skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you tried moneybookers? is it safer? I have had troubles also with paypal and my frind`s accounts has been frozen too. However most of our clients/donators don`t even know there are other ways of sending money.
That's definitely true- but say you want to check for (+/-2)^n, then you would have to deal with negative numbers.

If you go by the Two's complement representation, then for a negative number say (-8), because of sign extention, a check for x&(x-1) would fail.
Have you tried moneybookers?
Here's my (completely unsubstantiated) theory. It happend literally the day after crossing $500 & 50K views in adsense. I'm guessing one of those was a trigger for manual review by some contractor, perhaps overseas. They looked at my sites for 3 sec, found them to be cookie-cutter and decided to blacklist the account. I get the impression they shoot first, ask questions later. I didn't feel like dealing with it all or starting over so I just moved on to other things.
Good point. However, http://www.restorethegulf.gov/ (which this article is about) doubtfully needs to pass as stringent a review as, say, something containing more sensitive data that was a little more complicated and crucial than a small Drupal site discussing something that the media considers yesterday's news, even if it is important.
You need to be specific on what your needs are regarding platforms, though that generally doesn't define which language to use; though there are exceptions, like for example OSX and Obj-C... and even in this case you could still end up using a different language altogether. If you need an iphone dev, advertise for such. If you need a web dev, advertise for a web dev. You need to make sure you have the right person for the job regardless of the language.
Absolutely. That is one of my biggest lessons learned.
Real job for one year. Then consulting. Then exit. Also, my wife has a job.
IMDb Celebrates 20th Anniversary - Letter from Founder Col Needham
Cool, now they just need to miniaturize it 10^9-fold and we'll have our molecular nanotech.
Hamachi and ShrewSoft VPN.
Pythonist's thoughts on Clojure after 3 days of learning and coding
When do you write the most efficient code?
That is true if the urls are the same but in the previously submitted one #readme is appended and this one lacks that.

I believe that dups with the same url are caught as long as they are in memory on the server.
Left my job to program/write while traveling around USA for a year
Programmers all have a specialty (designing for web based apps vrs mobile apps vrs software apps). So in picking the "right" team, I'd like to make sure that they can develop what I need develop. Now, because what I what done has been developed by other sites, I'd like to be able to tell my prospective team what we'll be doing. Is it enough to say that I want to develop a site similar to zazzle and cafepress or do I need to tell them that zazzle and cafepress use XYZ kind of language?
Questioning my future.  Anyone need a programmer?
Hello HNers,

I've been around here long enough to notice that this community is capable of great things and, to be brief, I'm writing here to see if anyone needs/would like to outsource some work or sub-contract me.

A little about me:

I'm a young, ambitious British developer taking a gap year from university to focus on some web development with friends. Unfortunately for me, they lacked the work ethic required to make real progress. Having quit my waiter job, I need to find a way to sustain my living expenses (mainly food and apartment) whilst also contributing to the Experience section of my portfolio. I feel at this stage I'm unable to go entirely independent as I lack the necessary experience to do so. I do however posses a talent in a variety of programming languages, with my specialty being PHP.

I have recently developed a custom set of forums that rival the performance of the existing forums out there. It was built in its entirety upon my own framework and utilises technologies such as memcached and mysql.
In addition to the Forums and Framework I've done some work for a dutch GPT site, created my own Paypal Library which integrates nicely with the PayPal API (for a failed project), and a custom gaming panel for a relatively popular private game sever.

My web skills: PHP, SQL, Memcached, javascript, html5, and css3.
My non-web skills: OOP, C++, C# and more recently some objective-c with my beloved iPhone.
I'm also actively interested in broadening my skill-set.

Thanks
Private Manning and the Making of Wikileaks
what's different than http://squarepik.com/?
Cheers pg. The reason I asked was because when my cofounder and I submitted our application for w2011, we decided to use his account as the lead even though I had way more karma, which was due to him having a much cooler answer to the non-computer hack question specifically addressed at only the lead.

Anyway, not that it matters since a good application is still a good one (and vice versa), but it's possible to find a higher YC/HN participation rate if you include the cofounders.
OOP is not a philosophy

philosophy: any personal belief about how to live or how to deal with a situation; "self-indulgence was his only philosophy"; "my father's philosophy of child-rearing was to let mother do it"

It's not a science, it is a philosophical view point on how code should be arranged. So for me philosophy best fits the definition of the abstract concept that is a though process enshrined in code in particular adherence to a philosophically composed structure. I think philosophy fits the bill quite well.

I think you miss the point, functions and data existing outside of the class do not encapsulate the code base, so for you example, what if I write a widget for the UI and I want to give that widget to my friend, but not my project. In you example, I have to package up the functions, which may or may not reside with other functions, then you have to package up the data and again many or may not. Further the API does not float with the widget, so my friend has to design non conflicting entry points in his system to ensure that those functions are now available to the data for manipulation.

