skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems to me a middle ground is necessary. The 'quiet professional' he's imagining is someone who does professional quality work -EXCEPT- for giving good status reports and information to his bosses and team. In other words, not quite a professional.

But he seems to be advocate complaining even when nobody is listening. (The twitter comment at the end points to this.) This is wrong, too.

The true professional works quietly and efficiently, but alerts others to problem areas if and when they arise. Suggestions on how to correct those problems are offered without insisting on them.
IANAL, but such an action would likely be construed as contempt of court, especially given the exactness of what was requested.
May 16th, Groklaw's anniversary.[0] Though apparently it may continue in some form? [1]

[0] http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20110409161444432

[1] http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20110414184224418
People using two factor authentication, eg with a Yubikey, can not log in, in offline mode. Some people will also have turned this feature off. No idea what Pocket is.
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Credit Check Australia provider of personal and financial credit report history information and articles for your personal credit rating on past financial loans.
Ask HN: Youtube save video = rick roll?
If you go to youtube.com/html5 you can join the trial to view videos in html5 and when you right-click on a video and "save video as" it opens a new tab and rick rolls you. Is YouTube taking the piss?
I still don't understand why the referendum is on AV and not PR. Most votes get thrown away because of this silly county-based system. If you live in a county which is heavily weighted towards a particular party, you do not have a meaningful vote.
In the comments it states:

"We're only forcing the issue right now you when we see you come from an IP you haven't used in the past few weeks (if you disable logging logins this might mean immediately)."

It hit me straight away even though I'm using a static IP, because I disabled the logging of logins after this happened: https://grepular.com/LastPass_Vulnerability_Exposes_Account_...
this is spam!
udp, some people prefer PR over AV (for the record, I prefer AV because it keeps the one-representative-per-constituency link), but since PR is not on the table, voting for AV is the way to go. (Or voting to keep British politics the way it is, of course.)
Since there is no contact info on the website. Can I just ask why you want a URL for me?? :-) You say you won't share my email address but what are you doing with my other private info?

I mean this only because I'm actually curious and I'm trying to work out which URL to give... Hackernews profile page??
Paying £25k (~$40k USD) for grad devs in London is a bit cheeky, when you consider the living costs are higher than in Silicon Valley (http://tinyurl.com/6e8d3th). Clearly, UK students enjoy selling their soul to live in bedsits eating noodles :-)
Seems very important to have all cofounders in the same physical location.
encrypted?? then, it can be decrypted. Why they were not hashed so that it cannot be decrypted.

More updates posted here...
http://www.medianama.com/2011/05/223-ccavenue-hacked/
I'm in the US and would love to go to this, because if I had an offer and help with visa issues I'd move to the UK in a heartbeat. Unfortunately I can't afford the airfare.
When I become eyewateringly rich, I'm going to start a nonprofit retail bank. We're going to pay WAY under the market rate for salaries, have no shareholders and instead of profit we're going to give rates of interest on savings accounts WAY over the market rate, and give out loans at WAY under the market rate.

We'll attract talent through my own devastating personal charisma, and by offering people the chance to really really piss off the people working at the proper banks.

I'll make sure to do a Show HN post when it's sorted. See you there!
...and ponies.
Hi, I've worked in a couple of startups & agencies around the British Isles and one investment bank in London. My experience would convince me to advise that you should work were you want to work, but in general my experience is:

1) if money is the prime motivator, work for investment banks, preferably as a contractor;
2) if you want a breadth of experience, work in a good web design agency;
3) if deep domain knowledge is what you want, work in a startup.

(Of course, you can't do the contracting without a few years experience in any of the above.)

The points are all a generalisation but this final one is not, it's not what you are doing, how much you are getting paid or where you are doing it, it's who you are doing it with. The human factor is, in the long run, the most important thing. Are they smart? Good, you'll get smart too. Are the decent human beings? Good, you'll live a long life.

Humans: the cause of, and solution to, all life's problems :)
I used that for a couple years and switched to lastpass, because I was tired of having to install plugins across all the browsers on a platform and then having to find workarounds with Dropbox for syncing on additional machines and the lack of a Windows client, when I'm stuck working on Windows.

I find that Keepass, with the database saved on my Dropbox folder, works well. No browser integration needed - Keepass registers an OS hotkey (at least on Windows) for ctrl+shift+A which will autotype ${USER}TAB${PASS} in the currently focused field, using the title of the browser window as the entry to look for in the pw database. Great for a free solution.
Don't forget the proprietary iron.
I just visited http://sendcat.com/ and came up a few stuffs:

- Logo. A logo should be simple and friendly to print. Your logo (cat in box) looks more like an picture than a logo.

