skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The good news is that there are very few native speakers in London :).

I'm still nowhere, but three things helped me a lot at the very beginning:

1. BBC iPlayer http://bbc.co.uk/iplayer - it may not help a lot, but is good fun :).

2. I put my CV online - the very next minute recruiters started calling. They're 99% completely useless (even more if you're not looking for a job, haha), but you can have the same conversation over and over again :).

3. Chatting in the pub. The circumstances are the absolute worst, so if you manage to get across anything in the pub, you will be much better off under better conditions.
nice application. however, i did not get a 'welcome to splendidbacon' email.

As trivial as it might be, i think the welcome email does what 'thanks for coming' does in offline stores
Cookie Stuffer Facing Possible 20 Years in Jail
I don't think my router even supports IPv6. This is going to be -such- a fun transition.

I really thought people would get serious about it 2 years ago.
Wow, what a story and what a composure that pilot has. If it were me you would have been able to see steam coming from my ears.

There was a cartoon a couple of years ago that showed nude people in line for a pat-down as the only way to get on board an airplane. We're not there just yet but we're getting there. I really wonder how long all this security theater is going to continue. And I also hope that this brave man will not lose his job for standing up to this abusive behavior, and if he does that all his colleagues will walk out with him.
thanks a lot for your feedback

i am not worried of spoken language

we use english in my company as default language
Yes, it is rather an odd position to put an ad, though as a user, I like that it's not intrusive, of course.
as said.

i am moving to london.

and spoken language is not the problem.

its about mistakes in writing. spelling and grammar
Ask HN: How to split equity
I'm working on a startup in its early stages. So far its been me, and another guy for a bit now. I may have found a third co-founder to join, and she just asked about equity.

A bit how the work is split right now.

Myself, I am the technical cofounder. I will be doing the design, the programming, and hosting etc. The idea for the site was also mine.

Person B is handling the business related inquiries, as well as the things related to marketing etc. He also knows way more about the process to get funding. His importance probably will be greater in the future.

Person C if she decides to join will be our domain expert. She would be playing a huge role in our success. In terms of helping us get the initial content, and being a liaison with the domains community. Her opinions also will matter a lot to the directions we take.

I just handed this task to Person B, but I would like to get an idea of what you think I should expect.
I am confused: are Tea party candidates helping or hurting the GOP
For Republican supporter as I am for the long time the goal is clear: we aught to beat Democratic candidates in three weeks. But when I am trying to count who is helping and who is hurting the GOP candidates chances it’s so easy to get confused. Not just me, So let’s count what is happening. Colorado Republicans are hosting a campaign tea party this fall, for better or worse. Or maybe for better and worse, in a jarring demonstration of the potential and peril generated by a political movement responsible for reshaping the 2010 election season. Why?
You'll stumble upon so many biz partners in London that will surprise you with much worse accents. Big cities demand funny accents - so we Austrians are safe…
Just pay attention to the tones and stresses in conversations with Brits & try hard to notice the differences. Changing from American English to British feels a bit ridiculous if you're not used to it (overpronunciation?).

edit:
btw: http://www.dict.cc shows translations of whole spoken phrases, it's hard to find something there, but in general the database of http://www.phrases.org.uk/ is ok. Probably you'll find something on http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/ but I think the level is too low.
The complicating factor here is not that he not only refused a Full Body Scan, but that he refused to be frisked as well:

On the other side I was stopped by another agent and informed that because I had “opted out” of AIT screening, I would have to go through secondary screening. I asked for clarification to be sure he was talking about frisking me, which he confirmed, and I declined.
I don't see how a comment's upvote-worthiness changes with time of day.
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They are registered as a bank in Europe so they must comply with European bank regulations...
In what respect? Because you have to type your password twice the first time you use a particular site with your standard throwaway user/pass combo?

In exchange for that single extra input box, OpenID forces a longer login process every time you use a site. The breakeven point where user/pass starts beating OpenID in terms of convenience happens at visit number two.
Soon to get on a plane we'll have to get naked and be sedated. The airlines will just stack people along with the cargo and revive them at the destination.
The man is a pilot. If he ever intends to kidnap or blow up a plane, no amount of frisking will stop him.

What's the next step? Functional MRI?
Looking at this 'from the outside' (US), some of this stuff is absolutely shocking. How scared is the average person to continue tolerating stuff like this? And when/where does it stop?

The BIGGEST QUESTION for me is this: Will there every come a point where the government will say "Ok, the world is safe again, we're giving you your liberties back."?
We use Open Atrium which is an install profile of Drupal. It's great because the feature set (by default) is very minimal, but it caneasily be extended with any of Drupal's modules, or you can create your own features. I love it because it's open source, runs on my servers, and is basic enough that when I give it to clients they aren't highly confused or need training to get started using it.
More on this topic:

* http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/sourceforge/ticket/13993

* http://sourceforge.net/blog/warning-to-open-source-projects-...

