skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll tell you what a lame-ass thing to do is: Criticizing the ostensible environmental insensitivity of a guy who, amidst grinding poverty the likes of which you and I cannot properly imagine, lost his arms trying to feed himself and his dependents.
Government is a parasite on society. Corporations and other private enterprises are what create good societies through mutually advantageous exchanges. In contrast, governments extract wealth by force or the printing of money (fraud) and use it to pay for things that no private person or corporation would pay for (war, prisons, bureaucracy, fat pensions, welfare for people who could work but don't want to, etc.)
http://www.google.com/about/company/philosophy/
Source? Or is this just opinion?
I see a lot of talk about "tax loopholes" but not any specifics about exactly what those loopholes are. It's easy to blame the law (a process which is mostly just a self-reinforcing talking point), but has it occurred to anyone that maybe neither the law nor Google are "crooked?"

You can take the most straightforward law and it still won't withstand a company putting all their IP in a tax haven and then attributing most of their revenues to their tax haven subsidiary. That's not taking advantage of a "loophole" that's taking advantage of the fact that: 1) accounting for revenue is inherently complicated, regardless of the tax laws, especially for service businesses and software services businesses at that; and 2) multi-national corporations must have some way to attribute income to the various countries in which they operate; it wouldn't be fair for every country to individually tax all the company's income separately.

It's instructive to try and figure out a tax law that would allow say the U.K. to reach some portion of Google's income. It's harder than it seems. For example, is it relevant that Google has customers in the U.K.? It shouldn't be--there is no sales tax on search services. If someone in the U.K. for example calls up their accountant in the U.S. for advice, as a general rule the accountant isn't liable for income taxes in the U.K. Is it relevant that Google has servers in the U.K.? Sure. But how relevant? How much of the value of Google's service derives from the servers in the U.K. versus the code and algorithms that were developed in California? I think most people would agree that the servers are just incidental--the real value of Google's services is the algorithms and data. So why should the mere existence of servers in the U.K. entitle the country to tax some substantial amount of Google's income?
Another thing could be to lock the dock - my grandmother occasionally accidentally drags icons off the dock, resulting in her calling me because the Internet has disappeared.
Search for: A new law signed by President Hamid Karzai in Afghanistan requires Shiite women to ask their husband's permission before leaving the home and forces them to have sexual intercourse. ... Human rights activists say the new law grants even fewer rights to women than when the Islamist Taliban held sway.
> You can't spot that from the air with drones

The INTEL is not limited to, or even primarily from,
just drones. Heavily the INTEL will have to
be 'human INTEL'. Drones that hover for many hours
can also be part of INTEL, but mostly the drones
would be for attacks on targets identified by
INTEL mostly not from drones.
In my previous gig we used to spend single-digit millions/year, and saw all metrics falling down like OP did, and we had a team of 6 experts with tons of experience in AdWords.

Not sure about this vertical, but in other (much more lucrative) ones such as travel, Google is pushing its own solutions at the expense of other websites.

For example, try looking for a hotel in new york and you will see Google Hotel Finder results, Google Map (which feeds from Google Hotel Finder), Google Places for Business, etc. Google Map will even stay fixed meaning that as you scroll down the ads are hidden by it.

There's much less value in positions that used to be profitable, especially 4+ (right-hand side ads).
I think it's best just to read what a cartesian product is, then consider that all joins are just simple filter operations after you've already made a cartesian product.

(although modern databases may do something more complicated, I'm not sure)
Ask HN: Would you file a HIPAA complaint against a new competitor?
If a new competitor launched that facilitates the violation of HIPAA (shares protected health information with a clinical team via email), would you file a complaint through the official channels? What if your motivation was purely commercial?

Fines for HIPAA violations are crippling - I just want them to compete on an even playing field (We spent 100s of development hours working on a HIPAA compliant solution).
An iPad makes much more sense for the very young and very old with their accessibility requirements.

The iPad is lucky in that it could start afresh with many ideas.

- They keyboard represents letters of the alphabet, and it only appears when it's needed, compared to my laptop keyboard which has about 30 obscure buttons that have almost no use to most casual users.

- You interact with only the content directly through touch, rather than through a mouse or touch pad that is on a perpendicular plane to the display.

- Making text bigger is as easy as pinch to zoom.

- There's much less that can go wrong as each app is sandboxed and access is limited. People can be more confident in their actions.

My 2 year old niece can quite easily play youtube videos yet I've seen my 90 year old Grandad struggle with a mouse, using his second hand to click the button. For either of them, there's little that they'd want to do on a laptop that couldn't do much more simply on a tablet.
It works fine. I'm working on my 2nd Django project using Python 3.3. The only missing component is South, and that isn't part of Django (although it'd be nice if it were).
>>> I was a veteran of vWorker, too. I found the site quirky and ugly, but deeply functional.

