skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really don't want that to happen. Sure, it may be a good idea for them, but I'm already tired of services that won't let me register without a Facebook account. When it comes to payment, they better have a good alternative available.

With credit cards we have a number of "hidden alternatives". We've got multiple processors, multiple card companies, etc. It's a number of layers there. With Facebook and Paypal... you're not able to pay when they say you're not able to pay (or be paid). They're not even controlled banks, so there's little you can do about some issues.

Think about all the problems when Google cut someone off and didn't provide any way of contacting them. Do you have a good way to contact Paypal, or Facebook now? (besides forms that result in canned responses) What are the incentives for changing it?
You have done one thing _very_ good -- Good intro page.

Now have pages for differences with language X, and it will not only clarify your thinking but also what one can expect from a language.

After that have a cookbook and a web-framework and your ready to go the full-monty !
Maybe the subset of moms that frequents reddit and HN.
Because you are spamming - Please stop!

You have 401 submisions and as far as I can see, 400 of those (ie all but this one) are to your site untether.tv. 400 submissions to promote your site (and no other contributions - submissions or comments) is very clearly spamming.

Some more stats: 400 submissions for the same site, roughly on submission a day since your account was created, no submissions to anything else, only ONE comment ever, out of 400 submissions only 38 upvotes. Honestly, I think people should flag future untether.tv submissions unless the content happens to be really relevant and informative, because HN isn't really a marketting/promotional tool (promoting your stuff every once in a while is fine, but if you don't otherwise take part in the community and you post self promoting stuff every few days, thats definitely spam in my books).
familiar? have? number? Don't think so...
Google Plus - approx 200 million users as of 2012-05-27
Google Plus - approx 200 million users as of 2012-05-27

I am just following up on research from Paul Allen
https://plus.google.com/117388252776312694644/posts/bGJPTALDkDe
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2747710

I added more recent samples

| Date: | 07/09/11 | 09/21/11 | 09/25/11 | 10/02/11 | 11/11/11 | 02/16/12 | 05/27/12 |
| Approx: | 4,700,000 | 29,372,543 | 41,308,415 | 45,942,757 | 53,690,671 | 111,501,048 | 189,275,539 |
| | | | | | | | |
| Maring | 9 | 50 | 65 | 72 | 91 | 210 | 406 |
| Shireman | 12 | 43 | 59 | 65 | 74 | 135 | 205 |
| Toepfer | 13 | 68 | 79 | 88 | 101 | 181 | 285 |
| Fredenburg | 3 | 23 | 35 | 39 | 49 | 105 | 172 |
| Louderback | 4 | 38 | 53 | 58 | 62 | 111 | 166 |
| Wilcoxen | 8 | 20 | 40 | 48 | 51 | 112 | 196 |
| Lewter | 6 | 23 | 30 | 33 | 42 | 103 | 209 |
| McTigue | 9 | 49 | 61 | 65 | 74 | 156 | 256 |
For domains, you can sign up to be a reseller with a number of registrars. I use resellerclub because they are one of the few who don't charge a monthly fee for this and they have a nice API. They take all of your billing info, and allow you to enter your clients' info. They charge you one price and you charge the client another, and they can handle all communication like renewal reminders, etc. directly with the client if you want. It's better to have the domain in the client's name, not yours.
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Drucken & Morg:

You'll note that in no way have I said China doesn't have exactly the same, safe rural areas, or even safe urban areas.

What I said is: America does have those things. My response was to point out that the notion of America being nothing but a giant crime wave or an extraordinarily dangerous place is pure myth. The reality is: America has just about everything, pick what kind of life you want accordingly, and pursue it.

And Morg: the points about Europe would be interesting, except most of Europe allows exceptionally little immigration. So how can outsiders even consider benefiting even if it were the safest place on earth crime wise?

Look up the immigration rates for: Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Norway, etc. I'm sure you already know this however. Then look up America's extreme immigration over the past 100 years. How do you think 20% of our population got to be hispanic? We have a long history of allowing a relatively high amount of immigration (particularly compared to the rest of the world). It's how we become the world's melting pot.

