skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really like this idea. I had Bitbucket before but it doesn't have a sense of community. Plus Github's Wiki & ticketing system is kinda neat. Does anyone know how long it takes to get approval after adding .edu email account & verified?
The same motive. This isn't even a secret conspiracy, their ToS says they do it and says that is why they do it. The more data they have on you, the more ad money they make.

Why do you think the ads you see in a search just happen to contain items you were just emailing your mother about a day prior?
You're responsible for your credit control and you're not really under any obligation to run anything other than a zero receivables business. It's oft repeated, but the Fuck You Pay Me video[1] is pretty much essential viewing for anybody that has to deal with collecting payments from customers.

[1] http://vimeo.com/22053820
I have a strong suspicion as to how you'll take this comment, but please note that "Jess Austin" is my actual name and this is not my first comment.

The problems you perceive with HN are not perceived as problems by many of its users. Since the solutions you suggest have been considered and rejected in the past, one may assume that the operators of the site have a similar opinion. As a user, your response to that reality can take a number of forms. You can simply stop paying attention to HN, and probably cut down on the stress in your life. You can escalate your posting of this sort of opinion, which will probably have a different result.

I suggest that you pause to reconsider your opinions. The "one-off flame" you cite reads like something else to me. It is simply a request for everybody to stop encouraging the submission of uninteresting material to HN. As evidence to back up the request, the poster offers the proposition that your behavior and communications have annoyed many people for many years. I'm sure there are people on Earth who would disagree with that proposition, but they don't post much on HN. I don't mean that to be a judgment of you or of your life, and I doubt that redmarx meant it as such either. HN still isn't a place you'll find much sugar-coating. redmarx's post is just the truth, stripped of all the bullshit that accompanies it in less Aspergian environments, with a bit of vulgarity thrown in for color.

There is probably a response to all of that which wittily acknowledges the inherent criticism while subtly undercutting it. Suffice it to say that you haven't found that response yet.

If you prefer fora in which anonymity is discouraged, please try Facebook or Google Plus.

Thanks for your work on RSS!
I think he misread the situation. If you're an EMT it is clearly in your best interest to remain calm and project an air of calmness to others because you're going to be in situations where the shit is hitting the fan and keeping your cool is the difference between someone living and dying.

An EMT calmly telling you that you really should go to the ER with them is likely not being "nonchalant", just level-headed. I'm sure this guy is sick of hearing it by now but he made an unwise decision, even if it turns out he's fine after all.
I like that there are concrete examples of companies that are doing this well.
That's offensive and just goes to show how little you know about us Australians.
Gnome doesn't require "click-to-raise," though it's the default.
The 5 Why's

Prospect: I need a designer

... Why?

Prospect: Because my website is ugly and I want it to look beautiful.

... Why?

Prospect: Because a beautiful website give me more credibility with my customers/audience

... Why? Why do you want credibility?

Prospect: With more credibility, I can close more customers and charge each client more.

... Why? Why would you want to charge your clients more?

Prospect: Duhh, so I can make more money.

...There it is!

The saying goes that after you ask 5 why's you'll get to the root or the core reason why your client wants what you're offering.

If you can show that what you're selling will satisfy this often unspoken desire, then you'll make the sale.

The 5 why's is a good way to find out what this desire is.

Bob already knows what his clients desire... Can the same be said of you?
I do not discount the value of lightning rods. Exactly because having a safe path to the ground is a real benefit.

But I am discounting the reality of "dissipation" as an advantage. In fact the opposite should be true. To the extent that you create a cloud of negative charge, you should attract lightning, not avoid it.
Yeah, there are definitely similar policies in the US. Not sure if its per state or what, but I've gotten a letter like this.
All joking aside, what are your ambitions? Do you intend / desire to found a startup yourself? Do you want a job in a startup? Do you want a nice, safe, boring corporate job? Do you want to be a consultant? Freelancer? Wall street hedge fund manager? Other?

Anyway, if you are at all interested in the startup world, want to live somewhere without all of the hubris and pomposity of the Bay Area, and somewhere with a reasonable cost-of-living and a nice climate, come check out the Triangle (Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill) area of North Carolina.

Despite what you may have heard, the entire state isn't a right-wing, christian fundamentalist, redneck backwater with nothing but hog farms, tobacco farms, and cotton. The Triangle area is home to the largest research park in the world[1], and has a burgeoning startup scene[2], especially around the revitalized downtown Durham[3][4]. And we just had another tech IPO from a Triangle area company today[5]. Heck, we even had a local company win $50,000 on a CNBC reality show[6].

