skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Not that I'm very fond of social sciences but do you have at least one study to support your claim

I'm basing my claim on the standard findings of happiness research as I understand them - look up "hedonic treadmill" or "happiness set point". People have a core level of happiness. Being anxious from time to time has the value that it makes us act to try to better our condition. We make and do stuff in large part because we are chasing the illusion that if we overcome this one next obstacle we'll then be happy, but whether we succeed or fail, we eventually return to our default level. Marx's claim is based on the false idea that if we just fixed society in various ways then people could be happy all the time. But he's wrong; they can't.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic_treadmill

Quote: "The results of this study suggest that regardless of whether the life event is significantly negative or positive, people will generally always return to their happiness baseline". Source: Silver (1982). Coping with an undesirable life event: A study of early reactions to physical disability. Northwestern University.
If business success were all about efficiency then you might have a point. It has a lot more to do with critical mass, especially as we make it more and more difficult to start and run small businesses through excessive regulation while favoring large campaign donors that can have legal barriers-to-entry constructed by their paid-for representatives.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7390736
Good tool, have been using this for ages. Just don't look at the source code, at least a few years ago when I tried that to fix a bug I encountered, it gave me eye-cancer :P
How do these betting sites handle real-time events? I believe there was a case recently where a man at the Australian Open tennis in Melbourne was arrested for transmitting point information outside the stadium before it could be broadcast on television (there is always broadcast delay), which obviously could give you a big advantage. I think European football ones go into a vol auction (pause betting) when a goal is scored? But you could have a guy sitting in the stadium, wired up with a buzzer to press when a striker goes one on one with a goalie, or a penalty is awarded, and then just go all-in on the market? The whole thing is a can of worms.
Most of the reason money is spent on defense is deterrent. Some people gain more value out of that than others. Hopefully it never gets used, although if you need it eventually, it's much harder to build a warship and train a crew to use it than it is to find an empty building somewhere (or just build it).

Yeah, difference of values is fairly spot on. I don't know anybody who values an empty building, though. Or didn't, until now?
And there's TorqueBox for Ruby on or off Rails:

http://torquebox.org/
cool hadn't seen that, but that's pretty much what i find to be the optimal angle.

monitor hacks are definitely the next step, i'd prefer them higher and slightly angled downwards
I think he probably meant something closer to DabbleDB, which shut down a couple of years ago :( Still a great idea.
surely not? this is like google docs with no design or features.
Digital Electioneering
This was one of the advantages of the old IBM mainframe ecosystem: there was only one shade of green, and that was blue.
Show HN: Low-frequency Bitcoin/altcoin trading bot
Maybe a little more backstory in the comments would help.
> with totally separated right and left hand keyboards

The latest Ruby Rogues podcast discussed a new "Ergodox" split ergonomic keyboard with open hardware. You can build them yourself and customize them.

http://ergodox.org/

The discussion is at 1:08:30 in Episode 147 (March 12, 2014) at http://rubyrogues.com/
Unlikely. This still requires you to create all your data offline. Likely what pg is referring to (because I know I and many others wish they had it) is an easy to use browser based MS Access replacement that actually works, and also can quickly report out to a web-based MS Excel replacement so that you can build formulas they way you're used to, not learn SQL. Something like DabbleDB.
http://endsoftpatents.org perhaps?
Mapping The World's Airports With Neo4j Spatial And OpenFlights – Part 1
List of 60+ Responsive Navigation Tutorials and Demos
US Citizen here! Unfortunately, it won't end!

First, you have to fill out personal taxes every year for foreign income, regardless of whether you live in the US or not. All income globally is treated in the eyes of the IRS as income.

Second, you have to declare FBAR if you hold foreign accounts of over $10,000.

Third, you have to "open your books" for any foreign corporations you are the director (or have ownership) of. Check IRS forms 5471 and 5472.

Yaaa! Land of the free!

Source: American with a business in the UK, lived and worked in the UK. Not a lawyer, or an accountant.
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but but but free market privatization you cant let sick people get a free ride why do you hate america

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This appears to be the reasoning. It's completetly fucked in the head.

There is not a single angle you can look at healthcare from which does not make things look terrible. It is a fractal of sadness and poor decisions.
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Pelosi: You don't fight [the intel community] witho a price… they come after you.
Amazon runs a business in the UK, they are owned by a parent company in Luxembourg that they pay the majority of all their revenue to, thus making almost no profit, thus paying very little in tax.

They run a business in the UK but pay almost nothing in tax, it should be fixed its not fair on small business owners who have to pay all of there tax and get hammered for it.

