skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My life-long dream of becoming a TSA Agent is a little tarnished, i suppose. This Post is full of excellent lines.

E.g., "Another time, I was bypassing screening (again on official FBI business) with my .40 caliber semi-automatic pistol, and a TSA officer noticed the clip of my pocket knife. "You can't bring a knife on board," he said."

"With the congressional spotlight on the organization, TSA is finally feeling what it's like to be screened."
I haven't written anything about HATEOAS, caching and Internationalization intentionally as I'm reserving it for another post.
I'm curious: how do they block Tor users? I don't know much about Tor, but I thought that the whole point was that one Tor user should be indistinguishable from another and that they all should be indistinguishable from "normal" users.
I sure hope these guys ran this plan past PayPal. A high refund rate is a risk trigger at any payment processor. It's seen as a possible sign of there being some kind of fraud or widespread customer dissatisfaction going on, which might be a predictor for an onslaught of chargebacks. If they haven't vetted the plan in advance and had someone add some notes to their account, it could lead to another "PayPal froze our account and we have no idea why" story.

They're a payment processing company, not a free security deposit holding service. Visa and MasterCard also enforce maximum return rates (as a percentage of processing volume), so PayPal has incentive not to allow this kind of use of their service.
This has the feel of one of those articles that promise much more than it delivers. But the site is good, the idea interesting, and it definitely could be a game-changer. If this pans out, it also has interesting implications for SETI, because if our receivers are set up in a different configuration than some potential sender might be, we'll never receive anything.
"The proponents of NoSQL aren't even aware of how they are repeating history by recreating the hierarchical databases of yore."

> Says who? The author doesn't bother justifying this statement, he just throws it out there. It's completely baseless, and likely a straw-man argument (as I have a hard time believing that everyone at Google, Facebook, Twitter and all the other large cloud companies are completely clueless about database history).

For one, he doesn't need to "justify the statement". It's a HISTORICAL argument. So take a computing history book and look for the "hierarchical databases". You'll find them easily. Check how and if they are alike to current NoSQL databases. (Actually he not only justifies the argument, but he goes on to talk about Codd).

The second part of your argument, "I have a hard time believing that everyone at Google, Facebook, Twitter and all the other large cloud companies are completely clueless about database history" is an argument by authority: "surely because they are big companies they should know what they are doing".

Well, big companies do idiotic stuff too, all the time. Remember how all those big companies agreed on the SOAP fiasco? Or the CORBA fiasco before that? Or how IBM, SUN, Oracle touted EJB 2? I do.

"E.F. Codd was explicitly trying to rectify these mistakes when he formulated relational database theory 40 years ago"

> This sounds a little more plausible, but which mistakes is he talking about? And when did Codd say this? Citation, please!

And what are those databases? And SQL? What is a computer?

At some point you assume your readers do their work. It's not as if Code is some mysterious figure, and the things the relational theory solves (and proves mathematically) are lost in legend. This is database theory 101, no citation needed.

Now, if you are not a Computer Scientist, then the article is not meant for you, anyway.
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There are a lot of changes to little things; Windows 8 brings a proper 3g/4g manager. Or you can tell it certain wireless networks are "limited" and it won't download updates when connected to them. Lots of little things like that.

All these little things mean I'll probably switch to Windows 8 as my main OS when it comes out, but figure out a way to disable Metro completely.

In using it for all my work for two days now, I have spent the entire dreading accidently launching something metro related - it simply gets in the way of my workflow, and does nothing to help it.
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Wow. This is really great. We are just at a point where we consider switching away from Lighthouse for bug tracking. Do you provide - or plan to provide - an api, so it's possible to integrate with other systems?
That's a bit like writing an article on how to design boats and reserving mentioning water.
not to mention version numbers (a part of content negotiation) in user agents

this isn't REST and only serves to confuse things further
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Title is inaccurate. It's been available for months on Android tablets.
That's a little weak as an argument isn't it. SQL and the relational model has nothing to do with stored procedures and you certainly don't have to, or need to use stored procedures for reporting. In fact, prior to 2005, MySQL didn't support stored precedures for the longest time. How do you think those people did reporting? I don't know how you do reporting, but mind involves just a ridiculously simple and ugly web app that essentially just generates some HTML tables from a bunch of SQLAlchemy queries.

Why do I get the sense that the real reason most people use NoSQL stems from their destain of SQL, whatever that reason maybe...
Your psychological position is negatively affecting your ability to function. This is by definition a psychological disorder.

Let me state it clearly: it is extremely unlikely that your depression has anything to do with "startups" or your work life.

