skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We implemented Trello + Github sync with Waffle.io and it was as close to perfect we could get without spending a bunch of time writing our own code to do it. It still wasn't perfect however and I spent a lot of time making sure things were in-sync, which on a normal schedule wasn't a huge deal, but when fires popped up would become a very small priority.

I'm surprised no one has built a better way to do this. We tried syncing with Zapier first (a company I absolutely love), but if I recall correctly it was a one-way sync, and we needed it to go both ways.
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The right strategy here seems to be "just use a payroll company".
You still haven't answered the basic question: What else could he have actually done, given that the woman wasn't interested in having a conversation - just the answer to a yes or no question.

If the other party is unwilling to have a conversation (to the point where she attempts to leave when he won't give the binary answer), there simply is no way to "look for reasons why it doesn't work". The doctor shows his willingness and interest in having a discussion at the end, where he supports her asking of a non-binary question. What's most unfortunate in this tale of what it took to get to the patient to that place.
only 5 of these

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mil_Mi-12

or just one of this, though you'd need to arrange for transport to/from the airports

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_An-225_Mriya
We had a deal with our landlord for paying a reduced rent amount for one year, after which it would go up by $1,500 per month. Well, we had quite honestly forgotten about the deal and the same automated rent payments just kept going through without a word from anybody. About TWO YEARS later our landlord came to us and said "oh yea, remember that rent deal we had? You guys owe us about $36,000 in back rent!"

That sucked but we don't blame anybody but ourselves. It goes to show that you do need to keep track of your own finances and not expect somebody to tell you when you are not paying things properly.
Out of curiosity, and this is a real question not a troll :

What can emacs and vi do that a regular IDE can't ?
I mean when I started working there wasn't open source as such.

Maybe the local computer club or some rich guys that could pay for BBS connections exchanging stuff.

Everything from hardware, text processing, drawing, music, compilers, editors,..., was provided by proprietary overlords.
I'm probably going to be in the minority here but: mental/physical health >>>>>>>> any professional reputation.
If the situation is as dire as you claim it is then ask for a medical leave and if rejected quit immediately. There are work arounds to bad references and it seems like you have only been working at this place for a couple of months anyway. It's not the most professional thing to do but at the end of the day it's just a job and you can recover while enjoying good health.

Anecdote: Worked with a kid who basically had a nervous breakdown from the stress of the project. He ended up getting escorted out of the building anyway due to erratic behavior and timed missed from work. It's not worth it imo.
The problem is that the massively funded SF/SV start-ups will create the "scorched earth" regime for the bootstrapped ones: try moving to St. Louis and compete with a AirBnB from there?
If you get traction, you will have to get VC money, which means moving back to SF or NY.
why can't a burger place invent a 'crazy new thing'?

seems like new food inventions drive alot of the marketing behind their competetors

trying out new menu items is just 1 thing that pops to mind, and I'm probably completely missing 100 other things that a burger place could inovate on
Swirl is not a lossy process. If he had blurred his face he would have been much harder to catch.
Talk about working backwards.
This philosophy seems to imply that trust and relationships are worthless in business. If you perpetually promise features that don't exist, you'll eventually promise something that either can't be implemented at all or has to be implemented sloppily to deliver.

How can you possibly sustain a long-term business when you're so willing to damage business relationships?
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"beautiful daylit private offices"

Although private offices may be more difficult to achieve, I'm amazed at the number of companies that do not take daylight into consideration. It has been proven to increase worker performance and mood, yet companies continuously rent office space in dark, cavernous buildings. Sometimes they even brag about it. Then they wonder why they can't hire decent workers or why their workers are leaving or simply being unproductive. No, the small glare on monitors is not a reason to rent some dark warehouse with no windows; it's an excuse, a pretty lame one at that. Of course, this is one of the many problems solved by working from home.
I thought this was going to be Cloud9 from bell labs..
83b elections and payroll taxes are the only two things which are really really critical from an administrative perspective, in my experience, and can't be fixed later with fairly minimal cost.
I think that's definitely his mock logo, not the original. The original logo is anti-aliased and thin, not in that blocky 8-bit style. You can also see the squared-off "NeoFossil" logo above, not the rounded New Relic logo. I think he probably cut it out of a different mock splash page he made that had a line starting with "changing..."
McD and BK seem to be all over the place in Germany. I live in a small-ish city (~50k residents) and we have 2 McD and one BK here. BK has a location advantage though, as they are in the rail station / shopping mall complex (rail is an important mean of travel here). None of the establishments is ever empty, though McD is more frequently choke full.
So this post is about my startup, Metamason. One of my favorite 3D printing blog 3ders.org just published an interview they did with me. An extremely proud moment for me. So happy to share with all of you, as I believe we're demonstrating new ways to think about what printers are capable of. and hopefully will inspire others to explore similar opportunities.

