skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do not see myself as a feminist. I want a career but my kids come first. I think society is so broken in part because we are destroying families in part to promote the idea that women "should" work at paid jobs. I think that's really not the right mental model. I think we need to work on giving families more support and women more genuine options. We really are not doing that currently.

Have an upvote.
> The root of the trouble is that word processors intermingle the tasks of writing and the task of formatting.

I completely agree. Software developers and even physical product developers have (or attempt to have) development workflows that separate the content creation from the style.

There is a good reason for that: it is far easier to focus on these things separately than all at once.

You would think Word and other tools for writers would adopt the same ideas in an effort to make their users more productive.
Super! Will write some tests and share :)
You're not making any sense. These are 5S specific bugs not general to iOS7.
Thanks!

The most I could get from the Thai embassy in Amsterdam was a double-entry visa. If I wanted a triple-entry visa (giving me 3x90 days or 9 months), they required me to have booked all my flights in and out of the country beforehand. That was a bit too much planning for me.

I believe there's education visas if you study Thai at a school for a year, but that seems like too much of a distraction while starting up a business.

Yes, I'm actually trying Phnom Penh in Cambodia in 2014. Cheaper, although internet connectivity might not be up-to-par and it's a lot less safe from what I've heard.
I can't decide how I feel about this.

On the one hand, I love the initiative you're taking here and the drive you have. Reading the article, my immediate thought was "that's terrible"--whereas yours was "What can I personally do about this right now?"

On the other hand, I remain unconvinced that directing resources simply to the people and charities that come my way through the media is the best way to distribute these resources. Yes, Meem will greatly benefit from this money. But is it good that Meem gets it simply because she happened to be written up in the paper? What about those who are never written up--and does that simply incentivize people in need to seek publicity rather than promote more sustainable macro-level solutions?

I don't have a real answer here, it's just that actions like these make me feel strongly ambivalent, if you'll forgive my oxymoron.
This is freaking brilliant. I grew up with that game and never even considered using them for hostnames.
The title says 300K + subscribers, but when I go to the YouTube channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/electromixshow it says there are 38K subscribers. Am I missing something here?
Really? I have a 5S and haven't seen any major issues at all. Certainly not this BSOD. In fact, I quite like iOS 7, overall.
Hi znt, you're right, the aggregate of all my channels is 300,000 subscribers now. My biggest channel is here http://youtube.com/pandadnb. I've removed the heading, since it might come across as unclear, thanks.
These bugs are specific to iPhone 5S so the 6+ years reference is irrelevant. And if you actually know how OSs work then you would know that bugs in the kernel or driver will always cause problems regardless of how mature the entire OS is.
I use European mountain passes, like Stelvio [1] or Veleta [2].. I don't have many servers.

At work though it's all business; purpose, environment, number, etc.

[1] http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=passo%20stelvio

[2] http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=pico%20veleta
Kleiner Perkins makes major changes
Excellent post. I've been considering Thailand and Vietnam for a while as places to work remotely for 6-12 months.
Moukolaba-Doudou National Park, near Gamba, in Pictures
That's unfortunate. Despite the way that Armstrong situation went down there's no doubt he's still an excellent cyclist and athlete.
> an articulable alternate framework for pro-privacy folks to point to

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
Really funny baby picture
This is a really funny and cute picture of a baby that describes where do babies come from!
I wonder if releasing HL3, on Linux, a week before Windows would do the trick?
It's a neat effect, but I don't like it because it's like seizure inducing to me, since the letters on the right move so fast.

Although not realistic, I would suggest a better effect would be simply roll the numbers the same amount, looking more like a roulette I guess.
If it's transferrable you could just sell it on to someone, probably violates whatever terms though.
Thai national here, and as a fellow bootstrapper I would have to agree with most of the points of the OP. The reason why I left my well-paid job in Singapore and come back to Thailand to bootstrap my startup is due to the much lower cost of living and un-tapped talent pool.