Can you not see how its a loop hole? It can so easily be fixed.
So if I'm neither american or european. Is it actually easier for me to move to europe, get a visa there and start an european company than an american one?
At my work we are considering to open an office and incorporate in the US (We are based in Germany). Are there states that easier to set up an office? Delaware? Our costumers are manly in the Chicago area and the north east.
I have posted a blog post[0] explaining I was building a redundant storage service for developers. It was on the front page for about 4 hours. I think the best place it got was about 18th. I didn't put analytics and wasn't very careful about my logs. Actually the logs report the same IP all the time: the HTTP proxy and no referrer URL :)

I got very few people who sign up (which amount to choose a login and a password, no email required), I think it was around 10. Only one person tried really the service (i.e. uploaded an SSH public key and uploaded a few files).

The interesting thing is that even when the post had slipped from the front page, it was still generating a bit of traffic, possibly doubling the number of person registering.

The best thing I got from that post though was some feedback on HN itself but also a couple of persons sent me an encouraging emails. For that reason alone, even if you're not ready (you never are), post publicly your work as soon as possible.

[0]: http://hypered.io/blog/2014-02-17-building-reesd/
Samsung's Disappearing Differentiation
To play devil's advocate: Sometimes analyzing the results of a traffic spike can be interesting and worth sharing. I've seen other post-mortem analyses much better than this one, and I personally don't regard this as too spammy.
I work in an team that's organized the way the parent describes, and there's no mediator needed. The engineering managers and product managers have a good working relationship and collaborate closely, so they usually have no problem reaching consensuses that work for everyone. The close collaboration means that each side is aware of (and can usually anticipate) the other side's needs and limitations, but the division of responsibilities ensures that the number of balls getting dropped is minimized.

The relationship most certainly does not need a mediator. Sticking a mediator in there would probably end up destroying the arrangement. If the two camps can't work together without one, a better solution is to figure out who it is that doesn't know how to play well with others and get them replaced.
Google Streetview of Colorado River
The very unscientific tale of how Amazon first set the price of Prime
I remember a visit to the dentists where the local anesthetic went into a vein/artery/something and I nearly passed out - the dentist activated some feature of his dental chair that rapidly put me in a position where my feet were higher then my head - helping keep me conscious.

I would quite like that feature to help me cope with some conference calls. It could even be automated - if I haven't said anything in 10 minutes kick the chair back...
The crash of "Film as a Platform'
Who predicted Russia’s military intervention?
CSS3 Handbook Launches
10 or fewer people.
It's a command-line tool, but I have it running on heroku using their scheduler add-on. I'm up 15% since I started working on it a month or two ago :)
I use one of these bad boys: http://www.amazon.com/Gaiam-Balance-Ball-Chairs/dp/B006JBWYD...

My wife/business partner also uses one and (begrudgingly) convinced me to ditch my $300+ leather office chair for one.

I'm sold. It's the best option short of sitting on just the ball part (which engages more balance muscles)

The best part is your can't "slump" into the chair if you're feeling tired. The best option at that point it to get up and do something else as opposed to fighting your body and relying on a Lazy-Boy approach.

What I like especially is that when listening to music, or when you're feeling energetic you (subconsciously at times) tend to bounce and roll your butt around on the ball which exercises even more muscles in your back/lower body.
I'll sink the time into it if it was actually put to use. My fear is I'll waste ~100 hours on it, and then some bureaucrat will toss it all.
> Yes. That's my point about news sources. If you're surprised at this building waste and unaware of many others, then you might want to branch out in your reading.

I'd love to see a source that shows "hundreds of billions" in actual waste, in an itemized fashion.

> The cost of earmarks isn't the line item. It's the cost of the entire boondoggle law that wouldn't have been passed without the back room incentives.

The idea of earmarks is to attach them to a law that was going to pass anyway.
And note that Google Sheets actually has a query() function that allows you to run SQL like queries on your datasets. Few people seem to know this, but for me it's one of the features where I prefer it to Excel.
The Ballard Bridge has been getting stuck more and more in recent months, it seems.

And the University Bridge (or maybe it's Montlake) needs to get hosed down with water every hour on hot days, or otherwise it will expand and be unable to lift.

Welcome to Seattle.
To be honest, I don't know much about how this works in NYC government.

I think DCAS is the agency that manages all of the city properties. So individual agencies might not have much control over their own space. DCAS might need to be the ones to establish the incentives.
Mauritius: the best place to do business in all of Africa. Good connectivity, great tax rates, no corporate gains tax, awesome beaches. http://www.investmauritius.com/
Not a bias, corruption runs way too deep:

Elected Mexican president spent 12 times above the limit!:

Limit: 26 million

Spent: USD $460 million!

http://www.proceso.com.mx/?p=367033
Meh. Taking opportunity costs into account, a SINGLE visit to a local retail store that I can bill to a client instead more than covers the yearly expense. Add to that my experience with their customer service and returns (simply stellar[1]) and I would have gladly paid $149/yr which was hinted at previously.