It's not easy to get into America, but it's radically easier than becoming a citizen of most European nations just based on the extremely limited numbers they allow in.
Sal Khan's 'Academy' sparks a tech revolution in education
I accidentally downvoted instead of upvoting - sorry :(
The original source for this LLVM article is a chapter in the Architecture of Open Source Applications (AOSA), and the LLVM chapter is available at:

<http://www.aosabook.org/en/llvm.html>;

AOSA is now a two-volume book <http://www.aosabook.org>, with chapters providing overviews of 49 open source projects.
Tech Suits Endanger Innovation
might help, but also have risk of overdoing it:

- Dynaflex and powerweb exercises

http://fitter1.com/Catalog/Category/35/HandWrist.aspx

- wrist curls:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41z5INkAENL._SL500_AA3...
"that our shop's style of coding was indeed object oriented"

All of the other languages I mentioned are roughly as OO as Perl. (You sometimes have to go looking for it, and Perl's probably ultimately the weakest at the core, but it's still there and mostly strong enough it doesn't matter.)
I user tested this awesome piece of work. Had so much fun.
Is this an example of the better class of blogging we should expect on the svbtle network?
Haven't done any kind of proper survey but from what I see many startups here don't like to pay even decent. They would hire with low salary. However the point is if you want good developers, you need to pay them well! Even if you manage to find some good developer at low salary, he will probably not perform his best. Finally, they would lag behind schedule, resources get scarse and they are officially failed.
Why not, it worked out so well for Google with their deep search history, world-beating teams of big data specialists, deep pockets and massive Gmail/Gapps userbase...
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-21/google-said-to-reth...
Cannot tell if serious. If so: a credit card would be picked up by a tiny number of people worldwide in comparison to the numbers who would use a "pay with Facebook" button, and the latter is already an area of expertise for Facebook (or at worst a logical extension of their current expertise).
It's very easy for a wealthy VC to sit on a stage and pontificate like this.

Not everyone has opportunities in front of them to work on a project they believe in and make enough money to pay the bills with it.

Most of us have to struggle through years of working at jobs that hopefully use our skills well, putting in time on nights and weekends pursuing something we do believe in and feel passionately about.

Our passion projects go through half-starts, frustrations, and down blind alleys; sometimes having to battle against our own pessimism, peer pressure, time demands, and the sense that everyone else is doing it better, and more easily. (The truth is it's not coming more easily to everyone else, but it's human nature to see things that way.)

If we're lucky, we get it right, and maybe that personal project gets a foothold (fuck "traction," it's hard enough to get a toehold at the beginning). For a few, there's a chance to even quit that job that's making you prematurely old and finally do just what you want. For many people, that doesn't happen for years and years, if it happens at all, and there ought to be a medal for anyone who can simply stay motivated and persistent for that long, whatever comes of it.

And in all of this, I'm still talking about a small subset of the American public, and an even smaller subset of the world. We're talking about some of the luckiest people on the planet—those of us who can even consider things like "life plans" because the circumstances of our lives have landed us so far up Maslow's pyramid. If you're working at a job that you don't care about, where your manager is a capricious idiot, the office is ugly and the coffee sucks, but you're at least using your skills, you're already in a position that 95% of the world would love to trade places with right now.

Don't let a billionaire with perfect 20/20 hindsight tell you you're doing it wrong. If you have to spend part of your life with your excitement and enthusiasm deferred because that's what it takes, don't pile on your own troubles by telling yourself that you're "deferring life." Life is one long journey of ups and downs, discovery, pain, joy, frustration, accomplishment, and every other damn thing. Take it as it comes, meet it with your head up, and when you have to slog through the bullshit, slog through it. Just because your passion might flag for a bit doesn't mean it's not going to rise again, and just because you have to "sell a product you don't believe in" doesn't mean you're doing it wrong.
Sure. Some citations:

[1] http://www.xperthr.co.uk/faqs/topics/6,62/age-discrimination...

[2] http://www.acas.org.uk/index.aspx?articleid=1046

[3] http://www.businesslink.gov.uk/bdotg/action/detail?itemId=10...

[4] http://www.rightsatwork.co.uk/employment-law/age-discriminat...

[5] Anecdotal: http://www.personneltoday.com/articles/2008/03/26/45050/look...
It seems interesting to me how you (as in you both) continue to argue different points in increasing force. That's not how a dialogue works.

Argue based on issues. Clearly address each issue your 'opponent' raised. Substantiate it with facts. Link to reliable sources if possible. Point out weak points in your own argument and why you think your general point still stands. Don't commit logical fallacies (see http://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/ ).

Both of you raise valid points. Engaging in a discussion would probably make us all better off in the end. Currently I can only read "your country is stupider than mine!".

Interpret the possessive 'your' as you will.
Reading a dictionary into a hash in Ruby
I would seek to change the social security payment system and rates. As a "Libéral professionnel" (I think it was) - when my rate grew to 62% of gross turnover I closed down my business and re-started as a UK registered company.

Otherwise the seemingly general view that everyone who was not an employee was automatically "on the fiddle" and anti-France.

Plus it would have been good to find an accountant who did not work for the government...
Net neutrality, a lot of ISPs counter-suing BREIN for having to block thepiratebay, and now this. I love the Netherlands ^^
this was submitted yesterday under a different title, why did you repost it?
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I've been on FB since the beginning. And I've never clicked on an ad. What makes you think I will to actually buy something?