I didn't realize PayPal also froze the account of the developer of minecraft (containing about €600,000):

* http://notch.tumblr.com/post/1096322756/working-on-a-friday-...

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal#Criticism_and_limitation...
Your fellow Seedcamp company www.wordy.com would help you on a written basis - check the feedback you receive and learn from it. Being here in London, reading english books and newspapers, and going to the movies will also help. Disclosure: I work at Seedcamp...
Doesn't sound that worse than the last time I flew couch...
Forgive my being dense, but where was the abusive behavior, exactly?

They asked him to take a full body scan. He declined.
They offered him an "alternative option"-- to get frisked. He declined.
The security folks refused to let him board the plane without either a) or b) above.
At the end of this impasse, they asked him a few questions to file an incident report.

Pain in the ass? Sure. Abuse? I don't see it.
All he'd have to do to create considerable trouble is to comply with all this nonsense and then fly the plane in to the first target of opportunity.

Really, this stuff is not effective against those that you will have to trust eventually anyway.
> and spoken language is not the problem.

Well, the bit about sounding too 'German' in the pitch indicates it is. So that will help.

> its about mistakes in writing. spelling and grammar

Are you doing that on purpose, or simply not trying at all?

* The first word in a sentence, and proper nouns (names, mostly) are capitalized in English.

* its -> "It is" or "It's"

* "writing, spelling, and grammar." with at least one comma (the second is optional) and a full-stop (period) at the end of the sentence.

That stuff doesn't seem all that difficult to me: I know that German has some of those same rules, like starting a sentence with a capital letter.
It's interesting that people like this story because what I see is a pilot who first refused the body scanner and then refused the alternative (a pat down) and was refused entry to the airport. I don't see this as a big deal. He wasn't arrested and appears to have been dealt with politely by all concerned. The "stands up to the TSA" in the headline makes it sound like he's frikkin' Gandhi standing up the British. And I'm probably going to burn karma for saying this but, welcome to Reddit.
So, anyone holding a pilot's ID card should get waived through security?
Will it be auctioned on eBay?
The problem with theses pages is that they advocate the same errors you make in spoken language. Because even natives do them.
You don't search pilots, they're gonna be getting into the cockpit to fly the plane! They are uniformed, they carry clear identification badges that can be verified easily, and they probably know half the people working in the airport. You can't expect them to be groped several times a day for no good reason just to do their jobs.
Ahhh, though you said "corporate account," I'm betting you actually mean a "Merchant Services" account. There are actually a number of different types of paypal accounts, each with their own set of rules and features. Paypal --very intentionally-- tries to confuse people by not clearly listing both the various types of accounts and the various risks associated with them. They also very intentionally do _EVERYTHING_ they can to get your bank account credentials.

For example, in your situation, there may have been a somewhat hidden link to "other payment options" but of course, the only default you saw was "enter your bank account number." Paypal pulls this shit constantly, and all it takes is one wrong click (or less than careful reading) to trap you into an endless page reloads of "please enter your bank account" nonsense. --It's extremely scammy and they use every anti-pattern in the book, heck, they probably wrote the book.

I should also note, NEVER use a bank account debit card with paypal or online. These are also another way your bank account can be completely drained by attackers or less than honorable businesses.
There's no magic formula here: the objective is to estimate the contribution each of you will have to the success of the company over the next stretch of time.

Is there any immediately compelling reason why 1/3rd each isn't fair?
You just need to ID him, not search him. Check his badge, call it in if you're not sure, done.
The abusive behavior is in insulting a man that on a daily basis carries the responsibility for the lives of a few hundred people with having to comply with idiotic rules like these.

If you do not consider it abusive that's fine with me but I can fully understand his position.

All he needs to do damage are his hands and his head, and he doesn't even have to take off for that, all he has to do is not brake on the pad in line for takeoff. Are you going to read his mind to make sure he has no bad plans?

What's next ? Are we going to strip-search busdrivers ? Captains of ocean liners ?

I used to visit the US on a very regular basis, a few years ago I decided I'd had enough of the insults and the power trips these TSA types go through, I'm very happy that someone with some visibility finally has enough of it and steps up.

What bugs me a lot more is all the people that stand by and let it happen. That's being complicit to some extent.

