skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a hacker-turned-seller, it's a really eye-opening experience getting out from behind the screen and talking with enterprise customers. This post hits the nail right on the head - the sales cycles at large companies are loooong. You speak in July and it sounds like they'll buy from you tomorrow and then next you know, your follow-up emails go unanswered and you think they've lost interest, only to be surprised they want to meet in person again in September because now Person X wants in. And this goes on & on.

Two tips I've learned:

1) Don't discuss price up front if you can avoid it, especially if you're in the 6-7 figure price range. Try to get as much info as possible about their problem. Get them invested in you at a personal level.

2) If your emails go unanswered, instead of sending emails like "Hey wondering if you're still interested" send update emails about your product like "Hey Bob, just wanted to let you know we updated X so now you can do Y. Here's a video explaining more." I've had lots of success with this tactic.
Yeah, you wonder why they don't open-source their front-end client code so that it can be easily audited to make sure the encryption is done right. It would go a long way to increasing some users' peace-of-mind. Then again, since it's all javascript, you could probably look at the html source, but it's probably minified and obfuscated.
to understand.

I read a lot.

My favorite author is God.

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Go read earthquake info Gates and write a program to predict them. It's a mission from God. You can talk with Him.

a simple moral compass is "bad must be good". "Worse must be better."

"Love your enemies". I say, "Love your friends more." Don't laugh. It's unnatural and homo to love enemies more than friends.

God says...
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Something specific? Overall, I was surprised to find out how political journal publications are. Before I started, I kinda naively assumed that the best ideas are pushed to the top "because science".
Same here: rode 18km to school, and a few hours later another 18km back. As this was how everybody from my town went to school it wasn't something you gave any thought to!
What is the tech stack used to build this? I see lot of "/x-premii" tags in the source. Did you build any JS framework? what drives the UI - bootstrap? And watz the backend?
Yeah but then you'd have to watch out for dogs
If you get 3 or more it's EUR 19. It's great quality & small series, 100% cotton, custom fabrics that you can't get anywhere else, designed with so much <3
masukomi, Our team has created Bitcast.io - a marketplace for screencasts. We're working with several companies to host their documentation screencasts.
You will never get normal people to use this thing. This is just a big advertisement for open source developers to pick up a new coding hobby. It's really sad, because you could build an alternative to those services if you focused more on the product and less on IRC, git and LibreOffice.
I'm interested in becoming a consultant (but haven't taken any action yet). My first question is if your article applies to people like me. I'm not sure if you're selling a product or you're selling your skills as a service. Or, maybe it doesn't matter and your article is helpful to both groups?
A 1998 Olympic gold medalist in snowboarding was stripped of his medal for testing positive for marijuana. Then someone at the IOC thought better of trying to call marijuana a performance enhancing drug.
If you don't catch it, you don't get points. Sucks, but that's the rules!!
How does one "hack" Bitcoin? Not snark; I'm genuinely curious because I've seen this mentioned quite a number of times.

Do you mean your computer could be compromised? If so, then is that any different than a house going up in flames with money under mattress?

Article mentions "Unlike gold or silver, Bitcoins have no intrinsic uses" which is true, but then fiat money has value not because the paper/fabric/plastic blended note and ink add up to what's printed on the face. In that regard Bitcoin has value on faith as well.
Look at THC / CBD proportions. There's research [0] into CBD mitigating THC's interference with memory formation.

Also, intentionally-high-CBD strains are under development [1]:

"A high-CBD cannabis strain was developed in the 1980s by David Watson and Robert Clarke, American naturalists who founded a company called Hortapharm in Amsterdam to pursue their goal of developing plant strains for different purposes. (The day Watson and Clarke became expatriates is the day the U.S. lost its lead in the field of cannabis therapeutics.) In 1998 Hortapharm sold its seed stock to a British start-up, GW Pharmaceuticals, which has since developed a strain that expresses 97% of its cannabinoid content as CBD.

