skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dribbleboard: A new way to browse Dribble for design inspiration
Nope. I used to be able to pay using only a credit card before (like 2 years ago), but now it just asks that I login or register a new account. I suppose with over 200 million users you can get away with this crap...
Direct link is here
http://visualidiot.com/articles/seven-sins
Their sidebar explaining IQ scores seems a little silly. I'd like to see a citations for average scores of Nobel prize winners. Also, who went back in time to administer an intelligence test to Mozart?
this goes a little further i guess. you can add color to regexp matches for command outputs.
If that were the case, then they should be able to tell when you try to link your bank account to a second PayPal account that the first one was banned. Slap those people in the face... not everyone. As long as all PayPal accounts linked to a bank account are in good standing, why limit it to just two?
It is, but it's not very good at it. Facebook "bumps" threads when you respond to them, so relevant stuff stays at the top.

And people use pictures of themselves as identifiers. It's a lot easier to recognize people based on faces than it is to recognize them based on silly usernames.

I mean...these are people that I regularly interact with in real life. I get the pseudo-anonymity for reddit proper, but non-anonymized interactions on facebook are good.
If a deal like that is structured even remotely sensibly then it will be a "merger" where the part that's in shares does not qualify as a purchase and does not trigger any taxes until the new shares are sold.

If anything, a story like that, if true, is a demonstration of why you get lawyers involved, nothing more.

Part shares, part cash deals are extremely common.
Pick up this magnetic wedding ring and you can feel electro magnetic fields. The massive field microwave puts out is the most amusing one I have found so far. http://www.supermagnetman.net/index.php?cPath=61
This is the first of their posts that seems like BS intended to go viral. Previous ones have been fairly interesting even if a few basic economic principles have been willfully avoided to make them more juicy.
State Of Online Travel
The new hardware platforms are each going to give birth to their own frontiers of opportunity. Bezos' TED Talk on "The Next Web Innovation" alluded to how each innovation would allow for new innovations.

I'm looking at new hardware like watches (Pebble), SmartTVs, and maybe Google Glasses if can be accepted culturally (more so than bluetooth headsets have been) as all potentially amazing new canvasses for creation.

Highly recommend this TED talk. It's amazingly optimistic and paints a beautiful future for technology innovation: http://www.ted.com/talks/jeff_bezos_on_the_next_web_innovati...
If the homeless man and you ask for equivalent loans in proportion to your salaries, he is also a far better investment than you.
After Apple gave us the run around and rejected us using In-App Payment for our premium insurance services, we tried switching to PayPal.

After countless headaches with PayPal, we switched to Stripe in 1 working day. Huge fan of their service, great API design and documentation. Keep it up, gents!

https://www.plerts.com
I think it's against the terms to have a joint PayPal account. I'm sure I read that somewhere and it is the standard for most web services (accounts can only be used by one person).
for the record he uses \u26A1 aka high voltage sign ;-)
The Price of Cleverness (YAML is not Safe)
Facebook ads Changes
11.0, the latest version. Chrome works just dandy though.
> >In Government, headcount is a (political, organization, etc.) benefit.

>> Can be said for the private sector as well. Unless you think the private sector is growth averse.

Huh? Employees aren't growth. Employees may be necessary to accomplish/support growth, but that's very different. The difference is that a biz will happily take growth with no employees and will try to avoid employees with no growth.
He's 26. He went straight from Harvard to Facebook. He still effectively controls Facebook. And he's a billionaire. I don't think he really can take a risk, in the sense that a normal person would think of a risk. As long as he doesn't do something blatantly stupid like run in front of a bus, he's probably set for the rest of his life. Instagram deal not approved, or approved but doesn't "work out"? Shrug. Still a billionaire. And I'm sure he's taken a lot off the table already so even if Facebook's value plummets, he should still be gold.
Oops, hit the "reply" button by accident when trying to dismiss a spelling correction on the iPad, and I do not know how to edit, due to my anti-procrastination setting. Intended was to compare:

Foreach item in items

With

Foreach datum in data

I also use itemss for a container of containers:

Foreach items in itemss
Foreach item in items

Of course, if the code is less generic, different names are more appropriate:

Foreach row in matrix
Foreach cell in row
tl;dr "Outside of iPhone, Kindle and mobile applications you nerds have invented absolutely nothing over past 10 years".
I wouldn't take it this far. I think both companies have crossed over to the dark side a little bit in this matter.
Maybe I should have been clearer. If the government is spending more money then they are pulling in in taxes, then how does a cut to government spending translate into money in the pockets of the citizens?

