skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Congrats on the success you did have. This was a really refreshing and honest deadpool email. This type of post-mortem is so helpful for entrepreneurs in general.

I hope we see more of this type of communication from startups. This and the writeup of Everpix were very insightful.

Thanks for sharing.
There should be some degree of explicitness so that when you look at the code a year later it doesn't look like voodoo magic.
Very nice! Although I hope this won't be mainstream too soon as this uses 10% of my CPU (Firefox on Linux).
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SQL uses explicit mapping with syntax that is more like list comprehension syntax in general purpose languages than function application syntax; it doesn't use implicit mapping.

(Though SQL often uses nullable values rather than a collection-like type for the use case where Scala uses Option types -- so the specific example used at the head of the article might look similar in SQL, but not because SQL is an example of the general approach the article is discussing.)
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Indeed. Doing away with the 'formal' structure doesn't mean the function of that structure also goes away (if that makes sense). This is true for many things e.g even if you don't have a sales team in your company you still have a sales function. Superficially getting rid of something (say, 'management') instead of dealing with the specific problems (e.g. miscommunication, poor incentives, opaque decision-making etc) doesn't seem like a long term solution, though it may be very satisfying for a couple of years.

Something I found ironic when I read that article is that it (very nicely) articulated things I've known since school, just by observing social interactions. I suspect most people also know these things but they get forgotten as we grow up.
As a sophistry technique to avoid discussion of the actual issue, focus on irrelevant detail works pretty well.
I gave the video about 2 seconds before closing the tab.
It looks like this section of their site is generated using Dreamweaver templates.

Actually, cool to see that they're using Crazy Egg for clickmaps of their site. Seems like government websites often lack the usability factor.
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I wish I had known in high school that they meant, "Don't try to be cool, just make being cool the central focus of your life." Thank God the definition of cool gets much more flexible after high school.
> Not to the extent it would under "Fair Tax", no.

Ok what percentage of their income do they pay now compared to what they would pay under Fair Tax?

What percentage of income do middle class households pay before and after a Fair Tax?

> It puts their 'loophole' way out front and legitimises it.

Yes but what happens when the government decides to increase the flat tax?
Decentralized systems suck.

Look at any protocol or network service designed to be fully decentralized. Inefficient routing, unstable communication, high latency and low bandwidth. You have to do a lot more work to achieve things that would otherwise be simple and straightforward.

Take human communications, for example. They're largely decentralized by default, but we use centralized services to improve efficiency. If some piece of information needs to be disseminated to a large population over a period of time, we first record the message, then we post it in a centralized location viewable by lots of clients[1]. Those clients can then go back and distribute the information to its connected peers[2], but technology also allows us to distribute subscriptions of this information to a wider population in a variety of media[3]. ([1]stone tablets, [2]town crier, [3]newspapers/television)

Modern people are afraid of centralization in the Internet because they are suddenly realizing they have no real control over the content or medium. But this is the case with all other forms of centralized mass communication, too. People are also afraid of their lack of control over their data, which is tantamount in these days to a form of property. Anyone would freak out if the contents of their house were suddenly only available at the discretion of some conglomerate!

But you don't need "decentralization" to keep a backup of your data. Most of it originates from you anyway, and you can store it before you publish it. Some service providers even provide methods to download all your data, though obviously you can't rely on everyone providing you that option (unless someone passes a law...)

On top of all this, the internet is already a system of decentralized networks and services. You can just hook in your own services into the network at any point therein and maintain them yourself. The only restriction is really by the ISP, and there's lots of those to choose from in most developed countries. Personally I think we should consider the internet a combination of utility and public highway, since at this point we all need access, but we also need competition due to the sensitivity of limits on network access.
If there really are inborn sex differences in play behavior, isn't this like saying we have a really have a "choice" in handedness?

An idea that didn't work out too well for left-handed people when this was believed by society
Presumably if you want syslogd's features, it's for something other than the text log files (logging to SQL, network logging, ...).
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AdAway is what I use.

https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=org.adaway
As a business owner, I do my best not to antagonize those who use my services. Auto-play video? Not only distracting and annoying, but a drain on batteries.

I think Facebook will find this drives people away.
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Why would you adapt Wordpress, something that isn't a bootstrap project, but rather a mature product? The bootstrap framework is meant as (and delivers as) a starter place from which to begin customization. Bootstrap has done wonders for the web, but putting a theme on wp for it just doesn't (to me) make any sense.
I was kind of with him until he started detailing his own vision of T - E - D.

