skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're actually a Canadian company but looking at the reader, it does look like it only supports swiping the mag strip of a card.
What you see here is the result of Microsoft's ridiculous infighting and internal politics, constructed by the stack-ranking culture of doom.

You basically get ranked on how visible your stuff is to management, so you:

1) name your project as patriotically as possible. It's gotta include one of "Windows", "Microsoft", "XML", "COM", ".NET", "Modern" -- preferably all of them multiple times, especially if it has nothing to do with any of them.

2) make sure to stick the name in as many places as possible. A great place is the default filesystem structure, where everyone is bound to come across it.

3) earn bonus points if you can massage it into a de-facto standard (hello, XHR)

With any luck, Microsoft Modern framework for Windows Azure .NET connectivity with Windows Azure 8.1 will show up on your reviewer's radar and you can enjoy your juicy bonus until the same time next year.

Source: used to work there

P.S. I'm not a Microsoft cynic -- just having a bit of fun :).
Tapering and tight money
I'd like to hear why you think OS X is a joke as well. It's a true POSIX system[1] after all. You can get homebrew/macports which (I hope) offers something comparable to apt-get.

[1] Unlike Windows, which passes POSIX certification on paper (or did), but in reality it doesn't mean a thing.
Forced? Of course not, don't be hyperbolic. No-one is "forced" to hire because of the Civil Rights Act, they are simply prevented from using race as a reason to not hire.

I was simply pointing out that the OP's reason for being able to disregard the Civil Rights Act is because it's in a legal loophole, not because there are substantial differences that mean it shouldn't be applied.
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YC does not pay a salary but does an investment for which they are rewarded with stock. So they're not YC employees.
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WOW doesn't stand for Windows On Windows. WOW64 stands for Windows On Windows 64 [bit].
Agreed. The dominance of the 16x9 format drives me nuts also. It seems the average resolution on a cell phone exceeds that of the average laptop these days.
if you invest in only american stock, you're descriminating... what if i forced you to buy foreign stock to balance it out? isn't that the same concept? you OWN that company.
100+k only really applies for people who work in finance... it's pretty hard to crack 60-70k as a salaried employee.
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> how do you type and reply to comments ... while blind?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_reader
Without getting into the dogma of this discussion is this going to change the minds of these people? I could see this becoming a "badge" of sorts for the deniers.
Only in America....
FWIW, "WOW" stands for "Windows on Windows"
What about BitSync, it strikes me as good option, but i'm no crypto guy.
http://labs.bittorrent.com/experiments/sync.html
>>But if you feel like having one, fuck it, life is short.

Yes, life is short. Therefore you should avoid things that will make it even shorter.

I always hear stuff like "whatever man, you only live once." It seems so irrational to use that to justify bad habits. If you only live once, should you not try to increase the length and quality of that life by trying to be in the best health possible?
AFAIK it just don't have the problem. 32bits binaries executed on a 64bits system are not isolated in any way.
OP here, happy to answer any questions peeps have on Nyaruka and our little journey.
You could try Copy.com[1] if you want more space for free. They are providing 15GB as the starting storage space, while 5GB for each referral.

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I used this feature. It was a great way to connect videos in the community I belong to. Just because popular videos like "Gangnam Style" or whatever don't use this feature doesn't mean that it isn't useful for other users.
Hi guys, this is a project I've been working on for sometime now. The rationale behind this has been explained on the blog at http://www.uibox.in/blog/the-whys-and-whats-of-uibox.

Please please provide your feedback. This is just the initial version. Your suggestions will be taken into account to determine future features. So please review.

And don't forget to signup for notifications and a beta invite when I get around to implementing user accounts.
$25M Round of Financing and 400% Growth for Couchbase
What's the difference between YC deciding who to invest in, and an individual deciding who to marry? I'm thinking YC is free to use whatever criteria they deem fit in deciding who to invest in in much the same way that individuals are free to use whatever criteria they deem fit in deciding who to marry.
which means chip and pin support is on their radar, as I believe Chip and Pin will be standard within 12(?) months
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I think most of the posts here are addressing this too literally. No, Y Combinator is not violating Title VII because it doesn't apply to investors.

But there's a larger argument here that is moral, not legal. There is a reason why Title VII exists. Are those reasons equally applicable to investor situations, and if so, is Y Combinator acting against the spirit of Title VII?
Technically, it's import could be banned, but this only matters if you're Samsung.

Practically speaking I doubt the typical east Texas troll even has a clue what kind of shakedown letter to send abroad.
Why do you suspect this is sanctioned by Russia? What would they have to gain from pestering a couple media companies, especially at the risk of losing their business? What is your logic here?
I once accidentally did:

$ touch ./~
# Much later I noticed the "~" file in the directory
# so I mindlessly decided to cleanup:
$ rm -rf ~

Luckily $HOME was on a _really_ slow NFS mount so I didn't manage to remove anything too important before I killed it.
Speaking up and speaking out.
I think the advice is sound, but it's phrased in a way that can be easily misinterpreted (as the author discovered). Better would be:

"Arrange things so that you can do whatever makes you happy".

