skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tossing my recently launched email list into the mix: http://startupfrontier.com

Still in it's infancy, but I'm interviewing startups that are hiring and sending out the interviews each week. The idea is to provide applicants with a more personal look inside companies, since traditional job listings are either extremely sterile or trying too hard to talk about nerf guns and foosball.
Anyone Know If This Is A Real Cellphone?
I saw this on a twitter post and wondered if this is a real product.

http://minus.com/mgszIbfVI#1o

I have seen see-through cellphones before, but this is something extraordinary.
Regardless of whether you think it is moral to abolish private educational institutions, there's good reason to look at other aspects of the Finnish education model rather than this one single point.

Finland does not use multiple choice exams and has literacy standards that are clear and simple. Contrast this to the U.S. model, where literacy standards are a byzantine mess, and are often completely disconnected from a student's inability to read and write.

Mike Schmoker has addressed this in his excellent book Focus, where he writes:

"[Finnish] success, according to observers, is a result of how much time students spend actually reading during the school day. They found one Finnish student who, upon returning from a year in U.S. schools, had to repeat an entire grade. This is because in the United States, instead of reading and writing, she and her fellow students spent their time preparing for multiple-choice tests or working on "projects" where students were instructed to do things like "glue this to this poster for an hour"..."

I teach in a charter school. We have mandated standards requiring us to assign students X numbers of hours of reading/writing per semester. Students who leave our school and then re-enroll in later years are often entire grades behind, and have often not been assigned any writing or reading of any kind during their time in the "mainstream" public school district.

I suppose my argument isn't so much that private schools are/aren't a good and moral thing, but rather that there are many far less controversial methods of improving the U.S. school system than abolishing private education.
Ask HN: Other than PayPal, is there an API to Pay others?
I'm building a side project that involves paying other people. I'm wondering if I got any options other than using PayPal?

And if anyone has experience, how do I set up an automated payment system to transfer money to people's bank accounts? (or credit cards? Is that even possible?)

Thanks!

Edit: Preferably in Canada.
Apple is no longer about enriching lives, it is about enriching pocketbooks.
The "salt" they talk about is apparently not table salt. According to Wikepedia[1] it's likely a mixture of sodium nitrate and potassium nitrate and possibly some calcium nitrate.

Not only do I wonder about the cost and environmental impact of hundreds of thousands of gallons of these chemicals, but observe that these are powerful oxidizers and will be even more so if liquid-hot. This will require storage tanks and piping that is not subject to oxidation, which will greatly add to the expense of construction.

Not only that, these salts are prime ingredients for bomb-making, so such plants will be potential terrorism targets, either as a source of bomb-making ingredients, or for attempts to create a hellacious, non-extinguishable fire by causing a massive release of the molten salt.

Edit: forgot reference...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_thermal_energy#Molten_sal...
Yes, I live in SF.
Or use a $100 AdWords coupon to run a campaign with your affiliate URL to the Dropbox signup page instead of spamming people.
I used to have a Thomas Brothers LA basin wall map. This was a 5x7 (foot) map that went down to street level within the whole Los Angeles area. It was fantastically detailed and beautifully printed.

I could quite literally spend an hour studying that map, and I learned a lot from it. It would draw you in, in a way that digital maps can't quite do, at least not now.

I can also spend hours browsing Google maps, but it's more fiddly.

Besides the "draw you in" property, the wall map has the advantages of showing far-away regions at equal scale, and always showing places in relation to each other.
I was surprised about the press exposure too. We all assume big press is guaranteed help.

Bo spoke at our Entrepreneurs Unpluggd Kansas City event in November about finding first customers and talked a bit about this if you're interested in watching the video: http://www.entrepreneursunpluggd.com/blog/zaarly-bo-fishback
Do you honestly believe that Chrome is gaining significant market share because there is a single, rather uninformative blog post on sites like Telecommuting Mommies and The Debt Princess?
Conspiracy theory - perhaps someone other than Google is running this campaign in order to trigger Google's automatic censoring of the Chrome download page... Pretty stupid attempt if so as Google is not likely to censor its own pages (certainly not for 400 "bad" links), but spammers can be stupid.
I don't see how this strategy could work. The reality is most people don't care about SOPA or even understand the consequences of it. No politician is going to get thrown out because of it (especially not with Media Companies money behind them allowing them to run ads on Abortion, Gay Marriage, and a bunch of other hedge issues that large portions of people actually do care about)

I mean, lets be honest here. The media companies can pump way more money into the system then SOPA opposers can take out with a boycott. If that weren't the case this battle would have been won long ago.

