skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The wild part, in the grand scheme of things, is that their message is significantly true. They're not convincing consumers that they're being anti-consumers; they're actually consuming less by buying more durable goods that last longer and have a better lifecycle.

It's not only true, the truth of it makes it incredibly authentic, and if there's anything that appeals to the market these days, it's authenticity.

The supposedly 'crazy idea' that sustainability is, in fact, economically sustainable and even beneficial is a pretty amazing thing. It's a way to be more successful; it is not a cost. For more, check out Bill McDonough's excellent book "Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way we Make Things" -- http://www.mcdonough.com/speaking-writing/cradle-to-cradle/

Side note, I grew up extremely close to Patagonia for about 25 years (literally—went to kindergarten there), my father was highly influential in the leadership and direction of the company, helped come up with the "Don't Buy This Jacket" campaign and led many sustainability efforts. Ask me anything.
The non-commutative interpretation requires that you also flip the green card. I think a lot of people failed the question even if correctly interpreting the words.
Saw a post on stackoverflow the other day where the OP justified in comments that their client had 7% IE7 users.

Browsers are getting upgraded in general, but you still get government-x and company-y asking for IE7 support.
That's fun when you have to tell the answer to someone on the phone, like a customer service agent.
Instead of plotting a count per exact salary could you plot count per binned salary? Ie instead of plotting 1 at 105k and 1 at 107k plot 2 at 100-110k.

As it is the plots aren't particularly useful for comparing the distribution of salaries between companies etc.
Preach it loud and true brother!

I had MySQL clustering in the lab with some serious live traffic for about a month. Unless you have a team of DBs whose job is just to monitor it and keep it going MacGyver style, seriously forget it.

There are other better options out there, with less headaches!
Which doesn't sound like either content addressable or a union filesystem. Unless it's using the filenames as indexes in which case I guess it is content addressable, but has a serious flaw in that you're limited to only one unique filename:content pair per filesystem.
>The problem with this is that the 5 card also needs to be turned; it might have an even number on the back.

If you can't be sure that the cards have a color and a numbers, there's nothing outlawing a 5-6 card, which breaks (2).
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> There's definitely a market for durable, repairable goods

I like the sound of Paramo jackets for that reason, but my partner won't be seen dead with me wearing one. Which is a shame.
Chouinard's book Let My People Go Surfing is an excellent overview of the history and philosophy of Patagonia, as well Chouinard's thoughts on innovation. I would highly recommend it to any entrepreneur.

I think Patagonia is growing primarily because they make really nice stuff, and a little bit because of their great PR. Basically, their products deliver on the promise of their PR. They really do work well and last a long time. I have Patagonia jackets, gloves, socks, even lightweight cotton Hawaiian shirts from the late 90s that I still wear today.
I had the same experience (initially picking the wrong color card but then saying, wait, no, I'm a math major. Contrapositive, duh)... So, yeah it seems like the system1/system2 makes experiential sense. But: are we not using system 1 to evaluate the system1/system2 system?
I would think it protects the company just as much. I've never sold a company but I'd imagine that people often don't want their customers and/or employees knowing that they're shopping the company around. Requiring an NDA before the company name is shared presumably makes it significantly less likely that word will spread in undesired ways...
Good points, but people are right to be skeptical. Often the technology can be very damaging, from lead (in paint and in the atmosphere) to asbestos to industrial accidents to partially hydrogenated fats to climate change, tech has created a lot of suffering and usually that cost is mostly externalized on the victims.

I don't reject all tech, but we can't realistically want people, especially those without the resources to understand it for themslves, to just trust the engineers and scientists.
Is there a good blog that discusses marketing strategies of various companies? I loved "Ogilvy On Advertising" and would enjoy the occasional case study about modern marketing campaigns and brands that features plenty of photos to demonstrate the point.

For reference, the image of the "Don't Buy This Jacket" ad is in this article: http://www.adweek.com/news/advertising-branding/ad-day-patag...
Yes, agreed. That can be solved with transmission lines, we just need to start building them.

Curious. Could we build transmission lines over existing freight tracks across the US? And have them serve double-duty? Both transporting power up top at very high voltages, and down below providing traction power to locomotives?
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They're part of the engines because the air has to be compressed and heated before going into the cabin (in flight, it's 1/3 of normal pressure and -40C outside) which, it turns out, the compressor turbine is perfectly suited for.
Same here, I was expecting a discussion of real estate regulation in southern Argentina!
Some sort of housing adjusted salary would be valuable. But simply as a percentage type thing might miss the way people experience expenses.

Think about it this way. Suppose you make $30,000 a year, and your housing costs are $10,000 a year.

Now suppose you make $200,000 a year, and your housing cost are $100,000 a year. Aside from that, prices in the higher cost area are maybe 10-20% higher.

