skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The alternative, cash, cheques, and debit cards, are just so inconvenient. My bank absolutely takes me to the cleaners for fees when I use my debit card and cheques, not to mention the hassle of actually having a chequebook handy.

I really dislike carrying cash, too. Several months ago I had my locker broken into at the swimming pool and had around $100 stolen from my wallet. It was easy enough to cancel my credit cards, have any unauthorized charges reversed, and have them re-issued, but the cash was as good as gone.

And mail order without credit cards? Forget it!
cnn pageviews?
No.

"They" say your thinking is broken:

- if you think it's okay to generalize from particular measurements without understanding what limits performance in other situations;

- if you think it's okay to generalize from particular measurements without showing the measured programs are somehow representative of other situations.
Back in the late '90s where I worked we noticed a pretty strong correlation between those people who turned out to be good developers or testers, and people who were avid readers.

And I don't necessarily mean readers of technical books. Science fiction, history, astronomy, Stephen King, or whatever--the best workers invariable seemed to always have something they were enthusiastically reading for pleasure. They'd have a book with them to read at lunch or on break. When they finished that they were on to the next.
Then you're possibly incentivized to do subpar work the first time around to ensure a second round. On the other hand, if you push that too far it will make for a bad reputation. Also, if there is enough new work coming in then it's probably better to spend the time with new clients (with the aim in mind to up-sell later).
Rumor has it the next target is Authorize.net (I assume not because anything they did but because that's how you actually take down the ability for Visa and MC to function). That would be quite dramatic to say the least.
(1) The hiring manager should have told you what she wants you to learn during the interview.

(2) You should be able to match up parts of the resume to what the HM wants. Ask questions to see how the candidate rates.
What's interesting to me is that they're selling this as an appliance, and a high end one at that. They're using Infiniband networking and seven SSDs per appliance. That's some serious cost. Their overall software design as described in the white paper isn't that new or interesting IMO. Teradata and others have been doing very similar things for a long time.
The gold,silver,copper,victorypoints and curses are all part of the cards that are automatically added in every game, regardless of the 10 kingdom cards.
Rule of thumb: Never back down from a bully.
Akamai's stock should be going up.
I just signed up to ebookburn. When I tried to create a new book, the first thing I'm asked to do is pick the amount of editing time which costs from $25 to $7300. Can I first at least try your software? How can anyone trust you with their money without first seeing what you've got to offer?

EDIT: It looks like the same is the case with fifobooks.com. It asks me to fill in tax and payment information before I can publish a book. I understand it must be a legal requirement, but I think it's a bad idea to not even let the user see what you are able to provide them. At least let me go through the process to see how you process my book. Then don't publish it until I give you the necessary details. Seriously, I think this is a really bad user experience.
What percentage of Facebook accounts are fake or test accounts for products?
Overtime, more people friend me who I have no connection to. What percentage of Facebook accounts are fake or not a person's actual personal account? I probably in the aggregate have created 4 Facebook accounts including my personal for other projects. Does Facebook take this into account?
What sort were you thinking? Perhaps a distributed candlelight vigil?

I'm a Ghandhi-ist myself, so I'm fascinated.
Twitter bans anon_operation Visa Attackers (WikiLeak supporters)
Intel, AMD, and others to phase out VGA by 2015
Really? Where do they get clients? I'll start tonight!
I don't think DDoS is violent at all. It doesn't physically hurt anyone, and it doesn't damage the property of people who aren't involved in censoring Wikileaks.

Nonviolent protest doesn't need to just be complaining. Everyone does that, and it doesn't get anything done unless you're a millionaire. Passive resistance is generally economically disruptive to whoever it's targeted at.

DDoS attacks are not all that different, conceptually, from sit-ins. You're not destroying their server or deleting their code. You are simply putting yourself in the way so that no one else can use their website. It's not a nice thing to do, it interferes with their ability to do business, and it's illegal, but it's not violent.
It depends on how many large suppliers want one vs another. If you can bring in enough revenue to justify the man-power to make the platform change, and you have a feeling it's not a one-off job, then do it.

I am currently facing the same dilemma, in that we normally license our software as a javascript client side library to add functionality to an existing site or one being developed. However, someone wants a "replica" of our site, but branded and translated to a different language, including our profit model. It's only worth pursuing this revenue if they pay us enough to offset the work required. If/when it is done, I can rinse/repeat MUCH easier, and I have another avenue for monetization aside from our existing two.

So, very situational and only can be answered by you...
Although Venkat doesn't mention them, reddit seems like the perfect example of a community that started out as a plaza, and with the introduction of user-created subreddits, evolved into a warren-like structure.

