skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No problem. Good luck with the new service.

Oh yeah - thinking back to consulting work - something that let me "make a beautiful spec and share it" would have felt like a one-time-use service. Subscribe for a month, make a spec, take the learnings and add it to my own Word template.

The problem I mentioned (collaborative spec maintenance) is something that I know I'd pay for as a subscription - specifically because it helps me manage something for the ongoing health of our products. It becomes more core.

The only downside is that a solution more aligned to infrastructure costs (as I have suggested) can't command as high a price premium as something that is aligned to revenue (i.e. help me rationalize/explain higher estimates to customers).
There is so much valuable information in those log files that I often wonder why there is no tool to analyze them.

With a nice UI this would not only solve this problem here but it could potentially offer a lot more insight than just looking at isolated entries in text form.
What's interesting about "Morphogenesis" is that a sub-set of matter transitions from existing [qua existing] to existing under a purposeful[1] structure [ie, existing for a purpose]. This is a notable change. It's even more interesting, in the context of evolution, because these structures are not just propogating, but doing so in a very unique way (ie, one that has an informational feedback loop). If the purpose of the structure is merely to propogate, why a feedback loop? why not perfect replication? Why does one need variation for replication? Why does something need to propogate in a better way than simple replication? Etc. And thus the interplay between the origins of and the evolution of such structures is framed as a relevant problem for Science.[2]

[1] Or, 'Functional' as an alternative formulation.
[2] As in, problem to solve. Not a counterargument against.
Yes that or cash in the mail might be reasonable options for paying.

I guess my problem is more that you are trusting an overall unknown entity with your real ip, which is only one step away from your real info for someone who is able to compel that information from the VPN provider in the first place.
Articles like this just make me so mad that the TSA can just be bullies and do such ridiculous things.

Does anyone know the current state of the TSA, as far as upcoming funding, plans, or improvement goes? Is it Homeland Security making these things mandatory or what?

I just constantly hear insane stories like this and never hear any good coming from the TSA. How do we change this? Or is that even an option?
I like it that they especially tailored this for newbie (like me). I learned so much progressing the levels (from nothing). The people at #irc were super helpful too (while not revealing the answer)
My company empties our PayPal account 2x a month, at which point it's well into 5 digits, and we've been doing this for ~5 years. If emptying accounts is a red flag, it's never hit us.
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I think that the social media aspect is going to really change the way CEOs are selected and how they handle their day to day business. Exciting times right now.
I agree, there was never a concrete job proposal. And I should be clear, that If my priority was to get the job then maybe I would not have been so honest in my reply and would have made an effort to send him a pretty CV.
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Maybe I was imagining it, but four out of the five I did I felt I knew which was Google and which was Bing - not from doing searches that I would recognise, but just from the extra non-search information / lay-out.

I did my best to still pick without bias to my current search engine (Google) but ended up picking them 5/5 and Bing 0 times.
How we shifted 6Wunderkinder to Wunderlist, again
We're in Canada using Stripe, we actually managed to get in before they even started their Canadian beta. You dont need to be in the US, you just need a US bank account and postage address.
Microsoft denied the red ring of death problem for months:

"In the early months after the console's launching, Microsoft stated that the Xbox 360's failure rate was within the consumer electronics industry's typical 3% to 5%."

Third parties have determined it was somewhere between 20 and 40%.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_360_technical_problems

Apple responded to "antennagate" within two weeks iirc.

As for Nokia: they faked the stills and video, got caught on the video and confessed. But it turns out they faked the stills too:

http://sefsar.com/nokia-faked-the-still-photos-too

If Nokia were such a great company they would have come clean all at once.

I can't find a link, but I remember hilarious comparisons of earlier Nokia demo videos to the actual devices, so it's not like this is something Nokia (a) just started doing or (b) just accidentally did this once.

All this does is reflect very well on Apple by comparison.
> Voyager 1 can keep talking to Earth for about another decade. That's how long the plutonium that powers it should last. After it falls silent, it will still keep going. But it will be about 40,000 years before it wanders close to another star.

Something about that last paragraph that brings the whole article full circle with lofty, child-like dreams. Makes me wonder if mankind will create the technology (and find a way possible) to go out into deep space and pass Voyager before that happens.
I was hoping for something on server optimization. This is pretty basic stuff. More geared for about.com than hackernews readers.
How do you read back the tracking information from a cached object, page or image without replacing it with a fresh new one?
Twitter makes more money with mobile than Facebook
Exactly. That is the point.