GW plans to test its high-CBD strain as a treatment for rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel diseases, psychotic disorders, and epilepsy. It is now in Phase 2 trials to determine the dose levels to use in clinical trials involving people. GW mixes its high-CBD and high-THC strains in a 1:1 ratio to make Sativex, a plant extract formulated for spraying under the tongue that has been approved in Canada and elsewhere to treat neuropathic pain associated with multiple sclerosis. CBD evidently bolsters the pain-killing effects of THC while moderating its psychoactivity."

[0] http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101001/full/news.2010.508.ht...

[1] http://www.counterpunch.org/2007/07/14/who-s-afraid-of-canna...
I use readability. Works for 90% of the articles posted on HN.
>You seem to be equating osteopathy (a completely accepted medical science)

No, osteopathy is not completely accepted by medical science. Osteopathy is absolute pseudoscience. Please do your research.

Yes, I realize that DOs undergo actual medical training in addition to the quackery that gives their field its name, but they are still taught the pseudoscience on which the practice was originally based. That they believe these techniques are legitimate medicine is indicative that their entire understanding of science and medicine is compromised. This hypothesis has been borne out by literally every experience I have had with a DO.
As long as there are things which can only be purchased with bitcoins they will always be relevant. If people can only buy drugs on the internet in bitcoins then bitcoins will continue to be used.

I could possibly say the same about USD. As long as I must pay my taxes in USD the USD will always be relevant and continue to be used. There might be other things which also help to make the USD relevant, but this is its basis, its keystone point to being.
It's not JS, it's Python, AFAIK. I talked to their CTO (I think it was the CTO) about it, who said that it was a big priority with them, but they couldn't open-source it yet. It would do a lot for my peace of mind, though, and I wouldn't look for alternate solutions if everything was okay with it.
Wouldn't it be great if you were only allowed to use your honorifics when talking about things you actually had a doctorate in.
I believe that a big problem we have in the U.S. is that, given the size of the country, nearly no Americans, let alone teenagers, have any experience with another culture. In my opinion, this lack of exposure results in prejudice that is prevalent today, especially coming from the 'conservative' ideology.

Compare that to Europe where it's a train ride to another country, language, and culture.
The author likely has no idea what Bitcoin getting "hacked" means. He linked to a piece about malware that can steal individual user's Bitcoin wallets, not some actual or potential systemic flaw.
In my eyes, that man won and outplayed the system.
We don't have that kind of charity places here in germany or in my town. Edit: Even if we had, I wouldn't go there. I may not be a millionaire but I am not poor also. I am sure there are poor people who would need that bikes more then me.

Don't understand me wrong. I understand that I support the crime that hurt me in the first place. I am not stupid but when I see how the Police gave up on that kind of crime, why should I still support it with new bikes? I rather support them with the small ammount of money instead and still have my mountainbike and am not that angry when it gets stolen again.
Apple’s Operating System Guru Goes Back to His Roots
I'm glad that Gupta has made this public apology. It takes a lot of courage to make that statement especially for someone with great public influence.

I'm just curious as to why it took him this long. Medical marijuana has been prescribed in hospitals for some time with great benefit. I mean, just from a clinical standpoint, he should've seen the great upsides and limited downsides to using the drug. Patients, typically the elderly, with cachexia from cancer are often given marijuana to stimulate their appetite, and it works. Given its possible links with the development of Schizophrenia and the rest of its relatively mild side-effects, a quick and simple benefits/costs analysis should show that in many cases, its efficacy far outweighs the potential risks.

A huge percentage of physicians today, as indicated in the article, would be supportive of a move to legalize it. And it has been this way for several years. I just do not understand why it took Gupta so many years, having to go to the ends of the earth to dig up research from various countries to come to that conclusion.

My suspicion is that his initial viewpoint was more rooted in irrational bias and ignorance than in scientific evidence proving the drug's inefficacy. You can tell that by his mentioning of his children and how he wouldn't let them try marijuana, which is both irrelevant to the issue and an ignorant emotionally-charged argument commonly used when the topic of legalization (for medical use) is brought up. It's effectively "but remember the children!" The same could've been said for legalization of opioids and a myriad of other medications that have much more severe side-effects. And that really saddens me, because I've got great respect for the guy. I'm glad he's on what I believe to be the right side, but as someone with great influence in this country, with such an accomplished background, I feel he could've arrived to this conclusion much earlier, with much less data, and pushed for its medical legalization when the conversation was happening.

