skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, we do have a universal checkout product in the works with the Venmo team. We’ll provide more details as we get further with the product but expect to see more from us on this soon, and the Pando article captures the essence of it. We want to take the seamless checkout experience that we’ve enabled for companies like Uber, HotelTonight, Fab and thousands of others and make it available across every merchant that uses Braintree and every consumer that uses Venmo.

-Kristi from Braintree
Given the signals intelligence of small town newspapers I always wondered why there wasn't a company that gave out really cheap 'site build/management' software for these folks with a proviso buried deep deep deep inside the terms of service that gave the hosting company a right to see all the data.

I'd imagine it looks a lot like WPEngine but with a more newsy flair.
I think it means the language forces designs and eventually an ecosystem that's optimized around having cooperative multitasking as the only option. That makes dealing with concurrency an easier task since every library you depend on also takes concurrency seriously. And since cooperative multitasking is much much more efficient than preemptive alternatives, you end up with applications with great efficient concurrency support by default.
$ curl http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=j
No such user.

Clearly you could have named yourself just 'j' instead of the overly verbose 'jon6'. All those extra characters!!
3.1415927 is really just a shorthand for 31415927/10000000, so shouldn't it count as 17 characters rather than 9?
Here's the source article, more interesting than the blogspam linked:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-09-30/presenting-worlds-b...
What about using a virtual machine?
That way when you have a hardware failure you just switch computers, even on an old one temporarily and are still able to work properly?

That's what I'm doing to ease when I'm working from my parents' home for example where they have multiple computers and I use one available.
This is my fault for not explaining why I wasn't going to look into it more. According to the features it has listed, it offers me no obvious advantages to my current tools and claims to be difficult to setup and configure.

Beyond that, if you truly want adoption for a tool, you'd invest time into making sure that you remove the obstacles of someone utilizing it. This is a tool that hasn't had any major releases since "September 15, 2010" and hasn't had any commits for two months.
It isn't in the same style as Xkcd graphs, but the OmniGraphSketcher program lets you hand draw graphs like that, without data.

http://www.omnigroup.com/products/omnigraphsketcher/overview...
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ArchiveAPI – read out archive file contents
Shopping/Deals site survey
We are developing a new website for Finnish/EU use to ease the shopping experience on the net. Now we need you input to push us to the right direction with our sites development. Feel free to go crazy with the ideas, but keep in mind that this is a website not a spaceship or other advanced techtoy. We would like to know stuff that u usually like to buy over the internet, how do you compare, do you buy from Finland, EU or outside-EU and is the total price the reason or trust for the seller. How about shopping coupons, would you use them to get the stuff cheaper and where do you get your coupons now? Do you use adkillers or other browser plugins to get rid of the Ads?
Yes. But it's much simpler to rely the existing security protections you already use for your database, instead of having to setup new ones with a completely different system for your async jobs.
May I suggest a remedial civics course? Your ire should be directed at Tip O'Neill and Bob Byrd. All laws originate in the Legislative branch.

"And so Congress combined the CCPA with the Court of Claims (which handled lawsuits against the federal government) to create this new court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit."
Thanks for the feedback, much appreciated.

This tool is much better at generating professional company names than the other services out there. For example, Bustaname asks you to type in a list of words and then it will test the availability of all those word combinations. You have to be creative in order to benefit from it and even if you are, you might miss out on a lot of good domain names because you don't think of them.

I hand-picked over 4,000 business names that are used throughout multiple industries in order to generate the list that this business name generator uses to help you come up with a business name for your industry. If you want to name an actual business, no other tool comes close to being this good (imho). You're paying for the quality of the results and the speed compared to other methods of coming up with company names.
Anyone interested in interesting applications of quadrotors will probably like the work of the GRASP lab: https://www.grasp.upenn.edu/
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I'm part of an internal development group (not touching outside customers directly) that needs to focus on rapid development and supplying other development teams with the tools they need.

