skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This really shouldn't be a surprise as there are generally very smart people on both sides of polarizing issues.

I know a lot of smart people, myself included, who read HN regularly and oppose gay marriage.
Should also mention:

gg - top of file
G - end of file
5gg - go to line 5 (I find this easier than 5G)
ciw - delete current word and enter insert mode
yiw - copy current word
zz - center cursor (its also nice to remap G to Gzz etc)
IamA a tech founder that drove 250,000 downloads in 30 days with $0 spend AMA
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That's all true, but I don't see what it adds to the conversation. It's just a plug for nginx. "Conservative, security-conscious people like older projects with large, trusted organizations backing them" is something of a tautology.
Exactly. The Amazon backstory is interesting, but it does nothing to support his claim that WP is part of a strategy, or even say what the strategy might be.
Natural Language Understanding is how we talk to our devices, and while the tech savvy interact with phones like they learn commands for a programming language, the majority of people want to interact with their phone in a more natural way.

While many people don't want to "talk" to their phone the truth is the ability to give commands quickly via voice can be a huge advantage over touch interfaces. It is much easier to say "I ate a banana" rather than open a calorie counting app, select the banana, and exit the app.

As Google starts to get creepy hardware companies are looking to provide the same functionality with out all of the big brother built in to the phones. This is creating a gold rush for the human resources to make this possible.
i wonder did anybody try the same for HN comments? what would be the karma?
Excellent write up!

A couple of additions:

First, there are a few practice areas where the old model still reigns, generally those where the courts approve bills rather than a client. You still see bankruptcy conferences where each creditor committee and the trustee bring two partners and three associates -- all billing back to the estate for a total of five figures an hour.

Second, another big change was a series of rule changes and ethics panel decisions which allowed for contingency fees in many areas of the law. Traditionally such arrangements were considered akin to barratry. While most people imagine that contingency fee cases are all small law firms doing personal injury, there are some types of very large cases that are done that way (i.e. qui tam litigation).
Thanks for explaining it the clearest.

Isn't this what they invented things like Memcached and Redis for, though?
Can't we just study @Horse_ebooks?
So many great online courses, and so little time!
Windows should be ditched by any user who cares about privacy. This has nothing to do with Tor specifically.
If I could do one thing for you, I would make it possible for you to parent your first like your third.

But it's impossible.

I wish you could cowboy-code your way through infanthood, like a parent of two can:
"Chill out, baby! Your diaper isn't that wet." or
"You can't crawl yet, so just stay in the middle of the room while I run out to the car"

Please believe that we've gotten this far as a species because we're fairly fault-tolerant. We're built to survive. I know that preventable tragedies happen all the time, but don't let fear run your life.

If you help out your wife with as many things as you possibly can, you'll all survive with your sanity intact.

Gear: Boppy, mirror that enables you to see the baby in your rear view mirror, good low-light camera, good photo library/storage solution (Picasa, Flickr, whatever), cheap lightweight stroller for quick trips, Ergobaby
Being a champion of world class service is always the goal and stories like this never get old. Keep in mind that there are also hidden/intangible costs associated with delivery of this level of service, for every "Bob the 4 million dollar client", there are 10 "John the 2 hour time-syncs". I am not saying that you should not strive for world-class service, because you should. I would speak more to pricing your services accordingly and not under valuing them to the point where you cannot take care of clients properly.
Good point. CEOs tend to be good relators, so that biases the number up. They have to relate to a lot of externals, which would push the # down.

My guess is salespeople would utilize most of their attention externally. Perhaps junior engineers internally? (This could also explain why it's economical for companies to pay for dinner and sponsor happy hours)
He never addressed what you do when you need massive marketing and don't have the funds.
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My understanding is that 1 acre can be planted, cared for, and harvested in about 10 hours a week. This assumes the CSA would not be making deliveries. An acre is ~30 shares -- food for roughly 100-150 adults.

Most CSAs grow food for considerably more people, are substantially larger than an acre, and may make deliveries, or raise crops to sell on the open market as well as sell shares, and this of course may necessitate multiple full-time workers.

That's my understanding anyway, rough as it is.
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Word frequency is in use at many larger insurance companies today. You can certainly find problematic bills with word frequency and the hours billed, but you end up with a lot of false positives so you still have to manually review everything. We get in deeper than word frequency.

