skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed they're not, and BI has a lot going for it in it's simple incentives.

I just struggle to think that's the only thing keeping so many people passive for so long.
> On the other hand, more effective enforcement is probably mostly going to result in a larger ratio of quick-n-dirty tags, making the overall appearance messier, uglier and more vandalised.

bingo. back in the day in Poland, the Tricity railway picked up a fight against graffiti, they cleaned stuff up quickly, when they couldn't afford to clean they just painted over (kind of vandalised the graffiti, lol), the security got really brutal on writers, and stuff got ugly to a point where people got hurt. as a result, a lot of writers around there pivoted from only painting to some really crazy vandalism action. that attracts more people that less identify themselves as independent artists and more as vandals opposed to the opressive system, and as you can imagine those are harder to work with. fighting youth movements with surveillance and force always gets ugly.
I think it was jon stewart who said "these complicated carve outs weren't made by poor people"
Active Directory is pretty good.
for an extra 25p /day you can spend an extra 1.75GPB a week.

so then you can buy these from asda and add it to whatever you want.... why wait for the OP to do the work?

http://groceries.asda.com/asda-estore/catalog/sectionpagecon...
Does being daddy mean your child is raised by baby sitters?
Something I'm not sure that you've thought of that might be one way to think about how some people assess part of the value:

Just as a hypothetical boundary case: Why should I pay you to do nothing forever? That's effectively the question that gets run in my head when I look at SAAS.

That sound quite insulting, so - just to point out again: Boundary case! I don't think you actually are doing nothing forever. However, if they're effectively employing you, and perhaps have a fairly static need. What do they need to employ you to do?

For a lot of new software it's meanest competitor is its last version. The version that comes out four years down the line is not that much better, generally speaking. People talk about companies upgrading, but a lot of them don't - at least not on the sort of time-table that would justify SAAS. In that sense you'd have to sell me on the future of the software or on the idea that my needs are going to change rapidly so I'll need software to change rapidly with them. If you're going to be making it significantly better year on year then I'd probably go with SAAS. If I'd pay for the software on a SAAS plan, before I'd upgrade normally though, then it seems like a bad deal.

It strikes me that in a relatively static environment the thing to talk up is going to be what you can do for them in terms of support. And they're going to have to compare the costs of supporting the software themselves to the risk that they take on in using your solution (your company going under, etc.) Much of which is very difficult to quantify and is made a greater concern by our tendency to be fairly risk-averse.
I need something to manage website passwords: for example domain registrar name.com. And also auto-login for long and complex passwords.
Wow, all I can say is that it is wonderful to read a "can you do a startup and be a parent?" article that is not about MOMS. (Although since the original post didn't mention anything about school responsibilities, doctor's appointments, bedtime, or birthday parties, I'm assuming that all that is done by his wife.)
No, this is the reasoning behind thinking someone is full of shit if they're pushing you to do something, supposedly for your sake.
That's just about right, though.

The Unix model is a mess, the WOSA is a mess, personal computing hardware is a stack of hacks, programming environments are a poorly integrated mess, software 'engineering' is still back in the age of siege engineering rather than modern engineering discipline, and emacs still takes ages to boot.

Computers are marvelous productivity and life-enhancement tools, but following the easy path has led to stagnation in the mainstream.
You can offer:

A. Limited to say 5 years. The world will have changed by then.

B. $200k License Fee with 20% Annual Maintenance. Then in a burst of generosity you can waive the License Fee but keep to the Annual Mtce. This is pretty standard, sounds a bit sneaky but focusses customer attention on value.
I sure hope no one is going to eat it either. Cooked oatmeal for breakfast 7 days a week? The author seems to be stuck in the mindset that certain foods are "breakfast" foods.

I've had chicken breast and broccoli for breakfast. I've had omelets for dinner. Nutritious food isn't time-specific.

BY far the biggest improvement most people could see from a cost basis is learning to cook and then actually cooking. The wife and I cook 2-3 times a week, make enough to last a few days and reheat foods as needed.

BY far the biggest improvement most people could see form a nutritional basis is the removal of food additives and taste enhancers that are designed to make food palatable for consumption while enhancing shelf-life or allowing the use of substitute ingredients that cost less. (Modified food starch, I'm looking at you!)
That's fun. Here is another awesome one: 7xx-RFC codes https://github.com/joho/7XX-rfc
Why not do this as a more up-to-date, honest-to-goodness Linear Programming problem? Why all this faffing about with approximate sums by hand?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5775071
They are just being polite, waiting for the Java developers to finish trying get Eclipse or IDea to autocomplete their new annotations.
Bah. They're not "overpriced" as long as someone is willing to pay the price. Startup pricing is about as close to a frictionless transaction as we're going to see. What they're actually complaining about is that the YC companies are getting better terms from investors, thanks to PG/YC's deliberate efforts to shift the balance of power in favor of the founders. I'm not crying tears for them. They don't like the terms, they're welcome to walk away from the table.
Thank you - going to get that UK-law-ified and stick it all over the place

Cheers !
+1. And get one of these : http://freelancersticker.com
I really hate being so self-aggrandizing, but at gun.io, this is exactly the problem we're trying to solve.

