skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No doubt.

But, once again, to put things in perspective, anywhere in South Africa today, routinely giving rides to strangers is regarded as suicidal-the idea of Casual Car Pooling would be regarded as insane. And the robbers would probably NOT have been apprehended by the police, as they have been in Oakland.

Another anecdote that could put things in perspective: in 2009, my sister-in-law, who was a student, was abducted from a petrol station in a nicer part of Johannesburg, by an knife-weilding vagrant, driven around, threatened with rape, and taken to an ATM to withdraw cash, before the vagrant left her car. There was a camera at the petrol station, and at the ATM. The cops came (I insisted that she call the cops, she didn't even want to bother). The police did nothing after taking her statement- they were supposed to send a sketch artist, but he never pitched. The idea of going to look at the CCTV footage probably never entered the cops' minds. I'm sure the criminal still hangs around in the same area. There was obviously no media coverage of the story - such things are too routine. The bank did station a full-time security guard at the ATM after I contacted them.

I am merely pointing out that comparing the situation described in OP to what's happened in South Africa is overly alarmist. And the idea that rent-a-cops are a new phenomenon in the US is also not accurate.
Civilized behavior would imply private splitting of the cash, at least. I can't remember an example of that ever happening with any Nobel award in any field, although its probably happened. One of those things I'm not sure how to google for without getting 99% unrelated. If done completely privately there may be no public record of any sort...
Promising CMS. Installs in a snap. Any new templates being released soon? The cupboard is bare.
If you use deception to found a company, you'll find reasons to continue using it while running the company, and you'll eventually lose the company because of it.

There are ways to measure buying signals. Please research them. Here, I'll do you a solid, and Google "how to measure buying signals"

Oh, look: http://www.socialmediaexplorer.com/social-media-marketing/ca...

While it's not my intention to hold this up as the authority on buying signals, what you will pick up on is that nothing on this page talks about the number of subscribers on an email list. Subscriber counts are, at best a weak buying signal. It measures interest, not willingness to purchase.
While the author did not charge the credit cards, he did not communicate to his site visitors about the situation either. It was only after the fact once they essentially gave out their information did he reveal the truth. Sure, you can argue that he did not charge for those that wanted to opt out. But from the get go, his visitors were not provided with the correct information to make an informed decision.
With a much deeper sense of irony
Scalia says atheism 'favors the devil's desires'
Full article at http://nymag.com/news/features/antonin-scalia-2013-10/
marknutter should a. Not be so concerned about her weight, and b. reread the article where the author assures us that her PCOS is under control.

Her doctor says she is ok, and she states that she is reasonably careful with her diet and does a large amount of exercise, which - because of the endocrine disorder she suffers from - does very little to change her weight.

In some of the comments here I wonder if I've been reading the same article! She makes it clear why her body shape is what it is, she says she's pretty healthy and looks after herself, gets checkups from her doctor and lives a full life. She seems pretty much at terms with her body shape... why are there so many comments telling her she needs to lose weight?
This is irrelevant pedantry. When people say "... already tried everything." they don't mean everything. This isn't first-order logic, it's conversation!

They mean that the subject has tried many things, to the point of frustration.

Unless we accept that losing weight is the highest possible priority, then it will necessarily be balanced against other priorities. These will be generally inconsistently pursued, because people are not rational.

In part, people who are calling for acceptance of a wider range of body weights are arguing that there is too high a priority placed on a person's weight.
Ask HN: Would any of you consider hiring a dev with 16 weeks training
I've seen some advertisements around saying that you can become a developer in 16 weeks and land a job earning £30K. Would you hire somebody with 16 weeks training?
How pathetic we got to listen to these noises on computer.....Digital sound will never be as good as analog.
Way to miss the sarcasm.
Why do you need so much horse power? I mean, you can do easily web development on a laptop for half the price.

I think you need to understand better your needs...
Good to see a commenter with an ICF background (most of what I know of ICF was only from water cooler chit-chat).

I didn't manage to get a thesis out. I left the PhD program before the funding was cut, but the writing was on the wall.

Yes, it is short sighted to cut funding of small scale plasma confinement concepts. They are high risk / high reward projects which are not expensive ~$1M. And even if they don't pan out as viable confinement schemes, they make for great training platforms for graduate students.
I disagree here.

What GATech is showing with this introduction of the course is the start. There are numerous links in the page referencing the College of Computing Website, which in turn discusses the Project Option and Thesis Option of the MS CS degree. As such, it seems likely to me that GATech will be putting their online students through the same ropes as their offline students.
Enter The Quiet Zone: Where Cell Service, Wi-Fi Are Banned
TL;DR - Putting up a marketing site and asking for money up front sets customers expectations for what is to be delivered. But startups change significantly in the early stages, so it's very difficult to meet customer expectations.

