skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where this whole thing breaks down, though, is where you need more money than you can self-fund, to get to that point of having some evidence of success so far. In theory, the whole point of "seed stage" capital is to take a company who aren't at that point yet, and get them there, where they can leverage that success to either grow organically, get acquired, or attract additional investment.

But these days, would-be "seed stage" investors are acting more like VCs looking at an A round. Everybody seems to have become incredibly risk averse, and acts like they've forgotten the "high risk" part of the expression "high risk, high reward".

Now to be fair, I'm speaking from an East Coast perspective, and I understand the investors here tend to be more risk averse than their West Coast counterparts. But from the sounds of this, this mindset may be spreading.

Oh well, at least, in our case, we aren't trying to raise money (yet) anyway. Our goal is to self-fund as far as possible and only raise outside money if we absolutely have to.
Nice little writeup, going deep on small subject.

I sit here and think, "wow, so few pixels make such a big difference". Then I watch the animated gif go back and forth between iOS 6 and iOS 7, and I can't perceive the significance any longer. I can see the difference, but I can no longer appreciate it.
Number of NHL teams in SJ: 1.

Number of NHL teams in SF: 0.
Take a look at FastSpring.com

Commission is high compared to alternatives but they handle fraud and invoicing. Their "front-end" pages are highly customisable.
Wow. Words are failing me as to how asinine the US government has become.

I don't post much on political stories, but this really upsets me. I don't feel like as a single citizen I have any power to fix things either.
This is junk - not even junk science, just pure bullshit.
Phishing for credit card information alone is extremely rare, as it doesn't make any financial sense to people whom are committing fraud, if someone were phishing they'd be interested in login information and identity data instead.

In my experience, most database breaches result in data being sold, not used. It's more profitable and results in far less risk (Ex: 100k cards @ $2/ea via anonymous payment methods) vs attempting to use the cards.

As such, the people who end up actually creating the transactions are usually low level individuals whom are trying to figure out a way to "cash out"

Not to say there isn't a chance you're right, but card data is cheaply and readily available elsewhere, which is why I don't think this was related to a phishing attack. If there were other signs (ex: bank logins compromised, credit inquiries, etc.) then I'd be much more inclined to agree. Either way, it's hard to come to a certain conclusion based on the information provided in the article.
Don't you think an example where the type system has a visible impact would be appropriate? As it is now, none of the examples show anything that doesn't look like vanilla lisp. I think what makes the Haskell type system nice to use is inference along with type assertions. Do you have type assertions, or is the implementation of types behind the scenes until a type mismatch occurs?
The old Nexus 7 wasn't Qualcomm.
It's obvious what the OP was trying to say. He is saying people don't care about rooting, source code, binary code and hacking in general.
This is true, and your buying instruments (unless you always pay cash) or even your time of purchase/store choice will correlate out those three cards as all "you". We are very much creatures of habit and this is what Safeway and people like Target rely upon.

Now without the baby sitting co-op to randomize data I've offered my card to people ahead of me in line who don't have one, but again the gas rewards are changing that equation as well.
Why would I use this instead of subscribing to r/listentothis or one of the other subreddits for music discovery?
UTC offset is well and good if you are talking about today, but as soon as you start displaying past or future datetimes, DST will bludgeon you over the head.

And depending on your app, users might want control over the timezone. When a teacher creates an assignment in canvas-lms, the due date defaults to midnight of the selected day. It would be surprising if it set it to 2am, just because the teacher happened to be traveling when the assignment was created.
Storing datetimes in fixed timezones that do not observe DST will do (but it is still not recommended), but you can't say any fixed timezone will do. Say you're storing datetimes in EST/EDT and you have a global audience. On the day the US goes back to standard time, how do you know whether 1:30AM in your database is the "first" 1:30AM or the "second" 1:30AM when you need to display the event to someone in Dubai? Are you going to store some extra metadata to indicate whether DST was in effect beside the datetime? Just store UTC.
In some spheres the market is already swinging back towards the "private cloud", where the technologies hammered out from large scale cloud computing are available as commodity software and hardware solutions. And so the cycle continues...if innovation slows in one area, it will pick up in another. Perhaps it will be a net boon for the cloud in the long run; some other company opaquely housing your data has always been a problem, somewhat ironically, for government agencies, for instance, and certainly is for many private companies and individuals.
+1... Android Games are generally free. There is no mention of how this works with your TV, so how will it compete against Ouya? I can get all this in a tablet + game controller.
The fact that one could get hit by a car crossing a highway blindfolded is obvious.

The fact that earning money in college could negatively impact your ability to pay for college is not obvious.

