skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How exactly do accredited investor laws work? If a private company allows a non accredited investor invests to put in $10k in exchange for stock, who broke the law?

If this new law comes in, are foreign investors allowed to take part?
Amazing how you can almost always find a relevant xkcd: http://xkcd.com/228/

(also, why is this on the front page?)
How One Piece of Custom Content Won a Client
I never understood the all or nothing mentality, especially among developers.

Coding all night is the most pervasive example. I wake up before 6 AM every day so I'm physically tired by 9 PM. Usually I'm mentally tired well before dinner. Maybe "all night" is a euphemism for "a long time" and I'm over thinking it but I consider it a productive day when I get 3 hours of work on a side project done in addition to my day job.

That being said, I have no problem going home and spending time with my family and not doing anything on my phone, computer, or even Xbox, so maybe it's just me.

EDIT: I don't want to be that guy, but isn't it a fairly commonplace meme among programmers to argue against 8-10-12 hour coding sprints for their employers because you can really "only" get 4-6 hours of good programming time out of someone in a day?[0]

[0] Citation needed
Uh, engineers are just people. They aren't any different from other people in the wild.
Ask HN: Difference between comments/discuss?
On my list of submissions I see each story has a link that to the comments section of the submission, sometimes the link is "comments" and sometimes the link is "discuss".

Does anybody know why that is?

Example: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=scottcha
We haven't tested Azure Cloud Storage. However, we did test other cloud computing hosts such as GoGrid and Rackspace. Their upload speeds were almost the same and sometimes even better than EC2 when uploading to AWS S3. Perhaps we will test Azure in a follow-up post.
Think about it this way. If you work with a large team which is split between multiple locations and each developer has a set of tasks to work on, having everything in 1 source file means everyone has to update the same file regardless of what they are actually working on. Using your example, if you have all_models.rb, any change needed for any model would mean committing the entire source code in the file. Huge risk.

The idea of multiple files is to have a modular approach which means easy to divide tasks, collaborate and mange version controls. Sure it means having to traverse through multiple directories/paths/files but this small sacrifice is nothing compared to the risk of having large source files.
No, you don't need to define what sucks. Most people agree that most game designers suck. Most people agree that getting punched in the face sucks. This is not a difficult concept, and trying to pretend the point is "uselessly vague" simply because you don't like it is absolutely useless.
Nope, like all other large providers (Facebook, Google, etc.) Amazon allows users to use e-mail addresses to log in, but they are not canonical stores of identity. In fact, Amazon is the most humorous example you could have pulled, because Amazon actually allows multiple accounts with the same e-mail address, and uses the password to differentiate (which is pretty much what jointb86 said, but I doubt if you knew this is the case that his comment was clear).

"Why Does Amazon.com Allow Multiple Accounts With the Same Email Address?"

http://www.experimentgarden.com/2009/11/why-does-amazoncom-a...

"Note: If you change the e-mail address on your account to an e-mail address that is already associated with another Amazon account, we will ask that you first verify your e-mail address."

-- http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/?nodeId=...
One thing I'd love to see this evolve into is a timeline for each company. When it was started, when they received funding and how much, when they reached 10k/1m/10m users, etc. It could look like an Alexa/Compete/etc chart with these milestones added on top. This would make for a great research tool.
Thats why I have the hard rule of not being reachable on holidays and state that upfront. I never take a computer with me and often go to places where there is no reception at all - so I couldn't, even if I wanted.

Clients have to cope with that, thats part of the game.
>It is just me or is it that when engineers are programming and sitting behind a desk, they constantly shake their legs??

It's just you. I've worked in several teams and maybe one in five does that. So no "engineers" as in "the majority of them".

Occasionally of course (once an hour or a couple of hours), all do it and SHOULD do it. For the same reasons you are told to do it in an airplane. Thrombosis et all.
His comments on hashing for S3 buckets were pretty interesting.
> I don't think it's particularly because they're women.

