skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The primary reason that a company wants to get a hold of your payment details (or at least a way of charging to them; Stripe etc) is to streamline the charging process when the customer is to be charged again. Plus it has the added benefit (for the compnay) of having the customer feel like it's a sunk cost once it's been charged (Netflix monthly access, Amazon Prime yearly shipping, etc). Think about everything that you get billed for regularly that you wouldn't necessarily pay for if it were left up to you.

In the case of your prepaid cell phone the cell company knows that you:
1) Want to be able to make phone calls
2) Want to be able to receive phone calls
3) Want to keep your phone number

I'd wager that you're much more likely to make sure you're prepaid phone is paid then your Netflix account each month.

All that aside I think it's a very pleasant model from the perspective of the customer (I personally avoid auto billing whenever possible and even resort to single use credit card numbers for anything new or remotely shady).

If you have an engaging enough product I see no issue starting off with this model though I'd recommend eventually migrating to a model where you implement your own recurring payments.
Mountain Lion: The Roarin' Thundah Review
Understanding that cons cells can point to anything and that the referent not the referrer has a "type" is critical to understanding the language.
Personally I suspect that once you have 100M in a treasury ladder or similar investment you've got the 'oops I've been fired' part covered. Sure you might have to sell off the high maintenance things but you can live a comfortable life indefinitely :-)
Somehow I don't think they're feeling it...

It saw them from near-death to the worlds most valuable company - where one of their biggest problems now is what to do with their $115B in the bank.
I'm curious, do you build your own products or freelance?
Comparing Hacker Schools
Love the idea and the launch page/video. Your site is very well done. The concept is interesting to me too, as an Economics major. Any plans to monetize at this point or would it be entirely donation based? A non-profit of sorts in and of itself?
I just upvoted your other post. This practice is quite annoying. I guess it's understandable on some level but obviously it should be easy to get to a company's home page from its blog.
Quoted for posterity. One of the most amazingly crappy articles I've seen come out of the SEO content mills.

"1. Coffee and cigarettes.
2. For nonsmokers, coffee and a donut.
3. Chew gum.
4. Doodle.
5. Red Bull.
6. Think about college professors. Don't think about morons.
7. Sniff rosemary.
8. Do NOT take an IQ test or be ranked by intelligence.
9. Have good relationships, be social and adopt other people's perspectives.
10. Exercise.
11. Listen to some Bach or Mozart.
12. Better yet, learn how to play some Bach or Mozart. Or learn any new skill.
13. Stop multitasking.
14. Guys, stay away from pretty girls. Don't even think about them.
15. Get enough sleep every night.
16. Finish what you start.
17. Lay down to improve problem solving.
18. Believe you can become smarter.
19. Try out certain nutritional supplements.
20. Feed your superstitions.
21. Talk to yourself.
22. Stay away from the color red.
23. Avoid situations where you feel out of control or powerless.
24. Avoid rejection.
25. Get a boss who thinks you're a genius."
I see. I think many of us had an (uninformed) expectation that he would receive fewer resumes... I certainly didn't expect so many resumes with 5+ years of experience.

I agree that it lacks context for comparison to other places/times. But for people who shared my expectations coming (which I suspect was a lot of people), this was still informative.
C# / Asp.net pays my bills, but I've been playing with node.js lately. Just to kind of see what the hubbub was.

I took Ryan Dahl's chat room demo and added a database for validating users & message logging. I've added a couple commands that allow users to change their nicknames on the fly and some other feeble functionality.

I think eventually i'd like for users to be able to run javascript across all sessions, which could be a complete mess or kind of cool.
Any idea why it is illegal to offer real money online gambling in the US? I'm sure it's not hard for US citizens to gamble online if they like using foreign websites. Just seems to be a way to lose a lot of taxable revenue from a high profit business sector.
Apptopia: buy & sell mobile apps
Surviving the SSHpocolypse
The Education I wish I Had
So it turns out the Higgs Boson sounds like Cuban dance music
Is this related to this project? http://www.themaninblue.com/experiment/Cubescape/new.php Design looks the same.
I've been looking into node myself and this seems like an interesting application. I'm hoping for the "kind of cool" option for you when it's all said and done!
this. OP should keep in mind that any user interface is built upon learned, flexible metaphors for the data it represents... files and folders are a metaphor that break down for some use cases and work well for others...

