skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I commend you on your hard work, but I hate trying to write logic in declarative languages. They where designed as document languages and always carry that legacy with them. I find them worse to use than a general language. The do not accomplish the task of making programming more accessible so (in my opinion) they are wasted effort. What we need is a revolution in language design, which is easier said than done.
That was the wording used by one nice lady on the telephone. (and I think you had to be member of some small biz uk "community")

- Another one asked if any officer in firm is from UK.

- Third said I can open account if I came to their office.

- Fourth I don't remember but was one of the above

I didn't call to HSBC, I saw on some forum someone opened account with them and later got some problems (that was in US) so I didn't look at them yet.
Any chance you can provide some measurements or link relevant data in an article, perhaps?
Yeah really.

Has he contacted the EFF or other similar organizations? What's with all this defense of anti-semetism? Someone needs to proofread this. What's the call to action? If the domain name's not going to change, fine, but get rid of the giant anus illustration for such a plea. Yeesh.
I know but this isn't exactly the same. On firefox, it suggests idea with a dropdown.. on chrome, it autocompletes them. Also, if it's not found, it automatically search on google.. and by pressing [tab], you can search directly from a known site. That's 3 features I really use.
Dude is nuttier than a baby ruth. He even somehow managed to pull the "zionists" card.
When I first joined the company I felt the same way. Then I was told the whole story and it made a lot of sense. Basically, without pre-orders, there would be no WakeMate. They were in the tough position of having to prove the product's viability to investors and the investors wanted actual credit cards to prove that viability. At the end of the day, it worked out as best as could be hoped for given such a bad launch estimate: roughly 90% of customers were never charged (PayPal being the exception, though the money remains PayPal's) and investors ponied up enough cash to hire the necessary people and pay for everything going into the first big run, which all together will end up costing waaaay more than what those $5 could have bought.

Don't get me wrong, it's still embarrassing to everybody that we've had pre-orders waiting for so long; that was never the intention. It's a shitty way to treat our first customers, but it was an honest mistake. Many such mistakes were made—especially with regard to communication—but knowing what I know now I don't feel the pre-order taking itself was one. In fact it's probably the only reason the product is nearly out now.
Ask HN: How to get to “commit” on a good open source project?
I want to get involved in an open source project, but I thought I'd ask the HNers for some advice first.

Here's what I have come up with as my initial to-do list:

(1) Find an interesting project that has some momentum.

(2) Study the project src.

(3) Learn the source control environment. (e.g github)

(4) Follow the forums, and answer some questions.

(5) Find a bug I can fix.

(6) Find a feature I can add.

What else should I do?

I am also interested in advice on human behaviours and politics in OS development communities, (i.e.)

What kind of things should I expect to see in succeeding/failing OS project communities?

Thanks in advance.
got anything quantitative to back that up?
have you even run 2.2?
There is a distinction to be made here. Inefficient in page load times and performance or inefficient in the unnecessary complication? I was talking/responding about performance.

The bigger the site, lesser the point in all of this (and harder). It is a small personal site and I enjoyed the process of doing all of this. Makefile is nice to have in the end, which means it was a one time investment.
I recall another story about a girl who attended NYU and has a mountain of debt and can't find work.

At the end of the article it stated her major, and it wasn't something that was marketable in today's economy.

Which sounds slightly arrogant. As a reader, I can see the mistakes made. The reality in any economy is that a womens studies graduate from NYU is going to have more difficulty finding work than say an engineering graduate from a state university.

If the goals for employment are self-actualization, then be prepared for a hunt in the beginning. If the goals are to earn a paycheck - any paycheck, then there is plenty of work out there.

I am afraid that a lot of people in my generation have a very strong sense of entitlement.
He definitely needs to get an attorney to prevent him from writing future statements/positions in public. Now whomever represents him will have a much harder time defending him since he's written an entire essay on the matter. Each and every word, sentence, statement, and position can and will be used against him.
Seems like a duplicate of [http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1493937]. I really wish there was a way to stop the blatant duplicate submission. This is of their feeds.arstechnica.com instead of the already submitted arstechnica.com article.

Maybe this is coincidental, but I am not sure anymore...
I agree -- he has definitely not helped his credibility in defending himself from some "fruit of the poisonous tree" drug charges resulting from an illegal search warrant.

There is a reason why test cases usually find really unambiguously "safe" people for the test case -- e.g. the elderly, unambiguously law abiding and moral, African American gentleman in Chicago used for the recent 2A case McDonald vs. Chicago, or the same with Heller vs. DC.