This, this and a thousand times this.

After the switch, i've had to run around and argue with their 1st-Level support-monkeys to merge 2 accounts so i could withdraw what was left over in my vWorker account.

Took 2 months and you can be sure i'll never ever again visit that site >:(
The most annoying is: "I'm gonna save your changes, but let me recompile the entire project first."
What’s new for web designers in Illustrator CC
On May 6th Adobe announced its latest updates to its creative software. Some of these updates have big implications on how users work with their tools. In this article, I’d like to review what Adobe has changed in Illustrator and specifically how it impacts web designers.
Revisiting Y2K - Much Ado About Nothing or a Disaster Dodged?
I'm not technically a "founder", however I am the first employee of a startup having joined from the start and I've bled through stressful times nearly as much as the 2 founders did, pulling 14-hours work days, answering to production alerts at 1 am, freaking out when we couldn't generate revenue, working my ass off to get something working, etc...

I am also the dad of a 3-year old. My son is almost the same age as the startup I'm working on.

At times it is tough, luckily I have an understanding wife. And my son is one of the biggest reasons I get up in the morning.

Being a parent is like a roller-coaster (much like working on a startup). You're sad and stressed when your child gets sick. And a child also gives you some of the greatest joys in life you can have - there's nothing like coming home after a hard day, only to find your child smiling at your return, giving you a big hug or a kiss, never missing a day to express how much he/she loves you.

There is a difference between being a parent and working on a startup. Both have highs and lows, however while working on a startup, in stressful times one tends to adopt a fuck-it attitude. Like, if it doesn't work out, that's OK, you learn from experience and then you move on, so there's no tragedy if your startup fails. Not so with a child ... you only have one shot to raise him right, to provide a good education, to make him happy and balanced and that child becomes your biggest reason d’etre, regardless of how passionate you are about other things, like software development or your startup.

So that's why my son is probably the biggest reason for why I get up in the morning.

Burn-outs for example are a non-issue for me. I've been burned-out before and it's hard to explain for why this can no longer happen - but the gist is my son is like a mirror of me, so his well-being functions like a benchmark. When I'm sad, then he's sad too and I can't fake happiness in front of him (children have a sixth sense about that), so whenever that happens, it's time to evaluate whatever I'm doing wrong and cut out on the stress. You see, I simply can't afford to burn-out, as my son depends on me. Same issue I have with catching colds for example - I used to catch colds quite frequently, but ever since my son was born, my immune system seems to have strengthened quite a bit. I'm not joking, it's as if my body knows that I need to be stronger and acts accordingly.

So yes, it's possible. If you feel the need to be a parent and you have a spouse that agrees with you, then postponing it is going to be the singly most stupid thing you'll ever do. That's because (1) children are worth it and (2) when it comes to having children, you only have a limited window of opportunity and before you know it, you'll be too old and even with all medical advances in this field, it's better to have them while you're young.
great video just what I was looking for!
C++ still has quite a bit of needless verbosity. You need to explicitly specify how variables should be captured in lexical closures. You need to explicitly choose weak pointers versus non-weak pointers. There are few useful defaults; you are forced to explicitly write a lot of boilerplate as a result. It may be better than Java, but that is not saying much.
I'm sorry to all the people who disagree with this but theft is theft.

Imagine you spent your time building something this elegant just for a bigger company to rip it off, and for them to reply with "oh it may look the same but we just used your template as "inspiration" and changed a few images." is pretty much an insult.

The only thing I don't agree with is that you can't price how much they would have lost, only estimate, and $20,000 is way over the top.
Aw, come on, don't sound like a troll. Don't argue for the sake of arguing. THere is a big overlap between ethics and laws. Just because some items don't overlap doesn't warrant such a statement.
Thank you very much for the clarification `jacobian` - I am assuming that django's connection pooling on 1.6 would still play nice with pgBouncer.
I can see the headline now: I rented my apartment in airbnb and now can't evict the renter. It's been a year.
I tend to get into work at 10:30 AM which is later than all the other developers at my workplace, but they all have families so their schedules may revolve around other responsibilities. I've tried getting up earlier, but I always revert to the 10:30 schedule after a day or two. I always end up doing something or getting more sleep that undoes the early plan. While I understand the lack of interruptions is a benefit, I'm not even sure why I get up at 8-8:30 AM. Perhaps it's just a random habit.
Judge agrees that Apple was complicit in fixing price of e-books
I agree with your comment on administration and I am pretty sure this is deliberate on Google's part.
But what about the dollar?! (a reference to the rest of this short story)

This entire book is an amazing read that I recommend to anyone. You can usually find it for less than $5 at a used bookstore.
You don't have to actually wait until after you have all the money you need.

It's much easier to have kids when you are young, and as long as you have prospects for income you'll be fine. If you wait till after you are perfectly set it will be too late.

