skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or because, you know, they find that paying a little more up front gives them a better overall product - longer usable life, less maintenance, etc.

Just because you don’t see the point of an Apple product beyond “ooh shiny” doesn’t mean others don’t.

I work for a global company where > 50% of people work from home offices and > 90% of our staff use Macs. I can only actually think of 2 specific people (out of 200+) that use Windows, but Im sure there are a few others, and some Linux users.

Are you suggesting that all these people, many of whom are in countries with lower wage standards, pay “extra” just to have a shiny apple logo on their desk at home that no one but them sees?
It would be insane to short any of these companies, because the perception is so far from reality; and it's perception driving the price, not reality. That's the point.
So I was wondering, did you ever watch the two Russian "Brat" movies?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kk3Gey9SCWQ
we can deploy our app on the latest Ubuntu

I thought we were arguing for something that was more stable than Windows?
GnuPG is still too hard to use
Look at Swiftkey my friend and you'll never want to use an iPhone keyboard again. But you'll have to since Apple does not allow alternative keyboards.

Comparing stock Android to stock iPhone is missing the point.
The market isn't necessarily efficient at a given point in time. Just because the stocks are going up, doesn't mean the valuations represent the intrinsic value of the company.

Shorting is a dangerous strategy, especially if you feel the prices are delusional. "The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent."
This is false. The main reason is Chinese adoption.
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Wrong. Silicon Valley's tech culture is rooted in idealism. Not isolationism. The people who thrive in The Valley are those with the conviction to change the world, and, who choose technology to implement that change. No doubt, many of us idolize Elon, Larry, Mark and Steve because they have changed the world through conviction, determination, intelligence and deep understanding of technology. They attract like-minded people. The worlds we envision are the worlds we want to live in because in some way, we see them as better than the world we do live in. More fair. More equal, more free, more just, less pain. That is idealism.
I've seen it a few times

Thai Air, the projector kept rebooting throughout the whole flight http://www.flickr.com/photos/kalleboo/3911989854/

Singapore Air, initial reboot as we were boarding http://www.flickr.com/photos/82365211@N00/2473197800/
A lightweight local web server is not going to be any more complicated than a stand-alone program that does the same thing.
Huh! Cool question.
I do both. If I have time to kill (say, a train ride), I go back and read from where I left off. If I know I just need to pass a few minutes (say, waiting in line at the store), I'll just pop in and see the latest. Sometimes I go back and read what specific friends wrote throughout the day.
Of Course Yes.
Just spend few hours with DiscoverMeteor[0] book. You'll be amazed.

[0] - http://www.discovermeteor.com/
There is not an unlimited supply of potential prisoners. As wmil says, imprisonable crimes are generally those arising from poor impulse control and low intelligence. (If you want to learn more, Russell Barkley has some informative books on the connection between brain executive function, intelligence, and life outcomes.)

If we made wearing socks a three-strikes-eligible law, the same people would go to prison. Normal people would adapt, impulsive and dull people wouldn't. American criminal law is basically a test of certain neurological abilities. If you fail the test, they hit you with the banhammer. Psychiatrists would be cheaper and better, but democracy produces popular myths, not rational plans.
Whenever I've had it reset, it was just one chair that had to be restarted.
I don't like how the titles aren't necessarily about the book or what you're going to get.
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You don't even need to go that far, you can reference local files with "file://" instead of "http://". That said, most digital signs are digital because they change so a [web] server somewhere along the line will be used.
I don't think I browse twitter well. I alternate between your two choices, depending on how long since I last checked twitter.

I would like something like 'circles for twitter' so that I could check close friends and family tweets quickly, then kill time with lower priority/higher volume users if I want to.
No. You're missing the point. FB and TWTR have already made it. If you could, short the vast pool of VC-backed pointless startups in the space that have not IPO'd yet and you would make a fortune.
I would encourage anyone who hasn't already, to watch the brilliant documentary 'The House I Live In' by Eugene Jarecki. It's available on Netflix (in the UK at least).

It follows the War on Drugs in the USA. As an outsider (Irish living in London) I found it genuinely eyeopening on a topic I knew next to nothing about. For example did you know that the only difference between cocaine and crack cocaine is the addition of baking powder and heat. Although the later will get you 100 times the sentence of the former. There are 19 year olds being put away for the rest of their lives for the possession of a few grams of this stuff.

I don't care what stand you take on the legalisation/criminalisation of drugs, that is insane!

