skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ps. Please please please have a link where I can destroy my account. When you get a chance please close down account "Sebastian"
Thanks.
And while I've never actually needed to do this, it's comforting to know it's there.
Econometrics Lecture Notes
Why Craigslist Is An AIO Site That Someone Needs To Copy
Maximal value extraction is probably the answer. If more profit can be made in a given market/product combination through direct selling then this will be the model, if a commodity approach extracts more value then it will prevail. There should be a natural progression from the former to the latter as a market matures and buyer sophistication increases. In the case of cars the purchase is infrequent and specialized enough that the market has been slow to mature in buyer sophistication.

Of course the buyers are uneven in their knowledge, so in the phone market you have a range. Similarly in cars there is now an opportunity with a small number of highly informed and opinionated consumers who find Tesla attractive. (disclosure: I'm a happy shareholder)
justf@ck the GFW
Have you actually used the html5 site? If not, why are you commenting on it? As far as html5 sites go on mobile, it works really damn well. The only issues I have with it are more a problem with the Grooveshark service as a whole (mis-named songs, incomplete albums).
You obviously have absolutely no idea what a true startup is. Do you understand the concept of most viable product? How long did you spend collecting all this information? Are you a disgruntled competitor with a bit of jealousy perhaps?

The guy is working on physical hardware. Do you know how difficult that is? To ship a device like this? A lot of the issues you mentioned are the last of his worries.
Perhaps someone who runs their own company can answer this question for me: If you don't use PayPal, how do you receive payment from customers who don't have credit cards?

Are your customers exclusively in North America? Or do you just write those customers off (which is a valid option if PayPal integration would be that painful)?

Adding PayPal as a payment option has been an enormous pain for us but a non-consequently amount of our revenue comes from customers either without credit cards or with cards which always fail on international transactions. I see no alternative to PayPal for these customers.
What Do Real-Life Hadoop Workloads Look Like?
HERBALIST AND SPELL CASTER IN SOUTH AFRICA
ATTRACTION SPELLS:Have you seen some one you love?are you scared to talk to her,this attraction
My "thought process" is mostly as stated, with the possibly exception of something I found obvious: that the complex Apple-specific connector is often built by third parties in ways that are kind of sketchy and you can feel it scraping along and not quite fitting into the port correctly with some of the cables you might purchase (the car adapter I used to use had this property, as does the multi-way charger I was using for a while).

Using a small USB form factor, btw, is totally unacceptable from their perspective, because they use the dock connector for more than syncing: they have a ton of extra pins and extra stuff they wire over the dock: it isn't just a USB->USB adapter for purposes of syncing and charging it, it is an accessory port with included UART. HTC probably had the most workable compromise: a mini-USB with a broken-out corner and some extra contacts.
I agree with you that it speaks volumes about the optimism of the era. That said, Sagan & Druyan gave a great deal of thought to the "message in a bottle":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_Golden_Record
While i agree that it probably doesn't matter what gets priority from dev prespective, i believe they should implement form stuff first because they are (probably) easier to implement than a whole API that interacts pages with OS. The devs who try out the simple to test input type range code are far more in number than people who try out APIs. So they take less time and have more users than apis.j cant see why they aren't higher in priority especially since all other major browsers have atleast some kind of implimentation of it.
Indeed I purchased a Mercedes ML in 1997 having not even seen one on the road yet, it was not out yet and 1998 was the first model year. Got one of the first thousand off the assembly line with mixed results (used to call it the 'beta'). I will likely be buying a Tesla X without ever seeing one.
A year and a half look back
TSA Moves On From Your Underwear to Your Starbucks
You wouldn't like Plan 9 then; it wisely took the decision to forbid spaces (U+20) in file names at the kernel level.
Django Patterns: View Decorators
I think Apple may be updating the mini this fall, so I'd wait a month or two if possible.
http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/#Mac_Mini
It probably wouldn't be practical, given that they currently don't review anywhere near 100% of legislation (but maybe that is a feature).

