skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was some related method mentioned recently on hackaday too, reportedly somewhat easier, where a guy in steps 1-2 prints with inkjet, and then dusts some toner over the ink and bakes the result in an oven. Never really got into hardware yet, but might help someone:

http://hackaday.com/2013/11/02/perfect-pcbs-with-an-inkjet-p...
Going to the library doesn't get your room cleaned and our meals prepared.

The whole point of the suggestion is that a Cruise is an entire package of benefits.
It may be great that Amazon's investing activities are heavy in CAPEX, but that doesn't mean that is how all tech companies should operate. Especially since the companies mentioned have rather different lines of business and business models
Can still be interesting, but yeah most startup level stuff is solved.

If you'd said that the challenges facing most start-ups don't involve solving a particularly interesting technical challenge on day one, I'd agree that this was likely.

However, if most start-up level stuff more generally were solved, everyone would be running successful start-ups, which clearly most people aren't.
The Rise of Siri. http://theriseofsiri.com/ It's pretty short, but it reads like it's happening right now. Fun to see stuff we read about on Techmeme fictionalized.
Cyberteams duke it out in the World Series of hacking (Defcon CTF 2013)
PROTIP: Just redirect vrypan.com/plus to your G+ page.

Bonus: Use vrypan.com/+
Not for me: I get horribly carsick if I try to read inside of a moving car.
Veterans Day: See This Amazing Video and Song by Rylee Preston
In 2007, Rylee Preston's family friend, SPC Justin Rollins, was killed in Iraq while serving our country. Inspired by Justin's Story Rylee began writing the lyrics to what would become, "Soldier's Light".
Yeah, I guess for that community super-high refresh rates can matter. But I think it's reasonable for those types of users to know how to change an about:config option ;)
Fantastic post. It's about time we start looking at QR as a technology instead of a marketing engine.
This suggests there's a major problem in the mid-level management that's communicating the message. Telling a front-line manager to put someone in a bucket to meet the quota results in bad feelings, poor decisions that lead to loss of talent and bad publicity.

The alternative doesn't have to be abolishing stack ranking. The manager's manager should instead ask for justification and help the manager raise standards if they are too low. If not, he should repeat the same process with his manager. The +-3% variance indicates that the executive team expected this to happen. Since the feedback indicates that it's not happening in some (many) cases, hopefully this has triggered top-down conversations on the right way to implement.
Backing up what ricefield said, responsive design is making something that works well in many different viewing contexts (desktop, mobile, tablet, smart TV, etc). http://zurb.com/word/responsive-web-design
Dont worry, Yahoo will fire a lot of people soon.
Yahoo "bought a lot of buzz" to drive its stock up so big investors can cash in, they will trim their workforce soon,
Monetizing your website isn't that big of a deal.
it is natural selection similar to Darwin prize - if you're stupid enough to seriously b!tch on internal _anonymous_ board ...

Reminds me about anonymous surveys in some previous BigCo where emailed links to the surveys contained unique ID.
And the sequester by the US gov't was designed to be so disastrously bad that the different parties would be forced to come up with a better solution.

Whoops.
Quick, Everyone IPO
Google Profiles used your email id as your unique identifier which made more sense. Now I have an email id, a name and a g+ profile unique url which are all different.
Yep, it should redraw the page when you hit the back button. I'll fix it. -- nd
This looks like precomputed radiance transfer but for pixel art, cool.
Even though I prefer +simoneau, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=simoneau, I had come around to living with +MatthewSimoneau (if only to keep someone else from getting it). When it required me to add some trailing garbage after my name though, I also canceled the process.
You realize that this "tipping culture" is not that prevalent outside the US? In many countries, especially in Europe, service and stuff is paid market wages, and there's no reason to tip by default, just when you are extremely satisfied with the service.

Does the fact that I didn't know about "tipping culture" when I was first time in the US makes me an asshole?
> You might be thinking now that I’m full of shit, that I didn’t really have a stroke. The thing is, it felt real to me, as real, as they say, as a heart attack.

People don't appreciate just how strong panic attacks can be, nor how fierce anxiety disorders are.

Luckily, these disorders usually respond well to CBT and similar talking therapies.

> Anxiety is often caused by too much work, too much pressure. And often, not enough exercise.

That's not a definition I'd use. That sounds more like stress. To be clear here are the definitions I use (which may not be correct): "pressure" is the good feeling that motivates people, the deadlines and the rush of adrenaline. "Stress" is pressure gone too far, pressure that is uncomfortable. Or stress is caused by lack of control over something. You want to get something done and keep getting interrupted by the phone - that's stress. "Anxiety" is a feeling of uneasiness caused by an event (whether the event actually happened or not; or if it's about a future event whether it could happen or not.) "Did I leave the gas ring on?" "Did I lock my car?" "Are his hands clean?" etc.
They already required an installer, since it was a plugin.
1. The word "ridicules" is a verb. You meant "ridiculous".

