skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It all depends on the service being used. tor is especially slow because your traffic is routed through many points online. Hotspotshield is slow because of the bandwidth limits for the free service. If you pay for a legitimate vpn service, you will get what you pay for, a fast connection
"PayPal have all the power of a bank and yet none of the responsibility."

That is precisely the problem, PayPal is on the hook for any credit card charges for 6 months so they are much more willing to protect themselves then to try to understand a specific situation. They are a black box when it comes to these types of issues, you feed lots of information in but you get almost nothing in return.

Banks usually transfer funds nightly and they don’t hold subscriber information hostage.

It would be one thing if PayPal was amazing to use but they are just one technical or customer service blunder after another.
Android catching up with iPhone on paid apps
Will you also release Wunderlist 2 for Linux? :)
Somewhat random, but I'm the person who "packaged" Aristotle Pagaltzis's outstanding rename for Homebrew. I'm very glad to hear people other than me are using it too.
As a user of WP7 who is looking forward to WP8, I really really want to give them the benefit of the doubt that there is a major ace up their sleeve they can't talk about for competitive reasons. Something like Nintendo announcing the Wii remote early enough for Sony to quickly switch to motion-sensing controllers as well. Something huge and disruptive that is so critical to their success that none of their competitors can know in time to ape.

I can't recall a single time Microsoft has ever done that, though...
Fresh from reading Elliot's recent PayPal woes[1], I find this (parent article) post in my twitter feed.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4483710
3D animated bouncing ball with shadow, using only CSS3
X runs fine on top of Wayland, just like X runs fine on top of Quartz.
Sure, it's useful -- in fact, I really need to schedule tweets, but have been procrastinating in finding one. This post made me do the 3 second google search and I chose http://twuffer.com -- not a great name, but free, easy and has the features I need.

There are a ton of products (free and commercial) that do this -- but only one had a name that made me not even want to find out if it would be useful to me. No comment on this page discussed anything about whether it was good (in fact the non-name comments I see are negative) -- my guess is that, like me, no one is really giving it a serious look.

I think it's legitimate to factor this reaction into your naming strategy.
Male soap. Male wet-wipes.

So, I never got as far as looking at the app cos the name made me shudder at the potential for similar behaviour underneath the surface.
A documentary about the guy that just wanted to fade into the sunset. Interesting.

That's fine and all, but is the Ruby community still pretending to respect this guy? If so, why are they making a big public video tribute to a guy that not only chose to disappear, but took all his work down with him too?
This headline made me think he might be back for a second :(
You don't TSA for that, metal detectors and security checks existed before TSA. Of course, beforehand there weren't kids trying to smuggle guns on. end sarcasm
Google 5 to 0
How to move your online sales away from PayPal | this is rachelandrew.co.uk
Awesome.

I'm not sure I'm quite understanding the process. All these links appear to be seed funds, VCs, etc. Am I applying for investment capital when I fill out these forms, or just for the $24k of hosting? Do these people take equity, or what do they get out of it?

There seems to be so little information provided!
TSA can't arrest or detain, but they can call the police. I'm quite sure you'd be detained. I don't know on what grounds an arrest could be made, so you're probably right that you'd be removed from the premises after some holding period.
Fantastic news and glad they have been on the case about this since day one.

Two things out of this whole affair that stand out are:

1) UK Manufacturing clearly needs a better way to make its services available so people can utilise them, the goverment should be helping in this area. Wales have done alot to promote manufacturing and probably has a fair chunk of the UK production, the whole of the UK should be made more aware of this local resource.

2) TAX on a made product compared to the bits to assemble said product. From the current standing it is more cost effective to make products outside the UK as apposed to buying in those parts seperately and in bulk and making the product localy TAX wise, this is again another area the UK goverment has to address.

But the reality of bring some types of manufacturing back localy, even if driven by some of the lesser reasons makes sence.

This all said I would love for a Pi with more ram and also love a couple of network ports, make a lovely firewall unit then without messing with USB network adaptors. I'd also like USB3. So with that in mind maybe there is scope for a model C and D, idealy a model you can upgrade a little bit more in those respective area's. But if I had to pick anything overall it would be a little bit more ram. But there is nothing stopping me making my own board and modifications (skills pending), like most out there probably thinking about. Open Hardware schematics on github and group effort - anybody aware of any plans or projects along those lines?
Almost two years ago, we started recruiting hackers as tutors by saying that they could bootstrap their startups by doing so (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2236188). It took us a little while to get there, but it is so awesome to see that it actually worked.

There was a lot of high fiving in the office when John told us what he was doing and how.