What an idiosynchratic point of view
I guess I don't understand why people just LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the U.S. Government so much. They do not manage money, personnel, or any resources efficiently. The allocation of federal funds is subject to the whims of whatever lobbyist or political trend happens to be going on at the moment. If they want to use the 40% they take from your estate to fund NSA spying, deal with it.

I understand that some poor and middle class people think it's unfair for rich people to keep increasing in wealth but the government is many times more corrupt than the average multi-millionaire or billionaire. First-generation wealthy people got that way by innovation, hard work, and filling a necessary role in the marketplace.

In summary, I don't think the solution to "income inequality" is to let the government have half of our money. They have proven time and again that they do not have the right solutions.
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It also provides a pretty sensible API for walking through the log from programs.

http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/sd-journal.h...
Definitely. Misogyny is thrown around so much now that it's getting a bit absurd. She made a quip about push up bras => MISOGYNY! If I made a quip about dudes padding their underwear, what would that be?

And I've always thought of misogyny to mean the hate/dislike of women; in other words, a perpetual and sustained belief, but these days it seems to be attributed to singular insults/moments of disrespect. The two are related, and hate may imply disrespect but a moment of disrespect does not imply hate.
Not just referenced -- they appeared as themselves!

I can't help but wonder if this is a shout-out/jab to the perennial Stan Lee cameo in films based off Marvel characters, especially considering that The Incredibles was often seen as competing with, and compared favorably against, Fantastic Four (2005).
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They were supposed to launch in october or something, and it got pushed back.
> Stop me when this sounds familiar. It’s early morning. There are stale bagels, cheap coffee, and a mix of knock-off stilettos. There’s a table with name tags, fat sharpies, and people bumbling about who looks a hair too much like Dwight Schrute. Everyone is shaking hands, saying their nice-to-meet-you’s, and being totally and utterly forgettable.

I'm happy to say that that sounds utterly unfamiliar, and I'm positively proud to say that I have no idea how to distinguish "knock-off stilettos."
Like tipping, this is one convention that has to die.

There's far too much importance placed on grades. Inside the academic world, where you're jockeying for things like post-grad, they might be relevant. When you're applying for a job how do these even come into play?

I don't think I've ever heard grades come up in an interview amongst anyone I've known, interviewed, or hired.
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Yeah there is a lot of cool e-cig stuff out there. But I would think it's still cheaper in the long run.

There is a lot of studies that still need to be done. My personal theory is that since 1/3 of smoking related deaths are due to nicotine, e-cigs are about 66% "safer" than analog cigs.
That "something very very wrong" is the only way digital streaming purchases can ever be. If you're streaming content from someone else's servers, you're always just one mistake away from having everything disappear. There are ways around that which aren't as convenient as streaming, so if you're worried about it, use the alternatives. There's literally no way to have content streaming from Amazon and not be at their mercy to not fuck up. The only thing you can hope for is that the fix is quick and everything is restored in the end.

For many people, though, it's a tradeoff they're willing to make. Netflix, for example, is just too damn cheap and convenient for me to get upset about the restrictions (except why I can't play it on Linux when I can play it on Android and Roku...)
Package repository may bump versions without warning, and lags behind gems. There is no typical lag time, it's updated whenever the packager feels like it. You can file bugs at redhat bugzilla to try and motivate them to update packages sooner, if you want something specific.

On the plus side, you get security updates, and any gems that are packaged should be compatible with each other to some extent. In general, I think ruby packages are good for end-users, but maybe not great for developing ruby applications or other gems.

(I don't mean to rag on Fedora packaging here — I'm a Fedora packager! I just want people to be aware of the limitations of distro packaging.)
I went through it, I always give a chance to content no matter how presented it is ( a habit of mine). However, it didn't tell me anything. It's like a run-of-the-mill motivation video. To make things worse, I couldn't get to the results of zeitgeist on my own to see what was actually going on.