- Text.
- Tell people more on "easy and simple to send files".
- Cut half of texts (from book "Don't make me think")

- Input box and button.
- They look too identified by appearance (texts in a gray border). Don't "Violating Design Conventions" (http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9605.html #8). Make a input box looks like an input box and a button like a button.

- Expression.
- I clicked "Get in touch, we'd love to talk" because I want to know what exactly "easy and simple to send files" is. However, it turned out to an email link. So why not just write "Email us"?

Hope it helps.
@kamaal, I think you have misunderstood what it means by certification in this context. We are referring to the PCI DSS certification for the application / website itself & not for the engineers who work on it.
Ask HN: Great books for teenager age 15
I am trying to supplement my nephew's education with books to expand his mind into other subjects. Public school is not cutting it. Do you have recommendations for books that inspired or helped you during the teenage period of your life? So far I have had him read Thinking as a Science by Hazlitt. How to win friends and Influence People by Carnegie. Also started him on the online inventwithpython.com programming book.
They do. The fact that they took that app down is proof of it.

What you want is for them to moderate everything that is posted, and that's just not possible. Even the heuristics for detecting rogue apps is tough and probably beyond their abilities, considering the manpower it would take to create and hardware to execute.
Math genius Grigori Perelman explains why he turned down $1 million prize
The Perfect Desktop - Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal)
Hmmm...as a graduate I really don't know how to equip myself at these kind of events. I wonder how I should go about fixing that
If only some social replacement for FB could be layered on this, it would be great for privacy.
Voted. It only took 5 minutes; there's no excuse not to.
Why you should offer a 100% guarantee.
It's usually around 15 - 20 minutes. Makes me feel like a bomb defuser, having to make sure to get to the next page before time runs out whilst working on other tabs.
The Liberal Democrats want (for the most part) PR. There was no way the Conservatives would agree to that in the coalition agreement so this was as good as you they could get.

As the press would say "it's a dirty coalition compromise" which you can read as "it's a pragmatic decision based on the political landscape of the day taking in to account the moral perspective of all involved acting as elected officials"
An excellent summary of a very moving post.
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The interesting discourse here is why graduates find the big IBs/Consultancies so appealing, more so that joining a startup. In my opinion, this is due to the perception that a high flying blue-chip career gives - 99.9% of graduates would prefer to say ‘I work for Goldmans’ rather than ‘I’m going to work for an unknown technology startup around Shoreditch’ - this impresses grandma and the parents who have subbed the £30-40 university costs for their kids.

I think the counter to this is that within the UK, there is a dearth of success stories involving young tech entrepreneurs - the big one that sticks in my mind is the million-dollar-pixel guy, who as the name suggests made a million! (There are of course others, but I've not seen them as widely covered in the media)

Looking at the example of silicon valley, there are so many examples of tech entrepreneurs making it big at a young age - maybe once the London scene has a healthier number of well known (i.e. the Daily Mail writes about it) exits, the perception will improve and we will see a higher number of bright graduates preferring to join a startup.
AV, or IRV (Instant Runoff Voting), is arguably the worst form of preferential voting in existence. Take this example of IRV totals for four candidates ordered by preference:

30% a; b; c; d

35% c; b; d; a

20% d; b; a; c

15% b; d; c; a

Given the voting breakdown, most people would agree that candidate b should win, because no candidate got a majority of first preference votes and b got a sweeping majority of second preference votes. However, under IRV, b is eliminated immediately, because b received the fewest first preference votes.

tr;dr: IRV is terrible, and has a history of being adopted in states and cities in the US only to be abolished not long after, because of the bad electoral outcomes it produces. If you're going to pick a preferential voting system, it ought to be one that at the very least preserves the Condorcet winner; IRV is not that system.
Seems I got hacked, sysadmin shut down my blog 'cause it was making 1000+ requests per second.

Nice timing.

The URL won't work for another hour or so.
The Anatomy of a Newborn Tech Company
IOS 5 may offer over-the-air software updates
It carries on through undergrad and into post-grad. Even the best funded labs still have mountains of crappy equipment that everyone has to use, and one researcher who keeps everything that works under lock and key.

On the plus side, it's a great way to learn to be really ingenious with limited resources. We figured out how to get accurate hysteresis loops for ferrous samples using a breadboard, an ancient laptop, a few clicks of Cu wire and a bucket of miscellaneous components. That was shortly after we flooded the lab testing Reynold's number for shear-resistant fluids with plumbing parts.
Bing has it cached: http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=http%3a%2f%2fswizec.com%2fb...
Can you please provide a link to the course syllabus?
I think there are more than 2 alternatives to the Asset Allocation problem. There's no need to polarise the debate by saying that the alternative to Banker Bonuses (and the rest of the system) is millions of people starving.
Is this just "Wake up sheeple!" converted into a blog post about agile, replete with extra buzzwords?

