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That's not at all true. Banks will be very happy to sell you life insurance, for sure, and may make it sound important - but the only insurance requirement is on the building itself, and even then the cost of rebuilding it, not the value of it.
Further, what's wrong with feminism?

What does this question have to do with my comment?

I don't have time to write a book, but like all ideologies, feminism has pros and cons. Feminism is not a monolithic godlike omnibenevolent movement for social equality like some people like to believe, it's divided into plenty schools of thought, each having their own particular strengths and weaknesses, some more moderate and others more extreme.

Regardless of where you stand on the topic, you don't need to be an anti-feminist to dislike Jezebel.
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On my blog, I use Noto Sans for text and Questrial for headings. On the rare occasion that I require a monospace font (anywhere, blog, programming or otherwise), I go for Cousine.

http://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Noto+Sans

http://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Questrial

http://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Cousine

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Ask HN: Are there other communities like Hacker News?
I've been devouring your content for the better part of the last two years and I was wondering if there were other online communities that resemble this one in its high quality discourse and activity level? Perhaps there are some excellent subreddits that we should all know about?
This is a good slide that demonstrates the power of metadata. http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BeMm9qJCEAEHu9Y.jpg
That's how we work on Brackets[1], and I think a lot of projects work that way. It depends what kind of version control system you use. It's pretty easy to do this with the "GitHub flow".

[1]: https://github.com/adobe/brackets
what was the original statement made by PG?

so if anyone can help me understand what PG meant and what it is that people would like to see with the "modern" Access/Excel version, I might be able to create a quick prototype and get your feedbacks. Please email me and I'd love to send you an alpha version.

Basically, I'm missing what MS Access was like as I've never encountered it in my career path as a developer. If I could learn what made MS Access so lovable (or unlikable) as a pillar to shape the prototype from what I understand will need cross-platform, local, optional cloud upload (I totally get that you wouldn't want to upload your company's sensitive spreadsheet), and some of the basic functionality of a database management tool that are commonly used.
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Thanks for the answer. Would it be possible to query against this field?
Most of the advantages of sitting on a ball are negated when you put it in one of those fake-chair things. Try the ball by itself.
I love this and have been in love with a similar idea for a while. Kickstarter-style charter buses - only when enough people agree that they need a ride from Area A to Area B will the bus be chartered from a company. You can have spontaneous bus routes, that get cheaper as more people join the route. Over time, when patterns start revealing themselves, you can build regular shuttle routes and put a big dent in the public transit problem in the Bay Area.
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> It's very computationally heavy to ask for the heights of each ListView item.

Can you expand on that? Do you mean that it's expensive for the OS for some reason, or do you mean that it's expensive for your (client) code to compute the height of each item?

It seems like in most cases it's a simple method like
"return isHeader : HEADER_HEIGHT : ITEM_HEIGHT;"
IIRC, RedHat has a presence in Copenhagen. On the other hand, from what I understand, the government policy about open source is best summarized as "the less the better".
Postgresql validates the field. From the docs:

"the json data type has the advantage of checking that each stored value is a valid JSON value" - http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/datatype-json.html

There are also a bunch of functions available to operate on a JSON field. Full info here: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/functions-json.htm.... What this means is that you can do pretty fast searches on the value of a key in a JSON object.
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I wonder how much better the prediction market does compared to a predictive model based on the score and time remaining. Given data on the games, it would be pretty easy to develop a model on the P(winning|scores,time_remaining). Would that do as well as humans in aggregate? Obviously it doesn't take into account momentum, how well the teams are playing, etc.
I hope Doug writes a more technical post about the multi-client build/release process. We have unit tests for the whole API and very few automated tests for the front-end. Client builds are stored in S3. We use mongoDB and will do backfills if necessary (pretty rare). Rolling back the client is just pointing the stable branch to another build.
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That's how I work as well. Not a huge problem if you're using git, since branches are cheap and merges are easy.
Corruption is a vague term that describes a whole spectrum of behaviors. I don't know much about NK, but I grew up in a country with planned economy and the most visible aspect of corruption there was rampant bribery. It looks like NK has problems with this too: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/NG13Dg01.html
I'll happily accept this as an admission that you don't have a source to back up your original (extraordinary) claim. Thanks.
"I never buy anything from third party sellers where Amazon doesn't handle the fulfillment."

I've found that Amazon's fulfillment of Marketplace books is seriously subpar, they don't pack them like they pack their own books. By and large I now avoid this one use of Amazon fulfillment---although I made these observations before getting a Prime subscription.

