skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know that such a bill was proposed, but was it ever passed? I agree that a shutdown similar to the one that happened in '95-'96 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_governmen...) will definitely occur if the ceiling is not raised immediately, but Republicans could conceivably double down their bets and refuse to raise the ceiling until entitlements are affected, which would certainly happen before the president made a decision to curtail current military activities. Does anybody have a reference to the rate at which outflows currently exceed tax revenues to give us an idea of when that point might be reached?
Travis rocks!
I think it's a great concept and the site looks professional. I'm not sure about the viability of the pricing plan though, but I don't have enough knowledge about the costs involved and the typical usage profiles to make a better suggestion. However, I did get the impression that your competitors (such as Dropbox) may offer more for less.

One question though: on the front page you say that people can try ZigzagCloud one month for free. But on the pricing page there seems to be an entirely free usage tier without any time limit. You should probably clear that up somehow.
I love the relevance of the username! I'm not aware of any particular recruitment forums, mainly because I avoid them like the plague however the general consensus is that a lot of coders, particularly the more experienced ones are arrogant and self-centred. Most recruiters don't realise that the attitude they face is primarily based on the fact that coders don't like dealing with recruiters.
IMHO There are bad people out there and some of them will want to hurt you. You don't have to sacrifice who you really are because of them. You just have to live a little bit differently. means don't use AirBnB
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Ask HN: Who Are Your Top 3 iOS UX Designers?
I love apps that feel slick on the iPhone so here's my list of my top 3 iOS UX designers:

Keegan Jones (@keeg) - Gowalla iPad App - http://keeganjones.com/

Michael Flarup (@flarup) - Outside iPhone App - http://www.robocatapps.com/

Robin Raszka (@robinraszka) - Dribbblr iPad App - http://tapmates.com/index2.html

What are your favorites? Also just apps do great.
I guess you mean the status images? Docs can be found at http://about.travis-ci.org

Here is the page on the status images : http://about.travis-ci.org/docs/user/status-images/
I hope this happens soon.

The risk/reward trade-offs don't seem to be understood by most AirBnB landlords (99.99% chance of earning $100, 0.01% chance of losing $50k+). Even though this is strongly positive expected value, for a family that can't afford to lose $50k this is a game of russian roulette.

My heart goes out to the author of this; I hope the person who did this to her is put in jail, and the system (AirBnB) that enabled that person prevents landlords who can't afford the financial & emotional risk from listing properties going forward.

This is one those places where laws make sense to me; the average person needs to be protected from unknowingly gambling with their family's future.
I guess they've never heard the phrase - "ideas are a dime a dozen".
Even just as a user, I've noticed this. Discovering good, reputable apps has become more difficult. The best way I've discovered to see a collection of functionally similar apps is to find one app that does close to what I want, then select the "related" link. It gives a much more useful list of apps than searching based on keywords.
Community project seeks control of .app top-level domain (Press Release)
> ...had their laptop taken off them for about 10 minutes by the border agents, in that time they installed a rookit on it to track keystrokes.

Really? How certain is he that the keylogger was a recent addition? I have a hard time believing that an ordinary border agent is that technically competent, even if he just had to put in a usb device and select a few menu options.
Guess which chain restaurant I found a dead mouse in the salad
> "The motives for doing so are much more important than the author recognizes."

And who judges the motives? Law enforcement cannot start making such decisions, so they will have to consider DDOS a crime and let the courts sort them out.
I have always been skeptical about such services. It is like collecting pennies in front of a steamroller. Sooner or later, a tail event like this is bound to happen. A distribution of hosting experiences has to be fat-tailed. It is okay to deal with that risk when even the worst case scenario is acceptable. But, for your own home how can it be acceptable?
Doesn't work either - either bosons exist, and are plentiful, or there are none of them. Being rarer than one is either not special, or impossible!
I run a UK based company, and use three different 'Buy buttons' on my website - that is:
1. Paypal
2. Google Checkout
3. Fast Spring

I've not had any problems with any of them. Paypal and Google Checkout are comparable in price, I think its about 4% cut.

FastSpring is a bit more, about 8% I think, but it has the benefit of handling tax complications - ie. it checks where the seller is, and charges VAT accordingly. Plus it handles currency conversion so the buyer can pay in their local currency.
Would you want this? or is Segway style transport so yesterday?
Online Identity Crisis: The Importance of Real Names
Yes, one of Radware's ids/idp solutions. (Radware is an Israeli company who do some nice kit - I've bought quite a few of their boxes).
He had an allowance for smoozing premium clients, several hundred quid a week. So he jacked up my CV, alter my records in the system, and we blew that huge recruiter bounty you mentioned on dinner, booze, strip clubs, smoozing other clients. It was awesome (and fraudulent) but still awesome.