It looks pretty, and I am sure lots of work was put into it and I appreciate that. But it's uninspired and isn't very functional. I expect functionality first from google. Well, I used to.
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Good read. I am curious, what were the reasons given by the co-founder of Zipcar on why you'd fail?
The richest man in Babylon caused me to make some changes to my saving habits, so I would call it inspirational since I often read in a detached manner and am rarely changed by what I read.
Bootstrap is a framework for design, Wordpress is a CMS. Completely different products.
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Ease of denying it. Ease of eliminating them. There are stories from my friends in South America of cocaine being slipped into bags before travelling through security, hoping innocent random tourists will be caught and they can push large quantities through in the aftermath. Also, I would assume cronies would be involved in finding and setting up a random person.
If you need a rush of adrenaline one day, try turning it off and visiting some well-known news sites... I was pretty sure the machine I saw it on (parents' computer) was infected. Then realised my parents really need adblock.
Yes, to be fair, I didn't have trouble within Italy. It was only trying to get out that I had trouble. (And I had been through nearly every country in western Europe by that point without any trouble, despite some convoluted plans.)
This isn't adapting WordPress really - it provides a starting point for theme development, which is something different from adapting WordPress.
I don't boycott facebook, and I don't think other people will either. But it will drive more to adblocking, I'm sure of it. Not everyone, sure, but more.
This is a standard feature of many languages or libraries, and generally known as array programming – something APL is known for. It crops up in numerical libraries like "numpy" (Python) or "PDL" (Perl) where selected scalar operations distribute over the whole collection. This is great when using collections of numbers, but is not very generalizable: It may not be possible to distinguish whether a method was called on a collection or all items in the collection. One solution would be a “mapping method call operator” like "!" (it's like a method call "." and a shell pipe "|") – but now we have an explicit "map" again.

I think an explicit "map" is more flexible in a general-purpose language. Some languages do interesting experiments with this, e.g. Perl6 which uses “hyperoperators” to precisely control how a given operator is applied.
The problem I see is that implicit mapping restricts the scope of operations that can work on collections -- if there is no distinction between applying an operation to an single object and applying the same operation to all members of a collection, then no collection can directly support the same operation as anything which might be a member of the collection, because you can't disambiguate between attempts to operate on the collection and attempts to operate on the members.

This would seem to be a problem in general, and a particular problem for nested collections. Explicitness makes intent clear.
One step closer to total irrelevance.
Also known as MySpacing.
Rework by Jason Fried. Totally made me rethink modern management.
I'd not mind doing some self-experimentation with sleep, but I have a hard time drawing a line with when to stop and try to evaluate what the effect was. Changes might be so gradual as to not really being able to tell ("do I feel better now than before?"). I wish there were more objective measures for this sort of thing that didn't require a sizeable study population to be reliable. I guess we need more biomarkers for... sleep health?
Ask HW: is this Normal?
Whenever i drink coffee ,after 5 minutes i always start feeling sleepy. Within 1-2 hrs i kind of lose my concentration to the extend i cannot focus properly and then i'm forced to sleep.Is this normal? Is there anyone out there having similar experiences?
What about things like Bitcoin and Bittorrent? Those are decentralized protocols that both work great. I think the real problem is that decentralized protocols have no way of determining what information each user should see or not see. I also think this is a solvable problem, but that it is hard.
... and since they can't know what those actions are (since it's up to the user-agent), we're at an awkward nonstandard cat-and-mouse game. Long live ze veb!
Looks great, Ben! I agree with thebiglebrewski that a link to a demo site would be super helpful.

FYI, I built a similar (paid) product for Shopify Themes (http://bootstrapforshopify.com) and I have gotten quite a few queries from folks asking about a similar thing for Wordpress - there are people willing to pay for something like this, for sure, if you're interested in offering a supported version or something of that ilk.

In any case, now I have somewhere to direct folks that ask about a WP Bootstrap framework :).
facepalm

Nice attitude. Remember, you're on HN, not reddit.

Do you really think those products you are rubbing around your skin every day and sniffing up your nose don't get absorbed by your skin and lungs!!?

Aside from the fact that I don't typically snort lotion, it's true that there are plenty of things that come into contact with my body all the time. So maybe you can help me understand where to draw the line.

For example, why is hand soap of interest to the FDA, but not:

- dish detergent, since I'm actually ingesting some small remnant of their content

- laundry detergent, and especially softener, since that's rubbing against my skin for nearly 24 hours/day.

- building materials, whose outgassing I'm inhaling for much of the day

Further, in your quotation above, this part seems pretty much nonsensical: "The FDA does not review – nor does it have the authority to regulate – what goes into cosmetics before they are marketed for salon use and consumer use.". I read this to say that "you can sell any cosmetics you want - as long as you don't try to sell it".

mostly a wild west at the moment.

Is that necessarily a problem? Is there a reason that everything must be regulated? If you're worried about safety, as in your final quotation, then why not settle for warnings while letting the users determine if they've got, e.g., adequate ventilation, or if there's other circumstances that make the risk worthwhile. For example, I typically won't use antibacterial soap myself, but if I've got a cut, or doing something else for which sanitation is important, it may be worthwhile in that special case. Government regulations lead to one-size-fits-all, and that size is the lowest common denominator, with no accommodation for individual circumstances - take their position on experimental drugs for terminal patients, for example.
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> In my opinion, ALL loopholes for the super-wealthy and companies (Double Irish) should be closed.