I am curious too, but I think this one will not reply. If he does, i'll make sure to come back with an update. ;)
From what I recall, modern graphics hardware has little or no support for video overlays. The fastest and easiest way to display video on modern systems is actually to feed it through the standard 3d-accelerated compositing stack, which means that it shows up in screenshots just like everything else. Some content providers don't like this because it provides a way to capture the video, so they insist on graphics hardware manufacturers providing some method of displaying video that blocks screen capture; if any modern graphics cards do support overlays it's almost entirely for DRM purposes rather than acceleration.
Nonsense. All three ads on the Google page are to thin domains with little more than a contact form to harvest your info and spam you to death.
Sounds like a good idea at first, but I feel that not having collapsible comments is detrimental to the discussion, and in particular it counteracts the advantages of tree threaded discussion versus linear discussion (as seen on many messageboards and blog comments).

Why? Because the advantage of tree-based threads is that you can split off and have a relatively off-topic conversation without jacking the whole discussion. However, if such a discussion develops just below the top-voted comment, and it gets larger, it will dominate the whole discussion because people (naturally) won't always read the full page of the discussion.

This gets doubly problematic because of the tendency is that a "large, slightly off-topic discussion near the top comment" is very often about the same chewed-to-death topics that are just two camps firing off their default arguments at eachother (Apple vs general purpose computing, anything libertarian, intellectual property vs piracy, etc etc, you have seen them all). Which may be worthwhile discussions to have, nor would I want to prevent anyone from having them, but very often I want to read the discussion about the particular topic in this particular article, or at least how it differs from other articles triggering such responses, and not the general arguments by the two camps, which I already know (and most people have made up their minds about, anyway).
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As long as there are people making money off it it, it'll just keep expanding. Probably not to our homes, but expect to see the TSA with naked body scanners at sports arenas, train and subway stations, shopping malls, office buildings...
The last couple of extensions / bookmarklets that did this, did not work in Opera (at the moment that I tried them, at least). But this one does, kudos for that! I'm using it, thanks! :)
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You want to bet on that?
Last night I was thinking, how many of you/us would take a PayPal insurance policy that cover cases like this?
The very fact that this site exist says something. To me there's a weird feeling of desperation about it.
That would be XWayland, essentialy running X on Wayland the way you'd run it on Windows or MacOS X now, which should go a long way towards easing the transition.
PayPal charges substantially less than a traditional merchant account and payment gateway. Particularly in the UK. It would be interesting if the OP touched upon that. They're also easier and faster to set up than a merchant account/payment gateway.

In return for being cheaper and faster there are trade offs. As stated in the article, this person's business model is a "high risk" one in general and to PayPal in particular. This is a great example of where a merchant account with a bank really is the better option. They need to met you, understand your business and why it works the way it does. Once done, you're less likely to have ongoing issues. So, you can keep your "higher risk" business model and change from PayPal or you can change your business model to better fit with PayPal. I don't think you can have both.

PayPal is a family sedan. This guy is lamenting that his vehicle doesn't perform the way he wants it to at high speed on twisty mountain roads. Seems like an unfair car review in that sense.

As others noted - it would look very strange to PayPal if you basically pull all your funds two days after that call. Who knows what else he inadvertently did to raise suspicion.
How am I missing the point? First the claim was that Mitt Romney pays a "lower than average income tax rate", which is demonstrably untrue.

Then the claim was that he pays a "lower than average Federal tax burden" and that the income tax as a burden on the average American was "negligible" relative to their payroll tax burden. I didn't even bring up the fact that Bain pays corporate income taxes on its profits before they're disbursed to owners like Romney. Even discounting that, the average person's Federal tax burden is still lower than Romney's, assuming he's being truthful when he says his income rate was never lower than 13%. And the average American's income tax burden is not "negligible" relative to the payroll tax burden: it's about 50/50.

Now you're trying to bring state taxes into it. Guess what: Romney makes most of his money off of capital gains and is a Massachusetts resident, where long term capital gains are taxed at 5.3%.

Yes, Romney could "afford" a much greater tax burden. He could "afford" a tax burden of 95% and still live comfortably. That's not an argument (or at least a good one) for such a thing. It's also not the point under debate (that somehow the rate of taxes he pays is lower than the average American's).
Bing seems to be a bit better at generic, broad searches (games, file extension $something, etc) and Google seems to be better at exact, specific queries (stop error 7B, RPGs announced at PAX 2012).

Bing ended up winning, which shocked the hell out of me, but after trying a couple more times, I noticed that pattern.
ZippyKid support is the best! Fast and helpful. How refreshing compared to my dreamhost account, which is impossible to find a human that works there. Maybe ZippyKid will expand to support Moodle and I can move all my pages!
Bummer. I've been thinking of a strategy to reform this exact process for my business, but there's nothing I can do here (yet). ETA?
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>the OP may have triggered the freeze by clearing the account of nearly all funds a couple of days after the phone interview.

