skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an anecdotal reposnse mostly based on having grown up in a strongly charismatic Christian background, but the folks I knew probably would have said that god existed forever and the universe started when he made it.

Obviously that's going to depend on who you ask in the denomination and what denomination you ask. My experience is that you're not generally going to get a very nuanced view of space and time but occasionally you'll be a little surprised.

Again. Anecdotal. Ymmv
Could be nice if they allowed you to apply your own code style (autoformatting) on the source first.
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A few countries did that, but those extensions were mostly predicated on a 50 years copyright (the "morts pour la france" extension also is, it's 30 years tacked onto the original 50). When copyright got normalised to 70 by EU rules (or separately extended before EU or EU entry), these extensions became moot in EU countries. IIRC Russia is the only country where war copyright extensions still apply, as a 4 years extension was specifically added when they rewrote their copyright laws in 1993.
I'm glad it's been working out well for you.

Regarding JIT, I can see large corps trying to migrate to a process like that but for us it was the only option that was economically feasible, to be honest. We are very limited in space to even operate day to day. This may not have been the case if we were making something that was small but these beds take up quite a lot of space.

Thank you for the feedback.
My current dry-erase calendar is collecting dust due to me being too lazy to rewrite the dates every month, so inspired by Forebruary and other perpetual calendars, I created a magnetic dry-erase "Infinity Calendar" that sticks to your refrigerator.
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[0]: http://www.genderratic.com/p/1140/patriarchy-1-0-and-the-ape...
I was confuse. I am now happy.
My work laptop is a Macbook Pro 13'' also running Linux, so I feel like I can compare them. :-)

I maxed out a Darter. I am happy with it and it was much cheaper than a comparable featured Macbook. It is crazy fast and I was happy about the touch screen (I have a toddler who likes to play some edu games).

Build quality is good, there's no creaking. I love that it has an HDMI out (1.3 I think?) so I don't need any adapters. Same with Ethernet. The battery is really small compared to the Macbook, so don't expect the same battery life. I bought a second for conferences.

The trackpad sucks but I almost always use an external mouse for serious stuff. It's fine for web browsing. I don't miss the sharp metal edges of the Macbook.

Edit: the Galago's trackpad doesn't have the buttons or weird texture on it, so I bet it is much nicer to use.
Ah ThinkPads. My almost 8 year old ThinkPad still chugging along. Replaced its keyboard (as kid tore off one of the keys and broke it). Had it in a backpack traveling all of the place. Beat up. Fan go too clogged with crap, had to replace that. Put an SSD drive in it. But I still like it.

Like the feel of the keyboard. Case is solid and lightweight as hell. Very impressed. It was my first ThinkPad.

Also like the little joystick mouse thingy (also called a nipple mouse). The matte screen. And the relatively good screen resolution for such an old machine (1400*1050). Even newest laptops 8 years later often have a lower resolution than that.
>Not really. Most of the time is just the mental analogue of fart jokes.

I didn't say all insights were equal. If this was just a fart joke, I wouldn't have thought it was funny. But you can't draw a line between insight and humor, can you?

>No, that's just a cliche.

It's a cliche because it's Shakespeare. That doesn't make it less true.
This is yet another one of those cases where the mean, by itself, is pretty much meaningless. It would probably be rather enlightening to see the median by county as well.
"Those who don't understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly." – Henry Spencer

You are basically saying the whole UNIX philosophy of specialised reusable programs chained together is a flawed design.

Spawning a program is not slow. Store the programs file arguments on a ramdisk to avoid disk IO and there will be no noticeable overhead.
"You contact Steam support to ask for a refund. They tell you to forget it, so you contact the publisher."

This has never happened to me. I've always gotten a refund.
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Christianity is a rather broad grouping that encompasses a hundred churches with different beliefs. I don't think you can make meaningful statements about what Christians believe, except that they believe in Christ (hence the name). There's no central planning committee that decides what to believe.

For practical purposes, you may as well just use the word religion, as in "Religion for example has accepted the Big Bang Theory", which is more obviously too general.
Feel free to skimp on everything else

Not hugely helpful advice?

Among the things you shouldn't skimp on I'd also include the screen, keyboard and RAM. I guess you could skimp on the processor and graphics ... assuming you're not a gamer and don't compile large projects.

Plus, given the high price of SSDs, skimping on everything else might not even make up the cost.
> There are C# plugins for Eclipse and IntelliJ as well

No, there aren't. And MonoDevelop has gotten better, Xamarin is doing a good job, but it's still a far cry from IntelliJ IDEA. If you want to target Mono, spare yourself the effort and just use Visual Studio.
I see SS. Is that South Sudan? That will be terrific. Is this the first time YC is going so international? Was it deliberate? Why?

