skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've done a good amount of research in this space and I don't think I could be more emphatic when I say go with Braintree. In one way or another, just about every payment provider I've come across has this underlying "we're going to screw you" feel to it. With Braintree's emphasis on education and openness, I just don't see it with them. What may cost you slightly more now will save you boatloads down the road.
People actually scroll a lot more nowadays. More over, people rather scroll then click through to view content. Nielsen had a nice little alert a while ago: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9712a.html
I had it done in 1997 and paid $2500 per eye. It was rather uncomfortable to have done, but that only lasted for a few minutes. The next day I had 20/15 vision.

It has completely changed my life (for the better). I don't have any after-effects (that I know about). I can read, see far away, drive at night, and have written software for a living for the past 13 years.

Don't forget that most people who have a great experience don't write about it on the Internet, only the people with bad experiences do. That means that there's a selection bias on the stories that you read online.
It is a really tough problem no doubt. We use interviewstreet.com to screen candidates before spending time on an interview, saves us a lot of time.
Business Students: Leave Me Alone
Where could I download IE9 for OSX ?
I don't understand the idea of "trying to use" another browser. Why not just use one that works for you? Is there something else compelling in IE9 that makes you want to switch?
New Official jQuery Plugins Provide Templating, Data Linking and Globalization
Not really, whenever you're looking at a landscape far away (focussing at infinity) everything is in focus. In fact, any situation where everything in front of you is equidistant from your eyes will mimic this everything is in focus situation.
Contacted him, he's now a user of my app!
I thought I did read your comment. However even if you can't access CPAN this doesn't change anything.

I find the default install of Perl to have just as many libraries built in as Python does. So even if you can't access CPAN then neither Perl or Python has a library advantage out of the box.
When something is possible, it is often not necessary. That it's possible that I may strike you in the nose if you're rude enough is generally enough to keep you from being rude enough to cause me to need to strike you. That revolution is possible is generally enough for governments not to trample too heavily on their population. In both cases, the actual act is not carried out, just the possibility of it is enough.

But I agree that the gulf between civilian and government might is fearfully large already, which makes moving to another country a much better option. Of course, your world won't have that option.
I had received Excimer Laser surgery in Istanbul about 3 years ago. It was a private hospital and most of the people who went there were european (German & British mostly). I paid about €1000 for both eyes and the surgery took about 5 mins per eye. There was lots of itching and tears after the surgery for 1 day but no pain.

I don't know the rates in US but that hospital is famous for Medical Tourism (good service, low rates) maybe you can check it out: http://www.lasikinturkey.com/en/index.asp

Btw my eyes are okay now, still have perfect sight.
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Office: http://37signals.com/office
How would the past judge us?
The conscientious/paranoid people who care enough to engage in encrypted correspondence will want to run their own client software.

(Typing their passphrase into the hoster's provided JS/DOM, even in a browser under their own control, is essentially the same as sending it to their server. Maybe you could work out something with a bookmarklet, which scrapes ciphertext from one page but then displays the plaintext in another window entirely, but at that point, are you still enjoying the convenience of webmail?)
Business Model 101: Why startups often fail at Freemium Model
I had LASIK done about 3 years ago (was 28 or so at the time) and it was the best thing I ever did.

I didn't have terrible eye sight but had trouble seeing stuff in the distance, especially at night. Was supposed to wear glasses and contacts but rarely did.

I paid $4500 for the procedure, at a very nice and highly reputable place.

Was done in New Mexico, not NY though so no recco's here.

Get it though, you'll love it.
I quite like it. I love the movement towards simple, playful interface with some nice content to chew on without having to dive in. It seems they are treating 37signals.com more as a brand destination then a product launch point, which I think fits.
I didn't inquire too much, but I assume the job required a specialist.
Thoughts on Eric Ries' Lying on Stage
They aren't idiots just because they don't share your values.
Given how many TV manufacturers have been rumbling about including AirPlay support, that's not too unlikely.

Microsoft had some standard for wireless projectors that I've never seen in real life, but hopefully this will catch on.
You may be a better candidate for the Logitech offering.
I should add that I slept for 24 hours (they give you pills) then flew to Vegas the day after and partied hard for 3 days straight.

Just add drops, but no pain and not much discomfort at all.
I found a job from the September 2010 thread.
'Among the several states,' has historically been interpreted very broadly, as you are doubtless well aware.
Apple TV's Netflix Service Is Missing the Gay and Lesbian Category?
Stanford researchers predict fate of tiny embryos
Not exactly. He's pretty clear that dilution of blood happens, and that some races of Men are better then others.