I always have a hard time taking anyone seriously who thinks that these metaphors can be fundamentally improved. A metaphor that's intuitive for one person could be completely confusing and out of context for someone else.
Ask HN: Twitter's API future
I'm working at a startup which depends almost entirely on twitter's API. Based on twitter people sayings[0] I wonder what will happen with the API. My opinion is that Twitter won't totally close the API but will migrate towards to a paid access for non personal tweets, and free access to personal tweets.

What do you think will happen?
You mean Distributed Social Networking Protocol
https://github.com/ilhanyumer/DSNP
Yep, looks like they haven't been able to secure deals with the big providers - Disney (ESPN, ABC Family), Fox (FX, Fox Sports Net), or Time Warner (CNN, TNT). I imagine this will change over time.
I'm using one of those with a 13" mid2010 mbp to power a 30" display at 2560x1600. It works, just make sure you use a dvi-d cable as well, most of the complaints I noticed about it not working when I was researching it seemed to be because the person hadn't actually got a dvi-d cable to go with the adaptor.
Congrats to Jon, Brandon and Steve! Lots of hard work and dedication making a great team and product.
This is true, but through the 80s and 90s (excluding the last few years discussed above) there were very few big games from these franchises either. Battletech had its most successful game in Mechwarrior 2, but this wasnt really huge. Star Wars fared a the best with a few reasonable hits - Tie Fighter, X wing vs., Dark Forces and Jedi Knight, but none of these were really anything approaching the scale of Warcraft 2. D&D released games all the time but few of them were better than mediocre (Eye of the Beholder was probably the biggest). Warhammer had nothing either.
This post uses Python. As far as Gnuplot, command line tools are not that powerful on Windows.
> American exceptionalism refers to the primarily used meaning of exceptional as "unusually good."

I am aware. It's fun to use terms outside of their usual meanings sometimes.

I am not supporting a gun ban in the U.S. I'm asking what y'all wish to do about your crime rate.
Why the World is Full of Shoddy Software
Something. He says it right there.
I have a 2-year-old 13" MBP that is running a 27" display (2560x1440) just fine (with a DP to DP cable).
I've been a systems administrator of one form or another for 19 years, spend 2-3 hours a day on the CLI, and I've never heard of ack. Depending on the time of day (and platform) i might use grep or egrep. I hopped onto one of the random ubuntu boxes I own, did a quick "apt-get install ack; man ack" - here is what it said:

"ACK is a highly versatile Kanji code converter. ACK can do reciprocal conversion among Japanese EUC"

This is probably why I don't use ack - never heard of it, not available on any system I use, and the dpkg repository has something that has nothing to do with grep.

Enough of an answer?
This has been possible for a while, its even easier with WebGL. I would not be surprised if it made for a killer 'retina' display demo.
In the meantime, I'm dyslexic, and you don't seem to be very considerate of that.

Additionally, what I said is not hypothetical. It's a linguistic fact. Your comparison of phonetic spelling to replacing "cat" and "dog" with one word is a linguistic falsehood.

Perhaps someday falsehoods will be as accepted as facts, but in the meantime, speak the truth.
I use the command line for everything, including java projects. I usually just create symbolic links: ln -s src/main/java/net/minecraft/workbench/ source
"Because OAuth is a protocol designed to enable systems developed independently and as such it's useless unless there's an high degree of standardization. It's like saying "why can't we all use our custom version of IP/TCP/HTTP/TLS". It simply wouldn't work."

