skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The r.http command was controversial, even internally. I had to call in a lot of favors to convince people to get it in, but here is why I was convinced it's a good idea:

- It fits! It just seems to work magically well with the rest of
ReQL on so many levels! JSON fits, streams fit, lazy evaluation
fits, even batch prefetching fits! Everything works so
wonderfully and provides such a great interactive experience,
it almost would be silly not to add!
- It makes a use case that's really important to me
personally (adhoc analytics) an order of magnitude easier. Over
the past few months I ran into a few other people that also do
a lot of interactive adhoc data analysis with Rethink, which
redoubled my resolve to add r.http.
- It makes example datasets *much* more elegant. Reading
RethinkDB docs? Just call this command to get the dataset in so
you can play around with a command. (We haven't updated the
examples yet, but we will). That makes the first experience
with the product better, and makes the learning experience much
more pleasant.

So I hear what you're saying, but I respectfully disagree. If you think of it as a signal, think of it as a signal of deep passion for the product and our users! Ornamentation for the sake of ornamentation isn't what we do.

(On an unrelated note, I really love your use of 'frippery' -- I'm a bit of a word nerd, and this is a really neat word!)
It looks like they don't account for the rolling shutter on the camera.
One thing that could improve performance: only let CEOs sell their stock gradually over a 5 year period after the exercise their options.

Too much risk for the CEO? He's the one with the most influence over future performance. If he's putting the company on a good long term footing and chooses a good successor, he'll do fine.

If we incent CEOs to think long term, its more likely they will. CEOs that are founders or that have huge investments in their company's stock already tend to think long term.
The news cycle for this topic is quarterly since the government releases statistics on that time cycle. That's why you see the topic written about fairly frequently.

I talk to journalists all the time. I try to be helpful in some times they thank me by putting a quote in the article. Sometimes not.
My dad is a builder, and I've worked for him as a labourer many many times. It really gives you a better perspective on how dangerous all this is...

Anyway, circular saws: dad was cutting some pretty nice wood for a fence. Circular saw hit something in the wood, bounced up, then straight down onto his left hand thumb, severing it entirely.

He then drove to hospital. They reattached it, he was lucky enough to have Australia's best nerve surgeon on call at that hospital that day, and now he's got near 100% movement in it. Very very lucky.

Angler grinders blowing, now that's something that will put the fear of god into you...
>Fascism and Socialism are on the same side of the statism fence.

Quite the contrary. Hitler was more or less sponsored by the big businesses of his era, and he cattered greatly to their interests. The big exception was that there was also lots of arms industry spending by the state. Under the Nazis Germany underwent a huge privitization effort.

From Wikipedia:

Big business developed an increasingly close partnership with the Nazi government as it became increasingly organized. Business leaders supported the government's political and military goals, and in exchange, the government pursued economic policies that maximized the profits of its business allies. Nazi Germany transferred public ownership and public services into the private sector, while other Western capitalist countries strove for increased state ownership of industry.
> Have they done that before?

As you note, not really, but YouTube is an excellent place to start. YouTube ads suck on pretty much every dimension compared to search/Gmail ads: They're irrelevant, repetitive, interrupt what you're doing, burn bandwidth, etc. And, so far as I can tell, there's no obvious way to make them less sucky for users without destroying the value proposition for advertisers.

> I wish they would do this for all of youtube, not just music.

Given how often otherwise non-commercial videos end up monetized because of the music they contain, getting rid of music ads may affect more of YouTube than you might expect.
What countries's citizenships would you suppose is coveted by more people worldwide than the US?
As a beginner, I find it very comfortable to hit a few click to build an app or fast prototype using xml/layout editor and I don't see that happening in Emacs, unless I am wrong.

I have recently started using Android Studio and it so quick to give you code suggestion aka code completion. It has literally reduced the amount of time I have to spend writing code by many folds. Is that possible in Emacs?

Over the past few months, I have developed an opinion that Emacs is more suited for old school guys who hacked early computers. As someone who started programming with IDEs on modern computer, one isn't really aware of lackings of IDEs, if any.
Nope it's not a viral loop it's a bucket of spam. Rather warm spam, one that's been sitting in the sun far to long. But spam none the less.

Oh, and as a person no longer on LinkedIn I know this because I had to permanently place linkedin addresses in my spam filter so all my "friends" would stop sleep inviting me to linkedin. Including the ones that didn't even realize they had given linkedin my address. Oh, and a few well meaning individuals even asked linkedin to stop spamming me and others on their behalf and even though they said they would....linkedin failed to actually comply with their "clients" wishes.