Beautifully put. I'm going to remember how you eloquently put that. =)
As far as I am aware, the link to the comments section appears as 'discuss' until there are one or more comments, at which point it changes to 'x comments'.
Physical Penetration Tester AMA
Don't (always) depend on third-party services
How many people are thinking of an issue for every persion than mentions it?
IAMA under-desk leg jiggler, AMA. (P.S. I also chew pens.)
I also think Tizen has zero chance of making it big. Yes, Samsung is a big company, but it's also just one company, and no other company has succeeded with a modern OS, even if it was supported by multiple companies, let alone by just one company, after iOS and Android came out. Ubuntu and Firefox OS probably still have a much bigger chance of gaining more market share than Tizen in the long term. But even those 2 together might never get more than 10%, together. I'd be happy, but surprised, to see one get at least 10% market share. Even iOS has only about 20% globally I think.
Having this kind of experience gives you a tremendous amount of perspective that it is hard to get in any other way. I figure he'll either come back even more passionately engaged in his development career, or take a right turn into a different direction. Either way is fine, of course--the important part is having the perspective and distance to choose wisely.
I 'upgraded' my Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc S to ICS, and it's absolutely ridiculously bad. I blame Sony for most issues, but the fact is ICS is bigger and uses way too much space for older devices that sold with none. I imagine JB even more so.

On my HP Touchpad though, Jellybean runs like a charm. I think the real reason fragmentation was ever an issue is because so many devices shipped without enough space for apps.

It doesn't help of course that Google and their strategic app partners (see Facebook) assume that every device has a tonne of space (which modern devices do of course) and grow ridiculously big. Chrome and Currents are both unusably big on an older device.

Bit of a ramble, but in short you're getting a much much better experience by not upgrading, unless there's a way to hack that tiny storage partition?
Working perfectly with Version 25.0.1364.160 Ubuntu 12.10 (25.0.1364.160-0ubuntu0.12.10.1)
First, Amazon actually allows multiple separate accounts to have the same e-mail address, and will use the password to decide which one you are trying to log in to. Second, using your e-mail address as a potential username (sometimes, one of many possible, as is the case with Facebook or Google, which will let you use any of the e-mail addresses associated with your account or your username to log in) is very different from treating it as your identity, and you can tell the difference when you ask the question "what happens if I lose access to that address, change to a new one, and someone else is assigned the one I was using previously?", which happens to many people using e-mail addresses provided by third parties (such as companies, ISPs, or universities).
lived in china for six months and almost disconnected, i can say that was awesome experience. it has been 3 years since then and i noticed with your post, i need it too. coding is challenge and fun but if you put a startup pressure on it with high entrepreneurship spirit without any monetization, it gives you nothing but consume your life. anyway have fun, I'll give a break at the end of 2013.
This is more typical ignorant blogger mentality where you feel every slight is an excuse to get on your dumb social soapbox. She should apologize to these folks and the community at large to be honest, or this is always going to be in my mind when her name comes up.
Converting Geographical Coordinates to Cartesian Coordinates
Not really. This is more like a PSA, a github link where you can help maintain and contribute to superhero.js.
Without revenue or profit, the entire ranking is BS, is it not?
Ask HN: Are Soylent-like meal replacement shakes safe?
The recent discussions around Soylent and meal replacement shakes in general has me intrigued and excited. I bought a canister of Ultimate Meal to give this a shot for a few days.

My girlfriend, in her typical skeptical fashion, brought up that since meal replacement shakes aren't typically FDA regulated what guarantees do I have that what the company says is in it is actually in it? It's a damn good question.

It's hard to find studies on any of this that is t solely about weight loss. Any suggestions?

