skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Glad you like it :-)

It will be interesting to see how browser vendors deal with this. I find the "example.com want to know your location" pop-ups a bit creepy and usually reject them.

I think web sites will need a very compelling reason to make my phone shake.
From doc to 'Robodoc': Google Glass gets a test drive at children's hospital
Not all places have chip+pin terminals. All debit cards I've used (in Sweden) let you swipe and sign a receipt in place of typing your PIN.
In India, we have this bank to bank transfer system called National Electronic Funds Transfer. Takes a few hours, and it can be done online if you have registered for internet banking from your bank. It is the most convenient way for us.
I am curious how do you tell a pseudo-confession from a genuine one.
Russian anonymous (I assume that's the meaning of the anonymous / vendetta maks) hosting made with a difficult to track payment system. I wonder what sorts of things that could be useful for?

Note: For the main site, switch out the .ru with .com to get the English version. You have to translate the blog.
Obviously providing jobs for tax payers isn't unique to companies. I can pay for a nanny, chauffeur, and private cook even if I don't have a company. Since your logic is "X provides jobs so X shouldn't be taxed" then I shouldn't have to be taxed if I have any household staff, no?

That logic makes no sense. (If it makes sense to you, please elaborate. How many employees and how many FTEs does one need before this special exemption kicks in, and why that level?)

Now, by "company" I assume you mean "corporation." Corporations form for various reasons, the biggest being liability. Without it, shareholders could be sued individually.

This protection is worth something to the shareholders. I think it's perfectly reasonable that the state, which is the authority that grants companies the right to exist, should be able to extract something from the company - taxes and fees, for example - in order that the company may continue.

Do you think that corporations should exist without paying any fees to the state? If so, why should they get liability protection for free?

If the tax rate is too high, then people could switch from the corporate form of company to a sole proprietorship. A sole proprietor can have employees, and thus "provide jobs for tax payers", even though the business itself is not taxed separately from the proprietor's income.

Now, obviously there's a large set of trade-offs, and the example I gave - a switch to sole proprietorship - is too blunt. My point is that the idea that "provide jobs" necessarily implies "should not be taxed" is so simplistic that it more indicates a lack of understanding of why there are companies in the first place.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech_by_country

Re: Europe: the European Convention on Human Rights says, in Article 10: "Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers. This article shall not prevent States from requiring the licensing of broadcasting, television or cinema enterprises."

All of the members of the European Union are signatories to the ECHR.

Also, the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union says, in Article 11:

1. Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers.
2. The freedom and pluralism of the media shall be respected.

I'm not European, so my opinion on how closely governments stick to these laws doesn't really apply. I'm just pointing out the laws.
So that's ebay and 9 projects I never heard of :)
Collection of 500. Internal servers errors. Upload yours.
You gotta admire the guy's drive. Relentless.

The player is also quite slick. No flash, and very responsive.
I think the problem is that the US never made the jump to instant Debit Card payments in the first place, and is still stuck with in a world of using either Credit or cash.

In the Netherlands, cash is on the way out due to the massive adoption of instant Debit Card payments for even the smallest purchases. Merchants prefer not to handle cash because it's safer (robbing a store with no money is pointless) and cheaper (no dealing with money transports, deposits, counting the registers, having change on hand). Compared to all of that, getting card terminals is cheap.

Using the same system for Credit Cards is mostly just a side-effect of the push to eliminate cash. It's also the reason Credit Card usage isn't all that widespread in the Netherlands. They're only used for big ticket items (sparingly), on vacation and for international online purchases.
Author here! I will write about this later on, but in short:

- I only kept 2 recurring customers

- I'm selling 5 hours-block (one per day - which leaves a bit of room for one-shot emergencies too)

- I ask my customers to book sessions around 2 months in advance

- I keep a number of dedicated days for the product each week (which varies)

This workflow creates visibility for both my freelancing clients and for myself.

The most important point here (I believe) is to build long term relationships on the consulting side (I addressed a bit of this topic here https://www.wisecashhq.com/blog/freelance-cash-flow-tips-for...).

Let me know if I didn't properly address your point!
he can also sing ? wow
I don't doubt it's a messed up industry in many ways, but even "messed up" beats "rip off 100% and give nothing back" every time.