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Problems with iPhone 5
#1 on HN for almost a full day: ~21,000 visits and at peak 815 people with the site open at once.
Internet TV Isn't Ready to Displace Cable Just Yet
Living Rooms Ideas
Hmm, I can tell I work for a company that do that. Thats sad :(
Browse your favorite catalogs on the web
[Development] Blurring the lines between Qt-Project and Digia
E.g. node.js + socket.io. The event-driven concurrency model makes it easier to write servers without worrying about race conditions and thread locks while also having less overhead from a heavy thread implementation. For some applications this has been quite good. The downside is that it can be a bit tricky to scale node.js larger but it's not too hard to run multiple processes or do other load balancing. It's not good for all applications, but very good for some.
There are two search tools on the site, the Website Name Generator and the Business Name Generator. The Website Name Generator, which will suite most of you, is free. The Business Name Generator works similarly to the Website Name Generator, so my hope is that if you see how good the free tool is, you might consider paying for the premium one (if you're looking to name an offline business).
Good concept, different from the forward looking time-structured model.

Suggestions:

Freemium with sharing and other features for teams.

More interactivity. Call me an ass, but email signup in return for 30 days followed by $3/month for something so minimal was a turnoff.

I like the visual simplicity and this is conceptual rather than production, but default fonts etc. make it look like it's straight outta 1996.

Task tags, so you can sort things into meaningful categories like household/kids/work/whatever.

Do something different with the graph. Don't do a regular histogram, throw a first derivative or something on there that adds value and a degree of 2nd order insight. Histograms are frequently a sign that you don't know what to do with the data IMHO.
I've made a lazy linq-like library for javascript in the past..

The problem i had was that the native array methods are rather fast while function calls (for moveNext) are quite slow, so i couldn't get a whole lot of speed out of it.

Newer javascript engines might be sufficient to offset that though.
Seems pretty cool, but how does it compare to DART or does it even compare?
re: CMS.

Often I don't need a "Content Management System", but I need a way to "Manage Content". The 'system' part is... pretty much in every situation I've seen, a straightjacket with little room to be extended, or something which requires a lot of time/effort to be proficient with. I've still not yet found a good middle ground.
Sadly, my account was banned long ago for posting decss code (anyone remember that debacle?) and I never went back.
Good point, however, there are no free textbooks that are made by collaborative effort. This book is also free to edit, so teachers can take parts out, add parts and so on.

This book is definitely written "for people to read". It is very clear and understandable. One could think that a text book written over one weekend is very messy and hard to read, but this was indeed not the case. The writers especially focused on making the book as easy to understand as possible.
Funny APPL has a market cap (624B) that is bigger than Google (248) and "wintel" (248 + 115 = 363) combined.

Seriously, that Google has lapped the larger part of what was the Microsoft / Intel juggernaut of the last century is notable of course, but I wonder if its the wrong question.
If this makes the news I'll probably be fired :-)

Stationary Storage is basically energy storage (in non-moving context) and is commonly tied to the electrical grid. There are various technologies used for stationary storage like compressed air, flywheels, pumped hydro, and batteries. I'll let you guess which one we work with.

I can't talk specifically about any of our projects, but a few of them have had an article or two if you dig around. Sorry for the secrecy, but it's very exciting and there's a lot going on. If you're still interested in working on our team, I can tell you more project and technical details when you get in touch.
I need it for my brands. I could also use a following/followers tools.
and you can also see in realtime the typescript -> javascript compilation as you type your typescript code. pretty cool.
No it isn't. It isn't "a shorthand". It is a notation. Of those two notations, no one is "a shorthand" of another.
Would it be possible to do something like this in Wolfram Alpha? I'm not sure how complicated you can make the input there, but it's using the same Mathematica engine, so I imagine it's possible somehow...
Fox says in its first line:

"White House sources partly confirmed an alarming report that U.S. government computers -- reportedly including systems used by the military for nuclear commands -- were breached by Chinese hackers."

whereas the USA Today via the AP says in its first line:

"The White House is confirming an attempted cyberattack on its computer system, but said it thwarted the effort."

Considering Fox's report then goes on to say that "there was never any impact or attempted breach of any classified system", I'm going to have to say Fox is running a little wide with their headline-baiting.
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The language itself is broken, especially when it comes to equality, type coercion, `arguments`, and Date processing.
The biggest advantage for me, personally, is that it's so customizable and open source. Every last aspect can be tweaked to my liking.
I've done quite a lot of JavaScript development, enough that I guess I'm a "JavaScript developer" (though thankfully that isn't my current day to day job) and I hate it. So now you know of at least one.

