skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is one of the dangers of course. When I read it I thought "Ok now they can show they know what they were doing was wrong, because they tried to hide it." In the US that could work towards proving intent.

And when you are out looking for bad actors of a modestly sophisticated nature you might start with the VPN traffic.

A much nicer solution would be create all VPNs everywhere to protect us from Google Street view type drive by snooping (you know common good and all) which keeps you from being lumped into the 'usual suspects' pot. This is a Good Thing (universal VPNs) because even though Google has stopped their practice, there are still cars/vans out collecting this information for resale.
Right now we only support World of Warcraft, but support for others are coming soon, starting with Star Wars: The Old Republic. We're definitely considering other games for the near future, though.

We currently don't support free jobs, and we do take 30% of the money paid for jobs.
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I first ssh'd into me@localhost. From that point, ssh automatically discovers key files in ~/.ssh.

This explains why my Keychain did not work, since I was logged into a "remote" host.
The Kopime Vector is an interesting idea, but I don't think that we will see a widespread use of this technology over the next decade. $1200 is still a large amount of money, and I think that trading files from a single physical location will be inconvenient.

I think the use of tools like VPN and Tor that obfuscate location information are much more likely to be the future of piracy.
What linter do you use, and does it have vim integration?
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I'm running Arch and received the same message. Ran the test video and it seems fine to me. Likely what they're saying is that they don't promise compatibility with Linux.
Makes you wonder whether or not you just sell and run given the chance.
Exactly. All this outrage about photos being uploaded without permission is overblown, because tapping the green check button is just the same as clicking a submit button. Instagram just separates the upload process from the process for setting the photo's metadata, which is very intelligent and more efficient.
Last night in SF more than 100 people ran about smashing windows and cars on the street. Did that happen elsewhere? Why did they do that?
Social Networks for Academics Proliferate, Despite Some Scholars' Doubts
What it comes down to:

Is the cost of Supporting IE 8 greater then the revenue an extra X% of users will generate.

Obviously this comes down to:

1) How much will it cost to support older browsers.

2) How many users do you have/what percentage use older browsers

3) Actual and expected monetization per user

Also bear in mind that users of different browsers may monetize at different rates.
Love the idea! Vigilance will make it successful. Be careful, don't let Blizzard's draconian EULA get in the way.
Ask HN: Why does a small collection of sites make the Front Page so often?
This is a list of sites I put together off the top of my head that are always appearing on the HN Front Page:

techcrunch
engadget
nytimes
theAtlantic
forbes
techdirt
bbc.co.uk
extremetech
wired
arstechnika

These are all great sites, often with newsworthy content but the problem I have is they are all likely to be on many people's list of regularly visited sites, just like HN.

This also makes it easier to farm Karma by continually submitting links to any breaking stories on these sites.

My suggestion is that any links to these, and similar, sites need to have a "drag" factor attached so that they need for example 3x or 2.5x the comments to progress at the pace of a less "popular" site. The drag factor would increase to some maximum as the sites get submitted more often.

This way a really interesting story from a site with a high drag factor will still make the front page but we would get a chance to also see interesting stories from a much wider selection of sites.
You typically don't store this sort of thing in data, though.

Then again, we have certain types of logic stored in a database table, loaded through fixtures... so my two cents may be worth much less than what they appear.
What is even more impressive was that while Borland began its rise without venture capital to 500 million dollars in sales Kahn himself was an illegal alien.

http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/Borland-Int...
You presented no evidence. You just mentioned that you have a business relationship with someone who put money in, without saying anything else. That, in and of itself, is evidence of nothing.

Also, I never alleged that Instagram specifically was built to flip (although I can see little to suggest that it wasn't, although that is not the same thing), I merely pointed out that phenomena such as Instagram encourages a lot of people to enter the market with that as their motive, often enough to drown out other businesses. And that kind of behaviour was a major factor in the death of the last web boom.
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Does it bother you if no one ever sees those images that are uploaded?
Do you know anyone who lives in Scandinavia? And, beyond anecdotes, have you looked at any actual studies or statistics?

I don't think every public health system is well run, but I think the better ones are better-run than the US, and lead to much greater peace of mind, because I don't have to worry if I'm covered or not--- I know I am. The total expenditures are actually lower, too, because the U.S. spends a lot of money on public healthcare, just very inefficiently. Perhaps I'm part of some evil conspiracy to lie about how I like living in Denmark, but the numbers seem to back me up. There's plenty of other things I'll be happy to complain about about Denmark and Danish culture, too, but the healthcare system isn't one of them.

