skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've seen node listed in job ads where node.js isn't even used at the company looking to hire, or where they'll use npm/bower/grunt tooling. It's a super trendy buzzword.
> They can't distinguish between correlations and causes.

Now I'm lost. As far as I understand, those studies only find correlations. What am I missing?
And then I did the math and realised I pay $1735.54 per year for my cable Internet...

300 down / 20 up with a 1 TB cap doesn't come cheap when no competition exists at those speeds. If it were even offered in my area, fibre from the same company is north of $3000/year, and for that all I get is symmetric uplink.

Still, at 300 down, 1 TB = 8388608 mbits / 300 mbits/s = 466 minutes or just under 8 hours. And luckily, my monthly cap is 1 TB. (Also lucky: I don't download 24/7 to hit that cap in under 8 hours.)
Does paying for Google Drive make your account eligible to be synced over MS Exchange via Google Apps Sync since you're now a paying customer of Google?
For humans (and I suspect yourself included) meta-consciousness impairment occurs well before losing consciousness from alcohol poisoning.

Part of the impairment is your complete unknowing of it happening. It's cognitively a blind spot, so to speak.
My high school started at 7:40 AM and I never understood why. I've never forgiven them for (among a laundry list of similar evils) the effect 4 years of chronic sleep deprivation must have had on my developing brain. My alarm was set for 6 AM so I could catch a 7 AM school bus (I only lived about 15 minutes away, but the bus was slow, took a painful route, and arrived 10 minutes early). I had to place my alarm so that I'd have to get up and walk across the room to turn it off, or I'd never have woken up. It was generally pitch black at 6AM, so this eventually resulted in me slicing my finger wide open on the edge of a mirror as I reached clumsily and half-asleep for my alarm. I still have the scar.

I'd like to be able to say that it gives me closure to finally have an explanation, but honestly it just makes me madder that football was responsible.
Does it matter? If Dropbox turned the lights out tomorrow, I wouldn't lose any data, my files would just stop syncing across machines. I'd just have to install a new file sync client and point it to my Dropbox folder.

The barriers to switching away from Dropbox are based more on the number of products with Dropbox API integrations, and not on the switching costs for file sync.
the "First world problem" meme is kind of aggravating. So we can't optimize our lifestyle anymore because there are people starving in Africa? How could we have taken the time it took to analyze that and somehow helped the third world? A 17 year old is having trouble for possibly legitimate reasons, and he shouldn't be listened to because there are worms that can grow in your skin if you walk in tepid pools in Africa?

As someone who had sleep apnea for several years I can tell you that an extra half hour of sleep means a lot to you. And the sleep deprivation caused me to suffer a lot and really ran my brain capacity down to a nub. So if you really want to have children dedicate a decade or more to mental training you should listen to their feedback about what is hindering them.
Without knowing the exact name and owner you have dealt with it's hard to speculate.

That said being in this industry I can tell you:

a) "I get asked regularly" - very common to claim others are interested and considered a good way to get someone off the fence to make a buying decision.

b) "to pay $xx,000 like I did" - could be a complete lie. Once again hard to speculate w/o know the info I stated above (owner/name). But would tend to think that's bs from my experience. Another big one is "we just turned down $xx,000". Also "we are not looking to sell at any price" (means "make me a big offer and I'll think about it").

c) "can't find any public record" - not unusual at all. Only public records would be news stories on sales (not common) or auction sales (sedo.com etc.). Most domain sales info are not public.

The good news is that the seller would consider selling and may just be bullshitting. Other sellers (large companies) really won't sell at any price and you are totally SOL.
The misunderstood scientific study is still a flawed manual for living.
+1, I don't get it. I had to fallback to Dropbox/Ubuntu One for cloud storage.
Too bad for them, they lost a customer.
I think there's a distinction to be made between a data set and executable code.
With the exception of hybrid shipping, I am consistently impressed by Amazon's ability to ship using the most appropriate service.

