skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's how my interaction with Comcast went when someone called and got me to sign up for the deal:

Comcast: You can have double your current internet speed plus HBO Go and some other junk for only $4 more per month.

Me: <after a while> ok, but I don't need a cable box because I don't have a TV. I'll just watch online. I can do that right?

C: Yes, but we need to ship you a cable box anyway.

Me: why?

C: because

Me: ok but I'm not at home much and packages left on my stoop get stolen. Could you ship it to my office?

C: <after a while> oh all right we'll ship it to your office.

(Ships to my home anyway and the box gets stolen)

C: Sir, please check to see if your doorman accepted the package before we charge you for the cable box.

Me: I don't have a doorman and I told you not to ship the box to my home. The cable box that I didn't want was stolen like I said it would be.

C: We can only ship it to your home. We will ship you another one.

Me: I don't want another one, I just don't want to pay for the one that was stolen.

C: Ok, we'll cancel your new package then.

Me: Can't I just pay for it and not have the cable box? I don't have a TV.

C: No. I will cancel your new package. Is there anything else I can help you with?

It was like talking to a robot. I dearly hate monopolies.
So they would have spent that money on a lawyer instead. It doesn't matter what you do, you can't escape the astronomical cost of healthcare in the US.
I can't read that page without getting ill. Even highlighting doesn't help.
Two misleading things from this post:

- the default when you clear browsing data in Chrome is for just "the past hour", not from "the beginning of time", as is selected in the screenshot in the post (so only any cookies set in the last hour would have been cleared, which would be equivalent to having used incognito mode for the last hour).

This is almost always what you want because a blank history is a dead giveaway that someone was doing something "private" on that browser, and because your wife (in the post's example) is now really annoyed with you because she suddenly has no history url completion and she's been logged out of every site she normally visits.

- that incognito suggestion message only shows up the second time you go to clear data in relatively quick succession, not the first time. The target audience isn't everyone, it's anyone apparently doing a repetitive task that requires browser cache/cookies/history/something to be cleared. At that point incognito mode is a perfect suggestion, as ephemerality is exactly what the user is after.
They are only good if you've never coded before.

If you have, they take at most a few hours to do and are largely a waste of money.
Lisp for the 21st century and it's.... _more_ object oriented?
Huh, I'm from the few who never even created a Facebook account.

Whenever something is up, everyone knows I won't get the memo, and they give me a mail/text/call. Usually more than one person.

And you can't compare that to email vs phone. Phone is costly, time consuming, single threaded. Sending a message on Facebook or an email doesn't make any difference.
I meant that if only a small subset of society are honest, then only that dmall subset will do alms, thus the impact of alms to the needy will be somewhat small and ineffective.

And if there is large subset of society not honest and try to pose as the needy to receive the alms, then the system is screwed.
I'm not sure the total number of hours spent. I spent between 20 mins and an hour and 20 with these people.

I usually said I could meet for coffee or lunch and let them pick the place. The location usually signaled to me how long the meeting would be - coffee at starbucks is the shortest and nice lunch restaurant is longest.

If you are going to be in the US for a week, you could try to fill that week with meetings. You can probably get two or three a day if you play your cards right.

If not, you can try to chat by phone. It's harder - but still doable.

BUT... because you are a technical guy (I read your website) - the process could be different for you...

I would start the same way: ask around to figure out what you really want to do - this is universal. Then, with this information, I would craft a short email (describing what you want, and your technical skills) that is easy for people to forward - and send it around.

Good luck. And reach out with any questions. Happy to help. - lrandolph (at) middlebury.edu
Language author here :)

if anyone wants to learn more, we have a pretty sweet team over in #hy on freenode, and have some MLs and stuff sprinkled around.
Then you clearly don't understand much about donkeys, tractors, or email... or you would rather post flippant remarks than actually add value to the conversation.
Isn't it ironic that the page has a Facebook share button?
I'm not sure how much it really says about feature creep. I mean, sure, features increased, but it was really more about how the people used it than anything.
True, this would be pretty quick to throw together, and I'm sure the GitHub guys do ship dozens of small features a month (less interesting ones perhaps?), but this one is fairly hidden - without this post I probably never would have found it.
Gotcha, thanks. I knew I must be missing something, and that's it.
Those are nothing like SnapChat.
I'm talking about the IBM set that is most common in western locals, often called extended ASCII or just ASCII (since IBM PC became the standard)
Yeah and someone with 1800 friends probably wouldn't have the time at hand anyway
I got bit by this once, i think it was related to a maximum of 32k hardlinks per inode, which effectively sets a limit of 32k subdirs since each subdir has a hardlink to ".."
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Wow is the js game code open sourced somewhere?
This is really keeping me up. Kinda offtopic:Tomorrow I'm going to donate my ps3 to the local fire department.
I'm a sci-fi/fantasy fan too. I often find interesting new reading by researching one of the writers I know is good, and finding out the writers that they're friends with or who influenced them or who were influenced by them. For example, I like Alan Moore, who is friends with Michael Moorcock, so I'll give him a go. I like Richard K. Morgan and he was influenced by William Gibson, Poul Anderson and Bob Shaw, so I'll probably give them a go.