I don't think I've been treated well in the US healthcare system, in any case, and there were long wait times and subpar equipment. I also had to change doctors when I changed jobs, something that Denmark doesn't require me to do. And I had to spend a lot of time on the phone with insurance companies, who seemed to always make mistakes and miscode things; anyone who thinks governments are bureaucratic hasn't tried to deal with a large corporation's phone tree.

But I suspect you are putting ideology above any actual interest in rationally evaluating different healthcare systems based on evidence.
Intent still matters. For instance, say someone emails you a image and then contacts the authorities. If merely having such an image in your possesion was an automatic "go to jail, do not pass go", you can be certain there would be a lot of politicians and other unpopular individuals being led away in cuffs.
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We're hiring for a number of positions, but I'd like to highlight a few:

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Last time this was posted, this is what happened: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1396532

It's full of nasty, personal attacks that have no place on this forum.
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If you read the link, he actually describes his methodology:

"The time to send a packet to a remote host is half the time reported by ping, which measures a round trip time.

The display I was measuring was a Sony HMZ-T1 head mounted display connected to a PC.

To measure display latency, I have a small program that sits in a spin loop polling a game controller, doing a clear to a different color and swapping buffers whenever a button is pressed. I video record showing both the game controller and the screen with a 240 fps camera, then count the number of frames between the button being pressed and the screen starting to show a change.

The game controller updates at 250 hz, but there is no direct way to measure the latency on the input path (I wish I could still wire things to a parallel port and use in/out Sam instructions). As a control experiment, I do the same test on an old CRT display with a 170hz vertical retrace. Aero and multimon can introduce extra latency, but under optimal conditions you will usually see a color change starting at some point on the screen (vsync disabled) two 240 hz frames after the button goes down. It seems there is 8ms or so of latency going through the USB HID processing, but I would like to nail this down better in the future.

It is not uncommon to see desktop LCD monitors take 10+ 240hz frames to show a change on the screen. The Sony HMZ averaged around 18 frames, or 70+ total milliseconds."
> "I suspect there are legal and practical reasons why it would be impossible to implement profitably."

We have any number of exceptions in bankruptcy law to make such debts difficult-to-impossible to discharge. Surely such medical coverage could be worked in. And, yes, morphing coverage into essentially medical credit is the desired effect, as insurance companies negotiate far, far better pricing than individuals and credit for medical expenses is otherwise extremely difficult to arrange.

That said, I do agree to the general concept you're advocating and would prefer that sort of solution. We should just outright tax people to directly pay for the "we're not going to leave you for dead" care hospitals already provide. This makes far more sense than having hospitals eat those costs and over-charge everyone else to make up for it. Further, we should expand that base level of high deductible care to subsidize the basic preventative care that will keep the final costs of such coverage low. [1]

And then allow third parties to provide additional coverage.

Though I would most-strongly advocate a severing of the employer-health care link. If nothing else, that needs to go. The grouping of employees has serious distorting effects on the labor market. Risk pools should be insurer-wide. And insurance contributions by employers can/should be handled like a second direct-deposit. Even if we keep the employers' tax deduction. [2]

But the insurance choices needs to be in the employees hands. The risk groups need to be wider. And changes need to not be forced upon a change of employers.

[1] e.g. Basic doctor visits and generic drug coverage for things like antibiotics to cheaply treat conditions that will otherwise wind up in the ER; provide family planning care; etc.

[2] Though i'd like to see that removed and treated like any other wages from the employer-side, but exempt from income tax on the employee side.
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Welcome to HN.

In general, people (especially businesses) do not make decisions based on price. This is one of the most common misconceptions of new software/startup founders. Indeed, for higher paying customers, they are often shockingly price insensitive, assuming you are genuinely delivering value to them.

More on this topic in my Microconf speech in, oh, 7 hours or so, but I'll try to hit the highlights in a blog post or something in the coming week.
At $1200 or $400, no. But think a little further out, and remember it's not a single physical location.

Instead, think mobile phone + NFC.
If you don't want the users, ask them to switch browsers. If you want mainstream computer users then support IE8 because it isn't going away any time soon.

