skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
[referring to Assembly] I told him that couldn't be true because it's not even human readable.

Not sure if this is meant to be a joke. If not, what? I mean, perhaps you could say that for your compiler output, but otherwise...?

Otherwise, I sympathized with her story, although the rather tired "Where did all the good men go?" ending wasn't particularly apt. Still, this is a Jezebel story. For the penultimate postmodern feminist trash rag, it isn't that bad.
It's always ironic when a post about getting on the front page of HN, get's onto the front page of HN
what is searchlores and +orc cracking tutz?
5 Anti-Aging Tips for Mobile Games
Possible. That is the lowest setting.
Odd.. this post was #16 on the front page and suddenly dropped to #78 within a minute or two
the most destructive types of gambling are the things like slot machines and casino games that offer no wisdom of crowds external benefit, and are -EV no matter what you do. the type of gambling you are talking about happens in things that are usually called prediction markets. lots of effort has been made to harvest knowledge this way, and it works well. And, fairly, I dont think prediction markets are stigmatized the same way casinos are.
Introducing the Open Source Rapid Response Kit from Twilio.org
Thanks for this.

We are a UK-based company and want to have a US "presence" as we have found that charging US customers from a UK payment processor results in greater than expected numbers of declined payments due to the "international" element of the transaction [1]

Our plan was to get an EIN number for the business so that we can open a dollar bank account and register with a US payment processor to resolve this issue. We have no plans to hire in the US.

My two questions are:

(a) Is this a reasonable approach, or is there a better way ?

(b) What unforeseen implications (tax, bureaucratic or otherwise) might we be opening ourselves up to by doing this ?

[1] https://blog.recurly.com/2013/12/international-decline-rates...
it does the opposite for my shoulders, they are relaxed.

i keep a pillow around that i sometimes place behind my head to zero-out any neck strain
Hospital beds start at about $500. I might have to put together a kickstarter campaign for a hospital bed, downward facing monitor, and split keyboard setup. The only thing I can't figure out is the mouse. Would a motion tracking mouse that follows your nose be too much?
Don't forget to follow-up with a post on how "We did a Show HN" post did.
Jesus christ, and I was getting upset about the 18.7% tax on cars with engines over 2.0L displacement here in Poland......
What Paper Airplanes Have Taught Me About Success
> The author has actually asked, "Why are we all SO anxious...?" Not just "anxious," but "so anxious."

In that case, my answer is: because we are each on our own hedonic treadmill, and that particular level of anxiety is what evolution handed us. Whatever level it is, it probably has some survival value.

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

Though I think the real problem in our conversation here might be that I live in an allegedly "capitalist" society and I'm not particularly anxious, so when I read text like "why are we all so anxious" I have to come up with a meaning for that sentence that isn't immediately false on the face of it.

Are you "extremely anxious", such that the term "so anxious" applies to you? Do you assume it applies to everybody else too? This isn't a rhetorical question; I'm honestly curious: do you think people in capitalist societies have an extreme form of anxiety and people in more socialist ones don't? If so, that strikes me as an extraordinary claim; I'd like to see some sort of evidence for it.
I can't seem to find that info on their page. Do you have a link?
Trade-offs in Continuous Integration: Time, Coverage and Costs
Wasn't part of the reason people wanted independence from the British to avoid paying the king's taxes?
I'm more interested to know the actual technical details of the build and testing process than the "Task-List" software development based approach because that can be done by any software project management tools (even JIRA).

What's missing in this article is the whole Continuous Delivery technical aspect of it.

What do you guys use to build the NodeJS app?

What do you guys use to test the NodeJS app?

What do you guys use to check the code coverage of the NodeJS app?

What do you guys use to test the front-end?

What is the automated testing strategy?

How do you store artifacts of builds, schema migration (if using RDBMS) or handle different model versions, how do you rollback (what's the rollback strategy)?
thanks, like a small club!
thanks for all the responses!

