skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends on the individual and the content. For me personally, I spend the majority of my time reading to consume content, a minority on videos, and zero on podcasts.
From Wall Street Headhunter To Indie Rap Mogul
I use Paypal for one reason (as the consumer); it adds an extra layer of protection for me. I don't want to give my CC details to every site I buy from. And then have to check my CC statement everyday to make sure nothing was hacked along the way.

For a consumer, Paypal makes it very easy to manage payments, receipts, and any other issues.

By the way, never ever use a debt card online. You're handing over access to your bank account.
Check if PDroid is available for the ROM you use, it allows you to choose which permissions to allow for each app.
I've blocked Facebook access to the GPS and Contacts using PDroid.
I'm a web developer and I'd go for text-based articles/tutorials every time. I hate video tutorials. They are always much slower to use and cumbersome if you are only interested in a particular part.
> If you really think the use of fag and faggot reflects homophobia, [...]

Yes, it does.

> you need to take a step back and look at where you are - the internet.
Well...

I suggest reading this introduction to the subject of "why second degree&ironic gay bashing work only if there is real homophobia somewhere": http://www.queerty.com/does-calling-someone-a-fag-really-mea... I have better articles about sexism and homophobia but there are written in french.
Facebook Mobile Ad Revenue to QUINTUPLE in 2013
Ironic? That your website touting"lean" has a MVP that is too minimal?
Just a small correction. While nobody uses spaces in file names in Plan 9, and at least in Inferno #U changes spaces to something else, spaces are not forbidden in the kernel since March 23th, 1999: http://swtch.com/cgi-bin/plan9history.cgi?f=1999/0323/port/c...
It has nothing to do with liking or not liking spaces per se, but simply that you should support the features that the operating system allows. Look I hate spaces (and non-ASCII characters for that matter) in files names as much as the next programmer who's ever had his code fail due to them, but if I'm writing for a platform that supports them, then I try my best to deal with them, and tread any failure in handling them as a bug that should be fixed.
+1 to this, it's like 'ssh -D' on steroids, very easy to set up and just an 'apt-get install sshuttle' away. Also allows easy DNS request forwarding.

Of course, OpenSSH itself provides VPN capability too without the need for sshuttle but it's harder to set up.
This rant misplaces its frustration. This is not a problem with unix filesystems, this is a problem with Bourne Shell scripts, and with UNIX argument parsing semantics.

Bourne shell is notorious for its problematic quoting, both of filesystem data and of any data from any other source. Every example in which he described a problem with a filename parameter could just as well be a problem with a non-filename parameter. The correct solution is to not program complicated scripts in Bourne Shell, and instead use a language which does not implement variable access by interpolating strings and then re-tokenizing and re-evaluating them. Examples of satisfactory languages include Perl, Python, Ruby.

Regarding UNIX arguments and the dash, it is an unfortunate aspect to the flag argc/argv/envp calling convention for unix programs. Some other operating systems provide more structure in their calling convention, explicitly separating different types of parameters from one another. This is both a strength and a weakness, as it results in a uniform yet inflexible systems interface. One of the greatest strengths of UNIX is that its calling convention is so flexible. The semantics used today are quite different from the semantics used 40 years ago -- yet execve() remains unchanged. I would encourage anyone interested to do a bit of historical digging here, and see how those more ridged system APIs fared over time.

Anyway, the solution to his initial question of using `ls` is the -- argument, which signifies argument parsing should be disabled for the remainder of argv: ls -- *

The correct answer to his dotfile/glob question is: "glob() and the Bourne shell do not have the semantics you're after. Do not use them, use readdir()."

The correct answer to his find -print question is: Yes, print's use of whitespace was a mistake, and it is a mistake repeated continually throughout the land of shell scripting and accompanying standard UNIX utilities. As he notes, it is why print0 was introduced. Making print0 standard is far easier than reworking filesystem semantics (and, reworking userland in this manner is a more complete solution as it addresses data integrity issues from non-filesystem inputs as well). If you want reliable, correct programs, do not write them in shell.
What happens when the new feature relies on a different version of the database schema?
Id argue that there is a difference of intent in these two cases. Nokia is deceiving customers about a specific function or capability (camera) while Apple is just showing a promotional video of the device as a whole. Both cases are reprehensible, no doubt, but maybe I'm the only one who think that Nokia has gone a little too far.

Lets think of these in terms of food. Its not the same to show a "perfect Big Mac" in and ad than it is to show a Big Mac thats made with completely different ingredients of the ones you'll find when you order one.
During the 2008 election, McCain had problems with incorrect DMCA takedown notices affecting his camapign. (McCain was one of the people resonsible for the DMCA). His response? Not "we goofed, let's make the law better", no it was that politicians should be exempt from the law.

