skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn't https://www.banksimple.com/faq/ answer your question?

Also, as they offer at the end of the faq:

Why haven’t you answered X?

If there is anything you’d like answered, feel free to shoot us an email at hello@banksimple.com.
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Is there a way to track those attacks? Do they come from random zombie boxes, or maybe the IPs are from somewhere in Virginia?
Sorry, I misunderstood. I thought he was saying the other person would use his remote to steal your bike.
"Democracies don't work by doing the right or correct thing. They work by the consent of the governed."

The question is "does our government listen to its people anymore, regardless of elections"?

The bank bailouts were opposed by the majority of the population crossing party lines. I wouldn't be surprised if the new TSA procedures are equally as hated. I can go on about other subjects such as FISA, ACTA, torture, Iraq & Afghanistan occupation.

Are we now living in a more subtle version of Singapore or China?
The article basically says that the Soviet economy was broken by bad bets on two commodities. Very hard to bet the whole country if you don't have a command economy.
I'm not sold on the idea of having all content combined into a single page. It's awkward to navigate, but an interesting choice nonetheless.
Out of interest, are you on Twitter? I found your above post pretty insightful, like that you work on a whole bunch of stuff - I'd like to add you my list of cool people who hack Python and keep in touch.
I do agree with you, but shouldn't it be "unconscious"?

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Subconscious

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Unconscious_m...
The signup form doesn't work if you use autocomplete to enter your name and email address. Had to delete random letters and retype them to get the button to light up.
The site has an easter egg.
Keyboard navigation:
Try j,k,Esc,1-7

(its explained at the bottom of the page)
There have already been calls from prominent US politicians to declare WikiLeaks a terrorist organization. Predator drone strikes are how the US deals with terrorists.
I don't know if there's a 'correct' answer to this, but if you wanted to try the path of least resistance you could make your existing sub-components build with a RUNNABLE option in lazymake. You'd end up just using the existing make files that way.

Not sure if that answers your question...

I generally stay away from building external dependancies at the same time as my project. Whenever I start a new project that needs 3rd party libs I build them all statically and version them off in my repo.
For what it's worth, I completely agree with your sentiment, and I felt a pang of regret when I reviewed my submission later. If I could rewrite the title now, I would call it "In-depth, insightful" rather than "Excellent".
Looking at the gallery in the OP, most of the features enabled by CHDK are standard in DSLRs anyway - RAW shooting, longer shutter speeds, full manual control, etc. As a DSLR shooter, I was looking through that gallery thinking, "what does CHDK allow that I can't already do with my camera?" until I realised they were doing it with P&S cameras.
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Definitely interesting, but I'd hesitate to describe it as a "deeper look", like how you might describe an investigative piece. I think the author correctly describes it as an "educated guess".
The button wasn't lightning up for me if I used autocomplete to enter name + email.
With nearly every country that Assange has ties with being pressured by the US and other mighty powers affected by Wikileaks, do you think the real truth would come out? Justice departments and public prosecutors are run by the state, after all. If they can find two women to accuse Assange for rape, can they not find a jury to convict him?

This case would appeared a little less staged if the alleged rape had occurred in Assange's past. Isn't it the least bit suspicious that the alleged rape occurred soon after the Collateral Damage video leak? Assange doesn't strike me as an idiot... do you really think he would go about raping someone when he expects trouble?

Whatever event actually occurred, the fact remains that governments are making fools of themselves by trying to suppress Wikileaks through these heavy-handed measures to arrest Assange. In that regard alone, I support him.
The same way Zappos just sells shoes?

A nice UI, efficient operations and customer service which doesn't actively hate you can make a pretty compelling value proposition.
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Make sure to tell me how I did in six months. ;p
No smalltalk or erlang but a question about ada and not actually the language?
15/19, but only because I wrote the back-end for this app: http://flashcards.educationlabs.com/#/Play/?deckid=0 and the Language Creators deck was the very first test deck I made early in development. I'm very impressed with those who actually knew all of them!
Advice on seeking a CTO/Co-Founder for a new fashion/style Q&A site
Hi, I’m a non-tech founder in New York City who needs help figuring out which route to take in my search for a CTO/Co-Founder with a strong Ruby on Rails background, and to some degree my product launch.

Late last year I spent a lot of time trying to find someone to work with me on my idea and after coming up with few results I went the route of raising friends and family money to outsource development in order to build a prototype which could attract users, financing, and a technical lead/team. While the launch has been severely delayed due to a number of reasons, it’s slated to launch in stealth soon while we work out a couple kinks and then soon after we plan on doing a private beta and then finally a full fledged launch early next year after we’ve refined the product somewhat and built a bit of a user base.