BTW I'm listening to the SPIN Selling audiobook, so far so good on tips.
If you want to pay for one it costs about ten bucks a year: https://www.gandi.net/ssl/grid

Also worth noticing is that SSL comes free for one year with domains bought at Gandi.
Everything I've ever heard about Fog Creek indicates that they take their people seriously. Which probably makes them more likely to take their work at Fog Creek seriously.

Funny how that works, huh? A lesson many, many other companies could profit from.
Octocall – Frictionless Conference Calling
True. I was VERY surprised by the quality of mobile internet (and mobile phone connection in general) when I was in San Francisco and around Silicon Valley). Here in Poland I've got 4g connection practically everywhere in bigger cities (15-20mbits download 3-6mbits upload, ping ~50-70ms tested several times) and in SF I was sometimes struggling to get some decent signal...
I'll be the Pollyanna here and say: maybe! Probably not this iteration, but maybe!

Features I'd suggest:
* Some explanation, in a big font, of what we are seeing on the homepage of sheetjs.com ("SheetJS lets you get more information out of your data, instantly")
* A big button that takes me to a sample sheet, with some sample queries I can run. Basically, a live tutorial

Good luck, this looks cool!
Nope, my seat/ball and desk height is correct making that a non-issue for both typing and mouse control (I do more mouse clicking than typing) As long as you measure everything correctly you won't have issues. Also keep in mind the height and depth of your monitor placement. You don't want to be leaning in, or looking down/up all day. Pretty basic ergonomic stuff.
Thanks a lot for the feedback.

At the moment, we are using the browser to render Slate view so that we could use available web technologies to draw the tree.

Good point about Excel-DNA: we will take a look at this.

We have had some compatibility issues with Excel 2007. Perhaps we could take this to email? I am fraser@useslate.com
I've watched prime videos on my asus tablet just by using a browser. Seems to work fine.
> 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.

I get that this is supposed to reflect the "for profit healthcare industries are fucking you over to make their buck" but the reason every first world nation on the planet has single payer is because it grows your GDP to not have a perpetually ill populace that consumes extremely expensive hospital procedures as last resorts before declaring bankruptcy on a million dollar bill while being prescribed a half dozen drugs they don't need by profiteering big pharma companies being subsidized and given monopolies by a corrupt state.
Doesn't really solve the problem; a malicious actor could just lower the landing gear and then turn the transponder off.
I looked at lots of alternatives. But I needed something that supported the actual underlying Postgresql json type. Psycopg2 converts those automatically into Python types. So we needed a JSON type that would accept: Python dicts, lists, strings, and JSON encoded objects, lists, and strings. None of them support that because they are all just storing the data as text in the backend.
Absolutely agreed!
But even if the body helps the mind, it can be hard facing yourself, hard admitting you took the wrong direction especially if you are doing it alone.
Helsinki has a subway though. This is on top of that.
Have been using this for ages too with fping: http://imagebin.ca/v/1FO4anUn0zyF
I'm not sure how to respond to the Assembly nitpick but if Jezebel wants to post this article, it's fine with me.

(Just because an online publication frequently publishes stuff I don't read does not imply that I should not read the one good one they publish.)

Further, what's wrong with feminism?
The've been doing it for years on SB Nation.

http://www.sbnation.com/nba/2013/12/19/5228994/kobe-bryant-i...
Show HN: BlitzDB – Document-oriented database written purely in Python
BlitzDB, or just Blitz, is a document-based, object-oriented, transactional database written purely in Python. Among other things, it provides a powerful querying language, deep indexing of documents, compressed data storage and automatic referencing of embedded documents. It is reasonably fast, can be easily embedded in any Python application and does not have any external dependencies (except when using a third-party backend). In addition, you can use it as a frontend to other database engines such as MongoDB in case you should need more power.
Most successful low budget startup marketing campaigns
Distracted guy hires face slapper, productivity increased
doubtful, the site is pathetically slow.
Good grief...the comments on Hacker News never cease to amaze...