That attitude disgusts me.
>Is there a reason Amazon Payments or Google Wallet haven't overtaken PayPal in this market?

Network effects, name recognition, and forced integration with the only online auction site that matters.
Vim has become very popular recently and it seems that a lot of people want to use it right away. I REALLY think that it's a bad idea but, judging by the popularity of things like Janus, SPF13 or the many "ultimate vim configs" I would say there's a demand for turn key solutions.
A bureaucratic totalitarianism. It's not actually run by the lawyers, it is run by the bureaucrats, and the lawyers gain excessive power by being the only ones able to negotiate the system. We're almost to the end state now, another two or three decades at the outside and you won't be able to do anything without official permission.
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Trajan is the Movie Font
How to become an astronaut
A willingness to apologize is one feature of companies which treat the B2C market as if it were B2B. It's been a core of principle of Microsoft (e.g. their fixing of the Xbox's Red Ring of Death). Compare this with Apple's "Hold Differently" in regard to the iPhone 4 or their simply ignoring the manipulation of the Star Trek and sending the New York Times flash animation down the memory hole in regards to the iPad.

Nokia doing so in this case shows why there is such potential for their partnership with Microsoft over the long term. Both companies have similar approaches to the consumer market.
So what happens when we hit two decades later, billions of tax dollars completely wasted and the TSA has not caught a single "terrorist" ?

Even worse all that and they MISS another terrorist?

Will they then get more funding or less? Move the searches into our homes?

Tell me where exactly we draw the line.
You mention hiring people on an evaluation period. That makes sense. But where do you find these people in the first place?
We already did: the New Horizons is out there, too. But in the 60's and 70's there was a lot more budget than these days...
Software that has no 'technical effect' (though details of the specific test have changed a few times) are not allowed. Many many valid [in respect of patentability of the subject invention at least] software patents have been grantd by the EPO and EPC member nations.

Because business methods aren't patentable in Europe many USPTO granted patents have no technical contribution that is not excluded from patentability.

tl;dr, it's complicated but your statement is false.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patents_under_the_Euro...
no, not a problem. i am agreeing with you now. curious, what should i call it instead? perhaps, faithful? or near-perfect?
Twitter Earns More Mobile Ad Revenue Than Facebook (But Not For Long)
I stole it from a review of the moon is a hard mistress. Though the original only requires 2/3 to make a law and 1/3 to end it.
Bing vs. Google
>Will they then get more funding or less? Move the searches into our homes?

More and yes. See the War on Drugs.
So the final photo in that article is actually shot with the real Nokia phone camera?

Because it looks really good. They didn't need to have faked anything.
No it isn't. Bitcoin's killer feature is anonymity. It has no underwriting, no risk prevention, and worst of all, no ubiquity.

Once you pay someone with BTC, your money is gone. It's that simple. Unless you involve a third party of some kind, and then it's PayPal all over again... though I assume it's a great deal easier to become a BTC middleman than a middleman of any established currency, due to lack of idiotic government red tape to jump through.
"The most popular framework for modern, high-performing PHP applications."

I completely disagree. For one, ZF2 was just released, and for two, ZF has been a mire of misery for years. Almost every other modern solution (Laravel, Symfony, Yii, Fuel, Silex, etc) has been better received than the Zend Framework.
Jimmy Wales says Wikipedia would use encryption to skirt UK data collection bill
Looks like another crowd funding site with additional features.
Are you really targeting only android app startups?
There are a bazillion crowdfunding sites now, how is yours different?
Fantastic article. Thanks for posting it.
Bait cars, drug stings, and the like always seemed way too close to entrapment for my liking.
I fully understand Paypal's need to protect itself from scammers. I get it. The loss potential is huge.

I think the problem here is that they really don't have any kind of a real relationship with their customers.

As an honest business person --not a scammer-- when this kind of thing happens to you it is horribly disruptive and demoralizing. As honest people we should be spending time on our business rather than trying to get our money out of a company that has totalitarian control over it. It could, and has, sink a business.

That said, I feel the OP may have triggered the freeze by clearing the account of nearly all funds a couple of days after the phone interview. If I were looking at that data I would see it as a potential red flag. It would almost be irresponsible not to interpret it that way.

I've had sales in excess of $20K (meaning, the invoice for that particular purchase was $20K) come into one of our Paypal accounts and have never had any issues. Then again, the money tends to stay in the account for months. I don't think they've ever seen us clear large amounts of money out of the account immediately after a large sale. That, I am sure, builds trust, even at the algorithmic level.
There are video lectures with the author covering this book at a fast pace from this year's Oregon PL summer school (bottom of the page):

http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/Research/summerschool/summer12/cur...