2. It is not the notion, it is a fact. Widely confirmed by independent sources which you can find by simple Google search or on any "current events" page in any major media outlet.

3. I brought it as an example that appeasing somebody and identifying with somebody is not the same. If you don't like this example, take example of Chamberlain appeasing Germans. I didn't use that because that has a high chance of taking discussion offtopic, but you managed to take it offtopic anyway.

4. The original point was that appeasing and being a mouthpiece is far from being the same. You still did not manage to bring any argument to the contrary. NYT published a lot of things harmful to Bush. It also published a lot of things useful to Bush. Thinking that the same newspaper that published the story of Stellar Wind was parroting Bush doesn't make any sense.
That's true, and if your workload is such that you're able to predictably query over a relatively small fraction of the database, then I can imagine it working well - it effectively buys you auto-partitioning. If your queries run over a larger subsection of the data, you're still going to run into the fundamental problem of most triple stores: they're join and random i/o heavy. I've not heard that Datomic has anything special going on with regards to this issue, although I may be out of date.

This isn't intended to bag on triple stores - I work on them for a living - or Datomic specifically. Triple stores are very useful and in many ways liberating to work with, but they do present challenges when querying over lots of data.
Ask HN - anyone making money off of email lists?
either through advertising or affiliate marketing?
You need evidence that economic prosperity should not come at the expense of human rights? Or that America was founded on the principles of restricted government and individual liberty seeking freedom from religious persecutions? Or that shaping moments of this nation was a tax revolt that led to the American Revolution? I don't have time to give history lessons, but I'm not making it up. Check it out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States
The system is so retarded for obvious reasons. I guess the only reason top executives choose for this system is that it forces:

- a very competitive attitude among employees (for better or worse).

- managers to remove "rotten apples" from the company, even if it means occasionally some good people have to leave.

Still, to me the benefits don't seem to outweigh the costs. The first point could result in back-stabbing politics; the 2nd point in removing extremely valuable employees which might demoralise teams.
On cruise ships you tend to tip the staff at the end of the voyage.
Check out Ink's block-grid (http://zurb.com/ink/docs.php#block-grid). It's a lifesaver for working with Gmail mobile. Alternatively, if you don't need Outlook support, ZURB's original responsive templates support Gmail mobile quite well (http://zurb.com/playground/responsive-email-templates).
5 NES Games That Taught Me About Life
Fine but I simply use KUbuntu.
Has nothing to do with my estimation of Musk. There are amoral people who have giant pools of money, who will do anything to make even more money.

Spreading rumors is one very common tactic, but actual sabotage/'black ops' are also very possible.
I've been running Mint for over a year now and I'm pretty sure that xorg, kernel and firefox have had updates in that time.

On my current Linux Mint install (which is less than a year old and not heavily customized), my /etc/apt/sources.list.d has the following line:

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring-security main restricted universe multiverse

I'm not sure about the bootloader, but I'm pretty sure I've gotten kernel, X and Firefox updates between major releases.

I'm going to say this person's working with outdated or incorrect information, and/or security.ubuntu.com somehow got removed from his local installation.
For context, NYC is doing about 50,000 evictions a year, which is about 25 times as many for 10 times the population. Source is trapped in a pdf here: http://www.housingnyc.com/downloads/research/pdf_reports/ia1...
You answered your own question tho, didn't you? No, it makes you someone who comes from a different culture, and I think it would be safe to assume that the person to whom you're responding would agree.
Why Should You Care About Google Authorship?
It was mainly in the mid west, they used to distribute it in Minneapolis up until like a year ago. It was a free deal that was in most places where you find community papers (Coffee shops, bars, etc.). I really enjoyed getting the new issue every Thursday. It was also cool that the AV Club section had a lot of local content.

Doesn't shock me that they went this route, they had been dropping print cities pretty quickly.
They want to split in lot of optional modules, it's just the beginning. IMO it's a good idea. For your problem, perhaps they should add a custom build/download tool like jQueryUI.
Children's books are often written to convey a general pattern of human behavior. Teamwork, sharing, empathy, etc. It's not a bad starting point for a conversation, because it helps everyone see the pattern you're talking about quickly. Just make sure to follow up with actual details to fill in the generic outline!
A better option, in my opinion, is an all-inclusive resort. My preference is Mexico. After going recently, my main takeaway was how nice life would be if everything were always taken care of for me -- cleaning, food, etc. It's going to cost more than a cruise, but cruises have all sorts of hidden/surprise fees that you don't have at a good all-inclusive resort. Our resort was calm, peaceful and full of couples, no rowdy partiers. Good internet access, the highest quality service imaginable, and some of the best restaurants I've ever experienced (where you can order whatever you want without the stress of worrying about cost!). If you go during low season, you can get a great rate, and some rain shouldn't bother you if you're there to work.
This has gone on long enough, and is everywhere. I'd love to see a lawsuit against the credit card companies for automatically siding with a customer on chargeback disputes (which they do all the time).