I'd like to hear more about what people said in the customer interviews. Here's my experience as a consumer...

After flipping through the library, I signed up immediately. The cost/value was very high.

After putting in my credit card details, I was put in a queue, which was a little frustrating as I was expecting instant access, but I got over it quickly and didn't mind waiting. I think this was fine.

The big problem came when the library disappeared from the site and the business went in a very different direction. I had pledged $30/month for something specific (the videos from high-profile entrepreneurs), so it was disappointing to see that it wasn't going to happen. It even entered my mind that it was only ever a carrot to get my credit card details and that there was never an intent to make the videos. So, some confidence lost there. Also, still having my credit card on the hook for something else that I hadn't yet learned about was a bit disconcerting.

Adii is a friend and I was still curious about what it would be, so I stuck with it. It's highly likely if I didn't know the founder, I would have cancelled immediately.

I struggle to consistently participate in communities, so I will be cancelling my membership. The video library was more my thing, consumption without engagement. And that's what I pledged my $30/month for.
Well a lot of the normal stuff is still normal. But that's no fun to show off, so instead lots of Perl6 examples are full of edge cases. When I translated small examples from Perl5 to Perl6 I found them to be pretty similar, though with more obvious OO and cleaning some of the array/hashref sigils visuals.
Oh, well since you didn't like it, that's ok then. Wait, no it's not; it's horrible, indecent advice. Good business is being honest with your customers. Count me among the ones who would never turn over money with scumball tactics like this. Do your domain research, spend a few months making an MVP, and sell it in a working state. Give your early adopters premium pricing so they stick with you through the early churn. I wish your customers the best, as they're in for a rocky ride turning money away to such a scammy businessman.
Price of 500MB of mobile data across the world
For a couple of reasons. One is that there's already a great Clojure environment for Eclipse - Counterclockwise. Secondly, I think that IntelliJ provides a better platform for building something like this - it's just a better IDE all round in my opinion, and it's a great infrastructure to build on.

I suspect that you'd probably find that the percentage of Java devs using IntelliJ has gone up a lot in recent years too, their market share and mindshare has increased massively recently. I'm not aware of any stats though (and I'm not sure how accurate they would be if there were). Google recently switched from Eclipse to IntelliJ for the official Android development environment, for whatever that's worth.
One needs to take grammar lessons to understand HN comments...
This is really frustrating for temporary visitors (even us Americans that live abroad but visit on occasion.) Here I can pay about $3 for a SIM card and $1/day for a "data package", all prepaid, and most of the world has similar options available.

When visiting the US, I've tried using some of the cheaper, less known providers that they sell in Best Buy (H2GO, Boost) and have never actually gotten data to work, just voice. The only thing that has worked for me is T-Mobile, for which I have to fork out $50 for a month, when I just want 4-5 days.
Indeed. But she makes it clear her diet is under control. The point being made by the poster is what exactly? The poster states that her body can't "defy the laws of physics", like that's helpful or even insightful.

The poster was commenting about weight loss, not mitigating her disorder!
I applaud you for being so open and transparent. Although I personally feel that the line was crossed, your openness to see a refinement in technique is refreshing. There are just too many "entrepreneurs" these days justifying their practices by saying that it works and it's completely legal. For me there are 3 responsibilities (in the same order) to any entrepreneur/business:
1. ethical responsibility
2. economical responsibility
3. legal responsibility

To say that something is completely legal does not make it unethical. So I do hope we can find a better way. The false advertising that companies put out makes me sad but it's also an opportunity for businesses to be honest with their customers.

Question for you though: You mentioned you received numerous signups signalling their interest. Could you have conducted your interviews with them instead? From the story, it seemed to me like the key point was identifying the needs of the customers. Of course, the ones who placed their credit card information are the ones most interested which filters them out from the rest.
Swirl Announces $8M in New Funding, Strategic Partnership with Hearst
I cannot get passed the title. Unless the only cold emails the author sent were the ones that got the meetings, s/which/that.

(Actually I did read the article, and in it she says "cold emails produced 7 meetings at Twitter, Klout, LinkedIn", so either she sent 7 cold emails or the title should use 'that' not 'which')
We don't have any data, but "would not have validated the idea" is ... perhaps not 100% accurate?

People do manage to "kinda/sorta" validate their ideas by getting email signups. Granted, it's less accurate than actually collecting CC details, but it does provide some indication. And kickstarter involves actual money, so perhaps it gives you a better idea than email, even if it's not quite as good as getting their CC. Maybe that tradeoff is worth it in terms of openness with your future customers?
Rubbish. They don't melt in a clothes dryer. They're designed to withstand temps of well over 100 degrees Celsius (Ps why do Americans not air dry their clothes?). I've never heard of anything going wrong with the notes here in Australia. You can also get them wet without any issue, a far more common occurrence. The Maple Syrup thing is a joke.
Just a clarification: what you're saying is that most jobs aren't essential and can be computerized. That doesn't mean they're not worth something, or that people will be able to stay at home and just live in idleness.