I agree with everything camus said. Yes JavaScript has some cool stuff in it, but taken as a whole it is a pretty shitty language. This has less to do with the creation of JavaScript than it does the practical reality that JavaScript cannot really be changed in fundamental ways without immense amounts of politics. Pretty much the entire time JavaScript has existed it was due to be fixed in a couple of years, but then political fiasco after political fiasco (eg. EcmaScript 4) delays this.

JavaScript as you can use it today sucks pretty much as much as it always has, and is only tolerable now because there are some good libraries that hide the shittiness of the language from you. Wouldn't it be better to have a web language without such a shitty core, that didn't require 100k libraries to hide you from the terrible bits?
The Pirate Bay is down
The Pirate Bay seems to be down. Who's to blame?

http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/http://thepiratebay.se
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Wow! I wish the best of luck for you!
I tried to get around this by creating overloads of almost all methods when you are operating on an array. `each` for instance, has a standard implementation using moveNext, and then an array implementation using a fast for loop. In some cases you could even drop down to native function calls.
I'm a big fan of how they used to support OpenID but quietly dropped it, locking me out of my original account.

No, wait, that was terrible!
You are so right. I implemented browserid when it was named "BrowserID" and it really made better sense (the name was pretty self explanatory). "Mozilla persona" sounds like something that only some obscure subcult of firefox users should use.

I would urge mozilla to remove all branding from the popup. It's gonna get really confusing when 3rd party popups get into the game (would they call it Google browserID or "google's version of persona"?). Second, since websites are not getting any private information from mozilla, mozilla is barely relevant. Third, while mozilla's work is commendable, users don't need a link to learn about the protocol and that it's benevolently "built by a nonprofit", instead they trust that the target website knows what it's doing by showing that popup.
Verizon specific patch is already to be applied and no charges are to be applied due to this bug.
PC loses to Web ads is more likely.

I think Google's got better at getting people to click on ads. For example, one of the following is a search result and the other is an ad. How many people can differentiate between them on various monitors?

http://i.imgur.com/Wmdd0.png

I remember the time when Google differentiated itself by clearly marking ads, now it's no longer true for high value keywords.
It appears the rich are the enemy if what you say is correct. The rich want to pay people less, have them work more, and in the end they also want the system to help them do this.

How are the rich not the enemy here? Maybe VC funding and the startup culture is really not the best way to build technology, despite what Americans may have you believe.
Police Raid PRQ (a Swedish Company) Takes Down Dozens of File-Sharing Sites
NYT Election Oracle, Nate Silver, On Why Blogging Is Great For Science
Because these "loose and freeform" attributes make your life hell building large applications with large teams.
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Nothing's been above my head, it's more like it takes him too many words to make a point or get the jist across. He gets too creative/clever. I would like it to be more straightforward. Then again, I mainly read non-fiction from journalists or government types.
Tilly, if it helps, the same thing happened to me. I contacted them a few months ago and they were kind enough to reset me based on knowing some information such as the old email.
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Zero Hedge is kind of a troll.

What makes it a hedge fund? That they set up a sub to manage their cash? No indication they're taking risk to generate alpha like a macro fund such as Bridgewater. It's not a hedge fund by any definition.

Where's the tax dodge? That they set it up in Reno, maybe because of some state corporate income tax angle? What does looking for 'legal tax loopholes' even mean?

The linked NYT article from April is pretty interesting and was discussed here -
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3903694

Empty linkbait... slap up a headline with Apple and 'hedge fund' and people will click on it.

In other news, boy trapped in refrigerator eats own foot.
Also, any plans for latin-america (I'm from Colombia). Paypal open here and then close, and I can't get out the money (except buying stuff). Now I'm with fastspring but wish to have options...
Lots of comments I see. Glad Slashdot is alive and kicking still.

