skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some people on HN open very many tabs. Like, over one hundred open tabs. So I guess those people find it hard to find the noisy tab.

Also, some things are kind of frustrating, but not frustrating enough to bother spending ages fixing it.

Quite often something will happen and I'll think "there must be a fix. I just don't know the OS enough yet" - and sometimes there is a really easy fix and sometimes there is an ugly 3rd party kludge. While the problem is kind of annoying having a fix just fixes the problem, while searching for a fix teaches me more. (Am I making any sense? Its about the journey not the destination).
Even a stylesheet change could require the dev manager to pull down a local copy of the site, get it running locally, make the change, then push it - that could take days if something goes wrong. For an engineer who already has a local working copy, it really is a quick change. Of course, it would be very quick if he simply edited the live code - but I, for one, would have some very stern words for a manager who thought he could get away with doing that.
I saw that, though I didn't think it would be of any use on OS X since it doesn't use X Windows for the GUI, and what support it did have for X Windows was dropped in 10.6 I think.
> I was under the impression that is only possible under very specific circumstances (e.g. between some EU states).

Obviously those 'very specific circumstances' can get you a lot of places if you live in certain European countries.
Going through the website, I kept seeing "coca-cola" in the corner of my eye. Probably too far from the original for suing though?
To me there are different scales of public speaking or presenting.

I actually have no problem presenting to 500 people (the largest audience I've had): I just talk, and try to make some eye contact. There are always a few friendly faces.

Presenting to up to a dozen people is no problem for me: I can adapt (speed up / slow down, skip over stuff, dive deep, repeat, whatever) depending on how the people react.

But there's an excluded valley of somewhere between one and three dozen. I feel weird just presenting as I would to 500 people, yet it's too big to get the intimate preso treatment. When I have presented to a group this size it has almost always fallen flat.
weird. the webpage says the motion sensors also sense temperature.
I went to Brown and can't recall a single website being blocked by the school.
Not really. They don't accept drivers licenses, so if you're flying from Ireland, your only option is a passport.
ahh unc, vpn on 443 saves me every day
150/hr? Seriously?

Considering how much Rails does for you, that's crazy. Where is it like this?
I will use this extensively tonight(spend about 1-2 hrs beta testing) and come back with suggestions/comments and input, IF you can add ways to save the data and/or export to CSV/excel after. On a brief look, it looks great, well done.
While there's potentially a debate to have over that topic (I'm sure the creators and some users of this site disagree with those concerns), the University's decision to censor the site strikes me as far less defensible than the existence of the site itself. So respectfully the fact that there's "more to the story" on that basis alone isn't terribly salient.
Floss twice a day and buy a pedometer.
Some students at my university created a website to turn your timetable into a file that could be imported into a calendar app by screen scraping the timetabling website. The University actually helped out with hosting it and providing access to their SSO system. Win win.
Thanks for the heads up! Working on a fix right now.
I was just thinking, "they wouldn't have done this at Carolina" but I guess I was wrong. When I was there you could run a torrent server out of Old West and no one cared.
Harvard did this in 2003. It even went so far as to accuse me of using the word "The" improperly, in a copyright line where I properly attributed credit to "The President and Fellows of Harvard College," when http://www.harvard.edu at the time said the exact same thing (and apparently still does). I left Harvard early (with a degree), and then I wrote a book about it.

http://www.aarongreenspan.com/authoritas.html

Some things never change.
> Also, the best thing you can do to recover from stumbling is to just keep going.

It can take a little practice and some preparation, but figuring out how to do this is really what leveled up my public speaking skills and mostly eliminated the worst parts of stage fright.
Excellent. Could have used this feature when AOL acquired the Huffington Post.
If you have roommates, getting an apartment <$2k is pretty trivial in SF. And it would be easier if you lived slightly outside of the city.
I don't disagree with you at all. You are completely correct that the message people want to use here just isn't going to resonate right now.

When you say " To this day, they crow about how abstaining from applying the heavy-handed common carrier regulations to internet service allowed it to blossom into what it is today."

You hit the nail on the head here. Of course, this mixes up correlation and causation, but yes, the FCC somehow believes they played some role in all of this, when in fact, things happened despite them, not because of it...

The carrier have no reason to negotiate any regulation at all. Everyone is willing to give them everything they want, for nothing. The only thing that scares them is the uncertainty of courts, and they are doing wonderfully there :)
On average, about -$600/month.
Shameless plug, here it is my own advice regarding conference speaking: http://janogonzalez.com/2013/12/02/conference-speaking-how-t...
A spanking peripheral would be huge !
I also work in the same company as the poster. We are
currently running a huge Scala/Play project where the
team is a mix of many young developers (< 5 yrs) and a
few seniors. Overall it is a very pleasant experience.
There are multiple other projects using Scala which share
this positive feeling.