And, incidentally, we're still looking for more programming tutors, it's one of our most popular categories - everyone from 11 year olds to professionals looking to switch careers are asking for it: http://www.tutorspree.com/update-profile/new
Note, that was in France, where different legal rules apply.
I first heard about Blekko through HN. I first learned of their API which I used to build most of unscatter.com on through HN too. The 3 card monte the original poster of this thread referred to, once again heard about it on HN. HN has also had links to articles about Blekko's investments from Yandex.

These were all front page. Over all I think Blekko has done a great job of being relevant and covered on HN.

Actually, here's a simple example. 44 pages when you search for Blekko using HNSearch - http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=blekko
A lot of professional sound studio gear is still being made in the UK and the US (and has always been. Studio types are very picky about the origin of the gear they are using).
You'd be surprised at how cheap it is to buy a legislator in most cases.
Now all the baby hackers will know that there may be a hole at spankapps.com that allows to get 12 millions UDID. It is a follow up to stripe CTF.
How does he know that Glitter Draw Free was the culprit?

It's well known that APNS tokens are not unique on a per-app basis, even though the documentation says they might be. [0]

The theory that the leak didn't originate with the FBI is totally plausible, but I don't understand the connection with Glitter Draw Free, and I suspect the email's author doesn't realize that APNS tokens are not unique.

0: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2338267/is-the-apn-device...
Bkmrx: a new way to store and search your links
Bad idea.

Better: Why Language Developers Should Stop Making Languages on Top of the JVM.

Imagine if Ruby or Python were only available on top of the JVM... There may be a need for versions of a language that live in the JVM, but don't make the entire ecosystem dependent on it.
Interesting idea. Though the FBI's denial doesn't mean much, as it's exactly what they'd do in this situation whether they had obtained the data or not.

Supposedly the guy whose laptop the data was hacked from was a DefCon attendee, so I guess it is possible that he cracked some database and got the data himself, unrelated to any FBI operation. But, of course, that's precisely what the FBI might want us to think if this data was widely distributed and they probably shouldn't have had it in the first place. It also doesn't explain the connection to NCFTA.

And of course it's possible the AntiSec hackers obtained it completely on their own and tried to connect it to the FBI afterwards.
If they said they did, then yes.
Lady Gaga's new album ARTPOP to be launched as an app
I have 3 Twitter RSS feeds in Google Reader. They are the only Twitter feeds I currently care about, and I'd rather see them with my other feeds than in some other website with a shitty UI.

Google Reader also says the most popular Twitter RSS feed I have (~2 million followers) also has about 3000 other Google Reader subscribers. So we're probably talking about at least tens of thousands of people who do the same as me, if not more.
Scrotwm is an open source Linux window manager.

I'm struggling to think of too many other examples - "Back Orifice" was a script kiddie tool from about a decade ago, I guess that was a "provocative" name (iirc, it had a plugin system called "buttplugs", but I may have imagined that).

Question to the people who are objecting to the name: would you object to a punk band that called itself "Tampon"? Would you say things like "this will really harm adoption of your product"? If not, what do you consider to be the relevant distinction between open source software and punk music?
Can you name some of those competitors destroyed by fraud? I'd be interested to learn more about those cases.
> Sadly I have to rename it to `rnm`

You just like to live on the edge, don't you?

$ rm foo.{bar,bar.bak}

vs.
$ rnm foo.{bar,bar.bak}
What if I were to quickly drink the coffee? Felony obstruction? This is a serious question; I'm not being sarcastic.
"We have no idea if they miss any guns"

Actually we know for a fact that they miss guns.

https://www.google.com/search?q=tsa+misses+gun
I think, until recently, that statement proved correct. You created a product or service, sold it for more than it cost to make/run, and voilá - profit. Companies didn't have millions of free 'customers' while they worked out a way to make money.

And even when I look at the big web companies that spent years 'figuring out a business plan' it always ends the same way. They put advertising on the product (although it's a new type of advertising never seen before) and the battle is over. Most of the time, if you have an idea and can't figure out how it will make money, it's not worth pursuing as a business (unless you love the idea and you can afford the huge risk).
While managing a hostel in South American I met people from all over the world with horror stories about security and customs while simply transiting through the US for a matter of hours.

Hundreds and hundreds of travelers told me they would happily spent $1k extra on flights next time simply to avoid the United States. They don't want to go there ever again.
Those of us who are in marketing, publishing, & start ups are not generally an accurate reflection of the general market. We tend to be far more aware of advertising than a typical web user.

Most searchers are unable to distinguish the difference between search ads and content. From a number of surveys we did here
http://www.seobook.com/consumer-ad-awareness-search-results

"Even directly after viewing a search result with 3 ads in it, most users are uncertain of where ads may appear, what color the ads are, and if the search result even had any ads in it!"
It's planned for the future, but it isn't done now.
While I disagree with you on some points, thank you for at least making them. Sure, The Daily Show is not 100% fiction... but it is at times a one-sided, slightly exaggerated representation of non-fiction... to get some laughs. It is as much comedy as it is news. It is certainly not unbiased so it really shouldn't be used as a pure news source anymore that Fox News should. In truth, most news outlets have some degree of bias, but shows like The Daily Show and The Colbert Report take what ever they can use to be funny. Letterman and Leno too.

