skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think the actual lesson is about .com domains, it is about doing online business with U.S. citizens, this, it turns out, might risk your website. And if you happen to be on a .com, .org or .net domain, it would simply make it easier for U.S. law authorities to persecute you.
I am in the same boat as I do not want to use Mac equipment.

Laptops: I have good experience with Toshiba both AMd and Intel cpus..my next laptop will be an i7 Toshiba.

As far as build desktop I might not have to as there are some basic HP desktop PCs on sale that with 1 gig dedicated graphics that you could install SSD into and than supply two LCDs and a network NAS for under $2500.

That is of course you have choice between 2nd generation i7 and the AMD FX series cpus

And of course if you need to add a graphics tablet it will bring it up to $3000..but still not bad..
Factories breed complexity
INCEPTION for Nokia N9
It's been a while since I've used Reddit. I was shocked by the insightful answers and this subreddit's rules (no anecdotes, speculation, memes, jokes, things which I hate about Reddit, etc.)

Here's one particularly intriguing reply:

[–]xieish 32 points 1 hour ago
There isn't any [space outside of the universe], and this comes from a fundamental misunderstanding of an expanding universe. The universe isn't blowing up like a balloon - space itself is getting larger, as everything moves farther and farther away from everything else. The actual distance between points is increasing, not the size of the container.
I think almost every mechanical keyboard feels the same. What makes the difference is the switches under the key cap.

Black: linear, hard, no sound.
Brown: tactile, no sound.
Blue: tactile, clicky sound

I use KBC Poker with red Cherry. Light, linear and no sound.
My killer app is Time Machine. There's still nothing as simple anywhere else. It's a great shame.
"Be effective, not popular."
Kartograph - new interactive mapping tool
I use a filco majestouch tenkeyless with brown switches. I love it but it is pretty clicky. drives my girlfriend nuts. I have a bt apple chiclet keyboard hanging around for when she gets extra annoyed.
One word: Berlin.
Why would he get a visa that legally allows him to work and accurately reflects his intent to enter the US rather than work illegally on a tourist visa that, if discovered, is likely to have you deported and barred from reentry to the United States?

Hmm, that's a tough one.
So can we solve global warming by creating a bunch of gigantic LED billboards?
Sorry for the OT - why not use something like Lastpass ? They have been honest and pre-emptive about data security in general.
Just-in-time Mobile Apps
The Idea is that the transactor does a very small amount of work an does can scale much better then other "single point bottelneck". The problem is still there but smaller that way.

Read the comment here, it gives some information on the problem your discribing: http://blog.fogus.me/2012/03/05/datomic/
The US Constitution does not apply outside the USA. Other countries have their own constitutions or legal systems.
I stayed over 6 months with my tourist visa last year. And we travel back and forth to the US for business meetings.

However as you say, if you are looking for funding then it might be a problem, they don't say it but you can perceive it.

I'm wondering if getting the investor money helps to get your visa.

Does anyone know cases like that?
I was a college athlete back in the day, and my athletic department tried to do something similar -- they would make shell accounts controlled by athletics/ncaa compliance and try to friend whole teams. We got around it by having a shared block list of the shells. If I recall correctly, we had 20 at a given time.

But, our team was small (30 people), and not in the "money sports" (football, basketball, baseball), so we could get away with this. Larger teams in higher profile sports won't be able to do this.
Agree that a Mac mini is not a good choice for people who regularly compile large projects.

It's no big deal, but your second paragraph leads me to believe you did not fully digest my comment.
Grouping to trade 0-days is totally different than grouping to DDOS a website. I'm pretty sure the former won't end you up in jail, either.

But, I think the OP is right. The only successful (for lack of a better word) black hat is going to be a loner.
I took a similar class a few years ago at NYU.

All I can say is classes always look better at paper than they do in real-life. I learned absolutely nothing of substance, and found it a waste of time. But YMMV.
Tor does the anonymous routing, and the distributed DNS (with *.onion domain names). However servers still have to be physically located in one place.

