skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Although our company is from Lebanon, so we'd basically be pulling ourselves to compete with your groceries job, I believe I can convince our company to offer you a job.
You can thank the sheer chutzpah of your person, that allowed you to create this editor.
Let me know if you're interested, so that we can discuss the details :)
Probably not a single human, you can go on crowd sourcing websites and probably find people who will pump out t shirt designs for a $1 a pop.
The article says there are 500,000 items by that seller on Amazon. If you guess there may be 10 different variants of each search, that's 50,000 unique shirts. The engineering cost is probably pretty low compared to the fact they can stumble upon tons of valuable little niches this way.
>I know for certain that writing things down makes them more 'important' to my mind.

I'm sure it does, but are you certain that writing things down commits them more firmly than manually typing them?
How I was forced to create a SaaS business
They are renamed "swipe" on mobile devices.
What phone and Android version? Evernote was slow but usable on my Optimus V (600mhz, Android 2.1). On my Nexus 4 it's fast.
They'll figure it out someday. Give them time.
As usual, the art business (like all business) primarily benefits the businessmen.

Most of the people profiting from the "art market boom" are collectors and other businessmen who buy art from unknown artists at rock bottom prices and resell them once the artist becomes famous (usually but not always after the artist's death).

In this situation the artist gets pennies on the dollar (if he's very lucky, as many artists don't manage to sell their work at all).

Some very few artists are lucky enough to even be alive by the time their art becomes highly coveted, and then are lucky enough to have enough business acumen (or lucky enough to partner with a scrupulous and competent enough agent) to capitalize on their fame, and actually make enough money from art to actually quit their job waiting tables or driving taxis and devote their energies full-time to making art.

Some very few of those very few might even become rich. But I would not call that a "great time to be making art". The overwhelming majority of artists in the US do not make nearly enough money to even reach the disgracefully low poverty line, much less be able to survive solely by selling their art or profit much from this "booming art market".
Great content isn’t solely responsible for The Magazine’s success
If it's for a product, I say start with the name that most clearly communicates what it is that the product helps with / problem it solves. Think "Can Opener". That's the kind of name you want for your brand or product to start. Even the big brands started out more specific... McDondald's was "McDonald's Hamburgers" for a very long time before removing the Hamburgers. Apple was "Apple Computers Inc" a long time as well.

When you are small you have to be more specific because you have a lower number of impressions ( chances to talk to your potential customers ) and you need to make sure you are sending the right message. The big brands can afford to put their message in more places, so they can be more abstract. Small brands don't have that luxury.
Two Programmers are walking along the sidewalk when both simultaneously spot a hundred dollar bill on the ground between them. They begin a lively discussion of the nature of the problem, what is right? What is moral, what is just? What would people of various religions say? Should we split it? Does might make right? They spend hours discussing the fascinating problem and what should be done about it. They finally decide to settle things like the enlightened manner appropriate for civilized beings. A game a rock paper scissors. While performing the game, a Religious figure runs up, grabs the money, waves around a knife and disappears back into the crowd.
I'm not surprised.

I know no one who has upgraded to windows 8. I got 5 free copies with my MSDN sub and one got claimed before I deleted the VM. Considering I work for a Microsoft partner with 180 staff, we have one windows 8 machine and its an RT Surface used by QA. We have 4 VMs for testing as well which never visit the www at all. We have more Macs in the office!

Chrome I find to be slightly obtuse and buggy. Constant tab crashes and hangs and I'm really not sure its that fast. Friends seem to have the same opinion. One complaint I hear is that people are constantly prompted to sign into chrome. We're pretty much all back on Firefox and IE.

Meh.
And WebKit is forked from KDE KHTML, Apple acquired FingerWorks for multitouch, C3 Technologies for 3D mapping and Siri (http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2010/04/28/apple-moves-d...)

So what's your point? Acquiring is bad?
PCRE for PostgreSQL
I think most Linux users see HIB as a form of activism or donation (specifically to show that games on Linux can be profitable) rather than as a purchase. Heck, I bet most people who get HIB games (on Linux or otherwise) never even play them.
The problem is that you haven't identified PayPal's concern. It's not sussing out whether a conference is real or fake. All of the money is at risk even in a real conference, run by a trustworthy person. You want their evangelists to reach out to conference organizers. If they were intimately involved in every single developer conference worldwide, it still would not eliminate PayPal's risk. It wouldn't solve the problem.

The risk is that one single person holds a huge pile of funds for services that are supposed to be rendered in the future. That single person can skip out of town at any time. They could get hit by a bus. Their venue could burn down in a fire. Whatever the cause, there is a non-zero risk that the funds aren't used as intended or the event doesn't happen, and PayPal will be on the hook for hundreds or thousands of disputes and chargebacks from the purchasers.

