skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got the same email in May from a different sales consultant. I asked for additional information, which named Voxer and two other companies as clients and provided the following pricing:

Pricing

Wikipedia Page Creation - $1500
Includes research, writing, client review, editing, and uploading to Wikipedia.

Wikipedia Page Management - $49/month (optional)
Includes ongoing updates to your Wikipedia page, removal of any flags added to your page, and a money-back guarantee that your page will not be deleted by the Wikipedia community.

I ignored that email, but the sales consultant checked in with me later. This was my response:

"Thank you for checking in. I understand the value of your service.

However, if we were to go after a wikipedia page these days, we would probably make the attempt on our own.

I realize that your expertise could more efficiently get a page up and ensure it has the necessary elements to stay up. However, we aren't spending money on marketing right now. We're spending it on product development.

Our hope is that by continuing to prove the value of our service, and by surfacing greater publicity and user traction, creating a wikipedia page and having the necessary attention to have it be upheld will become less of a challenge for us.

Again, I appreciate the check in, I hope you understand our circumstances."

The sales consultant responded with an offer to discount page creation by $500 if we did it by the end of the month. I politely declined.

We still have not taken the step of building a wikipedia page for our startup, and instead have continued to focus on making it notable.

EDIT: I think it is worth mentioning that at the time I did think our company was notable enough to get a wikipedia page. I also thought that done ethically, it was potentially reasonable to pay for someone who is an expert at this to do so. But I did not realize doing so would be against TOS.

I myself created and edited pages on Wikipedia for fun (mostly new albums for bands and music labels) I know there is some art to making something that passes editor muster.
Agreed. That's exactly what I did. :)
Kinda sounds like a rubber duck debugging strategy.
> I agree that many current 'Smart TV' efforts are awful, but the concept is very, very sound.

What makes the concept sound if the implementation certainly isn't?

> There are TVs with Hulu and Netflix just a few remote presses away - people want that.

Most Blu-ray players, game consoles, DVRs, etc come with Netflix and Hulu too. Why do I want my TV to do it when I have 5 other devices hooked up that can do it with a better UI? People already have these devices, so no, I don't think people want another, shittier, implementation.

> AV nerds are a small market by comparison.

Small, but like every nerd market, very vocal and very influential. Look at the best selling TVs on Amazon, they are all highly recommended in AV circles.

> This seems like more of an extension of hardware manufacturers still not being good at software. I'd say Samsung's version of Android proves that they still aren't great at it (but are getting better).

Agreed.
It's down. Someone exploited it or just attacked it for fun.
The SO network is wide. Some of the questions police are reasonable. Some of them are wingnuts.

It's kind of off putting - I don't want to ask questions in some of the other communities because I just can't be arsed to deal with moderator roulette.

I'm not sure that's the effect that SO wants to be having.
So when will the bullshit about custom kernels be cut out?
This is the ad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHGDN9-oFJE - be sure to have subtitles on (unless you understand Hindi).

Played the clip to some people in the house, they got teary eyed. Don't need a translation to get the message across which just proves it's a very well made ad.
Play games, have fun, use them as aides in study, as a diary/calendars, some basic tinkering skills, with ad-hoc wifi even micro networks for voice and chat - that is off the top of my head. You will be surprised how little computing power and stable internet you need to be a full digital citizen of the world.

A phone line, 100mhz pentium and 8mb of RAM did it for me in 1998 :)
It's a funny thing that I yesterday read in the Mozilla branding guidelines[1] that they are retiring the dino head and now announces that he's back.

Different shape and color guess I makes it, but they should mention it in the guidelines.

It's a good thing I think that they are spending time helping people. It is developers within Mozilla who are answering the questions so hopefully they will take notice of what is confusing and troublesome for people and use it to fix the concentrated areas.

[1]

"A note on the dino"

"The classic Mozilla dino head logo served as a symbol of the organization since our earliest days, but has now been retired from active duty. While the brand has evolved, the dino had not been updated in quite some time and is no longer the best representation of who we are today. He spends his days traveling, reading and still looking out for the interests of users everywhere (some habits die hard). We wish him well in his future endeavors. Please use the Mozilla wordmark on all properties and materials instead." - https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/styleguide/identity/mozilla/br...
Since you seem to know what's going on, my question is: how can I seamlessly use ipv6? And how can I do that with Windows and Linux?
Nothing wrong with PHP itself, but the stock/newer nginx must read configs differently, and so it's not a simple "remove old nginx, install new nginx" upgrade, as it no longer served up php when I upgraded...
Is there any current standard for when a company is worthy of having a Wikipedia page?
Vermont has passed single-payer universal health care
"Just 27% of companies were able to secure outside funding within one year. Ultimately, just 36% of accelerated companies since 2005 added to their seed and angel rounds."

