skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From an evolutionary standpoint periods of famine were certainly a selective pressure for our ancestors. It could make sense that prolonged periods of no-food are not only something our bodies have adapted to survive, but have adapted to thrive upon as part of their natural cycle.
One doesn't have to be libertarian to disagree with him !
It no longer seems rational to believe that any electronic
or digital means of communication is private.
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They're not just threatening servers which selling items, but ones which provide any kind of in-game benefit in exchange for money. From what I can tell essentially all public and semi-public Minecraft servers rely on this in order to afford their running costs. The only viable kind of server with Mojang's new rules is small ones run by individuals for their friends - exactly the market Minecraft Realms is aimed at.
What I'm more amused by is the level of scepticism over an self contained eco-system. In order for any eco-system, either contained or not contained, there has to be much greater tolerances to extreme conditions that we generally acknowledge. In truth, outside of absolute extremes where organic life is simply impossible because or either denaturing or absolute destruction of organic material, life will exist. It's also entirely possible that this bottle now contains bacteria, fungi, or other organisms that are much more efficient at breaking down the organic material left by the dying plant mater.
They did:

http://www.vodafone.com/content/sustainabilityreport/2014/in...
Is wired bandwidth that expensive in Singapore?
If you write code first, how are the tests driving your application? It sounds like, by your description, that "test-last" is code driven development; often making the tests fit the code, rather than the other way around.
Works very well for me. Shows me my flights & flights of relatives and status of their flights. Shows me meeting reminders and traffic to there. Also, tracks packages that come through on email along with hotel bookings.

On nexus 5 and primary phone for all emails.
Well, it was 45 columns wide in the first place. But the 80 columns of the IBM revision is what you can squeeze into a letter size typewritten line at 10cpi, and that in turn is because, less margins, you get the ~65 characters long considered ideal for printed text.
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Yep. It came across as cringe-worthy arrogance. The comment here stating that we all do things for the envy of our peers seems to be coming from a worldview not centered on compassion, which is sad.

EDIT: I re-read the comment I mentioned, and I've changed my mind. The commenter said that our instinctual response is as such, which is probably true for most of us.
I talk as someone who's been there and done it. Perhaps I'm just picky with who I work for, but typically I do the initial job and then move to paypal, I've not had anyone not pay me yet for my work.
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Dash ramped up my programming game like nothing else. Pair it with the Dash Alfred workflow and you'll be flying. Highly recommended.
Hi,

We work with Pipedrive, and it's powerful, has a good API, some easy integrations.

You can make phone calls from your softphone (click2call): http://blog.pipedrive.com/2013/07/make-calls-from-pipedrive/

You can register activities:
https://developers.pipedrive.com/v1 (We add recordings to the sale)

For helpdesk we use with Zendesk, I can't help you.
And email we use Exchange and I'm not using templates or CRM a lot. I live in Jira & Zendesk

Regards.
Check this out: https://github.com/go-qml/qml

It's written by the same guy who made the awesome MongoDB driver for Go, so I have high hopes!
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Aside from the non-sense of miracles etc., it has been a tradition in yogis in India to fast regularly. Maybe the positive effects were observed/known even in those older times.
Closing the tab closes the tab for me. Do I win now?
Great tip! Doing this.
I had the same reaction. The entire article was pretty interesting but ending sort of took the wind out of it and made you seem really superficial, as if your goal was to now brag to all your friends. Oh well, who cares what we think, you're a millionaire!
I believe that is the link to the original study:

http://www.cell.com/cell-stem-cell/pdf/S1934-5909(14)00151-9...
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>IPv6 can be adopted without a performance penalty

Sadly, in my case, this is untrue. If I enable v6 on my Comcast home connection, I see routes with consistently higher latency--around 50ms more for paths within the U.S. such that even a 200 mile destination (HSV => ATL) is ~70ms away.
I think recruiters get paid by the number of positions they can fill, even if they get a "bad performance" for having few candidates.

I think this recruiter just was doing follow up after few months and trying to re-connect. Last year happened to me the same with a Pebble recruiter who later went to Greylock.
Normally I would agree, but there's a novel mouse-tracking approach here that could be used for less annoying "user-bail" effects and behavior monitoring (a/b tests and what-not).

Some other interesting metrics to collect would be if the tab stays open, but the user never mouses over it (forgets about it), and if they close the tab using command-W (which you probably wouldn't be able to trap I'm assuming).
Well, maybe that was the point. It IS absurd that after all this work, one of the fun parts was sharing the news on Facebook.
In that case, git reset
I found it more honest than funny, but definitely not weird.

A question i have now : now that you've made a company "for the cash and glory", are you going to make a company that truely interests you ?