Perhaps it is due to my location in an urban area; when I use Amazon 2-day, it arrives in either 1 or 2 days unless shipped using SmartPost in which case it arrives in 5-7 days.
What I find interesting about this is that the Google Drive is now significantly less expensive than Amazon S3, and even comparable to Amazon Glacier.

Google Drive: $10/1000GB = $0.01/GB
Amazon S3: $0.85/GB for the first 1 TB
Amazon Glacier: $0.01/GB
(all prices per month)

This means that any service built on top of Amazon S3 will never be less expensive than Google Drive. Period.

Sure, there are caveats. Google Drive is not programmatically accessible like S3. The terms of service probably disallow the same use cases as S3. The pricing of Google Drive almost certainly depends on users not using all their storage. Google may rate-limit heavy users or do something else to discourage people from fully utilizing the product. etc. But the point still stands: 3rd party products built on top of Amazon's infrastructure will not be able to beat this price without significant competition from Amazon.
All of them? It's unheard of at a AAA development level to sell an engine without full source access; CryENGINE, Unreal, iD Tech, and Gamebryo all offer full source licenses, to name a few examples.
And this is what scares me. Google ads are just plain dangerous. If they removed the malicious results this wouldn't be such a problem, but turn off your ad blocker and search for VLC.

Your top result will be malware and that's what most of my friends click. Any step to further disguise ads is a step further in this malware propagating itself.
The school of hard knocks is what most teenagers need. Otherwise they end up in college, in debt, no real skills, and a international communication degree with no job prospects.

The students who will succeed likely will be able to handle employment and school. Aren't most high schools now days, you show, you pass?
I agree. As long time UX watchdog in many of the companies I work for (interaction designer/developer) I always want to see links underlined if they are inside a larger body of text. Menus and link lists? Not as big of a deal as long as it's still consistent with establish interaction patterns of the whole project.
Well, i'm relying on maths, not on government regulations. All the data is there, you can calculate the expected payout value for current mortality data and compare it with your yearly insurance cost. I don't know how much you pay but my calculations showed that insurance companies must seriously reduce the payout amount and/or exclude a majority of 'payable' illnesses or death causes, or they would lose money on every life insurance sold. That's why i don't believe in life insurances and prefer other solutions.
"gym" is a joke on many different levels ... but that's a different debate altogether. Also I take issue with the term "extracurricular" as it implies something separate from "actual" schooling. Maybe if these activities weren't tacked on after school like an afterthought more kids would be apt to take them up.
"Shit Startups Say To Get Into Tech Incubators"
Agreed, I don't believe OSM could have survived without this license, I don't think the contributors who put so much time into building it would have done so if they thought that realistically much of their contribution would have gone to bolstering google's bottom line as opposed to creating an alternative to google maps.
Ask HN: HSBC is holding my LLC's money hostage, what are my options
I opened an LLC couple years ago with 2 other people to do consulting on the side and opened a business checking account with HSBC to go with it. Unfortunately we haven't been able to do much work last year due to our otherwise busy schedules and the checking account was largely dormant with 4-figure amount on it.

We were planning to close the business at the end of 2013 so that we wouldn't have to pay $800 California franchise fee in 2014, but then in late 2013 HSBC closed our account and send us the check in our LLC's name. Similar closures happened to HuffPost blogger

Thinking that I would just be able to cash the check at HSBC branch, I went there and was told that:

* I can't cash it there

* I have to deposit it in another bank to cash it.

* They cannot reissue the check in one of the founders name

* They cannot reinstate the account so that I could write out a check in one of the founders names

* Another bank would not open an account because LLC is now closed.

Our branch visits and calls to HSBC corporate have not come to any satisfactory conclusions.

At this point we have a check in the name of LLC that no longer exist, a 4-digit amount held hostage by HSBC bank and no way to get our money back.