You might actually have more disposable income in the second scenario, along with more opportunities to enjoy it. This is why I think SF is still a pleasurable place to live for people who substantially exceed a certain threshold. That threshold is very high, though.
Yeah, the TV series has put me off reading them too. I'd rather just experience the one version of the story. I've been waiting for it to catch up to where I remember in the books.

Having said that, I have bought the latest book and will probably buy the rest, I'm just not sure if I'll get round to reading them until the series is finished. Which given the overall slowness so far, could be another 10-15 years! That's why even though I highly enjoy a good epic, I really can't stand reading them anymore. It's a love/hate thing now.
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> If you are a sole proprietor the EIN is your SSN.

An SSN is a federal tax ID. An EIN is a federal tax id. An ITIN is a federal tax ID. But an SSN (or ITIN) is not an EIN.

Most businesses should have an EIN, even if they are sole proprietorships (if you have to pay employment taxes, among other things [0], you must have an EIN.)

[0] http://www.irs.gov/Businesses/Small-Businesses-&-Self-Employ...
> Exactly how Swift is Swift?

Adjectives shouldn't be capitalized.
I didn't downvote you, but foul language almost guarantees a downvote.
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> There's a significant difference.

Not in that they're both irrational.
It is still pretty good. If you figure the housing premium between the Bay Area & a "normal" city is $1.5M vs $300K for roughly the same "middle class" house, then the monthly mortgage difference is about $5500, or about $66K/year.

So that $350K is equivalent to $284K in a "normal" place. Even being really conservative, and figuring extra costs (private school tuition, because even that $1.5M might not be enough to get you good schools, extra CA taxes, higher insurance rates, etc), we're still at an equivalent of about $250K. And that's a lot better than most people could get in any "normal" metro area as a Software Engineer.
Omg, it's awesome! The interface... stunning. I work in the 'lil team of fifteen people, working on social network focused on students and young developers, and this, this made me think and want more...
It's awesome!

PS. I love the name. I will spread it!
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tl;dr Swift could not be more Swift but could definitely be more swift.
>>"Each card has a number on one side and a color on the other side."

>So 5 could not have an even number on the back given the rules. //

Having "a number" on one side doesn't mean it only has one. Nor does having a colour on the other side mean it doesn't have more than one colour, nor indeed that it doesn't have colours on both sides.

It's like me saying "I have a coin in my pocket" it only tells you the number is >= 1 assuming I'm being truthful.

If you expect a precise answer you need to ask the question in a precise manner.
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I agree. It is definitely not an issue of phrasing. I have had so many discussions where people fail to comprehend the concrete differences between converse, inverse, contrapositive, especially in relation to causality/mechanism. To me this seems to be especially bad in political discussions on facebook, but also, is even a critical issue among some PhD level synthetic organic chemistry students - where "mechanism" is a very important concept.

I am certain that these people would miss this problem on a first pass, second pass, and maybe even third or fourth pass.
Unrelated to this thread, but have to say, text/background color contrasts and font sizes on starfighter landing page are a bit painful to the eyes.
I do not agree that the Greater Fool theory is a necessary condition for there being a bubble. That would be closer to a pyramid or a Ponzi scheme. Not 100% sure of what the difference is.

Rather, the problem is when unsophisticated investors buy in because they don't want to miss out of the gravy train. It does not matter if the mantra of the day is "Computing/BigData/DaCloud is eating the world" or "Real state prices will keep going up in the foreseeable future" or whatever they said during the years of the Tulip mania; it is always magical thinking.

In theory, everybody knows that VC are high-risk/high-rewards. In practice, once the dumb money starts flowing, it's only a matter of time before short term greed triumphs over common sense and sound business practices.
My Canadian contacts in the fields say otherwise (the ones that aren't laid off...), but I can see how if the exploration is down the number of workers would be reduced as well as when the rig counts are down, hard to square that with production being up but I guess that's possible too if you exploit fewer rigs. The boom has definitely halted though and there is no sign of it resuming any time soon, also there are more and better organized actions against the environmental impact of fracking.
Holy moly. Looks like I have some cleanup to do :|
The Linux kernel is fine.

The biggest problem with the Linux ecosystem is that windowing systems and X-Window (and clones) in particular are an inefficient design. They're given up performance, increased complexity, and made writing applications more difficult than they need to be. The only trade-off people keep mentioning is "you can now run it over the network!!!" which is something few users do, and VNC (and similar remote desktop solutions) remain very popular (since remote windowing is complex and problem prone).

Essentially I'd design the UI/GUI experience more akin to Android (or failing that at least monolithic like MS Windows, but without the Win32 problems). In 2015, it may be HTML5/JavaScript/CSS based like Windows Store/iOS/Android apps, as that seems to be the direction the market is heading anyway.
The real model of many "disruptive" startups is to come into some regulated industry and only handle the easy cases/jobs/customers. Because they are only doing the easy cases, they can do it cheaper and make the experience more streamlined or friendly.

