skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Europeans and Africans have had a time-zone head start in replying to this thread. In the United States, as the interesting article kindly submitted here reports, there is complete freedom in giving names. Adults can change their names easily (which probably helps bolster the freedom of parents giving any name to their minor children) and each member of a family can have a different surname from each other member--I know many examples. The culture of the United States is, of course, decidedly more individualistic than the culture of many other countries in this and other regards, and the legal system here follows the general pattern of favoring freedom typical to Anglo-American legal systems.

The most widely known popular culture expression of an extreme case of child naming for people in my generation is the late Johnny Cash's song "Boy Named Sue,"

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

written by children's author Shel Silverstein. In jest is truth, and the song helps a lot of people here empathize with children who get stuck with odd-sounding names. Plenty of Americans who were born in other countries arrive here with names that don't fit the naming patterns of English-speaking countries, but Americans have mostly learned to deal with a great diversity of names among their friends and neighbors. (Because my wife is a first-generation immigrant from Taiwan, and we have had occasion to live in east Asia since our children were born, we thought carefully about both English and Chinese names for our own children.)

The original Freakonomics book has a very interesting section on names in the United States, including the case of the Johnson family (Johnson is the second most frequent surname in the United States) who had many children, and named one Winner. Then Winner Johnson went on to become a problem child and eventually a career criminal. Meanwhile the family had another child, whom they named Loser ("my friends call me 'Lou'") who eventually grew up to be a law-abiding, responsible citizen and a police officer. It's hard to know what influence names have, but anyway in the United States people are rather used to unusual names and bugs in the first iteration of giving names are curable by name changes.
Chinese Hackers hit New York Times and Wall Street Journal
These things are so cool, but also a little scary. Someone's gonna make one of these things assassinate a public figures or steal your keys.
I am acting "professionally" and I understand the difference between "liking" and being fair.

Its pretty clear rule! Every time they come with a different reason, they take 2 days to respond to such a critical matter, and they don't take it seriously!

They say a reason then they change it back! Don't you think that this is a scamming?

If they have a clear reason with a proof that I violated their terms of use, then why don't they say it?

This is a clear scam! It's pretty clear indeed! I said the story honestly and without any lies.. and I challenge them to give me a single proof that I violated their terms of use!

This is not a company! This is nothing but a group of scammers!
I would give at least a phone screen to a talented developer, regardless of his language selection.

https://github.com/blair/orca written in Perl and he's a monster!
Refactoring is a dish best served warm. It only works as home cooking, where the cooks eat their own cooking hot off the stove. Start with a few beneficial small things to make the team's life easier, then once the team is sold on the idea, go on to more daring ones. Best done with automated tests and continuous integration.
Responsive design as a design system isn't at fault here. The article implies (indirectly) that it is.
Encrypt Your Data With EncFS (Fedora 18)
For anyone that's been following along with The Web App Challenge (http://nathanbarry.com/category/the-web-app-challenge/), ConvertKit is the product I am building. Happy to answer any questions!
.Net driver is right here. https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-csharp-driver/downloads
Kim Dotcom: Mega Search Engines Have to Play by the Rules
This post is somewhat odd, because their site design is so clean and simple that it seems like an easy candidate for RWD. I don't really see how this design is unconstrained compared to what they'd be able to implement if they used a responsive design.

As far as RWD taking twice as long to design and implement, perhaps this is just a question of experience. Once you've had some practice with RWD, although it does take some extra time, I don't think double the time is typical.

The argument that only a few of their customers are on mobile is the strongest reason presented not to use RWD, but the question I would be asking is, "Is this situation likely to remain that way? Will mobile users only ever be 2% of our traffic, or can we expect that this proportion will climb?"

Personally, I would expect that this proportion would in fact increase over time, but I don't have a crystal ball and can't say this for certain.
>Where's the value being "extracted" from? //

>there's always $0.005/share to be made on every trade //

I [clearly] don't know enough to know if you're exactly right, but lower the latency and increase the trades and there you have it. Aren't bids and offers listed in pips (like $1.4032).

As I see it production, processing, administration, etc. are the only value inputs. When a 400ms glitch extracts something of the order 1e5 USD the value that money represents comes from those inputs. Yes liquidity is an administrative input but the way the system is set up trades appear to extract far greater amounts of money than their value to society; of course that money comes from other investors, but money is not value, the value the money ineffectively represents is brought to the system by those said inputs.

