skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From an innovation standpoint having the single privacy policy is much better for Google and end users, but when it comes to privacy itself it lacks. Not a huge lacking when combining them together but nonetheless I'd rather not have my personal web searches and professional email sending the data to be used in conjunction.
The whole concept of getting six decades for victimless crime is deeply disturbing.
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It definitely looks a lot nicer than previously, and the better publishing workflow sounds nice even though I haven't tried it. I spent quite a bit of time trying to publish my first app and it made me feel pretty stupid!
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Can somebody from the US please tell me what the deal with the District of Columbia (on the far left) is?

Also, this is another darn fine visualisation from the NYT.
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Wow, five years is quite a long time to be in any job these days!
now we both came here to get a discussion going; now we've got one, you can drop out of the troll personal attack mode.

So you have made quite clear that you find the various named non-bare-metal languages used for 'systems projects' distasteful. But you can't make them undone. You can say they were the wrong tool for the job in your opinion, too, but you can't say that others are wrong to consider them system languages.
Lol, In the same vein, Can homosexuality lead to super clones? No seriously, can it?
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Nice idea but needs a comment system. For example, I know a pattern like this has problems:
http://dbpatterns.com/show/5072096089cbad6a389867c7/

Change the price of a product then calculate last months revenue.

I'd also like to see a brief about what the pattern is trying to solve and why it is the way it is. I've used patterns for sortable hierarchical categories before which is more complex than a parent/position relationship. That would take a bit of explaining with regards to querying, sorting, inserting, removing records.

But all in all, I like it. Nice clean UI and can see it growing.
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Not sure about in US, but I'm pretty sure majority of kids in this part of the world knows who Marie Curie is than Ada Lovelace.

Ada Lovelace is celebrated among us the computer geeks, because she's the female icon for the field.
If we're going down that route, why are we paying so much attention to Alan Turing, who elected him as the man in science?

No one. He isn't "the man in science" - only a few computer geeks know about him. The man in science is Einstein.

I seriously doubt the man on the street could name anyone else, with the possible exception of "schizophrenic Russel Crowe".
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Highscalability.com just hit my company proxy and was classified as a "malware site"... wtf?
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> handling practices

especially when compared to Röntgen who used lead to isolate him some time before her
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Röntgen
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- Tons of open-source stuff on Github that isn't designed.
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> You want to win the Lisp-community-at-large? Give them more power. It doesn't have to be the trivialized imprecision of expression that comes with something like Ruby. It doesn't have to be the minimalism of Io and Scheme. It doesn't have to be native continuations.

>It doesn't even have to be Shen or Haskell-style static typing.

>What it does have to be...is more powerful for the lone cowboy.

Could you expand on what you think Clojure needs to win over the Common Lisp guys?
I wasn't trying to generalize, and I hope I didn't come off like that. For the record: I don't care if I suffer from it, but I have symptoms that makes it likely (words of a doctor, not mine), and I thought it appropriate to share my experiences - with a small disclaimer.

I've had problems in school; couldn't hang on to a job, and so on. Until I was sort of "forced" into learning how to program. It in turn forced me to focus, and it made all the difference.

Added note: Programming didn't make it easier to focus. But it seems to fit me, and my short attention span, plus it's just too darn interesting.
Big cities in the US tend to be extremely left wing. A quick google search reveals this map:

http://elections.nytimes.com/2008/results/president/map.html

New York County (Manhattan), Chicago and SF look a lot like DC. LA a bit less so, but that's probably because a lot of LA is suburban.
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It's been as high as 71.1% Black (in 1970). The percentage has been decreasing as Blacks have moved to the suburbs and Hispanics have moved into the city.
This story just has so much PR spin around it:

"could face 60 years in jail if convicted in the US" (nah)
"Asperger's Syndrome" (this came out a long time after the initial charges)
"evidence of UFOs" (he's kooky, not malice!)
Quotes from his mum, she wrote to The Guardian (adds to the slightly confused school child vibe)
Interesting!

I wish you had some way to do demo targeting on first use even before signup. When I first visit the site, I see a lot of stuff I'd pay to not have. (Kitschy junk...maybe due to Etsy partnership?).

