skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a silly notion. You mix to sound good on all devices, not just one (headphones). A high quality and experienced mix engineer will spend sometimes years developing his/her ears and learning the room acoustics and learning their monitors' responses. This allows them to use 1-3 pairs of monitors in their studio that they know will "translate" (which means "that will sound good on any device"). Room acoustics and monitoring are a science, not an art, so this is easy stuff that anyone can do regardless of budget.

Guys on a budget, however, will get one pair of monitors/headphones, do their mix, and go listen to that mix in lots of environments - cars, home stereos, beat boxes, etc. They'll hear how it sounds outside of the studio then they'll come back and make adjustments. This is how you "learn your monitors" - you are trying to learn about "500hz sounds too low in the studio but, if I bump up 500hz in the EQ, it sounds fine in the studio but then it gets muddy anywhere else". This is just how you do it.
Barracuda appliances contain backdoors
I would appreciate it if Silent Circle did not repeatedly claim to the media that the code has already been openly released and reviewed when it hasn't been.
It's unfathomable to me why any company in the IT security industry would ship a product with an undocumented remote access mechanism built-in. This seems like a sure way, when the mechanism is inevitably discovered, to cause harm to your company's reputation.

I've always felt vaguely distrustful of Barracuda anyway, but it's nice to have some facts to cite when not recommending their products.
The monthly price fluctuations aren't necessarily a problem, if you're just using Bitcoin as a mechanism to transfer money.
IPython and Javascript interaction
The worst part, in my opinion, is the refrain/chorus/hook/whatever; it sounds really stilted, especially the "po-cket". The last line is a non sequitur; why is only having $20 awesome, enough to warrant an expletive? Then there's the missed opportunity to rhyme "pop some tags" with "20 dollars in my bag" or something to that effect, rather than "pocket".

Maybe I just don't understand rap. :)
Our team makeup is almost entirely "devs" (I call them Engineers — people who design, build, and ship software). A lot closer to 120 than 80. However your estimates a pretty far off in terms of people who work on dotcom — that number is much closer to 15.

One of the more interesting sociological problems of software to me is this idea that more people equals faster movement. The only studies in this field prove the opposite, yet common opinion is simply that: more people equals more output. We've actually spent a great deal of effort not growing our team lately, much of which has directly contributed to an increase in pace.

I would credit our pace far more to the organizational structures we've created within our company (ex: http://tomayko.com/writings/adopt-an-open-source-process-con...) than the size of our team.
hey vinny. thanks for the feedback on "trust". We have spent a lot of time focused on ensuring we handle customer data securely and have spent an inordinate amount of time on our terms of use and privacy policy (to make them readable, non-legalease and meaningful). With that said none of that helps during conversion. we should probably be more "up front" about it. I'll pass on your comments to the UX team. Thanks.
False. I haven't taken a carrier subsidy since 2007 and I have to jump through hoops to get my phones unlocked.

If you buy a prepaid phone at full price with no subsidy many carriers have policies on how long you must be a customer of theirs before they give you the unlock code.

Additionally, if you buy a used phone on Ebay/Craigslist - aka nothing to do with carrier subsidies - this now requires you to break the law in order to unlock your phone.

Convinced?
Omitting the "or any later" clause doesn't freeze the project license for ever, it just prevents the terms on which the software is used from being changed out from under copyright owners (including the project owners) arbitrarily at the whim of whoever is currently in charge of the FSF.

The project still has control of the license it offers the project under; of course, if it depends on software from anyone else that is on limited-to-GPLv2 terms (which lots of projects are), it can't change to any other license (whether GPLv3 or non-GPL) without either replacing the outside software or getting the copyright owner to agree to different licensing terms.

The project at issue here appears to use GPLv2-only because they are dependent on other software that is GPLv2-only.
So I love how github works. Love it. But I think they're able to work like that because they are a highly technical, product oriented company. (see http://zachholman.com/posts/how-github-works-hours/)

I've always wondered, how can companies that do client work adopt those principles? Is it even possible?
Free Github SSH keys anyone?
The good thing about this, is that this will be in history books forever as proof of the evil that record companies have been.

