skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's just it, he committed no crime against the US. He might be tried for treason if American but he isn't. This is why they wouldn't want to extradite him via any official channels but rather use Sweden's "temporary surrender" clause to get him extradited with no trial or oversight at all.
>The argument that it's equally obnoxious to assume that someone who's made useful contributions in the past has been productive in the last decade as it is to assume they haven't because you can't recall being told about any, is falling flat with me.

1) I don't think he made any major useful contributions, ever. He made some marginal contributions, but on the level of major league OSS players. The only exception is his C&tB book.

2) I didn't assume, I asked, hence the question mark at the end of my, er, question. I also added as a informational point that I don't recall anything. And, no, it's not because I don't follow OSS or software developments in general.
Time is not a finite resource in this context.

Time is variable with participation. By driving me off through closing and deleting things that don't fit your personal vision, you have reduced the amount of total work time available. Not just for the fun things, but for all things.

Gamification points are also not finite. But if you are really concerned with over-rewarding things that are too gosh-darned fun, just stop rewarding them. It's an easy fix. E.g., instead of marking a question closed, you mark it as just-for-fun; points stop accruing.

I guess what you could be saying is that time is finite for some particular group of people. In which case, you've introduced an us-vs-them dynamic, and are basically declaring that the system is about serving the desires of the in group, rather than all participants or all readers. In which case: have fun with your bat and ball.
Are you talking about an automatic kickstand? What if you stop next to a pothole?
Reading this made me sad. I thought Can I have the codez Plz mentality runs wild only in outsourcing giants.
My VISA ... I don't have a credit card

Visa is a credit card, however. In Europe, it's often tacked onto a regular debit card, but it's a separate thing not everyone has.
The 60 percent figure may be correct, or it may not; depending on the type of composite this might be possible, steel making, forming, and welding vs fabrics and glues.

Totally agree on the wording; completely non sequitur.
Maybe in the US.

In Brazil, I do not know a single debit card that will allow international purchases, or that will be allowed in Paypal (even though Paypal has a local presence).
Google keeps changing the names of things that they've previously launched. Google Docs becomes Google Drive. Google Places becomes Google Plus Local (aside-- why isn't Local tied into search instead of Google+?!).

I think name changes like this are incredibly resource-consuming and confusing for users. It's interesting to note that Apple has never changed iTunes' name, even though it's way broader than "tunes" at this point.
I have actually looked at Burcardo a while back and found it not fit for general usage.

If you think slony was bad then Burcardo will give you nightmares.

It's based on a brittle conglomerate of elaborate triggers - and it's effectively undocumented.

With something as complex as multi-master replication I'd think long and hard before trusting my data to a bolt-on hack like that.
The reason the destruction was toned down is because the maps would look extremely barren after a while. Even now, if you get rid of all the trees in e.g. Caspian Border, a lot of cover get lost and air and land vehicles would be having a heyday.
Credit cards (especially in the UK) have strong legal protections for the buyer. (Section 75 of the Consumer Credit Act). Debt cards are excluded from that. So are "pre paid credit cards".
If you mean social position/power as well as being state sanctioned and run then yes, the mighty BBC is more authoritative but if you are looking for the accurate up to date unbiased details then I would choose the Guardian any day.

Thanks for the link.
Leveson is just a rare occasion for political lightweights to get back at the real wheelers & dealers who actually run the country. A few scapegoats will pay (Brooks, Coulson), but the Big Beasts (Murdoch, Cameron's chums and Blair's friends) will remain firmly in charge. It's all a self-serving show for media hacks, the masses don't care one bit -- LibDems, who were less friendly to Murdoch and come out from the enquiry as quite a honest bunch, are being routed at the polls anyway (as they should be, but let's not digress).
Debit cards aren't more secure again fraud. If anything they are less so. Much easier to refund a transaction on a CC.
It's frustrating how the Google Toolbar solved this problem perfectly 10 years ago, then stopped working consistently.

I should never have to type in a password, credit card number, or address if I don't want to... yet nobody except a few proprietary browser plugin vendors treats this as a problem worth solving.
Apologies, that was a typo on my part - I should have said "iOS device" rather than "Apple device", indicating that the browsing experience was as good as on a desktop.
Well, I checked pnglib for one. He is one of 20+ contributors, not an original project founder, and was only active on it for like 2 years (2000-2002 IIRC):

http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/src/libpng-LICENSE.txt

I wouldn't call that "people depending on MY software everyday".
Watts per square meter is a reasonable way to make a back of envelope calculation for the energy use of a common building typology. Given the radical realignment of energy budgets in the manufacturing process and the attention to energy efficiency in building design over the past two decades, it is not outrageous to argue that a new smaller footprint factory would be significantly more efficient.