I'm not saying you can't find interesting things in online advertising company, as i've been in one myself. But every day i spent in that company, i kept asking myself "is this really what i want to do with my skills ? Help selling credit purchase to poor people searching for "debt" on google ?"
Requires face recognition via webcam to avoid seeing peoples body parts. Instead of constantly clicking on a "Next" button to find a person you want a video chat with, you can go directly to who you want to chat with.
I agree. Who hasn't wanted to win big to show someone that you were as great as you thought you were? To finally have a big success to brag about. To finally be someone.
Dark Pattern
http://larryborsato.com/blog/2013/08/dark-patterns-intention...
As someone with an esophageal autoimmune response I'd be very curious to know this as well.
Ok just incase it's not working for anyone this is what it is doing. If you're on the page and move the mouse out of the window (window onMouseOut) it will trigger a traditional modal.

It took a while for it to work, and I believe it only works once, but when it did, it really worked. My pedantic nature forcer my cursor / attention back on the page and I read the entire modal right when I wanted to leave the page.

If you're evil and making evil pages this is perfect, bravo.
Your honestly is appreciated, nonetheless.
It's not specific to OS X by the way.
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> So the point of building a business and selling it is so you can post about it on Facebook?

I think the point is getting millions of dollars.
I think the downvotes are due to the tone. Don't necessarily agree with them, but that might be the root cause.
That'd be pure evil with this technique, as most people close those with the mouse. An alert would pop up as you go to close the tab, you'd click OK, and trigger the whole thing all over again as you go to close the tab.
Citation needed?

In the US there have been cases where EULAs have been upheld, not sure about outside. There is a lot of misinformation on the internet about whether they're valid, whether you have to explicitly accept them and so on. I think in a lot of cases it depends on how much money the prosecutors have - in most cases it's more than you.

I believe they're invalid if the terms are confusing to the lay-user, i.e. if there is so much legalese that nobody actually understands what they're signing up for. Or if it makes ridiculous claims like "Buy buying the product you forfeit your soul".

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/25/microsoft_eula/

El Reg reckons it's not worth testing it, for the lawyer-money problem. There haven't been enough lawsuits outside the US to really say one way or the other.
It runs the risk of sounding conceited rather than funny. It almost came across to me that way, but not quite (I could see the attempt at humour). You're not coming across that way here, just so you know.
That is pretty funny. But not $1 of funny.
Oh come now, that's just an extra safety net.

Don't take IDEA local history as a replacement to version control, rather a supplement.
Ditto the "ctrl-w worked for me in FF with a variety of extensions" comment.

Thank goodness.
In no way is the US benevolent.

It acts in it's own best interests as any other country does or has done. Sometimes those interests align and countries work together, as it is now in most of the western world.

It's also in US interests to maintain military bases in Europe and the Middle East and Asia since two of the worst wars the world has ever seen utterly annihilated those regions and led to the countries there being in no fit state to do it themselves.

It also gives them footholds all over the world for the purposes of expanding territory. Other countries have done this, the US does this, other countries will do it in the future.

The US is far from the worst country out there but let's not start throwing around the word 'benevolent' because it's profoundly untrue.

Being the best of a bad bunch does not make you somehow good.
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Apple can retain the core design decisions (like the Linux kernel) but the code should be open to pull requests and design improvements.

To use Go as an example, the entire Windows port was done outside of the core team, and is now a supported platform. The same goes for ARM, PPC64 etc. Also, huge performance improvements in core features such as channels were implemented by non Google employees.

If Apple open Swift, it can find hold in all sorts of niches they didn't expect it to, and can benefit from an entire community of developers who can fix the language's problems rather than be frustrated by them.
The server binary can be downloaded, for free, here (https://minecraft.net/download).

However, as far as I'm aware, the actual code is not available. If and when it is available, it won't be under a free license.
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Hold you hostage? How?
I once got to meet a bunch of M&A/corp dev people from Google/FB and other companies together and asked them "What would you do if you were a founder and wanted to streamline an acquisition?". Across the board, the top response was "Have all your paperwork in order from day 1 - employment agreements, IP assignments, every single thing you can think of"
What is it that makes the EULAs void?
Perhaps you should mention the fact that it's not just a third party website, but it's the official forums of said game.

Normally I wouldn't reply, but you have a history of trying to skew the truth in your favor.
Don't let being far away from Silicon Valley stop you! Make it a strength rather than a weakness.
Definitely doesn't work in Chrome. I just closed the tab as expected.
Tab closed quite easily in Chrome. Suggest the author try a slightly modified challenge.
>> People on HN have a very bad habit of assuming that any time something appears on HN, it's because the authors wanted to put on a show for HN. No.