The problem appears to be that those in a position to rectify the aberration are too busy getting rich off it to care.

Thanks for your input(!) and education.

As an aside, do you [or anyone] know of something along the lines of a (FOSS) toy stock market program, something that allows one to model a market futz with parameters on trades (like changing minimum stock increments, or fixing time periods) and see the effects graphically. Like an ecological modelling program I suppose.
Actual Coffee
I'm sure there is some weak comparison between the government saying "a name is defined as one word from this list and one word from this list" and the government saying "a marriage is defined as one man and one woman".

Well meaning people always think their perspective of how the world should look is the right one and people in a democracy think they can use that perspective to control others (For the love of FSM will someone please think of the children!!!)
Valve sued in Germany over game ownership
> "In every time, in every place, the deeds of men remain the same."

Citation needed. I'm pretty sure there are fewer war deaths and fewer kittens burned for entertainment per head now than 200 years ago.
If you think bullies won't identify and relentlessly exploit any possible opening then you must have been going to different schools than the rest of us.

Example: The Hunt family naming their boy Michael, or the Dover family naming their boy Benjamin.

Just because society acts in antisocial ways doesn't mean that we should wait for society to fix themselves. If we could simply rely on society to do the right thing we wouldn't need locks or crypto.
This'll make a mean spycopter (i.e. for having fun with collagues).

I suppose putting a camera on it should be doable - but wth 250kbit/sec @ 80m, is it enough?

That'll probably give you 320x240 video (assuming that anything more than that will be too intensive to encode), which might not give you enough visual acuity to remote maneuver the quadcopter. Any thoughts?
Starting The $5 Dollar Web App Challenge
I know a lot of people who know they SHOULD be doing this, but haven't bothered to set it up because they know it is so frustrating.

Custom domains are definitely on the feature list.

Also, I am quite good with WordPress, have a lot of experience with MailChimp, and this still really frustrates me.
Rather than debating who best to idol, wouldn't it be more useful to discuss Bill's work, how it's effective, and how it could be made better?

It feels kind of weird sitting on the sidelines debating who's more appropriate to idol.
Responsive is a great tool, but it isn't a solution for every problem (or a necessity). Too much dogma around at the moment; not every part of every web-property your company owns has to be responsive (but obviously optimise the right bits for mobile - namely checkouts)
But probably they would get much more applause worldwide if they did.
> Resist complaining about being downmodded. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

> Please don't bait other users by inviting them to downmod you.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Politica e cittadini: una forbice sempre più larga
In a way, it's a mindset that, sometimes, I get to admire.
It's the supreme confidence in your own right: that everyone else in the world is equal (or, more often than not, inferior) to you.

The UK used to have something similar; British law specifically said that no power on Earth could be superior to (English/British) Parliament in any case. Albeit originally meant to nullify papal (and aristocratic...) claims, so to speak, that provision came to define the UK approach to foreign policy for centuries. Nowadays there are umpteen exceptions for EU, UN and whatnot, the British Empire is gone and with it the hubris, but coming from a much "weaker" country, I feel that approach can be quite beneficial in many ways.
Actually it IS a name for a boy.
Haskell Brooks Curry he was.
I agree that business is business and there are common elements between all business. An example from my small business experience is the 46-46-8 equity split - I was the 8 - at MB Architects in the mid 90's. The suggestion of a buyout offer was made by another firm in passing. Relationships went to shit because any two of us could have sold out from under the other.

The difference between it and a startup is that my equity stake could never have made me Fuck You Money rich. Sure the company was growing - I was employee #3. Less than two years later when I left there were six and the value of the company was about double. That's the way small businesses grow.

If we had raised $1,000,000 there would have been few good ways to spend it. The differences between small businesses and startups are important if one's goal is to have a startup. It's a distinctly different goal than owning a business.
Why would you use this tool to lookup common characters found on your keyboard? Maybe a better idea is to show uncommon characters first.
Notional savings accounts could put state pensions on a sustainable trajectory
When you run a business you have to make decisions about where to invest your time and these guys found that the extra time was not worth it for their particular business. It has nothing to do with "copping out".
I don't think he's suggesting that you literally run your browser as the root user.

