skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From Braintree's site:

To try and help address this problem, we created a Credit Card Data Portability initiative (press release). It's an opt-in community of payment providers that agree to allow a merchant to port credit card and other associated information if the merchant ever decides to move to another provider.

http://www.braintreepaymentsolutions.com/blog/data-portabili...
(The email field is not publicly visible - put it in 'about')
Not a startup, hope this doesn't offend. ;)

Mozilla Ops/Metrics teams are looking for a good Hadoop/HBase expert:
http://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Job.aspx?j=ottsVfw3&...
"The solution was to drop the mice into the snakes’ natural habitat, the branches of trees in the jungles of Guam. By outfitting the mice with cardboard wings and green party streams, the bait could float down to the jungle and catch on the branches. The result is a hanging, deadly snack for the snakes."

Who says good solutions can't be both low tech and hilarious?
Yeah, agreed.

Further, one can think of intuitive reasons that the conservatives having more sex might help. e.g. it lowers the chance of an STD going from a high risk person to a high risk person (which would cause it to be spread way more after). I have no idea who that makes right, I'm just saying intuitively one can think of simple reasons it might go either way and so the details definitely do matter.
Don't Give Up: From the pen of Pixar animator Aaron Hartline
Neither the HHKB nor Realforce are mechanical, though. Topres are capacitive.
I guess people don't like principals... Down votes deserved, heh.

Thanks for the image though.
The other points about the web server (which Jay ended up focusing on more) are really side issues; my biggest gripe was that lack of iteration during the development phase. If I could change code on the fly, I'd be a happy camper.
The key bit that this author is missing is prostitutes as the "high-activity players". If it's easier for people to get with "low-activity players", it naturally reduces the activity of the "high-activity players".

Also, the "high-activity players" modeled as 1 per 10 days seems pretty low, to me. In an extremely conservative society using prostitutes as a sexual outlet for unmarried young men, I would expect rates in excess of 10 per day, not 1 per 10 days.
Letitcast is looking for interns in Paris.

http://letitcast.com

We're doing rails but if you have experience in web development and love it we could have a talk.

Email your resume to mike at letitcast dot com
9wm aka rio http://swtch.com/plan9port/screenshots/rio.png

http://swtch.com/plan9port/
There's an important detail to this subject that seems to be unknown to most people writing about this debacle: JPEG compression is subject to the software performing the compression; how well the image is analyzed, and how well the resulting product is coded. No two JPEG compressors are alike.
Ask HN: Customer discovery among companies that are sending emails to costumers
Hi!

I'm working on discovering the potential group of customers for the product that I'm working on. This is going to be some form of a communication platform, that is easily accessible and configurable by non-technical people, that will also provide an extended set of tools to optimize your messaging. It sounds awkward, but this is just what I'm starting from. :)

http://bit.ly/bDe4n7

If you are building (or working for) a consumer oriented company and use email as a primary communication channel with them, I'd really appreciate if you will take a few minutes and complete my survey. Even if you don't think you really match, but would like to know more, just let me know your contact information and I'd be happy to talk and tell you more about my product.

Thank you.
When a company asks for your copyright
In my opinion, Modern Perl is anything that uses Moose or frameworks like CGI::Application or Catalyst AND has a clean OO/MVC structure. Meaning no more ugly things like bless() and ref()

What this means, is Perl becomes a proper MVC styled language like 'Ruby' or with its frameworks like 'Ruby on Rails.'

It matters because for years people complain about the scalability of perl when it comes to large projects due to it's 'hack syntax' nature.

With modern Perl, code is usually clean free of crazy syntax with a OO architecture where the base classes do most of the work (such as auto authentication, auto encoding/decoding, auto DB joins, etc.) and you do business/game logic in the upper modules.
Is STD risk with prostitutes very high? They have more sex but they also have more STD tests, more sheet-washings, more knowledge about safe sex.
That's exactly what I meant. The CL version has options, the Scheme version just takes a format string (which has fewer possible directives than its CL counterpart), which makes it less flexible and slightly more verbose.

