skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A big part of my "coming of age" was realizing the US is not some business, capitalist paradise, nor is it a "low tax" jurisdiction. If you live in most of the big centers, you pay as much tax as Europeans, and receive almost nothing in welfare benefits (whereas your European peer will receive tens of thousands of dollars, if not more, in government services over a lifetime). If I didn't have health insurance through my spouse's employer, I'd be paying $1,600/mo in student loan minimum payments and catastrophic plan health insurance (which will only get more expensive as I get older and have children). Add that on top of federal taxes, payroll taxes (self-employed, so I have to pay both sides), New York state and New York city taxes (NYC conveniently double-taxes S-corp earnings, btw), and I'm paying far more than any European would in my position.

Doing business is also a huge headache, with so many different taxes to navigate, on the federal, state, and local level. Payroll taxes are a joke. Why not just collect it along with FICA and earmark it at the government level? Because politics. They think, if you label the tax "Medicare" or "Social Security," they won't think of it as a tax but rather a savings account. Right.

And I'm a lawyer! I can't imagine how much precious capital is wasted on CPAs and attorneys by small business owners trying to start a business the right way.

More and more I realize that the US is actually quite mediocre at many things, especially governance, not exceptional. What we are is a huge homogeneous market, and that's where much of our wealth comes from.
You rate 17 TB / day as "sorta manageable I reckon" for the federal goverment? Your local Best Buy could meet that demand.
>do what really works for most people -- buses

Do buses really work better for most people? I live in Chicago and it seems like most people I know (including me) ride the trains unless it can be avoided.
I don't get the logic here. "hoping for a change" is certainly a difficult emotion that is not easily resolved and we shouldn't delude ourselves into believing in silver bullets, but why is it worse going out on an adventure than staying where you are? At least you get some exercise, which in my mind is always a good start for inducing an improvement in one's mental state.
Well done!
Should we make a 8192 version ? :)
That's nice here, but in the UK they just upped the price from £49 to £79 along with the introduction of Amazon Instant Video, and that was definitely spun as "look at all this extra content you're getting!" Nevermind if you don't actually intend on using Amazon Instant Video...
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> America is the largest welfare state in history.

Welfare for the rich. Naked social darwinism for the poor.
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I think the Recap functionality might be understated. If they can add more color data about event times, actual scores, player names, then I think they could be on to something in automating recaps of games.
I disagree. I know most Go shops I have dealt with at least have looked into gccgo. We use gccgo in the wild (for all our image processing components), because it gave us a nice performance boost. With good testing, you can easily do A/B testing using gccgo to see where it makes sense for you in production.

We have to dig through 30TB of images -- so the performance benefits we got from gccgo were worth the trivial effort it took to implement.
Whether or not $680 is "decent coverage" for a family of 4 depends on age and perhaps the state you live in. Assuming that the family is young, that would buy one of the better pre-ACA plans in my state (Washington). I have no idea how old the parent is.

Of course, that won't buy a comparable post-ACA plan. The ACA rather dramatically increased the costs of insurance even for plans that were unchanged by the ACA (~35% more at my current startup for the same plan). Other startups I know faced similar cost increases, which makes the argument that the ACA helps startups dubious.
Is the user more - or less - vulnerable to an attack? You're quite the pedant, whoever you are ..
I used to work right on Old Street roundabout in the BT building on the NW corner, back in the late 90s. This was about the time that some of the old buildings nearby were just being converted into loft apartments. I guess the writing was on the wall even then, although the area was a backwater languishing in geographical obscurity. The pubs were unbelievably seedy dives (or worse). There was one bright spot, though, which was the street market in Whitecross Street. I don't think that exists any more. Oh well, that's what passes for progress, I suppose.
Also disabled people in a lot of places. But does it scale? Of course not.

This is new "technology" in the same way that Amazon's 'predictive local distribution centers' were. (They guess what people in a neighborhood would want in the future, and locally store it ahead of time! Innovation lives!)

Amazon's innovation is managing to do that, not pay taxes, and not have to worry about making a profit at the same time.
I feel very sorry for him, one shouldn't need to think about money when he has just (hopefully not) a few months left.

Said that, wouldn't it be cheaper for him and his family to move to an European country, and get therapy there?

In most europeans countries you just pay a low and flat rate (around 100€ a month) and you can get Cancer treatment or whatever is needed.