I know I already have several things which need to be remedied with the site as soon as we get it out there, but many of the people from my original outsourced team are moving on to work on their own projects and I need to find someone as into the ideas I am, and if not, at least someone competent to work on helping me make changes to the site while I go through the search process for a tech lead.

Any ideas, suggestions, recommendations for how to go about a search given my situation? I’ve already tapped into my network and can’t find anyone that can help.

Also, please feel free to reach out for more details.

Thanks a bunch!
How about Favorite? So you can save some interesting postings and comments...
from the FAQ (https://www.banksimple.com/faq/)

> If you don’t charge hidden fees, how do you make money?
We make money from two sources: interchange and interest margin. Interest margin is the revenue earned from lending, less what they pay on deposits. For example a bank may charge a customer 12% to borrow money, but pay 5% interest on a savings account. The difference, less any defaults on the loan, is revenue to the bank. Interchange is a small revenue source that card issuing banks earn whenever that card is used at a store. Typically banks earn less than 1% for each time the card is used to make a purchase. These are both great revenue streams, but banks got greedy and started charging additional fees to bolster their revenue. Without hundreds or thousands of branches, our operation is low cost, so we don’t need to rely on extraneous fee revenue.
If they can find two women to accuse Assange for rape, can they not find a jury to convict him?

I trust Sweden, a very advanced liberal country with an established justice system. The USA doesn't have much on Sweden (Australia, on the other hand..)

Besides, it would be easier to just kill him than pull off a complicated conspiracy that requires him to travel back to Sweden (what is the CIA going to do, keep dropping off Sweden tourism and discount airfare flyers into his mailbox?).

Can't say much about if he is stupid enough to rape somebody, thats what trials are for.
The FAQ says they'll concentrate on the US market initially.
Apache is pretty much the standard for a lot of companies so you can't go wrong with learning that. But you should def. do some reading on nginx, and lighttpd as well
I'd pay for Mint + Bank in a single package. It looks great. However, it's hard not to be a little disconcerted when the "meet the team" bit doesn't have a single person who has any sort of financial title like "accounts manager" or anything. It's just a group of devs. That doesn't scream "we know finances" it screams "we know how to make web apps, hope you trust us with money too... it can't be that hard, right?"

Mint got away with this by simply being a front-end, and never touching your money. BankSimple should try a little harder to prove that it's not just a company that can identify why banks suck (not all that hard, really), but a company that can actually be relied upon to safely handle your money.

* I know that BankSimple are putting all your money into an FDIC bank, but as the intermediary and the company you are doing business with, the buck stops with them (pun somewhat intended)
I'll post a follow-up, but I'm not going to release people's individual predictions publicly in case I inadvertently embarrass anyone. I'm probably going to contact the winners individually to alert them of their insight and luck.

But yeah, I'll post a detailed analysis in 6 months' time. If people then want to contact me directly to get their data then they will be able to.
Choice of programming language doesn't matter much in competitive programming.

Say, Pascal (or sometimes Delphi dialect of it) is historically very popular in Russia / Belarus, it's still a primary language in schools.

However, lots of student teams participating in ACM ICPC moved to Java just because it has more data structures in its standard library and it can handle bignums out of the box, meaning you have more time to think about solutions instead of coding long division.
To my mind, the most interesting, basic questions raised by the Wikileaks sensation are these:

To what extent may a good and proper government of the People keep secrets from its People and to what extent may it not? Secondly, if the State deems knowledge inappropriate for dissemination to the People how then are citizens empowered to change the State?

I don't have an answer for either of these questions. To have no secrets it desirable, but I do not see how this would not lead to pure Anarchy (in the political sense); hardly desirable in which malevolent actors are a part of the political process. Swing around to the other extreme and we've dropped ourselves into a Totalitarian Democracy.
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Democracies don't work by doing the right or correct thing. They work by the consent of the governed.

They mostly continue due to the apathy of the governed, I'd say. The 40-something percent of voters who vote for the loser in various elections are explicitly registering their dissent from being governed by the people they didn't vote for. I'd say that those people certainly are wasting their time 'choosing who to vote for, paying taxes, and debating with my fellow citizens what the correct policy on "X" might be', and from the steadily heightening vitriol in day-to-day politics, I think that's becoming clearer and clearer to everyday voters in the US.

