skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is exactly why my wife got frustrated with law and changed careers. The judge seems just as frustrated as I would expect any reasonable person to be.
Thanks kine! Good to see you at the hackathon btw :)
Yes. I loved this book, but didn't really get much out of it except affirmation of my own beliefs. I think it would be much more valuable for a new programmer, or a non-programmer who works with programmers, than for an experienced programmer.
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A business doing $250k in annual business most likely has their own point of sale system. The 1.3% cost would be more attractive if there was an API that businesses could then just integrate into the existing POS system.
The chart items are implemented in the font as ligatures, which are (in a nutshell) elements that can be overlaid over other fonts in order to give them special inflection/meaning .. instead of a carat or so on, the ligature elements of the font file are filled with perfectly scaled graph figures, per datum, so that you can address the values for the graph in ligature terms .. +20+10+30+20, etc.

When you do that, and select Chartwell as the font, you get a working font - in Illustrator, or any font-display program that supports setting the Text style for .ttf fonts ..
It does code injection and is different primarily in that all Growl notifications show up as "Hiss" notifications in ML NC vs being unique sections that you an select and go to the app context with.
There's no upper bound. Businesses making $30k per month still save money with the monthly pricing.

It's a good deal for any business swiping over $10k/month on average.
No. I meant what I wrote. It is outrageous that they are using the law in question as a threat.

I'm sure I could have formulated it otherwise, but your suggestion states something different, which implies no condemnation of the action they have already taken: They have already used the law in question as a threat by mentioning it in their letter to the government of Ecuador.

Actually making use of it would not merely be outrageous, it would be a violation of international law.
It shouldn't matter Consider the Dominique Strauss-Kahn rape allegetaion(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_v._Strauss-Kahn). It was widely claimed that Sarkozy was behind this, it was public lynching for the presidential candidate, etc. Although this may or may not be true, the question remains: Did he or did he not engage in nonconsensual sexual acts with the hotel maid. The political motivation is irrelevant in this regard, and should be investigated and discussed separately.

I don't know the particulars of the rape allegations against Assange (nor do I care); however, automatically dismissing them because of hos other involvements seems to me wrong.
Can hospital chains improve the medical industry?
Great idea, my sister would have loved this too!
I'm on chromium 22 on linux. Maybe you need to go to the about:flags page and enable "override software rendering list" for your browser to use the proper acceleration on the page. That's what I had to do for my old Inspiron 1545.
I don't disagree with you, I was just trying to come up with a reason we might not want to contaminate it.

If there's no life on Mars, I don't see any obvious ethical problems with introducing life to it.

I mean, I guess maybe if it there was some reason it would be bad for the life forms, versus being bad for Mars.
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You are right, here is an interesting Quora post summing up the competitors: http://www.quora.com/Square-product/Who-are-some-competitors...

Answer-wiki pasted in for convenience:

«US only:

- Paypal Here ( https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/credit-card-reader , US)

- Intuit Go Payment (http://gopayment.com/, US)

- Payware Mobile by Verifone ( http://www.paywaremobile.com/en , US)

- Phone Swipe (http://www.phoneswipe.com/, US)

Europe only:

- iZettle (http://izettle.com/ , Sweden, chipcard reader)

- Cellphony (http://www.cellfony.com/, FR, still in beta)

- iPay by PrivatBank (http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ipay/id307368715?mt=8 , Ukrainia)»
No it won't. It's optional. If you prefer to pay 2.75% per swipe and no monthly fee you can.

It saves a ton of money for merchants who make over $10,000 per month. Those are the people who will sign up for the new plan.
Braintree, a Payments Company, Buys Venmo for $26.2 Million
I read your comment and tested it myself. I was actually very disappointed with Sencha and especially JQuery Mobile's performance but seems like dojo actually got it right.
Uber given the green light in Boston
Glad you liked that! That infographic was made by the multi-talented Dan Mayer, who we highly recommend. Check out his portfolio at http://danmayer.com
I think it is indeed "just" a stop-gap but is also more of an alternative for folks who want to keep with the non-gate-kept ecosystem. The concept of Bark is cool, but I'm not keen on running code that injects at the level it does without it being open source and something I can inspect/build on my own.
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> there aren't all that many "other" professions where you can "just" invent something new and go and become an entrepeneur just like that.