Worth saying for the audience, that back in 2005 I was invited to the 2nd "Y-Combinator Startup School", with Metamason 1.0; a very different project (semantic web search), that's been vastly eclipsed with what we've done with 3D printed CPAP masks today.
This a 1000x. I feel the same about kindle books that are the same price or higher than paperbacks.
its even worse when you're in the meeting with the client when the sales people say you've already got this feature and you're thinking "no, no we don't dear go this is going to take a massive database change and....."
"Those were the words she used, which could be entirely different from her actual reasoning that she didn't feel like talking about."

Er, no.

She is a fictional character in a parable, entirely the author's creation. I think it's safe to assume that the words "she" used were the ones "she" intended to use.
I don't know who Marc is teaching, but you would be astonished by how many undergrads in a computer information systems course do not know what a text file is. They'll take a programming course with C# in Visual Studio, and come away thinking that you can only program in Visual Studio with Visual Studio files. Then you get them in a database course the next semester and assign them some SQL, and they'll try to write their scripts in Word.

Can't blame them for not learning what the previous teachers didn't teach, but I'd sure blame myself if they got to day 2 in my class and I didn't correct it. Now I tend to start my classes by haranguing them to install Notepad++ or whatever alternative exists for Mac users.

I'm getting a little sick of Notepad++ and this thread has me thinking I should give emacs a try. (Probably not for my students though!)
nah, the doc is equivocating because he CAN'T give the woman a 100% guarantee (would make a nice malpractice suit if something did happen to the child).
"Trello at its core is just a list of lists. Very simple concept."

So it's a Lisp!
Trying to file your company's taxes on your own is like trying to represent yourself in a trial.
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"In 2009, Burger King put the $1 Double Cheese Burger on the menu. The item increased sales, which meant Burger King collected more in royalties. But franchisees abhorred it: They couldn’t make money selling a big cheeseburger for a low price. The Burger King franchisee association sued the company to get the burger off the menu. “It was beyond toxic,” says consultant Knapp of the chain’s relationship with its franchisees at the time."

I subsisted off the $1 Double Cheeseburger for a year in college. Now I feel rather guilty about it. Oops.
That's a beautiful quote from your grandfather. Thanks for sharing.
I trained for my first marathon with Team In Training back in 2010. The key things I learned then (and since):

* Run with others if you can. Especially important on those long runs.

* Work your core. This is hard for me, but doing planks, crunches, and other exercises that work your core are really important on longer runs.

* Do long runs. I'd work up to several ~20 mile runs (no need to do the whole 26 miles, but the closer you can get, the better). For me, there's no substitute for moving on my feet for hours (however long it takes).

* Like any other running event, run your plan: don't ad-lib and change your pace.

* Do some agility training: skipping, heel running, toe running, side-stepping, etc.

* Learn how to run tired: if you can't do as many long runs as you'd like, do two shorter runs back-to-back (e.g., do a 10-mile run on Saturday and an 8-mile run on Sunday).

* Listen to your body: seriously, if something really hurts, don't push yourself, there'll be other marathons.

Good luck!
I agree that this is sensationalist piece, but for other reasons. It compares cases across Brittain (63M) with cases in district (300k). If you do the math, immunization is still vastly preferable, but that kind of comparison is just not valid.
Anyone compare this to XDK yet?

http://xdk-software.intel.com/
That was a very useful comment, thank you.
Do we want to live in an open society or a gated one?
So here you have a Doctor trying to be Lawyer. There is a chance, however small, of a bad reaction to the vaccine. The Doctor knows this, therefore he cannot give this woman her 100% guarantee that nothing will go wrong because of the vaccination. He knows that if he tells this woman it will be OK and nothing will happen, that if something DOES happen he will be sued for medical malpractice.
So I'm a little confused here - let me just ask something;

How is this going to work?

The answer seems obvious, but look at the battle raging over net neutrality right now. With a decentralized infrastructure, it's going to be a lot harder to get around the prospect of paid peering then it'd be with Uncle Google and/or Amazon paying their way into your home.
yup. I'd be astonished if board members didn't require this to be done because they could be held personally liable.
I've been SL customer and have using that prior to joining Rackspace and building OnMetal. The point isn't about "lets get rid of hypervisor", the point was to:

* Lets provision as quickly as VMs (as opposed to 1hr+ on SL)

* Lets engineer hardware to deliver maximum uptime via no-moving-parts design (as opposed to vanilla
SuperMicro on SL)

* Lets design hardware to deliver maximum unit of work per dollar (like DB transactions/second per dollar, or requests/second/dollar) as opposed to average value elsewhere.

