skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the reply.

Toward the end of the doc, it digs a bit more into the 'why', which include many of your points.

I thought a while about the perspective of an Afghani youth vs those views of an American youth. Afghan youth probably realizes even more than the American one that they are simply pawns in the system and no one outside their families cares for them. The Afghani youth are likely illiterate by most standards, and it sounds like the soldiers keep absolutely terrible records accordingly. As much as we trash the American education system (which is flawed), we at least have a pretty decent baseline for education to create soldiers that can read/write/math.

Whereas the American youth probably thinks that they are fighting for their country and doing great good around the world, I'm not entirely sure that the Afghan youth would think of it that way. At best, they are fighting for a paycheck, a gun, and some temporary protection.

As you point out, the basic supply chain of infrastructure is lacking there. We've given them the tools such as solar panels (which they feature in the doc), but if something messes up they have no idea how to fix them. Corruption isn't a bad thing, its being smarter and probably closer to survival than anything. The motivation to stay and fight in a dangerous situation is exceedingly low; whereas an American soldier can at least hope for a memorial, benefits to their spouse, and honors if they are killed in action, there is certainly none of that for the Afghan youth.

I guess to top that off, we're all left holding the question of why we're over there at all. It didn't really make that much sense at first (didn't we learn from Vietnam?), and it makes even less sense now. Nationbuilding doesn't work. Never has, never will.
From the page you linked: "Notice that the electron is most likely to be
found at one Bohr radius from the centre, in approximate agreement with the classical atomic model." That's approximately a spherical shell.

Why would these be such high-energy states?
Amen on the horseshit. My co-founder at my last company had 3 kids under 5, and his wife also worked at a demanding job. He was aces.

If anything, I think being a parent made him more focused, better at time management. Young, first-time founders tend to see "work more hours" as the solution to a lot of problems, even when the right answer is something else entirely. He was great at saying, "No, that isn't worth doing," or finding clever ways to solve problems. A lot of his product ideas came out of the time he spent after putting the kids to bed, and I think having the break plus the quiet time away from the office was great for his creativity.

It was also an advantage in recruiting. I could honestly tell engineers that we didn't believe in working stupid hours. And that engineers with kids would be able to have dinner with their families, because that's what the CEO did himself.
I'm not sure I see any reason to think that the "average HN freelancer" would be overkill. There are recurring posts here from people asking about how to get started in freelancing, such people will need a few low-risk small projects to get their feet wet.
Mapping Bitcoin's global adoption
An interesting article that bases bitcoin's popularity on the number and origin of wallet downloads.
Why not reduce the tax liability as well for people like you and me then? It would be one thing if governments could be trusted to spend the money wisely, but so far as I've seen (other than obvious exceptions such as emergency services and libraries) that's rarely the case.
The point of the post is about overall profitability of adwords. An ad's CTR is important to drive as much traffic as possible and also to keep a high quality score, but you arent directly paying for people who do not click your links. However, you are paying for all the people that click your links and do not convert, so focusing on improving your conversion rate is one of the best ways to improve the profitability of an adwords campaign
Tip: With respect to web accessibility, Mark Pilgrim's "Dive into Accessibility" [1] is still a great primer, even more than a decade after he wrote it. While the underlying technologies have changed quite a bit, it remains a good introduction to the basic principles and why they matter.

[1] http://diveintoaccessibility.info/
"Even the typo's" :-)
Also didn't see the point in the gamification, interface is already complicated enough when putting up projects that I almost gave up a couple of times. And echo the earlier comment about excess emails - getting 50emails after having a discussion on the chat system is not a sensible default. Did get a good job done tho gave up on finding rails guys and went php.
English text is on the bottom half of the page.
Top down you'll get studies with graphs of veg intake vs "illness" and pretty much the more veg you eat, the better. This is an outcome based "why" not a biochemical based "why".