That war on terror was won long ago. But not by who you think.
It might depend on the country, but I don't think there's one where you hand out your wallet and have no recourse whatsoever against fraudulent withdrawals. My bank (Poland) lets me revert any DD withdrawal through they web interface. The time limit is 30 days (business accounts 5 days only.)
That's just extraordinary.
Western Union is very expensive, especially when currency exchange is involved. Maybe once a year I accept a payment from some part of the World where this is the buyer's only option. WU usually eats my margin, but I feel a little better for getting stuff out to where it otherwise wouldn't.
Yes you are right about the part about the accent. I missunderstood your argument.

Actually i am not doing it on purpose. I just got used over the years to write small-letters in forums/comments and email. Maybe you are right to make this kind of a starting point.
I know my HN participation dropped offer during my summer in YC...understandably so given how busy I was. It's picked up more now and is probably about at the same level as before I started YC.

I was amazed that PG recognized my username at the acceptance brunch...I guess his statistics might explain why (I had ~1,000 karma but it was built up from small posts/comments, nothing too controversial).
What is Clojure good at?
For enabling/disabling Bluetooth I call this script
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=2007032818132485...

via Quicksilver.
I strongly disagree. If you're expecting the first value of a list, what use is nil?

If you have a list of Ints, then what can you do with nil returned? It's not an Int.

Nils have a habit of propagating through the whole type system, and you then need to have rules about how they apply to every function. (What is 1+nil? What is nil:[1,2,3]?).

Eventually every single function will either have odd behaviour when confronted with a nil, or will be a source of exceptions (which are generally undesirable in a pure functional setting).

Haskell encourages you to write patterns that check for these edge cases, and handle them explicitly:

foo [] = ...

foo (x:xs) = ...
If a pilot thinks he needs explosives to crash a plane, he may be overlooking something.
Thanks! It's true that the dropdown menu is not really optimal at the moment. We'll work on that!

The timeline was created from scratch since there wasn't any solution out there that was good enough for us.
groupthink is a state where people self-censor in fear of rejection or repression.
Only down-voting when disagreeing can cause groupthink since people who disagree with the consensus will stop posting disagreeing comments to preserve their karma.
The old ways don't go away just cause new simpler ones gained traction. Somewhere someone is still programming in FORTRAN and COBOL. Win32 will probably survive all of us. And the body of SOAP may float by us on the river, but it's a long way before it's out to sea. :-)
I hope it will be a loving home ;-)
I tried to summarise 3-4 stories from the HN homepage, but none of them worked.
This is one of those stories that looks like it's designed to get you hot and bothered about a topic that is not very related to tech and startups. In other words, I think there are other sites that are better choices for long, far ranging discussions about things like civil liberties, terrorism, and so on and so forth.
The permanent overdose of US Media makes UK English really sound different. You are right about that ;)

Unfort. most of the online learning material is by far too low. If you have any other suggestions let me know!
So what do you do about a deadheading pilot in uniform with ID who's decided to crash the plane? Sorry, you should search everyone (or search totally randomly).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FedEx_Express_Flight_705
Did you get your inspiration from the 4 hour work week by any chance? This is exactly what Tim Ferris did to get started (only targeted at students).
Actually i did that approach already. (Although not with wordy but a native PR professional)

This would basically mean writing regulary articles and getting them checked with wordy. Interesting approach but i would prefer a system that shows me instantly errors i do.
> to trap you into an endless page reloads of "please enter your bank account" nonsense.

That pretty much describes what happened.

I will take your information to heart and get paypals access revoked and I'm going to close that account and open a new one just to be sure.

Thank you very much for the helpful info, I knew paypal was bad, I always thought the 'bad' limited itself to my balance on their end (which I made sure I never had).

This is a bit of a shocker really.
The genetic component doesn't make you stick a needle in your arm in the first place - so it is irrelevant.
I self submit on occasion, as long as it's relevant and you're not overdoing it, I doubt anyone will really complain.
> business accounts 5 days only.

It's a business account but I'm going to try to anyway.
Considering he's a pilot that flies the airplane, do you think he would need to conceal objects from security scanning to crash that airplane into a building?

Boy, those Sep 11 attacks where like a needle straight to the heart ;)
One of the things I love Greek banks for is that they have none of this overdraft nonsense. If you have no money in your account, the transaction fails. I've tried to buy groceries and things a few times without having money in the account, and it just didn't go through.
Nice example from the docs:

Convert .mp3 to .ogg running one process per CPU core on local computer and server2:

parallel --trc {.}.ogg -j+0 -S server2,: \ 'mpg321 -w - {} | oggenc -q0 - -o {.}.ogg' ::: *.mp3
Why sky is blue
> I wonder why they have not been successful

The Altos were not official, supported products, but R&D projects and prototypes. I heard several were given away. The "real" products were the Star series.

Those didn't succeed because they were far too expensive. As were the Altos, BTW. A working system could easily run into the US$ 100K range, with workstation and printer.