The article didn't say to invent something. It said to produce value.

You can see lots of opportunities where that's possible by just going through any reasonably sized town. You may not be able to just start a refinery, but you can sell gas and/or repair cars.
Works smoothly on Safari 6.0 (8536.25) in Mountain Lion 10.8.
Exactly. I can and will be moving elsewhere. My three puny sites can hardly be making their servers tick over the most active only gets ~2000 uniques on a good month.
The idea that the hosting would get cheaper over time is interesting. If you assume that the ongoing costs follow a Moore's Law type exponential curve (which may not be true, but seems like a decent rough approximation) then the total cost to provide a constant service for an infinite time is finite!
Creating accurate software estimates
I would argue that it's fundamentally non-Skinnerian. There's no intermittent reward mechanism and it's fundamentally communal. It's fun and it's a little weird, and I don't think there's anything wrong with that.
It was fast and snappy back in 1998 too. Much faster and snappier than Studio 2010 in 2010.
Seconded. But I gave up complaining about this a long time ago.
Thanks for the clarification Patrick. I was too busy fuming to explain.
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I think most companies that are building hybrid apps have developed a similar internal system. Good work.
Great usability requires attention to detail. It's the sum of many, seemingly small changes. Have you seen how much work has gone into the "breathing" light on macbooks? Or the math behind scrolling on iOS?
At the very least it should have a message explaining that Stripe requires js.
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Looks very well done! Shameless plug - we are working on something similar for the web: http://pllop.it
It's always amusing when companies (or people) contradict themselves to rationalize their decisions. The ongoing costs of this service are too large for us to sustain! By the way, only a few obscure people are using it so it will impact virtually nobody!
Smart move, Venmo has a pretty solid product. Congrats to their team!
Error reading floorplan

There was an error reading your floorplan from storage

Nexus 1, trying Windows7 Paint generated .png and .jpg
Annnnnddd… Bark is totally unnecessary now: http://growl.posterous.com/developers-growl-20-sdk-released
Cool. You can reach me at my username at gmail.com.
Very excited by this! We're really working hard to make technology easier for social/mobile games.
I found this while Googling with similar questions in mind.

http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/2012/07/19/3549280.ht...

4Corners is an excellent in-depth news program, along the lines of Frontline in the US. You can watch the video or simply read a transcript of the entire program.

It seems fairly clear that the Swedish authorities have behaved very strangely: 1) the "victims" don't think they were raped, they wanted Assange to submit to an STD test, 2) the first prosecutor didn't think there was a criminal case, 3) the Swedes used an "Interpol Red Notice" -- normally reserved for imminent terrorist threads -- on Julian Assange (apparently neither Gaddafi, when he was on the run, nor the current president of Syria have warranted such a notice).

As regards your last question -- political asylum is generally unusual to begin with, and the number of parties involved is hardly unusual. A "typical" asylum case from the cold war would usually involve a citizen of an Eastern Bloc country seeking protection in an embassy (usually the US or a country friendly to the US) in another country. So that's three or four jurisdictions involved off that bat.

During WWII you'd have a fairly typical case of an allied airman fleeing from occupied France (two jurisdictions to begin with) into Spain, and getting to an allied embassy.

Again -- per the 4Corners report, the Australian government has not so much been "silent" as has been "all in" with the US government.
I've been running it since yesterday as my main OS - dual booting with windows 7. seems ok. I used the Consumer Preview before so its not a new experience. I am mostly 'living' in desktop mode but I have absolutely no problem with the start menu.
> We do have the resources to provide a basic life for everyone

"We"? Why should I work so you don't have to?