Quitting your job might be a good idea, but only insofar as it will free up time for you to focus on getting treatment. In and of itself, quitting your job won't solve your problem.

Paradoxically, the reason you're so miserable is likely tied to the fact that you love what you're doing so much, or put another way, that you're doing just what you want to be doing.

Get help. If you don't, you're never going to feel better even if everything goes perfectly in your professional life.
One main difference between Europe and the US is that wealth concentration in America is much, much higher than in Europe.

This is one of the main forces behind the VC scene: for a multi-millionaire, throwing a few hundreds here and there to some young gun is nothing, even if you lose them all you'll still have your Porsche and your boat.

In Europe, wealth is more distributed, which means that, for many, a bad investment of a few hundred thousand euros can make a real dent in the family fortune. We have less poor people, but less uber-rich people as well, it's a trade-off; it so happens that this trade-off works well with heavy industry but less with the super-dynamic "business at the speed of light" of this new millennium.

This is not to say we should cut some slack to the uber-rich (most of them come from aristocratic families and don't deserve to be where they are anyway), but rather that we need to find different, european ways of generating seeding resources for startups, and that's a bit of a bitch.
Is it true everywhere in the US that tried and failed is seen as a quality or is it something very special to SV ?

I think that the US really are the exception here, it seems that in most countries world wide, failing is not really seen as having benefits.
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Digital marketing is one of the jobs which can be easy as well as very tough at times when the marketers are not focused. Most of the web marketing, as we know, is based on other platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Google+ etc.
I don't think there was a vulnerability. As I understood it, somebody stole a support person's credentials and logged in with them.
Windows 8 Beta is a UI nightmare (Stardock CEO)
Are you following any specific program?
HATEOAS is absolutely not a simple matter of being able to 'click on shit' in a web service.

As a browser user, I can generally look at a web page and figure out what's a clickable link. The HATEOAS constraint is rather trickier than that: it requires that a client understand what is a "clickable" link in an HTTP response based on nothing other than the content type and the response body.

For the past couple of years I've been building RESTish web services using JSON. They use HTTP methods and status codes appropriately, each resource has a URL, my response objects include URLs to subsidiary resources, and so on. However, the services I've built are not RESTful because JSON is not a hypermedia content type.

To be truly RESTful, I would need to adopt and/or define a hypermedia content-type using JSON and make sure my response objects conform to that content-type.
Apple’s tough talk backfires in negotiations for new streaming TV service
"rapid proliferation of Redis commands"? If the total is indeed, well over 100, that figure is spread among completely different data structures--lists, hashes, strings, sets, sorted sets--so i'm not sure it's even meaningful to compare the number of commands in redis with the number in some other DB which is based on a single data structure. Also, the increase in the number of commands might indeed just most reflect the incremental addition of new data structures to redis since its beginning (just strings, i believe).
I am not sure if this is defendable, but I would imagine it boils down to a difference that is often perceived between an idea (astract, possibly conceived by different people in similar ways) and it's realization.

People generally won't argue when good ideas are cloned between competing products, and praise the competition.

In the same way it's ok to write a theatre play in which the love between two people is contrasted by their families, but putting "wherefore art thou Romeo?" in the dialogs would seem bad.
That is because they are Shwarma's and are completely different again. The kebab is a Berlin invention (according to TimeOut Berlin). Which makes sense, a marriage of the German sausage + bread culture with some dish from the middle east.
You're painting with very broad strokes. There are more than the two extreme types of people you seem to classify everyone into.

For example, have you forgotten DHH and Peldi? They've created some of the best software businesses, contributed huge amounts to the community and love "wasting time" on beaches.

I'm personally probably closer to the blog author's type, but racing sportscars definitely sounds more fun than the 10th pivot to me.
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Kickoff app for the Mac is great! We use and love it.
"Tired of how boring Lorem Ipsum got?"

Being devoid of any content worthy of attention is the point of lipsum - I'm tired of its dullness about as much as I'm tired of the way light bulbs keep littering the place with their bloody photons.
Can you explain what happened with eGold, osGold, etc? I haven't heard anything about it.
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Ah SETI is exatcly what I think when I see things like this.
Even if that is the case its far more comfortable to be sad inside a Ferrari than a Bus.
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Cheap calls to Bahrain though VoIP calling services means that you have the luxury of one hundred per cent transparency and obtain real time knowledge of the status of your account from the mobile dialer service at any time at all.
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RealLifeConnect.com extends the experience of social media into the real world via RFID technology
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You've probably already seen this, but for the sake of others, Google recently released the research paper detailing their petabyte-scale ad-hoc logs analysis platform, "Dremel".

http://research.google.com/pubs/pub36632.html
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When people get what they deserve (be it good or bad), that's justice. When justice is served, it's good for all parties involved.^

If the employees did not deserve the money (i.e., they really did not have a hand in earning it, and deserve only their previously contracted salary), and Notch gave this windfall to them anyway, that is both unjust and unselfish on Notch's part. In that case, Notch simply loses. His life, which is short - as every life is - is now made all that much shorter, less happy; even though his choices, apart from the unjust giving, warrant better and more.

