skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Haha. This would be great compared to emails headhunters like to send.

"Come work for a company we won't mention here.
You will need all of these skills:
...

Interested?"
i'm 27 now - this was when i was 25. i've since moved to the south bay to work at google, and things have improved significantly after a lot of meditation. i honestly have a more 'adversarial' mindset towards the homeless - i think a lot of the people in sf begging for change simply don't want to work, and because they can make a living preying on the guilt of people like me, they do so.

as for the schizophrenics out there, i am honestly still a little afraid of being one of them, but i'm lucky enough to have a huge support network.
> the offer of a place to live.

By "offer", do you mean for free? Well, duh. What the GP most likely meant is that some people prefer to be homeless rather than having to get and hold down a job to afford a place to live.
Groupon, please don't force users to gender stereotype themselves
Guys, maybe we shouldn't be feeding the trolls...
Strange that the owner of fucksheep.org would be a bit of a deviant.
Check wikipedia for Negative Income Tax schemes, which are extremely similar and were experimented with in the US under Nixon in the 70's.

This is also interesting: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/a-new-approach-to-...
This is a great point. Even if absolute revenue is lower, companies that deal mostly with information, rather than physical stuff, tend to have much, much higher return on investment when compared with capital-intensive alternatives like manufacturing or retail. This may matter to VCs a great deal.
It's all plug-and-play, there are no drivers, software installs or any other setup. You literally just plug the printer into your switch/router, the cash drawer into the printer, and pair the bluetooth barcode scanner with the iPad. Then they just work. I'm not sure how USB devices would even work with an iPad, or why anyone would want cables running across the checkout counter of their store.
> the takeaway message for most people reading this is "Should we implement lifecycle emails or not?" rather than "What exact words should I use?" or "What frequency is appropriate for a zero engagement user?"

I think (since we're both conjecturing about the takeaway message for the hypothetical "most people") the most interesting thing to come from this discussion would be how to do this sort of stuff tastefully.

It's hard to know how to engage! I think there is value in picking apart the techniques used in this campaign, the same way there is value in picking apart how CPU scheduling works.

After a bit of digging, it is easy to know the "things one should do for marketing." Engage, measure, test, iterate, funnel, A/B test, NPS, etc.

But what's not as widely known are what specific copywriting techniques one should use. Or how to measure the effectiveness versus email frequency. How do you decide when - or whether - or how frequently - to send a customer survey?
It is rather unfortunate that there was a couple years there that FF lagged behind Chrome, it is really still having lasting impact on the brand.

That said, the developer tools (both Firebug and the newer native ones) are really just not on par with Chrome now. I know they have people working on it, so I am looking forward to what they come up with.
Put a metal sign on a hinge that is at the too-tall height several hundred feet in front of the tunnel.

When they hit it, they will definitely stop, and replacing the sign is a fraction of the cost of the water sign, which they can drive through anyway.
Improve Your Life #25: Start Singletasking
Restaurant Having Meltdown on Facebook
A case against required fields - Tech.Pro
Looks like your sign up visibility needs to be tweaked when the card is flipped: http://i.imgur.com/9v6gSEg.png

chromium 25 linux
"It is part of the maturation process and realize that the world is not a fair place, and no not everybody is equal and will live equally."

I think the point of the article is that that's fucked up, and not how the world should be. And what I suspect the author realized is that it isn't the way he or she wants to be.
I find Github to be the best option out there (the only thing I'd like to see is a method to leverage caching). Plus it allows you to make the website "open source" (which is the case for most of what I put up).
Your second paragraph quotes a fictitious someone in 1996, right?
After the second year at my university I took a summer job to teach the first year kids C and functional languages. My understanding of imperative and sequential paradigm(and the functional) had never been so succinct before.
Okay, first, I'll just say it: I'll bet Microsoft has a team of developer-relations/pr people commenting on HN. HN is so important to the startup world, and Microsoft sees tech evangelism as war ...