I'd like to add that the quoted figure of $1,000 USD a month is rather high. Most Thais can get by with $500 USD. That is the current starting salary for undergraduates. Now, keep in mind that if you are a foreigner, there will definitely be a surcharge since it is expected that you are able to afford more. As a local, I can cheaply rent an apartment outside of Bangkok (granted without a pool) for $100-150 USD a month. If you include utilities, phone, and internet you might need around $250-$350 USD, and you will get air conditioning.

EDIT: As for food, his mentioned price of 40 Baht for a bow of chicken rice which has now supposedly increased by 25%. It feels slightly over priced to me, but not by much. The average cost of a bow of food is still around 30-40 Baht ($1 USD to $1.33 USD) per serving and have not increased, as far as I can tell, for the 2 years that I have been back. So if you're pretty frugal, you can definitely get by with $5-7 USD a day for food + drinks. If you really want to go for "ramen diets" then you can definitely get by with lower IMO.

The current going prices for co-working spaces in Thailand are around $7 - $10 a day, net, and most of these places open 7 days a week. But if you can work from home, you can ignore that cost.

Regarding the OP's point about the startup scene, he is correct. It's very much in its infancy and the local work-force are not as familiar with the startup ecosystem and are very risk averse. To add to that, most employees will not understand how equity work and will prefer to work for a safer and more secure jobs. This is a cultural thing so pushing the startup mentality is still a big hurdle that the great people at Launchpad and HUBBA are trying their best to overcome.

Overall I'm quite optimistic about the way Thailand is moving with regards to startups, but it is very much in its infancy and founders are not as well-informed. A lot of incubators and "startup schools" are in it for the fact that it seems like the cool thing to be doing, but most have no idea how to run one and no experience in the space. IMO, there isn't much right now that the founders can gain from the partnership since both sides are basically feeling their way around.

In the end though, I can't recommend Thailand enough as a place that you should come and bootstrap just for the cost of living, wonderful culture, and an assortment of holiday locations. Although, as a Thai, I may be completely biased.

EDIT: Of course, I'm not exactly familiar with the visa situation since I don't actually need it. Based on the OP, it seems pretty complicated, but still worth the hassle.
That something else entirely may be SBS, http://sleepsex.org/.
Has anyone here used the PostgreSQL package for temporal database support?
Would be interested in thoughts :)

http://temporal.projects.pgfoundry.org/reference.html
Let's get some things straight, so at least we can have an intellectually honest discussion.

First, Motorola's h.264 and 802.11 license demands didn't happen until after Microsoft filed suit[1]. They were asking for a ridiculous rate, but let's get the timing right.

Second, no one was convicted; it was a civil case over breach of contract. No one gets convicted in those.

Finally, it wasn't a statutory fine (and what's with the scare italics?). It was damages -- notably, at half of what Microsoft was asking for -- for legal fees and breach of contract obligations by asking for far more than what was judged "reasonable".

[1] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/04/court-shreds-powe...
> Where would Apple be if Xerox had behaved like Apple and MSFT with respect to litigiousness?

They tried and failed for a number of legal reasons, the fact that they had been paid for the access Apple was given amongst them. I'd also ask where would Xerox have been had Doug Engelbart, SRI or Donald Sutherland had been litigious; all had a case against Xerox.
Exactly. All this guilt mobbing absurd. This is someones life we are talking about. If you really care about this situation you would want this to be handled properly and not through an internet website with a bunch of strangers that have no connection this is account other than it was posted here.
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> he was sure users preferred new features to bug fixes for old ones

He's probably right (if you think of users as being the person who approves the payment). I can't imagine the CFO at a Fortune 500 company approving a few million dollars to be spent on bug fixes. The obvious question would be "why did we pay for defective software in the first place?".

So perhaps one side effect of the subscription model will be less buggy software, since the business model relies more on keeping users than getting them to upgrade.
I'm old, but just starting the design phase of a new app for my company.

