skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Switch to a credit union, then. If your profile info is accurate, you live in a region served by the SF Fire Credit Union (http://www.sffirecu.org/). I switched to them a few years ago and it's been a great experience. Save yourself that $144 a year.

They have the largest ATM network on the planet; every ATM is free-of-charge. (That is, they'll refund the fees, if the ATM charges any.)
Time.

What are the odds of there being more than one intelligence in the same galactic neighborhood? Looking at our own planet, which is a biodiversity paradise, there's only one strongly sentient, intelligent, tool-using critter - us.

Why aren't we surrounded by other tool users trying to communicate with us? Why aren't we chatting with dolphins, working with cephalopods, and commuting to work with chimpanzees? Hell, where are the Neanderthals? They're the only other arguably intelligent species that have co-existed at the same time that we did.

It's a big universe, and it's a big timeline.
Carriers will disable this as soon as it gets even remotely popular, because carriers don't understand what business they're really in.

Carriers think they're communications platforms that add value (Visual Voicemail only from AT&T!) and content channels (Exclusive Droid Bleeding Rocket Glass Metal Extreme Explosion DROIIIIDDD NASCAR app!).

Savvy users understand that they're just wireless dumb pipes and know that cellular voice has been VoIP for many years now and also remember how long ago links between COs ran on fiber.
What to do if your primary data source thinks of you as a competitor?
I am building a product that uses an API from a fairly large site.

The problem is, that my product is considered a 'direct competitor' (I was told this by one of the co-founders of said service/site) to the API provider.

They also told me that the site's API is available on a non-commercial basis.

What should I do?

I am inclined to go ahead and build the non-commercial version, launch an MVP and see if we can negotiate a fair licensing agreement.

The obvious risk is, what if they say no and close the pipes on me?

Would love to hear some thoughts.

P.S. I am not VC-funded, so don't have any restrictions like risking investor's money or anything like that. It's just a lone guy in a garage wanting to build something he thinks would be cool - especially for this crowd :)

P.P.S. They weren't a jerk about it, they were totally cool - not surprising though, because their public persona leads you to expect the 'cool response' they gave. So this isn't a "F^&% the man, trying to keep me down" type of a situation.
X should be exempted from the anti-circumvention provisions of the DMCA for all values of X.
Cheating the Gifted?
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So to be clear, this is not for transforming a mockup into an actual application?
Technology: Gifts for Grandma
Actually given that dogs score better than chimps, wolves and human infants in tests of social cognition would lend credence to the fact that humans are actually inadvertently creating sentience. Similarly dogs are the only non-primate species to look at the right side of a persons face to gauge their emotion and state, but unlike primates and humans, they don't do this with other species or dogs.

Evidence points to dogs having a limited theory of mind, in that they can actively be deceitful, meaning they can understand the perceptions of other animals.

Not to mention, dogs are already known to have the ability to rationalise, empathise and have abstract learning abilities. They're capable of the whole range of human emotions, including clinical depression, melancholy, anger, rage, etc. Beyond that, they're capable of empathetic sadness and anger. They also display the same ability as many of the great apes to mourn their dead, but notably dead humans.

Orangutans are largely being made extinct for the same reason that humans have made wolves and tried to make numerous other species such as foxes, rabbits, etc. extinct. In that they're pose a risk to our economic livelihoods. Orangutans are dying because of deforestation and poaching.

Wolves evolved into a evolutionary niche as dogs, and as dogs have become as wide spread a species as humans and have evolved far beyond their ancestors. To the point that they actually rank above primates in certain tests of cognition and social behaviour - notably the two behaviours that are attributed as key elements of human evolution to sentience.
My friend finally came over and told me that you iterate the supported file types by a rotating animated gif. I am not a business guy but I would maybe write it at least once on your website. So far it seems the list is "PNG images and Photoshop images". Please help me interpret this so I can tell what you're selling.
Visas for dollars (Economist)
We built one of these at our company:

http://www.clockwork.net/blog/2011/04/27/478/we_made_a_sweet...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/clockworkactivemedia/sets/72157...

We've been using it every day for months.
Exclusivity as a Marketing Tool
There are already several stats sites , especially for economics. I recall using those sites when I was in B-School.

Now, http://www.wolframalpha.com/ is my go to site for all my stats related searches.

You should talk to B-School students and find out what they need to change their search habits.
Until carriers block VoIP traffic, because they can Ben under the FCC net neutrality rules that they keep trying to lawsuit out of existence.
Actually, Brooks uses that quote in the book himself. :)
I think the point is that the treatment leaves you with a ton less energy and hunger and power, etc. Otherwise there really is no point in skipping the treatment.
The comment syntax works great with regular CSS as well. It's a style of writing CSS. SASS/SCSS/LESS are methods for generating CSS.

