skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I ran into that with a credit card company recently. They called and left a message about suspicious activity on an account and a callback number. I couldn't find that number anywhere on their website or the web in general. I ended up calling the main # and connecting to the security department. It was a legitimate message they left. I mentioned the phone number thing and they agreed that was an issue but who knows if they acted on it.
The rejection letter investors should send
Cool project, love it when I see devs from Tehran publish their work on HN and become the top on the news with the current situation in Iran and the worst internet connection ever! Good job
Yea, the support team want multiple scenarios (intros) in a page, we use a param, so they can link to it and push them to users asking how to do stuff,

it becomes for us like an advanced, usable, faq system
That's very true . It's an issue I'm thinking about and working on . :)
> This whole mess is just another example of why free is so often bad.

No, it's not. Paid services are cancelled all the time.
Yes, we are also using this policy. Documentation about it will be coming shortly.
Apparently it's common practice. Lloyds TSB (UK bank) and 3 (UK mobile network) do something similar.
I didn't mean you!
I meant MoreMoschops, twas only a joke ;)
Perl: The Language Everybody Wants to Declare Dead
Cloud 66 Stack Firewalls
I've been trying clojure in IntelliJ with La Clojure plugin and it works pretty well.
I understood that if you want, you can ask to be paid a part of your salary in BTC.
If I was to work for them, I would definitely ask them to automatically pay me like 1% of my salary in BTC each month.
Why? Because I could.
I don't see how that process instills design in the company at all. It's just like hiring a design firm to redesign or evaluate the product.
I don't think Mailchimp is doing something unusual here.

It's like asking not to be charged by your ISP because you're leaving for a 2 months vacation. You either cancel it completely or be charged the same monthly.

PS: There are much stronger reasons to not like Mailchimp, but it's beyond the subject of this post.
I may be mistaken, but I believe the presence of HIV in their system means it is still transmissible.

The article title is, unfortunately, misusing the word 'cure'.
I also noticed (and complained) that their passwords were limited to so absurdly short sequence. Not sure if it's still true. Hope not.
Building evidence inot education
It definitely helps to establish a reputation for yourself before you take off and start contracting. You should be at the point where you know without a doubt that you could send out a few emails (or respond to one of the standing offers in your inbox) and pick up another gig. As such, "paralyzing fear" never came into the equation for me or any of the successful contractors I know.

And of course once you've done it a few times, you'll have previous employers bringing you back in for more projects. So at most you might only need to go through that fear stage a few times before you've established yourself.
In terms of a capitalist debate, one side charges money for substandard product. The other side charges less, while providing a much better product. It just turns out, with copyright applied, the better side is illegal.

But being illegal hasn't stopped pirates yet, has it?

One major side effect isn't them trying to sway us; instead they are forced to release movies in the range of weeks, and not the traditional years. So yes, pirates are a competitive pressure downward.

Don't get me wrong: I think people should be paid for creative works. I like creative stuffs. I just disagree with putting locks on our culture, that are physically or legally hard to remove.
I find this 'intro app' much more engaging: https://github.com/pcottle/learnGitBranching
Git-fat - slim binary files in your repo
I wouldn't say the only reason pirates pirate is to avoid paying the money. I think some of it is to avoid the DRM. It makes me think of the pirate vs buying movie image.
http://www.geek.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/piratedvd.jpg

In the end, it seems like the paying customers are often hurt the most when it comes to DRM.
I agree to what "Harj Tagga" has said, founders need to show more potential prototypes/products to attract the attention of investors.
To be honest with you, my point of view is that no antivirus is going to protect me 100%, I always have to care about what I open, where it's coming from, ...

What I want from my AV then, is to catch the most obvious (and thus numerous) ones, and do so in a way that doesn't bother me. MSE just doesn't get in the way. It updates silently. It scans silently. It detects silently, ask you for something but take the safe course by default. You are in a full screen app ? It doesn't crash everything trying to take control, it just deals with the threat and show a red icon in the tray.