For me as a fan of several groups, the key thing, economically speaking, is that the group is able to work on their music full time, thus maximizing their creative output and therefore, as someone who enjoys what they do, the benefits to me.
Moot aims to revolutionize online discussion technology
How I Met My Dream Job, Left It, And Returned To Focus On Products And Services
They weren't, I think they had to "hide" there after all the Megaupload drama.
I'm aiming more at $5k MRR (ie: fully sustaining my family lifestyle). That said when I'll get there, the growth will not stop by itself, which is nice.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7088898 for what I'm doing to get closer from $5K next.
They do but usually it's the fallback option which means the merchant is more liable and is supposed to check your ID as well.
Well, my laptop is from 2007, so I may "suffer" more from the sum of tiny tiny delays that I don't perceive in Chrome. I also use Nightly but I was under the impression that often Stable releases were a tiny bit faster (maybe some debug features disabled...) except for major feature upgrades like gc, jit etc

ps: about devtools and overall catch up, Mozilla is really impressive, they've been pushing hard and regularly on difficult topics (memory, javascript, standards, devtools). So much they suffer from under-publicity, I often realize their devtools could do X many weeks after it's been released.
Filter people by mood. Want to travel- get info first.
That's a pretty interesting concept when you can find people by interests including targeting their Feelings and Mood. Every person located on a map has own mood statuses/interests and others just filtering to find exact.
As a side effect you get live stats of world mood (happiness) by country/city and gender/age. True stats.
That's how http://jangel.com works.

What do you think y'd rather do - search for people you interested in or for a purpose to find info on how people feel before visiting a certain place?
I would assume you would also like to tax foreign investors. Corporate taxes allow for this thus lowering your and every other US citizens taxes. Which is why there a 'good idea' and not just a meaningless exercise.
I can see how that would be terribly confusing. Currently, search only works for the name of the hike.

I've added an issue - https://github.com/zaknelson/hike.io/issues/24
Google is here in the UK, but why? Well there is the educated workforce to hire, there is a stable business environment, there is infrastructure that works most of the time etc. Now they could go and set up somewhere there really is no tax to be paid, Somalia maybe, but how long would those "global business geniuses" last there? Not long. What would happen to a Google Bus in downtown Mogadishu?

Google and companies like it can only exist in the benign environment created by strong-ish national governments. Pretending otherwise is just foolish.
Sorry for the confusion. I initially had no idea what this meant, and then forgot I had no idea.

MRR is monthly recurring revenue indeed, by opposition to one-off sales (eg: buying an ebook).
While I agree that PHP is a badly designed language, I disagree that writing PHP is awful. You can make PHP beautiful. OO PHP and using MVC makes things way more easy to handle.
I'd be amazed too if I could buy 12 pence bananas.
I can't afford property in central London either even a 1 bed flat is getting on for $1,000,000.
The problem is that not enough artists think about what they do as a business but as right they have to do what they want.
My favourite quote
MLlib [1] is definitely worth checking out as a Spark library for
common ML algorithms - it's crazy how little code is needed to
implement efficient, distributed inference algorithms.

Spark's primitives (especially the RDD abstraction) make it feel like
a DSL for distributed ML algorithms - for example, check out the
implementation of distributed alternating least squares matrix
factorization at [2] - ~100 lines of Scala code once stripped of the
Java interoperability boilerplate.

On the weekend, I took a crack at implementing some distributed ML
algorithms using Alternating Direction of Multipliers (ADMM) in Spark,
following [3]. In a few hours and ~400 lines of Scala code, it was
possible to implement distributed versions of L^1 regularized logistic
regression, ridge regression, and SVMs [4].

It's a very impressive framework, and very much empowering.

[1]: http://spark.incubator.apache.org/docs/latest/mllib-guide.ht...

[2]: https://github.com/apache/incubator-spark/blob/fdaabdc673875...

[3]: http://www.stanford.edu/~boyd/papers/pdf/admm_distr_stats.pd...

[4]: https://github.com/ajtulloch/admmlrspark/tree/master/src/mai...
Aside from the nicotine, typical e-cigarette vapour is basically the same as the fog produced by a really common kind of fog machine.
Would you worry as much about coffee? In The UK tea is a commodity. Google "builders tea". It is unusual to drink "black tea" (any Tea made without milk.)

Black tea with milk is the traditional way of drinking Tea in the UK, so no - I really don't think most people give a shit about what you think. It's a cultural thing and would be like me criticising an Indian for eating a hot Curry or a German for their strict beer making codes.
That description is exactly what makes me doubt how real his real life is.
Bluebox Raises $18M From Tenaya, A16Z, And Others
Bitcoin is not hard-wired to limit N to 3. Default client discourages "non-standard" transactions by not relaying or mining them, but if you mine them yourself or have someone to mine them, they will be valid and accepted. For all practical purposes, non-standard transactions are just taking longer to be included in the chain and typically required to have a non-zero fee (while the regular payments can be often mined for free).
Looks nice, works fast.

I'm going to be biased because I like hiking, so what a surprise I like a hiking site.