Freenet IIRC does the distrbuted hosting.
My main development machine is a 13" Air. Before that, it was 15" MBP. Have developed from university. Done great work in a bus. Fixed production quirks from a conference.

When I'm at my desk, the laptop is closed and connected to a beast of a monitor, external keyboard and mouse. It becomes a workstation. But when I want the mobility, it's there. Even if only to scurry off to a unoccupied conference room for bit of silence, it's very valuable for me. It's easily worth the ~700$ above the cost of a immobile box every two years.

As for performance, I've yet to feel constrained by the Air. But then again, I code mainly web apps in ruby, so no fiddling of thumbs while things compile - the most of time is lost waiting on database server. And my brain to come up with a solution.
There are a variety of companies that offer some level of programmatic access for trading.
Foodspotting CEO: It's about discovery, not food porn
That's exactly what they're doing, only the emphasis is more on Google TV related offerings. Also consider their Google Fiber subsidiary's 1000-acre antenna farm in Iowa and you start seeing the future of TV channels...or should I say TV apps?
Optimal Arithmetic Encoding
What did you mean by "flash junk"? Are you talking about games you downloaded from the App Store?
In Maryland it is a requirement to delay enrollment. Everybody born September-December has to wait until the following year.

Of course this means people born during the summer, in addition to not being able to bring cupcakes on their birthday, will now be the youngest, although not as young as the people born September-Deember would have been.
Looks okay here (in both Safari and Chrome on OSX):

http://civicit.com/~tvon/sencha-heading-font.png
They use lots of confusingly contradictory language to puff up the arrest, like: "the head of LulzSec" then immediately following with "the loose network of hackers", and contrasting "loosely organised" with Sabu being at the "nerve centre", and also "perhaps thousands of hackers" whereas they claim to know they're arresting "top-ranking members".

So simultaneously acknowledging they taking out a member of a distributed network but also talking up the importance of that member. Strange.
Yes it does. It's called "Hidden Service" and you get a *.onion address ( https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-hidden-service.html.en )

Although you cannot control what DNS name is given, so it's not a full DNS drop in.
Dollar Shave Club Punches Gillette Where It Hurts. (In the Marketing Budget)
I totally disagree. Certainly hosting costs that much, backup usual not and payment processing never. When compared to services with a free tier like ZenDesk, Yammer, Twilio, Stripe, DropBox, BiBucket and Trello, I don't think your comment holds water at all.
Okay, let's use evidence.

Anecdotal, but numerical.

The current Mac Mini is supposed to pull between 10W (at idle) and 85W (at load---this is the limit of what the PSU can take from the wall.[0]

Let's be generous and say that the Mac Mini, if left on continuously without sleeping, pulls on average 20W.

Let's be pessimistic and assume that power costs you $0.20 per kWh.

# The time in which the Mini will use 1 kWh

1000 Wh / 20 W = 50 hr

# The number of hours in one year

365 days * 24 hrs = 8760 hrs

# The number of kWh the Mini will use in one year

8760 hrs / 50 hrs = 175.2

# Cost of running the Mini continuously for one year

175.2 kWh * $0.20 per kWh = $35.04

That's amazing, no? Let's say, then, that you bought a mini for $599 dollars; your cost of ownership would be 599 + 35.04n, where n is the number of years you've owned it.

No doubt impressive.

A desktop I built relatively recently, which a Core i5 and an unnecessary graphics card, along with a few hard drives, pulls roughly 60W at idle and 150W at load (measured at the outlet by a Kill-a-Watt).

Let's be not-so-generous and say my machine pulls 100W on average, is left on continuously, and my electricity costs $0.20 / kWh.

My computer will use a kWh in 10 hours (1000 / 100); and will cost $175.20 per year to operate ((8760 / 10) * 0.2).

My initial cost for this machine (excluding monitor, keyboard, etc.) was $450. SO my cost of ownership is 450 + 175.2n.

The cost of ownership for east will equal in :

599 + 35.04n = 450 + 175.2n

149 = (175.2 - 35.04)n

149 / 140.16 = n

n = 1.06 years

So after a year of ownership the Mini becomes "worth it," if power consumption if your first requirement.