On the other hand, I've found that a 96% or higher satisfaction rating is very strongly correlated with successful third party experience, assuming of course it's based on enough time and transactions (modulo some merchants don't put any padding in their book envelopes and sometimes they get a little damaged). Anything below that is a real gamble.

After some effort, finally trying a packaged version of Windows---a class of things I'd never get except straight from Amazon.com---your hated AntOnline has only a 92% rate.
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Will definitely give it a spin, Trello's an important part of our workflow and it's not optimal to resort to cmd+shft+4 and then a ctrl-c/ctrl-v... Thanks for sharing!
Doesn't Salesforce have 'sort of' similar software in the Cloud?
> And no, things like Openoffice^W Libreoffice Base or Kexi are about 1,000,000 miles away from even being useable, much less good.

... which is why we started from the problem of document compatibility (something I really wish GDocs and Numbers for iOS focused on). In the process of building and discovering test cases (repo: https://github.com/SheetJS/test_files) we found and reported bugs in OO, Apache POI, roo, xlrd and other parsers

https://github.com/SheetJS/js-xls and https://github.com/SheetJS/js-xlsx are the parsers underlying this.
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+1 for Michel Thomas audio courses.
The (main) problem with gambling is that it's a way to enable corruption, as the casino can act as a one-way function on the money, laundering it.
I read this initially as “7.1.1 released to update 7.1 with bug fixes”. No.
>> I didn't say that; no need for the sarcasm.

Fair enough. To be fair, you did overstate the point a bit; I'm sure we will all walk into a small business today that could do with one less chair. :-)

>> I'd be interested to see the numbers you have about the share of the economy powered by small/medium businesses. Is it a long, consistent decline, or more of a local minimum?

There's a lot of research out there on this. I don't have the time to dig up much more than this:

http://www.sba.gov/sites/default/files/rs390tot_0.pdf

Note that in 12 years, small businesses lost ~6% of their GDP contribution to larger businesses (table 5). In 2010, small business share of the economy fell below 50% for the first time ever (http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-02-16/small-busine...).
I'm not sure why the blog post link was submitted, but this link is the actual link you'll probably want to visit.

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It's a nice place to be, though it can be hard to get close to the natives, as confirmed by about everybody in my Danish course.

On a totally unrelated note, if there is any HNer in the Århus area, I could totally agree to a get-together.
Despite the fact I've long moved on from MS Access, I know exactly what you mean. There needs to be an application that anyone can open up and start doing database stuff with, that is cross platform but accessible to both end users who want to explore through clicks (query builders) but also those who want the power to script it (SQL and VBA).

Access really delivered on that count. If it wasn't for the two factors of relatively poor performance (terrible performance when run "across" a network) and lack of cross-platform behaviour, it would be my go-to tool.

I think there really is demand for a cross platform database gui that sits on top of a serverless database file. If this file can be uploaded to a website that also enables excel-like data manipulation and then downloaded/shared back as a file for manipulation by this gui tool then even better.

If this tool is powerful enough to realise that it shouldn't try to execute across a network and somehow flip over to a "remote execution" mode where it targets a server rather than a file, then even better.

That's the dream, nothing has ever come close.

Opening an MDB across a network share. Opening large databases for long running simulations was par for the course at a company where I previously worked. One of the first things I did was make sure files were on a local drive before simulating which turned a 6 hour run into a minute long run.
Yeah, the reason AMZN doesn't pay UK tax is NOT because they are not profitable. It is because they legally avoid taxes by basing all their EU operations out of Luxemburg. Tax codes need reform world-wide to avoid this kind of bad behavior.
I love what you are doing. Keep going.
Revenue sent to a parent company abroad is deducted as an expense? I find that hard to believe.

According to this article[1], what they actually do is send the payments directly to the Luxembourg company, and Amazon UK is just classified as a delivery company. That makes sense, and frankly, it doesn't shock me. I'm from Portugal and I just bought some comics from an US company. Should they start paying Portuguese corporate taxes?
'there's a reason that many non-Leninist Marxist call Soviet-style Communism "state capitalism"'

"No True Scotsman"?

I'm not trying to say that's all that it is, just that it's certainly a potential explanation.
`push -f` and `workflow` should never be in the same sentence.
Bullshit. Even a cursory review of the research shows profound differences in child and adult learners. This is ground so well covered that it's assumed knowledge.

Have a look at (Harvard linguist) Steven Pinker's book The Language Instinct. It gives a great overview. Or if a book on linguistics isn't your thing, then read the recent studies on critical period hypothesis for SLA, such as Mayberry and Lock, 2003.
> 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?

