skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He means it in the sense that most people stick to PayPal and your story is nothing but a blip. Google never gave enough incentive for most people to leave PayPal for Checkout. I doubt the majority of my PayPal using friends have ever heard of Checkout, let alone used it.
Anyone found a way to make this a default view?
I don't trust Google any longer. Google (usually) brings out fantastic products only to neglect and abandon them like a bored toddler.

This wave of product discontinuations is making me extremely hesitant to use anything new Google brings out. If Google brought out Gmail today I'd sign up and explore what it's about, but I wouldn't ever give out the email address for fear that it would be snatched back with no or little notice.

I'm not going to pretend to know Google's business better than they do, but to me it appears as though they're really dropping the ball here and losing a lot of credibility and trust.
This message was from just two hours ago. But why make big announcement and then make changes? Should be other way around?
Here’s a discussion on Stack Exchange:

http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/38945/what-is-wro...
I feel like I'm missing something. Isn't this still vulnerable to "electronic" intrusion, since the light-slab-cipher has to presumably be read into some type of memory somewhere, somehow?
I love Minecraft. It's one of the priceless games on the web that doesn't try to convince you into buying things with your won money- Passes, Rubies, Tokens, whatever you call them, they worth about as much as real money after it's accidentally dropped into a volcano.

Minecraft also lets you create your own story, over and over again. You can create custom maps, wire up amazing redstone systems, and simply give the player a challenge to overcome. One of the most popular maps, Skyblock, is just a few floating blocks in space, which gives the player a challenge to face.

Minecraft is one of my favorite games, and will always be.

By the way, it's budder. XD
This doesn't solve the key distribution problem at all:

To start off, both Alice and Bob must have their own slabs of diffusing glass and must physically meet to create a key for encoding a message later.

Like any other OTP system, key distribution — ensuring that the parties who wish to communicate securely have a shared secret (or secrets in the case of OTP; the whole point of OTP is that a key is only used once) — is the weak point. Unlike many other OTP systems, this one requires a physical meeting, which, depending on your use-case for needing crypto in the first place, may be impossible, or deadly dangerous.

At best, this complicates key compromise.

EDIT: clarifying language.
This was a pleasure to read.
Leap Motion shows off Windows compatibility
I use Google Voice for job hunting, but I had a random thought about Burner when it first came out. It can be used for the same purpose and you can get rid of the number if you no longer want to be in contact with the recruiter. I think that Burner was originally intended to be used in romantic situations, but I find that the employment context might be interesting as well. http://burnerapp.com/
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Recruiters, especially those who work for third-party recruiting firms, are sales people. They have a series of incentives that only loosely align with "find good candidates" and almost never align with "don't piss off said candidates." There are some very good recruiters out there, most seem to be employed directly by the company they're recruiting for, but the rest of the lot might as well be in low-end used car sales.

If they set up an interview that you didn't request, that you don't want, and you go to it - you're the one to blame. Chances are you contributed to part of their incentive pay by participating in that interview. Further, they're not 'taking "no" for an answer' because you're not telling them "no."
For a site that's been stagnant for years, the new UI is a dramatic change. No wonder people are reacting negatively.

I've had the Pro account since pre-acquisition days, and I have to admit there was something strangely comforting in a predicable UX that never changes...

FB gets away with major UX changes from time to time (people seem to always hate them at first), it will be interesting to see if Yahoo gets away with this too.
Really interesting talk and I also just watched your "NYC Database Month" video.

What are the node costs in your licensing model ? Also any plans to release Flow as open source ?
Once you get to know me, you realise that I don't think its about money and greed. To me money is merely but a tool. Greed is the worse drug that has ever existed. I'm more about creating new things and jobs. To give back to society, rather than take from it. Sure, I will make money off of it, and will have a good lifestyle. But I make sure that others do so as well. All the money in the world doesn't mean a thing if you have to live inside a castle.
Thanks for the encouragement! :)

But about that originality.. Aren't most games really inspired by previous games, iterating on them, remixing in stuff from other games and making them better? Didn't Transport Tycoon get a lot of inspiration from Railroad Tycoon, but still end up a truly great game?

Just like Minecraft built on Infiniminer and gave a new experience, just like Terraria built on Minecraft and gave a new experience, I hope Skycraft will be able to give yet another experience. But until it gets more distinctive features than the technology itself I guess it feels quite unoriginal, yeah, I totally get what you're saying :)

tl;dr: Just wait, it'll get better!
I need to dive in further before I have any questions, but thank you for the release! I looked at Nimrod a year or so ago when I was looking for a modern, fast, compiled language to complement Python. I was initially pleased, but at the time too many other things came up for me to really give it good exercise.
Mapping the 3D path of a lightning bolt.
My understanding is that merchants would need to ask their users to re-subscribe through different payment provider.
It seems very unlikely that Google Checkout would allow any way of importing users' credit card information.