What happens is that most jobs switch from agriculture & industry to the infamous "services"... most of us will be/are selling nonessential services (entertainment, leisure, nonessential medical services & care, advertising, etc..). Most of government is probably in the "nonessential" category.

Some % of the workforce will still work on R&D and essential services of course.

Having all the basics covered by a small percentage of the workforce doesn't mean the rest will have to work less.. on the contrary, the battle to divest people from their money will be fiercer than ever - more and better and more exotic services, more advertising, etc. It would be interesting to live in a post-scarcity society, but we're nowhere near there yet (and I'll be a bit Malthusian and say that we should curb the population growth a bit if we want to have what I consider to be a good standard of living in the future)
Nuclear Fusion Has Broken Even For the First Time Ever
I do backend development as well as front-end. I recently noticed that running tests i.e spec tests can greatly take alot of computing power. I just want a laptop that will speed up my work.
Best advice is to not do this, or anything like it. If you're a one-man show, then be sure to blog, tweet, or otherwise communicate with your customers often. Treat them like people, and build a following. When your startup fails (and 99% do), hopefully a good portion of those will follow you to your next venture. Building customers through respect is what builds a lasting brand (you). Don't take money until you have a product to give them, unless you're upfront about it.
I just did the oral defense for my doctoral dissertation on CSS floats.
This is sort of the opposite of what you asked for: it's the list of all "fixers" that the 2to3 program will attempt to automatically fix when converting from 2 to 3. http://docs.python.org/2/library/2to3.html#to3-fixers If you avoid any issues not on the list, you'll have a higher chance of 2to3 being successful.
Fire drill: can Tony Fadell and Nest build a better smoke detector?
Working with development deadlines
It is not ETF specific data. iShares offers some types of investments that are not available to non-accredited investors by law and offering information on performance of these investments would be a waste of time for both iShares and investors.

If ETF is offered to general public, its performance is available to general public, end of story.
Nest introduces their Smoke Detector
Banksy NYC: Better Out Than In
Not to mention a number of incredibly nasty + negative posts I've seen on here on many occasions. I have spent time away from hacker news on 2 occasions just because I found the non-constructive negativity too much.

Hacker News might not suffer from the crude childish nastiness, but don't for a second think it's free of the passive-aggressive 'adult' kind.
Five reasons I prefer the Pebble smartwatch over the Samsung Galaxy Gear
Meet the Nest Protect smoke and CO alarm
Given that the holocaust has been fair game for humor for close to 50 years, as far as I can recall, I think it's allowable to make a joke about pretty much everything.

Something can be funny and also in poor taste.
Regardless of "fruit of poison tree" laws, information known is hard to unknow, and it wouldn't be surprising if information leaked to others could be used to lead hounds to foxes via different paths.
I wasn't recommending GSS-API per se, just the message protection services from 3961/4121.

It was just a suggestion. Feel free to roll your own!
Just a book in discrete mathematics :-) sorry, the comment I responded to was quite pedantic, but unfortunately wrong which I find to be the worst form of pedantry.

I really shouldn't engage in these sort of back and forths, but sometimes I just can't resist...
JS is definitely client-side dynamic technology. At least from AJAX era.

Well... I don't understand how you and many people (including the author) can read JS as server-side dynamic in this HTML5 era...!!!
I'd like to clarify two things:

1) The intention was always to produce the videos / content. And it still is too (we have just deprioritized this and tweaked the roadmap from our initial plan).
2) The customer interviews we had (along with the survey we did thereafter) gave us insight into what our founding customers really paid for and for the majority that wasn't the content.
> it's not [the government] who designed lavabit such that it was impossible to execute this without obtaining access to every other user.

That's true, but they're still essentially implying that services which are explicitly designed to omit backdoor capabilities for the government to spy on you -- that is, services offering actual cryptographically guaranteed privacy, not just "no one has looked yet, and if they did, it'll all turn out okay in the end trust us" -- are broadly illegal and will get you criminal contempt.
The advice in this post is excellent. I would only add that it can be more effective to open by mentioning the other person's work and / or achievements (instead of pitching yourself and your company in the first paragraph). Most people are selfish and they want to know what's in it for them, even if that something is just recognition.
Yes I have. A while ago I expressed shock and outrage on HN at the systemic sexism (of the "geek community") evident in the PAX business, and in other similar incidents. I was then given a lesson in logic (because this wasn't precisely sexism, but merely an individual behaving badly in this particular case). I was appalled.

No one here would write such things? I doubt it. And at the very least, I find it unbelievable that "cooler heads" are so quick to say that "panty shot" and "tit viewer" or "brogrammer" or whatever have nothing to do with the culture of IT.

