skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good luck!

I want so share this as encouragement for anyone considering launching something. Your idea doesn't have to be nearly as good as you think to produce results.

I wear many hats, and one of them is a high end tutor. 14 months ago I discovered an untapped local niche of athletes who needed to take a particular test to get into US schools.

I made a website titled "cityname-testname.com", and spend a day making 17 posts that summarized my knowledge of the test. I advertised a tutoring package that amounted to $100 an hour.

Over the past 14 months that crappy, 17 page site resulted in $7,000 of revenue. It could have been more, but that business is not my focus and I put zero effort into it after making the site.

Make a useful site, and people will find it. And if you have something good to sell, some people will buy.

By the way, total monthly traffic to that site is 60-80 people. That's all you need, if they're the right people.
What? It doesn't work at all -- without a fixed height, the height of #outer would be determined by summing the heights of its statically/relatively positioned children.

If there were multiple children of #outer, #inner would still not be centered vertically. This only works for some trivial definition of vertical centering, when what you really mean is that a single block child will occupy the vertical center position of its block parent, provided the parent's height is not specified. Which is the most obvious of statements in CSS.
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I've been thinking a lot about this, but the problem you run up against is that it's difficult to distinguish real economic activity from one person shuffling money around, and similarly, it's easy to hide activity by keeping a private ledger. That said, it's possible the inertia of the real market would stop anyone manipulating inflation in this way. I'd really like to see an experiment on these lines.
Depends on your particular plan (unlimited text vs. sufficient data), access to Wi-Fi, and how frequently your friends send images or media over iMessage. I have a friend who turned of iMessage to reduce data usage.
"simplistic short-term profit considerations" --> "direct profit considerations"

FTFY. For example, Petroleum engineering is anything but short-term. What matters is that there is a very direct attribution of profit to work done. The attribution to profit for work done in all the poorly paid professions is very very indirect.
As shown in the comments here, this "blackout" is false and has been reported.

btw, what is your source for "the majority of the staff don't like pro-snowden stories."?
This is one of the ads I have on my blog that came through an ad affiliate program. So yes, I have ads on my blog, which is my right as a content creator. You can, of course see this as a conspiracy or something evil. :)
Not problem free or 'now' problem free? Would love to know if this solution works. Thanks!
Elsewhere[0] I mentioned a shell alias called `eg` that jumps to the 'Examples' section in traditional man-pages.

I made great use of it with the excellently structured yet rather verbose git man-pages.

Anyways, here's the alias:

alias eg='man --pager='\''less -p "^[A-Z]* ?EXAMPLES"'\'''

Try it out:

eg git pull

(With older shells you might have to say `eg git-pull`).

Now as concerns the fine project submitted here,
I'd suggest to try getting as much of those tldr's into
actual man-pages. This will at least make the long-term
survival of OP's labour more probable.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7167815
So has lightning, raindrops, and sunshine
Biology was far luckier in general, in that biology is a much better subject for scientific inquiry than psychology. Good science has to work very hard to keep subjectivity and bias at bay; they are constantly and insidiously trying to creep in, and they are poison. Psychologists have the unlucky job of trying to scientifically study subjectivity and bias itself. I don't think it's really possible to make psychology a rigorous science; the subject may simply be out of reach.
In a world where Bitcoin has already been adopted by the masses, holding Bitcoin would make almost as little sense as holding dollars does today. Sure, its value will go up, but not as much as investing money in companies that make more money would.
SMS is interoperable between every phone and phone company on the planet.
Gym teacher with a Ed.D. in Pedagogy and Motor Learning. So no not just a gym teacher.
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Apple is regulated.
You should seriously improve your blog’s contrast, especially regarding small text. The background is around #F5F1F8 while the text is #888588 (which is not enough to meet WC3 recommendations).
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Or yah, one more thing. People in Seattle go skiing because much less people are on the slopes on Super Bawl day. Today, I think, it's should be even emptier.
Also, the default messaging app in Android may or may not be helpful. I've found Ninja to be the better way to go when dealing with SMS with the Apple folks yet to leave iOS.

http://mergy.org/2013/12/problems-getting-group-smsmms-from-...
Where "better" means "more in line with mainstream economic ideas on monetary policy." Of course, the goal of Bitcoin was not to adopt the mainstream economic ideas on monetary policy, so this definition of "better" probably isn't appropriate.
Important to point out: the authors of iDroid stopped, but not due to any technical obstacle; it was mainly because iDroid was a hobbyist project and their lives intervened. Someone else could pick up the effort today, if they wanted.
it would've been great if all these (3 so far?) tldr man attempts would've also had a web interface, so local install would be optional
I really wish we could stop focusing on statistics based on a gender binary and instead used a continuous measure for masculine/feminine traits like ring to index finger ratios instead, since that is a pretty solid proxy for the levels of testosterone present in the womb during gestation.
http://trello.com is great and free for task management. Check out https://kato.im/ for a free (for small teams) IRC and email replacement.
I'd agree with this. Good point.
Yes, as in that case

* the survival of OP's labour is more likely; and

* one might use something like `eg`[0] to directly jump to the 'Examples' section.

