skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Look at how much Hollywood paid to Lamar Smith for SOPA:

http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/industries.php?cycle=...

It looks like the going rate for a Congressman who is a powerful committee chair is around $100K.

A rank-and-file Congressman can usually be had for $10K or so.
ASK HN : How non-US co-founder can enter a YC company as cofounder?
I was wondering how non-US co-founders manage to enter US when forming YC companies. Can any of the foreign YC company co-founders indicate how this process works?
(I believe YC has funded couple of such companies, hence the question). Thanks
Regarding the messages that used to be in your inbox -- are they gone gone, like you can't even search for them, even with the in:anywhere flag that makes GMail check Spam and Trash?
I did similar as well.

The local community college blocks all sorts of websites with nannyware on the gateway. I tried changing DNS to googles: no change. I tried a few other things as well, no change. Looked for open proxies: "PROXY search prohibited".

What they didnt stop was looking for VPSes. I found one for 20$ a year as well. Loaded up immediately upon payment into a ubuntu 12.04 (rh, slackware, ubuntu, or debian: i dont care). I got a socks proxy running on its localhost, and then ssh tunnelled to the proxy. And there I went.
Very good article for programmers to know about ASCII
Ah, I missed that he was in the UK. Thanks for pointing it out.
Free hardcopy magazine with every PDF download purchased?
I have multiple Stripe accounts for different products that my business sells - is there any way to allow connecting multiple Stripe accounts to one zenbox?

Also it seems to simply not be working. Your demo worked great but I installed the Chrome extension and I get no pop ups on the example email page or in the welcome email you sent me (after running the curl command and getting a Customer created message). I'm on Chromium on Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit.
Someone is Making a Cyberpunk Text Adventure Game. In 2012.
Zencoder announces Live Transcoding and Instant Play
Simple Calculator for Comparing Windows Azure Blob Storage and Amazon S3 Pricing
Are you talking about opting out of the full-body backscatter X ray machine, or some other opt out? Thanks
Turn it into a desktop app that works with Outlook and flavour of the month ERP and you just killed Salesforce. Every sales rep, sales manager, and marketer on the planet would love this.

Great work.
We've been using this for a while and we love it. It solved some major compatibility issues for us when we were all using different CRM tools. Can't wait to see how it expands!
Pardon my ignorance, but isn't he less techie and more unbelievably-amazing-biz-dev guy?
Ticked off: How stock market decimalization killed IPOs and ruined our economy
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> I'm told that polling people can be done accurately and scientifically.

And you believe that?

The way you phrase your poll often determines the answers; the only "accurate" and "scientific" thing you learn is how people answer the questions the way you phrased them.

One of Kahneman's and Tversky's work asked Medical Doctors how they would react in a situation (From memory, can't find the reference right now)

There is a pandemic. With no treatment, everyone will die soon. You have the resources to produce a perfect cure for just 1/4 of the population, or a cure that works with probability 25%, but you can make enough of it for the entire population (expected number of people saved is the same).

Now, half the doctors are asked to decide between:

.... a treatment that deterministically saves 25% of the population from the epidemic, and a treatment that probabilistically saves 25% of the population from the epidemic.

The other half were asked to decide between:

.... a treatment that would let 75% of the population die from the epidemic (deterministically), and one that would probabilistically let 75% of the population die.

The whole test was built so that on average, there's no "right" choice. You just get to choose whether or not you want to determine who lives - but either way, 25% will live, 75% will die.

No, if people were rational (and doctors are supposed to be rational with respect to treatment policy), the way the question is phrased should not make a difference - but it made all the difference.

(K&T have many similar examples, and so does Dan Ariely in "Predictably Irrational").

Now, if the TSA phrases the questions, you can be certain the poll would indicate 95% of the people support the TSAs procedures. If Schneier did, the results would be very different.