Edit: typo
In case you still don't understand why she did what she did: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBVuAGFcGKY
Brilliant! How do you guys always manage to find the relevant ones? There's hundreds of them, and I tried a few google searches using site:xkcd.com and some related terms and couldn't pull up this one.
Maybe the link is symmetric, but the traffic flow is not - so in one direction the intertubes are more clogged.
Nice try, Mozilla, but that's a load of crap.
curl get.docker.io | sudo sh

Has anybody tried this?
YouTube Reaches 1 Billion Users Milestone
My favourite online tea store does this too, and it's one reason I ended up eventually creating an account with them. anybody who dies this automatically gets a credibility boost in my eyes.
> What a bizarrely meaningless statement.

It's not meaningless, and your example is fairly piss-poor and doesn't relate at all. More importantly, the note was about how it didn't help community, and how PyCon wouldn't take part.

Regardless, I find it ironic that people are publicly shaming a woman for publicly shaming a man.
Taiwan is a great place. I wish the OP luck.
Actually, the results are reverse from what you said (y-axis is the origin). It likely has to do with traffic congestion coming out of each datacenter. Virginia has by far the heaviest use out of all the datacenters.
Yes, to both questions.
I chose to play only on PC and still got "disconnected from the phone", so there must be a few kinks to sort out still.
Check out entry number 1, 2 and 7 of https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=scottcha

1: discuss, no entries
2: comments, entries
7: "1 comment", entries
> Some truly horrific things are happening to her as a result of this tweet

I've been the subject of very public rape threats myself. That is the consequence of misogyny, which is a real problem. I fully support the fight against misogyny and would rally against that. Women should not be subject to rape or death threats ever, no matter what they do. It doesn't require me to agree with her about other things.

I said "eew" because I feel the "women in tech" community frequently does not represent the views of women who do not agree with a certain type of feminism.
I tried it, didn't like it and moved on to a newsreader I liked better. The only explanation I can come up with for all the emotion is that these people have abandonment issues.
isn't it v8(dart2js(dart_code)) vs v8(js_code)

So there could be some difference between the original code in both, and some benefit from compiling to js (e.g. they could use crazy tricks similar to asm.js to generate faster code perhaps based on type hints present in Dart but not the JS)
but i got directed to this page: http://chrome.com/maze/pc/not-supported/ on Ubuntu 12.10 Chrome Version 25.0.1364.172
My girlfriend said the same thing. I did however get her a diamond (she doesn't know about it yet)... but it cost me 1/20th the price as I have a friend in that industry. I would not have paid retail for a diamond as I know how much of a rip off it is.

The rest of the ring I'm including fragments from a martian meteorite, a lunar meteorite, and a deep space iron meteorite...... and then other gems from every continent. :)

That is AWESOME that you made your ring. I'm having this one made... as I just... seriously lack the artistic skill to create what I want. :)
Just curious - do you read every word of every EULA you come across, or do you just get the gist of it?

Also, "Remember that harassment and sexist, racist, or exclusionary jokes are not appropriate for PyCon" doesn't appear to have anything to do with what the men said, though perhaps you quoted it for the subsequent harassment on twitter?
Android is dead. Long live Android.
Venous and/or lymphatic systems use muscular contraction and movement for fluidity. It is specially important to counter gravity. The "need to move your lower extremities" is a natural instinct.

So it's not "an engineers thing". I'd say it's not even a "humans thing". Try "animals" (with lower extremities and veins and/or lymphs).

Disclaimer: I'm not a doctor or a vet.
If you are not doing "1" then you are doing it wrong :-)
Google Reader closing might actually end up being a good thing. It's also bringing up the often talked about issue of free services versus paid, with more people willing to pay for a service than I thought.

On Feed Wrangler: since the author has been working on it for a few months now, it would have been better if he had given us a tech preview of what he's planning. Asking me to sign up for updates when I don't even know what the product looks or what features are on his mind, is like asking me to trust a stranger to my phone number.
Can't we please advance women's rights without criminalizing sexuality by likening it to a racist hate crime? And also can we stop advocating this notion that women are delicate flowers whose fragile ears need to be protected from any mention of sex whatsoever?
I've made a google form to record every time my coworker sitting less than a meter away from me does something annoying (such as make "chugga-chugga-chugga-chugga" noises and whistle). I'm not proud of it but it keeps me sane.

