skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Came here to say just that. I watched them handcuff a guy who tried to get out of line at the Amtrak station in Philly. They had a K9 unit there sniffing bags and the dog decided his McDonald's bag was especially interesting. He left the line and tried to discard it, at which time the agents went ape and threw him on a table and cuffed him. These agents were wearing body armor and carrying firearms, so I suspect they were Amtrak police, not TSA. There is a high likelihood I'll be searched one afternoon on my way home from work, since they do about 1 out of 10 people.
This attitude is a strong negative, at that. Yammer networks take at least some control of a company's "membership" and image out of the company's hands.

Someone at my company created a Yammer network two years ago and is no longer with the company. We cannot remove her (or anyone else who left) unless we become a paying company.

As soon as I saw that, I stopped using Yammer and will never use them again.
Angry Birds is a poster child for the way "modern indies" design there games:

* evergreen mechanic
* cute visuals
* generated content
You would have to be behind a proxy or something though, otherwise if you say something that can be remotely miss-interpreted you might end with a gps tracking device in your car anyway (like that guy on Reddit).
99% of all kids would simply crash and burn.
Happy to have helped.
This kind of knee-jerk anti-Flash thing is getting tiresome.

We get it. You don't like animated ads. I don't like them either. You can make annoying animations using any technology.

Are you seriously implying that animation/interactivity in general is a bad thing? I seriously doubt that. Stop blaming the tools. Use Adblock and get over it.
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Ask HN: Who's hiring in Europe? (Spring 2011)
It's been a while since I saw that thread. Currently looking in Berlin but I'm sure there are seekers and offers all around as well ;)
> Ditto for when Mrs. Smith thinks she was triple charged by The Googles [...] I should have made that more clear for someone who might only buy one thing online ever.

An intriguing observation, how did you solve the problem?
Agreed. I've seen projects that have their own username to host the project repository (or repositories), rather than using the author's username. Quicklisp does this, for instance.
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Out of curiosity, can anyone describe the experience for the rest of us: How well does it work? Does it require Silverlight or some other plugin? How is the resolution? Etc.

I think this is pretty huge. Facebook is obviously exploring several avenues for platform use and WB can pull in a ton of demographic information from this.
It seems to me "as long as they are willing to relocate to Sydney" winnows your field to an impossibly small number pretty quickly. Coders can work very well remotely now.
The only thing I put in my FB feed is funny pictures. No politics, no computer stuff, nothing that might be construed as being controversial.

Why? Because I am a "fake" person? I mean heck, I post a lot more than that over here.

Nope, because my FB feed includes stuff like friends of my grandmother, or my 14-year-old son, or my HS buds. Each of these audiences has completely different standards and measurements of civility.
Not sure what you mean by generated content here.

In Angry Birds, all the levels are designed. Not generated algorithmically (as opposed to a game like Canabalt, where the entire level is generated on the fly).
I find this strange. Last time I had some interaction with a ledger negative credit and positive debit were different beasts. Granted, their contribution towards the balance was the same, nevertheless they were different things.

In particular a correction of an erroneous debit entry was stored as a negative debit, not positive credit. Representing both with the same number seems a bit suspicious to me.
Thanks for recommending that. I'll probably pick up his latest algorithms book.
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Your Dvorak looks pretty silly too when using QGMLWB. ;)
One interesting thing about this customer type: they will pay you just to promise to do things that you were going to do anyway. (Like, say, respond to all inquiries within 24 hours.) They will also pay you to promise not to do things you have no intention of doing. (Like, say, closing in the next twelve months.)

You can charge through the nose for things like that. (A week of my time costs $X. Two consecutive weeks costs a little less than $2X. A week of my time now and a week of guaranteed availability in Q4 costs about $8X, because if you need that particular combo you can find $6X in your sofa.)
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http://dl.dropbox.com/u/921159/Keyboard/keyboard-background....

not so pure
Damn, my subconscious is telling me "I really want to play TTD all day."
Is it just me, or is this pretty much content-free?
Get in touch with these folks here...

www.cie-kit.de

They have an on campus incubator in Karlsruhe, Germany with 150 teams.
Now Google is requiring users to verify new gmail accounts with a text message sent to a mobile phone. I can only assume that it will soon be prohibitively difficult to create fake email addresses to use to create other fake accounts. I fear that anonymity will likely die soon, whether we like it or not.
I love projects that add a vim-like interface to browsers and other GUI applications. But adding an Angry Birds-like interface to enterprise applications would boost productivity even more. It's strange how rarely gaming metaphors influence business software, and I've often wondered why CMS software doesn't adopt the same type of interfaces you find in RPGs, making them more intuitive and engaging.
Ask HN: Anyone else having trouble with your Google appengine apps? 
Most of my appengine apps are throwing 500 Server error. Appengine status page says everything is just fine. Anyone else experiencing issues with your appengine apps(python)?
What do you mean by point 5?
Indeed -- it'd be the browsers job to make this kind of profiling less effective. Just restricting cookies is not enough.

