skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
being a founder of pogoseat, i'd like to add that our new friend amir connected us with his bud at the houston rockets, winston. winston has already setup a meeting with us tomorrow morning and indicated that the rockets have explored in-game seat upgrades and would be interested in learning what we do and discovering how upgrades can work in conjunction with dynamic pricing. great example of cool people meeting cool people and helping each other out! thanks again amir!
So far, as far as I know they haven't executed anyone in this country for speaking out again tyranny. I know "my best" pales in comparison to people like Sophie Scholl, but that statement shows my optimism about the current state of affairs. We are on a decline, but still far from outright Fascism.
You forgot the existence of a very high sitting-on-the-shelf rate.

You can ship all the units you want, but unless people are taking them home, the number is definitely not a good proxy for sales.
> MAC spoofing would only be relevant if you were regularly using random spoofed MACs on your own network.

Or, if for some reason that practice was widespread enough that it provided plausible deniability.
True, we'll have to see where we can fit it.

You're right on the domain thing too.

Square is great for what it is, but there rates are way, way, too high for restaurants and their app doesn't allow for 3rd party callbacks. I don't think they have much interest in "real" business to be honest with you, I've tried to get in touch with them on multiple occasions for at least information on them integrating a callback scheme, but I haven't heard a word back. They're busy doing bigger and better things though, god bless 'em.

We actually do have integrated credit card processing (kind of). There's an app called Credit Card Terminal that lets us pass charges to it and then calls back to us with the charge amount and type when it's done processing.
Whoa, thanks for sharing. Below is my rhetoric

--

I am very excited about the transformation DNA sequencing technology is going to unleash. So much so, that I quit a job at NASA to be at a company pushing forward the DNA frontier.

I am deeply concerned that a measure such as this one will stagnate this burgeoning field. To prohibit the access of this DNA information, and restrict the interpretation to a few is criminal. This information is our birthright.

Science has to be open, to attempt to cage it could have repercussions so devastating that they are now hard to imagine.

The internet is a fantastic analogy. The internet succeeded because it was open, it flourishes now because the openness allowed others to build on it, and that openness has infected every part of our society for the better. Almost 18 years ago to the day CERN gave the web to the world. I ask you to consider the changes that emerged from that pivotal event.

What a treasure the world would be missing if the net had been restricted to the Physicist using it tucked away deep underground in particle accelerators.

Don't cage our DNA, don't bury our chances to for a brighter future.
HELP HN: My Google Apps Account & Gmail Account were hacked. What should I do? 
Hi HN Community,

I have a huge problem. Both my Google Apps account & Gmail account were hacked. Judging by the "Last Account Activity" feature in gmail, the account was accessed repeatedly by an EC2 IP. An email was sent to all of my contacts including a link to a malware site (I did not open the link yet.) The intruders already tried completing transactions in my bank account. What should I do? Any help is much appreciated. Thank you in advance! M
Apparently they're back now!
Why is this so shocking? I keep seeing people point out that he was near by a military academy. There's plenty of documented history of US and Russians spies in eachother's agencies.

In fact, I have read stories about the area I grew up in (suburb of DC) with CIA safehouses, etc.

It's fairly well documented that there are sympathizers within the Pakistani govt. It's all quite corrupt and the world views from that vantage point are quite different than the world views from the US.
Consider this context sensitive C code:

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Here is how to specify a sample grammar to handle the above statement with a new product called LRSTAR. Note, this grammar has no conflicts and is LALR(1). Here is
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Type -> SimpleType...
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2 x Intel SSDs here. No issues.

While the speed of these things can vary a lot, so does reliability - and that won't show up in a benchmark. I noticed that a lot of the mentioned SSDs are GSkill. Apparently those are cheap and unreliable.
The Keyring Problem: NCTM fumbles the ball
Not necessary -- someone could spoof their MAC to match mine. IMO, this is more likely when there is already malicious intent, and it's almost trivial to do.
So there's no distinction between identical twins?

