skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He was being considered to an appointment to the export council. Lots of testimonies about his out of wedlock child, drug use, and dishonesty. For and against. The FBI concludes in support of Jobs.

Also, in 1985 he received blackmail for one million dollars or 4 bombs. It's right at the end.

Nothing post 2000.
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I'm hoping that it gets them making higher resolution screens all around, laptop and otherwise.
You haven't read his biography yet, have you?
I think we have segregated our information services for specific uses, and the phone numbers seem to work within that paradigm.

If someone needs to contact me about a specific issue or we need to have a back-and-forth conversation, or if they just want to become my friend, they'll probably ask for my Facebook (don't have one) or e-mail address.

If someone wants a date, or to call me maybe once about something like a job, they'll ask for a phone number.

The phone number doesn't reveal anything about you - hell, you can't even find someone's name in the White Pages most of the time. It's an impersonal identifier. The e-mail address, Facebook, Twitter, etc can reveal all sorts of personal details about you.

I wouldn't give up on phone numbers yet because there exists no alternative social replacement for impersonal contact. Silly I know, but social interaction is silly.
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Do you/they plan to have a sales team ?
I haven't used Less, although I have been considering it recently.

My point was much more general though. A tool like this seems great to help catch problems early - earlier than your deployment step. Can you be absolutely sure that there aren't any latent bugs in Less or differences between lessc and less.js, such that you could never have any differences between your less.js-backed dev code and your lessc-backed deployed code? Even if the codepaths are identical between lessc and less.js, their execution environments aren't.

All I'm saying is that if you're going to use some _thing_ in your deployment scenarios, it would make sense to use the exact same thing throughout your development (where possible). The biggest argument against this in the case of Less is the hassle of compiling it. That's where a tool like SimpLESS or less.app steps up.
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Depends on Modernizr.js, underscore.js, jQuery 1.7

Is the JavaScript library thing getting a little out of hand?

The functionality that this offers is but a few lines of unencumbered code with zero dependencies (obviously gracefully not doing anything if the browser supports it).
I really wonder how much end users care. If you exclude end users that are, say, either reading hacker news or paying people to create web sites.

Of my biased selection of wife, father, mother, brother, I will frequently see them browsing in IE or FireFox and seeing terrible, terrible pages and not really caring or even noticing. They don't think, "huh, I bet this site would look better with a border-radius... didn't it have one in chrome?"

Edit: To clarify. I think I'm just questioning whether this is bad for these users. I mean, if they don't perceive the issue, is it bad? They are getting a lesser experience, but does that matter?
NASA Biocapsules 'diagnose astronauts and pass on medicine' under their skin
Well, using a reversed nibble format allows you to have a different nameserver at each level distributing the load and ownership. If as a telco, I have the block of phone numbers +14155551000-+141555519999, I can easily have my nameserver delegated for it as 1.5.5.5.5.1.4.1.e164.arpa.

IPv6 and IPv4 reverse lookups work the same way.

Besides, it isn't like users are typing this in directly. Might as well get in all the flexibility you can. You could do things like add extensions and have it route properly without any extra work or have a country with both 7 and 8 digit phone numbers.
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Surely once the feature is standardised webkit stops supporting the feature with the -webkit- prefix so sites will be forced to update their css. Or does webkit continue to support the features with the -webkit- prefix even when they'll work without it? If it's that latter then surely all that's needed is for webkit—or projects using webkit—to agree to drop support for the -webkit- prefix once it's been standardised and this will stop being a problem.
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Of interest, the FBI could not find his birth records.
Not for $25.
Ask HN: I have $100k in cash. In what kind of startup should I invest it?
My problem is, I don't know what to do. I have some startup ideas but they are small ideas which I think they will not be a revolutionary startup. I would like to hear best advices to train my idea muscles of my brain to come up with some good ideas, or any new ideas from you.