...just to give a representative example, last September my Dad died. 1) We had his remains cremated. 2) We got said remains without anything fancier than the cardboard box they came in. 3) We scattered his ashes ourselves as a family without any visitation, funeral ceremony, or anything.

No gravestone, no casket, no wake, no ceremony, no officiant.

Total cost: $6,000.

$20,000 is absolutely realistic if he wants to be buried with an average casket, average headstone and average ceremony.
How about prelude https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude ?
Hum. Well I would say that if the product group is a monolithic silo interacting with a dozen engineering teams, that does sound like a recipe for trouble. The system I'm thinking of involves having at least one member of the product team for every engineering team.

That actually edges back toward my one serious complaint about Agile development: On the teams I've worked with, there's a bit too much value placed on generalism over specialism in team members' skill sets. Anything that's everybody's responsibility is effectively nobody's responsibility.
They work to varying degrees within the mobile browser. But the app, which does a better job of displaying and caching the video as you play resulting in a better image, is only available for iOS and Amazon's gimped Android tablets.
We're running a startup incorporated in European Union and planning to incorporate c-corp in Delaware as our mother company. C-corp will simply buy-out 100% shares in our European company which will be still hiring our employees (located and working in Europe).

From what we've checked we shouldn't have any hassle (event the c-corp bank account will be opened in European bank) or are we missing something?
UW Researchers Create World's Thinnest LED
Google is encrypting search globally. That’s bad for the NSA and China’s censors
> I'll be paying cobra rates to keep the same coverage. I have no idea how expensive this will be but I don't expect it to be cheap.

It's really expensive even for young, healthy guys. I would imagine this would be more than your mortgage payment.
The landing page looks so much better now, still the 3 images are a bit heavy and maybe distract the user (2 of them are very dark and the other one have a lot of colors). I would try another images
How the Web is powering the revolution underway for personal finance
I don't know what pg meant, but I know what I'm still looking for: Microsoft Access, available in a cross-platform online way.

And no, things like Openoffice^W Libreoffice Base or Kexi are about 1,000,000 miles away from even being useable, much less good.
I use to use Multitail.

Now: TMux, I just have a session in TMux and just attach to the session wehn I need to. Works great.
Ha ha. I think the chain will end here. Besides the max title is 80 chars and the "We did a post about how our post about how our post ..." will fit!
I agree with your point, but it requires that you hire correct right from the beginning. Spolsky (like pg, Atwood, Fried/DHH , etc.) has his pick of the litter because of well thought out essays and large base of followers. You can't simply take this attitude without having a large pipeline of people who (1) agree with you and (2) who are good.

Lesson learned - creating a community or following of people (i.e. talent marketing) is a very powerful thing.
The saga continues.
Sure, that's the easy answer. But some organizations have success with that methodology, so it's obviously not impossible to ship quality software with it. And many of those organizations used something else and switched to it, so they must think it's superior their previous methodology. Or really, I should be talking about their implementations of methodologies, since reality doesn't match the platonic ideal even in the best case; in the worst case it might be unrecognizable.

So do you disagree that there are a lot of ways to implement "agile", some of which will be more successful than others? Or do you think that there are some organizations for which agile (even well-implemented) will never be better than methodology X? (where X = ?)

Yes, it's easy to run into No True Scotsman and "ur doin it rong", but we're not going to advance the state by pointing out that it's hard to draw correct meaningful generalizations (we know that already).
It's not that I value the empty building, I value the potential for an empty building a heck of a lot more than I value the potential for large weapons.

I understand where you're argument is - at least we get some use out of the big boat. I just don't like it, and would prefer to see the buildings be paid for overtop of weapons.

Man, that makes me sound like a giant hippy now that I've written it out.
Dabble DB was amazing. I only discovered it a week before it was aqui-shutdown.

Edit: I'm trying to access the demo video on archive.org and was able to get into the help area for anyone interested in the details of how it worked:

http://web.archive.org/web/20090430200143/http://dabbledb.co...
I'm not sure why this exists either.