They use wrongly and unethically a legal loophole to remove content they do not have any intellectual property right to remove.
Well, Drake was pretty popular in Canada since he was an actor on the TV show Degrassi.
Check out his QuakeCon keynote. It's basically him talking for an hour about technical things that interest him.
Thank you for suggesting SICP... It seems pretty good and it will definitely help me see programming from a better place.

As for Pascal... it's been roughly 9 years since I last wrote something in it. You definitely made me want to "give it a ride", for old times sake :D
There is one merchant that I know of that is offering thousands of electronic products at amazon cheaper prices.

Also, this is a chicken and egg problem. Merchant won't accept bitcoin because consumers don't use it, but consumers won't demand bitcoin because merchants aren't accepting it. Obviously something have to happens to break the mold. If you want to make a "novelty" currency useful, you have to start using it, but no "novelty" currency is guaranteeing to succeed. However, with bitcoin, the situation is changing. More merchants are accepting bitcoin everyday.
I imagine most businesses would exchange as soon as feasible.
Are bitcoins Ints or Floats? If so at 19$ per coin the currency can only be used for larger purchases.
I know of classmates who use financial aid for Spring Break tickets, vehicles, booze, and rent. I'm actually considering polling students at my school about it.
Note: this is about "unlocking" (as the term is used for purposes of using a device on a different carrier, as opposed to the usage you often see on Android devices of "unlocking the bootloader"), not "jailbreaking" (which is about removing the defenses on the phone against the installation of third-party unauthorized software; not just "apps" but replacements of core operating system functionality).

In fact, the Library of Congress renewed the exemption on jailbreaking; they did not, however, see fit to expand it to cover any of the proposed expansions ("tablets", "video game consoles", or "personal computing devices"). This standing exemption, which was put into place in the 2009 exemption window due to an EFF application, covers the jailbreaking of "mobile telecommunication handsets".
I've spent many a year working in support and also as a medical technician working with patients, and a year or so doing TA work. I've done a lot of hand-holding when getting a point across, and I've always done well in performance reviews. I'm quite aware of the human on the other end of the line. I'm here to tell you that it does take extra time. 'Manners cost nothing' is a not a statement referring to time.

There is also a difference between being rude and being frank. And there is a continuum of response between 'trying not to be an arsehole' and 'being an arsehole' - it's not a binary choice.

Why does being frank suddenly mean you've lost 'basic humanity'? That kind of opinion is a disease in itself.
For those not familiar with the subject: PCREs are not regular expressions in the computer science meaning. The article implicitly states that the PCREs are regular expressions.

So, the article's message boils down to "if you make your language more powerful, you can do more with it. The PRCE language is so powerful that you can do the following with it: ..."
It is crashing.

$16.65 right now, from $19.2 three hours ago.

http://bitcoin.clarkmoody.com/
This website reminds me on one thing about internationalization:

Do not, under any circumstances, serve auto translated content by default. It's horrible, and a little bit insulting. If you don't have the resources to do a proper translation for a locale, just serve en-us and maybe a link to google translate.