I've read the first chapter and it's very good, I highly recommend working through the literate Coq files in Proof General, if you're familiar enough with Emacs. It's a pretty cool environment.
You're wrong http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patents_under_the_Euro....
Our Friend the Market Inefficiency
I don't get this complaint. NSA "warrantless wiretapping" intercepts fall into two categories:

- Intercepts where at least one participant is a foreign party and thus are 100% constitutional without a warrant, under well-established national security powers.

- Intercepts where both participants are U.S. nationals.

Obviously, the latter would be unconstitutional to collect deliberately. But the whole point of these systems is to avoid collecting these communications, and to delete them as soon as they're discovered. It is, I think, fair to say that it's nearly impossible to devise a system that will collect what you want out of the first category while being absolutely certain not to intrude on the second. The revised FISA law was designed to ensure that there's judicial review of the process by which communications of the second category are identified and their intercepts destroyed. That judicial review has gone forward, as far as I know, and the program, with the current administration's blessing, continues to this day.

What's the injury to citizens and their rights? You don't trust the executive, under the supervision of both Congress and the judiciary, to follow the law and delete any intercepts with your name on them? Well, then you have bigger problems.
So happy they finally found a local factory, and one of great technical and "entrepreneurial" quality
If you don't flush every line, you'll lose lines in a crash. You often need those lines when trying to debug such a problem, so that's the worst possible time to lose said lines.

We added tagged logging to deal with the "not in order" problem. Find the process id of the request you're trying to follow, grep for that.

Both problems solved.
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Depends on where you are looking to hire from (geo). But if you are looking in the Philippines, check out onlinejobs.ph and the manila section of craigslist.

otherwise odesk, or v-worker.
"Hold Differently" is a gross misrepresentation of the iPhone 4 antenna issue.

What actually happened: A full fledged press conference by the CEO himself basically saying: "This happens to all smartphones, we made it worse by marking the spot, we think performance is still acceptable but if you don't, here have a free bumper as it reduces the problem".
> to an average 16-year old teenager it's complete gibberish...

But an average 16 year old teenager isn't going to be the one to find the record floating in space. Rather, by definition, if the record is found, it will be found by an extremely advanced spacefaring civilization. Hopefully, they can decode it.
I've had this exact same experience. On a somewhat related note, there may be 'pressure points' that occur in different sitting positions that may cause reduced blood-flow to the wrists, hands and fingers. I experience some RSI in my ring and pinky fingers for over a year and became very concerned that it would get worse. After partially alleviating the problems with a Kinesis Advantage keyboard, I actually discovered that the majority of the issues came from resting my elbows on my elbow rests throughout the day. This was putting pressure on the ulnar nerve and causing the issues in my ring and pinky fingers. It took me over a year to discover this, but when I did the symptoms rapidly went away. I also found that side-sleeping on my arm was doing a similar thing.

A friend of mine mentioned similar issues that resulted from pressure on the palms of the hands during long periods of typing (he's an editor for a magazine).

Hope that helps somebody out there.
privacy is merely an additional consideration

Not even that. Look into CALEA - a law which, summarized briefly, requires that ISP gear have backdoors for law enforcement packet capture.

There's a reason you don't see anonymous ISP's around in the USA; the laws as written explicitly prevent them from existing in any meaningful capacity.
I don't know how well it would work for commercial things, but for personal payments between people you know, Venmo is awesome. https://venmo.com/ (Still U.S. only though.)
Unless he's using the patented inventions commercially then he's fine. Note that free-gratis distribution can be a commercial use.
We make sure that the code works with and without the migration. Or you can flip a feature switch as part of the migration.
Nice. Sounds like it could be useful...
>The correct solution is to not program complicated scripts in Bourne Shell, and instead use a language which does not implement variable access by interpolating strings and then re-tokenizing and re-evaluating them.

Very well said.
Then all my speech is political.
The Ultimate Guide to Content Planning
> PayPal's freeze on that money means their end is covered, and you can still bring the sales to a bank and get a line of credit to cover the printing costs

So your suggested way around this is to incur credit charges & pay for the credit risk baked into the interest rate all so that Paypal is covered?
Jason Calacanis interviews Bernino Lind
It was down for about 20minutes whilst I upgraded and ran some diagnostics on the database.
Business Plan Financial Models are Not Black Magic
While Mastercard/Visa debit cards are common in many countries (they certainly are in the UK, for example), there are places they're unheard of. New Zealand bank cards, for example, are typically not those kinds of debit cards and can't be easily used over the internet. They are almost universally accepted in NZ though, rather more so than debit cards in the UK where it's not that uncommon to find pubs or cafes that have a minimum charge or, in rare cases, don't take them.
Pogoplug taps Amazon Glacier for archiving
Hey! Thanks for the feedback,

"I would n't go as far as to call your half-finished NodeJS/MongoDB tinkering and yet another mustache clone "real work on real projects" "

I believe that most of the time, even the silly little pet projects, because their're made out of fun and passion and not because is paying you can provide a better insight into one's programming habbits, practices and skills.
A traditional CV tells you _nothing_ compared to a "half-finished" pet project.