At the very least, I'd show 2-3 really diverse sets of items on the first page for non-logged-in non-cookied users. Maybe your market is basically 50-70 year old females right now, and so it's worth not making the initial set of items appealing to anyone else. I would hand-curate the front page rather than letting it be what appears to be driven by users, but keep it somewhat up to date with what's popular on the site. The first page view should be beautiful and compelling.
Agreed. Especially since Rust uses a lot of different sigils already (@ , ~, &, ::, <>, || for closures...). Using and/or, hopefully along with significant whitespace would reduce the visual clutter.
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Agree. I can't help think about the distaste their senior developer's feel about now. I mean if there are full stack developers who also do proper product and this sale exec comes along because apparently he is the solution to their problems... shitty products.
An easy and accessible rule of thumb goes as follows:

Could I use this language for:

Writing an OS for a PDP-11 that was reasonably close to the assembler in performance albeit not compactness?

&&

Writing hard real-time constrained avionics software?

&&

Writing HPC software for scientific purposes that takes advantage of strict memory control and vectorized, hardware-specific instructions for maximum throughput?

With varying degrees of expertise and specialty, C, Fortran, Ada, and C++ all qualify.

Try writing even a simple linear algebra algorithm in Java. You won't get anywhere near Fortran or C++. Try as you might. Even relatively sundry CV work is unpleasant outside of the prototype phase on anything but C++/et al.

I'm sorry you felt attacked, but the scope of experience is relevant to the subject. I realize it's very difficult to discuss one's limitations, or have them pointed out by others, without internalizing it and making it a subject of ego.

I generally stick to the high level tier of languages until I am forced to drop down a layer. Experience and pain have stripped me of all hubris that could lead me to believe humans could overcome the fundamental semantic and informational constraints involved in optimizing code that needs to concern itself with the machine-behavior from a higher abstraction layer. I've done more JVM and GC fiddling than I care to recall.

There's a glass ceiling, you won't escape it. Even Paul Graham, the master Common Lisper himself, took advantage of the relatively easy to use FFI faculties in Lisp to drop down to C to optimize hotspots. This was a common pattern when he was doing ViaWeb, I'm told.

It doesn't have to be that way. I am genuinely sorry if you felt attacked or that I was uncivil. I will find other ways to express myself if I run into another similar situation here. That was a failing on my part, please forgive me.

I'm not wont to pontificate to plumbers as to how they should go about plumbing. I say that as someone who's actually redone the plumbing in a residence from top to bottom with my bare hands before. Despite that, I know I'm not a professional plumber and I don't have the experience necessary to say much about it even if I've technically "dabbled".

I don't let a little experience overstep its bounds.
This is a really nice approach to job finding. I wonder if the same could be applied to dating websites?
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People that write their own geocoder from crappy sources are like people that write their own crypto libraries. It's a task best left up to experienced experts. There's a reason we pay for quality GIS software with good data or use services like Google, Bing, etc...
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Hawking would also be recognizable, if not recalled without being prompted, even if only as "smart guy in a wheelchair". (I think Newton might have a shot, and maybe for people 35-55, Carl Sagan?)
No chance. Why would a developer want to feel his contribution is less than of a sales exec.... Good luck building great products Yahoo.
I'd be interested too, given that I'm not sure of you're including mine in those three!
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Any idiot can fire a bunch of people and stop plunging expenses (see all "professional" CEOs) - but that's not the way forward - unless your Nissan.

If you fire large groups of people - you destroy morale and break the trust of your people - this kills productivity (see Nokia/ARM).

Cutting costs is and will continue to be one of the worst ways to grow - because frankly the problem is your products suck and people are leaving.
Marie Skłodowska-Curie

... since we recently had a story about recognizing contributions of polish people: http://www.smh.com.au/world/honour-for-overlooked-poles-who-...
Why do people always omit the "Skłodowska" part? She has used her maiden name through all her life and always identified with her Polish origins, so it might be a little bit disrespectful. There simply are too many signs that she would want to be remembered as Marie Skłodowska-Curie, not just Marie Curie.
I like the design of the website aesthetically and at first it's what kept my attention.

After reading through the site though, I am not sure the tone/feeling of your site suits your purpose. Looking for a job is a very serious thing, I wonder if your site is a little too comical for your audience/purpose.

For me, it doesn't have the feel of a site I would want to use for job hunting.
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How interesting it is that they have three contact numbers listed, the site had already removed the content and it appears that 10 days ago their automated (read: unreliable) notification system had apparently notified someone of a DMCA takedown that never appeared to get to their client.