Link if you're curious

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/gform?key=0Amo8gQTQJ0Nbd...
>It's really sad.

I agree. This is an embarrassment through and through. What started as a grotesque overreaction has spiralled into a venomous shitstorm. Truly infuriating.
Your hard drive will self-destruct at 2pm: Inside the South Korean cyber-attack
And she broke the CoC by posting a picture of the people in question with a derogatory statement on twitter. Thats far worse than the joke they said to themselves.
The way you speak and the way you dress are also considered part of "professionalism". Those are the parts that I take issue with.
The difference between racism (an institutionalized system wherein a majority race discriminates against minority races) and racism (an arbitrary action that reveals a preference of one race over another) is a constant source of confusion in these discussions. The former definition is used most often in academia; the latter definition is much more common in casual conversation.

When one person says "black people can't be racist" and another person says "black people can indeed be racist," they are using the word two different ways and meaning two different things. It has derailed more threads than I care to remember.
Seems to be a fraud deterrent. I once had an eBay listing that was "purchased" by a Nigerian scammer. Buyers need to have a reputation system as well in a viable eBay replacement.
For me it's not only shaking legs behind a desk. It's also walking in circles when talking on the phone. It's also doing something with my hands when I'm not at the computer (preferably with some item like pen or phone or anything what's nearby).

I consider it as a soft version of light ADHD, but I doubt it has anything to do with my profession. It might be the other way around - I chose a profession where I create new things because of that trait (which might also be connected to me being easily exited about new things).
This is their way of dealing with seller-side fraud -- drive out the small sellers. eBay has more leverage over the big guys anyway.
I do it just because it helps me focus for some bizarre reason.
You and me both, browlther. I found a Nexus 7 (thanks, visiting relatives) to go along with my aging Nexus One, and before I even knew what Now was, it figured out my commute (which is by bus, in Chengdu, China), telling me how long it would take that day based on traffic. I was pretty floored, since at that point I thought of the 7 as kind of a toy.
Dear God, we're talking about what programmers spend the majority of their working hours using, for the foreseeable future. I suppose you never learn new programming languages, because god forbid, you're gonna be crippled for some time getting around new frameworks there and who really wants to make investments?
Well, every alert shown in the screenshots is set that way.
Agreed, I flagged it.
More shouting people down by saying any disagreement is racist, sexist, etc. So sick of this from the first year liberal arts student crowd.

100% fascist thoughts.

If you don't agree with me, you're not only wrong, you're evil. Disgusting that you would even go there.
Google Keep launched to rival Evernote
Yeah - I've never used 'all night' to mean 24 hours/no-sleep. I did used to do a lot of work well past midnight in a former life, but also wouldn't get started before 10am (usaully) and have some downtiem (or at least non-coding time) in the afternoon.

I recently did several 2-3 day stints of 'all night' - almost - meaning up at 6am and going to bed at 3:30 or 4am the next morning (fruitlessly trying to track down and fix some bugs on a system that was live). I was pretty unproductive at 2am, but kept thinking "almost got it... almost got it"... then didn't have it. I might have found it faster with more sleep, but maybe not - the 'fix' only came to me after digging around with the code and settings and numerous tests (was only occurring on production system, not dev system). Oh, that was the other reason for late night - could only reproduce this on production, and it was better to do it at night when there were far fewer users.
RFID Pairs Action Photos With Mountain Bikers
So that's what the Google Reader team is working on now!
Can we give it a rest? There are already enough Adria Richards-related threads floating around.
Australia is has low bandwidth to the rest of the world largely due its geography and capacity/path of the undersea cables connecting the country.