Any advice would be appreciated.

[1]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brett-king/when-hsbc-closes-your-ban_b_4362504.html
I'm currently liking, not yet loving, Atom at work on a big Drupal site and building my first Angular project. I've wasted 3 days at home trying to get comfy with it in a Rails project. I don't think there's anything that compares to vim-rails in terms of intuitiveness, so I'll stick with vim for that.

If I could just get a note for note port of the Twilight theme for not-gui vim, I don't think I'd ever look back.
Pot, kettle, black[0]

From Facebook's current privacy policy[1]:

We allow anyone with your contact information to find you through the
Facebook search bar at the top of most pages, as well as other tools
we provide, such as contact importers - even if you have not shared
your contact information with them on Facebook

Random news items from last few years[2]

Facebook Removes Crucial Privacy Setting for Users’ Names

Facebook is improperly altering its privacy policy without proper user consent

Using names, images, and content of Facebook users for advertising without consent

Senator Al Franken has called on Facebook to reconsider expansion of its facial recognition activity

Facebook’s Beacon program disclosed personal information without user consent

Instagram announced several changes to the terms of service that will allow the company to use pictures in advertisements without notifying or compensating users

Instagram proposed that the parents of minors implicitly consent to the use of their childrens' images for advertising purposes

Facebook removed a privacy control that allowed users to hide themselves from strangers through Facebook’s search function

88% of Facebook Users Oppose Changes to Privacy Policy and Voting Rights

Facebook has proposed changes to its policies that would (1) end user voting, (2) remove spam blocking, and (3) share FB user data with affiliates without user consent

Consumer Groups Ask FTC to Investigate Facebook-Datalogix Data-Matching Arrangement

Facebook is under a 20 year consent decree from the FTC that requires express consent from users before disclosing personal information

[0] http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Pot%20Calling...

[1] https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/your-info-on-fb

[2] http://epic.org/privacy/facebook/
I'd like to be able to reset my password. The only option available appears to be to create a new account, or email Paul Graham.
They've paid $2.4 billion in income taxes in the last three years. I believe that qualifies as paying corporate taxes.

By comparison, that sum is greater than their net income for the same period.
Some hospitals to implement random drug testing. Micromanaging healthcare isn't going to make drug abuse disappear -- abusers will just get better at hiding it.
You can buy and run subsidised night buses pretty quickly. The hard bit is the politics, not the logistics.
I didn’t read it all, but you don’t seem to mention keyboards which we still have to align our bodies to. Voice input is distracting to your immediate environment, gestures are non-optimal because of the lack of tactile feedback.
Teenagers aren't lazy when they won't get up in the morning, their bodies actually require 9-10 hours of sleep normally to be awake, where as a normal adults require 8 hours to function at peak. They're still growing/developing, more to the point their brain is still going through a fundamental stage of brain development where new neural connections are being made, and a lot of that goes on during the sleep cycle, on top of holding a full schedule.

http://www.cdc.gov/sleep/about_sleep/how_much_sleep.htm
I've never really used phpMyAdmin but I think I take your meaning. And I've always assumed that AWS made way more sense at large scale, since that's what it seems to be aimed at. So what you're saying makes a lot of sense.
Skip the resting place costs. Get a dirt cheap cremation. Do the funeral at home. It really doesn't matter. My mother passed not too long ago and I inherited half a dozen dead relative's ashes to go throw away. Your family will be much better off with the $20k than with memories of a church and possibly a tombstone to go visit maybe once or twice in their lives.
Terms of use/Paid contributions amendment
I don't know about the jail punishment, but I see no reason that DUI punishment shouldn't be equal to phone/text punishment (and it should certainly be a license suspension of massive length).
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I don't know why football practice can't just be a PE replacement credit. Other than your PE coaches can't be two places at once if they are also team coaches.
We are not our ancestors ;) In all seriousness, sometimes we cannot look into the past to guide us as we as humans and culture have evolved to develop many new behaviors and biological traits. Our ancestors lived much shorter lives, in a vastly different world, doing vastly different type of work/schooling, I don't think it's fair to compare everything so literally.
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Well Done Versus Well Said
antithetical fearmongering not appreciated.
This makes me wonder, would it be better for your posture to lay on your back, while looking straight up at a screen? I mean, go lay on a carpet floor or on your bed, flat on your back, with your knees bent for comfort. Then imagine a screen a couple of feet in front of your eyes, and a keyboard/mouse angled as well.