Below I wrote down my skills and some info. But as you know, with this money I can hire any professional to do the work. To save money I'll use my skills, I'll do whatever I can.

My skills:

- Professional graphic & web design, ui/ux design (7 years in industry)

- Professional illustrator (diploma from painting school)

- Professional SEO knowledge (4 years experience)

- HTML, CSS skills, basic PHP skills.

- Professional Oral surgeon ( 2 universities, 10 years of study, doing my MD now)

- Intermediate Marketing skills (read some books, reading daily blogs, magazines, implemented on a startup)

- Intermediate Entrepreneurship skills (read some books, reading daily blogs, magazines, implemented on a startup)

- Small startup experience. Still CEO.

- Professional Piano player (5 years of piano school)

- Live in Germany, but don't have EU citizenship. Have residency permission as a professional doctor. Citizen of Azerbaijan Republic.

- Married, no kids.

- I'm 25.
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It's not ideal. It will end up storing two copies of the data files, one in the .git folder as a blob and one for the regular file in the checkout.

There are projects (http://git-annex.branchable.com/ and https://github.com/schacon/git-media) to try and get around this issue but then you are not really using git to manage the files directly anymore.
Agreed.

But in my conception of copyright reform there is a separation of copyright ownership law vs. legal protection of instances of when that copyright is monetized. The weakness in current copyright law isn't that it exists at all, it's that rights that properly benefit the individual transfer wholesale to the entity able to bring the idea to market. This needn't be the case. And a fix has beautiful consequences that align well with the major needs of the players involved. Though it would take agreement between both public, corporations, and government alike, the prime mover for such a parallel opt-in copyright system would be the individual themselves - which means such a system is both incremental and possible.
I could not agree more. I think they've set a reasonable precedent for dealing with such oversights.
Thing: sqlalchemy based ORM
Same here. I also had to symlink libnotify.so.1 to get it to start (Mint 12).
What is he entitled to?
One person on the network watching YouTube/NetFlix or streaming music is going to use tons more bandwidth than Chrome predicting where you'll go. Same for everyone with mail clients that automatically check every X minutes.

Also, I'd imagine Chrome is right a good portion of the time which is no extra bandwidth at all, just faster. It's also pages you frequently visit, which means the cache will almost always be used (visiting Google uses a whopping 1.5KB). Furthermore, Chrome automatically updates itself, which is also going to use a lot of bandwidth. Everyone here seems to love the auto updates...

If you have bandwidth trouble, it's not unreasonable to flip a few switches. For everyone else, the better experience is probably worthwhile.
This may be a dumb question but can you request this information on anyone? Like can I request my own info? I imagine it's blank but I'm just curious how that works...
Yeah, I was wrong. Just saw on MacRumors that it was Bush considering him for the President's Export Council.

http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/09/steve-jobs-1991-fbi-file...
Do They Solve Hard Problems?
Ya there are some odd questions when applying for green cards in US as well. You would like to think that the communist questions are artifacts, but I doubt they are.

"Are you or have you been a member of the Nazi party/movement"
"Are you or have you been a member of a Communist Organization"
"Have you been charged with or convicted of genocide"

Who would answer yes to those questions?
But Google can do that too.

Just search for "10 microfarads * 3 V in amp seconds"
My favourite snippet: "Several individuals questioned Mr. Jobs' honesty stating that Mr. Jobs will twist and distort reality in order to achieve his goals."
i understand your ethical argument, but i still fail to see the practical usefulness.

easy beats free. piracy/copyright infringement means free.

you want to get people pay for something - you can't do this by optimizing the payment method. who really gives a crap about that outside of the techies who build that stuff?

example:
first one to make tv episodes globally simultaneously available, with local ads embedded or whatever will win over piracy. just look at the most popular torrents on pirate bay, etc - how i met your mother, etc.

