skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I should clarify my asking the question isn't "Why would anyone do that?!?!" it is more "What is the advantage? Is there something I missed?"
Some, here and there. Not highbrow, literary fiction per se. Have spent a bit of time on a YA series that I have yet to hammer into a shape I am comfortable with. Fiction is hard. Structure and pacing are serious PITAs for me.
Taxes on the rich are a different story, though, because while the tax rates on the rich may compare to those in the US, it seems to me (and I might be wrong here) that, through tax deductions and various other things, rich Americans often end up paying relatively low taxes.

This is a common misconception and is completely incorrect. The "tax loopholes" have been gone for decades.

It is actually far easier for wealthy Danes to avoid high taxes - they can simply move to Monaco or Switzerland or Estonia or Poland, whilst Americans must first gain citizenship of a separate nation then renounce their citizenship and pay an exit tax.

Capital gains taxes tend to be slightly lower in the US, but corporate taxes far higher. Consumption taxes are of course far higher in Denmark, and this will annoy some rich people there but will typically have little impact on the bottom line.

Overall you're likely taxed higher as a rich American than a rich Dane - though individual circumstances will play a huge role.
Zuckerberg called Obama expressingfrustration over US Internet spying
Should I tutoyer when I'm being made fun of by strangers in the chatbox of an FPS. Language is so complex. Actually it's probably because we drop "s'il vous plait" in to speech in our family (or sometimes asante sana or danke schon) so I'd think of that first before parsing it as a vous form. Good spotting.
It's like watching Lance Armstrong just before his fall. You know where it's going to go and just wish they'd come clean and quit breaking the Constitution instead of insisting on their innocence.

Too many scandals that went similarly ended up revealing cover-ups to expect the Executive Branch to come out clean. It looks like it's trying to make the most of a bad situation. Tylenol's 1982 recall remains the gold standard for disaster recovery -- http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/23/your-money/23iht-mjj_ed3_..... Doing something like that could salvage something and get people on the White House's side.

But it only works if you act with sincerity.
Needed diversity in tech
Alpha and Beta channels only affect what client you get. All client versions talk to the same API, so it has to be very stable/backwards compatible.
I kind of agree with simonsarris. You take a risk if you rely on a company's product if that company doesn't rely on that product to stay in business. Dropbox lives and dies by its storage feature; Google doesn't.
i believe GP mentioned bipartisanship to point out that its unlikely either a D or R administration would actively try to rectify the situation because there's no political gain and there's likely political loss.
None of this is unusual.

Banks typically will not cash a check made out to a business entity. If you go to the bank manager with the LLC papers showing you as an officer and your ID, then she may be able to make an exception but don't count on it.

[edit] I see you apparently already did this. And honestly, going by my past awful experiences with HSBC, I wouldn't hold out hope anyway.

An alternative would be to open another LLC in a state where it's cheaper (here it's $50 processing fee IIRC and can be done completely online) and deposit it into that LLC's bank account.
maybe you've heard of quora ;-)
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It would still be very different. If you contribute to google mapmaker, only google could use it. If you contribute to a non-share-alike OSM, anyone can use it...
We have a lot more planned.
I did http://www.notegraphy.com while ago. You can write, style and the share on Twitter, Facebook or Tumblr and more from the web, iOS devices or Android.

Feedback is welcome.
If it was Kafka, at some point Google would transform into a giant locust, be accused of unknown crime, and sentenced to a prison colony in America.
Unfortunately there's still stuff there when viewed from a Google IP - http://i.imgur.com/59qW1EM.png (Source: I'm currently at my desk, at Google.)
> I'm sure this is too much of a generalisation but Anericans don't like to know of the atrocities done in their name as long as their "catching the bad guys"

I think it is worse than that. I think that they either don't care, or perhaps even support it as long as it isn't too close to home for them. See the treatment of torture on American television shows like 24 or Fringe (related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7017222).
A personal anecdote: I was an avid youtube user, but their nearly ceaseless iteration of everything from sidebar contents to full on page layouts and link availability (I remember a time when one could go from the video listing of one channel belonging to one user directly to another channel's usable video links. This now takes 2-3 clicks, depending on your definition of usable.) has me at a point where I get frustrated when I have to use the service, and am actively looking to migrate off of it.

Soundcloud has almost entirely replaced youtube for me in the music sense, the problem seems to be that there's no video service "core" enough that "everyone" uploads "everything" to it. A lot of handwaving there, but youtube has a certain amount of critical mass in that area, AFAIK. (if I'm living in a little google bubble, I'd appreciate other video services, but I feel like I'm aware of most of the main ones ala vimeo, and as I said, critical mass.)