It is difficult to explain these reactions, but they are
common among my colleagues. These are senior programmers
who are generally very good with any programming
language/task. They will pickup something new and be
productive in just a few days. They usually end up liking
Ruby, Javascript, Clojure and for good reasons.

Scala on the other hand requires a lot of attention and
work to get mastery. One can get started in days but to
exploit the real power and appreciate design choices
takes months if not years. In my opinion this is an
important factor why these smart developers react so
badly to Scala which for them is just another tool which
takes too much time to grasp.

There is little Scala can do. Maybe it should become less
ambitious. No macros, no compiler plugins, do not
challenge FP etc. But then it will not be the Scala we
all loved :) Also, it is important to note the blog post
does not criticise Scala in isolation. It used Spray DSL
for routes and Gradle as a build tool, maybe that
particular combination increases the pain.

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/scala-internals/153H3Ya4Nxk/...
Go to 4chan/reddit, check some boards and see which ones are not only active, but get a lot of current events and news articles posted.

See, I'd suggest math, but it'd be deader than coinspotter news.

Already have medicine news, financier news, designer news...

So try sports, photography, weapons, fashion...
Maintaining data integrity is probably fairly important to them. By allowing a separate service which is used by a significant portion of the students, the system is open to serious exploitation. Professors can get black-balled by disgruntled system administrators or hackers, just by screwing with the numbers.

Yale owning both the data and the interface is understandably important to them, though this might be an opportunity for the creators to work with the administration to reform the current system.
> Some people on HN open very many tabs. Like, over one hundred open tabs.

I can't even imagine how that is useful. I guess it is to them or they wouldn't do it.
Seems like you're promoting some myths as well.

Kids don't magically decide that math or science or computer programming is fun. They're heavily influenced by what they're exposed to and what they see other people they respect doing. Yes, that's "marketing" or perhaps better call it education.

And no, giving a kid the "C programming language" isn't going to cut it unless they've previously had enough exposure to math or engineering to understand why it's interesting. (Based on what I've heard, Minecraft seems to be working a lot better.)
Apart from all the other emotions which this plastic big sister evokes, I wonder what it is that makes so many of these startups reach back to the crib when it comes to branding their products. From this bastardized matryoshka doll through Snapchat's Miffy-like ghost to Twitter's tweety to just about half the iconography on tablets and smartphones, they all have one thing in common: the more infantile the logo and/or branding, the better it is. Is this idiocracy at work or are they all following some celebrity psychomarketeer's edict about successful marketing to the attention-span deficient generation?
The Selling of the Suicide Seeds Narrative
Such low values for Google Fiber, Fios and Optimum are surprising.
Why We Visualize the Customer Experience
I don't think fashion would work well in this context. Image-based sites like pinterest or we heart it work better for it.

Sports is OP's best bet.
Think of Awesomebox like a versioned CDN - you can push any HTML, CSS or JS, and then invite anyone to view, comment and annotate it.

It's different from a widget in that Awesomebox gives you infinite staging environments - if you push 10 different ideas, and then invite a few people, they can easily switch between different versions without you having to manage multiple servers. In our experience, this is really important when working through new ideas or designs with clients or managers.

Does that help answer your question? Happy to explain more if not.
Very reminiscent of Big Brother.
Salary? ahahahahahahahahahaahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahaha. Funny stuff.
Does this apply even when the "copyright holder" has meaningfully manipulated the information in order for it to be in a useful form? Have they imparted some IP that is now protected in some way?

IE, could I mirror deep-level sports statistics without attribution? One would think the agency I "took" it from had applied meaningful resources to extrapolating this data, which may be in fact be statement of fact.

I'm purely playing devil's advocate.
That's interesting... Reload the page with JavaScript disabled, and suddenly the page is riddled with links to retailers of Cialis, Viagra, loans and such.

Is this some kind of trick to get more Google hits?
:!{ long-process ; notify-send "done" ; } &
Also, VC's are okay w/ founders taking money because they don't want them to have financial stress. The focus needs to be on the product.
Great suggestions. This initial pass was meant to solve one specific use case I happened to have, but I'd love to add more modeling capabilities.

The addition of one-time costs or revenue based on customer acquisition is important and something that will be there eventually (training is a good example in Saas).
For some people it's "small [caring] brother" vs. "big [intimidating] mother"
This and business assets are able to be taken away in the event of a successful lawsuit against it.
Even allowing for a language barrier, this has to be the most overtly Huxleyan branding I've seen on a consumer product. It's unnerving.
You're welcome. :) I've found that trail runners make great trail advocates as well. Both of our groups tend to enjoy the same sort of conditions and usually get along great.
My wife can literally have 30 tabs open at once. It doesn't make sense to me...
On the front page yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7051091
This is my experience as well, and I think alot of it might apply to speaking as well. I still have a tingle of anxiety almost every time I go on stage, but I've learned exactly how to manage it. A few things that helped me:

- Start out with something simple you could do in your sleep, and build your confidence from that. For me, I know the rest is going to work out fine once I hear myself playing the opening riff.