The argument seems to be that if you don't have the ability to access whatever is the equivalent to the root account on your device at all then this means that whoever does has more control of your device than you do.

This means that you have to trust the device or OS manufacturer.
For example if you buy an iPhone there is no way to "untrust" Apple without throwing the device out or doing a jailbreak.

With a more open system such as Debian you can decide to untrust the OS vendor by simply replacing the entries in /etc/apt.sources with something else.

This kind of model is often used in corporate environments where computers are locked down by the IT dept, therefor the IT dept can make choices on behalf of the users as to what the security settings should be, what software is installed etc.
Hong Kongers Turn to Obama Over Milk Shortage Fears
After the land redistribution of President Robert Mugabe the economy collapsed, causing the crazy hyper-inflation that Zimbabwe is notorious for. They are struggling to recover from that disaster, and a government known for looting on a staggering scale, even for an African government. This is actually doing pretty good for them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbabwe#Economy
I'm curious to learn more about how you decided on your pricing. I've used Marketo for a few years now, it's an absolute PITA to set up simple campaigns and I've often thought of creating an alternative simply out of frustration.
You are right - I think the idea of "help building the funnel" is the most powerful one.

Not just 30 day course or 10 tips on ... but to really help people understand front-end sales, backend sales and cross promotion.

Super excited to see you hit the $5k/month goal by June :)
From the company:

"As part of our major investment in next-generation infrastructure project within our SaaS facilities we began in the fall of 2012, many changes to our environment were required as part of our migration into this new environment.

One of these changes required a sophisticated process of migrating data to our new enterprise storage solution. We made a decision that it would serve our clients best to migrate this data over time, with the help of our vendors using technologies purpose-built for live migration. This methodology prevented the requirement for long, multi-day maintenance windows due to the large volumes of file data that need to be transferred. Effectively this “file virtualization” technology (“ARX”) would allow the seamless use of both source and destination storage during the migration with no impact to users.

The issues currently being experienced have been determined to exist within the ARX technology. We are currently seeing different impact to different customers. For customers whom we had yet to begin the migration of their data, or for customers for whom we had completed the process, we were able to remove the ARX solution from their environment, resulting in a complete restoration of service.

For customers who are in midst of their data migration, the ARX cannot be removed, and we have initiated a separate restoration process that applies to a portion of customers. This process involves a configuration change to the internal format of metadata within the ARX. This change has shown to have a positive impact on the clients for whom this process has completed. However, this configuration change takes time to process, and we are targeting noon EST today for completion with clients seeing ongoing improvements as it makes progress."

Full contents here -- http://desire4community.com/all-hands-on-deck/

I admire the fortitude it takes to try doing a live migration for something like this; in hindsight, I'm sure everyone agrees that a well-scheduled maintenance outage isn't the worst thing that can happen. Here's hoping that all of the schools recover quickly. Good luck guys.
That's silly. If you're arguing for individualism, then children aren't property, so how is it any better to have parents naming their kids "Ima Hoare"?

Society has a duty to protect children from their parents if those parents are abusive.
>Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.) If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did. //

From the guidelines.

So I wouldn't say to flag to indicate disliking a submission - disliking or thinking something is low quality doesn't mean it's off-topic. It doesn't really appear to be spam either.

But then downvotes aren't to show you dislike something either; they show low "quality" things which are detracting from the value of the site. So, perhaps that's appropriate.

Keeping firmly within the guidelines I think you'd have to say "ignore it and move on".
I was thinking the same thing. It does seem excessive, but would just numbers look any better?
Seize the Power of Diversity in Your Startup
Starving babies in Hong Kong? I guess if you live long enough, you get to see everything.
Did he pick euro to spite USA?
Wifi modules, just like DVD lasers, eventually burn out. Usually it manifests itself in dropped connections after a period of time. I've got an old Linksys WRT54G that can't keep the wifi on for more than 20 minutes.
Also check out the excellent 2012 Ovid's Beginning (modern ) Perl - http://ofps.oreilly.com/titles/9781118013847/
Yep, it's the best way to sell products online. I'll be writing a lot more blog posts about the process and how to implement it on any platform (not just mine).