So Romney went to a private school... so? So his dad gave him a lot of money... so? So he did a Mormon mission in France while the Vietnam war was going on... so? I don't call that a dodge anymore than my dad not going because he had childhood polio. Not every single able bodied man was slogging through the jungle.

I would agree that how a man made his living could be an indicator of his leadership and expectations. But not the only one... and not always a good one. A person could be moderately successful at business, not make a huge amount of money... and be a raging dick of a leader. A person could be very successful in a business, make a crap ton of money... and be a horrible leader... or a great leader. He could have inherited a bazillion dollars from his family. Or made a couple of wise investments 30 years ago. Or won the lottery. None of which say anything about his leadership style or what we expect from him. I think there are better, less private ways to find out his leadership style and expectations than looking at some glorified spreadsheet the IRS collects every year. Sure it can be one of the useful items... and he did release some.

(for the record, I'm not a Romney supporter. I just don't really care about his tax returns. I don't care about Obama's either. I'll look at the candidates for their policies and ideas. And on some level their ability to manage money.)
You said 'most people'. This implies you know that, in fact, a majority of people think what you claim.

If you're going to make a claim like that, you should have some data.

If you don't then preface it with 'I think that' or 'people I know'.

If you don't or can't be bothered to do that then you should shut your pie hole.
Sure. I logged into gmail.com yesterday morning, and my inbox was missing. I still had everything that "skips the inbox", like mailing lists, my sent mail was all there, but everything that was in by inbox had vanished.

:(

This actually made me pretty sad.
These floors are too clean, we should fire some of these janitors.
Handling temp dir with ruby.
These states "are considered" to be a "constitution-free zone" by whom? What does that even mean?
I added plus.google.com to the list of sites blocked from search results shortly after they started spamming them. Too many results were polluted with google+ above ones I was actually looking for.
So they ended up doing (what sounds like, or may as well be) a complete rewrite and it's taking them much longer than they expected? Shocker!

It sounds like they're running the WP7 apps in a compatibility box. Is that right? One issue developing for Android is the huge API sprawl. Android has this immense surface area of public API now, and they only add new methods and classes every release (I'd love to know how the framework engineers on Android feel about this, because it certainly detracts from the app development experience...). So a compatibility box sounds like a good idea in that case, though making everyone rewrite their apps isn't a good idea...
The CSS gives it away. Bing has slightly different coloured links so you can see it quite obviously.
Great app, happy to see there are people writing useful open source software in their spare time. Let's move on, enough talk on the name, let's dig into the actual code.
With the bank account, they may not reverse fees or other issues that arise as a result. For example, I had a fraudulent charge on a debit card. They reversed it, which is fine, but i was still hit with an overdraft because of a scheduled ACH payment which, at that time, dragged me into negative balance. So there are differences between debit and credit cards.
Steve Blank is a Prophet for all modern startups. His emphasis on customer development or search for business model is perhaps the most important concept in decades that will usher in a wave of successful startups. I can't wait to take the Udacity's lean launchpad online class.
Facebook Closes Its Acquisition of Instagram
Depends on the country. Australia has extremely strict laws about false advertising, and they carry stiff penalties.
Catroulette is Adorable and For a Good Cause
Honduras to build new city with own laws & tax system for investors
You can keep your shares. I picked Google 5 times out of 5.
If you were a project manager, I'd hope you wouldn't be imposing your personal tastes on a product.

I don't make products for me. I make them for my audience. The right question to ask isn't, "Do I care about how pretty this is?" It's, "What do my users care about?"

Consumer-focused products (and Github is certainly one of them) require much more investment in visual and interaction design than, say, in-house software. It's how many people judge quality, and having a pleasant experience matters to a substantial chunk of the audience. Github has absolutely made the right choice in keeping their interface a pleasure to work with.
I expect that the Windows 8 kernel will run great on the Intel mobile parts, should the latter become widely adopted.
2) - Would not be such a good idea. Remember that a good chunk of these get exported to outside. Raising a protectionist barrier will just encourage other countries to do the same.
Nokia is a company with over 100 years of success behind it, and it approaches new products with the concomitant confidence: they really believe the engineers will be able to pull off whatever the marketers come up with. (Even after, as the video shows, the top of the line N97 fell far short of the hype.)
The TSA is certainly going way beyond logic with this, but honestly, passengers need to start speaking up (specifically I'm referencing the placidity of the people having their drinks checked in the video).

