skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love that this is on HN from AIGA. Advertising industry is more brutal than tech startups... you kill yourself working on client demands, not your own products.

So if you're hiring a front-web developer and their past history includes a reputable ad agency, you're likely going to have a good candidate for early-stage startup.
Lack of any alternative. And before you post an alternative, make sure this alternative has the same feature set that makes PayPal useful. And it's not credit card processing.
You have the same bank as I do, Rabobank. My suggestion would be to contact them and demand the money back. I've had similar problems when other companies stole money from my account. I've called Rabobank and they've gotten my money back.

Forget about PayPal they'll never help you. It's not in their interest. In The Netherlands once you give a company the right to take money out of your bank account you have to watch them. Because they can take as much money out of your account as they want whenever they want. And their only consequence as far as I can tell is that I can ask for it back and get it.
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Thank you for your feedback! I'm running Chrome 6.0 too and adding users seems to work for me. I'll try to investigate this!
Web site rejects iPhones. Can't read about it.
I think you could prove almost anything depending on the time period you take. Basically, since 1995, Japanese gdp has been very slow growing. In 2009, the GDP has decreased of 5 %, which is far worse than any other rich country of a significant size AFAIK in the last few years.

http://www.google.com/publicdata?ds=wb-wdi&met=ny_gdp_mk... (beware that 2009 is missing, I guess the definite numbers may not be there yet).

I think it is fair to say that Japanese economy is in a really bad shape, although the explanation is not as simplistic as the one given by techrunch, obviously. Paul Krugman has a few papers on this which are well know, although maybe not up to date anymore (http://web.mit.edu/krugman/www/japtrap.html).
Not sure why the numbers are so different. I simply took the product of the yearly GDP growth rates, as reported by the World Bank.

My sources:
http://data.worldbank.org/sites/default/files/countries/en/g...

http://data.worldbank.org/sites/default/files/countries/en/j...

http://data.worldbank.org/sites/default/files/countries/en/u...
If anyone wants to learn more, there's a fantastic book about Xerox PARC called "Dealers of Lightning" by Michael Hiltzik. http://www.amazon.com/Dealers-Lightning-Xerox-PARC-Computer/...
Mine looks like this:

Name | Company | Group | Title | desk phone | mobile | group web site.

Don't ask me why the Title comes after the company and group, but it was somebody's bright idea. At least it's only 1 line, maybe 2 if it gets wrapped for some reason.

Of course, they're trying to add a crapload more lines, but I've been resisting it, and will until it's "do it or be fired".
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> I'm hoping congress doesn't turn PayPal into a bank

I'm hoping this doesn't mean you think any new regulatory oversight on PayPal would bring more harm than benefit.
I spent the weekend writing a scraper in Clojure using the HtmlUnit Java library. As much as possible I aimed for purely functional, side effect free code, but as with most Java libraries, using the HtmlUnit API forced me to write functions dealing with mutable, stateful Java objects.

I would have preferred to write everything in a purely functional style because I agree that it makes testing and reasoning about your code so much easier. But looking back, the ability to dip into Java (and use the great HtmlUnit library) was a big win in terms of accomplishing the task at hand.
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This doesn't stop the ads. It just stops the targeting system inputs based on your past actions. The present is still fair game.
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I'm using fuzzy subsets of Euclidean 3-space to model sensor coverage. Computationally, I use FuzzPy's (discrete) fuzzy set class to make fuzzy sets of 3D point objects to work with.
Solution for personal account:

I have a personal Paypal account associated with Visa credit card. The card is for the use on the Internet only and available money amount can be set by me as necessary.

If there is not enough money on the card then transaction fails.

I don't know if it is possible in case of company Paypal account.
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Then the recipient would have to first agree that storing the ino about this 'message being confidential' on a 3rd party website was accpetable - you would have to have click through EULAs on each email and make them different depending on the jurisdiction of the recipient.
yea–my basics: rent, health insurance, food, going out a few times are around $2000/month but I have shiny gadgets, adventure sports, and travel habits so end up spending more
First of all, the repl is a killer. This is not something that is unique to clojure, but that doesnt make it less good. Beeing able to try out new api’s and fumble forward is great.

Spell checker, man!

I don't understand all the REPL love. To me it's great for goofing around with something you don't understand (like clojure itself, when I started). But where is the option to save the REPL state? When I'm actually working on a project it's back to the old edit-compile-run cycle, because otherwise I lose my work. Granted, the compile is pretty quick, but that's true when I'm writing java code in eclipse.
It's no different than passengers going through screening - the TSA ID checkers aren't likely to catch a high quality fake ID, and we know that boarding passes can be faked. That's one of - if not the best - arguments as to why it's pointless for the TSA to be checking IDs anyway.
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I read Schneier all the time and agree with him most of the time.