Note: I feel like google treats most of their services like this. I personally have felt nothing but decreased usability since the not-TOO-far-removed-from-pure-html days of gmail. (The pinnacle for me was shortly after the integration of gchat and the polish that came after, but before the great whitespace apocalypse.)
For what it's worth, I probably would have contributed if it was not share alike. That said, my contribution was minor and I think keeping share-alike is the right move.
I like MIT dormitory culture. As freshman you have to decorate the dorm room yourself. You have to build the bed frame, the table yourself. I love that culture.
I see the main barrier to developing a "platform for meaningful, balanced debates" as one of semantic clarity, not discourse-level organization.

I cannot truthfully answer most of the questions I see on the site, because they have variable answers depending on what amount of game theory I apply to my thought processes:

* 1-step strategy: I answer by interpreting the words and phrases in the question exactly how I, personally, define them, with no regard to how widespread an interpretation like mine is.

* 2-step strategy: I attempt to discern the majoritarian interpretation of the question and answer accordingly.

* 3-or-more-step strategy: I attempt to mix my own interpretations with majoritarian ones to answer in a way that will maximize the propagation of my actual view and all its nuances.

The third option, in this case, is leading me to eschew voting and commenting on the platform altogether.[1] Though I am glad that it's led me to organize my thoughts on this matter.

What I'd really like to see in a discussion platform is more tightly networked semantics. Something more powerful than straight hyperlinking. Something that automates the conversion of broadcast and multicast text blocks (like forum posts) into tailored unicast ones (like private messages). Something that gives each user the background and definition set they need to interpret the content accurately. An API for people -- a PPI?

I really don't know how to make this happen. Arguably it's the sociological question of the century, the P vs. NP of human interaction. Maybe even the best first step is a platform like Saysaw. It's hard to say. But right now, I feel like there hasn't been any real progress since email or phpBB.

[1] This is also what made me stop using OkCupid. If anyone wants to take these thoughts on discussion platforms and apply them to a new dating platform, that'd be fantastic.
Whatever, the point is, there should be a way to determine if a plane is in flight, and then disable the ability to turn off the transponder.
I picked one up for less than $500 a few years ago. I wonder why its price skyrocketed. Its successor is currently priced at $559:

http://www.ergodepot.com/Muvman_p/muv.htm
I for one didn't know about Digital Ocean before I put this survey out, and now I do, and am really grateful as a result.
Automated Video Looping
It's Google and it's just a place to put data. Google won't lose your data. If they shutter, you'll have 2 years to move that data to ACME Drive.

Just to be absolutely clear... you'll have 2 years to drag and drop a folder to another location.
OSM collects factual data, so the license really doesn't matter much... the copyright on it won't stand up in court.
And like Lance Armstrong, they'll hold out until the bitter end. In a sense, the only thing that can be done to shorten that rope is to publish more information, either by leaks or otherwise. I'd love to see an ad campaign (billboards in DC, Virginia and Maryland, for instance) imploring government and intelligence workers to leak.
How Excellent Customer Service Can Be Delivered Over Email But Without Gmail
San Francisco bans water bottles
Probably won't work. Banks give individuals a lot of leeway with checks; not so with businesses.

In fact, my bank makes a point of telling me when they cash a third-party check without that party present, that they're doing me a favor because I've had accounts there for so long.
Does your comprehension suffer when reading at that speed? I can read phrases/short sentences at a time and get a general gist of what is going on. That allows for incredibly fast reading, however it is hopeless if I am reading any kind of technical material.
I assume by 'in your bank account' you mean liquid? It really doesn't make sense to have more than the money you use between deposit periods (plus a reasonable cushion) in a checking account. I keep $1,000 in my savings so it's not empty, but I never use the account.

I keep 200% of my average spend between deposit periods in checking and move the rest to a 'holding' account that's a money market account (higher interest). If I need to contribute to my IRA, pay real estate taxes, make a large purchase, etc. I pull from here. I'll also use this money to make some investments that I consider liquid (i.e. have Apple now, just sold Tesla).

There's more to it, but this system works well for me. I had an issue when I first got married because my wife is a bit more of a...liberal spender than I am. I have it set to always payoff my credit card statement balance every month and was surprised a couple of times how somebody could reasonably spend that much in a short period of time. But then again, this is coming from a guy that drives a Honda Civic, spends a few hundred a month in food, exclusively wears ~$17 jeans, and loves $3.77 Costco lunches that include a slice of pizza, hot dog and a drink (awesome, right?).
so http requests are also similarly directly handled in Angular without the need for jquery.
Thanks! Don't worry, I'm not going anywhere. I've been lurking for a long time, and I'm enjoying actually contributing my thoughts today. I hope to make a habit of it. :)
Great, I need to move some drugs
- If you don't know a web programming language, find the easiest one to learn (quicker to launch)

- If you do know programming languages, use the one you're best at (quicker to launch)

I'll refer to my previous argument for all of this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6169120
JSOC running around killing almost maybe "bad guys" based on whom knows what evidence and also their own citizens now and then without a trial is disgusting. In retrospect, history may well judge Obama administration on par with the Salem witch trials for repugnant lack of morality. Who knows.