Instead of trying to reduce the rate of reoffending once released, it seems many states go out of their way to marginalise convicts so that virtually no law abiding avenues of employment remain for them. Talk about a vicious circle. That's not evening taking into account the effect of incarcerated parents has on the generation that follows.
None, I prefer to live cash-only. And yes, it's possible.
I have to say I know exactly what the author means.
When I visit a site (like BetaBrand) and all of a sudden start seeing their ads in my Facebook feed, it feels unsettling, even if they are just using the cookies temporarily stored on my computer.
It's a funny thing about analogies and metaphors: they don't have to be absolutely perfect in every detail to have explanatory power. What actually happens is slightly more subtle (as I said) but the principle still applies. Thank you for providing an example.
That is a lot to follow. Do you run a promotional account?
> Buy all the trinkets and crap off the swarming children

Oh FFS, don't do that, it just encourages them to treat visiting whiteys as walking ATMs, which is bad for their tourism industry long-term.

Stay at hotels, eat at restaurants, take taxis, but don't encourage the obnoxious hawkers, no matter how young they are.
You are searching for the IntelliJ IDEA Project Scopes feature [1]. It let you view group of files either manually set or automatically, based on what changed, what belongs to a particular problem, etc. Basically it exactly does what you are searching for :)
1 step further: it only can do this with regular expression; you can edit a regular expression in a new window and it automatically change it on the relevant place real time.

[1] http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/webhelp/scope.html
instead of trying to paint an accurate picture with statistics.

People are even more unmoved by accurate pictures painted by statistics than they are of "minorities living on the edge". That's the problem here. The ACLU is trying to relate to people on a human level so that they can build some support. So what if they end up producing something very biased? Is this a scientific paper in peer review? I think most people are aware of the fact that the ACLU is a civil liberties advocacy organization and that this naturally biases towards the left wing.
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This all of this!
Yes- agree with you. I think DHH/JF & 37s were not making as much fun of the actual valuation but the lack of monetization.

If we stretched the valuation analogy, it could be applicable to AMZN/Bezos as well- where there is always discussion on their lack of profits & nose bleed valuation. FYI - Bezos is an investor in 37signals.

I have lots if respect for Bezos, JF, DHH etc. I just think it's a little "unfair" (for lack of a better term) to make fun of companies before their monetization plans have kicked in.
Just wanted to point out that Microsoft does offer an embedded version of Windows that is supposed to be used for these types of applications so stuff like in the post does not happen. But, due to how extremely annoying it is to configure (properly) and create an image, most users probably skip it and opt for a standard Windows image and all the issues that come with it.
Well, it's not without controversy, surely. You're (a) focusing on the very short term; presumably people would only commit one burglary under this model over their entire lifetime; and (b) you're not being generous to the original case but taking it at a very literalistic level. It would be more generous to the point to suggest that the $40k/year would be spread out to support low-income folks who might have otherwise needed it. So, about 1% of American adults are imprisoned (and about 2% are on some form of probation or parole). On the other hand, 16% of our population lives in poverty. So we might reasonably expect to instead reduce the prison population by, say, half, and kick back that money to the impoverished. The salient point is that this would give a (1/2) * 1% / 16% = 1/32 dilution of the money, so we're talking about giving all the poor people in the US $1k - $2k per year in order to reduce the rate of crime being committed. This makes their finances at least 5% better (the poverty line is about $20,000 for the 16% statstic).

So the more-generous question is, would being at least 5% better off financially reduce crime more than the 50%-shorter sentences for crime would increase it? I have no idea.
An insane amount of money? iMacs start at $1,299 which is probably around what a pay cycle for the receptionist would run. Seems like a cheap way to make a first impression (not to mention IT savings for the years the machine is used).
I originally did a), but it became impractical one I was following around 300 people. Now I just read the last 10 or 15 minute's worth. I also, however, have a list of people I am reasonably close to whose tweets I try to read to a reasonable level of completeness.
Your ever moving fanboy goalposts are cute but irrelevant in the long term. Apple is quickly becoming irrelevant in the global market and needs to step it up to compete strategically. The smartphone market moves fantastically quickly because of all the competition. Apple brings some of the best competition there is but is increasingly starting to look old fashioned even among non fashionable demographics.

Things are starting to change. iOS7 is an important step forward from the very dated looking predecessor. But the phone format, or more specifically, the single small format smartphone they are currently leading with is not sustainable in the direction the vast majority of the market is hearing. Mark my words apple will offer a larger format phone within the next 2 years. They have no choice... Or they will fade into unfashionable irrelevance.
I've been talking about this for years:

http://shitdigitalsignage.tumblr.com
The larger issue is that Twitter has pushed news services to focus on being first over being correct. It seems like reporters are falling over themselves to be the first to break a story, journalistic integrity be damned.
Are percentages of percentages a useful thing to talk about? If the index was flat and MSFT was up 1%, I wouldn't learn much from "Microsoft is beating its benchmark by infinity%!"
I suspect that a lot of Director-level people in large companies don't see things this way. I don't have any direct evidence (i.e. PowerPoints), but all other evidence points toward someone sold Microsoft .NET as a "you can have cheap labor doing everything!" solution in the early 2000s. Folks who were middle managers back then have risen into Director and Executive Director roles, and since they're busy with office politics, haven't paid attention to anything else. They still think that a MS Studio installation can help a bad developer make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
Unfortunately things aren't "getting" a bit creepy, they've been creepy for quite some time.

