skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The list is surprisingly long. Obviously detaining someone simply because they wear the cheapest mass-market watch out there is ridiculous, but could it be statistically unusual?
It's the #22 best selling watch on Amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/Casio-F91W-1-Classic-Black-Digital/dp/...
Thank you for all your replies. Many suggested Outright, Less Accounting, and Quickbooks. I tried all of them. They're not simple enough for me. I like Outright but what's missing (and the most important feature for me) is the ability to generate the three most important financial statements: Balance Sheet, Income Statement, and Cash Flow Statement. Outright can generate an Income Statement, but it's more tailored to US requirements. It would be great if the financial statements can be in Excel format so modifications, like typing in a header, will be easy. The three financial statements are very important for me because I need to submit them annually to the government. Also, it gives a picture of my business.

I think I'll go for it! =) MVP will be doing simple bookkeeping and generating the three financial statements. These are the basics of accounting. I guess even if nobody buys it or subscribes to it. I will still end up with something I really need. Thanks again.
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If this was some random person, or even some random company, laying claim to the device, you may have a leg to stand on. It's Apple. Do you really think they'd go out and ask journalists for some iPhone knockoff prototype? Come on.
Google has a completely different back-end architecture than a dinky website, and the costs come from the sophistication and complexity of the systems required at that scale.

Google has multiple data centers, dedicated caching and web clusters, complex internal network routing and load-balancing, etc. Then there's stuff like javascript and image hosting optimizations that you've got to make sure work without triggering SSL warnings across thousands of servers. Enabling SSL support for something like Googe search could potentially touch tens of thousands of systems. In short, maybe it's as simple as flipping a bit to enable SSL on the web farm, but I doubt it. There's probably a massive amount of internal engineering and organization behind the change, and that cost is what you're neglecting.

To give you perspective, it's trivial to enable SSL on a single-box website; it can be done in an afternoon. When we turned it on at Justin.tv, it took a few days (let's call it a week) of initial work, and ongoing maintenance costs to make sure that SSL sessions weren't breaking as we made improvements across the site. The costs go up as you get bigger and more complicated.
From the original sources,( http://blog.chromium.org/2010/05/sneak-peek-at-native-client... ), it seems that this is only x86/x86-64 compatible, wheras most android deployments run on ARM. I don't know how they hope to get around that, as mobile devices seem to be tied closely to the future to the web.
Privacy is kind of an arbitrary culture-dependent thing, which means (optimistically) that we can and should rationally evaluate what kind of culture we want to live in and work towards it.

Personally I only keep things private for two reasons:

1. I am ashamed of them. I would like to keep private when I make a mistake or lose emotional control. This is just vanity and it's small of me to want to keep these things private.

2. For the courtesy of others. People don't want to hear about my sex life so I don't tell them. People don't want to see my naked body so I wear clothes. That's related to privacy but different because the issue is letting people filter the information they consume, not the information they publish, and privacy is more about letting people filter the information they publish.
I was simply trying to explain that someone_here's original question was more likely inspired by ignorance at the meaning of "framework" than by the extreme belief that any and all library usage is disallowed by 3.3.1, and thus wasn't an example of "irrational ... hate for Apple's policies."

I know both definitions of "framework", and can differentiate them by context of usage—but a good journalist avoids, in their writing, words with clashing jargon/non-jargon definitions (for example, "begs the question") even when using them correctly under the jargon sense—because people unfamiliar with the jargon will assume the general term, and get all sorts of confused.
Considering the fact that every line of js you execute is run in a VM that is implemented in c/c-with-classes I am guessing this will not really be much of a contest... :)
"on web usage". What a joke.
Yes, it's a rule of thumb called called "Tillys anything but a law" as discussed here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1319054

The idea is that a network is more valuable the more connections there are in the network. Think of the difference between two new people added to the end of a line connected front to back, and two new people added by connecting them to everyone already there, who are also connected all to each other. The latter is more like a social network than the former.
We shouldn't jump to conclusions. Has anyone else actually confirmed this? His pop-up might have been from elsewhere..
Good idea, bad execution.

1) Why even charge for posting pictures of stuff people want to sell? Put yourself as an user. Browsing through craigslist or ebay, I almost 100% filter out listings without an image. That's not the bare minimum, that's required. I know you use the bill me later approach for pics, but why even push users to fill your site with listings with poor conversion rates?