"only to then claim a charge dispute once the project is funded."

- the credit card companies fault.

"It also appears that this particular pledger has done this over a hundred times"

- also the credit card companies fault.

It's time to seriously criticize them. Charge backs should be noted on one's credit report. Allowing and siding with an individual to chargeback over 3 times a year is just negligence and fraud on the credit card company's behalf.
"People who have this phone number may be able to find you on Google services."

yeah, no thanks.
There's been a lot of code that's been written / rewritten for QL.
I was recently on a college recruiting trip for my startup and I said something similar to a candidate and I meant it.

I've worked in four startups in the valley and while each team had a large number of really smart engineers, all but my current one had some real lackluster ones as well. Maybe it just takes time to figure out who those folks are. I've been here less than a year.

This company has extremely high hiring standards and will turn away viable candidates who fail to impress. We spend a ton of time in recruiting, but I'd like to think the result is worth it.

Reminds me of a talk about 10x engineers I watched recently:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGkVM1B5NuI

That was from the Eng VP at joyent.

Since then, I've had a really bad experience working with one or more joyent engineers who were anything but 10x. More like x/10.
the main difference :)

" The leadership was usually executed independently of the one in ten deaths of the rank and file"
I get the frustration with the litany of crazy startup ideas that no normal person would consider a business.

But somewhere in that crowd, there are startups that do great work. Everpix just shut down, but they had a gorgeous product and a 12% conversion rate. With another round of funding they might done quite well.
What's with the trailing "8" on every page, is it a typo or does it mean something more? ;)
Yep. You may get different results based on the code path taken, the compiler, and (maybe?) the OS. Most of the time the value at that memory location will probably be a zero byte (or a zero word/dword), but sometimes it may not.
If I had to guess, and this really is just a guess, I'd say the phone number requirement is an attempt to discourage whatever the short-url equivalent of domain squatting is.
What difference does it make? If your committed to reducing an organisation by X%, then a certain number of people are going to be fired. And it makes sense they are the lowest performing percentile.

So maybe some people were rated as "misses" when they weren't, but they were still the lowest ranked employee in their unit. Would this argument be mute if they were ranked "least effective" instead?
Indeed. A huge corporation would never do anything unethical for money.
While choosing a unique url you also give Google the right to (almost) publicly list your mobile number (Helping a user find you if they know your number). I can see websites, which store all possible number combinations to drive page views, trying to get username, email and other details from this Google feature. Soon everyone who gives Google their mobile number will have their name, G+ profile and possibly email id made public.
It's more useful when you keep the north at north.
Probably because most projects will use uirouter: https://github.com/angular-ui/ui-router
Ugh. I meant to say Panama, and I'm wrong anyway. Derp moment. Disregard.
As a quick reality check, we're talking about boring old URL rewriting here. "Cool new invention mangled by legal paranoia" is a solid story, but other stories would probably fit the circumstances better.
When tournament Scrabble players have probability questions they usually turn to Quackle, a GPL program created by Jason Katz-Brown and John O'Laughlin that can simulate scrabble games. Not sure if it has a way to find this particular answer.
I also thing firing the bottom X% is absolutely normal for a business.

It's a free market. If you're ranking in the bottom X%, then it's likely your own fault.
The typical solution (although I am not a manager) is to bucket up staff until you reach some predetermined size (i.e., collate staff upwards in the hierarchy until you reach something like 100 people). This still really only works if you have a large population doing similar work, and it just so happens that they're all divided into small teams. You probably need to still do level setting (e.g., this part of the org worked on a harder/easier problem than this other part of the org). Not an easy problem to solve.
He should have added the code to install a compiz plugin to move that damn Unity Bar from the left to the bottom of the screen like 90% of normal human beings have wanted it since the beginning.

Let's just be honest, Mark Shuttleworth has Steve Jobs envy, as many creative types do. They want to be the "creative arrogant leader that everyone has to listen to".
<vrypan> is upset that Google+'s TOU for custom URLs gives the company too much unfettered discretion.

In reality, Google+'s overall TOU for the service also gives the company plenty of discretion. As do similar ones from Twitter and Facebook. (Gasp! Bulk-delete your accounts now!) The overall Google+ TOU says, for instance, "Google reserves the right to restrict the content on your Google+ Page at its discretion."

Facebook says you can't create "more than one personal account" or provide any "false personal information," which probably half of the folks on HN have done at some time or another. Facebook can "remove any content or information you post on Facebook" if, in its own discretion, the company feels like it violates the TOU.

