skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you suggesting you wouldn't keep a local copy at all? What I'd want to do which more or less mirrors what I do--but using a backup service (BackBlaze) for cloud storage rather than a file sync service--is to backup everything from my desktop to BackBlaze. Among that "everything" are the data directories that I sync between my laptop and my desktop.

I also have Time Machine backups of both systems.
Just because the author uses a machine that doesn't have that big a hard drive doesn't meant that everyone else does. I use dropbox on a computer with 15TB of HD space.... so having a 1TB drop box is great. Saying drop box should not offer the bigger size just because he doesn't have that much hard drive space is a very limited view.
On the product page, please list your price more clearly. It was non-trivial to figure out what your product actually cost. A walkthrough of my thoughts:

1. He said product, so it's probly not free. I wonder how much it costs?

2. Scrolls through the whole page I don't see a breakdown of price. Hmmmm

3. ctrl-f "$" Ahh, I see it says upgrade pricing is $24.99. Wait, does it cost that much, or is that a special "upgrade only" price?

4. looks around on the page more Ahhh, there's a store link, I hope it lists the price there!

5. Ok, so the price is $50 for a single-user license. Why was that so hard to find?

I don't mean to be rude with these remarks; your product seems perfectly relevant and it's awesome if it works as you say. But as a customer, I found that a bit confusing and I thought you as the business owner may want some feedback about one particular users experience.
We live in such a cyberpunk novel. Governmental conspiracies, global dystopia (overt or covert), and slick-named surveillance-tech megacorps.

Except, in this world, the balance is too weighted in favor of the powerful. There will be no Panther Moderns in our world's cyberpunk future. There will be no punk in our cyberpunk. Only a cyberboot stamping on our cyberface(book), forever.
1. Both. We don't save a ton of money as we tend to buy mostly from local organic farmers (except for buying 5 lb boxes of blueberries for 20 bucks, etc.)
2. Yes and No. We cook for the majority of the week on sundays. So we'll cook 3 or more large-ish meals (with enough leftovers). That means most nights are simply up for reheating or some sort of finishing. One or two weeknights i'll do something else as well (fire up the grill, put something in the sous vide in the morning, etc.)
3. Yes. Seriously. We'll try to cook anything and everything. We tend to try to cook based on season (so now that it's fall there's going to be lots of root veg...probably lots of braises, stews, soups, etc.). I like to grill a lot as it's simple and makes most things taste great (really lets the ingredients shine).
4. Nope. Wife is pretty paleo. Kiddo (2 yrs ish) eats everything except potatoes. Weirdo.
5. As most have mentioned brush up on knife skills and keep 'em sharp. Beyond that I think it depends on what you're trying to optimize. If you're trying to cut down on prep time, etc. then learn to make things in bigger batches and / or things that take very little time (a quick pizza will take 15 mins with a decent dough...boom..some bocconcini...some olive oil or pesto...in the oven...pull it out and toss on some prosciutto and arugula and a couple pinches of salt. Melt in your mouth ridiculous). Beyond that I tend to to get into trying to make something perfect (for me) over time. My latest kick was chicken pot pie. I can honestly say mine is the best I've ever had (and I make it a point to try it at any fancy places). Granted I probably cooked around 2 or 3 dozen of 'em trying little differences. Anyways..those are 2 different optimizations...optimizing for prep time / yield and optimizing for taste. There are also in betweens...like sous vide techniques..which can knock out both of those.

Cooking is like startups..don't be afraid of failure. Worst it'll cost you is a couple bad tastes and a couple bucks (salmonella and cross-contamination aside).
Yeah, now that you mention it. Never thought about that. USB 3.0 B is on my external hard drive enclosure. I wonder if there are ANY printers that use Micro-USB? I've never seen one.
Thanks for the insights.
Perhaps it is time for companies to compete for talent on these parameters instead? I think I've seen some companies trying to attract talent like that now that I think about it (was it stack exchange perhaps?). I might underestimate the power of the almighty buck here, but I'd take the employer that says "we value work/life balance, when we say 40h/week we mean it literally, we allow remote work, and we have 5 paid weeks off".