itunes (as an example, same goes for netflix, hulu, amazon,...) is broken in that regards. non-us credit card and/or IP address? you're fucked. welcome to being a third-rate customer. well, fuck you then, pirate bay it is. movies, series, even apps are being restricted. even though the fucking majority of people (consumer!!) live outside the US.
> Wow, back in 1991, he was being considered for a Presidential Appointment [...] That's what all of the documents seem to be from

On the first page it looks like in '07 two documents were destroyed, also from '85 there is a report from a bomb threat.
Yes, but somewhere down the line. We are of the opinion that being creators of the tool, we are the most qualified and equipped to sell/market it. However, scaling that up will definitely be a problem. That said, whenever we hire sales people, we'll make sure we hire the ones fit to do "technical sales".
haha first comment that popped into my head "omg you made lessc!"
This is outstanding reporting requesting and staying on the request for information, and it's a fascinating look at Jobs and the government process of vetting White House appointments in 1991.

Note that they are still obsessed with the idea of anyone belonging to or contributing to the Communist Party and even checked if had relatives in foreign countries who might have been Communists (they couldn't find any).

I also particularly like the comments from people who knew him in the background check documents--not always a flattering picture, that's for sure (but we knew that).
The best thing is of course learn by actually doing it. Your tests don't have to be anything complicated, basically what you're doing is writing down your own assumptions about the code.

Those can be something like "when someone upvotes on a comment, then the comment should have +1 score" ...

Another thing that might help you is watching someone actually do TDD, for which I can recommend Destroy All Software screencasts https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/
IMHO privacy should become a human right in these surveillance-ridden times but that was ahead of time - replace with "privacy", if you ask me it was a huge intrusion into the privacy of the users.
This is a truly impressive implementation, based on previous work by Jonathan Feinberg [1]. The display uses SVG, but the character outlines are computed by canvas bitmaps. Then, Jason implemented hierarchical bounding boxes to accelerate the intersection checks. Be sure to play with the draggable "0" and "1" letters beneath the demo!

Try clicking on words to navigate between word clouds. The cross-fade transition is beautiful, and words that overlap between clouds transform in their new position.

Non-English word clouds look amazing, too:

http://www.jasondavies.com/wordcloud/#http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.tw...

[1] http://static.mrfeinberg.com/bv_ch03.pdf
It's always hard with tech companies because it's difficult to judge whether or not they're being priced fairly. So much of their value is based on the income in the future and their projected growth rate. I think at this point, its more important to decide whether or not there's a bubble here in the tech industry. With Groupon's lackluster results, Netflix getting killed, Pandora's volatility, I'd be a bit wary. If things do go wrong and the bubble busts, it'll be a long time until you can make a profit with facebook stock.

Also, the Greek debt crisis is another factor to think about. It seems like they have come to an 'agreement', sort of, as of right now. But things are still very much uncertain. Analysts are expecting things to smooth out, which is reflected in the prices, but if they don't, the world economy will tank. When it does, money will flock to the defensive stocks (consumer staples, healthcare, utilities), and money will funnel out of the cyclical ones (tech, heavy equipment, etc)
No, he's still using Android, he's just underwhelmed by the Galaxy Nexus.
you start your argument with

"When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail"

and end with

So here is my hammer....
Names are far from unique identifiers, so people created standards for uniquely identifying people, you now want to create another one well guess what: http://xkcd.com/927/

The reality is it's not a technical problem in need of a better standard. If you meet someone at a party they can give you a phone number, an email address, a Facebook act, a linked in act, IM, skype, etc etc. But the universal system is simply Identifier:Service and we already have that and it works really well. Some of these come bundled with other Identifier:Service groupings, but just because I met you at a party does not mean I want to give out all of them. Backing up your address book is a side issue with simple direct solutions that are up to you to implement.
It makes me sad when overly serious people try to suck all the fun out of content that has personality and humor. He even acknowledges this at the end of his faq. So sad.
I don't understand the argument against having to revisit the site and fix it in the future.