The article predicts that this should at least halt the "evaporative cooling" effect, as the size of the community increased. I haven't spent much time around reddit in the last few years, but is this accurate? Intuitively, it seems that separating the community by topic may also result a series of low-quality fiefdoms, where those with the most extreme views on a subject hold court.
The explicit bias is that the benchmarks game measures time used by programs. If that bias favors languages like C++ so be it.
its up now
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One quick flourish of the pen, and a company can be destroyed. Obviously this is true at the startup scale, where a niche can simply be erased. But even at the larger scale, a national decision to back one approach can be devastating (as in FCC decisions). Or antitrust actions can decimate a company (ATT, IBM, narrowly avoided by Microsoft).

This is just absolutely not true. When US president has the guts to suggest that company(ies) responsible for largest ecological disaster in US history should pay for it, it equalled to "shake-down" to people currently running US legislative branch, then what are we even arguing about? ATT, IBM and MSFT were decimated? Seriously? They were broken-up, as they were approaching monopoly (that's a good thing you know), but all three examples and their spin-offs are thriving since then.

One thing you got right though - start-up world is risky.
Unedited comments from 8 leading scientists regarding the Arsenic microbes
I also wonder about the security implications. And it is not just the stealing of data. A government man in the middle can censor the printing of material he finds offensive, subpoena Google, and arrest the person attempting to print it.
I think the idea is you won't bounce a job from your computer, up to google, then back to your printer - instead, google will generate the job directly, then the printer will download it from google and print.
hey :-) Send an email to Daniel (daniel@mojang.com) and he should sort you out. If not send me an email (sam@redstonewire.com) and when he's next online I'll poke him into helping you out.
That's a stupid rule of thumb.

What if the bully has the means to kill you and get away with it?
A botnet can be run by a single person, though; how does DDoSing say that a lot of people are upset when just a few people with a lot of bots can perform the act?
it was fun seeing you all. looking forward to the next event :)
"more conventional technologies like Hadoop"

It's remarkable how quickly distributed computing has come to the forefront of scaling. 3 years ago, before hadoop and horizontal scaling became huge buzz-ideas, this (buying comically large boxes and heavily optimizing your math libs) was the standard practice.

That being said, there is a reason why people have slowly but surely been moving towards distributed systems: If Hunch needs boxes that big to deal with 500k uniques/month, they are going to need to run some seriously insane hardware when they actually grow a large user base.
In strcpy, memcpy and partners, both arguments are (rather obviously) mandatory...
Show HN: hipchan, an anonymous sharing site built with 1 page js
URL: http://hipchan.com/

The story: after seeing this on HN http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=1940089 and seeing a comment about 4chan, I decided that I could build something that embraces the 4chan idea. Even though the story today is 'social' I really think that anonymity will continue to have a place in future communities.

It was supposed to be a weekend hack, and it was! 95% of the features were worked out in the weekend following, but somehow testing lasted till today...

Primary feature: The ability to have * boards. For example: http://hipchan.com/#hn

The Tech: Mongolab/jquery/pusherapp There's only 1 html page and everything is done via ajax.

For the niche I'm targeting/Branding: Still a little uncertain how that's going to work out or how it'll be in general. Advice on this would be great.

You should try out the site: http://hipchan.com/
They won't change their position. A recently leaked cable shows why: US 'lobbied Russia on behalf of Visa and MasterCard' [1]. Quid pro quo. They cannot afford to lose the support of the US government.

[1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/08/wikileaks-us-rus...
PAYG Internet option draws scrutiny
I like the symbolism that Anon has become. Simply put Anon is the anger and frustration of millions (acted on by the few hundred) and is having real effects.

If Anon is taking down Mastercard and Visa, then perhaps our governments will start obeying their own laws instead of trying to manipulate companies into compliance. Or at the very least, our companies might actually question whether obeying the government is in their best interests.
I have seen several emails/blogs about mongodb and 10gen musing over FTS. There are a few projects if i am not mistaken that have "bolted on" FTS to mongo but I do not think they have had the same development/LOE as riak search. But with out playing/testing with all those options I can not speak authoritatively on the topic. FTS no doubt will be an emerging factor in the future in the NOSQL landscape IMHO.
Illegal? Certainly.

Immoral? Debatable.

Violent? No.
Sure, but how hard is it to implement onmousewheel/dommousescroll if we are showing off an html5 app?
Interesting magazine to be writing about Anonymous. I sometimes feel that the magazine itself is a LOIC for the global banking system. It's possibly one of many publications (nodes) that publishes (DDOS) anonymous writings that seem to usually endorse the position that the world needs more debt.
So I'm some average merchant, anywhere in the world.