After such treatment I'm very unlikely to use any future Google's payment systems (such as Google Wallet).

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https://support.google.com/checkout/sell/answer/3098725

The ability to process recurring charges or subscriptions using the subscription beta feature will be shut down on November 20th.

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Prenda Law appeal denied
If he doesn't get founder status, then at the very least we have to give him "Tumblr Employee nbr 1" status.
Go looks really exciting and is likely the language I'm going to commit to learning next.
OP here. I went to the interview to see if I could salvage some work out of it (I'm a contractor, and quite often a skilled contractor would suit better than another full-time employee). The person I interviewed with (he was tech lead in the company) was actually quite happy with the idea, but he couldn't get it past HR.
Happy paying customer for 2 or 3 years now. I'll probably be downgrading to free because it definitely supports my needs with these upgrades.

This is a strange view of business: Take what people are happy to pay for, then give it to them for free.
Impact is the New Sexy
Opera drops its lawsuit against ex-employee Trond Hansen
Sounds great. where do I sign up? :-)
They can probably make more with ads and the new fee to disable said ads.
I think it's more the opposite. Google, hyped up on IPO endorphins and VC DNA went out and tried to conquer the world, despite not having a distinct advantages in the businesses it was getting into. The results have been lackluster in many cases (but not all). They probably overdid it. Good on them for realizing that and putting a bullet in some of these efforts. Many companies don't have the courage to do that.
Neither site does interactive charts without Flash.
It's still likely to be statistically safer per hour than walking to the store or taking a shower.
I would, as long as prices aren't exorbitant.
TIL that you need to be at the "top of the pyramid" to make a website and put it online. Talk about elitist.
mirror up at: http://madeinny.herokuapp.com/

Companies page may be borked for a bit but jobs page/search should work
Wow, so it _is_ true, that's the confirmation I was looking for. Really hard to believe. I knew if they did shut them off they would point to the fact it's still "beta". The subscription feature has been labeled beta since it was released in March 2009. This is sick.
Yeah, the incentives are really screwed up.

Firms like Riviera Partners in SanFran have different tiers of clients. Some pay 33% on base salary, others 25%... guess what interviews you'll be pushed into first?

If you pass, you probably won't even hear about the job openings at the companies that are "only" paying 25% commissions, even if it's potentially a better fit for you.
On Reddit, sure. HN, like StackOverflow, uses it to decide what level of participation you're allowed to have.
Yahoo and Tumblr get more press because they are mass market companies and journalists are in the mass market.

Basically, it's availability bias.

I whined and moaned about it here: http://chester.id.au/2013/01/05/on-selling-to-consumers/
Two Australian Girls talk RailsGirls
Community manager at Trovebox here. To go along with the other Trovebox-related reply, we're planning to start work on an iPhoto plugin for Trovebox soon because we've gotten so many requests for it.

If you're specifically looking for Flickr, a little searching shows me this page, which mentions an (unofficial) iPhoto plugin: http://www.flickr.com/tools/
Not sure exactly what the story is here, but I just sent them a spreadsheet for my kickstarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/252020431/obsidian-porta...

They ship the t-shirts directly to my backers. That's a huge weight off my shoulders and lets me focus on writing the code instead of stuffing envelopes.
Large scale deploys are hard. Give them some time for the dust to settle before over-reacting.
I meet new people via Facebook all the time, and have since I joined in 2004. That never changed, even if the narrative about what the site is supposed to be for did.
I don't think that's obvious.

They could have take the $85 million because the getting was good and they wanted substantial independence for several years. (This happy funding climate won't last forever.) Or they could have taken it with an intention to spend a lot on marketing. Or they could have done it so they had a war chest for small acquisitions, or for major expansion.

Even if their current burn is over $14 million, which I agree is plausible, I still suspect that they could be in the black on that if they wanted. They have significant server operation costs, but I think even that plus a solid staff would fit.
Half the time there is no client... They are just luring you in, and once they have your resume, it gets spammed out to as many employers as the have in their address book. Your resume gets used as "bait" in order for them to find new clients.

Even at DeveloperAuction we get clueless recruiters pitching us Java Engineers in NYC (We're rails in SF) and sending us "blinded" resumes with personally identifiable contact details removed. It's craziness!
Braintree certainly does recurring billing and it's pretty common in these scenarios for the migration to happen between vendors.

https://www.braintreepayments.com/tour/recurring-billing

Braintree even helped start http://www.portabilitystandard.org/ to help standardize the migration process.