I think that there's a pretty big short-sighted buzzword obsessed culture associated with CSS. We need to realize that "CSS" is a lot like "Scripting Language". There are many styles of writing scripting languages, many scripting languages, and many implementations of scripting languages. It doesn't take more than 15 seconds to read one sentence and understand what it means. Let's look past the name.
If we are talking true autonomous delivery then I guess scheduling it when you're around should be the least of our concerns.
How To Transport A Car
I don't think they would say "Nope! next?" but there is a really good chance they would be using Python and not Ruby. But that shouldn't matter if that person is a programmer as language semantics can be learned by any decent programmer.
This is why I use the longest password I can on these sites. If they're going to force me to use lowercase letters and numbers, I'm going to use 20 of them.

Which is fantastic when I have to read said password back to them over the phone.
Why you should never feel threatened by an Indian programmer - an Indian speaks
Google offers one. http://code.google.com/p/google-authenticator/

It implements an open standard for OTP and they provide source for a PAM module to require the OTP on the computer side.
The difference with music theory is that you've listened to music and you already know the magic. Now you can take the time to take it apart and study it, and you probably won't forget the magic. To understand Lockhart's metaphor, you must also understand that in his metaphor, this is the student's only exposure to music. They don't listen to music three hours a day, it's not in the background of every movie they watch, etc. And instead of only interested people seeking out the theory, as in your case (and as it turns out, mine, I took 2 years as well), it's forced on everybody. For more than two years in college, too. You can't possibly have been in his nightmare.
Nope, this is for designers who need to preview their retina designs on a retina screen.
My product is outlawed... What next?
Not sure how some out-of-the-box products make it through the dip (as described by Seth Godin) and break barriers. Particularly products like Hustler. I can to some degree understand the case of hustler’s challenge due to the content. But I somehow cannot figure out why my little drinking card game is outlawed.

It has been:
- kicked out of google adwords (Account suspended!). Why not just disapprove the ad?
- Blocked by Facebook
- Instantly unfollowed in Twitter

I have somehow swallowed all that rejections....

I’m very succesfull selling one-on-one to customers which is not scalable. Thanks to Square

I was very optimistic about retail channel. And their reaction surprised me:
- Forget conventional stores (I know this will get kicked out)
- Rejected by liquor stores frequented by 21 + age
- Surprisingly even Head shops and tattoo parlors rejected the game

Reason: Name of the game is too much. And the finger on the pouch is too graphic. They advised me to change the name and re-name the action cards with same rules.

I am not doing that.

My New Approach: Pay me only if you enjoyed playing the game.

I am posting here because this is where I hangout most and hackers think out of the box. Having run out of avenues to get the word out, I have decided to try something out of the box. And hence this post. Apologize if it is out of context.

Get the most awesome card game that mankind has ever played or owned. I will send you a deck for just shipping and handling fees (US : $3. Outside US $6). See the deck, play the game with your friends and if you like what I have created, paypal me $14.99 that I sell for. If you don’t like the game, don’t do anything Just keep the deck because there are only 2,000 on this planet. No questions asked.

if you want to directly paypal send shipping and handling to fthiscardgame At gmail dot com

for questions call me from the site

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If you want to know how many ordered the decks I will put a stats page on the site
That's speculation on my part and others, a reporter normally would not publish something like that.
If the tests tend to emphasize memorization (either literally or memorization-of-algorithms), wouldn't that culturally put east asians at an advantage, and intelligent executives who manage a 3 billion dollar budget but are 20 years out of school like the author at a disadvantage?
That makes a lot more sense. The title of this submission made it sound like some horrific image slicing and click-action tool!
I feel that with the popularity of Dropbox and the likes, native apps have the potential to get a small revival. Utilizing DropBox means that the data is "in the cloud" more or less like a web app. From there, it's possible that native performance and access to hardware etc. is a win even if there are other advantages to web apps.
> PS If anyone from GCHQ is reading... can you email me a simple 'carry on' or 'stop wasting your time'. Need to sleep...

I am considering forging a "carry on" email as this is hugely entertaining :)
I look at the time stamps near each post (for example, your thread-opening post says "12 minutes ago") to tell when they are posted. I have been on Hacker News for 1113 days now, so I've developed varying strategies for reading threads over time. For some of my favorite authors of Hacker News posts, especially some of the persons on the leader board

http://news.ycombinator.com/leaders

who have high comment karma per comment, I look back to earlier threads by looking for their comments from their user pages, to find recent comments by those authors. Example: comments by mechanical_fish:

http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=mechanical_fish

Other times, I just skim comment threads to see if some new issue has arisen, or especially if a participant has linked to a reliable source, preferably a professionally edited source.
This is a cool idea, but the site is not clear enough. A big video showing how it works would be more useful.
"For my daughter and my own sake."