Guess I'll never use them. Ever.
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Thanks, I got a whole bunch of feedback, much of the same as you alluded to actually and a lot of amends to make!
Hi there - I'm the guy behind WiseCash (SaaS service, in beta since July).

The homepage is not yet ready for the general public, nor for a "Show HN"!

I'll happily answer questions though.

Here's an internal newsletter archive if you want to have an quick look inside though:

https://www.wisecashhq.com/newsletters/acquiring-more-financ...
As you may not know you can develop with C/C++ on Android , there is something called the NDK, that is used in a lot of games.
I think "The One Year Itch" might be more accurate.
I call it the 3-interest rule. If something comes up that I find really intriguing 3 times in a row from 3 independent and reliable sources (books/wiki/long form article/comments) - then I go into deep investigative mode.

I try to soak up as much as I can - not bothering too much with bookmarks because I'll never come back to it in that fashion (I'm driven by slow-burning interests/big problems in my field I always think about coupled with short bursts of deep random investigation into diverse fields that aren't my forte) and trying to integrate as much as I can within my current mental models before moving on to other subjects and only returning when the 3-interest rule is breached once more (it always has with everything I've investigated).

For example: Automation and the reversal of globalisation has come up a few times from various high signal-low volume sources so I went in deep and have concluded that China is dead and the future doesn't need humans - at all (extinction level event).

I just kinda fell into this mode, and this had some effect on my habits:

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html
+1 for that point..

I also posit that, were it not for the "rockstar" image that computing has acquired in the last 30 years or so, this Ada Lovelace thing wouldn't have catapulted like this as well.
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Why would it not be hacker news?, Im working on a new website, coding it, designing it and the bit I have outsourced I wanted feedback on.

I think flagging it is a bit childish to be frank.
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Maria Skłodowska-Curie, to be exact. She moved to France and married there, but never rejected her Polish origins. In fact she supported Polish independence, founded a scientific institute in Warsaw and named one of the elements she discovered after Poland.
They apparently have top of the line supprt staff. They also have access to a technology called "phones" - this technology works by picking up a handset, dialing a number, the other person picks up the phone and you explain that there is infringing material and will you please take it down and make me aware when this is done.

Sorry to hear of the dreadful service provided by ServerBeach!
It seems quite understandable that there'd be breaking changes between version 0.9 and 1.0, I don't see how you can extrapolate that to "OpenSSL doesn’t offer API compatibility between versions."

I also don't see how the advice to include your own version is any better than shipping two versions.
I'd love to have this for Firefox.

Or, even better, built into the site!
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You should add a link to the extension to the post.
Don't wonder why, get the hell away from ServerBeach!
While I also wish Vundle weren't as wedded to GitHub, I still find it to be the better of the two tools. Plus, Vundle can also use the Vim Scripts repo as a source, so it's not strictly tied to Git/GitHub.
Do you mean that it would be too much of an engineering burden, or that they wouldn't trust Kaspersky?

In any case, such a thing could become mandatory one day, if the so-called "cyber war" on oil/utility/manufacturing continues.
It's strange that coderwall doesn't seem to gzip their CSS nor JS files. It'd cut down their biggest file (~450k) to less than 50k.
In my case I plead ignorance. I grew up knowing her as Marie Curie and not as Marie Skłodowska-Curie. Who does one pronounce Skłodowska?
I wonder if they're going to issue the same recommendations to Microsoft: http://marketingland.com/microsoft-privacy-change-google-att...
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This has dragged on way too long. Glad there's finally going to be a decision (hopefully it's the right one). Even if you take away the Asperger's Syndrome a UK citizen should not be able to be extradited and face prison in the US for a computer crime of this nature (arguably any computer crime).

We will probably see more of this throughout the world. With the ability to commit crime on the internet deciding 'where' that crime took place and who's jurisdiction it falls under is going to be tricky.
Cool! I especially like the "collapse comment threads", that's the one thing i really miss on this site.
The way this guy has been treated for the past six years is disgusting. Sure he committed a crime, but he is obviously a very capable guy with talents that the UK & US governments could benefit from. What Gary did was victimless, it's not like he stole files and tried selling them nor passing them to a third party who could have done damage.

This is the backwards way the world works. If I were the US or UK Government I would be offering this guy a job in a cyber crimes division and give him the task of security testing Government infrastructure, there aren't many people who can say they've successful breached a secure US network and been able to access classified documents.
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>Could you expand on what you think Clojure needs to win over the Common Lisp guys?

I don't think it should even try. I think being the 'practical' Lisp is a good place to be.