Most consumers benefit far more from improving the acoustic system (speakers, headphone, room) than the playback system.

Once you have $200 headphones or $500 speakers and $500 room treatment, you might be able to hear a difference with lossless or 24-bit audio, assuming that the source material was recorded properly and not overly processed. But until then, a fancy music player or even FLAC audio isn't going to help much.
Using Truecrypt to keep the NSA off your back a complete guide
How about we perform a basic statistical analysis and see what locations you frequent. From that we can tell what religious, financial, and social organizations you are a member of, and can go beyond to what stores you patronize. And what routes you take to and fro. Metadata can be as harmful as recording the calls, if not moreso.

Betcha they collect more than just the raw call metadata, and collect metadata on data connections. From that they can more easily determine the above, since you don't even need to be on a call for a service to connect to the 'net.
Dear startups, stop being afraid to show a phone number on your website
Amazon Ups Price of Prime to $99, Is It a Good Move For the Company?
Why would I just use a webinar company? http://banckle.com/pricing/meeting.html

They have a $14/mo plan?
Fivetran is probably the closest to it. They're also YC (W13) which makes sense. https://www.fivetran.com/
Really looking forward to the rest of the screencasts.
I think what you want is something like Microsoft Access on the web, only less crappy. I think its been tried many times and never done quite right.
So they create a new branch for each fix? And all developers are supposed to merge in their branch every few hours or so? Isn't it a bit of a drag?
Claiming to be about equality while advocating for privileged treatment for years. Like NOW opposing default shared custody, pushing the lie that domestic violence is overwhelmingly men hitting women, denying men support and services, promoting the moral panic of "rape culture" at colleges, giving mothers choice while denying fathers any say (under the guise of "the child's interests"), ... It's a self contradictory ideology that claims women are equal and that's why they have no agency, cannot be held responsible for their actions and need hand outs.

"1 in 4 women is raped" was a fabrication by Mary Koss. "Only 2% of all rape accusations are false" was an anecdote from a Susan Brownmiller book.
A step towards programmable materials, Could change world of mechanics forever
From what I understood, the API doesn't have channels, so the store only stores a single data model. The channels are only for the clients.
It's the Corruption Perception Index, not the Absolute Corruption Index.

Debate the semantics of the word "corruption" as much as you want, but the index is found to have a strong correlation with black market activity and an "overabundance of regulation or unnecessary restriction of business activity". [1]

That doesn't sound like the countries are business friendly to me.

[1] http://rd.springer.com/article/10.1023%2FA%3A1013882225402
Yes, you are probably right. We have gone as far as we can ourselves and our next action would be to bring in a designer to help out. I am only pretending to know about colours.
The idea is that if you have to expose certain information to a company in order for the communication to work at all, then you can't expect that information to be private.

I don't see how this can work as a distinction between a phone call's metadata and its actual audio content. When I pick up the phone, my phone number and my voice are both conducted over the phone company's network. I have to expose my voice to the network to make the system work.
Vocaloid – singing voice synthesizer
Would this protect the NSA from stealing the data before it's encrypted though? Through their Turbine project?
I didn't, that's really useful!

Sharing the documentation links for the benefit of others, since it's not easily found:

Documentation for the query() function: https://support.google.com/drive/answer/3093343

Query Language Reference: https://developers.google.com/chart/interactive/docs/queryla...
Since you asked:

The name is not working for me at all. I read it as an abbreviation of Pitchlet. The l and I are too close together for me. Only when I saw the link with a lower case i the lights went on.
But that is not the only reason. And I can see why I might be the only person thinking of applets here.

