skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't sell them an ipad either, or an android tablet.

RT is a bit of a con as it has the appearance of windows but isn't totally compatible. Most users, despite your best intentions probably have no idea what you are talking about.
You Are Building a Brand - Whether You Realize it Or Not
M.I.T. Releases Report on Its Role in the Case of Aaron Swartz
Maybe they were from Canadian, TX.
Android has the same thing, but it makes much more sense - Android has 3 length units: density independent pixels, scale independent pixels (which are used for fonts, so the user can have a 'huge font' option), and screen pixels. So you can size things in dp, and they will look a similar size on things with different densities. This was built into android from the beginning.
Self Discipline & Motivation
I'm guessing it takes a higher resolution image than what the device would use? The sites I tried ended up rendering wrong in terms of what media queries were used...
Manning is far more heroic than any other serving member of the Military-Industrial-Surveillance Complex.

Shoot, this "war" isn't even declared so I'm unsure how he could even be accused of aiding an undeclared enemy.
I'm pretty sure that's it. Thanks!
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I don't think they are "tricks"; they're sensible money management strategies that enable them to be rich and missing them causes other people to be poor whilst still having a larger income.

(1) I think this is a basic terms/mindset issue. Income is not wealth. Most things you own are liabities (costing you to keep them), instead of assets (earning you money by keeping them.) The point is, they aren't and never were near poverty. But now they invested enough of their income so that they don't need to work to live comfortably, they are pretty much rich. For example, they purchased their house. They actually own it, so they are never going to get kicked out of it, even if they never work again. What proportion of people you know with >$20-30K incomes own their home outright? Still sure your measure of poverty is correct?

(2) The return on doing those kinds of things is great, and as MMM says, you learn useful skills, get fit, and most people find the activities enjoyable. You can always subcontract some of it without really changing the thesis, just not all of it [1].

On the ice cream, I got the impression she was anxious because it was super weird to waste all that money on extremely fleeting and pointless pleasures, but I'll give you that attitude might be unpleasant and socially awkward. Still don't think I'd call it poverty though; more like extreme thrift/being a tight bastard.

$400k - so? What relevance does its market value have? I think it makes much more sense to see a house as a useful liability (everyone's got to live somewhere, and you've got to pay taxes and upkeep even when you own it, so its costing you, not making you money), instead of pretending it's an asset (and it's a shitty one due to lack of diversification even if you were happy to sell it tomorrow and live under a bridge).

Genuine point: do you really think this? What's your financial education/understanding like? MMM being rich just seemed obvious to me, which is why I'm arguing so hard. Thanks for joining in!

[1] http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2011/12/08/acting-dead-trading-up-... for an interesting take on the collapse of the middle class and trick of mixing fancy with not.
I love the helpers for fetching and creating records that MagicalRecord gives you. But MagicalRecord also has ideas about how you should structure your ManagedObjectContext hierarchy. In the older versions (which we're still using) it was simple with just a separate context per thread which is connected directly to your persistent store. But the latest version (at least last time I checked) is much more complex with multiple child contexts rolling up to your persistent store.

I would prefer to just use the helpers and setup my MOCs and persistent store myself.
I think this is the one weakness of this report; no one is going to read it. I'm hoping someone writes a useful summary to satisfy the tl;dr culture. OTOH that seems disrespectful; if you really care about MIT and Aaron, read the damned report.
I wouldn't draw a strong conclusion about 'larger' startups using Backbone instead of Angular based on this data.

There is probably some high correlation between a startup's size and age... Older startups are likely to be larger, and are likely to have started their stack using the popular framework of the time (Backbone). Newer startups will be smaller, and were founded at a time when new frameworks (e.g. Angular) are much more mature.

edit: grammar
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Depends on what countries you are targeting. In the US, 2.3 is more like 15%.
Heh, so you were my competition!

It must have been about '08 when I did some work porting parts of Tivoli's event monitoring stuff to z/Linux.
I guess that's exactly what I'm saying: You cannot be a true activist without taking heat from the powers that be and not running from them. So I guess we must agree to disagree. That being said, I think if you look at activists that have been studied and/or revered throughout history most have paid a steep price (many with their lives) for causes they support.
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> Our servers’ total pay rose to about $22/hour, most of the cooks started making about $12-14 depending on experience, and the diswashers about $10.

Can someone explain to me exactly why servers make 2x that of cooks? I certainly appreciate service, but I go to a restaurant to eat after all.