Genes provide a recipe to create a human, but that interpretation is heavily dependent upon environment (both initial biological as well as how that "man" grew up). So, there definitely is a distinction.

Just watch your rhetoric as it could cause people to throw out your entire argument.
For example Haskell's monad aren't functors.
TweetDeck had ~10% of Twitters user base as users, and they sold for a mere $50M. This should speak volumes about "not being someones bitch."
Awesome! Can't wait to try it out :)
Just use the DD-WRT feature that lets you have 2 APs, one encrypted and one open. Connect all your kit to the private one, and limit the outgoing bandwidth of the open one. This should surely give both security and plausible deniability?
I think we can conclude that galactic simulation games are probably a special case for which 128 bit integer coordinates make sense.

Once you've subtracted out the offset of your spaceship though, everything you view from there is easier done with float or double.
The service is pretty slick, and it's nice to have a 'true' open beta without any coupons & whatnot needed.
so if I were to claim that unicorns are real, it would be okay, so long as I am quoting from a TV show?

it was objectifying a human, reducing her to a series of inputs and outputs, no better than a microwave oven. it would not have been acceptable whether the victim was male or female.
Ask HN: What bank account syncing software is available for bootstrappers?
I know that http://feefighters.com/ is available for getting a merchant account, but what about for setting up service like Wesabe or Mint where a user can sync their account with my service for deposits into their account?
This is true...one of the UI things that keeps me up at night is how to optimize that login screen. Passwords are actually important to me because of that, and I'm not sure servers IDs are really a great idea, they just seem insecure to me (the restaurant I worked at constantly was broken because servers would figure out the manager ones) and introduce a whole host of validation issues that would be frustrating to deal with in this distributed system.

We'll have to look at speed a bit more - at the restaurants we've tested at, my experience once it was just pure frustration for a server at first, but after 3 or 4 shifts they settled back down into normal speed for order entry, and it ended up being a win overall because the discoverability of stuff was faster. That being said, I know we definitely have room to improve.

Thanks for your feedback, it's nice to hear from someone else who worked at a restaurant, especially one that was busy and relied on the speed of its POS more than one in Buffalo may have.
Well; You most likely had a stupid password (sorry for the bluntness but it's true!), so you need to change that immediately. Then I would email all my contact saying DON'T OPEN THE LAST EMAIL :)
Noted, thank you. Peer review of a website has the unique ability to make you feel like a blind idiot. :P
There hasn't been too much discussion about C# 5 has there? Async / Task<T> and compiler as a service (which is already available in Mono) are the only new features that I think I've heard about.

Not that there won't be more stuff in there, nor do I think the radio silence on C# 5 is at all related to this... mostly I'm just curious if anyone has heard more about it :)
How Eventbrite Weathered the Amazon Outage
Wouldn't whatever party you're communicating with also need to run their own mailservers? Otherwise the government or some other intruder could just read your conversations from the other end...
yes, we're targeting the teams/concerts with the highest percentage of unsold seats and we're focused on upgrades once a game/show starts. fans will have to have a ticket and already be at the game/show. we're giving fans the freedom to roam while at the same time generating revenue for all seats that would otherwise have been empty (13,000 seats per game at tampa bay rays games for example - MLB averaged 68% occupancy in 2010).
Samsung Hero E3213 Cheap 3G Mobile
This is of course how non-tech things can leak in HN. The tertiary technical angle. Are we amazed that people in Pakistan have Twitter?
Thoughts on whether Twitter will actually maintain Tweetdeck post-acquisition?

For me, I have a feeling they will mothball it for three reasons:

a) The aesthetic and visual approach of Tweetdeck doesn't fit in with the way Twitter wants its product used

b) Twitter are looking to staff up a London office, it would make sense to use Tweetdeck (based in London) as that office (EDIT: the implication being that said staff would work on Twitter related business, not Tweetdeck)

c) This was all about a tactical blocking of UberMedia, not a strategic product acquisition.