And, yes! NLP + statistics is fun!
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This is pretty misleading. The sun's diameter is much less than 1 AU.
Strollers that can use a detachable car seat (ours is from Graco) are good, and I like the Baby Bjorn carrier.

We had a fussy baby (now 13mo old, our first), and white noise phone apps were incredibly helpful. You'd think that newborns would be sensitive to noise in a bad way, but loud noise instead helps them sleep and relax. Fisher Price swing/cradle was also amazing at calming him down.

You can get diapers with a strip that changes color when they're wet, super useful.

If your wife is planning to pump, the more expensive pumps can work around twice as fast as the cheap ones -- 15 mins several times a day is much more convenient than 30 mins several times a day.

Oh yeah, one more thing that I didn't understand fully: due dates are really approximate. The standard deviation is 11 days or something. Having the baby arrive 3-4 weeks early would be totally unsurprising.

I was lucky to be able to take two months completely off work when the baby arrived; I know that's a lot of privilege. So all I can tell you is that after about five weeks I started feeling like I could be a programmer again. :-)
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Would it be possible to just have some sort of dynamic compression scheme and not gzip when you'll potentially be transmitting sensitive information?
Really? (I'm assuming you mean to include "in the US"). I'm starting to understand the appeal of Valley startups.

There is no software-heavy company that I know of in the Netherlands that does this.

Sure, it's common that companies ask you to keep track of how many hours you worked on which project, but clocking in and out of the office? I've never seen it.
Also remember to get photos and videos off your phone quickly so it won't matter when your kid deletes them (along with apps you like). There's software to recover deleted files from sd cards but they're riddled with scammy shit.
Tell that to the Google Cast team. Saturday morning: "Hmm, how does this stuff work? Oh, I've got to get a key..." Monday night, 11PM: "Here's your key!"
I had an idea to build a tall bike which contained a large and heavy wheel in the center of the frame, above the 2 wheels but below the rider. This wheel would be made to spin somehow and act as a gyroscope to help the bike stay upright when stopped.

This seems to suggest that my plan would never work. If gyroscopes don't stabilize, then why are they used on monorail trains etc?
Sure, that I know that book values doesn't equal market values.
But what was being proposed was that the pension liability is an immediate expense that should be added to the purchased price of the acquistion -- which is something that does not make sense at all.
This article is hilarious. I guess I should not take my headphones for granted :-)
The actual example was .5 hours to prepare a 1-page form and .5 hours to mail the form. It probably did require return receipt.

That's one expensive stamp.

The lawyer probably didn't intend to bill that much, but filing out a time card at the end of the week results in problems like this.

I'd love to see law firms publish total hours billed by lawyer. I think that would solve a lot of over-billing if they did.
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For jokes in this pattern, there's a somewhat more hard-coded twitter bot that I think does a better job: https://twitter.com/ilikelikeilike

It does jokes of the form "I like my <noun1> like I like my <noun2>: <adj>, <adj>, [and not] <adj>".

noun1 is taken from a hand-coded list (hookups, fellas, lovers, spouses, etc.). noun2 is chosen randomly. Then the adjectives are just the top three adjectives found preceding noun2 in a corpus.

So for example,

I like my men like I like my banking: inefficient, shadow, not shady.

'men' was chosen from the hard-coded list. 'banking' was just a random noun. "inefficient banking", "shadow banking", and "shady banking" are common phrases in the corpus, so those three adjectives were chosen.
I prefer Safari because it integrates into the Apple ecosystem, including e.g. iCloud tabs, Keychain integration, gesture support; because it's a native application; because it's perfectly performant; because it doesn't phone home. I don't write web applications or even use many, so my needs are well satisfied.
I'm not sure I fully understand the proposed fix here, how does it differ from the application simply including random chunks of data inside the response?

This area of things isn't my strong suite, but assuming that this is analogous to just adding random data to the response, I believe that simply adding random data to the response can be worked around by doing more requests as using statistics to factor out the noise introduced.

