skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"There’s a clause in your agreement that talks about incurring expenses in connection with your representation and they can bill you for these up to a certain amount without prior approval.
Tell them you require them to get your approval before incurring such expenses. And list out the expenses you will not pay for. It’s likely they will have a clause detailing the types of third party expenses they can incur on your behalf. Push back on this list and exclude items like mileage, travel, food, phone charges, copying and research expenses such as Lexis-Nexis, storage and data management services."

Ridiculous. As a business person that has dealt with lawyers, consultants, accountants (in the bricks and mortar world, not the startup lottery) as well as has clients that I do work for (so I've been on the other side) I would totally steer clear of anyone that comes out saying things like this. Unless I was desperate.

It's just not the way to have a professional relationship which involves trust.

Get approval on every expense? Even minor ones? Not going to reimburse for something unless on a white list? Get serious.

This strikes me as penny wise and pound (and time) foolish. The major cost is the hourly rate and whether you are being billed honestly for that (or not). And that is something you have no control over unless you are watching them all the time.

To expect that it matters that you will not approve a minor charge when the attorney can easily jack up his billing on the major charge is a waste of time.

Better to question the bills after the fact and if you feel that you shouldn't have to pay for the lunch bill that your attorney had when meeting with someone on your behalf while leaving a large tip by all means bring up the issue.

But just like with employees a certain amount of leeway is often necessary.
killing your customers seems like a poor business plan though
The difference is in a hypothetical future where Apple no longer supports iWork but you need to access old documents. If it's a documented XML format, you can theoretically write your own code pretty easily to get your data out of it. Undocumented binary? Good luck with that.
Sparse fast Fourier transform is even more "magical" than fast Fourier transform (FFT). If you assume that the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) has only k non zero coefficients, then, there exists an algorithm to compute it in O(k log(n)). That's right, you do not have to see the entire signal to compute the DFT, which is pretty awesome.

If you are interested, see http://groups.csail.mit.edu/netmit/sFFT/ .
I'll miss Blockbuster. They were a staple of my childhood and I have many fond memories of them and the film nerds who used to work at their stores. I think they could have held on longer. I've never really liked Netflix mail service, given the few days of delay. And their streaming selection is still limited. Plus, I don't have cable/satellite TV, so it's sad to me that I think there's still an unserved segment of customers out there. But with current new DVD prices ($4 - $12) I don't see a compelling reason to rent them, and places like Target and Walmart will probably enjoy selling them for quite some time, like how BestBuy sold a good selection of reasonably priced CDs for years in the face of Napster and new online distribution, while competing CD stores all went out of business.
Yup, timeframe. The first iPad was announced as coming "next month", which turned out to be 5:00pm on the last business day (a Friday) of April.
I was thinking something more like ansible.

Of course I'm partial to my new pave project: https://bitbucket.org/mixmastamyk/pave
It is based on fabric, and uses a yaml file to automate it.
Yeah, I was wondering how this article could not mention Redbox. According to their website[1], they have 35,900 boxes nationwide. The rise of Redbox surely had to have impacted Blockbuster's business.

[1]: http://www.redbox.com/facts
Shouldn't point 1 be the inverse?

If you are working with a group of people that are considered "super smart", and you are in that group, well, regardless of what you say, the inclusion in the group makes you also "super smart". So, in fact you should be working even less than 40 hours and get much much more done than the "average" group.

It almost seems like Amazon culture foster's this attitude of "we hire really smart people, if you can't keep up, you need to work harder." This might make sense if one or two people in the group were doing the long hours but when its the whole group, well, I would suggest that the company has done a great job of selling the kool-aid.
Care to elaborate on C# 5 variance issues, please?
Silicon Valley tech foundation launches $1 million competition for safer guns
I use the ever eloquent, "yolo".
I think what others have posted about serialization, character pieces, or short stories are all ways novels can make sense of the MVP concept of lean. There are also sites such as Wattpad that allow the author to publish as they go and get crowd feedback. They can then rework sections based on how fans react to characters, story arcs, etc.
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Ask HN: Where's the Good UX Research?
Have you found it? Does it exist? WHERE IS IT?
Alright. Let's assume the massive difference in quantity of violence is substantial. We're talking 10s of thousands dead via cartel trade vs. 2 alleged attempted hits on the silk road. Even then that was the operator of the marketplace defending users, it wasn't a vendor killing another vendor to gain a competitive advantage.
No, no, fabric uses paramiko as the ssh abstraction layer.
Hey! thanks for the note! It's just meant to be punchy and stand out :) We don't actually aim to be Napster for mobile.
I like how you make it sound so incredibly easy - especially thinking back to how much I struggled with the math behind this :-) (To be very clear: There's nothing wrong with explaining things in a simple way and leaving out the scary parts)

Great post.
I thought it used PHP? At least the question on StackOverflow that allegedly led to his demise asked about PHP issues.
I believe the results of decriminalization may vary according to your social context. I live in Brazil and I don't think decriminalization would reduce violence around here, it would, at its best, move the focus away from the drug addict to other parts of the society.