Bottom up there really are no completely ideal foods, but there are foods that specialize in certain things, and much as animal meat specializes in protein, veg specializes in fiber and the micronutrients (vitamins, minerals, etc). This specialization is not absolute. You could get your vitamin A from a meal of liver once a week or so, but it seems easier just to eat a carrot every day or two. Unless you really like liver. Fruits are almost as good as veg other than having lots of sugar.

The "why" for the hair shirt crowd is its pretty easy to F up vegetables such that they taste horrible, therefore they feel better because you're suffering, because you deserve it. Why? Doesn't matter much. They'd probably be really pissed off that I actually enjoy the taste of a salad of proper proportions, or a snack of eating a carrot or whatever.

You guys in the UK are pretty lucky to have science based guidelines, in the USA our govt enforced guidelines are based solely on who paid politicians election funds, so we're stuck with "eat as much grains as you can" and stuff like that, designed to make us fat.
I'd consider setting up crashplan or some other automatic cloud backup pretty important, unless the grandma only uses it as a web browser (in which case I'd go ChromeOS)
> Some people also think using animal products isn't ethical and inconvenience themselves to avoid it. But you probably don't want to build a mass market business on that.

Vegan products are mass market commodity goods like any grocery. Just because vegan goods consist of a smaller slice of all grocery and food sales doesn't mean you'd be a fool to make a business out of it.
Having done this before, if all that will really be used is a web browser:

Sell the current laptop
Buy a chromebook
Use extra $$$ to pay for wireless service
IFF you really need remote admin, add chromebook to google apps.

Everything will work and update reliably for a long time. You can't mess anything up. It's great.
Now now, be fair. There IS a difference between "paying only the taxes that I am required to pay" and setting up a Double Irish with a Dutch Sandwich.

One is investing resources to minimize failure ("I want to make sure we don't pay more than we need to pay"), which I completely agree with - if your accountant fails to do that, it's not a good accountant. But the other is a proactive investment of even more money to pay even less taxes ("I want to pay even less than what would be normal by the intent of the tax law").
I don't disagree with you.

I'm in favor of the tax-code placing an equal burden on everyone. I am against only corporations getting a free-pass though.
My bias is towards my own tool; the rest were picked at random, based on recommendations and my free time.

No explicit bias intended :)
Yes, indeed, direct manipulation is the way to go for this. Much simplified interface with large target sizes all the way.
It's not legal - it may not be typically enforced, but it is definitely illegal, and it carries a fine between 4 and 60 Big Macs (to put it into scale).
Interesting. Using composition of objects like that is a sensible enough approach. What about also just implementing lazy loading in your domain objects. If you try to get details of a user and it's already been fetched from the server, then great. If not then fetch it from the server. I guess that's what you're doing in a way, but with lazy loading, the fetching logic would be tied to the entity class and the rest of the application doesn't need to care.
Does anyone know when Stripe will be in the UK?
Thanks.
If you believe that I have a bridge to sell to you.
I used Elance back in the day (before I even knew what "PHP" was.. I know). This time around I searched Google for keywords and looked in the Hacker News freelancer threads, and my leads were really good and ended up hiring someone that way. Takes a lot more time and effort than going on a freelancer site, but for a simple job Elance/ODesk could be the way to go.
Funny you say that, because the first IDEs were actually invented for dynamic languages (Smalltalk & Lisp).
I'm going to call bullshit on pretty much everything you've said here.

As I understand, Canola oil is a cheap, neutral oil with decent nutritional properties and an excellent range of cooking temperatures. Its a great alternative to olive oil. Its better than olive oil if you're frying a steak or using high temperatures.

Can you provide sources for what you've said?

I'll start: http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/canola.asp

Also, to address your claim about 'heavily processed' canola oil - the more refined/processed it is, the less contaminants are left in the final product. Its unrefined canola oil that is potentially dangerous.

