skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks everyone for your comments. My main point in raising these points was to start a dialog about what is and is not acceptable to charge for and to raise awareness of these items for startups looking to take on a lawyer and I think I've definitely done that! Many (but not all) of the points I raised in this post were sourced from an analysis that my friend performed of a startup's legal bills from two separate silicon valley law firms.
I'm curious what these 1000s of queries by facebook employees are for. What data / information does facebook mine for daily?
Are we seeing the first shoots of Tim's Apple? A little less guarded about software roadmaps is a welcome change.
At the risk of being downvoted, my general experience with India teams is not that good. At a minimum not better than other countries workers, and in my last year experience, actually worst than non-india teams. And they don't seem to be that much cheaper. How good is it that they charge, lets say, 5 dollars an hour vs 10 dollars, if it takes them 3 times the amount of hours to do the same work? Maybe it is because each India worker is assigned to more projects than they can handle, maybe because they don't have the experience, I really don't know. Finally, their English skills are very much lacking, so that adds more time and errors to the workflow.
How dare you inject your "science" and "research" into this wonderful anecdote.

sigh

My first fast was 3 days of nothing but water, in the middle of the woods (by myself) when I was 15. It was part of a month long Outward Bound program. The water was coming from a lake, so I was dropping iodine tablets into it to kill the giardia.

As bad as the no food part was, the lack of human contact for 3 days was even more alien to me.
Hm... no mention of restoring the drastically weakened typographical features that got dropped from this version of Pages. I suppose I'll stick with iWork '09...
Amazon doesn't foist a 'keep up' requirement on people. You can just do your job, make a bunch of money and have fun working here for a long time. There might be a little bit more work compared to other companies that build packaged software, but nothing the web companies don't have.

And no - I was not saying the team does long hours either. We have all mixes of people, some do long hours and some wrap it at 40 or 45 max. I was only justifying why some might do long hours.

Any super-smart group with good camaraderie gets a bunch of work done. But if you want to distinguish yourself in that group, you are going to have to put in extra. There is also the pesky part about differing experiences / knowledge bases. It takes extra to tap into all that as well. All of that add up.
Yep.

The whole OOXML/ODF debate and standardisation efforts we went through close to a decade ago have been completely ignored by Apple, who've come up with a file format straight out of the 1990s.

Meanwhile, the more enlightened among us are focused on formats like Markdown and HTML5, which actually have non-zero interoperability.
EBay nabs top Yahoo data scientist
Also Brad Myers in Carnegie Melon (leading the Human-Computer Interaction Institute). http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~bam/
What happened was pretty much rape... and rape used to be a capital crime, for which you could in fact get the death penalty. Strangely, it was struck down in 1977.
Right. But who would want to steal a clipboard?
Why is it on a user content domain?
What an amazing article.

It has tied together a bunch of seemingly separate ideas that I've often wondered about, and I feel measurably more intelligent having read it.
Yea, so...

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/11/researcher-skepticis...

;-)
It's irresponsible to glamorize restrictive dieting without talking in detail about why medical supervision is necessary - not just breezily saying "you get dizzy".

http://www.canyons.edu/offices/health/nutritioncoach/concern... - list of physical/cognitive/emotional effects of restrictive dieting: "decreased resting metabolic rate, loss of lean body mass, changes in brain chemistry that increase appetite, constipation and gastrointestinal upset, sleep disturbance and weakness, feeling cold all the time, decreased sexual interest, depression and anxiety, irritability and anger", etc.

Along with causing physical problems, restrictive dieting can be a factor in developing an eating disorder.

http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/anorexia-ner... - "Bulimia is often triggered when young women attempt restrictive diets, fail, and react by binge eating" (and eating disorders are perfectly happy to grip men as well).

http://calorielab.com/news/2013/03/26/orthorexia-restrictive... - "there are many individuals who display symptoms consistent with an obsessive-compulsive restrictive eating disorder and have an unhealthy concern with healthy eating patterns."
It's not actually a finite set of numbers - a continuous Fourier transform would have an infinite number of amplitudes, for every possible frequency.