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=cooldeal

Maybe it's not you, but I bet it's happening.
Google:
"Angelina Jolie complies diet, which combines a high percentage of carbohydrates and proteins with a low percentage of fat intake."

Meanwhile, in PubMed:
"Women in the highest glucose quartile were 63% more likely to develop breast cancer."
>I have long wondered about people who dismiss concerns over semantics.

There is no doubt language is frequently misused to further ideology. In fact, this is exactly what OP is doing. He's trying to redefine a universally understood term to fit his particular ideology ("IP is not property" or maybe "information should be free").

There are problems with current laws around IP, but redefining terms is not a way to fix them. Furthermore, most people would not agree with the extreme position that that OP is taking (no IP laws) either, so arguing for semantics is either detrimental, confusing or pointless.
The swivel and the ability to bolt it to the counter appear to be very well designed, but I would personally have a hard time dropping $300 on it after buying an iPad for $400 - $500.
That's interesting and seems like a good idea, except perhaps it should be paramount that the 20-ton beam NOT fall on the following cars! That is an entirely different meaning of "sacrificial"...
Stuffed, a command line tool that eliminates distractions
So why should I want to subsidize single mothers? Why should I disincentivize teenagers from gaining their first work experience?

I agree that there are some people who deserve financial support, but it should be up to the individual to decide who that is and how much they should receive.
If Eclipse is evidence that Java is good at GUIs, I shudder to think what the output of something bad at them must be like to use.

edit: to give you a constructive response: Eclipse is an excellent illustration of how godawful Java is at GUIs. It chugs horribly on even high end hardware because of Java's interminable GC pauses getting in the way of interactive response times. It looks native nowhere, and somehow contrives to feel even more alien than it looks. It manifests platform dependent UI bugs, completely defeating every last shred of its claimed "write a GUI once, deploy it anywhere" advantages.
McAfee plans to acquire next-gen firewall with Stonesoft
> Faux database apologists seem to really love claiming databases are so unusable

You really think tossing out insults like that is a way to have a reasoned conversation? I think not, come back when you can converse like an adult.

> And I have no idea what "don't mix well with the kinds of programs.." is supposed to mean.

Then you need more experience as a programmer perhaps. I'm a programer and a SQL guy, and I'm fully aware of what a pain SQL can be in an application and if you don't see the ease of programming things like NoSQL databases or Mongo bring to programming, you aren't paying attention or you're lying to yourself about how well SQL fits with code.
Demolition Gone Wrong
Larry Page: Here’s What’s Wrong With My Voice
I'm not sure if this applies, but I really hope they provide better tools to identify badly behaving webpages. Sometimes when my CPU or memory are being cranked by Firefox, I really just want to kill the one tab out of 50 that's causing all the problems.
> Martin Gardner's updated edition of Calculus Made Easy

I've seen several (quite a few actually) books with this title on Amazon. Some of them written by Martin Gardner and Silvanus P. Thompson, others written by Thompson alone. Do you recommend a particular edition? (and what's the deal with the plethora of different editions?)

> For QM, you will need to understand what linear algebra is for, and how it uses abstraction to simplify certain types of operations. Here's a good introduction: http://betterexplained.com/articles/linear-algebra-guide/

Could you recommend a wood-pulp version of this kind of material?
It would be nice to see the list of 200 companies. A lot of detail gets lost in those graphs.
Quote from the original author in the comments. TLDR: it was human error that got us into this situation:

"The lack of joins & transactions of course did factor into the original decision. My point (which perhaps could be clearer) was that MongoDB ended up being used outside of the area in which we originally intended to use it. There was some reluctance to add another technology when we could get by with what we had for what was (initially) only a small use. Additionally, some limitations were not always well understood by web developers (who were new to mongo and enthusiastic to try it). I see this as our mistake. With hindsight, it’s clear we should have introduced an RDBMS immediately and kept MongoDB for managing the crawl data."
Ah!!! Someone finally nailed it
I have always felt that this is an issue, as i have personally had many problems when interpreting road signage.