On a technical level, I also appreciate the skill (and occupational hazards) involved in cooking, perhaps more so than the interpersonal skills displayed by servers.
On the figure of the troll
SICP isn't Common Lisp, @momo-reina.
The reason they come back right after delivering the food is so they can make sure your meal is as you ordered. Is something cold or taste especially bad? Was the wrong sauce or filling used by the cook?
Can I just say that D3 and its underlying concept is just beautiful.
I don't feel outrage these days so much as foreboding. I was convinced the verdict was a foregone conclusion. It's hard to describe how damn good it feels to be wrong on this. When I saw the verdict on cnn.com, I immediately interrupted my coworkers to tell them the news.
(De)coherence is a property of your data, rather than a property of your hardware. Hardware quality just affects how quickly your data will decohere.
MIT's a bully, and they should educate themselves on the lengths taken by their state's legislature to help prevent suicide [0]. Aaron might have played a part in his own actions, but if MIT is OK with Aaron being classified a cyber criminal, I'm OK with setting them on the express path to blame.

[0] http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010...
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I like how WikiLeaks blames the Obama Administration for the actions taken by a military judge who doesn't report to Obama. For those who feel that Obama could simply order the judge to make a certain verdict, read up on "UCI"s and then apply that knowledge to the ongoing issues with sexual assault cases in the military (pay special attention to the cases where charges are being downgraded or thrown out entirely because Obama dared to mention that military members who commit sexual assaults should be punished).

Perhaps WikiLeaks should read the Manual for Courts-Martial before they make factual accusations, so that the accusations will at least be plausible?
Discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6128389
Don't miss the references for this talk: http://worrydream.com/dbx/
He faces up to 130 years in prison. Wow.
From real world experience - the argument is just semantics, whether it's a forced tip-out or a voluntary tip-out, in practice, the result is usually the same with cash tips.
There is also a problem with messaging even after the bill has been paid due to unclear standards of tipping.

I have a friend here in Seattle, who likes to consider himself a generous tipper. As such a 20% tip is for truly horrible service. 25-30 is standard and 50% is common enough for good service. I do think this good for the servers - but they have no clue that they sucked (I imagine) when they get a 20% tip. Unless I stiff them on my ½ of the bill :)

And while he may be extreme, diversity in the minimum/maximum range for tips means the messaging about performance is muddled.
Thanks for sharing, esp. the part about the strip clubs and Sports Illustrated style clothing. I wish you best of luck in your software venture. What was the best festival you went to?
You need Apple drivers, and Apple only makes drivers for video cards they support. So it would not be quite that straightforward.
A lot of people are just rehashing arguments from six months ago.
The idea that Snowden, by giving up his entire life and making himself a refugee, isn't "taking heat" is an illogical talking point designed to smear him. You try fleeing your country permanently, leaving behind friends and family, and living stateless for weeks with the world's foremost superpower trying to bargain for you and tell me you're not "taking heat".
The immediate screenshot on the OP is a big win.
Pretty neat. Even though I've been using Vim as my only editor for years I learned a new movement command from lesson 1. (I didn't realize you use ^ to go to the beginning of text on a line. I always use 0 and the w forward. )

2 suggestions though:

1. I felt like the randomizer kept giving me questions I had just answered correctly multiple times. That was a little annoying, but probably is less noticeable when you are in sections where you are learning new things.

2. It only accepts d2w for "delete 2 words" but 2dw is also correct. I actually think 2dw makes more sense since it is consistent with 2dd to 2yy which are much faster to type then d2d.

Just typing that made me feel bad for Bram Moolenaar because vim users must be impossible to support.
Anil Dash makes a pretty good case for doing just that. (It's blog-specific, but close enough) http://dashes.com/anil/2011/07/if-your-websites-full-of-assh...
It's interesting that a hour in, you are the only one to have mentioned how MIT objected to the FOIA request and the governments compliance.

What we have and have had for some time is a democracy (or republic depending on which brand of kool aid one drinks) behind closed doors, by a government that is publicly funded submitting to the will of private institutions. Not that what is going on here is better than anyone else…
Which tablet/device in this price range is best for editing Libre/Open Office documents?
git clone http://github.com/open-source-airplane

Damn, that didn't work.
Being a line cook in most restaurants is very repetitive and doesn't require much skill. You basically just enter a zen state and become a sort of robot for whatever kitchen station you are manning. That said, the restaurants where being a cook requires more skill do not usually pay a better wage, which is unfortunate.
The Puzzle of the Self-Torturer
If you don't agree with how MIT handled this situation, protest the MIT hackathon in October and any other MIT related events.
I never understood why servers need an extra incentive to do their job well. It's their job - shouldn't they have some sort of entitlement to do perform well, even without the extra cash? There are so many other professions in the service industry, where the tip culture is nonexistent, yet there never seems to be an outstanding issue.

The cashiers at Safeway, McDonald's drive-thru, flight attendants, and anyone in the workforce for that matter, don't whine about tips. They do their job, and they get paid for what their services are worth from their employers.