Regardless of what happens to the 'main' Tweetdeck product, the ancillary iPhone and Android apps must surely be slated to be shelved given they compete directly with Twitters existing offering... I can only assume this is good news for the other mobile apps out there, like TweetCaster for Android
The article isn't about picking a winner, it's about what the current pros and cons are of choosing each as your platform for development.

Understanding the tradeoffs is important because we don't have unlimited development resources.
Yep, somewhere in between. They bill it as their version of Sandhurst or West Point, but a large number of the instructors are current or former ISI.

The military/intelligence distinction is a lot fuzzier in Pakistan than the US or Britain. I'm thinking of a report describing ISI recruitment at PMA Kakul. I'll track it down tomorrow when I get home.

For now:

Former ISI Head, current Chief of Army Staff visit last September:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lSEcu3TWM0

The town is inside a cantonment, which is an area surrounded by checkpoints.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-13257330

Pakistan Army website:

"Abbottabad, at 1220 meters (4000 feet) is named after James Abbott, a British Administrator, who served in Hazara Division, part of North West Frontier Province of present Pakistan, in the 1840’s and 50’s. It is known as the military town, full of soldiers exercising, parading, playing polo and practicing the bagpipes. "

http://www.pakistanarmy.gov.pk/AWPReview/TextContent.aspx?pI...

EDIT:
Here's a pretty decent rundown.
http://docstalk.blogspot.com/2011/05/indian-media-reports-on...

""A senior Pakistan military official has told India Today that it was impossible for the army to have not known that Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was in Abbottabad. This has further fuelled speculation that Osama was killed in an ISI safehouse. Bin Laden was killed in the operation late on Sunday night at a mansion in Abbottabad, 80 kilometers north of Islamabad.

"The cantonment [military camp] town houses many military institutions, including Pakistan's Military Academy at Kakul, where most of its military elite - including present [Pakistan Army] chief General [Ashfaq Pervez] Kayani - have passed through."

(Indian source on Pakistan issue, so take it with a grain of salt)
Does Quora Really Have All the Answers?
Because it will never end. Today it's camera, accelerometer, compass, and voice commands... tomorrow it'll be something else.

Right now, since apps are predominantly native, a vendor can add new hardware and capabilities to their devices without the prior blessing of a standards body. Standards bodies will always be several years behind the state of the art in features, which means anything really compelling and new will always be in native form.
These guys only DELIVER pre-packed lunch boxes. Somebody in the lunch-eaters' HOUSE makes the food and it's picked up from there and delivered to the lunch-eater. This is not a catering service (hence the part of of your comment about procuring food doesn't apply).
I think he was trying to say it's matured away from its origins (in a good way).
Most terminals cost ~$3000, while the first terminal for us is $1500 - $500 for the iPad, $1000 for the app. After that, new terminals are just $500 since you bought the app already.

Secondly, adding printers is one of our best pieces of functionality - it's just entering an IP address, a name, a type of printer, and assigning it to a menu item group.

I'm not sure old hardware is the answer. It's underpowered, weak, running on odd platforms. iOS was designed for touch and to be rugged from the ground up, and provides a consistent platform that is essentially commoditized and is growing every day.
They called it the greatest discovery in human history.

The civilizations of the galaxy call it... MASS EFFECT.
Didn't read the whole paper, but the summary is idiotic.

GAO made undercover calls to the companies seeking health advice. ... GAO made undercover contact ... and asked about supplement sales ...

So it's not that the companies are pushing such things, it's that GAO prodded it out of them.

one donor who had a pacemaker implanted 13 years ago to treat an irregular heartbeat was told that he was at decreased risk for developing such a condition.

It's almost as if the person who wrote this doesn't understand that statistical likelihoods are not the same as ironclad facts. The above anecdote, seemingly included to shock us, seems like a perfectly reasonable outcome to me. There are plenty of people who aren't at risk genetically, who still end up with problems.