Note however, that I've given the Mini every benefit of the doubt possible, did not take significant steps to minimize the power consumption of my machine, am able to upgrade my machine piecemeal instead of discretely (and thus have significantly lowered future costs of ownership), and have assumed we've been leaving the machines on continuously.

The Mac Mini, let's say, pulls 0W when in S3 sleep.

My machine pulls 1W in S3 sleep, and about 0.2W when off (to answer your query, it wakes reliably and quickly).

If we assume my machine is asleep half of the time:

Half the time (8760 / 2 = 4380 hrs), my machine pulls 1W.
While asleep, it will take 1000 hrs to use 1 kWh.
Therefore, it uses 4.38 kWh in the time it is asleep.

Which means the new yearly cost is:

(175.2 / 2) + (4.38 * .2) = 87.6 + 8.76 = 96.36

The Mini ends up costing $17.50 yearly.

So:

599 + 17.5n = 450 + 96.36n

149 = 78.86n

n = 1.889 years

Once you factor in the cost of replacing the Mini versus upgrading a small bit of my machine, I think the answer is much less clear cut.

P.S. I don't mean to pick on you, but excitement about power consumption that doesn't factor in the numbers is a pet peeve. The Mac Mini is only "worth" it if having the computer you actually want is worth less that $80 or so per year to you.

[0]: https://support.apple.com/kb/HT3468
Edit: formatting.
I am not a tourist. My intention is [was] to stay in the us and make this startup work. Uninterrupted.

This can take from 2 up to 10 years or who knows how many... Can't do that on a Tourist visa, it's a "half measure".
The OP claims to be an entrepreneur . And then I read this in the blog:

I had such a long waiting period, that all my energy and momentum was drained. A man with no face, trapped, with no freedom to move or express, waiting for a (seemingly at the time) life-scale type of decision to be made for him.

Really? As an entrepreneur, one shouldn't be so disheartened by the outcome of a process that is totally outside your control. Entrepreneurship is about taking risks, suffering setbacks, and getting up quickly after these setbacks. Not getting a visa isn't something I would consider a huge setback; in this day and age, it is possible to start Internet-based companies almost anywhere. And Europe isn't some backwaters area.

I don't want to sound mean, but to the OP: getting your visa denied isn't a big deal. Just start your company there, and when it becomes big, open an office in the US and stroll in like a boss.
The US, along with a few other countries have a permanent vetoes on the UN Security Council. If you are a US citizen and would like to see the UN get more teeth, campaign for your government to give up it's permanent seat.
As always, any/all feedback much appreciated by the HN community.
You have to be kidding me. This kind of violation of privacy is unconscionable.
The Dichotomy of “Simple”
RailsTutorial.org already teaching about the mass assignment vulnerability
So, no API yet. The neat thing about client-side apps is that they force you to craft a great API from the get-go, because you'll be using it extensively in your own application. DHH was talking earlier [1] about how client-side MVC isn't a great developer experience and consequently why they avoided it for Basecamp Next, and I sympathize with that decision, but I wonder how great of a developer experience it is to have to develop a server-side app with various AJAX-related endpoints and then having to go back and develop a full-fledged API... instead of doing just the latter.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3603680
Lytro's light-field camera: unique, fascinating, limited.
For college athletes sometimes that option isn't there. If you've only got one school interested in you, and they're requiring you to provide it - calling their bluff is a risky move (on the other hand, might be worth pursuing a career in something other than sports if you're only talking to one school).
A Principled Stand? After all, change starts somewhere…
Wow, you might not want to mention that on a public forum.
NodePing now from Europe
So long as the cloud-storage provider also needs to buy hard drives, that day will probably never come.

Even if the provider can get better discounts buying in bulk (which won't be very much, storage is a commodity with thin margins), he's paying for a lot more than just the storage hardware.
No one else loves "Kex Choklad"?

http://swedishchocolate.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/swedi...

Yeah you're right, this isn't my day...sorry to any of the Swiss or Swedes who i have offended.
Also, a bunch of shortcuts[0] and Syntastic (which Just Works) makes it absolutely blissful.