Also, the Metadata app on iOS puts drone strikes on a map. There are many in Yemen and Somalia, not just the Middle East proper. http://mashable.com/2014/02/07/apple-app-tracks-drone-strike...
I know about ng-min, and that's part of what I'm writing the next article about.

But you've now got a situation where it justifies the creation of all this contrib level code that is just not needed if you don't do it the magic way in the first place.

You just wouldn't need ng-min or grunt-ngmin or on some level generator-angular to set it up for you.

When you take into account all of the code, documentation, github issues, stackoverflow questions etc. this results in, there's no way that this clever hack can be worth it.
Motor which runs without energy source
They're a billion times saner, they have a very simple REST API that just takes a couple GET parameters and spits out nice JSON. I built a wrapper in scala using the dispatch http library and json4s in about 15 minutes, most of that was writing a couple functions to handle the difference between the formatting conventions used by DigitalOcean's JSON and scala/java standards ("droplet_id" vs "dropletId").

Meanwhile AWS has this nasty outdated SOAP API that you don't want to touch by hand with a 10-foot pole, you had better have a good AWS library for your existing language of choice or know how to make sense of a WSDL.
I'm not sure what you mean by the second step 'later you go over all the bills and receipts again and try to match them with what you approved earlier'

With Abacus, the payments are automatic. We also sync directly with your accounting software. We automatically create a bill (with the expense info) and the bill payment (from your companies connected bank, which gets auto-debited) so there's no reconciliation. The two cancel each other out, it's totally on auto-pilot.

Also, with corporate cards, you're still required by the IRS to save receipts for expenses over $75, so there's still a reconciliation process. We're building the ability to import your card expenses straight into Abacus, so you can add the note, receipt etc. all in the same place.
To be fair, HN is also an Opinion Network, so the same logic could be applied. People love to discuss things, and without experimentation with different formats, we would all still be using usenet (or sitting around a dinner table, which would arguably be better).

This was a personal project of a friend of mine though, hacked together in 5 days to learn Rails. So I believe it was less about "What problem is this solving?", and more "What would be a cool thing to build?".
Sorry, I meant the boring one. Presumably in the Google one the app provides all the monitoring you need.
>> I really think the markets for DO and AWS are different. DO aims at the "I need a few boxes" sort of user, and AWS aims at the "I boxes and other infrastructure" where other infrastructure is databases, auto-scaling services, etc.

This is the typical pattern for market disruption: competitor enters the market at the low-end and moves up-market to eventually dislodge the incumbent.
Interesting article about that here: http://usa.streetsblog.org/2012/06/21/explaining-the-psychol...
I like the idea but I think you need beautifully designed templates that will give you a little more wow factor.
Neat. What's the variance? Being late 20% of the time despite leaving a decent amount of time before the mean wouldn't be great...
I don't care what it said. There is no reason for a provider to take down a blog post short of it being illegal and someone standing on their doorstep with a warrant.
One thing the anti-speed-reading folks never take into account is comprehension per time. They always look at comprehension for one reading of the material.

My regular reading speed is around 220 wpm. But I can speed read or speed listen at much more than double that. Therefore, I can do TWO speed readings in less time than one slow reading.

So for a fair comparison, you have to look at TWO speed readings vs ONE slow reading. In that case, the speed reading might win on comprehension, even though it was behind after its first reading. Reading stuff twice improves comprehension a lot, and can still be done in less time.

Or if I really really care about something, I would do a slow reading and several speed readings, and I think that's way more effective than doing multiple slow readings, for the same amount of time or less.

Also with speed reading I can do over 500 wpm with very good comprehension. The point where I can't keep up mentally or with my eyes is (after a lot of practice) above 500 wpm. But my regular reading speed, if I just use Kindle app or a paper book, remains under half that.

I can also speed read at over 1000 wpm, for light reading but not dense philosophy. Yes comprehension drops, but two readings at 1000 wpm for light reading may still beat one reading at 500 wpm for the same material. Or FOUR readings at 1000 wpm could beat ONE slow reading, in less time.

It's important to be able to read at many different speeds, and also use several skimming methods, and think of them as different tools in your toolbox, and then figure out which is appropriate for what you want to accomplish. If you always read everything the same way, you're doing it wrong.
http://i.imgur.com/mJMj0.gif and now I know what's in the briefcase in Pulp Fiction.
This is a big reason why service like Dropbox and Google Drive work so well. If two or more people have the same exact file in their drive, it doesn't take up more physical storage than the original file.
Is this a Chase thing or a California thing? When I opened my business bank account at a regional Midwest bank it took all of about 25 minutes from when I walked in to when I left.
Which means the issue is a systemic one, based on the morality of the political class? If so, then I agree.