I am pretty sure no one expected search warrants when this all started. If it was expected that the FBI and local law enforcement would get involved, an academic security researcher would have been a far better spokesman.
MusicBrainz has postgresql dumps available (partly public domain, partly cc-by-nc-sa):

http://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainz_Database
Unless you are a medical professional (and you are acting in that capacity (a 3 hour CPR course doesn't count)), you don't need to obtain "consent to treat." And even if you are a medical professional, Implied Consent would be a pretty easy argument to make in the case of a non-verbal patient.

Good Samaritan laws are 1000% in favor of the rescuer (especially if that rescuer is a lay person).

TL;DR; If you are familiar with the Heimlich Maneuver, and you see someone who is choking (can't speak or cough, clutching their throat, etc), _please_ don't hesitate to act.
Rather than waste early years in dead-end work, he reasoned, he would hold out for a corporate position that would draw on his college training and put him, as he sees it, on the bottom rungs of a career ladder.

Prima donna.
At least he hasn't been doing any 'dead end' work for the last 2 years. However, he can put 2 years of professional job hunting on his resume. I don't think he understands, that 40K job is the bottom of the career ladder. You're not supposed to stay there very long.
Interesting data.

My understanding re: Engine Yard is that Amazon only _invested_ in them (starting with a $15M Series B) and that they aren't a majority owner.

Am I mistaken on that?
Of course civil rights aren't dependent on anything. But whether we believe his story that his civil rights are being violated is partially dependent on his credibility, which seems at first glance to be pretty close to zero.

He claims that his civil rights are being violated in the same breath that he claims that it happens to him all the time and that anti-semitism is okay. Why should we believe any of this, exactly?

EDIT: Okay you edited your post to be conditional on him telling the truth and requesting of evidence that he's lying. My point is just that crankishness is typically evidence that someone is lying, or at least good reason to not take things that people are saying at face value and to wait for independent confirmation for whoever cares to look for it. There's a burden of proof issue here.
Please let me know when you figure this out, I too am interested in this. My email is in my profile.
Businesses exist to milk you of as much of your money as possible.

How sad. I wonder if OP actually believes this or if it was just part of his rant. Or maybe he didn't get enough hugs from his first boss.

I'd like to think that there are still many of us who need to earn enough to insure continuation of business without sacrificing our souls or the original purpose of all our hard work.
Thanks for your interest. I can't publish it without some major tweaking but I'll work on them.
How not to be viral
You have a lovely site and absolutely great graphic design, but the mobile sites you offers seems to use the dull uiuikit css. You could make the css for phones a bit fresher. Maybe it should look a bit more like your own site?
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Learn To Search on Bing Like a Pro Using New and Unique Operators
I recently came across a post on researchbuzz.org talking about some of the bing search operators and checked them out. I must say I am impressed and thought of covering it in a post. Do you think Bing can ever compete with Google? Will these operators do any real good to Bing? Will they ever be used and will they eve come into light?
The ill effects of burning fossil fuels are myriad and well-documented, from smog, to oil spills, to coal mine disasters, to smog, to ocean acidification.

I'm generally fairly hostile towards the fundamentalists on the other side of the debate becaause it's generally presented as if AGW was the lynchpin without which fossil fuels are a great fuel source.

And further, it's generally presented as if the 'global warming' part were somehow scientifically dubious, when all that is dubious is the 'anthropogenic' part.

So I may be a bit of a fundamentalist, but there are a lot of fundamental reasons fossil fuels are not okay. Nuclear, wind, and solar are where it's at.
The config file could be a sql script that you write in a text editor and then run.

It really isnt that big of a deal. How often are you changing your web server configuration ?
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The business model that you explained is a true peer to peer payment system. As you know, it's essentially what Paypal is to ebay. It's presents perhaps the highest form of risk in the payments industry. This is especially true with new businesses because there is no track record and typically very little financial stability or backing. There is a graveyard in the payments industry dedicated to peer-to-peer payment startups, including some extremely well funded and connected companies, which is why it's so hard to find any payment provider willing to accept the risk. A lot of money has chased this for a long time now. Last time I checked, even Paypal won't allow provide payment services to other peer-to-peer providers, because, as they've stated, the "excessive risk". To date we've (Braintree) not approved any true peer to peer payment method as you described above, but we do process for a lot of merchants that use an aggregation model similar to Groupon, whereby the merchant accepts payment on behalf of another merchant. It's a small but significant difference.

In terms of revenue. It's always helpful if a business already has a track record and some external funding for validation as well as some stability. That also clearly presents a catch-22. Some providers are wiling to take substantial risks: new business, peer-to-peer track record and no funding while others are only willing to consider this type of high risk businesses who have an established track record.