Frontend will be angular and bootstrap as it's working really well for other projects.

On the backend java, spring and jetty will be used. Netty will also be in there as we have non http networking needs as well.

PostgreSQL is our standby database, but we're also evaluating Cassandra and rethinkdb for our non-relational needs.

Why Java? We have in house java knowledge and deployment is much easier than Python, ruby and node.
Note: Using throwaway so my employer doesn't find out about my plan to eventually leave.

Are there any places similar to this in USA? Cost of living around $1000 (give or take), good internet access, no car needed, decently cheap food and rent, and possibly an affordable coworking space? I'm looking to bootstrap an internet company and while I don't mind living abroad, I'd be much more comfortable here in the US, seeing as I've lived here my whole life.
I guess that would be a lesson to never trust people from the government claiming they're here to help. Too bad the pay for this lesson is a ruined life.
1000$ is supposed to be enough to live in lots of european countries as well. Eg. Estonia, Greece, Austria
>Please, by all means, explain how demanding the same fee they would for licensing Windows Phone itself[2] for such ridiculously terrible patents is exactly how the patent system is supposed to work.

1. Those are just 5 patents they asserted in that one lawsuit. The portfolio they actually license probably has hundreds and maybe even thousands in it. They only asserted these 5 because a) it's practically impossible to sue over more than a few patents, and b) they thought these were the likeliest to get B&N on.

2. I am not sure what the "ridiculously high license fees" were... Were they ever even revealed? To my knowledge, the actual terms of any of their Android deals is not known to this day, and the $10/phone figure is complete speculation. This is true of almost any IP licensing deal by any company in the world ever. These deals are typically closely guarded trade secrets. My hunch is, MS is actually licensing for a lot less than $10/phone, and is instead negotiating for a stronger commitment from manufacturer's on the Windows Phone front.

3. Patents give holders a right to sue others if they infringe. Infringers can try to avoid lawsuits by negotiating a license. Or they can argue that they don't infringe or the patent is invalid, which often (but not always) ends up in court. That is how the patent system was designed to work. Microsoft chose to use it by negotiating licenses for the most part. Apple chose to not license and used their right to sue instead. Now one may complain about the quality of the patents involved, but...

4. ...On what basis did you judge those patents to be "terrible"? Really, I am curious as to what you think the patent covers and why it's terrible. I ask because the default for tech media or HN is that all patents are "terrible" but when I drill down into it, most people are woefully uninformed about how they work. It's actually quite difficult to truly evaluate the quality of a patent. From a legal perspective, it requires reading not only the patent, but the entire file wrapper including all the cited prior art, the office actions and the applicant's responses. From a layman's perspective, judging the novelty of something, especially if it's old, is difficult because it's very difficult to envision the state of the art at the time of filing and appreciate what is being claimed; things too easily appear obvious in hindsight, and some of the patents on there are from 1994!
I once worked for a telecommunications company that used condom brands for internal server host names. Makes me wonder if there are any other major companies that use somewhat inappropriate names for their non-client-facing equipment.
I'm glad it was sarcasm, and I generally agree with you. But at the same time, I think there's value in outrage even if the only outcome is to maintain the status quo because at least things don't get worse. If we have to fight as hard as we can just to stay where we are, that's no reason to stop fighting.
If you have the inside scoop on why they closed off the repo, by all means share with the rest of us.
That's certainly more than enough money to live pretty well in Berlin, though a tourist visa will only give you 90 days in the Schengen Area.
I know. Trying to look at the demo page while using a mouse with a scroll wheel was infuriating. (Stop! Wait! No, come back! No, not that far! Wait! Stop! WTFFF)
Securely backing up large data with python and S3
Small tutorial on backing up large data to s3 using python boto and gpg.
A gratuitous comment if you don't mind - I would try dropping the term legacy. It tends to set an existing system in concrete and creates a mindset of leaving it to pasture instead of actively refactoring and rewriting all the code existing and new, as architecture and sanity demand