Seriously - why should I forgo a nicer car so someone else can "find themselves"?

Of course, that makes me "greedy".
Oh also, if you're up for learning more about the technology/platform in general, take a look at blog.wifislam.com
We all profit in some way or another from people following their passions, often in the face of hardship. The Spotify or Rdio playlist you're probably listening to as you work is the result of untold legions of people following their dreams, and in many cases without much money to show for it. If every aspiring artist or musician took the kind of attitude so often espoused here to heart, and followed pragmatism over passion, we would live in a pretty bleak world.
> Otherwise, I'm unclear how anyone would trust them again.

You are giving the average customer way too much behavioral credit. Companies abuse confidence because they can get away with it, of course.
Snappiness is the thing that bothers me most:

With VC6, on my machine in 2000:

While debugging, I could press "F10", keep it pressed (to single step instructions), raise my finger when I get to the right place. It all worked instantly. Now, it feels like there's half a second response time to each one of those keypresses.

While building, I could stop execution (Shift-F5) and restart (F5) in about 0.3 seconds if I didn't change any source file. VS 2010 takes about 3 seconds, on a really simple project, to figure out that it doesn't need to rebuild anything before starting. And then, it takes another second to actually start my code.

WTF?
Why We’ll All Rush to the iPhone 5, no Matter What
@untog: It's actually a sensor fusion approach that combines both accelerometers and Wi-Fi signals.
My engaged brother is using Amazon Universal Registry for this purpose - http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/universal
> Not very different from companies.

You're ignoring the orders of magnitude.

Scale is a difference that you have to ignore to apologize for govts.
normalize.css[1] has become more popular than resetting everything for several reasons[2],

[1] http://necolas.github.com/normalize.css/

[2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6887336/what-is-the-diffe...
Last I checked, it wasn't clear whether the amyloid plaque buildup was a cause or side effect of Alzheimer's. Has the understanding of this changed in the past four years?
Assuming you're referring to Marie's scolding of Megan, I think the quote is closer to "Not every little girl gets to do what she wants - the world could not support that many ballerinas." Which is even closer to what this article is saying.
nice idea in theory, but bounded content is already patented by Samsung.
To anyone thinking of Joyent for cloud services: Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, ...
Edison has a National Historical Park, and his winter home in Fort Myers, Florida also has a museum.

http://www.nps.gov/edis/index.htm

http://www.edisonfordwinterestates.org/
It will work wherever there are ambient WiFi signals, indoors or outdoors. This is particularly interesting indoors because it’s possible to get GPS outdoors, while you can’t indoors. We have tried mapping around Mountain View and it’s worked great
I often find myself thinking similarly when such articles are posted, but I remind myself that "Hacker News" used to be "Startup News" and the change in name doesn't represent a change in subject.
I like this quite a bit. I had some goofy thing done and upon FB, Twitter, and .PPTX in ten minutes.

It's best described as [Distillate of Keynote: iPad Edition]. The auto-license Creative Commons image siphoner is brilliant. It all looks good without effort. Theme swapping is effortless.

My criticisms as a nobody: the "doodle font" on the overlays showing you what does what is too jaunty and busy for me to read quickly. I had multiple sluggard-hangs on the Deck chooser (iPad 2, ios5) that left me with dead UI requiring a restart. And the first launch experience is just a little too busy to take in. Nothing fatal at all, but I don't feel in control when things are happening with every touch. It feels weird when I can manipulate the screen when the explanatory help overlay is on.

This is really good work, and it has succeeded in making Keynote look fussy. Thank you!
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We do something quite similar.

Because issues and PRs are hopelessly intermingled in Github, we create issues with the sole intent of creating an initial PR "feature/1234-api-auth" so we can reference and close the initial ticket.

The issue describes what is the problem and what needs to be accomplished, while the PR body describes what actions will be taken and the overall progress.
Thanks for the feedback spaghetti. To some extent, and for some positions, hard metrics such as revenue are definitely a very strong indicator of performance. However, this approach neglects the fact that businesses and types of employees are extremely nuanced.