"According to the New York Times, 72% of Y Combinator companies through 2012 raised money after their Demo Day, and the majority of these companies have raised increasingly larger rounds"

I'd be really interested to know what proportion of non-YC startups raised follow on funding. It seems like YC might be dragging the average up.
Well it doesn't get any clearer than that so I'll be updating accordingly. Thanks for the advice on it.
Try replacing /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params with the one from http://wiki.nginx.org/PHPFcgiExample

Also, the packaging is done differently by ubuntu and nginx upstream, so I don't think you can just replace it. They are also bundled with different modules. For example, I have to use the package from ubuntu because the one from nginx upstream lacks the geoip module.
This is why good dependency management systems support both specifying compatible semver ranges but also pinning/locking specific releases. You get nice one-step install/update/add/remove for your deps with the tool, but a fresh checkout can get the last known working versions and deploys can be guaranteed to use the same versions as were run in CI, etc.

Looking now, it seems that pip can finally do this with pip-compile.
Zuckerberg must be a traffic-drawing keyword for them to put it in the headline. It's such an obvious statement for an otherwise informative article.
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I'm not sure why other companies even use forums instead of StackExchange.
I thought some of the remarks by Smocer on the liquidity in the global market was pretty telling (and the comparative lack of it in the US) in that the US will not be on the edge of innovation in this space (as of now) and from the actions of the USG compared to say other governments have (or lack of) elsewhere already have shown the direction. I keep thinking of the circumstances of mt.gox account on dwolla being seized.

And then you have the issue of the banks giving businesses who are willing to jump through the hoops the run around… At this point it would be awesome if the Google's and Apple's use their off shore banking licenses (and cash) and take accounts for bitcoin service companies from the US or globally, possibly circumventing their repatriation issues too… win/win, no?
It's a big deal because they are interested in the product and it requires you to have an iPad...
Out of curiosity, How much larger would this likely become if you converted this to something 3D using WebGL?
Read that book I mentioned in the original post. It mentions plenty of nuclear-related accidents. The one you probably think about happened when an armed thermonuclear bomb fell out of a bomber, yanking the arming wire out, arming every subsystem as it fell - barometric switches activated,thermal batteries ignited , and upon hitting the ground the piezoelectric crystals in the nose cone crushed activating the high explosives surrounding the core.

It would have detonated, except that the "fire-safe" switch in the cockpit was not switch to "fire". That switch was just two very low voltage wires running close together, and it was found later that pretty much anything in that bomber could have triggered it. It was extremely lucky that that bomb has not detonated that day.

There were also a few bombs which were lost in fire on the ground, couple of those had their high explosives ignite without producing a nuclear yield but spreading plutonium around, contaminating ground.

There were bombers which fell apart in the air, which crashed, most of the time the nuclear bombs they were carrying survived intact,but a few times those crashes resulted in a widespread contamination with plutonium - a famous one in Spain and another near an American Polar station that the bomber was monitoring from Soviet attack - that one is particularly interesting,because had the bombs aboard that bomber detonated and destroyed that station, it would be extremely likely that the US government would assume that it was destroyed by a Soviet nuclear strike,and not by their own machinery - and that would probably cause them to retaliate starting a nuclear war.
How is this made?

It's pretty slow on my computer. Would ASM.js work better?
Why not provide early access to new features to technical people who don't mind to be on the bleeding edge? That would be a sword cutting on two edges since you'll get high quality feedback in an early stage.
>A good researcher would have the cash to hire hundreds of people and intentionally randomly assign them to different work environments, I guess.

Wrong, you lack the same basic, problem solving logic that I am referring to.

A good researcher would have asked additional questions such as "On a scale of 1-10" - "how enjoyable is the actual work that you do here?", "how satisfied are you with the amount of money that you are making?", "where do you see yourself in five years". These aren't the best quesions that I could come up with, I am just giving examples off the top of my head.

It would be easy to see how unhappy these workers are with other things in their lives rather than if they were in a cubicle vs a private office.
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From what I can tell, this means they will be monitoring the tags to spot potential bugs and strange behavior.

Well done! I rarely have to report some problems with Firefox and trying to remember my bugzilla password is a major PITA. Most of the time I had to reset it. OTOH, I'm using SO almost daily. I just hope they will be able to really monitor it and not get overwhelmed (I have no idea how many questions are opened for those tags daily, hopefully not too many).
I appreciate that SO has a focus specifically on answerable programming questions, and that people are willing to protect it.

On the other hand, I find the the "questions police" are sometimes a little too hasty to shut down actually useful questions, that may stray a bit into the grey zone or may not be phrased as well as possible. I see a lot of new users posting questions that aren't quite clear enough, and then rather than commenting in a way that will help them clarify the question, people just downvote, vote to close, and move on.