Does anyone know of a firefox addon (or for another browser) that 'homogenizes' the info sent to sites?
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It's interesting that they're disclosing numbers, almost none of the other seed accelerator funds disclose how many applicants they've got.
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Paragraph 66 in full:

Third parties may wish to store information on the equip­
ment of a user, or gain access to information already
stored, for a number of purposes, ranging from the legiti­
mate (such as certain types of cookies) to those involving
unwarranted intrusion into the private sphere (such as spy­
ware or viruses). It is therefore of paramount importance
that users be provided with clear and comprehensive infor­
mation when engaging in any activity which could result
in such storage or gaining of access. The methods of pro­
viding information and offering the right to refuse should
be as user-friendly as possible. Exceptions to the obligation
to provide information and offer the right to refuse should
be limited to those situations where the technical storage
or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of
enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by
the subscriber or user. Where it is technically possible and
effective, in accordance with the relevant provisions of
Directive 95/46/EC, the user’s consent to processing may
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or other application. The enforcement of these require­
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powers granted to the relevant national authorities.

(apologies for linebreaks, PDF copy/paste fail)

This isn't nearly as bad as what the BBC are saying. In fact this seems perfectly reasonable.
The wikipedia page on graphs contains much more material than it is needed to understand the article.
Mine are all running fine, but I am using Java. Not sure why it would be different for python though.
Reviving Sinatra on Mac OS X with a touch of Oauth
I had a problem with this site. First of all flashblock.. a big white page with a little icon at the top left clicked on it and some strange things went around then a boat then two words english and something else.. when I clicked on english it went to a skip intro -which I skipped then nowhere when I clicked refresh it brought me to my firewall scanning file page where it was downloading a something 4 file which I then clicked off.. I feel sorry for the wales.
Anyway, NoSQL databases are, by definition, invulnerable to SQL-injection attacks. Perhaps we should start calling them "command injection" or something like it.
Strange things happen if people go overboard about an heretic statement that was never made. Calling "corporate capitalism and bigoted conservatism" a "brutal authority" doesn't mean that he is placing it in the same league with Cambodian communism. That's just your unfounded assumption.
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How so? First to file doesn't eliminate the requirements of novelty and non-obviousness. It just means that if two people both claim the invention the first to file wins instead of whoever can prove they invented first. First to file is used everywhere except the US.
Do you find that the larger companies that typically want webex demos also want SLAs or a custom contract of some sort?

My company is launching a commercial API soon, and one of the potentially high-paying customers has mentioned wanting to meet to discuss contracts. I was thinking more along the lines of standard terms and conditions and a big "click here to sign up" button, and am not sure we want to consider SLAs or custom agreements. So I'm curious as to whether you're finding that the larger companies often expect them, or whether a great service and standard T&C are enough.

BTW I think I might be able to improve your conversion rate :) The "Terms" links from your sign-up pages go straight to a 404.
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The problems I personally find with launchpad are:

a) It's slow. Pages seem to take an age to load.

b) I can never find anything.

My problems with github:

a) Fork queues never seem to work. Support will occasionally respond to complaints and fix a specific one, but never the general problem.
Great recommendation.
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"HeadJS row 9: jewish" ... umm what?
Don't forget flash cookies.
Flash is great when used for the right purpose. HTML is great when used for the right purpose, too. Some may overlap; no problem as competition is good for tech.

What bothers people is the fact that sometimes entire websites that would work perfectly in HTML are built in Flash.
What Microsoft really gets from its $9bn in R&D
Facebook's Movie Rental Experiment May Be The Future Of Media
Focus on a project that you love: one that you truly support and one that you truly believe in. If you're 100% devoted to a cause, it will be much easier to continue pushing on even when it is no longer "fun". Remind yourself why you started, what you have achieved along the way, and what you still hope to achieve. Then just work towards achieving your goals - no matter how big or how small. Once again, if you're completely devoted, you'll take pride in your gains and this should keep you motivated.
> ebooks on easy to learn and write about topics

This can provide some very interesting options (and lucrative, affiliate) revenue streams; possibly generating passive income for years to come.