To be fair, it's not exactly a straightforward paragraph, and I was talking about two different functions both named "format", so I can see how it might have been confusing.
Right, but they are a heck of a lot better than the cherrys.
ratpoison, because it actually manages those pesky windows.
Tis nice, but real hackers write scheme in perl:

http://billhails.net/Book/interpreter-intro.html
Modeling relationships in App Engine
Very nice. Is it a coincidence that; for various numbers I tried; "social security" and "defense" are always about the same amount?
Optimizely (http://www.optimizely.com) is a well-funded, Googler-founded, YCombinator company in San Francisco. We're primarily looking for bright, hard-working, fun people, but Python and/or Javascript experience is a plus. Must be up for both frontend and backend work. Interested parties can contact me at jobs@optimizely.com.

Here's a link to our recent TechCrunch private beta announcement, and a job description:

"YC-Funded Optimizely Makes It Remarkably Easy To Run A/B Tests On Your Website"
http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/15/optimizely-ab-test/

At Optimizely, our mission is to make it easier for organizations to make data-driven decisions, and we’re looking for driven engineers to help us lead the way!
that has nothing to do with patent trolling though
Very interesting, I'm making this desicion at the moment. Currently settling on Chargify, but it means changing banks and setting up a new merchant account which is hassel I could do without! Should save me some time on developing my own system though....
Well, it's open-source, so there's no reason this has to be the end of the discussion. Copy his code and change a few parameters around.
if by readability you mean obscurity. URL shortening breaks one of the best features of URLs: that the url exposes the location and name of the resource.
Amazon.com - Seattle, WA - No remote

Please email me directly at ${hn_username}@gmail.com

The Amazon Services team is looking for a great Systems Support Engineer to keep our systems running. You should be comfortable in a Linux environment, be able to automate everything you did yesterday, and willing to troubleshoot and resolve new problems on a daily basis. Come join one of the fastest growing teams within Amazon.

Responsibilities:

-Maintain stability and performance of our systems via tickets during oncall shifts

-Diagnose and troubleshoot new production issues that affect our customers

-Create and maintain standard operating procedure documents for new issues identified

-Automate operational tasks to assist with our scaling needs

Requirements:

-Proficiency in a scripting language (Ruby, Perl, Python, Shell)

-Familiar with SQL databases

-Comfortable navigating a Linux environment

-Basic understanding of web application architectures

Bonus points:

-Written a Rails application

-Deep knowledge of Oracle databases

-Troubleshooting experience

-Ticketing experience
The cheapest 256GB one on newegg costs about what I pay a month for rent. I must ask, though, why in the world do you need 512GB for your boot drive? The 32GB in my HTPC was 70 USD and is amazing and plenty. My main Windows desktop only has 100 GB used out of 640 (hdd obviously).
I've never understood why people tend to bring this up. If anything it shows that the misspelling was a more natural way to transcribe that specific string of sounds. Perhaps had the person who registered the domain looked up the proper spelling, word-of-mouth marketing would've been impaired, and people might have generally had a tougher time spelling the name correctly in their address bar.
The World's Biggest Tornado Hunt
Ok, just a little fun but for reference here's a comparison of US to UK based on US taxes of $10,000 and UK taxes of about the same (£6,350.50)

The comparison goes roughly like this, obviously the UK figures are less detailed so I've grouped some of the US expenditure where I think appropriate, correct me if you see any errors.

=======================================

UK: Pensions	£1,459.32 ($2,310.61) + Welfare	£705.73 ($1,117.42)

Total= $3,4328.03

US: Social Security: $1908.03 + Housing $133.78

Total = $2,041.81

=======================================

UK: Healthcare £1,453.33 ($2,301.13)

Total = $2,301.13

US: Medicare	$1274.89 + Medicaid	$816.32 + Healthcare	$221.62

Total = $2,312.83

=======================================

UK: Education	£364.83 ($577.65)

Total = $577.65

US: Education	$131.50

Total = $131.50

=======================================

UK: Defence	£532.29 ($842.80)

Total = $1,117.42

US: Defense	$1869.09 + Veterans Affairs	$147.84

Total = $2,016.93

=======================================

UK: Protection	£197.37 ($312.50) - nb. (Includes Police Services, Fire-Protection Services, Law Courts, Prisons,Public Order and Safety)