Congratulations to all those in this batch. Best of luck.
Pattern Day Trader is a Finra/NASD rule.
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USA for all the materials and we assemble them ourselves here too.
And many have been used for good. The technology itself doesn't have any will of it's own. People just use it. And people do both good and evil.
Ask HN: Tools you use for remote working?
Hi, as remote working is becoming more and more common, I'm curious about tools/services startups are using. (Features management, bug tracker, video conferences, chat, tasks, knowledge center, etc.)
This isn't true. The money gained by selling the trade to market makers is small, and can easily be much less than the commission. The commission is the cost of doing business. Regulatory compliance and information technology ain't free.

Maybe you mean the marginal value of a trade is less than $0, but I'm not convinced that's true ether.

However, AFIAK the rest of the information in this post is accurate.
That's funny, I'm actually running scallion in the background right now. I am thinking about spinning up some ec2 instances to just pay $10-$50 to finish sooner. Pretty sure this is what TorBroker did too..
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The whole dimension-tautology has always irked me. Time, as a unit, is simply the "time" it takes for light to travel a certain distance. Distance, OTOH, is the "distance" it takes for light to travel under a certain amount of time. AFAIK one of the authors of this theory is a proponent of a variable speed of light. So if at some point in time light didn't move, then time didn't move, then that would mean that our universe existed since forever...? Not a physicist, but sometimes I feel weird when I am reminded of the fact that the Big Bang had a definite starting point 13.8B years ago (as you have done so), and then think about how time is really... a function of length and length is just a function of time.
By yours.
> If you're not paying for the product, you are the product.

People have been restating this tedious point for years. Do you really think if you pay a few bucks a month for something like Netflix, they just decide "well we've already got this guy's 7.99, there's really no need to make any use of his data for additional gains".
I won't say it's racist but it sure looks like it.

But you did say it, and its ridiculous. How exactly is this supposed to be "racist"?

You don't think if Qian was Russian, and this was the 1950's that the government wouldn't have done something similar? The government can (and does) make decisions out of fear, and that's probably what was going on in this case.
Who cares? Prevention is more efficient than remediation anyways.
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Because that would be consistent with how those minds "learn" everything else they "know".
I like how it can help dive into interesting open source code, as well as the look and feel of the app, but two things are holding me back:

- Like @padolsey, I do need some time to understand what I'm typing; I'm not sure practicing typing and learning from someone else's code are compatible

- More than code formatting, which has already been talked about, programming environments also have a direct impact on what characters need to be typed

So even though that tool stems from a blending of two great ideas (increasing code output, and learning from the best), I'm still pondering whether these two would be best left apart:

- Reading (and contributing to) someone else's code to learn from it

- Optimizing your coding environment to increase your output: great IDE/editor, clever shortcuts and auto-completion, custom snippets…
Question: on what visa do most non US citizens attend YC?

My understating is that a B1/2 would not be compatible with the nature of the work, E1's take around 6 months and require around $100,000 per founder and H1B's are like gold dust (and they also take months and still not sure it would workable)

I have a vested interest in the answer to this, thanks.
The official said the State Department often described the spying to foreign leaders as “business as usual” between nations.

It's interesting the last line of the article says State often described it as "business as usual," an idiom sometimes used in reference to activities of the CIA (AKA "The Company").
Or admit that there's no single axis we can use to measure intelligence. The computers will have virtually unlimited memory space that they can access perfectly and huge processing power but will have no idea how to perform basic actions that dogs understand instinctively.
The news headlines that do as you describe seem to be solely a US phenomenon.. Much of the rest of the world continues to be outraged by the leaked information
I guess this was inevitable with Microsoft dropping support for Windows XP.
the fact that this question even existed in the first place is the problem. there was no evidence. it was just a naked fabrication designed to get him out of the country on a false premise and to ruin his career.

and it succeeded, obviously, to great effect.
I hugely disagree with this.

KPCB very nearly owned the lion's share of Tesla, and missed out due to a mere $20MM in delta in valuation (VantagePoint offered $70MM, Kleiner offered $20MM). They then missed out again simply because of political struggles meant John Doerr couldn't take a board seat.

They were less than a board seat or $20MM in conviction away from being proven right -- now everyone thinks they are proven wrong. Just goes to show you the risks in the game.
It's a NoSQL conference, so yes.
For the lazy, Angular 1.3 drops IE8 support. This is a potentially big problem for my company, since we have a big contract that stipulates IE8 support. Maybe this is the final straw that gets the client to drop IE8 support (which would be nice), but I suspect this will stymie us from upgrading further for these particular projects.
It's on the order of 100 founders, I'm pretty sure (within 50%). 50-60 companies. The chances it would vary greatly from previous batches absent any other announcement are pretty low.
What does he propose to do to demonstrate that some new way of treatment has greater safety and effectiveness than the way he desires to replace?