Geographically its relatively close to Singapore (compared to other data centers anyway), all of the cables from the eastern side of the country either go up to Japan via Guam or go to the US via Hawaii. Its not uncommon to see a route from Sydney to Singapore go through the US, and/or Japan before reaching Singapore.
Different strokes. Either to me sounds infinitely better than churning out code.
That was sarcasm. I know we are just regular people. But the question implies we are aliens.
In the past a huge majority of their revenue was from Google being their default search, and I highly doubt that has changed. If we set up a scenario where Google are the enemy, Mozilla has very little influence there.
That's mostly a characteristic of service developers like ourselves. For a desktop application developer, those issues like uptime and security vulnerabilities are nowhere near as urgent. If a computer running Photoshop dies, nobody at Adobe will lose sleep over it ;)
>But why does someone have to sign-in to buy?

How would eBay enforce "your bid is a contract" for auctions without user authentication?
You yourself posted the Code of Conduct, in which it states not only that harassment is 'not appropriate' (same as sexual language), but also that "We do not tolerate harassment of conference participants in any form" - and naming and shaming on twitter is a form of harassment.
Totally agree. Tried a few other things before it and so few get the balance of explaining enough 'why' to make a task not arbitrary, while also keeping you grounded in the practical stuff you actually need to know.
I bet he won't make the same mistake again. Perhaps we're all so used to going through the 6 month HR-slap-on-the-wrist process that we have lost touch of what it actually takes to change a person's behavior.
"Lesson 2: Social Sign-in is Better Than Email Sign-in
After dozens of failed A/B tests to improve the conversion rates of our landing page, we came up with the idea to enable social sign-in (i.e., signing up for a Buffer account and logging in using your Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn account).

After all, Buffer is for posting on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn so it only seemed logical that our potential users would be able to quickly and conveniently sign up using one of their existing accounts."

http://sixrevisions.com/user-interface/ux-design-mistakes/
I would love to see some apps better integrated - basic stuff like calendar and todo (BTW check out http://drive.google.com/keep - it's a rival to Evernote)

That was solved and properly done tens of years ago on the palm. Why can't I have something at least as good right into the browser, synced with my google account??

(Edit: not the wrong place since you already do your mail with a browser... and keep your contacts... and your todos... just remove the middleman, the website, and put everything in the browser. My guess is end users might love that)
An economy that depends on endless, exponential growth not to implode is clearly not sustainable, regardless of what snarky terms you might come up with to ostensibly describe my position.

My position is that of common sense.
What is the point of asking this?
I'm not sure Keep lets you actually store an audio note. I believe it's just speech to text. Of course nothing stops you dropping a recorded note into Drive, but I don't think the Keep interface supports them.

EDIT: Looks like it both transcribes and keeps the audio available. http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39-57575465-285/get-started...
People were complaining that the binaries would be slower? All the complaints I heard were "now it will take 10 times longer to compile gcc", not "now gcc will run slower".
You're technically right (and I found it annoying too) - but it is a "Chrome" expriment... naturally it would only support Chrome.
This is about something else; maybe I have a goed idea for a sotwareprogram? Would you be interested to hear?
As far as discoverability goes, I think it's hard to beat Emacs, once you figure out what's going on.

The big step is to start using it like a terminal, and Alt-x (M-x) is the way to begin this...

Everything is Tab completable, and fuzzy matched, granted the lexicon is a little different, but it's not very difficult if you're prepared to read a bit.

The fact that you can type:

M-x describe-function

And the get docs for any function in Emacs is really amazing, and something that completely reveals its true nature, Emacs is a huge library of lisp functions...

And after 30 years or so huge really does mean huge.

So frankly, forget all about Sublime and learn Emacs, it doesn't demand a Vim modal operating mode (but it'll provide one if you want it) it doesn't berate you if you want to use the mouse.

It has undergone a huge amount of recent development too, and new packages are being released every day, thanks to elpa / package.el
In the middle of my doctorate I did something similar. I disappeared for 6 weeks on Amtrak. I took a stack of books with me and a list of places to see in the US. I went everywhere. And I paid for the trip by writing some Lotus 1-2-3 code at the very start.

That trip was the only reason I managed to come back and finish.