The only way you win this fight is by getting enough normal people to care about SOPA and that isn't accomplished through boycotts. It's accomplished by talking to people outside the insular tech community.
I certainly wish iOS managed backgrounded apps better than the article purports it to. If you have a handful of applications suspended, and you're using MobileSafari, why does the application dump tabs that you're actively switching between before the OS dumps suspended apps? You're creating memory pressure in a foreground app and should therefore be given priority.
That's sort of where this thing falls apart: "iOS does it perfectly. Don't argue it." except when it does not.
This reminds me of the story from about ten years ago about a racist police dog in Pittsburgh that would attack bystanders:
http://www.oocities.org/ericsquire/articles/dogs/wtae030425....
and
http://web.archive.org/web/20080503212841/http://dir.salon.c...

Tangent: I'm extremely frustrated at how ephemeral web pages are. I googled the story to provide a reference, and the most reputable sources for the story are dead. I found 404s on Salon.com, Fox News, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, and PBS.org. Sadly, I found some of these links on a racist forum. It sucks that Storm Front keeps bytes around longer than these other sites.

Anyway, I just donated $25 to archive.org to support what they're doing. I've been using the Wayback Machine for years and always took it for granted. I'm not sure what made things different about tonight's frustration at broken links, but for the first time I just became worried about the preservation of history.
I would ignore the inflammatory language and just educate yourself.

The wikipedia page is informative, if a little heavy going for the non-economist:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_School

As I posted above, Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt is a simple, easy to read book that encapsulates most of the arguments put forth by the Austrian school.
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Robots.txt Checker (w. Bookmarklet)
Online Piracy: Taking On a Problem with Many Faces #SOPA
I'm so accustomed to seeing my own big city festooned with advertisements on almost every feasible surface, from stickers on lightpoles to 20,000 square foot billboards, that this almost looks fake. It's like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. But for advertising.
Copyright Infringement in Canadian Parliament
Without advertising, we'd forced to know ourselves better...and there are few things more terrifying than that.
When I read: These days, it’s hard to know who to trust, but with the name Google, you know you are in good hands. I get a stomach-ache. I wonder whether something like this might backfire to some extent, not counting the possible hypocrisy. When you have people writing phrases like that, it almost sounds condescending, like an awkward author's attempt to portray a simple, good-old-fashioned person. Except real, good-old-fashioned people don't actually talk and make decisions like that, and even if they're not familiar with Chrome, they're not going to be persuaded by that. If this is the quality of content from such an SEO campaign, I wonder if such endorsements only work against Chrome in the long run.

OTOH, if the SEO works, then maybe enough people switch to Chrome to justify the crappy endorsements.
The "stickiness" of Microsoft's products had nothing to do with the anti-trust case, They were leveraging their dominance in one market to exploit another; the permanence of the product has nothing to do with the illegality of their actions.
Comments are jumping all over Google without a word from the company yet.

I believe Google deserves the benefit of the doubt.
Thanks for everyone's thoughtful responses.

I'm researching Responsive Web Design as an option for a large e-commerce site. But for me, for a large site with a lot of dynamic content and functionality, it doesn't seem ideal to simply shrink it down to one column.

And I also wonder about the amount of time it takes to create designs taking all screen sizes into consideration.

Anyways, thanks again.
>West Germanys post-war 'economic miracle' was largely guided by Austrian school economic thinking, while East Germany went the other way.

One of the most predictable things about Austrian advocates is their inability to conceive of alternatives beyond some kind of cartoon-stereotype Soviet command-economy. You seem to be aware of social democracy, so you are knowingly assuming a false dichotomy to make your point. I'd say it's even more intellectually dishonest when one considers that no one ever argues for a centrally-planned economy. At the very best, such a comparison holds no value today in evaluating Austrian-school thinking.
The candidate supported by progressives — President Obama — himself holds heinous views on a slew of critical issues and himself has done heinous things with the power he has been vested. He has slaughtered civilians — Muslim children by the dozens — not once or twice, but continuously in numerous nations with drones, cluster bombs and other forms of attack. He has sought to overturn a global ban on cluster bombs. He has institutionalized the power of Presidents — in secret and with no checks — to target American citizens for assassination-by-CIA, far from any battlefield. He has waged an unprecedented war against whistleblowers, the protection of which was once a liberal shibboleth. He rendered permanently irrelevant the War Powers Resolution, a crown jewel in the list of post-Vietnam liberal accomplishments, and thus enshrined the power of Presidents to wage war even in the face of a Congressional vote against it. His obsession with secrecy is so extreme that it has become darkly laughable in its manifestations, and he even worked to amend the Freedom of Information Act (another crown jewel of liberal legislative successes) when compliance became inconvenient.

