skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And why choose such a cockamaime distribution scheme?

Perhaps to hide outright theft by Vircurex.

If you don't receive funds, you might conclude your account balances fell somewhere in the middle... or perhaps they didn't distribute any funds at all.

There's no way for users to know how large their account balances are relative to others.
For one beautiful moment, I imagined you meant we should get the comments with the best puns to rise to the top.
It takes a lot of tinkering to make any old html5 app work seamlessly offline.

Couch/PouchDB is the most exact solution I've found.
Same experience here. In the rare case where a key text was unavailable in the university library, the lecturers would usually email us scans of the relevant chapters. Alternatively, interlibrary loans - typically from the British Library, so we had access to pretty much any published text - were free of charge.
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The last option is intriguing. Just reorganizing things so that textbooks are covered by tuition and have to be paid for out of departmental budgets could dramatically change the situation overnight.
or simply nsagate for nameserver A gate.
Just because you shift the organization from public to private does not make the problem goes away. The true problem is incentive.

For example, private contractors build the rockets for NASA. But there is no incentive to do it cheaply and right. Any cost overrun is covered by the government.

This is in contrast to the COTS program initated by NASA which is oriented toward rewarding space contractors on efficiency and milestones reached. They don't cover cost overrun and responsibility lies with the suppliers. For example, if SpaceX or Orbital Science's cargo ship blows up, they're responsible.
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Add to subj: "only in SF"
When I lived in NYC in the '90's, I used to place the same order from the same pizza place often enough that the calls went like this:

Me: <dials number>
Them: <Answers phone, sees caller ID> "The usual?"
Me: "Yup, thanks"
Them: <Delivers pizza in 20 minutes>

Seems like recently startups are finally starting to get to that level of knowing the customer...
I didn't go to school for more than a semester, but I can vouch for this system: piracy.

I found all my books available without a hitch.

The publishers don't lose out on any money, so I don't feel too bad. I wouldn't have bought the books otherwise.
Personally I'd ask for the contact details of the other remotely working team members so you can have a chat with them, you'll probably find that they had the same worries and thoughts as you did before they joined. Also these are the people that you might be working with soon, so also serves as a good idea to see how well you get on with them.

As for specific questions:

- How is work allocated to you, and who is allocating it

- How are they going to keep track of your work, do you have to do daily/weekly reports?

- What's the typical internal communications method, eMail, IM, Skype

- Timezones, are your colleagues in comparable zones so you can actually have a chat with them at reasonable times

- Is there any monthly/quarterly/yearly meet-up with the whole team?
Wow, wasn't expecting this level of venom for a harmless comment.

I lived in SOMA from 2002 to 2004, and from 2008 to 2010, so I know what I'm talking about... you do realize all the places you mentioned opened in the "last 5 years" (or have waiters and are not "every day food"), which I explicitly mentioned in my comment?

I'm guessing you don't because you just moved here, and those are the only places in SF you go to.

Now I know why pg wants to moderate comments. HN is really two forums: one for programmers, and one for industry gossip/lifestyle. The threads for programmers are still top notch, but once you venture into the non-technical parts you get randomly bitten by trolls.
Congress don't do sanity check. They just add new features to a hairball of a codebase, multiplying the bugs and complexity of the system.
CS people are probably in a somewhat unique position where that is somewhat possible. If you study something that isn't tied to a specific industry or where you need many years of training and certification to become useful that's not so tenable.
"Please sign-in." 'We want to know what you are interested in.'
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Thanks for the feedback! Any other tips for transitioning from an in office gig to remote?

I'm considering getting a desk at my local coworking space to make sure I don't turn into a hermit and to stay in touch with the community in town.
As ama729 hinted at but didn't call out explicitly, this would give the Speaker unilateral authority to overturn any law. That's tremendous power in one individual.
I think for "Profile your data", some tools like OpenRefine really help. http://openrefine.org
I know he is just crunching numbers for unrelated jobs and unrelated colleges and making a conclusion based on that and no real knowledge, but I know tons of people who worked through college.

A lot of them were work study program people, although on the east coast. If you Google the school he talks about, though, you can see they offer a similar program where the college pays half the student's salary:
https://finaid.msu.edu/work.asp

So a work study student only costs the employer half as much, and would generally be assumed to be earning a full pay check for working half the time and studying half the time. So it seems very doable. Generally a student with such low income isn't going to be paying full price anyway, so his other number is off too.
Dat sexy bread tho..
Yeah, that was in 2009. I don't know if CCB/BoA still have the no-fee agreement.