This, too, seems to be due in part to the fragmentation of sources from which people get political news; the genteel framing of debating with fellow citizens is breaking down with access to more varied and less controlled information.
Yeah, they are probably using the javascript change event to trigger the enabling of that submit button. Unfortunately, most autocomplete functions don't trigger the change event.

It's a real pain; you end up having to poll the form fields for changes and then trigger the change event manually.
Here's the post if you are curious:

http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2007/04/29/from-geek-to...
You should put your email in your profile's about section so people can contact you.

I'm very much interested in fashion/style for a startup and would like to hear more about your needs. I'll check for your email soon
Why the generalizing?

The question you pose is not something that you can prove one way or another. It's up to each citizen to make that decision for themselves. As broken as it all is, a minority of people can't rise up and take away the consent of the governed by the majority, no matter how good their logic or noble their cause. It doesn't work like that. It's not a mathematical proof. Systems of people are not like system of network nodes. Yes, there are similarities, but there are very important differences too.

Europe already went down this road in the prelude to WWI. It didn't work out so well. I'm not opposed to going over all of this again, but these things have already been discussed and argued by people far wiser than us. If I understand what folks are saying, it's not like Assange has come up with some unique insight that somehow is going to make things better. This is just anarchism by another name.
My bad, I didn't see the FAQ. I didn't even realize their page scrolled, I was navigating it sideways via their tabs ("putting people first", "no surprise fees", etc) rather than vertically.
Wikileaks, Google and China
Sounds rather error-prone. If I wanted to fool myself into thinking that I'd swapped a lot of fat for a lot of muscle, what could I do? I'd try to increase density from one volume measurement to the other -- I could breathe in a lot of air during one measurement, and eat a lot of.. I dunno, fruit cake before the other.
I don't think there is anything for comments, but for favorite posts, look at "saved" in your profile. It isn't quite the same feature, but works as a lesser favorite.
This is common thinking.

But there is a problem; outside a national vote you tend to get a massive skew on "voter opinion" because only a minority are involved.

This has been observed many times over the years; where the electorate were supposed to think one way but in actual fact voted differently. A recent example is how badly the liberals did in the recent UK elections.

Over a large enough population people are generally apathetic - so there is no guarantee that what seems obvious reflects the majority.

It's an unfortunate side effect of democracy :-)
You can make up your own bullshit or choose from the variety of available flavors.

Big businesses act without consent of the governed as the norm, breaking the social contract. Assange is just new to the party so he gets a disproportionate amount of attention.

So pick your flavor.
"Now it makes perfect sense how Level 3 managed to outbid Akamai since no CDN provider operating legally could outbid hot goods."

I think he means contractually rather than legally, very big difference and suggests that this story is a beat-up. There is no way in the world that Comcast (a dedicated end user provider) was almost equal with L3 (almost dedicated to providing first-tier backbone to private networks and colo)

Peering is interesting in that you can get a lot of free hosting if you find a company that does a lot of inbound but no outbound. We hosted all of the OpenBSD, FreeBSD and 100+ other projects au mirrors for 10+ years for free hitting peaks of gbits+ because of the provider having to make up peering arrangements. I imagine Comcast would be the same (we did it with a similar company - home broadband provider)

This is definitely a case of Comcast attempting to double-dip and feeding a story to a journalist to get their side of the argument out (the journalist even put a hit on one of his competing publications for 'getting it wrong')
Had the same issue and thought the form was just broken until I saw your comment. This is probably losing them a lot of signups.
I'm waiting on Level 3 to call out Comcast on that specifically. That would make the argument of Level 3's accusation against Comcast.
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My understanding is that Level 3 (and Akamai and Limelight and soon everyone) has to pay Comcast for all traffic.
Are the under 35s ditching the web for apps?
Really? I can never work on projects when I wake up, I don't know why, but I need about an hour or two of other activities (such as watching youtube) before my brain can get to work.
I think the wrong-headed idea that many nerds have is that creating a startup is mostly about having a brilliant idea. If someone comes along and creates something similar to their idea, they think "that could have been me."

I suspect that the real value comes from execution of the idea, perseverance, and willingness to let your idea evolve until you've created something that people want. Often folks fail to recognize that the ability to execute and evolve (and be willing to fail) are traits that we don't all have, and so it's very possible that it couldn't have been them.

While there are probably some ideas that are doomed to fail, I don't think that label applies to any of the ones from the original post.
TV killed the Radio, doesn't stop radio being a big business.
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Level 3 has a direct connection to the Comcast network (I don't think it matters much whether it was peering or transit)

Level 3 gets clever and decides to provide CDN services leveraging their proximity to Comcast. Normally Comcast charges CDNs for the proximity that Level 3 already enjoys as a product of their existing relationship.