Your claim about rancidity is also bogus. All oil goes rancid. Canola oil stored correctly (ie in a closed bottle in your cupboard or fridge) will last a year. Olive oil will last about the same time.
oDesk rejected two job postings of mine, with no explanation. I double checked their TOS and saw no conflict. Customer service never replied. They won't be getting my business.
I think it's a good idea for everyone to write one. I wrote one as a sort of hello world project that has a very tangible output.
>my email address is still owned by a third party (Google) and they can lock me out of my identity any time

They can lock you out of your past emails, but they can't take your identity away if you use Google Apps for custom domains or MSN Live Domains. You'll still have access to your email address which would probably be "me@firstlastname.com" or something. Actually, if you make it a habit to schedule a weekly outlook download of your emails I don't think they can even lock you out of your email. I've taken steps to do the first part but I'm being lazy and not downloading all my mails onto my computer yet. [Effort vs. Payoff doesn't seem worth it yet]
I'm not sure how hard it would be, but I wonder if you could turn these suggestions into a script. I'm sure a lot of people would pay $10 (just throwing out a price point) for an app that allows you to quickly setup a computer for an extremely non-technical user.
It is. Bug them on twitter and they'll invite you to the beta.
"30 day" office suite Joeffice launched
Straightforward vs. Structured, Non-repetitive Code: Which Would You Choose?
What's your point? I thought that senate hearing was disgusting because they were hammering away at Apple for obeying the law. Apple is an incredible success story and they should be lauded as an example of free markets, not vilified for trying to avoid giving extra money to the incompetent fools in congress.

Which would you prefer - successful companies that lawfully avoid paying too much in taxes while supporting western economies, advancing technology, and providing countless jobs? Or a top-heavy, zero-liabilty, exploitive government that, even as it grows unsustainably larger, still demands more and more, always chasing that unreachable pie-in-the-sky ideal of the "fair share."
Wow. This thread has altered my thinking.

I am married and an entrepreneur for the last two years. My wife and I have been putting away expanding the family thing for while, basically waiting for our startup to reach either profitability or a level of funding where I could draw a salary.

How did you guys manage the expenses? Were you drawing a salary or had sufficient revenues to support yourself when your wife was off work/due?
Maybe but I don’t think there’s that much soft tissue protecting the hands.
Maybe they were stoned, then digged up for some reason?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoning

That would explain why there wasn’t any survivor able to come back later to bury her comrades (if you curl you up I’m not sure how a hailstorm could be lethal to everyone in a big group)
I was a pretty regular worker on vWorker -- in the top several hundred in terms of income -- and I've been very unhappy with the transition to freelancer. The major issues I've encountered are:

* Extreme difficulty communicating with clients on the site during the bidding process. If there's a way to discuss terms and details on a prospective project, I haven't found it yet.

* Getting paid, in the US, is difficult, expensive, slow, and impossible to automate. (It was none of those things on vWorker).

* The vibe of the site is incompatible with high quality, professional contracting. If I send clients to your site, they don't hear about cost and schedule and deliverables. They get asked to follow you on twitter so they can level up and win a free t-shirt.

* No sub-accounts. I can't give an administrative assistant or subcontractor partial access to my account; it's either cut and paste or give out the master password.

* The whole setup seems geared toward people with a very different business philosophy than me -- hundreds of bids per month, dozens of skills on your profile, tens of client relationships. And if I work hard, I could get more of all of those things! That actively drives me away. I have dozens of skills, but I only want to list one or two. I want to make one or two bids per month. I want to work with one client at a time. Overall, the system says to me, "This is a place for spammy contractors to take tiny jobs," not, "This is a place for serious professionals to do quality work."
CLI Applications With Docopt and Packaging [video]
After looking it up I see it is commonly used to describe something that adds extra features to a browser, like flash or silverlight.

Previously I took it to mean "rich in interactivity". That's what I meant when I originally wrote that, a static site does not mean you can't have interactive content. IMHO the best way to write webapps is to have a static client that consumes an API provided by a standalone backend.
Slush is possible in C++03 as well. I'd say C++11 is trying to be humane as possible in that regard and not destroy the program (or the output) on account of programmer idiosyncrasies, no?