Realistically - if your startup failed, could you get a job? If yes, then there is no need to wait, you are set for money.
As I understand from your question, there are two things here one is average cost-per-click which is how much you actually pay for each click and this is usually lower than how much you bid (max CPC). I've seen avg. CPCs fall by 10 - 50% (depending on the industry) when Quality Score changed from 5 to 7 for keywords. You can actually track Quality Score and overlay it with avg. CPC and other stats to see a correlation for your account. We created a tool for doing this.
The second is Google's suggested cost per click which is the recommended first page bid that Google shows next to each keyword. This is a function of your Quality Score and competition. You'll notice that keywords with a low Quality Score have a relatively high required first page bid. Please feel free to email me (geetanjali att optmyzr.com) with any questions!
Chromium browser adds reset feature to clean up malware messes
10.4 and PPC-based Macs can still be useful (I use my 12" PowerBook every day). Get MacTubes to watch YouTube, as a benefit you don't see most of the ads.

TenFourFox as you noted, or OmniWeb for the browser. Install a script blocker (NoScript for TenFourFox, or use site-specific Preferences in OmniWeb). Use a hosts file to blocking most ad sites. This makes most websites a lot faster.

Maybe this is not practical for "grandma" but it lets me keep using my otherwise bulletproof (knock on wood) PowerBook.
I'm another ex-vworker person. I had spent over $20k in the year before it was acquired by Freelancer and haven't done a single job since (moved to Elance). It started out with Freelancer failing to move my account. Once I went through a fairly painful process to get it migrated, I found that the tools to search for freelancers were terrible. I think they've improved a little, but to start with, you could only search by keyword and you'd get like 1000 results with no way to filter them. As of now, I'm happy with Elance and have no reason to move back.
I once have the table of posts on a Wordpress site get corrupted. The whole contents of the site has vanished. I managed to restore the table, but that had me thinking about using a such CMS.
Apple & Samsung's "Profit Share" Trap
This article reinforces my opinion that the business of selling templates is a foolish one.

1. The price for templates has been diluted to comical levels.

2. Site design is an integral part that needs proper investment. Clients who invest a double digit budget into the design of their website are clients that you really, really don't want.

3. In most cases, templates are used as a start - since most websites need customization, the templates your sell will quickly become different from what you sold.

4. Likewise, if you pay 20 bucks for a template and then modify it to your site, the quality of the result is often about as good as if you had taken a free one and modified that.

5. The only good business models I've seen around templates are the sites who try to use the "buy in cheaply" model to get clients to something more sensible - where the provider ends up becoming a go-to cornerstone for design.

All this creates a thievish market that is bound to produce exactly the kind of situation we've read about in this blog post: Some people are douchebags who steal, some people are douchebags who whine about it in public.

Sorry, no sympathy. Not a reasonable market. If you set up shop in a hornets nest, expect to get stung.
It looks like you were trying to use ghc 6 to install hakyll... You probably need ghc 7.4 or newer installed. Ghc 6 series is quite old.

If you contact the hakyll maintainer, jasper, for help, I'm sure he'd be more than happy to help you get it installed and usae.
This undertaking is absolutely ridiculous.

First, Deutsche Bahn simply could hire a security agency for a fraction of the money.

Second, they're trying to solve a non-problem. Their trains are notoriously and regularly late. Their fares are horribly complex and overpriced. They only offer Internet access on two of their high speed routes through Germany. You want Internet access while travelling to Germany's main startup hub Berlin? Well, bad luck for you. No such service. Their trains fail regulary during spring because of the rain, they fail during summer because the trains' air conditioning can't handle more than 35 degrees centigrade, they fail during autumn because their trains' wheels can't deal with wet leaves on the tracks and they fail during winter because of a few snowflakes.

I couldn't care less what their trains look like from the outside if they didn't smell like piss and sweat on the inside. Maybe, they should fix that issue first before buying some expensive toy with their shareholders' money, which happens to be taxpayers' money since Deutsche Bahn is still more or less owned by the German state.
The HN freelancers thread is gold. Use it.
Sometimes the IT department has more important things to work on. If the company makes "widgets", then it's usually better for their IT department to be working on something to make their widget making more competitive (faster, cheaper, better, whatever). So they "outsource" payroll, other HR and whatever else doesn't directly benefit "widget" making.
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How the news gets 'animated' (Interview)
I have been posting on oDesk for years and never got rejected... what were you posting?
Anyone else find it funny that a language originally designed to add dynamic content to the client side is being used to generate static content on the server side?

Makes sense to me though ... It's a natural fit for a front end dev who knows HTML/CSS/JS and also a good way to learn proper templating.
Is it wrong that I really want to use some of these in my current project?
I'd definitely strike OIF from that list as it suffered from the same lack of ground control that OEF has and I'm not sure I'd count the Falklands or Grenada as a major military campaigns.