I'm not opposing giving tips if you received amazing service and you truly feel like giving one. I just hate the fact that the 18% tip is almost taken for granted nowadays, and you become the cheap one if you tip less. The tip system, if at all it should exist, should work so that the extra money customers pay actually reflect the service they received - not be socially forced down their throats.
Manning Guilty of Espionage but not 'Aiding Enemy'
WxPython: Creating a Simple Tic-Tac-Toe Game
1st-Time Entrepreneur's Kickstarter On Toys R Us Shelves In Under A Year
Awesome, thanks!

Were you on a mobile device?

It does/should prompt you to share your location so that it can zoom to your area accordingly. Did it not prompt you? (uh oh)
That ship sailed a long time ago when we started calling marketers and salespeople "growth hackers".

Nowadays everyone is a hacker in some way. But honestly - who cares? Just ignore it if it upsets you (I do).
I pay £10/month to Spotify.

I was not spending anything like £120/year on music for several years before I got my Spotify subscription.
There didn't appear to be a clear relationship between startup size and age in the responses. Many brand new startups had 3 or 4 developers, and several older startups were plugging away with just 2 devs.

You may be right, however, that it's just too early to get an apples/apples comparison between Backbone and Angular.
I was under the impression (again, folk-lore, mailing lists etc.) that Go had a conservative collector. I can't find an official documentation link that'll tell me if it is or not at the moment.
For Windows, the Office software suite is far and away superior to open-source alternatives. If you're using them heavily, the amount of effort/time you'd lose wrangling with Libre is not worth it (I know, I tried.)
DigitalOcean is now in NYC's Google Building
Okay, I agree. The ideas indeed have much in common.

My point stands here equally well, for the same reason. (This idea I happen to disagree with, but that's not relevant.) The idea you mentioned is not obviously stupid. I don't see what dismissing the idea without refuting it adds to the conversation.
What strikes me about this is that the criminals could have just as easily stolen the vehicles, but the value of the marijuana outweighed the value of the vehicles.
Of course he did, just like Rosa Parks and MLK Jr knowingly broke laws that they felt were unjust, but that's besides the point. The main point is that MIT could have done what JSTOR did and made it right. They didn't. To add insult to injury, now they're doing everything they can to hide information relevant to the case.

I also really hate arguments that blame the victim.
Google Compute Engine - two months on
Who Is Bradley Manning?
Pale blue dot
I'd posit that one of the reasons that suicide is considered sinful and judged so harshly in traditional western culture is precisely the fact that its so socially disruptive to the survivors, and leads to all this finger-pointing and blame-laying.

I'd also posit that its hypocritical of people who support the legalization of suicide as a "victimless crime" to engage in such exercises.
I created a CMS that did user integration with message boards, there were few to none at the time.

I made many mistakes, the biggest ones were:

1) Having hit a relatively high success at 21, I felt indestructible. I had no fear of spending most of my income on entertainment. I knew nothing about budgeting, I should have saved.

2) Towards the end, I definitely spent too much time having fun and ignoring the product. When you're on a high roll for so many years, you feel invincible.

The decline started gradually, but in my mind I always believed I could easily bring everything back on top. At the end, I repeatedly did everything in my power to save the product but it was too late.
There was Windows Mobile but phone manufacturers didn't like it so they still built their own.
The iOS development philosophy is that developers should not have to worry about any of this, and their apps should just work.

Microsoft, and IBM before them, had that same philosophy: if only everyone would use the current version of their OS, developers would not have to worry about cross-platform compatibility because everything would just work. Nobody liked that philosophy then, and most developers don't like it now either.

Web development can certainly be a PITA, but at least the web development platform is based on open cross-platform compatibility as a goal, rather than monoculture. It recognizes the reality that monoculture can't be achieved without giving up fundamental freedoms, and strives to work in that reality rather than in some company's monopolistic wet-dream.
I'm in. Who do I throw my money at?
I realize you're very knowledgable in legal matters and enjoy playing the nitpicking contrarian in these cases, shining the light of truth on all us hopeless ignoramuses, but regardless of under whose jurisdiction the trial actually took place, yes, the US government equating leaks with the definition of treason would absolutely set a precedent that would spill over both into civilian courts as well as into the minds of potential leakers and journalists.
It would be a lot easier for people to understand that RT can't run arbitrary Windows applications if Microsoft didn't insist on calling it "Windows."
It has/would have had an impact on what is considered "giving information to the enemy". If they found him guilty of that, then any document release posted to the public for the intent of the public consumption would be considered "aiding the enemy".
I feel, honestly, despite personally being a desktop Linux and Mac user myself, for people replacing a netbook they will get more usage out of an RT. While I wouldn't use one for myself, that's only because I don't use Microsoft products anymore. If I was, then my Nexus 7 with bluetooth keyboard would be an RT

Oddly enough, once regular people have a play with the Surfaces, they love the new interface for the most part. I love seeing someone work out how to snap apps side by side: finally I can no longer be sad about windows users wasting their screen real estate with Maximize all the time :P

In reply to your point about running incompatible software: that's what the Qualify step of sales is for. I make it very clear that they won't be able to run anything other than what's in the Store, and show them what is available.

