skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
PayPal says that they froze the account because they require non profits to associate a bank account with their PayPal account and Courage To Resist has not done this.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/24/paypal-on-cutting-off-coura...
Looks like 10%[1], so Canonical gets 7.5% of the sale. For comparison Apple takes $0.29 per $0.99 song.

[1] https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/associates/join/comp...
FWIW, it's only debatable in the sense that someone could have a debate about it. The courts have repeatedly ruled that you can't sign away your rights. It even comes up in employment law, just because you sign something doesn't mean it's enforceable.
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You can thank ongoing long-term enterprise and government contracts for that, to the tune of over a billion a year.
I didn't like the EliteBook 8440p that I got from work (it felt real clunky), but this refreshed version looks nice.
In my experience the only reliable way to test compatibility is by doing it by hand.

Addons like IE tab for firefox/chrome that simulate other browsers work decently well, but have some shortcomings. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/ie-tab-2-ff-3...

Compatibility testing often comes down to a compromise of picking the fewest combinations that cover the highest percentage of your audience. We tend to focus most of our time testing chrome for webkit (covers 99% of safari and opera issues), firefox, and IE on mac and pc. This covers the vast majority of our users, but we have to accept the fact that certain issues will slip through on less widely adopted browsers. Also, dropping support for IE6 cut our compatibility testing/fixing time dramatically.
In the past, apple seeded the GM build to developers shortly before the release date. So no need to go buy the same build in the store.
How would you monetize 'lead buyer' leads?
I'm a longtime lurker that tries his best to peel himself away from HN to get things done. I put together a relatively simple content site with lead capture forms. And now my site attracts lead buyers across all verticals. Now, these aren't your typical leads in that they are not retail. Most monetization avenues only cater to retail leads.

How would you monetize leads from people looking to buy fresh leads right now?
Scientists explore frontier of the 'aerosphere'
Barcelona is damn bad for pickpocketing so watch yourself if you are in town and look around you for potential thieves. Be especially vary of people who are very nicely dresses as it's a normal rouse to dress sharply so you have your guard down. Also a jacket casually over the arm can be a sign that they are looking for quick dives into open handbags etc. I usually just assume an agressive posture and look around. If you don't look like an easy mark or more like someone who could potentially fight back they will target someone else.

Being Spanish and living here for the last 3 years I have never been pickpocketed or robbed but know a lot of people that it has happened to and especially people visiting.

So if you come to Barcelona, always walk with your wallet in the front pocket, carry a bag in front of you on escalators or on the metro and if you are, two keep an eye on each others back and you won't have to run to the consulate for a new passport and deal with canceling all your cards.
I'm assuming they think they're ready for Anonymous this time round...
A few days ago there was a link on this site to a victims search database, but I am unable to find it now.

If anyone knows the link, could you please post again?

thank you
“Intel fully supports USB 3 and plans to integrate it in the future.” — http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/24/intel-promises-native-usb...
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There is a quote like that for make - they were going to fix the spaces/tab thing but by then there were several dozen users
Ask HN: Doctors in Silicon Valley
I am planning on moving to Silicon Valley in 2012 to work at a start up. But only if my wife can find a job. She finished her residency in Emergency Medicine next year. Does anyone know about the job opportunities for Emergency Medicine Physicians in that area?
It's still there - you just have to be careful because copies of K&R can eat other language books left in range.
Can we keep this political crap off of HN please? Yes, I've clicked flag, but that's not public. All the people commenting on this thread implicitly approve of its presence on HN - so I feel a need to state publicly that I don't.
may be this works because you are staying with a person only for a very short time and such a short time interaction is mostly nice...its long term interaction which becomes a problem many times.
How about an "hntopics.com" site where you collect these duplicates? Something merging comment threads would be interesting, but even just "here are wikileaks articles that have made it to the front page" kind of organization with links would be really interesting.

Annotating the threads with links would be useful, but perhaps that's overstepping a boundary?
> Does the right to life, liberty and happiness apply to all mankind or just to people the US government is not currently scared of?

Scared people are scary. Really scary, when backed far enough into a corner.
Don't feel out of date. I've had the same macbook pro I bought 4 years ago. It's gone on trips with me, it's been knocked off the couch by my kid, and it runs my unit tests just as fast as my friend's newer model.

I paid $1900 for my core2duo macbook pro and got four years and counting out of it. Before that I was buying new Windows machines every two years. They were half the price, but didn't last as long.

My next machine, when this one dies, will definitely be a mac. :)
I agree Canonical's behavior doesn't seem out-of-line.

The difference between this and Apple's App store policy is that anyone create an alternative and anyone can load an alternative once they get distribution.