People (read super aff marketers) have written eBooks on this very topic i.e. how to build long-term, passive income streams with eBooks - if you scout around a bit, I'm sure you'll find a few.

HTH
You never said explained why you need them to move to Sidney. Sure, that might be implicit, but there can be hundreds of reasons... Maybe by expliciting it, you could help a possible cofounder to consider it the proposal more seriously, or even show you a way of how he can solve your need for him to be there, which would allow him to work remotely.

Also, as swombat mentioned here as well, you look more like you are hiring an employee to join your startup than inviting a cofounder to help build it.
It is not a bribe, they are taking an equity stake.

"The maximum support available is €50,000 for a 10% ordinary equity stake in the start-up company. "
This is a worthwhile read if you care about manufacturing as a source of jobs and economic activity or if you are running or starting a manufacturing business.

Smaller businesses that offshore their manufacturing to China can find that the savings in labour costs are offset by capital tied up in inventory, poor product quality, lack of agility, increased time to market and bootleg products based on their IP.

Insightful article.
Sounds like puppet's not worth it for you, then.

Puppet is not a server provisioning tool. It's not a "roll-your-own" aptitude, it's a different approach to the problem. Puppet is primarily meant to manage the sort of end-user configuration for which packages only provide defaults. If you're handling all of that with the package manager, or if your need to manage configuration is minimal, then don't use puppet. It doesn't have lots of dependencies but it does have some, and it's language is syntaxy.
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wait, basic building blocks of applications aren't features?
That is your experience. Hardly the problem we all have. Do you not have uncles, did they not come for dinner, what of aunties, and did you never go to your friends house where you would meet their parents, etc.

I do not think anyone isolates kids or teenagers. I think, instead, the media attempts to portray such a picture so as to sell more papers.

Regarding your latter comment, in a world where you do not mix even with the seventh graders or the fifth graders if you are in the sixth grade, it would be quite strange indeed if you were "hanging out" with a 40 year old, or 30 year old, in "friendship" basis both for the youngster and for the adult. Moreover, I do not think it ever was seen as "normal" not because of any implications but because there would be little in common not least because a teenager thinks and is preoccupied by entirely different things from an adult.
CSS3 box-sizing and making 50% wide padded elements behave
Of course, for many different servers configured identically, you could use systemimager instead, which is OS-agnostic.
I submitted an article yesterday about how it's peers that influence children not parents, and there was a very relevant quote:

"Developed societies have a special age group for people who are no longer children but are not yet adults, and this group becomes a source of social change. In societies that have only two age groups, children and adults, a culture can go along virtually unchanged for generation after generation, but as soon as there's a special age group for teenagers, things start to happen. The teenagers look for ways of demonstrating their fealty to their own age group ways of showing that they're different from adults. They use weird forms of adornment that adults find unacceptable, and they invent new words or use old words in new ways. If people didn't keep graduating out of the teenage group and taking their vocabulary with them, eventually they would create a whole new language and the adults wouldn't be able to understand them. Which, of course, is just what they're after!"

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2298961
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OK, some people say they didn't learn much from college classes, and therefore university was worthless (or wasn't worth the money). I disagree. University puts you in an environment that encourages learning and inquisition. You could argue that you learned alot more from wikipedia than classes, but if it weren't for university, would you even bother reading wikipedia?
To play devil's advocate here for a moment.

You state a lot of things that people shouldn't do. Isn't it kinda sad that the one thing we shouldn't be doing, being ourselves, isn't on that list? That's what this discussion is essentially about. Freedom to think what we want, be who we are?

Maybe the goal shouldn't be to hide from everyone, but to expose everyone for who we all really are? Maybe if everyone realizes how messed up everyone really is, we'll stop being so judgemental? So maybe the best way to do that is have a single identity, a single being. Sure, how you act might be different between different social groups, but that doesn't change who you are.

Maybe this is an idealist outlook, but isn't it an ideal we should be working for, not hiding from?
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In a perfect, idealistic world, I would agree with this sentiment. Alas we live in no such thing.
Ask HN: Comment on my pivot, postalshout.com
PostalShout is a web-to-post service geared towards businesses. It allows them to send letters from any word processor with no installations.

www.postalshout.com

Our previous startup is a developer-targeted, API-accessible web-to-post service called PostalMethods. We noticed that it was attracting quite a bit of "unqualified" traffic, in the sense that it wasn't just developers signing up, but also end-users needing to send business correspondence from their desktops. End-users aren't really well-served by that site because it quickly deteriorates into geek-speak, so we decided to try and give them a better home.