Twitter's TOU says it can "create limits on use and storage at our sole discretion at any time without prior notice to you." The company can delete tweets "at our sole discretion." And so on.

In reality, as <davidjgraph> says, Google (and Facebook and Twitter) would not invoke this on a large scale. There would be a reputational impact. The language does come from the lawyers, but largely because of the plaintiff's bar, not because SV GCs enjoy adding this language to TOUs.

tl;dr: If you're going to assume the worst from every company, you might as well never create any account or log in anywhere.
From GitHub TOS:

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Not really the right comparison, since you're not using the cruise for transportation.

Better question might be deaths/injuries/etc per day, as compared to living in a city, a cabin in the woods, etc.
According to his site, the daily rate is actually cheaper to take a cruise than to pay rent on a 3 bdr house in much of the bay area.
> This was probably unclear, but I meant that people understand that goverment gets its money from the taxpayers.

The guy's point was that money has to come from somewhere, in this case, from taxpayers. The next step, then, is to think about the consequences of confiscating a massive amount of money more than before.

> Perhaps, but I personally believe that this feedback loop is negligable.

Your personal beliefs don't affect the way people behave: they pursue their personal gain. Business owners (ie. tax donkeys) will just fuck off if taxes get too onerous, and people will just stop working if it's just not worth it. Both feedback loops are very real, and will make any BI implementation unsustainable, and again, thus not worth pursuing.

> It's definitely not the exact same thing, one of the differences is that it's what the society democratically decided

You can't base any arguments on The People collectively deciding anything when the fact that taxation is extortion (or robbery) has never even crossed the mind of 99% of all people anywhere. Besides, only you can make decisions for yourself - no one else has the right to do that, because no one else is you. You own your own body, and your actions, and so does everyone else. We're all just individuals - not The Borg.

> Higher aggregate utility is a term I created by myself (and I'm apparently not alone)

Well, what do you think it means?

> 1. Decreasing marginal utility of money.

Does it actually decrease though? Clearly, if you want to eat an apple, the marginal utility of the next one is lower than the first's.

But if you first get 100 dollars, and then get 100 more, are the second 100 dollars less useful to you than the first? Well no, they're just as useful. Even past the point where the amount of money you have is not really meaningful wrt your everyday life anymore, each additional million dollars will increase your "security utility" just as much as the previous one.

So it's highly doubtful that money has decreasing marginal utility, and it's unclear where it might kick in. Maybe you'd like to explain what you mean, and why it's meaningful considering what we've just covered?

> 2. Low income jobs are usually harder, less respected and less enjoyable.

So what? Gain experience, and new skills, and get a better job?

> 3. Progressive taxes decrease inequality. This has many positive effects on society.

You're engaging in Socialist thinking. There's no class warfare (without the State, at least), and it's perfectly fine for anyone to get rich through pleasing their customers or just working hard etc.

You have your property, and others have theirs. That's it. You have no right to take anyone's stuff by force, and vice versa. This is important. Even police officers are just humans like you and me, and have the exact same rights as us.
your lack of understanding of the world around you is frightening
I take your point. But what may seem ambiguous to a corporation is not at all ambiguous to most citizens – myself included – who tend to see such tax structures as an underhanded way to game the system.

To frame it in more pragmatic terms, deploying these tax structures may hurt a company more than it helps due to the opprobrium they attract. Of course it's difficult to quantify the effects of bad press. But not all decisions should boil down to a cost-benefit analysis – what's wrong is wrong.
Uh, awesome. Can I filter by price? i.e. everything less than $500? Or date range?

Anyway, awesome.
Do you need an excuse to lay them off? Oracle laid off thousands of employees after their Peoplesoft merger (many of them in Oracle Apps). The decision on whom to cut (as I understand from friends who were in management at both companies) was a long and drawn out effort and involved many levels of management meetings.

But... do it once and leave it be (maybe revisiting in a few years) Doing it every quarter (as implied by the QPR term) or even every year is an organizational forced-march.

Maybe you could get away with that at a hedge fund or other highly profitable venture (though in those places you can usually do this by giving/withholding bonuses, etc)
So you'll agree that there IS a problem IF the left wing is pushing towards BI: reducing administration (or state) footprint is more libertarian than anything.
It's only credible if libertarians ask for BI... How funny!
> Sounds like they are forcefully ranking people poorly regardless of their performance.

That is exactly what is done, and is why stack ranking is both abhorrent and dysfunctional (it incentivises in-team politics and sniping, each team member tries to ensure he's not the one in the bottom slot).

It also incentivises top employees to not work together and to not be put in the same team, as it decreases their chance of being in the "superior" rung and increases their chance of being in the bottom one, something more or less impossible if they're clearly the top of their own rank-and-file team.