"I also want people that work for me to do what the duck I've told them to do in the end"

Remember, you came to me, asking if I am interested in your "offers", as soon as I say "yes, please tell me more" you assume I work for you? I don't. Thanks, but no thanks.
You should not assume I am at your service because you privileged me with your invitation.

"Sure, be I also hire for other 5,000 open positions in this company that are not "developers, programmers or software engineers" and I want a bloody CV document to put in my document management system alongside theirs."

Hey, it's your job. I don't complain to users about how they should use web apps to make my work easier.
I'm not going to tell you how to do your job, and don't ask me to do it for you.

Sorry if I came across as a dick. I assure you I did not mean to offend you.
I just feel that if I was recruiting, I would like some feedback as harsh as it may be.
I figure it is always better than being ignored.
Otherwise, I'm just sorry I wasted our time.

Best regards Mr Recruiter,
Is there any reason why they couldn't be prosecuted for fraudulent advertising?
Facebook's website works better on my phone than their app does.
The CEOs of Tomorrow
<sarcasm>The TSA is in BIG trouble when they start messing with citizens' Starbucks!</sarcasm>
Necessary? No. You can do what you like. But if you want to find out what works and what doesn't, and actually get the right answer, the scientific approach is the only game in town.
Ask HN: How do you secure your distributed servers?
Let's say you have a couple of EC2, some Rackspace servers and some other physical machines rented somewhere.

How do you approach the secure communications among these nodes?
I don't think OpenVPN is a good idea (everything pass through the Server which becomes a single point of failure), so are there any other solutions out there?
"Skrilla" is slang for money: www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=skrilla

See also the lyrics for "Cash in My Pocket" by Wiley:

> All I really want is money in my pocket

> Cash in my hand, oh, skrilla in my wallet

> All I really want is money in my pocket

> Cash in my hand and skrilla in my wallet, yeah

http://www.metrolyrics.com/cash-in-my-pocket-lyrics-wiley.ht...

NB: This doesn't stop it still being an awful name, but it might explain why they chose it.
The line was drawn some 225 years ago: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

It's not about drawing the line, it's about holding an uncooperative government to it. They're willing to go so far as shoot you if you don't let them cross that line and examine your coffee; you're not willing to pursue similar means to hold them to that line.
The automated processes are not required by law. Youtube's was put in place as a result of a lawsuit with Viacom (and to prevent future lawsuits as a CYA move). The DMCA only requires that a site take down a file after receiving a sworn statement from a copyright holder. There is no legal obligation for a site hosting user-provided content to actively police the content.
Scientific research is necessary for self-help or lifehacking now?

Necessary? No, you can do whatever you want. But if you're making important decisions about how to live your life, wouldn't you prefer to make those decisions based on knowledge that's been validated as thoroughly as possible?
In Asia, you have no alternative (at all). You either use PayPal (which suck), or 2CheckOut (suck less).
One big reason for launching when they did was the conjunction of the planets that let them slingshot past so many of them. Jupiter/Saturn conjunctions happen every 20 years or so, but getting Uranus/Neptune in the mix (which Voyager 2 did, IIRC) is a lot more rare.
Clickable http://www.clientheartbeat.com
Thinking about it, I don't think I've ever really had a reason to use a slider on a web form.

I've been dying to have native sliders for ages. There are lots of user interfaces to be made that have nothing to do with databases, CRUD, or social networks. For example, sliders are particularly essential to audio/video/lighting control and media editing UIs.

Yesterday's thinking will only solve yesterday's problems.
Good point. I admit that if I weren't so lazy maybe I'd spend some time creating a nice CV.
"Are we there yet?"

"Are we there yet?"

"Are we there yet?"

:-)

The fact that this old spacecraft is still sending us useful data is pretty neat, and I don't mind being reminded of it. I remember the various flybys (Jupiter, Saturn, and my local PBS station's "Neptune All Night").

In the age of consumer products that last a couple of years before they disintegrate, a 35 year old machine still operating in a hostile environment is an inspiration.
good idea, targeting more platforms would be even better
Agreed on second argument.
Hopefully this brings more control over the production by the RPi team. If something is going wrong, it's a lot easier to take a trip down the M4 (or the train) than it is to fly to China and sort things out.
HDCP-protected content won't play to a non-HDCP device, and the consortium wouldn't license HDCP for use on a capture device since the whole point is to prevent copying. So you can't use a video capture card to record the output of a blu-ray, for example.
Query: how do you define "subsonic" in the near-vacuum of spce?
So on that note, are there any VPN providers that HN would recommend? Something preferably not based in the USA or any countries exceedingly friendly with the USA (so the UK, Sweden, etc are out)
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