Not once did he advocate not screening pilots, did he?
Don't know if you saw this or not, but the lists are orderable and sharable now -- as you make changes, the link changes at the top. Just copy the link for whatever settings you like.

Needs to have format and price, though. Right now it's only sortable by experience level and question.
For those unfamiliar with the process: a foreigner has to prove his/her value to the host country in order to get a visa. Johnny Long is training local Ugandans, which ordinarily would qualify him for a visa. But in this case, the immigration official doesn't believe that he can do all the training he claims to be doing, because he doesn't have a degree or any certifications.

Most of his qualifications used to be in the underground scene, but his regular talks at DEF CON, Black Hat, ShmooCon, and Blue Hat, as well as the books he's written and edited should be more than enough to qualify him for this work.
Ask HN: How to find the perfect coder? 
I'm currently working on a project that needs a custom shopping cart.
What should you look at when your choosing to work with a coder?
Where is the best place to find one?
Dumb question, but with the free $1000 didn't he still come out ahead or did that eventually withdrawn from the account too, which I missed?
It took some fiddling with my old email archive but I found it, Joe Hudson was my teacher:

http://www.pronunciationlondon.co.uk/joe.html
http://www.anenglishaccent.com/author.html

He is very good. We spent half of every session learning 'high level' stuff (phrases, paragraphs) and the other half practising 'low level' elocution (where to place your tongue and your lips for each sound).
Take the train, if possible. Its not quite as convenient, but at least it is leisurely.
Mine

First Last - Company Name - Department I'm in Charge Of
ICQ: ######### \ Office: ###-###-#### x### \ Cell: ###-###-####

2 simple lines with information I usually look for in other people's signatures.

> I wish I could reduce the length of my signature

Company mandated?
It is, but not in the way you think. IPv4 addresses are also cognitively nasty (try to remember two of them, walk to the other end of your building, and recite them from memory). People don't often use them directly.

The problem is that IPv4 addresses happen to fit in machine registers, and so virtually all of the world's networking software has been written to assume that they are just a gossamer-thin semantic layer on top of a scalar integer. IPv6 addresses emphatically do not work as scalar integers.

It's not just that this means you can't do math on an IPv6 address (though without a bignum library you can't). It's also the case that, as far as a lot of C programmers are concerned, you can't even directly assign them; they're "memcpy big".

When Daniel J. Bernstein talks about the "IPv6 mess", this is one of the things he's talking about; it's not just that the whole world needs to be renumbered (note: hasn't ever been done before), but also that all our software needs to be upgraded.
That still means that everything anyone wants to get to needs to be dual-stacked for the forseeable future.
I wonder if some of this discussion would have trended in a different way if the pilot's post wasn't festooned with the markings of a "tea party-er?"
Phrasing your feedback in a more friendly way will probably result in a better experience for you. For instance:

"I found it a bit confusing that the nav buttons and search box look really similar. Perhaps you could consider restyling them? Also, I keep getting a message from my browser that the site is trying to establish an HTML5 database. Could you explain why? The site doesn't appear to need the database for any of the functionality I've seen."
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Warn HN: When PayPal doesn't know the meaning of "Donation"...
This is a few weeks old, but I was inspired by Jacques.. Fellow HNers really should be very, very wary about using PayPal for anything other than splitting the cost of dinner amongst friends.

I've had my PayPal account since 2002, and have been using it to send and receive thousands of dollars since then. Last month, PayPal froze my account. I try to keep it as close to empty as possible, but since they purposely make it hard to get money out (i.e. you can't schedule withdrawls) there were some 2500 USD in donations when they froze it.

I write free software. My free software has a "donate" link that goes to the PayPal donation page. The idiots at PayPal froze my account since I couldn't prove 501(c) exemption (which I don't have - and more to the point, never claimed to!) and insist that it's "illegal" to receive donations unless you're a registered non-profit with 501(c) IRS clearance. All this happened when I changed the name of the account from my name to the name of my website (because I didn't want my name on the payment page), bringing to their attention my site and PayPal account.

I tried to reason with them (showed the definition of "donation") and explained that I'm just getting paid at the whim of the user for services rendered, and that it isn't a "non-profit donation" in the IRS sense. No luck there. I asked to go back "to the way things were" - back to a normal premier account in my own name, and not in the name of the non-501(c) organization that I run the site under, but they (of course) wouldn't listen.