I really want to help him, but I hate that at the end all the money will go into the greedy american health industry.
Nathan Barry posts are bad enough as it is without people in the comments doing the same thing.
I suspect it is actually a Portable Plus. I've got one and it has an 8088 processor along with the dual floppy drives shown in the picture.
Perfect example of why having an extensible format is so important! It should be easy to just add a new debugging annotation for dynamic bindings without changing the format at all!
Here is a motivational song for y'all [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJDtTZ0Q1lY
I use multitail's --mergeall flag daily for stuff like:
multitail --mergeall /var/log/apache2/*error.log
I'm praying for you, but besides praying, your post has triggered the following:

1) cried a little, I'm your age, with kids, wife had Thyroid cancer, close to home

2) donated to your fund, hope many more will

3) read about Melanoma, was shocked how much I didn't know

4) made an appointment with a dermatologist, I'm in the risk group apparently

5) emailed my insurance company to increase my coverage

My thoughts and prayers are with you
There's kind of similar services in Japan to get to the airport, using a shared-taxi kind of system with online reservation. It's way better than the bus to reach the terminal (they pick you at home) costs only a bit more and is significantly cheaper than a taxi ride (5 times less).
I'd like the flip that thinking on it's head a bit. It's not about "average" or "better or worse" than average. The need to put yourself and others into some sort of ranking stems from the need to categorize everything into a hierarchy.

I'm talking about something more binary. Good or bad. Progress or stagnation. The right or wrong side of history.

I'm also talking about power. Who determines engineering practice. The engineers or the marketers?

Evidence of power is in the corporate hierarchy. Are there n tiers of middle management? Can an engineer truly make a difference at a company? Will the engineer be able to have a voice in what the priority is?
It's almost comical how nobody at my company would ever take a project this seriously. Good for them, Trello is awesome.
A man in a dress showed me that I can help you overcome the fear of presenting.
Shameless plug for my very work-in-progress (read: lots of broken links) side-project: http://recappd.com

Any tips for taking the information there and turning it into a natural language sounding recap would be appreciated.

Also, one of the leaders in this field: http://automatedinsights.com/
Ask PG: Is this what you meant by "web-based Excel/database hybrid"?
Oh god. Even a bi-articulated bus with 240 people on it is emphatically not a bus I would want to be on.
Nathan's posts are very much on-topic for a site interested in startups and business. Far more so than the political post du jour. If you don't like them, don't read them.
Maybe it has something to do with the 15 second delay between the click on the play button and the actual start of the video.. unacceptable these days imho. Nice read thou :)
A friend of mine extended it significantly:

http://www.underhumanpower.com
The CBO scores based on the information given to them. It's a "garbage in, garbage out" problem.
I actually like that setup, as I prefer a chair that leans back as well. And the area looks cozy...I like some clutter, I feel more comfortable in spaces like that.

Here are my suggestions for the rest of your setup:

1. Monitor arms. That will allow you to move you monitors around easily. I use one from 3m.
2. Deeper desk. I use an old kitchen table that is really just a thick 4x8 sheet of plywood.
I quote: "system generated password is contained in the verification email you received when you first created your account"
BSD/GNU tail do that with -F.
Obama (a racist IMO, see 'Trayvon could be my son') is selling http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Ignagni project.

What can I do not to help?
The long term sustainment / archival aspects of this are really interesting. With the new replacement system, is the company just rebuilding it from scratch? Are there design documents or source code they have access to from the old system? Is the new company going to be required to escrow similar design elements?
My first thought is that the monitors would be way too far away for someone with poor eyesight like myself. Which reminded me...

At my last dentist appointment I was thinking about how comfortable the chair was and wondering whether you could set up a workstation with one (perhaps with totally separated right and left hand keyboards so your arms rest at your sides?) To make it work, I think you'd need monitors on like boom arms essentially suspended above you. Anyone tried something like this?
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I guess it was more like, an impulse, not a conscious thought. So I had an impulse to do it, but never actually thought about doing it, and didn't realize what I had almost done until I was at a complete stop.
Sure. Trains work great where you already have them and lots of people that want to ride them. They also work pretty well if you have a massive budget and the political will and power to build out sensible routes.

So they don't work for a whole bunch of the U.S.
How to win over new people fast and make a great first impression
Delay? We were originally using youtube to play the video but now we have switched to Wistia. It is much better and we can link directly to the instant demo at the end rather than showing other random videos.
>My native language is Polish too. I wouldn't be 100% sure that this guy is a fake. //

Agreed on that second part. I'm skeptical too but having seen Benny's Youtube videos and knowing that he already speaks a dozen or more languages and that he has reportedly learnt them enough to be conversational in months ... I think he has a handle on how to make specific sounds already and probably knows a lot of cognates.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITzFRlVhMVs&list=TLnnk46TOLw... - shows he's at 12 languages at least.

He's not just a random guy, he appears to be trying very hard; I wouldn't call it fake without further evidence; he clearly has a great talent and many people appear to have had success using his methods (which he passes on for free).

