skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The cost of that shirt screened is still $6 cheaper than the same shirt blank retail.
Wow! You telling me that working as a jumper at a Nuclear Plant might have been good for me? The mind boggles.
When I try to run a snapshot of the original machine I get:

EXT3-fs: sda1: couldn't mount because of unsupported optional features (240).

EXT2-fs: sda1: couldn't mount because of unsupported optional features (244).

Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(8,1)

quote: "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark" (Shakespear)
Good for you for offering this. For what it's worth, this would be more valuable if you expanded to python/django and ruby/rails. Yes, you can scrap something completely, but it's also helpful if scrapping isn't required. Anyway, keep it up! Sounds like a great service.
While it's a worthy question to ask, it's not applicable to them outside of theory, since they have been using PHP since they started some years ago. If you rephrase the question to a company just starting out, then it would be more fitting :)

If you look at the larger companies that do switch platforms, the ones that generally make the leap usually do so without replacing the entire stack (Java to jRuby or Java to Scala, etc). Not always the case (since the language can still be hurdle itself), but the cost to switch in those sort of cases is far lower than jumping off the jvm/clr/etc.

I'm sure if you asked Facebook now (and got an honest answer) that they would totally agree they would have picked another language and platform than PHP to build on given what they have had to go through since. However, PHP is what the developers knew starting out and sometimes it's better to go with what you know than learning something entirely new as building something from scratch is already a huge undertaking that can wear you down. Adding the burden of learning a new language/platform at the same time can lead to taking on too much and slow progress/motivation as well as lead to procrastination or distraction. It might lead to regrets later, but the greater regret is not building at all than choosing the right platform.
I can only assume you're right because I have no experience with having a site that's successful by anyone's standards (much less doing it in Python or Rails), but to me that still leaves a lot of room at the bottom of the pyramid for sites and apps that might not have any reason to expect such a large userbase.
That criticism applies to most people, everywhere. Shockingly lazy thinking and blind tribalism are the rule, not the exception. Just look at any popular discussion forum, or most news stories involving politics or famous people, or almost anyone who is angry.
ok fair enough. Here are a few other data points. The same holds true for 1980, 1992, 1996, 2008, and 2012.

1984: http://books.google.com/books?id=phQo8JYcjw8C&pg=PA62...

1988: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,147885,00.h...

2000: http://archives.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/10/18/flash...

2004: http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nation...
Is Apple's tax avoidance rational?
Yeah really. Way too self-promotional and "hey everybody get mad at how I was wronged by BigCo" for my tastes.

As others have noted, the hundreds of hours vs. one hour claim is very disingenuous. Cutting and pasting an existing work into your toolkit is not even close to designing and creating an original piece of investigative journalism.

And, at the end there, actually calling on the NYT to advertise this scrollkit on panels? Because...why? The creator thinks it's really cool?
..or LiveView or Skala. Either of which are great for live streaming content from you computer's screen to your iphone/ipad.
Are you a foreigner working in the US? How did you get a work permit?
Having seen the strong job market for developers and designers in the US, I'd thought about working there in the future. However, I've been so put off by the stories of immigration (H1-B visa yearly allowances going in 5 days etc) that I've effectively ruled out working there anytime soon. I'm curious to know who has managed to get working rights in the US, and how they did it.
(A couple of notes from me: I have a Masters in Design and a few years' work experience, so I do have demonstrable skills).
And that is wrong.

Just as medical insurance companies cannot deny you insurance and lets you die just because it dents their profit. Lots of people had to stand up and say that is wrong for the law to change.

Just as Switzerland has changed its laws to stop protecting personal income tax evaders. Why did they do it after decades of benefiting from it? Because lots of people stood up and said it was wrong. Public opinion about the swiss swayed the debate.

This debate is hardly about Apple. Its about something much bigger. It's about making people think about what is right and wrong. If you allow people to just hide behind what is currently acceptable they will happily never make that choice.
Even if they're already approved for human consumption, the end production process needs to occur in a cGMP approved facility to cover themselves legally.

This isn't a cheap or quick process.
This is my concern, as well. I love food. My family loves food. Most people, even in developing countries, would prefer actual food to a nutrition shake. Culture, family, community, and love are all bound up in our relationships to eating. Bachelor chow is all well and good, but it won't save the world.