It doesn't make my computer safer than the other, but it makes me lose way less time when it does its job.
Actually, you're the only other one to post in this thread. Every other account is just me.
Color me skeptical here or perhaps this is just an aberration. I've been with Vanguard financial services for more than 30 years and I've never received any phone calls. All recent communication has been via email with a non-clickable link telling me to log into my account and check my messages.
Chicken allocations and GC are a really great compromise between heap and stack memory. I've been looking into GC implementations recently and it's one of the most interesting.

Another one I think is interesting is Lua's with the "upvalues" -- objects are on the stack unless they survive the frame they live in, in which case they are moved to the heap. But they implement it with a double dereference, so it has its own downside.
The next xtep in 3D printing
Maybe that's the business side of the idea.
Hang on. The author went out of her way to say that it wasn't just because there were women in it, and made suggestions as to how it could be acceptable.

Could you read this blogpost (http://whatever.scalzi.com/2011/09/06/shut-up-and-listen/) by John Scalzi, and the linked comment (http://whatever.scalzi.com/2011/08/31/the-sort-of-crap-i-don...)? It tries to explain how people have different reactions to different things, and it's unreasonable to say "everyone should react to things exactly how I do".

This presentation offended the author. Let's think about the reasons it might've been out of line, and not jump to calling people Nazis.
Promociones en Entel
Until Firefox removed the location bar's RSS icon, that's exactly how I subscribed to feeds: click the icon and then click the "Subscribe in Google Reader" button that loaded. That might not have worked if I used a different client, though.
Can't use istockphoto.com stock art if you plan to support retina display
Go to their site, find the "Licenses" footer link and then scroll down to the bit about "License restrictions:
Here is what you CANNOT do with either a Standard or Extended license" and note this restriction > "Displaying an original image digitally on-screen larger than 1200 x 800 pixels; video image size limitation is 640 x 480. Any size reproduction is acceptable with substantial changes to the content."

Just got off the phone with istockphoto.com and they confirmed that it is illegal to display ANY of their images on any digital device at a larger size (like the 2048x1536 required for ipad retina) unless you do make "substantial changes to the content".. which she seemed to think was only safe if you were to render it virtually unrecognizable to them.
I think this will be great for the Lore team. Katzmann seems to have great instincts for making money in education (Princeton Review, 2tor), and Lore has a solid software but no realistic business plan.

Noodle.org is a great business model. They are getting in front of customers just before they make a $100k purchase decision. The lead gen value must be tremendous.
Rise of the Guardians-Pacific Rim connection
I thought it was the Vanguard Communist Party. They should really be concerned with their security or risk having the Tsarist police ship them off to Siberia.
Almost everywhere (Linux kernel included IIRC) use -Os now as the effects of the memory hierarchy are much more important than raw instructions per second. A saved stall is worth hundreds of instructions
Awesome Stack Overflow Answer
It isn't a $9 "investment." He wants to cancel, they are charging $9. He is investing in cancellation?

If I understand the OP's discussion correctly he is not receiving any kind of discount. They have two kinds of payment model - Pay&Go and Unlimited ($50/month).

They're calling the unlimited model a "discount" since presumably if you send enough it is cheaper. So it isn't unfair to call it cheaper, but it is kind of silly to suggest he should eat a fee because of the "discount" he may or may not be benefiting from.

In general that business model is extremely common in the real world. My current phone, Netflix digital, and broadband subscriptions are all "unlimited" and I can cancel for free whenever I want (except in the first 12 months with broadband).

I think you're confusing a "unlimited fixed fee" service with a "12 month commitment at a reduced fixed fee" service. Not the same thing and this case appears to be a month by month rolling fee, not a discounted longer duration.
The Chequered History of MagSafe
I believe it might be as easy as setting up an account on a freelancing website and searching for projects you feel you are capable of doing. Maybe you can also set up a PayPal account so you can receive payment.