In this TEDx video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZqUeWshwMs, he says he started learning new languages at 21. He looks mid- to late-30s to me which tends to support his "3 months" claim as being viable as well.
What about your wrists? The angle of your monitor stand would suggest that they have to be bent at least 20 degrees or so.
Wow, very cool. The jumps in the odds are so clear you could probably cross that with a live video feed (or a Twitter stream) to automatically summarize the milestones in a game (goals, penalty kicks, injuries).

PS: Football in Argentina as well :)
The local version of Slate is a standard C# addin; the cloud version uses most of the same C# and Python. All of the visualisation is currently done in html, css + js.

The add-in should work back to Excel 2007.
You have a strange perception of all this. You haven't enjoyed the films, so they are a waste of talent.

As if these people weren't bogged down working for blender movies, they'd have jobs at Pixar. These people apply to get on the project and they are hand picked crews. They in some cases get to live on the "campus" and work on the film. Everybody benefits, the film is released for free in dozens of file formats / resolutions.

the residual benefits are big, the educational benefits are obvious. Some of the crew have gone on to bigger paid work including pixar and the lego movie, and that's just the popular recent ones. Others create their own companies, others work more on blender and do what they want.

To say it's a waste of talent is very strange way of looking at this.
15 Young Designers to Follow in 2014
| Less than 1% of those visitors actually tried our presentation demo (only about 5 did) which was surprising (and disappointing).

I think it's been documented that engagement from reddit/facebook/etc is very low because you're often using a shotgun approach instead of targeting people who would actually become customers. On the other hand, this product would really be in the wheel house of a site frequented by tech entrepreneurs. It's cool to see that you were able to get feedback and act on it.

If I could throw my two cents in, I, and I assume anyone else visiting your site while at work, will always be hesitant to click a play button.
This is pretty interesting and fun data. The article talks a lot about what games are exciting and it basis this off of wild fluctuations in a team's chances of winning. This makes perfect sense, but there is more to it than that.

If there are two teams playing each other and the score is 43-36 with plenty of ups and downs along the way, is it an exciting game? Sure sounds like it. What if those two teams are the Browns and Dolphins playing in a meaningless game in December with two backup quarterbacks? Is that game still exciting?

These things are hard to quantify because the algorithm needs to put things into context that it may not be able to understand.
While I don't think client side apps are the only way of doing things, I will say that I think client side apps will become much more popular once browsers get a little better.

I love the separation of concerns that is possible with JS apps - you can have one team working on the API and one on the interface and the only place they really need to communicate is in the API documentation. Once it's all done, you've already got a fully functional and secure API (because it wasn't an afterthought) that can be used for other clients.
I think you need to pay a little more attention:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=vIL...

The ARE storing everything. 15 years worth.
I donated earlier today and I wish you the very best.

Please also don't feel bad about taking advantage of this opportunity at the top of Hacker News and add a clear link in at the top of your blog post saying "You can donate here".

It's hard for someone scanning to see that they can donate and while there's a time and a place for being shy it would be a shame to lose out on the opportunity you have here.

Very best of luck (and please do clearly add the link)
Peter
To clarify: The quality of the comment I quoted is indicative of the quality of TFA.
Does anyone know how the server determines which channel the client should be using? Are they doing this check at the apache/nginx level, or on the server right after the user is authenticated, and before the client code is sent?
If someone has the resources, it may be a last-ditch attempt to elude death. It's very unlikely someone frozen today would be able to watch his or her children grow - we don't have the technology to revive a frozen person and we don't know if it's even possible.

Then, I understand the odds are probably better if I'm frozen while alive, with minimum damage to brain tissue. It would be a hard choice to give up my last few couple hours with my family in order to undergo an uncertain procedure on the slim odds of getting resurrected decades from now.

This hits home hard for me. My father found out he had terminal cancer when my mother was 3 months into pregnancy. In the late 60's he didn't even know I was a boy. Medical science couldn't give him anything better than a less painful death. He never heard me cry and never got to hold me in his arms. He would be no better now if he were frozen when he died - he'd still be dead and would remain so for at least a good couple decades. I'm 46 and, with luck, I'll have another 46 years to live. He died at 40.
> Prepare for / pay for my final arrangments : $20,000