That said, Plumpy'nut and other RUTFs have done amazing things for the neediest people on the planet, so I'm not as willing as other HNers to throw the project entirely under the bus. I am interested in how this product compares to what exists.
It's harder in the US than many European companies, because it's not slander/libel if the information is true. However, if the information is false, than the Times could have a case.
I'm using windows. And I'm looking for a cloud solution, so I can back up my pictures as well as organize them online.
128mb RAM is enough?
And that often happens with Race Cars as well. the only difference is after a while the manufacturer decides to cut the losses and mothball the program. See the Aston Martin AMR1 or the Panoz LMP07 or the Lister LMP Le Mans Prototypes.
I can build very fast - but how I can make it useful?
Our data here might help you:
http://reviewsignal.com/webhosting/compare/#tab3

We show any company offering them, so they may not specialize in them. I don't want to bias your own process for evaluating though by injecting my thoughts. I hope the data helps and if you have any questions, I would be happy to try to answer them.
Congress cannot make any laws when people are cheering on and supporting what corporations already do.

And you don't have to do anything illegal to harm your families long term future. You just have to be short sighted.
I take it personally when people write irresponsible garbage about our portfolio companies. I care about them and their teams a lot. Making money is nice but being a supportive and good investor is a lot better
Maybe in vintage mode
Bitcoin London event on July 2nd
I am organizing an invitation-only event on July 2nd in London connecting bitcoin entrepreneurs, angel and VCs,and hedge fund folks. The founders of Bitinstant, Bitstamp, The Bitcoin Funs, Coinsetter, Localbitcoins and others will be speaking. I welcome applications from bitcoin entrepreneurs and others for whom the event would be relevant.
I've been using my own version of Soylent (Soylent Orange see elsewhere in this thread) for 8 months now and I find it enhances cooking. When I only have to worry about one meal each day i can actually enjoy the process. With 3 not so much.
> I'm surprised no Microsoft alternatives are mentioned ... Also, Yahoo ...

The author explains why he didn't consider them in his second paragraph: "Moving, for example, from Google Calendar to Yahoo Calendar solves very little in the long run, because Yahoo’s business interests are exactly the same as Google’s: advertising and consumer lock-in."
Hey matt, thanks for that story, it is truly beautiful (both in content and container)... just wanted to mention it!
Also a happy user here. Newsblur is by far the best replacement for high-volume RSS power-users that I have found. And the fact that it's open source so I can 1) satisfy my curiosity as to how he is doing things and 2) install myself if the site ever goes belly-up is just icing on the cake.

It's definitely not perfect, but it gets better every day. Performance has notably improved over the last month or so. Kudos to Samuel for a great product. Hopefully someday I'll be able to contribute a bugfix or something to help.
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I see your point, but I prefer to see the passphrase that protect my GPG key as a bonus time to revoke it and generate a new one in case my key is compromised, rather than a protection sufficient to assume that the encrypted version of my key can safely be public.
What you're talking about is commonly referred to as a "certified kitchen".

Not only is this process simple, but there are community available certified kitchens in most major cities that people like the aforementioned hippies use to make their granola bars.

Here is the first link for "certified kitchen Phoenix": https://www.chefssharedkitchen.com/default.aspx
I figured it out. I needed this to tip me off:

dpkg --get-selections|cut -f 1|xargs sudo apt-get --reinstall install -ud 2>&1 \
|grep 'it cannot be downloaded'|awk '{print $3}'

Some packages were not being downgraded because apt-get won't downgrade them without explicit directions on what version to download, even if it's the only version in pool for your target.

I needed either libalgorithm-diff-xs-perl, libpthread-stubs0, or libtext-charwidth-perl, and after that, only menu was the last remaining Segmentation fault. Extracting the package manually and replacing /usr/bin/update-menus enabled me to reinstall the remaining packages without errors from debconf and friends.

-- Sorry, spoiler, if anyone was following my awful example.

I definitely did not follow the shortest path thru this maze.
Dennis Ritchie demonstrated the social value of tooling beyond all doubt. The Life Sciences hasn't had its Dennis Richie moment yet and it is a reason why cancer therapy hasn't advanced as far it could. Life sciences is in a crisis where a lab at Amgen with the best equipment money can buy could only replicate 11% of the results in 53 Nature published cancer papers.

The Life Sciences desperately needs computer scientists to learn their workflow and build the tooling for better more replicable science.
I've started a wiki page on Slant.co for people to outline the main arguments why Soylent may or may not be healthy since these threads can be very hard to follow all the great discussion going back and forth!

Please help me flesh it out so it can help people come to their own conclusion about Soylent's safety: http://www.slant.co/topics/695/~is-it-safe-to-replace-my-die...
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For a Docs replacement, do give https://hackpad.com a try. It's web-native and optimized for collaboration and sharing (vs trying to bring a desktop experience to the web).
My goal is to build a review site from analyzing social media text, I started with the web hosting industry. You can take a look at the results here: http://reviewsignal.com
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just post it back already
The issue he is discussing with ownCloud and timezones is not a limitation that applies to their CalDAV implementation, it is just an issue with their web client. If you use a CalDAV client that supports time zones properly (most do), it will work fine.
That investment amount seemed low, as it suggested you weren't exercising your pro rata rights.