I guess when I get sick of the lemming/herd mentality here, I can go over to /. and suffer it over there.
"I would also argue that static typing provides a self-documenting benefit that is easy to forget"

Ditto. For me that's by some way the biggest advantage of typing, with refactoring/navigation being the next biggest.

I do wonder if some of these newer languages are going to make the self-documenting aspect even stronger though. I'm speaking here of optional typing and/or implicit implementation (Greeter implements IGreeter if it has the correct methods). For me this will let me put type information and abstractions (interfaces etc) only where they make sense.

Compare that with what you get in current static languages, where projects I've worked on that also use IoC have so many interface-implementation pairs that it becomes difficult to spot the important abstractions.

Interesting times ahead I think.
Rosacea may be caused by mite faeces in your pores
More bang, less buck: How car engine tech does more with less
I think that was the point - an ironic title for a post that goes against the types of articles with exactly the same caracteristics.
Agreed. I hate "free" apps that are completely hamstrung until you buy some dumb in-app purchase.
Source maps[1] should help with this.

[1]: http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/developertools/source...
I don't see how you can survive without a bug database. It is useful even for 1-man projects and there are plenty of free ones available.
This article also reminds me of where I used to pick up CD's back when they first came out - Tower Records in Mountain View, CA. CD's - still around; Tower Records - not so much. Interesting how it all worked out.
App Design Paradigms
Show HN: Webapp to determine who owes you for pizza
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We are hiring engineers, design, product management and marketing. We are looking for well rounded PHP developers, a MySQL DBA and a javascript specialist in advertising delivery platforms.

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No, not charging what the market will bear. Charging each customer what that customer will bear.

Before claiming that it would be illegal for Oracle to use the information that it collects while running a database to figure out how much that customer can afford, I would like you to specify what exactly you consider illegal about it. If you're basing that on a vague notion that discrimination is illegal, then you're wrong. Businesses, by law, are not allowed to discriminate directly or indirectly on a set of protected classes. The standard list is race, gender, religion, national origin, and age. ANYTHING ELSE (eg evidence that you have oodles and oodles of money) is fair game.
Ok, I'm confused, what exactly is the point here? If you don't care, 3.14 is sufficient, if you do care then you use π, and if you really care you use τ[1].

[1](http://tauday.com/tau-manifesto)

(And if you really really really care, you use a different font then the one HN defaults too.)
http://article.olduse.net/7038@philabs.UUCP

That's the second ever mention of the CD made on Usenet, back in July 1982.

"It has no grooves, the digitally
encoded recording lies beneath the disc surface, invulnerable to dirt and damage."
Rape Results In More Pregnancies Than Consensual Sex
Agreed

22/7 is the worse. Too much trouble for too little benefit

If you need the value of pi to do a hand calculation, 3.14 is more than enough

And if you need to "produce" pi just remember pi/4 = 1 - 1/3 + 1/5 - 1/7... (there are formulas that are better, sure, but less memorizable)
They added static typing to javascript, except you can still pass a number to a function that takes a string. In their example http://www.typescriptlang.org/Playground/ replace the

new Greeter("World");

with

new Greeter(5);

and it still works. What good is adding types to functions if they are ignored?
Sure. I think server software should be constructed, simulated and visualized in a browser. Server components can be sourced from around the net, pulled into a shared environment, inspected, tested, and connected, and then when you're ready, pushed onto the server. This approach has the added benefit that when get to client code, a lot of what the client needs to know about the server is available to it, either at build time or even at runtime.
US gasoline prices are amongst the cheapest in the world. Why do you conclude they are so high?
There will always be problems and headaches with off the shelf software, but the thing is that even with all of this you may still save over building it yourself. I worked for years on a Siebel implementation, and even with these issues it was worlds better than the previous incarnation which we had built in house.
Periodic Table of Minecraft
"The Fourth Part of the World: The Race to the Ends of the Earth, and the Epic Story of the Map That Gave America Its Name".

A really interesting history book. I'm now in a great part, about how knowledge of geography (and map projections) was disseminated in Europe through a network of scholars and humanists during the 15th century. There was this huge collaborative effort to reconstruct ancient texts and to bring them in line with (then) current knowledge.
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Umm, yea. Fox News.