Seriously, there's a lot going on here and it's a pretty nice area to live in. With all 3 of the vertices of the "triangle" being "college towns" to some extent (Durham: Duke U., Chapel Hill: UNC - Chapel Hill, Raleigh: NC State University) there are plenty of young people here, and with all the big companies in the park (IBM, Cisco, Glaxo, tons more) there is a very diverse and multi-cultural population as well. Durham/Chapel Hill rank as the #4 city on the "most educated city in the US" listings[7] as well. And Wake County (Raleigh/Cary) has some of the best public schools in the country[8]. So, yeah, while the stereotypes about the South may have some truth to them, NC (especially this part) probably isn't anything like what you'd expect if you haven't been here (or aren't from here).

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_Triangle_Park

[2]: http://www.downtowndurhamstartups.com/content/startup+direct...

[3]: http://exitevent.com/rediscovering-durhams-startup-scene-10-...

[4]: http://exitevent.com/index.asp

[5]: http://venturebeat.com/2013/05/23/channeladvisor-ipo/

[6]: http://blogs.newsobserver.com/food/pintful-mystery-brewing-w...

[7]: http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2011/08/30/the-10-most-e...

[8]: http://www.greatschools.org/find-a-school/moving/slideshows/...
Exactly. I don't do twitter, dribble or other distraction. My site isn't a portfolio, just a quick pitch that I can do the work that you need and that'll you be excited about. If you need samples I'll send something over. It's worked out well for me. But like all styles, it's not for everyone, you have to find what works best.
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Also somewhat related (this just suppresses sweetness):
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No, that isn't accurate. Most blackhats I've known don't steal anything or benefit at all from their conquests. They think hacking is fun, that's it.

Doing it for bragging rights is not accurate either. Plenty of them brag, sure, but they hack because they like to hack. People always want to make that more than it is.
It's San Diego, shit is much cheap there than LA/SF.
>CPR won't restart the heart. An AED _might_.

Do you have a source on this? We're talking about a healthy but traumatized heart, right? And are we talking about totally stopped, arrhythmia, or either?
Lets see them try to seize inactive Bitcoins.....
Real estate agents are rarely hired because they're the best. They're hired because they have a relationship with the person selling the house or their relative or friend. It's also difficult to separate the good from the bad because the business is all about connections and there's no way (that I know of) to measure their effectiveness.

Then, multiply that out over millions of houses and apartments and offices.
Honestly, 60K is actually pretty good money I think. I make just about the same. Before my current job I made around the same. All my friends who are the same age as me make roughly the same. Last time I was doing interviewing, I tried asking for 80K, but not a single company pretty much told me I wouldn't be getting that.
according to the comments on the page, they did
The problem I see with your complaint is that any early venture funding is a bet on people ("I have a good feeling about this team") and there's no escaping that.

The real Moneyball was based on using better metrics to choose players ... in a rigorously constrained game. Starting a business of the sort we're talking about is entirely different, and I see little in the way of opportunities to apply logic to the choosing people question.
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This train of thought has to have something to it. There is obviously something that is "the same". Perhaps it is something more fundamental than the photons that "generates" the photons. Or, if it doesn't "generate" them, it determines the state of them at least.

In "Many Worlds", the "something" would be the particular universe that "this instance" of ourselves ended up in.
Might be a good time to plug http://codepoint.tumblr.com/

I haven't touched it in years as you can see, but it was fun while it lasted.
Interesting. In Google Chome, I just see squares where the character should be. However, if I copy and paste it into the url bar, or anywhere else in OSX, I see a color picture of a pizza.
But in that case, wouldn't physics be non-local after all? Do you believe that it is non-local?
The Detroit area in general is a pretty fine place to live. Good food, loads of great things to do outdoors (if that's your thing) which varies wildly by season, and it's quite cheap to live. It's very car-centric and owning one is practically required to get around, but if you're fine with that it's pretty all right.
Perhaps there were things in the trunk a drug dog would smell
I know this was comedic, but I honestly think commenting (and reading) on HN has improved my employability more than anything besides actual employment. It's open my eyes to technologies I'd never learn about otherwise, it's gotten me contacts, and -- most importantly -- commenting is an exercise of writing, and clear communication is arguably the most important skill one can have regardless of discipline.

Yeah, I kid, of course. I do learn a lot from my time on HN, both from reading the articles and from the ensuing discussions. I have days when I spend too much time on here though. Sometimes it doesn't matter, because I'm stuck on a client site for my $DAYJOB and they don't have anything for me to do, and there's little I could be doing to advance my goals while sitting there, so I wind up goofing around on HN.

Other days, I spend time where when I should be working (like right now!) but nobody can just work, work, work all the time, so I don't mind the occasional "goof off on HN" day here and there. And, like you said, the discourse here is writing practice, and learning to write well is always a good investment.

but at the end of the day, arguing too much about JS frameworks is still a better use of one's time than animated cat pictures.