It would be very helpful for someone to post (from experience and/or inside knowledge) a "How work with PayPal and avoid problems" FAQ
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Originally he did. It was a large format, expensive custom grid paper designed for the kind of old fashioned production scheduling he used to do.

In general it was a grid, but the cells weren't square, they were wider so that there was more room to write, and along the top and left side were various specialty cells for tracking schedule numbers, days of production, reference numbers, various call-outs and along the left side room for specific machines and machine operators to be inserted. He used a fairly sophisticated color coding sytem to show linked jobs as they moved through the queue and hopped machines, so a red diagonally striped cell on one machine represented the same job later in the day on another machine also using a red diagonally striped cell. It basically allowed him to plan execution of production pipelines similar to thread execution on a modern day processor.

He had to hand draw the legend on every sheet and all of the setup. And since it was all pens and markers and such, a small mistake meant redrawing the entire schedule. I remember growing up watching him sit in front of the TV working on his production schedules late into the night.

I agree that Excel in general is not terribly skeuomorphic, but like I said elsewhere in this comment, skeuomorphism is a gradient and Excel was just similar enough to a paper book-keeping ledger of old that he thought that it would only be useful to him in that sense never realizing it could replace the custom production schedule grid he managed until quite a bit later.

edit it was not too entirely different from this

http://preoccupiedbymoonlight.blogspot.com/2010/06/productio...

only quite a bit more complex and larger format, and in the end looked almost calico colored there were so many production pipelines at once on it (vs. this example with only one real pipeline)
Great idea - useful.
If I had the money and time to spare, I'd create a group who's job it would be to just buy random travel to random places and do nothing but screw with the TSA. We're talking millionaire levels here. I'd buy people tickets, walk them through how to jam the entire process start to finish (quoting the constitution works exceedingly well if the stories I'm reading mean anything), and hire lawyers to deal with fighting the inevitable legal challenges.

Call me childish, but I would like nothing better to but to make this system such a cost drain that it's dropped. Once airlines have to start rebooking people due to flights being missed by many, many paying passengers, en masse, the corporate pressure that makes the government wheels turn will do the rest.

Most people put up with this fucktardery only because they have somewhere to be and don't want to miss their flight. And the security theater actors know this.
I ended up with a draw the two times I tried. I made the mistake of trying a Google search I had just done previously and ended up seeing the purple links, which tipped me off to which was which. Bing was the only one that gave me local and mapped results for "Chicago Loop pizza", but Google won out just as often.

Bing is as good as Google on average. The problem is, when you're up against an entrenched competitor, good enough just isn't good enough.
All my speech is satire.
This is great news for RPi team and for uk manufacturing. I've been saying for over a year now that if there is a reasonable level of automation then there is no reason why china should be cheaper than the uk.so long as you can maintain a robust supply chain of components (I should think using a sony facility is beneficial to this) then it can work out great.

We priced our product for uk and china and china was infact more expensive because of the way they price plastics. Sometimes UK is best
Frankly, yes.

The merchant is, if I understand the post correctly, taking orders, using the money to print a run, then shipping them.

The risk is caused by the merchant's business model. It may not be high, but it certainly exists. Either the merchant, PayPal or consumers themselves must pay for it.

Who would you pick?
Former discussion of this shameful incident: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4471213
Nice try Microsoft. But if you really need to create a contest to prove your search engine is better you're probably desperate.
> On the other hand, this is a long established business.

8Faces has been in print since 2010. That's a great start. It's not a really long time. Issue 5 is ready to pre-order. (Weirdly the author claims that they don't really do pre-orders, but on the website there is a huge banner telling people that they can pre-order issue 5.)

Magazine publishing is notoriously tricky, especially in the UK.

> Why can't Paypal treat them more respectfully as there's plenty of trading history. Why are there no mechanisms for establishing real identities that are much stronger than what they seem to be doing?

This is an excellent point. I can understand why Paypal don't have customer reps for every little nickel and dime trader, but a magazine doing £15,000 per issue is reasonably substantial amount of money. It'd be great if Paypal could establish identities (interviews? documentation?) and build relationships with the honest traders that use the service.
I'm trying to wrap my head around what "open-source products... for the consumer space" even means. Are we talking open-source toasters/microwaves/appliances? Doors? Windows? Toys? I'm just not sure I understand what we're talking about when you say "Products".
And at the end of the day, what I need are exact/specific queries.