Open and extremely easy to use, while not sucking in terms of quality. I think we're doing an OK job, but this is more complex than it sounds, and quite obviously, there's always room to do better. (If anyone strongly feels that we just suck, PLEASE email me).

Thanks for allowing us the self-promotional spot, haha - but seriously, if you do want to try us out, just email me and we'll give you a post for free. I am sure our devs are itchin' for (well-compensated) work.
Jekyll was a close second for me, but ended up choosing Middleman as well.
What flavour of markdown is this? Can I use pandoc's markdown with a little tinkering?
Sorry, accidental down vote on phone.
> The US has a really bad track record of picking local partners. Mostly because during the Cold War, the "good" local people were more innately socialist, which the Communists exploited, so we got stuck with some pretty horrible people (either ineffective or outright evil) by default.

The US doesn't care that much about the "good" people. They picked the most effective people for fighting the USSR. And out of necessity they needed to use Pakistan's ISI which wanted trained Mujihadeen for their own purposes (asymetric warfare with India) to deliver arms to the "freedom fighters."
What do people think of the Ibogaine episode (S01E07)? I'm sort of familiar with the politics and some of the pharmacology, but have never been an addict, particularly to heroin, and aside from MAPS, don't know much about the ibogaine anti-addiction groups.
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I read it as "supple mentos" and was, needless to say, confused how mentos fit into the "Eating Healthily" part.
It was great working with Cliff and many other folks at Powerset. I think I got cynical a little earlier than some of the other folks and left before the acquisition, so I might be less justified in my opinion, but anyway,

On the below-market wages issue: I think Powerset's really crazy marketing/hype allowed it to hire stronger engineers than would have been justified given its product and technology. All the startup spinoffs he mentions (Serious Business, Crowdflower, Github... and later some more I can't even keep track of...) I think are an indication of that. I guess that's how you hire using equity. You could say it's taking advantage of the psychology of overvaluing low-probability, high-impact outcomes. Or you could say, those people were duped.

I'm just glad for all the folks who, like Cliff, were able to take the bonuses to help support families or later business ventures.
The topic of the talk is "Next Generation Analytics: Universal Analytics".
>>I honestly believe there is some kind of cooking phobia loose on HN.

If you think about the main demographic of HN - people in their 20s who have spent more time with computers than anything else - it makes sense. :)
Laughed hard at 759 - Unexpected T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM. Poor us, PHP developers...
Well, Email On Acid appear to have removed the blog post already.

Google Cache link: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
"The only app my grandma uses is Safari, really. Sometimes on the phone it's helpful to have her go to System Preferences."

Sounds like a Chromebook use case or a 'kiosk' mode Linux distro.

I have an ibook G4 running 10.04 fine and sympathise with the initial problem!
How hard is it? Well, about as hard as writing bug free code is. You don't need testers, right, just don't put bugs in in the first place! Or is it not easy after all?
Writing Better Assertions with ScalaTest
They're forgetting that their product is entertainment. It's something I like to use as a diversion from hum-drum daily life, but I don't require it. I can quit any time.
It has a few issues.

1) Depends on what you're using it for. Personally I think it tastes foul in salad dressing type applications. Olive oil is the gold standard for homemade salad dressings. I would imagine if you're frying donuts or potatoes or something, you'd want the more neutral flavor of canola instead of olive.

2) Rancidity issues lead to three problems. First is massively excessive processing which turns the healthy omega3 oils into trans fats, and also contamination from processing chemicals make the oil smell/taste weird compared to a more natural/real oil. The second is failure of the extensive processing means the stuff goes rancid really quickly, meaning you either dump half the bottle making it more expensive than olive or you eat rancid oil which is really unhealthy. The third problem is you can solve post-purchase rancidity issues by getting tiny little containers and using them up quickly, but that boosts the cost per oz way beyond something tastier, healthier, and longer shelf life, like olive oil or frankly pretty much anything else.

3) Its exceedingly heavily processed compared to most other off the shelf oils. This is not necessarily bad other than as noted above, but the more they screw around with it, the more chance to screw it up. Its easier to purchase un-screwed up evoo than canola.