Very true.
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I just went to the homepage on my Android device and tried with both default browser and chrome.

Both correct size and the chrome one also had swipe gestures enabled. http://imgur.com/QYZElnq

Might be based on location (I saw you were accessing from U K).
Ugh. I hate to be that guy, but after clicking on the get-started buttom (http://robertwilliams.wpengine.com/get-started/) the copy at the start is

"Lets bullet-proof your project in 7 days or less. Get started for free right now."

"Lets" should be "Let's" (it's a contraction).

I find that really off putting. I guess I shouldn't, but I do.

Super-impressed that it's been fixed so fast. I hate it when people nitpick, but occasionally I feel like it's relevant/worth it. That said, I still feel a bit dirty now.
Counterpoint: http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1f4a9/index.htm
Coke vs. Pepsi is a classic example. In the Cola Wars, Pepsi, from time to time, punches up against Coke far, far more than Coke ever attacks Pepsi. Coke certainly increased their advertising in response to Pepsi in the height of the cola wars but they never attacked Pepsi outright.

Comparison advertising is also a "marketing smell" (by analogy to "code smell"). If you're doing comparison advertising, you're probably in a Cola War. Cola wars are a negative-sum game where you only have to increase advertising if the competition does--sort of a prisoners dilemma. It's preferable to avoid getting into those.
What happens when you are in prison or a coma for over three years? Once you are back, do you have to go through the several-month-long process recovery process? How do you pay the bills during that time? Do they pay you interest if you successfully reclaim the money?

What's the point of this legislation anyway?
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Have you tried xkcd's mirrorboard[0]? I don't know if you're on Linux; if not I think I've seen ports for other OSes floating around somewhere. It takes a little getting used to but is fairly quick to pickup, and cheap (in money and scripting time). It works in the same way that mirror writing left-handed is remarkably easy if you do the motions with your right-hand as well (try it now, if you doubt :) ).

In any case, give it a shot. It's free, right?

[0]: http://blog.xkcd.com/2007/08/14/mirrorboard-a-one-handed-key...
Yep, it happens. It's called escheatment [1] [2] [3]. Why the uproar? What's "supposed" to happen with accounts that have been abandoned (dead owner, no family/will/estate or whatever other scenario that could exist)?

[1] http://www.sec.gov/answers/escheat.htm
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escheat
[3] https://customerservice.sovereignbank.com/app/answers/detail...
I see it just fine in OSX through Chrome, Version 27.0.1453.93
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He went from getting fired to making $30k freelancing in 6 months. I would imagine his annual income is trending up significantly and will end up being much more than $60k the first year of his freelancing "career".
Font coverage?
Yeah, that's true. But then do you really think those guys are spamming HN at 8 p.m.?

I wish I had said, if you ignore the advertising, it's a great resource. If you apply it to proposed backup solutions, it's an effective means to find out if they are viable.
http://www.dataliberation.org/ I don't know of any other company nearly as committed to making it easy to get your data out.
These are to support emoji symbols in Unicode. There's a lot in there beside pizza - party poppers, wedding chapels, game console controllers, "information desk person" and the ever mysterious "Japanese goblin".

PDF chart at

http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1F300.pdf

for the full glory of it all.
I'm the author of a .NET RethinkDB client (https://github.com/mfenniak/rethinkdb-net), and I can add that RethinkDB's lambda functions were very easy to implement in .NET by using C#'s expression tree feature (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb397951.aspx). With that feature, a lambda can automatically be converted to an AST by creating a function that takes an Expression<Func<...>> parameter, which can easily be traversed and converted into RethinkDB's expression tree.

Expression trees were introduced at the same time as LINQ, to support LINQ.
How so? These emoji characters are in widespread use. The initial characters had competing standards amongst Japanese providers. The unicode adoption allows indexing and searching without encoding problems. The competing standards also defined different glyphs, which feels like going back to the 80s or 90s with character pages.

Also, we can't jump a shark in Unicode, but we do have a few lovely 🐋 🐳 whales for you to jump if you'd like.
You can't really take much from what this guy says, to be honest. It's also extremely adversarial.[1] It depends on the individual(s), who you ask, and the phase of the moon.

This type of activity isn't really representative of either side of the traditional security world. Blackhats have generally shunned "carders", and the for-profit crime groups usually use "script-kiddie" like tools. Every once in a while there is an exception, but it's mostly been the case for at least the last 20+ years that blackhat skills/status in the community is negatively correlated with theft/extortion/fraud.