As for my questions above, it still doesn't add upp. Either you don't have kids as long as you hold one of these jobs or at least both parents can't have such jobs, so it's basically a job that requires one parent to stay at home at least part time? Or you need a nanny to pick up your kids after school/kindergarten?
My guess is that you are going to say that normally one parent (and not a random one) just stays home for years after having kids, but that would be a real blow to my view of SF/NYC as progressive...

It seems odd to me that people making a lot of money (which I hope these salaries are considered), wouldn't just invest a huge chunk of it in family/free time, by simply working less hours, e.g. 75% at 75% pay.

With my european glasses, the salaries look huge, but of course I haven't factored the cost of living and certainly not the impact on work/life balance. I hold a well paid (by local standards) full time dev job, and I drop off kids at 8 and pick them up at 4.30. Every other day my wife does that so I can work a bit longer. I never manage to do 40h at the office, but it's considered normal for people with kids to leave early and do an hour or so of work in the evening.

Not sure what my point is, I guess it's that I'm surprised of how a "culture of work" can form in this way in a country that is often percieved as valuing family quite a lot, especially in progressive regions where presumably equality means a lot. Also I'm surprised of how employers (candidates, rather) aren't pushing the compensation in a more work/life balance friendly direction. Especially since these were visa applications, a lot of which I assume come from people used to 5w holidays and actual 40h workweeks.
I tried Gnome 3 too lately, and I am kind of thrilled by the experience.

The whole desktop is very thoughfully crafted. The creators really care about the user experience.
I've been really digging TomatoSherpa.com.
He's mistaken. It's free (as far as I can tell) to transfer money, but transferring shares isn't.
Wuala has supported this for as long as I can remember, it's called "WualaDrive": a network mount of your entire file archive.
1)

- because it's fun, and I really like to eat what I cook

- cooking for a girl and being told it tastes good is one of the things I live for

- it's the only occasion where I can eat really well.

2) typically I recognize a nice occasion or it catches my whim a few hours to a day before the act.

3) a big-ass stir-fry, with or without a bit of meat

4) no

5) cook simple
Your use of disclaimers shows that you are well versed in compliance matters when it comes to dispensing investment advice ;)
1. Recreation.

2. A bit of both. Tend to plan to buy big cuts of meat, whole chickens, fish and seafood from the local market. The rest comes from Ocado (online grocery deliveries in the UK) and we order pretty much the same things each week - pasta, vegetables, rice, herbs, all the other little ingredients. We add to that as we see we're getting low on things in the kitchen.

3. https://pinboard.in/search/u:kjw?query=recipe

And then more mundane stuff - stick all the remaining veg in with pasta, pasta bakes, lasagne, pizza (so easy to make from scratch.)

4. No.

5. I don't aim to be a productive cook.
Most every democracy with serious and continuing problems with terrorism throw out the law book and human rights.

Afaik, this goes for USA, Britain, Israel, Germany, Spain and Italy. And probably more cases. (Note "continuing problems". e.g. Breivik was a lone crazy.)

The reason is shown by the grandparent comment; terrorism is optimized to scare voters. And politicians are scared of hysterical voters, they need to fix that to keep their jobs.
MacFuse worked well when it was first released, but it has not been maintained in years and has no maintainers and does not really work with any recent OSX versions at the moment.

It looks like there might be something called OSXFuse which might be more recent and maintained, but I haven't looked at it, it also might not be.
Cue "Red Hat conspiracy!" And "Lennart kills Linux and my kittens"
What makes you so special that you can't do a 40 hour work week.
Paypal is going to acquire the shit out of them. Calling it now.
I've worked with insight and bitcore, which are both Bitpay developed. Very positive experience with both of them.
Time capsule found inside Old State House lion statue in Boston
The most interesting thing about this thread (and the one on Github) is that so many programmers are now incapable of discerning between good use of goto, and bad use of goto. "goto is bad" has become a hard-line rule that programmers follow now without question or consideration.

