skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even as an American, border patrol officers scare the crap out of me. I'm totally worried about stumbling on some dumb question and getting detained.

I'll never forget my return from Mexico on the day before 9/11 where I was greeted by a border patrol agent with piercing blue eyes, leather gloves with cut-off tips and a big nasty snot bubble protruding from his right nostril.
Aziz, the entity is called "The Islamic Republic of" Iran, not Iran. Iran does not materially exist at the moment. Please do not soil the name.
One definition of excess capacity is waste (I'm not insisting it is always a correct definition).

I imagine the regulatory environment surrounding generation in California and local opposition to big ugly infrastructure are much bigger factors in the prices than the technical capacity to actually upgrade the power grid there.
This is actually a solved problem. Start here: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1643
Sorry to say that, but answer the right answer for the question.
I'm sorry but that can't possibly be the reasoning. They don't offer relocation because there are so many developers in that area anyway and startups are notoriously tight on their budgets (justified or not) so would rather not spend the money.
Being fairly new to the US, yet a long time developer, I attempted to get work out west (I'm east coast right now) but no-one in the bay area would pay to relocate it seemed so I guess I'll be staying here for a while!
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That was really cool, thank you.
Serving billion youtube requests per day is a trivial production system?
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I doubt they have the computing power or the tools to decypher more complex algorithms, the sheer amount of encrypted data seems to big. occams razor would dictate they are just storing vast amounts of data, maybe mapping communications (eg. mails from afghanistan to the us, etc) and then bruteforcing some of the really interesting stuff. it's not like a us government agency can suddenly leapfrog decades of research in encryption.
Some good insight, better then it looked like at first because it actually goes into detail...
Still not sure if I'll remember any of it tomorrow.
I'm a Swedish citizen and I travel to the U.S. a few times a year (to Silicon Valley mostly). I always dread going through customs. The TSA must have been rejected from any other job, including flipping burgers, before landing this gig. They are usually very rude and assume you are a terrorist until you persuade them that you're not.

That said, it varies a lot between airports. I've flown through many different airports on my way to SFO, and the closer you get to the west-coast, the friendlier the agents (with individual exceptions of course). SFO and Seattle tend to be the most friendly ones in my experience. Yet, you're in a constant fear that you checked the wrong box somewhere, and they'll send you on the next flight home.

For a civilized country, this is simply unacceptable. I wish all politicians would be forced through this process every time they flew, and I'm confident that this would change in no-time.
It's backed, in principle, by the fact that Android users are less willing to purchase apps[1], which doesn't fit Marco's business model. It doesn't matter to Readability, so moving to Android makes perfect sense for them.

1 - http://www.canalys.com/newsroom/android-apps-are-too-expensi...
What you say is true for software that needs to be improved. But I use and love some semi-abandonware and couldn't care less about improvements: TextMate 1, NewsFire, Lineform, AAA game ports to OS X, lots of iOS software that is ever being updated once.

iOS currently makes for a good example, because all it takes for some old apps to use the Retina display is to recompile the very same source with newer dev tools. Sometimes it just takes that, or a small fixes to make software run on a new OS.

I'd pay more for software if the authors promised to open-source it the moment they drop support.

( Of course, the App Store has a problem similar to Ruby Gems - it is hard to transfer control of the main repository.)
While bequeathing code to the community instead of having it buried with you is a very good thing it comes with a caveat. In most cases, it's not a good idea to pick up the result in its entirety - all of the code, the brand, the users, etc. That's baggage. It's a burden, not a help. In most cases it's better to make an explicit fork, or even just cherry-pick the best ideas and bits of code for use in a clearly separate project. If users think the new thing is better than the old, they'll migrate. If they don't, they won't feel entitled to come bugging you for support - or, if they do, you'll have a good reason to turn them away and concentrate on making the new thing great. Obviously you have to comply with the original licenses if you copy code, but you'd have to do that anyway. This way is likely to be far better for your own sanity and ultimately for users as well.
I really laughed watching this video.

Too bad the content industry does not get it.
It's a zoo.
Show HN: p.ostero.us - the post posterous blog platform built with Octopress
I'd definitely question the talented labour available for work.

There's nothing like the talent in SF and we're currently saturated with Google/Facebook/Amazon/LinkedIn/Zynga sucking up a significant chunk of the best talent here and also bringing people from the UK and mainland Europe.

This would be a significant challenge for anyone looking to push the bleeding edge of technology. There aren't many brilliant young 20 or 30 somethings willing to work in a startup environment sacrificing pay for equity in the same way as there is in SF.