Of course, simply receiving such a windfall itself isn't necessarily immoral. That depends on exactly how wisely the recipient uses the money, and how successful he is in doing so. In some instances, a recipient isn't good enough to handle such a windfall, and literally blows it on things that harm him. In other instances, he is good enough, and benefits. There are stories about lottery winners that go both ways to illustrate my point.

^At first glance you might not think this is true, but it is. It's easy enough to see that justice is good for the good, but what about bad people? Justice is good for all - even criminals evading it. Bernie Madoff stated in an interview that getting caught and prosecuted was a relief:

"For Madoff, prison offers a measure of relief. A man — and even a monster — who has put his greatest fear in the past is, in some way, a happier man, no matter what else has occurred."

(from http://nymag.com/news/features/berniemadoff-2011-3/index8.ht...)
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That's not quite what I'm trying to stay.

OP's expectation was that Linode should have unlimited liability where no guarantee on their part has been made. If you expect Linode to take on the risk then you would want (and probably need) that in writing.

Otherwise, you take on the risk: which would be true wherever you hosted it without any guarantees regardless of whether it's a VPS, dedicated server, or your basement.
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And then there's the other issue that a failed founder in Germany is pariah.

From reading here and elsewhere, in the US you seem to get a reasonable chance (and maybe even some recognition) for having tried to start a company (and managed to keep it alive for some time).

Here, you failed, so you will fail, so why should anyone employ you?
I agree. Updating my post on this.
Thanks.
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Aren't there services (Square, Amazon) that let you place a hold on the funds and then either release or charge it? How does kickstarter do it?
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I ended up installing OSQA, a QA site much like StackOverflow.
I did mention that it's incomplete. It's impossible to write the complete thing in one post.
Was Zalando founded by them? I always thought they just invested in it.
edit: see below

Tor isn't indistinguishable from normal use, that's a big reason why they want as many people using it for everyday browsing as possible.

They are trying as much as possible to minimize the distinctiveness, currently making it very similar to https traffic, and with Obfsproxy recently introduced.

So they can know that you are using Tor if they try hard enough, but not what you are doing with it, which is the important part.

edit:

The previous comment was about what a state can determine about you. Websites can just download the list of exit nodes and block access from those IPs.
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I don't think it's so much a lack of funds, but a lack of motivation and an entrepreneurial focal location. Unfortunately europe's riches are typically not entrepreneurial and state-subsidized entrepreneurship fails. Maybe the successes of a first generation of entrepreneurs will create such a hub.

There used to be great entrepreneurship hubs in Europe... in the 1500s. Wealthy europeans are more likely to invest in experimental art than experimental businesses nowadays.
Authorization holds generally only last 1-5 days (there are special rules for some industries that let them do it longer) -- Kickstarter is probably just doing a quick $0 auth to check if the card is valid and storing it to auth & capture again when the project is committed. They're not holding an auth for your commitment the whole time. That'd tie up money/credit in your account for a project that might not ever be funded.
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Offices and all working places have their computers attached to printers, scanners, photocopier machines etc.
To me this looks like good old circular polarization.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polarization_%28waves%29
I would say liquid wealth. There are plenty of very, very rich people in Europe, but their wealth is tied up in land, property, art, etc that can't easily be "invested".
> but I feel that classes give more meaning to an element

But they don't. Classes (and IDs) have nothing at all to do with semantics or meaning.

You can use whichever notation you wish (.big, .small, .alpha, .giga etc), I state as much at the end of the article, just remember that classes do not add meaning to (or subtract meaning from) an element :)

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Show HN - CoinConect-the bitcoin social network.
My RF knowledge is old and sketchy, but doesn't a dish imply that these RF signals are point-to-point? How would that work in a mobile handset where we can't point the antenna?
The server they are using, beanstalkd, has a persistent bin log option. Of course if your disk also crashes you are up a creek.
"CoinConnect is here because of Bitcoin and for Bitcoin. Social networking is quickly becoming one of the most widely used forms of communication and we want to bring that level of success to Bitcoin and the great businesses and organizations that use it and promote it.