The warning is justified. Many people would not anticipate this.
i thought i could find some fancy recommender system's algorithm here. A bit disappointed.

In fact, I would rather go to youtube and sort by videos by popular instead. They have bigger user base; users are more actively participating in voting, etc...
Django's Email API is already pretty solid, see the EmailMessage[0] class. Attachments and multiple MIME types are handled for sending text & html versions of the email body.

However, given that Django is just Python there's nothing precluding you from using the library as a drop-in replacement.

[0] https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/email/#emailmes...
I am cautiously optimistic about Intel providing some renewed competition in the graphics space.
I am an iOS Freelance Developer, and this path is what got me my first client.

It seems like you are very aware of what you are capable of. It's great to be realistic, but also realize that you are now in the professional market like everyone else. Like the other posts say here, NETWORK.

Go to local meetups and present yourself as a real professional. Create business cards (BONUS: Make yours stand out from the rest). You will receive many business cards by going to these meetups. You can probably gauge what would make yours flashier.

Update your LinkedIn, Twitter, HackerNews, Blog, etc immediately with solid and presentable information. If you're unsure of how to do this professionally, check out other professionals' pages and emulate success.

Now, BUILD THAT PORTFOLIO. Even one side project is generally enough to show someone that you can do the work. Do you want to show off your skills, but you're not sure what to build? Take a popular site and build a small client for it.

This is one of the most exciting experiences you will ever go through. We hear about people building businesses all of the time, and it seems amazing. There is so much more passion - in my experience - when you are building yourself. Congratulations on taking this huge step!

Please feel free to contact me if you have any basic questions about the whole freelancing process. I'm happy to help in any way! (Email in profile)
From the article the original debit card #, exp date and cvv could have been stolen online or via physical card skim. Online via database hack (this is a serious PCI-DSS violation if the perpetrator has the encryption keys or the system storing the info isn't protecting the data), could have been stored in her browser cache and someone sneaked a peak at starbucks when she went to the bathroom. Or a physical card skim which typically happens from skimming devices appended to gas station and atm card readers, or a server at a restaurant quickly skims the card data while taking your card away to pay for the meal.

Either way they got the card #. I don't think it's feasible to completely prevent card info from being compromised, too many possibilities for human error on behalf of the cardholder or merchants/processors trying to protect the data, which face a seemingly never ending list of people willing to steal card info for a quick buck.

Part of what makes thefts like this hard to track down is the fact that there are numerous parties and systems involved in the transaction. There's starbucks website, and I'm sure they use and outsourced provider to manage their stored value accounts, who in turn uses an outsourced payment provided to process the credit/debit card payments, who plugs into MC or Visa rails to hit the cardholder's bank. In my mind all of these parties are at fault for not catching this, but I admit it's easier said than done when processing billions of electronic transactions every day.

The easiest way to prevent identify this type of fraud would have landed on her bank's shoulders. First recognizing the initial test txn in Ohio was questionable, and then they should have had a velocity trigger on the same account # being used at the same merchant numerous times. Starbucks (and their partners) should have a similar velocity trigger looking for repeat purchases from the same card# within a certain time frame regardless of dollar amount.

In the end the crooks learn the fraud rules, adjust their practices, and the good guys have to play catchup while trying not to prevent good transactions from getting stopped.

Maybe the best way to protect yourself as a consumer is to routinely (daily, twice a week, etc) review the purchases made on your accounts. It's clear you can't depend on the companies making money off your spending (i.e. electronic payment providers and your bank) as they get paid when you spend more, and they'll only go so far to protect you before the ROI isn't there.
If you are following the C standard for malloc(), then realloc() comes along. In fact, according to the C standard, malloc(size) is the same as realloc(NULL,size) and free(ptr) is the same as realloc(ptr,0).

realloc() can also shrink a previous allocation, in addition to growing it (but you must be aware that you might get back an entirely new pointer).
Are you asking if a bank would loan ~15k to a teenager with no degree and no collateral, so that he/she could maybe get 1/4th of a degree?
"I signed up with Google"

Then you granted them permission to "Manage your data in Google Reader" (yes, it still says that) and "Manage your contacts". For me that means "managing" the contact list on my phone. The risk/benefit ratio is probably way too high.
I imagine it means living in a place with a small/nonexistant kitchen (SROs in SF, for instance) or a shared kitchen; then eating out a lot.
Declare yourself independent, move out, get a part-time job, remove yourself as a dependent from your parents taxes, etc. etc. Now you are the income source for your own education expenses, and if you don't make that much money should be eligible for all kinds of wonderful tuition assistance programs. If the school asks, just say you have a terrible relationship with your parents and are estranged from them.
The problem is not the American people. If a system requires nearly the entire populace to be as active (intellectually and financially) as every individual vested interest just to be successful, then it is a bad system. Its easy to call people dumb as rocks when they aren't rich and need to spend their time working really difficult jobs, and then choose low prices and tv for the leisure they have left as opposed to researching the complex web of interests that define the political actions of this country. The reality is that even the people that are "well informed" have wildly different beliefs about what is going on.