You'd be surprised how common this is. You'd also be surprised how many people got fired for the exact same reason!

London is...special. I love working in the City but it can be a bit frustrating at times having to deal with the egos.
There's a reason people still use Paypal even after all the horror stories: there is no alternative.
Fox Restricts Internet Show Viewing From Cord Cutters
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> a nice hippy dream.

Bullshit. Live in fear of strangers your whole life or trust the basic humanity of strangers. Either way you're still going to die of heart disease like the rest of us. Why don't you live in constant fear of that?

Stranger danger is a result of a fear-mongering media. Are you seriously worried about serial killers? Do you know how few of them there are and how freaking many people there are in the world?

People love to live in fear of things like strangers because it's immediate and controllable. They can just choose to stay away from them. It gives people a sense of control. Heart disease is long-term and amorphous. It's harder to gain immediate relief from fear of that.

By all means, don't leave a bunch of cash around while staying at a stranger's house. Take reasonable precautions. But fearing people by default is irrational.
Not necessarily manually-operated. See also: LOIC Hivemind.
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Agreed. Indeed, in order to be civil disobedience the act must violate the some law or rule to which the person is subject in a context in which the person is subject to it.
This is supremely brilliant. Really embodies the hacking spirit :)
My suggestions on pricing:

- severely limit free plan, to maybe 2 users, 200MB

- make currently free plan quite cheap, maybe $20, so it would appeal more to small businesses.

Everything else, especially the design, is very professional, and inspires trust. Still trying out the app, but at a glance, it seems really nice.
I need to work on my analogies. I've been using that phrase for months, trust HN to point out the error! To be fair, I base the analogy on the following:

Due to a phenomenon known as color confinement, quarks are never directly observed or found in isolation; they can only be found within hadrons
It's paradoxical that this comes from the #1 search engine.

Not the first time something like this has happened. Their Groups search was broken a few years ago as well, and it took some effort to get them to finally fix it:
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/10/usenet/
Sort of. http://www.clickbank.com/ works fine for European vendors (certainly UK, at least) and they have a good affiliate system built-in. The key downside is you must very specifically define your 'products' through them - you can't just set up arbitrary calls to take arbitrary amounts of money, as you can with your PayPal buttons.
I doubt there would be "a lot more horror stories of the little guys getting squashed without them."

The reason google, facebook, etc... would rather buy startups that are breaking new ground is because it's faster and cheaper than just copying/cloning an idea and building it from scratch - especially these days, when innovation happens much quicker.
Ask HN: Negotiating your employment contract with a corporation
I've been running various boot-strapped small business/start-ups for over 10 years now and I'll be moving to work with a Big Company in California. Having never worked for a corporation before, what kinds of things can I ask for in my contract? For example: clause to work remotely rather than relocate, or relocation subsidy, housing subsidy, fixed-term employment contract (I think I could only handle a year or two being an employee), employment as a contractor rather than employee (I have no need for medical insurance/social security etc), performance bonus based on milestones (do these work?), and because they are subsuming my IP can I get them to agree that any patents that come directly from my work will be attributable to me in some way? I have a lot of questions about how to protect myself, especially in regards to giving this company all my knowledge that I've spent years dedicating my life too and have yet to fully express it in a business form - I'd hate to find myself in a position where I give everything away and have nothing left at the end of the day but I'm also excited for the opportunity to see Big Company taking steps in my field and to be part of the development team.
There is also the possibility that it is cannibalizing their higher-paying customer base. For instance, perhaps if I hadn't been presented with that option I would have paid $10 instead. In that case it would drive the average down rather than up.

Presumably that's why they're A/B testing it. :-)
At around 14:10 in the speech - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKmQW_Nkfk8&feature=playe...

Also I'm not sure if he quit Google, or if he just quit the project he was working on.
It takes only a day or so of saved time over 2 years to justify the increased cost of buying a Mac for me. It pays for itself numerous times over by not having to fuss about with sound/video drivers, printers just working when I'm on a client site, etc.

I'm not sure what you're getting about about losing control, formats, etc. I use Pixelmator for image manipulation (even after all these years, Gimp just doesn't cut it), Inkscape for vector illustration, vim for code, Spotify for music. Apple haven't curbed my ability to do anything based on that list.
If someone comes from Craigslist, you can at least Google for their name, try to find a Facebook page, etc... BEFORE they enter your house. At best, the way it is for the author, she could have done some checking, but at that point the freak is already in her house.
You ought to say more about security. I would never touch a document solution that doesn't include technical details about its security measures and credentials.
Completely absurd.
I would love it to catch on, but there are massive social/legal/moral issues with it.