One donor was told that he was at below-average, average, and above-average risk for prostate cancer and hypertension.

Again, perfectly reasonable. It would seem that each company is testing for different SNPs. A given person's DNA can certainly read different ways when we're not reading the entire genotype, but just a limited (and potentially differing) set of sequences from within it. (However, I would hope that each of these tests included a description of which SNP are tested for, so that it's at least possible to interpret properly with research)

Also, none of the companies could provide GAO's fictitious African American and Asian donors with complete test results, but did not explicitly disclose this limitation prior to purchase.

I've only ever looked at 23andMe, but they certainly disclose this [1]. AFAIK, 23andMe is the best known of such companies (indeed, the only one I can name), and it has this disclosure. I think that, again, they're sensationalizing.

At this point I got disgusted and stopped reading.

[1] https://www.23andme.com/health/ethnicity/

ADDED as a follow-up to my comment about misunderstanding statistics. The proposal would have the consumer hearing this information through a filter of their MD. How many MDs really understand physics? How many of them are going to be able to explain the Bayes concepts behind "if your father and your uncle both have prostate cancer, then it doesn't double your risk...". Is making the MD the gatekeeper to this actually going to help?
Facebook induces people to put a lot of stuff into computers that they didn't put into computers before, and then they store it in a big centralized system. In theory someone could have put bugs in everyone's houses to digitize all of their conversations and radioed them in real-time to a supercomputer to do voice recognition, and also photographed them whenever they were at a party and used face recognition to map out their social relationships. But, in practice, nobody did. Facebook gives you that big, juicy database. Now, all that remains is to data-mine it.
DAVE is a minimalist, multi-node, transactional API framework written in PHP

Dave contains an end-to-end API test suite for TDD, a Task model, an Active Database Model, and a stand-alone development server (written in only PHP as well) to get you started.
> for something called postgres.

> And a third chap was going on and on about some series A series C thingy.

Ok, this has to be a subtle troll...
Which part specifically? I work on the project so any feedback I get is very valuable!
Great idea! You always see empty seats at sporting events, and wonder if you could sneak into them.

Being able to sell them at discount allows stadiums/venues to gain revenue they otherwise wouldn't have.
I think is the right idea. An IP address is a piece in the puzzle of evidence. By itself, it should not be enough to prove guilt, but it might be enough for a search warrant.

I hope is that as time goes on, the legal system (and hopefully all parts of the government) better learn how technologies work and don't work so they can make more informed decisions. Hopefully, as the younger generation start their careers in those fields, they bring better understanding of technologies with them. Though there is another article I read today that is an anecdotal story about someone my age that doesn't know difference between a web browser and search engine.

After writing all this, it reminded me of a friend. He is now an IT manager and his wife is a lawyer (currently a judge's assistant I think). They were talking a couple years ago about the lack of credible expert witnesses in the IT field. She had seen that they are not staying current in the IT field, similarly what can happen with conference speakers. They spend all their time talking about technologies while not having the time to gain a deep knowledge of new technologies.

I seem to taken a tangent towards the end (or maybe the beginning), but oh well.
I'm not. The app has multiuser functionality. Instead of paying $1000-$2000 per terminal, I'm asking them to pay $1500 ($1000 for the app; $500 for the iPad), and $500 for any subsequent iPad terminal. Compared to standard prices, it's a steal.
Sony Declines to Testify at Congressional Hearing
Definitely fascinating. Don't forget, however, that many of these Mumbai dabbawallahs live a precarious existence.

Perhaps the fear of homelessness and hunger encourage the high success rate. This is not a model I'd like to replicate in my own business.
change the passwords of any other site which uses the same password as your google acct.