4) Probably all that matters is your own local shopping experience, but I'm just saying where I live pretty much only shit grade canola is widely available, but pretty good olive (and other stuff) is available. I'm willing to believe there might exist a place, perhaps where you live, where really good excellent fresh properly minimally processed canola is available and no decent olive (and other) is available, although I find it pretty unlikely. The only oil worse than canola on my oil pecking order is generic "vegetable oil". Now that's not exactly made out of cucumbers carrots and tomatoes. Very disturbing, like a package at the butchers which refuses to officially identify itself beyond "meat, animal".

Those are the real world reasons why it usually sucks compared to olive oil. Outside of the real science based world, you run into stuff like over 90% of the canola is non-organic and GMO, so people who don't know anything about science are trained by advertising to respond by freaking out about it. I'm not so worried about pseudo religious "beliefs" as I am about real world biochemistry above. Everything is genetically modified to some extent or another, and as a class of product oil is processed a lot more than, say, lettuce, so being organic probably doesn't matter as much relatively for oil as for apples.

TLDR is its overly vulnerable to rancidity, so it either is super over processed to the point of icky, or has to be consumed while rancid which is icky, or goes bad fast so small bottles are more expensive per unit volume than a big jug of something that doesn't rot so quickly.
The default markdown plug uses marked, so gfm. But there is a pandoc plugin: https://github.com/lhagan/wintersmith-pandoc
>Go to Pakistan and ask 10 Imams about honor killings[1]. Eight will hem and haw, one will say that it's against the Koran and needs to be stopped, and one will say it might be against the Koran but it's so important it needs to continue.

Go to the USA and ask 10 pastors about drone strikes. Eight will hem and haw, one will say that it's against the Bible and needs to be stopped, and one will say it might be against the Bible but it's so important it needs to continue.

"Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is." Mahatma Gandhi
He did indeed. http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-may-22-2013/tax-men---...
Totally agreed! I wasn't the decider on the laptop, however. :/
Of course you do dear, but you also exploit every possible loophole of inter-country commerce to make your bill as small as possible, regardless of the intention of the law in the countries involved or any sort of social contract.

Expect the law to change.
True, but iOS doesn't address the core reason behind widgets very well: users want a more relevant at-a-glance view of things.

Notification center doesn't cut it.
People with static content that they want to put on the web?
Without specifics this is just so much hot air. Google's responsibility should not be to find ways to pay more tax. If there are tax loopholes it's the government's job to close them.
If my accountant paid a penny more taxes than I owed I would fire them. That politicians are attacking successful companies for trying to pay as little in taxes as possible is offensive and embarrassing. If you're unhappy with the law then change it. Otherwise shut the hell up and stop wasting the tax money you're complaining about.
I do! No maintenance, no security risks, blazing speed, cheap hosting. Seems ideal for a blog you don't update that often, for example.
Pretty much, yeah. As organizations become larger, they become more risk-averse, which means more meetings and more approvals. So a lot of the work done in big enterprises is just either getting agreement, or chasing down information.
I am not a specialist when it comes to maps, but wouldn’t another projection, one that preserves area, be more helpful here? Greenland just looks tiny.
The Deutsche Bahn, who's still using floppy disks for reservations? And who knows what to power their train station displays (including some 286s with Xenix, if I remember correctly)...
Those of us who found we were spending less time writing material for our Web site and more time upgrading Wordpress!
That's really funny .. good work
If I'm not mistaken, neither will German trains.
You would make a terrible accountant.
A bitcoin to the first successful tag on the drone itself.
3D Printing For Bitcoin – Combining Disruptive Technologies
I hope someone will write a post mortem to look at all the rumours that were floated up to WWDC.

It's a shame Maciej retired wrongtomorrow.com.
I did, and I'm like the worst programmer ever. So yes.
That would be the case if stampready were selling it and emailonacid were giving it away for free.

Instead, Stamp Ready is a mac app which sells for about $30. Emailonacid is a subscription based service that goes for free to $70/month.

Neither simply offer the theme on its own. Both require some sort of purchase or subscription at which point the theme is made available.

That said, I agree that it can't really be considered lost sales. If I wanted to use StampReady I can't in general because I don't have easy access to a Mac, and the only build they have is a mac app.

Likewise, without this blog post, there is no way for me to know that either stampready or emailonacid host that theme. Neither of them advertise it on their site. I wouldn't ever choose one over the other because of the existence of that theme; I don't even know it's there until I've already got a subscription to one of them. In that way it's even more ephemeral.

I mean, sure, there is IP theft going on, but the actual impact is really hard to gauge. You're not losing customers; you're not losing sales. You're providing the other company with some marginal perceived value that they didn't have to put the same effort into building.

However, the most ironic thing about this is: without your blog post, I didn't know about emailonacid. It's actually a service that I haven't investigated and looks like it can solve some issues I've had with other mailing services. I can't make user of StampReady as I said because of the limitations of being a mac app.