I think there is still money to be made in porn.
Good work. It would be cool if you could also scroll the browser window. For example, in my the I need to scroll down to see the 2nd bubble and up to see the following.
> the Internet interface will only let you do small amounts, and only to pre-entered recipients. Who enters those recipients? You guessed it – your conseiller!

I do not think this is true. With my French bank account, I can add recipients for online recipients without interacting with my conseiller. I do need a confirmation code sent through SMS to confirm additions (a poor man's two-factor authentication) but that's it.
I think the github client is great, but that may be because I only use GUI clients for the basics: pushing, pulling, branching, committing, and viewing history. I've never used a GUI client for anything more complex than this because, honestly, they all suck at everything else.
Most elegant solution is Opera implementation [1] - a simple feed icon is displayed in the address bar if
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS" href="http://www.example.com/rss />
is in the <head> section.

Other thing is dicoverability of that icon and learning what it does.

[1] I think Firefox does that too.
Good stuff! Thanks for this.

Just to put it out there, here is an alternative built on jquery.

http://trentrichardson.com/Impromptu/
Well, to be fair it was a musical.
No comment on the phone itself.
>in principle you could deliver it only to tamper-proof machines that self-destruct before giving up the code.

"Tamper-proof" is impossible. That's why they call it "tamper-resistant" -- someone with enough resources is going to be able to tamper with it. In theory you may be able to make tampering expensive, but now you're just back to playing the cat and mouse game, and people start showing up with timing attacks etc. that aren't as expensive as you might have hoped.
Tame long tab titles with dynamically CSS-only scrolling
There's a big red warning suggesting I should enable third-party cookies. That's just plain wrong.
The OP clearly wanted to cancel completely...
Languages are a lot like startups, they take forever to gain traction.
This is very nice, there are quite a few people at my work that aren't programmers but probably should learn git because it would make their lives easier. Thanks for sharing.
Larry Wall must be one of the most ironic people in the open source world, on purpose or otherwise. He also made a statement like "Lua doesn't have real OO, they just use a hash with a magic function" or something like that....
That support rep dealt with you very reasonably, and to depart from my usual demeanor on HN, you come off as rude and an ass.

There are some services that offer the ability to suspend an account, i.e. freeze the account as is, remove access to features, and pause payment. That seems to be what you are asking for. The majority of SaaS services do not provide this, and it's not reasonable to demand it (yet, anyway. Perhaps someday.)

Whether it's removing active projects in Basecamp, contacts in Mailchimp, deals in a CRM, or active clients in Freshbooks, reducing usage down to the level of the free tier before downgrading is a standard action SaaS users take.
Something to It: Maybe there's something to the iPad Mini after all
Nice weekend project - cool!

Worked fine on my laptop - a few problems on my iPad. Suggestion: enlarge the next/prev buttons.

Thank you Afshinmeh and happy new year! :-)
Publicly disclosed prior art still matters. But now, first to file ALSO matters in litigation. (making hidden notebooks that show the other party invented it two years before you did less interesting)
The script probably just needs to check if it is already running before starting.
Could Google Glass Allow Us To Drive Our Wheelchairs With Our Eyes?
We built something similar like this based on jQuery Impromptu and merged it together with HowlerJS. This way we have a nice website walkthrough with voice if desired.
Change the name David to your mother's name and change Tom to any random person talking to her at work. Still happy with the tone?
It is quite simple in Chrome. Just click on the RSS icon at the corner of the omnibox. Then there is a drop-down showing a list of RSS readers that you can subscribe with.

Can't think of anything simpler.
Nearly 35% of Android Apps Are Secretly Stealing Private Data: DCCI (CN)
That may work for games and software where you have to copy complicated logic. However in the case of movies, music and books you can always record in some way. Once you have one DRM free recording it can be distributed and watched by anyone.

The only way to get around this would be to mandate people bought devices that refused to play DRM-free content.