If the initial $400k bought 10% of the company, USV would need to buy 10% of each subsequent round to maintain their ownership, which would be ~$12.5M. That's ignoring varying definitions of pro rata rights, other dilution but probably a good lower bound.

If the initial $400k bought 20% (more likely for Tumblr in 2007), USV invested ~$25M to keep their ownership stake.

Fred seems like the kind of guy who always does his pro rata, so I'd imagine those numbers are closer to reality.
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Yeah, you're right. Being polite doesn't make you more honest or sincere than being an asshole.

I'd say that they're just not as correlated they seem to be at times.

I'm always suspect of any solution that goes to any extreme.

I also think there are enough micro-cultures in the programming space, themselves crossing a myriad of geocultural contexts, to defy broad generalizations.

I think it's most constructive and useful to approach it as a way of generally dealing with people and not a specific group. We haven't developed in such a way to easily and rationally react to abrasive responses in conversation. I don't think it creates a social atmosphere that optimally takes advantage of our modern context.
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"The interior space is one small room, furnished with a loft bed, kitchenette and separate, full bathroom. "
I found this remarkably unconvincing: none of the arguments really seem to address the actual concerns with deflationary currencies, but seem to be directed at some (vaguely implied) strawman. I mean, why is the fact that there is a liquid market for bitcoins relevant at all? I don't think that has any bearing on whether a deflationary currency is bad or not. One failure mode for a currency is that it's completely illiquid, but that's not the most likely problem. E.g. there was always a liquid market for gold but it's probably the main example of a deflationary currency in practice.
> There is no appeal.

Someone who is hellbanned can come back with a new account. Or, if they feel it was a mistake they could write a short email explaining this and asking for an unban.

> useful or interesting comments have been lost because the poster is hellbanned.

What? The content is still there.
An example of provisioning and deployment with Ansible.
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I dislike that as well.

It's a multifaceted coin with many things to discuss, but let's take an easy one to start.

"It took me 3 minutes to run a mile."

Neglecting history, it took you three minutes to run a mile. What about all the running you've done before? What about all the healthy decisions you've made to bring your time down, all the discipline it took to stay on task and the motivation to accomplish that 3 minute mile.

It took you X years (age) to run a mile in 3 minutes. Every single decision that you made in your life influenced (positively, negatively, or neutrally) your ability to run a mile in 3 minutes. That's a lot of information to hold, but it's not just the output that is important - it's the progression from input -> output that's the important and time consuming process.

The difference between creating Snow Fall in 6 months and replicating Snow Fall in 1 hour is the difference in the questions asked (the input->output that brings you there). With Snow Fall, there wasn't an 'end' to know when you're done, you can't get to singletons, you have to build forward and decide when you're done. When you replicate, you start with a singleton, and you recreate that system. You have an end point, and you have the lightning bolt of all decisions, contemplations, and ponderings that created Snow Fall.

What if to recreate Snow Fall, you first had to learn to use a computer. Then you had to learn to code. Then you had to learn how to browse the web. Then you had to find Snow Fall. Then you had to decide you want to recreate Snow Fall. Then you recreate Snow Fall. That might take a little bit longer than an hour. Relative to you it's an hour, relative to someone who was just born, that's years apart, and this particular problem probably won't matter in their lives.

It's easy to follow the path down the mountain. It's much harder to be the first to climb the mountain.
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Agreed, and this book is "only" $29!! Buyers should just consider what kind of economic benefit the book will bring them, and make a decision to buy or pass.

By the way, the most expensive ebook I've seen was a $1999 ebook by one of the best high stakes online poker players in the world. Some people complained about the price, but it sold like hotcakes. (and this was back in 2009 iirc!)
Surely if the tool is good, it can stand on its own?

The author could easily have used greeking or content promoting ScrollKit to fill the site. Ripping off NYT's material is a dodgy way to start things IMO. Hell, write your own feature about a pet, or your grandparents' legacy or soup up a page of Wikipedia content with Creative Commons and attributed Flickr photos.

I almost don't care what happened after that (the private YouTube video, the leveraging of their brand, etc). The reaction to the initial contact could've been overwhelmingly apologetic - complete removal of the video, no leveraging of Snow Fall and so on - but instead makes for linkbait.

Even now, going to the demo gives the big "they made me do it" message when any text could've replaced their content very easily. You know, replicated in an hour...

This story might've got the tool excellent publicity, but I don't view it positively as a result.
"only shows you stories on topics you care about." "Trending stories get bigger as they get more popular."