> Oh please, what kind of excuse is that?

Just demonstrated tptacek's point. The author could be at a point where he wants others to see, but isn't quite ready for places like HN yet. In that case, it's not an excuse. Attitudes like this encourage pathological perfectionism.
I've worked with people who build software like this. They are shameless assholes nothing more. They are no better than the engineers designing guns and bombs and and the chemists finding new creative waya of killing us.
> a statement like "(task3(task2(task1()))" wouldn't actually be asynchronous

Correct, because you're passing the result of task1() into task2(), and the result of that to task3(), afaik.
Yes, please. I don't use it often, but when I do "hg rollback" makes my life simple.
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I learned Hg before Git. Hg took about a day to master, but I still feel I haven't mastered git after using it for years. The following article will give you an idea of the differences between hg and git in terms of ui.

http://stevelosh.com/blog/2010/01/the-real-difference-betwee...
I've been thinking about quitting Facebook but I haven't convinced myself of it yet. Over the last year I've been trying to eat better, trying to be more productive with my time....is it time to quit?
Fasting has always been a tradition in many religious groups. It would interesting to study groups that fasted regularly to see what affect it had on longevity.
I suspect most of us here use Ctrl+W to close tabs :)
Out of curiosity, how hard is it to build something that could parse HTML markup and some CSS stylings and convert that into native views?

Assume that the HTML markup and CSS is all done as per your documentation, so that the parser works as expected every time.
Doesn't work in MobileSafari, iOS 7.
I do this for a living, bringing companies up to speed when they're lacking in DD. You can definitely tell when this is not the leadership's first acquisition. They're well versed in what records to maintain and archive. It doesn't mean they always have them packaged and ready to go, but at least they've kept them somewhere logical.

Tip for startups - buy a filing cabinet and a bunch of folders. Come up with some system - any system - it doesn't really matter. The worst one is better than none at all. Put everything in there and don't worry about cleaning it out. I'm talking about all your insurance crap, leases, property records, blah blah...things that are not "core business"

If you want to go paperless, get a Fujitsu ScanSnap for $400 and scan everything to Evernote - or a Directory Tree - or some other DMS. You'll make life EASY EASY when compared to the alternative of having someone like me in your office for 3 weeks keeping you from running your company while I piece back together everything you've shredded.

EDIT: oh yeah - don't try and "hide" shit. M&A guys are experts at sniffing out things you're not telling us, intentional or simply forgotten. I've got forensic accountants who are incredible at their job sifting through everything under the sun finding this stuff. Most of the time, you just forgot, and thats fine. Everyone does. If you're trying to hide a skeleton, we're gonna find it. Talk to the M&A guy who's on your side (the sellers side) and be honest. We've got a better chance of presenting the information honestly that won't alter the deal.
Thanks for the info and links.
One problem is that, especially since 9/11, it isn't a pax Americana. We started the wars. And the problem with that is that the US pissed away $TRILLIONS on misguided and outright aggressive wars that drained resources just as the US was further weakened by the derivatives crash.

Strength comes from the economy. The ability to defend against tyranny is a product of a strong economy. But American military and banking policy has been ruinously bad for US economic power, and for the long-lead-time things like education that would rebuild the economy's ability to grow at a strong rate.
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Never mind... I'm in now.
If I understand what you're suggesting, it does fall back to a web search if it doesn't find what you're looking for which can be really helpful.
Consider however that if we all bought off the app store, then while apple may take 30% of our payments, the author may benefit far more from the increased exposure due to the inherent popularity contest that is the app store.
Python itself is 23 years old and older than OCaml. Java, C, C++ are also older than OCaml and all 4 are highly used today.

I don't think language age has any bearing on quality or usefulness.
I sold my company ~ 6 months ago, and was grateful I had put some much effort into deliberate document / book keeping for preciously that reason. There is no detail too small in the DD process, and the only way to manage it is good record keeping.

All it takes is a document scanner and well curated Dropbox folder(s).
My friends work there. The games industry is tiny. After 10 years I probably know at least one person in every company in the UK simply because of how often people change companies - including going to a different country they don't even speak the language of. So OK, kudos to CD Projekt for hiring from an international talent pool (and treating them well, helping with the move and all that which is rare in gamedev companies who seldom have rich compensation packages beyond the salary) but they are not some hippie commune and will scale the workforce to whatever they need at the moment.
Bleurgh, interstitials. Yes Slate, I came to read the article, no I'm not staying around now ...
> What you realize, though, is that partnerships are rarely a real thing.