It's not the only way to do it, but it's one way. I would never have known about Richard K Morgan if a friend of mine hadn't been looking through a brick and mortar library one day, literally judging books by their covers, found one of his books and subsequently recommended it to me. But once I've found a good writer via whatever means, I usually find that you can follow threads from them to other good writers.
It's never a waste of bandwidth if it prompts one person to do the critical checks and prevents them from being owned.
swapouts and pageouts aren't identical in Linux, and are instrumented separately (pswpout and pgpgout, respectively; see /proc/vmstat). mmap() and other page-ins won't be counted under the swap statistics.

A pageout might suggest memory pressure, but not nearly as much as a swapout does. (pgmajfault is a better indicator.) Writing dirty pages is just something the kernel does even when there's no memory pressure at all. Also, unfortunately you can't use pgpgout for anything useful as ordinary file writes are counted there.
One use for such a thing I can think of is to use it as a reference for teaching basic parsing techniques. E.g. have a project for an undergrad course where they learn how traditional recursive descent parsing works, and then they get to implement an s-expression parser (possibly to a simplified version of the python AST).
Nothing To Hide: A Crowdfunded Open Source Anti-Surveillance Game
Agreed! I was following closely to your efforts to see what happened with "http://www.indysci.org/". I hope your fundraising efforts turn out well in the future.
Solution: limit the total number of likes per account to something like 50.
And as an added bonus you don't have to listen to the constant commentary about how Russia sucks, and how this Olympics is failing.

Literally the first words out of the mouth of the commentator before the opening ceremonies on NBC were about the cost, "terrorism fears" (which ironically are self-perpetuating, due to the American media both creating them and then reporting on it), gay rights, weather, and some of the last minute building issues.

The whole thing feels childish. Like the US media is going out of its way to drag the Russian games through the mud for anything they can cling onto. I mean how many times have they shown the faulty ring in the opening ceremonies? I have seen it at least a dozen.

The US media certainly didn't treat the London summer games with such obvious contempt and disrespect.
Don't forget the week of snow in December and the two weeks in late February!
> aren't you worried about security of those devices

Assuming he is having a firewall configured on his gateway then it is not any different from security standpoint than being behind a NAT.

For example in my university, all computers have a public IPv4 address, it still does not mean you can connect to them from outside, but if you need to open a port to the world you don't need to deal with all that NAT crap.
So? The criteria wasn't "when Microsoft love Linux" the criteria was "when Microsoft feel compelled to support Linux."
At various times in my life I have devote entirely too much time to Chess, COD, SWG, LOL, and SWTOR.

Now I avoid them entirely, run desktop linux, and try to spend my time on things like violin, writing, reading, and coding.
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We started adding BugHerd to our client projects a few months back and it has single handily changed the way we deal with feedback and bug reports during the build phase.

No other tool we'd tried before (JIRA Capture, UserVoice/Zendesk etc) really worked well for our clients (they worked really well for us, but our non-technical clients generally hated them, and just fell back to sending us emails). The acceptance of BugHerd from clients has been surprisingly good.
Islamic scholar defined that any alms can be directly paid to the needy (which also been clearly defined). But in my country ruling, all the benefit of alms donation (tax exemption, etc) is applicable only when the alms is donated to specific government agency.

IMagine the huge sum of money which is different pool than tax money.

Large pool of money will attract attention and political pressure from dishonest individual in power.

And, when the agency is only focusing its effort in collecting the alms instead of distributing it to the needy, then the pool will only get bigger, and be the source of tension within society rather than 'peace of mind' force.

so far there is no 'huge' scandal erupt yet. The key terms here is 'yet'.
It's not the same at all. Someone initiating an offtopic kerfuffle in a public forum is inviting responses. Hopefully the author's deletion spree was lightbulb and not just karma preservation.
Please do not insult robots by comparing them to Comcast customer support.
Create Your Own Webpage Under Ten Minutes
Facebook is simply, hands down, the easiest service on which to do these things today. It's only an addiction in the same sense that using a cellphone is an addiction. You could just as easily use a landline, or schedule meetings with friends and co-workers a day in advance, by writing them a letter, talking to them in person or getting in touch with them through common friends. Less convenient, sure, but equally functional.

To me, avoiding Facebook in the absence of any negatives (you are free to log on only whenever you want to) seems like some strange puritanical or old-fashioned ritual. Why avoid something that works?
SymPy – simplify
This is a small Mac app I made that helps me stay off Hacker News :). It's a menu-bar app that with 1-click blocks certain websites.