Honestly, I'd see available talent as a significant struggle depending on how you're scaling and what kind of people you would need.
More pictures:

http://www.cryptome.org/2012-info/nsa-utah/nsa-utah.htm
Which city did you arrive at?
This is so important and yet most people don't realize it. A tremendous amount of effort goes into maintaining an open-source project. No software is "bug-free" for instance; and you have to continuously seave user feedback for bugs and fix them quickly.

This is a worrying trend. Most of the projects on github have become 'orphans'. I see no docs and worse - no activity for years even on some pretty interesting ones. Contrast that to Apache projects and their communities.

@patricksroberts I think @nirvana meant this in a more general sense.
It's true that this is the fastest way to handle pagination, but it can really fast become too ugly to code, since you have to do that manually, instead of just specifying offset and limit and let the DB engine to it.

On the other hands, approach Google takes seems more sensible to me, if you have more that some maximum number of results, just refuse to paginate further. Instruct the user to narrow down his query criteria instead. What could be the use for "go to page 1235 / 5433" if not for some kind of crawling database content?
This looks great!

(1) I like how the spaceship shakes as you enter Earth's atmosphere.
(2) As someone else mentioned, integrating Google Earth would be really cool.
(3) Not sure exactly what happened, but I'm pretty sure I flew into the moon: http://i.imgur.com/GsNHM.jpg (notice the space on both the bottom left and top right corners)
"We don't want these sites to be shut down, we want them to pay a license fee and flourish as a business," Saregama [one of India's largest record labels] said. "There are legitimate businesses in operation too. The scope is there, and we want these sites to be legal."

Why can't American labels have that attitude lol
The title made me think this would be a framework to help people come up with their brand, rather than which assets and manuals they should prepare to make sure that their brand is implemented correctly.

Still, great advice. Using "vector-in-psd" rather than Illustrator is particularly clever.
Please remove the annoying hovering splash screen - why would I sign up this service with Twitter/Facebook before I have even tried it out?

This method of 'forced signup before viewing content' is something I find incredibly obnoxious and irritating in web apps. My default position on these is that I don't sign up unless I believe the site will offer me some value. If you want my personal info, I must feel like I am getting something in return. Another Pinterest clone does not, IMHO, provide enough value to make me sign up, especially when I am not allowed to view the site's content until I have signed up. If I was going to clone Pinterest, I would be sure to clone their key feature - anonymous users can see all of the content.

"Yes sir, entry is just $10. Don't worry, we'll show you what's inside after you have paid your entrance fee, but trust us, it's great."

I'm sure the site is fantastic, and what I have seen of the design is very nice. But as I'm sure you guessed, forcing people to sign up before showing the content is a personal bugbear of mine!
I visited Dublin in September a few years ago. While I enjoyed myself a great deal, and liked the people and places we saw, it was such a relief to land in Bologna (Italy), and see strong, bright light coming from the sky. I could never live that far north.
I've never had overtime pay as a web dev in Sweden but several of my employments, my current one included, offers an additional week of vacation per year as compensation.
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Hi Guys

I'm a long time posterous user and not happy with the recent twitter acquisition.

Twitter is ganna put posterous in maintenance mode and forget about it - this is not how I want my blog and websites hosted

Instead of doing something stupid like moving to wordpress, I've setup http://p.ostero.us. A paid Octopress + more blogging platform aimed squarely at the disenchanted posterous users

Octopress is amazing and I want to make it available to non commandline loving people

I've setup a 'kickstarter' at http://www.indiegogo.com/postposterous to get some initial cash in the bank to make this happen asap
* Australian resident so no kickstarter.com for me :(

Let me know if you have any queries, I really think the time is right for octopress to shine

Cheers

Justin
I switched to a real graph database when I needed to implement transitive closure, opened up the algorithms book, and figured it would be more trouble to implement myself than deal with the BS for a new product.
Neo4J is proper?

What I see is that Neo4J attracts noobs and leaves behind a trail of tears and failed projects.

Something like OWLIM or Virtuoso Open Link handles databases that are 20x bigger.
Dropdown Menu in Twitter Bootstrap's Collapsed Navbar
Contemplate On Printer Cartridges Recycling
We all know that the basic reason for you to recycle toner cartridges for cash is that it provides you with money for something that is longer workable and secondly it reduces the cost of making new cartridges.
Hahaha. Yes, I was joking. Sorry about that, apparently not funny! :)
Don't forget battery life.
Important addition to the headline: "in India". TorrentFreak loves vague headlines like this, because you have to click through and read the article to find out whether it's YOUR country.
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They probably shouted at her for the best part of an hour.

Sounds like current TSA procedure, amped up a few degrees.