- Rehearsing is key. But don't try to re-enact your rehearsal, just keep it in the back of your mind as something to fall back on.

- Worrying about anxiety doesn't help at all. It sounds counterintuitive, but think as little as possible about what you're about to do. You've already prepared, there's absolutely no need for last minute checking and fiddling.

- Being on stage automatically makes you cool. People are going to judge you less harshly. They're looking to you for something to think or feel about, and if you are enjoying yourself, they are going to have a good time as well.

- Fuckups are going to happen. Only you will notice most of the time. If you know where you are going but not exactly how, just improvise. And if it's a temporary showstopper, embrace it. Nobody will mind as long as you show that you're not fazed. Get the audience laughing or tell an anecdote if you can.

Alcohol takes the edge off stress, but it also works the other way around. Fear sobers you up, so don't try to get a buzz going while you are panicking beforehand, or you'll risk being a bit more drunk than expected once you start relaxing.
Yeah, the product name, copy, and the router design are pure nightmare fuel.
Plan to do this eventually. However, this fundamentally doesn't solve the core problem (for me at least). Versioning nightmares happen when you've got one model that you customized to have three products and your new model has four. To compare to your previous model(s) you've got to keep updating all spreadsheets.

An app like this would hopefully remove some of that rework and eventually allow A/B testing of different fundraising scenarios, or different revenue models with similar fundraising, etc.
You will not be smiling when you are getting interrogated at the airport security so to match your face 100% with your passport photo they don't want you to smile :-)
>By the way, I do support Net Neutrality because it's a good policy that makes everyone better off.

In some philosophical traditions making everyone better off is the actual definition of ethical.
Investigating the genetic basis for intelligence [pdf]
there has never been a company that has survived across centuries without making something.

How about television and radio, networks, phone companies, banks, insurance companies, airlines, etc.?
Tech leads the way in office design
It's close to $4, $8 and $12.
I actually was just counting the 38 emails I got. I didn't feel like I could tell one way or another from HN comments or twitter, and I appreciated your thoughts. The snark was earned! (And I upvoted you)

About the tone -- I think you're right to criticize it. I liken the situation to competing against a sports player who uses steroids when you do not. The other player gets the press, the accolades, and the reputation even though he cheats. So when the player gets caught with a failed drug test and suspended from the sport, of course it feels great to be vindicated.

The Everpix team was dumping its product on the market and either lying or ignorant about it. They and the others left my team with the very hard decision to abandon our own sweat and blood for no fault of our own. We loved our product and wanted to be able to compete, but we saw we would not get a seat in this game of musical chairs. We resented the other competitors and their high capitalization, and we prefer to limit VC pitch tours. Failing to include that bias would have been dishonest, and the resulting tone was cathartic. I have no apology for it.

Swisspol's reply reinforced to me that the team was unaware of their underlying failed business model -- nothing in my analysis assumed constant costs or even distributions as suggested -- and selling a product for less than variable costs throughout 2013 was major business sin. It's forgivable for the first months or so, but the fact it persisted until the day they closed the doors is very telling. And yes, they should have closed their doors "immediately" when it was obvious from very early in the data they could not get positive margins, just as we did. Remember, this was a paid product and not an Instagram clone. My analysis was not hindsight, it was confirmation of hard work I did in April 2013. The VC-related emails had a similar tone attacking the analysis as "unfair" or "inappropriate" for a web-based startup.

Everpix should be a cautionary tale for other startups to make sure their gross margins are positive! My other research has a much more neutral tone, but in this case photos are very emotional.
A Case against Test-Driven Development.
As a piece of technology, this is really cool. But I guess I don't get how it's different from a nice Excel model. How is it that this allows you to capture 25 different use cases in a way that the a spreadsheet can't?
Hadn't thought about open-sourcing the project yet. Initially just something to remove the pain I was feeling in my current role. It allows me to share models with founders and collaborate as well. Data is persisted (MongoDB) and the unique Url for each model created will work if you navigate directly back to it.
My understanding (as a non-lawyer) is that it depends on your jurisdiction. In the US, copyright normally only applies to works of creative expression, and not to facts or ideas. However, you can argue that the selection of facts that are compiled into a database involves creativity; in that case, the database as a whole may be protected, even though the individual facts aren't.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_the_United_Sta...
Case studies: A hard look at GM crops
The Best Replacement for the Mail app
CSS adventures: Metafilter-lite
Google Drive Gets An Activity Stream For Tracking Every Action
There are people who collect Air Sickness Bags (barf bags from airplanes)
it's so disgusting that this stuff even happen.
I made it for Oregon State University and Portland State University (GPA data only), you can check the source for a good data source.

http://github.com/ngokevin/senioritis
Great advice getting non-sexy clients with proven revenue streams. During my contracting experience I found startups usually easier to talk with but wanting to pay lower rates.