Realize that while they may have a badge and a fun little uniform, these agents are people just like you and I. Sadly, in most cases, they're of a lesser intelligence too (yes that's mean and discriminatory but it's true). When something is wrong, call it out. Otherwise this sort of absurdity will continue to get worse. Civil liberties are more important than your meeting.

Don't be afraid of this crap.
Korea looking into Apple complaint over Samsung's 3G patent "abuse"
A metal detector that has a 99% chance of stopping guns -- meaning some slip by -- would be awesome.

It's a classic problem in computer security that, if it actually works, people say "why do I need security since there are no incidents?"

Metal detectors, even if not completely perfect, stop people from bringing serious weaponry onto airplanes because people don't bother bringing serious weaponry in the first place. The chances of getting caught are too high. People who simply don't bother will never show up in your direct measurements of the effectiveness of the metal detector.
Instagram officially part of Facebook today
If I recall correctly there is a mention of this on Paypal's story in Founders at Work.
The Azure Mobile Services look to be a first step for Microsoft to wrap up some of their Azure offerings in a nice little package with a bow on top. Azure goes very much beyond what's mentioned in this article. Azure is something like a mashup of Heroku, AWS, and App Engine. It supports java, php, python, anything you can run in an IIS process, and anything you can run in a Windows/Linux VM. And, the new management interface is HTML/Javascript, not Silverlight.

See: http://www.windowsazure.com/
This is great!

My own wish is for a "balanced budget" amendment for complexity: the government gets a finite amount of complexity they can spend on laws & bureaucracy, and to enact more laws they must first remove others. But you'd need a way to quantify complexity. Your solution is much more practical.
An Akka kata with the Scala Meetup group in Stockholm/Gothenburg
Yeah, unfortunately this would be one of those civil disobediance acts that would get lumped in with yelling 'fire' in a crowded theatre. You'll probably lose on the grounds that your behavior presents a "clear and present danger to the United States". Seeing as there are plenty of idiots that believe in the security theatre, that is how your behavior would likely be interpreted.
6Wunderkinder pivots
Alexis Ohanian, Reddit co-founder and Web advocate
This is just the tip of the iceberg - for some time now, many international flights inbound to the U.S. have had a secondary screening of your carry-on bags at the gate. They won't let you take any liquids into the gate (beyond the 3 oz bottles) and go through your bags. They had this last month when I traveled from HKG to SFO. Other international flights not going to the U.S. did not have this screening. I think I remember an at-gate screening at Frankfurt as well, but my memory is fuzzy.

At least there were no X-rays or pat-downs...
Heh, perhaps.

DDG is a great product, we are one of their partners and we are providing some of their search results. They are also quite popular on HN I think in part because of the cool things they have been doing about creating interesting one-box kinds of things. But that said, they aren't a search "engine" they are a search "provider." That isn't a bad thing, in fact its a good thing because you can get Google results through DDG without having to get Google's "value added" stuff like G+ friends feeds or being "bubbled" as Gabe is great at pointing out. But the difference is that if the search engines stopped providing results, DDG would stop being able to return them until they built their own index. As would a number of other places like search.com or dogpile.com etc. The weird thing about search is that until Blekko came along and built a third, there were really only two web scale indexes being used, Bing's and Google's. Amazing is it not?

So I think DDG is pretty cool, love the ideas that Gabe comes up with, and am happy to partner with him to provide access to our index.

To rebut your statement that I was being disingenuous however, I suppose it depends on how measure or define 'well known.' From the perspective of various traffic reporting companies blekko.com is a bit more well known than duckduckgo.com which is not a perfect measure either but it does provide a different perspective.
Many thanks!!! I cant tell you how often I use that command. Or how many times I had scoured `apt-cache search` results looking for this functionality.
Go Kinvey!!!!
... and this is why I'm Canadian.
I find the Google+ spam annoying too, but my pet peeve is the redirects Google put on search results so they can tell which ones you click on. I hate this, first because it feels invasive and second because it noticeably slows things down. Most of the time it's not that bad, but every now and then it adds a second, or 2 seconds, or 5. I got so mad I astonished myself by switching to Bing for a while. And indeed the Bing experience was much faster. I've switched back to Google for now, mostly out of habit. But I've gradually gone from being a big fan of theirs to a grudging captive. Something could jolt me into a different orbit.
I got Google 5 - Bing 0. I did 3 math related searches, 1 math graduate student by name and 1 search about a python math library. Looks like I'll only switch to Bing if I leave math, which is not very likely. ;)
ah... morality. How we all like to think ours is the one.
Not sure why you're being pessimistic. VNC demonstrates that graphical access can be networked at the application level rather than as a fundamental architecture decision we pay for constantly. Wayland is an attempt to cash in on the savings.
True, but the issue isn't removing files, the issue is generalizing a command for mapping output of a command to another command. rm was just a simple example. xargs is far more useful than simply deleting files.