skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We built People+ with the understanding that CrunchBase was a Creative Commons resource, that the startup community has contributed to for years and believing all the promotion that has been put out encouraging people to develop on the platform.

We are pretty shocked when we were told that AOL considered this information their property and that we needed to stop using the data because we were a "competitor".
Especially after Bittorrent started distributing malware with uTorrent updates.
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Not sure if it's just me, however the new servers are not appearing in `nova flavor-list` as described in the article (only standard servers are).
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It supports multiple monitors.
Windows 7 Pro 64-bit + Firefox 25.0.
To make it clearer, the issue is on small resolutions. The white text is right over the white glare to the left of the cup.
I feel Mercurial's commands are more intuitive than Git's, especially to former SVN users. Functionally, they're so similar it doesn't matter. This is why I love Kiln Harmony--I can work on a Git team and use Mercurial. Kind of like I can work on a dev team that uses Emacs while I use Vim. It shouldn't matter.
You probably need to disable a merge tool. Check 'hg showconfig merge-tools' and you'll probably find something. If this is on a debian derived system, I think that package maintainer turns on a bunch of stuff by default, so you may need to find a file in /etc/hg or similar.
People definitely do this at Amazon--especially as they're leaving the company, if they had a good experience working there, as many people did. I don't think I sent Jeff a note when I left Amazon, but I know others who did.
Not that I use hg anymore, but if I remember correctly, exiting vim with :cq (returning an error code) solves that.
Well I apologize If my arguments have offended any one here.

And since you have already 'understood' I'm here for karma and you are for the larger good of the humanity. What can I say further? Especially when you have taken so much pain of calling your friends and verifying the information to debate a stranger over the internet.

>>I would have probably finished it off with just a single line by saying GTFO

You already have, haven't you?

>>can I kindly ask you to stop this nonsensical Karma-whorish misinformation spreading?

You definitely have a unique knack of 'kindly' offending and abusing people.
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It's too late for the telecoms companies to do this. If they try, then Google, Facebook and Amazon will do an end run around them by building their own telecoms networks offering services to all comers and competing against the telecoms companies. And the telecoms companies will all be gone within 3 years.
On mac, Cmd+Ctrl+Shift+4 will work with this for regions. If you hit space before selecting anything, you can select by window.

This is nice, as I rarely want to capture my whole screen.
Looks like AMEX Platinum is getting rid of their Concierge service

http://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/1212590/bell-...
No, if the U.S. needs to attack a nation like Iran or Syria, we will do overwhlemingly better at securing air superiority than we did in 1991. Their pilots are more poorly trained, fewer in number, and less connected to a functional comprehensive air defense system than Iraq in 1991.

It's nice that you know the NATO designation of a few old SAM systems, but that's mostly orthogonal to the question of whether we need F-22s. The U.S. system of establishing air superiority is just that: A system, of which air superiority fighters are just one piece. The system is unmatched in the world. And you've been watching too much Top Gun, kiddo.
Don't you see? Just by giving these talks he is building a community. Releasing the products makes everyone focus on the specific things he's made and not the things these products represent. The ideas are much more important, and he wants people to push past the things he's made and invent entirely new things.
They did a shit job presenting what this actually does and why that matters to me.
That case wasn't as absurd as people think. From the article:

> Other documents obtained from McDonald's showed that from 1982 to 1992 the company had received more than 700 reports of people burned by McDonald's coffee to varying degrees of severity, and had settled claims arising from scalding injuries for more than $500,000.

She got third-degree burns from coffee stored at an unsafe temperature. McDonalds had ample evidence that this was a problem.
Have you actually used it?

1. It does come with a simple self-contained server.

2. Why would you run anything off a network drive? Has no one learned from Visual Source Safe and the lessons of the definitely not glorious history of NFS file locking?

3. Literally all you have to read is: http://hgbook.red-bean.com/read/a-tour-of-mercurial-the-basi...

4. Git rebase. Ugh.

Now stop complaining, because I'm stuck with winzip and windiff as a VCS for the current thing I'm working on (an old and obsolete NT4 C++ behemoth that won't go away).
sysrq ftw. Really useful option. AFAIK alt-sysrq-e and -i are disabled by default in new kernels
But that's not ASCII.
Novices also sometimes erroneously pass std::vector by value, that doesn't mean std::vector is slow. Maybe you did not read the entire post before linking it. The conclusion was he changed his code to pass by reference and 17.77% became .27%.
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Boot Camp isn’t a separate product, it’s part of OS X (which is free).