This is completely unrealistic. The biggest issue is that you can't compel other countries to follow along. Half the rules in the commercial tax code are geared towards allowing companies to compete in the international world.

> I assure you that it was NOT accidental.

THis just seems foolish. No one person fully understands the tax code. If it was intended, why did people take so long to exploit it ? The law was passed in 1990, but no GRATS appeared anywhere near then. You are really, really stretching here.
Consider your attempt to maliciously hack my attention adblocked.

I do NOT WANT to see your bullshit. That is why I am not looking at it. If you subvert my lower-level programming like the evolved motion-startle response to grab my attention, this constitutes misuse of my mental hardware. You do NOT have my consent to do it, and the fact that I live in a world where some services come with attached advertising does NOT constitute consent. I shall continue to use them, with adblock turned on.
Completely agree. I enjoyed reading about framing, how positioning backgrounds to ensure the viewer can easily follow action, the far/medium/full shots, bird/worm's eye view and the like.

Mentioning triangular composition so often was strange. I guess it's a basic filmmaker thing? (don't line up talking characters in a line?) Moving the camera out-of-plane of the conversation allows the viewers to more easily understand the flow of conversation, who the characters are paying attention to, and who we should be paying attention to.
This is an 'ancient' idea pre-dating the recent functional craze: array programming, it is so well known that it has a substantial wikipedia page:

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

its also important to note that this is syntactic sugar - and like most kinds of syntactic sugar it can make code confusing to read, in order to make it prettier. being explicit is often a very good thing for readability and for compilers (they must also read your code) - i value it highly.

although there is something nice about being able to add two arrays together and it do 'what i would expect'... but what do i expect if the arrays do not match in size? how much more thinking do i need to do over being explicit?
This isn't a theme, it's a customized boilerplate for themes. On it's own, this is fairly worthless, but it's a good starting point for modern theme development. I pretty much did this myself for the last theme I put together.
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That's ridiculous. It's not even funny. I can't imagine how such a contract could stand up in court if contested, unless Elsevier actually paid the owner of the copyright something.

If a contract does not involve an exchange of value between the parties, but instead appears to be a one-sided transfer, a judge might strike it down as unconscionable. If the contract were voided in this way, instead of breached, Elsevier would have to give back everything it got from the author. If you paid for it, even one penny, that sale is much easier to defend in court.

But they don't pay. They charge at both ends.
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Not buying it. The point of the article was coding roman letters. Its a "cheat" to claim it supports UTF-8 klingon glyphs because technically its possible to write the string:

"U PLUS SIGN F EIGHT E FOUR" is the glyph for Klingon TLH.

Or more likely given the limited codespace its actually:

"U PLUS SIGN F VIII E IV" is the glyph for Klingon TLH

"real" unicode support would look like an imaginary packed UTF-5bit rather than existing UTF-8 or a roman letter prose description of UTF-8

As a meta discussion, much as being able to encode arbitrary text including source and executables "proves" that bio-mechanical DNA virii are possible, I guess this post where Klingon glyphs can be described in someone elses roman letter glyphs in earth DNA also "proves" that inter species human klingon romance and reproduction is viable (I'm sure to the relief of Lt Paris and Lt B'Lenna).

(edited to add because of codon degeneracy I'm claiming we should only pack 5 binary bits per codon, I know there's 6 theoretical bits per codon and only (about) 4 bits of amino acid per codon so I split the difference and went for 5. Its an interesting puzzle, do you allow any codon even if its biologically nonsense or are you writing a distinct amino acid alphabet using the codon as a representation of the amino acids?)
Thanks. Kudos to the design and development team. Nice work.
I suck at networking, or any kind of social interaction that doesn't at least involve some dice. So if I follow the "fuck networking, just be human" advice, that means I'm not going to be meeting a lot of people.

Then again, I don't really want to meet a lot of people. But making one or two really good connections every once in a while would probably be nice. In fact, at a recent GDG Devfest, I spoke with a couple of people who were all passionate about teaching programming to young kids. I want to keep in touch, gave them my card, and then forgot who they were. I'm terrible at remembering people, even if they're really cool and we spoke passionately.
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> Yes but this is already happening right? Isn't it far easier for them to keep lobbying for new tax loopholes as older ones get closed, than it is to avoid a flat tax?

The point-in-time adoption of a flat tax doesn't make it harder for them to lobby for tax loopholes after that adoption than it was before that adoption.

You can't compare flat tax to the status quo tax system on the assumption that in the former system the rich will magically lose their ability to lobby for changes to the existing tax code when nothing in the change proposed does anything to make that happen.