Jesus. "Blocks Verminte"... That gibberish roughly translates to "blocks defended by minefields."
I don't think most other cultures even have a word for "felon".
Reminds me of my favorite statistical/philosophical quote:

```When one commits to making statements about the average, they may be talking about someone who never exists, but they make very nice statements.```

It reflects on our over used emphasis of the 50th percentile when making statistical statements that are meant to be informative. In policy, the average across a population, or subset of the population, is often used as a form of a "fairness" rule. IMHO, examining other quantiles can be much more informative about the nature of a distribution, perhaps for economic policy reasons.
Floats. You can pay with any fraction of a Bitcoin AFAIK.
The Apple TV Hobby is Riding High. Apple's HDTV Display on Hold
The trouble with this is that the cost of an individual to society may in fact exceed $250K easily, especially in a socialist country like Canada. Health care, retirement benefits, subsidization of all manners of things predicate on a lifetime of taxation - $250K would be a steal to buy into this. Otherwise you're essentially selling the cheapest retirement plan in the world.

Not to mention $250K is not a substantial amount of capital to bring into an economy. Canada has an investment-track immigration program, the sticker price is well north of $250K at this point and come with requirements for employing Canadians (citizens or PRs) as well as minimum funding and duration.
I'm not aware of that. The Silent Text repo is here:

https://github.com/SilentCircle/silent-text

Do you have any references of anyone saying the code of the other clients has been released? I'm curious.
Open sourced: https://gist.github.com/4627220
Women on ‘revenge porn’ sites raise questions about privacy
They were 5-6 years ahead of IRDA, which was pretty much the wireless transfer/printing standard before Bluetooth came along.
looks like 3 does
http://store.three.co.uk/SIM_Only/Mobile_Broadband_iPad_Nano...

when the smaller iPhone sims came out a couple years back there was a backlog on pay and go for a few months as they were reserved for their iPhone contract customers, same will happen with these tiny sims.

(I know that says iPad, so I'm extrapolating)

edit: Yes they have Pay and Go nano for iPhone 5 as well:
http://store.three.co.uk/view/searchSimOnly?tariff=112
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Perhaps this is a good time and place to do so (just because you hear something for the first time doesn't mean that you can't comment).

(I think both Silent Circle and the Skype open letter initiative are great and I'm not affiliated with any of them. Just wanted to point out that not being able to comment on something because it's the first time one hears it sounds weird.)
Bitcoin transactions can go down to 0.00000001 BTC. They aren't however stored as floats due to rounding errors this can introduce (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=13837.0).
That is an unsettled question. According to the license itself, you cannot sublicense GPLv2 code. When you distribute a copy of third party GPLv2 code to someone, their license is coming from the copyright owner directly, not via sublicensing through you.

If the copyright holder is no longer issuing licenses, it is not at all clear what would happen. The analysis gets complicated and speculative at this point. There are quite a few plausible theories, but it is going to take a few actual cases followed by appeals for any clarity to start developing in this area.
Running clean.
This is a general problem with asking masters in some discipline about the best way to learn - they almost always tend to recommend simply doing what they did, but they do not say "I did x, y and z", but "x, y and z are the best way to learn" and what is worse some people actually take those recommendations seriously.

The problem with this is twofold: first, the times are always changing and yesterdays path is seldom adequate today anymore and second, progress is made by the younger generations not having to repeat the mistakes of the older ones. So, if you want good recommendations for learning, ask the people who actually teach others on a daily basis. I think 2-3 good courses in programming languages can compress a lot of the knowledge you would gain following this recommendation in a much shorter period - "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs", "Concepts, Techniques and Models of Computer Programming" and "Programming Language Pragmatics" are three excellent textbooks that go in this direction.

But then, if you strive for mastery, and I think that's what Dr. Joe Armstrong is interested in, it is nothing exceptional to spent 15 years learning.
Actually it costs a lot more than $250k to get permanent residence. According to the current program, you have to have a minimum net worth of 1.6 Million and visit $800k (all values Canadian)