A pitch is a "Sales presentation". There is only one thing worse than a presentation, and that is a "Sales presentation". As soon as I see "Pitch", my entire being prepares itself for a person bothering me. I think of car sales people and evereyone else who approaches me when I enter a store. Unfortunately there is only negativity associated with all that. So for me "Pitch" is a negativ word.
Hey, that could just be me. It has a lot to do with cultural background. Maybe I would call it KeyPoints.
I haven't looked into the postgres json field in depth yet, but it seems like you may know the answer. Is there any way of ensuring the structure / integrity of the data stored in it? Or is it currently considered to be totally freeform?
s/Capitalism/Slavery/g and your argument still holds
Did some experimenting based on your comments and it looks like the ideal position to improve my setup would be:

1. Some form of a foot rest

2. The monitor raised to the next height

3. A bluetooth keyboard so my wrists can rest on my lap
I'm glad the site is still up.

The last demo was hosted on Github: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6722197 https://github.com/SheetJS/sheetjs.github.io

... and we managed to kill github pages: https://status.github.com/messages/2013-11-13

So I'm very happy that the hosting hasn't died yet
The difference is that one isn't forced to unwillingly pay those unaccountable companies (the scourge of a government's corporate subsidies notwithstanding).
I love to hear about workflows, what's your ideal one?
That looks so wrong to me. It says everywhere in the docs "never rebase something that's been published" and it says so for a reason.

The fact that git lets you shoot yourself in the foot doesn't mean you should, definitely not incorporate this into working procedures.

If it's a private feature branch, don't make it public (pushing would still back it up on the server, though you'd have to know the sha1 to fixed it). If it's public, don't rebase it.
So, to begin to explain how those sweet guys from the dance turned into the guys you're meeting now:

Instead, I get guys who deny that I can be smart or capable

They probably have had no exposure to intelligent women, or women who code. They've built up a stereotype in their head and your mere existence is putting it into question, so they go into denial.

guys who like how smart I am but try to get me fired if I won't go out with them

Manipulative and insecure? Psychological issues with women, probably preying on any women they meet.

guys who refuse to interview me for jobs that I'm overqualified for and push me towards jobs that are more typical for women

I'm not sure what jobs are typical for women, but i've seen a lot of men pushed away from jobs if they're overqualified, for a number of reasons. Still, if this was just sexism at work, it points to more insecurity or lack of exposure to smart women who code.

guys who dangle new language carrots in front of me until a guy comes along to give it to

I don't know what this means?

guys who make it clear in my interviews that they felt that they needed to interview at least one woman

Oh, heh, that's a fun one. It works well on women because discriminating against women isn't as stigmatized as discriminating against black people.

guys who test me on my video game knowledge in interviews

This could be just to tell how much of a nerd/geek you are. Could work in your favor if you show them how passionate you are about technology or having fun?

guys who call me a fake geek girl

Back to the first example, probably had no exposure to women who were smart or coded, and react to their stereotypes coming into question by shielding themselves in denial.

guys who tell me that I shouldn't be allowed to wear that shirt with that famous programmer who knows who I am

Again an example of the fake-geek-girl-denial. Or just someone who hates that famous programmer? (I would probably pay someone to burn their RMS or ESR t-shirt, unless they were being ironic)

guys telling me that it's impossible for me to be a nerd because I didn't pay my dues by being friendless except for my D&D buddies

Oh, how the jaded lonely nerd doth protest too much! Male nerds that have style or lots of sexual partners or some other qualification of "a cool person with friends" get the same shit, but you probably get the extra burden of expectation of gender roles, in that women are expected to socialize more freely than men.

Honestly, I don't get the draw of the typical "nerdy guy". They're kind of a pile of social and emotional problems and focus too much on one kind of hobby versus expanding their horizons. And they look like slobs. Why not find yourself a nice surfer with tattoos who writes poetry?
Yes, more or less a new branch for each fix. But with git and Kiln, it's really not a drag at all; the merges are generally really easy and mostly performed by our release manager when the card makes it to 'Ready to Merge'.
I get a bill. What am I supposed to pay?

Anyway, I have dental, vision, medical, from my employer.

That's not that bad since they do all the paperwork.

I said "how health care works". It's more than insurance.