If you're interested I did a little write-up here: http://bradjasper.com/blog/case-study-focus/

Also open-sourced it: https://github.com/bradjasper/focus
Is he a part of any organisation that could recieve funds for him? Someone living in the US can fill out this donation forms:
http://www.redhawkcasino.com/community

https://www.barona.com/about/community-relations/donation-ap...

http://www.themillcasino.com/about/donationsform.cfm

And maybe there are other sites that sponsor charitable organisations.
I LOVE Arq. It does everything I'd like it to, but the price increase just burns me a little bit :( Hoping to wait out for another humble bundle or such.
We've been streaming the BBC's coverage via a VPN. It's been great. The iMac is close enough proximity to the TV that a Thunderbolt to HDMI cable reaches. With a full screen mode Chrome, the quality is great.

I've had a VPN for some time just for security reasons, but I suddenly get even more value for my $40/year.
> Calc I, Calc II, multivariable, vector calculus, etc. That's like 4 semesters of calculus!

I'm counting at least eight classes that were arguably Calculus in my undergrad program:

* Calc I (basic differentiation/antidifferentiation)
* Calc II (integration techniques/applications, series/sequences)
* Calc III (vector calc)
* Careful/Proven Calc (Real Analysis I)
* Careful/Proven Calc II (Real Analysis II)
* Differential Equations
* Partial Differential Equations

Five of which I took (unsurprising for a math major).

It's a lot, and I could definitely wish there was more linear algebra (the intro LA course was a significant part of what convinced me to look at the major, and I took the grad level matrix analysis class as one of my electives because there wasn't anything else). At the same time, I can see why it's all there.
It is in the studies I cited and in TFA.
I wrote a blog post about this that you may find useful: http://blog.binarybalance.com.au/2013/12/06/why-i'm-not-writ...
Wow, not even a Referer header check was in place.
Funny this theme cropped up, I just watched a production of Ibsen's An Enemy of the People [1], where he makes a strong argument against the wisdom of the crowds.

That said, HN is really not the best place for honest discussion about controversial topics; the community is incapable of dealing with them and the software strongly discourages them. As someone who enjoys discussing any viewpoint, even those I strongly oppose, I find it somewhat disturbing how easily people censor what they dislike.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Enemy_of_the_People
As someone who had no idea who this was based solely on a username, it absolutely came off as a ploy to get blog clicks by trolling.
The screen difference is much bigger than those 2 inches, the 13" MBA is also a higher resolution so depending on what you use it for that can be important - 1440x900 vs. 1366x768.
He is asking that others abide by the rules and regulations of his religion. What do you think that I should call it?
i'll ask you the same questions i asked the parenjs author, and which i think are pretty much faqs if you're developing a language-hosted lisp dialect. (some of them, like the
interop ones, are answered in the hy docs, but it would be nice to have a quick up-front list for reference).

* lisp-1 or lisp-2?

* scoping rules?

* 1-way or 2-way python interop?

* lisp support for python objects?

* any support for tco or loop/recur?

* reader macros?

* speed penalty relative to native python?
Neither the time nor the place. Take it elsewhere.
He's the dude behind 4chan, an image board which allows/encourages anonymous posting.
If you get thousands of deals, how can people find them?
Or you can write a function for it and do something like:

(let ((myhash (make-hash-table :test 'equal)))
(add-hash-entry
(("name" "Andrew")
("location" "sf"))
myhash)

Which seems, to me, easier than having more special-case syntax to learn.

But I suspect this may be one of the drawbacks of Lisp, (indeed, it may turn out to be a problem with any powerful programming language.) It's so absurdly easy to do things like that, that incremental advances can be retarded by virtue of the steps along the way not being shared. And then when someone has to come along and use what you've written, without having been there for the steps along the way, the base level of abstraction they have to build up from is too low.
It's considered profane.

Television in the United States is okay with the word 'damn', but there are people who consider the combined use with 'God' to be disrespectful to the word 'God' (and believers), stemming from the belief that many religions have that 'God' (and other synonyms) should be reserved for when a person is addressing that deity. Also, many believers consider it a faux pas to impose on the deity of their chosen religion. (Goddamn, meaning "God, please damn .." is issuing a direct command rather than asking for an assistance)

This means that often times on television the word 'Goddamn' has 'God' bleeped from it, to form 'Bleeep-damn', which is okay, apparently.

(Apparently it's not disrespectful to overwrite the deity's name/title with an obnoxious noise)
That is a terrible analogy. The modern telephone is the computer, and Facebook, if being forced to stick with the telephone analogy, is some kind of phone book / telemarketer / wiretap agency hybrid.