in short: rip a little functionality out of the existing code and refactor everything like mad to make it a sensible cut. I have found about As much effort goes into fixing up the existing code that just got damaged as writing the new.
Someone has already posted a comment on there about this situation. Why not contact Joe directly and ask him for his account before applying guilt by hearsay.
I was surprised to see melbourneIT up there since I live in the same city they're based in. I'm wondering why an American company is using an Australian registrar, can anyone enlighten me?
Any suggestions on how to avoid the 'tourist tax'?

Are there westerners set up over there to help other westerners find cheap rentals, etc?
Evernote's new scanner
Valve could strike a deal for a very short exclusivity deal to push Linux. Would PC gamers install Linux/SteamOS to play Call of Duty a few days early? Yes, I bet a lot would.
Especially here in Nerdghanistan. It really is a nice collection of Fachidioten.
I believe it was the Disqus team who described using StarCraft names divided into either races or units vs. buildings.
I agree, it's overwhelming. I prefer more subtle effects.

Nonetheless, I'll probably include this in "oh my so pretty" option of Dashing, competing with "barebones utilitarian" and "smart blend of bling and usefulness."
Setting up a standard naming convention for hostnames is more logical, efficient, and scalable. Include useful information in the hostname, so you don't have to map random lists of names to functions. "What does server 'Foo' do again? Oh, it is a database server. Was that production, dev, or test?" Do you (or one of your operations team) want to be figuring that out at 2AM when you get an alert? Depending on your setup, something like this may be appropriate: <location>-<notation of physical/virtual>-<function>-<#> (e.g. bos-xen-mysql-005, being a virtualized Xen-based MySQL server in Boston). If you have multiple environments (dev/test/prod), add that too.
The neatest trick was tying the odometer to the github stars! Cheeky, but cool.
I think we are agreeing - but it's frustrating to have to wait for technical solutions to problems we could solve with pure political will.

(For example I see the biofabrication of meat as a technical solution to the awful statistic that cows in Europe recieve a daily subsidy of two dollars while around 1 billion humans globally live on 1 dollar a day)
That's kind of the idea, but I'm thinking something that send the message about 5th Estate being fiction as well, so watch this movie after you see this one.

Sorry, IANA designer or a copy writer.
Word of warning, 2 years ago I ran a large dubstep related channel which was shut down. Be very careful about copyrighted content, the record label will file dmca complaints even if you got permission from the artist! You only get so many warnings. I would even suggest having a backup channel and not to put all eggs in one basket!
Cool story bro. Now try getting a long-term visa. In short: they don't want you.
In my company we're using musical instrument names for machines. Bass instruments are servers, treble instruments are laptops, and medium ones are desktops.
Very informative post. I only have two questions. First, how difficult it is to get a good Internet connection there? Can you buy a "hotspot" device? Also, what about healthcare? If you get sick, can you get access to good medical care at a reasonable price?
You should count your lucky stars if you were able to submit in LaTeX format. It's obviously the best format for journals but they've all stampeded to Word.
Thanks xSwag, all my YouTube channels' content is licensed and legit. The artists and labels ask me to put it up. I've never put up anything I did not have permission to. Sorry to hear about your channel. YouTube copyright claims can be ruthless although it's getting better these days.
Then steal the food they have thrown out.
You should try Siem Reap - much nicer, and seems almost european.
SO actually encourages users to post questions even if they know and provide the answer themselves.
I did being a stay at home dad for a few years. I didn't like it much, although it was fun in small doses. These days thanks to retooling my skill set as my stay at home dad side project, I'm a dad that works from home on interesting stuff that pays the bills. My inlaws were not impressed with my house cleaning abilities.
I found that number to be pretty depressing. I think I could get somewhere pretty close to that, here in North Carolina, USA.
My personal machines are named after characters from Shakespeare's The Tempest: Caliban, Prospero, Miranda, Ariel, etc.
I use Star Trek ship classes and names: enterprise, defiant, voyager, galaxy, sovereign, intrepid etc.
The "slacktivism" charge only carries weight when levied by actual activists.
I disagree. The stay at home mum phenomenon is a manufactured anomaly originating in (post-)industrial, middle class society.
I'm a big fan moons, with planets as subnets.
How can you be sure of that last sentence without having tried something different? Go to Thailand with no solid commitments and see how you like it.