In the future use an algorithm-based password, so that each site you visit has a unique pw.

and switch to 2-step verification
http://goo.gl/NZrTJ
How does this blow Craigslist out of the water? As far as I can tell, it's the same old craigslist, questionably skinned, and with less options.
How do the different DVD versions of Ben-Hur stack up?
Mimeo Connect Cloud Print API Goes RESTful
Well the article itself says...

"As I blogged last week, Microsoft is seeking ways to boost sales of its Azure platform. One way the company is hoping to do this is by tightening up its developer story around Azure."

While Azure was largely blamed for Ray Ozzie's departure (http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/IT-watch-blog/ray-...)

You can look at the anemic selection of Azure Books: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dap...

(By comparison look at WPF books a technology most people believe will disappear into Silverlight in coming years: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dap...)

I'd also point to the number of views on the average Azure article on DotNetKicks: http://dotnetkicks.com/azure

But to be honest I mostly based it on my own experience. I know many .Net developers and all of them have chosen to ignore the benefits of Azure and go with the more difficult task of implementing on EC2.

Note I'm not saying Azure isn't a good choice. I'd even argue it's a better choice in many ways than services like EC2 (Scaling alone makes it worthwhile for .Net developers). I'm simply saying it hasn't been a success for Microsoft thus far.
Haha I get lots of my work done at coffee shops. :)
Doh! Thanks, I don't know how we missed both of these.
I have heard rumors that the NSA and CIA directors have promulgated policies against their employees using Facebook and similar sites.
Errr....that makes it even more impressive.

Because not only do they have to get lunch to 175,000 people, they also have to pick it up!

You are right, I glossed over that fact.

I was just using my experience as a vague point of reference for how complicated such a business is - even though on the outside it seems like it might be simple.
or they could just directly insert their Promoted Products directly into the TweetDeck clients. TweetDeck was already a testing partner for their rev-share program. why make all those users mad when you can just stick your ads right in front of them?
Interesting eye-witness account on Al-Jazeera:
http://english.aljazeera.net/video/asia/2011/05/201152161017...
The "high end tiffin set" linked from the article costs $85. You could probably buy it for under $20 at your local Indian grocery store. If you are in a large city it's quite likely within 10 miles of where you live/work.
Thank you, this is stuff we definitely have to focus on, we're planning on moving stuff and adding stuff based on the feedback we received here in the next couple days.
News of Bin Laden's death causes highest tweet rate ever
Aye, I do too at times :P needs to delve into the Javascript there and fix it up
As such, I'd be surprised if Arrington's angel investments didn't run afoul of AOL's ethics policies.
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Basically, I think he wants AOL to fire him.

Nah, I believe him when he says he wants to stick around, esp because "they pay [him] good money" (his words).

When it comes to contracts and policies, everything is negotiable and open to exceptions if you have the clout. So much in business strategy is about identifying and using leverage.

I've had some fairly public interactions with Mike in the comments of his "disclosure" piece, and my guess is he'll just keep on doing both and aol will maintain the status quo so long as TC continues to get the traffic and make the numbers.
I'm surprised that IP address mappings still have the kind of legal weight that authorizes raids. Anyone can acquire a deniable IP by walking down the street to Starbucks (better yet, drive 15 minutes) or pointing a Pringles can at a distant neighbor. I assume anyone taking part in criminal content or actions on the internet would know this.
As a matter of personal morality, I would say this. I don't believe that journalists need to >try to be< unbiased. However, if I were talking to someone who does believe that journalists need to >try to be< unbiased, I would be careful not to claim that my own writing is journalism. No matter what I believe the word means, knowingly misleading someone else is wrong.

I don't know if Arrington knowingly misleads people by claiming to be a journalist, but if he is deliberately setting an expectation of lack of bias and lack of personal interest in order to profit from that, well, we can both agree that regardless of what journalism means to me or to Arrington, it is wrong to set a false expectation.
It will make it so much easier for vloggers to just record random video and release it whenever, sxphil can take a week off and nobody will notice.
RIM goes into iPhone territory: introduces Video Chat and Facebook Apps