As an example, Rock Climbing, Surfing, and Travelling (to do those other things) make me happy. So I program computers.

Notice that Programming Computers doesn't necessarily make me happy directly (though lucky for me I do find it plenty of fun). It does, however, allow one to quickly sock away a bunch of money by working a contract, and has lots of easy and socially acceptable ways to quit (contract ends/startup burns a hole in the ground). The end result is that I get to spend a lot of time Travelling, Climbing, and Surfing.

Now, had I misinterpreted "do whatever makes you happy" as "find a job doing whatever makes you happy", I'd be guiding people up easy routes and hosting children's birthday parties at the crag for $60/day. That would not, in actual fact, make me happy. Even though technically I'd be climbing rocks all day every day.

So yeah, turns out it is actually quite simple. Better still, by virtue of being here to read this story, most of us here are in a really good position to do exactly the same thing.
What's the difference between a company deciding who to hire, and an individual deciding who to marry? I'm thinking a company is free to use whatever criteria they deem fit except wait, that's the entire point of Title VII and the post you're talking about.
Youtube has been doing nothing but fuck content creators lately.
> The battery life has been great even after 2 years.

That sounds awesome. I thought the battery would degrade significantly after a period of time like that.

Honestly, a big part of the reason why I'm even considering Apple is because of the experience I've heard with the iPad. I bought the original iPad when it first came out (in 2010), and I still use it almost everyday. I've gotten so much out of it.

On the other hand, the Nexus One (which I got in Feb 2010), fell once, practically stopped being useful after that fall - and to top it off (even if it worked today) Google has marked it as "obsolete" (and hence not worthy to receive any new upgrades). I paid Google more for the Nexus One, than for the iPad (16GB).
He's exactly right. My dream is to run my own kick ass creative agency. I can't just walk out of my job today and begin. Have a goal in mind and treat everything as a temporary stepping stone. I don't get bogged up in corporate culture, because I know this isn't the first day for rest of my life.
interesting, never heard of WWOOFing before.

But doesn't it completely alienate you from your surroundings? It sounds like you are changing places a lot. And I don't know about you, but my friends are the one constant in my life I'm really relying on.
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Enjoy a good smile for yourself!
For a while, it looks like the N4 came with a free bumper. Does anyone know if this is still so? It's advertised separately for $20, and so I assume not...
Yes, very expensive. However, if you're a bank, you may not need too many servers and 50k per server is change.

I believe in the beginning of the web, Oracle wanted to push a per-user pricing model.

Yes, if your website has 10 users, it pays 10x$PRICE, 100, 100x$PRICE

Nobody could work with that (with Oracle)
I imagine the idea is not to change their minds, but change the minds of people who are sitting on the fence.

I thought this was a bad idea until I saw that all of the proposed people are politicians.
> taking any apple product to an apple store if you have problems.

Does this cross international borders?

It matters a lot to me, since I travel between countries quite a bit.
Thank you for the post. we will have a look at it and get back. we have tried to incorporate as many professional cv "rules" as we could.
lolo I like:

"It is maddening when the court lets guilty criminals go free >> SA"

Yeah, what is the point of having a court of law anyway, because the test taker knows all.
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Because it wasn't insignificant, and is actually used?
I don't follow you. If ‘the keys simple sit too high’, then the keyboard is too high, which can be solved by lowering it.
There is overhead for every request, one large request is generally faster than several small ones of the same size.

You have to be smart to send the data that is changed or client side compression is another option.
Should I design for money or passion?
>NYTimes and Twitter are lame targets?

Yes. A declining media/entertainment company and an advertising firm?

>In the US, at least, you don't get a much higher profile non-government target than the NY Times.

Google, Academi/Blackwater, any number of our oil companies?
Videos of interest would be tagged accordingly.
Enjoyed reading this - I didn't expect that anyone could be serious about the art and craft of window tinting!

However, deanproxy seems like the kind of guy who can tackle anything and throw in a few ounces of obsession to make it work. For the regular Joe standing desks might just be the one tiny thing they can do. They've become super popular at cubicleland here at HP and our facilities people will come and set them up for free.
What is the biggest challenge your have found starting a software company in Rwanda, and how did you resolve it?
Coming from a Bitcoin world, 2.1% + 30cents fees sounds ridiculous!
I think the worry would be that HR will miss a lot of people with relevant experience. "Oh, John Smith only has experience in C#, but we need someone with experience in .Net".
All the hand wringing aside , can anyone tell me how to game such a test if I encounter the misfortune of having to pass one ?
I think that's the point though right? Its an arms race with a nearly perfectly efficient market that will (in the future) not be a get-rich-quick scheme for miners. If there's profit to be made easily, the some people will react by mining more and then it 'fixes' the market. Assume that some people will act irrationally and mine inefficiently, or with the hope that the market will skyrocket- these people will bring the profit yield down to unprofitable levels by at least a few %.