You are introducing external dependancies to a concept that by all intents and purposes can stand alone. OO promote reusability, because it boxes everything you need into a class and that is why when specifically applied to the UI where there is a lot of inherent reusability of items that deviate slightly it provides great application.

External dependancies are the nemesis of isolated components and your example shows why. You are looking outside the object at how it is used by the system. You are looking at how you call and use that class not how it relates to the overall system and keeps itself from becoming intertwined with it, all of the is dealt with inside the class not outside because it is inherent to OO.

Inheritance is a whole other aspect of why it is superior in this context and again it has to do with limiting external dependancies. Being able to extend a code base and suppress existing functionality while adding new novel functionality allow one to build on an existing item while still allowing the existing items to stand independent of that relationship. This allows my friend the ability to build upon my code base while leaving my code base intact. Therefore when I update my code base so long as I do not modify the existing contracts he can take upgrade in whole with no issue and no modification to his existing system. Now I know all this can be done with functional languages, the point is that it is simpler with OO and that is the crux of the issue.
I don't think that's the point at all. If anything it's "some Microsoft frameworks are too big and complicated" (but others - F# - aren't so let's try those)
I'd wager it's done more often by accident than on purpose.
No one is after your data (probably)
Options to improve time-to-profit
I rely on the hover ability heavily on virtually every website on every device I use. The reason is that I always look at the link's url that pops up at the bottom before I click on a link. Notice that this is a browser feature & not a page feature and I depend on it heavily.

I think using hover is perfectly acceptable for displaying information on a site that users don't need but very well might want. I will concede just as quickly as anybody else that there is definitely a lot of sites that abuse this ability. But I think is is unnecessary to suggest abolishing it completly.
Double considered harmful
Touche. Though I said best editor, not best OS. I tried Emacs once, org-mode was a bliss until I realized I had no feeling on my left pinky and realized I was more productive when I used Vim.

You have to admit though, those screencasts are a godsend for Vim newbies. They're excellently produced and lighthearted to boot.
When Brute Force Fails
The answer it gives for the height of the Empire State Building is totally useless.

"1,250".

What?! 1,250...feet? inches? meters? centimeters?
Bananas have much more starch than oranges, but oranges are easier to juice.
That is quite scary. And to dig even deeper would be the ability to predict what a user is just thinking in his or her head. Or reacting or showing customized options based on a user's mood, which could be used for both good and bad purposes. Good if it's a system that's intention is to be purely helpful to a user, such as in that computer in the movie Moon. But bad if it's system meant to manipulate users into doing things they won't necessarily want, such as convincing people that they "need" to have a McDonald's Big Mac.
Awesome! Gabriel, could you please get these search results into Duck Duck Go?
What do you think about The United States?
Really varied across the board, but nothing with anything close to 100K users. For the ones that didn't launch, obviously none :). I can't remember exact numbers for the old stuff, but pretty much everything got a decent amount of SEO traffic that I could play with (run tests on). Decent amount is several hundred to a few thousand uniques a day. More recent stuff more on the order of 100s of users.
Ask HN: Rails Rumble is over: Where to go?
Rails Rumble 2010 is over, first year I've managed to finish something (participating since 2007) but still, it's just a prototype. It could be better but half the team suddenly had other stuff to do and the third man was too long at the party on Saturday. Good thing I don't have much a social life :)

The app is a Sudoku game, inspired by scrabb.ly with an endless field (even though it's only two field right now). For a prototype it's quite good and I'd like to continue working on it. But: For a short reality check I'd like to know what the HN readers (and with so many technical persons there should be a few Sudoku addicts) think of the game so far and the plan I've sketched in the pivotaltracker. Please have a look and share your mind.

The Game:
http://wieners.r10.railsrumble.com/boards

The upcoming tasks, or not.
http://www.pivotaltracker.com/projects/125268
If you're writing seven lines of test cases and just running your solution through the interpreter/compiler without thinking, sure. If you're writing seven lines of test cases and glancing back over to them as you write the solution it's a tool to help you think about whether your solutions are correct or not. In an interview/whiteboard environment you're going to be closer to the latter, if only because you're not going to have an interpreter at hand.
Or maybe he wouldn't have learned necessary and important lessons if he hadn't bought the textile business.
Calculating Trajectory – In Case You Find Yourself Near a Giant Slingshot
Especially for predicates, functions like even?, every?, ffirst,

(For the record, this line supposed to be edited out, but apparently I forgot to actually delete it)
Duty free shops would object. A lot. And they're "more important" than travellers in some ways (i.e. they will be heard if they object).
What's more is that for some time they allowed pilots to carry handguns in the cockpit (federal flight deck officers). I always found it amusing when one of the pilots got waved through carrying a firearm while the other had to go through secondary screening.
I can second this based on my own exeprience.