If my understanding is wrong then excuse me :)
You might have high security. The average TOR user probably doesn't.
Yep, looks like it's fixed now.
Well, technically you don't need to invalidate the earlier CSRF tokens. Saving a big number of CSRF tokens per user would of course require quite a lot of storage, but maybe you could devise some "clever" scheme, e.g. token = "n" + sha(user_secret + "n"), which would be random enough for preventing BREACH, but easy enough to check.
I didn't find that story. But http://significantobjects.com/about/ states that care was taken to avoid the appearance that the story was real. And other stories are obviously fake. E.g. http://significantobjects.com/2010/06/18/miniature-pitcher-j...
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> If you're a Fortune 500 company, you have the legal staff to handle legal billing--or even the legal work itself directly.

I'd think that the general counsel of such a company is a prime target for this product. Carefully reviewing millions of dollars worth of charges billed six minutes at a time is extremely labor intensive. Having a product that does a first pass to find anomalies is a great way to cut down on the effort required.
According to the faq:

>How many hours does it need to charge?

>A little over 2 hours and you should be at 100%

http://solaptop.com/en/faq/#toggle3664

I bet that's with the AC charger though.
Putting it on eBay also exposes it to a larger and more liquid marketplace.
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I used http://www.keybr.com to help me learn the Dvorak keyboard, after a couple days I couldn't stand not knowing where my hotkeys were. This article has inspired me to try again, maybe this time I'll use the Dvorak-Qwerty layout on Windows. Does anyone have any experience using the Dvorak-Qwerty (https://code.google.com/p/dvorak-qwerty/) layout linked to in the article on Windows 7/8?
Law firms have an incentive to support a product that makes billing more predictable. Right now, they engage in a lot of ad-hoc discounting and writing off of hours to meet ad-hoc budget targets, and at the end of the day clients don't pay a substantial fraction of their bills (15% or so industry-wide).

Say the general counsel at a F500 agrees with his outside counsel that a particular motion needs to be filed in a litigation. Right now, he has an idea in his head of how much it should cost, say $75k. Or he solicits an estimate from his outside counsel how much it should cost. But that company has probably filed hundreds of such motions in litigations over the years. There is a lot of data to be used to make better guesses. If the software says: this motion will cost $75k with a standard deviation of $15k, based on that company's history with similar firms, then the company benefits from predictability, and the firm benefits by having a realistic budget and some objective reference they can point to when the bill comes due and they ask: "please pay this in full."
That seems like an incredibly odd system to be deployed, and to be used for that particular incident at that time.
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Well, you may be right. I'd be happy with any system that avoids the negatives of the current food infrastructure.
> the cuts on your key are supposed to be a secret

I don't think the average mechanical key user is aware of this fact.

I wonder if someone makes keys that hide their cuts during normal use. For example, a cylindrical key with the cuts on the inside of the cylinder.
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How dramatic are the counterexamples though?

A browse through Morning Star's website reveals job listings for defined roles. They're looking for (i) people with "a strong business background" and "an aspiration for senior leadership" to manage their finances, (ii) people who "likely have a meaningful formal education in related disciplines" to "coordinate", "train" and "identify proper operating procedures", and (iii) "hands on professionals" who need the "ability to read, write, and comprehend instructions" in addition to specific practical skills.

Sure, they might downplay rank and authority, but it doesn't sound like an organization without structure or de facto managerial roles.
One of the most important things you can do to prepare for your child is to talk to your wife, now, about the division of labor in the household post-birth. Commit right now to a role and a set of duties for the foreseeable future with a mutual understanding that if something isn't working for either of you, revisions can be made. You can relax on it after a couple years, but there's a lot of adjustment in the first year and this sort of understanding makes a difference.

Equally important, is to have an understanding that you both need time away from each other and the child. Agree now that you will be responsible for the child on specific days at specific times to give your wife time off and have her reciprocate.

Do these two things and you'll have the time to work, take care of your responsibilities and fit in some good hacking time. So will your wife.
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I understand your point, but I was talking about documentation, not ease of use (sometimes they go hand in hand, sometimes not). Also to further my point about docs in emacs, emacs goes waay beyond just a man page, documentation is baked into everything. Everything is in there... minimal googling required. If you can't tell... im still high on my first few weeks playing with emacs, plz excuse my cool-aid stains.
When those words can cause traumatic flashbacks for certain people, I think it is absolutely justified to be upset by their usage, regardless of how they are "targeted". This is not about "puritan values" it's about making an effort understanding the emotions of trauma victims.
Yes, it functionally the same.