* Deriving from the above, lets just give RAM away nearly for free, and put dual 10Gig network in place, because modern apps should be mostly RAM-based.

* Lets adopt standard OpenStack provisioning API, with myriad of pre-existing tools, community and ecosystem (like auto-scaling, orchestration, etc) as opposed to proprietary API.

The end result is a completely different infrastructure, something akin to what OpenCompute pioneers use internally. This is how running at scale should be like.

As always, I encourage skeptics to spend more than 10 seconds on a product page, because most of the time there're humans behind it, and - in this case for sure - they are way too ambitious to be spending their lives simply cloning old designs.

Enjoy OnMetal, dear jberekw, it's built for critical thinkers (and skeptics! :-) like you and it's awesome - it's going to rock your world.
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This is why you use a payroll company that takes all the money for you for each paycheck and handles the quarterly filing for you -- no "extra cash" hanging around. I think this is called "Full Service Payroll" and can even include insurance against tax liability. I assume they make money on the float, but I'm not sure.
This sounds good but there are some problems that I think can't be solved.

1st: What if a user wants to flood the network with meaningless data?

2nd: Latency-critical applications, especially on geographically distributed peers.
This isn't really face recognition, this is face verification. In computer vision, face recognition usually means tell me who this person is (in psychology it means "have you seen this person before?"). Face verification gives an algorithm (or a person) two images of faces and asks, "Are these the same person?"

Their result is impressive, and it improves a bit over Facebook's recent result on the same dataset with their DeepFace system (97.35% for DeepFace vs 97.53% for people vs 98.52% for the system discussed in the article).

Also, it is interesting that they are not using deep learning for this. They are using a Discriminative Gaussian Process Latent Variable Model.
How do the option holders in the parent capture their share of the equity in the spinco in a transaction like this?
(To go a little further on this I'd want to dive into what "validity" means in terms of a type system. Frankly, I'm not sure I can do a good job at defining that at all. I'm not even totally certain anyone can, though I imagine that's not true. Some things I would point toward are consistency, existence of many models, Gentzen Inversion if you're defining things in a natural deduction format, etc.)
It shows that it's not easy, no matter what 'should' may be.
Ok I'm using the bank of America payroll feature and now I'm scared. :)

However, are you sure that this doesn't work? The B of A system I am using (in California) calculates payroll taxes, and then even lets you submit them electronically. It also nags me constantly for forms I am supposed to submit to both CA and the US IRS.
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> Only <1% of them would be valid traffic

Like archive.org, for example...
Please do not treat pedophilia like it is a sexual orientation. Also, please do not try to compare homosexuality to pedophilia — you clearly don't know what you're talking about and the underlying implication is quite offensive.
Heh, that worked. You got me to Google StackMonkey ;)
I find it very hard to believe that datacenters, not programmers, are the most expensive part of running the Internet.
If i need a smartphone for it, sorry, it's not my network.

Take it as a wish-list, I love the idea.
Companies who did this would be systemically outcompeted by companies who choose to look the other way when their salespeople overpromise. And you will find that in general, they are not saying "we have feature X as an available feature as of today" -- they say things like "feature X is under development" and work to upsell it/et cetera. It can be an extremely effective tactic for a lean company to explore the market without overinvesting in development, and it can be destructive behavior by salespeople to advance themselves at the cost of the company.

Like so many things, it's a balance, not an opposition.
I would like to point out that maidsafe is objectively a scam.

Operation of the maidsafe system as advertised relies on a number of provably impossible technologies, like purely algorithmic proof-of-identity.

They gave a presentation at a recent Bitcoin conference in DC. I asked a few basic questions about how they planned to do certain things critical to maidsafe's operation (that no one knows how to do, and many think are impossible), and their answers were so obscenely stupid that anyone in the room with relevant technical knowledge was laughing.

Example: "How do you plan to prevent bots from gaming the data transfer payment system?" The answer was something like "Oh, it's way too hard to make a bot. There are too many steps."
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Milosevic was prosecuted by the ICC and died in jail four months before an almost certain conviction. The Pinochet case predates the ICC, but although the British government intervened to temporarily "halt" his extradition to Spain, the speed of his subsequent exit (he flew back to Santiago within hours) suggests the move was a political one to push things back to Chile, where Pinochet faced subsequent prosecution and died under house arrest.