A few months ago, I helped my son to set up a non-profit organization and a website to collect online donations (http://sujal.org), mostly from family and friends. I chose the non-profit option for the business type when the PayPal account was created, since the organization was registered as non-profit in my state and also because we intended to file for exempt status with the IRS (until we found that it costs $400 to do that, which is a story for another time.)

A few weeks later, PayPal suspended the account. I contacted PayPal and after a few days going back-and-forth, I was told to change the business type to something that is not non-profit, and also to add a disclaimer along with the donate button to convey that the donations are not tax-deductible (see the above link for exact text of the disclaimer if interested). After doing this, the account was restored.
"I recommend that people write their passwords down on a small piece of paper, and keep it with their other valuable small pieces of paper: in their wallet." (http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/06/write_down_you...)
If anyone from GazeHawk is reading this, they totally should be using iPhone 4 owners to generate heatmaps of mobile sites like they do already with desktop users.
NAT'd by their own router you mean? Because that seems like a world of difference from ISP-level NAT which I can imagine breaking a lot of shit.
Diagnosing and Handling EC2 EBS Issues
See also: Techcrunch.

Their combination of "Snapshots" hover boxes, and autoscrolling widgets is so dreadful that I recently disabled Javascript entirely for the TC domain.

That was the first time in nearly 15 years of using the internet that I felt compelled to do so.
Ask HN: Interested in a hacker newser poker meetup in the Bay Area?
I think this would be a good way to meet other hacker newsers, share ideas, and play some poker.

I'd be happy to host and order food, and hopefully we'll get a few more hosts in a rotation for an ongoing game.

See the link in my comment below to sign up.
The URL comparator appears to be a simple (case-sensitive!) string comparison. There are many ways around the dupe filter.
France gives startups tax breaks. And now plans to take them back.
https://spreadsheets0.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=...
How are you going to logically think about manipulating the structure of a program that looks like C# or Perl?

In Perl 6, you extend the active grammar within a delimited scope.
I rather like Eric Gilbert's "Widespread Worry and the Stock Market" on this.

http://social.cs.uiuc.edu/people/gilbert/38
Here's another thing to keep in mind. I am hearing impaired. I've been seeing more information given through screencasts and videos, often untranscribed or uncaptioned. For example, I make websites, so I'd have liked a captioned or transcribed version for the screencast in this article. There's also been other sites where the sole tutorial was an uncaptioned video.

Is the problem lack of awareness? It takes much more effort to caption or transcribe videos and make websites screenreader friendly than to use valid HTML and CSS. But when I ask about making something accessible, people are usually happy to oblige. I suspect it's because suddenly they realize part of their target audience needs it.
Has Facebook lost control of the Platform?
At the risk of sounding foolish, there is some truth to "keeping at it." Check out airBnB's talk startup school; you guys seem to be in a similar place as they were a year or so ago.

According to you, you're nearly complete with development, and marketing is your biggest expense. That's better than some situations (no cash, no products either). Marketing is the easiest thing to reduce in expenses.

The most powerful tools in your marketing arsenal are handshakes, telephones and business cards. Go to small groups for face-to-face conferences with potential users, and take your current users out for a series of lunches/beers. Contribute as much as possible to the user generated content of the site itself. If it is a form of web2.0 for traders, you and the rest of the team should post things several times a day - the site may become much richer because of it.
Perhaps for people with simple feature phones and little techno-affinity?
Can anyone speak to the size of the acquisitions Facebook has made? Zuckerberg said they were for talent - and I know some (friendfeed) must have pretty significant in size.

Additionally, Dalton Caldwell (imeem) said that he thought Apple's lala acquisition was just for talent as well.
The difference between this case and other uses of hover is that displaying the URL doesn't impact the page itself (usually). Instead it is displayed in an otherwise unused bit of the browser chrome.
I wouldn't go assuming one of the world's largest bureaucracies practices that sort of common sense.
While it would be great if every website were designed to be accessible, it isn't actually going to happen for various reasons.

What can be done and should happen is screen reader software can improve. If google can index Ajax websites, screen readers can be improved to handle them too. No other solution is realistic, or will do more to improve the usability of the web for the visually impaired.
It may be. But it is true that most tax havens, including the other three I mentioned, do not tax anything that does not happen within their borders. That is why there is the infamous address in the Caymans to which some 8000 businesses are registered, according to Obama.
Advice for YC Applicants: Better Last-Minute than Late
How I Pitched TechCrunch And How To Get Press When You Launch Your Startup
If you're using Gmail or Google Apps for your email needs, I'd reckon you try Sparrow (http://www.sparrowmailapp.com/). It's truly the client I've been waiting for years! It's still in beta and lacks some final polish on some areas, but it's freaking awesome nonetheless
Apple's Snow White Design Language
Talk to your WorldPay account manager. We started off at 20 pounds/mo + a set transaction fee and then switched to 1%. It doesn't hurt so much when you are first starting out and it gives a helpful percentage to use in projections.
I think you can only stop others from serving but looks tedious.
What would be cool is if the 3D printer made of legos could print another 3D printer made of legos. Turtles (er, legos) all the way down!
CCL has very good ObjC/Cocoa integration, and a well integrated IDE. But it also runs on Linux and Windows, it has native threads (that feature alone puts it head-and-shoulders over Python), and it has a wicked fast compiler. So it makes a kick-ass webapp development platform.