And lets not get started on the crock trying to recruit on it has become. As an employer, all I wanted to do was post a position, that was all. Sigh, one can look back wistfully on the good ol' days when you could post your add in a few regional or provincial papers and expect a decent response.
Go to your 'profile' (click your username in the upper right corner when logged in) and set 'showdead' to 'yes'.
The inconvenience of carrying $40 for cab fare is not worth anywhere near 2.9% of my income, yet if all of a cabbie's customers pay by credit, that's a minimum of 2.9% of his income excluding chargeback fraud.
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You missed his point. Calling people "meat heads" is as judgemental using "geek" as a pejorative. We're supposed to be better than that.
> My goal was to appeal to people who aren't already doing something active.

By putting other people down? Classy.
Those are for headers. Hence the "h". Not for paragraphs or sentences.
For reference, this is what I fear: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/10/world/europe/10britain.htm...

<quote>

>In its four most deprived neighborhoods, some 30 percent of the residents of working age are considered “economically inactive,” neither holding jobs nor looking for them.

> "The housing projects in Wythenshawe represent an extreme pocket of social deprivation and alienation. But the problems here — a breakdown in families, an absence of respect for authority, the prevalence of drugs, drunkenness, truancy, vandalism and petty criminality — are common across Britain."

> Bringing home her groceries recently, Jane Leach, a 46-year-old caregiver for the elderly, described a typical weekend evening on the small grassy area that serves as a park of sorts between two rows of houses on her street. The youths start coming after 6, she said, dozens of them, boys and girls, mostly in their teens. They get drunk, take drugs, harass the residents, steal cars, urinate and defecate in the gardens, smash beer bottles on doorsteps, fight, pass out.

> When she tries to intervene, Ms. Leach said, the youths yell abuse at her. When she tells them to get off her car, they tell her there is nowhere else to sit. Recently, youths slashed every tire on 12 cars up and down the street, she said. When her partner was smashed in the face by a 14-year-old, Ms. Leach said, the police took 45 minutes to respond.

</quote>

The article blames the stealing to some extent on poverty. But these people are not impoverished in the classical sense of the world. They have food, healthcare, and decent housing. I'm sure they have access to libraries where they could have a near infinite supply of books. Maybe they cannot afford vacations or fancy entertainment systems, but under any sort of basic income for not working scheme, people would face such limits in income.

And also, even if you could turn these people into less violent and vulgar idlers, as a first order moral principle, I do not want a world that looks like idiocracy or the ship in Wall-E.
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canada?
If you haven't read Elaine Wherry's post "The Recruiter Honeypot," you haven't read the best one about recruiters. Check it out here: http://www.ewherry.com/2012/06/the-recruiter-honeypot/

A lot has been written about recruiter incentives in these comments, but the market is still clearing even with extremely high fees. The reason bad recruiters can still get paid really well is because there's zero transparency and therefore almost no accountability. I think most of the problems with recruiters could be solved just by addressing this issue.

When you're looking for a good restaurant you can go on Yelp to find one, and you can tell from the reviews what to expect. The same goes if you have a bad restaurant experience -- you can write a review on Yelp and warn others about the crappy food / service / etc. Nothing really exists like this in the recruiting space, despite people really loving to write about how much recruiters suck. And a lot of them do, but what real accountability is there? If a recruiter gets in touch about a job, how do I know he's not super shady? If I'm an employer and need to hire rapidly, how can I find good recruiters other than word of mouth?
There should be a Yelp for recruiters. If you're slimy, the world should know about it, and you should have a hard time finding new business and new candidates. If you're a great recruiter who's adding real value, that should be obvious, too, so that others will want to work with you.

Some friends and I have been working on making this a reality. Check it out. Leave a review of your worst recruiting experience (worst one we'll feature on the main page). Or your best one. Or both. And if you're interested in helping us with this project, get in touch.
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To split hairs, it is both a political wealth-distribution issue and an Amazon-type distribution issue. The warlord's ability to use their political power to hoard food wealth is certainly no less political than Stalin's ability to starve the Kulaks or absentee British landlords ability to import potatoes.
The market determines the future directions of products, services, and tools. While HN-types deliver them, by-the-numbers, they usually fail.
Great, another place jockeying to collect my data. Using fun social rewards to force people to submit more and more videos to their silo, but no, it's for you! Until we have enough of your data to make money off selling it to others and placing more and more restrictions on our service. Innovation?
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Googling for "banana cultivation acidity" gets me a wikihow article saying "The ideal soil acidity for bananas is between pH 5.5 and 7".
And still no tengwar :(
They have a pretty good audio fingerprinting service and database that lets them identify the music and video from tons of copyrighted works that have agreed to be licenced with them (and/or have stronger indicated that they will sue youtube if they don't take down their works).
You get to make that case to the project lead. :)
The F16 cost about 1/2 what an F15 cost. In the end the F16 allowed the F15 to be more focused which was a huge net win.