Collaborators from large drug organizations (tens of thousands of criminals, running millionaire operations, heavily armed) won't simply boo-hoo, go home and look for real jobs once drugs are decriminalized. They would look for the new weaker link of the chain and then concentrate all their violence on it. Once drugs are legalized and are freely sold on public points of sale (whatever government calls them), criminals would target the "supply chain" and distribution network. All of the sudden drug organizations would find themselves operating wholesale, not retail anymore. They would steal cargo to sell it at poor city areas or in places where official suppliers haven't established POSes yet. Stealing (buying for zero) and selling is much more attractive than "cooking" and selling. It's like outsourcing your production the bad way, keeping the benefit of higher profit margins. Higher margins lead to more competition, thus guns, thus violence among organizations (this is the current scenario in cities like Rio where drug organizations fight for territory dominance[1]). On the bright side, anyone interested in consuming drugs would be spared of this fight. They would be the same people who ever bought drugs, but now with the benefit of new regulations, treatment and care from the government.

[1] This video shows a battle between two drug organizations in Rio that mobilized around 100 members coming from different slums. You can see a great deal of collateral damage in the local population, and this is what my point is all about. Watch from 1:00 onwards (sorry, Portuguese language all the way). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etu6YWC-rT4 Criminals were even able to shot down a police helicopter killing two officers. Drug war at its finest.
I have been programming in Java for quite a while and unfortunately I can't recommend a generic Java web programming book. Moreove, you don't need one.

Web development in Java is highly fragmented by the framework of choice. There are several frameworks like Spring MVC, Struts, JSF , Wicket , Tapestry etc. and the new Play Framework. If you are prepared to put in the time, you can start with Spring MVC --- this is the best documented web framework in Java .Spring folks have created excellent tutorials and there are several other blogs on this subject that can get you upto speed. Moreover, every enterprise java job that you will apply for will demand Spring expertise.

I hope this helps.
>> The sound wave produced by a piano note is a simple sine wave.

> No, it's not. A piano note is a complicated stack of overtones (some of which are harmonic and some of which aren't) and transients. If it was just a sine wave, it would sound like a sine wave and not like a piano.

This is really such a fundamental* aspect of frequencies and sound, it should have been the starting point of the article. "Look how noisy and squiggly this wave is, but with FFT we can see that it really only consists of waves at multiples of the same frequency".

* no pun intended
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The bootstrapped.fm link makes me wonder what other wonderful sites the HN population visits, but that I have no clue about.
About 4 months was enough for me to drop right around 70lbs a couple of years ago.

Keto has a lot of cultists that think it's magic when it comes to weight loss. It's not; it's still fundamentally a caloric deficit diet for that purpose.

But it is a really interesting metabolic hack when you start doing some research into it. It's an absolutely fascinating testament to the adaptability of the human body and its ability to metabolize energy from other sources when the "cheap" energy it can get from carbohydrates is unavailable. There's a lot more going on than just burning fat when the body is in ketosis.

Ultimately, it's a bit too restrictive for me to stay on indefinitely, but the shift in mental state and energy level is beneficial enough for me to cycle on it a few times a year just because.
Put it on your server as a regular file. Update your script references to point to the file.
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I can't speak to what other products like Impala, Apache Drill, etc. offer, but Presto supports the following:

- Standard ANSI SQL syntax, including all the basic features you'd expect from a SQL engine (aggregations, joins, etc) and other more advanced features like analytic window functions, common table expressions (WITH), approximate distinct counts and percentiles.

- It's extensible. The open source code base includes a connector for Hive, but we also have some custom connectors for internal data stores at Facebook. We're working on a connector for HBase, too.

- In comparison to Hive, it's very fast and efficient. For our workloads it's at least 10x more CPU-efficient. Airbnb is using it and has had a similar experience.

- Most importantly, Presto has been battle-tested. It's been in production at Facebook since January and it's used by 1,000 employees every day running 30,000 queries daily. We've hit every edge case you can imagine.
"Spend time finding someone you trust"

Sounds very "find a good lawyer".

How do you find someone you can trust? Or do you mean someone who appears trustworthy?