However, you can very closely approximate most curves with a relatively small number of amplitudes.
Excited about some of these changes. I've been debating moving back to FF for my primary dev browser for some time and these look like the changes that will make me do it.

Thanks Mozilla!
"Dish... said it still sees value in the brand name and will use it in limited ways."

I can only imagine that means licensing the logo for use in movies set in the 90's.
The choice of poison is suspicious:

"Notably, the murder of Alexander Litvinenko, a Russian dissident, in 2006 was announced as due to Polonium poisoning."

"According to the book The Bomb in the Basement, several deaths in Israel during 1957–1969 were caused by Polonium."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polonium#Well-known_poisoning_...
Green Tech: Paperless Receipts & Restaurants
Google says floating barge for showing off new tech
In science - especially health science - it is not the responsibility of the skeptic to prove that a particular theory is wrong, rather it is the responsibility of the person making such claims to substantiate them.
Without going too much into the details: we analyze a user's public posts and the network structure to probabilistically infer the data.
Awesome! This chip is the i.MX 6 Quad that's going into bunnie's open source "Novena" laptop[1]

I've been using the freescale development platform for the chip[2] (SABRE Lite) to try to follow along with Novena's progress, but my biggest complaint is that it's too large and oddly shaped to carry around every day.

With this formfactor, I can just put it in a raspberry pi case, and throw it in a bag without worrying about it getting smashed.

[1] http://www.kosagi.com/w/index.php?title=Novena_Main_Page%E2%...

[2] http://www.element14.com/community/community/knode/single-bo...

Edit: looks like it's not for sale, but hackaday mentions they might if there's enough interest.
Interesting...

OS X 10.9

- Chrome 30.0.1599.101: 21264

- FF 25: 15911

- Safari 7.0 (9537.71): 14438
The last thing I heard is that you can get money out quickly by paying a 5% fee, so I think you're right that arbitrage is keeping the price difference around 5%.
It breaks my site. Dropdowns don't work. And, when logging in, it grabbed the input and threw the username and password into the url.
Maybe I'm missing something: why wouldn't you just open folder B in window 2 and move files from the outer folder in window 1 into the open folder B in window 2?

I haven't updated to Mavericks yet, btw.
I feel most users got over the creep factor of cookies back in 1998, and nothing that happened since has demonstrated that cookies need to be severely restricted. In fact, I expect more physical businesses will be installing face recognition to essentially cookie and track casual shoppers in a real stores offline, consumers are already used to this online, and don't feel threatened by it.
In the article I described the discrete fourier transform, but there is a continuous version, where a signal is represented by an infinite sum (really an integral) of component frequencies. This is the version that is more generally useful. Here's a great animation by LucasVB of the continuous fourier transform in action:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/Continuou...
NSA attempting to squash entrepreneur for selling parody t-shirt
"One weird trick that made pure mathematicians hate him"
If it's a routine incorporation and note financing, try Clerky.
I would hope that you weren't hoping for them to restore 'drastically weakened typographical features' as you suggest. :)

Restoration of drastically more powerful ones, sure. :D
Oh I agree, instrumental music is far ahead in execution and it does appeal well to some hackers who are on the bleeding edge. I some time listen to 'Cluster one', Pink Floyd to calm myself.

Added all suggestions on this list to my list. Thanks!
JIT Tutorial: Allocating Numbers
> and rape used to be a capital crime, for which you could in fact get the death penalty.

All felonies used to be capital crimes, for which you could in fact get the death penalty.
It has hardly become a form factor. This is one company that has designed one board (which they aren't even selling!) that has the same layout as the Pi. Calling it a new form factor seems like its jumping the gun a bit.
But the competitive advantage of druglords is controlling the means of distribution, not the means of cultivation. So, SilkRoad could help bypass those monopolized distribution channels and undermine the druglord's competitive advantage.