Wouldn't this give you perfect posture? It forces your back, neck and head to be straight. You can't lean forward because gravity forces your head into position. The above chair most likely offers some similar benefits since it's reclined so far back.
I'm going to assume web consultancy here.

The main influence on the kind of contracts you can get is the way you market yourself.

Don't market yourself as a 3 man team, market yourself just as a consultancy, don't explicitly state the size. Have a nice portfolio and people will just see what they want to. If you can complete the work asked for then I wouldn't see this as an issue, although some people would.

Some good contracts to start with (at least in the UK), are small government tenders. I don't know where you're from or what the system is like there.

Also try target more upmarket clientele. Law firms etc. Instead of charging a large fee for the work, charge a smaller fee but have a recurring monthly support cost. If they want the site updated do that, if they have some small feature to add, add it (within reason, some clients will try take advantage of this).
Most people would use this for photos, in which case using Flickrs free 1tb makes this look extortionately priced.
I think Dropbox actually spends a fair bit more on bandwidth because of all the syncing. As far as I know Google has no desktop client (and if they do they failed to offer it to me), whereas with Dropbox it's really the way to go.

But in general yeah I agree, the margins of all these storage companies are very high. As I've said in other comments here, I think I can do it cheaper using consumer-priced hardware (let alone on a huge scale with hardware bought at near manufacturing costs).
Second question needs an answer. If there really was an arbitrage opportunity, it couldn't have lasted more than a few seconds. I doubt the "arbitrage opportunity" is taking into account all relevant factors.
Yeah, sounds like you're mileage does vary.
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The scale of the search for Flight MH370
Lately, it's been popular to push for a laptop for every child in schools. That's all well and good but I think it would he far more economical and beneficial to the students overall if schools provided a wearable activity tracker for each student. (Fitbit, etc.) Excercise is well known to promote brain health and overall alertness, etc.
Good thing I'm an American! 3 more years until I can get citizenship here though; I'll be sure to come back and keep you posted.
I thought part of it was so they could use the same fleet of buses for HS/JHS/Primary.
Facebook will never have a Gitmo. It'll never send someone to a torture camp in Egypt. It'll never invade a country. It'll never confiscate property. It'll never put someone on the no-fly list. It'll never harass you at the border.

It may not do those things directly but who's to say it won't tip the government off about you? Tell them where you live and flag you for a disgruntled post or an idle threat. There's a lot Facebook could do to help the government crack down on dissidents.
I'm guessing that most of the guts of the software will work anywhere but polishing the frontend is a platform unique job. Github probably has a majority OSX userbase so this made sense for the initial release.
What network effects?

Just about every time I start a new project with an outside client, one of the first things they do is ask to set up a Dropbox share for the project. I've once had a person want to use Box, and never had anybody even mention Google Drive.
Grow SDK: "The declarative, file-based CMS for building high-quality web sites."
Rails is half of your application
Definitely good points. Down by 11 points with little time left a losing team takes risks- such as fouling in shooting situations- that the winning team doesn't take. The winning team tends to stall.

Of course, it may also just be hard to pick an 11 point spread. I wonder how many won by more than the spread?
Use Promises!
Reading your comment here makes it clear that you won't be convinced by any form of logic, but hopefully it helps some other readers:

> Unless the lawyers Google spends billions on can convince the judge that those expenses were reasonably necessary to effectively prosecute the case -- and, incidentally, lawyers that are more proficient at convincing judges that their fees are reasonable will, have higher fees.