All in all welcome aboard, Dr. Gupta. Please be a little more forward-thinking from here on out.
Sorry. There is no plan to support WP7. I will have to rewrite it, and performance won't be as good as this for non-WP7 users.
Travel back in time and see if you would have your response would be any different to Linus announcing that he is starting a new operating system.
Ask HN: what do you use for affiliate tracking?
If you use a particular service which is it so and How does it integrate with your sign up/purchase flow?
If programming doesn't make me happy, what does?
When I started with programming, everything was interesting and it promised to be a never ending challenge. Solving puzzles and fitting different pieces into place to create new things is awesome, but this part of work faded with time.

Instead, it turned out to be mostly connecting pieces that don't fit correctly and covering it up. It's not that it wouldn't be possible to do better, but I can't think of a way doing it without loosing too much time and therefore money. Also, the feedback loop of implementing and debugging seems to have a negative conditioning effect suggesting me a rather negative outcome of situations in general.

To overcome struggles like these I observed many programmers, myself included, obsessing with improving their programming tools and skills. Searching for and thinking of paradigms, techniques, languages, frameworks etc. that could improve the work started to become an important part of my day and from my observations, others too. This may have improved my programming skills and work quality, but it did not make me enjoy the work more.

With time I started to hate computers. Not because they don't improve my life in some aspects, but because I'm one of those that make them work. Even if its not my own software or computer, I cant help but try to figure out whats wrong with them because my work trained me to search for the problem.

That said, I'd love to do something different, but I struggle to find something else that fits me.

PS: I could go on writing about this, but I feel tl;dr is around the corner.

PPS: More than trying to solve my personal problems I was searching for like-minded people
I built a small app for seeing hourly archived top 10 posts:

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Based on my experience working for various companies, I feel it is beneficial in long-term to be loyal to people instead of entities like companies. Be loyal to your coworkers and colleagues, because they are going to remember your hard work and helping hand in-time of need, instead of a "company". People run companies and a company's memory comes and goes with the people who work in that company. We all wish that being loyal to a company would make a company loyal to us, but we don't live in a perfect world and instead being loyal to people seem like more practical way of living.
Maybe they did leave just the area. Did not change anything for my legaly bouth and stolen bikes. They are gone and never returned.

Don't understand me wrong. I understand that I support the crime that hurt me in the first place. I am not stupid but when I see how the Police gave up on that kind of crime, why should I still support it with new bikes? I rather support them with the small ammount of money instead and still have my mountainbike and am not that angry when it gets stolen again.
Because stupid apple library beta only bugs cause these crashes. Apple also seems to put some sort of energy of these releases being 'confidential' for 'authorized developers only' and so on.
Looks nice, but i miss infinite scrolling.
I can't be the only person that thinks this would also be a great idea for GoldenEye, right?

I have a lot of learning to do to make that happen, but would happily provide moral support to anyone that might want to attempt it!
Cash is "regulated" by the Fed... a quasi-governmental agency shrouded in secrecy. How is bitcoin any worse / different?
How To Build a User-Level CPU Profiler
..."went full retard", as reddit would say.

I think you could just omit the 1st 3 words above. There would be less offense offered to the mentally disabled and it would be less redundant.
This is a great article, but how can you mitigate the abuse of the system by people who just want to smoke weed and complain of headaches or glaucoma?

I'm all for easing the pain of people who have real pain issues, but it's abundantly clear people are abusing the system.
That's what I love about HN :) The minute I read the post I wondered how long it would take for someone to build it - turns out it takes 29 days.
Mormons believe that the fastest and best improvements to the quality of life of an individual come through conversion to the church. That being said, the LDS church in general does a lot of humanitarian aid and Mormon missionaries in particular spend significant chunks of time engaged in charitable service.

Source: I served a mission in NYC and we spent plenty of time at soup kitchens, food pantries, and just helping out anyone who needed a hand.

Edit: link to humanitarian aid info: http://mormon.org/values/humanitarian-aid
Hardly! He doesn't have to slink off anywhere, nor do I think he should.