This being said, I don't think it's a bad thing. It may not be a particularly good one, but it's fantasy. You're not supposed to kill orcs, if you really want to be PC. They're highly intelligent and emotional creatures - who happen to have their own seemingly foreign culture.
You can't have a receipt for your taxes
Hi wccrawford,

Thanks for pointing that out. I've been using Linode for about as long as I've been using ChunkHost and the following reflect my experiences with them:

* Feedback: Linode's community support and official support are both very responsive. You won't see any year-old feature requests that haven't been answered. In fact, most (all?) of their employees are active on IRC along with a large group of customers.

* There isn't a SLA at Linode either, but I have only experienced one incident of scheduled maintenance. That maintenance happened to be on Linode's "birthday" and when my VM came back up (seconds later) it had more RAM than it did previously. I also had the option of rebooting my VM itself whenever I wanted.

* Notice for scheduled maintenance: Due to the lack of scheduled maintenance that affects the customers, I can't really speak on this. I seem to recall having more than adequate (5+ days?) notice for the RAM increase, but I can't find the original email to verify that.
I'm wondering if this technology might make it easier to perform certain tasks. For example, consider the various kinds of security or military work that essentially require someone to give attention simultaneously to a large area. (And I imagine there are other examples ....)
Sharing Amazon Elastic Block Store among multiple instances
On top of that Java has the brand.

Programmers may not feel positive about it but it's embedded in a lot of large organisations, many of whom will, at the management level, be perfectly happy with the Oracle acquisition. They won't see the need or the appeal to move to something else until there is a strong incentive to do so.

Against that sort of entrenchment programmers will struggle to influence things a whole load in a lot of Java's key markets.
We are the last generation (or one of the last) that doesn't understand our own brains.

We have electricity, light bulbs and flickering TV and computers screens but we don't understand our sleep cycle and the circadian rhythm. We are a sleep-deprived civilization.[1]

Our scientists already know how learning works (semantic encoding and repetition are the key), but we still cram kids in Austro-Hungarian like classrooms.[2]

We are the last generation to waste drinking water. Water is already today a precious resource. In the future this will be even more pronounced.

Great article, got me thinking.

If you're interested, I recommend

[1] The Promise of Sleep: http://www.amazon.com/Promise-Sleep-Medicine-Connection-Happ...

[2] Brain Rules: http://www.amazon.com/Brain-Rules-Principles-Surviving-Thriv...
Cloud Challenges for Databases: The Inherent Availability Problem
This article seams to propose that morality and civility improve linearly forever when in fact it's more like the stock market with frequent crashes and long periods of decline. I am maybe a pessimist but I think that modern society is near the peak of what we can achieve.

I personally think that it's not enough but I am the minority and my fellow citizens will simply vote against people who share my ideals. There is too many people hardwired to be assholes. Maybe if we start tweaking our brains (what could possibly go wrong) we could reach new milestones but otherwise I am not holding my breath.
There's FireGPG. It's kinda meh in practice. I ended up going back to using Thunderbird for signed emails (invoices, generally) because it was so fiddly and sometimes just didn't want to work, especially with attachments.
There could be more than 10 browsers overall, but only the top 10 were measured.
The big seller for me is Hulu, I mean right now I can use Netflix on the Wii and I can use Hulu with my laptop. Without Hulu or cable/satellite it doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
Only partially true - nobody can downvote comments after a certain amount of time. I'm not sure if it's 12 or 24 hours; but it's a fairly short window.
i think they dedicated way too much space for the book
In Java, getHardwareAddress() returns your MAC.
Post globalization the ratio of poor to rich countries will be such that people will only understand your argument on the intellectual level.
I'd like to get a Google TV web browser for my desktop. Watching TV from bed on it would be much easier.

Hopefully it'll just be a user-agent switch.
Rent and interest. Both are giant rivers of money from the poor to the rich that we accept without question.
The fact that people did bad things at one time doesn't imply that what they did was accepted generally or approved by moral standards of the time. For example, many contemporaries opposed the tactics of the Inquisition (mentioned in the article as the advent of waterboarding).

Using the same logic we could characterize 20th-Century people as accepting mass-murder, because it was practiced by numerous nations on a never-before-seen scale.
I like this design, especially for a company page. It actually feels like a print magazine ad that I would actually stop and read.
How Senate and White House missed their chance to deal with climate change
Thank you, I added that to the 'downvoted' section.
I would think that future generations would probably see "having a school system" as the part that is ridiculously quaint.

Of course, that's assuming the evolution has taken them to a better place in this regard. It's quite possible that future generations will be too stupid to think about us much at all.
Because crypto in JavaScript would likely be vulnerable to side channel attacks (timing, processor use analysis, power analysis, etc). Even FIPS certified java and .net libraries call into c code. There's a reason.

