skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Clearly a business opportunity. GAO/GSA are likely to fund an improvement to their database (http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-12-645). If any other small-outfit contractors out there want to form a coalition and put together a preemptive proposal, shoot me an email. I have some contacts who work in procurement who may be able to advise on the best approach.
I've met Ben (which doesn't say much since many people have met him), read his blog posts from time to time and seen his TedX talk [1].

Being fluent in a language that isn't mine, near-fluent in another language and intermediate in yet another, I could never buy his idea of "just speak it without needing to know anything yet." If it were plausible, many people would not be monolingual. Plus, any claims of fluency in less than one year, in-country, I also don't buy...not true fluency, anyways. Other than that, I've got nothing against him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZqUeWshwMs
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And Denmark is a Microsoft-land as far I know.

For startups, no. There's as large an open source scene here as anywhere else. Ruby on Rails was started by a Dane (David Heinemeier Hansson), as was PHP, C++, and the V8 JavaScript engine used in Node.
I think it's very easy to miss that there's a video in your homepage. The first thing I saw was the green "Try PitchIt now", I had to go back to search for the video.

I think it's because it's the same colour and roughly the same size as the surrounding text so it looks like some kind of a logo. Maybe you should display the video player to make it more obvious?

See for instance, straight from the frontpage at the moment: https://www.useslate.com/

You can't miss the video that way, and I know what will happen when I click the "play" button (I won't be taken to an other page for instance). In your case the video puts itself on top of the rest of the page, meaning I can't listen to it while I idly browse the rest of the content.

As for the actual "hands on" demo the first thing I see is a prompt for me to input an email address. I immediately closed the tab. You want 0 friction here IMHO, use fake addresses to give the potential user a taste of the application. Then maybe at the end prompt for more info.
Italy seems to be an outlier in this respect: faring worse than Portugal, Spain and Turkey.

Chile and Uruguay seem to be perceived as less corrupt as their GDP per capita would lead you to think.

I think we need a scatterplot!

With flags: http://imgur.com/Ld0bXTO

With names: http://imgur.com/vX7dsTV
I was waiting for the U-Bridge once at about 1am, and I had another ~14 miles to ride on my bike before I got home.

For about 15 minutes, the bridge would open, almost close but then stop with one side about 2 feet up.

I was NOT looking forward to riding around to another bridge.

Another cyclist rode up, watched one of these cycles, and then he looked over at me and shrugged, rode up and did the ~2ft drop w/o incident.

I gave it about 30 seconds, looked around for cops and then went over myself. It was one of the scariest things I have done, and I was just hyper-aware for the rest of the ride home and woke up my housemates to tell them this story.
We call it the "activity". It exists in two different fashions: you can view the one of the whole repository, or just focus on the one of a given document.

For your front-end, you can use absolutely everything you want! Open-source template, or anything; I usually use Bootstrap3, because I'm a huge fan myself. :)

And to answer your last question: we're not using Yahoo's PureCSS in the writing-room.
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If you don't have consistent high ridership buses can easily fall below the efficiency of cars. I'd bet DRT could replace a lot of bus lines that are not hitting efficiency thresholds and deliver better service.

Might be a good solution for lower-density areas where its difficult to make buses efficient. I wonder how low the population density can go before DRT stops working.
Ironic, because the ACA has actually made things harder for early stage startups trying to setup insurance.

"Under the ACA and California regulations, beginning January 1, 2014, small businesses must have at least one "common law" employee who isn't the owner or owner's spouse (or domestic partner) to be eligible for small group coverage. As a result, the following will no longer be able to renew under a group plan..."

http://info.kaiserpermanente.org/html/hcr_ca/owner_only_busi...
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They actually rest very comfortably. My elbows are on the arms of the chair and my wrists are completely flat against the keyboard. If I had to guess at the angle of my forearm against my upper arm, I'd say it is close to 90 degrees. I don't think this image shows much, but here you go anway: http://i.imgur.com/kDEHDmt.jpg
Fair enough, but I see cell biology advances as a by-product of cancer research as in "how does this cancerous cell react to this candidate drug ?" instead of "why does a healthy cell go havoc ? Why is the immune system unable to detect and destroy a cell gone havoc ?"
This is all too postmodern.
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Email sent. I'm probably somewhere between 2 & 3 (my income has gone up fairly substantially over the last two years) but there are some complicating factors.
While the system isn't always too kind to start-ups (high tax etc)

Actually, apart from high personal income tax, Denmark is one of the most business-friendly countries in the world. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7391268
you have a private feature branch on git hub, clean it up via rebase (or just rebase to latest master) before review, and you need to force push it.

on long running features, you 1. want to save your state off of your laptop and 2. keep it clean for your own review and for others' review. thus, force push is required, otherwise you'd have to keep making new revs of your branch (branch named joeblow/my_feature_rev_4).
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It's not just that we haven't found a solution. Cancer is not a single condition - it's a multitude of different diseases with similar mechanisms and different causes. The cure for one type of cancer is usually ineffective for most other types. Frequently researchers have encouraging results on one set of patients that never happen again on another set.