The government represents an entity capable of on the one hand restricting just about anything, and on the other hand propping up other things. It is thus a completely natural and logical result that thousands of vested interests will start vying for its favor. Now all of a sudden the entire population needs to go on defense for each of these issues. Its madness and completely unsustainable. You happen to care about and understand drug legalization, but I guarantee you that there are hundreds of other issues you aren't even aware of that are equally bad. Does that make you a bad person or dumb? Of course not.
Yes, but nobody was forcing them to choose Qualcomm, if it didn't meet their requirements.
Colorado and Washington prove that wrong. I suspect many states will follow over the next 10 years for at least cannabis.
It means someone else provides your meals because you work 10-12 hour workdays at your start up job. You get food at restaurants or it's provided for you by your work.

For example, my work provides all my weekday meals, and I'm only home occasionally on weekends, so I can't rely on having fresh food in my fridge. Therefore I eat out on weekends.

You can also live in small places, travel a bunch, share a unreliable kitchen with room-mates, etc. If you want a personal cook to cook meals to weight loss specifications, it costs something like $1500 per month total.

What is needed is something like these guys in Australia: http://www.musclemealsdirect.com.au/ . I'm really surprised this doesn't exist in NYC, LA & SF. Eat Club, waiter.com and others do NOT provide any sort of calorie and macronutrient estimates like they do: http://www.musclemealsdirect.com.au/index.php/faq
http://www.sfa.ufl.edu/basics/cost-of-attendance/

The incremental cost of going to school versus "just" living is like $6000. Even the child of a rich parent with no financial aid should be able to pull that together, especially if you manage to swing any scholarship money.
I waited until I was 24 to fill out a FAFSA. Once you are 24 you don't need to supply your parents info. I worked at a movie theater until I got a full ride from financial aid. I got to party and get get that out of my system before I started school.

And really, I am not sure how you couldn't get that any taxable income would cut into what you get. I was a drunk stoner and knew it. During the summers I got a real job and knew to never make over $9,500 in taxable income or it would eat into my aid. I quit jobs before school started so I wouldn't hit that number.
Which isn't highlighted because the narrative that is not "Hey we are helping people get college educations" the narrative is "Rich people can afford to send their kids to school, poor people can't, its increasing the divide between the haves and the have-nots."

That second narrative gets you rage views and votes for office, pretty much without regard with evidence to the contrary. Students can get a college degree at state schools for about the same cost as buying a new car, and on much more favorable loan terms.

That said, there are lots of ways we could improve how we grant student aid, in my last letter to my Senators I suggested that providing need-blind aid for STEM degrees (Creating in demand workers and part of the alleged worker shortage) would serve the double benefit of both getting people college degrees, and getting employers the legal resident college graduates they seem to so urgently desire. It is a simple idea but if you subscribe to the idea that tax payer funds should be allocated for the improvement of the citizenry and society, having a larger qualified worker pool seems to meet that requirement.
Given my experience in a similar situation several years ago, I don't think you have explored all of your options. Your Expected Family Contribution (EFC) and need-based limit may have changed, but there other ways to pay for school. (All of the following assumes you haven't already hit the overall government loan limit; if that's the case, you're at a university you honestly cannot afford.)

For example, the Stafford loan program offers unsubsidized loans (meaning interest accrues while you are in school) to all eligible students regardless of need. The eligibility requirements for these loans amount to being legally allowed to attend school in the US and not being in default on existing student loans.

As an independent student, you should be able to borrow up to $12,500 in unsubsidized loans directly from the government, regardless of your EFC. It will be more expensive than your other loans in the long term, so you should weigh the cost of two years of additional interest against not finishing school.

All of that said...

Something really feels wrong about your financial situation. The automatic-zero Expected Family Contribution limit for an independent student is $24,000. Assuming you were living on student aid from January to May and made $25.85/hour, 40 hours a week from June to December, for a full 30 weeks (unlikely given holidays, etc), you should have made right around $31,000 pre-tax. If that's the case, your EFC should be a _maximum_ of $7,000, but probably closer to half that.

