skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps it was not your intention, but your post read as if women applicants are interviewed no matter what, and if they are deemed "good enough", they're hired for the sake of balance. That's what I found both incorrect and offensive, speaking from my own experience (though not based in the UK). Apologies if this was not the case.

I'm also not the same commenter as the parent you were originally speaking with, which could also be some of the confusion.
"Unless you have a written agreement with Google Fiber permitting you do so, you should not host any type of server using your Google Fiber connection"

http://support.google.com/fiber/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answ...

(Whether they will enforce this remains to be seen.)
Have you actually read the CAN-SPAM Act? Do you know that it doesn't restrict existing business relations from sending you mail? How did you get on the ACM TechNews list if you didn't sign up for the list or sign up as an ACM member?
Spent Launches Relify, a Recommendations-as-a-Service API for Developers
I agree. Far too many people I know keep less than $20 in cash on them, with nothing at all in their houses/apartments.
I never had that scale of problem with Chase, but had enough smaller interactions over the years that I jumped last year. I started as a Washington Mutual customer years ago. Putting aside the massive mismanagement going on at the top, their customer service was impeccable. I couldn't have been happier until they went under and got bought my Chase.

I've been a Charles Scwab customer for the last 2 years. Great bank. Excellent customer service, ATM fee refunds each month, direct tie-in to investment accounts if you do that. Highly recommend them if you are looking to switch.
How exactly do you sell a vulnerability to the US Federal Government?
I don't see us competing with Stripe. If you're a developer and have the time to write and maintain a payment solution around Stripe, then Forge definitely isn't for you.

We're going after the people who don't want to code all of that themselves and just want to sell something and get money deposited into their bank account.
Rackspace shares down almost 20% after poor revenue estimates
Interesting time for Valve. Hope they have some exciting showings at PAX this year.
How I Stopped Eating Food
> For startups that need this power, hosting at home can save money. Also you can't beat the security of having physical access and control of your hardware.

Really? You can't beat the security of hosting servers in your basement with a top-tier datacenter with armed guards, mantraps, insurance, fire suppression, redundant power and internet, etc.?

My AWS instances are likely orders of magnitude more secure than a server sitting in my house.
Stanford introduces OSHx, online courses for middle- and high-school students
Fine print:

Course Structure

This course will combine a MOOC led by Dr. Keith Devlin with small seminars in the OHS online classroom, where students will discuss the subject matter and work on exercises. In addition to the weekly homework assignments, students will sit for a final exam.

Class size is limited to 16 students.

Lectures by Keith Devlin, Ph.D.

Discussion Sections led by J.T. Chipman, OHSx Instructor and Stanford graduate student in Philosophy.

Age: High school juniors and seniors

Course Schedule: March 4th – May 30th

Lectures begin March 4th

Discussion Sections: Saturdays 10am–noon Pacific time (March 9th – May 18th) in the OHS Online Classroom

Final Exam due by: May 25th

Tuition: $990 (Financial aid available.)

Grading: Letter or Pass/No Pass (Stanford Online High School transcript)

Applications Due: Monday, February 25th

Notification Date: Wednesday, February 27th
We cap our Forge fee at $500 a month. You'll always pay the 2.9%+30 cents per transaction, but you'll never pay Forge more than $500 a month.
Apparently this is written by the co-founder of Ars Technica.
On one hand, I'm more likely to believe Lehrer now, because he will be writing for a large audience of people who would love nothing more than to catch him out again. Very few authors will publish under the kind of scrutiny he will, for a few years.

On the other hand, I'm less likely because he's a shameful liar, and I don't want to contribute to his livelihood as a liar. I mean, if he was a barrista I'd give him a tip, but it's hard to lie about a latte.

So I suppose when you add these two things together I'm more likely to finish my goddamn software project.
Depends on the metal, which is why it's nice to have an OS as an abstraction layer :)
"Opera has 300 million active users"

I call bullshit. If Opera wants to make a claim like that they're going to have to aggressively defend their counting strategy.

