skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"New Yorker and NYT are two of the only old school media companies whose content I would still pay for."

Agreed. We subscribe to both (NYT physically, and New Yorker via Kindle) and even if I expect not to read them in a particular week/month/year I still keep the subscription up because I want to support and "dollar vote" for these publications.

I would like to also add that the third (of three) that I support in this way is the "London Review of Books" which is simply fantastic. It's not just book reviews ... there is editorial content, foreign correspondence[1], etc. I cannot recommend it enough.

[1] Perhaps you have noted that one of the more discussed and read pieces about the google bus controversy, by Rebecca Solnit, was originally published in LRB...
> Financial engineering

Could not have said it better myself. He's just there to facilitate the transition of Burger King into a brand property play. There is little or no company left to run. The buyout and sale of 1,200 locations was the tough part. A young CEO is perfect for staying out of the way and doing what he's told while they expand royalty payments unsustainably based on the prior trust in the Burger Kind brand in order to pump money out of it until its worthless.
I wonder what their customer demographics are like in the US. I don't eat fast food, and probably haven't been to a Burger King in over a decade. Somehow they're still running thousands of profitable locations though.
Incompetent, unemployed developer gets angry over his Internet alias
"People have a right to know what they're putting in their bodies."

Right, and the doctor was trying to give her that knowledge, and she refused.
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This sat poorly with me. I thought "you're not allowed science any more" would mean that no one has to ever listen to her in any scientific debate. Instead, it meant that she got overruled about a medical decision.

Congratulations, you've amazingly found a way to be even worse than the antivaxxers. I didn't think it was possible.
This is an attractive idea. But wouldn't the large space of all documents on the web likely lead to hash collisions?
Doctor attempts to educate in a format of his own choosing. Patient rejects. Doctor then rejects patient.

Normally when something doesn't work, you look for reasons why it doesn't work. You then take some educated guesses at what might be blocking success, and try altering your approach. After some trial and error, you eventually discover how to make it work.

This doctor-patient situation is the same kind of thing, except that the doctor is simply dismissing the patient because his attempts at education on his own terms have failed. He makes no attempt at figuring out WHY the patient is rejecting the education, nor does he try altering his approach. Instead, he ram-rods what in his own opinion makes the best education down the patient's throat, and then has the gall to blame the failure on her.

It's just like in the bad old days of web apps with no UX.
"Jorge Paulo Lemann, 3G’s 74-year-old billionaire co-founder, likes to enlist young executives and put them in top positions at the firm’s companies."

Do you remember PG essay about the PR submarine? That's more like it. Make no mistake, Jorge Paulo Lemann and the other two billionaire partners are among the best business men in the world. They got there building huge business after huge business (not like the gambler ex-billionaire Eike Batista).

So there are 3 very smart, wise (and old) guys telling these young smart folks where to go and what to do. Not micro-managing, of course, but the biggest, toughest decisions are theirs. So it is very different in autonomy and leadership from public companies CEOs. And a world of distance of Zuckerberg's owner, founder, CEO, rules-it-all role.

PS: I don't want to minimize the young guys success, I am sure they worked hard and smart and deserve their positions. Just clarifying what exactly means the "CEO role" here - according to my own personal opinion, of course.
Agreed. The fact that most business seem to lack basic ethics is not an excuse to do so as well.
Buried in the article:

There is no evidence that Hamas and other militants force civilians to stay in areas that are under attack — the legal definition of a human shield under international law.
Have you tried The New York Review of Books (nybooks.com)?

As venerable a cultural and literary institution as TNY, but the signal-to-noise ratio is much higher; less fetishization of the NY cultural scene (NYRB, despite its name, doesn't cover NY, and is ironically seldom about book reviews), less glitz. The paper edition is wonderfully old school, basically a tabloid newspaper format with zero thought to design or typography.

From what I can tell, all of their content ends up on the site. Their Kindle edition has both the digital version and the paper layout in the same file so you can switch between the two modes.
Light purple text on dark purple on black? How about try and consider accessibility and make it readable. Terrible palette, as Heoku has always had.
HP Invests $50M In Hortonworks
A friend of mine asked me this recently:
are there many young programmers investing in emacs? I only know a few... it's kind of depressing.
I wonder if this is the official stance of new relic.
> Do you want people to read up on the science, or to accept what's "settled"?

You're assuming that both of these things are possible / likely. I want people to stop killing each other but that's not necessarily realistic.

It's an interesting problem, trying to achieve the theoretical best situation (everyone understanding and accepting science) vs 'tricking' people (just getting them to accept what you say).
Did you use the Coinbase integration[0] or add an address from Coinbase manually? The latter will likely not work due to the way Coinbase generates addresses for each transaction.