Eg 1- someone going through a depressive phase hits up with a troll (ref: case where someone was in a chat room, streaming a video of himself just before he committed suicide, people in the chat room egged him on)

Eg 2- Someone is suffering a depressive/manic episode, but turns to this and is not directed to medical help immediately OR someone has an issue which would require them to go to a professional, but the listener is not trained/aware and hence can't give them critical advice

Eg 3- Young adult who has had a traumatic day turns to this service, gets put in touch with someone who has strong beliefs. (or even mild ones)

Eg 4- High Karma person is taping calls of people talking to them
What is absurd is that whether you can enter or not isn't down to any rule - it's down to the particular low paid moron on the particular desk.

I've been told my visa wasn't valid because there should be a blue copy instead of a red copy (he was wrong - as the INS eventually told me) I have been told that I'm only allowed so many visa waiver visits (wrong), that I can't visit my companies US office under visa waiver (wrong)

It's as if every time an airbus landed at a US airport it was upto the baggage handler to decide if it met FAA requirements
A reminder that there's more to scaling out to millions of users than ensuring your hardware is up to the task.
I'm starting to feel foolish every time I look at a indie game in the steam store. Bought all four bundles, which are about a quarter of the steam games I own.
And if they quit your friendship over a game, you better get new friends anyway.
Why European VCs are lean, mean and more extreme
That's, by definition, not irrational behavior.

It would be better called "nothing to loose behavior", but of course in the real world that's pretty rare, and certainly does not apply to the politicians in the current situation.
This is what I've been expecting. I used to think I was unique, but looking at the forums, I realize there's a whole cadre of people who buy MacBook Pros, take out the optical drive, and replace it with an SSD, so they run with both an SSD and a hard drive. The SSD runs the OS and has your code and apps on it, the hard drive has your Big Media.

I hope, when Apple gives up the optical media drive, they will still continue to have a hard drive slot.

I'd much rather just buy the machine configured this way from Apple than have to rework the internals of my laptop (And undo everything if I have to take the machine in for support.)
I thought this was going to be a parody of all those 'you don't need' posts we see all the time, where someone goes off the rails about how some useful tool is totally unnecessary.

Instead, it's actually about the brain, how versatile it is, and ... Well, absolutely nothing about not needing one.

Yes, the title is complete linkbait.
Unnecessary!
IP address are meant for machines. for Human readable, we have DNS. Further, IPv6 Autoconfiguration will remove the need for humans to manually configure networks.

native IPv6 network "Just works", no DHCP hacks needed
You are falling into the same trap. You see them wanting to shut down the goverment and decided they are insane.

They have perfectly sane reasons for wanting that - you just don't agree. And if you are unable to see that, then the fault lies with you, not with them.
Alright, I give up. The only Google result for "fails the Model Railroad Club test" is this post.

What is it? :)
Free apps, mobile ad market aren't adding up
The polite "everything is beautiful" emails suggest against meth addicts. And it seems like too much work for a run-of-the-mill sadist.
Sure, if a good recruiter was better at sorting resumes than one of your developers, they'd add value. hell, even if they were only slightly worse, they'd add some value.

The thing is, to justify current prices, a recruiter would need to be rather a lot better at picking good prospects than your in-house hiring manager, and many times better at sorting resumes than someone who actually does the job you are hiring for. My understanding is that the fee charged is in the tens of thousands of dollars; for that, you had better save me a lot of employee hours, or get me a dramatically better candidate.
The horror-stories of Paypal are because of the massive market that this company has. Considering the sheer number of businesses and individuals using this, it's natural that offences get publicised. Personally I have no problem using Paypal at all, and as ig1 notes I'd only expect issues if you fit into a pattern of suspicious activity (sudden large transactions etc).
A great site and I'm glad to see it's still going (although apparently it kind of died - and was revived - in 2004 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halfbakery)

I had several (ridiculous) ideas while I was an undergrad and I remember how pleased I was when I found other folks had posted similar ideas on Half-Bakery. In fact one idea actually did end up on supermarket shelves (albeit in a different form).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tech_Model_Railroad_Club

"The Tech Model Railroad Club (TMRC) is a student organization at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and one of the most celebrated model railroad clubs in the world, because of its historic role as a wellspring of hacker culture."
I think this would be much more appropriate.

15 years in technology is a lifetime. Enforcing a monopoly for so long ensures that there will be no real innovation/progress in that area. How can we, as a society, afford to be held back like this?