What I would much rather prefer is a "from scratch" approach to learning C++11 (assuming no prior knowledge about programming, but having a basic knowledge about memory etc...) That would really help curb the tide of novice programmers seduced by sexier languages that have no concept of safety, efficiency and correctness.
HN often automatically changes submission titles to the title of the submitted article. It prevents editorializing, although sometimes it leads to confusion.
While I get where you're coming from, I don't think you've come very far. IQ is not meaningless as a predictor at all - it correlates with income, and income correlates with some measures of impact.

Stating that the rate of IQ change is associated with the measured IQ is very relevant to the topic of brain functions and age, though not directly to improvement with age. That said, I too found the aside on Flynn's reputation to be distracting.
Ask HN: Review my startup. https://www.tesla.im
Link: https://www.tesla.im
While I agree that the "lost income" argument is bunk, it's pretty clear that the code was copied. The number of excessive whitespace after a line of HTML is not something you get "inspired" by, it's something you copypaste.
Why You Should Never Rescue Exception in Ruby
Slush? Depends how you use it. It's extremely easy to write horrible C++ code, but when used by a talented developer I think the result can be extremely elegant.

I like how it's a lot more expressive than C, but without the needless verbosity of a language like Java.
The original title doesn't make sense.
So many typos on their page too. Can't even spell internet properly in the screenshot. Gross.
Haxe 3 Released
Architecting for High Availability in the Amazon AWS Cloud
Link: https://www.tesla.im/
Oh god! its obvious. Not sure why companies creating a noisy, chaotic workplace instead of a calm serene one. One reason may be to cram more people into a small space.
Here's wishing Ive all the very best. I am not an apple fan by any means and in fact don't wish well for them at all. But it's undeniable that Apple has had a very positive effect on software in the past 3-4 years. But we need Apple to move so as to move the other sloths in our industry.

(As an example, look at the PC hardware landscape. The PC OEMs are astoundingly imcompetent and seem incapable of producing any tangible competition ot the Air and Pro)
That may be true, I could conceive that if it were otherwise, there would be quite a high potential that you end up with something draconian.

However, I don't think that's the issue here. The issue is that there are corporations making massive investments to actively prevent the law from catch up.
But I submitted it with its original title. sigh
there's plenty of ways to make a useful graph without giving exact numbers. and if he really didn't want to give information away to his customers, he'd not write the blog post in the first place.

Blog posts are marketing, he's driving traffic to his site with this blog. and his "facts" amount to squiggly lines. he doesn't deserve to get traffic from this.
> I am from Pakistan. Our culture is massive mix of Indian/sub-continental traditions, Islamic values and most recently westerns customs

Apparently the main part of Pakistan relevant to
Afghanistan is the 'tribal regions' mostly not
governed by the rest of Pakistan. There your
claims of a "mix" seem to be not correct.

Further, much of the problem the US has had with
Pakistan is from the strong role of Islam there
and in Afghanistan. For reasons of religion, culture,
domestic politics, and foreign policy, Pakistan
has been mostly on the side of the Taliban, that is,
wants to dominate Afghanistan.

My comments about Islam were focused on Afghanistan.
The comments also apply a lot to Iran and Iraq.
For Pakistan, sure, it used to be part of India
which is wildly mixed from Muslim, Hindu,
what it got from the British, and the old
cultures from before the British. India
is a forbiddingly complicated place, and
Pakistan has been influenced by that.

But the main reason for the formation of
Pakistan was just Islam -- they wanted
an Islamic country. Net, the main culture
in Pakistan is just Islam.

Italy is heavily a Roman Catholic country,
but the church does not run everything.
Turkey is an Islamic country, but
the clerics don't run everything.
An Islamic country can have a culture
more varied than just Islam. No doubt
the culture of Pakistan is more varied
than that of Afghanistan.