I already upload pix of hikes to panoramio, perhaps you could share those pix. Panoramio's licensing system is totally bizarre, I think they're trying to get permission for simple CC:SA from uploaders but they dumb it down into prose so I'm not entirely sure what they're asking. Licensing equivalent of security thru obscurity. If you're trying to CC:SA or CC:NC then just call it CC:SA or CC:NC instead of making the verbal equivalent of an interpretive dance.

Aside from pure and simple CRUD it would be interesting to see more complicated stuff. Find me the hikes within 10 miles of my sister's house and shorter than 3 miles and a low vertical component so when we visit in the summer we can take a short hike with the little kids. Or some kind of popularity stats or voting for most beautiful scenery, or least mosquitoes. Given a pile of data there should be more to do with it than "find me a name" and "its nearby". A query that sounds like "Find me the hike within 50 miles of my house with the fewest pix and/or shortest writeup"

(edited to add, something I've never seen before, but would be hilarious, would be rating hikes not by the usual stars or distance but little icons of mosquitoes, or bug spray icons or something, wetlands (swamps) are beautiful in the winter or around a hard freeze, but in the summer, ugh)

Something I've never seen before that just jumped into my head is integration of weather.gov weather reports / forecasts with hike data. Am I wise or an idiot to want to visit Glacier National Park in April? Shorter term, I have this Friday off, will it be good traveling weather to go 25 miles away or should I stick to snow shoeing in the local park (because of a blizzard, or perhaps it'll be -20F again and even the locals stay close to home when its below -10F)

WRT polite monetization, if your site took off and I participated, if my wife bought me a logo-d tee shirt for my birthday, I might wear it when hiking, in the summer anyway. Or amazon affiliate links might not be too intrusive.

Regarding my suggestions above, take them positively as intended.
Which ever you are the quickest programming in. Lets face it time is money.
I've written some stuff about that in the other thread you got linked to, but I would like to add something:

A single rack costs $1900/month in Calgary, and has insufficient power (15A) for dense packing.

So a commercial rack already costs more than OpenBSD needs in electricity, but OpenBSD has about 3 racks worth of gear.
Without interest, 100k/year now is a lot, but in 60 years will be very, very little. Have a look at average salaries now compared to 60 years ago - from memory it's a little over a factor of 10 difference.
Forgot about "persuasion": I used WiseCash which computes my "time-wealth" (total number of days before reaching $0, given planned expenses and income) and worked at growing the number over time.

Once you have a time-wealth of more than a couple of months, persuading is fairly easy: you realize you can just walk away (ie: lose the contract) if you need to, because you do not actually need the money short term anymore.

This is my favorite way to negotiate rates, decide what to work on, or set my own pace.
People will not be amazed, at least for more than a day, by anything that's widely shared. Never had, never will. Human beings, being what they are, a few enlightened souls excluded, derive happiness by the advantages they enjoy and the power they hold __over other people__. Henry VIII lived in an age before anesthesia, dentistry, where bathrooms were appalling by today's standards, where palaces where rat-infested and where life could be cut short in often agonizing ways. Yet, I am sure he would trade all the advances of the last 400 years for being able to sent men to their deaths for no reason other than angering him and being able to have any woman that attracted his gaze. Most of us would.
2013: Flat design vs Realism
Do other countries have the same kind of consumer protection that the western world has in these cases?

Or are these regulations country-by-country?
> I have a daughter here who will benefit from the path
> you're creating

How do you know this? Do you alread have her future planned?
What classic designs look like before they're finished
Bluebox Security Raises $18 Million
Author of the piece here.

> The entirety of humanity’s knowledge is – of course – free

I was using a degree of hyperbole for the benefit of word economy. It's like when Louis CK remarked "Everything is amazing, no-one is happy". It's obvious he doesn't mean "everything" or "no-one", but a more factually precise "Most of our first-world lives are remarkably great, yet most of us complain disproportionately about them" isn't quite so catchy. I was aiming to write a commentary, not a white paper.

As for your second point, I think we're in agreement. I agree it's likely that in 100 years our current best will look like crap. That's a good thing. It seems that mankind is on a permanent positive trajectory – a realisation that seems to elude most people, sadly – and that by itself is pretty damn amazing.
I have no issue with the rich, however I'm guessing 'most' of the super-rich have achieved this through acute business acumen.

However 'acute business acumen' can translate into squeezing maximum profits out of a business. Justification for this practice can be found everywhere. Particular "legal requirement" to maximise profits for shareholders.

No value is put on social responsibility.
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Where do you live? I imagine price varies hugely depending on demand/transport distance, but 12p is about right for the UK: http://www.mysupermarket.co.uk/grocery-categories/bananas_in...
Worth keeping in mind that the nicest people will still have a few people who hate them, and the worst people will still have a few people who love them - whether they're top CEOs or just anyone in life. That said your friend's opinion may well be in the majority, I've no idea.
I'm confused. What do you mean by deserve? If you reject the labor theory of value, then on what do you base that amount?