In so many areas progress would happen much faster if not hindered by legal threat.
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Slashdotting
How to create a #WINNING title for your press release
Here's a useful perspective on it by a famous Canadian copyright lawyer: http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/5951/125/
Absolutely. The few times I've been surprised by the kindness of strangers stand out to me as some of the most pleasant experiences of my life.
> - People are still essentially good.

Out of every 100 people, 98 are absolutely wonderful human beings, 1 is an asshole, and 1 is a lunatic. My experience out of doing retail for a few years.
Phishing for domain name accounts
The article explains that phish campaigns don't only target online bank or e-merchant customers.

FTA: A lesser known campaign targets individuals and companies who've registered domain names. This sort of phishing is like diving for seawater pearls. In this analogy, the oyster is a domain name registration account, the oyster meat is the registration record. The real prize, the pearl, is the name server configuration for a domain name.
No, after the booking is completed, still well before keys are handed over, personal contact information is made available. Sure, it's inconvenient if you have to turn someone down after researching them but after they paid, but that's hardly the issue here.
If you're on a budget, Astraweb are nearly as good as GigaNews, but way cheaper, particularly with this discount: http://www.news.astraweb.com/specials/kleverig-11.multicards...
Vanilla Java: Send XML over a Socket fast
Incredibly generalized notion based on questionable assumptions. The OP seems to have identified that distributed state is hard. Not news and not in anyway unique to MOMs.
Note that these can be the same people on different days.
IANAL, but the language does not limit the guarantee of the public debt only to putting down rebellion or insurrection - those are specific cases that are included, and I would hazard to guess that the language was put in the clause to contrast with the next part which explicitly voids any debt the US has towards anyone in rebellion/insurrection against the US.

EDIT: Here's the text of section 4 of the amendment in it's entirety - "Section 4. The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void."
I thought Firefox enabled this automatically providing your graphics card drivers are up to date. If I force it enabled on my old GeForce Go 7600 all the text comes out as black rectangles. I assumed Mozilla knew about these problems so only enabled it when they knew it'd be reliable. So maybe leave it to Mozilla?
You are right, we need to see more examples of functional programming being used in games. Then we can better tell what effects it has.

Interestingly, you can also say that Cobol has been proven to work for business applications over and over. And people build successful websites with PHP.
All successful people have had a "lucky break". The difference between them and the one's that never make it are: they had the skills, confidence and dedication to make the most of the break.

It's not true to say that one creates one's own luck, but it is true to say that one creates the success from a lucky incident.

This is why you can't say that someone who succeeds, say, in their early 20s is necessarily more talented than someone who succeeds in their late 50s (although I suppose one could say that if someone in their early 20s has already developed the skills to deal with their lucky incident successfully may be more talented; however sometimes the fact they've had the opportunity to develop those talents can be luck/good fortune).

The secret: stay ready and throw your hat into the ring. The worst you're risking is embarrassment.
Which is frankly ridiculous grandstanding. If nothing else, a quick look at exactly how the deficit developed will reveal the hollowness of current pleas from some wings of the Republican party for a balanced budget amendment:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/opinion/sunday/24sun4.html
gcc should do the right thing if you add a special case for zero. exponent will be negative in that case. For larger integers you might end up with some false positives with floats though for say 2^30+1.
Spreadsheets are a limited form of functional programming.
if your data can fit into arrays, then there's no advantage in terms of the types of aggregations.

however mongo allows you to store complex structures, think nested dictionaries/lists, and query on those nested structures, even allowing you to reach inside of nested structures to do the querying.

I guess you could do nested structured arrays in numpy, I've never done that before.
Here are the short version of the rules:
A) You can ask for anything
B) They reserve the right not to give it to you

If working from home on Thursdays is a sticking point, ask to work from home on Thursdays and get that in your contract. It doesn't really matter if it's because you want to spend time with your family/cats or because you don't like going outside on days with a 'ur'.

If you REALLY want a pony, ask for a pony.

(you're not likely to get a pony)
http://www.moneybookers.com/partners/ebay/faq.html
It's true that it isn't cut and dried whether or not the 14th can be invoked, which means that any attempt to use the 14th would likely end up in the Supreme Court. It is also true that the Supreme Court is not terribly liberal at the moment. But, fortunately enough for the US and the world, raising the debt ceiling is not a 'liberal' cause - it's something that G.W. Bush, G. Bush, R. Reagan and others from the conservative side of politics have seen fit to do. It is not likely (in my opinion) that the Supreme Court would follow Tea Party rhetoric against the advice of every economics advisor out there. In other words, I think that ending up in the Supreme Court is pretty much a win for anyone that thinks the debt ceiling needs to be raised...
How do the users work? Is it like Dropbox where I can sign up for a free account and then have subscribers to the bigger accounts share with me or do I have a new account for every hosted plan I'm shared with?