[0]: https://balances.io/coinbase/auth
Notice they haven't mentioned what the issue is caused by, just that they consider it resolved.
Here is the main page for the app - http://matterapp.co/
Yes, but of course, it's never as simple as pressing a button and implementing the ideas. You have to get buy-in for the ideas, presumably one idea at a time. You have to justify, in tangible and financial terms, what the cost/benefit of making the change will be -- especially because implementing any structural change will require a very large, very real cost up front. And the problem with one-idea-at-a-time is that each idea, in isolation, carries a high political risk, but less potential upside. And so the benefit of implementing a Spolsky-like program really accrues when implementing quite a few of the concepts at once. Very few people have the juice to do that. Furthermore, something could easily go wrong, entirely unrelated to one's Spolskification program, but which torpedoes the program nevertheless.

Another powerful force to consider is employee morale. Employees tend to settle into a routine and resist change to that routine -- even if it's nominally better for them. You'd be surprised at how powerful a force this is. I can almost guarantee you that if you went to any big company with an open-layout, cube-farm floor plan and proposed that everyone be given their own office, a significant percentage of those employees would grumble about it. It sounds silly to think so, but it will happen. People fear change. They tend to read into it. They think it's a harbinger for more sinister or scary things to come. Loss-aversion is very real and very strong.

Of course, the upside to making big changes is the chance at big success. If you turn around your division, or if you're the one division outperforming all the others, you're a hero. And other divisions will follow suit. That's a wonderful thing. But the risk that that won't happen, and that your changes will backfire or be scuttled in some way, is every bit as real as the potential upside. When faced with that calculation, and especially when taking into account the stability of a very nicely paying and high-ranking job, a lot of managers and execs will opt not to rock the boat.

Again, this is not a defense of change-aversion. It is an explanation for why you don't see more change in established firms. The vectors of big change tend to come from outside: a new CEO, a new executive hire, or the formation of a new business or division. In those circumstances, the organizational and psychological frame is oriented towards change, rather than towards the preservation of the status quo. The person leading the change has a clear mandate to do so. In other, more day-to-day circumstances, the mandate is less clear and less easily secured.
> "In this case, this guy is an absolute nobody."

That's not what he said or meant, but it's what you are trying to say he said or meant. Think about it. (Edit: Looks like he did. Exciting!)
Viral pandemics do not respect your personal boundaries: your "right to be an idiot" over vaccination may not be intended to result in deaths, but that's what will happen if we indulge such beliefs until herd immunity is lost.

We need to draw a distinction between idiotic behavior with no externalities -- side-effects for others -- and idiotic behavior that can damage third parties. Upshot: there's no simple dichotomy between an open society and an authoritarian one.
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This is a fantasy of course, which is a defence mechanism for frustrated minds.

However, the quasi-religious defence of Science as a settled body of knowledge which people must be forcibly 'educated' about is becoming depressingly common. Becoming more like a religion isn't a good way to counter superstitious falsehoods.

The patient-doctor relationship has waned, IMO. Here in the UK for most ailments I see a GP for about 10 minutes. I never see her again. No follow up, no chat, etc. Different GP next time. Perhaps social media could help build trust within practices.
According to one of their videos, they do a 3d-scan of the car when you drop it off.

https://youtu.be/fLu9BDxDi6w
You must tell the agency first and leave all further client communications to them. The client is theirs not yours.
I'll be using emacs as the sole text editor with my students in September, so there'll be a few more young programmers learning how to use it.
I'm talking about the chicken pox vaccine. Everyone gets MMR in the UK, except the hippies.
You can have a look at the pom.xml[1] of SparkGS [2](a micro web framework using Gosu).
It uses maven, so a 'mvn package' should generate the jars for you.

[1] https://github.com/sparkgs/sparkgs/blob/master/pom.xml
[2] http://sparkgs.github.io/
It really is confusing. Even more than Rust lang vs Rust game.
DPT board, Linux and WiFi becomes easy
There's a lot of data that can be collected without much knowledge of experiment design, consider e.g. all the sequencing projects.

The problem is that if the data ends up in inconsistently formatted spreadsheets or poorly conceived custom formats, the effort required to extract the data for analysis later (especially across multiple projects) can be prohibitive.
Not to mention that if you're the free rider type, you can just read the articles in incognito and avoid the metering issue.
I bet it's awesome being the ops directory -- sounds like so much fun!
We're getting an impressive variety here! After argument by conjecture fails, we move on to ad-homenim!
Colombian Student Faces Prison Charges for Sharing an Academic Article Online
I'm personally convinced that vaccination is worthwhile; I've been convinced of that by my education, my experience, and my understanding of the scientific literature. The benefit to the individual and to society of vaccines is, to me, well-established.

I'm willing to compromise part of my herd's immunity for those who wish not to receive a vaccine, even if it increases my risk somewhat. I don't think that anti-vaccine activists are correct, but it's a hell of a thing to inject stuff into their children that they think could bring them harm. Though we do it every day as a society, I don't want to be a part of a herd that resorts to compulsion on ethical questions.