And whether a meritocracy would lead people to poverty depends on what you consider meritorious. People have widely different ideas of such, which means that no such evaluation can be made.
Should I learn JavaScript?
This is of course true; money is a means to an end. What we care about is that people have access to good food, sanitary living conditions, and so on. But I think progress on those fronts is real; if you compare the living conditions of people in Brazil, Thailand or Shanghai to what they were 40 years ago, they really are that much better off.
Whenever I see rich guys forfeiting on more money so they can help the poor, I remember this: http://lesswrong.com/lw/3gj/efficient_charity_do_unto_others...

TL;DR:

If a high-powered lawyer who makes $1,000 an hour chooses to take an hour off to help clean up litter on the beach, he's wasted the opportunity to work overtime that day, make $1,000, donate to a charity that will hire a hundred poor people for $10/hour to clean up litter, and end up with a hundred times more litter removed. If he went to the beach because he wanted the sunlight and the fresh air and the warm feeling of personally contributing to something, that's fine. If he actually wanted to help people by beautifying the beach, he's chosen an objectively wrong way to go about it. And if he wanted to help people, period, he's chosen a very wrong way to go about it, since that $1,000 could save two people from malaria. Unless the litter he removed is really worth more than two people's lives to him, he's erring even according to his own value system.

If he feels it's unfair that he makes so much more many than others, he should make even more and give out what he think is enough to make it fair.
Sorry I didn't get back to you earlier. Below, swombat intuited what I meant: when you think of things that are white in the entire world, it would likely not occur to you to mention a specific white Toyota Corolla five blocks from where you are, or to round off to X million white cars to start the list. The question seems to ask for kinds of things that are white, so answers will tend to be "milk", "snow", "whitecaps"... but even that last raises the question of whether things with "white" in the name or description are valid? If so, then "white X" where X is nearly anything is one good answer, making the question meaningless.

In contrast, when thinking of white things in your fridge, you can answer "eggs" if the eggs in your fridge are white, even though eggs may or may not be white in general, so they are arguably not valid for the list of things in the world.

I'm not saying you consciously went through this line of reasoning; I'm saying that the question frames different kinds of answers, entirely apart from your mentor's intended lesson of "reducing scope allows you to think more deeply about what's left in scope".
Thank God, I was dreading having to consider moving my firewalls to Linux.
The problem is different. The problem is that even if you gave everyone $15,000, a year from that you would see some with a lot more than 15K and even more with almost no money.
You'll probably find 'No more Mr. Nice Guy' interesting if you haven't checked it out yet..

It does not advocating being an asshole, but discusses the "too nice" attitude (which, it turns out, is not nice at all).
I just use the Tatung version of this Newegg-house-brand (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16896268...), a $30-40 insulated hot water dispenser. If I had the money to buy the perfect Zojirushi, or found one on sale, I might (they're only around $100-150 now; they used to be $200+).
It's fundamentally different. There's a contractual relationship between an artist and a label. The label may be taking advantage of the artist, but that's what the artist agreed to (albeit unwittingly, I'm sure).
Had heard about this story some time last year, this was the conclusion quickly reached at my office. The amount of effect his purchase had on the early adoption of bitcoin is practically immeasurable.

Any pain he feels over perceived 'opportunity loss' is effectively him 'taking one for the team', with the team being the bitcoin community. As mentioned elsewhere, I'm sure he did fine having mined early.
Kimble is a fraud and an asshole. The only things he's good at are marketing and scamming. Just take a look at his history- insider trading, selling userdata from a BBS he ran to a lawyer, scamming the german telcos... the list is quite long.

He's a good marketer, but one of the worst people I've read about. There's a file of his quotes (from the CCC mailing list) circulating, if you know german you should try reading that. Really gives some insight into him. For example how that l33t hacker cred he has is all for show– I wouldn't buy anything about free speech from him either. He's only interested in money. I remember one quote from one of his teachers about how Kimble was the most antisocial kid he ever teached LOL.

TLDR: You really shouldnt like the guy, read a bit about him and you'll figure out why.

EDIT: Here's the quote file: http://babsi.de/KIMBLE.txt
What seems unfair to me is that the companies are free to produce the products I buy with cheap labour in, say, India. But I'm not able to buy the cheaper versions of their products that they sell in India (individuals are allowed to buy and personally import such products, but if you do it on a commercial scale then that's illegal). If trade is free then it should be free for everyone, not just when it benefits the big companies.
It is worth noting that it is very common for women to be 'promoted' out of technical roles into managerial or administrative positions, often before they have been able to develop true competencies or career plans.