skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great idea and a nice clean, simple site.

The problem with these free or cheap public VPN services is your IPs (or even blocks) end up blacklisted into the worthless part of the Internet pretty quickly, unless you're paying for a dedicated IP per customer (which I doubt you are, given the price point, but maybe?). Ideally, an IP assigned out of a netblock which isn't at risk for this, too (same problem applies to using Amazon AWS IPs for VPN termination, actually).

I definitely like the idea of pervasive VPNs. There are decent mobile clients for iOS and Android now, too.

There's also the "can we trust you" problem -- if you're saying "use us for super secret stuff", I'd have a higher level of trust required, but you're marketing this as "protect from casual wifi sniffing", and I trust you as completely random people more than I trust wifi networks. If you had a real privacy policy with some kind of technical enforcement and audit, I could trust you as much as say Comcast or Sonic (who would only monitor me with a warrant or good cause, if only because I'm insignificant to them).
I'd probably wait it out for another 12 months. You can use your bored time to make more concrete startup plans; it sounds like you don't have a startup planned out that you're desperate to attempt. There is no reason why you can't plan what you want to do for a startup while you're still employed.

Having the money will presumably give you significantly more opportunities after you do quit than if you do it while having to worry about how to make money, so it's not like sticking it out is damaging your future startup or freelancing -- it's probably helping it.

Actually, I'll make a rephrasing: I'd wait for around 12 months or until I wake up one morning with a startup idea that I can't imagine not trying out, planned in a significant amount of detail. Whichever comes first.
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You're on! See my profile or contact info. ;)
Bootstrap does one very important thing. It raises the previously very, very low bar of a poorly designed website. Exceptional designers will always be exceptional designers; poor designers (engineers? :P) now have a tool to put them on an even (I use this term VERY loosely, put away the pitchforks) playing field.

So what if it's another bootstrap site? At least it's not some times new roman on a green background monstrosity.
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I would go with anything .ch
My ThinkPad has the same resolution as the new iPad -- 2048x1536. I'm thinking of upgrading it to an iPad if it ever runs Linux...
It's also fairly 'common knowledge' that taking $60k and some hacker fame from Google in a legitimate setting is a VERY legitimate way of setting yourself up for a $100k/month job at Google or any reputable infosec company.

Selling exploits on the black/grey market is and will always be fast money, and a bad idea.
> If your decision not to use jQuery (or another lib that makes your life easier) is because of performance then you're optimising much too early.

LOL. That's the stupidest thing I ever heard. This is John Resig, isn't it? :)

> Personally I optimise for developer time first and raw performance much further down the line.

Yeah, you just set a new precedent. :(

> And dom querying is not usually the bottleneck in most sloppy sites...

You are allowed more than one bottleneck.

> its way too many event listeners. And jQuery comes to the rescue once again with extremely easy (to read and write) event delegation.

You just have no frame of reference.
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All I want is SC4, but with curved roads and properly lined up zones and buildings.
"Don't most people, really, use iPads over wifi?"

No. I don't use the work wifi because it is severely limited (paranoid IT guy) and my iPad may access material I'd rather they not sniff (just NOYB stuff). I use it on the road for mapping, impromptu parking-lot Grouponing, whatever far from wifi. Open routers still often have some irritant signin or blacklists. Even at home my iPad often gets 3G better than wifi.

Don't underestimate the value of "always connected". A legacy unlimited plan multiplies it.
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Off topic: Is there a way of detecting which effect a site is experiencing?
Maybe I'm mistaken, but my takeaway is that any hacker with the skills necessary to find such an exploit would not bother. It's a lot of money for most of us, but my impression is that these competitions don't target most of us.
You could just take a gander at your activity and see if there are any commits that you didn't make.
It's one thing to find something truly damning in a TOS and something else entirely to nitpick standard boilerplate legalese meant to protect companies from the very same people who nitpick the TOS in the first place.

I know it's cool to be contrarian around here but give me a break. Look at this like a human, not a robot, and you'll see this is a mountain made out of a mole hill. Not saying you in particular are looking at this like a robot, I was speaking in general there.
I haven't been married for 10 years, but yes we would be completely up for that. In fact, we never make reservations when we travel except for the plane ticket. I'll admit that I am personally quite extreme, probably because all my fondest memories are serendipitous events. I even do things like cut all the photos out of the lonely planet without looking at them. There is a big difference between seeing machu picchu without ever seeing a photo of it, and just going there. Having these types of experiences is getting harder, though it still happens often enough.