I would be concerned about the situation where the court effectively ends up with a veto and maybe decides that they should be the ones in charge. The only way out of that pickle is to reject the constitution.
So there WAS a reflection to go all CSI on.

Also, terrible that their response is simply that they should have "posted a disclaimer."
There needs to be something for us to give feedback on.

I hope that your launch goes well.
Fifty Quadrotors Put on Glowing Sky Show in Austria
Halide a language for image processing and computational photography
actually, i read some where regarding tips in food photography.. where they dont actually use ice cream.. let me find you the link.. it is more of an advertising thing..
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In general fully electric vehicles are much simpler mechanically and need vastly less servicing. The bit of scheduled maintenance that they do need to be handled by anybody.
There are debit cards out there!

In fact, everyone I know has at least one debit card (either MasterCard or VISA), aside from the number of people who have an AMEX/VISA (credit type).

And debit cards work everywhere. I've used my VISA Electron (debit) pretty much everywhere in the developed world, both online and travelling abroad.
Thanks for the link! I do wonder however if an alien, should it encounter one, could figure out the symbols on the cover. The 'record player' symbol is pretty self-explanatory if you already know what a record player is, but I suspect that to an average 16-year old teenager it's complete gibberish...
Exactly. It's like getting cockpit footage from a nascar and using it in a ford focus commercial.
But they're still not providing user email address in authentication response. Don't understand that approach.
> and the useful info that comes after it can of course be included in the commit. but starting at line 3!

I think this is the part people don't understand. The first line should be < 72 chars. After that (and a blank line), write as much as you want.
Simple, pay with bitcoin.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Trade#Connectivity
In the general search field, the top section is Songs, the second section is Albums, and the last section is 'Playlists'. So they are searchable.
that's a good article, but it is not exactly new either.
Sir, you need to apologize or delete your comment. It's wrong and misleading. And it's the top comment on the thread.
Thinking about it, I don't think I've ever really had a reason to use a slider on a web form. It'd be nice to have, I suppose.

To me implying that "HTML5 isn't a priority for mozilla" because they haven't implemented a really marginal component is quite an exaggeration. I think using bug reports to try to create pressure on developers is in this weird grey area of stuff where it violates some sort of implicit social code of bug reporting. (In short: it's sort of a passive aggressive move)

Having an opinion on what should prioritized is fine, but it should be marketed as such, IE, make it a blog post or write an email or something instead.
Very good article. Using perl instead of shell seems a lot more meaningful after this reading.

cat * > ../collection becomes

perl -e 'map{open ($f,"<",$_);print <$f>;close($f)}<*>' > ../collection

Strangely, it is far easier to write a correct script in perl than in shell.
There is a big point missing in the article: The dynamics of the folks entering the next round with those in the current round.

For example: The purchasers of the next round would be idiots to let the first investor execute the equivalent of a full ratchet, and all such provisions are usually throw-aways in a negotiation.
I have met some of the Instabridge people and heard the founder pitch the project at a networking event. They have quite an interesting business idea, and despite being newly started they seem to have a very strong team. I for one will be following this project closely!
This is an ok home page.

Your idea could be very good or very bad, depending on how your service works. But right now, there is no way to tell because it shows nothing at all.

You basically asked for some feedback on the content of some <title> tags.
>Is there a reason Amazon Payments or Google Wallet haven't overtaken PayPal in this market?

As a buyer (and not a merchant), I love Paypal because I can have it debit directly from by bank account instead of handing over my credit card information. I hate credit cards, and this combined with Paypal's two-factor authentication gives me some good peace of mind. I haven't seen any other services that provide direct-debit to Australians, and even if they did, they would be useless to me unless they were as ubiquitous as Paypal is. I can use Paypal just about everywhere except for Amazon and O'Reilly. At this point I wouldn't even consider using Amazon or Google Wallet for purchases.