This is why payment services for events like EventBrite don't work like PayPal. EB gets paid the money, and the event organizer has no access to it until after the event, when there's no chance of EB being on the hook for disputes for an event that didn't happen.

PayPal isn't in the insurance business. When it does allow a pre-sale, per the terms already linked in this discussion, they typically require a reserve. That means money can come into your account but you can't withdraw it. That's not malicious, that's the same thing EventBrite does. You only get the money after you've rendered the service it was paid for; it's protection for the attendees and PayPal. To expect anything different is to expect PayPal to act as a free insurer of events.
Three logicians walk into a bar...

Bartender: can I get you all a drink?

1st logician: maybe

2nd logician: maybe

3rd logician: yes
Calm down and view it via your browser on your PC.
I definitely appreciate the feedback. I am planning to work day and night at the moment on reaching out to people online in many different sources from email, twitter, facebook, etc. As it is the weekend and many business are closed, I wanted to maximize my time in this way and also make a list of things to prepare for next week, so I can hit the ground running on Monday.
Job posts can be more fun
But apparently it doesn't have the potential to be configured in MHL mode or something similar.
Really, this guys conclusion is that the problem here is people who don't understand automation on the customer side, not (if he's even correct about the system) people creating automated systems without thinking about possible failures in the system? Yea, they're all holding it wrong, its their fault for not being technically literate enough.
Eventbrite doesn't pay out until 5 days after the event, but at least they announce that up front and don't tend to randomly freeze accounts and hold on to your money indefinitely.
In the land of start-ups the VCs are the chickens, the employees are the pigs. As in the fable it generally doesn't work out so well for the pig.
Imagine a future where you play a video game in the first person, using virtual reality, controlling your avatar with your own movements. The most natural way for someone to walk, run, aim, and jump, is to actually do so. Angling control sticks, pressing buttons, and waving gestures in-air does not map one-to-one in the same way your brain maps to your muscles and limbs. Flow with the wiring of your brain rather than against it.

This system would require direct connection to signals from your brain, intercepting and consuming them, never reaching your muscles. Resting comfortably with REM-like paralysis, you control your game character naturally and intuitively, moving it and not yourself, all from the comfort of your couch.

Technology like this already exists in its infancy, such as providing moveable arms and hands to those who have lost them:

"Move Arm" ---> Engage Robotics ---> "See Arm Move"

"Move Arm" ---> Animate Game ---> "Feel Arm Move"

The current feedback loop in robotics is limited; we can't make Luke Skywalker's robotic hand flinch with needles yet. For things to work well in a video game, you'll need to feel your actions, just as a runner feels their foot-strike flick off the ground.

When will this technology be available? What bottlenecks need to be overcome for it to exist? How much will it cost? What other applications could it have? Will it be released before Episode 3? ;)
The part that kills me about Borderlands 2 on OSX is when they finally released it you can't play with your character from steam... you haven't to make a new one.
Also, you can store keys in something like the IOS keychain (which I assume is fairly secure) and then further require a pin code or password when you open the app.

Thinking off the top of my head:

priv_key = AES_DECRYPT(PBKDF2(pincode,salt),iv,RSA_key_from_keychain)

aes_key = rsa_decrypt(priv_key,encrypted_aes_key)
Banks are notoriously bad about updating their technology practices. They didn't really stop using DES in their ATM's until it was required by law that they update to 3DES in 2002 (DES encryption has been theoretically broken since the 80's and practically, that is it was done in something like 17 days, broken since the 90's). For them, the potential losses from java exploits just don't outweigh the price of switching the infratstructure in place.
>Business is business. Being a nice guy doesn't equate to winning in many cases.

Regardless of how relevant it is to Andrew Mason's case this is a very important point to realize. It certainly was one for me and many others I know of. Mind you, "winning" in this case doesn't only pertain to selfish, zero-sum victories; it's relevant in the boarder sense of "winning": "the art of choosing actions that steer the future toward outcomes ranked higher in your preferences" [1]. Recently I was linked to a Cracked.com article [2] that I think summarizes the difference between "being a nice person" and "winning" in the boarder sense with great, harsh lucidity. Please don't let the tone dissuade you from read the following quote in full.

>Let's say that the person you love the most has just been shot. He or she is lying in the street, bleeding and screaming. A guy rushes up and says, "Step aside." He looks over your loved one's bullet wound and pulls out a pocket knife -- he's going to operate right there in the street.

>You ask, "Are you a doctor?"

>The guy says, "No."

>You say, "But you know what you're doing, right? You're an old Army medic, or ..."

>At this point the guy becomes annoyed. He tells you that he is a nice guy, he is honest, he is always on time. He tells you that he is a great son to his mother and has a rich life full of fulfilling hobbies, and he boasts that he never uses foul language.