[1]http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2002/08/54400?cu...
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Hey leave him alone. It's not his fault he's ignorant, he's from the US after all.
Sometimes i think Sys. Admin profession needs a messiah like NNT(for finance) with perhaps the outspokenness/attitude of Zed Shah. That way, there would be a whole lot of increased awareness for the challenges involved in Systems administration.
You're not being unreasonable. It's an indicator of lacking attention to detail.
Money now has an expiration date, like air miles?
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> And let's call a spade a spade - "sharing" has very little to do with friends and everything to do with advertisers. It's very disingenuous and insulting of Google to pretend that the primary purpose of +1 buttons is to "share with friends".

This is calling a spade a turkey. How did you possibly come to that conclusion?

> I don't want to know what my friends are searching for or what recipes they like. It's just unwanted noise.

On the right-hand side of your search page, there's a button for turning off personalisation.
Pity about the amount of writing errors :-/
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I'm guessing Ez is referring to the Many Worlds Interpretation.
Is this a karma grab? This was doing the rounds online shortly after it was announced in February. Anyway it seems likely to only affect people who are wealthy enough to have large reserves of cash with nothing happening to it. When you think about it, most people only have 1 or 2 accounts. And these accounts usually have fairly regular activity occurring.
You sound far too certain for my liking. But IANAP.
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I believe it is: "Bottle is a fast, simple and lightweight WSGI micro web-framework for Python. It is distributed as a single file module and has no dependencies other than the Python Standard Library."
Very cool. Need event like this in Seattle! Get some Eastsiders coming over...
Seizing money out of a customer's bank account is really quite reprehensible. It's quite easy to imagine a situation in which someone has a savings account for a specific purpose that they have the discipline to not touch (e.g. an "oh shit" fund), and then suddenly find that money has been stolen one morning by the government. Indeed, I've had a number of savings accounts that have been for specific purposes that have neither grown nor shrunk, untouched for years because there has been no necessity.

The only situation I can think of in which it's somewhat ok for the government to raid a citizen's bank account is if the customer has been uncontactable for a number of years and cannot be found after a diligent search. Bar this, it's just theft.
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Am I misunderstanding, or does your last paragraph rule out social pressure as a force for standardization? Are you proposing that we simply allow standards to evolve according to the local incentives of individual agents?
To clarify, seizing of "inactive" funds already occurs -- the change next week shortens the timeframe from 7 years inactivity to 3 years. The money can be subsequently reclaimed through tedious paperwork. This is pretty standard stuff internationally speaking (U.S. seems to have a timeframe of 3-5 years depending on the state, U.K. is 15 years, Canada has a more generous timeframe of 30 years, or 100 years for amounts over a grand!).

The responsible thing for your bank to do would be to notify you at the 35-month period. Not much good if you don't keep your contact details up to date, but if it's something like a investment or trust account then that might be the one address you'd like to try to keep accurate. THIS DOES NOT CONSTITUTE SOUND FINANCIAL ADVICE, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO KEEP YOUR BANK STATEMENTS FORWARDING TO THAT EXPIRED P.O. BOX AT YOUR ALMA MATER
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Really. It hardly rains at all in the summer here. Just sun and heat, sun and heat. Everyone has to water their lawns or they all die. I grew up in New England where we had proper storms in the summer, and I WISH we had them here, if only to get a little wx excitement once in a while.
Stats:
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But you'd think in that case that any sign of activity on the part of the owner would be enough to determine that they aren't dead. E.g., logging in to online banking or answering a phone call from the bank. Now with this new Australian regulation, I'll have to remember to put some activity through accounts that are just savings.
I think by "restart", he meant the useful shorthand of "restore a useful rhythm, restart the heart as a pump instead of a tasty snack", and only in the case where the heart was in ventricular fibrillation or tachycardia. AEDs won't turn a "dead" heart into anything but slightly-cooked meat.

(I think you can use them in full manual mode with open chest and electrodes to treat a few more weird rhythms, along with cardiac massage (open-chest or regular CPR), but probably not happening on a paramedic call-out, more likely in a hospital setting. Normally you use CPR + drugs and then try the AED again. I'm not really sure of the details of the limits of dealing with asystole in a hospital setting, but I suspect in an OR they have some extra options vs. other places.)
Thanks for that. I've been looking. It runs nicely on my Raspberry Pi. Took me about an hour to set up, mostly because I made a stupid mistake. Fixed that, runs like a hose, and surprisingly lovely to look at. Win.
The issues is that, for every Kiera Wilmot, there are a dozen kids, many of them with substantial potential, who adhere to the rules and elect not to detonate draino bombs in the school bathroom, but no one makes an effort to aid them.

This story is just indicative of the perverse nature of publicity: those that break the rules are the ones who reap the rewards and publicity.
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