On the other hand, these horror stories have made me very wary of the merchant side of Paypal, and I'd definitely think twice about using them to process payments.
Yes, I use that all the time too. There are certainly alternatives around for getting a remote window displayed locally but the simplicity of "ssh -X" is hard to beat.
Another vote for MongoDB
A Legend For Our Time
right. (but it does solve the problem for http (depending on bandwidth needs).)
New HR chief at Yahoo to focus on key asset: Yahoos themselves
Plenty. Which is why I'm back to Firefox after a longer stint with Chrome, due to the Tree Style Tabs add-on, which makes managing them pretty easy. Quite often I've got a bunch of related tabs under one node at the very tob, as some sort of "read later" deal (e.g. several sites about vim customization, extensions etc.).

With recent Firefoxes, this takes none to little memory, and is definitely save from restarts - I use the dev channel build (Aurora), so I often restart the browser at least daily.

Syncing between several computers would probably be nice, but I don't need and want a total sync between e.g. work and home, so I would need to pick the tabs I'm loading in the other browser. And the only option of me using a given extension like that is if it would support the aforementioned tree extension, i.e. wouldn't just give me a flat batch of tabs.
Why use sed here?

find images -name "*.jpg" | while read -r jpg; do
convert -geometry 200x "$jpg" "${jpg%.jpg}_thumb.jpg"
done

This correctly handles spaces in file names and uses built in shell string replacement.
Backticks, ``, and $(), use IFS to parse the command's output into words which then become the $()'s replacement and IFS normally contains \n.
xoom.com works pretty well for me..I'm not sure there is anything I would change about the way they transfer money internationally, well except maybe if they were to make their exchange rates slightly better
Luckily, new input types should be very easy to provide via polyfill. Personally, I'd rather Mozilla implement the features that can't be implemented by polyfill first.
I don't care about it - I'm saying the people who use operating systems (as opposed to the people who administer them) do.
Mayer has also indicated that she plans to make hiring and working at Yahoo more like where she came from at Google, where many key executives and employees have come to the Mountain View search giant through acquisitions.
I really like the social media share buttons. Are these custom made?
How Windows 8 Tablet PCs are going to strive
ActiveSupport::BufferedLogger#auto_flushing is deprecated. Either set the
sync level on the underlying file handle like this:

f = File.open('foo.log', 'w')
f.sync = true
ActiveSupport::BufferedLogger.new f

Or tune your filesystem. The FS cache is now what controls flushing.

The above from the commit message is incorrect. IO#sync in ruby has nothing to with the filesystem cache, and only controls Ruby's own internal buffers. And as far as I can tell the logger in rails has sync = true by default anyway.

And disabling your filesystem cache at the OS level sounds like a terrible idea.

The commit message only makes sense if he actual talks about IO#fdatasync or he means that "f.sync = false" disables the new behavior.
Yes, because there are no security issues in giving out a debt card number that is directly linked to your bank account.
Because this is HN, which is heavily anti-MS and where people cling to their iPhones and Android devices and love to hate on the platforms they don't use.

Or else why would the actual announcement articles get only around 30-40 points(which were later flagged off the front page anyway!) but this one is already close to 200 points. Winsupersite.com is hell banned on HN from even being submitted because of the haters flagging articles to death. Go figure.
http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/jsbin.com says otherwise

It is up for me, too.
We want feedback from people who are building specifications with current tools, to help us make some decisions on the final featureset of the product. We wish we could show screenshots, but the interface currently is functionality only without design :(
As Auguste mentioned already, it's all about lacking direct debit for international customers.

I'm from the Netherlands and if you're a freelancer here you need to provide income statements for 3 years before you can get a credit card.

That meant that until last year I couldn't buy a thing with Google Wallet or Amazon Payments without asking my family for a credit card.

The only thing that worked for me was PayPal (and the iTunes store.)
Yes, custom buttons who fetch the counters through the various (unofficial) APIs for each service. We'll be releasing a set of those on Github soon
Moneybookers is a fairly decent alternative. I assume you're talking about mainland Europe where credit card penetration is less prevalent.

Moneybookers interface is terrible, and they will expose your customers to this horrible interface. Their customer service seems to be confused but I've never heard horror stories.