Comcast decides "Hey - wait a second, you're now a CDN" and tries to charge them similar fees to what they charge the other CDNs for proximity.
The suggestion to get a referral is a good one. However, you may not have that option. So what do you do alternately? Let's consider the answer for an attorney.

First, define the legal work as much as possible by yourself. Think of this as "legal pseudo code" that will ultimately be put into the proper legal language. Do your homework: your problem is not new, and some googling will find existing solutions. So before you start making any calls, you should have a pretty good idea of what you need.

Now start searching law firms in your area (you definitely want them in the same state, as state laws vary). Check their existing clients (if they name any) and their practice area. Look for significant overlap; they should have done work for companies in the tech sector.

Then start making calls or sending emails. By this time, you'll probably be able to select the person you'll use as an "entry point" in each firm. Ask them for an initial interview; there should be no charge for this. Present your problem, and proposed solution. Ask: have they done something similar? If not, get a referral. Now you're suddenly on the inside track. Keep getting referrals and going on initial interviews. As you repeat the process, it will soon become obvious who the top candidates are.
If you ran 10 miles per day (at 125 calories/mile) you'd still only be able to eat a very meager 1200 calories per day.

Unless your metabolism remained elevated after your run.
Does Sweden have jury trials?
Of course. The following Wikipedia article has several references: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronotype It is also worthwhile to do a Google Scholar search with the query "evolution eveningness".
The most common thing I see from such people is a desire to break off and do whatever is being done at their current company, but to do it right instead.
I think the real question is why does Tim Ferris have any credibility around here at all, when anyone else trying to sell "dietary supplements" and making "I gained 34 pounds of muscle in one month" claims would be confined to the medium of posters on telegraph poles.

Even to the extent that any of his claims are true, didn't his mother ever teach him that it's impolite to brag?
Why not replace DNS names with public keys? Anyone can generate one - removing the need for centralized namespace authority for key->ip mapping - and any lookup can easily be verified as only the server at the correct IP would have the private key.
My email has a . before the @ and was deemed invalid ...
Of course the digital divide is affected by income, but you're missing key pieces of the story.

1) The digital divide between classes is negligible compared to the divide between rural and urban dwellers, particularly wrt broadband access[1]. Also, n.b. class based Internet analytics is prone to error, since the poorest segment of America lives in remote rural areas where broadband access is unavailable to begin with.

2) As I pointed out above, the OP was in reference to 2007, when the Democratic candidacy was still up in the air. Further, Barack Obama drew support (particularly individual campaign donations) from young Internet-savvy people, whereas the real blue-chip donations went to Hillary Clinton (and to a lesser extent, Chris Dodd). Your data is from the exit polls in 2008, after the Democrats had (more or less) formed into a united front.

This makes your larger point untrue[2]. The data from the Obama campaign indicates that these particular videos were less effective than the images, and to assume this is due to bandwidth complaints is specious at best.

[1]http://pewinternet.org/Media-Mentions/2006/Rural-areas-laggi...

[2] Well, it is true that you can't generalize from this one example, and that video may still be a good choice for web startups, but not for the reasons you suggest.
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Nothing about internet routing, including the cost structure, has anything to do with any sort of practicality. It's all politics and bureaucracy. Comcast and Level 3 are basically in the middle of a bureaucratic skirmish; there's nothing more sinister or unusual going on here.
Any political system with secrecy evolves into authoritarianism. Why shouldn't it? Secrecy ensures politicians/bureaucrats won't be accountable.

When did we start thinking that we can have democracy and freedom without accountability?

It isn't about conspiracy theories. It's just common sense that some people will abuse their power if they can't be held accountable.
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I had a somewhat similar experience. Working on various projects for specific clients isn't so exciting. Although I must admit I learned the most from it, but I never felt that it's what I'm cut out to do.

I think the difference between working on an application vs doing a contract work is having someone mandate to you what you have to do and when you have to do it, vs deciding yourself what you want to work on.
This sounds like someone who is engaging in wishful thinking. Perhaps they have control freak issues as well. Either way, it reads like a giant red flag.
I wasn't that general. I did cite at least two cases where the majority of the governed wanted something other than what our government has provided us. Besides I don't see this toppling our representative democracy. If anything it'll just help keep our representatives a bit more honest and a bit more cautious.

My point is that many people already see the social contract as broken.
Yeah, I second that and provide any prediction I make to the public domain!