I specifically addressed Desert Storm (as the First Iraq War) as specifically a case where Western forces didn't hold territory. It was a hit, win and withdraw strategy and was over in what 100 hours? There was no ground held in the long term.
sorry to hear. i feel sorry for you guys because you have to fight someone stealing your work + waste time and resources chasing these people.
on your website though, i noticed something I couldn't overlook (screenshot in link). you have also copied xcode's icon no?

http://cl.ly/image/2a412E0B0d3G
All online freelance marketplaces suffer from some variation of this problem. Either unskilled workers, generic bids, unverified skills, spam..

As @wilfra and others say you can try to filter by hourly rate or target freelancers in certain countries and you're bound to find someone good. And when you do it's a good idea to keep them on speed dial. You should also definitely look at the monthly threads here on HN of people looking for freelance work.

We've had the same problem you're in and decided to do something about it by creating http://socialance.com - A site that aims to fix online freelancing.

If anyone wants to help us shape the future of freelancing, please get in touch!
While Apple, Microsoft and Google and anyone else who makes stuff for the internet aren't necessarily to blame for this, they could go a long way in making it easier for older people to use Computer's for this. The demographic for 70/80/90+ people using PCs must be relatively small compared to the rest of the market and is surely decreasing all the time with the onset of tablets.

Maybe it would be helpful if Apple/Microsoft/Google could increase the Accessibility options and maybe add some sort of option to disable all the stuff and more that Talos mentions and automatically have the Computer set up an "Accessibility account" for those in such a situation.

Great post, really made me think about our attitude to accessibility on the web and how robust we have to be in building Apps and websites.
Part of this can be explained by the nature of auction-based systems: the more participants there are in an auction, the higher the average price will be at the end of that auction for any given item.

As far as CTR, that could be explained by way too many factors.
Same story repeated at SAI/Business Insider http://www.businessinsider.com/why-market-share-matters-for-...
Yes. I'm a father and own multiple businesses/startups. All you need is to get organized.
How Xbox One Will Change Advertising Forever
I am someone who has shipped code in many "less popular" languages (Erlang, Eiffel, Lisp...) and am currently exploring / building apps with Go. As someone with some actually time with Golang, could you elaborate on the pain point a bit?

I had a similar issue on my first toy program with Golang, but found it trivial to check the implemented methods, or assign it and let the compiler blow up if it doesn't fulfill the needs.
Personally, I'd like to see some of these features added to C where they make sense. Raw strings, bind, lambdas, constexpr, and ranged for loops would all make sense in C.
Avoiding reflows using Ember's run loop
The best part is that you could actually do stuff using these annotations. The joke is functional.
Google blimps will carry wireless signal across Africa
Just found this solution for YouTube: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/vlc-for-youtube/ab...

About to try it out, so can't say how good it is yet.
Grenada was a "major conflict"? Only if the entire US military versus a bunch of infighting leftists on a 344 square kilometer island with a population of less than 100,000 counts as a major conflict.
Regardless of whether or not her opinion turns out to be unwavering/correct, I find it crazy that a judge would expose her bias before the trial starts. Is this common?
> I would imagine if you're frying donuts or potatoes or something, you'd want the more neutral flavor of canola instead of olive.

Don't deep fry with canola - it smells nasty after a bit. It smells sort of like old fish. I like corn oil for deep frying.
I agree with you, they definitely don't match exactly. But I was arguing that they overlap: Some parts match, or at leats cover the same ground.
Fair point, although it's rather disingenuous for multinationals (not singling out Google) to say to taxpayers: "don't like our tax avoidance? well just change the rules then!"

Arguably one of the main reason we're not able to change (or at least, enforce) the rules easily is because of regulatory capture of tax agencies around the world, and multinationals are (directly or indirectly) funding this regulatory capture via their investment in complex tax avoidance schemes and the whole industry around them which is in constantly in and out of the "revolving door" between regulators and accountancy firms.

So, likely there's always going to be opportunities out there for aggressive tax avoidance, because of exactly these kind of agency problems. And so a multinational is always going to have a decision to make about exactly how aggressive they choose to be. And they are going to be judged morally by the taxpayer for the decisions they make, whether they like it or not.

If they are judged badly as a result of their choices, they should have the good grace to just admit that they're being selfish because they can get away with it and that's the way things are, and not come up with disingenuous self-serving rationalisations.
What if we had the ability to control what we see or hear in real time?
I'm a not a big Freelancer fan, as you can see from my other comment. However, I think Freelancer does a better job at sorting the low spam bidders than ever did vWorker. On vWorker I've seen $1 - $3 bids on certain projects.
> Step 1. Put in place a bunch of INTEL.

This sounds suspiciously like Step 2 of the South Park underpants-gnome meme; it detracts from other good points you make.
It was a stupid idea and a waste of time.