Their regulated competitors are required to handle all cases.

Since the easy cases are usually them most profitable, and the hard cases might even be money losers that are subsidized by the easy cases, this can be very bad. The disruptive startup might even kill off the competitors, and then those people who are the hard cases can be left unserved until regulators manage to catch up and put the startup under regulation.
I've been using a Toshiba Chromebook 2 (4GB, full-HD display version) that I got on sale at Best Buy for ~$280 during their Black Friday/Cyber Monday sales and it's really done good for me so far. Crouton took no time at all to set up, and I only use it when I can't do something in the cloud or SSH'd to one of my servers. Since most of my time, including most development time, is spent "in the cloud" then the only thing I really need my Chromebook for is basic web browsing and an SSH client. I also occasionally use Koding for development, and I'm looking into Cloud9 just for the added ability of being able to hook it up to my own server(s). Most of my work is web development (Go, JavaScript/Node.js, HTML stuff, python, ruby, etc.), software development (Go, Linux stuff, etc.), and security auditing/light pentesting (which I can do with a small set of tool using crouton or other tools that live on my servers).

Overall, if you have something that's nearly always on - like a server or VM - then the Chromebook will treat you really well. Even if you don't have one, you can easily use free services such as Koding and Cloud9 for development systems, all without even touching crouton. The only thing you'd really need crouton for is if you want more fine grain control of the software living on your machine, install other program (e.g. firefox, tor browser, atom, or any linux programs).

As far as hardware, the Chromebook has just what I need to survive. The speakers on the Toshiba Chromebook 2 are awesomely loud, and made by SkullCandy which explains that. The battery life at 100% can easily last 10-12 hours of full use. The display is a gorgeous 1080P IPS display, and it has HDMI out just in case. The 4GB full-HD model also has a 2.58 GHz intel celeron processor, so I don't have to worry about ARM compatibilities and it just runs very well, plus it has 4GB of RAM to help with that processing. One factor I was very surprised about was the weight: it's barely there. Seriously though, I didn't expect it to be that light. But it doesn't have a fan, so that could explain why it's so light - not enough thickness to pack heavier componentry into. And it doesn't get too hot at all either, unless you're using it from 100% to dead constantly with heavier processing then it gets just a bit warm.

Overall, if you can shell out the couple hundred dollars for a Chromebook, I'd go for it.
The code is solid. I gauge this by the simple fact that when I review the project, I don't absolutely hate it ;-)

I need to circle back around as there are some features I'd like to add. PRs are welcome.
I saw another post in an HN thread today - it reminded me that sending electricity by wire over long distances is costly - you use something like 1% of the electrical load for every kilometer you send it.

With that kind of efficiency, I'm wondering how much energy it would take to ship a container of batteries across the country - how many kWh could you store in 45,000 lbs of lithium? That might be explosive or otherwise prohibitive, so what about 45,000 lbs of nickel cadmium?

Maybe we've been looking at energy transmission backwards, and we should be shipping it the way we ship everything else? And if we put the container on your train, it could power the train too.
They can see it in front of them so you can read it back to them in less than 15 seconds. They'll probably zone out while you're reading it anyway.
Not for opinion which "I would argue" flags this as such.
It seems, though that I was misinterpreting the original parent on this thread, though.

I don't retract anything I said, but apparently his confusion was different.
It's quite hard to gain traction on a corporate sale and you're right that keeping the customers and the consumers in the dark is 'par for the course', but to withhold the name of the company from an interested party serves only one goal.

Think about it: I have this company for sale but I won't tell you which one it is until you sign this document.

What's is there to lose for the company to have its name spread to those that might be interested?

It's not like they're advertising the name in the NYT or making it public other than on a one-to-one basis with leads and those leads are definitely not going to publish the name if they're really interested because the last thing they need is more interest from others.
http://sideprojectsforsale.com - I had the same thought last year and made this working prototype for these types of businesses. It's pretty straightforward and mostly for the purpose of putting people in touch.
Is there a UI toolkit you would recommend?
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Cue the famous Bill Hicks bit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEnA29wK7uM
I don't think a potential acquisition would mean much for Heroku's independence, they continued business as usual after the SFDC acquisition, so it'd make no sense for Microsoft to worry about rolling them into Azure (these things take years in practice), at least in the short term.
Very true. I work for SalesForce's only major competitor. We were acquired by Oracle as social marketing is a space that they had almost no understanding of but a strong desire to enter. Since our company was already researching social analytics, sentiment analysis and direct social marketing tools, I'm sure it was easier for them to acquire us than start R&D on their own tool suites. Not to mention our already installed client base. Salesforce is a hot commodity in our space. Were MS to acquire them they would have a foot in the social space with almost no time investment and little onboarding expenses. I'm kind of surprised this deal fell through.
So if I understand correctly:

You trust that if a card has a color on one side, it has a number on the other side.