Source: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/business/investors/in...
How Google fixed its design process and started making beautiful apps
I'll definitely take a look into a Lisp language. I guess it will also make me learn some maths (lambda calculus) (one can never know too much math :D)
Integers. BTC is only used for display; everything is actually computed in terms of Satoshis (1 BTC = 10^8 Satoshis). Thus very small transactions are possible.
C Webservices framework
I've been a paying Simplenote customer for nearly three years now and love it. I use it for all my TODOs, notes, and other snippets I need to have easily accessible. It's the perfect companion to Notational Velocity.

Congrats, guys!
How Fast Do Your Favorite Brands Respond To You On Twitter?
Bitcoins values are stored in 64-bit integers, with 1 BTC stored as 100,000,000 which gives plenty of room to fractionalize, since it's stored as if it where a double-precision number.
I'm more responding to the idea that it's reprehensible to be exposed to harsh comments than the idea it's bad making them in the first place. I've never read the twitter involved and sure, it's probably awful. But that happens in the world. Catch public transport enough and you'll encounter it. Go shopping enough and you'll encounter it. Having some resilience is not a bad thing.

In my personal experience, people with low resilience are also the people who avoid reading news about bad events and current affairs, because it upsets them. So they lead more of a fantasy life. I don't think ignoring problems in the hope that they'll go away is the right way to be.

EDIT: I've now read the tweet and the total offending commentary is 'eyes bleeding'. That's it. Compare to the reams that have been written in this post about how insincere his apology is and what a prick he is. If he was to write up a blog post about how he'd ended up sobbing because HN had been so mean, the comments here would probably not be 'sorry, that was mean of us', they'd be mostly 'you deserved it', like moral crusaders. There's a lot of hypocrisy going on in this thread.
Show HN: Realtime collaborative code editor
I just wrote a Wordpress plugin (actually WooCommerce payment extension) to allow building of online stores and accept bitcoins through blockchain.info.

Zero fees!

Essentially it allows anyone to sell physical and virtual (digital downloadable) goods and charge either normal currency or Bitcoins - leaving choice to customer.

Now I have to find a time to put it online....
Gmail seems pretty good to me at least. The worst trouble I've had is a few seconds of delay to receive an email without a refresh. Usually my phone and tablet get it first.
It'd be a useful feature for github and bitbucket to have a default pre-commit that scans for probably-sensitive files and reject commits like that (maybe with a repo setting to opt out on the website, if you think you know what you're doing)

edit: In fact, they should probably run a full search for such files now and email a heads-up to users with repos that produce hits.
This is a big WTF moment for me. There are a ton of private keys here. I don't even know what else to say.
Boeing 787’s Grounding Highlights Threat to Innovation
No, that is not what he said. He very clearly, and completely explicitly stated that we should concern ourselves with this trivial non-issue before we concern ourselves with the serious issue. The only reason we could need to address one issue before we dare to consider another, is due to the overwhelming importance of the issue.

Stop trying to pretend he said something other than what he really said. His words speak for themselves, you don't get to invent an absurd justification to pretend they mean something else. You can read the post yourself, it is still there.

He has no way to know if the people calling out the federal prosecutors have sympathy or not. There is no hypocrisy in Bob saying the prosecutors did something wrong while Joe (who Bob has never met or heard of) is saying Sally wrote some bad code.
Awesome, I've added a link to the bottom of the post.
kapilkale, for the price you say you'd pay a month, you could get Google Apps for Business and spend that much per year. And get live support and other goodies.

Have you thought about this yet?
The Next Generation of API Discovery
It's a generational phenomenon hitting the children of helicopter parents, and similarly hitting the One Child Policy children in China.
People who work in the goverment know about the threat but they in of themselves can not solve it.

Someone has to formulate a specific policy and then get it through the House/Senate sub-committee if they want funding. In a period where there is a strong tide against all goverment spending and some very anti-science people that are key in the process I'm not hopeful that a solution will come up soon.
http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/3spmcc/