There are some people who are just hopeless; no matter how much guidance on asking good questions you provide, they won't get it. But you shouldn't assume that when someone asks a question, and just vote to close. It can really hurt to have a question downvoted or closed, and put someone off the site. I think those tools should be used only for blatantly abusive or off topic questions, or users who really don't get it and keep asking the same things over and over again.
"The rule of thumb among venture capitalists is that some 20 percent to 30 percent of companies fail, returning nothing to any investor, including the venture capitalists."

I believe that number is the mirror. It should say "20 to 30 percent" succeed.
In the case where you have this situation where an employee is both putting his money by investing in a round and working to vest some ISOs, the stock he would get through the round would be whatever the round lead negotiated, the call options though would still be for common stock.
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It seems that's already done.
That's very close to a tautology. People who are on S.O. ("the community") are there because they like how it is run, overall, and the questions rules and police are a big part of the experience. People who are disgruntled tend to leave.

Personally, I tend not to post because of the stress of having a question policed. You guys should have a full fledged StackExchange site (not Meta) where people can ask which other SE site to post their question on. I'm not kidding. Because of the complexity/sophistication of the software, the rules on SE/SO are far more baroque than the rules on Usenet ever could have been.
> The gold reserve act of 1935[1] devalued the currency by 40% and outlawed the private possession of gold. I am not sure how you can say the period 1913-1972 to be under the gold standard when the US government could set the exchange rate to whatever it wanted.

One defining feature of representational currency (which is what the currency based on a X standard, as opposed to direct use of commodity X as currency is) is that the currency is redeemable (possibly generally, possibly only for some defined set of holders) for the commodity it represents, which carries the risk that the issuer will alter the redemption rate. (This risk is somewhat mitigated -- but not eliminated -- in a full-reserve gold standard, where all the representational currency is fully backed by gold, but the fact that the issuing entity must have the theoretical capacity to redeem all currency doesn't mean that it will do so.)

You seem to be confusing the features of a currency baed on a particular commodity as a standard with the features of using that commodity directly as currency. They are related and overlapping (both are subject to volatility caused by supply shortages or gluts in the backing commodity, for instance), and often coexist (its not uncommon for a system with a gold or silver standard representational currency to also use gold or silver specie as currency with equivalent nominal value, though the effective market value may differ between representational notes and specie based on the factors of convenience and perceived risk associated with the government backing the representational currency.)

> As soon as you create a central bank, you are not on a gold standard.

The existence of a central bank is orthogonal to currency standards, though obviously a central bank has more tools at its disposal in a fiat system than in a gold standard system.
In many cases impoverishing various governments, corrupt or otherwise, would be worse than useless. Many, many people rely on government for food, fuel and shelter.

Secondly there are many of us who consider a currency that can be centrally adjusted as part of economic stabilisation to be a very good thing.

Third, in an expanding economy, a deflating currency steals wealth from the productive and hands it to hoarders.

So yeah, it's pretty useless as far as I can tell.
Do you know why Mozilla's Stack Overflow tags are using the dino head logo instead of the fox?
Canadian web host offers NSA-free services. "No government back-doors"
Server mishap or DDoS?
Excellent article, worth the read.

Not many comments here, because short attention spans!
It may not be hacked. It may just be returning 403 for everyone anyway.
You haven't.

Various estimates for the future BTC value range from $2,000 to $1,000,000.
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I don't think it's down. It's responding with a 403 FORBIDDEN. I think that's the challenge.

Edit: I was so wrong. Just a bad URL: https://keybase.io/warp
Qualify it with what? It already is a specific case... MY car insurance.
Yesterday I went to pay my bill and it said "Automated Abuse Detection - Account Verification". Luckily I was able to ftp in and do a back-up.

After some back and forth my account was reinstated. It wasn't a huge deal but a shitty way to start my day. And after asking multiple times I was never told the reason why I had to go through this.

I had been happy until now. This just left a bad taste in my mouth.

edit: What pissed me off was having to send in a copy of my government issued ID.
I'm getting 15 FPS in Chrome on my Surface Pro.

It uses OpenGL ES it seems, doesn't work in IE 11.

Edit: It would be interesting to know if this would perform better using WebGL and running it in IE 11, anyone has any thoughts on that?
Census ‘faked’ 2012 election jobs report
You're preaching to the choir on that one, but maybe we should tell the commenters on RollingStone.com, HuffPo, etc? They seem confused (I like to read their stupid in an MST3K styled riff off; you can be TomServo, dibs on Crooow though).

"It's just a bunch of commercials. Bah" /
"This is totally lame and does no justice to a great song" /
"I grew up in the 60's and this is not the Dylan I know" /
"I found the word VAGINAS in the video" /
"This is a vapid mess. It's sacrilegious to give such lyrics this treatment!"
IMO dilution is not a bad thing. The company is worth more after it takes money and that money is going to fuel growth that will hopefully offset the dilution. If it doesn't well the shares weren't worth that much anyways.