The problem with the lock picking analogy is that being caught is significantly more likely and carries a heavier penalty.

Imagine the invention of a universal lockpick that was so easy that a child with 5 minutes of training could use it and readily available for free. As well as some form of cheap stealth technology that made it easy to sneak around people's houses undetected. You would expect burglary rates to go through the roof and a similar argument could be made that investing in a lock for your house is a waste of time.
That's just it, he doesn't want to cancel, he wants to stop paying for a month or two and start again later without losing his list of subscribers.

Would Netflix allow you to cancel right now and return in two months with all your preferences and viewing history intact?
Google Reader is Dead; Love Live RSS
This caused me to look up the Timothy Brown case, the man who was cured of AIDS via a bone marrow transplant for his leukemia with cells from a supercontroller. I get the concept of remission for the patients in the New Scientist article, but this article has Brown claiming he's completely cured:

http://www.webmd.com/hiv-aids/news/20120724/man-cured-of-aid...

If true, it gives hope that a complete cure is possible.
Lucian, what's wrong here is how Google has a bug that breaks localstorage and which forced us to show that warning if you have that option setup :/

We would love to not show that warning, but since there is a bug in localtsorage which can only be avoided with that, then, well, we avoid it with that :( We'd rather show you a message than fail silently.
I suppose I was thinking about the wrong kind of product, I now realize it would be much more viable for one-time small purchases than it would be for repeated purchases or large purchases. (where the incentive to cut out the middleman would be powerful)
I think the wording of the title is unfortunate, because "instill" sounds sort of pushy and directive. GV makes services like this are available (which is pretty awesome!).

Note: work for google - not GV - and speaking for myself.
So you start with a 4MB music file with DRM and lossy compression. After stripping the DRM, you've now got a 40MB music file at the same quality. If you want to get back down to 4MB, you must lose quality.
Can any extant DRM actually prevent piracy? not that I know of. A competent hacker can break it.
The HN effect: Visited the project 3-4 hours ago, and it had 40 stargazers, now 650. :)

I really like it by the way, and I think I'll use it for my next project. How about some events though? Like `introJs.on('5', fn)` would execute `fn` when the fifth hint is shown. It could be used to introduce several views to the user (one page app).
This is definitely the case with ISP's but mailchimp is in a different space, It's a web service and it's common to suspend your monthly plan
I just checked. Vanguard passwords can be up to 10 characters long
Just find a non-nerd and ask them what the "RSS icon" is. They have NO IDEA.

Don't trust me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4MwTvtyrUQ

Also, then, tell them, "If you were to follow that site for updates, what would you do?" and please, tell us the answers.
I'm pretty sure you have some kind of RSS extension installed, because Chrome doesn't do that by default.
Early birds flew on four wings
Apple hit with class action lawsuit over defective retina displays
What's a "Feed icon" ? Ask someone around you who is not a geek to show you the "feed icon".
Right. The problem is that there was a monoculture. Without competing alternatives, innovation stops and the product with a monopoly becomes a single point of failure.
Congratulations on finding a bug in this tutorial you mean? Typing 'help' when you're stuck is a fairly logical way to get guidance on what you should do next. If this just advances you to the next level, then you haven't gained anything.

What makes you so sure that tybulewicz just wants to cheat?
No, being the first to invent won't matter.

Before: I invent something, document internally that I invented it, but tell noone. A year later, you invent the same thing and apply for a patent. Since I invented it first, I could challenge your patent.

Now: Since you filed first, you automatically win

What doesn't change: I invent something and publicly disclose the idea, giving a presentation at a conference, putting a product on the market, putting code on github, etc. You are not able to patent that. In the US, I have a year to patent it, but will have difficulties patenting it in the rest of the world.

Note, this is a simplification as IANAL, but prior art does still matter.