That said, Google Checkout didn't do much in the way of recurring billing. The FAQ says it never made it out of beta. The vast majority of merchants appeared to just be selling the old fashioned way.

https://support.google.com/checkout/sell/answer/63440?hl=en
I'd love to see the CPM they get that beats $24/yr from an infrequent user like me. I use it as a storage site and visit it extremely rarely. Maybe I'm an outlier.
Your Brand As An API: Why You've Lost Control Of Your Messaging
Your 247wallst.com source aside, I stand by what I said. Go to any online community related to investing, trading or the stock market and you'll find nearly all of the people who know what they are doing prefer G Finance to Y Finance - other than for news and infotainment, where Yahoo does a much better job.

If your traffic figures are accurate, that only goes to show you how many unsophisticated market participants there are.
Use this for the time being, http://madeinny.herokuapp.com/

I had DNS setup through Zerigo with Heroku and had issues with the DNS server earlier, and thought it'd been fixed, but they either haven't propagated yet or I've somehow rebroken it. Working on fixing it now
Good to know, thanks.

I'd argue that perl gets it right--as the default behavior, this behavior would gravely violate the principle of least surprise, but for the 0.01% of people who want \d to match ੧, there's no harm to making it available as an option you need to specifically request.
Making fun of a man's name is not called for - lets be better than that.
Product Review: Malwarebytes Anti-Malware
The heart wants what it wants. You use plans to fulfill those. You can't plan what you want.

If all you want is the cash, fine. Sometimes people want more. And often they get it.
I, for one, take exception to being called an "expert" in any language. That's a serious accusation for some naive software to be making!
The Adobe Shooters League
Nope, you're like me, another happy paying user. However, I'll pay $25 if I'm grandfathered in. But with how much more engaging the design is, I'll be sure to visit more often
I agree anyone seriously wanting to host that many photos will not want to split accounts, but FWIW statistics (current Pro feature) don't seem to be offered at all any more.
The latest edition of the NRA's Shooting Illustrated magazine also has an article about the league.
Glencore and Xstrata are so incredibly far from the consumer mind that it's hard to explain.

Yet the impact of that merger? Ultimately, very large.

But it's difficult to make a story out of it. No photogenic women are making instant billionaires out of photogenic high school dropouts. The narrative is dull. Two companies, one which digs and one which deals, have decided zzzzZZzz
>That looks to be a significant improvement over any kind of cryptography that stores keys electronically and is therefore vulnerable to an electronic attack that can copy digital information perfectly.

Hmmm... so is paper?
An Interview with Meteor's Matt DeBergalis
You've got to hand it to her, the 'NSFW?' 'WFH!' image is near genius!
You can draw any line you like through a single data point. But you also kind of missed the original reference.
Guatemala Genocide Verdict Annulled
I liked: "And Usain Bolt built our servers." :) One question though: since you upload the file later (behind the users back), how do you know when the other person can download the file?
you realize i'm talking about code I have to write, right? If anything, you've further proven my point, considering that the jQuery implementation also covers other common use cases like failure, cross-browser requests, etc., i.e. hours upon hours of googling and/or just copy-pasting the jQuery source into my app, which adds loading time to my site instead of just using a cached version of jQuery that almost everyone already has in the cache in the first place.
Tech talk on Twitter Commons, by the authors
Ask HN: How to pursue a career in machine learning.
Hello, I'm currently enrolled in Coursera's intro to Machine Learning course. I'm very interested in machine learning and was wondering about what resources are out there for me to continue learning it so that I can eventually pursue a career in it. I'm currently a web application developer with an undergrad in cs.
I'm only kidding dude!
Do you see the cube loading in the beginning? Have you tried restarting your browser? I have seen some random crashes a very few times, where I've had to do that, some times because there has been too many tabs open. There's still a ways to go before WebGL gaming is 100% stable.. but that's also some of the point of doing this project :)
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but my impression is that it's not just that you don't see ads; it's also that others don't see ads on your photos. The latter can be an important feature for those who use Flickr to create professional portfolios.
Including libraries in a project does not an expert make.
This is stupid. The 300MB limit is still there. Just tried it using my iphone app and it popped up the error message saying your monthly limit is reached. Even though this might be technical glitch it shows two donkeys don't make a horse. How stupid to remove the limits from your documentation and then throw an error when one tries to upload from iphone.
Anonymity and Trust - thoughts on reputation system design
> Google is making the same mistakes Microsoft made. Trying to enter into every industry it can thinking it can use it's monopoly power to take over the world.

I call this the Spaghetti Cannon strategy.

Load up a cannon with cash and different ideas, blow up the cash and see what sticks to the wall.

If we redrew the corporate boundaries of Google and Microsoft, we'd see them as investment firms tasked with turning a reliable long term cashflows into new reliable long term cashflows. Quasi-venture firms.

So far, Google has advertising. And that's it.

Microsoft have Windows, Office, Server & Tools and Xbox.