Here's the current version of the retry function:

function retry($retries, callable $fn)
{
beginning:
try {
return $fn();
} catch (\Exception $e) {
if (!$retries) {
throw new FailingTooHardException('', 0, $e);
}
$retries--;
goto beginning;
}
}

Now, throw out everything you know about gotos for a moment, and really look at the code. Is it unreadable? Hard to understand? Does it do anything wrong other than violate the hard rule, "thou shalt not goto"?

And if gotos are inherently, irredeemably evil, then why do we use switch statements? Because each case label in a switch statement is a goto.

Dijsktra in his original letter condemned the "unbridled" use of gotos. At that time, there was -- according to Dijsktra -- a growing trend in programming, where gotos were used to jump from one area of a program to the next, and into and out of loops, making the program flow very difficult to follow. (A good review of Dijsktra's "Goto considered harmful" is at http://david.tribble.com/text/goto.html .) Dijsktra proposed abolishing goto altogether as a knee-jerk reaction to the habits of that era's programmers, but only because in his view it was too great of a temptation for abuse. I doubt Dijsktra would have even raised an eyebrow at the use of goto in the example above.
If someone is willing to murder me for my money, a bank (or the FDIC) won’t keep that from happening. All the bank needs for me to wire all of my money into someone’s account is my ID, signature and the other account’s details. This would-be robber could strap a bomb to me while I execute the transaction, or hold a loved one hostage. The FDIC can do nothing in this scenario.

I’d suggest reading up on multisignature transactions and bitcoin, which is an even safer way to store bitcoin than I’ve mentioned: http://bitcoinmagazine.com/11108/multisig-future-bitcoin/

We simply disagree on the value of bitcoin.
Unfortunately, yes. I'm a commander in the Israeli Defense Forces, and I've made 10's of arrests of terrorists. Most of them were attempting to hit populated centers with no military connection. If we didn't have the intel on them, we never would have been able to stop them. There is a big difference between that type of domestic surveillance and what the NSA carries out on the citizens of its own country - namely that things aren't blowing up in the USA every single day.
Please explain the trade off, I can't see myself debugging an unindented XML file without an appropriate reader. Exactly like a binary file.
Unreal Engine 4 and a Small Team – Day 1
It will cost less to transport money and align the exchange amount of currencies with real market value.
Siue, nimium linguam latinam diligis. Eruditio nunc mera charta est.
The reason the stock market is generally referred to as "investing" instead of "gambling" is because the expected return is positive instead of negative. While I would not recommend randomly investing, it's not such a terrible thing.
Precisely. As a small, personal investor the last thing you is to make frequent trades thinking that you can beat the market- unless it is your toy money.

Wealthfront and others are making the stock market better for individual investors, retirement savers, and so on. This to the contrary appears like stressing the gambling aspect of it.

I would love to be wrong, but it is hard to see how this will make markets better and not lose people a lot of money. (Provided they don't 'pivot' in the future.)
Be encouraged; everyone starts somewhere
Digital organisms in the future will search for their ancient roots in these phylobinary trees. They will worship different sect based on different beliefs of THE founder compiler. They will deify the human who hand-wrote the first compiler..
Is asocial free for coining?
Tony Abbott: The balance between freedom and security may have to shift
Depends on the size of the company, IME. Small to mid-caps can be very transparent. To add extra protection, buy at the lower end of the market cycle or when the sector of the stock is out of favor.
I'd say that 15TB is not a common case.

Most of the hard drives installed in new computers these days are less than 2TB, and less than 1TB on laptops (which are very popular).