I would offer a friendly word of caution. All too often new companies will find a provider to approve this type of business model only to be shut down at the worst possible time. This happens because sometimes the sales rep doesn't properly explain the business model to the underwriters, the underwriters don't understand it, and/or an application gets auto approval because it's new and has low expected volumes. I'm not suggesting that there are not providers that won't approve this type of business, and I'm also not suggesting that everyone approved for this type of payments model will eventually get shut down. What I am suggesting is that we see merchants getting shut down too frequently, so I'd be cautious if I were you.

Best of luck to you.

Aggregation more fully explained: http://www.braintreepaymentsolutions.com/blog/high-risk-mech...
More information about payments and risk: http://www.braintreepaymentsolutions.com/services/new-to-pay...
CM has CM6 alpha and nightly builds available for the Desire.
The entitled douche bags may be in the spotlight, but our generation is perfectly prepared. We me be overlooked, but I say without hesitation that no generation has had such a wealth of opportunity before it and the means to make it real. 6 years out of college and the world has yet to blunt my view of the possible.
> They're part of your overall package you get for subscribing...but that's still part of the game.

I just reference the ToU[1] and EULA[2]. The EULA doesn't reference the forums at all. The ToS mentions forums, but only under chat rules.

In the ToU, it references the Service and the Game Client:

"The Game includes two components: (a) the software program along with any accompanying materials or documentation (collectively, the "Game Client"), and (b) Blizzard’s proprietary World of Warcraft online service (the "Service")."

Reading between the two documents, in case the Service includes the forums, it appears it does not.

"you may use the Service solely for your own non-commercial entertainment purposes by accessing it with an authorized, unmodified Game Client."

So, the Service may only be access with the Game Client, which I assume the forums are not. So, it appears, officially at least, that the forums are not a part of the subscription fee.

Simply put, they are under no obligation to keep the forums up or provide you with forums to use.

Now, having said all that, I understand that part of why YOU pay is for access to the forums in addition to the game.

I think a smart thing to do would be to move essential support functions outside the forums, which it appears they are working hard to do with the Blizzard Support section. In fact, Technical Support might have forums, but their is also an official Technical Support channel here:

http://us.blizzard.com/support/index.xml?locale=en_US&ga...

It wasn't at all difficult to find.

1. http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/legal/termsofuse.html
2. http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/legal/eula.html
Glyphish icons for Retina now on Kickstarter
Looks like they have an actual cockpit and pilot. I would have thought this would be a good use case for remote control. What reason is there to put a pilot in a (I assume) low-maneuverability prototype such as this?
My build scripts are such an "evolved" mish-mash of Python3, Python2, Java, makefiles, and shell scripts that I'm amazed they work for me, much less for anyone else. (This point was brought home to me when I moved to a new laptop and spent too long trying to remember and install all the dependencies.)

Anyway, nice job, and hooray for unintended uses of open source code.
You might be interested in this review of 99designs from a designer's perspective. I tend to agree with his comments. However, there also seems to be a market and if all parties are aware of how choosing a service like 99designs (as described in the review) will impact their final product, then I would say "Go for it".
FYI, strong language in this review.
http://www.graphicpush.com/99designs-bullshit-20
"With time, as with money, avoiding pleasure is no longer enough to protect you."

I think Paul Graham is an amateur philosopher and the problem with philosophy is that it is not actually easy to do. This is so as it is very easy to speak of a truth in one particular focused narration, which very much contradicts with other circumstances. The quote above being an example in point.

Why would anyone want to avoid pleasure, let alone be protected from it? I think watching telly for two hours can be pleasure, it is more difficult however to find out of when it becomes not self indulgment but not pleasure.

The riches of the world are useless entirely if they do not grant you access to pleasure. The entire point of existence is pleasure. Making money is pleasure, disciplining yourself to not waste time is done so as to gain more pleasure later than very little now, spending a lot of money is pleasure, as is making them, and of course the greatest pleasure of them all is sex so have plenty of it :P

My point Paul is that we do not need protection for pleasure. To the contrary, we need protection from non pleasure. It is however extremely hard firstly to identify what is pleasurable and secondly to acquire it. Investment for example can be pleasurable but only if you make a profit out of it and you feel comfortable with making the investment. That is, you can afford to loose what you invest and thus can only gain pleasure either way. When, however, large sums of money are invested, outside of that comfort zone, you are not protecting yourself from pleasure, you are instead denying yourself pleasure and giving in to its enemies, such as envy, irrational hope, lack of discipline, too much confidence in yourself or others while the alarm bell inside does ring so very softly that this might really not be right.

Thus perhaps, time and money should not be our currency, but pleasure.
Political science with a history minor. I feel bad for him, but what did he expect?
Great idea, but like others said make it clear, with one sentence, what your service does (think like you're a restaurant owner who vaguely even knows what an iPhone is - just that a lot of your patrons use them in your restaurant).