Scientifically and accurately portraying the fact that most polls shouldn't be trusted because the person doing them has an agenda.
Do you expect those users to be sticky? The barrier to entry for making a to-do list is negligible, and having a long history of completed tasks is of very little value.
Suggestion: show me the actual 4 questions used! If they're not the same for each of your customers, at least show some example question sets.
The SEC’s Crowdfunding Conundrum
The link to Scott Guthrie's blog announcement implies SQL Server only, both the diagram and the text say SQL Database and relational, implying no Azure Tables. I thought the absence of Azure Table storage offering was odd myself. Maybe the communication just wasn't clear?
I just flew out of FRA to the states last month and they don't screen at the gate (or just before) anymore. But they have reconfigured terminal 1 so that all US-bound flights leave through section "Z", which used to be section "A". Everyone leaving through Z (since it's non EU/Schengen) gets a heavier screen than domestic flights leaving out of the other gates.
How Language Shapes Thought
Matt - I will stay clear of the percentage of real estate from the screen and other issues, however I think many people and businesses that advertise with Google (mine is one) feel the page does not do enough to differentiate the paid ads with the organic results. This is especially true with the ads at the top. I would ask that Google seriously look at changing this practice and if memory serves me right it use to be this way. Some people in this thread have said the same thing and I am fairly positive that most users and advertisers would agree. Thank you for your consideration.
President Obama’s First Term: Key Accomplishments for NASA and Space
For anyone who wants to learn more about Scala: Martin odersky's scala class at Coursera starts in two weeks.
Please compare your numbers against total global travel numbers, and let's see if they diverge, or track with one another.
Sorry, I wasn't clear. Obviously the only reason it would be illegal would be if it were done to restrain competition or trade, and done by an entity with a monopoly.

Giving things away for below marginal cost can also run afoul of WTO anti-dumping laws. I am also curious why there are never any dumping complaints made against software companies whereas they are quite common in adjacent markets like RAM chips.
Incidentally, this is how AmigaDOS handled it and applications were expected to call ReadArgs() to deal with it:

http://tbs-software.com/guide/index.php?guide=autodocs.doc%2Fdos.doc&node=105
"Scala does a wonderful thing, it allows enterprise developers to taste some of the goodies of Ruby / Python but stay in static Java land. which is great news for everyone."

Groovy does the same thing with less friction and switching overhead.
That is quite possibly the perfect reply. Are you an englishman by chance? Because the level of snark is just perfect:)
"dynamic and functional"

I don't understand what you've said here. The two terms are entirely orthogonal. There are functional langauges which are dynamically "typed", and there are functional languages which are statically typed. Lumping the two terms together is misleading and useless.

Static typing (done correctly) is just straight up better than dynamic typing. End sentence. I cannot count the number of times I have had errors at runtime working in python that simply would not have existed at all if I was using a statically typed language. With a sufficiently expressive type system, the types do not get in the way, but you still get compile-time enforced correct static semantics.
_why was basically the figurehead of the half of ruby users who scoffed at this term, back when it was in extremely widespread use. It's amazing how many people who never met the guy are chiming in on this stuff. It's even more incredible how many people who have not even a passing familiarity with his work are passing judgement.
Apple hasn't really consistenly stuck by Objective-C; they tried to push people in the Java direction for OS X "Cocoa" development maybe about 10 years ago. Never really caught on, though.
Thanks for the links!

This is T-Mobile mangling stuff. They do some other things which are annoying, but not Internet breaking. It's a sub-optimal Internet experience, but pretty handy for what I want to do.
I imagine this is more due to the fact that it effects his product and income
Being honest with myself: my journey to learning how to code
I'm supposed to dislike an incredibly prolific and inspiring guy because he took some stuff offline?
Exactly what does that have to do with the relation between RSA key sizes and hundreds of milliseconds of latency?
We're not planning on stopping at "make a beautiful spec and share it" - we are building a tool that ease the pain of writing and collaborating on specs - with your clients and/or team.