Note that although :CoffeeCompile operates on the whole file by default, it also works on buffer regions, so vai,c shows me the current block as JS (i is from indent-object plugin)

[0] http://esa-matti.suuronen.org/blog/2011/11/28/how-to-write-c...
TED2012: The Autotune Remix
is there a difference between a privacy policy and terms & conditions, can they be the same thing?
Just RSVP'd.

I can't believe that there is so little going on here considering all of the nearby schools (FIT, BCC, Kaiser, UCF Cocoa Beach Campus, etc.) and all of the industry (Harris, Northrop, Lockheed, GE, NASA, etc.).

I guess these two factors don't necessarily contribute to the startup pool, but it DOES mean there are a lot of technically minded people around. Thanks for taking the initiative and starting this. If there's anything I can do to help, just let me know!
NLP Class is live
This guide has saved me countless hours (people are always asking me which parts to buy). Price ranges/etc included, and it's updated fairly often...

http://i1002.photobucket.com/albums/af150/The_FalconO6/Curre...
New Basecamp official launch post
Technically they were arrested by NZ police for breaking NZ law.
There is more widespread fear of "1984" scenarios (abuse by controlling authorities) and a bizarre tendency to give up personal automomy and be lulled into complacency ("Brave New World"). Modern America's seems to gravitate towards promoting the two opposite poles: Big government and big business on the one hand, increased personal freedom and reduced constraint on the other.

See this even on the interweb where major players get established (Apple/Google) and subsequently targeted for their oppressiveness.
Colloquially speaking, "for" means the FBI is making matching contributions to his 401k, "with" means he is cooperating.

Technically speaking, either word works, but you need more than the OED to properly communicate meaning.
The subreddit system did, in fact, save Reddit. It's not the a perfect answer to the Eternal September problem, but it's one of the best I've seen so far. AskScience is one of the best examples of the bunch, but there are many others.

It's a shame Reddit's gotten such a bad rap and that it's so hard to find the quality subreddits.
That's a very good point which I hadn't considered. :)
AFAIK, all US visa grants are at the discretion of the officer reviewing your case. Anything that strengthens your case in their eyes can only help. However, I doubt they'll stamp visas where the criteria aren't met (which, according to the OP, he did, so that sucks).
The USA should be careful about throwing it's weight around like this too much. Do it too much and the rest of the world will either (a) start using a different .com root server or (b) force the USA to give up power over .com
Finding hosting for PHP is not hard.

If you like Heroku, check out PhpFog.com or Orchestra.io. It's like magic too.

"PHP is not a good language" what is a good language?
To take your example, I do enjoy the feel of PHP, it feels natural to read to me, and after years of using it I rarely have to check the documentation for function behavior (such as array_merge...).
They will have cut a deal with him already, however that deal usually means reduced jail time in an easy prison, he still has to be charged with the offences. His "good behaviour" is then taken into account by the prosecuting authorities when sentencing him.

They arrest him and publicise his arrest as psyops, any other hackers out there see that the #1 from lulzsec was caught and turned therefore who knows how many lower level hackers have also been turned, thus it increase the paranoia within hacker circles.

Of course this works 2 ways, first off it scares people off from hacking or being involved in it and makes them more likelyo to turn tail and rat out anyone they know who is undertaking nefarious online activity in an effort to protect themselves. The second response is the one they dont like, these groups become more security concious, go deeper underground, become less likely to admit new members, etc. This is counter productinve for the FBi as it makes it more difficult to catch them later down the line.
Turning cartilage to bone could replace grafts
This.

I have entrepreneurial friends in Sweden. Sweden is very progressive in terms of adopting technologies and you have a very strong set of techies and designers to boot. See Spotify, Klarna, etc.

What's the major drawback? Taxes. So, start your company in Sweden, progress it slowly, and then move it somewhere else (SF for example) if you really want to expand quickly.
That's great to hear - but why does it take a rant on HN to communicate that integrating Time Tracking with Basecamp Next is a high priority?