A couple years later, Apple made the same mistake with the Lisa, pricing it over US$ 10K. They only got something with the US$ 2K-range Macintoshes. And those really caught on when Apple launched their laser printer.
First off, kudos for getting something out there! That seems to be half the battle.

One thing I noticed was that I completely missed the "Enter a valid location" label and I tried typing "breakfast" in the text box. I'm not usually an early bird so that may be why, but I'd still consider moving the label either directly above or the the left of the text box.

Also, I would personally prefer the app to display all of the radio buttons as checkboxes (defaulted to "ON") and then kind of like how Zillow does it, let me deselect the ones I don't want to see. That being said, if you decide to expand and have a whole ton of choices, be prudent as to which ones are checked.

Lastly, I'd like to see the whole thing centered in the page - just kinda seems lopsided to me.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1802972
Data theft overtakes physical losses
you must have much better credit than I do. Every payment processor that will do business with me 'holds' 25-50% of my money for a certain number of months even when you aren't doing something suspicious.

Now, last time I looked was a few years back, so things may have changed, but this was my experience last time I had a merchant account... Paypal isn't any good, but they are the best of a bad lot, as far as I can tell.
Agreed. I'm actually a supporter of the scanning technology, because I think it will reduce time spent in line at airports. The shoes taking off thing still seems kind of unnecessary and it's gross that everyone walks through the screening area in only their socks.

On a side note, I fly a lot, and it seems like TSA and Homeland Security have gotten much more organized, fast, and polite over the last few years. It was pretty bad 3+ years ago, but the last few flights I took in the USA they were polite and calm and prompt. This piece seems like much ado about nothing - there's legitimate problems in the USA right now, but this event doesn't seem like one of them.
Absolutely!

Everyone interested in relevant discussion can go to airliners.net where this is top story for few days now:

http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/general_aviation/re...

Another relevant site is pprune.org:

http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/430970-pilot-challenges-t...

Those are the places where real pilots and aviation professionals discuss the issue. One excellent quote from PPRune:

"What you have here is an idiot with an agenda. Fortunately he's likely so early in his career, he may not have thrown that much away, but he did make good inroads at getting stuck on TSA's watch list."

Totally irrelevant to HN.
Cisco 2010 Midyear Security Report
You 40%, others 30% each...

Assuming they will be co-founders with you from the get go...
Seems that you're from the Netherlands or from Belgium.

Are such "wrong" charges really an issue there? In Austria I would just let my bank cancel those charges (you can do this for free) if they are not justified.

As far as I know, going below "0" wouldn't be a problem either, because the bank then retroactively "recalculates" your account history without the charges in question.
I've traveled all over the world, I've encountered both incompetent and paranoid border guards - but only in the US do they enjoy it.

Best border I've been through recently would be Estonian - but living next door to Finland, they've no doubt seen it all...
> So what do you do about a deadheading pilot in uniform with ID who's decided to crash the plane.

>> Calloway's plan was unsuccessful. The crew was able to fight back despite severe wounds, subdue him, and safely land the aircraft. <<

Apparently you beat the crap out of him.
Definitely useful. Not sure what valuevth map adds, but you may want to let the user click the box to zoom into the info and drop the map. Cool app, I'd use it.
Why not use one of the web services that puts everything in one place? Then just add the url to your sig.

I happen to use this one, for example: http://myonepage.com
Even worse are the fancy graphical "please think of the environment before printing" logos - a few billion of them is some real watts of power & cooling in the datacentre...
There is an emulator. I have some limited success with it (it compiled and lights flashed), but couldn't go further.

Maybe some fellow hacker here gets further

http://altogether.brouhaha.com/
I personally feel a tiny amount of satisfaction in contributing something meaningful to a conversation, and I like to try and keep overall contributions to a community posative because if everyone did that it would make the community a better place for me.

Arguably selfish motivations, but they work out well for everyone.
Every host on an IP network, from servers to personal computers to networked printers, is assigned an IP address, a unique identifying number that is used to communicate with other hosts on the same network, or globally.

This is misleading: computers (and especially printers) attached to a local network do not deplete public IP addresses, even if the network is connected to the global internet.

Should not the TC crowd be a little more computer savvy than this?
Old town square
I was paying money, not receiving it.
Exactly. A huge number of people seem to ignore this and make the naive "Why doesn't someone just do what paypal are doing, but better?" type statements.

There are so many problems Paypal faces when offering the service they do, granted some of these problems faced by people are ridiculous (like this one we're posting in) but the average problem that is reported is reasonable.

Maybe it can be argued that unless Paypal can guarantee fantastic service they shouldn't operate as a business, but I (as a customer of Paypal) love their service, it'd suck if they went :-(