You are absolutely right, though, my advice is not for everyone, nor all situations. I actually think I am wired a bit wrong, for instance I spent three days in and out of a hospital in Wulumuqi, and I have fond memories of the event, even though at the time it must have been miserable. All I can remember are the cute nurses, the funny glass IV bottles, the $35 CAT scan, and how surprisingly good the hospital was in the farthest place in the world from an ocean.
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You may be blocking cookies; I had the same problem.

(1) Click on cookie on far right of chrome bar.

(2) click show cookies and other site data.

(3) click on blocked;

(4) click on static1.scirra.net and choose allow or allow for session

and it plays!

Awesome game, btw
Yes but the output format used is proprietary superset of the ePub standard so it wouldn't be possible to view them on other platforms anyway.
Is there a hackathon alert service which will notify me of upcoming hackathons?
If we never complain about these things they'll never get fixed.
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It looked like you could put off dealing with keys by just not doing anything to them. Anything you didn't approve or deny would stick around. However, I didn't actually test this, and I only had one key which is now approved so it's too late.
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> There should be an easier way to remunerate the photographer, and at more reasonable prices

does anybody know of a site that allows this?
I read through both of those links and I think I wasn't clear with my initial question.

I want to expose arbitrary view methods to GET calls, not linked to any model, and not have to write a new class for every view I want to expose. Basically I want views to return the correct filetype (json, html, xml, etc) when requested. This is basically making django a little more rails-like. I'm leaning towards django-dynamicresponse currently.

I really like how the three you mentioned tie into Django's forms though, and that's quite a feature to give up.
There are shades of a grey between commercial use and free use which are unaddressed.
Well besides the vendor you mean?
If only it executed JavaScript...
Shameless plug:

We just launched Chewsy (http://chewsy.com) last year after years of frustration with these aggregate business review sites. We're focused on rating what you ate and sharing recommendations with friends. It's similar to other food apps on the market but different in significant ways. For example, it's not like a vertical instagram like some of those other popular food apps.

We're very much in growth mode, but San Francisco is getting some good traction and our hometown of Seattle is thriving.

I encourage you to try it out and perhaps it can help you find your next best meal (and help you recommend something to your friends).
We don't charge merchants money for listing specials, and we don't sell search results. If and when we let merchants advertise on foursquare, all ads will be clearly marked as such.

There are a couple of reasons we might have recommended that Chilli's. Have any of your foursquare friends checked in there? That's a pretty strong signal for us, so that might be why it's showing up so highly. If not, it might be that a lot of people check in to that Chilli's.

That said, there's probably more we can do to detect chain restaurants and either boost them or bury them based on your personal likelihood of visiting chain restaurants. Unfortunately, all our ranking code currently works at the level of individual venues, so there's work for us yet on knowing that the venue is part of a chain and ranking accordingly.
Oh, gawd yes. Part of the fun of the world is that it's huge and surprising. Talk to your friends if you need a recommendation. Talk to a total stranger face to face if you need a recommendation.
It is close to physically impossible before series A at the majority of startups (exception for ones which achieve significant profitability early, but that's fairly rare in the Valley) and "it depends" after Series A. As always, sought after people whose skills provably make money and who negotiate better get better outcomes. (A little bird tells me than in certain disciplines mostly related to technical marketing proven people are getting contracting rates in the $X0,000 per month region. This strikes me as highly credible given what I know about those markets.)

Equity works in reverse: the more mature the company, the less you get. Ask the YC crowd for good numbers on that.
"Dwolla had advertised its service as having "no chargebacks."

I can't believe they ever had this in their terms.
To be fair, SimCity Societies was an excellent game. But it was very much a spiritual decendent of Ceasar III and Pharaoh. I think the branding did it more harm than good; the people who love Maxis-style city games disliked Societies, and the people who love Impressions-style city games never bothered to pick it up assuming they would dislike it.
Yes, you can get djangorestframework to be used without being tied to any model, or even without tying it to a resource. In its current incarnation, djangorestframework just follows the principle from generic class-based views.

You just define a view that inherits from djangorestframework.views.View, and implement the action methods (get/post/put/delete) that you want. These methods must return a dictionary, and the framework handles the part of dispatch and render the view in the proper format.
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Worth pointing out that SWITCH doesn't permit whois "proxy/anonymizer" services. Your real name and address is going to show up there (unless you register under a company name).
IANAL, but as I recall you are practically required to have such a licensing clause, lest someone:

1. Pin their own copyrighted work
2. Wait for someone else to view it on Pinterest
3. Sue Pinterest for distributing or performing it.
Great that it doesn't have dependencies and no query needed.