These two statements are in conflict, stories that are bigger and trendy are not necessarily stories that I care about. You have to analyze me, my actions, my social graph interaction to find stories in my social feed that I would care about.
Maciej Ceglowski actually did the opposite with Pinboard, in that the signup fee increases over time. I worry that with a decreasing signup fee, you incentivize potential early-adopters into waiting longer until the price drops.
The biggest problem with TED is that people leave the talks thinking they understand more about a topic than they actually do. There's a big difference between having a general sense of the problems a field is dealing with, and actually understanding it well enough to apply it to anything.

I think the first is great when it comes to public understand of science, if you can do it well. The second is a bit problematic when people are left with a misleading impression of what they know.
Reasonable, honest, thoughtful people vote Republican for good reason. For example, they are more likely to support good governance. Blue states and massive public debts go hand in hand[1].

In my experience, the number one most common quality that distinguishes the rare Bay Area young Republican is a love for sustainable budgets and a belief in the immorality of a government knowingly running an unsustainable deficit. Those monsters.

The idea that the Republican party is a collection of "circus freaks" is a myth largely sustained by the liberal echosphere.

[1] http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2012/11/09/blue-s...
I was not able to do it so i am in the New Zealand now - happy with 2 years work visa, residency in few years, minimal Bureaucracy as there is high demand for people with IT skills.
To be fair, they had no obligation to help you in the way you wanted, and in fact probably could not do so without sacrificing a great deal.

It sounds like #C has chosen as its mission to teach people the C programming language. To that end, they see it as a derailment of their existential purpose to help people who "just want the trivial fix." To them, it's rather like going to a math tutor with your homework and saying "I don't want to know how to do it, I just want the answer." Correctly or incorrectly, they think that helping you in the way that you ask won't teach you anything, and that it will ultimately hurt you on the final.

Even among communities whose mission is to help people with specific questions, like StackOverflow, the folks answering questions still require a certain amount of buy-in: evidence that you've thought about the question enough to understand precisely what the problem is, and evidence that the problem doesn't have an easily found solution on Google. Without that buy-in, the social environment they've set up will inevitably devolve until it's really difficult to separate the genuine difficulties that can be solved from the white noise of people asking the same question over and over.

So while I wouldn't defend the people in #C wholesale, and there may be plenty of vitriol there, a refusal to help when someone just wants a quick answer doesn't sound unreasonable, and in fact may be all that holds their community together.
I did this two months ago.
The most depressing thing about this whole thing is the alarmingly high number of commenters here who seem to not have the most basic grasp of how science works, and what types of evidence are necessary before something can be deemed safe.

Here is a hint, folks: it is called a random controlled trial. Until these Soylent guys conduct a few of those and show that their product is not only just better, but also safe for consumption, it needs to be dismissed and ignored.
I'm quite happy with own open-source Reader replacement: https://github.com/swanson/stringer
Low satiety liquid calories will not help people control their weight. It's been tried a million times in various permutations (slim fast is a thing, so are medical nutrient replacements). I'd stake my life savings on it.

I did try to solve the same problem the Soylent guy is solving, it's on LW under "I hate preparing food". I think I did a better job.
There are two major programmable parts to the GPU - the Videocore CPU (VPU) and the shader processors (QPU).

The VPU is dual core with a 16 way SIMD integer unit with a 64x64 byte vector register file, and 32 register 32 bit scalar register file. Its accessible now, for instance see:
https://github.com/hermanhermitage/videocoreiv/wiki/VideoCor...

There are a few people targeting compilers and assemblers at the VPU. I think vbcc will probably come first, but I'm aware of people hacking on gcc and llvm.

I generate all assembly from emit() calls in C, but I may publish a better assembler soon.

The QPU work is not so advanced, but we actually have had a handle on the QPU instruction format for a while now, but we need more hands on deck to expose it in the open. There is also a challenge of hooking into the blob and dispatching QPU fragments. I would hope we have something working by the Q3.

See https://github.com/hermanhermitage/videocoreiv/wiki/VideoCor... for some preliminary background.

The QPU instructions have 3 VLIW style slots - <fp-add; fp-mul; signal>.
I'll push a qpu.arch when I get some time back on the raspberrypi.
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Shouldn't you say you Bing'd it since DDG use Bing for the actual search.
Expect lots and lots of arguments against bitcoin because of its deflationary nature. Nearly the entire universe of modern academic economics rests on the Keynesian and/or Monetarist foundation that increasing money supply (thus inflation) is a good thing.

Most people don't connect the fact that their money is worth less year after year with the fact that it is the government itself devaluing their money. Heck, most people don't even realize their money is losing value. Only savers, especially in our current zero interest rate policy environment, come close to understanding what is going on.

Nothing illustrates better what has happened to our money than the current market value of US coins made before 1965. For instance, a 1964 dime (nominally worth 10 cents) is actually worth $1.64 in silver content. That's somewhere around a 95% devaluation in just the last 50 years!