P.S. Beware of amorous ladyboys and STIs (not necessarily at the same time).
Hardly. Matt Darby clearly describes a situation that there was ample time for her to walk away. AND I QUOTE (Darby's Account):

"At first it was a hug, or an arm around the shoulders; friendly, drunken comraderie that they both were engaged in. Friends.

Joe started to get a little more familiar and was running his hand down her back and patting at her butt (she was seated). I noticed, and I watched. It was getting creepy, but Justine didn't move, or slap him. She was laughing, I figured it was nothing huge.

This continued for a few moments, then Justine got up on the bar, laid down in front of him, and the bartender poured a shot into her navel area. Joe slurped it up, then kissed her up the stomach until he got to, and chomped down, on her shirt-covered left breast. I was standing two feet away. I don't know who's idea this was.

Justine sat down, and Joe picked up the pace. He was really rubbing on her, and it got to the point where I felt uncomfortable for both of them. This lasted for about two minutes. His hands were admittedly all over her.

I was talking with Zach and Mike Eaton, who had just come over to us, and I said "I'll be right back" and walked over to diffuse the situation."

There was plenty of time for her to make up any excuse to leave the situation.
Or Saigon - had a great time there.

http://blog.alexmaccaw.com/traveling-writing-and-programming
My lab uses painters. We have DaVinci, VanGogh, Munch, and others. What's cool about these hostnames is that we can find out other painters and learn stuff about them, such as name pronunciation, paintings, etc. When we have a new machine, we search for another painter, we look at their paintings. This is good to learn new stuff. Another good category would be rock 'n' roll bands:

- "Hey, I will run some experiments on zeppelin tonight. Is she free? Thank you."
- "All our computers play a song from its hostname band. Except pinkfloyd. No one had patience to listen to a song for 20 minutes."
You can get a 3G data card for $20/m from TRUE. That gives you fast 3G in all major city areas, and free ridiculously fast Wi-Fi all-over Bangkok. I'd upload 2GB videos for my YouTube channel daily on those connections. If there was no Wi-Fi, I'd tether my MBP to my iPhone's 3G connection. The network was always faster than I've ever experienced in Amsterdam.

I can not advice about your particular healthcare situation, but I'm a Dutch national on a standard Netherlands healthcare plan. That means I have worldwide coverage and all treatments are covered up to the price that the same treatment would cost at home. The Thai private hospitals are usually cheaper than those in my country while offering a ridiculously luxurious service. That means I pay nothing.

Fortunately, I haven't stayed there a lot. Only once, for food poisoning, when I visited Thailand a few years ago.
This is a rather frightening trend that I've seen from Apple over the past couple years.

Other aspects of iOS aside, I would say there are many sane people who would consider the Android app ecosystem superior.
We use Japanese food names... unadon, maguro, gyoza, yakitori, tonkatsu... mmmmm
I seem to remember a story some OSX version ago about a user who lost her RSS feeds in mail though. There were still there somewhere hidden in her home settings but there were no more accessible through Mail because the features was removed.

So be careful anyway.
You have to fresh install developer releases while you can just upgrade to public release.
If you’re new to LaTeX, I presume that Lyx might be a good start, but personally I prefer AUCTex with standard Emacs – the zoom feature being in my PDF viewer (evince-gtk for simplicity).
Interesting.

I must admit, when he says, "Ummm," it really annoys me.