If one visits an automobile plant, one will see that a lot of energy goes into moving chassis and components from place to place. Smaller lighter pieces over shorter distances combined with fewer moves would have a significant impact on energy consumption.
Not sure; it has never happened yet and it would certainly get ugly, so she might. She does usually step in at a few other places, though. We're getting off-topic here; for a very nice but not yet complete overview, see http://www.quirksmode.org/politics/ .
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Facebook has demonstrated a completely utter disdain for interacting with their users. If something goes wrong with your "friend wall" or whatever, it's an inconvenience. If something goes wrong with your money, you want to talk to a human. Everyone knows you can't reach fb humans. When it's money, that matters. The work involved in turning that perception around is a huge hurdle to this idea.
A more apt microwave analogy would be if microwave manufacturer didn't want you to heat water in your microwave oven, because you could use that water to boil eggs outside the oven.
Bought it, use it, enjoy it.

Wishlist - some habits may require several tasks during the day. For example "Drink 5 glasses of water" - would be great to schedule 5 micro-events during the day with possibility to cross those.
It's not about FB deliberately doing something funky with it - it's about one of the million and one apps that have requested access to your FB account at some point doing something funky with it. You may trust them to do it as securely as the next person, but at least partly based on their past reputation around privacy, I don't.
Who works for Visa that Facebook couldn't hire?
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It depends if we are talking about FB simply providing a service for taking payments similar to google checkout (using existing Cards) or whether you suggest that they try to replace card altogether.

In order to do that FB would be looking at setting up massive infrastructure and essentially having a "banking division" that would get bogged down in regulations and bureaucracy.
I read about Sarno on HN a while back and can vouch for its weirdness but also success. Like you, I didn't read the book, just read some of his core theories on the web. All I did was stop thinking about the pain and it actually worked. It's like a placebo of some sort.
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I like esoteric languages as much as the next geek, but not being Turing-Complete puts a real limit on the coolness of a language. I think it's much more salient to say you can do anything in a ridiculous language rather than limiting it.
I gotta wonder how Clustrix compares to this. Also is this similar to using a SQL layer with Cassandra.
It's not uncommon anywhere where companies have to invest a large amount in employee training.

It's pretty common if you're doing a professional qualification (accountancy, etc.) with training and exam costs paid for by your employer, that if you quit before a set period you have to pay back your employer for the amount they invested in you.

In countries like India companies have to pay a lot to train new inexperienced graduates and staff turnover is a huge issue far more than in western countries.

Many western companies that hire graduates just write-off training expenses when a recent hire quits which they can afford to do so because it happens relatively rarely, but if it was a frequent occurrence like in India it would be economically unviable to do so.
Seth Godin: A hierarchy of business needs
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Thanks for sharing feedback. We are going to add some features.
> Now, I understand DHH's resentment (or envy) against Pinterest, Instagram and Quora—everbody's raising money like shit

Given his ability to execute and monetize a business coupled with engineering talent that would be obvious to any VC given his stewardship of RoR do you really think if DHH wanted to raise VC funds he would have any problem?

Envy comes from wanting something you can't have, not something you don't want.
People don't know how to negotiate. Equity is the founder's only payoff, so they're going to be incredibly stingy about it, while playing up the intrinsic benefits.

Also, people don't know how to measure opportunity cost.
Miranda was a criminal, and guilty of rape.
I see your point.

What is 1% of infinity?

Each individual must make an approximation.

What is a good approximation for infinity value for an 18 y.o. with a high school diploma?

If they were perfectly rational, it would be the present value of all expected future earnings.

Such a calculation would make taking a job as an oil platform underwater welder make sense.

Trouble is, it is only a convenient approximation. It can expand to fit any circumstance.

So if you own, say, a trading company worth $10 billion and you hire someone (or some entity) to be in charge of protecting your life, the substrate on which all of that value rests for you, you've just handed them a check for $9 billion plus the present value of all of your expected future earnings and asked them to keep good care of it.

How do you think a perfectly rational actor would respond?
Lots of non-US citizens have been charged and found guilty of espionage by the US. The cold war is full of examples: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Soviet_and_Russian_e...

I'm not sure whether you have to be physically present in the US to be guilty of espionage. The game has changed somewhat. It used to be that you had send someone to sneak inside buildings in the middle of the night, taking photos of secret documents on James bond mini-cameras hidden in fake fountain pens.