No, I'm not being a smarty-pants. When one's country is compared to Communist Yugo-friggin-slavia it's time to pay attention.
I'm British. I visit the USA once a year and travel elsewhere quite frequently. I would rate the "welcome mat" as on a par with non-European countries but worse than Canada.

China and Ghana for instance require more tedious immigration application processes. In-airport procedure waiting time and hassles are no worse in the US. Hell: have you ever seen the non-EU nationals border control queue at Heathrow?

But the NYT argument is sound in that the States should lead the way in efficiency and technology, but they don't.
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It holds for many European countries. The United Kingdom has separate passport-free travel agreements with most, but not all, Schengen countries (and with some non-Schengen countries as well.)
now we should wait to see the Indian media industry quadruple their revenues because suddenly all the pirated content is being bought now....
Coming into the UK through Heathrow, as a non-EU citizen, can be quite unpleasant. It's less so nowadays than before, and it was also highly dependent on where you are coming from and what passport you are carrying and when you are landing. That said, they tend to warm up the more you seem to know the drill and the more stamps for entry you have in your passport. For first time visitors the experience can be pretty aweful as they play Jeremy Paxman on you after you've just spent 10 hours on a flight. That said, if the immigration officer is of an ethnic minority they are usually much nicer. It's one of the times I don't feel bad for racial stereotyping, when I have a choice of desk after 40 minutes of queuing and aim for the non-white officer.

I find the other UK airports to be much friendlier in general, they even say 'please' and 'thank you' and even have a sense of humour.
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Thanks for your response!

We must have been very unclear, or it might be our bad English :)

The thing is that nothing on Kulisha is really Public, since it combines your own personal feeds from Twitter and Facebook.

One thing we could do, to make the site better, might be to post a screenshot or make a promo video, how does that sound?

Thanks again.
Is that £25k training pay or introductory pay. When I was applying for an Air traffic controller position, training pay (18 months) was £13k. But duty pay was much higher and, according to the ATCs at the interview day, overtime regularly pushed it into £50k-60k at the busiest airports.

I have a feeling the £25k isn't the complete story and there might be other compensation not mentioned.
Of particular interest is the PDF listed on that page "How will the data protection reform affect social networks?".

The right to be forgotten especially.
The comments in this thread are really eye opening. I like the YC forums because they're very entrepreneurial and not full of a bunch of whiners.

The fact that there are so many negative complaints regarding US border security is more than noteworthy. The TSA and Immigration are just so way out of control.

Overall, I think that this is the result of a lack of consistent and sane policies regarding immigration and border control. On the one hand, we do relatively little to stop illegal immigration on some of our borders for political reasons. Then on the other hand, we flail madly in the authoritarian direction by having this massive and unchecked TSA bureaucracy.

We really have no idea what we're doing on a national level. As ineffective and counterproductive as border security and immigration is here, I can bet even without looking at the numbers that it isn't cheap.
I often have problems with eye irritation/fatigue after a long day of work and thought an e-ink device would make night reading easier. Got a kindle touch, tried it for a week. It was worse, without a doubt. I tend to read in dim light (indirect lamp), and found that the kindle needed direct light for me to easily read without eyestrain. iPad with very low brightness, or even in reversed accessibility mode is nicer. For me, that is. And, any book or paper with code samples just doesn't work well on a small e-ink screen.
How can/should I sell my website?
So true. I had lots of bureaucratic trouble even when transferring in China, and a Taiwanese friend was forced to sit down in police observation for three hours while waiting for a connecting flight. Yet everybody was relaxed and friendly during all the insanity.
Expanding on your comments...

The reason behind labor standards is that without them companies will do everything in their power to take advantage of their workforce (see early 20th century America, specifically coal mining in Appalachia, which, to be honest, hasn't changed all that much - see modern day, specifically the Upper Branch mine disaster and Massey Energy).

Labor standards enforce a minimum acceptable standard and prevent the kind of race-to-the-bottom we see now (between states, between regions, between countries).

We all need to remember that many of our positions are the exception, not the rule (i.e. we often have the flexibility and freedom to negotiate) There are still hourly contracts in IT and these would be affected by a rule like this. MS gamed the system in WA state to avoid paying overtime while still being able to take advantage of hiring contractors instead of salaried employees (this was in the 90s - unsure if the same system is still in place). Meanwhile, chipping away at the higher salaried workers just makes it easier to chip away at the lower salaried workers (e.g. retail workers, restaurant workers).

We're all in this together.
Flying into LAX last year I had to do ESTA before I left, fill out 2 forms on the plane, and also give some of the same information to the airline when I checked in in London.