Firefox: "According to Mozilla, Firefox counts with over 450 million users around the world." [1]

Chrome: "At the 2012 Google I/O developers' conference, Google claimed that there were 310 million active users of Chrome, almost double the number in 2011, which was stated as 160 million active users." [2]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome
At what sort of scale do you really need to switch from php to hip hop?
That's comparing the number of Kinects sold to total Move controllers which include people buying multiple controllers and the Navigation controller.
I see. And you've never needed a second chance yourself?

I am very grateful for the second chances I've received in life.
This is cool :) I do a similar thing on my site[1]to make it look like Org-mode files (which is what I use to write it). I enjoy the fact that so much processing goes into making it look just like it did to begin with :p

1: http://almostobsolete.net
I wonder if a weekly withdraw/deposit of 10k in cash would provide some identity protection, if the feds are constantly watching all of your financial activity.
This reflects very poorly on the ACM and has been a constant point of frustration for me. After letting my membership expire I've made numerous attempts to unsubscribe to their mailing lists and have had no success.
Thank you for responding. I'd like to see a page about security in your site. Its important.
Only problem is it recommends that you "make one darker color and use it to add shadows where needed" and then adds like 6 new colors to itself.
We're purposely not trying to compete on price. There are always going to be cheaper solutions out there.

We're aiming to be the best. We're aiming to be the absolute easiest checkout process and the simplest experience for the merchant.
I might suggest that you help (in some small way) improve the quality of these popular non-fiction books by not supporting people like Jonah Lehrer. Let him experience a literary death penalty. It'll help keep other writers from falling into that same trap.
Congrats Manny and team. It's a great concept and I always tell people about it when I learn that they are freelancing individually or as part of a team.
I am glad Malamud finally published the CCR.[1] I tried to get him to do it years ago, but instead he accused me of trying to give him legal advice... I am glad he reconsidered his position! GOOD JOB MALAMUD!

1. The OAL/WestLaw online CCR is a damn-near-worthless piece of crap. Want to grab a soda in between reading regulations? Nope. Your javascript-required session just timed out and none of your links work anymore. Go back to square one.

2. The OAL Director(s) that allowed it to happen should not have quit. They should not have been fired. They should have been impeached and banned from public office for life. Yes, it is their fault, and yes, it is that bad. (Almost as bad as the lawsuit to get the California LC law database!)

3. I think this is a good move. It removes the question mark over distribution of what is THE LAW (tm).

4. It should be a CC PD license silly Assemblyman! Tricks are for kids!

5. See my efforts to convert the current $2,000 CCR files to RDF.[2]

Yes, the code is crap. Yes, it only outputs XML ATM and not RDF. But let me tell you, getting and scraping $2,000 CD-ROM from undocumented RTF using their proprietary Windows program (which you have to find separately somehow) and py3k into a standardized vocabulary/ontology is a bitch. I have also been doing California law, federal law, and federal regulations, and a common cat-like tool for grep-ing all of the above. (With RDF it will be easier to use SPARQL to search the law.)

6. FUCK YOU OAL. You should have done this in the first place. This was YOUR job! How many MILLIONS would you have demanded to do what I did for free?[3] This isn't a fucking monkey in space, its THE LAW(tm). Pull your head out of your corporate sponsor's ass and do your fucking job. No excuses.

[1] https://law.resource.org/pub/us/ccr/

[2] http://gaia.ecs.csus.edu/~bransone/opengovernment/scrape-ccr...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Court_Case_Manageme...
Fine print:

Course Structure

This course will combine a MOOC led by Dr. Keith Devlin with small seminars in the OHS online classroom, where students will discuss the subject matter and work on exercises. In addition to the weekly homework assignments, students will sit for a final exam.

Class size is limited to 16 students.

Lectures by Keith Devlin, Ph.D.