But now I have a checking account at Schwab that refunds all ATM fees, including internationally, so I could do it with that.
Even worse is when the intro classes mandate the book, only for the professor to not use it because the book is so weak and useless. $150 paperweight that can't be resold to the used book store because they come out with a new edition every year.
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In Norway, you have to pay net worth tax of 1% of your assets in excess of ~$200,000. So if you own 2 million of stock in an unlisted company, you are on the hook for $20,000 in additional taxes every year. Most successful entrepeneurs here have to sell stock every year just to pay their tax bill.

Company profits tax of 27%, capital gains tax of 28% and personal income tax of ~35% ensures that you even in the best case get to keep <50% of the profits your company makes, even before the annual net worth tax comes into play. Some successful businessmen in cyclic businesses here have emigrated purely because paying the full tax every year would deplete their companies' rainy day buffers.

(We also have a 25% VAT on all consumer purchases, including "compulsory" products purchased from the state such as the national broadcasting license or local government residential parking permits).

And still you read in the newspaper every other week of someone wanting to create the "new Silicon Valley" in some Norwegian city. It's delusional; the incentives are completely wrong.
That's why I said there needs to be competition and accountability. You're not going to get competition in the public sector.
This becomes especially clear when you look at the prices of international editions of the textbook, which are often 1/10th of the price of the us equivalent book. Such a price difference isn't caused by a publisher worried about volume. If it sells for lower elsewhere, why not here.
It does because you were trying to insinuate that 1 hour delivery of food is a logistical nightmare. You probably are thinking more along the lines of Amazon.com and shut out of your mind that restaurants have been doing this for decades. Dominos can deliver fresh baked food almost anywhere in the country in 30 minutes.

Sometimes it's good to get a little slap that wakes you up out of startup mode.
There are good arguments to be had about why college is so expensive and exactly how much federal and local money should go to education. It's simply untrue that it's impossible to pay your own way through college - I just did it for the last two and a half of my education. Of course I was making more than minimum wage, but for all but a semester I wasn't making radically above minimum wage (my last summer I worked at a top tech company). I chose to major in an in demand field that I was good at, worked a lot instead of drinking or playing video games, and went to an affordable in state school. Not everybody can make it through college without loans, but if everybody put the same effort into their job and education I did, it should be a worthwhile investment to carry a bit of debt.
Isn't this just basic supply and demand? There are more students trying to go to university now than there were in the 70s. It's basically become the next version of high school socially (and, sadly, also academically in many cases).

What we need is a culture that respects people who want to just work at a factory, a big box store, a mall, whatever, without pushing them into doing something they don't want to do (school). Trade schools also help in this regard. I actually believe we need more push towards trades like plumbing, hvac, and carpentry rather than having more degrees in over-filled areas.
Why go for a VPS when you can get dedicated hardware for a similar and sometimes better price - http://www.kimsufi.com/uk/
Gmail man!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFCSp23xl40
So do Google :)
Was the idea really validated? Is their business model "get on the front page of HN daily"? If not, absolutely nothing was validated.
Really, textbooks aren't that big of a deal. There's other sources to get textbooks.

The bigger problems, IMO, are "homework systems" or "virtual labs" where you are required to pay a superfluous charge to a textbook publisher because professors are too lazy to grade homework. So you either buy a brand new copy of your intro algebra book for $130 and get a 'free' "MyMathLab" code, or you can just buy the code for $115. (e.g.: http://www.pearsonhighered.com/educator/product/MyMathLab-St...)

You'll note at that point, they don't need to produce a new edition every year that renumbers the problem set, because they're going to get their pound of flesh anyway, and you can buy an old book - but you still won't be able to pass the course, because professors require you do the homework through this 'system'.
Might be a kickstarter opportunity for a device that does the following:

Gets the caller id and when person who answers hits a button prints out an order form with the customers name.

Later version could actually store info about the customer in the device.

The point of this device is to have as little disruption to the existing work flow as possible. Just plug it in to the incoming phone line.

Probably could be prototyped using a small linux box where you get a local restaurant that you know ("you" means person who does this) to validate the idea. Small box isn't the final product or form factor only a way to see if the idea provides value.
rsyslog can be configured to send certain kinds of messages to all logged-in users, usually emergencies. These end up in all currently open terminals for me, i.e. each and every tab of every xfce4-terminal I have open at the time.

I’d guess it’s mostly a configuration issue and people care less about these things nowadays?
Running untrusted plugins in Web Workers
Have you seen CampEasy? Looks pretty big and complete
Right, a 100% conviction rate could mean any of 1) they are very good at picking their battles, 2) they are very good at convicting innocent people, 3) they are extremely over-conservative in the cases they pursue. Only 1 is a good thing, although lesser degrees of 3 might be as well, depending. 2 is outright bad.
Some simple comment auto-collapsing logic (like Reddit has, it's nothing magic) would actualy be "the simplest thing that could possibly work", a lot better and more straight-forward than adding yet another (third!) layer of voting to the comments.