I don't know about Cocoa touch, but the CCL compiler was recently ported to run on ARM processors.
> It is heavily refactored, so don't expect
> any backwards compatibility with the original library.

Thereby defying the purpose of refactoring code.
> Programmers all have a specialty (designing for web based apps vrs mobile apps vrs software apps).

So specifically say that you're looking for a web developer. This is a standard thing to do.

> Is it enough to say that I want to develop a site similar to zazzle and cafepress

Well, no. I'd say that as it is, this description is both too much and too little. It's too much in that it sounds like you're trying to make a quick buck by ripping off other people. It's too little in that you don't say why it's an interesting idea, and why people would use your site instead of the others. (However, that's probably not something that you want to share publicly at the moment.) It might just be best to say that you want to develop a website and then give more details later.

> or do I need to tell them that zazzle and cafepress use XYZ kind of language?

Unless you're hiring developers to work for Zazzle or Cafepress, no. Anyone competent will already know which languages work well for this kind of project, and will have an opinion on which one should be used.
If you are a Firefox user, give Beef Taco a shot. Set's them and keeps them loaded: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/180650/
Readings from news execs
What will Twitter become?
Go for London, someone with "a variety of programming languages" is always welcome there, especially if you also program on weekends just for fun.
But I doubt PHP programmers are getting well-paid, at least I never did (ok, that was still during uni) but I was able to ask and get more money once I switched over to Ruby (or take Python, doesn't really matter as long as it's not so mainstreamy as PHP; frameworks are a must, stop writing your own, contribute to existing open source instead!).

If you don't mind going abroad, Berlin is hip and there are plenty of older, well-funded startups who don't require German skills from you.

If you are mad enough to work on your own apps during this year, make sure to release every app within a month, maximum. You'd only waste time and motivation if you wouldn't.
Iterative Development of Predictive Models with Interactive Visualization
Counterfactual Thinking
Those are really benefits of data abstraction, not necessarily OOP (which is a specific approach to achieving data abstraction)
TAE (the american entrepreneur) radio is a great show that I along with some friends have been listening to for a # of years. What I like best is the show's host is an entrepreneur that adds his experiences to interviews like no other host can.
They've really kicked it up a notch lately with bigger name guests: Jason Fried, Steve Wozniak, Craig Newmark, Tony Hsieh to name a few.

I've listened to many other shows on Stitcher Radio, but have found most of them have boring hosts and/or are inconsistent. Try this one you may find yourself a long time listener like myself. http://taeradio.com/
You're right! I didn't know this word and assumed, wrongly, that it meant something like "deadbeat". I should have checked first; got caught up in the heat of the discussion.

However, that makes the reference to this incident even more incomprehensible. Who said anything about off-duty pilots?

Being a qualified pilot (or dressed as one) is not the point; the point, as has been stated many times now in this discussion, is that:

1. whoever is flying the plane today does not need to go through security, because they'll end up in the cockpit anyway

2. whatever piece of ID is enough to get someone at the commands of a commercial airliner today should also be enough to get past ordinary security procedures designed for passengers
Among others, I liked this quote:

This is not to say that counterfactual thinking is not encountered at all outside of mathematics. For instance, an obvious source of counterfactual thinking occurs in literary fiction, particularly in speculative fiction such as science fiction, fantasy, or alternate history. Here, one can certainly take one or more counterfactual hypotheses (e.g. “what if magic really existed?”) and follow them to see what conclusions would result. The analogy between this and mathematical counterfactual reasoning is not perfect, of course: in fiction, consequences are usually not logically dictated by their premises, but are instead driven by more contingent considerations, such as the need to advance the plot, to entertain the reader, or to make some moral or political point, and these types of narrative elements are almost completely absent in mathematical writing). Nevertheless, the analogy can be somewhat helpful when one is first coming to terms with mathematical reasoning. For instance, the mathematical concept of a proof by contradiction can be viewed as roughly analogous in some ways to such literary concepts as satire, dark humour, or absurdist fiction, in which one takes a premise specifically with the intent to derive absurd consequences from it. And if the proof of (say) a lemma is analogous to a short story, then the statement of that lemma can be viewed as analogous to the moral of that story.