Unfortunately for America there seems to be no hope on the horizon. All classes of societal are facing moral degradation. Whether it's the poor and their gang/crime issues, the middle class with their consumerism/ignorance issues, or the upper class for their greed/lack of empathy.

Obviously this can be generalized amongst most nations, but I think it's evidently more prevalent in America.
> I think it's reasonable to assume that unless anyone has proven the contrary, which they haven't.

I disagree. I think it could go either way, as I have no real scientifically valid evidence either way, but I think the burden of proof is on the party advocating using violence to prevent the other party from doing what it wants.

> Many arguments in favor of homeschooling are about parents' religious freedom or about how the public school system has failed the children, and in both cases this does nothing to demonstrate that the parents are going to do a better job.

True, but it also does nothing to demonstrate that the parents are going to do a worse job.
god no. the dependency injection is fine.

i just think that the unsafe way shouldn't even exist, much less be the first and most prominently featured in the documentation. It even has fine print, which everybody has to add in everywhere whenever they talk about it.
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I found an old thread on this[1], but it's from five years ago. Anything new and/or better out there now?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=642193
Okay, sounds like you're assuming a scenario where you need to actually create the view to figure out the height, sure.

In other scenarios (contact list, list of artists and albums and songs) you know the height of an item from its type, and you can just return (one of a set of) constants like I said. That shouldn't be expensive at all.
there are some awesome companies like zirtual.com
Verizon FIOS business class: 99.99/month. Essentially 1200/year.

50Mbit down - 50Mbit up - no data caps (or so they say).

And yes, I do (provided the other end is capable) see those speeds.
Yes, it is a myth.
+10000 - we've switched to Grails ~3 years ago, probably our best tech decision EVER.
> Has it really failed?

It works fine for us, but we have the ideal conditions for it to - business product owners who understand that their role is to provide a prioritised backlog and clarify stories in a timely manner - and nothing else. We have an organisation that accepts that the developers will drop features from a sprint to safeguard reliability and quality. We have teams that have stable core domains so that our estimations are, for the great majority, sufficiently accurate within that core domain.

Every time I see a "Agile is a scam / it's dead Jim / it's a myth" post, it usually involves into someone doing something dysfunctional and then trying to justify it with "But Agile!" in a game of Buzzword Bingo.

I went to help a local government IT department that was trying to implement Scrum to get some clarity on what the hell was going on in their dev teams, and I sat in on sprint retrospectives where all the talking was done by the 'product owner' - who was actually a rebranded business analyst who had no authority to prioritise backlogs. He wouldn't stop talking either, even when I explained to him that the retro was for the team, not him.

To that team, Scrum was a bunch of bullshit. To me, how they were doing it was obviously flawed. That said though, ultimately, that organisation has derived value from their half-assed implementation of it. It's shown them precisely who contributes in their IT team and who is cruising. They've got a few people who claim a monopoly on certain areas and jealously defend them because it makes them feel necessary and as such, safe from being laid off. Hence I had a GIS guy telling me that "You can't expect .NET developers to learn GIS!!" and an ABAP developer saying the exact same thing.

Now that organisation faces the challenge of managing the coasters out - unlike the US of A we don't have at-will employment.
> If you contribute to a non-share-alike OSM, anyone can use it..

I want those who agree with the project's principals to use the dataset, not just anyone. OSM isn't just a collection of data, its open collaboration. Removing share-alike breaks the model of that collaboration.
Bitcoin’s future: How the crypto-currency could become the Internet of money
speaking of ruby-off-rails, you may be interested in crudzilla.com, a web app platform for the jvm.
Sup – A console-based email client for people with a lot of email
it doesn't need the toString this way, because it's already a string being passed in.
Agree that there needs to trust here, we're thinking about adding a setting where you can set auto-approval limits, so that any expense under $x get approved without any approval.

Next time you're compiling an expense report or waiting to get reimbursed, think about how things might be different with something like Abacus ;)
The main assumption in the article was that people who voluntarily create maps (like I did) only care how much people they reach with the product of their work. And if that would be the case I would have chosen google map maker because absolutely everybody uses google maps. Google maps does not have a free data api, but that is completely irrelevant for this argument since nobody 1) uses that anyway.

1) Only a negligible fraction of people using maps.
Thanks for the feedback! We will definitely be adding better looking design, so there is some wow factor.
I've really been enjoying https://irccloud.com
I read pretty quickly but have never expressly timed it (400WPM on Spritz seems a bit slow anecdotally, but I don't comprehend Spritz even on low speeds).

I think what I do is read pairs/tuples of words at once, and then move on to the next set.

Eg, to quote graeme - I read [This is of interest to me,] <move eyes> [as I have much practical experience] <move eyes> [with teaching people to read faster].