[0] I gave a possible implementation below
(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7167835).
No, topology often focuses on things that are invariant under such things as corners, distances, and convexity, which can make it an extremely useful tool in a field awash in such concerns.

While many would classify the GP's library as one primarily concerned with computational geometry (but certainly not topography), there are large overlaps of computational geometry with computational topology. Many topology results won't be useful in an applied field like GIS, but other results will be extremely useful as they work regardless of the mess of real world measurements.

Classification of branches of mathematics is a losing game, anyway. You try to separate two bodies of work, you'll invariably find someone's extensive results that straddle the boundary.
Email? Really, now that everyone has email on their phones, why bother with SMS or these SMS-like systems? Email is more reliable, more flexible, and seems to be just as fast in practice.
Since the banks enable this kind of crime, I kind of think they should be held liable.
Ok good to hear - the patent(s) facilitated investment (e.g. acquisition of the startup) as intended.

There are workarounds to just about every way of doing something. The question is how feasible and practical the workaround is.
The Congresswoman is Jane Harman. Ironically, she was wiretapped by the NSA in the early 2000's for allegedly trading lobbying favors with an agent of Israel, and she pissed and moaned about the NSA "violating her privacy." The Bush DOJ abruptly cancelled the investigation and the event got memory-holed by the media, and now she's a vigorous defender of NSA spying.
anyone miss <center> tag? :)
Why I forced my staff to attend Startup Weekend on Super Bowl weekend
Thinking about it further, I don't even think it's appropriate to call this "lock-in".

I very much doubt the Apple engineers who wrote iMessage were rubbing their hands together in maniacal glee, at the prospect of being able to prevent people from ever migrating away from iOS, if they but used the phone number in this specific way.

It sounds like it's exactly what TFA's author assumes: a bug.
I don't recall having hit the site before. But I've got a Stylebot CSS that fixes just that issue.
Do you really need lighttable?
I couldn't agree more.

We started Parse with only an iOS SDK (no Android or even REST API!) It had very limited functionality: basically the ability to save an object and retrieve them using a query.

We could have waited to include lots of other useful things, like object counts, user login, push notifications, analytics, etc. It's easy and addictive to create a list of features that would go into an ideal product.

But, that's the danger. The more you think of these lists, the more you think must have them to make your product useful. Suddenly, it's months later and you realize you've barely gotten any real customer feedback.

The key discipline for your V1 is to understand the smallest set of features that will bring enough value to customers for them to try it out. Just keep iterating from there.
The article misses a very important point.

People are living longer because of better heart care (lower death rates at a given age from heart disease).
All else being equal, this means people are living longer, which in turn means they are at increased risk of getting cancer.

The CT scan impact is small in comparison with this fact.
Actually media blackout isn't another word for lackluster coverage.
Your view of addiction is incredibly simplistic.

You are assuming that what one person can do, the rest of the population can do with a similar amount of effort. This should be self-evidently false.

Some people can stop addictive behavior with relatively little effort, other people need external help and tons of effort, and other people will literally prefer to die before stopping.

The only way to say that the latter two groups "don't actually want to quit" is to redefine "wanting to" in terms of "being able to", which makes your argument circular.
This didn't get upvotes because it's "hateful shit", but because it focuses on facts and statistics (which happen to be pretty hard to argue with in this case), and the population that is HNers like facts and statistics, especially when it helps provide clarity to a controversial topic. I don't know about anyone else, but I upvoted this because those two tables were valuable information which I did not know previously. I didn't upvote it based on the prose around the tables.

Can you instead find a factual/statistical counter argument instead of discounting the entire article because you disagree with the conclusions? Or at the very least, provide a different constructive conclusion based on the facts/statistics presented if you happen to disagree with theirs.