This has never ever happened and will never ever happen for blatantly obvious reasons. If you think judges can be convinced of such ridiculous ideas by a sufficiently high paid lawyers we better just throw the whole legal system out of the window.

> Loser pays is a method of disincentivizing filing suits in general (it increases the expected costs for the plaintiff, particularly) as well as tilting the balance toward deeper-pockets litigants generally.

This is incorrect. Loser pays disincentivizes meritless lawsuits. If the plaintiff thinks he will lose, then the expected amount he has to pay is higher in a loser pays system. If the plaintiff thinks he will win the expected amount he will pay is lower in a loser pays system. Therefore loser pays incentivizes reasonable lawsuits compared to the US system.
I wish I could have gotten up at 8 or even 7AM when I was in school. We're talking about school starting hours, not wakeup times. You can't wake up just before the bell rings and teleport into class. Depending on how far you live from school, what transportation method you use (whether you ride a school bus, regular public transportation, are a spoiled brat that can get mommy to drive you, etc), what your responsibilities are outside of school, and so on, you may need to wake up a considerable amount of time before the school day officially begins.

My school started at 7:30AM, which required I get up just before 6AM, from middle school onward. I don't think that's a natural time to require growing teenagers to wake up at. It was still dark outside then, where I lived. Even amongst grown adults, those that can wake up that early and function without incurring a sleep debt are rare.

>So the issue.. is most likely staying up unnaturally late.

Kids naturally begin staying up and waking up later after they hit puberty. Trying to fight that is stupid and harmful.
Chief of stem cell research finds acid-bath stem-cell paper non-reproducible
Awesome/Xmonad/i3 do not come with a GUI file manager (for obvious reasons). I don't have gnome/kde/xfce installed and point and click file management is not going to be the straw that broke the camels back. The only thing that comes close is rkward, but it relies on kde-base which is the most obese of the three big environments.
It's already pretty much known, from the Snowden papers, that the government is doing man-in-the-middle attacks against internet services including Facebook. Here's a story from today's news which discusses one such mode of attack, and names Facebook specifically: http://www.wired.com/opinion/2014/03/quantum/

(Come to think of it, since this is today's news, it's possible that Zuck is responding to it...)
Call it ten weeks.

What is the absolute minimum to get income in the door, and then scale down to that to extend the opportunity to find that income. Get to that number as soon as possible.

Alternatively scale your staffing costs and effort down starting in two weeks, dropping two employees a week, in an effort to extend your project's life.

Tell everyone on staff what is going on, if it is not already obvious, so they can make alternative life plans starting now, just as you are making such plans now. Admit the possibility of your project's failure.

Your employees may be your future collaborators, and your future partners. Treat your community well, so that you may continue to participate in it in coming months and years.
I am using Insync, it works flawless. It does cost a one time fee, but that's it.
Think I'll do this while I wait for [1] to start. Might be a good introduction for the class as well!

[1] -- https://www.coursera.org/specialization/jhudatascience/1
It's already the law...Congress already has several agencies that deal with these sorts of analyses. The most famous are the Congressional Budget Office and the Congressional Research Service. They deal with this silliness all the time, so they're actually quite good at it.
I remember an old IEEE article on the NYC subway system. There were portions of the system that was built in the 1900's that still controls the tracks. The MTA was afraid of removing the old system because they had no idea how it worked.
naa...i think you're dead on. This entire article reads like "We'll adjust everything so that high schoolers don't have to adjust at all".

If you need 10hours of sleep, my all means get it! But adjust your schedule so you get it, don't make everyone else adjust.
Here's a pretty decent list [1]. It's missing a few big ones like Spotify, Palantir and Pandora.

[1] http://www.quora.com/Machine-Learning/What-startups-are-hiri...