Delivery is usually instantaneous for me, but on occasion I won't get email for 6+ hours. It's a lot easier for me to notice the delay when communicating with co-workers, as the sender often wants to know why I haven't responded to the mail he sent 4 hours ago.
Distil helps companies elbow-drop on malicious content scraping and data theft
Ask HN: Interviewing Steve Blank tomorrow. What would you ask him?
I'm writing a post on Steve Blank's collaboration with Startup Weekend - SWNext (http://swnext.co). He agreed to do a video interview.

If you were interviewing him about SWNext, what would you ask? If you could interview him about anything, what would you ask?

Think we should stream it, or should I just piece together the good stuff?
How come Zimbra seems to be so widely disparaged?

Spam control requires a little more intervention than with Gmail, but I've found it straightforward enough to set up once, then do nothing else for a couple years.
I almost can't believe someone would commit their .ssh directory to a public GitHub repo.

Seriously - why? Your public key, sure, but the entire directory?
We need a cross reference between this and Facebook graph search. For science.

(I flagged, also, because this should be told to the guys at Github, not out in the open.)

Oh, and of course, Google indexes them. Fantastic.
Exactly. I've seen plenty of overflow detection libraries that do precisely this. The undefined overflow plus the lack of access to CPU flags makes a pretty good argument against doing this stuff at the C/C++ level.
I had seen massive delays in delivery to Gmail when sending newsletters at my last $dayjob, and I had always assumed it was part of their spam filtering. For example, if it were me and I was getting thousands of nearly-identical emails sent to Gmail addresses, it seems like a good idea to let 1% of them through to see if end users mark them as spam or not. If they all get marked as spam, I don't need to let the rest through.
Nice - I dig that. But sorry - you're way off on that estimate of $5000. I see some stellar gear there - $2500 API channel strip, $3200 Tube Tech compressor, $3500 Neumann U87 mic, $2000 laptop, $600 monitor, $4000 Neve Portico EQs (I think), (2) Empirical Labs Distressors ($2000 ea). That's the gear you see and that I recognize. There's probably another $500 in cabling, $200 in stands, and I'd assume there's a desktop computer in there too ($2500 worth, I bet). And then there's the plugins you don't see - a reverb plugin, for sure, along with more EQs and compression. Probably a mastering plugin too. Call it $1500 worth of plugins. And the monitors - those look like Adam A7xs which are $1500/pr. Oh and $200 worth of headphones. And the instruments - no way that they have less than $1000 invested there. And the acoustic treatment - not less than $300 but probably not more than $1000. And the other things in there cost money too - studio desks are special b/c they can't vibrate when loud noise/bass is present (so you aren't using a $100 craigslist desk w/o some serious re-tooling). Studio racks (for the rack gear), instrument stands, etc.

I lost count of the total but it's probably safe to say that the gear/room pictured in that video is a multiple of $5000.
The reason it's difficult is that in principle, there's nothing wrong per se with a company giving you something with terms like this. The problem is that our political environment is corrupt and these big businesses are operating to large degree on what can only be called privilege -- and making this case is very very hard, most people live inside something that might be called "The Matrix."
While I agree it used to be very difficult to move between USD and bitcoins, https://coinbase.com (YC S12) has made this pretty easy at this point.
Internet-related stuff uses a different theory I think, that someone making stuff available over the internet to Americans is basically acting in the U.S. for the purposes of jurisdiction. Same way people who've never been to the UK get sued under UK libel law, because someone in the UK read their article on the internet. The internet makes a big mess of jurisdiction...
The Myth of a Stagnant Middle Class
I meant I can't comment with prior knowledge, because I haven't discussed these issues, not having heard them before. I did comment with my personal opinion in the next sentence.
Thank you for the clearest explanation so far - I never knew what unlocking was (and never cared so far).

Now I kind of care. But I would oppose making it illegal.
From "Same Love"

"And God loves all his children it's somehow forgotten
But we paraphrase a book written 3,500 years ago"

The Bible doesn't really need paraphrasing or eye-squinting to be interpreted as anti-gay, it's pretty clear in that point. I admire Mackelmore's overall sentiment and courage, and I'm not saying it doesn't make sense for a Christian to be anti-gay, but you can't make an uncomfortable part of the legacy of your beliefs go away by pretending it's not there.

"Whatever god you believe in
We come from the same one"

Tolerance and unity doesn't often quite extend to atheists, does it?