Also, the number of people who even know what you're talking about is vanishingly small, and few of them would pay.
I wonder how encumbered it is with Oracle contractual restrictions? Didn't IBM at one point license Sun code to build its own version of the JVM?
Wouldn't a fork be running smack into a patent suit? I confess to not understanding the Java ecosystem at all, but I do know that Oracle just sued Google over their alternative Java implementation...how could a fork avoid this?
British companies spend £42bn a year on staff replacement costs
The service I run (http://anynewbooks.com) happens to have a Gay and Lesbian category. When I first started it I couldn't believe how many people took the time to write me emails about how I was, pretty much, corrupting America. It was astonishing to me that the category would be so controversial, given that we offer book genres for pretty much anything else, including Christianity and Religion. The Gay category is also pretty challenging from a selection standpoint, given that relatively few good books come out on a weekly basis. Yet, I'd rather shut down the site that give in to bigots. I'm always disappointed when big companies give in so easily or outright avoid the issue altogether by pre-censoring the genre (note, I'm not saying that Apple is doing that in this specific instance).
Safari (safaribooksonline.com) offers a good option for reading widely at relatively low cost.
Nice to see Netflix, Pandora, and "more coming soon from Android Market", but beyond that the pickings feel a bit slim.

Is it surprising that Hulu Plus isn't on board? With Netflix and Amazon as part of the package, Google's not averse to additional subscription or a la carte pricing, and I've got to think that Hulu could have earned higher promotional placement than those time-filling CNBC knuckleheads.
More States Allowing Guns in Bars
Agreed. It seems very likely that we are living as Romans did in 340: On the verge of collapse.

Not that this is a bad thing. In many ways, a return to a simpler time and a more virtual connectedness might actually be a huge step forward in the grand scheme of things.
Hi moe,

Thanks for commenting. I'm confused by part of your comment: where did you get the idea I want a personal account manager? Because I'd like to improve my experience with my hosting provider by providing feedback?

Regarding your attitude that if one is paying < $20/month then they don't have a right to complain: The VPS "package" itself is valued (by ChunkHost) at $20/month. While I happen to be paying less than that, that is irrelevant. The fact is, competition exists within that same price range and they provide better service. I highly recommend you sit in on the first couple weeks of a macroeconomics class to learn all about supply, demand, and elasticity. In particular, you should pay close attention to how substitute products affect one-another's demand curves.

As for a "tight SLA," I'm not sure not wanting to experience downtime three times in a single week qualifies as my SLA needing to be "tight."
Clearly CreeperAvoider needs to upgrade to using a true random number generator to generate its dispersion direction ..
It's really not very good at all.

1) The back button doesn't function as you'd like.

2) With Chrome as the browser at least, checking an item can result in all other checked items being unchecked - this I think happens only after the first AJAX postback.

3) Logging in takes you to a page other than the inbox - that's an unnecessary additional click

4) The spam filter isn't a patch on Gmail's.

5) The search filtering has nothing on Gmail's

6) Because it uses .NET's AJAX methods as opposed to another model such as jquery ajax + web services, all actions involve posting back the entire page and therefore hotmail is much slower than gmail. (*This is an assumption based on how slow hotmail is - I haven't checked in firebug).

7) Last time I checked you can't auto-forward mail.

All this said, I still use my ancient hotmail address whenever I need to post an email address in public or give an email address to a company that's likely to spam me. Perhaps it's the same with the article's poster.

Please correct me if I'm wrong on any of the above
Could this also mean that youtube live streaming is near public availability?
I think we'll have a real picture of what this new generation of devices will be only when we'll see all the third party apps will start popup, and all these current solutions will look as smart as a Blackberry looks smart today.
I saw that earlier in the year - it's a nice idea, but I can't help but think there's a significant portion of people who aren't on GitHub (for example, I have an account, but the majority of my projects are on BitBucket, mostly due to technology choices).

Still, it's certainly a reasonable initial source of people, and I would imagine you'll find that a lot of the "good" programmers who aren't in this list are only a couple of real-life connections away, at most.
LilyPad microcontroller's success in welcoming women to electronics
Ask HN: How to do you calculate and manage deadlines?
What methods and software do you use to calculate deadlines, and make sure you are on track for both yourself and employees.
Post makes a huge assumption, you are your job. That is your job is your life, your most important and proudest accomplishment. To the contrary, many people work to support what is there real passion(s). It's just a job.
This is a complete list of all browsers to http://wheremymoneygoes.com/ from Hacker News. IE accounts for 2.6% of traffic.

http://i.imgur.com/IdQzv.png
Are you aware of any cases where existing TVs gained significant new streaming features after the fact? This sort of integration is an inducement to buy, not an inducement to remain brand-loyal on your next TV purchase.
That's basically what happened with the Turing thing. Once Dawkins got involved the press was very interested and then I mined the signatories for famous people who I then told the press about.
Much of that could apply just as easily to Rome circua 750 BC as it does to the USA.
Using CSS Sprites while targeting high, and low pixel density displays.
I just have a page for Hackety Hack: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Hackety-Hack/155257947836619?r... I have a box for it at the bottom of http://hackety-hack.com/

It hasn't been really useful for promotion yet; since I'm still pre-1.0, I haven't been working on the PR machine.
But you're back to the point of the OP - for all the people that want to exercise the option (e.g. some residents of China, North Korea or Iran) moving to another country isn't an option, so having separate countries isn't helping them anyway.