"Have you experienced emergence lately?"

Don't get me wrong, I love agile. I just prefer it when people use plain language.
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Just for the record, it is possible to force one-or-more-representatives-per-constituency on PR.

Germany, for example, has a (pretty complicated) voting system that insures that every constituency has one representative (that's half of the parliament, the other half has, technically speaking, no constituency but they are obviously still from somewhere).

Everyone gets two votes, one for a representative from the constituency (whoever gets the most votes wins and will definitely be in parliament), and, more importantly, a second vote which determines the proportions of the parties in parliament. (Seats that parties cannot fill with directly elected representatives are filled from the party list.)

That second vote decides about the government (proportionally!), the first makes sure that every constituency has someone in parliament they can write letters.

This voting system is called mixed member proportional representation and here is the link to its Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed_member_proportional_repre...
There's zero chance it will actually happen so it's pretty moot.
Ask HN: Should we open-source our iPhone app? (over 200k downloads) 
We've been working on moviesnowapp.com for just over 2 years now. Unfortunately we've recently decided to shut down the service (combination of extremely high licensing fees and failure to find a sustainable way to cover our monthly costs).

MoviesNow lets you view showtimes for movies nearby, watch trailers & purchase a ticket in 3 simple steps.

There is a lot of custom UI code that has got some attention from design focused blogs and has been mentioned on:
- http://smokingapples.com/software/reviews/movies-now/
- featured on the AppStore (top 100 entertainment, apps for movie lovers)
- http://www.appspark.co.uk/press/
- http://twitpic.com/2ea783
-http://wellplacedpixels.com/post/732323679/appsparks-movies-now-hd

We'd really love to hear if anyone would find this useful, there's a lot of Cocoa & Rails code that's helped create this. In theory if a free showtimes data-source could be found the app could be kept running.

Link to the app
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/movies-now-hd/id374189261?mt=8

MoviesNow homepage
http://moviesnowapp.com
A truly agile project team lives on the edge of chaos.

One of my favorite current quotes is: "If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough." -- Mario Andretti
Get a projector. Much easier to move when you move.
Ask HN: Enterprise Java guy needs advice on what to transition to
I have made my living doing Java enterprise development for big companies for the past 10+ years. I can sense the world is changing (much like when I transitioned from C/C++ to Java) and that I need to make a change. Frankly I am tired of all the complexity and over engineering of enterprise Java. For all the effort, I find most apps are large (1+ MLOC), monolithic, hard to understand and maintained by large groups of onshore/offshore resources who just keep the stuff running by sheer numbers and have no pride in their craft. I want to do something better as I still have about 20 years left in my working life. I have played around with Python and like it but not sure how it will scale up to a large project. Any advice appreciated, especially from those who have already made the transition.
I doubt any startup will be able to arrange you a work visa at the moment. Non EU worker visas are severly capped these days and the available is taken up by bigger companies.
Let him explore his own interests. The most important is that he gets into the habit of reading and enjoys the experience that books provide, so it doesn't matter if he reads sci-fi, fantasy, philosophy, science books. You can of course recommend him some books, genre or author, but it should be his decision wether to read them or not. You could recommend him some divulgation books like "A brief history of Time" by Stephen Hawking, "Parallel Universes" by Michio Kaku, or "The Dragons of Eden" by Carl Sagan, they're all quite enjoyable.
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Unfortunately we haven't been offered a suggestion box, just a choice between AV and FPTP - personally, AV seems like an improvement on FPTP, even if it's not the best possible system overall.
Was double 24fps needed for the left and right view of the 3d version?
Music and micropayments are definitely uphill battles.
Hi Mike. For once some politics on hacker news that has some relevance to me. I'm still flagging.

Voting systems are interesting algorithms to discuss, but politics is not. Please keep political stuff off hn.
Over the air updates with iOS
The local office of the Yes campaign is just across the corridor from us. Bigup.

Vote, people. Doesn't matter who/what it's for. Spoil your ballot if you have to. Just make your voice heard.
The original Blu-Ray version of Robocop was pulled off of the market for its horrendous transfer from film.
Thanks. I had seen someone else asking in the comments on that page about two form authentication with regard to this, but hadn't seen any further comments about who this may or may not affect at the time I read it. Of course, I went ahead and changed it anyway, since it was getting to be about time.
Do you use digital cameras or medium-format film cameras when taking pictures?
Intel unveils 22nm 3D Ivy Bridge processor
You still rely on Dropbox.
Female Venture Capitalists use Intuition, But Dont Drink the Kool-Aid
Speaking from a manager's perspective - if there's something wrong, I want you to bitch about it. To me. Not to your co-workers, endlessly.