Whether to get the job done, to get some certain information or something third.
The slow rate of Android updates is not caused by Android being hard for consumers to upgrade but by carriers/manufacturers not providing upgrades at all or too late.
Does anyone know where BBC Micros were manufactured? Sinclair's ZX machines (and C5s) were made in Dundee.
I spoke with Raspberry Pi about this for a news story I wrote. They said this about manufacturing: "The temptation is always to push manufacturing to a low-cost region, but I think with the right attention to detail there's no reason British manufacturing can't compete in a global marketplace," Eben Upton, founder of the Raspberry Pi foundation told ZDNet UK on Thursday. "It shows that British manufacturing can be competitive."
( http://www.zdnet.com/raspberry-pi-manufacturing-comes-home-a... )

Are there similar moves underway in the US?
When launched both of these products were problematic, Google from the UI side, Amazon from both the API side and the UI side. And the network effects suck - no one has accounts.

We axed amazon soon after we integrated with them - I gather that now both the API and more importantly the UI are much better, and people can sucessfully use their pre-existing amazon accounts. That would be huge.

Google we still support, but it's usage has plummeted from a low starting place on our site. It'll be dropped on the next rev of the our UI.
This is not a real blind test though. (Pardon me for being a web developer, but) I can tell which is which by just looking at the green colors used in the links. The green in Google results is a little bit more saturated than the one in Bing.

Google results also seems to show share counts from Google+ as in: 73,352 people +1'd this
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I believe he was referring to the "DOJ guidelines for the Licensing of Intellectual Property" not the comic. I'll assume he means this: http://www.justice.gov/atr/public/guidelines/0558.htm
There is nothing "weird" about blind "taste" tests. It's a good way to attempt to filter out at least a little bias, and here you have two competing products that do the same thing (unless your baseline assumption is that no one could ever compete with the current leader).
Range inputs are one of those things that seem obvious but in practice aren't that useful, in the grand scheme of things.
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DuckDuckGo is now a hundred times better than Google for those exact & specific queries. I was looking for some info on my truck engine, and Google sent me to sales pages for completely unrelated parts (and sometimes, entirely unrelated cars!). DDG sent me to deep in an old forum thread, where someone had posted a diagram of exactly what I was looking for.
I had two different runs that both ended 3-2 for Google. Even if Bing came out ahead, they seem so similar that I couldn't be bothered to retrain myself to bing stuff, instead of googling it, especially when I have gmail accounts.
I tried airvpn for a month, had a very good experience, and they are explicit about following EU privacy rules.
Microsoft releases Bing vs. Google comparison tool
Sure, it's a PR campaign, but it's built around proving to you the actual benefits of using the product. Seems pretty clever to me.

You would rather they blanket the city in ads on bus shelters? Or give away $1,000 a day to a random Bing searcher?
I view this as a long and detailed demonstration of Dan Bernstein's point #5 in http://cr.yp.to/qmail/guarantee.html: Don't Parse!

All of these problems arise because we're passing around text that needs to be parsed. Programmers don't know the parsing rules, And they vary by utility. The end result is that it is very easy to make something work, and very hard to make it work correctly.

As was noted by fffggg, most of these problems disappear as soon as you switch to a language that lets you stick the filenames in strings and never again tries to parse them. All of the major scripting languages will do.

But not all, just most. The exception being the UTF-8 issue. It does not solve printability of strings with unknown (and perhaps no valid) encoding. Furthermore scripting languages often will want to try to interpret external bytes coming back from the filesystem as a string, and may have trouble if file names are not some recognized encoding.
Amazon phone confirmed.
When you can hear it, duh.
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I’ve noticed something about top bloggers, they’re fast. They write every day and they write thousands of words. Sure, they write well and their content is interesting, timely, educational and engaging. But they also get a lot of practice because they blog a LOT.
We http://www.forty.to as part of winning a place in the Rackspace startup program, receive $2000 dollars of Rackspace services per month for a year. But, as part of the deal, we display the Rackspace logo on our home page. From our point of view, it's a great deal.
Seems like a pretty reasonable thing to do if you're the underdog even though you believe your product is better on its merits.
I wound up with 3/1/1 in favor of Bing. I sort of felt like I was choosing the Bing options, but Google still hasn't given me a real reason to switch.

MS has definitely caught up quite a bit, though.
Thanks. Updated. I'd like to credit him, if he has a preferred link.
Something interesting is that cultures with different sources of literary traditions have slightly different sizes and aspect ratios for what is considered a "normal" book size and shape. It doesn't vary too much, there are obvious physical constraints on how large or small or awkward reading technology can be, but it's different enough that it's noticable.
The 'pepsi challenge' of search engines?

Tip: try to search for plot lines in movies such as:
'kid that is able to see people already dead'