If Spain was pulling in $2-billion in taxes, and spending $4-billion by borrowing the deficit, then how does a reduction in spending down to $2-billion give money back to the people? It stops the bleeding of money into debt, but it doesn't give money back to people to then spend on goods/services.
Do Paypal Ts&Cs let multiple people use the same account?
PayPal does let you use the same joint bank account in two accounts. The only problems is that you need to be married and share the same last name. This may make sense in the US, but in a lot of other parts of the world, you don't take your husband last name when you marry.

I'm tired of PayPal too, but just wanted to let you know that there may be a solution to your problem.
Looks like this uses anywhere from 4-20% CPU while running on my 3.4 GHz quad-core i7 iMac. Have you thought about laptop battery life/power bill/world pollution implications?
Why I Am Creating TCombinator
I love the game of "Go" -- it's so strategic and it's particularly difficult when you're playing against a human. The mobile app I have for it is okay, but not great, probably due to the issues regarding algorithmic complexity. In fact, I like it a bit more than chess.

I urge anyone to try it.
They visited SpaceX, saw how they actually operated, and revised the estimated downward.

I'm not sure that's really fair for NASA to do. The question they were supposed to be answering was "how much would this cost NASA to do?". They can't just see a more efficient operation and then cheat their numbers down because without Space-X, NASA would never have had a reference to work off of. NASA doing it the NASA way would have been the larger figure, not NASA doing it the Space-X way.
HTC One S review
Well... nothing now (other than I don't want to). But at the time I was using mine for business purposes so it wasn't really a great option.
Strategically I am missing why Instagram is even viewed as a threat to Facebook. It seems like a complementary service. If Instagram tried to go the route of forcing you to be a member and only share photos with other Instagram users, nobody would use it. Facebook and Twitter provide the platform for Instagram to exist.
MoGo beats 5d KGS now? Kind of depressing if true, this day felt much longer off half a decade ago... But I won't believe it until I see a few of these games as they are played myself :)
Thanks, sorry link I posted was broken.
Hi Ryan,

you could deploy to your staging environment upon every build and only deploy to production when triggered manually.

Railsonfire (full disclosure: I am one of the founders) makes this very easy. Just give it a look here:
http://help.railsonfire.com/deployment/Heroku-Deployment.htm...

You just have to set your branch for the production/staging environment and only when you push to this specific branch the deployment will run.

If you need any help setting it up or have questions please send me an email to flo@railsonfire.com
I see some negativity, but I also see some head scratching. My response is the latter.

No matter your net worth, even Warren Buffet would do a bit more footwork before deciding to wake up one morning and spend a billion dollars on something.

Perhaps Zuck would have found out that Sequoia just valued the company for 25% of the price Systrom was asking? Or do you think the mere act of starting a larger disclosure process would get leaked out and shoot the value up to 1 billion anyway?
Deloitte Announces Application for .deloitte
I suppose I am a little scrappy http://tcombinator.blogspot.com/2012/04/why-i-am-personally-...
This would make sense if your account doesn't have any more money. But it may happen to you some day that you have more money in your account than your limit and then you will be stuck as you cannot transfer it to another account.
Ep.io is closing down, recommending Heroku
If this were for my benefit, they would either stop tracking me across the web, or somehow make that data available or useful to be. It's currently opaque, so whatever their reason is, it's not for my best interests. Also, I think keeping my friends list more private would be nice. And being able to pay money instead of being shown ads would benefit both me and FB.
Paperhater wrangles paper clutter (Start-Up Chile '12)
The thing a lot of tech people don't understand (including a few of the commenters here) is how important Instagram is in friend circles that aren't ours :P

I've never even felt the need to use Instagram, but two friends of mine (17 and 15) can't stop using it. They told me "no one shares pictures on Facebook anymore, it's just not cool." I mean, with how rapidly the Facebook demographics shift, we'd be making a huge error in assuming that Instagram isn't vital just because we have no use for it. Actually, we could draw a parallel to Pinterest's early lack of support in male-dominated VC circles. At the end of the day, 40m people love Instagram, and 40m is a good chunk of Facebook's market.
Why send the raw minerals down to earth? Many items could probably benefit from zero-gravity manufacturing facilities. Then you air-drop the finished products.
Why not just change the storage strategy to saving files locally while in your test environment? Fog lets you do this easily with its configuration options.
Who cares if the comments with the highest votes are at the top? That's just as true of /r/lolcats. I care about how much trouble it is to find good content.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Given a practical and insightful essay on the day-to-day running of a business and a picture of a cat in a funny pose, most people will vote for the cat every time. Making it harder to find good comments will only exacerbate this, because it's easy for the cat-lovers to find silly pictures, so to speak, while carefully reading every comment on every post for insight takes more time than most people have to spend on an Internet forum.