For example, if a druglord is competing directly with a mom-and-pop drug cultivator on SilkRoad -- the drug lord has higher costs (bribery, paramilitary force, etc.) and only marginally lower COGS from scale. Because they are unable to intimidate or kill other cultivators, like they do in meat space, the druglord could be at a real disadvantage.
> Nit-pick: suspect you are actually a fan of statically-typed languages.

And probably closer to "statically-but-not-too-statically-typed-because-really-more-than-my-language-of-choice-is-too-much" languages. Self-avowed fans of "statically-typed languages" (usually java or C#) rarely consider giving up nulls and casts.
Nice! Where is Pebble HQ, SF?
If your friend knows of instances where Silicon Valley firms (1) double-billed travel time or (2) billed as you stated in the value billing section, consider reporting those to the CA State Bar. These are ethical violations.
Unless you're a serial killer.
Got three things wrong on mine =\
There's something that works and there's the right way to do it. It's better to do things the right way if you want to make sure everything is in a good state when you bring it back and there aren't edge cases you missed ... What if someone forgot to use a transaction?
What I miss from Pages:

1) Set shortcut key for style.

2) Being able to see my styles laid out and displayed WYSIWYG (but I don't miss the drawer).

What I was hoping for but did not get in the new version of Pages:

3) Non-broken ePub export.

None of these have been promised (yet).
The traditional and probably best way to find a good attorney is through your network of people you trust.
Any best practices or gotchas about query authoring in comparison to a typical relational database? What part of the traditional relational db mentality needs to be changed or thrown out as I write queries. For example, should I avoid using this aggregate function or that join in a way I'm familiar with in the context of something like Postgres.
What's your point here? If he had a problem with it, he probably wouldn't let his daughter go to her friend's house. Either way, we're still telling people what they can and can't put in their own bodies.
My experiences are somewhat similar to yours. When people ask me how I learned Python, I tell them I started with the Django tutorials.
So, what, I should just shut up and get in line like you?
That's awesome. I got my Pebble on Kickstarter, but I've been too busy with school and work to work on a project. SDK2 is just the pick-me-up I need, and I'm really interseted in lab hours too.

I just created a hello-world project on cloudpebble.net, but my initial build is failing:

../src/main.c:1:23: fatal error: pebble_os.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
Waf: Leaving directory `/tmp/tmpIc8vSE/build'
Build failed
I gave the simplest example. In general you would have a couple of folders that you would be sorting some files into when one folder got too crowded. It is still a really crappy bug.
Palo Alto, but we'll also be hosting some of our open labs virtually for our remote friends =)
Going to guess Arthur C. Clarke, but I've never actually read any of his books.
Can it be installed and played around with on the virtual machine cloudera provides for hadoop?
i'm guessing those things are heightened because your body thinks you're starving to death, so it amps the food-seeking abilities (senses) and reproduction incentives (sexual pleasure) to 11.
Isn't the term "broscience" sexist and exclusionary to women?

(Just kidding, no need to downvote this to hell and back)
It would not be controversial to state that the Federalist Papers were published anonymously, despite the fact that the authors gave themselves the pseudonym "Publius".
Here's more detailed speculation on MtGox's solvency: "The good news is that MtGox made huge bitcoin profits over its lifetime, which are more than enough to cover the holes in operating capital due to seized accounts and the lawsuit filed by Coinlab. The bad news is that no one knows if MtGox kept the bitcoin, or traded it for fiat." http://blog.standardcrypto.com/2013/09/07/who-will-buy-mtgox...
It may not be obvious until you look closely at the pictures, but they're environmentally hardened enough to be placed outside (under an awning, no doubt more for the customer's convenience). Avoiding having to fight for precious indoor retail space likely makes a big difference, and the one I'm most familiar with is now quite a bit bigger than the one previously on the inside (albeit a replacement was forced by Mother Nature).