Your feedback however is very valuable - since the product is still in its infancy (heck we haven't launched yet) and knowing we love to iterate a lot and based on real world findings - this is this kind of feedback that will help us shape the product.

So again - thanks a lot!
>We're Sorry,
Google has banned us from retrieving results from them for now
This comment is quite late. Hopefully somebody at Microsoft will see this.

I used Bing for several months. I actually found it indistinguishable from Google except for linux howto questions (Google seems to understand forum websites better).

The dealbreaker for me was lack of SSL support. Switched back to Google.

Nobody who uses Google regularly will switch to Bing: not enough of an advantage. But people who start out with Bing may never switch. That's the long-term game Microsoft has to play.
Used to work in the industry manufacturing and programming these cards. You are exactly correct, the credit network provides more protection for the cardholder than using your debit card.
Very strange; I've never heard of a Gmail issue like this.
Ahh, you're right! I was under the impression that push tokens were unique per app, but I guess it's per-device.
There was an article I read about how US manufacturing are making a comeback, but mostly in bespoke manufacturing that requires a lot of automation and technology.

On the other side, there is the story of the man who tried to source all of his solar panel parts in the US. He's actually having difficulty doing this (supply chain issues).
IIRC, _why had some PHP code and writing before he got in to Ruby, but I can't find any of it any more. Anyone have links to it?
No support for multiple Stripe accounts for our MVP, but it's easily something we can accomodate - the UI would be the most difficult part. I'll reach out to the Stripe folks and see how their OAuth support would be for this.

I'll follow up by email for the issue right now.
> Rather than a project like: "Here are the specs, when will it be done?" we tend to prefer: "Here is an idea, do you think it can be done?"

Or even, "here is a problem, how can we solve this?"
mankhool.com
Amazon announces new Kindle e-reader with "Paperwhite" display
My problem: the idea. I know the steps to get there (talk to people, find their pain points, test whether they would actually pay for something, etc.), but it's still my biggest hurdle.
To be fair, I'm pretty sure Apple punditry is not Marco's primary source of income. He doesn't do the podcast for free, but surely his Tumblr equity and Instapaper sales would suit him just fine if he decided to stop being a pundit.

Gruber, not so much.
Manufacturing in the US is also very strong, might even be the highest it's ever been. The, so called, problem is that it doesn't really hire as many people as it used to due to automation.
Yeah, a few features around this (Desktop, etc.) would be great. Outlook is an definite win, we just have to time it right.
Solid summary of some powerful tools, no wonder python is the new default for academic data analysis.
Unless you're OK with being a wallflower. Of course then you have to ask, why go to a meetup?
We need to stand up against this shit. This is absolutely ridiculous. The TSA and DoHS as a whole are a fucking joke.

/soapbox
What about non-profit organizations with charters to change legislation? Instead of raising funds to lobby, you raise funds to form an endowment. The proceeds from the endowment are used for lobbying until such time as the legislative goal is achieved.

One the goal is achieved the funds can be distributed to another cause, redirected towards another goal, or kept as is with the goal and preventing future legislation from erasing the gains.

Instead of contributing to one politician perhaps we should be contributing to an army of lobbying pools that match our desired policy outcomes?
I only see evidence of one kind of feedback, which, I hope, was expected, so it's not very useful.

It's not growth hacking if you don't grow something you care about (e.g. users not "naming" discussions).
Merchantinc.com
merchantinc.com is great fpr accepting payments on your website, ebay, and on smartphones and tablets. I am not sure if it is available in Canada I am in the US. Love how they never hold funds.
While I tend to agree with the sentiment of the video, unsourced statements that "free markets are best" do not constitute a working argument.
Actually we (DDG) do have our own indexes (including web links). More details here: http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles/216399
F*ck You. Pay Me.
The Software-Defined Data Center: Dissecting the Latest Buzzword
Even when converting matter to energy, you still can't crack AES-256
There's a difference in measuring manufacturing by the number of jobs, the number of widgets created, or the value of the widgets created. The value of the widgets created is at the highest point it's ever been in the US.
That's the alternative I've generally taken, and it's cost effective.