I liked mining with a GPU a while back, because I figured at least I could use the GPU for gaming as well and it just helped to keep me on the newer GPU cards with less guilt (since I want fancy GPUs, but almost never game so rarely use them).
Im not familiar with AeroFS, could you elaborate?
I disagree. We have a handful of senior devs being paid in excess of £70k. There are plenty of non-finance companies paying similar salaries. £80k-£90k is relatively common for a senior developer in London.
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Hey man,

This is great, thanks!
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Recently, I went on vacation to the beach with some friends, and before I left I snagged some books from my father's bookshelf, one of which was "Big Bucks" by Ken Blanchard and Sheldon Bowles. It's short and simple and I was able to read it through quickly.

The message is pretty intuitive, and not especially innovative, but over the course of the book, the story lays out 3 rules of success:

1.) Do what makes you happy -- this way, "work" becomes "play" and you actually get excited enough to put the necessary hours and effort into it.

2.) Monetize what you're doing -- prioritize money and success over "play" -- you can do what you love all day, but unless you actually make it bring in cash, it's still just playing!

3.) Focus on increasing your income moreso than cutting costs -- not really relevant for this article, I guess.

I think what happened here was that the author didn't make it to step 2. He was enjoying what he was doing, but he wasn't striving to monetize it -- at least, not to the extent that turns it from a hobby into a successful means of income or cashflow.

(btw I recommend the book, even though it probably just tells more of the same stuff you read in many other success books)
You know ... if the employer doesn't want a candidate like that, then he's fair game for poaching for your personal network.
>Still, when I first heard the phrase "Windows on Windows" I had a chuckle.

The Windows 2000 loading screen had the tagline "Built on Windows NT Technology." They left it there through multiple SP rollouts IIRC.
Argentine software services firm Globant files for IPO
I just got my first Thinkpad this summer, a T430s. I absolutely love it, and I'd like to reiterate the approach of buying the cheapest configuration possible and then upgrading components separately.

I replaced the dvd with a bay battery, and I think I get about 7 hours of battery life. I never use it that long at a stretch, and I recharge it every night, so I just always have plenty of battery life.

I run Ubuntu 12.04 at the moment. My only complaint has to do with suspend. I've noticed that while closed and suspended, it still works through the battery's charge. I was surprised to leave it suspended with a mostly full battery one day, and find it off the next day. Also, when I carry it in my backpack in a case while suspended, it comes out of the case hot after a couple hours. Apparently it is still working pretty hard while suspended.
Ha that's a classic.

A friend of mine did a "rm -rf ~ /tmp" rather than "rm -rf ~/tmp" on a fast SCSI local disk on his Sun workstation.

His backup strategy of tarring up everything into ~/backup went with that one too. I lectured his ass on that one.

However...

The same guy, no less than 8 years later carried around a DVD-RAM with his single copy of his life's work on it (I assume this was only 8 years of his life) and jammed it in one of those dodgy Pioneer slot loader drives and proceeded to mount it.

bzzzt ... wheee ... clunk ... BANG! DVD span to full speed and promptly shattered taking the drive fascia off and spraying everyone with bits of "I told you so".

He now puts up scaffolding which worries me even more...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/...

Will hurricane "Jim" really make people think about Senator Inhofe? I don't think so.
Did You Know MLK's "I Have a Dream" Speech is Copyrighted?
Leaderboard application for teams.
Congratulations. This investment makes a lot more sense to me than some of the others in recent times. The Uber one for instance, though I hope they'll give their investors a healthy ROI I can't figure out how they arrived at the valuation they did. In the case of Couchbase that is a lot easier (at least for me...).
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This problem never came up for me.

I am an Emacs user with both keys either side of Space bar mapped to Ctrl. And I use Ctrl with either hand using my thumbs bent inwards (or sometimes with my palms).

I also try to use mouse minimally.
Who cares about the silly faces...
Rwanda is a small market, so while we tried to build a few products for the local market it just wasn't big enough to make the numbers work out. In the end we decided to build a product that had a global reach and in that respect I think there is much more promise.

From a purely administrative point of view it has been very easy and predictable, well, no harder really than the states that is.
Sure, but a non-ambiguous external representation should be mandatory when a semantic value conflates with a presentation one.

Here ' ' is part of both worlds:
. .. ..