But I'd like to see that stylesheet eliminated and loaded only on demand if/when the widget is actually used.
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As a Mexican who has lived the last couple of years in Boston I can tell you the ingredients can be pretty hard to find: avocados are pretty tasteless here, the only variety of corn that you can by is very watery and insanely sweet, the only chilies you can easily find are jalapeños and sometimes old poblanos (which is bad, since Mexican food uses a bunch of chilies with very different tastes; I especially miss serranos and some the dried chilies like pasilla and morita), I haven't been able to find fresh nopales (the delicious fleshy leaves of the prickly pear cactus), cow's brains or eyes, zucchini flowers, huitlacoche (a black fungus that grows on corn), etc. I've found passable tortillas at least, but nothing to write home about. (If I were more highly motivated I'd just make some myself, which I know from experience would be better --I used to do that in when I lived in Toronto before Toronto got a good tortilleria-- since, thankfully, they do sell here the finely ground corn meal the tortilla masa is made of.)

I agree that plenty of Mexican food is not hard to make (specially the kinds of Mexican food I've seen people eat here in the US) if you can get the ingredients, but (1) you can't always get them, and (2) there is also lots of stuff that is complicated or at least very labor intensive to make at home, like mole. (Which I make a point of eating when I go back to visit.)

Although I have to say, I don't really get the whole "missing food" thing: if what you used to like eating isn't readily available in a new place just give up on it and figure out what's good where you are. I'd be pretty surprised by a place that has no good food at all.
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Thanks for putting down Ruby on Rails developers everywhere.
Comparing a DESIGN framework to an actual web framework, with much more actually to it is nonsensical.

Beginners sure can use Rails. So can the experience programmer. The budding Rails developer still needs to learn concepts and programming skills to create his/her application. The use of a framework doesn't imply a programmer using it learns nothing.

Now which is more likely? Someone creating a well programmed, secure website from scratch to "learn how to program", or to use a well tested, and proven framework?

People don't use Rails to simply "learn how to program".
You are completely missing this.
The character of Milo Minderbinder is one of the greatest satires of laissez-faire capitalism ever created.

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Sadly, my slow reflexes ensure that I get destroyed by the sharp walking robots almost every single time. Neat little game, nonetheless.
Tumblr seems to be over capacity at the moment in general.
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Do they get fixed though? If we don't pick our battles we run the risk of being seen as a bunch of whiners and being written off as such. Do these things need fixing? Is it the TOS that need fixing or is it the conditions under which such agreements are made necessary that need fixing. Maybe we're focusing our efforts in the wrong place.
So, in the strange little world you inhabit, only fabulously wealthy people eschew credit cards and don't spend their life worrying about their credit score? What a terrible place that must be.

And what kind of crap-ass site would ban someone for the three (out of five) comments I've made today which have been downvoted?

Pretty sure I can spot the actual troll here.
The tech is largely a solved problem, also one can download the zone-files[1] to seed/sync the new system.

The real problem is the chicken/egg one, this is where all past attempts towards an alternate DNS have failed.

[1] http://www.premiumdrops.com/zones.html
In defense of localStorage
I knew Rob back when he was running BusinessPundit. He's a great guy, classic entrepreneur. He was about ready to give up on starting businesses - penning a sad blog entry about failing and not being sure where he was going next - when he came together with some other founders to do Backupify. I've never liked the cliche about success being closest when you're just about to give up, but it seems to ring true an awful lot.
I'm disappointed the "top" comment on this announcement is nothing more than a sideways swipe at an unrelated topic from someone who clearly has an axe to grind.

In Australia, the ACCC banned the use of the word "unlimited" (with respect to Internet access, wireless or fixed-line) unless it truly was unlimited. No shaping, hard or soft quotas, excess usage charges and vague "fair use" provisions. The result? You get what you pay for and you pay for what you get. If you pay for 1TB/month on an ADSL line you're absolutely going to get it.

The real problem here is a combination of false advertising and people with completely unrealistic expectations. Not everyone can use 73Mbps all the time. There simply isn't the bandwidth for it. If you want to download 100GB+/month you should absolutely be paying more than someone who only downloads 2GB/month.

Back to the "new iPad" (why not iPad 3? Seriously!), i'm excited about it. Having it be able to do 1080p is great, although I think it's high time they up the flash storage at this point. 64GB doesn't go that far at Full HD.