The comment section certainly gave me pause - it seems someone has a lot of bad feelings towards Ubuntu.

As I understand, Red Hat is larger, profitable business that has paid for a lot Gnome development (Wikipedia say Red Hat: 87.25 million net income, 3,200 employees, Canonical: $30 million net income, 350+ employees, pretty exactly one tenth the side of Red Hat).

Great but somehow the integration effort put into Canonical's distribution creates a considerably more usable system that has a good deal more traction. If, hypothetically, Canonical is "leaching", then it should really, really easy to put together a superior distribution to Ubuntu. Somehow no one has done that.
Are you asking if the American Constitution and the American Bill of Rights only applies to Americans?

Enemy combatants belong to non-state actors, and so no treaties or guidelines apply to them. Last I checked Al doesn't Al Qaeda and the rest of the cavers don't get representatives in the UN.
There's a HN Tokyo group, but as far as I'm aware (I asked a few of them), most of those who have started businesses did it through their spouse - the visa situation is a little difficult for starting a business, but it can be done (I haven't asked patio11, though, he would probably have some insight on this). The guys at (now apparently defunct) starling software seemed to imply on their blog that they were successful starting in Canada and opening a branch in Japan.

On the other hand, getting hired is a touch difficult, too. Companies that post at websites like Career Cross are mostly looking for fluency and lots of enterprise experience - I never even had any luck getting a reply. Most companies who are looking to hire foreigners also only want people who already have the right kind of Visa (an Engineering Visa - btw, if you have one, GrouponJP is hiring a PHP+Perl programmer to do some marketing analysis stuff).

Things aren't all bad, though. I got my job in Japan by going to one of the Recruit/MyNavi events for Japanese students who had studied in English speaking countries. Recruiters chase down the few foreigners there, but admittedly only one company was actually hiring programmers, and I ultimately wasn't happy there - YMMV.

Some video game and consumer electronics companies also hire foreigners, but large companies usually make all applicants take a test that's difficult for native speakers - I applied to Capcom, but they expected me to be fluent and take the test like everyone else. Of course, that depends on the company - you might have more luck elsewhere, and if you're close to fluent, it's worth a shot either way. Try to apply as a "new college graduate" if you can - there's a whole lot of bias against anyone who's held a previous full-time position, and I'm sure it doesn't disappear when they look at foreigner's resumes.

The other route is through foreign companies - I know at least one person at Google Tokyo who originally interviewed in the U.S. On the other hand, I know someone else at Lockheed Martin who's been fighting to get into their Japan office for years now - so how difficult it is depends on the company.

My advice - do Study abroad, JET, or just a 2~3 month trip; go to Tokyo (I personally prefer Osaka, but the jobs are in Tokyo) and go to the HN Tokyo meetup; if no one knows of any openings, apply to a bunch of foreign companies there; if that doesn't work, get a nice black suit and go to a recruiting event.
If the ad inventory is cheap enough, it works for just about anything... and with the low fill rates in mobile ads, there's really, really cheap inventory if you spend enough.
Some of us entrepreneurs are working on business plans involving activists and non-profits. From our perspective, this kind of information is incredibly relevant to startup life and our architectural tradeoffs. So please stop dismissing key aspects of my business as "just politics" and telling people here they shouldn't talk about it.
Online resources for Christchurch earthquake
Link-o-rama to multiple online resources related to the Christhurch earthquake.
It's been suggested that OS X might not actually need TRIM support (for reasons not entirely understood): http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/apple/2010/07/01/mac-ssd-pe...
Sounds cool. I have a company name already, but I may need (a|some) product name(s) later... when I get to that point, I may give you a shot. I mean, it's $50, with a money-back guarantee, what's the harm?
Canonical should leave the Amazon store alone, and give users the freedom to decide whether to buy their music using UbuntuOne (donating to Canonical) or Amazon (Donating to Gnome). Even better, under System/Preferences make the donation preferences configurable (I'd like to see a donation control panel allowing you to allocate a donation to different FOSS projects based upon your usage of them, or according to some user defined ratios).
If you type pretty quickly, that can actually be faster than using the mouse.
Fabricly is just another web-enabled niche market. Calling it radical innovation devalues the phrase.
On another note the new MacBook Pro is nothing special:
- still no SSD drive built-in (+$250)
- still no 8GB of RAM built-in (+$200)
- less battery duration than last generation
Over 200GB of Traffic a day? Hacked? Try this.
Check ProxyRequests On in your apache configuration files. Turn that ProxyRequest Off

Apparently I had this setting to On and someone was using my server as a Forward Proxy!!! OUCH.
This fits on those, "on paper sounds like a good idea" but in reality I cant quite see it.