It's time for Bitcoin to evolve to the next level and CoinConnect is here to help facilitate that growth.

CoinConnect is the bridge between Bitcoin and the rest of the world."
One important part missing: none of the posted entries are page-savable from a browser. Maybe your corner of the culture doesn't save pages to disk for ready reference, maybe this is a 'get off my lawn' issue, but.. Maybe a 'printable' link?

--crb3
My parents never noticed the search box in Windows 7, got confused when I mentioned it. Working tech support when my company released Windows 7 laptops to the employees, very few of them understood the search box either.

I think it will take a few software generations before people really "get" it.
I don't get it: what's so difficult about defining a format - encoded as JSON - in which certain strings are defined as being URLs you can navigate to?

You just say "This is the format application/vnd.myservice.userprofile+json". In it there's an object, which contains the key "avatar_url", which has the URL of the user's avatar image.

Frankly, I don't see what's tricky about this.
I have a few German friends, I understand them to be quite risk averse. However, what Samwers have accomplished in Germany is something far far more important and bigger than a clone industry - it is the spirit of taking risks, a willingness to aspire to be something other than traditional careers and a strong stance/philosophy on a type of entrepreneurship (clones) - stances such as these almost always lead to an ideological opposition and make way for others to engage in similar realms with differing philosophies. You can see that in Project A ventures, which is a reaction to Samwer's philosophy, and that reaction is good for Germany's start-up culture.
where does this air come from; is the cocoon/egg not airtight?
Thanks, and it's all homegrown - I was tempted to try FW1 as a starting place, but decided that I did not really need to for this...
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For blogs on GitHub I use Jekyll. Seems to have quite a bit of support with some great plugins.
In Linode's FAQ, they mention that their virtualization management software was developed in-house. They seem quite proud of this, quipping: "The Linode Manager is custom software, written in house, and is not for sale (although others have tried to mimic it)."

It seems to me that this is a classic example of security failures following inevitably from a lack of peer review. Maybe Linode didn't consider its LM software to be peer-reviewable, but I bet the victims of the bitcoin thefts wish that someone else had tested the code (and human systems surrounding it) for vulnerabilities.

Is this not exactly what Bruce Schneier frequently points out? Anything that must withstand attacks to protect the valuables within should be tested by attacking it. A lot. My hunch is that the vulnerability exploited by this attacker would have been found and fixed already if the LM software were more open.
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Well that's embarrassing - I woke up to a ton of errors from the contact us page this morning, so it was not just you.

Should be fixed up now, but I'll shoot you an email offline.

Thanks for checking it out!
Google with Evil turned up to 11 is trying to serve you more adverts. State is more interested in the fact that Google is having to offer hackers more money to hack Chrome in pwn2own. Last year they didn't even try.

http://www.securitynewsdaily.com/496-hacking-contest-smashes...

"Google’s Chrome Web browser managed to remain untouched. In fact, Computer World reported that nobody even attempted to crack into Google Chrome , despite the $20,000 Google offered to anyone who could successfully exploit it."
I had completely missed that the Samwer brothers were in the web copying business. Last time I heard of them, they were busy selling teenagers ringtone subscriptions ("Jamba").
Ah, so that's where I was wrong: I thought everyone would be an exit node, too. Thanks for clearing it up!
I actually feel like I can move the mouse less. I can do more on the keyboard and just use the scroll wheel on the mouse.

Scrolling the mouse on the start screen scrolls it sideways. This was unexpected to me, but it works well.

The start screen feels like desktop gadgets done right. Being a WP7 user, I like having all the information I need right on the start screen and updated continuously, it's nice to finally have it on the desktop.

Beware that some of the apps crash. A lot. Microsoft Music in particular.
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One notable point: If they're using Chrome, they could actually uninstall flash on all the computers since chrome utilizes their own, embedded version.
It seems that some kind of mutual fund could be a way for a large number of people to pool enough modest individual contributions of wealth into a fund big enough to seed a large number of startups.
Probably none, though I'm putting words into their mouths. Many seemed to be looking for the mentoring, "office next door to <X>," and team aspects as well. Modulo health insurance, many of these people probably didn't really need any income at their wealth levels.

Extending that, a huge number of people I worked with at MSFT were quite wealthy and just hanging around because it (developer divison) was a fun place to hack. I think the biggest cause of retirement was reaching that point where the children head off to college and the spouse wants to move someplace less dark and dreary.

But, my experiences are certainly not a representative sample of the population!