There are payment solutions geared towards European customers so that you can accept bank transfers, etc.
I tend to use the tens as well, but in this case I would have used the 12*12 + 24 trick. I also use some of the others listed here, so it makes me happy to know there are people like me out there.
Fremdfinanzierungsmöglichkeiten für die Hotelbranche
Fremdfinanzierungen werden nicht einfacher. In vielen Branchen wird es sogar immer schwieriger, an Geld zu kommen. In der Finanzwelt hat es den Anschein, als hätte sich seit Jahren die Stimmung nicht mehr wirklich erholt und da eine Krise auf die nächste folgt, ist auch kaum Besserung in Sicht. Als Fremdfinanzierung bei größeren Anschaffungen für Unternehmen ist besonders Leasing stark im Kommen. Das Unternehmen GE Capital ist eines von vielen, das diesen Service anbietet und das GE Leasing wird allgemein trotz der schwierigen Lage immer beliebter, ob es sich um Sale and Lease Back oder andere Leasing Arten handelt.
200,000 Xiaomi M1s sold out in 9 minutes 40 seconds - Gizchina.com
Readable Lisp S-expressions, infix, function calls, and indentation
No, not everyone has a MasterCard / VISA debit card.
Diablo 3 und Guild Wars 2 bringen Funcom ins schwitzen
Funcom, die Entwickler von The Secret World, stecken sichtlich in der predulie... Anfangs waren die Erwartungen hoch gewesen... mindestens 400.000 Spiele sollten verkauft werden, doch dieses Ziel ist noch weit entfernt. Lediglich um die 200.000 Exemplare von The Secret World gingen über den Ladentisch... ein Großteil bei Steam, woraufhin dieses MMO auch zum bestverkauftesten MMO auf Steam wurd
Apple Java update fails to address mega-flaw – researcher
I've noticed this as well without having to go near their bugzilla for confirmation. It's not just the range control - it's pretty much everything.

This is one of the features that would stop me having to churn out literally acres of JavaScript validation and normalising forms across different browsers.

I mean even IE10 supports them now: http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/HTML5/Forms/default.html
The only problem with debit cards is that MasterCard and Visa don't cover everyone. For example MasterCard also runs Maestro [1] in the UK which lots of online payment systems seem to neglect (I had to setup another bank account with another bank to get my hands on a Visa Debit card for this very reason).

[1] http://www.maestrocard.com/uk/
Thank you :)

We hoped to get some feedback from people using current tools before we launch, and we're getting some already, so that's great.
How we use feature-switching at FreeAgent
It uses iptables (on Linux) to route all traffic (or selected traffic) through the client-side component, and then forward it all to the server-side component.

"ssh -D" is closer to a proxy server:

-D [bind_address:]port
Specifies a local "dynamic" application-level port forwarding.
This works by allocating a socket to listen to port on the local
side, optionally bound to the specified bind_address. Whenever a
connection is made to this port, the connection is forwarded over
the secure channel, and the application protocol is then used to
determine where to connect to from the remote machine. Currently
the SOCKS4 and SOCKS5 protocols are supported, and ssh will act
as a SOCKS server.	Only root can forward privileged ports.
Dynamic port forwardings can also be specified in the configura-
tion file.

On the other hand, sshuttle is closer to a VPN connection. If you're confused about the difference between a proxy and a VPN, then I suggest you hit up Wikipedia and do some reading.
Linus on Git at Google
Agree, i cannot. Probably not 24-105, but any other of these easily.
I can compare fglrx (used it for 2 years) and radeon (used for 2 months). And besides worse performance in 3D and smaller power consumption, fglrx is much worse and causes some problems with my laptop.
Not to mention that when I used fglrx I was afraid to upgrade the kernel because it forces me to recompile fglrx module (with all the strange DKMS thingy which is very strange to me - I just want to "make install")
I don't really understand why everyone gets so excited when being acquired by some big company, my startup is my baby, if I sold it I would felt like if I had screwed up everything
SkyCube: The First Satellite Launched by You
The Narrowing Ambitions of Venture Capital
Interesting.