2) Browse listings, not even sure how to do that.
# Type in what you're looking for. << Type where?
# Look at what's being sold. << Where's the listing?
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Exactly. Not tied to a payment gateway's integration code or a 3rd party service provider like Recurly or Spreedly. No transaction fees or external dependencies.
Agreed, and I emailed the attorney who wrote that piece and told him as much. That affidavit reads like a Coen Brothers screenplay, and I don't see any room for EFF to defend anyone involved in the whole sordid affair. (Except maybe the roommate who tried to talk Hogan out of selling the phone.)
I love how they are making use of what is essentially a 'Flash hack' commonly used by shady types to get around popup blockers – load a Flash object and use that to launch a new window – to show a popup preaching the virtues of Flash.
http://imgur.com/ZtcnY.png

It never changes from this...

Oh, it helps if you mention that it has to be clicked and executed while actually on facebook.com. You should alter the bookmarklet to reflect that.

Also, please make it easy to copy/paste the bookmarklet. I do not have a bookmark bar and don't enjoy digging through the source of the page to get the necessary bit of javascript.

For those in a similar situation:
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Also, your src attribute is missing a closing apostrophe, unless HN scrubbed it earlier. Never mind, it is HN's fault. Sorry folks, you have to go source-diving yourself as well.
When business started picking up, I incorporated (Ltd in UK) and thought of doing the exact same thing, where I build a simple app to do all the accounting statements. I mean, how hard could it be, right ?

Well, that's when I got hold of a Tax accountant and had a really in depth conversation with her about book keeping, financial statements and tax. I came out concluding that there are so many small nitty gritty rules that need to be satisfied (I'm thinking its the same situation in the US).

She recommended Sage Instant Account Plus, and while it is by far the least innovative product from an engineering point of view, it does the job and most important of all, it does it right. A good example would be that I need to submit a VAT statement to HMRC (UK's IRS) every quarter. Sage does it in a few clicks, and I can trust that the numbers look correct.

Now, Sage does have an import facility. I take 1-2 hours a month to do all my book keeping. Revenue is automated, expenses is not (manual entry). I'm reducing my supplier list and it should come down to a solid 1 hour a month.

If you're still compelled to move forward with this. Here is what I would look for:

1. An API to automate revenues. I really don't think putting in 1000s of monthly transactions is a good investment of time

2. Consulted and signed off by a number of accountants. This brings credibility to your service. I think this is important because I really don't want to be in a position 5 years down the line and owe the tax authorities £££

3. Ease of use! Sage is clunky. I can't count the number of times I had to use the "Corrections" facility and ammend/delete incorrect transactions. These are all expenses that I've manually put in, so, part of the blame has to go to me.

4. Don't stop at just the 3 sheets (balance, P&L, cash flow). Do add reporting facilities and a way to classify revenues/expenses. Would be good if you'd chuck in ratios as well.

These are the big ones for me. Sage sorta does (1). Its definitely (2) as its one of the most trusted accounting apps. Forget Sage on (3) and it does (4) in a really odd and clunky way (you need to put in different account types for different revenue streams and what-nots, uugghh).

I would prefer if its something I can run on my own server/desktop. If its a one-off fee, I would see something like £400-£500 a reasonable figure to pay for this.

If its an SaaS, I would see anywhere between £10-£20 a month. But there's always the 'trust' issue here.

HTH!!
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Well sure, but I think condescension has more to do with your attitude and tone of voice than what you say.
And that's the last daringfireball article I will read. I've ripped into the last three that have made it big here or on reddit and I'm tired of hearing the same things over and over.
For small projects, nearlyfreespeech.net is great. I also use them as my registrar.
Eben Moglen - Freedom in The Cloud 
one of the most interesting talks i've heard in a while
I know this is O/T, but I'm finding it incredibly aggravating that I have to put my mouse in the border of the page to scroll the article, lest the Scribd Flash box steal my mousewheel movements... I'm guessing this is to do with the OSX Flash plugin's lack of internal mousewheel support.
I have long doubted the validity of this "Metcalfe's Law", which "states that the value of a telecommunications network is proportional to the square of the number of connected users of the system (n2)".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalfe%27s_law

Generally the people in your social group is much more likely to belong to the same telecommunication system as you do. And you don't care nearly as much otherwise. Someone in Nepal will care a lot less when Facebook gains 100,000 more users in Italy than when those new users are in Nepal itself.

We can make a much better approximation of the real usefulness of the network by individualizing the law to each user, i.e.
"...the square of the number of connected users of the system (n2) in your relevant social group."

Notice that since an individual has "cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships", this modified law also place a much sharper limit on a network's usefulness by Dunbar's number. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number
What's next - drive an Isuzu?
I wonder how 4chan factors into a VC's perception of moot.
Gruber seems to be mocking Adobe's claim by suggesting that Microsoft Office is more open.

However, he never explains why Microsoft Office is not "open" and seems to be counting on generic anti-Microsoft sentiment to make the case for him. His post may have been a lot more convincing if he had explained why Office isn't "open" and then went on to explain why Flash is less "open" than Office.