Discussion Sections led by J.T. Chipman, OHSx Instructor and Stanford graduate student in Philosophy.

Age: High school juniors and seniors

Course Schedule: March 4th – May 30th

Lectures begin March 4th

Discussion Sections: Saturdays 10am–noon Pacific time (March 9th – May 18th) in the OHS Online Classroom

Final Exam due by: May 25th

Tuition: $990 (Financial aid available.)

Grading: Letter or Pass/No Pass (Stanford Online High School transcript)

Applications Due: Monday, February 25th

Notification Date: Wednesday, February 27th
For anyone else who didn't know what CTR stood for here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency_transaction_report
Whats Hot, new recipes, latest companies, new wines
You make a fair argument. Google has several state-of-the-art JS applications. I thought of Gmail in particular because it probably sees much higher demand and so matters of optimization are probably a bit more important to it. This makes the amount of network activity, client-side caching, etc. it manages really impressive.

But no doubts that Google Docs is in the same ballpark.
Would have been nice to say what your product is, but oh well.
We don't really know.That is the idea, they have to discover it.

Is not a qualitative change, but is a really important quantitative change. New applications that today we don't really know about will be made possible.

Living in that environment will make them able to "see the future" and design something for where the "puck is going to be."

As an example, Mr Steve Jobs "saw the future" with the network system of Apple, and Microsoft used a supercomputer to simulate their future programs when computer power were ready.
Being a wealthy, best-selling author is not a right. Of course he deserves a second chance as a human being. I'm sure he's not that bad of a guy.

But I feel he's forfeited this opportunity [to be a high-profile science journalist]. At least as far as I'm concerned. Plenty of other great stuff to read.
Can anyone offer advice on the best response from a small business that is sent a letter from a troll like this? Particularly since in this case it sounds like the patents themselves are valid, but have been licensed by the tech provider - how should end users protect themselves?

I realize there are plenty of rants against these practices available to read in many forums, but given the progression of this case, what options are available to the defendants?
TED Talks - James B. Glattfelder: Who controls the world? [video]
James Glattfelder studies complexity: how an interconnected system -- say, a swarm of birds -- is more than the sum of its parts. And complexity theory, it turns out, can reveal a lot about how the economy works. Glattfelder shares a groundbreaking study of how control flows through the global economy, and how concentration of power in the hands of a shockingly small number leaves us all vulnerable. (Filmed at TEDxZurich.)
This must be an enterprise product, because I can't tell exactly what it does from the blog post or the home page. Is it like Errorception? What languages does it support? No need to explain in a comment here, just point me to the page on their site that I can't find -- but must be there -- that explains in simple terms.
This is hilarious. Thank you :)
> Lehrer is bad, so we can't admit that most of what he did, we do if only to a lesser degree. Otherwise we would be bad.

Yes. The technical psychoanalytic term is "projection".

There's lots of it out there if you look.
I find your characterization very puzzling. It is the DBAs I've worked with who want to use revision control, who want to use correct database schemas, who want data integrity, who want to use stored procedures. They are the ones fighting against developers who never bothered to learn how to use a relational database and push the mysql/php style of "just make your app the database and the database is just a file full of inconsistent data, don't do joins, don't use view, don't use stored procedures or functions, don't use triggers, etc."
The Personality of Presto
What Nations Were The Most Forward-Looking In 2012?
Had a similar episode back in the nineties with the state of California franchise tax board. Before they froze my Wells Fargo account, I transferred my balance to a new ETrade account . They never did anything with that new account because I suspect they didn't have the account info. They had the wells fargo account info because I had previously paid taxes via bank draft. Moral of the story, avoid giving up your account info if possible when paying taxes. Use a credit card.
The original paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/1107.5728

The "737" companies: http://ethz.focproject.net/docs/powerholderListFinal.xls
Thanks for the quick reply Kevin.

Will you also be implementing a hardware system for the iPhone/iPod like Square? Or are you going entirely online?