So does anyone know the rationale behind this change? I'm guessing there's actually a good reason and it's just eluding us because our logs are now messy and that appears to be bad.
Same here. Well worth spending $20 on wrist braces just to try.
The customer service angle sucks, no question, and I'm worried about getting into similar trouble (I sell downloadable games via PayPal).

But I actually think holding an issues worth of revenue in reserve is a decent enough compromise. If the company goes bankrupt before an issue ships, for whatever reason, PayPal themselves are going to be on the hook for refunding every single payment, as well as chargeback fees that may apply.

PayPal's fees are around 5% - what's their gross profit on each transaction, 1-2% at most?

So if there's a 2% chance of an issue going awry and angry people starting chargebacks, a magazine 50 issues old could turn into a net loss for PayPal overnight, which is why even merchants with long and clean track records get stung by this.

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.

The way PayPal handles the customer service end rightfully earns their horrible reputation. But too many people act like the risk itself is not there, or that there's a clear, obvious line between fraudulent businesses that con artists start and solid trustworthy businesses that we start. If PayPal wasn't as aggressive with their fraud prevention, they'd be skinned alive.

And, as other people are pointing out in this thread, standard merchant accounts are not immune from the same level of shoot first, ask questions later fraud prevention.
This is why Bitcoins was created.
To answer people from the other thread, this is the reason why we should always complain about things like this.

edit: no matter who the vendor is.
*Moneybookers has been rebranded, now called Skrill.
Having a large base of clients willing to buy through their services is ultimately what matters, and I think they achieved that partially by siding with the customer most of the time. Making a purchase through their services, you know that you more or less protected, and if you start jumping up and down, you will probably get your money back. Businesses put up with their less-than-fair treatment because until recently, there weren't any alternatives on nearly the same level of "respectability", as far as buyers are concerned.

I'm willing to bet that in the beginning, when they were mainly trying to court businesses to implement their service, the situation was different.
I don't see why a post like this provokes criticism. I think it was more "I've used WP for 7 years, here are some potentially helpful tips that I learned within that time span at some point." Not "I've toiled with WP for 7 years and it's taken me exactly that long to learn to cache/backup/etc my site."

Anyway, thanks for the post. It was full of helpful reminders.
"The illustrator attends school with Kohn's daughter, Katie, who is pursuing a Ph.D. in film studies at Harvard."

"Attends school with." Mmmhmmm.
So they have! I knew they were transitioning, but it appears they're just about done with the change.

Skrill is such an awful name IMHO!
How Rob Pike and Ken Thompson created UTF-8 over dinner
In a country with decent consumer laws, they'd probably get slapped with a suit or fine for false advertizing, if they used this to promote a product that could be bought or ordered.
>But also because it can't be used until it's been in browsers for a long long time. So you need to get it in there early.

That was true once, but the autoupdating nature of Firefox and Chrome challenges that assertion.
If anyone is interested in some additional material on this topic, MIT OCW covers entrepreneurial finance.

Relevant Lectures:
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/sloan-school-of-management/15-431...
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/sloan-school-of-management/15-431...
Introducing the Behance API
Bake oil changes into the loan for the next X years. Move my first payment out a few months in order to accumulate additional interest on the full value of the loan. Add overpriced warranties without telling me. And the best one was simply upping the price and trying to have me not notice by focusing on the payment. Luckily I had a business calculator with me and could do NPV as fast as he could.
Here is the solution I use in our production Rails apps (3.2.6). Add the following code snippet into your config/application.rb.

config.after_initialize do
# Reverse the deprecation of flush in BufferedLogger
module ActiveSupport
class BufferedLogger
def flush
@log_dest.flush
end
def respond_to?(method, include_private = false)
super
end
end
end
# Let the OS buffer the log
Rails.logger.instance_variable_get(:@logger).instance_variable_get(:@log_dest).sync = false
end