Total = $312.50

US: Homeland Security	$123.76 + Department of Justice	$67.31 + Potential Disaster Allotment	$30.73

Total = $221.80

=======================================

UK: Transport	£161.48 ($255.67)

Total = $255.67

US: Transportation	$204.17 + Public Engineering	$14.33

Total = $218.50

=======================================

UK: General Government	£155.50 ($246.21)

Total = $246.21

US: Department of State	$145.26 + Department of Energy	$74.05 + Department of Agriculture	$73.21 + Treasury	$37.45

Total = $329.97

=======================================

UK: Interest Paid	£334.92 ($530.29)

Total = $530.29

US: Interest on National Debt

Total = $461.64

=======================================

UK: Other Government Spending	£616.02 ($975.37)

Total = $975.37

US: NASA	$52.67 + Commerce	$38.84 + Labor	$37.45 + Natural Parks	$33.79 + Environmental Protection Agency	$29.57 + National Science Foundation	$19.69 + National Infrastructure Bank	$14.06 + Community Service	$3.08 + Small Business	$1.93 + Bureaucracy	$1.54 + Everything Else	$55.75

Total = $125.62

=======================================

Finally:
Miscellaneous mandatory programs	$1606.83

Wasn't sure what this included, maybe US readers can shed some light upon how this might relate to the above sections. Obviously the main mismatch is in the other government spending so maybe most of that belongs in there.

Anyway not exactly like for like but may be an interesting excercise.
The buckling springs do make a nice sound, but the 80 gram activation pressure is painful when Topre keyboards are 35/45 and Cherry Blues are 50-ish.

I was a big Model M fan for a long time, but Topre keyboards are a lot more comfortable. And they still sound pretty excellent.

(I also like Cherry Browns, because the feeling before bottoming out is more noticeable than on the Topres. But the Topres have better build quality and ... I just like them better :)
Waking my Windows 7 desktop from sleep is almost instant. It takes longer for my LCD monitors' backlights to flick on than for the login screen to appear.
Evilwm: http://www.6809.org.uk/evilwm/

It can spawn a terminal with one keystroke, can move and resize windows, and has virtual desktops. Other than that, it gets the hell out of my way -- no extraneous bars / panels / whatever, and one-pixel-wide window borders. That's all I ever want a WM to do.
Summary of http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1316205/Teenage-gi...
Old non-startup idea: throw a keyboard in your laptop bag.
Soup - Publish, collect, share.
The fluid does not enter her stomach, it goes into her peritoneal cavity. The peritoneal cavity is defined by the lining that surrounds your abdominal organs.

On one hand, this is totally standard, and these get installed every day. It's still amazing, but not clear to me why this was written up in Gizmodo.
Centauri Dreams looks at Interstellar Space Missions
Do Trans Fats Boost Baby Obesity?
Experts: Industrial computer systems typically less secure than they should be
I can't repeat your results with 16bpp ImageMagick, with -quality 0 I get from 468K then 267K. How have you got 72K?
US congress clears private space taxis for lift-off
Another option is Spreedly. They store the credit card information internally (they're DSS compliant), so that you can switch merchant accounts/gateways as needed. If you want to transfer out of Spreedly, they'll work with your new provider to get the CC data out to them (it has to be a secure exchange).
Denver, CO

I'm looking for someone to join me in the creation of small, indy games for any platform of interest. I am a programmer with a lot of experience writing games in C++, Java, Objective-C and C#. I am on the verge of releasing an iPad game (beta tests start next week).
+1 for wmii ! I was using ion3 until 2008 and migrate to wmii at this time.

I'm mainly using OSX now but I always have my wmii open in a virtual box.
true, but maybe you should start with cost in fiscal terms and then go to solving all other mythical problems that bother you?
Also, calling my book "profit making" is ... misleading. I wrote it because the community needed a book and I wanted to write it. 3 years of revenue on the book equals about two weeks of my regular job.

Any future books I write will be for the same reason -- because I feel like people will benefit from reading it. You don't write a tech book to get rich.
Speeding up Python code with ShedSkin
Thanks for the great advice - gives me one more very good option to consider (used to drive taxis, before and after getting jobs).