Often times it is very difficult for an employee to identify the reasons why they are not performing up to expectations (this even applies to the revenue model).

In our research, we have also found that a culture driven only by numbers and money typically produce unhappy employees and decreased morale. Cultures that are driven on improvement and achievement through performance tend to produce happier employees that are excited to work for a what is likely unique company.

Ultimately, we created MicroEval to increase the conversations happening in the work place. And we want to provide the participants of those conversations concrete things to talk about. Having identified the nuances of one's performance gives them a clearer target for improvement.
actually most laptops that came out the past 12 months apart from the very budget models have UEFI BIOS.
I thought this was super-clever when I first came across DiffBot last year. Can't wait to see what they come out with next.

Keep it up!
> they serve the private interests that run the state.

Oh really? What private interests ran the USSR? China under Mao? The killing fields of Cambodia.

10s of millions of people killed....
Hey nice post but ... what country isn't the land of hypocrisy?
I think you read a lot more into this than I did. Maybe it's because I've been indoctrinated into the silly value-providing member of society camp, but I don't really see how it's possible to disagree with this article.

I mean, if you disagree with the premise that a job should provide value to your employer, then how do you think the job market is supposed to work? What's the opposite? Are you supposed to go find a Job Tree and wait for a Job to fall off so you can support a family?
Very interesting!

Perhaps I'm a minority here, but I actually would more prefer just simple cards that are used for payment than a reward-based card (which is why i have a very basic debit card from a credit union). All the airline points and discounts just strike me as marketing more than a real benefit. US Airlines keeps reminding me of the number of points I've forfeited by not using them enough... as if that will make me want to use them more and still not get free flights.
Have you read 37signals Getting Real ?

http://gettingreal.37signals.com/toc.php
Especially a bad policy because some of the business data associated with the photos is wrong. So, just because I don't want to associate a photo with a restaurant means the location data is deleted.
Joyent seems to be doing some general housecleaning... I received a similar notice (same first paragraphs) related to the closure of their http://no.de/ Node.js hosting service:

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Joyent is retiring the No.de service. If, as a Node.js developer, you prefer a Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering, we suggest that you consider our third-party partner, Nodejitsu, who offers a Node.js PaaS that runs on Joyent. Joyent continues to provide an ideal cloud infrastructure to run your Node.js applications, with performance and debugging tools that no other cloud provides. Sign up for a free trial on Nodejitsu (www.nodejitsu.com) or take advantage of Joyent Cloud's 30-Day Free Trial using this promotional code.

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Yeah, they've been around. And they're hiring 150 people soon.
> He said, “I don’t want to say the wrong thing and call you a “meek Asian woman”, but I wonder how you’ll lead a company of 100 people.”

So much about investing, VC's claim, is investing "in the team", and trying to figure out "what kind of people" the founders are.

After all, you're not being hired for a well-defined position -- your success may depend on your very character as a human being. Your drive, your persistence, and your ability to inspire others.

But since these things can't ever be objectively measured, there's tons of opportunity for stereotypes (conscious and unconscious) to affect the process.

There's a positive side to going with your "gut instinct", and a negative side as well.
I think of it as more closely associated with libertarians than Marxists, though I assume American libertarians have since disowned it. Its most prominent 20th-century advocates were Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman, who viewed it as the most economically efficient way to add a basic safety net to an otherwise un-meddled-with market economy. Marxists generally want a more fundamental change in the economy, not a Hayekian economy, not even a Western-Europe-style social market economy (it would be a surprise to Scandinavians, for example, to find out that they were on the USSR side of the Cold War!).
No, because I don't get to tell you what to do. All I get to do is tell you what I think, and I think you cried "Troll!" at someone's honest attempt to participate in a discussion.