For historical perspective, the author of the opinion piece kindly submitted here has been practicing medicine for about as long as I have been an adult. At the beginning of his practice, the Freudian paradigm of "treatment" was just beginning its long decline into the ash heap of history, after decades of not working for patients. The current use of antipsychotic drugs to treat schizophrenia is imperfect, to be sure, but it is much better than what came before.
Inevitable and good. I'd much rather the Angular team spend time on features and bugfixes for mainstream browsers than supporting a 54-month-old browser version.
yeah. the third option is be born white.
Ah, I missed that bit.
The idea is that secret voting rules out anyone being individually held liable for how they choose to vote.

The sort of pressure OP is talking about is more vague: the pressure of having some skin in the game. I can't imagine what elections would be without that pressure.

The democratic spirit of "what he/she deems best" doesn't rule out the influence of reality over voters' decisions.
This is generally the protocol I use. I like to use BCC during the handoff if the referral is coming to me. I'm surprised at how often I get pulled into conversations that I don't need to be a part of, because someone doesn't BCC me in return.
Ask HN: GameDevs, what are the appstore discovery problems that you want solved?
Let's say if I were to provide you tools that could:

1. provide heat-maps of user touches to improve your user interface.

2. identify the habits of users who convert, through growth hacking

3. identify the user segment beforehand that might stop playing your game, and a possibility to reach out to them (user retention)

Would it be of any value to the game developers or are there any pressing problems that need to be solved first? If yes, please identify.
Great! Just one detail is missing to complete the picture: explain eternity.
How big does a tank need to be without a crew?
Nearly all the technology in front of you right now (your computer) came from military programs paid for by the US taxpayer. Google itself was initially funded via a DARPA grant, just like Boston Dynamics. It's public investment for private profit. This is no exception. Not to turn the conversation, but Libertarians (of which there are no few of on HN) need to get a grip on this fundamental aspect of the water they're swimming in here.
I think this script depends on the DOM, so you'd have to do jsdom or some other shenanagains to use it directly. However, the general idea should work just fine in node.js.
God is perfectly just, nigger. That's all you need to know.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldrich_Ames

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hanssen

white guys with european ancestry are the 2 worst spies in the history of the US.

did their loyalties lie where you "expected" them to lie?
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This tool is perfect. - I'll recommend to you that you're marketing it all wrong. - I'd make this into a tech-interview/learn a new language site. Before I crack any book for any language, I download gists of the code and start typing it out.

Imagine, python/c the hard way in this? What is a namespace? What is an import? Inline explanations of what you're doing would go a long way.

Dare I say it, this could be the first Learning-Development-Enviornment I like. You're doing yourself more harm by only letting people use those 16 languages.
I wonder what it's like to live in those counties -- do people just stay on their large standalone properties? Are there local services catering to billionaires, like in Palo Alto there are stores like Restoration Hardware catering to mere millionaires? Do the megarich actually spend appreciable amounts of times there, or is it just a "permanent residence" for people who are otherwise transient?
IB is very competitive. IB encourages volume so I believe our FIX gateway has a minimum of $100 in commissions. IB's pricing structure is very transparent in terms of pricing. You can also get rebates passed back to you.
I think you missed the parent's critique. The saying is not 'back of the napkin', it's 'back of the envelope', or 'on a napkin'. No one uses an old wadded up napkin that had a drink on it - but plenty of ideas have come from, 'get me that napkin over there, I've got an idea' (a clean napkin...).
ssh,screen,vim,skype. simple as that. works like a charm.
Does this have comparative summary statistics for these exercises? I did 45 WPM on the first Scala lesson; is this average, terrible, or good?
it's really hard being a doctor. i have recently been trying to work out what is the best treatment with two doctors. both are decent, smart people who understand the current literature and who care about me. yet they came to quite different conclusions, and the arguments for either side are clear. there's just too little known about many illnesses (in my case, it's not mental, but ms) and you are left balancing risks and unknowns.

i am not sure what the answer is. i wonder if casting a much broader net, and collecting much more data, would help. maybe every patient should be tracked in some huge database that can then be trawled for correlations? but then the privacy (and insurance) implications are worrying - for me, it would not be such a hard choice, but others with more to lose would understandably object.

in some ways medicine has advanced hugely (for ~50% of sufferers, ms is no longer a big problem, which is awesome). yet there are sudden borders, and when you cross them, you are in the unknown...
Writing planners can be fun. If you are interested in the topic (and the advances in the 40 years since STRIPS), you might enjoy the corsera course which starts in a month: https://www.coursera.org/course/aiplan

I wrote a litte strips planner for the last iteration of the course and set it the task to sort some boxes in an interactive box2d world without actually understanding the simulated physics, the result can be quite amusing, http://fhars.github.io/boxworld/
Important folks are leaving places like GE and joining places like Tesla, SpaceX, and my own company LightSail, precisely because they are disenchanted with the proclivity of GE to actually decide to invest in real new inventions.