Also I agree that hiding scores was not "decidedly a positive change", for the reason rando289 points out, among other things. It's just so useful information. Sure it changes the way people deal out votes, but in the end it's all about how the posts are sorted, not the individual points, and I doubt the sort-order will change much (and if it does, whether it'd be worse).
This is not the first attempt. This seems to be focused on extending PHP's performance and capabilities. Personally, I'm more interested in porting PHP applications away from PHP.

Caucho Resin offers 100% php compatibility on the JVM, so that you can host your entire app in a servlet container, and port features one by one.
http://www.caucho.com/resin-3.1/doc/quercus.xtp

The PHP-to-Scala migration helper uses Resin/Quercus to provide the standard library to translate PHP to Scala. The output is a Scala codebase, so that you never have to touch the legacy PHP again.
https://code.google.com/p/php-to-scala-migration-helper/
Fine, but having most/all of your net worth seized by the state is an extremely damaging sentence, and the bar should be higher.
xrootconsole or multitail are useful for this sort of thing.
GP is pointing that this challenges appears to have already been solved, quite successfully, by many small non-technological business in many cities. Was it snarky? Yes. But it was also insightful.
There are plenty of sites dedicated entirely to or with sections of college textbooks.[1]

A good starting point is to simply Google the title of the work you are looking for and append a "filetype:PDF."

For example, I found no less than six copies, all hosted by various universities, of Rosen's Discrete Mathematics this way.[2]

If you are talking about a market for having pirated physical copies mailed to you my I ask what advantage would that service have over a print shop like Kinkos? Do places like Kinkos refuse to print copyrighted material?

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/trackers/comments/hrgmv/tracker_with...

[2] https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=discrete%20mathe...
It may not add to the discussion, but at least it stops people from subtracting from it by talking about one-hour food delivery as something remarkable.
constructive criticism: I'm a git user, but, if you need D3 graphics to explain a svc... can we at least accept that git concepts are not intuitive?
According to rkuykendall-com, that actually was the follow-up poll, held after the change was implemented.

So no, it was not widely regarded to be a decidedly positive change.
It's rather suspicious that LXJS tickets are being offered on ti.to, not on LXJS's own domain, lxjs.org. And LXJS's own site claims that early bird tickets are sold out:

http://2014.lxjs.org/register

Also, note that the 2014 conference is in Lisbon, Portugal.
> What you need to chart this is some measure of how much college students actually are earning over time, not a measure of the lowest wage it's legally permissible to pay them.

That would only be useful if either a) we knew there were no students working minimum wage jobs or b) we were unconcerned with students unable to obtain higher paying jobs
DigitalOcean's big selling point for me is SSD disk. I don't see that listed on the OVH offering.
This has such a huge potential impact! Having talked with them, I love the model of subsidizing developing countries by charging the ones in the USA.
The solution though, isn't to stop providing money to students for college. If you don't have Pell Grants, Stafford loans and the like, lower income bracket individuals would never be able to afford college. There is a simple fact: I could not pay my way through my Midwest university education without these things. I will graduate and be in debt, but I'll be better off having done it. Certainly the experience is worthwhile.

The solution though, as some people propose, is not to end subsidies for lower income individuals. I see several people putting forth the argument that people are the most efficient at allocating money for themselves. That is not true except in an Ayn Rand novel. If people were so rational, everyone would go to college because the expected value of college still dwarfs the cost of college. Even for those individuals who would graduate with a significant amount of debt, it is far more worth it to have a degree than not.

So, how would a society reduce the cost of college education without removing the supports that enable low income individuals to enroll? Instead of giving colleges free money, we need to re-orient our structure of providing support for students that need it so that the college has the right incentives. For example, tying the cost of college to graduate's earnings.

Right now, a university gets money merely for pursuing higher levels of enrollment. There is no financial incentive for the university to involve students in student organizations, in leadership roles in their community, in politics or in networking. There is a tenuous link between those activities and pursuing alumni programs, but from what I've seen, alumni programs are a post-hoc solution to funding. A university sees an alumnus has done very well, and seeks to share in their wealth.

Let's simplify: the cost of a college education is 3-5% of aggregate gross income for the rest of your life. People who go on to be tremendously successful will benefit their university, and the university will have an incentive to churn out more tremendously successful people. This tax could be enforced by the IRS, automatically deducted in most cases, and manually reported elsewhere.