Without implying that the advice before the edit was any less useful - because that was definitely very good advice - the one you addded in the edit is a gem of a practical advice, especially for me.

I think I was susceptable to getting distracted by "interesting" stuff and it might have helped me get tagged (albeit, unwillingly) as an asshole in the past.
T-Mobile exec: WiMAX a 'niche'
Hey Emil! Glad to see you are giving it a go with Questionify. All the best!
For just about every startup idea, there's an old non-startup idea. But that doesn't mean we just shouldn't try to innovate in that area.
so zen: cas slow, locks slower.
After using windowmaker, I switched to awesome and I am not looking back. The install is tiny, and it starts instantly, unlike KDE. The tiling is very nice. The configuration is in lua but I haven't been annoyed by anything enough to bother modifying it.
Low intergenerational mobility does not necessarily contradict meritocracy, unless you assume merit based factors are completely non-hereditary [1]. All the evidence I've seen suggests parental merit [2] is strongly correlated with child merit.

Further, if I understand their methodology, they are measuring movements across quintiles. This is flawed, since the quintiles are much more spread out in the US (and UK) than in many other countries. In the US, the top is about 12x the bottom, in Sweden, about 6x. See this article which compares the US to Sweden: http://super-economy.blogspot.com/2010/03/income-distributio...

[1] Before you say the word "genetic", let me point out that heritable != genetic.

[2] I'm using "merit" to mean intelligence and conscientiousness.
I have to pay for Small Business? I'm a small business, and I have to subsidize other small businesses? Moochers!
You've got to have patents before you can patent troll.
Yep, "1000" sounds more impressive than "200" (even if those 200 would have been at 5X the price).
Buy, Use, Toss? A Closer Look at the Things We Buy.
Don't worry. If something goes wrong, we've still got tons of other animals and pharmaceuticals we can air-drop.
You can do exactly what you need with paypals reference transactions.

Also if you use their NVP api, and web payments pro then the user does not need to leave your site and you can take c/c details on your site and pass directly to paypal.

i.e You don't need to store their CC details you only need the reference transaction ID and you can re bill any amount you want.

You also don't have to worry about PCI compliance. I'll talk about this in more detail on today's techzing. http://techzinglive.com
XFCE, a rather minimal window manager I find perfect for my desktop and development machine. http://www.xfce.org
Ask HN: Who is hiring interns? (October 2010 Edition)
A take on the previous question, for the students browsing HN.
Something like SnapLogic?
Take a look at my reply to timmorgan:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1748915
A must watch video there about our consumer economy.

"The Story of Stuff Project was created by Annie Leonard to leverage and extend the film’s impact. We amplify public discourse on a series of environmental, social and economic concerns and facilitate the growing Story of Stuff community’s involvement in strategic efforts to build a more sustainable and just world. Our on-line community includes over 150,000 activists and we partner with hundreds of environmental and social justice organizations worldwide to create and distribute our films, curricula and other content."
Sure. I'm not trying to sell him any books.
To some extent though, that's what Bartz has been getting wrong. Even managing to anger some of their best partners.
A major studio's marketing arm doesn't want to limit their audience engagement. Shocking!

Moreover, I haven't seen the film, but from what I gather, it's not a cheerleading session for Facebook. So why would the author expect marketing—even from a purely idealistic perspective—to build up some sort of mutually masturbatory "Hey Facebook, Facebook is awesome! Am I right?"
Have you seen their new Windows Phone 7 UI etc.? I would say it's innovative, instead of the standard icons on a desktop theme like iPhone and Android.
That's very dependent on the country, situation, wealth, etc. What are the rates among prostitutes in Saudi Arabia, for example? A quick internet scan indicates in that they are from Indonesia, Nigeria etc., and 20 or younger. With prostitution being illegal, how easily can they get STD tests? If they are being trafficked / lured in at a young age, what's their likely education level and autonomy for insisting on safe sex?
Google Instant in Chrome Is Awesome, Even More Useful than on Google.com
We're in London (no telework). Always looking for talented devs - especially those with an interest in all things geo.