HIV is a relatively easy problem when compared to cancer.
Nothing related to multitail per-se, but: dark blue on black is unreadable. With a lighter blue might be ok, but please don't supply defaults like that.
It seems to be universal. I've seen it in places from SF to DC to small-town France to Beijing: the bus a second choice that you only take when the train doesn't go where you need it to go.

I'm still trying to figure out why, though. Despite sharing that opinion myself, I still can't quite figure out what the concrete reasons are. It seems to come down to: subway routes are much easier to figure out, stops are much better labeled, and the ride is much more comfortable. However, those first two don't seem like inherent problems with buses, merely how they happen to be built, but it seems like they're that way everywhere.
Torrential language politics in the forecast for Quebec
Yeah, I've had one for several years now. I love it. Highly recommended if you dislike typing on mushy oatmeal.
Very true. Just a note that the play button is actually just for the video. The larger green button below it is for the instant demo.
You mean like this?

http://www.mwelab.com/index.php/en/products/emperor-1510
Yes, do tell ... I found that more intriguing than the la-z-boy...
The hotness factor is only based on the outcome of the ongoing game. It should also consider the live impact on classification/awards.

Have a look at yesterday's CL game between Paris & Leverkusen : http://www.gambletron2000.com/events/2276/paris-st-g-v-lever..., which was the second of a 2-legs opposition, Paris having won 4-0 on the first one. Which means 99.9% chances of qualifying
It has a _mildly hot_ 762 score, where it should have been between 0 and 10.
As the game was almost meaningless, the fact that Leverkusen scored first before finally losing the game didn't bring any excitation.
Exactly. Maybe a social experiment to see how folks react to internet begging? Dunno. But why is it here on HN?

I'm not saying that the story isn't genuine, but there's no evidence or proof that it is and yet people are donating. That's amazing. Or maybe not.
It really blows my mind that you say those two aren't equivalent. I now must read the man pages...

Edit did you mean to say (plus)feature or is something ruining the formatting? That seems to be how to specify only one branch. Yuck.

I'm lucky I haven't run into this, I guess, because I set my push default to simple a long time ago, so long ago I can't even remember why.
There's an old adage in the U.S.: You're not a real business until someone tries to sue you.
This would actually mean a much shorter commute in terms of public transportation. You wouldn't have to fit your commute time to the public transit schedule and pick-up/drop-off points, it would be synchronized to fit you.

If you live in Takoma Park, DC, and commute to Rockville, Maryland, the public transit option is a bus to a train to a bus for 1.5 hours (if it's on time, not accounting for getting from the house to the bus stop). But the drive is 23 minutes! With Kutsuplus you request your destination and it'll send the next shuttle that's going to Rockville to you.

Even if you have to wait 30 minutes for it to arrive it's still much shorter than public transit, and cheaper, and doesn't require waiting outside for a bus or train. The typical cost for that route is over $6.50 each way! (for comparison, the daily train from Baltimore to DC is $7) But a Kutsuplus could use dynamic pricing ala Uber to change the cost along demand/efficiency. A route that uses mainly highway miles going away from the beltway should be considerably cheaper than going through the city or towards the beltway, in the morning, and cheaper in the opposite direction at night, due to common DC traffic patterns.
I believe that the big shipping companies (UPS, Fedex), have algorithms specifically designed around dynamic route planning like this. I wonder if it would be feasible for one of them to create a spin off business for just this purpose.
Show HN: Simulate your death, and see how life insurance will cover expenses
The scientific study has become a flawed manual for living
The person who went to a 'high reputation' college is more likely to have had better peers, and so more likely to have learned more by thermalization.

Also, software jobs are unique - one can be effective in a software job without knowing much about computer science. Jobs such as designing transistors or aircraft require strong basics, of the type that is usually acquired by undergraduate rigor. I doubt if a situation would exist where 14% of aero engineers at Boeing or Airbus never went to college.
Bitcoin pledges would be great, but that option isn't available. They only have PayPal and wire transfer, with credit cards coming "in a few days".
I calculate my life saving in terms of years I can spend walking non-stop. At ~20 years worth, I'll begin.

After soloing Annapurna and GR20 and many US national parks, walking is the only thing I really want to do with my life.
Whew, missing the point. s/Littoral Combat Ship/any of the 1000s of wasteful or inefficient programs larger than $1.7B annually/ and reread my comment.