In my opinion, users will probably lead to more revenue than whatever you are doing with z-index.
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Why you should care about CSS page performance
Really? I've found Haskell's syntax and overall design to be the most elegant of anything I've tried. I really appreciate the lack of unnecessary punctuation which litters other languages.
Generalizing Code Through Functional Programming
To add to the points made by previous responses, you can see for yourself the benefit of unencumbered files by ripping your own legally obtained Blu-ray movies. Once you have a DRM-free file on your hard drive, everything is better: there are no forced trailers, the movie loads nearly instantly (the standalone Blu-ray player I've used took about 5 minutes to load a disc), and seeking is practically instantaneous. You can even watch your legally obtained full-quality movies on non-HDCP-capable projectors and monitors.
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I know fanboy gushing isn't really productive. But I'd just like to say that it's so awesome to live in a time when we can start a topic of conversation about someone of note, and there's a chance that this individual will join the conversation personally.
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I assumed they were doing it not for the donors, but for potential recipients. For example, suppose someone you know needs a kidney. You could look and see which of your friends would be willing to donate one, or ask them to post a message to their friends and see which of your friends-of-friends could donate. It's probably a lot more efficient and people are probably far more likely to donate to someone they know personally. And for the recipient it's probably a much faster and easier process than having to wait on a donor list.

Eventually I could see the same with bone marrow and blood type where it's a donation that you can make and keep living, but where millions of people die because there aren't enough donors.

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You'd be surprised! In my experience, folks who pay A WHOLE NINETY NINE CENTS OF MY MONEY have very shockingly high expectations of polish / quality / feature selection (but no desire to e.g. read what the software actually does), whereas if someone signs e.g. a contract for $X0,000 for enterprise software, it lacks a feature, and they ask for it, "Thanks for the feedback, we'll consider adding that in a later release. In the meanwhile, I suggest ... as a work around" makes them absurdly happy.

For more on this topic, go to HNsearch.com and look for [patio11 pathological customers].
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Honest question... When someone make projects like this as a public git repo, and there's no obvious licence visible (unless I'm missing something), what are the ramifications (or what's stopping someone) from taking the project, modifying and releasing on iOS/Facebook/Android and making some money?
I've definitely concluded that work hectic is proportional to the number of clients to keep happy, but I imagine this only kicks in above a certain price point.
Yeah I think you'd have to add them - but how else could it work otherwise?
The C syntax predates 1983, but it works.

Haskell's operators are wonk:

[0,1,2,3]!!2

versus:

[0,1,2,3][2]

Clearly !! is a logical array indexing operator.
Late reply, sorry. I never even knew they had the option of an XMPP server. For what it's worth, I find the mail experience to be both reasonable, and pretty much fat-free, which I guess is all I really need.
Apple to crush carriers, become direct service provider
I am not interested in this particular job but why would you want to use Spring.NET? Is it because you are migrating from a Java application using Spring.NET? Are there any other reasons?

If you are moving to C#, I would definitely recommend another framework which is more suited to leverage C#/.NET. The reason I am suggesting is that because it is very difficult to hire good C#/.NET developers these days and the problem becomes 10 times harder if you are going to use Spring.NET. I know that it will be a deal breaker for me and my other friends who use C#/.NET.
Well heck, if some anonymous dude on the internet guarantees it, who needs facts or logic?

Or I could, and maybe this is crazy, listen to any one of my friends who has actually lived in a country with universal health insurance.
What makes Haskell better than OCaml in your experience? I haven't heard of much real world evidence of Haskell being better, just people saying things like it must be better because of its monads.
Cod Liver Oil: Like It Or Not, Apple’s Gatekeeper Makes Sense
I can understand the sentiment. I was a Lisper before I came to Haskell, and initially, the syntax seemed verbose and unnecessary. As it turns out though, the syntax is very simple and well designed. There's just a lot of optional sugar, which also happens to be well designed.
Turning 60: The 12 Most Important Lessons I've Learned So Far - Tony Schwartz
I haven't owned an iDevice in some time so I'm not sure about the fine print (or even the bold print for that matter) but if the warranty terms do not explicitly prohibit or limit the number times a person can transfer a warranty or return a still in warranty device, then I don't see how they can bring a ton of charges with out looking like total douches. The proper course of action would be to issue an amendment to the warranty terms to change the policy. Then they have something to point to. But just having some random "nice uncle" lawyer make a call and intimidate the kid into submission is a pretty douchey thing to do.
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Won't employers still offer health insurance in that case? A group risk pool is still the best way to offer insurance, and large corporations are de-facto the only way to produce a risk pool that doesn't have large adverse selection effects.