The crazy thing is the close air support and bomber roles are much better suited for drone aircraft so at least one of it's missions is pure BS from the start.
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Two separate issues there :)
The paperwork burden caused by poorly known and viciously complex tax rules is probably the first reason people give me for cancelling citizenship. Especially since the US government seems hellbent on imposing astonishingly large penalties for paperwork failures.

The risk is too large for middle class people.

The second tax reason people give is the estate tax.
Right now we tax workers in NYC to subsidize people on in Alabama. (NYC gets < $0.60 for every $1 of federal taxes collected; Alabama gets > $2).
The US also rigged the Norwegian selection of the F-35. It was was pretty much pre-decided that Norway had to go for the F35 for political reasons, even though all the committees preferred the Swedish JAS Gripen. The US gave them a great excuse by denying the export by Raytheon of an important upgrade. All this was revealed by Wikileaks. http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/the-dewline/2010/12/wikile...

The US doesn't want it's allies to get the best equipment for their usage - they want their allies to send them money. With allies like that, who needs enemies?
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Here's something I've been wondering, totally hypothetical but could be real for someone else:

Puerto Rico has this new tax law that basically limits taxes to like 4% or less, if you are a resident of PR. Let's say Bob is an American who expects to have a big exit in 2015 (or he has lots of GOOG stock and wants to sell it). Normally Bob would pay US capital gains taxes (15-20%, maybe 23.8%), plus California taxes (assuming he lives in CA). Instead, Bob moves to Puerto Rico, establishes residency. Then he sells his shares for US dollars, and pays Puerto Rico taxes. Then Bob moves back to mainland US, having saved lots of money.

Is there a flaw in the above situation?
We don't currently have a problem with enemies jamming comms between AWACs and the F-15s or F-22s they direct. The RQ-170 was using a satellite uplink which is a lot easier to mess with than an airplane closer by. Using jamming against combat aircraft is also problematic because jamming platforms are impossible to hide and very vulnerable.
switzerland?
Higher education in the US is also plenty cheap if you look at state schools and community colleges. I took the path of going to a state school and escaped with a very small amount of debt.

But that isn't popular to talk about. Instead, we blindly assume every school is $40K+ a year. (And indeed, some people are brazen enough to pay such costs.)
I had the same question and found the following after a short search:

http://aircraft.wikia.com/wiki/Counter_Stealth_Radar
The number of Drupal core contributors has shot up from the hundreds to the thousands over the past couple of years
I think it really is size, time established, etc.

This sounds impure, but actually as I think about it it's quite scientific: does it lead to mass suicide? Can respectable people hold such beliefs while continuing the behaviors that made them respectable? Is the cult/religion "fit" in the evolutionary sense? By their fruits shall ye know them, it seems.
Since a lot of us are thinking it:
How do you justify you career as a morally acceptable calling?
Why does WSJ (and NYT) add extra words to make headlines more awkward?

Is WSJ really trying to argue that expats are dodging tax rules, not taxes?
I use mod_security for personal sites and Cisco NetScaler as a WAF, load-balancer and SSL offloader at work. If I was given the choice, I would use HAProxy and mod_security as I'm not too impressed with NetScaler.
SSGs are fundamentally flawed. The web is moving fast away from being a static page-centric medium to a dynamic content-centric one.
I don't think we could necessarily say "hey everyone, do whatever you want" and get more productivity out of most people, but I do think a lot of people would be happier, even if less productive.

If we can enslave atoms/the sun/computers/etc., and use the surplus from that to let some people be less productive than they otherwise would be if forced, but at the same time let other people be massively more productive than if forced to cover basic subsistence, we might be better off.

(I'd sure prefer if "the next Einstein" got to work in a cushy academic/office job while doing his thinking on the side, than if he were working 20h/day in a coal mine to support himself, leaving no time for anything else.)

So I'd use "better" in the sense of "people would individually be happier", and also that the absolute returns might be higher overall -- mainly because a billion people receiving a small subsidy on net productivity which trends toward zero actual cost are insignificant cost compared to be benefit of some thousands or hundreds of thousands being massively productive rather than a tiny bit net productive.
Ferrari crashes in Seattle also fuel anti "rich scofflaw" sentiment...

http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2023636226_ferraridri...
> I'm trying to think of a giant leap that came out of nowhere, but I can't.

This isn't exactly a Manhattan Project or golden-age Bell Labs kind of deal. Some iterations are a bit more ambitious than others.

Unlike evolution, engineers can be goal directed. We can do better than Yet Another Finch that is Slightly More Yellow.
In my experience, these days far less people use Hungarian or Leszynski (more commonly applied to db column names, though the form seen here isn't following Leszynski) naming conventions (or variants thereof) than don't.