This probably also got upvotes because it promotes "less wrong" and it's an articles correcting someone who was flat out wrong, that someone one is POTUS and the flat out wrong statement was made during POTUS' most important speech of the year, the state of the union address. Duty calls.

http://xkcd.com/386/
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Do you suppose that might be because your iOS knows it's not on a phone?
This.
Anyway, we are not the target of these messages to legitimize the status quo of the ads business (or, even worse, that want to expand the influence on regulatory matters).
We are too old, well past the point where ads may have had a significant impact on our choices, and where media could change radically our point of view.
In other words, we are irrelevant to them and we can continue happily blocking everything, but younger people needs to be brainwashed to keep the current model and to mold the internet into its final form.
What ticks me off and isn't mentioned in the article is how the U.S Government gave permission and classifies the NFL as a non-for-profit organization[1]. This classification deters millions in taxes that any other organization of its' size would ultimately be paying.

[1] http://www.nbcnews.com/business/legal-procedure-critics-cry-...
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This is a strangely bottom up analysis. If a long chain of assumptions and wild guesses results in $35M sales tax revenue, it should be pretty easy to compare this weeks sales tax revenue to 52 weeks ago and subtract and see how it compares.

As a meta issue its a "belief system" so there's no point dragging math and logic into it. Exactly like debating evolution or other topics.

Comically, we got stuck with a new stadium because it was claimed if the local ball team pouted and left, all of us mere consumers would react by making huge piles of paper cash money in our backyards, and then light the piles of cash on fire. A complete lack of reasoning is BAU WRT sports economics.

As a startup issue you see pretty much the same style and type of arguments about the contribution of startups to the local economy.
Good thing we are practically putting all our eggs in this basket.

HTML and CSS will be our document structure, and javascript will describe how the document behaves. Truly a universal standard for the ages.

Humans are dumb.
> They are not profitable at all, which would mean teachers would not get paid at all under your model of supply and demand.

I imagine private schools are very profitable, but most students and teachers go to public schools which are funded by government (and then from taxpayers).

The difference here isn't between "models", but between the free market and government funding. Only government can throw bags of money at stuff that's "socially valuable".
It works in a container with no fixed height. Perhaps it doesn't work for your particular requirements, but it does work.
Because they can't quit. They can't even bring themselves to want to quit. The actions are muscle memory, the thought of smoking brings pleasure to them. Even people who've successfully quit miss it.

It's unfathomable to someone who hasn't smoked.
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I very much liked your HN search. I could find things.
If you need to more fiddling to get things working in each bisected commit, you can launch the process manually with 'git bisect start', then pass in refs to 'git bisect bad' and 'git bisect good' to indicate a known-bad and a known-good commit.

At that point, git will check out the "middle" revision and you can do whatever's needed to decide if you should mark it as either good or bad with 'git bisect [good|bad]'. This will check out the new "middle" - lather, rinse, repeat until you get down to one commit.

When you're done, 'git bisect reset' will take you back to the present.

While this isn't quite as quick as the automated version, it's a lifesaver when tracking down a regression in a library whose dependencies have changed radically (finding what b0rked your tests between Rails 3.0 and 4.0, for instance).
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They do touch on it..."It would be higher still if not for the fact that the NFL's tax-exempt status allows its employees to avoid paying any local sales taxes for their dinners or hotel stays during Super Bowl week; in New Orleans, this amounted to $800,000 in lost sales tax revenue."
Check out the prediction technique known as scenario planning most recently championed by Pierre Wack and Peter Schwartz at Royal Dutch Shell. There is a great case study of its use by Royal Dutch Shell when planning on whether or not it was a good investment to build an oil platform in the north sea. The conclusions in that particular case study included a pretty solid argument predicting the fall of the soviet union and its causes well before anyone else was predicting such a think.
I don't view it as a conspiracy, only a very strange thing to observe, for a number of reasons:

1. The only thing which clearly marks this as an ad is the comment just above it in the HTML. Which is strange for two reasons...

2. The lack of nofollow strongly suggests this isn't just an affiliate link, but a 'paid link exchange'. Of course, you could just be profiting from the affiliation alone, but I'm sure you are aware as an experience web designer that most search engines tend to frown on this sort of thing.

3. By not clearly marking the element as an advert, you are effectively using one of the same tactics that the "most aggressive and horrible ads" use. Yes, plain text is small font is utter love, thank you for that, but given you've just written a blog post about ad blockers, I'm guessing you must have also carefully considered this

4. You outright talk about "dark interaction patterns" - not labelling adverts clearly is one of them ;)

5. A core theme in your post is "think about what appears on your page and how it affects your design". I see no obvious topical connection, and if anything, essay writing services exist for quite the opposite reason typically.