Also for fellow contractors, I built this free automatic time tracker to automate that clock-in/clock-out drudge:
http://wakatime.com
Totally with you. Would love to build out several different cost/revenue models including one completely based on web site visits and paid customer conversion rate. Sprinkle in some correlation with marketing spend and you've got something passable for a B2C company.
Definitely unit economics and everything that needs to go above the line. Would be KILLER to have those.
Wow, amazing UX: create a mobile app in 3' in your mobile browser
Shipping binary software for Linux is like playing a never-ending game of Space Invaders.

GOG's position is totally understandable.
Court strikes down net neutrality rules
The only way a phobia can be conquered, if it can be conquered at all, is through repeated exposure.
You seem to be acting intentionally dense. Surely you understand that the difference being discussed here pertains specifically to duplicable content, where the property involved is "intellectual property" and much more open to alternative interpretations than things like land or food.
Just wing it. Seriously.

Why is it that so few schools teach children how to speak in public?

It is not difficult, all you need is a debating society.

I am fortunate enough to have gone to a school where the debating society was the thing to do. Even on a cold winter with snow outside two hundred or so of the thousand at the school would show up, of their own accord and without anyone telling they had to go. To be voted by your peers onto the committee for the debating society was the ultimate in status. Our debating society made public speaking a fun thing to do.

As well as being able to propose/oppose a motion from the stage with a self-prepared speech it was also possible to learn how to listen, ask questions from the floor and respond to points made.

So, when I left school, I had a head start. I had spoken in front of a crowd on two hundred or so occasions from a very safe sandbox. In my adult life this experience has been invaluable. I know about what happens if one is not totally prepared. I know what happens if one is over prepared - i.e. reading instead of talking. I know about posture and how to make meaningful eye contact with a sea of faces. However, most importantly, I knew that public speaking was a desirable thing to do, a privilege.

If anyone reading this has kids and their kids are not involved in a school debating society, think about it. Get together with the school and a few teachers and sell them the idea of a debating society. Get someone charismatic - a head teacher who has to present in front of all the kids - to make the debating society the most important thing he/she does. Your local posh school will have a debating society, visit them, learn how they do it and steal their procedures and organisational structure.

Then, if you are lucky and the school debating society kicks off and becomes the thing to do, your child should grow up to be a darned good public speaker. What they will learn from that will help them no end. If they also end up knowing a subject inside and out at some stage of their adult life they should be able to literally wing it without having to use any of the silly suggestions presented on this thread (betablockers - you must be kidding!!!).
Ask HN: What TLD should I get to avoid U.S. tampering?
Im currently confused on what kind of domain I should get and from where. I want to avoid tampering/ceizing from the U.S. at all costs. Do you guys have any suggestions on where I should get my domain? or what domains the U.S. don't have any jurisdiction or rights over?
Does anyone, anywhere really want everything connected to everything all the time?
The data is actually being persisted (MongoDB). Notice a unique Url is created when you click through the initial landing page. If you save that Url somewhere and come back to it your data will be there.

Thanks for taking some time on it - feedback is most welcome as I'll continue to hack on it over the next few months - time permitting.
This submission links to the blog's top level. The article's permalink is http://stratechery.com/2014/googles-new-business-model/
Okay, perhaps I am being subjective. I got into this stuff on my own, maybe exposure makes a difference for some. But let's face it, there's no objective reason why math/compsci/engineering should be interesting even after you understand it. It's not like you can just explain it x many times and suddenly a girl will be like "wow it's so amazing and deep and clever." You and I may appreciate it, but can you say why? Can you give me the fundamental reason why it should be interesting as a matter of fact? Besides, we're in the 21st century. Girls can expose themselves to whatever they want. I don't think programming and calculus are terribly obscure.
HTML6 = HTML5 - DRM
Who knows you better than your mom?

From this marketing, I'd answer...Big Brother.
Since everyone who has tried to correct your comment on discrimination has been downvoted, I will try to explain it is as neutral a way as possible:

If, for any reason, a person requires a higher salary, and if investors prefer people who can accept a lower salary (and this preference is a fundamental preference, not an attempt to rule out founders because of other characteristics), this is not discrimination.

To say otherwise, would be to say that the only way to avoid discrimination is to actively pay people who "need" the money more. Is that really what people believe is fair, or good business? Do I deserve less pay for the same work because I don't have a family?