>Confused, you say, "How does any of that fucking matter when my (wife/husband/best friend/parent) is lying here bleeding! I need somebody who knows how to operate on bullet wounds! Can you do that or not?!?"

>Now the man becomes agitated -- why are you being shallow and selfish? Do you not care about any of his other good qualities? Didn't you just hear him say that he always remembers his girlfriend's birthday? In light of all of the good things he does, does it really matter if he knows how to perform surgery?

>In that panicked moment, you will take your bloody hands and shake him by the shoulders, screaming, "Yes, I'm saying that none of that other shit matters, because in this specific situation, I just need somebody who can stop the bleeding, you crazy fucking asshole."

>So here is my terrible truth about the adult world: You are in that very situation every single day. Only you are the confused guy with the pocket knife. All of society is the bleeding gunshot victim.

[1] As defined by Eliezer Yudkowsky in http://lesswrong.com/lw/31/what_do_we_mean_by_rationality/.

[2] See http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-harsh-truths-that-will-make-yo.... This may or may not be the first time this website is cited on HN.
Speaking of Apple products. Try watching a DVD over AirPlay. WT actual F. It's unbelievable that something this crappy has happened.
I have not read this book, but I can say that javascript powerful when you ask the question: what can I do with a closure?
Reminds me of this story: "Programmer creates 800,000 books algorithmically and starts selling them on Amazon"

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/143382-programmer-creates...
Yeah, I didn't really mean it like that.

I think the entire time I've been on HN people have been saying everyone's just about to switch to functional programming. We've had a lot of advocacy for Haskell, Scala and F#, but no big switch. It's fairly obviously never going to happen at this point, but they still say it.

In the same time frame MVC has transformed web programming, with Django, Rails, Symfony & ASP.Net MVC all becoming a norm in web programming.

If functional programming really were that compelling, we'd have seen a similar switch by now. Instead what's happened is that all the main languages have adopted the best bits of functional programming and left the bits which make it hard to write large programs.
Bullshit.

You add up the value of every home default in America and it's way, way less than the trillion dollars that the banks were bailed out for.

Homeowners weren't bailed out, the banks were bailed out.
For a lot of languages, I agree, because there's no way to create a DSL as part of the language itself. Think of the difference as one of direction; are you fitting the domain into the language, or extending the language to fit the domain? Most languages are either general-purpose (C, Java) or their domain is fixed upon creation (SQL, Mathematica).

In a Lisp, you can use macros to accomplish things that go way beyond defining a domain-specific library / API. A typical library is restricted to the capabilities of the language, but a DSL in Lisp can extend the syntax itself.

Want to alter the reader so you have a way to express normal code as remote computations? Go for it. Feel like adding new math operators to use matrices instead of scalars? Knock yourself out.

Common Lisp itself did exactly this when object-oriented programming came along; using nothing but macros and closures, the Common Lisp Object System (CLOS) was built.
Its time to face it:

People start to create computer languages without carrying too much about the target processor opcodes (because in that time processor were just getting faster with time) and focus more on programmer convenience, and wild beasts like python and ruby were born..

C is fast because it was created with processor awareness in mind.. pretty simple...

these days kids are all about trying to create more and more crappy convenient sintax languages.. and they get worry when the languages dont scale? for what computer they design the language? from venus ?

nobody should be doing any serious software in python or ruby.. is such a waste of talent .. use it for education.. for fun.. or for the things they are best.. wich is not in the system/plumbing side of things
I told this joke in front of an audience, in a one-man standup routine. It was titled "Multicast"
I don't understand a lot of the oversensitivity in the Western-culture.
It's as if the whole thing is a large field of booby-traps.
If you make a joke about rape, it does not mean you're promoting rape. It just means you're raising a sensitive subject.
Sensitive subjects are not allowed in open-minded societies? Even as jokes?
Contrast with the uproar that Islamists have against pictures they feel offensive about their religion.
Interesting piece, though they focus only on what they call "rock star" professions, like music, publishing, and the movies. Professions which have always used their supposed status to prey on the young.

One solution: become an account or plumber, or software developer, and laugh all the way to the bank.
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Vim does a very good job of this:

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Before we expanded our events (from 10-15 to 50-80) we dropped PayPal for WePay. Works great, and I can sleep at night.
>If you just make it to the middle of that same paragraph: "Apple's request to define copyright law to include jailbreaking as a violation was denied as part of the 2009 DMCA rulemaking."