Web design takes place from the standpoint of what is possible to accomplish with the most-supported features. From that starting point, vendor prefixes only allow developers to improve their product for users of more modern browsers, and in doing so, place a vote of support for the rapid completion of the prefixed feature.

If you decline to use "-webkit-", you put your website at a disadvantage compared to others that do use the prefix, and you still have to return to the site at some point in the future in order to implement the feature once it's widely supported.

I suppose there's an argument to be made for saving a little bit of hassle in the present time, but that's highly situational and since CSS is so easy I don't think it holds muster.
This lends credibility to my conspiracy theory that Steve Jobs was a cyborg.
New system to weed out bad info online - Wisdio
You use the phrase "muck raking" like it's a bad thing.
Wonderfully written. A great lang that doesn't get enough credit. When people ask me things about JS, I'm sending them there.
I started using microprocessors before Arduino was popular and found there is a large learning curve to jump from software -> microprocessors involving the programmer, building the supporting circuitry (power supply, oscillator, programmer), etc.

While that's still my preferred method for anything I design, the Arduino (like any all-in-one dev board for the platform) is great for testing fast solutions in the time it'd take me just to find all the parts for my generic AVR programming kit.
Ask HN: What calendaring apps do you use?
I'm looking for a good calendar/day planner app. Are there any that can be plastered to the background of my monitor, instead of web-app only?

Who loves what?
Yes, here's the FOIA FAQ for the U.S. government: http://www.foia.gov/faq.html . You need a notarized statement of your identity.
Have your friends Call themselves with this neat App.
On the other hand, there is no one WebKit: http://www.quirksmode.org/webkit.html
Do you ever use google calculator? It does all of that only better. When I first tried duckduckgo I kept going back to google for the calculator. Then ddg added(or at least I discovered) !wa to search alpha directly, so now all the stuff I used to use google calculator goes to alpha.
Show HN: Later.js - recurring schedules for Node and the browser
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The entire prefix thing is just silly. Do whatever the standard say it should do and be done with it.
From: http://www.ssa.gov/history/hfaq.html

Q20: Are Social Security numbers reused after a person dies?

A: No. We do not reassign a Social Security number (SSN) after the number holder's death. Even though we have issued over 453 million SSNs so far, and we assign about 5 and one-half million new numbers a year, the current numbering system will provide us with enough new numbers for several generations into the future with no changes in the numbering system.

--
One would assume that eventually all 999,999,999 numbers would be allocated and they'd have to either add a digit or start reusing them.
Not really. He's just going to wait for an ICS phone with better hardware.

I kind of have to agree with him. I've been disappointed with Google's decision for the 2nd year in a row to allow Samsung to make the "Nexus" devices as just upgraded (if that) versions of their Galaxy S phones.

I don't mind Samsung building them (although I really hope they are coming out with a new build material this year, other than plastic), I just mind that the Nexus phones, the ones that are supposed to set the standard in the industry, are just rehashed Galaxy S devices from half a year earlier, in both hardware specs and looks (other than the HD resolution).

I would prefer if Google waited until a new chip generation was available to put it in their Nexus devices, rather than use one that's already been on the market for the past 6 months or more. This has been really disappointing, and I think a lot of Android fans agree with me here.

For example, if it's expected for a quad core chip to arrive on the market for the first time in March or April, then make sure the Nexus is the first or one of the very first to use it. If it's expected for Cortex A15 to arrive in phones sometime by the end of the year, make sure Nexus is one of the very first to use it, and so on. Make the industry follow Nexus, and not Nexus follow the industry as it's been the case with the past 2 generations.

I know Google cares more about being the one with the latest major Android version, but it would really help if it was the one with the latest technologies, too. I don't want to have to choose between the latest hardware and the latest software. Not to mention that Nexus is a device that is targeted at early adopters, so you're kind of screwing early adopters there when you don't offer them the latest hardware technology, too. I'm hoping Google buying Motorola means they will finally combine the two, and offer the latest stock Android versions on the latest hardware.