Your family is your business, but I have watched both friends and family die fighting hard in the ICU. It would not have been my choice to watch them, nor for them to go through that for the sake of myself.

Fighting for the sake of fighting alone has no value.

Watching a loved one suffer is agonizing.
This statement is both true, and irrelevant, because who bears the burden is very important for the individual making the decision. What's being weighed is not "are the resources used to keep me alive being efficiently allocated," but rather, "will my spouse and children be irrevocably bankrupted."
> Why are you so sure that this is impossible, still? Aside from FTL travel, in what way are humans fundamentally different from Kingons?

You don't understand my argument.

We (and our intelligence) are the unique product of our evolutionary environment. There is no tendency in evolution towards intelligence. There are far many more organisms on this planet in far greater numbers than us that don't even have a brain, nevermind a complex one like ours.

We define intelligence based on traits that we (humans) possess. Some animals possess some of those traits (like dolphins, chimps, etc.), but no animal posses them all, save for us humans, by definition.

For us to find a species that is identical or even just compatible with us psychologically, that species had to evolve in an identical evolutionary environment spanning millions of years. That is so astronomically unlikely that it might as well be impossible.

You may find life that posses some of our traits (like dolphins), but you won't find life that has them all (like Klingons).
Exactly, this is why math draws in people who thrive in the face of intellectual challenge. People who's first reaction to a difficult problem is to spend hours dissecting it to understand how it works and find a solution are the ones that tend to like math. People who react by getting frustrated, dread going to math class and spend their lives trying to avoid it.
I'm upvoting this simply because of the author's statement that "few people truly comprehend" CCS and that "CSS is complicated". So true.
I love how LastPass isn't the solution because ... "it's a computer program".

What kind of Luddite computer programmer is against using computer programs to solve their problems? Yet is fine with using SSH keys?

The argument of bloat is garbage -- you can utilize LastPass bookmarklets at the cost of exactly 1 bookmark in your browser. That adds a 1K bookmark and a very small amount of JavaScript to the page if and only if you utilize it.

Password certainly are painful, and our whole goal at LastPass is to make it easier. We'd be happy to help make other scenarios people are experiencing better, we've looked at handling ssh a number of times (putty in LastPass for Applications for example) -- anyone have a preference for how we tackle that next?
No. Competent companies don't hire people for "Python" or "Ruby" per se. But the Ruby developer community is disproportionately well-stocked with web "programmers" who know enough Ruby + JQ + "SQL" (read: AR) to make good-looking, fairly functional websites.

It is easy to shoot these superficial programmers down, even from a cursory browse of a resume.

It's not that Ruby signals that you're a superficial programmer; it's that there are fewer superficial Python devs, and more superficial Ruby devs.

For the most part, your choices of programming language are a terrible way to differentiate or market yourself. You are far better off being clever about picking your application domain.
Ask HN: tips on having people sell my saas app
Any tips or advice on the following ways to sell a saas app:
-affiliate programs (anyone used hasoffers [self managed] or click bank?)
-"agent" level accounts (give to them for cheap and with permission to resell)
-hiring dedicated sales people (let's talk about this the least)

Thanks!
It's also much easier for the skills of a developer to become commoditized for many of the same reasons. When what is needed and delivered is so easily quantified, it is also easier to find another provider of said services.

What makes a skilled designer so rare and desirable is the fact that they will bring up issues and concepts that may not even have been thought of until their input was garnered.
Space - there is A LOT of it, and a hard limit on speed of travel.
The 20 Best New Startups Of 2011
Creativity is just connecting things.
If you don't have a high opinion of them, you should try it, run and fix all of the things they're fucking up.
ProFlightSimulator Review
We use the Moore Method at UT. We started with a series of axioms and over the duration of the semester we built and proved ourselves as a group every theory. And only those theories successfully proven by the group were admissible on tests. It was rad as hell.
Just go and lob a few complaints about her behavior that would never apply to a guy.

But I would totally tell a man that he was being over-emotional about something. I've done so numerous times, in numerous contexts, and I've let my own emotions get in the way of my judgment on several occasions. It's a normal thing; I think most people would prefer not to work with someone who's an unreadable robot, but friction and frayed tempers can cause problems of their own from time to time. Criticizing a colleague is always awkward, and most managers would try to mediate away such conflicts within their team. Why does the writer think this is an exclusively female issue?
Never ever forget your luggage again! :D
Counterstrike fines you when you kill hostages.
Auto-Save User's Input In Your Forms With HTML5 and Sisyphus.js
> Why aren't we chatting with dolphins

Ironic you should say: from HN this morning:
Researchers 'speak' to dolphins in their own language
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3314056

:)