I barely trust Paypal, you think I'm gonna trust FB with my CC details. You gotta be kidding.

There are a few steps FB must do before I'll trust them with anything other than bs about what games I'm playing now:

1. Convince me they take my security and privacy seriously.
2. Convince me they aren't selling my personal data (statistical or not) without my permission.
3. Allow me to export (backup) ALL my data to my drive easily.
4. All me to cancel my account (not that I would). And by cancel I mean remove all my data. No questions, no sales pitches to stay - just delete everything in my profile (and off their, FB, drives). FB says they do this, But there are plenty dead folk with active profiles. Despite families begging FB to delete them.

Until all this happens, FB gets nothing from me except an occasional post about my Skyrim adventures. Oh and commenting on the latest high school gossip (the latter being funny. I mean, there's a reason I left town 25 years ago and hardly kept in touch. But here we all are, FB friends.)
"There is a claim that the '99 bottles of beer' program has been written in Malbolge. ( See http://99-bottles-of-beer.ls-la.net/m.html) The implication is that the program was doing looping, testing and printing. However, closer examination shows that the programmer was just doing a printf("") of the desired result using straight line code. Conceptually this is exactly the same as the 'hello world' example above."

http://www.lscheffer.com/malbolge.shtml
GTA, Red Dead Redemption and Max Payne 3 all uses NaturalMotion. And it works and looks really great.
great idea i like it.
I fully agree. For most of my 3 decades in programming, I've considered myself a badass programmer, but in retrospect, there are always glaring mistakes that were not evident to me at the time.

One concrete benefit of requiring N years of experience, with N greater than 2, is that one of the major career learning experiences is to deal with one's own code in "maintenance mode", and you can only experience that if you have a number of years of distance from when you originally wrote the code.

Of course, requiring N years of experience is no guarantee that the candidate has dealt with this situation, as there are people who (consciously or not) structure their careers to avoid ever retreading their own code.
While I tend to agree, they could throw in an RSA fob or a smartphone-based two-factor equivalent.

They probably should already.
Time however is a finite resource and it is effectively wasted on 'fun' questions. Every 'fun' question steals time off the actual Q&A content that is the whole point of SE.

Hiding stuff that doesn't below under the rug doesn't make the problem go away, fixing the problem does.

In a gamification environment moreover you need to make sure that the rewards are given for activities you want users to do more of. Participation in 'fun' questions is not one such thing. Since they get ALL the votes etc. they naturally attract more of the same 'fun' questions.

No, those 'fun' questions just have to go.
They're already giving out those to white-hat hackers btw..
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I definitely don't want it to happen either. But from Facebook's standpoint it's not a bad space to start looking at. The reasons you listed above worry me as a consumer, but unfortunately the average user isn't as scrupulous. If FB made paying for things as easy and simple as "liking" something, I'd be very surprised if it wasn't successful.
Right, because the main obstacle to international online payments is having a strong brand.
Plotting for Motivation
I started to get wrist pain when I was about twenty, and did some reading on it. One thing I saw recommended at the time was to make sure never to sleep with the wrist bent in (i.e. a "limp wrist" position), but always straight or bent back (as if signaling someone to stop). Over a period of a few weeks I trained myself to always sleep with my wrist bent back by adjusting it to that position whenever I was aware at night, and have slept that way since. I'm now in my mid-thirties, and have had no further trouble with wrist pain.

I certainly do other things to keep my wrists healthy, such as trying to maintain good posture while typing, sitting in a good seat, etc., so I can't attribute sleeping position with all of my continued good health. But I certainly won't go back to sleeping with my wrist bent in; it's an easy thing to maintain and it seems to help a lot.
US ordered to release Megaupload evidence to defence
On the face of it this doesn't sale make a lot of economic sense, so this says to me that signalling to customers and employees that 37 signals is serious about focus is worth $18k a month to them. Viewed from this perspective the decision makes a bit more sense.
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Totally, China is a communist country and the motto is get over it.

America's motto is not "rape countries for oil" - it's not "censor the internet" and it's not "IP infringement is more important than violence".

The thing is, both countries are really bad, and I don't believe anyone american or chinese can simply say that one country is better than the other.

Yes there are awesome places everywhere, including where I live or in the USA or in China for that matter.
I wouldn't trust or use something like this.

1) I don't trust Facebook to transact payments quickly or safely.

2) I don't want Facebook to take my money. I'm guessing Facebook would capitalize on this by exacting a higher rate than other options. Because they can. I want the max amount of money to go to the creators of a product, not to Facebook.