Wikipedia's wording isn't very clear (although it would be clearer if you didn't quote a single sentence out of context), but that sentence is talking about a DMCA exemption, not saying the Library of Congress made a statement that jailbreaking was never a violation. Here's the EFF discussing the jailbreaking exemption created by the 2009 DMCA rulemaking: https://www.eff.org/cases/2009-dmca-rulemaking
I guess that's the difference in being a product company vs a service company. A service company might not have that kind of luxury I agree.
It's worse than that. What happens when the event organizer, operating 100% in good faith, buys equipment, pays for airfare and lodging for special guests and event staff, pays deposits for the space, etc. and then due to events outside of their control the event has to be cancelled (perhaps due to a hurricane or maybe the bass player in the band decides to go into rehab and the concert gets cancelled, which happened to me once and they refunded me all but $5 of the ticket price back)? Now the event organizer doesn't have enough money to pay everyone back. This is part of the reason why "service charges" and "convenience fees" are so high when you buy tickets in advance, because it can rapidly turn into a giant cluster fuck.
If you need a citable name, taking the transparency of the cryptosystem as an assumption is called Kerckhoffs's principle.
Like with every kind of income, getting the income and paying 30-40% tax on it is vastly better than not getting the income.

But yeah, that's a big chunk of money to have to come up with all at once in a given year.
So do you think these people will make $500,000 from their T-shirts to cover their costs?! I don't understand why it's so surprising that somebody might automate this. You know we have thse things called "computers" today... right? :)

It's an obvious thing to do. Amazon already sell print-on-demand ebooks, allowing vendors to spam the products list with a torrent of shit at minimal cost so they can find out which bits stick. This is exactly the same principle.

(See also, in case you're reading this later and there are a lot of comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5310567)
At one point in the article, one person spends all night working on a $35k marijuana harvest and gets paid in the morning with a breakfast burrito.

Someone is a spectacular failure at hardball negotiating.
From the discussion of their most relevant benchmark (Singular value decomposition):

The Allegro CL 4.1 times of 3.9 seconds beat the f77 time of 4.8 [seconds];

Nice!

setting on optimization for f77 brought its time down to 0.45 seconds.

Thus for this system, the [LISP] compiled code can have quite comparable speed to
that of the corresponding unoptimized Fortran in this case as well.

Oh really.
Hackers breach Evernote security
Our journey with Chime
That's not how I read it. I see him saying they should have checked their verb list (thought about possible failures, as you said.) He also says that if people are more aware of the algorithmic nature of these things that they are less likely to get offended.

Quite honestly, I think he's right. If people were informed about amazon not being the ones who are selling the t-shirts and the algorithmic nature of the t-shirt generation then people would probably react completely different to encountering that t-shirt.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/keep-calm-rape-t-shirts-mistake-041...

When Solid Gold Bomb withdrew the 'rape' garment it also posted a statement on its website which said: "We have been informed of the fact that we were selling an offensive T-shirt primarily in the UK.

"This has been immediately deleted as it was and had been automatically generated using a scripted computer process running against 100s of thousands of dictionary words."

Not on sale: computer generated t shirt advocating rape.

Still on sale: human authored book advocating throwing rocks at boys. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Boys-Stupid-Throw-Rocks-Them/dp/0761... human authored 2013 calendar, boys are stupid: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Boys-Are-Stupid-2013-Calendar/dp/184...

Also on sale: bunny suicides: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bunny-Suicides-Grid-Calendar-teNeues...

And Nuns having fun: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nuns-Having-Calendar-2013-Wall/dp/07...
- We got a brand new shiny Xbox devkit (one of the silver ones, only one in the studio), I plugged it in..BOOM!...oh it's a American devkit and I plugged it into a British power socket...ooopss..

- Doing a port of PS2 -> Gamecube, one guy asks me 'do we need this assert?' I go 'nah it'll be fine'...cue a month later when we have a intermittent soak crash after several hours which I find out would have been caught instantly by the assert I said was ok to remove...took some time to find :/
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Somehow I don't think spending $500000 on these t-shirt designs would be a good idea (compared to generating them with an algorithm).
I think it's socially pathological to appeal to Amazon (the tweets shown) to remove something offensive or distateful. Demanding intervention by random intermediaries simply sets the precedent that Amazon's role is to censor, which everyone hates the rest of the year. I think it's more responsible and effective to financially boycott something like this, assuming of course that you don't find this ironic, if dark (the original "keep calm and carry on" could be seen as promoting sheepish obedience, which I personally find genuinely offensive rather than merely distasteful...).
You can probably to a single $1 design and create a number of products from it , as they seem to have. So I imagine the part that is auto generated is colouring etc rather than the design itself.
>Clearly people talking to their devices is cool, but annoying to others on the train and potentially embarrassing

Hopefully Subvocal Recognition[1] can improve enough that it will solve this particular problem. They've already created non-invasive forms[2] of electronic signal relay that could be used for this as well.

It definitely will be fun to watch. I'm with you on the skepticism of video capture devices like Kinect being the solution to non-touch interfaces. We'll see though :D

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subvocal_recognition

[2]http://io9.com/5985558/temporary-tattoos-could-make-electron...