Btw I say all this as an developer who thinks that section 3.3.1 makes a lot of sense for Apple and as someone who thinks that Flash is too buggy.
I remember reading somewhere from the NativeClient developers that they have thought about ARM, but just didn't focus on it yet. Of course ARM probably requires some significant new code because you can't use the same barrier technology as x86/x86-64 (or so I think).
The theme is a joke though. If finance people want to wait tables at a diner on the overnight shift, they can be my guest. Fewer of them to cause trouble while creating nothing.
Any plans to support Braintree?
They recorded beacons (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beacon_frame) for the purpose of mapping access point MAC addresses to locations (several other companies such as Skyhook also do this BTW). But it sounds like they accidentally logged all packets, not just beacons.
"He had attended an Ivy League school, studying drama and music, and was now back living at home."

There's plenty of professions in demand right now, even during this economic downturn. The reality, though, is that you can't skate by in fields like drama and music during a downturn like this.

"There are no jobs, and the jobs that do exist aren't the kinds anyone in his right mind would have spent $100,000 to $200,000 to land."

This is a ridiculous assertion. There may not be jobs out there for the field that he chose to study in, but that doesn't mean there aren't any jobs. Its nobody's fault that he chose to spend $200,000 for a degree in a field that nobody has a need to employ.

The economy and the jobs therein isn't based on what field he is interested in, it's based on what field there is a need for. My company has multiple developer positions open right now, but are we going to hire somebody with a drama degree? Of course not. We have lots of positions open for people that can actually generate economic output for the company: mechanical engineers, software developers, electrical engineers, etc. and even accountants.

Were degrees like drama and music ever that employable? I remember when I graduated (before the downturn) my friends in these majors were complaining then about finding jobs.
It's a kiss-simple, cheap, innocuous (until recently) timing, team coordination, and secondary intelligence gathering mechanism (via time-indexed observation logs of potential target activities).

These models are probably available for cash (at or below cost) through a plethora of street-side vendors, pawn shops, and cheap electronics retailers in any metropolitan area.

In principle, this is no different than "burner" cell phones historically used by drug dealers (and featured prominently in season 3 of The Wire).

I can envision more well-funded groups using Flip cameras.
You are right, do not mind the downmods.

Simple experiment, buy these three domains:

hgjhsushrdksjhfkshfkshf.com
hgjhsushrdksjhfkshfkshf.org
hgjhsushrdksjhfkshfkshf.net

Link them on a single page somewhere, wait Google to index it, and search for "hgjhsushrdksjhfkshfkshf". What tld will Google show first?

But if the .org or .net have a couple good links from somewhere else, they will rank higher. So, you're right on your pure domain keyword ranking, but I am from the opinion that it doesn't matter if you're going to use additional SEO techniques.
And on an OS mostly/entirely written in C. For most software out there I'd imagine C was used somewhere in that stack. The same can't be said about JavaScript.

That said, I bet JavaScript use will increase and C will shrink, relatively speaking.
When it comes to marketing to software developers, I think this is a disingenuous use of the term. It's not open source and the provider list is controlled by you.

And how does this solve being effectively tied to a specific provider? If I start with Authorize.net, isn't this using CIM to store all my customer payment profiles? Can I switch at will and take all my profiles with me to Payflow Pro?

I like the host-your-own-Spreedly idea to save on transaction fees. I think that should be your primary selling point.
What the hell were they thinking putting all of that in writing?

It was clearly not "The e in email stands for Evidence."
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Anything's possible. But if it isn't compatible with existing proxies, it isn't gonna happen any time soon.
Android has had an NDK for a while, maybe 8 months: http://developer.android.com/sdk/ndk/index.html

You can code in C and C++ but not with nice javascript bindings like native client has.
I disagree rather fervently with number seven. A person starving to death in the midst of a desert would see his life /quantifiably/ improved if given water, food and shelter. That's got less to do with his perspective and more to do with the fact that his probability of /dying/ is rather drastically decreased in the short term.

It gets a little murky when the fundamental necessities are taken care of, but it doesn't mean that the only reason a homeless person's not happy is because his or her perspective is wrong. Some things go a bit beyond internal factors.
If connecting over SSL your ISP would not have a complete record of everything you've done, that's the very point of https.
Unfortunately there is more to this than server support. IE6 and every browser on XP, including firefox and chrome, don't support the tls extension. Even apache doesn't ship
with it. For all practical purposes, name based virtual hosting still doesn't work for ssl. You'll need a seperate ip address for each name, unless you can use a wildcard.
No offense, but you just don't know what you're talking about mate.
Recording hits on AdSense or sponsored ads doesn't require logging the search. Even if it did, don't log the searches where I don't click an ad.