Yes, I'm over-analysing this, and yes, I fully support your attempts to gain a little more income. To be honest, the biggest issue I have is the nature of the link - having many friends working in academia, and being white hat typically myself, I have serious ethical issues with essay writing services, and I do think the juxtaposition of that link with your article is rather strange.
Is anyone else nonplussed by this? I'm not saying its wrong or I don't believe the brain scans mean anything, but without a lot more details particularly from people not invested in this research program being a success, I find this hard to take seriously and it seems very naive.
Sad to say, Grace Murray Hopper died January 1, 1992. She broke down many sexual discrimination barriers. She is the second woman ever to have a Naval vessel named after her. (The USS Hopper (DDG-70) is an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer of the United States Navy.)
I get the knocking at the door plus "Daddy. Daddy." My wife taught our 18 month old to do just that. It's sweet, but completely distracting and disruptive to the point where on days I could have worked at home, I need to head into the office to get any flow going.
I don't particularly care if the league keeps their non profit status or not, but they would pay taxes on recognized income, not revenue. This means that they could arrange to pay ~$0 tax by not having much income (which they probably more or less do now).
This has to be _the_ most common issue with caches anywhere anytime.

When and how do you invalidate.

My own example - I have Youtube comments that were up for a few hours before I deleted them. They still appear on my G+ history :-(
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You need to take the effect of the page cache into account. Since you are not clearing the page cache after each test, the test after it benefits from the contents. So running 'git grep' first disadvantages it, compared to everything else.

I ran a test on a large repository and here are my results. The repository was Hadoop, and is available from git://github.com/apache/hadoop-common.git.

cmccabe@keter:~/hadoop4> du -cksh .
375M .
375M total
sudo -- sh -c 'sync ; echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches'
cmccabe@keter:~/hadoop4> /usr/bin/time git grep 'class TestDefaultNameNodePort'
hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/TestDefaultNameNodePort.java:public class TestDefaultNameNodePort {
0.11user 0.34system 0:00.74elapsed 61%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 60512maxresident)k
260256inputs+0outputs (19major+9718minor)pagefaults 0swaps

sudo -- sh -c 'sync ; echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches'
cmccabe@keter:~/hadoop4> /usr/bin/time grep -rI --exclude .git 'class TestDefaultNameNodePort' *
hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/TestDefaultNameNodePort.java:public class TestDefaultNameNodePort {
0.13user 0.56system 0:02.40elapsed 29%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 5584maxresident)k
252792inputs+0outputs (2major+414minor)pagefaults 0swaps

So you can see that it is faster, even when excluding the .git directory.

Running grep a second time without clearing the cache gives a bogus result:

cmccabe@keter:~/hadoop4> /usr/bin/time grep -rI --exclude .git 'class TestDefaultNameNodePort' *
hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/TestDefaultNameNodePort.java:public class TestDefaultNameNodePort {
0.03user 0.04system 0:00.08elapsed 97%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 5584maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+416minor)pagefaults 0swaps

This is because the data is all in the page cache at that point, so we're not actually accessing the disk.

I was curious about the true source of the speedup, and so I checked the output of the 'perf' tool. git had 1,922 CPU migrations, whereas grep had 52. Following up on this, you can see that git is spawning a bunch of threads, whereas grep only has one thread.

cmccabe@keter:~/hadoop4> strace -f -e trace=clone git grep 'class TestDefaultNameNodePort' 2>&1 | grep -c '] +++ exited with '
8
cmccabe@keter:~/hadoop4> strace -f -e trace=clone grep -rI --exclude=.git 'class TestDefaultNameNodePort' * 2>&1 | grep -c '] +++ exited with '
0

I also think git might be cheating and using a simpler regex engine than grep, but at this point I got bored. Case closed.
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I've done some coding on trains (who am I kidding, playing games mostly) and my experience is screen and screen hinge are an issue. Unless you're on some kind of perfectly smooth monorail, you're going to have a bouncy ride. So a small screen is good, less wobble.

On the other hand, a larger screen makes it easier to see under stereotypically bad lighting conditions.

I found it much more difficult to concentrate on the train than in my nice quiet cubicle. Those suffering in open plan most likely would consider the worst train car ever to be blissful calm compared to "work". Just saying your needs for calm are hard to predict over the internet. I had to put on earbuds on the train, but I can see those used to a more abusive workplace might not be bothered by train and passenger noises at all.

Personally I always locked the thing up and was uncomfortable a couple times on commuter rail even when just going to the bathroom. So you might want to think about, if I fold this thing up can it fit in a giant coat pocket or something. Would you be comfortable taking this device to the bathroom with you, because you're probably going to have to, sooner or later. So smaller/lighter would be better.
Thanks for your reply. I had heard what is called Anchor Cove and TXT framed as possible implications of TPM catching on, I will have to do some reading on what you say.
The change password form seems to be buggy. I cannot change my password for an existing account that has not been compromised.