For example, i once pissed off some builders by following a truck into their work zone (they were working on a highway lane). The truck had a huge sign on the back that said 'do not follow into work zone', but how can i possibly know if i'm following a truck into a work zone without some indication of where the work zone is? There were no other signs or lights or orange barrels or anything.

Another example is the way exit ramp signage is written where i live. Highway signs don't include units of measure when they refer to distance, so the first few times i saw the sign 'ABC ROAD — 2' i had no idea that it was telling me that the exit for Abc Road was in 2 MILES, not that i was meant to take Exit 2, which happened to be the very next exit after the sign.

The 11foot8 Web site linked elsewhere in the thread mentions that the rail bridge has a flashing sign that says 'OVERHEIGHT WHEN FLASHING'. The site calls this 'pretty good' signage. It makes sense sitting at my computer reading about it, but i can almost guarantee that if i was seeing that sign for the first time on the road i would have absolutely no fucking idea what it was talking about until after i had already crashed into the bridge.

etc.
Using Google Go for Ad Serving
We just launched a new mobile video ad server based on Google Go. We looked into every viable tech stack & found Go to be the fastest for mobile ad serving - really a great platform for "mobile first" backend needs.
You have to account for price collusion, which is very difficult to prevent. Not to mention that all markets are not equally elastic.
Wrong -- works on x86_64 Debian.
"but over time you just get used to it and don't care anymore. It is part of the maturation process and realize that the world is not a fair place, and no not everybody is equal and will live equally."

This is depressing.

"This is part of life." feels like a common cop-out and downplays the fact that, if some of us put our minds to it, we could successfully make it not so much a part of life (I'm not saying we'd have some utopian equality, but it could be so much better).
Microsoft embraces GChat
It's not zero-sum. The US already spends more per capita on healthcare than every other country. It just does so extremely inefficaciously.
This is what the world looks like to an astronaut on a cloudless day
Because is easy:
* Easy to learn
* Easy to use
* Easy to deploy

All easy things get us in troubles when we want high performance. Cheers;)
The best way to beat the censors is for multiple parties to request the same data at different times.

Oftentimes the resulting FOIA documents will be redacted in differing ways, allowing the various parties to "compare notes" and hopefully piece together the complete picture.
Why not just have those things which actually hang down and hit the top of your truck showing you that you're too tall?

As for that water sign ... why don't they put it further back and have a way for offending vehicles to exit in front of it? Am I missing something?
> Property implies the idea or a certain implementation of creative work is yours for life

No it doesn't. There's more to property than fee simple absolute.
Not quite true.

Microsoft has an undue amount of influence over both C and C++ thanks to the Windows platform and their questionable lack of full support for the relevant language standards.

Ultimately, what controls a language is who controls the market and who employs most of the people implementing the most popular compilers/interpreters for it.

The only reason C++ lives on is because platform holders have been willing to support it; and those platform holders are large corporations.
>One set of people are taxed to pay for things, another set of people get the benefit

Ah, no. ALL people pay for things. How that payment occurs is a product of a progressive tax system in most cases, but there is no requirement that such a system exists to run service.

You wouldn't call a private security service employed by a gated community "wealth redistribution", would you? Although if they had an income driven progressive fee structure it would be.
Sorry, I missed your comment

> And unfortunately, while there are quite a few languages with these features, only few have the critical mass, long term support, and infrastructure to justify investing in them for serious development.

So I guess I agree with you.

I started coding in 1986, on those days C was just another language and OS were written in Assembly, PL/I, Pascal, Modula-2 and probably many others we never heard of.

I always used C only when required to do so, hoping a stronger type language would take its place. And jumped into C++ as a better C as soon I discovered the language in 1992, but given its C roots many problems still persist nonetheless.