In the end, they stopped responding to my emails and told me to get the papers I need to be able to pull the money out. I cannot transfer the money I have to my bank account. I cannot close my account, withdraw any money, use my PayPal debit card or anything other than (you guessed it) put more money into the PayPal balance. The money frozen is enough to hurt, but not enough to make it worth it for me to get a lawyer or waste too much time on it.

So just a word of warning to the wise: don't use PayPal. You'll thank yourself forever.

(I ended up switching to Amazon Simple Pay, which is _incredible_ except no phone support and customer service response times for _merchant accounts_ is 3 days+. Then I tried my hand at Google checkout, except my conversions went down, waaay down; and have come to the conclusion that it's stupid to accept money through any of these 3rd party services. Time to check out real payment processing providers like BrainTree & co.)
I like the idea of designing with a grid in mind (I use the 960 grid for many of my projects), but I never use the CSS framework to convert it to html. I just don't see the point, every design is unique and handcoding is always more perfect/cleaner, yet doesn't take much longer, if at all, to write.
Quite a number of links are self-submitted, and it seems to be well accepted. What isn't accepted is self-submission of link-bait / pointless / off-topic articles, especially when your submission history shows that those types of links are all you submit. That frequently gets called out in the comments, and I'd imagine could lead to banning if it continues.
Ask HN: My first public-data app is up - what should be next? (NextBus.ca)
The city of Calgary has recently published their public data catalogue. As a fun project I came up with NextBus.ca - it gives commuters the next bus times for a given stop.

After the implementation, I came across a similar service from city's transit website and another local company with a native iPhone app (under development).

Should I stop at that? Should I keep plugging and find ways to monetize?
I used Fastspring a few years ago for an app I had released. They were easy to work with, integration was simple and the customer never was taken out of my sites layout. I highly recommend them when you are looking for something more integrated - plus their control panel is really easy to use.
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account # is way too long, I meant something that is tied to an email address
I've dabbled a little bit in POS for my thesis, I'm assuming that statistical Markov Model type methods are outpreforming rule based methods in the state of the art now?

Experimented with the Brill POS tagger, which I think is a little old now.
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While I agree there is some sort of 'mass psychology' at work here, I believe there are some additional (and more important factors).
There is certainly a lot of irrationality in people who accept these things and who have no direct/executive power to change them. But is there irrationality in the people who decided to put these policies into place? I don't believe it. Quite the contrary, I believe the politicians who created and support these laws have other, unacknowledged interests, that are concealed behind the "terrorism prevention" mantra.
There are so many other things that can be put into place, why are these guys deciding on these particular ones?
A couple of things: money and control. I'm not a journalist, but it would be great if an investigative journalist analyzed the people and the interests behind these regulations. I suspect they would find connections with the companies who provide the screening equipment, and the policy decision makers.
As to the 'control' aspect, this is more related to the psychological idea. The people in power crave control, so they will generally tend to favor policies in that direction. Which is why their power must be constantly monitored and kept in checked by us the people. Without that we can't have any long-lasting liberty.
Actually: while I think the "person B hasn't done much real work yet" logic doesn't really work, joining later definitely is relevant to your equity. Person C is taking less risk than A and B; A and B need to be compensated for that.
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I'm the same way. I didn't stay up late much in college, but I'm up far later than I should be now getting side projects done.
My apologies and I wish no ill will or to cause flames, but your comment makes me sad and reminds me of "First they came..."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came...

I only wish to be at least half as noble, brave and bold as some who have come before me.

And, I am grateful that our forefathers of the United States were willing to risk their LIVES (forget dinner or jobs) to stand up for what they believed in to make this country independent. Also, while I never really bought into the notion--rather the ideal, if it weren't for those who lost their lives in WWII we would all be speaking German or possibly be slaves or dead if we didn't fit the ideal of one man or group's belief is the perfect race.

I am just as guilty as I find your comment, as so far I have just sat by (but have at least talked about to whoever listens) as our freedoms are stripped away, but I realize my fault and hope to change it.
They hopefully would've noticed the speargun he was carrying?
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Hey Giraffe rider. I updated the site. Please have a look again. Thanks for the feedback.

Really useful. I was fool enough to assume that it would work with same browser on different system. ;-)
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I agree. I don't think offending people is what's at stake--just turning people off purely based on the name. As a vegan, I'd be offended if someone tried to serve me meat knowing I was vegan. I'm simply put off by a name involving a meat product and far less likely to use it because of the strong mental and moral connotations I have for such words.

It reminds me of a large percentage of screenshots that come from certain Linux projects. Wallpapers and themes often have scantily clad women on them. I can imagine that this would put a lot of folks off from contributing to or using those products.