Inextricable from this discussion is the fact that the children won't reach majority before the decision must be made. If we could wait until people turned eighteen before presenting them with the choice of vaccination, this debate would be different.

As a final thought -- if everyone else is immunized, it may be to your advantage to skip vaccination to avoid a tiny risk of side-effects. There's an equilibrium here, and it's not at 100% vaccination rates, even if 100% vaccination could yield eradication.
Yes, that's what I mean by UX. UX is about the intellectual AND emotional experience.

We have the psychological knowledge. It's just a question of putting it into practice instead of taking these knee-jerk reactions of "they'll never come around. Better to just force it".
I really like this library for clustering map pins:

http://google-maps-utility-library-v3.googlecode.com/svn/tru...
Alternate theory: "Poor families" are more likely to be aware (either directly or "institutionally") of the impact of the various preventable diseases or conditions.

Reminds of of a Bujold quote. The character is referring to how over time people forget how hard things were:

> "They like to play dress-up and pretend being [noble-class] ladies of old, rescued from menace by romantic [noble-class] youths. For some reason they never play 'dying in childbirth', or 'vomiting your guts out from the red dysentery', or 'weaving till you go blind and crippled from arthritis and dye poisoning', or 'infanticide'."

> "Well, they do die romantically of disease sometimes, but somehow it's always an illness that makes you interestingly pale and everyone sorry and doesn't involve losing bowel control."
Correct. Though there is an issue of plausible deniability if we do get breached, assuming a user who absolutely requires it used a username that can be tied back to them. We're working on a solution for that.

If you require plausible deniability to be safe or avoid incarceration, I would recommend not using Balances at this time – I obviously can't guarantee that we are safe from a very motivated intruder, but we have taken many paranoid precautions to avoid such a breach.
I wonder if @mentions on twitter meet the "substantial likelihood of confusion" test for trademark infringement?
The Solr version in the Release Candidate is actually 4.7.0.
you're confusing information (raw), and content which is built on analysis and presentation of that information.
From my experience, big enterprise product company representatives like to do this:

Question: Does your application has x, y and z feature and can be integrated in our process easily?

Answer: Sure, all there. Just have to tweak a few settings in the GUI.

Truth: We have a bare-bone product and a semi-documented API. Feel free to implement all the features you want and adapt it to your process. We can provide you professional services (for a price, of course).
Yes, it's very cheesy, but maybe rephrase it as "people who are open to trying new languages are more open-minded by definition, and they keep a flexible mind and learn to think about problems in different ways."

I mean, however cheesy some Smug Lisp Weenies(tm) may be, why not learn something new? Lisp (the language family) is really cool, you should try it. elisp may not be the most exciting family member, though.
Check out the minimal mode that Cloud9 provides in the preferences/welcome screen. It makes Cloud9 look like an Ace editor without any of the cruft.
There are plenty of avenues to overrule someone's medical decision. You could require vaccinations for school or even get a court order to overrule a clearly bad decision. None of those are "you made a bad argument so your kids are now subject to my decision-making process instead of yours from now on."

A super-majority of doctors don't understand the math of the screening tests: https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/context/doctors-flunk-quiz-... Can we say doctors aren't allowed to math anymore?
23 year old third year computer science student. I only know of two students (me included) that are emacs users.
Wouldn't the easiest thing be a virtual machine that runs older instance of Linux? (Much like DOSBox, and other emulators). So I guess nothing to worry about.
> As a doctor, which I am not, I would've said: the danger of your children dying or being crippled by a preventable disease is about...

Did you read the part where the doctor tried the same thing and she cut him off?

> “As I said, there is always a small risk, but if you look, you will see that this is less than the probability of...”

> Sacha held up her hand.

> “Please, Doctor. Don't try and confuse the issue.”
Assuming this is a joke account, but that's not how trademarks work. In fact, it's so far from how trademarks work that whoever made this account should be ashamed at how ignorant they are.
I'm convinced hyper-local connectivity is the future (at least, at some point). Best of luck getting users engaged; it seems like a great idea.
The Brave New World of Facebook mind control?
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Thanks, all as expected on the options history, and good to know about the fixed income products.
Those all had more to do with BK's ad agency at the time, Crispin Porter + Bogusky (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crispin_Porter_%2B_Bogusky). CP+B is famous for creating highly viral, somewhat weird, vaguely unsettling campaigns.
I'm not sure, but for websites trying to offer Paas/IaaS solutions I much prefer simple, no-nonsense design.
It's hysterical that the Pirate Hoover Shirt™ is at the top of the post and then at the bottom he was angry because someone offered him the shirt to try to make him feel better. I mean, what could be better than being offered The Best T-Shirt Ever Designed? (I was in the room when we came up with the shirt design, and I can tell you it was a happy time.)