This is tangential to the core of the article but I can't stress enough how true this is. In the two companies I've co-founded, we've been approached for partnerships by huge companies (Oracle and Adobe) and tiny, 1-person, pre-revenue shops. In almost every instance, it's been a net loss in time and money. The tiny shops just want help making inroads into your industry and customer base. The huge companies just want to show they have "partners" to their direct reports or sales leads. They'll ask you to build out some integrations (on your dime) and scrap the entire project 6 months later (true story). To them, it's a rounding error but to a startup, the financial and opportunity costs can really hurt. There's a reason Gail Goodman calls partnerships a "mirage" [0].

It's great that this call turned into an acquisition for Perfect Audience. I would advise everyone to take Brad's advice: take the call and maybe a meeting–but just one. Unless the meeting goes well and the strategic fit is too obvious to ignore, just say "no" to partnerships.

[0] VIDEO: http://pawel.ch/post/71104054756/the-long-slow-saas-ramp-of-...
[0] TRANSCRIPT: http://businessofsoftware.org/2012/10/gail-goodman-the-long-...
This is a success story no doubt; a $25 million exit in under 3 years and with just ~$1 million in funding is obviously a better outcome than what the vast majority of startups will ever realize. But it also highlights just how hard it is to realize a meaningful windfall as a startup employee.

Even if you assumed that the 12 non-founder employees equally split 50% of the company (which is almost certainly high), likely none would net $1 million after exercising their options and paying taxes. What's worse: the vast majority of this deal was paid for in stock. The Marin Software stock chart over the past two years is not very inspiring, which is especially interesting given how good the market has been to so many other tech/software companies. In an all or mostly stock deal involving a public company, you are ideally acquired by a company with a rich valuation. That's not the case here.

The $2.7 million in equity retention grants, if split equally amongst 12 employees, adds $225,000 for each, but that too is stock and the employees have to stick around and work for it. I don't know much about the acquirer, but working for stock that has for some reason languished during one of the most impressive bull markets in history isn't a very compelling proposition.

This all seems lost on the founder of the company. I can't help but wonder if it's lost on the employees too.
I've found this too, although when I remember, Cmd+H from Sublime Text is really useful.
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"TDD" is not "lots of little tests running all the time". You can (and I try to) have the latter without doing the former.
I haven't heard this term before, but maybe that's just me:

"... it became clear that ad retargeting—in which you show ads to people who recently visited your website—was where MARKETEERING dollars were going" (emphasis mine).

That's an interesting turn of phrase: it evokes Disney's Imagineers, who can be loosely said to be engineers with a heavily creative bent, and applies it to the act of marketing, thereby implying a more heavily creative and technically adept form of "marketer". I wonder if "X-eer" is an inchoate language trend?
It fails here with Firefox 31.0a2 (Aurora) on Ubuntu.
Will Ackerly of Virtru here. I appreciate the sentiment, as my comfort level is much higher when working with open software.

We're being as aggressive as we can be about getting code up to snuff for open release, and in the mean time if you are interested in checking out our source, please ping me at will@virtru.com. We're working with a few folks in the community and looking for others to help get these out there as soon as possible, particularly or latest release, our android client, which is built on K-9 and we think belongs back in the open community it was built upon.

In the mean time we are wrapping up work on an initial release of our TDF.js code, on the heels of an audit from iSec partners of our broader browser extension code. We believe that when it is released it really ought to come with good docs and Getting Started tutorials. We are supporting a very large number of platforms with a small team and we're trying hard to prioritize right.

-Will
"if they don't want a legion of pissed off Netflix customers who feel trapped by their ISP"

This is supremely dangerous to Verizon.

Taking the US political area I know best, gun owning households are a majority in the US, but of course those who vote, vote first and foremost on this issue, let alone be politically active are the usual successively smaller fractions of that huge number.

And starting in the mid-80s we've been able to move mountains (details on request). The last thing the big incumbent landline last mile providers want is a large percentage of the population getting pissed off and doing the above, voting when they might not otherwise bother, especially in state and local elections, voting on this issue, and becoming politically active on it.

I think the incumbents' behavior is so outrageous that this is eventually inevitable, Netflix's PR attack, in part enabled by their being so big, has the potential to substantially move that day of reckoning forward, and is therefore probably the biggest thing to happen in the net neutrality fight since AT&T's Edward Whitacre opened his foolish mouth and really got the issue started 8 years ago.
No, founders hold the majority of the stock because the standard unequal terms of silicon valley favor founders over employees (and investors over everyone). Founders got the ball rolling, but it is the employees that took the company from rough product to something acceptable for M&A. Employees can and should be getting a fair shake, but only if we take steps to change the norm together.