The salesman was probably talking about Parallels Desktop or VMware Fusion. of course, one can just as easily use Virtualbox. Or if you only need IE, you can use a WINE layer like CrossOver.
This was posted yesterday on Reddit in writing tips. It's advice from Chuck Palahniuk (author of Fight Club) to never use 'thinking' verbs wrt your characters. It's for fiction, but I think it is every better applied for non-fiction. Mr. Stone should have a look at it.

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1pwh3z/what_small...
But what exactly is needed? What is stopping someone from writing a FF extension that will capture all activex object tags and replace them with something doing the same operations in FF's chrome?

Is the auth protocol completely unknown? Is the activex control obfuscated more than is possible to reverse-engineer?
Also, in a world of worse-is-better defacto software standards I'd say the choice between hg and git almost doesn't matter. I mean thank god people pulled their heads out of their asses enough to actually let Subversion lose the trench holy wars inevitable with the kind of sea change DVCS represented.
What's are the protocol differences against libtorrent capabilities? I assume it can sync differences between files, can libtorrent do that?
'Indictable offense' is a particular kind of crime, and one that changes over time as laws change and reporting improves.

Yes, but the change can be in both directions. Improved reporting means more offenses get recorded; but changes in how society perceives crime means things that used to be indictable offenses (such as stealing a pair of scissors) no longer are--either the laws are taken off the books entirely, or they are no longer enforced because people don't think it's "fair" to convict someone of a crime if all they did was steal a pair of scissors. These two effects work in opposite directions.

It even says that improved reporting is responsible for part of the effect in the first dot-point after the graph.

But it doesn't say how much, because it can't; there's no way to know. And it does not say what difference changes in the laws and in society's perception of crime made, or whether that difference was, as I suggested above, in the opposite direction.

is the solution the same as in Victorian times: just don't record so much of it?

I think the solution Moldbug is implicitly suggesting is to make it clear to everyone that if you commit a crime, you will be caught and you will be punished; in other words, he is saying the problem today is with society's attitude towards crime.
The lack of any way to preserve file timestamps has made git a total non-starter for me. Mercurial has the TimestampMod extension (http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/TimestampModExtension).
Very cool. It frustrates me to no end when users send a docx file containing screenshots.

As a precaution, I minimized everything. :)
YC does issue invitation letters for founders traveling from outside US. We interviewed with YC and 2 of our co-founders flew in from India (they already had their B1 visas).

Just write to them and they should be able to send you the letters through HelloSign.

Good luck for your interview!
We should ban trucks too, because people can be carried in trucks. And you're against human trafficking, right?
This is not a new story. It has been discussed for the last several years.

Like I said, certain organizations will change when they absolutely have to. In South Korea's case, it's going to be costly so they are probably going to be the last.
I believe this tool has legs and is a bigger deal than you think.
Hi, creator of the site here. Currently it is only useable for GitHub hosted repos and therefore GitHub users, but the plan is to extend this in the future. Step 1 is to iron out the bugs in general but private repos or arbitrary repo hosts will be added.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to run around screaming while the server melts :)
It's not much better in the US. I live in Atlanta and I feel like I'm missing out on most of the fun. If you're not in SF or NYC, there's a lot you don't get.
not as feature laden but I've been totally happy with Google Keep. On web and device.
https://drive.google.com/keep/
AFAIK 50% of meals and entertainment expenses can be written off.
Did you checked http://blendme.in/.
BTW this is directly in Photoshop!
They've been feature bloated for a while now, and are still growing all the time. Before Google gave the order to kill IE6 and the world switched from optional to mandatory JS, one could've easily used something like links, w3m, lynx, or a small 3kloc browser hacked in a weekend (been there, done that). Things more or less just worked, and looked the way you wanted things to look.

Now? How many lines of code do you have in Gecko or Webkit, and a reasonable browser built around them? And all the things they depend on? Let's not forget you also need support for one of the most complex programming languages. Browsers really are HUGE.
If you got rejected from YC, your life is over
You can use naked references because most functions aren't acquiring ownership of a shared_ptr.
Seems pretty darn disingenuous on CrunchBase's part. Don't they tout their "public" nature at every opportunity they can get? Seem the link below [1] for example:

Data on CrunchBase is public, and members of the venture program are welcome to share their CrunchBase spreadsheets as they see fit.

No guys, your data is not public if you pull shenanigans like this.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/22/crunchbase-venture-program-...
Fix huge bug that everyone else refuses to deal with.
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If a monopoly raises the price too high then the consumer will seek a substitute or simply not purchase the good. This is true regardless of the form of the monopoly.

1) If rent is too high then renters will leave.

2) If an automobile is too expensive then consumers will use mass transit or carpool.