But I think this is the sort of thing on which a lot of men give women particularly harsh scrutiny. Like what you said before, a lot of men have a stereotype that women aren't interested in X, so if they meet a woman who is supposedly interested in X, they grill her extra hard on it; where as if it were a man, they would just accept that he's interested.
Thanks for the info - I'm thinking more along the lines of constraining the data within the valid json.

Just found this post which shows how you can do it.

CREATE TABLE products (
data JSON,
CONSTRAINT validate_id CHECK ((data->>'id')::integer >= 1 AND (data->>'id') IS NOT NULL ),
CONSTRAINT validate_name CHECK (length(data->>'name') > 0 AND (data->>'name') IS NOT NULL ),
CONSTRAINT validate_description CHECK (length(data->>'description') > 0 AND (data->>'description') IS NOT NULL ),
CONSTRAINT validate_price CHECK ((data->>'price')::decimal >= 0.0 AND (data->>'price') IS NOT NULL),
CONSTRAINT validate_currency CHECK (data->>'currency' = 'dollars' AND (data->>'currency') IS NOT NULL),
CONSTRAINT validate_in_stock CHECK ((data->>'in_stock')::integer >= 0 AND (data->>'in_stock') IS NOT NULL )
}

http://blog.endpoint.com/2013/06/postgresql-as-nosql-with-da...
Your approach is sane. Here is what I would do: start from the back end. You know the saying "When Mama's happy, everybody's happy"? Your payment processor is Mama.

Talk to your payment processor and see what they want, then do that. My guess is that they will want a U.S. business entity of some kind, with a U.S. tax ID number. Then they will want to believe :-) that this is more than a mere Post Office Box arrangement where money flows through a pipe. They'll want a physical address at a bare minimum.

Once you are convinced that your payment processor will work with you, then you set up the company in the U.S.

For tax purposes you treat this company as a processing agent. It is essentially a bookkeeper. Operate it and manage the net profit of this U.S. corporation so it shows a slight profit.

E.g., your UK corporation pays the US corporation a 3% override on payments processed. The US corporation uses this money for its overhead and whatever is left over is taxable net profit. The net profit is likely to be small so the tax cost is palatable.

Again, this is more a "make Mama happy" problem than it is a tax problem. Your criteria for a good solution are (1) payment processor happy; (2) paperwork and overhead and brain damage and distraction minimized; (3) tax cost.
As far as I can tell from a quick look, this isn't what I had in mind. I'd expect to see a grid I could start typing into, not a page of text.

I was thinking of something for ordinary end users. So anything that tells users "This particular parser assumes that the first row of every table is a header row" is ipso facto not what I had in mind, because ordinary end users don't know what a parser is. Or a header row for that matter.
So if Etsy sells something to Portugal, should you pay Portuguese corporate taxes?

I'm sure we won't mind the income ;)
You can run queries over data in Excel from inside Excel - using the Get External Data option then selecting the spreadsheet you are working on as the source.

However, while investigating this I found that Excel gets quite upset if you import the data from your query into the same location as the source...... :-)
Right. The there is only one version of the API. Multiple clients.
Trello is using Trello to develop Trello. So meta :)
It seems like just a collective refusal to enforce contracts that involve rents, while enforcing contracts that don't, would do a lot to put society on a Marxist footing (leaving aside entirely the question of whether that's a good idea - I'm somewhat inclined to say that it's not).
What if Google Maps on mobile got it all wrong?
That's a lot of loaded political claims without supporting evidence.

> NOW opposing default shared custody

Are you implying that, absent default shared custody, family law is discriminatory towards men? If so, what evidence do you have of that claim?

> pushing the lie that domestic violence is overwhelmingly men hitting women

Who's saying that? Further, how do you know it's not the case? Domestic violence is notoriously hard to measure. You sound much more confident in your conclusion that scientific community is in their tentative findings about domestic violence rates.

> denying men support and services

That's awfully vague. Can you point to a pattern of anti-male gender discrimination by a particular organization, company, or government agency?

> promoting the moral panic of "rape culture" at colleges

Rapes are definitely committed at colleges. We can't know the exact rates for sure, because we don't know what percentage of rapes are ever reported. What evidence do you have that claims about college rape are overblown?

> giving mothers choice while denying fathers any say (under the guise of "the child's interests")

What choices are you referring to? Are you suggesting that a father should be able to either veto or impose an abortion?

> why they have no agency, cannot be held responsible for their actions and need hand outs.

Who's saying that? Based on my experience with feminist writings, I think you're attacking a straw man.

> "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.