If you're committing to adding Time-Tracking in the future, publicize it, so users like me will be confident that it's worth sticking with Basecamp.

Until that happens, you're telling us, "Sorry, you're not our target user base."
Get out of your head
Although I would agree their politics and aims were pretty scattershot and unfocused - that's a little unfair don't you think?
It will probably get to a point where employers think you are lying because "everyone" has a facebook account.
Seams to be true but the intressting part is that peers can be made parallel and if one datacenter explodes you can go to an other without losing information. The only "Single Point of Failure" is the transactor and only for reads.
Important difference to point out. You phrasing tripped me up though, and I want to point out that Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) (who's linked above) is also upset about ACTA not being considered a treaty.

So members of both houses are angry (thus Congress in general), but only the Senate's approval is needed for a treaty. It is unconstitutional for a president to enter into a treaty w/o Senate approval.

Article II, Section 2, Paragraph II of the Constitution states that the President: "shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur"

(Sorry, I've recently gotten into constitutional law and wanted to post this FYI)
But this expansion is happening much slower than the speed of light, so technically we can travel to the edge.
The moderators of Askscience have done a fantastic job of keeping the quality of the subreddit very high. They're really strict about what can be posted as a top level comment, and I think the subreddit is much better for it. Memes and funny pictures have their place, but it's nice to have a serious subreddit where people can get their questions answered by people who (in theory) know what they're talking about.
They should clean up the front page. Too many of the default subreddits that appear are super lame. /r/gaming? And all of the image ones? Even the more "thoughtful" ones, say /r/politics is filled with awful, insipid comments. They should adopt better rules like /r/askscience has, and let the children form their own meme subreddits.
Obviously. Analogue audio does not have a sampling rate. The ADC however can oversample all it wants, but if the output is 44.1 kHz, it needs an aliasing filter that cuts off at 22.05 kHz.
While internet means international network, the internet industry isn't really international. The sooner one realizes that the sooner he/she can get in the right path to success.

While there are always exceptions that prove the rule, there is the rule. And the rule says that the internet industry lies in the SF Bay area.

Examine it under any metric you wish, quantitative or qualitative and you will end up in the same conclusion.

I have gotten more into this matter in a past post of mine: http://20minus.com/wp/2011/03/20/how-lean-startup-forced-me-...

cheers
Why has the Internet changed so little?
Except maybe for funding, I don't get the obsession with wanting to base a startup in the US. If you have a good business model and great marketing skills, you should be able to create a successful business anywhere.
Actually there isn´t. The 32 gb model never was released and was recently canceled. http://www.engadget.com/2012/02/15/32gb-gsm-galaxy-nexus-can...
Looking forward to their numerous blog posts talking about how good their new design is and how shit you are for not doing something the way they do it.
Another word: why?
And then the article requires a Facebook account to comment.

"Hey look, we're quickly aggregating all of our personal data into one centralized place creating an obviously appealing target for authority as evidenced by this recent trend of college sports programs invading the privacy of students. Let's all talk about it on Facebook."
Announcing the jQuery Foundation
Came here to say the same thing. I sent an annoyed message to customer service. It can't hurt, maybe they'll get enough complaints to change their minds.
How to Keep Motivated During the Dog Days of Work
Isn't the universe a closed surface? I thought the metaphor was that the universe is like a globe: if you go far enough in one direction, you end up where you started...
Safe Haskell: Including untrusted code safely to your trusted codebase
Sure, but people are aware of the US, Chinese and Israeli teams, and they actively try to sabotage them, often with some pretty fantastic resources.

Nobody's stolen my social security number (knock on wood), but Todd Davis has had his identity stolen over a dozen times.
Sorry, the point I was trying to show was:

Light - You pay very little up front, but more per hour. You can decommission your instance and not pay hourly.

Medium - You pay more up front, less per hour, and can still decommission your instance and not pay the hourly fee when it is decommissioned.

Heavy - You pay the same up front, but in exchange for a lower hourly fee, you agree to pay for every hour that is in the reserved timeframe. E.g. even if you decommission, you are still charged the hourly rate.
Responding to CSV in Rails 3