Being a silent robot is bad because then I don't get to find out that your morale was dropping because of something easily fixable. Being a drag on your team by only ever talking about stuff that you don't like is another easy way to Do It Wrong - don't do that either.
I got a laptop with an SSD and boot times are really fast. I keep my apps installed on the SSD drive. I have a second regular HD where I store all application data.

So the primary benefit I get is fast reboot and start up of apps. The above was company sponsored laptop but I like it, and I will likely get something similar for my next personal purchase.
Intel Transistors Enter the Third Dimension
I would be hesitant to draw far-fetched conclusions from this. Often an idea persistently fails until someone finally does them right and then it doesn't fail anymore. One example is document synchronization; people justified the consistent failure of synchronization solutions with all sorts of explanations (including the "people just don't need it" joker card) until Dropbox came along, did it right, and now synchronization suddenly doesn't seem to be a "dead on arrival" idea. There are plenty of other examples.

It's easy to justify the failure of a product or solution by blaming the circumstances, like the "market not being ready" or "people don't need it" or "the market is too small" etc. Often, it's just that the product sucks, which might or might not be the fault of the creators.

TL;DR: Ideas only keep failing until someone does them right.
As someone over there said : If there is no hack as he claims and the DB schema is not theirs then what are they really investigating?
Yep. Typically passwords are hashed and salted. However, I have seen non-technical folks use the terms hashing and encryption exchangeably. Hopefully thats the case here.
Anyways, since CCAvenue didn't store the full CC number (and they definitely didn't store the passcode - for that it redirected to the issuing bank/organization), this doesn't seem to be a very serious issue, even if true.
Data leak in service that stores your passwords
As someone also suffering from a temporary lack of motivation I thank you for these.

Fight for those inches, and rack up the failures.

*edit: removed duplicate link. skipped clicking the one you listed as funny. it isn't very funny, however, is quite telling.
Naver, yahoo answers, answers.com, and stackoverflow are counterexamples. You're right though that there are a lot of failures
Took them days even after being published all over the news. Apps should be checked before they go public. Having said that the Bin Laden malware didn't use the API although many other apps do.
That's pretty close. In reality, I started working at a company where I was a fulltime Cocoa programmer. Working on a similar project in my free time just didn't seem that attractive anymore.
I don't disagree. But in the spirit of "the perfect is the enemy of the good" if AV/IRV is an improvement over FPTP (which it seems to be) - then is there any downside (in terms of fairness of outcode) to a 'yes' vote in this referendum?
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The "one-representative-per-constituency" link doesn't mean much to those of us who end up getting "represented" by a parliament where none of the elected MP's have views remotely like our own because our views are uncommon enough in every constituency. That's what gets me about this debate: Ultimately it is about whether or not you keep disenfranchising those who do not agree with the larger parties.

AV will help somewhat in the long term, as people are more free to vote for the smaller parties without quite the same risk of losing seats for the lesser evil of the large parties, but it will still leave a substantial number of people without any meaningful representation.

I'm originally from Norway, and I much prefer the Norwegian system: PR with multi-seat constituencies where each constituency is a reasonably small geographical region, combined with a small number of seats that are allocated in order to more closely approximate the countrywide vote totals amongst the parties that got more than 4% of the vote (personally I think the 4% limit ought to go too).

It maintains a regional link, while at the same time getting a far more accurate representation of how people vote.

I support AV over FPTP because it will force the larger parties to be somewhat more mindful of other voters and because it may allow some opposition parties to grow faster because of less tactical voting, but whatever the result, I will still be without anyone representing my interests.
You're assuming two things here:

(1) The country would have been better off financially not to bail the banks out and let them burn

(2) The nationalised banks won't end up turning a profit for taxpayers in the long run anyway

Both of which could be considered shaky assumptions. See Robert Peston's analysis on this very topic for more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/robertpeston/2010/03...
A $4.8M model airport with computer controlled vehicles
You need to think a little bigger to properly understand his point.

Humankind is mis-allocating some of its most talented labour to what is essentially an arms race in financial market predictive algorithms. It provides some benefit for humankind - increased liquidity in markets, but the value of the marginal liquidity is small compared to the talent that is wasted.

Salman Khan is an excellent example - he left his job as a hedge fund analyst to start Khan Academy. How many new Khan Academies would we have if the incentives were right to have talented people working on useful projects instead of the financial arms race?

Sure, the incentives are right for an individual or country to specialize in financial markets. Think bigger - an alien looking at what we're doing here on planet earth would say we're wasting a lot of our talent on stuff that just re-arranges the pie instead of making it bigger.
As for not getting his passwords compromised: no, not more than a vpn user relies on internet to keep his data secret.

As for getting access to his data anytime: Yes, except if he has a backup.
Given your Java background, and that you want something more simple you could give a try to the Play! Framework, and you could try to learn Scala.
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