1. easy to game
2. suffers from the lines of code problem, is someone a good developer because they spend 99% of their time inside emacs

I used rescuetime for a while and I didnt see a particular correlation between how productive I felt one day/week was and how productive rescuetime said I was.

I feel that github has really nailed this public profile of developers that accurately shows what they would be like to work with. I have hired and been hired in the last year and both of them came down to github / open source.
The site is giving me an error 403. If anyone else needs it, here's a Google cache link:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http%3A...
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Banshee might want to consider getting a trademark on their name, and then only allow other people to use it if they keep the affiliate code that goes to the GNOME Foundation.
Xerox opens virtual research lab to public
"The courts have repeatedly ruled that you can't sign away your rights."

I guess the US military hasn't gotten the memo yet.
(1) That support, for the first year of my laptop's life, is complimentary. The $350 is worth it when it extends the life of my 2006 MacBook to 5 years.

(2) Are you seriously suggesting I buy a Windows laptop, screw around with it for hours/days, and install a buggy version of OS X so I can save $300? No thanks.
How does RescueTime data actually prove that you're a good developer, though?

At most, it might be able to show that you spend a certain amount of time within programming-related text-editors and that you're not spending time browsing the web. Assuming this is the case, it still doesn't prove that you're doing things effectively or that you're creating software that matches requirements.

Also, if it is possible to fake out RescueTime by writing a program that sends keystrokes (haven't investigated if RescueTime has put effort into preventing fraud like this) then a developer could just set it up on a VM and then use another VM to surf the web all day and be seen as a "good developer".

With that stated, it would still probably be a good filter today since to my knowledge there hasn't previously been an incentive to fake out RescueTime data.
PC-BSD 8.2 Released, running FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE, and KDE 4.5.5
got me there. Seems like they see Thunderbold not as a competing technology and more like a successor of firewire. Fine by me then, but they havent integrated USB 3.0 yet into their chipsets!
http://www.readability.com

They offer a revenue sharing model for subscribed users.
I just wrote a short blog post on different kinds of places to find math online: http://inperc.com/blog2/2011/02/24/math-online/.
Rules are just that. Human rights are rights, they trump any military rule ever conceived.
"How did you get their contact info?"

Sometimes very creatively. First, try the easy path and call the office and ask the receptionist to pass you through. They're VERY skilled at telling you to go away nicely so be polite and get your pitch down to one line to answer this question:

"What is this regarding?"

"I'd like to talk to them about XYZ"

You'll probably be told to take a hike, or "He's busy, I'll pass along your message." and you'll never hear from them. But sometimes you get through so always start there.

When/if that doesn't work, guess at their e-mail address. This is actually my personal favourite which I've used successfully - Trade secrets! - and send them an e-mail that explains what you'd like to talk to them about and gives a time that you'll call (Offer them an opportunity to suggest a different time) and make sure you call at the time you specified. Eventually you'll get the address right and you probably won't get a reply but it's crucial that you call at the time you said you would.

Then all you have to do is call at that time. You'll reach the receptionist again and now you have a perfectly acceptable answer to the question "Is he expecting your call?". You can say: "Yes, I was in touch with him last week and said I'd follow up with him today at this time."

That's all they need to hear and they'll put you through to them. That'll get you in the door, the rest of the selling process still applies. Keep going, never give up, you'll win eventually. :)
I had a T41p at a previous job - amazing laptop. I actually traded in a Powerbook G4 for it. No issues with it, ever (except that the battery life declined to nothing after a couple of years, and the battery had to be replaced).

A few years later, I was given a T60p at an internship. Total junk. Not even in the same league.
"If behavior spreads through social networks, then working in a toxic or slow-moving corporate environment is really really bad for you."

1) I think working in a toxic or slow moving corporate environment is really bad for you for reasons much more direct than behaviors moving through a social network

2) Researches demonstrated that certain moods and obesity appear to be correlated in social networks - but they have not demonstrated causation or show that this applies to behaviors and moods in general. The fact that two nodes in a social network are likely to both be obese together only shows that obese people move in the same social circles, and there could be a wide variety of social and economic reasons why that are more directly causative than two people knowing each other.

Not to be a downer, it just seems to me that this article makes an unfounded leap there.
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This. If my document is stored in Google's system, and I want to get to it from a computer where I don't have MS Office, how do I do it? Google Docs.