That said, there are a few issues that are going to make some CLers irrationally intransigent.

The JVM is a biggie. They hate it, they don't want it, and they definitely don't want to be constantly skimming across the surface built on a foundation of Java libraries.

The dream was the Lisp machine, tur---Lisp all the way down.

Clojure is the refutation and negation of that dream. It is, to some CLers, an insult and a defeat.

You will never win those people.

Those even willing to pay the price of having to learn two programming languages at the same time (Clojure and Java) for the sake of getting a more modern and hip Lisp are still going to have a few sticking points.

1. Inability to produce binaries

2. You don't win anything in terms of individual productivity, nominally. The language is a side-grade.

This goes double if they're eccentric and like implementing predicate-dispatch libraries instead of mobile-social-local web app mash ups.

3. Clojure, semantically speaking, while cleaning up a lot of Lisp warts actually removes and hinders a lot of patterns that CLers relied on via mutation. The last thing a Common Lisper wants is the elimination of the option to do something.

Common Lispers, culturally, have more in common with Haskell than Clojure.

Their Haskell just hasn't been made yet.

Clojure is a cultural mismatch for many Common Lispers, especially the obsessive navel-gazers who to their credit, are the vanguard that advances the standards and research into the languages they use.

There are definitely those types of people in the Clojure community (amalloy wrote a decent article on anaphoric macros in Clojure), but the depth isn't there.

By going from Common Lisp to Clojure, you only lose things irrational as that may seem to normal people.

I mean, you even give up tail-call optimization. Yes yes, I know, (loop ... recur) and trampoline, I know. But it's not me you have to convince.

I'd rather keep the company of somewhat more sane people such as that use Clojure. That doesn't hold a lot of value for a lot of CLers I know though. They don't give a damn and never have.
That's what bookmarks are for, though.
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During Nixon's time, an anti-Soviet Democrat could easily find a home in the Republican party.

Trying to assign modern labels to the political parties of the 60's and 70's is a bit silly. Two of the biggest issues of the time (the Cold war and segregation) no longer exist today. Neither party has a stated position on the Soviet Union and both parties are radical integrationists.

We could call that a huge leftward shift, except that integration was mostly a right wing issue up until Nixon's "Southern Strategy".
Exactly, I hate the fact that hardly anyone outside Poland knows that she was Polish.
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Ask HN: What's the best option for easy payment processing?
Hi HN - I'm a designer and Rails-dabbler building an MVP that needs to take payments.

I'm comfortable integrating with something like Stripe or GoCardless but would rather not code a full integration with SagePay etc. I'd also rather not touch PayPal - had too many friends with businesses burned by them.

I'm also in the UK, which unfortunately rules out Stripe for now.

Are there any other alternatives to GoCardless I should be looking at?
Frequently, yeah, but the Rust developers seem to actually have some idea what makes C/C++ successful, so I think it stands a better chance than Java/C#/Go.
The one thing that annoys me about this, it doesn't work for other countries. It's quite limited in its use, not everyone is from the US and I don't see why it would be that hard to open it up to other parts of the globe. Believe it or not there are software engineers and web developers in Australia as well.
> The way this guy has been treated for the past six years is disgusting

Even more so in light of what he actually did: poke around on systems with no password protection - yet they act as if he was an insanely skilled, extremely-dangerous super-hacker who is just a few mouse clicks away of blowing up nuclear reactors when actually all he did was catching them with all their pants down. Really, "biggest military computer hack of all time"? It is pathetic.
Author here: I published the source code, I guess that it would take little enough to adapt it... ;)
And, unsurprisingly it looks just like direct.gov.uk with some polish.

Money well spent!*

* Sarcasm for reference...
Very interesting - handlebars.js's internals suddenly makes so much more sense!
I noticed - thanks for that! Hopefully someone who knows Firefox better than I do will pick it up and run with it.
Looks nice, clean and speedy. Although the front page could easily be mistaken for a parked domain with the mass of links and nothing to really differentiate them or make them stand out.
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This must be a spoof. These are the sort of prank letters I would write to newspapers when I was a teenager and thought myself amusing, and had just read The Henry Root Letters* (which actually were amsuing).

* http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Henry-Root-Letters/dp/0297777629
I asked a similar question for online payment systems for Europe. You may get some insight from the discussions..

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4379697
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Forgive me - I'm not in any way into numerology: what exactly is being pointed out here?