These days, you just hack the computer network remotely, or write a computer worm that monitors the 'good stuff' and sends it home to 'mama' in Fort Meade.
Why not "Coca Cola Buy" NFC payment chip in every bottle too to be used in restaurants/bars? My mother knows the brand Coca Cola, and if Coca Cola hires 1000 engineers to provide an NFC chip in every bottle; they may get 1% from global.....
Not sure Raspberry Picture needs to compete with Apple in order to "work". I'm sure it'll work just fine for people who like that kind of thing.
It's not different here. Bonds are illegal by labour law in India. They cannot be enforced in court. They only serve as a harassment tool, and they work because most young workers don't know better.
Twitter reverts back to traditional server-side rendering, cites performance
On the other hand, you can also see why working in a civilized place, like Western Europe with less liberal firing laws is also popular...
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FB allows you to buy gift cards from stores for credits, so for an outlier that doesn't trust Facebook with cc details, there's another option. Through buying Karma, they can bring gift giving into Facebook credits, so for someone's birthday you can buy a gift card through Facebook, and you can take your phone to the store and use your gift. This has tons of potential and you can for even more through Facebook. Think of buying tickets for events, or going to a small business' store and buying an item (Etsy style). Or Etsy, Amazon, eBay, etc setting up apps where you can use Facebook credits to buy (long term). I have two cousins visiting from India, and it's amazing watching them use Facebook. They're constantly on. Using it to connect with friends, play games, etc. This is a whole market the most people don't think of. These markets are huge. And as another user pointed out, all these kids using Facebook these days are growing up with it and will continue to use it, and trust it. It's a whole different experience that we don't really see.
T.25 diarama photos:

http://www.gordonmurraydesign.com/t25-diorama-photos.php

Recent reviews of T.25 and (electric) T.27:

http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-review/murray/t25/first-drives/...
http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-review/murray/t27/first-drives/...
The important question is "why?" not "how?" - concentrating on any tool is missing the real problems and solutions in life.

The tools isn't Chicago's problem or else it would cause the same problem in ND. My cousin is alive because he had a shotgun on him when attacked by abandoned dogs. I don't blame the dogs ("how"). I blame the owner's who abandoned them ("why").
A visualization of this YC data as compared to technologies used across the top million sites.
http://slice-publish.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/rnkj...
The Linux Foundation Announces New Tool for Tracking FOSS Components
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Putting "would" in front of "have" turns it into "would've (wood of)" when spoken.

And the number 3 is different from your fingers being number now than they were before.

Not sure about 'familiar' though.
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ACTA could be signed in the U.S. without Senate ratification because it doesn't change a single thing in U.S. domestic IP law, so there really isn't anything for the Senate to ratify. Wyden knows this; his request is largely grandstanding.

This is not necessarily true in other countries, which is why their legislators are getting involved.
Most people don't click on ads, but the minority that do can generate billions of dollars of revenue. The minority that do follow the ones that don't.
Yeah...this depresses me. I am one of those guys that is going to get screwed. The only thing I guess I would say in response is that I would be an investor instead of a first employee if I could, but I can't. I don't have the capital sitting around to play with and there is a difference between differing salary and having cold hard cash to inject into a company. In other words, an investor giving $50K is more valuable than an employee deferring $50K in salary.

Also, in many cases, the employee is getting value that the investor is not. Specifically, the employee (i.e. me) likely doesn't have a ton of start up experience and is able to leverage the work as employee #1 to then start his or her own start up later. The investor on the other hand has likely been involved with many start ups and isn't as much interested in learning or experience. They just want a return on their investment. So, from that sense, this article is sort of comparing apples to oranges.
Show HN: Why did we launch a free help desk?
There are lots of full-blown help desk tools with way too many options and a very steep learning curve, which we think doesn't suit for startups.
We felt using a help desk should be as simple as using Twitter and thus developed a dead-simple & straight forward help desk tool.

We launched it today and your feedback is welcome. www.clickdesk.com
Not just the browser: why buying Opera makes sense for Facebook
I had briefly considered creating a service that would backup your Dropbox, GDrive, and SkyDrive but it seemed to me that because most of the users had the files on their computers locally anyway the idea didn't have a lot of value. That is why I ask.
>goes 100 miles (160 kilometers) per hour. It gets 96 miles to the U.K. gallon (1.2 U.S. gallons)

>100 MPH on 96 MPG

Not to knock 96 mpg at any speed but the headline is rather more impressive than the claim in the article.
Almost every time I use my ccard I get redirected to my bank's website where I have to login. This involves entering two fixed digits (long and tough to remember) and a third token using using a little calculator like device which they supplied me, for which I also need my bank card and its pincode. Once I've passed this step I have to generate another one time token using this little device.

If I want to use my ccard online, away from home I need to have all kinds of codes remembered or written down, my normal bank card and this little device.

Using my ccard online has become quite the pain in the ass.
The original Galaxy S is indeed not a very good device. It was great for hackers, but otherwise you got a bad experience.

The Galaxy S2 was the first device where Samsung really delivered.
Treating trigger points saved me. I had terrible wrist pain and then I read about trigger points. I found some in my upper arms, massaged them out over a few days, and the pain was gone. Look for spots painful under a little pressure, massage it for 20 seconds. Repeat several times for a few days. Done.