In fact, I'll go further, although tentatively: I think authorship is probably a stronger predictor of comment quality than votes are. For example, blind contrarianism will almost always take the top spot in a thread — at least for a while — and even mildly criticizing Apple on a thread where lots of Apple fans happen to be will get you several downvotes. There are so many factors besides quality and authorship that affect voting — the mere popularity of a comment's sentiment is often enough to trump everything else.

(EDIT: Thanks, anonymous downvoter, for making my point for me!)
According to their pricing at 2.9% + 30c per charge that leaves you with 18.55c. Paypal is 5% + $0.05, a massive 47.45c. If Stripe could even partially match that I'd be delighted. I'm currently looking into Amazon's aggregated option and haven't come up with numbers yet.
> Why not just serve the whole site over SSL constantly?

Because now you have to serve every single bit of your page over SSL (to avoid security warnings) and that means none of your page content can be cached. It also makes relatively mundane things, like having your proxy server communicate the originating ip address, much harder. I can set up haproxy to add an X-Forwarded-For header in almost no time flat. In fact I just gave you enough information to google that solution for yourself. Solving that problem over SSL is much harder.

Engineering a MITM attack is much more technically difficult than snooping traffic. Not every company actually need to turn the security knob up to 11 on this aspect, and being able to do unencrypted-page-with-encrypted-login is a good trade-off when you can make it.
Gotcha. Good point. I was really impressed with Meetup's functionality for these purposes as well - for the same reasons you've mentioned.

I'm an organizer too, and when Facebook's new group system came out (Was it a year ago now? Facebook time is it's own reality...) its functionality was just perfect.

Little things like Facebook's group system - I feel like there's a million different innovations on Facebook that all blow my mind. We were hacking a jomsocial social network at one time as a hobby project... Every time FB launched something we just couldn't help but laugh at how simple they made it all seem.

Guess it all ties back in to your original point. Facebook. Respect.
Would that have been true when Jobs was 27? Evidently not since it was around that time that he was booted from his own company.
Stripe has managed to break into a lucrative market.

The guys at Techzing interviewed the Co-Founder of Stripe a few months ago...
http://techzinglive.com/page/939/168-tz-interview-patrick-co...
But in terms of "likely to get your money back" would you lend to Germany or Spain?
This is so exciting to me. The inner economist in me wants this to work so badly.
You leave out the 60's? As far as cultural experimentation, I would argue that was the pinnacle.
The missing sin - mystery-meat navigation. It took me 30 seconds to figure out I had to mouse-over the numbers to get explanations.
social news, yes, but the larger part of the Pubup.org site is for research papers and scientific journal articles, I believe this is the first of its kind.
Great!...except why do I need to give my email address?
> and how you avoid creating lots of debris that poses a hazard to other spacecraft.

Debris is a considerable hazard. NASA tracks about 21,000 items bigger than 10 cm. They estimate there are about 500,000 items between 10 cm and 1 cm. They estimate there are 100 million items smaller than 1 cm.

These items are travelling at about 7 km per second. The average impact speed is about 10 km/s.

(http://orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/)
Done - thx.
What does your overhead consist of?
Scale Something: How Draw Something rode its rocket ship of growth
At the risk of hyperbole, there are no competitors.
Ah good point, thanks. I still think there's room to reduce the amount of work required to polish Stripe billing/payment data and make a nice user experience.
am I the only one who thought the title is a pun on Game of thrones and Go as in Go (programming language)?
Medium-grey text on light-gray background doesn't help either.
Go is a fantastic game. It's also a great analogy of the eastern philosophy with its emphasis on balance and long-term strategic vision.
After imposed austerity or before?
That's a brutal critique which comes close to a charge of scientific fraud. I'd be curious to see a response. If there isn't one, I know what to think.
Shift Happens [video]
Vitality.vim - make Vim play nicely with iTerm2 and tmux
You're not reading it wrong. People are looking for a reason to be negative because they are predisposed.
That's a really fascinating peek at the methods used! I love that they use multi-armed bandit models and that they built a heuristic that wins partly because it's highly parallelizable. This is how you beat a human mind.
...lol, well reading all that nosense was not good for my brain for sure, but I am somehow fascinated about your choice, among the zillion things wrong there, what you picked up as wrong. Reading that was like having to watch a soap opera, or reading those magazines about who dated whom.
I like how you respond to an article addressing smugness in FP by starting your post by "The downside of being better than everyone else is people tend to assume you're pretentious".

I guess the OP doesn't even have to make his case when people like you serve such an unadulterated example of the very problem he was describing.
Sad to see them go. We were hosted with them and really liked their service. Good luck to Andrew and Ben.
its less of a paypal problem and more the websites problem for not offering several payment options. Just paypal is easier for a majority of the population. If your particular paypal didn't work then you'd have to manually enter your credit information, which most people myself included don't like to do.
The backbone of this seems to be complaining about musicians having things difficult and not making as much money as they should. And accompanied by lots of numbers and information. The problem is, it is in itself irrelevant.