Because of this action, Now I can't make money and support my family.

Aside from your personal feelings, what are the odds I blame Visa, and what are the odds I blame Wikileaks? All of a sudden Visa doesn't work, MasterCard doesn't work, some sites can't be accessed, sometimes the net is slower than it should, etc.

Maybe I'm smoking crack, but from where I sit, the more hackers thrash out over WL, the more ticked millions of people are going to become at both Wikileaks and the hackers involved.

This is a very sad development. People of all opinions need to take an active hand in trying to settle this down as quickly as possible. This is no good for anybody. No good can come from this.

EDIT: If you want to support the idea of leaking to fix governments (and not the massive attack of government nodes through information overload), which I do, then WL needs a standard of conduct: what it will and will not publish. It needs a standard of acceptable behavior: what cyber protests are in line with it's mission and what protests are not.

Without these things, I can't support WL, they're going to lose track of their message and the larger media narrative, and they are going spectacularly shoot themselves and the rest of us in the foot. This is becoming dangerously nihilistic.
For me, it's always the recursive options in (s)cp and chown/chmod and which one is capital -R which one is lower case -r. Simply vexing.
Indeed. Assignment should really look like something like this this:

expression -> variable;
Or just pay your bill when it comes so you don't pay them interests
retroafroman :

I'd enjoy using an open source Tumblr clone on my own server. I've thought about starting a Tumblr, but strangely enough, rather than go through the simple process of signing up, I'd prefer to do much more work and put it on my own server.

Another idea I've had floating around my head for the past few days is a visual based data sorter. Basically, something that would allow people who know nothing about regex to use them. Like they could upload a big text or csv file, then given a few lines, select the data they would want out of it, then the computer generates a regex pattern to run to get that data, runs it, and outputs the desired data for them to download. Not sure how useful it would be, but I've seen a few people struggle with this from time to time. It's also quite possible that it is well covered out on the market, I haven't really looked yet.
The corresponding twitter account has more info. Had actually. They got suspended, but google made us the favor of caching it: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:_OP3u3L...
Ask HN: Startup owes me money but keep delaying payment. What are my options?
I did work for a startup earlier this year. I got paid lower than my usual rate but with an agreement that I get some cash equity and deferred compensation upon raising money.

It's been more than 6 months since they raised funding but I have yet to be paid for my deferred compensation.

They are also in the process of being acquired. They offered to buy out my cash equity to just half. They said it would a pain having to include my options in the acquisition. I negotiated and we agreed for 80% of the value.

I was promised at least 4 times that they will be sending the payment but have missed them all.

I cannot take them seriously now and I fear that if this drag on longer I might not get paid especially if they close the acquisition.

The money they owe me is in the low 5 figures.

What are my options? Any idea how much it would cost me if I get lawyers involved?
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Python, C, Javascript

I am assuming you aren't talking about learning 3 new languages, but rather, 3 languages if you are to learn only 3.

Python - A practical and elegant language. It supports both one-off, throw-away scripts and large applications. It has native libraries or bindings for majority of tasks. You can do procedural programming, object oriented programming, some FP, state machines....

Besides getting things done, it's a beautiful language for exploratory programming(IPython, concise language, slime...). It has some good meta-programming and reflective features. A lot of literature is available on advanced python - I watched Alex Martelli's Google talk on design patterns and I whole heartedly recommend it.

The whole ecosystem:
* Superb documentation
* Backed by big companies
* Good tooling - sphinx, App Engine, pip, virtualenv
* Abundant, battle tested libraries
* Helpful community

makes it a good choice.

C - Insanely fast, lot of existing software and libraries written in it. Used for implementing high performance servers, used for browser, kernels... You can contribute to your favorite project viz. chromium(is actually c++), kernel, python, ruby; you can rewrite slow parts of your Python application in C.

People not conversant in C often say things pertaining to C being verbose. That's far from truth; C is in fact a very terse language. It's the standard library and lack of high level data structure that got it this incorrect reputation. The libraries might seem lacking but it's only the standard library that is small. Third party libraries are abundant and should be used, rather than reinventing the wheel.

Javascript - It would be a practical choice to complete the stack. Python/C for backend/desktop apps, Javascript for client side. With V8 and node.js, Javascript has sneaked in to the backend. Coffeescript takes out the ugliness out of Javascript, if the language quirks are bothering you.

Web is buzzing with activity now-a-days, and performant & conformant Javascript implementations has partly ridden the wave, partly triggered the wave.