My bet: your FAFSA EFC is incorrect. Find the worksheets and manually work it out for yourself.
Looks like someone really appreciates the HN UI...
First they came for the foreigners...
You can stream Steam games from the PC on the Shield (AFAIK).
This is apparently so well known that when I search for "us government holds patent", to see what other patents are held by the government, every single result is for this.

I'm confused by this. Does the government hold lots of other patents?
> For the nth time, government is not monolithic

In what sense? A government is a monopoly on violence. I find monopolies to be monolithic.
I'm going to buy one as a portable emulation machine...when it doesn't sell well and drops in price a hundred dollars.
The Netherlands' DNS Servers Hijacked
I consider myself very lucky. I did my undergrad and never struggled with money. My parent never supported me with a dime since they didn't have much. I didn't have any scholarships. I saved up some money from high school and used that for the first year of college, then started working as an co-op. How did I do it? I went to school in Germany. That's also where I'm from. Back then there was no tuition and I only paid 120 Euros of administration fee per semester. I had it easy. I could study freely, I had everything I needed and the beer at the universities' vending machine was cheap. Life was good. Back then in 2004 I never read any English/US news or community web sites. I didn't know what college was like over there.

After I graduate came to the US and I've been living in a typical college town at the east coast for ~7 years. I have many undergrad and graduate friends most of which are American. I'm _BAFFLED_ at the simple acceptance of this rip-off fucked up higher education system. It's not even a topic ever that our local University President just raised tuition by another 5% this year. And a ~40% raise in the last couple year. In Germany, they started talking about introducing a 500 Euro tuition in 2006(?) and introduced it in 2007. Students where furious, they protested on the streets, they occupied the main buildings. They raised there voices. They started petitions. The press was on our side. They introduced them and students investigated on how the tuition was going to be used (contract only allowed to use it towards better education and not for maintenance/bills) and problems were discovered. Long story short: In 2013/2014 there is only one state left that still has a tuition of 500 Euros. The rest abandoned it all.

I have asked this question many times:

Why do Americans not protest?

Take the French: they kidnapped their CEO and threatened to kill them (~2009). They burned down parts of their factory. They raise their voice. Yet, with a ridiculous policy here in the US, I see nothing ever happen. I heard there was some protest about PRISM in S.F. last week. I frankly missed the coverage about that since it may have been to small. There were bigger protests about PRISM in Germany last week. This is sad and I don't understand it.

Students of America: Stop wining on Internet forum, they do not tend to often get coverage of the media.

You want main stream TV coverage: Go on the streets and protest.
Is Supporting Android Actually More Work for a Developer Than Supporting iOS?
Here are some summary snippets:

"As Reuters reported Monday, the Special Operations Division of the DEA funnels information from overseas NSA intercepts, domestic wiretaps, informants and a large DEA database of telephone records to authorities nationwide to help them launch criminal investigations of Americans.",

"While the IRS document says that SOD information may only be used for drug investigations, DEA officials said the SOD role has recently expanded to organized crime and money laundering.",

"According to the document, IRS agents are directed to use the tips to find new, \"independent\" evidence: \"Usable information regarding these leads must be developed from such independent sources as investigative files, subscriber and toll requests, physical surveillance, wire intercepts, and confidential source information.",

"Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, a member of the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, said he was troubled that DEA agents have been \"trying to cover up a program that investigates Americans.\"",

"The DEA database, called DICE, consists largely of phone log and Internet data gathered legally by the DEA through subpoenas, arrests and search warrants nationwide."
Oregon is on it.

http://www.salon.com/2013/07/11/oregon_students_partner/
I am totally stunned. Are you telling me that you are not going to fund a student who does not have a degree yet but found a good enough job where she gets paid? Man, in fact you need to raise the money given to her because it will ensure one persona out of unemployment for sure.
Patents are absolutely unnecessary, and arguably immoral. Copyrights, on the other hand, I'm not so sure. They absolutely go too far both in age and scope, and the market would benefit greatly by moving to 10-20 year copyrights with stronger "fair use" protections.

But capitalism works based not just on what you can produce, but what you can withhold. It's a "tragedy of the commons" problem: if anyone can hit a "clone chair" button for zero cost, few would pay to sustain enough professional chair makers. Perhaps spare-time activity or alternative business models would supply the necessary labor, but it's iffy: see the never-ending battle between open-source and propietary software, which I expect will persist long into the future.

Believe me, I'm in favor of a free global library of all intellectual and creative human output, which algorithmically rewards all creators proportional to their results (or alternately, a society wealthy enough to subsidize its creators such that incentives aren't as necessary). But that represents an enourmous technical and political challenge, to say the least.