I can't say I'm going to use emailonacid, but you've definitely increased my awareness of the brand, and provided an amount of free advertising that I would have never got before. I've hunted around their site looking for evidence of that theme and actually got a bunch of information about them.

If this was a ploy to advertise for them, then it worked very well. If not, then I think it was very counterproductive.
'Foreign' is a subjective view, not an objective one.

US forces can never be 'foreign' from an American speaker's point of view, and that makes no claims about whether they are indigenous or not.

That quote is trying to stir up fuss where there isn't any.
you should see the mini flare-ups of criticism Square gets on their Facebook posts after they recently banned using the service to sell gun parts.
Show HN: Jingo - a node.js, git based wiki engine
Interesting, I think I've found some reading to start my memorial day.
Thanks, this makes it vastly more useful for me :)
I started my career the year my kids were born.

I started my startup their freshman year of college.

The years between? Corporate 9-5 jobs (technically, I'm still doing that, bootstrapping with a day job). It wasn't so much the time as the stability. I knew what my hours would be, and what my income would be. But with the kids basically adults now and able to care for themselves if needed, I feel much more free to take risks and do extensive off-hours work while ignoring them.
I don't plan to eat her diet either, well, unless I have a personal economic collapse, but it is interesting to watch how someone in a different field optimizes for various parameters. Similar to how we iterate.

"Since the only way to guarantee that we have nothing added to our food by an sneaky enterprising chef or food processor, we cook mostly at home."

With my kids food allergies, this works out pretty well for us too. You'd think there would be a huge untapped market of "restaurants for people who like pure and relatively non-allergenic foods" but apparently no.
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> Stupidity like this saddens me

Then here's something a little sadder: this guys are more or less considered heroes. I've never seen the video, but I've heard the story from a tourist guide, who made it clear that this was an awesome stunt that should be admired.

Then again, keep in mind that Berlin has a rather complicated story with Graffiti (the city owes a lot to its starving artists), so the Western point of view is not the only one to keep in consideration.
This is a great example of an ancient architectural design element: corbelling. Structurally, as long as you follow the 1/3 rule these creations are safe, IE you shouldn't extend the centre of mass beyond 1/3 of the width of the tower/wall. The principle shown here is similar to what's been long used, where a stretcher would be corbelled 1/3 of its width, and then a header would be corbelled 1/3 of its width, then a second header would be corbelled at 1/3 of its width, this would get an overhang of approximately 2/3 the width of the initial wall (assuming the width of the wall is thickened to provide a cantilever effect.

Architecture solved a lot of these by mixing corbelling and jettying. Corbelling permits you to gain ~2/3 of your wall width in overhang when done optimally. So with a 1' thick wall, you can gain 8" of overhang, which admittedly in house construction isn't much. The interesting thing here, is when you put a jetty on it (which relies on the cantilever principle) you've extended the cantilever distance you can get without compromising the structural strength, why is this interesting? Well your original 8" overhang on a masonry wall might have gained you a 1'6" total extra length on your upper level. Now if your longest available lumber is ~24' long. You safely gain a jetty of 1/6th the lumber length, meaning 4'. In combination, you just gained ~9'6" of length and width to your upper level. So with a 40' x 40' main floor, 1600sqft, and with a 49'6" x 49'6" second floor, you get 2450sqft second floor. With your initial brick corbelling you would only get an extra 120sqft.

This is the main reason tudor style housing, with masonry main floors and timber second exploded in popularity in their era. Masonry was expensive, timber was cheap. However, timber was especially prone to rot and insect damage within the height range of rising damp. Tudor style allowed the best of timber construction (jettying) with the stability and longevity of masonry.
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> Then, facing that reality, we can look for how to get what we need, e.g., US national security, that is, to keep Afghanistan from being the base of operations of another 9/11 attack on the US.

This is just vapid bullshit. 9/11 was guys with knives. They had very little specialized training and needed less. You can't spot that from the air with drones, and it didn't need fields of poppies to fund.

There's one simple reason the USA is in the middle east - oil. Making sure it keeps flowing.

> Yes, we can be sure that the Muslim clerics will get their people up on their hind legs shouting "Death to America". Sounds like a declaration of war to me for which some USAF guy in a container room in Nevada should push a button on a drone control and stop that stuff. But if all they do is shout, then we don't always have to push the button.

So does some war-hawk talking about how we should push a button and end the outrage that we created with yet another bomb.

Maybe we should trade, the militant cleric for you, as some sort of reverse prisoner-of-war deal, to help keep the peace.

> The US needs to quit being so darned simplistic, wise up, [...], use our drones, INTEL, etc., do the smart things,

Or, you know, you could try for a foreign policy that didn't involve holding a gun to everyone's head.

Especially since you got too big for anyone to fight, and started picking on smaller enemies with less resources - meaning that everything is going to turn into guerrilla strikes against civilians, on both sides.