skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps "rational" is not the right word to use here. People behave with much predictability and tend to behave consistently within the framework of their belief system. Within their own framework, they tend to behave rationally, even though it would appear irrational to one with an incompatible belief system.

Yes, emotional attachment to something will cause people to cling to it beyond its objective due, and that's why UX is so important. You're NOT going to persuade someone with information alone. You must make it accessible to them, which could involve all sorts of roundabout approaches, many of which may not even begin to offer any actual information until much later in the process (especially if you're trying to undo damage).

Ultimately my point is this:

- People do not react exactly the same as their neighbor. You can't make a one-size-fits-all solution and expect it to work.

- People tend act in a manner consistent with their belief system. There is a rationality to their thought process, even though emotions complicate things. But these complications are understood and have been studied extensively. The knowledge for how to deal with them exists.

- If you're going to reach someone, you must first understand what that belief system is, and figure out how to offer knowledge in a non-threatening way.

In fact, this thread makes for a good microcosm of the problem. Some people immediately understood what I was getting at. They upvoted, or gave positive response. Others either did not understand, or perhaps I touched a nerve (negative emotional response), causing them to downvote. One even responded with "It's good to know that, yet again the fault does not lie with the common man. It is always someone else's fault.", which is a pretty clear indication that my approach failed with him entirely. Pure information did not work, and in many ways my presentation of the information has been incomplete, as evidenced by yours and mine back-and-forth, culminating in "It's like you didn't read what I wrote." (a clear indication that I failed to communicate with you effectively).

In fact, my first entry into this thread was filled with attack words, which likely put most people into a defensive frame of mind (especially if they originally agreed with the article). I could definitely have done that better.

It's not easy to do, but I believe that tailoring the message is better than dismissal.
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This is gold! Finally all this information distilled into a clear & direct format. Thank you!

; )
It's a hack, and it's also unfair. S-corp company owners get to inhabit a very small part of the economy that, due to a loophole, gets a dial that turns some of their liquid compensation from "salary" to "investment income". That's baloney. I'm glad it's an audit flag.
I currently use Harvest for time tracking, creating invoices and sending it out. It would be nice to see a list of features and costs without signing up. It looks like time tracking, approval is free to use. Connecting to Quickbooks costs 10$/month. To create and send invoices you have to choose to receive payments through Tiempo, which will cost 3.9% of the invoice amount. Customers get an option to pay by credit card.

I can see this simplifies the process for a lot of people. Being able to send invoices without using the payment service is personally a deal breaker as it would be way higher than the 19$ I currently pay.
There's also the fact that California is regularly at the bottom of rankings of "business friendly" states. I'd rather locate my business in a state that wants me there.
I think a lot of people are unaware of how easily you can achieve blind deconvolution on many images blurred with most blur algorithms and even real-world blurring effects (including motion, out-of-focus, etc blurs).

The results won't be perfect, but they are usually close enough to see much of the detail that appeared to be lost.

I never use blur to obscure sensitive information; black that shit out (and then also make sure you aren't saving it as metadata or in a layer) or just replace it with fake data.
Thanks! I don't know about my relative's monitor, but the monitor attached to the T42 has a dedicated "Auto" button. I think I had waded through the separate menu choices without success, but I never tried that "Auto" button.

Pressing "Auto", the image futzed around for a few seconds and then apparently aligned properly. It didn't even mess up my brightness setting.

Sigh... I'm getting old.

I guess I'll add that for a long time, this monitor was dual boot, and I wasn't too interested at regaining the pixels in Ubuntu, only to lose them or their corresponding columns on the other side, under Windows. Nowadays, no longer a concern...
I actually enjoyed this article and it's definitely reassuring in a way to read about other people's struggles. I have to take minor issue with the "entrepreneurs don’t talk about their most difficult moments publicly" part because it seems like there's an abundance of articles lately from founders who write about their stress, depression, failing startup, etc. I feel like I see more of these articles than success stories. Even the success stories I've seen lately are more of the tone "we had to really go through some shit to get here."

I do respect that it's difficult to write about, though. In addition to just wanting to not feel like a failure, you don't generally want your employees and investors to feel like everything is about to go down the toilet. I'm glad to see more people writing about their real, honest experiences.
I thought RUDP was just a draft spec from 1999. https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-sigtran-reliable-udp-... Is there a more recent standard?
I get the impression that they appeal to lower-income people.

Personally, I stopped going there when they switched to coated fries. Note to restaurateurs: I don't care how good the burger is -- if you have bad fries, I'm not eating there.
Yes, maybe there are many services like this one.
But simplicity and non disclosure of personal data included Facebook Account, Twitter and etc.. are the main of this project.