We researched end-users' use of the site and found a lot of them were sending plain MS Word or PDF files via email. Hoping to ride on that trend, we've come out with PostalShout which targets business users who need to post mid-size quantities (hundreds to low thousands of letters per month) of postal mail. The service lets them post transactional letters - invoices, reminders, simple marketing material, collections letters, etc. - directly from their word processor.

Does our targeting come across? Is it clear what we're selling? Are the benefits clear and compelling? Does it appear easy enough to register? Would any element in the site keep a person from registering? Are we missing anything?

Gloves off; let's hear it!

P.S. If you'd like to test the service for real, drop me an email at the address in my profile and I'll send you a $10 coupon.
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Sounds good!!! I'll be there.
'Keep My Opt-Outs' is the same one by Google, no?
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/hhnjdplhmcnkieca...
(Ouch! Thanks for the heads up. We recently did an A/B test on signup page -- looks like one of the links got mixed up. Fixed it now. Though did not notice any drop in conversions, probably people don't read or care about terms. Sad, especially because our terms are quite simple).

Regarding your other point, yes, some companies have elaborate custom contracts involving different teams: lawyers, procurement and what not. One of the prospective customers sent us 100 page document on Vendor Assessment with stuff like this - 'Do you keep your laptops in an open car?' and 'Do you install anti-virus software and keep it updated'. I was quite surprised but they said it was their "standard" procedure.

Though, we do not offer SLAs and I don't think companies are adamant about it if you convince them that historically your uptime has been in 99.9% range.
Patrick, I think I need to learn about this from you. Right now: all I say is that tell me your traffic requirement and we will give a quote. No strings attached!
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I've chosen to out-opt of Facebook for a variety of reasons that aren't really germane. To assist with this, I use a Chrome extension called "Facebook Disconnect" to basically remove FB from my daily web experience.

So for me, TechCrunch doesn't have a comment system anymore. That's too bad, as I liked the previous system and found the commentary interesting. I'm not alone -- 4,000 people a week install this browser extension.

The end result for TechCrunch is that a small, but growing minority of readers will be less engaged with the site. In the grand scheme of things, not a big deal for them I suppose.
Clickable:

http://www.postalshout.com

Edit:
One suggestion: the blue(ihs) portions of the logo are not very readable against the black background of the header so the word 'Postal' (in logo) does not register immediately, nor does the tag line 'You mail it, we post it'.

IMO, this might affect the engagement level of (at least a small percentage of) visitors.

HTH
1 is impossible because Adobe does not control the platform.

2 isn't really possible since Adobe could easily be proven wrong. Adobe is very much in favour of HTML5, and they only care about their development tools. By releasing a converter, they improve their expensive toos.
Balance. Having any sort of hobby/interest that is physical and away from your desk is more important than you might think. Personally, I keep a garden and do home improvement projects, launching into one of these things tends to break the down cycle. Yours might be entirely different, but it also gives you a fresh viewpoint too. Think of it as a giant university, sometimes the guy down the hall in a completely different domain will have insight into what you're working on. You'll find building physical/meatspace things is not all that different from virtual.
Die HN die, the parent comment was -2 when I posted my question.
Everyone here is assuming that Word is easier to learn than LaTeX,
but, IMHO, people are misinterpreting familiarity with intuitiveness.
Word has a very steep learning curve that people don't see because
everyone they know has already learned it. I've mostly managed to avoid
using word processors for nearly a decade. I've recently tried to do
some things using Word, and I found it to be incredibly difficult and
frustrating. I've seen people with no experience using computers have
similar experiences.
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Why are you and iqster twisting words?

How is becoming incapable of doing what you trained your whole life for, due to too much of it not burnout? He even lists symptoms he experienced.

Jacques was lucky that he had funds to start something unrelated (like living his life) and productive, but he kept repeating that his business could suffer if he didn't have people who could take care of it (or whatever). The fact is that he couldn't bring himself to do what he was doing until that point of life to make a living.

What does define burnout then?
In Soviet Union it was called "International Women's Day". I can't recall, but I don't think it was a public holiday. Anyway, that was the day when you could see a huge amount of men buying flowers for their wifes, mothers, and other women they love :)

Only when I emigrated I found out that it's not so international as I thought it is. The wikipedia page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Women%27s_Day

lists all the countries where this day is an official holiday, and it's a bit funny. There's Russia and most of former USSR members, there are some USSR "satellites" or best friends, and also some African countries.
I can confirm this finding. Assuming he hasn't edited his comment since my reply (a very fair assumption), I entirely missed his point.