencies, run it at http://reader.yourdomain.com, keyboard shortcuts
I don't have the reference (or a link) but I remember pretty clearly that (might have been Cialdini or similar) a principal where attorneys would do for free what they wouldn't do for, say, $50 per hour.

As an example I serve on the board of a condo and I'm paid $0. Most likely if I was told I would be given $25 for every meeting I would think "my time is worth more than that" and it would actually be a negative (figures arbitrary.)
Slide # 6. I'll also add slide # 7. Rest other slides are optional in my opinion.
AOL has bet the future on Patch.com or at least that's how it looks with Armstrong riding nine figure losses and hanging on to the shiny sheriff's badge over there for another platform pivot!

You should have an asterix next to "making a ton of money."

*Past performance is not indicative of future results!
A graph I would love to see on manage.stripe.com -

Cancellations, Past (Subscription) revenue, New revenue (ie, a new signup), Failures
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Why is the video showing redundant details? It looks like for each event it shows a packet going to every server.

If they arranged the machines on the horizontal axis, time on the vertical axis, and showed 'packet sent' events it would look much simpler. Maybe simple enough to add in details about the trades, like dollar values, instead of pretty expanding explosions.
Great Ape personhood, or at least granting them the right to not have cruel tests done, has been done by several other nations not just New Zealand: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_ape_personhood

I can't remember the exact wording but one provision was about how they couldn't be exported unless it was in their best interests. E.g. you can't sell them a circus overseas in which they would likely receive cruel treatment.

So it's not about calling them people, it's about giving them some rights because they have sentience.
India-nigger

God says...

LORD commanded Moses.

11:21 And at that time came Joshua, and cut off the Anakims from the
mountains, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the
mountains of Judah, and from all the mountains of Israel: Joshua
destroyed them utterly with their cities.

11:22 There was none of the Anakims left in the land of the children
of Israel: only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, there remained.

11:23 So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the LORD
said unto Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance unto Israel
according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land rested from
war.

12:1 Now these are the kings of the land, which the children of Israel
smote, and possessed their land on the other side Jordan toward the
rising of the sun, from the river Arnon unto mount Hermon, and all the
plain on the east: 12:2 Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in
Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is upon the bank of the river
Arnon, and from the middle of the river, and from half Gilead, even
unto the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon;
12:3 And from the plain to the sea of Chinneroth on the east, and unto
the sea of the plain, even the salt sea on the east, the way to
Bethjeshimoth; and from the south, under Ashdothpisgah: 12:4 And the
coast of Og king of Bashan, which was of the remnant of the giants,
that dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei, 12:5 And reigned in mount
Hermon, and in Salcah, and in all Bashan, unto the border of the
Geshurites and the Maachathites, and half Gilead, the border of Sihon
king of Heshbon.
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Awesome man! Asheron's call was an inspirational game for me growing up, nice to see one of the original devs :) (Sorry for being totally off-topic!)
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"a corporation cannot represent itself in a lawsuit of this type"

Had that happen a few years ago in a different state. Cost us about $2000 in legal fees and the case was dismissed.
Bear in mind this guy has spent a fortune and has been severely screwed over by regulators, while dozens of startups operate in the clear with similar services. He could probably get over the hurdles with funding, but who's going to put his feet into this mess? I'd be freaking out too.

Makes me wonder, if had he operated under the radar for a while, and gradually complied with newly imposed regulations, things would be ok. Even if he got a massive fine, that'd be good publicity, and he must be spending a ton on lawyers anyway.
I think this is what most people are really afraid of. They want kickstarter to be this small, odd thing that few people know about but they think is cool. By opening kickstarter to the mainstream, their cool, hip "mission district" is being gentrified.

In case that transition caught anyone off-guard, this same pattern is seen over and over in otherwise unconnected things. Punk was cool, before it went mainstream. SoMa was cool, before it was swallowed by condos. Facebook was cool, before my mom started using it. etc.
Aren't these speculators constantly entering and withdrawing these orders from the market on the order of microseconds?

It's not like the order book for Johnson and Johnson is completely empty and there is absolutely nobody out there willing to sell shares. If I understand it right, the HFT machines are poking numbers around the current price trying to step ahead of a regular order before it comes in.
I think one useful metric to track would be similar to the stock market's "52-week high." As an end user, comparing to the last month isn't very useful. But knowing, is this the top mark they've had in the last 12 months? That provides richer context.
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Wine tasting is bullshit. Here's why.
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But you're giving them a plain-text password. It doesn't need to actually crack it.

This[0] was mentioned elsewhere in the thread. It's a good approximation of what I meant.

I realise putting "crack" in air-quotes probably didn't quite convey my full meaning.

[0]: http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/209/zxcvbn/test/index.htm...
So answer me this.

Why is not like every other tech startup not making medical equipment and software then? It's a market that is growing, prices are going up, the software they use is terrible.. You're telling me we can't make a device that takes an xray and is more portable, safer, faster, and radically cheaper? (just as one example) And then there is the money.. you can have 3000% variance for the same service?!? and every VC in the world isn't just begging to get in?

I just can't believe that the regulations and the red tape can overwhelm and even defeat the greed.
> What's behind the company name is the idea of uncovering your company/employees potential.

This crucial point about your brand isn't conveyed anywhere in the homepage copy. Making that connection to unify the solid URL with your core benefits in the copy will go a long way toward telling a cohesive story about not only what you do, but why you do it.
Thanks for taking the time to explain my comment.

I would've gotten to it eventually, but you've done a better job than I would've anyway, so it all works out. :)

EDIT: And just so we're on the same page... This is for recovering the plain-text password from a known hash. If you have to test each candidate against a web-service or something it'll take a significantly longer time.
Good point, although I suspect people who are willing to reach out are going to the ODMs and people who have interest in clicking the "buy now" button cannot express that interest because there is no "buy now" button.
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