And as for time, that's sort of the point of the Fermi paradox, with this much time there should be evidence of life everywhere, unless you have an unstated assumption that all life is self terminating before it reaches a point where it can leave much of a galactic mark? (In our case then, probably excitingly soon)
Blame the designer fund: http://designerfund.com/

Oh wow, FeedBurner! A company known far and wide for its amazing design sense and its delightful user interface!
"above average team player" vs "average team player" literally made me laugh out loud. This whole infographic just an advert for mixtent. No real data posted? Simply percentages and rankings? At a minimum they could have included the sample size.
Interesting to finally see some informed discussion about this going on. In the meantime I've scripted my Galaxy S to turn off syncing when the screen is turned on. It helps a lot to combat lag, as the phone often had the annoying (but understandable) habit of starting a sync when it was awakened by me: resulting in slowness just when I tried to use the device.
Got it! Thanks for the explanation. Makes sense.
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Sorry, we're currently in the process of making a screencast, submitting 1.1 and writing our email list. We haven't yet had much time to work on the homepage.

Silkscreen is for designers who design for retina devices and need a retina density preview on the real device.
hey. I think it's a fundamental all successful people come to learn, (fail more) despite what most of us are taught at school. To me, meme suggests something more temporary and unique. In my experience, the higher you go, the more fundamental the lessons get. I think it's actually an easier environment to learn to fail in the digital world. Split testing and the like is a lot less painful that cold calling on a phone which was part and parcel of any entrepreneurs schooling back in the day. Good luck with your magazine. Paul.
> Doctors need less math than engineers. Is "medical doctor" therefore a less valuable profession?

If you fail to recognize the importance of understanding math in your profession, then yes: http://www.ted.com/talks/peter_donnelly_shows_how_stats_fool....
In good conscience I must make a distinction: my public school complaints were the direct result of regressive policies on part of administration. Many of my actual teachers did the best they could with ridiculous constraints.

In college, though, it's often times the professors who create the problems.
Physicalism is essential to science. What sense could we (and our instruments) lack that still exists in the physical world? There is no doubt that there are species we have yet to identify and categorize, but those species will still be made of the same matter that comprises the rest of the universe, detectable by the same means.

The only major obstacle I see to knowing about some form of life on Earth is location -- we can't scan the entire ocean floor, nor can we penetrate into the mantle.
Year we're currently in the process of making a screencast. I'm thinking just zooming from Photoshop to the iPhone and showing how changes are reflected instantly should be a good explanation.
CarrierIQ Sparks Class Action vs. Apple, Samsung, HTC, More
That seems almost intentionally damning. Why would he put that in writing? This is disappointing because I really like grooveshark's service.
Macworld|iWorld Announces Modest Mouse for iWorld BLAST
The charts on your blog are gold. They may be people who'd be prepared to pay for that?

Core value prop:

Managers are always very curious where they stand on performance.

Provide benchmark service so that organisations could see how they are performing relative to their peers. For an organisation with 4 employees (budget $400k), $1k per year for a benchmark report would probably pass muster. (keyword research "service desk metrics" - I think you can win this space)

How to go about this:

Integration into FreshDesk, ZenDesk and other ITIL etc.
Anonymize data, segment into industry

Alternate value prop:

Enable tighter feedback loop for line managers and provide them with actionable ideas (intervention, escalation, rotation, dispatch, pair).

Other possibilities:

Pipe activity to a TV screen in the service desk area. There's an overlap with existing software, so you'd do it only if you could provide more value than other software can. For example, you can gamify it (though not my preference).

Provide useful reports for end of year employee review.

When badly done, benchmarks can result in the wrong incentives being created. However, you have a lot of text data that can be used to gauge the complexity of a task. May be there's something in there.
Somebody posted a sample question above, asking students to determine if certain triangles in a set are congruent.

I don't remember the definition of "congruent". I graduated with honors in Computer Science, and took many math classes along the way and did very well, and the topic of "congruency" never came up beyond high school mathematics.

There's definitely something weird going on here. I imagine that it will be tempting for people on Hacker News to argue that they know the definition of "congruent" and it's not a difficult question and I should turn in my degree, but whatever.
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Has anyone used this to run Ruby on Rails? If so, I might want to recommend it in the next edition of the Rails Tutorial.
Apple television rumored to come in 3 sizes, including 32" and 55"
Yeah ... that makes it worse. Its a stupid set of remarks about something that isn't actually broken. Unlike some of the messes I've seen rolled out with Agile.
The Mozilla Story (a video by Mozilla, the makers of Firefox)
Obviously they should fire him and hire you.

Life lesson: If it sounds too easy for the money he's making, it's probably not.
It can't have anything to do with real-time priority, as iOS does not have any special priority for the main (UI) thread.