Yeah I totally disagree. It could be like any other system, just have a .NET dll, a Ruby gem, whatever to facilitate the basics of that protocol. There's nothing amazing about oAuth. It's hardly a protocol in it's own right. It's just an agreement on transferring some data (some signed, some not signed) on top of another protocol. There's no magic sauce. You don't need standardization because anybody could build a Ruby gem to support any variation of it. Whether people choose to do that is a different question.
Oh nice, thanks. I just wrote OSCPad for Android which I hope becomes the standard OSC controller for Android, I will look at some default templates supporting Ableton Live.
I've pointed out how ridiculous it's to blame Windows 95 for not being what today OSes are.

Since that wasn't good enough, I then pointed out how ridiculous it would be to compare IE6 (circa 2001) with the latest version of Chrome (2012).

But that wasn't good enough either.

So in the most general of ways I gave you one even better, which BTW had a small part to do with PC performance and more to do with everything else.

> OpenBSD would have been an insecure mess 15 years ago, and nobody's web server would be getting hacked today.

Have no idea what logic you're talking about.

I think we'll just have to disagree.
Why most mobile apps suck or ‘What mobile web devs can learn from game devs’
Check out Tweetie and Tweetie 2

Just make a new version, increment the version number, and be on your way.

FileEditor 2012, etc
Is Something Wrong With Facebook Notifications? Or It's Just Me?
For about a month i've noticed that Facebook iOS app is sending me a lot of notifications about everything.
Some friends' status updates, some friends' photo shares, etc. Lots of irrelevant notifications.
It's not some "specific friends"; randomly.

It bothered me a lot and i turned all the notifications off of Facebook in the Notification Center. It didn't solve the issue. Then i went to the settings of iPhone for Facebook app and turned off all the notifications.
Now i'm relieved.

But when i go to Facebook through the browser on my desktop PC, i noticed that it wasn't the iOS app, but it's Facebook itself. Whenever i visit the page there are new notifications; totally irrelevant and that weren't coming before.

I checked the Account Settings->Notifications. All the notifications that i don't want are disabled. Only "friend request", "tag photo of me", "message" are active.
But i am receiving the notifications from other ones as well. And a lot...
And this is really annoying.

Anybody who notice that kind of anomaly in Faccebook notifications? And any solution about this thing?

Many thanks.
Serdar
Neat; but seems to missing copyright notices and an explicit license, which means no one can actually use it or redistribute it with their application.
I work for Yelp, and it sounds like we screwed up. Apologies that we weren't able to get this woman into the MySQL event. We're obviously reviewing our security procedures to make sure they are more sane and sensitive for next time.
This just goes to show that the Republicans are the Stupid Party. They should be embracing this! The Internet is but one of the many wonderful fruits of the military-industrial complex. Who was President when the Internet was created? Nixon/Ford! None of this would have been possible without close collaboration between the military and private industry, so we should give more public money to both of them.
I would be interested to know whether a version of the TeX typesetting program could be implemented in WebGL or some appropriate tool.

I have been seeing a lot more HTML5 demos with unusual placement of fonts and text. So it seems a no-brainer to port TeX to the browser (for many years this was considered impossible for some reason)
True.

One thing though, I do not agree with you that game devs target consoles first, before porting to PC. In fact, I its the other way around. Battlefield 3 and the engine it is built on, targeted primarily PC performance, scaled down to run on consoles. Same thing for most games out there.
I think the first sign that App Store wasn't trustworthy was Apple leaving gcc out of the free version of XCode. I never trusted App Store. I think without Steve Jobs Apple has lost it's ability to pretend it's a decent company. Why doesn't someone do what RedHat did except for for consumers.
The Darpa Way
I, likewise, was really excited about Simple. Less excited as time went on, but got really excited again when I received an email earlier in the week.

All of that sort of went out the window when I found out they weren't letting me in because I don't have an iOS device and the Android app was 6-12 months out.

I don't know if there's another way, but that method seems less than ideal.
I was about to point this out elsewhere in the thread where someone was saying that you can do anything you want with a hierarchical directory structure and hard links ...

This is equivalent to hierarchical tags (if you allow that an "untagged" file is equiv. to the root directory) but maybe less confusing.
Have you ever tried to write an interoperable authentication system using Active Directory? I'm particularly thinking of the UDP LDAP query and the multiple-byte-order (little-endian and big-endian!) response.