The problem is that a language to gain critical mass needs a corporation that pushes it into the mainstream, or a framework/library that makes developers want to use the language.
I don't think you read the parent comment.
You want to see income disparity at work, travel to Mumbai and live there for a day. I've lived in Mumbai vicariously through VICE, and that was an eye opener on the income inequality issue.
25% sales tax not $25
Real-time path traced Virtual Reality
Google Test Automation Conference talk on Appium if you're interested:

https://developers.google.com/google-test-automation-confere...
29 Interesting Facts About Mark Zuckerberg | Viva Technics
Not saying this is accurate, but the first thing I though of when reading this was http://xkcd.com/610/.

Edit: As an aside, to find this I searched for "xkcd everyone thinking the same thing". It was the first result on Google and the second on Bing. I'm honestly kind of amazed by current search technology.
An important customer once told me "Yes, I have read about the manual, but it is so much easier to call you." - the problem with lazy customers is that they will make false assumptions about what the software does (everyone will probably do this at one time, but not reading the manual / instructions is much more dangerous).

She also refused to upgrade from a 15" monitor to a larger model, so we had to keep the screen layout in accordance with her outdated screen format. (The cost of a new screen would have been negligible compared to the profits).
Ask HN: Has Verizon Wireless Asked for a *copy* of your Social Security Card?
I am trying to convert my cell phone from a corporate plan to a personally liable plan. I have great credit, but Verizon Wireless says I have to fax them a copy of my Social Security Card before they will approve me. They say there is no problem with my credit, it's clean, but that they need to have a copy of the card because "maybe I have fraud protection", or "something else" that is making their system flag my SSN. I don't have any of those services.

Obviously, I'm not going to send them a copy of my card, talk about opening oneself up to fraud in the future. Has anybody else had this happen at Verizon Wireless? Were you able to resolve it, or just move to AT&T?
"it's better to be born poor in Europe than in the US, and better to be born rich in the US than in Europe"

Absolutely fantastic comment.
Google Ventures invests in OpenCoin, the firm behind Bitcoin exchange Ripple
Microsoft has a presence in China. How else could they sell and support Windows to their enterprise costumers?
No because there is expectation of privacy in my home. Anything published on the internet is fair game.
They are U.S./Canada only. The European equivalent (which does take EMV chip-and-pin) is iZettle https://www.izettle.com
Consider the source. Periodicals are in the business of selling you content (and advertising). Therefore, it is in their interests to create the latest "fad" and to sell it to you as tested. And then create something new and sell it to you again. And then...

Is this workout terrible? No. It beats nothing. Is it the key to your ongoing physical fitness? Of course not.

The fitness world is overrun with so-called experts. One problem is that we are all different. We have different body types, different goals, different strengths, different weaknesses, and different likes/dislikes. What works for me may not work for you.

Can a periodical take this into account for all readers? Of course not.

Consider their workout as a first step. If you are doing nothing, do the 7-minute workout. It will help you, to a point. Thereafter, you'll need to challenge your body to do harder things.

Also, consider the physics definition of mechanical work: W=f*d.

So, go apply some force of a distance. That's a workout.

Do work.
run4yourlives: Well stated. Warren Buffet, I believe, has often emphasized the fact that the growing wealth disparity is not good for long-term economic growth in U.S.
I'm not in silicon valley, but I know people who volunteered in homeless shelters.
Over that long, most of the industry should disappear through attrition alone.
Why are you conflating Obamacare with progressive taxation? Incredibly misleading. Hayek was clearly fine with social insurance programs.