Read more at http://saveyourself.ca/
OMRON May Bring Hand Gesture Recognition To Mobile Devices
that's what happens when you don't fight for what you want. they let others rule the nfc area, what the hell did they think was going to happen.
4 Observations on being black
50K$ worth of work and 50K$ in cash are not the same thing. The former has a higher risk associated with it than the latter. For example, there are the risks that the employee becomes unable to work for health reasons, disappears or just isn't suited for the job. Also, the full value of the latter is only delivered, if everything goes well, after one year.
These articles make me wonder why everyone with a blog thinks they know better than the massive teams of engineers running these companies...

Do you really think Facebook doesn't have reams of data and analysis on this exact idea? I bet they've been analyzing the crap out of it for years and for whatever very good reason they have they haven't done it yet.

Now, I predict the company who will make a trillion on payments is Apple. They're set up quite nicely to tell the credit card companies to take a hike.
If you can potentially generate more than $18k/month by being more focused on your core product, why not?

As raganwald mentioned earlier, Jack Welch of GE got out of areas even when they were making money. They only stayed in if they can be #1 or #2.
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I'm the OP and I'm frankly humbled to see a 5 year old post trending today.

What's changed in five years? For one, Bangalore has a real startup ecosystem now, with funded startups that pay market-level salaries and offer stock. This was rare in 2006.
I doubt your market knows that 'nutritionist' is not a protected term. When I read that I thought "oh, there's a qualified person overseeing these recipes."
You can buy portrait-mode monitors. They're made for niche markets and specialist use, and thus are somewhat expensive.

See, for example, the NEC MD213MG, which has a 4:3 aspect ratio, with 2048 x 1536 resolution. This is a 10 bit greyscale monitor used for xray viewing. (30 mS response time and a UA TFT panel.)

Or the NEC MD301C4 which is 16:10 with 2560 x 1600 and a P-IPS panel. (6 mS response time.) (This is, I think, about $2.5k to $3k.)
96 mpg (imperial) = 2,94 l / 100km
Without commenting on the TPP specifically, I will point out that this is the process that the Constitution sets out for international treaties: the executive branch negotiates them as they see fit, then the agreement is presented to the Congress for ratification.

If TPP makes it that far (no guarantee it will), the Congress will have plenty of opportunity to read and react to it--especially now that Fast Track has expired. Just look at how many times the negotiators had to go back to the table on the South Korea and Colombia free trade agreements to satisfy Congressional objections.
Surely the cross-contamination arguments apply to the Soviet sample as well ?
Ask HN: I’m a technical founder looking for a business co-founder in Japan 
I’m a technical founder in Japan looking for a partner to help take my SaaS app to the next level. I have a beta of a consumer SaaS app that is about 2 months from being ready to launch the full-featured paid version. I have been working in the industry for 4+ years and have a deep knowledge of the target customer and have received very positive feedback in initial beta testing. I’ve been in Japan for over 5 years now and I have also previously founded a company in Japan that is currently cash-flow positive.

I am looking for a co-founder/partner that can help bring my app to the masses of Japan. This is currently a side project and due to my current position I do not want to disclose my identity on this thread (hence the dummy account), but if you seem to meet the profile below shoot me an email and I will tell you all you need to know (needabizcofounderinjp at gmail dot com).

You would be responsible for sales and marketing, fundraising and you would be helping me to whatever extent possible with brainstorming ideas, improving the product, design and any of the other million aspects involved in running a business.

Specifically, you should: Have a deep understanding of the Japanese market / consumer, be fluent in Japanese, and be a creative person that wants to push the limits and create something new and innovative.

Bonus points for: Design skills and past experience marketing a consumer product in Japan.
Whoah, “Any future ratings, reviews, or photos will be visible on the web under the name <my name>”. “Your reviews and associated photos are displayed to [...] anyone who views places you've reviewed.”

No way to “share with precisely the right folks”? Talk about awkward online sharing. Ugh.

I wrote 198 reviews in the past but I don't feel comfortable making them public. I'd be fine with extended circles or some such. If I try to edit them, I get forced to make them public. I'm a bit disappointed.
Well there's interesting ways to do that with Facebook though. A la you can't start selling large amounts of goods unless you have x number of likes on your page. Same thing, on the user side. You can only buy $10 worth of credits if you have a new account, accounts can be flagged, etc. I agree it's a pain in the ass to do, and much easier said than done. But it's definitely doable and hugely profitable. They can easily take more than $1 in merchant fees, and credit card companies will beg them for their business and give them great rates. Shoot, they can do a Visa or Mastercard exclusive and get even better rates at the beginning.
The Swedish legal view on Assange's extradition