But frankly, the convenience and timeliness of his argument is well worth pointing out. Speaking personally, I hold a special disdain in my heart for smart people that perpetuate the war on drugs for various reasons and then profess to stand for individual freedom.

In particular, the argument of not enough research, keep it illegal is the most insidious kind of argument because it sounds reasonable enough but inherently contains the opinion that we should keep jailing people until this research materializes. So yeah, when I get a chance to rub it in with someone like that, I take it. I guess that's petty, but so is jailing people for getting high.
No, its not. PM me if you want source code. You can use it however you like it without any restriction.
Take a look at
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Really simple and easy integration.

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Yes I recall back in the early 80's on campus at cranfield we had a masters student from china and he had one of the flying swallow bikes and the uniform.
See...

This is exactly what I'm trying to tell people here on HN. A few weeks back there were discussion about SmartOS, then Zones, Containers, Virtualization, Para-Virt. etc. etc..

Most people here on HN had very little knowledge about Zones/Containers a few months ago. Right now people seem to think Containers are just as good as Virtualization (and can replace it) but have a better IO performance due to all having one Kernel. The problem is: It is _not_ going to replace Virtualization any time soon since the security is missing. It's very very easy to break out of a Container, heck even a Zone.

This is exactly what I'm trying to preach. You can put different users on Containers (what we do with ~1000 Users) but you can't give them root or you've compromised the entire host.

The first link to suse.com should be valid enough. If you want to know the details about security and if it can be done, I'd suggest mailing the lxc user list.

I'm just trying to debunk this myth that Container are just like super fast and easy Virtual Machines. They are not (at least not yet).
Certainly flatness is a big incentive. Our reaction, however, is against the comment "There is only one, and one reason: their country is flat."

That's simply not true. As the article points out, the Netherlands, like other countries, had a large decrease in the use of bicycles in favor of the car. It wasn't until political protests of the 70s and 80s that that trend reversed itself.

But having hills is not a complete disincentive. I used to live in Gothenburg, Sweden, which has a very extensive cycling network, with many people bike commuting, etc. It also has hills. The key thing is that it's not all hills; the bike paths tend to follow the flat. But I lived near the top of a hill, at about 200 feet above the central part of town, and plenty of people would do that commute every day. (Not that I particularly liked it.)

It's of course a very complicated set of interactions. The city also has good public transportation, so if the weather is nasty it's still easy to leave the bike at home and take the trams and buses to work.

Or consider Trondheim, Norway. According to one web site, "18% of the population of Trondheim is using their bike as a daily means if[sic] transport to work or school." Trondheim is not a flat city, and certainly Norway is not a "mostly flat country."
I have been using this for a while on my Nokia WP 8. It works great and is really fast. Thank you for the effort.
There is a fine tactic regarding pacing yourself as a developer/engineer - and this is part of it. I think this really helps stave off boredom, especially the kind that might lead someone to want to quit. Sometimes this isn't possible, such as when you're being micromanaged, in which case, it's clear the employer has no interest in you growing your skill, learning, or becoming more valuable.
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I just about lost my shit during a break here, when at the end of the video the AI actually ragequits during a game of Tetris.
It is illegal to disseminate, store, transmit, etc, classified material if you aren't allowed to do so.

Really? Which law? Can you point to examples of judges agreeing with this theory?

Why did nobody come down on various newspapers for transmitting the clearly classified information that they got from Snowden?
I would be surprised to learn that Samsung did not use Qualcomm modems and other more minor parts.
Btw, what about health insurance? I find that to be the biggest deterrent. You're one random event away from bankruptcy.
How The Post's New Owner Aided CIA, Blocked WikiLeaks & Decimated Book Industry
As an aside, I love how neocities has emerged as simple, anonymous hosting.
Study hints at depression link to blue computer lights at night
All it takes is someone finding a bug in a popular client that gives control over transactions. A bitcoin stealing worm seems inevitable.
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. This author doesn't know what he's talking about. Another example: He shows how the SEC can regulate the major bitcoin-cash exchanges, but the author never notices that there is a plenty large enough economy just inside the bitcoin network. The SEC can't regulate you if you use an anonymous Internet connection, and never exchange for real-world cash.