The problem I'm running into these days is that clothing cuts are so constrained that there's simply not enough fabric present (shirts especially) to construct a fit. For slacks, it's that or that the alterations are sufficiently extreme that the results aren't appealing.

Most jeans cannot be tailored to any significant degree (other than inseam length).
The price is nice. Let's close -- Facebook + Instagram Is Official, Now What?
Because they had to get their announcement in before Apple's event next week. This way, hopefully, some people will hold off on buying the next iPhone and wait for Nokia to actually ship.
Malindi beach Hotels, Resorts, Accommodation
My earliest computer gaming memories are of playing Zork with a friend on his C64. Good games and good times! I wonder if the yung'uns of today will look back on their Xbox live or MMOG multiplayer sessions with as much nostalgia.
From the blog on HootSuite's site

> Consumer users of Seesmic encouraged to explore new tools, apps and features available at Twitter.com

Guess that's the side effect of these new Twitter partnerships, also a very round-about way of saying they're shutting

http://blog.hootsuite.com/welcomes-seesmic-users/
VeXeD
That is awesome! I'm a firm believer in giving folks choices in this regard.
7x network inc
Amazon Press Conference on Kindle PaperWhite
Entrepreneurs are Taking Kickstarter More Seriously; VCs Should, Too
I do exactly this. Great for traveling to China and other countries where you might be outright blocked or worried about people snooping. Of course it doubles over on coffee shops and any other shared network you don't trust the provider or neighbors.
Amazon Officially Announces The New Kindle Paperwhite
It means that the explicit language of the US Constitution is flagrantly ignored and violated, as though outside its jurisdiction.
Quantum physics at a distance
> The two paradigms are not necessarily in conflict.

Agreed - that's my whole point. It's better to think of object-oriented programming as a construction within FP. Of course, some (badly-designed) OO languages like Java sandbox you and restrict your access to some of the more powerful, higher-order concepts, which is why they seem to be 'in conflict', when in reality, one is just a more abstractly implemented, whereas the other's more specifically implemented.

> Scala is a perfect example of a language which is both.

No, it's not - for example, functions have to exist within an instantiation of a class (a singleton object counts). By providing true first-class objects (unlike Java), you get many of the same benefits as first-class functions, but it's fundamentally not the same thing.

Really, an easy way to create a language which supports both is to start with a very basic language with true first-class functions and closures (like Lisp) and then define a few closures that encapsulate state (objects), and then add a couple of basic macros that turn generic functions into bound methods (ie, automatically provide the implicit parameter instead of calling it explicitly).

...which is why I agree that they're not in conflict - a well-designed OO system can be easily implemented within a well-designed functional system!

(The reverse doesn't work so well because you can easily add an implicit parameter to generic functions, but you can't completely remove an implicit parameter from a bound method, even if you pretend it doesn't exist - ie, treat all methods as static methods).
Show HN: Opscotch - Debate Anything
Hmm, we're (DDG) not a search engine? Come on.

Actually we crawl the Web a lot and have a bunch of our own indexes. A more apt description would be a hybrid search engine. More details at http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles/216399

Just to be clear, are you saying you no longer backfill results with Bing?

Also, we don't use any Google results right now.
Amazon Teases Kindle Paperwhite in New TV Ad
The "ground staff" need to get real jobs. No matter how hard up for work I am, I will not sacrifice my morals and common sense by working for an organization as pointless and invading as the TSA.
Best Practices for c# async/await
Scala has been on the market (i.e. promoted to a broader audience) since 2005 or so. There is plenty of evidence now that Scala is more complex than Java and less suitable for enterprise applications. Despite the fanboy-ism here and on reddit: the Scala hype is over. Definitly.
That is the key thing I question and makes me wonder about EMS in the UK. There are literally dozens of vendors who would kill for that job here in the States - even without any guarantee of repeat order. There just must not be very many there in the UK.