3) If there is a coal shortage due to labor conditions then consumers will use natural gas or other alternative sources of energy.
I've had some great recommendations from HNers. Thank you for your feedback.

One suggestion was for a forensic analysis of the servers / workstations / laptops. Anyone with those skills I'll also be looking for.
I don't know where to start.

Eh, you might reserve that tone for posts in which you're mostly correct.

Ma Bell was not in any real sense broken up at any point in time. Presumably you're referring to the consent decree that took effect in 1984, but it's also possible you've been fooled by the fig-leaf Comm Act of '96. The result of all that mummery is that right now we have 2.5 phone companies in the USA (which organizations operate the exact same way they did it before the "breakup"), and various tiny morsels the two big daughters haven't yet consumed and excreted. The main outcome has been that telecom executives have extracted vast fortunes from investors, which was probably the point in the first place. That's not even to mention the fact that it was the original Comm Act of '34 that gave Bell its ironclad, FCC-enforced monopoly initially.

There is hope, however, because eventually the consumer will only need an ISP, rather than the Frankenstein's monster that is "the phone company". ISPs connect, directly or indirectly, with backbone providers, and there is a functioning market of those. As long as the FCC doesn't outlaw ISPs, sanity will prevail in communications, someday.

It's funny that you mention Somalia, because it's a direct refutation of the point you're attempting to make (i.e., no government -> monopoly). It's as if Somalia is such a favorite hobbyhorse of the corporatists that they can't actually talk about how great corporatism is without mentioning it.
Could it be possible that this guy is a kidnapper? I would never meet a stranger like this.
Yes, this is totally weird but not unexpected. This is basic Stockholm syndrome. Crying about basic education benefits? c'mon!
likewise, also in nyc. this sounds fun, let's organize something!
In my experience I have found Mercurial to be slower and less flexible. I use both on a regular basis.
I really like the project and I would love to use it for https://cloudfleet.io (shameless plug), but ... show us the source, bittorrent!

However I am hopeful that some other projects will come up (maybe based on http://www.gocircuit.org/ ) that will give us the same functionality with a verifiable code base.
Credibility of the witness (bias) is always a proper issue for argument.
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> but surprisingly, it is by far the most awkward version control system I have ever used if you want to set up a shared repository on your network for multiple users.

I take it you have never tried darcs; it's the ultimate user experience nightmare.
Still not seeing 'em here.
I have studied XMPP and the whole protocol stack, compared to everything else I could find out there (in a paper I'm working on). However, the conclusion is that XMPP is not worth the an investment although it looks really fascinating at first and second thought. It's pretty much doable with simpler web technology, webstandards also help to keep out the madness that XMPP calls standards..

The biggest selling points of XMPP are that everbody already has XMPP. The counter argument that weakens this position is that everybody already has email, an IP and a phone number too.
and that's why women struggle in the industry.

If you meet up for a geek chat, it's a geek chat.
Why can't they just use TLS encryption that is available in all browsers and supports more than 128-bit?
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Am I the only one around here // who thinks Facebook works just fine!?

Also, if you want to compete with Facebook. Find a way to make a social network company grow to 100s of employees without advertisements. That's really all it would take.
We used this strategy on a small vendor database for a local nonprofit street newspaper when we built a vendor locater web app for them. The non-technical staff can update vendor names, availability, photos (by URL) and locations, which we then pull from to populate a map-driven search. It worked really well and saved hours of work building a custom CMS.

The app is at http://find.megaphonemagazine.com (best viewed on a smartphone) and the code is open source at https://github.com/denimandsteel/megaphone. Case study is at http://denimandsteel.com/work/megaphone-finder/
An enormous amount of South Koreans play Starcraft and MOBAs (e.g. League of Legends). Those are Windows games.

However, as I've learned from doing tech support, I find hardcore gamers are more computer illiterate. They know enough about computers to turn them on and play their game, but because they play for so many hours they don't do anything else on the computer.

Basically you get a nation of computer illiterate users, who use Windows because they don't know any better. Most probably don't even know what Firefox or Chrome are.
I like it. I only wish there was the option to crop an image. Especially useful for people with multiple monitors.
Would be nice to be able to be able to find out info on the two other contacts in my city that show up during the sign up process, I'd reach out to them but there isn't an easy way to find out who they are.
I haven't seen it.

It just goes to show you that the success of an app is all in the execution. Ideas mean (nearly) nothing. ;-)
I'm from Kentucky, so know how you feel. We're trying to open up elsewhere in the next few weeks, and can't wait.
/agree .

I was counting up everything I'd gotten from playing WoW alone the other day, and it included a great relationship, a business that made me $xx,xxx, a whole load of new friends, experience and ideas for managing large groups that I'd never have gotten another way, LUA programming skills, some fantastic memories, and a major film project.