The difference is that it is extremely easy to add at an http proxy or load balancer level, and could potentially turn 30 seconds into hours;

I would love a way to figure out the math on how many bytes of random response length changes the number of requests needed?
I'd argue that Django doesn't have an image problem BECAUSE they announce security vulnerabilities this way.
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The government delivers citizens into the hands of private management all the time: required insurance policies, training programs, licensure, etc. Mandating that every obligatory service be not only funded, but implemented, by government would extend its rolls of employees, budgets, laws and legal complexity, competencies, and requisite voter knowledge beyond any reasonable possibility.

You seem to be ascribing a negative to the mere profit focus of a private company, rather than the outcome. We could do the same for insurance, medical practice, automobiles, plane travel, lodging, and everything else important; but we don't, because private companies in the open market perform better.

Would you then deliver everything important into the hands of government monopoly, despite everything we know about the benefits of competition, for the moral premise rather than results? And if you think the results weigh against private prison companies, might we restructure the government/private arrangement before nuking wholesale the notion of the market?

WRT the incarceration rate, I'd have to see something linking that to private companies running prisons, rather than problems with the justice system itself.

Consider the abysmal performance of government-run schools, among others, as a counterpoint.
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When is that a thing? I can imagine that those scenarios exist, for example you make a product that isn't nearly as good as a product that every savvy user already knows about (1and1mywebsite for example), but what is a common example?
Conceiving the universe as the "output of a computer program" seems like an empty idea, as computation depends on a physical substrate (its laws of physics). It leads to an infinite regress: What laws of physics govern that physical substrate? David Deutsch (mentioned in the WP article) has a discussion of this (and many other related deep topics!) in his excellent "The Beginning of Infinity" http://www.amazon.com/The-Beginning-Infinity-Explanations-Tr...
It bears noting that the author is not just anybody. He's one of the people charged under Espionage Act, so he certainly should know what the process involves and how a whistleblower is treated in the current political climate.

I would also like to point out the second-to-last paragraph. "The press also has a role to play, one that, so far, it has largely ignored. That role is to report on and investigate the whistleblower's revelations of illegality, not on the kind of car he drives, the brand of eyeglasses he wears, where he went to college, or what his nextdoor neighbor has to say about their childhood." That would be cynical, if it wasn't so horrifyingly accurate.
What would you call it? An attack on Google, or Microsoft, or Apple, or Sony, or Verizon as "retaliation" for cooperating with the US government, designed to punish the corporation for performing their legal duty and to "scare" other corporations into not cooperating.

Okay so no one's going to die, which makes it significantly different in scope, but if it's an attack on a company with the goal of inciting fear...
> Humans are not emotionless robots who can interpret the intention of a sentence without being influenced by the way in which it is constructed.

But hackers strive to be.
Yep, it works: http://snapnote.io/0shC4h

Very cool little tool.
Even worse than stepping on a LEGO brick.
> "2. Always get everything in writing."

I work at a mid-size software consultancy. In our region, the company's reputation is that of a trustworthy and flexible partner, with good engineers.

Our customers are mostly large companies (5k+ employees). It is not uncommon that, for a new project, we already start working for them before anything is on paper (more specifically, before an official purchase order was prepared by the customer). Middle management at the customers love this, because they usually hire consultants for urgent problems, but their internal bureaucracy prevents them from getting a purchase order out fast enough.

So, if your reputation is strong and customers will want to get back to you, I believe that point 2 becomes less important.

I once asked one of our managers why he didn't immediately get a particular verbal agreement on paper. He said "we have to work on trust anyway. We really don't want to get caught in a lawsuit, since it'll cost us a lot of money and energy - if there's a lawsuit, we already lost. So, we simply only work for customers that we trust".

The only case that I know of where we didn't get paid was when a customer went bankrupt. No amount of paper would've saved us there.
I looked at making 3D-printed keys for my own locks, just for show (think yellow key, green key, etc).

I found two issues when researching its feasibility: printing accuracy and temperature range of the plastic. My results were that the lower-cost 3D printers didn't have the required precision, and more importantly, the printed plastic would simply melt if it sat in a hot car during the summer.

My research is probably out of date now, so I wonder what kind of plastic is being used these days.
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