The main interest in this tread is what
the heck is the US going to do about
Afghanistan and why? The main content
of why is just the role of Islam.

The US brought to Afghanistan
constitutional government, free elections,
roads, schools, hospitals, training and
equipment for police and a military,
but Afghanistan is about to throw
away all of that and return to
an 'Islamic state' run by the Taliban. Thus,
I and much of the US are losing patience
with both Afghanistan and Islam.
NodeFly and StrongLoop at GlueCon 2013: A Recap
> That said, c++11 is a language that wants to be everything. Functional, object oriented, procedural, imperative, declarative and what not.

You can state the same for any multi-paradigm language.
U.S. is the only developed country with no guaranteed paid vacation or holidays
Sweet! Should be open sourced ;)
Future Shlock: Meet the two-world hypothesis and its havoc
"""This one is easy: don't do it! If you're talking to a database, you should be using a powerful and declarative language for building your queries."""

Not only that, but I have been finding that most problems where I would originally turn to using objects and classes are better solved by using static functions that operate on large data structures. This strategy also helps sidestep the object-relational mismatch in a lot of cases.
"My good friend and CFO, Larry, why didn't you set up that offshore account that would legally save us millions of dollars in taxes per quarter like we talked about? That way we could hire more workers so they could feed their families and receive adequate health coverage."

"Oh that wouldn't be fair to the people that couldn't do that."

"You're fired."
But current title gives a wrong sense. I am not working with stampready nor their theme is my work. The title, now, suggests it so.
Looks cool! I've written a much simpler version of this (basically a shell script that calls make, with a separate makefile that calls pandoc) specifically for github pages: https://github.com/lvh/typewriter

This definitely comes with a lot more bells and whistles out of the box though :)
I've been a longtime workflowy user and recently started using Fargo. Here are my likes, dislikes and feature requests.

Likes:
- Dropbox storage
- Calendar outlines as well as free form outlines
- The 'Instant outline' communication model

Dislikes:
- Too much mouse, keyboard interaction due to Fargo's quasi-implementation of the vim like command-mode (structure) and insert (text) mode sans vim-like idempotent 'esc' and 'i' or 'r' toggles.
-- So, Enter in fargo lets one exit out of structure mode by opening a sibling node, (== vim 'o') - The lack of an 'esc' however forces one to use the mouse to get back to structure mode and than keyboard 'del' to remove this empty node.
-- A mouse click on a node in structure mode gets one into insert mode. (== vim i)
- To navigate up/down by keyboard requires one to switch from down arrow to right arrow at an indent. Why can't i just use the down arrow?

Feature requests
- Auto-convert all http:// entries into <a href= links
- Support hashtags like workflowy
- Allow intra-outline linking
- Allow devs to build plugins / macros so they can customize it to suit their needs.
- Allow for multi-line outline entries (maybe a shift-enter)
They maybe right but it isn't equal, it's giving them a competitive advantage.

I agree with paying the minimum amount of tax but what does that actually mean? Eric Schmidt said he believes taxes should be at the base of economic activity (ie Ireland) but this is bullshit because it puts all the power in the hands of the corporations and incentivies countries to lower taxes to encourage corporations to move there.

Taxes should be based on where products are consumed so that each country taxes the exact percentage of profits generated from sales in that country. If in the UK Google sales amounted to £1b profit then £230m should be corporation taxes.
Rebel Towns: Communities are defying laws they deem illegitimate.
I am an example of this mindset. I bought this software to use for our wedding last year. Normally a website looking like this would not be something I'd ever purchase from, but I'm familiar with the guy from several years of forums and mailing lists.
Agreed. I've worked at a company that owned the IP to a CRM-type system fully bought and paid for by a major car maker. The car maker paid my employer millions to develop the system over several years, and then willingly gave up the IP for it at the end of the process.

My employer was then able to go and sell other similar businesses on the same software. It's surprising, but common.
Schmidt: If governments want Google to pay more taxes, change tax laws