He has entrenched for a generation the once-reviled, once-radical Bush/Cheney Terrorism powers of indefinite detention, military commissions, and the state secret privilege as a weapon to immunize political leaders from the rule of law. He has shielded Bush era criminals from every last form of accountability. He has vigorously prosecuted the cruel and supremely racist War on Drugs, including those parts he vowed during the campaign to relinquish — a war which devastates minority communities and encages and converts into felons huge numbers of minority youth for no good reason. He has empowered thieving bankers through the Wall Street bailout, Fed secrecy, efforts to shield mortgage defrauders from prosecution, and the appointment of an endless roster of former Goldman, Sachs executives and lobbyists. He’s brought the nation to a full-on Cold War and a covert hot war with Iran, on the brink of far greater hostilities. He has made the U.S. as subservient as ever to the destructive agenda of the right-wing Israeli government. His support for some of the Arab world’s most repressive regimes is as strong as ever.

Most of all, America’s National Security State, its Surveillance State, and its posture of endless war is more robust than ever before. The nation suffers from what National Journal‘s Michael Hirsh just christened “Obama’s Romance with the CIA.” He has created what The Washington Post just dubbed"a vast drone/killing operation,” all behind an impenetrable wall of secrecy and without a shred of oversight. Obama’s steadfast devotion to what Dana Priest and William Arkin called “Top Secret America” has severe domestic repercussions as well, building up vast debt and deficits in the name of militarism that create the pretext for the “austerity” measures which the Washington class (including Obama) is plotting to impose on America’s middle and lower classes.

http://www.salon.com/2011/12/31/progressives_and_the_ron_pau...
It's a piece of acrylic with printing on it. It isn't a phone. Certain things that all phone have aren't possible to make transparent. For example, speakers have magnets. Magnets are made of metal. Metal isn't transparent. Same with silicon semiconductors, wires, etc.
The problem is if google treats the chrome affiliate junk content differently from other junk content. If it is all treated the same, then it should be ok.

I imagine that Google's search algo team is in a separate silo from their chrome marketing team (much like the search algo team is separated from the Adsense team) to try isolate them from the corrupting influence of their marketing team.

That said, Google would be risking their search cash cow by the mere existence of this sort of campaign as it undermines the perception of the independence of their search results, so perhaps they should steer clear of offering incentives of this sort.
I'll Have a Hendrick's Martini, Please, Very Cold, With a Quantum Physics Chaser
Clearly my comments aren't appreciated.

No, because they were jingoistic and myopic. IE9 is a decent browser (by all measures superior to Firefox) and IE10 looks to be better. Your blind platform hatred is showing.
You seem to know what you are trying to say, but I'm having a terrible time wading through your prose. Can you boil this down bit?
Donating my last 2011 paycheck of my third job. What should I donate to?
I made $630 in November for editing translations of Japanese articles being submitted to English-language medical journals. ThinkScience didn't have any other articles for me in December. So that was my last paycheck of 2011. I'm donating it all. Humble Bundle, EFF, FSF, and Wikimedia are already covered. What else?
This Month’s Apple Event To Focus On Publishing And iBooks
that's just, like, your opinion, man.

i personally value anyone that can articulate what they think about those redesigns, either like or dislike, thoughtfully without buzzwording me to death and without parroting rhetoric.

you're describing "culture fit", which, while valuable, isn't a good metric for evaluating a designer's skill at... designing.
Potassium Nitrate is primarily used as a fertilizer, as is calcium nitrate. Sodium nitrate is also a component of fertilizers, but it's not as popular any more.

If you're concerned about the impact of these being released into the environment, you should realize that we're already doing it deliberately on farms all over the country.
The post of this Every Door Direct Mail service reaches quickly
The business man having knowledge about this service is at advantage over other businessmen. This service is fast and accurate and targets large number of customers. The post of this Every Door Direct Mail service reaches quickly and on the time in the hand of customers.
Hey thanks, I just checked it out. Looks like it's only for the States - I'm in Canada. Anything you know around here?
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People that claim to be disillusioned with Obama don't seem to really grasp that this type of "change" is impossible to manufacture when Congress actively opposes you. The President is just one branch of the federal government; the voters don't elect a dictator for four years.

If you want these type of changes, you need to vote for the people that represent it in each election - presidential, midterms, local elections, all of them. You can't give up on the entire idea because the first guy you get really excited about and who actually wins fails to implement all of it in the first three years.
That comment was in the spirit of the original article I guess.
Not All Decisions Can Be Quantitative
So what you are saying is having free users is better than no users (even though it is an expense) because a greater proportion will convert (hopefully) eventually?

Write it off as a marketing expense and hope it attracts more paid users?
Godel, Escher, and Bach

http://www.amazon.com/G%C3%B6del-Escher-Bach-Eternal-Golden/...
San Francisco, CA (SF/Mission)

RG Labs is hiring: http://www.rglabsinc.com/#jobs

It is our belief that the most important decisions we make are decisions about people (e.g., who to start a company with, who to hire, who to date/marry...) We also feel like the Web is in its infancy in terms of helping us to make better decisions based on data and that this space will explode in coming years.

We're planning to help with the detonation.