By all means, disagree. Just try not to freak out when other people disagree with your disagreement.
Constructive criticism: After reading the description, I don't understand what this application does. I am not initmately familiar with indoor mapping/positioning or WiFiSLAM. The term "indoor mapping showcase" is vague to me.

I think it lets me build maps of indoor locations? Somehow? Based on the screenshots, maybe by walking around my room? It seems like it could be neat, but I don't want to go through the trouble of downloading an app if I don't know what it does.
You claimed that bad sites don't have lots of incoming links. Then you wrote about google's counter-measures against bad sites with lots of incoming links....
Also actual graphs of 4- and 8-way SMP performance showed pretty poor scaling for real problems

Do you mean for OCaml, or in general? Because lots of problems are amenable to 4 and 8 way threading on SMPs or multicores.
Developing with subdomains just got a lot easier: *.lacolhost.com
What happens if the WiFi base station has dynamic power levels - or are most bases left with fixed power?
$10/employee/m - seems expensive for a form tool that collects minimum data
From their "Tour" page:

The fun part!
Browse and shop our gorgeous gift catalogue filled with inspiration and ideas and add things to your registry

While their (more obscure) "How it Works" page says:

Find things you love on our gift database, or list gifts and services from your favorite stores.

I think they could do a better job of making it clear that you can go and add registry items from everywhere. And honestly, as someone who just got engaged, I would probably be inclined to use Amazon Universal Registry if it came down to it (as someone else mentioned).

Edit: Part of the confusion is that I skimmed the landing page and went right to the bottom. I looked so quickly for the call to action that I skipped the tag line! (Any Gift. Any Store. One Registry.)
Woops, that's http://bit.ly/venmo-bt
Neither Sweden nor the UK will or can do such a thing as it's a violation of EU treaties to do so.
Well, that's the theory. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45511362/ns/technology_and_scien...
Fair enough. We have a 90 second video on YouTube that should give you a sense of what you'll get:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_GdXp_Swjs

But basically, yes. It lets you build indoor positioning by walking around my room.
Then why not write a rebuttal and ask for his feedback? It's impossible to anticipate every possible counter to an argument, and it would be prohibitive to list and rebut them all within a single message.

> Plenty of great software is written in C++, even using STL, that doesn't lead to software that is any more difficult to maintain than the equivalent C program.

I don't deny that great software is written in C++, but what is your evidence that C and C++ have the same maintenance burden.
We provide a personal concierge and service unparalleled by Amazon. Amazon does have a large collection of item's but they don't partner with local boutiques!
Wish one of these existed for every language, it looks incredibly useful.
strange! we're looking into it.

meanwhile try scribbling it down on paper and taking a picture of it :)
There's also some high-school-with-more-money-attached gamesmanship with that sort of thing.

Generic business lesson, not specific to raising funding: you may be occasionally asked to reschedule a meeting on very short notice, sometimes to a time which could not possibly be convenient. This is occasional used as a test: if you say yes, you're communicating that you really want this deal to go through, which means your other options are likely poor. That can then get used against you in negotiations. If, on the other hand, you say "We can't reschedule", you may find that scheduling conflicts resolve themselves as if by magic.

Having a full pipeline gave me leverage to say

n.b. Truthfully conveying to investors/clients/etc that the market circumstances concerning one's availability can quickly change in a fashion against their interests and that as a consequence they should decide quickly does not require any particular state of one's pipeline.
In our experience, we've found that most access points do in fact have a fixed power.
Either way, the system can accomodate some amount of dynamic changes.
Did you write image recognition from scratch yourselves, or is it based on a lib?
From the TOU (also at archive.org, linked from the above document): dispute is to be resolved by arbitration. More suckage.
He definitely got more recognition — sometimes for stuff he didn't even invent (light bulb). But I think the business quality of him was awesome too, and something most geeks could actually use some of.
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Investor endorses investment. Film at 11.
Is that a serious question? 'Cause I can think of enough ways women are made to feel unwelcome at these events without the added bonuses of envy and/or resentment.