In 1998 I worked at a large publicly traded insurance company. We provided quotes online and sent a follow-up email to the person with their written quote in it. I was asked to figure out a way to determine when the person read their email. Our infrastructure was Classic ASP so I:

1. Created a new web site in IIS

2. Changed IIS' processing of .jpg to run through the ASP processor

3. Created a .jpg program in the site that would update a quote's record as having read the email

4. Put an img tag in the HTML email that loaded the "jpg" file with the unique identifier on a querystring

Our business people used this to automatically initiate an outbound call to the person the second they read the email. A lot of people were creeped out, "OMG I just sat down to read your email, what a weird coincidence" but by god those people bought insurance from us.

Of course today, that is the reason why images don't automatically load in emails. But there are plenty of people finding new creepy things to do every day.
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I think you should demo it to all of us, not just me.

One person's opinion shouldn't affect your project, since I can be very wrong.
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I don't understand what these claims are supposed to show. My dad is a happy Ubuntu and Android user and I wouldn't put OS X and an iPhone in front of him. So what?
Yeah, me neither. The signal-to-noise ratio is just way too low, and I don't need another medium to monitor.
That's Google Remarketing (http://www.google.com/ads/innovations/remarketing.html). The greatest sounding idea which has almost no chance of working in the real world in my opinion.

I went to Rackspace.com based on a HackerNews article a couple months ago and I'm still bombarded with ads for them on every site I go to.
most recent idea is 9 months old, interesting service if people would use it, looks like abandoned
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Isn't that what lists are for? That's certainly my primary usecase for them.
connect it to my wordpress blog and it auto updates.
"it feels unsettling"

Why? If you have a Facebook feed, then haven't you already signed up to be spied on?
Everything is listed in the green: https://www.cloudflare.com/system-status
I was surprised how long it took- several minutes.
Or taking advantage of tax loop holes around licensing to move the profit offshore - or "sorry Mr Cameron we are just a poor loss making company can we have a taxpayer hand out to subsidize our minimum wage workforce ;-)" even mad Nad aka nadine dorries can see through that one.
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I look at this from the angle of FB and GOOG, and seriously question if Snapchat is worth the acquisition. My gut tells me that patience will be rewarded.

The value to FB/GOOG is the audience -- the users they're trying to reach. It's not as if they couldn't replicate the technology to drive that type of service. The defensibility of Snapchat against competitors is the demographics of the user base.

I don't use Snapchat, nor does my wife. Or any other set of parents I know. But my kids do, as do their kids. Right now, for any teen/tween in our community, it's Snapchat and Instagram.

And if I acquire Snapchat, that gets me.......what? A service with no revenue and a user base that's naturally fickle. The only way I can justify this acquisition for FB or GOOG is if there is some long-term value from the user base. And I don't think the value is there.

If I'm GOOG or FB, I think I sit on Snapchat for as long as possible. I'm betting that Snapchat's value will never be more than it is right now.
I cut almost all wheat and refined sugar from my diet. I still eat fruit, typically berries, and dairy (cheese, and whole cream in my coffee) occasionally. My diet is mostly meat, leafy vegetables, and nuts.

I lost about 50 lbs in the first year and then my weight stabilized. Other than that, however, I don't feel any different.
Can't help you there -- but I don't think I've set any exotic terminal variables or anything like that, and I get this:

http://i.imgur.com/BjWj7h6.png

FWIW, I have:

COLORTERM=gnome-terminal
TERM=screen

and Debian takes care of my termcap etc, afaik.
I was referencing “Phablets” specifically but if you want to talk larger in general:

Just over half (55%) have larger screens, so 45% have the same or smaller screens. Given that a large number of Android phones are effectively “feature phones”, the “most phones are android” is meaningless.
This article is bad, and while there are certainly reasons to think cutting wheat out of your diet could be helpful, it's certainly not a slam dunk case. The confidence level here is absurd, and some of the translation to laymen's speak is completely misleading.

> And yet Perlmutter argues that his recommendations are not radical at all. In fact, he says, his suggested menu adheres more closely to the way mankind has eaten for most of human history.

The human race has had an extremely varied diet based on geography, and even today doesn't really have a standard diet. (Sidenote: this is also the major flaw with labeling of diets like this as "paleo:" there was no "paleolithic" diet. Yes some populations ate about 50/50 meat, fruits and vegetables, but few of today's agriculture resembles that available even 20k years ago, so using that as justification is weak).

> Perlmutter says we need to return to the eating habits of early man, a diet generally thought to be about 75% fat and 5% carbs.