If you are playing on web's playground, you should learn this language. If you aren't playing on the web, you should consider it. It's a lot of fun, and who knows, Google might acquire your startup for $ 6 billion. Even if you aren't after the money, the web is still a superb platform for getting your products out to a big audience. It's rewarding and a learning experience.
Sorry, I'm not saying it's not misguided--just that they're trying to create the impression in Visa's mind that a lot of people are upset.
"Danny you"... heh, priceless!

Mango would be a good nickname for Django + MongoDB
No way does Facebook even acknowledge this.

Bottom line: Facebook is worth $x per user. If you have 4 accounts, you are 4 people as far as they are concerned ;)
You are correct, of course. It is so frustrating that I've justified it for the incorrect as a shortening of:

I could (exhibit that I) care less (because I do care less than I currently exhibit).

Or, as a matter of giving the benefit of the doubt:

I could (exhibit that I) care less (because I am, through effort, caring more right now than I would naturally).
I'm not entirely surprised. Heroku's manual-scale model has shown a strong focus to sell to the enterprises. The App Engine's auto-scale model (no expenses if no traffic, but always ready to face peaks) is largely friendlier to individuals on a budget.

I hope these news will help boost projects like appengine-jruby.
"Ad hominem" doesn't mean "arguments that are phrased meanly/snarkily"
This response makes a fair amount of sense. The news is spreading rampant, and not just here. The media will likely twist it how they will (either for or against), but the word is getting out there.

What will this publicity accomplish, though? I'm rambling and speaking out of my thoughts (no facts), but I imagine:

Those for Wikileaks and what it stands for will be:
a) encouraged to take up arms and fight
b) appalled by the actions and, while agreeing with the stance, disapprove of the strikes.

Those against Wikileaks will likely use this assault as more reason to fuel their opposition: "look at what those terrorists that support Wikileaks are doing!"

But how will this affect those who are on the fence?

Of course, from further contemplation, perhaps what this will do is bring Wikileaks further into the people's eyes and start conversations. The conversations may leave "look at what Anonymous is doing" to "look at what the government is doing to Wikileaks? Is this right? Is this wrong? What if this begins to happen elsewhere?" And when questions like that are asked, people begin to take sides, and when people take sides, some of them join the fight.

Perhaps that is the final goal of Anonymous... or perhaps I'm giving them too much credit.
Still down for me, can someone paste the content once you get hold of it?
I have a hard time linking "getting out of the crossfire" with "unethical". Spineless? Perhaps. Failing to stand up for some principle? Probably.

But unethical?
oh its down again
hah
I have a problem there with "so many people" and "no other effective way".
Blocking my payments is very effective way to piss me off indeed, not sure what good it brings otherwise.

I am still amused how quickly critical thinking switches off in many people. After initial categorization "wikileaks is good, government is bad" not much effort goes into actual considerations, how is it good, what good did it bring, etc.

Governments suck, uh oh, what a news. Maybe it will be a news to some, but we do elect governments. I guess it is easier to enjoy some braindead DDoS than go to elections, put some more thought whom to elect and make sure those elected are responsible for their work as officials.

Now it looks like governments were brought by some aliens and just forced on us. Demanding responsibility from the government is very good, how about taking some responsibility of the governments we have?

And that's where I have a problem with wikileaks: at least I can imagine that I had some say in what people do rule my country, so I can claim a bit responsibility for the power they have.

Wikileaks on the other hand is self-proclaimed savior, responsible to whom?
I do not understand, at all, where "stealth" comes into your definition of terrorism, or why everyone else should follow that definition?

Traditionally at least, terrorism has been "the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, esp. for political purposes." [dictionary.reference.com].
> Simply put Anon is the anger and frustration of millions...

And the idiocy of millions, considering that one of their "bank" targets (PostFinance) isn't a bank. It is a money transfer service operated by the Swiss post office for Swiss residents only. Assange is not a Swiss resident, so they closed his account, and are returning his money to him.

> If Anon is taking down Mastercard and Visa, then perhaps our governments will start obeying their own laws instead of trying to manipulate companies into compliance. Or at the very least, our companies might actually question whether obeying the government is in their best interests.

Let's see--obey an anonymous group of DDOSers, who at most can cause you a short term outage until you add more capacity, or obey the government which has the full power of the state behind it and can actually stop your business and seize your assets...this one is a no brainer.
There are of course those who do not want us to speak. I suspect even now, orders are being shouted into telephones, and men with guns will soon be on their way. Why? Because while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth. And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there? Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, think, and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillence coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well, certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror.
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