Sadly, that just pissed him off even more, which is a sign something is wrong somewhere with something.

> a narcissist [1]

[1] http://futurestack.com/static/about/
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I was primarily responding to the comment that they were not separate industries, and supplying an example of similar marks that were not actually trademarked by Rackspace and thus open to potential use even by those in the technology industry.

Legally, technology and conferences are entirely separate industries with very different business, legal, and tax considerations. A technology company that makes software for conferences is not in the conference industry; a conference with technology subject matter is not in any of the technology industries. This may be splitting hairs, but the law is always a matter of splitting hairs.
Thanks for the positive feedback, really appreciated.

I think what you'll find if you use Gosu, today, is that it has a lot of interesting features and is fun to play around with, but that you will run into trouble when you start trying to use it for larger projects. This is mainly because:

* It doesn't integrate cleanly with Maven in a mixed language project. It can be done, but it requires some hacks.

* There isn't a huge community around it outside of Guidewire, the classic bootstrapping problem.

* The IDE support is in IntelliJ only and can be a bit of a bear to set up initially.

We do have a (very alpha) web microframework that you can use to play around with the language:

http://sparkgs.github.io/

And we are hoping to address all these issues over the coming year, but it's a long process to go from an internal language to a truly viable open source development platform if you don't have the resources Google has to throw at it.
Need to develop a viral version of Joel's OS.
The question to respond back to such a person is: "Can you assure me that you will get little Willow home safely after this appointment?"

Demanding a yes/no answer to a question that isn't yes/no doesn't make a point, except that you already made an opinion and are paying a copay so that you can ask a doctor rhetorical questions. The fact is, likelihood that the parent in this story smashes the minivan into something on the way home is probably higher than the chances of any ill effect from the vaccine.

There is a line that can be crossed where you take away people's ability to make decisions. This happens via court order for folks with religious convictions against blood transfusions, for example. Anti-vaxing is certainly reckless and IMO ignorant, but I don't know if it crosses that line.
It also puts employees under constant pressure, since every feature is already "late" as soon as implementation begins, and extraordinary effort is required on an ongoing basis just to keep the company from embarrassing itself.

At the company I work for, executives and sales people frequently make "commitments" to our customers for features that don't yet exist. People who make commitments on my behalf without even mentioning them to me beforehand (let alone asking me if what they're promising is even possible to deliver) don't get my full respect.
He was appointed June 7, 2013.

Since his appointment, BKW is up 43%. the S&P 500 is up 22%. DOW Jones is up 13%.

In his industry:
Mcdonalds down 1%
Wendys up 39%
Jack in the box up 56%.
Panera down 22%
Chipotle up 77%

Does not seem like Burger King is hurting on the stock market from his leadership.
It definitely puts them at additional risk:

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/06/23/mn-measles-outbreak-tr...
Amazing article.

As advertised, it's not a self-aggrandizing "mistakes" post that points you at the end to the author's next venture. It's full of the kinds of things that keep me up at night.

It reminds me of something similar that happened to me: I was running Adwords for the first time. The dashboard wasn't showing that any of my ads had run, and it kept telling me to up my bid amount. I kept upping it and upping it, and I wasn't seeing any ads running. I said screw it and forgot about it.

When I happened to look at the dashboard 3 weeks later, I had blown $6k on Google ads. I had to get my team together and tell them what happened and apologize. ($6k was a lot of money to us.) Like Seth, this hurt a lot because I paid myself less than anyone in the company to save money.

Seth, if you're around the iDoneThis office at Great Jones and Bowery, hit me up. I'd love to buy you a drink.
As a developer, I've been on the receiving end of "we promised the client we could do this, and they've already paid us, so get to it" more times than I can count... it's my least favorite salesman trait, by far.
Pedophilia in itself isn't a crime.

Well, unless we've started prosecuting thought-crime. I could have missed that update.
4 hours was approximately the duration of the CME according to the times under one of the videos.

I was thinking of the 1989 CME, which had localised effects in Canada. But that was much smaller
Mistake 1: Taxes

This thing about not noticing that you weren't paying payroll taxes wasn't a "mistake." It was pure head-in-assery.

How can you "miss" the fact that you weren't being subtracted for payroll taxes? One quarterly / annual review after another, for 3 years? It's like running a personal budget, and "missing" the fact that you aren't paying rent.
Well yeah, but from a disease vector standpoint, they're exactly the same.
It was the primary application at the start and without a large enough userbase, no other applications ever achieved significant adoption.
YES - The NYRB is fantastic. But, no, not everything is online for free. A number of articles are behind a paywall; some are free. I believe others are website-only, but they are not the usual chum to just attract viewers; they're actually good stuff that simply doesn't fit in the print issue.