Also this is totally focused on the News, rank, votes etc
You won't get this directly from Visa, but depending on who your bank is you could do this. I do this by scraping Simple's interface (https://simple.com).

When a deposit over X hits my account, I initiate a transfer to Betterment.
Somewhat off-topic, but on https://trello.com/enterprise, you say that you provide "24 x 7 x 365 incidence response" where I think you mean "24 x 7 x 365 incident response".
I somewhat agree, except possibly for the "should". I think that trying to think of an elegant solution (and then accepting that you can't, where appropriate) is an important learning process. Of course this depends on context; spending time on learning is sometimes inappropriate.
Sure you should get an accountant. But you should still reserve that much money.

Getting an accountant is your first major purchase as a new business owner.

And getting a good one is not all that easy. I lucked out, the one I ended up with (after trying two others) was a CFO of a large company that decided he had enough of the pressure and joined his wife's fledgling accounting company.

So instead of just having an accountant I ended up with a mentor to boot, all for the price of one.
My main problem is with the fact that these publications (not necessarily New Yorker) charge me as much (or even more) as the printed version for the digital version, even though the costs associated with the digital version are significantly lower: no printing, no mailing, no delivery, etc.

Case in point: NY Times. Home delivery to where I live (SF, CA) for a week: $8.45

Full digital access: $8.75 (or $5.00 for Tablet. Or $3.75 for smartphone. Really??)

Make the all-digital version reasonable considering the savings in printing and distribution, and I'll buy. But right now their attitude is: only the rich people have tablets and smartphones anyways, so let's sock it to them.

Thanks, but no thanks.
Can someone clarify why dropping out of Harvard Extension School is a subset of dropping out of Harvard University? I checked out Wikipedia, but it's not very clear about Harvard's system and the different colleges (Harvard College, Radcliff College, Extension School, ...) I've always assumed there was just one "University of Harvard", but apparently it's more complicated...
They're using science as a noun. Think of it like "You're not allowed oxygen any more."
Or you're a legacy.
I said I was setting aside open access issues but I guess they do play into my reasoning. I want anyone with interest to have access to scientific results be they a garage biohacker, a stay-at-home mom trying to make sense of a 23 and me result or an MD PHD.

Nature already has an image problem [1] and the idea that they would use such a high profile venue to publish this seems silly even if it wasn't so alienating to people we need to be reaching out too. It just contributes to the distorted view of science and scientists that high profile journals are creating.

[1]http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/dec/09/nobel-winner-...
In the modern world we have a new class of difficult to obtain information. I know how to find the answer to my question, but not without exposing myself to information that I do not want.
This is the internet all over again. Remember "online services"? BBSes?

Some form of this was bound to sprout as the internet became feasible to regulate and demarcate. It started with BitTorrent because people wanted to pirate music. (Maybe before, but torrents are impressive in that they reside literally nowhere).

This is going to happen. Maybe in 2014/15, maybe in 2020 when people are having their prostates probed by the NSA/Europe's right to forget/Brazil's lei de mídia/yadda yadda yadda.
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I know this is a minor point of the article, but as someone with a degree from Harvard Extension I need to weigh in on that part of the story. I hate people who make this lie of ommission. Harvard Extension isn't Harvard College or Harvard Business School, but it still provides a very good education with great flexibility at an even better price. However, there is a small minority of people that continuely try to pass off their degree (or in this case a lack of degree, which is an even bigger crime considering that both the admission and graduate rates of the College and Extension School are roughly inverses of each other) as something more than it is. This isn't a fabricated credential on a resume; it is a lie that makes other people guilty by association. Everytime someone confesses or is caught doing this my degree becomes devalued. It establishes a repuation for HES students and alumni as unethical Harvard wannabees that are looking for any way to cut corners. The lesson to learn is not about managing your own reputation for ethics and honesty, but to also remember that you are a member of community. You don't only represent yourself. You represent yourself, your company, your friends, your family, your school, your industry, your hometown, your gender, your race, your sexual preference...

Obligatory [semi-]relevant xkcd: http://xkcd.com/385/
I fully agree. Separation would have made it easier to understand it's not the goal but rather an implementation.
i've been kinda slaggin them off forever on this. they pretty much make money off how inefficient RoR is plus a bunch of vendor lock-in. I switched to Java and work for enterprise now so we have our own servers but for the next hobby project I doubt it'll be on Heroku.

The thing that pisses me off most is that Heroku's policies on error/performance/updates are shaky, but their add-on makers (who are charging HIGH premiums) are far worse.

I've had such a shoddy experience with WebSolr for example. Every few months all their stuff breaks, then when you follow their instructions to spin your instance back up you find that the client API or instance type you use is no longer supported and have to debate which parts of your codebase to upgrade just to get back to where you started.