Also noting that the parent comment says that they stopped checking the bills. There are cases in business where people know this dynamic and once they aren't being checked they tend to take more chances. Hence even the person who relates "he is great and I trust him" may not be aware of what is currently happening with billing (if they are not checking).
huh. so https://twitter.com/ColorlessG is male, and interested in politics, tech, science, art and sports.

maybe you need to detect when there's nothing significant and say so? :o)
They claimed to have caught the Dread Pirate Roberts... but then again who's to say?
With the home key instead of the window key, it is a no brainer.
I'm not sure, actually. My impressions on canola/rapeseed oil are quite vague. But, as I understood it, traditional rapeseed contained unhealthy acids and that canola was a modified variant to reduce those acids (thus the name: CANadian Oil Low Acid). Rapeseed, as far as I know, is always unhealthy, no matter how you process it. Canola has been made less unhealthy but is probably not as healthy as many alternatives, such as grapeseed oil (which has a fat profile somewhat similar to olive oil, but can be used in high heat cooking as it has a very high smoke point).
Brilliant analysis that finally decodes the last scene in the movie Inception.
The Twitter API calls are rate limited and it would be impossible to handle any meaningful traffic.
> How long would you be comfortable fasting for without medical supervision?

One week if you don't have any major health issues.

Not even a day if you're suffering from some serious condition.

Plan for less physical activity than usual, but do not become a vegetable. Take some short walks, do some small work with your hands. Meditation is great during this time, but you have to be somewhat accustomed to it.

Restart eating step by step. Begin with some fruit juice or clear soup. Then graduate to very soft, almost overcooked rice or something like that. A vegetarian diet for the first few days is beneficial. The longer you're fasting, the more cautious you have to be with restarting your diet.
Feels like click bait to me. They could use their own authentication token to use the Twitter API. Not mine.
For anyone who is into electronic music, I put together a coding playlist on spotify that I've put a lot of thought into.

Mostly ambient, but enough variety to keep it interesting.

spotify link:
spotify:user:1215536393:playlist:5RkC3rYWnMUCZQGJpbZzM1

Hopefully you'll discover a few cool artists you haven't heard of before :)
It's in French (turn subtitles on if needed)
Are you sure about all that.. I read they have a large stash of their own bitcoins..?
> You could just tell them a handful of numbers—the sizes of the different circles in the picture above.

Maybe I'm crazy and just missing something, but this feels a little too good to be true. This would put the set of smooth curves in 1-1 correspondence with the set of finite sets (since each curve is being specified completely by a finite set of numbers). But the set of finite sets is countably infinite since it's a countable union (this may require the axiom of choice) and the set of smooth curves is uncountably infinite, a contradiction.

(Disclaimer: I know nothing about Fourier analysis.)
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sex is my meditation.
It's tragic that money that could have been spent on social programs like ones I've helped run was instead going to ridiculous and ineffective tactics. Sorry for your loss.
"Half of these are unethical"

Which ones exactly and why? (Serious question if you are making a general statement please back it up with more information.)
Yes, I think so, although it's been a couple years since I recall the proof.
Yea I think by default Safari blocks third party cookies. I don't use Safari but I remember having to work on a bug somebody was having and that ended up being the cause. Same behavior on Mobile Safari too I believe.
I'm in the mid of two-days Isagenix cleansing fast (only cleansing liquid). Gym included.

Always works like magic. The goodness comes from body's ability to eliminate toxins and that unblocks lots of energy.

Within mind, body and spirit too :)
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>2) strangely after 3 days the stomach stops shrinking and I swear I have the most energy and focus for 3 or 4 days. I use to stop once I started getting tired again.
>Had several people I know do 40 day fast and well they got more energy again around the 2nd week.

That's not strange so much as an indicator that the body has probably shifted into a ketogenic metabolic state at those points. It's being discussed a little bit more upthread.
> How would you convince a Solipsist that there is an objective truth?

"I refute you!"

Joking aside, I feel Solipsism is immature. Do you know which demographic also comprises Solipsists? Two year olds. "Mommy doesn't exist when I close my eyes." This gives Solipsists an excuse to stop thinking critically about things like ethics, et al. So in this sense, Solipsism's just a cop-out which justifies laziness. When someone says "objective reality doesn't exist", what I really hear is "everybody's equal; you all get a trophy; we all have a right to our opinions". You might recognize this as the Red Herring Fallacy. I think Solipsism is a subtle version of this same fallacy.

Paul Graham says something similar about the subjectivity of aesthetics * : "Your mother at this point is not trying to teach you important truths about aesthetics. She's trying to get the two of you to stop bickering." I think this applies to Moral Relativism, Solipsism, and generally most philosophies which deny the existence of objectivity.

* http://www.paulgraham.com/taste.html

Post Modernism is often said to have been a reaction to Modernism. But I think it's even more important to realize that Post Modernism is a reaction to World War I and II. After WWII, I imagine people realized "Science and objectivity gave us cars and electricity, but it also gave us mustard gas and nuclear weapons. Maybe this whole Modernism gig isn't so great after all..."