Also, using the location-network effect you could also help promote their establishments. Build another app that allows you to search and view your client's mobile-friendly sites and open their location in Google Maps

So its like Urbanspoon, except you can actually see what the hell is on the menu. This helps your product sell more because not only are you making it easier for the restaurant to gain visibility through your promotion and marketing through the app (which is what you could technically charge them for - giving away the site for free), but you are also giving them an established mobile presence as well.

One two punch.
Human Rights Abuses Against Transgendered Kids & Their Families
I'm glad someone caught it.
That's what I've done.
They made the screen sweet and sticky on Android devices in a _software_ update? That's even more impressive than the JavaScript optimizations.
You're assuming this isn't our reality. :)
Yes. I was advised by an Army medic that effective CPR will break ribs. Also, you need to blow really hard for the breathing to be effective -- you need to see the chest actually move upwards as a result of your blowing. If you've had CPR training, hopefully you had an opportunity to use a real Resusci-Annie (sp?), which has sensors indicating that your doing both the chest compression and the breathing with sufficient force.

That same medic also told me that generally the victim will vomit, probably right into your mouth.
I don't see this as an advantage per se. Javascript on iPhone is indeed slower, but not to the point that it renders web apps unusable.

It could become an advantage over iPhone if Google plans to boost web apps on the platform. Otherwise this benchmark is meaningless to the average user, in my opinion.
Thanks for your reply, and compliment, I will discuss this with my team.
That's awesome! I'm very jealous.
You are right. It takes a certain structure, quite a bit of adjusting etc.

But the result is what it makes all worthwhile.

BTW, I was doing all the optimization you were doing on some of my sites, but I always missed some nice ways to automate. Imagine the happiness when I stumbled on your hg.diveinto* repositories. A candy shop.

So, thank you.
Right - I was merely pointing out the opportunity cost of doing it. I'm sure its a fun project and for a personal site would work great.

Unless you have it set up in a certain way - it does require one more step. When you save the content you still have to run the makefile and then upload it. Even though this could be done in a batch script, just looking at the problem you are trying to solve (run a personal site/blog), it seems rather over-complicated.

The virtue and delivery of the idea is cool though - never discounted that. I just wanted to play devil's advocate on the practicality - which you seem to agree that it isn't really practical.
The best thing is somewhere someone is probably working on actually implementing this, like so many XKCD cartoons.
To be fair, since it's your thing and you're going against conventional wisdom, it's probably your job to demonstrate it's better.

As it stands, you're re-sending all your images and all your css and all your javascript to every one of your users every time they ask for a page on your site. So if I like your blog and read 50 articles, you've sent me that stuff 50 times over.

If you come to my site and flip through 50 pages, you'll get one css file, seven images, and one javascript file from the first page you request, all minified, gzipped and compressed just like yours is. The only difference being those extra requests, which might end up faster overall since they're to a CDN endpoint at your end of whatever continent you're on.

For the next 49 requests, all you get is content.
I'm still not convinced that his rights were violated. He says they are, but this is a guy who wrote a giant essay about his case, and then published it on the net, and ended it with a plea for donations/money. If I were in his shoes, I'd have spent the time calling the EFF to see if they can help, and asking for referrals. It almost seems like he is seeking attention.

Also, he seems to be able to obtain documents and requests from the gov to print online, yet also claims he can't get access to them but mentions some deadline. If you're not able to read the request/denied access to it, no judge will hold the deadline over you. That's just conspiracy/crazy talk.
What's the chance of this lady winning four lotteries?

About 100%, apparently.
Well, it depends.

Testing/Evaluating/Disclosing an exploit isn't immoral in my mind, nor should it be illegal (in a perfect world).

Disclosing private details of third paries is certainly immoral in my mind, and should be illegal.

According to this logic publishing the exploit, so long as you're censoring output, is fine. If someone uses your exploit to download personal data, it's AT&T who is doing the immoral/hopefully-illegal disclosure. If that someone uses your exploit and then publishes the data or does some other naughty thing with it, book 'em.

You get moral brownie points under this logic if you notify the target after you discover the exploit. It's not required, because disclosure is notification. Nefarious-types aren't going to call up a bank to say "hey, we're stealing all your customer records", nor will they disclose this hole to the world.

Unpopular statement ahead: if you collect personal details, it's your job to secure your systems, and it's your fault if your systems leak them. Of course there's no such thing as 100% secure, but you're the one doing the risk analysis and design.
"Big law firm did it but didn't get punished, yet I did it and got raided."

Really? Are you really going for this elementary school argument?

Doesn't help when you distort the concept of 'full disclosure' and related practices, either.

No sympathy vote from me.
Personally, I'd rather see a aggregate subjective ratings of "responsiveness" and "speed", rather than raw horsepower, as it were.

If the end goal is enhancing user experience, why not benchmark against those metrics?