The fact that computers are too inconvenient to use for communication without using locked centralized platforms and proprietary software is a testament to the failure of computers as a communication tool, rather than a good argument for the necessity of Facebook, which actually is terrible and worth resisting.
There's a brave (and perhaps naive) engineer. I think you'll find this audience a bit skeptical, but there's a bigger issue. If people are paying FB for relationships with people that want to be engaged with a product, they will quit paying as soon as the ROI is proven to be negative. And I think you'll only get one chance! If you honestly think the guy with the $20k ad spend is going to "try again just to make sure", then I think I'll go short some FB stock before it takes it's final dive.

This isn't a problem you face alone ... and I think it's telling that Google has had to put more ads on each page to grow revenue. In their case, the ads are targeted to the user AND often are related to a product search. I think FB has a bigger problem because people didn't go there to search for a product but rather to engage their network.

Good luck
Thanks for the response.

Do you have any first hand experience going between the two?

I've been in the stores and had a play with both but of course being in the store is completely different to being a couple of months down the line and thinking hmm I could've gone smaller or I could've gone bigger.

I mainly to be honest flick between sublime text and the browser and the terminal. I auto hide the dock and that's about it.
You just completely ignored the point he was trying to make with the fake likes. You're going to have to come up with a better bullshit defense.
This was hilarious.

There were years I was worried but he turned out to be great for humanity.
I can answer most of these just from reading the stuff linked here and educated guesses.

lisp-1,
bastardized-lexical (like python, though you could create your own binding constructs with macros),
2-way,
yes,
yes (loop/recur, no TCO afaict or trampolining),
yes,
yes
There was a post of Joel Spolsky about equity. It can give you some ideas: https://web.archive.org/web/20131109064121/http://answers.on...

On the other hand, I’m not an expert, but if you wish to hear the suggestions from a random dude in the Internet ...

"The first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first 90 percent of the development time. The remaining 10 percent of the code accounts for the other 90 percent of the development time." - Tom Cargill

I.E. Don’t be confident that the finishing details will be easy and fast to solve.

“A verbal contract isn’t worth the paper its written on.” - Samuel Goldwyn

I.E. Get everything written. And remember that you are now a funder, not an employed.

Don’t put money, because you are not an investor. Equity is almost always worthless, the business will probably flop and you can lose your money. This is at a level of a FFF round (family, friends and fools :) ). But there is a small probability that this will be a success, so get all the equity you can, just in case. But remember that the difference between 50 and 60 millions dollars is apparently overrated.

Let’s use random numbers:

YCombinator invest ~$20,000 for ~7% equity and they are very good in the investing business, so give your partners a 5% equity for their $14.000.

They have been working in this for 1.5 year, with a standard “4 year vesting time”, that is a 15% for each one. (This is not the correct way to apply it, but it’s useful to guess a number.)

So there is a remaining 65% to split in equal parts. A 20% for you (no money added) sounds good. A 25% (no money added) sounds better, because they have already vested a part.

Try to get advice from someone with more knowledge.

Questions:

What is the relation between the current business and the software business? It’s the same company or an independent company? Will they work full time in this? How much will be their salary and yours? (I don’t want the number, only if it’s the same, or not.) Are you going to get the standard salary (~$100,000/year) or only enough to live? Vesting time? Other investor? Previous programers or partnerships?
Bill Gates posted this after he finished his AMA.
Thanks for the response. I don't feel I would deserve an equal share as they are also willing to use the resources of their company (staff) for selling the product.

Researching more on HN, I feel 25% is reasonable vesting over 4 years. That would mean after 4 years, their contributing would be 50% more than mine (37.5% each). I believe they can help bring sales which would make that reasonable.
Looks that way. Possibly it's essentially the same thing as this:

http://www.amazon.com/Jac-Zagoory-Beta-Inkless-Pen/dp/B005GL...

EDIT: Not quite. Apparently the tip of that pen is lead, while the one in this post is some kind of alloy. Same idea, though, I imagine: soft metal that rubs off much like a pencil.
Yup. And due to the small amount of material deposit, it's going to be very light on paper.
I believe trolling entails intent. I don't think that I can both miss the point and troll at the same time.
> We would people try to do a ddos on them.

The same reason anyone ever DDOSes anything: because they're assholes.
if digit ratio were meaningless, why could it happen to predict toy preference?

other hormone effects, congenital adrenal hyperplasia can also be detected with blood tests, as was the case e.g. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12414881
Oddly enough we don't, though we added full IPv6 support to our products (which are management tools for hosting providers) years ago, and years before any of our competitors. So, I feel kinda silly for not taking that to the next step and actually enabling IPv6 for our own website. Gonna get on that problem this week.
Very cool! Upvoted.
a disturbingly large number of representatives in my state legislature would love to cut off the heat at various LGBT advocacy groups.

Can you cite any specific instance of a representative in your legislature threatening such action or expressing a desire to be able to do something like that?