So in actual fact, Microsoft are proving that yeah, it sorta works. Sorta.
At some point I thought the master plan behind Google Checkout was to tie the adword payments to actual purchases behavior. So instead of paying per click an advertisers could have paid "per purchase".

With enough sites on board Google would probably have been in quite good position in trying to figure out if the user is really going to make the purchase or not. If user is likely to purchase, then show him "pay per purchase" ads otherwise just regular "pay per click".
This is not a one-time pad. It uses a key that contains less information than the message. It is still possible to brute-force the key if you have enough data.

It is a great way to make the key hard to copy, which is how encryption is usually circumvented in practice.
Ask HN, what's a good flickr alternative?
After the news today, I and many of my friends have decided to leave flickr after the service changes today.

However,I quickly realized I'm in unfamiliar territory. I haven't needed to look for a photo hosting service since 2006. Anyways, we're hackers here, and I'm happy with creative solutions. So, what are some alternatives to flickr that you use or have made?
I think the revenue from that scheme is a rounding error relative to Argentina's budget (~100B/yr). It's not a small country.
I've already uploaded my collection. Unfortunately they also have a 50MB limit which excludes several of the books from the Humble Bundle eBook collection.
Show HN: Trading stocks live with Python
If you do, you could be registr.ar!
Agreed, it'd be a nice bit of ego-stroking if it wasn't so transparent :) I would not call myself an expert, perhaps the author might want to change the wording to be more objective and less emotional? :)
Easy CUBRID & MySQL database sharding through CUBRID SHARD using Chef cookbooks
The number of people I've seen who have asked "how do I set up self hosting for photos now" after the Flickr announcement is kind of distressing for Yahoo!'s future product plans.

I'm slightly terrified Pro will go away; none of the new plans is at all appealing to me. I'd switch to 500px or self-host entirely, but that's a lot of work.
"Malpractice" seems like a loaded word chosen more for debate impact than suitability. We can certainly agree that the original design was wrong (or "mistaken" if you want to load it on the other side). Isn't that enough?
When your tax rate is high enough, it pays to optimize your cash flows to avoid taxes. If tax rates were more reasonable it wouldn't make sense.
I did not say that at all and you know it. I'm quite happy you've launched your site. When I look at the frontpage I see good articles by friends of mine on it. It's a good place. And even if it wasn't, you'd still be able make it and put it online.

But, not everybody can make a website that succeeds at doing one of the things Hacker News does better than Hacker News, and I stand by my saying that an open community founded by elite people will be more successful and less elitist than an exclusive community founded by perfectly good, but not elite, people. And this is relevant because one of your core aims is avoiding community dilution/decay with your karma system and exclusion (the invite system.) I would not bring it up if it was incidental.

I, sincerely, would really like you to prove me wrong, though!
Grr. Another article about this prize, and still no more details on what the actual substance is.

According to the comments on CNN, the device itself is the battery being charged, and the title is misleading. I prefer not to trust comments on CNN, though, and I'd like more technical information on this prize winner.
You're conflating two different ideas which are two different things.

If the state is the best way to allocate resources - it should follow that you're sending all your resources to the state (so it's best allocated). You'd do this through taxation - not donation.

If you're giving money through private charity - then you obviously have SOME resources that you haven't given over to the state - which means that you're spending them (according to your own definition) less than optimally.

Unfortunately (for you), paying less taxes does not actually preclude you from giving more to charitable causes to help some of these moral outrages you suggest. By some studies, the U.S. is the most charitable country in the world [1] - which seems to be the opposite of your previous assertion that people aren't paying taxes because of "greed" (if that were the case, we certainly wouldn't be giving it away to charity either.

You're also not taking into account the parties to whom that money is donated (giving away money for the sake of giving it away isn't necessarily moral - what if you gave it to a terrorism org, etc) OR how those parties use said donation - which all would affect the "morality" of your action.

However, given your discussion throughout this thread, I doubt you actually desire to have a serious discussion and are content to incite reactions from people by painting these issues in broad & overly-generalized strokes.

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/19/world-giving-index-...
500px is very much comparable to Flickr and in most cases provides better user experience and has higher quality photo content.
No, you're not going to be happy with a Verizon 4G card compared to Comcast. They're comparable to early-2000s DSL, but with higher latency. Completely usable for day-to-day work, but not so fast that you can stream Netflix just as easily as changing the channel on your TV.

I wouldn't be happy either if my only choice was Comcast, but then I'd get over it and sign up.

Do they have a monopoly over all Internet service at your building, or just cable? AT&T can't deliver DSL to you over their copper?
The correct way to deal with recruiters, especially if you're currently doing freelance work: find the name of the company, insist that you're not interested in the role, then contact the company directly.

Also, don't call it freelancing, call it consulting, and charge more.
Sorry. I would delete it if I could.