According to Literary Post Modernism, there's lots of conflicting narratives rather than a single objective perspective. During the chaos of World Wars I and II, I imagine war-stories naturally contradicted one another. I like the conflicting POV aspect because it can encourage the reader to question the author's reliability, like in Edgar Allen Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart. Unfortunately, Post Modernism can also have the opposite effect: encouraging readers to quit thinking too hard and to accept the text as it is since "it's all equally valid". This negative aspect fits really well with the self-esteem movement, which (I'll say again) I think is a cop out for thinking critically.

You may notice I'm not refuting Solipsism per se, but ulterior motives for believing Solipsism is valid. This is because going down the road of "formal proofs" probably won't yield anything convincing. We'd simply talk past each other, and in circles, and bicker over definitions. But at the end of the day, it's pretty difficult to disprove abstractions and ideologies sin finding an inherent contradiction. And I'll even admit, maybe Solipsism actually is true. Who knows? I won't claim outright that Solipsism is false. But in my own experience, I find it very unlikely that Solipsism is true * . And I do want to acknowledge a possible bias for believing "Solipsism is true" due to it's convenience.

* http://yudkowsky.net/rational/bayes

p.s. I do find the Harry Potter fan-fic kinda weird...
> this leads me to hold the same belief as you do

His belief was that tax money should be spent on rehabilitation instead of the drug war. Shouldn't you be against using tax money for this and instead supporting private charities?
Very Interesting Why brands should choose Twitter over Facebook?
According to John Siracusa, Apple made the new iWork file formats so that changes could sync better with iCloud. The idea being that it’s more economical to sync lots of small packages instead of sending one XML file.

Apparently, the new file formats use a Google technology called ‘Protocol Buffers’[1]. According to Google, Protocol Buffers have some advantages over XML: they’re simpler, smaller, faster, less ambiguous, and generate data access classes that are easier to use programmatically.

Here are some more details on the new file formats: http://pxlnv.com/blog/exploring-the-new-iwork-for-mac-file-f...

[1] https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/overview...
Their kids typically don't get a decent education. Give me a location in a developed capital and a price bracket.
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> I have to disagree I find that a lot of people from India do not pronounce the syllables in the way that a native speaker does.

But they can be understood. And they do speak well, apart from the funny (to us) accent. I personally find it more palatable than southern American accents, and more understandable than Caribbean accents (and I'm married to a Caribbean woman!), but that's just me...
What @kozlovsky said :) Only advice I would add, is SELECT .. FOR UPDATE doesn't (and shouldn't) use MVCC, so it guarantees you the most recent version of the row.

In my comment I said the use case for this feature is not typical, but I can list the case:

If you needed to read the most recent value, apply logic (external to the DB) and then write back a new value you will likely want serializable to prevent lost-updates.

A hypothetical (but poor example) might be a stats counter where you read the value, add one, then save it back.
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Tidal force can be a blessing instead. Some says that plate tectonics plays a vital role in making Earth a habitable planet. It requires continuous source of heat from inside, which is supplied by radioactive elements[1] on Earth, but in a gas giant moon, tidal force could play the same role.

[1]: (Off-topic) The fact that our whole planet's life basically survived thanks to the gigantic amount of radioactivity buried inside, hot enough to keep the whole planet's core molten for 4.6 billion years, gives me endless amusement whenever I see someone ranting about how radioactivity has no place in nature and is a deadly scourge we're inflicting on Earth.
> The longer you're fasting, the more cautious you have to be with restarting your diet.

Do you have any experience on what happens if you don't? It certainly makes intuitive sense that you need to ease yourself back into "normalcy", but what are the potential risks that everyone is very explicit about trying to avoid?
Congrats on open sourcing this. It sounds really great and I'm excited to get a chance to play with it.

Do you think this would be a decent candidate for click stream analysis?
When Twitter had ~$140M in revenue their price was ~50x revenue.

Source:
http://www.quora.com/What-are-revenue-multiples-for-technolo...
Unfortunately you still aren't able to use your own hardware how you'd like on iOS, even with a developer account. Certain private APIs (like the VPN one)[1] require an "Entitlements" file linked to a provisioning profile that is difficult or impossible to forge.

1. https://github.com/chrisballinger/openvpn-server-ios#openvpn...
> When you eat too much salt, your blood gets saltier, so your brain tells your body it's thirsty. So you drink more water, diluting your salty blood, and with more blood pumping through your system, you get high blood pressure.

To my understanding this is false. The vast majority of people's kidneys rapidly and efficiently remove any excess salt to maintain homeostasis.
Isn't that also a result in the quantity of packages sent? If you want to run a business, you'd need a much larger set of "random" mailboxes then if you are sending out a handful of bombs over years.