"Where, as in the case of sickness and accident, neither the desire to avoid such calamities nor the efforts to overcome their consequences are as a rule weakened by the provision of assistance – where, in short, we deal with genuinely insurable risks – the case for the state’s helping to organize a comprehensive system of social insurance is very strong. There are many points of detail where those wishing to preserve the competitive system and those wishing to super-cede it by something different will disagree on the details of such schemes; and it is possible under the name of social insurance to introduce measures which tend to make competition more or less ineffective. But there is no incompatability in principle between the state’s providing greater security in this way and the preservation of individual freedom." -- The Road to Serfdom, F. A. Hayek
PETSc version 3.4 released
Databases almost always grow outside of their original scope, much more so than applications. And there is a good reason: data is more valuable when it's combined with other data.

So I think it's reasonable to be cautious about using a system that can't effectively grow outside of its initial special purpose.
Mad Dash: How to Use the Dash in Writing
And firearms/firearm accessories stores around the world shrugged.
C# Performance Benchmark Mistakes, Part One by Eric Lippert
Are you talking about the states/fed? As that'd suprise me.
Looks like we overlapped a bit there.

My point was that at the time I posted, numerous comments in this HN discussion essentially said "You're being spammy and abusing the trust of users", and to me, your comment read as "No problem, we're fine-tuning the ways we spam people so now we're only going to indulge in 75% as much unwanted harassment while abusing the trust of this particular group of users, and that makes it all OK".

To be fair, maybe I just saw your post at an unfortunate mid-edit stage, or maybe I'm just in an unusually bad mood for some reason and I loathe spammers. But honestly, at the time it read like one of those non-apology apologies that is only ever given by shady organisations you want nothing to do with. :-(
If we make long-haul trucks self-driving, then we'll just have to replace the 'driver' job with 'guard' job. Otherwise it's far too simple - block the road; the robot will stop to avoid an accident, and you loot the cargo and/or the car.

It doesn't really matter what they're shipping - a truckload of TVs is nice, but even a truckload of sh*t is valuable enough to make it worthwhile.
Please, add "Other shared hosting" - otherwise we would need thousands of options. I personally use servage.net
(Since HN has been in golang hype-mode recently:) a 20-line Go web server that I probably wrote in about 5 minutes but I don't remember because it's still chugging away.
True. Not only does the US as a nation spend more on healthcare than almost anyone else, US citizens also spend more on healthcare than citizens of almost any other country. So the govt. and the citizens are paying boat-loads--that's inefficiency.

And, it doesn't help anything that we're one of the most unhealthy nations.
Very informative link, thank you. I was likewise unaware. TLDR: minimization is the act of removing non-relevant personal data from foreign intelligence information.

From the article: "Minimiaztion [sic], in essence, is the legal term for the constraints placed upon the government's ability to retain non-relevant private information collected legally. Here is the technical definition of "minimization," as supplied by 50 U.S.C. 1806 (A):

Information acquired from an electronic surveillance conducted pursuant
to this subchapter concerning any United States person may be used
and disclosed by Federal officers and employees without the consent of
the United States person only in accordance with the minimization
procedures required by this subchapter. No otherwise privileged
communication obtained in accordance with, or in violation of, the
provisions of this subchapter shall lose its privileged character. No
information acquired from an electronic surveillance pursuant to this
subchapter may be used or disclosed by Federal officers or employees
except for lawful purposes.

"So -- the saving grace for civil liberties is the requirement that the government get rid of the information it accidentally or incidentally collects on people that isn't considered foreign intelligence information."
Thanks for the screenshot! Seems to be an issue on Chromium in Linux. We'll get that fixed.
Same for Rwanda
People aren't complaining just to complain. When you can't even ctrl-c out of the shell there is a huge issue. It's a known bug, around since v1.8, 'minor' priority. Yeah, thanks for trapping me in the shell.
Please keep your pointless zero content replies on reddit.
I tried Dreamhost for a year (for my non serious sites and just personal testing purposes) because people raved about it on Reddit, but it was disappointing. I tracked all my sites using uptimerobot.com and Dreamhost has less than 99.9% up time consistently. Just signed up for asmallorange.com...will see how it goes.