Paypal has a card reader as well. Just a thought.
Nah, seems like a volume play a la Urchin/Google Analytics. See point #3 here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5132089
Starting a Weekly Newsletter: Optimizations and Lessons Learned
Thanks! Check out this restaurant site built with our product. Let us know what you think. http://www.watercressbali.com/
One alternative for the uploads is to make an orphan branch similar to gh-pages, populate it with your tar.gz file contents, tag it, then delete the branch. It will show up like a normal tagged download without having extra messy branches in your repo.
I confirm all this. Elastic Beanstalk is so good, I don't even touch EC2 anymore. All my webapps are now being deployed through it. It costs more due to fact that each environment needs its own load-balancer even if only one server is involved which is extra $18/month but it is still worth.

If you deploy code that crashes webapp, just revert back to previous version. Problem fixed in a minute on all your servers.

And you don't even need to do that actually, spin new environment with new set of servers. Upload new version to new environment, do the testing, then promote this environment to production status (takes a few seconds), and terminate previous production environment.

Perhaps other companies can offer service like this too, but my platform of choice is ASP.NET which narrows the field quite a bit.
Valve lays off several employees in hardware, mobile teams
While you are being honest, can you also be specific? I have large, fully normalized schemas which I have only ever viewed via psql. I run queries returning lots of data all the time. I have no idea what part of this is supposed to be impractical.
We don't have any plans to make a hardware system for taking payments. Only online.

Square is not a business I want to be up against right now :-)
In addition to physical security there's hardware longevity as datacenters tend to be both more efficiently cooled and cleaner than the average home, efficient network interconnect rather than consumer-grade hardware on consumer-oriented last-mile infrastructure, redundant power... the list goes on and on.

It seems like the grandparent poster really should rent part of a co-located rack instead.

I don't think there's much sense in hosting locally in a home environment with Google Fiber for almost any use case regardless of their ToS or the service's quality: for a system serving user requests a home doesn't deliver reliability or redundancy, for a lightly-utilized offline processing system a cloud provider is almost universally cheaper, and for a heavily-utilized offline processing system power and cooling costs become competitive with a datacenter relatively quickly (not to mention the cost of downtime - if you're at high utilization, downtime will cause your job queue to build rapidly and possibly insurmountably when you can't supply burst capacity).
>correlation of external validation and success is zero.

I think you mean minus one, not zero. If its zero we have learnt nothing interesting.
On the contrary, it can be very efficient when you become familiar with psql. psql + tmux (or your favorite terminal multiplexer) means you can have as many interactive sessions open as you like, and you don't need to leave your keyboard.
I totally agree with you here, but I just need to correct you on something. Webkit is based on KHTML, which was available with the LGPL license. Of course, it's much more Webkit than KHTML at this point, but it isn't so much that Apple shared the Webkit code as they wisely forked a mature open source project and followed its license ;)
It's the first time I've seen a scissors icon where the blades of the scissors are closed.
I found R to be the solution for me. I faced the exact same problem when I wanted to quickly plot lots and lots of X-ray spectra. It was slow and tedious to do in Excel because it involved repetitive plotting of similar data.

I put my data into Access, then accessed it using R via ODBC. The cost was the time to validate my data and get it into a database. The benefit was that subsetting and plotting the data became very straightforward, and the source of error was the query and plotting script. Transposition, highlighting the wrong cells, not pasting the correct data, etc were eliminated as sources of error.

Plotting via a script is to plotting by hand in excel what using a computer is to photocopying, cutting and pasting physical paper.

Repetitive plotting and storing data: tasks for which excel is not really designed.
I disagree with much of this article.

> as a contributor to WebKit you have the complete ability to drive it in a direction you wish (often for the better)

Not really. Follow the internal WebKit politics and you see a lot of conflicts. For example, Google wanted to push multi-VM support (for Dart) and Apple blocked that.

> WebKit is already a de facto standard

On mobile. Mobile isn't everything.