Also, since the EU has borders with free movement (and doesn't even check on internal borders), which meets the grandparent's goal of being able to easily move countries, you are wrong to say this inevitably means forming a single world government.

(Edited for appalling grammar)
Yes, the website has obviously been abandoned for years. It's strange that Zalevsky would even give them a link to it. It's also odd that, some 4-6 years after the founding of the company, they still have only tried their product on 12 people.

I imagine this is yet another theoretical result that turned out to have serious obstacles to a useful implementation. (See also all the "cures for cancer" that are constantly being announced.) Still, assuming it isn't some kind of fraud, the idea is amazing.
Yeah I wondered about this too while watching the excellent BBC documentary Requiem for Detroit last night... it would seem to me from my family still living in the burbs of Detroit that a lot of those cities are doing fine, with some thriving. With so many people leaving Michigan, which burb is likely to grow/become the new detroit though?
hey, you found my crappy little site ;)
the IE version will correctly state "not installed" but apparently the FF/Non-IE is returning a non-null nav object, thus printing the zeros.
btw- the reason for creating this site- extracting the exact version number is not straightforward, for some reason. MS decided to let us have isVersionSupported(), instead of a simple getVersion() or similiar. Thus, loop it.
Yea, I do watch games but only when Trojans are playing ;)
Interesting! But 11.49% is unaccounted for in the list. (gray area in the pie chart)

Do you know how much of that is IE? Is it really so little that it didn't make the top 10-list?
If these problems are rooted in our innate inability to estimate risk, then are they really likely to disappear in the future?
Direct link to the Google TV preview site:
http://www.google.com/tv/index.html
Here’s the Real Mark Zuckerberg, Courtesy of The Simpsons
Regarding sources, I know this:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1754881

The benefits of the benchmarks game: allows comparison with other languages (like Lua) whereas as far as I understand their Kraken is JS only and browser only. Thanks a lot for your good work!
As a B2C business, I get idiot phone calls all the time from people expecting hand-holding while they place their order online.

I've spent hours (days) formulating my web site, writing a well-thought out FAQ, and answers to all major questions. Yet, still I get lazy customers (who usually spend the absolute minimum) calling me and wasting untold hours of my time to satisfy their inability to read.

While having a phone number on your site may raise trust, it's a invitation for the idiot to call.
I have pretty bad eye-sight and experienced something like this when I was younger, although I don't know if it's the same principle. I had on swimming goggles and the moment I went underwater I had perfect vision in both eyes.
I think this happens with some really early versions of silverlight applets not being compatible with the newer 4.0 stuff. I think
i try to keep my setup light and flexible, meaning that i´m not too dependent on a certain OS and hardware.

the hardware i use:
a dell latitude E6400 laptop (i like the 14 inch screen)
an asus 22' screen (basically any good flatscreen >= 20')
very simple external keyboard and mouse. (a standard keyboard layout is important though)

software:

gvim for programming (i love being able to work heavily with the keyboard)
ubuntu 10.04 (including evolution mail client, nautilus,...)
bash (linux command line, very efficient and on many machines available)
virtual box with a win xp installation (for testing IE and photoshop when needed)
ietester (a quite good solution for running different versions of IE)
I have thought about this, and I would pay for a well engineered solution for which the operators are open about the inevitable limitations.

The issue of JavaScript being manipulated by the operator to steal your passphrase/key is tricky, as mentioned by others. You might be able to do the crypto part in a separate scripting context via code stored in HTML5 local storage after you've reviewed it once, and using window.postMessage() in some way? The plaintext could be displayed in an IFrame running in that local context.

Then there's the issue of unencrypted incoming mail. You'd need to trust the SMTP server operator to encrypt any incoming mail with your public key and then destroy any record of the plaintext.

Metadata is also an issue: you'd want to encrypt headers as well as the body, as knowing when you communicate with whom is almost as valuable as knowing the content of said communication. Encrypting it is easy, indexing it for efficient access less so.

Still, this could exist as a self-hosted package for the more paranoid as well as SaaS.
"The coolest thing about Google TV is that we don't even know what the coolest thing about it will be."

That is just another way of saying, "If you build it, they will come." Not exactly an axiom these days.
Amd64 and va_arg
You never take your Time Machine out with you though? Slow, background sync would cause abandoned syncs all over the place with iPhone.