3) As it says, Facebook already knows everything about people. Should they really have access to our credit cards as well?
Do you think a simple link in the footer which says 'Opt me out of this targeting' would help you? In general people appreciate personalizing content for them, but I agree some may not like it.
Agreed. Have you tried Microsoft's Natural Mouse?[1] The way you describe gripping your mouse is how this one is shaped: you pretty much just rest your hand on it.

I've been using it for about 5 years[2] along with a mouse pad with palm rest and I've never had any wrist issues. Granted, I tend to use the keyboard as much as I can (even on Mac OS).

Incidentally, I also use Microsoft's Natural Keyboard, which is good enough for my typing habits. e.g. I don't hack non-stop for 6+ hours warranting a more expensive keyboard such as the Kinesis, and I tend to stretch and flex my fingers often.

Edit: Hmm, I just noticed the other comments regarding vertical mice. I'd never seen them before!

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Natural-Wireless-Laser-Mouse...

[2] I had it stored for a few months when I switched jobs and kept forgetting to taking it out, but it has lasted that long. I had to remove the gel pad a few months ago because it started to turn yellow and started to fall off. Otherwise, it's in perfect shape.
yes, it´s there and growing!
There were 3 ways to win.

* Smash all opponents

* Kill all the people in the streets

* Finish the race (1st)

Of the 3, smashing all opponents was the easiest.
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What if I refuse to use facebook, would be unable to pay?
I explained them in a post about a year ago:
http://tumbledry.org/2011/05/12/screw_hashbangs_building
which was discussed here:
http://apps.ycombinator.com/item?id=2592741
Are online payments such a big unsolved problem?
It takes me all of 10 seconds to type my CC number and associated security codes. Sites that I use a lot tend to allow subsequent purchases without re-entering them anyway.

If everyone's facebook account has CC details attached and a 1 click "pay now" button you are only 1 XSS vulnerability from fraud on an unprecedented scale.
"Technical grounds", in this case, means "the extradition request was never written by anyone the UK considers to be a valid authority". In denying his appeal, the Supreme Court based its ruling on treaties that neither party had argued over or been informed would be germane. Thus, there'll likely be another appeal before anything happens.

The law is finicky for a reason: it spells out exactly what rights the respective parties have. Were it not so explicit, and were the courts not so strict in enforcing it, the validity of the entire system would be called into question and judicial impartiality / defendants' rights would fly out the window.

People throw a tizzy when a murderer gets let off because they weren't read their rights, but if that didn't happen no one would have their rights read. It's just how the system keeps police and prosecutors in line. It's necessary.
I find it interesting that people have files hosted in Megaupload that they have no backups for. Really?
It's about mental bandwidth. The 37Signals way is to ruthlessly (try to) cut down on all the non-essentials for growth.
"Look at the HR policies most companies have. The big shops all treat their “fresher” recruits as bonded labour. (The contracts are worded to pass the bond off as training fees.)"

Am I understanding this right. People have to pay a 'bond' to a new employer?

Is this common in India? Other countries?
I am, however, confused at how the US can charge him for espionage, given that he's not a US citizen.

It makes sense that he would be extradited to Sweden -- he's accused of committing a crime(well, 2) while he was present in the country. I don't see the same applying to what he's accused of in the US.
This is probably a better thread than any to ask this question. My company recently began making some progress in the Japanese market. On my most recent trip, it began to be obvious why we were having issues earlier. One of our sales managers is consistently drunk while doing demos :(

Of course I, and the rest of my states side colleagues were astonished, but the japanese, and more importantly the customers did not see how this was a major problem. I'm still having a hard time seeing if this is true, can any of you who are more familiar with Japanese culture expand how japanese culture respects alcoholics in the workplace?
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Sure, but wouldn't that take longer to get us our answer, and therefore keep us from moving on to the next experiment sooner?

Of course, the real answer to why not is "we have an A/B system and I'm not going to add bandit stuff for no benefit". But even if I were doing it from scratch, it seems more complex. The benefit of these approaches seems to be that one no longer has to think. We want to think.
I found go is lot faster than Java with any code that is more than 3 lines long. I have not tesed it but I am sure it is lot faster for fewer lines of code.

Haven't had time to benchmark against c.
It's in a companies interest to make sure that there is a way to give them money, they are unlikely to want to throw away good customers just because they don't have a FB account.

What I would expect to see however is discounts offered if you use FB payments and allow your purchases to be automatically shared with your friends.
Harsh sentences for rioters is stupid? I know people who live and work in those areas.

I'd argue for the tweeting conviction too. It sent a valuable message about personal responsibility. With the advent of cyber-bullying (awful term) it's a lesson people need to learn.
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Google Wallet is actually fairly useless. To load it up you need a credit card. If you have a credit card, you could just as well, uhm, use a credit card.