That's why I think the Heroku ecosystem is trash -- after 1-2 years of forced upgrades and code refactoring you get so tired of it. "Oh another email saying if I don't change ___ in 6 months my app will die." "Another slew of unexplained errors followed by Googling eventually leading to 1 tweet about how this add-ons service is temporarily fked". Seriously, just learn Java or some hipper JVM lang and spin up a Tomcat or Glassfish container somewhere, then connect to 3rd party services directly rather than through an extra "add-on" layer that supposedly provides convenience by forcing you to jump through one more hoop. Most of the add-on companies seem to have non-Heroku offerings that are much more flexible to integrate.
Very fun to cruise around the world and see what areas are boiling over with opportunities. Perhaps unsurprisingly San Fran, London and NYC were my winners.
Thanks you; I'll have a look at that.

As I grumped in another comment, I'm getting old. One symptom of such is increasingly "putting up" with marginal cases. Starts becoming "easier" than finding/learning yet "one more thing".

TL;DR: Don't get old...
Do users earn reputation for voting to close off-topic questions? Maybe they have poorly incentivized their users to close questions rather than answer them.

Why do people put up with this? Because there's not a better option. Want to make one?
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While your comment might be a little bit too cynical, I don't think it's far off from reality.

Over time, it'd be very surprising if Burger King's lack of company stores didn't catch up with it. These stores are the best channel for taking the pulse of the market. It's very hard to see a company maintaining its brand and evolving with the market with what basically amounts to a franchise-only play.

It's worth noting that Chipotle, which does not currently franchise, is absolutely killing it from both a financial standpoint[1] and a customer experience standpoint[2]. Burger King's model has an attractive financial profile (for now) but according to the same recent Consumer Reports survey that gave Chipotle top marks in its category, Burger King received one of the worst marks for burgers.

More interestingly, based on a quick glance at the Consumer Reports rankings, it appears there may be a correlation between customer perception of product quality and the percentage of company stores. In Burger King's category (burgers), the number two chain, In-N-Out, doesn't franchise, and the number one chain, The Habit, just started franchising last year and is still relatively small. Food for thought, no pun intended.

[1] http://www.equities.com/editors-desk/stocks/consumer-discret...

[2] http://news.investors.com/business/070214-707190-mcdonalds-y...
Then just say "I have a potentially life threatening illness, I need to take care of it". It's honest, no one will push you for details (a withering look will take care of anyone who does).

Take care of yourself. Your life and health is all you have. The business will survive, especially if you aren't contributing much right now. Don't worry about prioritizing your health over a business. It's absolutely the right thing to do.
It's not "cheap" when you have to install a breaker for each one. For the companies it's cheaper to have a transformer blow up every now and then.

It'll only be considered an investment when the damage can out-weight the cost. So it's likely they'll only learn the lesson after the first solar storm hits, unless legislation demands they put it now.
True, but they're only extending an existing service you have to be a part of.
> That would result in mass unemployment in some sectors of industry.

Are you making an implicit suggestion that we should tolerate fraud because it employs people?
This was a very useful read, thank you!
Space Monkey works but it's a proprietary system.
http://musicforprogramming.net/

I used to listen to white noise before finding this podcast. This podcast ebbs and flows in a beautiful way that allows me to zone in on only the thing I'm doing.

I tried a few times to describe it just now, but I feel like all of my descriptions to a bad job. It often has electronic elements, but it isn't exclusively that and it isn't upbeat or fast. It isn't trance or "chill" like, say Groove Salad on SomaFM is. Sometimes there is a quiet mix of Apollo radio chatter mixed in, sometimes it is a woman's voice whispering that she doesn't love you. Altogether the tracks nail that perfect point of being interesting enough to keep you awake, but soft enough that you don't get distracted. It is like white_noise++;

Some episodes/tracks are better than others (I'm sure you'll find your favorites), but I find the overall quality fantastic.
As a twitter-clone only, sure. But I think it was supposed to be about much more than that.
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I tried signing up but it seems like it only accepts US phone numbers :(
100% agreed. He is one of the first to inspire me at a young age to become an entrepreneur myself, and it's stuff like this that continues to inspire me:

"That architecture is all the stuff I spent ten years ranting on this blog about, but y’all don’t listen, so I’m just going to have to build company after company that runs my own wacky operating system, and eventually you’ll catch on. It’s OK to put people first. You don’t have to be a psychopath or work people to death or create heaps of messy code or work in noisy open offices."
But you yourself said (in GP) that you wouldn't pay to read them. So the chance of converting you into a paying subscriber is 0 to start with. What's the loss? :D
Seth,

I really enjoyed reading your article. It was extremely insightful, and I hope to read more articles posted on your blog in the future.
That had to be a tough article to write, thanks Seth.