At the moment Dropbox has only a (free) plan of 2GB and another of 1TB. I think this is something that needs to be managed by Dropbox, if they want users to be happy.
High school is over. Grow the fuck up.
And in this one as well. The site and related accounts are now banned.
We chose Airbnb because the complexity of their site highlights the flexibility of our technology. That being said, we also assumed they wouldn't mind because of their origins :)
I've went through 9 terrorist attacks in Israel before I joined the military - I lived in downtown Jerusalem during the Second Intifada. In the other countries, you're right - there is no excuse for getting rid of personal rights and freedoms, but in Israel the sheer number of terrorist attacks cause the reality to be different. If we didn't have the intel, we could never stop the terrorists, and that is simply unacceptable.
Been using this for awhile. Deactivated it because it's a huge security risk at border crossings.
There is a quantifiable value to retail order flow [1], which is realized either by selling the order flow or internalizing trades (or by other means unfamiliar to me).

...mark up the prices their customers are paying for securities.

It would have been much more accurate to say that the broker is benefiting from part of the spread. Of course, one expects a service provider to benefit from providing a service.

This is also true of exchanging currencies and everything else in the capitalist circle of life -- so it was very possibly not a useful comment.

[1] What is the opposite of adverse selection? Advantageous selection?
Ooh, this is fun:

22. Developers don't like to concentrate on their work for more than about 30-45 minutes at a stretch. So make sure to liven up their days with lots of meetings spread over the course of the day!
Don't think the solution to people who is to monitor these people or atleast not entirely. You make it sound like the just out of nowhere choose to blow themselves ,like it's in the DNA . There's an atmosphere of hate and oppression ,as long as that exists ,there will always be terrorist.

No amount of spying will solve that ,9/11 was planned by a bunch of guys in a basement . Data mining my porno history won't stop groups like ISIS from forming.
Do you have some time to show me over skype? We've done extensive user testing, but may have missed a few bugs. Email me at serge@parsehub.com, skype id is t.sergiu
If we stopped protecting dumb banks from themselves and everyone else, we wouldn't need to worry so much about protecting dumb people from themselves.

As for efficient markets - I'm still trying to understand how social institutions that melt down every decade or so and are a consistent focus of criminal proceedings can be considered 'efficient.'
The U.S. considered using nuclear bombs to blast out a highway
Sorry about that. We haven't tested with Tor.

I hope disabling Tor is suitable for your use case.
Apple Think Different Ad – Muhammad Ali (1997)
ExpanDrive is nice (and a quite appropriate plug), but it doesn't quite hit the sweet spot.

The issue is that products like ExpanDrive make all online storage drives to which you have to copy first, and upstream is still relatively slow even in countries with cheap high bandwidth downstream. It's still just FTP with a nicely integrated interface.

The ideal would be something that keeps the files locally until they have been synced in the background, and then removes the local copies whilst still allowing you to access them in the same way as if they were local copies. I.e., placing them in your cloud drive is instant, even though it actually takes a while for them to be transferred.

No, that's not an easy problem to solve, but anyone who does solve it will get my money.

(Really awesome would be if it intelligently kept local copies available based on usage and available space. The bottom line is: not having to consciously worry about where to put the files.)
I'm new to the React world but this sounds a bit like what Flux (http://facebook.github.io/react/docs/flux-overview.html) is trying to acheive. Does anyone know how these libraries (either cursor or cortex) could tie into that architecture?
Yes, it's unclear.

The CRTC is arguing that Netflix is now a legitimate broadcaster subject to the same laws that govern traditional broadcasters.

Open internet doesn't mean unregulated and lawless.

In fact, we need quite a bit of laws and regulations to ensure an open internet.
On the eve of the second American invasion in Iraq, the world's largest nonviolent demonstration occurred (to date) in New York City protesting the war. The war went ahead as scheduled.

Protest is totally irrelevant in the modern world. It is shuffled into free speech zones or tear gassed, LRAD'd, and pepper sprayed out of the way. "Less-lethal" armaments and massive police militarization means that there will never be another Kent State to shock us into action; instead, the state can play an indefinite game of divide-and-conquer by marginalizing anyone more radical than Ralph Nader, helped by centrist opportunists.

I lived in Washington, DC most of my life. There were always protests. When the police decided the protests would stop, they would roll in the APCs and the LRADs and flex-cuffs and stop them. Most of the time there was no need, since the protesters did the police's job for them, herding themselves into cages and keeping their voices down.