Works for me :)
What caught my eye - number of n/a answers. It shows a certain level of ignorance on the applicant part. If these questions are included, they are included for a reason.

Second, single founder is a not a good fit for YC - everyone knows about it. Not addressing this issue wasn't very smart.

The Airbnb stunt is another proof that Loren wants more to stand out than to fit in.
Someone should make something like this, but with tea.
The idea that the state has a right to know what I do with my money and can force me to give up my privacy just because the amount in question is 'large' is disgusting.

Wanting privacy shouldn't make you a criminal just because many criminals also happen to want to remain on the down low.

Further, the appeals of "oh, but drugs" or "oh, but human trafficking" or "oh, but child porn" and so on are empty.

They reflect an abject laziness from society and law enforcement: they want problems to be easy and they want to play lip service rather than solve them. They reflect the notions that it's 'good enough' for something to be done however ineffective and worthless it is.
If there's no backend, where are the images saved to? Just curious.
So people you've already met, but perhaps don't know really well?
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Have you seen on paste.com?
Indeed. The two requirements aren't complementary. Therein lies the problem.
What are the benefits of using something like this if your OS comes with a modern init like systemd?
Coffee/tea/drinks. "Coffee meetings" are something most people can relate to, so we've stuck with coffee for now. But we intend for it to be drinks of any kind really. The copy part is hard.
> 1) Property. If you have a monopoly on the property in a given area you can charge whatever you want for rent, and no competition will be around to add competition.

Then people can move elsewhere. People won't tolerate it forever. This can be seen in the real estate market in the city I live in. Several downtown blocks in prime locations have a single owner. She charged outrageous rents, and now half of these (prime) locations are empty, and new businesses have cropped up in the neighborhoods around the downtown core.

> 2) Vertical monopolies. If your company buys out not just the competition, but the entire supply chain, and there is a high cost of entry to being able to enter the market -- say automobiles -- then you can quash competition as it arises.

While this is possible in theory, it hasn't happened in a free market.

> 3) Coal mines. If the only job you can get is in a coal mine, and the operator of said mine owns all the mines in your geographic region, you don't have much of a choice. This is especially true if you are working 12+ hours a day 7 days a week for a pittance, or are a minor child.

I live in a country where people will travel 4000 KM for a job. People will move if they perceive economic conditions to be unfavourable. If enough people do this, the mine owner will be forced to raise wages or face a shortage of labour.

> 4) This is libertarian fantasy and rightfully deserves the scorn and ridicule it has so far received in this thread.

Only Americans would make an accusation of political bias in a discussion such as this, using such terms (libertarian).

Fact is, the study of economics is the same whether you're in a market economy or a controlled economy (and likewise whether you vote right, left, or centre). And most economies are mixed BTW.
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Let them bust a few miners. More will take their place.
I don't think that it is clear to a user what to do here?
What does "this keyboard shortcut" mean?
What should a user do once they get the image in there? The paintbrushes should be labeled better? Then what?
Let me look into what can be done - I had been looking at your github repo, which Performance Cloud instance would be equivalent to your i7 results?
From looking at the source, imgur.
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Apple has realized that by publishing strict rules, many developers will fight the explicit letter of the law while ignoring the spirit thereof. Ergo, general rules have been published but the reviewers have great leeway to determine that a submission has missed the obvious point (ex.: a battery-sucking background app should at least inform a user that it will do so).

They're not going to explicitly declare exactly what is/isn't allowed to perfect clarity precisely because written language isn't perfectly clear when readers don't want it to be (ex.: USA's Bill Of Rights). Rather than get into ongoing fights over what exact wording should be, Apple understandably opts for a verbose but imperfect description of the point of their limitations, and hires gatekeepers to make sensible per-case decisions on whether an app adheres to the point of the rules. Wording of a rule may sensibly apply in one case but not another, based on culture & context. User experience does not decompose well into precise requirements.

If all it takes is a brief disclaimer in a description, and that disclaimer is a fair notification to the user of some behavior that reasonably isn't expected, then put it in and resubmit.
Someone needs to make this into a website that arranges coffee dates for people in major metro areas.
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I went to the DPRK (North Korea) past summer. Beforehand we met with a guy who went there a year before. In the payment memo field for his trip he wrote something akin to 'Payment for North Korea'. The bank cancelled his wire transfer and nearly cancelled his account. In the end they only barred him from making other payments to that bank account number.

My guess is everything is monitored but red flags only go off when suspicious activity is frequent or serious enough.
So it looks like your privacy policy 403's.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/41603296/treatings_priva...