He gets more specific here, but he gets even more wrong. There are some populations who had a diet of up to 95% carbs.

> “Perlmutter uses bits and pieces of the effects of diet on cognitive outcomes — that obese people have a higher risk of cognitive impairment, for example — to construct an ultimately misleading picture of what people should eat for optimal cognitive and overall health,” St. Catherine University professor emerita Julie Miller Jones, Ph. D., told the website FoodNavigator-USA.

This is the biggest issue with the article. Perlmutter (or at least the journo covering him) does not do a good job of untangling obesity's and caloric intake's effect and the effects of wheat specifically.

> Further research published in the New England Journal of Medicine in August showed that people with even mildly elevated levels of blood sugar — too low to register as a Type 2 diabetes risk — still had a significantly higher risk of developing dementia.

Blood sugar does not necessarily come from ingesting sugar, it also comes from fat.

> “This low-fat idea that’s been drummed into our heads and bellies,” Perlmutter says, “is completely off-base and deeply responsible for most of our modern ills.”

He's almost right here: the idea of low fat diets is stupid. We should focus much more on food quality and overall caloric intake.

> “People are getting to this place of understanding that their lifestyle choices actually do matter a whole lot,” he says, “as opposed to this notion that you live your life come what may and hope for a pill.”

Yes. Good.

> "The exact parts of the brain that allow people to become addicted to narcotics are stimulated by gluten,” Perlmutter points out.

Oh come one. Gluten and EVERY OTHER FOOD.

> “Nutrition matters,” Perlmutter says. “The brain is more responsive to diet and lifestyle than any other part of the body and until now it’s been virtually ignored. We load up on medications when our mood is off, we hope for an Alzheimer’s disease pill when we get older. I submit that we need to take a step back and ask, ‘Is this really how we want to treat ourselves?’”

Absolutely.
Hmm- you may well be right. Because VC as an asset class have underperformed. But- you wouldn't have made a fortune shorting it. Maybe, even lost a little money but not much.

On the other hand, if you shorted USV/Sequoia/Benchmark's portfolios you would be hurting a lot.
I used to do A before I lost interest in twitter.
This isn't useful unless you can also compare the crime rates in those countries (does high incarceration reduce crime?) as well as the percentage of drug offenses and the ease of drug import into those countries. I'd also like to see the execution rate for some or these countries. A prisoner is not incarcerated if they're dead.
These weapons are harmless they are not scary enough.

People know what an AK47 is and they know it will kill what it is used on.

Power lies not in the weapon, it lies in what people think of the weapon.

Another thing, since 911 passengers most likely assume they will be killed whether if they cooperate or not.
Certain death in a plane crash or possible death trying to take a terrorists weapon.
> a diet rich in extra-virgin olive oil, grass-fed beef and wild fish provides “life-sustaining fat that modern American diets are so desperate for.”

So a diet completely unsustainable when considering a human population of 7 billion?
> By your definition the large majority of the world population is stupid. Which kind of renders the term meaningless, and makes you sound like a bit of a prick.

Nope. I merely pointed out that thoughtlessness exists everywhere. Never said that means that the majority was thoughtless; I have no evidence to prove that one way or the other, do I?

As far as the rest of your post, unless you have well defined connections like a rich uncle who got you educated or that cool dad with a bunch of connections who got you your first big break, you are either underselling yourself or you are casting a lot to fate than really is true.

Oh, also to clarify a point on "stupidity" and "intelligence". I will be the first one to be clear that a load of the people who make these thoughtless mistakes are smarter than me by other metrics, either they are better educated or they are just faster at math/whatever you may have it. All I have done is work harder and kept a nose in the wind for change, that is not that hard to do. There are people out there who spend more time deciding what icecream they want for dessert than they do about where their life is going. And really, I am supposed to go around clutching their hand and telling them what they don't want to hear? Who is on their high horse now?
Twaddle and pseudoscience.

People who cut out grains invariable also reduce their simple carb load and are surprised at how much better they feel.
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FWIW, there's also Renjin that does this:
https://github.com/bedatadriven/renjin
Exactly. They already cashed out 10mm each for the founders so makes sense to go for the win.
Yes because that is exactly what I am saying. Yup, it is not like before the financial crisis every person who spent X years in school was immediately employable. By the way, nice strawman.
>You actually can pay employees in BTC, if they prefer that.

Most don't.

>Thousands of people work for BTC already.

Hundreds of millions don't.

>Utility companies will start accepting bitcoins soon enough, as it becomes more popular.

They don't accept it now.

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Just because you could do this stuff with bitcoin doesn't mean you can.
It's only doable in theory and in very very small amount of companies in practice, that's why "bitcoin businesses need banks”.
If you lock up a repeat offender, you can at least prevent that person from committing more crimes.
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Try running emacsclient inside tmux. It's a good combination.
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