So some cynicism is certainly deserved, but it is probably more accurate to say that the more political influence someone has, and the more dirt they hold on other countries, the more protracted the entire judicial process becomes.
I worked for a guy that did this too. Instead of me losing sleep over it, I put my job on the line (because if this was standard operating procedure then I would rather be unemployed...) and told him he needed to come clean with who he sold admitting he was at fault and not the developers/etc. If a sales person has to eat crow they quickly learn to avoid future crow eating. Things were much better after that.
i loved my part-time MBA program. with a primarily technical background, i had two key disadvantages that the program was meant to address:

1) weak business network
2) no prior business training

it accomplished these things well. could i have done it alone? possibly, but the program provides focus & structure, which are hard to come by otherwise. it also gave me closure on one chapter of my life so i could move on to the next. no single class is earth shattering, but taken together give me much more confidence when, for example, i walk into a negotiation with a VC, since i now know how to calculate the NPV of the deal terms.

my advice is to take classes around two poles: (1) managing people (teams, negotiations, incentives, etc.) and (2) quantitative measurement (stats, marketing analytics, entrepreneurial finance, etc.). strategy, branding and domain-specific (e.g., media management) classes in particular didn't seem to impart much actionable knowledge.

and network like crazy (but with purpose).
Are there any decent books out there on emacs?
I interviewed at Amicus last year and they were clearly some of the nicest guys in tech. It's always hard to read stories like this but it's especially tough to see a good idea go under. Best of luck to everyone involved.
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Conda was released to pypi a few days ago, thus can now be installed via pip
I think that sounds like a good thing.

If anybody doesn't, have you ever actually looked at the laws enforced by the ICC and how the judges and prosecutors are appointed? And who has the authority to change those laws? Just because you call something the International Criminal Court doesn't mean that it isn't a ridiculous Kangaroo court.

Without going into a detailed review, the laws all look so vague that any participant in any kind of conflict could be changed with a huge pile of crimes, depending on the whim of the judges and prosecutors. Most sane legal systems require that any law be defined strictly enough that an individual can always be sure whether an act he is planning to commit does or does not violate the law, and I think this body of laws is far, far away from that point.

As for the governing bodies, it seems the primary authority is a body in which every member nation has a single representative and a single vote (the Assembly of States Parties). Uh yeah, I bet about 10 seconds after this court was given any real power, the dictatorships of the world would horse-trade enough votes to change anybody who was politically unpopular with them with a huge pile of crimes whose definition is so vague that it's impossible to know whether you've committed them or to defend against the accusation of them.
1: "Yeah, we can build that. It will cost $TIME and will add an extra $$$ MEGABUCKS to the total cost".

One basic technique is to keep track of the life time cost of sales, development, delivery and support/maintenance for all projects, and then measure the performance of salespeople based on both income and cost (as opposed to just income) makes them a lot more motivated to sell good solutions.
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When there are people who are anti-vaccination simply because of the words of an ex-actress and other celebrities with no medical experience, it's not about finding the "best" reason to advocate for vaccination. It's about shifting the Overton window over to someplace sane.

I agree, this doesn't have to be on HN though.
He doesn't need to be actively passing off. They just need to demonstrate confusion in the mind of the consumer, which he has already conveniently done for them here.

You do raise the very relevant point that tlds don't equate to trademark categories and that in a more just world domains should therefore be out of reach until the laws catch up with this.
Dog fooding our own software is one of our greatest strengths: We use FogBugz and Trello to build Kiln, Trello is built from Kiln and Trello. Fogbugz is built from Kiln and FogBugz. (And Joel On Software is built with CityDesk, may it rest in peace.)
It seems the pendulum is swinging back in the direction of paying for quality. The explosion of the internet and the effect it had on media destroyed so many of the traditional outlets that spent money on quality content.

For instance, my local paper has turned from being reliable in reporting on local issues and having seasoned reporters, to being not much more than an entertainment company with young, inexperienced reporters who don't spend more than 10 minutes writing articles.

Now we see outlets like NYT, New Yorker, and others, even bloggers (such as Andrew Sullivan), going to a paywall model and producing quality content that's worth paying for. Hopefully this is a trend more people realize that you get what you pay for.
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I've never run a marathon, skipped straight from collegiate 10ks into ultramarathons and learned the hard way. My advice to friends is to focus on the single long run on the weekend, which should grow to be about 15-18 miles at a minimum of 90% of goal race pace a month before the marathon. Get up to being able to support the weekend run with 3-4 days minimum of 8-10 mile runs, but don't increase your weekly mileage by more than 5% each week. Also work on training with food/water/gu/anti-inflammatories in your belly. A huge problem I see with first time marathoners is stomach problems in the latter half of the race. You'll need to consume something during the full marathon so you might as well prep your body for it. Lastly, exercise your supporting muscles, like hip flexors and stabilizers in your core and lower legs.