Now no one has to worry about the stress of student loans, and universities have every incentive to provide the highest quality education possible to maximize the value of their students. No more flooding the rosters of the university with under- and unqualified adjuncts in order to support higher enrollment numbers at lower costs to pad the pockets of administration. No more cutting student involvement to pad the athletics program.
Non-ECC RAM? Okay for testing stuff but wouldn't put it in production.
VPS is way easier to upgrade to a higher tier if you just end more CPU or memory.
Just got our delivery now, fantastic service. I hope the unit-economics work out, because I'd certainly use this, yc or not.
IIRC Google gave up on non-ECC RAM a long time ago, so this is only partially true (ECC RAM constrains motherboard chipset and CPU family (e.g. Core i7 and suchlike don't support it))
The demand is artificially inflated by the ready availability of loan money.

Many loans cannot legally be denied. This removes what otherwise would be a barrier to frivolous spending.
Bit of a side point, but the "should this be funded through donations?" and "should it be a non-profit?" questions are slightly different. It's entirely possible to run a nonprofit that funds itself via fees for its services, though it might not qualify as a public charity in that case. For example, many hospitals are nonprofits, and are funded primarily through charging patients & patients' insurance. The hospitals could also buy services from other nonprofits. The nonprofit structure just means they aren't intending to make a profit to return to shareholders, not that they never charge anyone for services.
Well, that's the problem I think the parent was getting at, but they did not quite get there. A barbershop or a bakery itself, in one city, isn't a startup. So even if they have success here, they've only validated that they are a business, not "in startup territory" (http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html) In other words, it validates an idea, but it validates the wrong idea.

For what it is worth, though, they do mention that their actual application idea will be different. So maybe they have a way to scale or do something with bread delivery that isn't already covered by the existing businesses.
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This already exists in Toronto: http://just-eat.ca/

From what I understand, the restaurant doesn't even need an Internet connection. The service can send them the orders by fax.
7 GBP != 1.99 EUR
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The naughtiness score
(I work for Microsoft, though not for Outlook.com)

Can we stop with the hyperboles and actually be realistic?

Quitting the use of Microsoft services won't really solve anything since, as has been made clear in other HN threads, the policies of other big players allow for the same (e.g. Gmail).

Arguing that "oh but Gmail hasn't actually proven they'll use this tactic" is absolutely absurd. They're saying they can, so nothing stops them from doing it tomorrow. If they really wouldn't ever do so then that clause would not be on any terms that users agree to. Ditto for all other major email providers.

Okay, so next we can say "aha! I'll just stand up my own email service!". Two reality checks...

--First: if you email anyone using a major email provider then you haven't really made much progress. Same even if they email you and you ignore them.

--Second: it seems completely unrealistic that this solution would scale to the entire world. NSA fiasco has proven to me that people value convenience more than privacy. Otherwise this "stand up your own email/cloud" trend would have started last summer. None of my friends (even tech friends) have switched away from gmail or whatever major provider they use.

This situation obviously sucks, but I don't see many reasonable responses to this. We're smart people here. Let's act like it.
Am I wrong in that kimsufi's not available to people in the US?
Tor is also now directly connecting Turkish users, so you might see searches for "tor" or "tor project"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7451932
> It is a pain

...in French speaking regions.
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We switched over to git from svn recently at work and the amount of confusion and accidents is crazy. I've been using git (mostly solo to two coworkers) for years, but there are still issues I run into where I'm stumped. I look things up all the time.

You kind of need git training in cases like this. Unfortunately, we didn't have any.
Could you post a screenshot? On a mobile device, I don't even see a hint of anything like that.
In the US, few students get much free money these days. Instead they get loans which charge hefty origination fees - like 5 points, and which are almost impossible to discharge via bankruptcy...despite the fact that many of them are backed by insurance and those which are not insured typically compound interest during the time the student is in school (typically on the full principle).

The bloat has not been fueled by anything but massive consumer debt foisted on those least experienced with personal finance and with the least work experience and who these days are lucky to find an entry level professional position.
LXJS is one of the founding partners of ti.to (you can check the our logo here: https://ti.to/home) If you go to LXJS.org webpage, you will see that the ti.to link to the ticket sell is the same :)

Never the less, your question is very pertinent! thank you!
What ports are open?
Crytanalysis.is
looks great!Any php "optout" solution is valuable.Or sometimes you just want to run a quick CMS for a client;)

It's not clear though which PHP version it does support.
Yeah - the rain doesn't get enough credit. Contrast that with New Orleans where they literally hose Bourbon Street down every morning and it still feels gross. Crediting the rain starts to get close to blurring the lines between dirty and lived in - they're not necessarily the same.
Over time, I realized I don't really want to manage services needed to run my apps on a VPS, like Apache, nginx or MySQL configuration and upgrades.

Is there anything like WebFaction, but cheaper, that can handle sysadmining for me?