You do not trust that if a card has a number on one side, it has a color on the other side.

Is this correct?
If my rent became unaffordable, that would be unfortunate and inconvenient. But I think rather than choosing to become homeless I would move somewhere else where I could afford it.
Won't argue semantics, but "a" and "one" are typically used interchangeably. A shirt with "a color" it's assumed to be "one color".

"Will you hand me a pencil" doesn't mean I want you to hand me at least 1 pencil but possibly 5.

I see where you are trying to come from with that angle though. You can feel free to apply different semantics to "a ___ "but I feel the general consensus is that it is equivalent to "one ____".

Note that "a colored shirt" is not the same as "a shirt with a color". As "A colored shirt" could be a shirt with multiple colors due to the ambiguity of "colored".

E:

From the article:

>In one version of the task, one subject (always one—he spurned testing subjects in groups) is presented with four cards lying flat on a table, each with a single-digit number on one face and one of two colors on the other.

It specifies "one" for the colors.
There's a large retailer here in Canada -- Canadian Tire -- that I personally think should be legally forbidden from selling a good portion of the products they sell: Tools that break on the first use. Toys that have a very short path to the landfill (I feel a pang of guilt when a relative gifts one of my children with a "New Bright" or whatever utter junk brand toy is that they picked up at CT, knowing it won't make it through the night, immediately gauging just how large of a garbage bag it will need). Ultra low quality outdoor wear and tents. Cheaply made bicycles. BBQs that rust out 3 months into their life.

They are purveyors of poor satisfaction garbage dump filler products that only barely fulfill their stated purpose. Most consumers have become so accustomed to this that they don't even realize there's an issue.

It's a serious problem. A minimum level of durability for a given purpose is one of those things that is a benefit of the commons -- it is good for the entire planet.
I haven't read the books but it's my understanding that the show has caught up with the books & that you may be confused if you try to jump straight from the middle of the books to the middle of the show, since they've changed many of the characters' storylines.
I've seen that. It's either mistake or he sold the shares.
Inside the company that made the Witcher
> and if they turn off the track the length of the wheel changes

But is doesn't actually change. A different part of the wheel comes into contact with the rail, but that different part always had a higher linear speed. It just wasn't in contact with the rail until the turn.

But with these bearings, it appears that the balls themselves actually do speed up or slow down to maintain separation from one another. In that case, there must be a force coming from somewhere to effect those changes.
Very good read, thanks for sharing it.

I am little younger than you, my first UNIX was Xenix brought in a PC into our classes, where we got to code some IPC stuff in K&R C.

Although I dislike C (I rather use C++) and enjoy other approaches to OS design besides UNIX model, I have to thank knowing UNIX for a great deal of my career.

Got to use Xenix, DG/UX, Aix, Solaris, HP-UX, GNU/Linux, FreeBSD at various moments.
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Hey now. I said political involvement (other countries saying 'yes' or 'no'). Certainly the US has always engaged in trade and self defense. You've argued a straw man.

Basic history of the United States is that it was, broadly, a non-interventionist nation that refused to get involved in other nations wars. You are the one who has mischaracterized basic history.

"She has, in the lapse of nearly half a century, without a single exception, respected the independence of other nations, while asserting and maintaining her own. She has abstained from interference in the concerns of others, even when the conflict has been for principles to which she clings, as to the last vital drop that visits the heart. She has seen that probably for centuries to come, all the contests of that Aceldama, the European World, will be contests between inveterate power, and emerging right.

Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her heart, her benedictions and her prayers be. But she goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. She will recommend the general cause, by the countenance of her voice, and the benignant sympathy of her example."
Missing in action: Goethe's Farbenlehre http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_Colours
and Schopenhaeur's physiological approach http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Vision_and_Colors
I know the Monroe doctrine primarily focused on keeping the Europeans out of the Americas, but according to the wiki entry: The doctrine noted that the United States would neither interfere with existing European colonies nor meddle in the internal concerns of European countries.
Joy!

After the speedy download from Github (which weighs in at more than 40 times the capacity of the hard drive which held my first *nix system), I was able to locate a patch I submitted to FreeBSD in less than 12 seconds from running gitk on the file in question, thanks to the wonderful world of Git.

I shudder at the thought of having to manage all of this using CVS, pulling changes using CVSup or whatnot.

Thanks for sharing! :-)
Quite a few tool companies (hand tools, mostly) have a similar strategy and you buy their tools for life.

More about the 'worn wear' tour here:

http://www.notcot.com/archives/2015/04/patagonia-worn-wear-t...