My father rents from it very occasionally, he finds it a lot more convenient than old video stores since it's at a place he goes every few days, and their business model works for him whereas I don't think Netflix's does.
Yes, the sharpness does decrease with the interpolation. I think the phenomenon is called "overshoot" and I don't know how to mitigate that.

Here is the image interpolated 4X: http://imgur.com/a/8YrxG
Sure. Where do we derive most of our knowledge as individuals? From anecdotes from others. Is that science? No, not at all, but it's where science often starts. It's a preliminary experiment to at least find out some idea of what may be possible. While not repeated, peer reviewed, or verified in any meaningful way that doesn't make this useless.

The OP walked into a room full of very curious people and called them idiots without any attempt at enlightening them on what statements or assumptions might be wrong. In what way is that helpful? HN is not a peer-reviewed journal, it's a place for discussion and he detracted from that discussion.

Instead, I was hoping he might provide something meaningful that we could consider in trying to process this anecdote.
On a related note, Apple also sent a DMCA take down notice to a site which did something similar for iPhone 5S availability:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6680716

Site in question:
http://www.apple-tracker.com
I do a 10 day juice fast about every 6 months or so. Here's my experience:

- drop about 1-1.5lbs/day when I'm a couple days in, mostly water weight.
- feel great and alert despite the hunger
- skin clears up
- experience memory issues, perhaps a supplement could help with this
- usually loose about 5-10 lbs, but gain all but a few pounds back (I'm not over weight to begin with)
- every time I do it, despite the hunger it's a hugely positive experience

I never do a fast with the expectation of loosing weight. You loose weight by having a healthy lifestyle. Fasting helps detox your body.

The one thing I did that made me easily drop 25lbs in 3 months was eliminating all wheat/gluten from my diet. I basically live like I have celiac's disease. By adding higher fat foods in my diet and cutting the sugar/wheat products, I can still gorge myself with meats, nuts and veggies, but not have the negative effects similar to eating a bowl of pasta.

If you love pasta, buy corn pasta. It tastes like regular pasta and is a fraction of the cost of rice pasta, plus it's much lower on the glycemic index.

Coffee also acts as a great appetite suppressant, but I make sure to only have 2/cups day that I dilute in large iced coffees.
WebRTC in the real world: STUN, TURN and signaling
P3P is a small step in what I'm arguing would be the right direction, but I doubt anything like that would bring any significant improvement in general privacy standards unless it was widely supported (all major browsers), legally mandated (with meaningful enforcement against violations), and most important of all, able to adapt as technologies and the ethics of privacy evolve.

It needs to be able to capture the things that significant numbers of people care about and summarise the main types of behavior encountered on real world web sites, but in a way that everyday users can see and configure in a few moments in their browser. This is a tall order, of course, but even a decent attempt at it would probably be better than the utter contempt for privacy and blatant exploitation of users' ignorance that is widespread today.

As a benchmark, I suggest looking at the way organisations like Facebook have presented privacy settings. Non-technical people understand concepts like sharing data with everyone vs. limited audiences, or allowing their name/photo to be associated with something. Significant numbers of people do set these preferences, and do object when they are violated or when their "preferences" are changed for them. But the choices probably have to be explained and configured at that kind of level of simplicity or it'll all be too much for most people to bother with.
Does it really matter if the pure concept of something is not a scam when the embodied culture of it clearly is?
In the latest build, you no longer need to #include all of the individual files, #include <pebble.h> is all you need
I would say that it is "penny wise and pound foolish" for a lawyer to nickel and dime by charging for expenses like these. The bigger picture is actually that the lawyer realize that eeking out every little expense from a startup client isn't productive. The aim should be helping that company to get to a stage that they can have a big exit, and charging for things like these is only going to constrain that possibility. Lawyers often seem to pass on charges that in any other industry would be considered a cost of doing business. The aim here is not to accept that from a lawyer. The main cost should be the rate rather than the ancillary services and expenses.
In all fairness, IBM is short for International Business Machines. Note how often they get dinged for their German branch "cooperating" with the Nazis (as opposed to ending up in the concentration camps themselves?).
Yes, our certificate is self-signed for this demo. "Not to worry."
Then there a lot of moron drug addicts on this forum.
> tens of hundreds of thousands of visitors?