Also, since he mentions it, I have a tiny issue with ICS. Why not actually close the apps from the multi-tasking list if you're going to "bother" to remove them from the list? It kind of seems like a pointless action to just remove it from the list to make it "cleaner" (why?), instead of actually closing them.
Yes plenty of times. And I've had to muddle with foreign operators and they've had to deal with my really bad attempts at their languages. At the end of the day I'd got where I wanted to go though and had some interesting conversations on the way.

Where I want to call is somtimes a shack in the middle of some African state with a 60 year old phone dangling off a rusty, noisy aluminium pair with as many repairs as you can imagine on it (my cousin lives out there). It still works as well as it did 60 years ago for them.

One of my parents even had a UK BT area code in their company name. It got changed three times in the 90s. They are stil around. It still works for them.

What people are proposing regarding swapping out or augumenting numbers with something else is a wholesale reengineering of all voice communication networks worldwide. I.e breaking everything for convenience.

Numbers have been "good enough" for the last 100 years and probably will be "good enough" for the next 100 years.

Humans have this strange ability to contract out some of their brainpower so they don't have to think about something or can get around some minor inconvenience. It's almost like a numeric witch hunt in this case.

I'm going to call it "there's an app for that syndrome" roughly translated as "automate something simple so I don't have to use another 5 brain cells".

And yes I get people phone my line asking for the people who used to live here. But it happens less than I get junk mail through my door.
As to character, this is far more revealing than that sanctioned bio. I found the bio to be biased: the author never failed to use "genius" but as far for negative qualities, they were brushed aside.

Roughly 40 interviews in this pdf, from close associates, friends, classmates, co-workers, and industry colleagues. Not for profit; only meant to give an accurate depiction. And people seem to have been very honest also; maybe the interviewer being the FBI and probably confidentiality promised as well. I find roughly 60% of the people say he's morally and ethically questionable.
I see that it's looking for a special file named Perloku and then expecting to execute that. Would it maybe be better to look for a Makefile.PL, use that to build, and then work with the standard Procfile system that Heroku has? That would be altogether more flexible.

You could also mandate using Carlton[1], which someone downthread mentioned as "bundler for perl". It's alpha at the moment, but that shouldn't stop anyone from using it.

[1]: http://search.cpan.org/~miyagawa/carton-v0.9.3/lib/Carton.po...
ING banks on in-memory analytics
" which by the way the junk mailers /already have/ since they're sending you stuff. "

Not necessarily. A lot of times junk mail is directed to just the address, and not the resident. You can tell that by the "To" line, which will say "Current resident" or "resident". They pay the USPS to carpet bomb each and every mailbox with their catalog. This service won't be able to do much about that.
This one's interesting. Why would he need top secret clearance during that period at Pixar?
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We've got a simplified version that's html-only in the pipeline, should be out "any day now", so do check back.

(disclosure: I'm one of the devs on the site)
Awesome idea, but it won't work for some magazines, certainly at the start. Most spam will go unrecognized or am I wrong?
> how does the telephone system confuse you?

Confuse may not be the best word, intimidated maybe, but I don't know. I realize it is just the execution of basic steps.

As per my previous example, how does if [ -r /etc/passwd ]; then cat /etc/passwd; fi confuse someone? It too is just simple, repeatable steps.

> Do you use a cellphone or landline? Are you in the US?

I have had problems with both, though cell does seem more prone to it, even in strong reception areas. This is in Canada, spanning multiple providers. I find it actually quite amazing how often it does fail for me, though I recall reading some stats not too long ago that showed the number of calling errors to be surprisingly high.
Oracle to buy taleo for 1.9 billion
Apple gets 'Samsunged' again, this time by Amazon [video]
My 6303 does that but I look like an idiot doing it ;-)