My point is that available effort to resolve any problem is roughly finite. Fixing the regulations to solve this problem would involve Congressional time and attention, and that applying that attention to a larger problem could lead to much larger gains.

I'm not saying this is good waste, I'm saying that all things being equal it makes sense to rank problems by potential impact and then start near the top.
Seems like the monitor is too low for proper ergonomics.
I agree with all three of your reasons, and I'll add another big one: speed. Trains are faster, both inherently and because they make fewer stops.
I propose musicians and artists become salaried positions. They get an office, instrument, materials, and a manager, jam rooms and display rooms instead of conference rooms, etc.
This is great work, but I think for most heavy, advanced Excel users, the visualization is much harder to understand and navigate than the actual spreadsheet. And that's for fairly simple examples you have in videos and demos - real world finance models are orders of magnitude more complex and this visualization will have to go on for pages, entirely out of the visual context in which cells are placed.

Trying to visualize an entire sheet is fairly silly as a paradigm, because the only sheets that are easy to visualize this way are too simple for this to be useful. And Excel is a heavily visual environment already, where the visualization is controlled by the user. Context-sensitive visualization that fits within the workflow would seem to be much better. As it stands, this is optimized for technical people who don't really use Excel enough to be good at it, yet have to debug simple workbooks authored by others. I don't think that's a big enough market.
Yes, we didn't have the room for that type of change before with the extra text heading. We'll have to try that out as well... it would be more obvious for sure.
One screams kicks and bites off head of snake to just survive. That is value of life. Fear.
Another thought: Some indication of a "trade volume" equivalent might be useful as well (and probably a good input for a "hotness" score, as more popular games will probably get more bets). I don't know if that information is available though.
What you just described sounds like a lease, to me. I'm sure that's fairly common.

The problem you run into here is: who gets the lease money? Why should the DOT get extra money just because they bought a building that is too big?

The root of the problem is that budgets are based on perceived need with no downward pressure. The DOT has every incentive to make the perceived need higher, and leasing out half of their office space is not a good way to do that.
I'm loving the mixture of sms speak and vouvoying...
Switching plans means:
filling out forms, making calls, spending time on hold. Waiting for your mail to arrive to make sure everything is on track. Following up when something goes wrong. First with the insurance companies, then with every medical provider you deal with.

If you're healthy and insurance isn't strictly necessary, maybe this isn't so bad.

If you're like me, have a pre-existing condition and your well-being actually depends on receiving quality coverage, switching plans is scary. A few years ago I switched plans, and due to a bureaucratic mistake with a pharmacy relating to the transition, I ended up having to pay for a months supply of medication out of pocket, which cost me something like $4000 IIRC.

So excuse me if I don't want to switch plans every time I change income brackets.

By the way, as someone with a pre-existing condition, I strongly support the ACA. I think it's great. Understandably though, it isn't perfect.
There's an exclamation point at the end of the URL, and the HN parser leaves it out. Try:

https://web.archive.org/web/20110120044901/http://www.woodma...
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Well fucking said.
I have a similar chair but with dual mounted "Atdec Visidec VF-AT-NBC Notebook Arm and Monitor Arm Pole Mount Combination"

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0044DHU0M/ref=wms_ohs_prod...

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10557283/CAM00161.jpg
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10557283/CAM00164.jpg
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10557283/CAM00165.jpg
Of course, the other answer is that we're not anxious all the time. Maybe Marx was. Maybe the people who find Marx insightful are too. I'm not. Most people are anxious some of the time. And they should be, because being anxious some of the time can prompt you to improve your life situation or avoid immediate danger.
I would _love_ to go work over there but I doubt I could meet the requirements and I'm not lucky enough to have an EU citizenship.

I think there are company-sponsored visas available. You should try contacting one of the Danish companies you're interested in working for. They're always hiring.
I don't care if it makes people honest. If it's that easy to lose control and bet away your life savings, we shouldn't encourage it.
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This is close to a design in my head. I even bought the LaZBoy to work on it.

What we need is a swing away arm similar to the nav console in Star Trek: The Next Generation.

The only problem tends to be that you have to keep the keyboard and mouse separate from the monitor arm so that your screens don't shake.
No, I was under the (mistaken) impression that Linux on Mac is fine. It's not. Sorry about that.
As someone who was also diagnosed with skin cancer recently and who's mother is dying of metastatic cancer, I can particularly relate. It's amazing that simply being told you're sick can physically make you so. If you want someone to talk to, I'm available. Contact information is my profile. Good luck.
OR a tibetan sky burial: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_burial

It's considered to be a one last sign of generosity to nature when you no longer need your body. Also, it was probably started because the land is too hard and tough to dig up in the mountains of Tibet (a.k.a. cost effective and practical).
According to the tech specs: "the Emperor will tilt backward up to 25 degrees"

This doesn't strike me as quite like the dentist chair experience where you're lying back almost flat.
> I think I was not clear - there is no problem with signing up with Medicaid. The problem is - I don't see how ACA adds anything to entrepreneurs.