You could say that more people need to be there, or that the demand needs to be clearer, or that the movement needs to be more cohesive, but you can literally always say those things, so they aren't really useful criticisms. Rather, they betray a sort of Boxer-esque "we must work harder" mindset where it's always the fault of the protesters for not trying hard enough in their use of a wholly ineffective tool.

Combine this with state and corporate control of virtually all news media, and a surveillance and police system that is able to destabilize any social justice movement before it even begins (Occupy was a great example of this), you have an unshakable state that can enact whatever policies it wishes.

Ironically, pleading to Google is probably more successful than pleading to your congressman. The plutocrats at Google actually fear your use of alternative services and aren't fattened on incumbency, so they'll respond (as they have in the past) and use their actual power to attempt, at least, to effect real change. Though we've seen how that works so far.
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I did something similar. Two friends of mine were unhappy with their jobs. One was a writer, and the other worked as a wordpress administrator. I started a somewhat informal weekly class, and six months later they both work as software developers.

It absolutely works, and it's certainly more efficient than a four year degree.
That's a good answer :)
My guess would be Israel is more likely to handle sensitive and controversial data more strictly with unofficially "defected" US employee's. Domestic surveillance of any questionable kind can be kept very secret and they can apply very strict control over who has access to the data and how they can handle it - as well as bypassing any laws/legislation already in place.

Plus if you pissed off Israel whilst you're still there, you're in trouble..
> Most every democracy with serious and continuing problems with terrorism throw out the law book and human rights.

Most every government (whether or not it is a democracy, and whether or not it actually has serious and continuing problems with terrorism) latches on to terrorism as an excuse (though rarely the only excuse) to throw off legal (and/or traditional, depending on the nature of the--note the small "c"--constitution) constraints on the powers and activities of government.

> The reason is that terrorism is optimized to scare voters.

True.

> And politicians are scared of hysterical voters, they need to fix that.

Less true; politicians have a often want hysterical voters -- hysterical voters that can have a prepackaged solution (even if the conception has little to do with the problem that has made the voters hysterical) are very popular with politicians, because its how they get approval to do things that they want to do that would, aside from the hysteria, never be acceptable. Note how many of the measures adopted in the US in response to terrorism were things which had either been tried previously under other pretexts (most recently, in many cases, in the Drug War) -- either proposed as legislation and failed, attempted without legislation but ruled illegal without supporting legislation, or had legislation passed but ruled unconstitutional when adopted for domestic law enforcement purposes.
Has anyone ever produced a maximum viable product?

Or even tried to produce one?
I'm not familiar with the Windows 8 system, anything interesting you don't see in most tiling window managers?
The End of the Beginning for Digital Health
One I'd add is "upon reading any of these previous points, tell yourself why it doesn't apply to you so you can continue doing it."
I still feel like this is kind of backwards personally.

If they're forced to play Canadian music, it would seem to me that many or most people aren't interested in where the music came from as long as it gets your foot thumping. I'm a Canadian myself and I'm not interested in where it came from as long as it sounds good to me.

I feel like these laws are from a time before Youtube. In an age when anyone can post a video online and be famous if people actually like their work, why do we (Canadians) have to mandate that some of our music is Canadian?
BitAuth is an overly complex system that's seriously standing in the way of mass developer adoption.

http://blog.bitpay.com/2014/07/01/bitauth-for-decentralized-...
Cooking great dishes for people you love is the one of the best things you can do to express your feelings. I have an Italian bloodline, and remember my "nono" saying that you should always try to eat, drink and breath well - how can you live well doing such essential things carelessly?

Start with simple recipes for dishes you like. After some time you will start to mix recipes and get creative. Just use the fresher, top quality ingredients you can find and you will probably do well. Try to grow some vegetables, nothing like fresh herbs and condiments.
I like to cook for recreation but prefer to memorize recipes than follow them and dislike planning ahead. Incidentally that's what helped prompt me to create these illustrated recipes http://www.taskandtool.com/blogs/recipes with the goal of making losing my place in a recipe a thing of the past.