I've spent most of my career trying to teach college-age women (coming mainly from humanities programs) how to program. When I suggest to my most promising engineers they they go into computer science, they almost invariably end up not being able to do it. Not because the professor isn't supportive, certainly not because they find the material too hard, but because of the "culture." They can't always find that term, but that's clearly what it is.

Ask any woman who tried and failed to make it through a CS program, and you'll here the same thing: they were sick of being ogled, they were sick of the porn jokes, they were the sick of the "cowboy up or go home" shit.

This is my culture; I'm part of it. And if you read this board a lot, it's probably your culture as well. We absolutely need to own this one and not pin it every time on errant individuals. We need to actually admit that in subtle ways we have created an environment hostile to women.
I have a feeling this would be illegal in the United Kingdom.
HN members are great at superficially coming across as intelligent and rational while managing to make all the same childish comments that we see elsewhere.

Want proof? Scroll down this very page. No different.
This is really nice. Using it at work now. Thanks!
Avira antivirus page hacked
Well I see the definitions of dynamic are completely different between you and me.
Disclaimer: I find these pictures hilarious.

Claimer: I was a fatass.

I no longer show any particular respect or pity towards fat people. I've been fat most of my life, but no more.

It all started when a friend, well into the 400lb ~ 180kg, started losing weight like magic. Constant, steady weight loss. He was a fat guy in a family of fat people, the typical case of genetic blamery. I asked how he did it, he said he just counted calories and never broke the limit.

I did the same. I changed my food habits. It was hard in the sense that I've been "trained" otherwise; it's evident to me now that my mother transmitted me her fears of famine in the war. I always had to finish the plate, eat all I was given, and eat a bit more on my own whenever possible.

And the conclusion the very first day I started the control is that I just ate too much. Checked the calories, yeah, it's well added up. WTF, it's lunch and I'm already more than done! After a while I noticed things started expiring and get moldy since with my new diet couldn't keep up with my grocery list habits.

I lost weight mathematically. Kept doing exercise and bumped proteins not to lose muscle, and the average caloric deficit approached frighteningly my weight loss rate following the famous 9kcal/g of fat. Ate 20000kcal less this month? Weigh in and poof, 2.2kg gone.

From then I started analyzing other people's habits. And fat people just eat too much, very, very, very few of them are exceptions.

At this point I just don't understand why I should feel pity and display consideration to fat people while smokers (or meth addicts, or gamblers, or other sorts of compulsive behavior) are almost the worst thing in the world after the Third Reich. Saving some distances, it's the same league.

It's just an unhealthy habit, and the only difference is that it can be seen from outside. It's not a lost limb from an accident, something random that could happen to anyone and deserves pity instead of mockery. 99% of fat people just eat too much, they're just choosing to be, play the victim card too often and lack of education in regards to nutrition just perpetuates this. It's essentially the same as white trash, you can blame the environment but in the end it's you making the choice, but I have yet to see as many people defending juggalos as people defending fat people.
Sometimes, it is embarrassing to be an American.
I find it funny they ran this story while it isn't the quiet zone. I wonder if it is supposed to be a jab at the government for the shutdown.
Sure, maybe that is a worthwhile trade-off to consider for anyone considering something similar in future.
Good class, I can't stand the first 15 second music intro.
I'm pretty sure Karl Pilkington first thought of this idea.
It should be noted that this operation (digital gain staging) reduces headroom/resolution, although in practice this doesn't really matter. Especially not with ambient rain sounds.
"Obviously being open and sincere about all the facts after the deception helps, but it also contradicts the very fact that you were deceitful."

I don't understand how this is going to help anybody's cause.
T-Mobile actually now has a per-day plan - $3/day for voice, SMS, and 200MB of data. SIM kits are ~$10.

http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/pay-by-the-day-cell-phone...
I thought exactly the same when looking at it
Unveiling Stealth Y Combinator Startup URX
Nest Now Wants to Make Your Smoke Detector
Just to be 100% clear: we never took any money for anything we didn't have. When we eventually opened the doors to our V1, there was actually something there and only at that point did we charge anyone's credit card.
Contenture bet on users being prepared to pay to have ad-free sites. They gave up early; but to be honest their "no ads" scheme wasn't going to work anyway. It relied on a piece of javascript removing common ad blocks from the DOM.

The main problem is reliably identifying who is a legitimate subscriber. I happen to have a robust solution for that problem which this margin is too small to contain.
I'd get a Macbook Air, but it might be just a little bit above budget. On the plus side you get a huge battery life and you're running a *nix. You can't be sure how difficult it'll be to get Gnu + Linux to run if the HP has Window's 'safe' boot.
I'm quite sure it will surface somewhere. Looking forward to it. :)

EDIT: I would love to get my hands on this data... anyone? :)