We don't know those claims to be false. Still, one can fairly criticize a commentator for putting forth a claim without adequate data to support it, even if the underlying claim may be true. I won't purport to know whether Mary Koss or Susan Brownmiller had adequate data, nor have I looked up whether they made those claims at all. But even if one or two commentators made an unproven claim, that fact cannot be the basis for an attack on a much larger movement.
Best wishes to Jonathan. I've chipped in my little bit.

Agree about the importance of getting term life. One thing to add, the Internet (or the society) is a life insurance! Help some one in need. One day the karma will come back to you.
Thanks for sharing your work. I love your approach to showing relationships inside a spreadsheet.

This is definitely a feature that Excel ought to have, which is both good news and bad news for your business. The good news is that you'll probably find willing buyers. The bad news is if you find too many buyers, Microsoft will probably implement something similar in their products, which will put your business at risk.

There are a few ways to survive in these situations. One is to keep moving with more products and add-ins. That's basically what Xobni had to do, but it will be exhausting, and I think at some point you'll run out of steam. Another way is to take out patents and hope for a licensing deal or buy-out from Microsoft.

A third survival strategy is to have a better product than what Microsoft will inevitably come out with. It's become cliche at this point, but high product quality requires, above all, focus. Microsoft might have more money than you, but if you're willing to focus, you'll actually have more time to think about the product than they'll have to think about their feature.

To be honest, I were you guys, I'd pick either the Cloud version or the Excel Add-in and go all in (i.e. dump the other one). Then make that version the absolute best it can be.

If you're going to focus on one version or the other, there are a lot of factors to consider, and you guys know the market and technology better than I do. One factor in favor of the Add-in is that you'll be able to charge a single purchase price up-front, which will give you more short-term revenues that will enable you to grow your business without taking (as much) outside investment. Subscription models are great for big companies and VC-funded startups, but they're actually a raw deal for cash-starved, self-funded companies.

Anyway, thanks again for sharing. I look forward to seeing where you take Slate!
A bit, but I was just quoting Jim Morrison to a friend, so there's that. :-D

At the risk of pushing this thread well past the point of usefulness and too far into the abstract, you know the building could be used to quarter troops, store weapons, etc, so long as it is owned by the government, even not in time of war? Personally, I value the government owning large weapons more than I value them owning millions of small weapons. The large weapons are more likely to be used under the correct circumstances. I think that's part of why we overuse (IMHO) drones - it made it cheap to wage asymmetric warfare.
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I assume it's referring to the gratuitous insult that you ended your first comment with.
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I've never used MS Access before. What is the difference between it and PHPMyAdmin or HeidiSQL?

What specific things made MS Access so easy to pickup and what made it powerful?

For anyone else that is looking for what was described above, I'd be pretty happy to work on something new for a change.

If you can please provide me some details (my email is in my profile), that would keep me motivated. My only gap in knowledge is MS Access and what it did well and what it didn't do well.
I don't understand how you're pricing corruption like this. The Chinese get a discount on their corruption? What does that mean?
> "Since we made those changes, we have noticed the ratio of people who try our presentation demo now is up from an embarrassingly low 1% to a much healthier 28%."

I think you've made positive changes, but don't forget that your organic audience is much different than the burst traffic from a link aggregator like Hacker News.

Not that your conclusions are necessarily wrong, but it's easy to make false correlations when more than one variable changes.
Not properly using Django's ORM. That's something I'll write when we actually start to need it. At the moment. It's more of a wholesale document store. Right now you would have to write a custom SQL query, using the Postgresql JSON functions, and the Model.objects.raw(...) interface of provided by Django.
>Further, what's wrong with feminism?

In simplistic terms on HN and in society in general, there are approximately two working definitions of feminism:

1. Women and men are different [1], but are equal in person-hood and should be treated the same.

2. Women and men are different [1], but are equal in person-hood and should be treated the same, but in areas where women have a record of being discriminated against they should be thoughtfully promoted (aka. what opponents call "reverse discrimination")

[1]: Statistically (thus exceptions) and biologically, but usually in ways that don't matter to the situation at hand.

Without taking sides, you can see that 2 upsets a lot of people. For example a female only code-a-thon, is "OK" but a male code-a-thon would outrageous.

Lack of 2 upsets other people as they perceive it takes more than passive fairness of overcome a social biases.

Personally, I agree with both to a limited extent and attempt to balance them based on the circumstance.
Thanks for this! I use some of the various json fields that exist already but have been feeling like it is about time to start using the built in Postgres JSON support instead of just TextFields.
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Not sure what you mean by that. The government is generally open to open source (http://digitaliser.dk/resource/2320552), but the two biggest providers of governmental web services don't really use open source. But why is that relevant if you want to seek employment in a Danish private company or start your own company in Denmark?