Despite the fact that GE could invest in new technologies, they are not. The man promoted to the head of technology for power and water for GE instead joined us, for, he says, exactly this frustration.

Hopefully, this will be a possible thing for them to change -- or they are going to keep losing their best people.
Thats in fact one of the last markets I would like to work in :)
au -- Australia

bg -- Bulgaria

ca -- Canada

hr -- Croatia

dk -- Denmark

eg -- Egypt

fi -- Finland

fr -- France

in -- India

il -- Israel

kr -- South Korea

nz -- New Zealand

om -- Oman

pt -- Portugal

ro -- Romania

sg -- Singapore

si -- Slovenia

sa -- Saudi Arabia

ss -- South Sudan

ch -- Switzerland

tr -- Turkey

uk -- United Kingdom

us -- United States
> Time, as a unit, is simply the "time" it takes for light to travel a certain distance.

Without time there is no interaction between two atoms. There is no movement. It's not only about light traveling.

> The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once. -Albert Einstein
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I'd be more worried about quality of execution than $0-10 commission, for reasonably sized (non single share) trades.
I've always wondered how they all find affordable-ish places to live down there. Does YC help with that?
You are pointing out that the converse of my statement isn't necessarily true. I agree with you: if you are paying for something, you might still be a product.
I can guarantee that they will lose to Interactive Brokers on price. IB has structural cost advantages in internal matching and zero customer service (possible given the more advanced user base). It's also very very stupid for a retail investor to chose a broker based on fees.

A 10-25bp difference in execution on a $10k+ trade easily covers any commission.
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> "proprietary" is unfair, and becomes more unfair all the time now that Dart is on its way to ECMA standardization

By "proprietary", I mean only executable by one client.

I had not read about Dart's ECMA standardization process (TC52). I think that's great news, but to be fair, that announcement was made just two days ago:

http://news.dartlang.org/2013/12/ecma-forms-tc52-for-dart-st...

> If Dart is "proprietary," then so is asm.js, Mozilla Persona, Rust, and many other cool things that Mozilla is doing.

I don't think asm.js, Rust, dart2js, or Go are "proprietary" because their implementations are open and their output can be executed by multiple platforms or clients. Dart source files is only executable by Google's Dart VM.

> This is exactly the kind of bad faith presumption that troubles me. Google is trying to push the web forward but in your mind their end game is to break its web properties for every browser except Chrome?

I do not think Google is plotting to create a walled garden (unlike Microsoft of the 1990s). But I think many people at Mozilla worry about future timelines where proprietary systems could be created, even if they are the inadvertent, cumulative result of different product teams' decisions.

Consider Google Hangouts. When Hangouts was launched in May of this year, it included an NPAPI plugin to support other browsers like Firefox. But now, only seven months later, the Hangouts service is very popular but is only accessible from as a Chrome extension. The Firefox NPAPI plugin is no longer supported or available for download.

Or consider Chrome's announcement to drop NPAPI itself. NPAPI is the source of much woe and instability for Firefox, but NPAPI is a de facto standard for browser-independent content. Pepper, the proposed replacement, is only implemented by Chrome. The only version of the Adobe Flash Player that uses Pepper is the Chrome port maintained by Google engineers. (Disclosure: I work at Mozilla and I used to work on Adobe's Flash Player team.) A co-worker at Mozilla told me that he asked a friend on the Chrome team "How much of the Pepper API does Chrome's Flash Player use?" and the half-joking response was "150%" because Chrome's Flash Player relied on Chrome internals that were not exposed in the Pepper API.

Or consider Google's 2011 promise to drop support for H.264 from Chrome. Google had the leverage with YouTube to migrate content and clients from H.264 to WebM, but that never happened. Even today, many YouTube videos are not encoded as WebM and content creators have a strong incentive to publish H.264 videos because Google Ads only support YouTube's Flash player.
Show HN: Bee-Line, an original puzzle game made by math grad students.
The infographic is based on actual numbers we have of leading mattress company's products so there is nothing false about those numbers.

We don't view thickness as a dependency of being called a mattress but that is certainly subjective.

Our 10" version is being released soon so maybe that may (or may not) earn some more credibility with people from the mattress industry, such as yourself and your wife. We were completely opposed to making a thicker bed but the reason we came to justify it was for people who have headboards and don't like the gap exposed above the mattress and the bottom of the board. Or for others who just want the look of something thicker. But comfort wise, it's completely identical to our current version and we'll be very clear about that.

We did thorough testing of mattress thickness and its correlation with comfort when we made our first prototypes. We've built mattresses from all natural cotton and wool, latex, memory foam to what we have now and just could not see any data pointing to it being directly related.

I'd also like to point out that we don't have much support from people who work or have friends in this industry for obvious reasons but that's the path we've chosen.