Also, should we have said "ie6 is already a de factor standard and given up"?

> I think one this is clear already: WebKit has completely and unequivocally won mobile at this point. They are nearly the only rendering engine used on the vast majority of mobile browsers, including the soon-to-switch Opera Mini/Mobile browsers too. There is no reason to worry about a slippery slope, the slope has already been slid down. In order for any other browser to remain relevant in the world of mobile (which, you must admit, is quickly becoming the only world we live in) they must keep feature parity with WebKit.

Again, this is utterly defeatist. Even if it were 99% true, should everyone give up?

> At this point it’s honestly a business/engineering decision for Mozilla and Microsoft (as it always has been).

No, Mozilla is a nonprofit and the decision would also regard whether it is good for the web, or not. I'm surprised to see John Resig not realize that - he used to work at Mozilla.

edit: And regarding the main point: jQuery worked in a space that was not standards-based. There were multiple JS libraries, and they fought for market share. No one tried to develop a standard that there would be multiple implementations for. Comparing jQuery to WebKit is odd.
I would assume it's much easier to join a pool rather than create his own pool for his devices to use.
Forge and Stripe are technically not applicable to the same audience.

Developers are attracted to Stripe for extensibility and customization through coding.

Non-technical users will like Forge because it's non-technical and quick to start up, in a "just works" sort of way.
PeerJS: Simple peer-to-peer data in the browser with WebRTC
So they moved to two measly leaseweb servers and the "attack" magically stopped...

http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t167/vengethis/bullshit_d...
Very cool. Out of curiosity, are there any plans to make it easy to provision/create AWS boxes securely via chroot via Eric Hammond's approaches at Alestic? Currently it is a very tedious process to make a secure image on Amazon so that no credentials leak into history and whatnot, it is a tedious process. Making this easy would go a long way to making it trivial to use vagrant to safely publish public boxes for EC2.

More details on this problem here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4457336

Examples of Eric Hammond's process at Alestic:
http://alestic.com/alestic-git/
https://github.com/alestic/alestic-git
You should probably consult a lawyer who deals with defense against such patent racket. But one practical approach could be to pool resources with others who were threatened by them. Most racket victims don't have enough resources to fight on their own, but if they unite - it can be easier to fight back. Trolls usually threaten many parties, so you should research who else is affected and contact them to build your common course of action.

Validity of patents requires research, even if you think they are "valid" it doesn't mean they are really valid. If prior art exists - the patent can be busted. But research requires time and resources, and that's where pooling can help if you have many interested parties united.
I'm reminded of this awesome scene in the novel Daemon. The Daemon recognizes spammers as a threat to its existence. It hires, via proxies, criminals and mob members to assassinate identified spammers all within the span of a few hours. Global spam drops to almost nothing within a few days.
For each of the base colours from the previous step, make one darker color and use it to add shadows where needed.

For each of the colors. Granted, I agree that the rule wasn't followed in the example.
Reddit AMA about North Korea
Tell HN: Nuuton crawler is active. 
The second generation of the Nuuton crawling system (codename: Gravity) is in the wild. I will be testing a lot of different parameters. The speed of the crawl is not quite ideal, and I will be adjusting it to respect your bandwith. If you experience a sudden jolt of bandwith consumption, let me know. It is not on purpose, because this thing is a prototype. It should not happen, because I have included safety mechanism, but its not 100% perfect.
At the moment, I'm only using the test server, so the probability is not very high. Still, let me know if anything. I dont want to damage your things.

Also, if you want Nuuton to return to your site (you have a blog), then include the following line on your robots.txt file:

nuuton: return(n)

where n is the amount of time between crawls in the unix timestamp format (epoch).

I make this post to alert the community of possible issues. I will be posting on twitter/orangethirty any issues that may arise.

Please report any issues to orangethirty@nuuton.com

:)
I thought I'd post this since discussion about North Korea has been so popular in the recent past. :)