That doesn't disprove my point. Just because you don't like their approach doesn't mean they don't get points for having an approach. So far oAuth is vaporware and not consistent in almost every implementation yet still effective because it's just an idea.

Because it doesn't really work unless everybody does it the same way.

I disagree. It's not hard to adapt to using oAuth+Twists for a given provider. It's not like it's some secret handshake nobody knows and you can't get into the cult meeting. It's just signing data and exchanging tokens. We don't need a universal standard. We need a universal understanding of the problem we are trying to accomplish and various recommendations for how you might solve it. I think the work on oAuth is already complete.
Unfortunately, not all systems are OSX.
Social+Capital, the League of Extraordinarily Rich Gentlemen
There is a lot of history available, I cringe when I provide wikipedia links but its got a good summary: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_gambling and you can follow the off site links for the definitive story.
British law is all about intent, if I intend to deprive the store of that can of coke then it is indeed theft. However, if I drink a little bit before paying it doesn't. The store have to prove I intended to deprive them of it (which I wouldn't do)
Except .. there were no options involved. And even if there were, exercising earlier or later makes no difference.

Since shares of the acquired company were exchanged for shares of the acquiring company, the IRS considers this a tax event. Regardless of whether you have already exercised or not, as far as taxes are concerned, it is equivalent to the case in which you sold the acquired company's shares, and bought the acquiring companies shares. It also resets the clock on the "long term capital gain" counter. And being a small investor who wasn't driving the deal, there was nothing I could do about it.

(If I were in the driver seat, there is a way out: if the deal falls under the definition of ">80% stock forward triangular merger" or ">50% reverse triangular merger", then there is no tax event. But it rarely ever does - google the requirements)

Your largest expense is taxes.

I like it how all the armchair dealmakers on HN know how to navigate the tax system. Except those who actually tried, that is.
22% of site comments are posted to social networks
Previous discussion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4292823
Windows Azure and Office 365
haha, I just found an Google Easter Egg, while reading this thread :)

> Google "Conway's Game of Life"

PS. Also, somebody posted it on HN 3 weeks ago, but got no love: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4224926
> Free internet at today's average speeds

> $300 construction fee (one time or 12 monthly payments of $25) + taxes and fees

Google is going full circle. I wonder if the cost for Google to give internet to people who didn't otherwise have it (and at no charge to them) actually paid dividends because that person is going to immediately generate new revenue for google from the inevitable use of Google/adwords. I think John D. Rockefeller would tip his hat.
find is essentially the command line tool for traversing the file system hierarchy recursively. It's got a million options, e.g. whether to follow symlinks, depth, file/directory/device/.., user, group, change time and many more. When you use grep -r, it only does the most common thing which is to just go over all the files. If you want something more "fancy", you can use find, e.g.:

$ find -name '*.c' -type f -exec grep printf '{}' +
CSS From Photoshop Layers in Real-Time
Codecademy Hires Program… Author Douglas Rushkoff to Promote Code Literacy
Don't you, by definition, have to drop the pressure by exactly as much as your raise it?

Meaning just use the DB of the sound, and calculate the sound pressure.
Marieme Jamme: Shaping Africa's tech revolution
I think there are international treaties for that, to avoid having a re-trial. They rubber-stamp the foreign decision, and it becomes national stuff (still talking about civil).
"(and none of those annoying "The TSA has recently blah blah blah blah" announcements over the PA)"

Even in the midst of his panic, Winston was too much taken aback to be able to hold his tongue.

'You can turn it off!' he said.

'Yes,' said O'Brien, 'we can turn it off. We have that privilege.'
Takeaways From the Facebook Earnings Call
his post, in itself, just may get you a job. Nice work.
2013 Honda Civic Release Date
What I am trying to say is that all software patents I've seen so far are for "epiphany" type ideas. Ideas that did not need an elaborate initial setup or have any cost associated with them. Ideas folks have in the shower, etc.

Hence society as a whole does not benefit from these monopolies because folks have these ideas anyway. The cost of software lies in the implementation, which is protected by copyright.