We have a long backlog of customers waiting to use our product when it launches (in Q1) and a big market in front of us. We're building an engineering-centric organization and working out of a cool work/live space in the Mission. Our current stack includes Ruby, Rails, MySQL, Resque, and elasticsearch, etc. We're also planning to contribute to open source as much as we can (e.g., https://github.com/rglabs/teleport).

We're funded but also really early so it's a unique opportunity to help us set the tone and to be a major contributor (not to mention, get a sizable option grant).

To hear more drop me a line directly at jon@rglabsinc.com or contact via our website. We'd love to share more with you.
I think you meant to link to https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/lucene-dev/201201....
I won't trust my dog alone with my slippers, but the government and enough of the populace trust dogs to the point they gave dogs the power to revoke our civil rights.
That's pretty damn messed up. Basically they're saying: "we're accusing you of having X, we didn't find it on your encrypted drive, but maybe you have a hidden OS where it's at! Give the key!" And suppose you did give up your hidden OS key and they still find nothing? Do they say "Aha! Well, we didn't find it on this device, but we found this innocent picture of Jesus--give us the key you used to steg the information inside!"? And suppose you actually had some steg'd info inside, but it's not the information they wanted, it's nothing illegal. Do they then say "Clearly you dumped the incriminating hard drive in a landfill--tell us where!"?

Something mentioned at the beginning of the paper "I've Got Nothing to Hide" and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy, is Friedrich Dürrenmatt's Traps, from 1956. It involves a seemingly innocent man put on trial by a group of retired lawyers for a mock trial game, the man inquires what his crime shall be. "An altogether minor matter," the prosecutor replied … "A crime can always be found."
NFL Playoff Schedule Culminates With 
NFL Playoff Schedule Culminates With
The NFL kicks off its 92nd season with the defending Super Bowl Champion Green Bay Packers hosting the special Thursday Night NFL opener at home
https://stripe.com/ :-).
Maybe there's too much homework, too many hours in class, and not enough physical movement / play in U.S. education. And it's probably true that teachers at some especially bad schools have given up entirely.

However, I got tired of reading U.S. educational-silver-bullet fantasy writing a long time ago.
2011: A good year for Envolve
For a standard cheap shared host with good support, check out Hostgator. I like Namecheap for domains.
Every discussion about web browsers degenerates into a "which browser is better" flamewar.
"IE9 is a decent browser (by all measures superior to Firefox)"

That's an opinion, not fact. I'd appreciate if you explain why you think so.
Piano lessons nashville
Mobile Music Academy offers music piano and guitar lessons in nashville, brentwood and franklin area students. We teach in home lessons on guitar, piano, band instruments, bass guitar as well as voice lessons.
I think the problem isn't that they're doing both of those things at the same time. The problem, instead, is that the third thing they're doing at the same time is issuing guidelines, (hopefully?) backed by their ranking algorithm, written specifically to combat this type of behavior.

If it were a free-for-all, sure, no problem. But Google doesn't want other parties doing this. Doing it themselves puts them in a position that's a little difficult to explain.
Stripe only allows you to charge people – they don't handle payouts.
My use of the word "immoral" was meant to be within the context of a single society, not with the world at large. My argument is that current US society has created a de-facto class system where a significant percentage of the population is forced to go to schools that are so bad that they're barely better than not going to school at all. Here, "forced" means that one's parents either can't afford to send you to a good private school or move to a location with good public schools, or is unwilling to do so.

Students at these schools are, through no fault of their own, largely disenfranchised from participating in society in anything but a menial manner. The ideal image of the guy who didn't even go to high school but went on to found a corporate empire is fading - the people who are founding the empires nowadays tend to have had at least a little college schooling, much less a high school diploma.

Meanwhile, the positions of wealth and respect in our society are reserved for the relatively small portion of society who get a good education (exception: professional athletes & music stars). I classify this system as immoral, as it involves one part of a society preying upon another part, and then using its advantage to ensure continued advantage in the future. I would not shed a single tear if such groups lost the economic right to continue doing so.

More practically, however, it's hard to spend any amount of time in an average public high school (yes, there are some very good ones, but I'm talking about the average here) and not come to the conclusion that something is very, very wrong with the education system in this country. The sad fact is that a really bad school can seriously damage the rest of a child's life. Some few might escape the damage and go on to do great things, but most will carry the mark until they die, working in a series of soulless shitty jobs that they neither enjoy nor respect.
No they gave the police that power by letting them use dogs. I think at some point it was understood that the subjectivity of a dog's signaling interpretation can be used as a backdoor for searches. It is a clever trick and it works.
The article doesn't mention it, but these are known as concentrated (or concentrating) solar power plants.

There's quite a bit of FUD about solar not being dispatchable (ready to generate at a moment's notice). Massive heat sinks are just one solution; a less capital intensive one is software that turns off electrical appliances when needed.