A first idea:
. .. ..\

ls may also take inspiration from bash completion, where dirsep serves as a better delimiter than ' '

noob ~ $ mkdir -pv lsb/wat
noob ~ $ cd lsb/wat
noob ~/lsb/wat $ mkdir ".. "
noob ~/lsb/wat $ ls -lah
total 12K
drwxr-xr-x 3 noob noob 4,0K august 28 16:52 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 noob noob 4,0K august 28 16:52 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 noob noob 4,0K august 28 16:52 ..
noob ~/lsb/wat $ cd ..<TAB-COMPLETION>
../ .. /
but why must you be passionate about software development? What if you aren't really passionate but you are still a good programmer? What's so bad about that?

I'm curious because I've never really been "passionate" about any job. In fact I've dislike or downright hated every job I've ever had. I still think I perform well because I have to. Jobs are a means to an end.
Suggestion for the Shopify folk-

The site doesn't say that the POS supports a barcode scanner, but the video says that it does (and shows it in use). As a retailer, not having a barcode scanner would be a prompt deal breaker[0]. It should be featured somewhere on the microsite.

[0] lack of a barcode scanner isn't bad if you have 16 products. Once you're managing any serious level of inventory, especially with unique size/color combinations, there's so much risk for error if each item isn't being scanned. Then there's speed of service to the customer; it's just quicker.
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I actually find unix worse here, as I rarely care about where the binary is (and `which` will happily tell me on the rare occasions that I do), but I often need to find various supporting files. Are they in /usr/share? /usr/local/share? /opt/fooprog? (in the olden days /usr/X11R6/share, or many other variants).
Specific to your abandoned carts comment, the view is filterable. Type in "Canada", for example, and it'll show all abandoned carts in Canada. We'd love to learn more about what you're looking to accomplish that is difficult to do right now.
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generally in order to build on what you're learning you need to understand why you should perform certain actions.

Before knowing why you should perform certain actions, it helps to know that you can perform certain actions. Methinks getting these basic concepts ("combine something with its inverse and it disappears", "thing over same thing is 1", "1 'times' something is that something", ...) into a kid's head very early is a good thing - may not yet understand why, but it's a mental tool that can be applied. Don't underestimate the value of having tools even if you don't know why/how they work; give a kid a hammer and he'll figure out it's for pounding nails.
In the video, the hurricanes had the first and last names of the politicians.
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I realize that POS is a term that is widely used as a TLA for point of sale, but it feels like Shopify POS is an unfortunate name given that it's also a TLA for piece of sh*t.
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Binaries? Libraries? Let's stick 'em in `/usr`! Oh, but where do user files go? I know, `/home`! What about all this other stuff? Eh, `/etc` will do. Unless it won't, in which case `/var` is the obvious solution. Or maybe even `/opt`, if we're feeling especially hip today.
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Uber sued again over tip-skimming, case could go national
That is extremely kind of you! we will try to resolve the issues and get back to you if we need some help there. thanks again!
>In fact, I'd go so far as to question why he chose today to register an account on hacker news.

He has actually commented here with a different account in the past: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=FlorianMueller

Your personal attacks really don't have any relevance to the legal questions at hand. Trying to muddy the discussion with irrelevant speculation about people's motives is totally unnecessary when the legislation is there for any of us to read.
We don't have a chip and pin reader right now but you can use your own chip and pin system with Shopify POS.
On FreeBSD, /home is actually a symlink to /usr/home
Do you have to worry about Hutu/Tutsi issues still?
I think there is a difference though. Any individual could discriminate in buying stocks because they don't like the head of the organization for whatever reason regardless of the moral implication. I don't think anybody would say this would be a violation of the civil rights law.

YC is slightly different because the relationship is closer, sure, but it is still an investor/investee relationship. I think its still a case like the former. I'm not sure I'd agree entirely that its a loophole.
I love it when musical and computational composition get paralleled. I just saw a different talk focused on this theme recently, focusing on Goldberg variations using the Overtone library in Clojure. You actually get to hear things build up as you see the code do the same in this one, really cool.

video: http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/home/functional-composition

repo: https://github.com/ctford/goldberg

(edited to add the video link)
I would love to do something like this. Looking forward to the blog post!
Mechanical keyboards are awesome and after a year+ typing on them I can't stand typing on regular rubber domes. My favorite switch is the MX Brown, as the Blues got annoying to me. My current keyboard, which I think is a better coder's board, is the tex beetle ( http://i.imgur.com/ivEH2Av.png ). If you want to go down the mechanical keyboard rabbit hole I recommend checking out http://www.reddit.com/r/mechanicalkeyboards
If you are hyperbolic, then you can expect pedantry in return.
Force designers to use MS Word for a week (also, hire me please)
Spider Oak Hives? I think I got that last week when my arm brushed against Poison Sumac. That's the branding equivalent of clownpenis.fart
Thanks for the info, but I said ubiquitous exactly because I need something that "just works" on each one of Windows, Linux, Android and iOS. And I'm not aware of any open source solution there, hence have to use Wuala.