You are right, though, I glanced over the point that patents allow you to publish your idea without fear that somebody else will beat you at your own idea. That again is provided that the idea is actually unique and other folks could not just come up with it as well (in the shower :) ).

IMHO the bad of software patents far outweighs any good that can come from them and the only folks who benefit greatly are lawyers and companies that would like to prevent each other from competing.
Twitter Strikes Back: No More ‘Find Your Friends’ Feature on Instagram
All I speculated in my post was that there could have been more reasons that were stated on the blog post.

You're attacking me for not necessarily taking it for face value. Your language is belittling and confrontational and I'll just take it to mean you're probably an asshole, which, honestly is the only personality judgement I have made in this whole thread.

You've acted like I made some sort of character attack on Alex...

I've seen you do this before on HN, as I stated.
I always thought that was a feint to try to get whitespace access.
You're right that note-taking will be one of the killer apps for the next generation of tablets. OneNote for Metro ("OneNote MX") is already available in beta, so I'm guessing Microsoft is chasing that:

http://apps.microsoft.com/webpdp/en-US/app/onenote-mx/f02238...

http://www.winsupersite.com/article/office-2013-beta2/office...
Wow you just brought back memories. I remember when a 250 ping was fantastic :)
apt-get install redis
Right. Infeasible in the sense that both parties have to understand and agree to the terms. A paper check is an immediate and clear documentation of the transaction.

I guess one other option Simple and other banks offer is to mail a physical paper check to a person or business. Again, it is unlikely this would be acceptable when the terms are "due upon receipt" and credit/debit is not an option. I think we are moving away from these scenarios, but we still live in a world where paper checks may be a necessity in some situations and certainly very convenient.
Hackers are magpies; we like shiny things.

In lieu of that though, how about about PC parts? A sweet GPU/mobo/PSU would be awesome.

Mechanical keyboards; good earphones etc.
I don't necessarily disagree with this, but I have to ask - how do you ration goods and services in an economy except for some kind of currency? And how do you propose we award people said currency besides some direct or indirect correlation with their work output?

It seems likely to me that technology will continue to create a gap between the supply of workers and the demand for those workers, but figuring out how to deal with the social and economic implications of that seems like a difficult task.
No. How relative would that be to domestic travelers or to younger(hostel age-qualified) travelers who are often already pushing a budget?
Sold. So is the Nike the one to get? I thought I had read that people didn't like that one?
Here's the thing about this entire debate: who gives a fuck?

Yes, the government, the private sector, and academia (which is funded by both government and the private sector) all had a hand in developing the technologies that collectively comprise what we know today as the internet.

But this debate isn't really about the internet. It's about the role of government and what constitutes a fair tax rate, which are two separate but related questions.

When Obama talks about roads and bridges, or public education, or the internet, or whatever, what he's really saying is 'see all this awesome stuff government has done for you? You really owe us more money.'

That might not be complete and utter bullshit if (a) government actually spent more than a tiny fraction of its revenue on those things and (b) if it wasn't an abject failure at everything else.

Instead, the large majority of government spending goes to wars of aggression, debt service (aka extortion payments to major banks, or embezzlement, depending on how you look at it), and Social Security. As we know from the Bush Sr. era, Social Security is completely fucked. Much like the briefcase full of IOUs at the end of Dumb & Dumber, there isn't a single, actual dime in the program, because Congress has borrowed against every last one.

Which brings us to the fundamental stupidity of what Obama's suggesting. And, seriously? We should give these people more money? Fuck you, sir.
Anyone read Snow Crash?
But it helps!
Actually this problem could be solved in the same way most programmers take up side projects. Even the projects that are not designed to supplement income are valuable to an employer. Editing a hundred pages in Wikipedia has got to be a pretty decent way of selling yourself, even if just on a resmue, to an employer. That's a sort of "buzzword" that isn't found often. Instead of sitting around filling out 20 applications, that person could have just edited 10 pages of Wikipedia, and felt better about themselves too, and just added something extremely unique to their profile.