What is provides is better access to heath insurance plans. My employer's offering (UnitedHealthCare) is atrocious for $460/month for myself and my wife, so I went and got BCBS Illinois for $490/month, with much better coverage.

I could not do this prior to the ACA. Sorry if it makes your life marginally worse, but it makes people's lives marginally better when they could not get insurance before, or were paying large sums for pathetic levels of coverage.
I feel more like I'm in a foreign country in Mississippi than I do when in Germany. And I'm an American who doesn't even speak German.
> normally financial or market sizing ones

A-ha. Here's the hidden assumption. You're looking at sheets that have a handful of parameters/assumptions and span out their consequences. (You want to stake out the market of people selling Monte Carlo add-ins.)

Many people use spreadsheets as ad hoc accretion calculators/graphers/explorers. This very week -- I estimated about a hundred separate generalized-extreme-value models in Mathematica (working basically by hand to import data from Excel; but this because there was a lot of careful culling), then exported a number of statistics from the distributions. Then I spent a couple of hours a day later looking at scatterplots in Excel -- trying transformations, whatever worked -- that helped me show how those models isolated a particular global feature across the hundred-or-so distributions.

I was looking at your demo and shaking my head -- "is this for cash flow models? But it doesn't even have features for stochastic parameters..." But I guess I see it.
As someone who is seriously considering leaving a job with a salary in the upper 10% of software developers in my city (over 15x what you are paid), plus benefits and who doesn't, as of yet, generate any side income. I'd say that your "risk" of leaving the job seems very low to me. If I were in your position, it'd be a no-brainer.

I understand this is all relative to your point of view, but just wanted to give you someone else's perspective.
I think Ferriss's beloved 80/20 rule applies to Ferriss himself: 80% of the value comes from 20% of his material. There is, to be sure, a lot of hyperbole, but once you filter out the dross what's left is gold.
Have you watched Grandma's Boy? JP has that exact setup.
I’ve never paid over C$3,100 for a car. Here’s what I learned
"they did not allow me to even check what price from exchange would be"

Go to http://healthcare.gov and click the big link that says "See plans before I buy". Answer some questions, and it will guide you through. (This workflow is anonymous and does not require creating an account and logging in.) More importantly, though, when you see a question that asks "Is employer coverage available to anyone in this household?", look right above for a link that says: "No thanks, just show me plans in my area. I can find out later about help paying for coverage." You'll then see all the plans.

[side-note: I was a member of the "Tech Surge" team that helped fix the website in late 2013.]
Good question, I wondered about this as well. Channel switching would certainly create issues on data model changes in the underlying store.
I saved about a year's worth of living expenses before I quit my job, but I was probably being overly cautious. Just know that there are lean times (and slow-paying clients), so it's advisable to have enough saved to cover those shortfalls.
I don't think reclining is that great for your shoulders / neck since it encourages your shoulders to slump forward and you will be likely to hold your head forward in order to see your monitor properly.
> I'm still trying to figure out why, though.

I'm in Chicago, same as OP. The elevated train has exclusive access to the tracks, whereas busses have to compete with private vehicles on the road. I'd rather be on the El.
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How is it a "loophole"?
My comment was about the west. It's tragic that such poor working conditions exist in developing nations. But that should not excuse western companies when they over work their employees, as the original commenter implied.
So you're saying that having a lower change of shit hitting the fan make for a better case of buying plans that disappear when shit hits the fan? Mindblowing.
I had no idea IDE flash drives existed until you said so, but indeed there's quite a few. Just for situations such as this probably.
In a lot of places it is common to have a big new feature launch once a year or so. Something as simple as a decent email launch sequence educating and informing your users and potential customers of the great new things you've added is often enough to make a nice bit of new money along with probably higher residual money.

Joel Splosky wrote about this a long time ago with the whole idea that each new set of features lets you serve more customers, but it also gives you the benefit of a new "marketing event" that you can use to go out there and tell everybody what you are doing.

Like anything, "launching" is a skill, and the more you do it, the better you get.

Tim Ferriss also mentioned once that one reason he got into nonfiction books is he can relaunch a new edition every so many years and continue to make good money with basically the same material.
I'd say the biggest reason is they aren't subject to traffic or (usually) weather, which makes them much faster and more consistent in urban areas. All the other factors are just little perks IMO. Although I personally like that I can read on a train without getting motion sickness, but not on a bus.
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> AMA

I'm a US citizen but am absolutely tired of dealing with IRS paperwork over the course of several businesses; where would you suggest I obtain citizenship (EU preferred).