The RAM, CPU and memory upgrades make this a pretty serious device now. The release of iPhoto is probably going to be unfortunately for many photo app makers (and hopefully it'll mean an end to Photoshop Touch's ridiculous 1600x1600 limit).

Apple just continues to cement their complete dominance against, well, everyone in the tablet space.
"They (apparently) didn't anticipate seeing a significant percentage of their customers try to use the cellular networks for transferring large quantities of data, and thought that for most people "unlimited" would just be a marketing-friendly euphemism for "a couple hundred megabytes.""

I wonder if many execs and marketing people at large mobile companies really didn't see this coming, as we had years of 'unlimited texts' being promoted, and an entire generation of people texting thousands of times per day. Did execs get adjusted to 'unlimited' as it applies to texting, and naively assume that 'web' usage wouldn't be significantly different?

I can't really say for sure, but that just struck me as a possibility for why many mobile execs don't seem to 'get it' with respect to mobile data.
By resources I meant wall-time, mostly - what I am optimizing for (I move >200GB zfs snapshots around a lot..). I did not pay attention to memory, specifically - in that light I updated the side note.

What else did you find odd/wrong?
> you're kidding me right? Obviously you filter your queries to the closest node.

You again. Smart-ass doesn't suit you.

Obviously, you can use standard DOM methods (e.g. gEBTN, gEBCN) with the "closest node" as well.

And, assuming you mean an element node, you just bought yourself a world of hurt. jQuery and the like will use the Selectors API (e.g. QSA) when it suits them, and due to their disagreement with the specs, element nodes don't suit them.

When they use their own query code, performance and compatibility go right down the toilet.

In other words, use QSA with the document node, unless you want to relearn how queries work.

> The single biggest performance killer... far more important than tree traversal is event overhead. As long as you think long and hard before applying a new event handler (and use delegation whenever possible) you'll be fine even with those 'Frankenstein' queries hehe :P

Again, event delegation is unrelated to queries. It's silly to assume you can use wasteful queries with impunity as long as you don't attach too many listeners.

And yeah, those "Frankenstein queries" are the exact opposite of self-documenting code (something jQuery proponents get backwards).
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Never mind various sites which also offer public domain images as well. Then there is the 3rd choice of actually talking to the photographer. I have used original songs produced from a musician (with his written consent) and photos produced by a photographer (again with written consent) on websites I have made. Then again one is a good friend and the other is the future wife of another good friend of mine.
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It's called ipad
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Quite the conundrum; had I followed his advice, I may not have discovered it.
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Pardon me for not doing enough Googling yet, but...

Is there a "getting started with bootstrap" tutorial that anyone here recommends?

The Bootstrap page talks about all the features and how easy everything is, but I don't know where I should put the files, if I need jQuery already, etc.
If you actually look around the page, there is the link "Need help verifying fingerprints?", which takes you to the correct page.
I know enough to conclude that it hasn't gotten more expensive to ship bits in the past ten years. Yet, here we are in the US, shifting from unlimited data plans to rate-limited, capped plans, and no one seems to have come up with a convincing explanation as to why that's occurring.
Repeat after me: NOBODY WILL EVER USE AN ALTERNATE ROOT. EVER.

It took over a decade to get everyone on the same page re: IPv6, and everybody WANTS that. Be realistic. It ain't gonna happen, ever.
Looks to be a few years out-of-date, and there's an entirely invented lake right where my local drugstore is.
Water-dwelling life form can teach us about the regeneration of human tissue
The biggest offenders in my experience were already on the main list.

I recently had one who told me it was a huge problem that I needed 30 days between accepting the company's offer and actually starting due to existing agreements. I decided that a recruiter who wanted to argue with me over something like that (30-day delay to start a position that was expected to last 5 years) was not somebody I felt like ever talking to, ever again.
Doing a show source on the bootstrap page is the biggest win. If you want a particular element on the page, find it in the source, and see what they did to make the page.

jQuery isn't used at all.
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And this is the link for the entire story on a single page without the annoying navbars and advertisements.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/magazine/teenage-girls-twi...

EDIT: So you can't jump straight to the meaningful content. Cute.
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You can make the requests in parallel; it's one week total, not "a week for each image".
> The second is that they can claim to have introduced a candidate to you and can try to sue. Often a company will just roll over especially if it turns out to be a good candidate.

If they have no recruitment contract, how does this hold water? They're suing because you (allegedly) used some unsolicited advice they gave you?