I don't really mind having to fill out some forms to get into a country, it's having to do the same thing 4 times that's annoying.
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Here’s Woz, Waiting in Line for His New iPad
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http://unblock-us.com (ssshhhhh...)

:)
Where’s Steve Wozniak? He's doing his regular waiting-in-line thing
IBM battles dire mainframe myths
At least more and more students are studying relevant subjects so the available pool of potential talent is increasing. [1] (For those not familiar with Ireland, the CAO is the Central Applications Office and handles undergraduate applications in third level education.)

[1] http://www.siliconrepublic.com/innovation/item/26155-ireland...
> So you would be quite happy that All American Terrroists are safer than forign Actors?

Maybe it goes without saying, but yes, yes, a thousand times yes.

The U.S. Constitution guarantees the rights of everyone in the United States, whether citizen, immigrant, or undocumented, whether law-abiding or terrorist. It specifically guarantees a right to trial, and forbids government searches without a warrant based on probable cause.

The founders knew that government can eat away at vague promises of freedom, and so they guaranteed not only "due process of law" and security from "unreasonable searches and seizures," but also specific mechanisms for protecting those rights from the government. They guaranteed those rights to everyone on our shores.

Personally I hope for a day when everyone in the world is entitled to the same rights. But until that happens -- yes. The law demands that all human beings will be safe on our soil, unless and until they are punished by due process of law. May we find the courage to live up to that demand.
Big backlash is building against Windows 8. Will Microsoft listen?
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So, these guys openly admit they indirectly caused AIM to shut down and everybody is just congratulating them about going open source?! They should be drawn and quartered for that!!

(no seriously guys, nice job on the open sourcing :) )
I'll second this. I recently setup Jekyll on GitHub and was pleasantly surprised by the ease of getting it up and running.
The problem with having great ideas
Pretty good read, but I always have an ironic chuckle when someone advises you to "ignore advice from others".

That advice is only out-shined by blogs that advise others to "stop telling everyone else what to do".
Ask HN: Salary for IT Infrastructure Manager?
One of my employees came to me concerned that his salary is right for a senior SysAdmin, but not for the job he actually does. He may very well be right, but I’m looking for guidance.

Some relevant info – we’re a 200-person company in with a process manufacturing operation that runs 24/7. We have two sites connected by a 100 Mbit WAN. We are a mixed AS/400, Windows Server/SQL Server shop. Just about everything besides the AS/400s and some specialized process control PCs are virtualized. The Infrastructure Group supports our desktop/notebooks/productivity apps, all servers (Exchange, SharePoint, IIS, SQL Server, and many other purchased or custom server apps), all network hardware, printers, copiers, the phone system, Wi-Fi access for business and for mobile handheld terminals at the plant, company cell phones, Citrix remote access, etc. They also do helpdesk for end users.

The guy I’m talking about basically designed, purchased, and installed all the infrastructure above with the exception of the AS/400s (over a period of many years). He manages three other employees, and he is responsible for the capital and expense budget in his area. Because we’ve got 24/7 operations, some of our infrastructure is mission-critical on a realtime basis (not safety-critical, but if the network craps out we stop making money). This guy is well-liked and respected by everyone, including the owner of the company. I like, respect, and trust him, too.

So – what’s the right salary for a guy like this? We’re in Ohio.

Thanks, Internet!
As an Irish individual, I can tell you that the author is overlooking one very crucial downside to operating a startup in Ireland. As you may know, our banking sector was decimated in the financial crisis. This has made it extraordinarily difficult for startups to obtain even modest business loans from financial institutions. Remember this is Europe we are talking about, where VC financing is much less common than 'mainstream' financing through bank loans. Many businesses are closing their doors and opportunities are being lost simply because startups do not have access to the liquidity needed to keep the lights on.
On the flip side, this could be a great opportunity for you VCs to buy into promising startups for a veritable pittance.
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To learn more about HNers' experience with Apple TV, Boxee, Roku, etc I created a poll: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3713059
> One of my friend got a notice from Optimum Online for downloading Adobe Photoshop sometime last year. So I think yes, there is marginal policing that is going on form ISPs already.

That wasn't necessarily the ISP intercepting traffic. When you download a torrent, everyone else active in that torrent gets your IP address.
IBM was involved in some lawsuits about misclassifying workers as exempt. As a result, they said "OK, we agree you qualify for overtime, so we are reducing your base salary by 15% and you can earn overtime on top of that. Oh, and in unrelated news, now there is no overtime hours." It was pretty shitty for the workers in the end.

Source: http://www.informationweek.com/news/205917177
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Ouch... I wish people wouldn't vote up articles like this, which spread the content out over many pages just to push up the page views and ad revenue.

Supporting sites like this starves quality sites.