"Oh hey, this Google Docs thing works pretty well in the browser. Why do we have a separate program again?"
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From how I've seen non-powerusers manage OSX, most just throw every app they ever use (and apps they'll never use) on their dock, making it cumbersome to use. Launchpad is probably aimed at that type of user.
For example, on the clue "Rembrandt's biblical scene 'Storm on the Sea of' this was stolen from a Boston museum in 1990", Watson correctly answered "Galilee". But its next two answers were "Gardner Museum" and "Art theft"; no one who "understood" the question in any conventional sense would even consider these as answers because they don't make any sense.

But I think your peek into Watson's inner mind may give you a more insight than you have about the human mind.

I'm reminded of a story about how a girl told me she was good at froggy when it came to basketball. I was like, "What's froggy" and she said "when you get the ball after someone shoots it". I said, "I think its called a rebound". And she said, "that's the word, rebound... but froggy and rebound, they remind me of each other"

And your narcolepsy v insomnia example is a mistake I think a lot of humans make. Like if you ask me which way to turn a lightbulb to remove it, my brain will have both clockwise and counter-clockwise as responses. And clockwise is probably 80%, but counter clockwise is probably at 20% -- I have been known to accidentally tighten a bolt, rather than loosen it.
agreed. those are always the best names, too.
This is the reason every time, and still people refuse to do it and claim Paypal are big mean thieves.
If you've never read it before this book is a very intuitive introduction (and refresher): http://www.amazon.com/Calculus-Made-Easy-Silvanus-Thompson/d...
Harvard restores early admissions for fall 2012 class
Grid Pioneer Ian Foster Discusses the Future of Science in the Cloud
And it's in orbit.
That article is misleading for a number of reasons, foremost that they performed a full format before getting started, effectively trashing the SSD's performance. See here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1486847

However, TRIM support is mostly a moot point if you go with the Apple offered SSD upgrade, since the Toshiba drives they ship features very aggressive background GC (making TRIM rather redundant). There is still a question mark as to how severly this constant background GC will affect the durability of the drives though:http://www.anandtech.com/show/4010/kingston-ssdnow-v-plus-10...
Obama administration picks Durham, NC for Startup America launch
Any idea if this is on by default?

Thanks for the heads-up! I'd vote it up, but I'm not really sure this is the right place for this. Useful information, to be sure, but eehhhh....
Everyone's missing the most impressive part. 65% revenue growth in the past month. I'm not sure if some of that has to do with the particular month (I'd think more people travel in December than January, but I guess a lot of them stay with family?), but if they sustain that growth, they'll get huge fast.
Their root redirects to http://www.couragetoresist.org/x/ ...which is now 403ed.

?Were they using PayPal to pay their host or something?
FIXED! http://crbug.com/70969 :D

(it was actually fixed two weeks back. phew!)
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USB can easily be emulated and done using just the CPU, no chips required while Firewire required a real chip that did the negotiation and sat directly on the memory bus for DMA.
Aside from iTunes U, is there any other method to download an offline copy of the modules (inclusive of a/v content)?
http://www.browsershots.org
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My favorite part about their Info Graphic is that is took 11 months from idea to launch. Its also interesting to see the 4 year timespan.

So often we can get frustrated by the time our ideas take to reach their goal, but its easy to forget success is hard work and rarely comes overnight.

Congrats to the Airbnb.
Raleigh’s Phononic Devices raises $10M
By taking action against Manning, PayPal employees are supporting his continued mistreatment. Anyone who believes this to be immoral should seriously investigate the possibility of trading using Bitcoin rather than Paypal. Unlike PayPal, Bitcoin isn't a walled garden that you can be kicked out of.
For the next level of granularity, what type of work do you do ? I'm curious to see whether the c.s. folks are doing more theoretical/low level work (OS, or compiler design), or whether that's a myth. I'm B.S., M.S., Ph.D. computer science, and split my time between application and research.
[Update] Homeowner forecloses on Wells Fargo, did the underdog win?
This week, we brought you the story of the Philadelphia homeowner who spent several years trying to get answers from Wells Fargo as to why his homeowner’s insurance skyrocketed ($1M in coverage allegedly demanded for a $180k house) and mystery charges appeared on his bill (two home inspections charged when none occurred). Rather than refuse to pay as most would, Patrick Rodgers sued and foreclosed on Wells Fargo office.
Citation needed, please. I keep reading this note that $ and _ are reserved, but I haven't really seen a reference. Besides, _ and $ are not reserved keywords (unlike, say, 'class').
TRIM hasn't been necessary in years, and definitely not with modern SSDs.
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1092456
Ask HN:  Airbnb for office space, or anyone got some space?
I'm in SF for the next 2 weeks and looking to see if I can do a bit better than a laptop on my lap to work on.

Is there something like Airbnb for office space?

Failing that, anyone got a spare desk I could use? Would be awesome if it included a nice big monitor I could jack into. I can pay. :)