I'm not here to bash, but with so much money problem why do people want to spend so much money on their death? If I die I just want people to get rid of my body in the cheapest way possible. Just burn me or give me to science.
You cannot get highly desirable employers from unemployment pool.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2005/01/27.html
If you change https to http, it works for me (and I'm not logged in or privileged in any way).
They're pretty common in the US too. SuperShuttle seems to be the big name in this area. They cover a ton of different airports and go to your house. The price differential is similar, at $27-28 for a round trip from my house versus $50ish each way for a taxi. Or $4 for a metro ride, but that currently only serves one of the two airports.
"Benny's American accent in Chinese is thick"
I'm Irish.
How to automatically migrate all your images to the cloud
This blog post describes a method that combines the advantages of automatic image fetching from existing online locations with the advantages of managing new images directly in the cloud using Cloudinary. This method allows lazy migration to the cloud as well as other powerful origin pulling options. Sample code included for Ruby on Rails, PHP, Python & Django, Node.js, .Net and Java.
Curious if you've heard of http://phoenixtears.ca/ I don't know if it works for everyone but I can vouch that it does for some.
You should study companies and their real estate portfolios. There are a number of companies sitting on vacant properties that are intentionally unused. As an example, most pharmaceutical and chemical companies have large unused facilities that sit empty while the company is churning out billions of profits a year. The main reason is that these sites are contaminated and the companies are afraid of liabilities from selling the properties. Funnily enough, this is exactly the first hurdle the article says the federal government faces in selling their properties. Guess the corporate world ain't that different.
> This was more than likely just bad design on your part.

Oh I won't deny that, as I mentioned, I approached the problem from a background with limited exposure to modern web technologies. Still though, lets take just one aspect, db interaction for which I used hibernate:

First I create my DB structure, then create an XML mapping, then create the POJO model (replete with getters/setters) sure, most IDEs do this automagically, but experience with switching IDEs and changing versions makes me abhore IDE generated code, then hibernate's own XML config, then the utility class (I called these factories, my bad). Not to mention the prerequisites that made all this possible, glassfish, maven etc require their own configuration etc. By now I have several thousand lines of code and I've not even implemented any functionality. Time taken, no clue, but hours, lots of hours.

The equivalent with Python + TornDb?

Create schema, extend torndb to pull credentials from environment variables & connect to db (3 lines of code, wow), create flaskapp.py, bind path to a method, begin writing the "real" code. Lines of source, under 100. Time taken, less than an hour.

> J2EE (which became Java EE over 8 years ago) I have to wonder if you used a lot of legacy APIs and design patterns.

When you spend a considerable amount of time calling something by one name, despite a rename you tend to continue. Apologies for using the incorrect name, but the rest of your assumption are unfounded unless you're calling Glassfish, Hibernate, Jersey, JSF and JavaDb legacy ..

> Derby is neat for an portable in-process relation db but no one in their right mind uses it for a large or high-performance db

Those were precisely the reasons I chose it, the example I gave isn't large or high performance, and its pathetic at that role, I stand by my assertion. You'd be better off using serialised objects, CSV files, heck even notes scribbed on postit notes tacked to the wall than JavaDB.

I say this after countless hours spent taking the platform offline to rebuild the database which grew uncontrollably despite careful use of transactions within hibernate and daily cron jobs to run SYSCS_UTIL.SYSCS_COMPRESS_TABLE
This is probably the most stupid question you ever heard:

I'm from Indonesia, working in Malaysia. Mid of last year I incorporated a C-Corp in Delaware. The reason is so I can use Stripe to accept CC payments. Apparently to open bank account in the US, I need to be there in person, so I'm now stuck with a "sleeping" company (because I don't have time to go to US just to open a bank account, not to mention the expenses).

I have paid the franchise tax through my registered agent. Is that all?

Extra bonus if you can give me direction to get out from this stupid situation.
Budget, political will, and power are three sides of the same coin (you heard me), and one person's "fantasizing about trains" is another person's "trying to convince the public that it's worth spending the money".
How a two-day side project turned into a productivity app with 11 million users
>> small businesses would know if a chair was underutilized, and it would be sold in 10 minutes

Right-O, no waste in small businesses. The smaller the business, the more efficient. Hence ever-smaller businesses are gaining a growing share of the economy. (In fact, the opposite is true.)
THx. I got 2 emails, since I hit 'forgot password' before the 1st one arrived. It had no password; the other one did, but below the link between wads of text about petitions.

Still, no way to change it on the page linked to, so still confusing.
Why is this a zero sum game. Why can't you do both?
There are lots of Danish startups: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7391809
I think so: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/wp-content/uploads/2014...

Caption that went with the photo:

> Engineering manager Scott Goodson reclines in the reclining workstation he built at Facebook HQ.

From: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2014/03/facebook-paper/

Edit: Added caption.
This:

http://c.gg/anita

If someone is too lazy to click and read - Anita healed herself completely from stage 4 cancer by dropping all fears out of her system. Then her body completely healed itself in a few weeks.

Worth spending some research dollars teaching people how to clean their inner emotional states and eliminate debilitating fears that causes sicknesses and so many deaths.
>may discourage posts like this.

That may be goldenkey's goal, and shouldn't be discouraged either. Someone's opinion that something is awful and doesn't belong here is just as legitimate as your opinion that something is informative and interesting.

Your comment is unnecessarily condescending and may discourage comments like this.
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why stop at 2048?
"Look up any research on happiness."

Boy we are really dialing it up to 11 in this thread.