Thanks for the encouragement! I'm definitely trying to hit that goal...
If you posted all of the email correspondence somewhere and linked the url, we would had something definitive to refer to. While it's no unheard of for major sites to have cases like these (lord knows adwords / paypal have led to similar posts), it's not in any major website's best interest to scam. So, the burden of proof is really on you, to gain our sympathy / help.

It's not that we don't trust you, but there's usually 2 sides to every story and the truth lies somewhere in the middle...and TBH, we don't trust anyone :-)
Fighting splogs, and some proposed tweaks to the registration process
>it's easy to wish that giving names is somehow regulated.

Only in Europe could this seem reasonable. How much money is spent on such nonsense?
This is one of those ideas that makes all the sense in the world in practice, and then someone turns on the limits and you hear about how "NewHotness.com" goes down on Black Friday because of the Hard Limits feature in a big news story and how AWS should never offer a feature like this because "you never know how much you might scale in a flood of users" and "that is the whole point of cloud computing!"

Amazon is just saving themselves the heartache of all the irony :)
Nothing wrong if you leave in Brazil, Spain, Portugal or some of the countries where it is common / normal name, or if your origin is from some of those places. But imagine that someone in Brazil give his child a name like: Vukašin, Milutin, Slobodan, Dejan, Jirži, Mbutu. I bet verry few people would be able to evn pronounce it.
That's good marketing for database connections.
I haven't downvoted you, but I would hazard a guess that the reason for the downvotes as at least partially due to the combative nature of your tone.

As to your point, I have no idea about the legalities, but it seems to me that if law enforcement officials are going to operate in a foreign country they might want to go through official channels before turning up.

Regarding the private plane, I would imagine that the article mentions it because it (accurately or otherwise) enables me to better visualise a group of brash Americans turning up via the most expensive mode of transport and expecting the little Icelanders to be so awed by the powerful FBI that they won't ask for little things like, you know, governmental authorisation.

I really want to like America. There are so many things to love about it, especially on paper. And then I read about stuff like this and wonder if it really is that much of a mystery why much of the world has such distaste for the country and the people.

Not that I'm claiming the UK is any better, mind. And our teeth are much worse.
..and now the thread has been deleted after some further criticism...
> No Executive anywhere on the planet has yet to do prison time for any action, decision or behavior relating to the largest manufactured Financial Crisis since 1929.

Wrong! Iceland imprisoned multiple executives, among others.

http://www.icenews.is/2011/04/07/first-iceland-bank-crash-pr...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-07/iceland-court-sente...
Technology Paralysis
I wanted it to be high enough that I could actually make money with it (i.e. not $15/month), but low enough to be accessible to people at my marketing level a year ago.

This is the product I wish I had when selling my books.

I really liked Visual Website Optimizer's pricing, so I used that as a model.
Where is the Windows port? and if there is one will it always be second rate compared to the Unix and Linux port?

Also where is the .Net driver?
The thing is, if this exact text was posted on 37Signals I'm confident half the negative comments would vanish. (Hell, it'd be a relatively good post for 37Signals -- just add an unabashed advertisement for Breeze at the end!)
SKY-02 small attack UAV
JQuery implicit loops
Corey Doctorow explains more fully:

"When we turn a computer into an appliance. We're not making a computer that runs only the "appliance" app; we're making a computer that can run every program, but which uses some combination of rootkits, spyware, and code-signing to prevent the user from knowing which processes are running, from installing her own software, and from terminating processes that she doesn't want. In other words, an appliance is not a stripped-down computer -- it is a fully functional computer with spyware on it out of the box." [The Coming War on General Computation]

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUEvRyemKSg

Transcript: https://github.com/jwise/28c3-doctorow/blob/master/transcrip...
Consider tcc, which is indeed much simpler than gcc.
This is exactly how I feel and a similar background, though I used Gambit and Bigloo more than Chicken.

I wonder how many people are in this situation.
The power of the marginal
Only 2% of their traffic is mobile? Surprising in the modern world. So they are a statistical outlier.

For most sites using tools like Bootstrap, etc. to make responsive sites using media queries should in my opinion be the default strategy.
For those unaware: http://d43.me/blog/1205/the-cause-for-all-your-mac-os-x-mous...

It pissed me for years!