They would gain more users than they would lose revenue by implementing an easy to use and east-to-switch-to private mode. You know, for when I'm searching for horse porn, or whatever it is that I care if Google knows I'm looking at.
Much better security architecture. If you're technically inclined, you should read their paper about the NaCl architecture. http://nativeclient.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/src/native_clie...
It ought to show that he's got a great sense of how to build and run a community.

(I am an investor)
that is very enlightening but unfortunate
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Why online computer software training courses is a popular
I would think army of loyal followers would factor into it. If this guy makes something the people will come. Whether you can monetise this traffic though is another question.
Spaghetti and Android ARE completely unrelated :-)
I don't think I'll ever get to this point, but I'm slowly working my way up. Sold a few computers, excessive speakers, and more a few weeks ago to finish paying off my collegiate credit card debt.
It's unbelievably liberating.
I know I've dropped Firefox across the board. When Firefox 4 comes out, I'll give it a shot. It's slower to open, slower to load pages, slower to close, requires restarting on plugins and themes, flash crashes the whole browser, etc.

I don't know why anyone's using Firefox 3.x outside of some yet-unported extensions.
Yes, it's been confirmed, someone else saw the same source, an ad in Google Reader on a Techcrunch article, that I hadn't shared when I was first working on the story. Here is the discussion we were having about it when I went to look into the issue. http://ff.im/kjhfH
I see. Is there some documentation for the key derivation function that I missed? Or are we supposed to reverse-engineer the file encryption code to figure out how to use the the KDF? If the latter, that seems a little odd in light of the fact that you're actively promoting scrypt as a replacement for brcrypt and the concern you've expressed about people using crypto code incorrectly. I do not mean to imply that you are under any sort of obligation to provide documentation. But it seems to me that your stated purposes would be better served if the interface to the KDF were documented.
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I don't complain about FB making my info public, as I have never chosen to share any with them. However, I've been told on this site more than once that over-30's "don't get" Facebook and should ask young people to explain it to them, and should refrain from even making comments about FB.

So I find it a little amusing that one of the reasons I may not get it is because I am not a "dumb fuck". Regardless of the comment's provenance, I smiled when I heard it.
Why unfortunate?
Yeah, I don't get the point of cancelling the insurance. Selling the house and buying a smaller one would be a better idea.

Insurance doesn't buy stuff, it buys not having to worry and plan.
They died.
True. In financial markets, even small inefficiencies and impedance mis-matches can be exploited due to liquidity, fine-granularity, high transaction volumes, and uniform standards of measurement. The same principles don't down-scale to the individual athlete or small-group (team) dynamics.

Put another way, financial market strategies (in theory) can be constructed on matching/measuring against a continuous variance in capital efficiencies. Human performance is simultaneously less consistent, discrete, and difficult to measure.

Put another way, think of matching the torque/horsepower vs. rpm curves for a typical family sedan's engine versus a high-compression race engine. The former can get good performance with an automatic transmission, the later requires a stick shift and an experienced hand on the till.
Common mistake: just because you don't store credit cards it doesn't mean that this changes anything about your PCI DSS requirements. As long as CCs hit your IPs you are responsible for them. Not storing CCs simplifies certain things but you still have to get certified.
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There's no question that the fact that he created a site that ranks in the top 1000 on Alexa, before he was even 20, would positively factor into any investor's perception of moot and his business prospects. We wouldn't be hearing about him if not for 4chan, of course.
Speaking of the "under 30" cool crowd behaving in "dumb fuck"-y ways, check out Formspring. Endless hours of morbid entertainment.
Postscript: Sadly, Larry McDuff was killed in a hit-and-run accident while riding his bike near his home in June 2005. His wife, Ann, died in a similar bike accident just two years earlier.
I clicked through to the wikipedia entry for the first 10 detainees, in no case is possession of this particular model of Casio watch the only or even primary point of evidence in support of their detention. Some choice bits from various entries for people on this list:

The detainee met with and received money from Usama Bin Laden.

The detainee fought on the front lines for approximately nine months and fired his weapon at coalition forces.

Detainee stated he offered to help the Taliban.

The detainee resided in Taliban safehouses during his travel to and within Afghanistan.

This is certainly a curious thing, but without further info and context I have no basis to make a judgment one way or the other whether possession of this particular model of watch while in Afghanistan/Pakistan is sufficiently unusual to be used as a point of evidence in proving a close affiliation with al qaeda/the taliban. Unfortunately, this wiki page does absolutely nothing to further that investigation, other than to highlight something seemingly odd.
I usually use Craigslist or recommendations from people I know who live where I'm moving to.

My number one requirement is FiOS or service with a similar upload and download rates. Rent and the kind of neighborhood are the other two important factors for me.
How does this compare to ActiveMerchant ?