(I do understand some of what it takes to setup and run a manufacturing line, I work with several EMSes both in the US and China and run a [smaller scale] electronics manufacturer.)

Edit: Before my comment is taken the wrong way, what I am wondering is if the UK has much capacity for mid-scale EMS/CEM, or if the industry there has been largely tailored towards the very big players. But, I'm pretty sure I misread the statement, namely that they meant that the only places willing to take the jobs were charging too much, rather than that no one wanted the job because it was too small.
Multi-browser Selenium tests with Django 1.4+
Female vc guest post:Change name of company?
Stanley Kubrick's use of Vanishing Point
Yeah, pretty sure it was Steve Huffman that was the techie in the Reddit cofounding duo. Alexis is more marketing/bus dev/hustle.
mmm. amazon micro free tier and rtorrent.
Thanks for the link, I haven't really looked into it too much, I appreciate you sharing your findings.
If I bought a VPS in the UK and US and connect them via a VPN, is it possible to route traffic geographically?
Stats have shown that the vast majority of people use the web interface, the mobile web interface, and Twitter's own clients (in that order). After that comes third-party clients in a small slice of the pie.

Also, non-end-user clients (e.g. Hootsuite) won't get shut out because they provide value above and beyond 'list of tweets', and Tweetdeck is owned by Twitter now so they're going to be fine too.

Twitter could turn off all third-party clients tomorrow and the vast majority of Twitter users wouldn't notice anything (until the minority started complaining loudly). Even then, most people would probably think 'Well, just use one that works then.'
I'm going to go out on a limb and say no, that it is not a legit site. Sorry if that's a let down.
Yes, probably, but that in and of itself is troubling, as it would seem to indicate that he hasn't given much thought on the subject of patentability for individual inventions, even though that was an entire section of the jury instructions.
Amazon’s new Kindle Paperwhite e-reader comes with frontlit screen
Tall Is Relative
The rumours of the Linux desktop's death have been greatly exaggerated.

I am cautiously optimistic that this will push people to make the leap.
Ask HN: Flash Card App Idea...
So recently I started college and began to memorize various mathematics and equations. Problem is my memory is horrible and just reading doesn't work for me so I turned to my Android and found a flash card app. Ankidroid and G+Flashcards left me off worse then when I started. There is no organization for the cards,no way to get a hold of the set of card creator, or a decent description of the card set I am downloading. So with that being said I plan on developing my own flash card app but I need input and was hoping to get some ideas of what I should make my app like from the people of hacker news, thanks in advance for any answers.
i haven't gone back, it's been probably at least half a year, and there is no urge to return. twitter is nearly impossible for me to leave though.
Same here. Chrome/FF & iOS/Android
If PayPal said they were holding the money until the magazines printed, that would be one thing. They didn't say that. They said they'd hold the money until 15 thousand pounds accrued, at which time they'd start paying out percentages. That's a whole different ballgame, and is completely ridiculous.
I setup an own VPN on a dedicated server, payed it prepaid and faked the customer data. This should be really hard to trace back to me.
I'm afraid I don't have time to. Perhaps this is an analysis you'd like to do though.

I will admit I haven't separated the entries by land/air/sea, as I didn't have that data readily available. The general trend still holds even excluding Canadians and Mexicans who may be more disposed to cross a land border. On the surface it just doesn't appear as though people are so turned off by the TSA that they're refusing to fly to the US.

It's quite amazing what people will tolerate in order to travel to and from the US. America's borders are sadly the most unfriendly I've encountered to date.
I've been meaning to do some iOS tutoring for a while now, but unfortunately the site I was planning to use, TutorCloud, shut down recently. Is Tutorspree the best alternative? Does anyone have additional recommendations?