You can't expect blood from a stone when it comes to ISOs. As long as the dilution is fair WRT to the valuation and number of new shares issued/allocated I don't see the problem and good leadership would explain it as such.

The flip side is that if employees are diluted badly enough they will leave. Employers know this and walk the line of doing the bare minimum they think they have to do to get the people they care about to stay.
https://keybase.io/warp works for me.
https://keybase.io/warp

without the slash. The challenges are down the middle. 20BTC challenge at the bottom.
The title is very stupid especially since he is actually giving them a recommendation.

Anyway it comes down to the fact that its cheaper than any other large provider out there and almost always works very well. No one can beat that price with an actual usable service.

If I was going to complain about anything it would be the current lack of 2GB/4GB etc. droplets in San Francisco and the fact that launching a droplet from a smaller snapshot takes several minutes instead of one minute.
It looks like maybe it's the fade to darkest black when it contrasts with the bright white background on the screen.

It makes my pupils dilate or something.

Maybe it's just me?
20 FPS - Chrome - MacBook Air/2011
Depressingly that site would be better than a bunch of [cupcake] aggregation sites.
25 FPS on Chrome/2013 Macbook Pro
I can say, with 100% that the USD, and the fed will collapse.

Nothing lasts forever - and if anyone argues otherwise, I've got some Roman Denarius to sell them (At twice the price of their gold content).

Whether or not this happens in my lifetime, and whether BTC is worth speculating on is another question altogether.
Evident in the quality of play in the channel showing tennis...
I'll try that when I get home - thanks!
"with my running droplets"

Personally, I hate new names like this for old things.. [1]

Stop making up names for things. My brain doesn't want to learn a new language for something that can easily be called by the legacy name. It's wasted time and slows things down. (I'm exaggerating a bit of course but why do I have to learn something new of no value to me? And I'm reading this and someone is commenting calling things droplets and now I have to do a search to find out what a droplet is...)

Reminds me of some of Spike Lee's first films where he was more concerned with coming up with some creative oddity that could be linked to him. (If you've ever taken a film class you probably remember the prof talking about something that Hitchcock was doing in the film that had never been done before.)

[1] From DO website: "DigitalOcean calls its virtual servers, droplets; each droplet that you spin up is a new virtual server for your personal use. "
Without watching the video and just looking over the images, it took a while to notice the difference between getting this and just getting a Raspberry Pi with a keyboard. So the package includes more stuff that makes it interesting for kids and techies to play around with the hardware and the components that come with it; pretty cool, if I had kids I'd definitely want to get something like that.
Packer V4.0.0 released - Docker, ESXi, QEMU, vSphere, ...
Prepare to have your expensive drone captured or destroyed by your government, and to be investigated as a criminal.
I agree. Bitcoin is a technological advance for all of civilization (like the printing press), while Square is just a slight optimization of the status quo.
I would love to see a choice of initial conditions, one of which being a couple 'galaxies' of particles on a collision course.

Also, a way to reset the simulation without reloading the page would be nice.
From memory the Debianish distro packages read the configs from different locations than the mainline nginx packages.
It seems that this started in 2010:

http://www.aberoth.com/whats_new.php

Comments from other people trying out the game are hilarious:

- I was alive once... it was awful
- This is way better than GTA
- How do I give you my money
- Which way's the strip club
I wonder how many types of "tools" we will get that work with tablets. I'm still hoping someone comes up with a electronic airbrush.
but is it done in 30 lines of javascript? (i checked, no)
Is it just me? My "downvote" arrows are pointing upwards...
I don't know when this started- I've been off HN for a bit - but my downvote arrows are currently pointing upwards. As a result I may have just downvoted something by accident.

Just wondering - is it just me?
> No unlabeled colored buttons

The red button in particular is used in the UK for lots of TV services. It's not unusual to hear the phrase 'push the red button for X' on TV.

X is usually alternative video feeds of live/sporting events, or different sporting commentary

You can also use the red button for other information such as news headlines, the weather, sport scores. Grandpa uses this, youngsters have their phones and the internet
"And (2) you can "salt" your passphrase with your email address"

Uh, can't you do that anyways? Just... add your email to your passphrase?
I don't believe this is true. Anecdotally:

1. I cannot easily distinguish between SD and HD screens. I would much rather have a faster frame rate or better sound quality or an easier way to legally access international TV channels. Better picture quality? I don't care for that any more.

2. My (non-technical) housemate plans to upgrade his TV to one with built-in software, because he thinks it will be an improvement on the buggy set-top box software and he won't need to worry about cabling and upgrading external devices. He has no interest in HD either, but he is happy to pay for a TV with better picture quality simply because he imagines that paying more for a TV means he'll get better software.