So, you mean millions of visitors? That is impressive!
Depends on the output level you want. Honestly, I don't need the full output of my home stereo for things like board game parties in the yard. A buddy of mine makes battery-powered amplifier-and-speaker combos into ersatz book boxes. It's more than enough to plug a phone into and play some MP3s on a picnic. There is a pretty big market for all kinds of levels of devices.
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"From a business point of view, long hours by programmers are a key to profitability. ..."

wrote Phil Greenspun[1], here's the rest of the quote:

"... Suppose that a programmer needs to spend 25 hours per week keeping current with new technology, getting coordinated with other programmers, contributing to documentation and thought leadership pieces, and comprehending the structures of the systems being extended. Under this assumption, a programmer who works 55 hours per week will produce twice as much code as one who works 40 hours per week. In The Mythical Man-Month, the only great book ever written on software engineering, Fred Brooks concludes that no software product should be designed by more than two people. He argues that a program designed by more than two people might be more complete but it will never be easy to understand because it will not be as consistent as something designed by fewer people. This means that if you want to follow the best practices of the industry in terms of design and architecture, the only way to improve speed to market is to have the same people working longer hours. Finally there is the common sense notion that the smaller the team the less management overhead. A product is going to get out the door much faster if it is built by 4 people working 70-hour weeks (180 productive programmer-hours per week, after subtracting for 25 hours of coordination and structure comprehension time) than if by 12 people working 40-hour weeks (the same net of 180 hours per week). The 12-person team will inevitably require additional managers and all-day meetings to stay coordinated."[1]

[1] http://philip.greenspun.com/ancient-history/managing-softwar... (halfway down the page on this)
The point is, policy makers don't think like criminals.

I'm all for discussing legalization if we are talking about individual liberties (in which case, drugs can't be heavily taxed, to avoid a black market), but Kofi Annan and Fernando Henrique are presenting it as a solution to crime when there's no data back it up (the countries that legalized drugs so far don't face crime and poverty to begin with). So far it's just wishful thinking.
Mozilla isn't positioned to stand up to Google while they're getting $300 million a year [0] from them. (For reference Mozilla's 2011 revenue was $163M [1]) I trust (to a point) their motivations but I would imagine that much dough comes with more strings attached than just making Google the default search in Firefox.

I think we're very lucky to have Mozilla in the FOSS world but the will for better privacy will have to come from the community.

[0] - http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2013/01/22/so-why-is...

[1] - http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/annualreport/2011/fa...

edit: I didn't state it explicitly but my argument is based on the idea that Google is primarily interested in a low-privacy and ad-based web.
Hyponatremia is usually caused by drinking so much water that it dilutes the sodium in your blood, not by losing sodium out of your blood over time. It would take a long time to lose that much sodium! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overhydration
The Most Commonly Used Passwords From Adobe's 40m Hacked Users
Great answer. Sounds like I'm reading the words of a true skeptic.
Was anyone else expecting a (2007) after the article title? I mean, did this even need to be written?
enhance?
> The vast majority of people's kidneys rapidly and efficiently remove any excess salt to maintain homeostasis.

Yep, and when your kidneys can't do that and you get into homeostatic imbalance you don't "get high blood pressure", you get organ damage.

And part of homeostasis is maintaining the body's fluid balance, separately from osmoregulation (under which salt regulation would fall)
So, it's "bragging rights". But, temporary bragging rights considering the fact that they have at least ~100 teams per year and unless your startup goes somewhere after YC, you're just wasting your time.
Click bait in what sense? They are only requesting access to read (not post) tweets.

And the reason is because that's how Twitter sort of forces you to do it with their API rate limiting.
Redbox in McDonalds and Walmarts are probably the bigger reason for Blockbuster's demise. Its amazing how busy those kiosks are.