I've saved myself countless hours and shipping charges as a long-time prime member. Watched a whole season of The Americans and five streaming movies for free last week. I'd say I get more than my money's worth...

[1] one more reason to avoid other online retailers or brick and mortars

PS I never buy anything from third party sellers where Amazon doesn't handle the fulfillment. Too many scammers. Yes, I'm looking at you AntOnline on Amazon. Crooks.
I would tend to agree with you. It's a bit hard for me because my favorote rpg's are on the SNES, but the PSX definitely had a larger library of quality rpg's.
This looks great, but how does it compare to already existing options like django-jsonfield or jsonfield?
Really? That's all the criteria for "worst persons to have ever lived"? That's a pretty low bar and seems like it would qualify pretty much every head of state ever.
The ACA arguably makes a few things more 'fair' but it's still profiteering sick care via cost shifting.

Drug companies seem to have an incentive to get $5000/yr treating type 2 diabetes (i.e. carb intolerance) rather than telling people to stop eating so many carbs. The doctors and insurance companies just go along with it, as there doesn't seem to be an economic disincentive for them. I know first hand that is bullshit, so I have to wonder how many other things are rotten (statins vs diet).

If we actually cared about health in this country, we'd probably ban most of the current food production 'technologies' and stop subsidizing/pushing carbs [edit: for everybody; some people can handle them]. But healthy people don't grow GDP, having bypasses and perpetually treated diseases grows GDP, and god knows all this country cares about is the GDP number.
Amazon Prime Goes To $99, Newcomers Have A Week Before Price Increase
(Honest question) What's the confusing part about health insurance?
This was actually proposed by by Christopher Alexander in _A Pattern Language_ originally published in 1977. He cites an MIT study from which he may have gotten the idea.

http://books.google.com/books?id=hwAHmktpk5IC&&pg=PA110

I'm actually surprised it hasn't been done before now, we've had the technology for a while. (It's not clear from the brief write-up if this one is a private company or municipal service).

The entry from A Pattern Language has stuck with me as a good idea (and because it was rather atypical for the other patterns Alexander included, this is the only one i recall that's so overtly related to IT). Alexander's version predates cell/smartphones phones as well as the powerful computers of the 21st century;. it assumes you still need some fixed 'stops' with phones next to them for people to call for dispatch. But the basic idea of routing small busses based on demand and shared rides, using computer software to make it feasible, is there.
Because we are only delivering multiple clients, it means we only have one server version running at a time. Then, after authentication, we decide which client version you will be receiving based on your chosen channel and hashed member id in the case of multiple distributions within the channel.
If you want to reduce a problem of this complexity to binary choices, be my guest, but I doubt it will get you anywhere useful.
A quote: "So while it's interesting to hear that women are less likely to die of heart disease if they have a partner, no one's going to go out to find one in order to have a marginally better chance of making it to old age."

The above sentence shows that the author -- and most readers -- miss the single most important thing about cohort studies -- which is that they can't distinguish causes from effects. Contrary to everyday understanding, the statement "women are less likely to die of heart disease if they have a partner" does not mean that choosing to have a partner results in a reduction of a woman's chance to die of heart disease, and it does not mean that seeking out a partner will reduce one's changes to die of heart disease. It only means that having a partner, and reduced chance of dying of heart disease, are correlated.

The above very common confusion is the source of any number of meaningless "breakthroughs" in science publishing, and fuels any number of public controversies with little or no scientific substance.
It's not a personal attack? Being called ignorant just means that you don't know something. Stupid, that's an insult, but ignorant simply means that you don't know.

Your comment stated that the paperwork reduction act added paperwork, which you used as an example to the statement "potentially yielding the exact opposite [of] what it intends."

The intention of the federal paperwork reduction act isn't to reduce the physical amount of paperwork to you. It is to ensure that all paperwork has a purpose, and a timeframe for completion that isn't overly burdensome.

Therefore, your premise that its main goal was to reduce the physical number of pages for federal programs is incorrect, I assumed you were ignorant of what the federal paperwork reduction act was, and I explained it.

I have gone through the process of having federal forms cleared with the OMB at the federal level, large scale and small scale data collection, and have worked with them in several capacities. I don't like that I have to have everything relate to my goals and purpose or that I have to conduct studies on the front end for forms, but I see the purpose for it.
Step 1) Buy a laptop.

Step 2) Work anywhere you want.
For the schema stuff, these days what i would do is write the objects, add the minimal set of JPA annotations (which can be as little as @Entity at the top and @Id on the ID column), then generate the DDL from that. You don't need any XML for the mapping.