For your average consumer, crazily, and despite what I expected, that's often enough!

In the interests of full disclosure, I am a good sales person, #1 at every store I've worked at in the past 4 years or so, but I truly believe the only reason that is the case is I make a big effort to get the customer the right device
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amen and ditto on the occupation.

i suspect this probably has to do with a truism every programmer knows. there are really only 3 cases to solve for (not 11,868) -- one device, two devices or n devices.

m3mnoch.
If restaurants really wanted to insure prompt service, install bells at each table that would silently notify the staff members when a customer presses it. This is how it's done in Korea, and in every airplane, and it works perfectly.

No need for waving and trying to make eye contact on that part, and no need for servers to constantly interrupt your conversation. Not to mention this is also more convenient for the servers as they can monitor a single screen rather than the entire room.
> the worst surveillance program in the world's history

"worst" in scale, certainly. What other criteria is it "worst" on?
There exists such a thing known as a disproportionate response. I assumed that was the implication here. (Not that Aaron did nothing wrong, but that the response to his wrong-doing was wildly disproportionate.)
Whoa, whoa, whoa, hombre.

To broadly estimate the heroism of every other serving member in any singular statement is foolhardy, at best.

There are lots of good people doing good, heroic, insanely patriotic, admirable, and honorable things in that Military-Industrial-Surveillance Complex you describe.

Don't let the mistakes and abuses of the top give you some feeling that the system and everyone in it is corrupt. That system is literally putting themselves in front of bullets right now to defend your right to have such misguided ideas. What are you doing today?
It was 'declared' by Congress in 2001 (see the AUMF), but either way it's not as if there's a DD Form which is issued daily to all servicemembers listing the enemies of the day. If they're flying jumbo jets into the nation's skyscrapers it's a pretty safe bet that they fall in the 'enemy' bin.
The App Store problem is not price
Haha, I kind agree, but I also lived in the US for a while. I talked to a coworker a while back though, and he came back from a conference in the US and was annoyed that waiters kept asking him if he wanted anything and when he said he didn't they brought him the bill right away. It's pretty common in Germany for example to just sit at the table and talk with your friends, but he felt like as soon as he stopped ordering anything they wanted him out.
Other point I saw recently here at HN is that the recording companies get the lions share of the revenue that comes from recording because investing in a up and coming artist has a high risk, therefore must bring high profits to be a viable business model.

Those business who don't milk the successful artists don't have money to take a chance with the up and coming artists while rewarding the investors at a competitive rate, which means they don't get investors for future growth. Other sources of money for a business include it's own money (which we established such a business wouldn't have) and loan (which require the business to have a higher return rate than the loan's interest).
This feels all too like a video game.

Radiation-hardened is a tank spec. Tons of health, tons of armor, but slow moving without a lot of DPS.

Radiation-tolerant is an assassin spec. Not a lot of health or armor, but has crazy health regen and a diverse skillset.
SC2 runs on the 4000? What settings? That's really good to know!
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How have you been, pot?
Show HN: CoreOS, a Linux distro for containers
Seems like a case of that school being already heavily invested in Microsoft programs, and being very hard to use anything else there. This is why institutions and organizations need to open up to alternatives, otherwise they'll always be stuck with using stuff from the same vendor over and over again.
Or "Here's An Anecdote Completely Unsupported By Any Data"
"By that same logic Android is fragmenting it too."

How? Android is an open cross platform technology for building operating systems that are app-compatible with each other. How is that fragmenting?

"No, as a developer having users in different versions of Android affects the things your app can do."

This is correct, but not in the sense that an older version of an operating system (in the iOS sense of the word) would. New developer features of ios7 are a new user interface, better location services, background push notifications etc. All of these things are available on android-based systems as well, but none of these things depend on the Android version.

I admit that there are also APIs that are part of Android, and therefore only available in newer versions. And so an OS that is based on Android 4.0 can not run every app that is made for an OS based on Android 4.3.

But if you need to target all 800 devices that your customers use in the end, the iPhone turns out to be much different from an Android 4.0 device than Android 4.3. And that's the point: You need to develop for all these devices anyway. So think about effort per device, not effort per platform.