I'd consider "Tempeh Bacon" as name, but I'm biased, as my partner made a delicious batch of it the other day :)
Couches are awesome, but I think beds send the wrong message of "you should always be at work". We have a mattress laying around that I'm considering moving to the GazeHawk office (when we find one), mostly as a joke, but nothing says "creepy" quite like a bed in the corner of an office.
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... As much you say, get out of the building and call people. I challenge a startup that says, they are a Lean startup to tell me who is the last customer or person you called and did a customer and problem interview with. They don’t do it; they sit behind their computers and look at the codes and metrics. They sit their and survey people; they prompt people on their website for feedback. But, they don’t call; they don’t get on the phone; they don’t do it...
>> Are you saying we should just let 9/11s happen, and then fix the holes?

That's exactly what happens now. The changes in TSA policy come after an attempted attack, and focus on what could have been done in the past to prevent that attack. As a member of the public, I've never seen the TSA actually put meaningful thought into how to make their procedures more effective, only more politically correct and politically 'safe'.

>> Are alternative scanning methods just as effective?

I'd like to point out that a bomber boarded an airplane, tried to attack it, failed, and burned his private parts, and upon landing was met by law enforcement. That's a success, as far as I'm concerned, and an opportunity for some laughs at his expense. It was so hard to get a bomb on an airplane that he took a low-quality, faulty explosive that he couldn't get to work.

>> Wouldn't you prefer that everyone else on your flight is scanned, just to make sure you'll be safe?

Honestly, I'd prefer the police and TSA respect their rights, and that people not live in panic or fear of terrorist attacks. A suicide attack happens so rarely and so unpredictably, so how are my freedoms any more protected if I submit to unreasonable searches?

In my opinion, trained psychological profilers would be much more effective.
In principle, I'm sure one could come up good regulations. In practice, I'm leery of congress's ability to do anything besides make PayPal more bank-like. That would be bad, since if customers really wanted a bank, they would already have a merchant account at one of {BankAm, Citi, Chase, PNC, ...}.

Some sort of "cc-number portability" regulations might be useful - i.e., if your customers saved their recurring payment cc-number into PayPal, you can take the cc-numbers to a new service provider. It's a minimal intervention which empowers customers.

I'd also be interested in having congress create a BankLite category of institution - more protections than PayPal, but not as heavyweight as BankAm. Some people want something which is 51% paypal, 49% bank, and a BankLite category might fit their needs better. Shoehorning PayPal into this would be a bad idea, but creating the option might be helpful.

[edit: As suggested by extension, better disclosure of PayPal's non-bank like nature would also be very helpful. Minimalist regulations which enhance customer choice/knowledge are awesome.]
Please read carefully :

http://www.schneier.com/essay-304.html
http://www.schneier.com/essay-245.html
http://www.schneier.com/essay-299.html

Security in airports is already much too high, too annoying and too costly. There must be a point when it stops getting tighter and tighter. It won't catch the next terrorist anyway. We need a better use of resources and people (better than taking away mineral water bottles, and full-body scanning everyone and his dog).
I'd really like these in HTML or EPUB.

Quick math says 500 pages per journal by 382 journals gives 382,000 pages. The going rate on Mechanical Turk seems to be $1 / page for human OCR. All the decent hosted OCRs sites I ran tests on are about .15c per page.

Yikes! Out of my budget. :-(

However, http://code.google.com/apis/documents/docs/3.0/developers_gu... did a half-decent job on some random selections. Any Googlers want to (ab)use company resources?
My pat down and search of everything on me took a good 15 minutes. When standing in line they asked each one of us if we wanted the xrays or patdown (they installed it just days before) and I was horrified when the person in front of me said "Oh I don't care" and the person in front of them simply said "that line looks faster". I couldn't believe they were so willing to take whatever security measure was added. I can only imagine what they are going to do next.
Was this an off shoot of a previous Show HN?

I remember a similar concept based around topics within books, but I've not been able to find it again.
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It took me a while to figure this out but i manage to bypass frame busters. Please have a look again.
Bank of America is one of the few exceptions where you won't be able to browse it directly (and that's good because a banking website is supposed to be secure! Although there is no bad intent with psykomatic this technic is sometimes used for spoofing! So thumbs up to them) but you can still click on the thumbnail to browse the page and it won't break the search to 'birds' anymore ;-)
It's the scale of data available for training to, there is a Google Research paper call 'The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data' talking about how even in the noisy medium that is the internet there is a lot to be gained from that level of data.

Also a paper from someone at Google on brute force paraphrase acquisition using billions of sentences combined with some relatively simple rules.
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