Why should anyone else care? Maybe professional gardners are having a hard time nowadays and not making much money. Do you care about that? Perhaps they are going to lobby for a law that will increase their income -- i.e. take money from you, and otherwise inconvenience you -- how does that sound?

The point is this: we do not care about musician's, or anyone else's, self-interest; we, in general, care about how much we get from them. That is ultimately the only basis of justification for any law here. The public, though laws, grants 'creators' special provisions, in order that the public as a whole benefits.

If you want to argue for such special provisions, you must show the benefits that the public generally will get. If you say creators are not making enough money, show that there is, from the public's view, too little stuff being produced.

So is there too little music (etc.) being produced? The article did not seem to answer that question -- yet that is the only thing that counts. And from a casual view, as anyone can see just looking around them, there seems to be a heck of a lot of music out there at the moment.

Show that insufficient stuff is being produced, and show that any proposed corrective laws or provisions are overall to the public's gain. Otherwise you have failed to make a case for laws that the public must bear the costs of.

If the gist is that some big companies are making lots of money using your goods therefore you should get a larger share of it, that fails too. If some industry is making too much, the answer is not to divide it up differently, it is to stop them, somehow, making so much in the first place.
Too bad! Still no django-focused hosting options :-(
FBI Charges Man In $1 Million Stock-Fraud Hacking Scheme
God is just. Turn the other cheek. No worries.
By "turn the other cheek", I mean "You're fucked--God is just." What did you think I meant? "I like being fucked-up the ass, do it more!" That's what some Christians think it means.

Actually, getting fucked up the ass is probably punishment, in the first place. Still, you're still fucked.
But you see businesses aiming for improved productivity all the time. A desire for full employment is just the national version of that. It's not like a country can easily or ethically fire or cut adrift swathes of its citizenry at once.
MoGo is not 5d KGS -- there are some bots that are 4d/5d KGS, using the approach given in the article. The two best (that I am aware of) are Zen19 -- closed source -- and pachi -- available here: http://pachi.or.cz/

The author of Pachi has a paper detailing the major algorithm advancement beyond Monte-Carlo game simulations, which is sharing information across simulations in a way that is totally nonintuitive to me.

For me, a 3d/4d KGS go player, this is all very interesting stuff!
https://gondor.io/
This looks pretty useful. I hope someone saves it from the recycle bin.
I just took a look myself and it turns out that there is evidence: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17079053.

The thing is, you can't patent fullerene so it will never ever make a great deal of money as a supplemental treatment, and so likely won't get that much attention.
Nice to see this here! I'm one of the devs so more than happy to answer any questions.
Rigger Rally Online Edition - Awesome Open Sourced Racing Game in your Browser
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It's very exciting to think I could see asteroid mining in my life - but I have to wonder if it's solving the most crucial problem. Is earth really that strapped for metal? It seems to me that the energy used to return mass from the asteroid will quickly become far more valuable than whatever they bring back. Unless they are returning mostly stuff that is really rare on earth.
i don't know, taking my hand off my keyboard or mouse just to control a music program sounds more annoying to me, but the tech is cool.
> PayPal does let you use the same joint bank account in two accounts.

Thanks. That must be new in the recent years as I don't believe we had that option when we had that issue... but its been a while. It is no longer an issue since we don't really use PayPal much anymore.
That's a pity. Ben and Andrew are two of the cleverest (and funniest) devs I've ever met.
Slides from Google's opening statement
The name "pvMyStruct" implies intention and suggests to the reader that the function parameter is a MyStruct pointer disguised as a void pointer. The name "data" does not provide any hints.
“Meaningful” startups
sorry, * for europe

Last time i checked it was in beta as well and we could't migrate media and database to and from the apps there - might be fixed now, maybe time to review them again (and checking if they finally got some servers in europe).
I believe they were one of the best hosting providers for no-frill Python Django web apps. A lot of Python web app developers like me would appreciate a dedicated, easy migrate Django hosting website. Alas! :-(
I think you'll see a slew of these closures.

- The PaaS space is getting squeezed on all directions; from the bottom by CloudFoundry and from the top from people like Heroku, Amazon and from startups like Parse chopping off verticals. Building a proper PaaS platform is a lot of work - tons of little edge cases, security concerns, scale concerns. All of it is very non-trivial and you can't just focus on one little scenario and hope to get away with it.

I suspect you'll see more people going the Phpfog->AppFog route, give up the general PaaS platform to CloudFoundry/Amazon/Heroku and try and move up the stack to provide value on top. I have no idea how DotCloud is doing but I'll be very surprised if they're doing well. I I love the team but I think they are in a tough spot.
You are so cool. How can I be cool like you are cool?
Heroku's doing Django fine now