In case there is doubt, language from the bill is below:

‘(a) Novelty; Prior Art- A person shall be entitled to a patent unless--

‘(1) the claimed invention was patented, described in a printed publication, or in public use, on sale, or otherwise available to the public before the effective filing date of the claimed invention;
> There are thousands of RSS subscribers. How many will bother to sort out a new RSS system and subscribe again?

The ones whom really read your RSS? Or maybe you will gain 10000 twitter followers on July 2? On maybe double your daily visitors?

Visitors who care will still be there. And it's the visitors who matters.
Twitlamp Filters Your Twitter Timeline into Photos, Videos, Links Text and More
Please reread my comment. Everything you said was covered there already.
Entrepreneur for Life
This doesn't seem to work on Chrome 24.0.1312.69 (Official Build 180721) on Ubuntu. No commands have any effect.
mailchimp isn't a cable company. Does heroku charge you when you decide to fallback?
Maybe they're trying to post in an unsupported language or a partly unsupported language?

Also could just be sending out "test spam" so they can tell potentially clients that they have a n+1 list of sites which can be spammed for $50 (or whatever).

You often have SEO companies in particular buying lists of spammable sites or spam companies buying lists from indexers so they can sell a service to SEO companies or the mob.
What's the "RSS icon"? I have no idea.
He clearly didn't.

...wanted to stop sending emails (and stop paying for next month) until I can afford it and then jump back again.

and

...so my idea was to stop sending emails until I can afford it and then start sending emails again.
How a Retired FedEx Exec Built a Mini Sandwich Empire
If the source (DRM'd track) was lossy, it doesn't matter how you do it afterwards, as the quality was lost from the get go.
Security reporter tells about hacked 911 call that sent SWAT team to his house
Befriending Apple
Exactly. Anything that is deterministic can be compromised, even if that is something physical. The only thing you can do is make something so difficult/long/expensive to compromise that it't not worth it. This is the theory behind encryption, given enough time and/or computing power and encryption can be broken by brute force but making it require so much time and/or hardware to crack that the information would be useless by the time it is broken. You can't make a deterministic system unbreakable, only harder and harder to replicate the situation needed to break it.
This already happens with cash tips in the service industries.
I Will Do Your Physics and Math Homework For $5
It's a good question, but it's simply the nature of human communication that one party can initiate it and the other party needs to communicate back to prevent future initiations. E-mail just makes it easier for more parties to initiate communication with you.

I think a B2B do-not-solicit database will never happen, but it would be quite useful to have a database of businesses that promise to report to spam anybody who does not meet a certain standard of conduct.
> Self motivation is an art.

I personally think that, if you're lacking in motivation to do something but you realize it's something that needs to be done, you're lacking in self-discipline. Instead of waiting or hoping for motivation, you need to be disciplined and /do it/. Start with sleeping discipline: go to bed at 11 sharp, get up at 7 sharp, and stick with it. Excercise disipline: force yourself to go for a run every night, whether you feel up to it or not. That kinda thing.

With procrastination, the general advice is to force yourself to sit down and do something that needs to be done for five minutes. Surely you can do five minutes, right? Then reward with an instant-gratification thing. The general advice is to do 30 minutes, but I'd go down to just one minute or something if it's really bad.

Ask for help / monitoring, too. My brother had serious procrastination / concentration issues when he had to finish one of his last assignments. I was asked to help him out; I just asked him where he was, what needed to be doing, and er. Well, I just sat and read something while he worked.

So, self-discipline, and a friend to help you keep focused on the task at hand. Ask him to shock you if you reach out for distraction or something.
Love the idea, a similar thing has been pretty active on reddit lately http://www.reddit.com/r/bitcointip. The purpose is to reward people for meaningful comments and posts with more than just imaginary karma, but it also has an amazing side effect of building awareness for those who would otherwise never had exposure to bitcoin. Something about showing people how easy it is to transmit this currency over the internet is very powerful.
Did you read it? The results = an unfinished mockup. A majority of this process is used to help teach design thinking, so companies can make the right design/usability decisions on their own.