Sadly, you do still need a persistence.xml with the database connection details, and for some providers a list of all your entity classes (WTF). I have a build script which generates all that (amongst other things), though:

https://bitbucket.org/twic/jpaquickstart/src/0c5b383026ba097...
It isn't really about availability, I'd attribute it more to laziness - once you donate to one project on Kickstarter it is painfully easy to repeat on another half dozen. Having to go through payment forms here might turn a huge portion of potential donors off.
Finally - a more efficient and effective CI and CD solution! Containers solve many of the traditional issues with VMs. One can really expect to truly clone systems with containers. Great UI too!
I'm not saying it can't work that way -- just that it often doesn't if you don't have good people. Also, even if you have good people, when the product group is more or less a single silo and you have a dozen different engineering teams working on various modules of a product, communications get lost and balls get dropped and you need some sort of communication process that ensures at a bare minimum accountability (which usually ends up at Agile).

I know a lot of people would say "Well just hire better people," but that's often not realistic. It takes time to hire people, corporate HR processes are terrible at differentiating good developers from mediocre ones. In the time it takes you to hire people, you still need to ship product.
Didn't the Affordable Health Care Act essentially roll out nationally a model similar to the successful state models (like Massachusetts) making this a universal method? I claim ignorance here but was under the impression the systems worked similar.
Betfair let you download historical market data at http://data.betfair.com/ for free (but you need an account with them)
Right. . . hence the sentence on the end about needing to use buffer space to handle the things that Agile never promised it could handle in the first place.

I'd point out that the same problem exists for every other software development methodology I've ever tried. The difference is that when they do slip deadlines, it tends to be a whole lot more surprising (and therefore damaging to the schedules of other teams) because their feedback mechanisms tend to result in poorer-quality progress tracking.
i slide the chair forward until the arms are just under the desk and my feet hit the back wall of the desk.

occasionally i slide the monitors forward or backward if my eyes feel strained
"Leverage" is kind of vague. It's hard to make money from large-scale abuses...

And it doesn't look like the NSA for example is doing anything useful from its own perspective with the data they actually have...
Why DST saved my life this week
My personal productivity argument in favor of keeping DST. What do you think? Long life spring forward or not?
Thanks for considering Webpop! I'm the founder.

We've been around for more than 3 years now, have clients with hundreds of published sites and we're profitable, so we're not going anywhere.

That said, the lock-in is a problem and I wish there was a really great way to address the lock-in. Open-sourcing doesn't really solve it when the software is built to scale up to handle thousands of multi-tenant sites on a distributed infrastructure, but not to be simple enough to install and run that it's viable for a relatively small number websites.
In Poland when you want to hire someone "as it should be" with a proper work contract it is quite a pain in the ass for the employer. 1) Many rights for the empolyee, not so many for the employer, 2) VERY high real costs of employment (only ~40% of total employment costs lands in the hands of the employee to his/her disposal).

That's why many companies are using some "alternative" ways to hire someone still legally with much lower costs (10-25% employer costs including the salary) and more balanced rights for both sides of the contract.
carpel tunnel for your wrists when typing?
I tried the recliner-desk for a while myself. After a couple months the behavior you described started to take its toll as well. I traded one pain for another.
How much can you score
"Tag
A trick often used by iOS devs is to use the tag of a view to hold lookup information, such as offset in arrays. With Android you can shove the entire object into the tag; pretty useful."

No.. Just no. That's considered really bad form. The tag of a view should not be used (Abused) to hold an index etc.. that is linked to the data set.
I personally like using the ability to understand stand-up comedy as the gold standard of fluency. I've lived 10 years in France now, and I was already capable of doing a job interview in French on arrival, until recently I only had French friends, only watched films / tv in French, read books in French 90% of the time, and I still struggle with comedy. Part of it is that they speak so fast, part of it is cultural references which I don't have, but a lot of it is that nuance is a major part of the comedian's trade, and I'm more or less nuance tone deaf, even after all these years of effort.
As another commenter mentioned "it's been documented that engagement from reddit/facebook/etc is very low". It is all about the unfiltered feedback and what you do with it.
After all the hype, I was pretty disappointed in Sintel. It felt more like a tech demo.

I hope this changes.
"Goodies, my Kingdom for iOS Goodies" – Richard III, by William Shakespeare
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Well, yeah? The first thing I thought when the NSA story broke was "Just metadata? Okay Mr. President and members of Congress: how about we release a list of everyone you talked to and when? It's just metadata, right?"
Hmm. All I can offer is that I know of at least one instance where Canadians were able to open bank accounts in the US so long as the bank in question was Canadian-owned. It's not standard-practice so it usually involves being a good customer for the bank or having a special paid plan. Here's a thread where people had the same issue: https://forum.lowyat.net/topic/1300881/all
Wait, do you have to do FBAR and FinCen 114?

EDIT - Oh doh! They're the same thing.
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