The thing that really stuck with me is the 'technically true' aspects. Growing up in various places around the world I encountered a number of people for whom their motto was 'its only illegal if you get caught!' The advantages of this motto were very apparent as a teen, you could run a stop light at 11:30pm, there was hardly anyone around, and you could be home by curfew. You could use your parents car if it was back where they expected it to be when they next needed it. Sort of the ultimate Ferris Bueller.

And then I had as an influence my Grandfather, who was a US Attorney, and who valued his integrity over his own life. I think of him as sort of the other end of this spectrum.

I asked him about his unwillingness to do what others have done (at the time it was drive faster than the speed limit on an empty road) and he said, "Charles, the world is full of pain and anguish, when a man lives by a code he can walk among that pain and anguish and help right its wrongs without being burdened by having contributed to it." (well that is how I remembered it, there was probably a story about hunting in there too) and I didn't really understand it until much later.
Stack Exchange could be much better. They have created a good model, however the knowledge needs to be aggregated back into a documentation format, that is browsable. Documentation + Q&A together = Awesomeness.
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I'm glad it's not just me feeling that way. I think it first hit me when I realized a high percentage of the front page stories were about drugs: legalized marijuana, Silk Road, e-cigarettes & nootropics all at once. I guess I'm not the average Verge reader if that's what gets clicks.

Their Seinfeld story a couple of weeks ago with the headline "That time Elaine threatened to kill herself with a gun" was when I added The Verge to my timewaster list. A few people complained in the comments about that one.

Scamworld is still my favorite Verge article, though "Finding Oz In The Heart Of CES" was also memorable.
“Microsoft has changed as a company and is becoming more open”
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Yes, but that is actually on par with the entire restaurant industry for the last year. It did shockingly well. I blame cell phones and people too lazy to cook!

Still though, I don't see BK as stock to short. Above someone said execs may be emptying it out, but at the same time, I see treeeeemendous upside in BK (and McDonald's). The other fast-risers (like Panera) are showing how to do it, and BK and McD have the infrastructure already in place. They could seriously upgrade their quality to next level.

You see this happening in the auto industry. Remember how Kias used to suck? Remember how Hyundais used to suck? And remember a generation before them how Toyota and Nissan were low-end? These restaurants could mature by supplying what people want, such as slightly healthier food.
That's an interesting hypothesis about why the dominant rhetoric has changed.

I think another one is that people are starting to use bitcoin for real-world use cases, and finding and addressing specific pain-points is far more likely to generate revenue than trying to convince others of your take on monetary policy.
For any of you wondering.

We have slowly but surely begun rolling out an API which allow us to connect with various partner and allow merchants to build their own apps on top.

We have only just begun.

https://connect.squareup.com/
As the law currently stands, if a private company is privately fundraising — that is, raising money from people they already know such as friends and family — they can only have 35 non-accredited investors in that round of financing.

Is there a limit to the number of rounds you can do with non-accredited investors? Suppose I have 70 friends who are non-accredited investors but want to invest. Can't I just split it into two rounds?
Is this really their org description??

"Microsoft has changed as a company and is becoming more open in the way that we collaborate with others."
Given what I know about the reliability of German forkliftdrivers[0] I'm not surprised they automated this one.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChOHnSL7ZCg (warning: NSFW, gore, German humour)
A personal trademark has only limited protections if it is not registered. It is also not clear that he wanted trademark protections to apply, since he did not seem to use the (TM) symbol that is allowed prior to registration. He could challenge an attempt at a trademark application, but the other FutureStack might have a good case given how many people confused his account for the conference.
What do you mean documentation + question and answer? Like a wiki with Q&A?
I don't really see it as a dick move. They're not appropriating this guy's brand or pretending to be him. The worst that's happened so far is he got a few tweets not meant for him. He's not going to lose any business or reputation because a conference has the same name as him. He already owns the .com domain and has the twitter account for the name. I could see if they tried to make some move to steal his domain by trying to vulture a lapsed renewal, or sent him a C&D for use of the name, but basically their big crime was to have chosen the same name for their developer conference as he uses as his internet handle, and maybe they knew there was some guy who uses the same name.

Name collisions are going to happen. There are a limited number of cool names. If it's not causing any real problems, then I don't see the big issue.

That said, if I accidentally caused some guy to get a bunch of tweets not meant for him, I'd probably apologize about it privately (obviously it wasn't intentional). I definitely would try to talk to the guy before trying to get his twitter account suspended.
> it is plausible for someone who is administrativaphobic

Okay. But then you shouldn't really call oneself a CEO.
I already do, but not regularly: http://qbix.com/blog
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