However, they are still common enough that I'm not too surprised when I see them, particularly in in-house code as opposed to open source software. It tends to be the sort of thing encoded in the 'process' of a company at some point that is difficult to extricate out later on due to legacy code, overall friction to change, etc.
Glad I could help! That kind of option would be nice. Someone in this thread mentions that short pitches are easier to consume.

Since there are many startup posts everyday, it's hard to go through all of them in detail, so I have to pick out the best one from all to discover at the end of the day.

Maybe there's a way to build up on this concept? Looking forward to seeing what comes out, good luck!
I'm in the process of figuring out a pricing model for a SaaS service right now and I watched this video in full. There's lots of interesting stuff in this, but in the end I am left no better off. For someone who is actually building a pricing structure now, it has nearly no actual value.

I still do not know how to price my service, do I price per seat, per year based on a random number, per $FROBIT used,
or a one time sale?

I know I should price based on value, and my price should be less than the perceived value to my user. But I learnt that in my 10th grade business class.

However, that said it was a very well done presentation, and once someone has a working pricing structure then these tools will be useful improve business outcomes.
Do you cure cancer or save orphans for a living? If not, how do you justify yours?
It's just WSJ rah rah blind patriotism and running interference for moneyed interests.

Obviously USA has a lot more to offer a plantation worker in Honduras than a wealthy retiree who might need some medical care.
US citizens overseas are required to declare all income (and capital gains) to the IRS regardless of source. They still have to file returns in the US. Bob will owe tax as a result, but he can probably write off the 4% he payed in PR against his US taxes. He's not a resident of California, so he likely avoids the state tax.

(Note: I don't know specifically about Puerto Rico, but generally the above is the case for US citizens in foreign countries.)
Pools don't come with fences.

In your own analogy, your sister would be the one who bought the dangerous device and left her kid unsupervised with it.
- use Safari: everything you type in the address field gets sent to a US company.
Aka less than 1% of 1% of land is enough for solar at today's energy use levels using 20% efficient panels. More reolistically wind and hydro are unlikely to be completly replaced by solar any time soon.

PS: Most homes can meet there total energy needs and have room left on there roof which says something about energy density.
Came here to pretty much say exactly what you did. LinkedIn is a spam echo chamber, and I recently deleted my account because it's such an insane cesspool of filth. I can't count how many times I got endorsed by people I hardly knew for things they've never even heard of before. Not to mention recruiters mailing me with stupid shit like "I noticed you programmed an async library for lisp, you should come program Java for us!!" Like, wow! No thanks!

Let LinkedIn be a lesson in how NOT to grow a company. What used to be a somewhat decent social network has devolved into a cheap mockery of its former self.
Hum a few bars about what your SaaS does for whom and I will happily napkin out a pricing structure for you. If you have no clue, for B2B SaaS sold on a low-touch model with the assumption you're not shooting for the VC->IPO track, just copy paste $49/$99/$249 into the bog-standard Three Column SaaS Pricing Page and offer 1 month free with an annual pre-pay.
I don't think most religious people think of it as that kind of quid pro quo. Most people, regardless of conviction, want to do "good," whatever that means. Religion tells people what they already believe: that helping other people is a good thing, even when it's not comfortable, and there is some reason for you to do it -- some kind of meaning. They don't obey God out of fear of hell; they use heaven and hell to rationalize what they already feel is right. Regardless what the doctrine may say, people believe in God because they want to be good, not the other way around.

This instinct gets manipulated by certain religious institutions that emphasize political and scientific claims made either by church leaders or their religious text. They use it to justify other things that they already "know" without strong evidence. Ideas like racial purity, xenophobia and the like. And they often make the same mistake that you have, in believing that people who believe differently only do so for material reasons, and without the fear of eternal damnation, we'll immediately descend into a society of savages and psychopaths.
> Is WSJ really trying to argue that expats ate dodging tax rules, not taxes?

Actually, yes. Maybe you didn't read the story, but it specifically talks about how the major burden for middle class expats isn't necessarily taxes but the penalties for failing to file specific paperwork.

Anecdotally, this is certainly true for the expats I know (including myself). I didn't have to pay any US taxes, but the penalty for not filing excessive disclosure forms on all local bank accounts is very onerous.
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I've got to say there is also a much more effective market if I'm willing to offer connections. Existing recruiters offer fairly substantial referral fees in certain cases. Recruiters can get 25% of 1 years salary: it's not hard for them to offer 5% when they get stuck on positions If I can get $5K on a 100K job, your referral bonus better be really good to get me to spend the effort.
Small problem: the incentive compensation is mostly options, and the way that package is measured is based on the value of the options at that moment in time. Options with high valuations are effectively pay for past performance that is consequently now worth something.