http://www.lokku.com/jobs/

Look forward to hearing from you
Ask HN: How to earn reputation as a marketeer?
If you are a technical guy, you can code projects. What if you are a marketeer? How can you earn reputation?
It looks like that bulk size is pretty big. It took hours before view count changed.
Not only that -- I think 1871 views / 353 comments ratio (only six to one) is quite unusual. I think YouTube significantly underreports views.
It looks like few are responding to this request, so I've made a thread here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1749103
The 'record pace' of VC-backed M&A exits
Paul, is working remote (intercontinental, really) a possibility? I'd love to hack on Node full-time.
Modelling systems is hard, this is an interesting attempt but yes the lack of ANY sources for his assumptions and initial conditions means you cannot even begin to draw conclusions from this model. Hell the models I was exposed to at Uni didn't even provide an absolute answer, just a probability.
As I work with dual screen linux connected to a remote windows XP/7 desktop running in VMWare/HyperV, I have a screen for tiled urxvt terminals connected to the servers running the processes I manage, with a floating rdesktop session hiding it most of the time. The other screen is set to 'floating' for emails, web browsing and local terminals sessions.
The next evolution of investor 'office hours'
Mountain View, Ca. Anybots Inc.

We are looking for a rounded web programmer to help build our site, program robots, and be awesome.

Anybots is a fun, casual and exciting place to work. Also we build frikking robots. We are small (<10 people) and shipping product in a few months so it is a really exciting time to join.

The next people we hire will have a huge role in shaping the user experience.

Send a portfolio of cool stuff you've made, and a resume (for the sake of tradition) to jobs@anybots.com. We prefer people who are available soon (product ships in November) and are open to telecommutes (it is a telepresence company after all), but prefer a local person.
Agreed - but I don't know if there is any evidence to suggest that $72 vs $14.40/share will have any significant liquidity impact on buyers and sellers. $72 is hardly a "high-price" stock.

I think the poster who suggested that being able to lure employees in with 5x the number of options had it right. After the split, an employee who would have been granted 3,000 options, will now get 15,000 options.
It sounds like this is pretty close to what he was doing originally, but then you have to write your own code and screens to handle dunning (as stated in the article).
Ask HN: How to think like a researcher?
Greetings!

So, I have started with a PhD program recently and am working on my research proposal. I put my idea on paper and it was shot down by my advisor for not having enough theoretical 'research questions'.

Also, I'm based in Europe. The trend I have observed is the US universities will tolerate research with maybe not enough theory and having more practical approach. In EU, a broader and more theoretical approach is required and some Profs. are quite obstinate in this aspect. This is just speaking of my personal experience and I could of course be mistaken.

Coming from a programming background, I am tuned to think in terms of what's technology is available rather than what can be conceptualized or assumed. This I feel is hurting my thinking ability as a researcher and I need to unlearn a few things.

Can any of the experts on HN offer advice/pointers/tips on how to fine tune thinking ; to start thinking more like a researcher and less like a programmer ?
Apple - Will lead to a mutual self destruction patent Armageddon

RIM - I think they already have a deal from long ago, as to how BES connects to Exchange.

Samsung - They license Windows Phone 7

Google - Makes nothing from Android, likely will result in patent countersuits on a lot of things.

Why Motorola? Probably because they refused to make a Windows Phone 7 device.
If there are any internship positions, please post here or there: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1749103
It's a costly business for the people doing the actual reviewing, ie the scholars who essentially work for free. Academic publishing is, I hope, the next industry to be reformed by open access web archives, although I'll be the first to admit that it's a long way away. So I think it's perfectly fine for you to be "fucked off".
I read that as "(256) (color rxvt-unicode windows)". Good god, man! ;-)
"Do you use the data?" - what kind of ethical question is that? This is purely scientific question, has nothing to do with ethics.

There are just some things that are not ethical, like testing on people, or killing civilians or, you know, torture. Doesn't matter if you got some positive data point out of that. Those things are simply not justifiable.
I'm working on something inspired by RFS2:

http://ycombinator.com/rfs2.html

My email's in my profile for anyone interested working on this with me. I'd like to think I have a decent grasp of the business side whilst I know I need technical help.
Thought exercise: what will our governments be apologizing for 60-70 years from today?