skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, they would initially say all is okay. once she pulls the Syrian passport they say: Sorry, we can't open the account.

if any one is in berlin and can guide me to a bank that won't mind opening an account for a Syrian citizen, I would really appreciate it.

Sadly, this was not the only case we encounter, you can read about a similar story happened to my family here :

http://nidalalhariri.com/post/55999109847/airbnb-racism-how-...
We do have an iPhone app coming out soon. However we plan to release that as a premium feature. If you had to pay 99 cents per week for the premium version, would you still be interested? Of course there will be more premium features included.
BTW, Oreilly books can be bought on Google play(epub only) by less than 4 eur. Not the newest ones, though.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=O%27Reilly+M...
I see my song was approved today, but for some reason it's showing a broken image in the listings. It's the first listing in electronic (http://musicfellas.com/aband_nthecar). I've uploaded a photo for both my profile and the album, but I can't seem to re-upload an album image to check if that's the issue.

Thanks, and good luck on the site! :)
it might be interesting once it is independently replicated several times.
Just from personal experience, Android always reports my display as consuming the majority (around 60%-70% usually) of my battery, anytime I've cared to check. That's for general usage as a phone/music player.
And i want a flexible A4 (around 14 inch) e-ink panel with touch screen and a slim USB cable (preferably USB OTG). Storage, processing, network and battery to be provided by my phone.
I wouldn't say doomed---they just have much harder hurdles to overcome.

We should both inspire people to overcome the hurdles, but also work on creating an environment with less artificial hurdles.
or better yet just don't share links from Quora, let them die their shameless death, and instead post answers to things that want to be and remain open like Stack Overflow or your own blog.
These companies can't detain you in an airport or throw you in prison...

Neither can the NSA.

Remember this? (http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/08/government-k...)

Cops searched this family's house at a private corporation's behest, more or less. The fact that a large database is privately held isn't going to protect you from the government.
thumbnail those images! you'll drastically cut page speed. other than that, site looks good!
The study is not trying to prove that worried people do worse on tests. That's well-established, not news to anyone.

It's demonstrating that day-to-day financial decisions like "should spend $1500 to repair my car?" produce enough worry in poor people to have a strong cognitive effect, wheras they don't have that effect on rich people.
What makes you think this is pushed by the government? I'm envisioning opt-in.
It's interesting to me that you see yourself as spotify + itunes, as the comparison that immediately struck me is Bandcamp + recommendations and the ability to queue up tracks. It certainly seems like the value you bring to artists is very similar to bandcamp - I suppose your differentiator here is discovery? Are you planning to allow sales of physical items as well? I'm a big fan of buying the vinyl release + immediate download - and anecdotally it seems like the independent music crowd would be more interested in this than perhaps other music demographics.

I'm keen not to make any comments about recommendations or the breadth of music available, as I'm aware that the latter is a chicken-and-egg situation, and the former is hard to judge without giving the site a chance to learn my tastes. I'm going to give it a try for sure.

And now for some classic hn nitpicks:

* Please stop your site links from opening pages in new tabs. Whilst looking about for more information, I ended up with 7 tabs open. Please no.

* I clicked on the feedback tab on the right side and was presented not with a feedback form, but a login form. If I can listen to music without signing up/in, surely I can leave feedback?
Regularly, competing views are upvoted, for example for tech stacks or languages. More than one mind end up in schizophrenia everywhere, don't they?
The armed forces, or interest payments would be pretty substantial all by themselves. (And so would social security, probably, but I don't know enough about the USA to make that comment.)
1) you can very easily have multiple ghc's installed and have them not clobber each other
2) use the binary packages if you want a default that just works. If you look at the relevant ghc ticket on brew, they're very keen on modifying the formulae against the recommendations of Darin very very easily.
3) I use brew for many things, and even donated quite a bit to their kickstarter, but I do not trust brew to do Haskell right.
No it doesn't. I've been poor. There is no 1 standard deviation IQ penalty.

"The finding further undercuts the theory that poor people, through inherent weakness, are responsible for their own poverty..."

Again, no. The poorer members of our society have more limitations on average. This is usually IQ, but will often be something like physical disability (ie., blindness), ugliness, or poor socialization, inherent or learned. This does not mean that it is all right to construct a society without full employment or universal healthcare. But if people trying to help the poor continue to be taken in by the above belief, they are never going to get anywhere.
Thanks for this one. I thought this was going to be a collection of links to great technical talks -- which has value to me -- but was instead surprised with thoughts on what makes a talk great.

I'll definitely be keeping this stuff in mind on future talks I do.
Camera for Facebook - Instant pictures to your Facebook album
A beautiful camera app designed for Android devices to instantly upload the pictures you take to the Facebook album of your choice.

Sharing pictures on Facebook doesn't get easier than this!
It's great tech in specific niches, but it seems to improve at a glacial pace...leaving it in that niche.

The original work was in 1996! Hard to imagine that it isn't far better than it is by now.
As a Turkish who has been working in Germany (Stuttgart) for the last four years, I'd recommend here, Stuttgart, as a pleasant destination. When you find a job which pays a reasonable amount, they can hire you and you get a visa. Don't ever go to Turkey. Don't even enter Turkish soil. You'll be trapped. They started treating Syrians as if they were second class and didn't even keep guiding them, let alone provide shelter and food (or, a job). I'm really ashamed of how Turkey behaved in this crisis. Maybe you'll have better luck in Israel but I have no idea.
Gnome 3 might work well, but you won't be able to middle click.
Study: Poverty strains cognitive abilities, opening door for bad decision-making
Meet the games that have amazing fan-made revivals
Do you have any good resources on where to get started going about setting up failure boundaries/jails/zones/containers like this properly?

I think it's surprisingly easy to get yourself in the situation where this is a concern for you[0] but you don't know how to solve it.

[0] Just run "adduser" and have SSH running, or just create an upstart job, or write a custom daemon that accepts and executes jobs from not-quite-trustworthy-undergrads, or...
And, most importantly, you can leave.
Not even when Duncan Campbell told you about ECHELON in 199?

I'm still struggling to understand why GHCQ having a 3 day cache is so much worse than all the other privacy violating stuff that goes on. (I am annoyed by the failure of oversight; by the weird wriggling around laws; and if anything I'm more annoyed that they have all this information and don't appear to be using it to lock up criminals.)

But I'm not that* worried about GCHQ. I wouldn't be able to afford the steel blast door if I was worried about a well funded government agency getting my stuff, and I know that merely saying "it's illegal" isn't a strong protection against bad actors.

I'm a lot more worried about my local council. GCHQ hasn't done anything to me. (And is unlikely to, unless I marry a journalist working with government secrets.) But my local council will invade my privacy - they used to sell CCTV camera footage to tv shows; they spy on homes to assess school entry or parking permit validity; they do a bunch of unsavoury stuff.

I'm worried about the records my doctor holds, because there are risks of people losing memory sticks or giving information out to other people over the phone or not destroying hard drives correctly, or of staff gossiping (or being corrupted with bribes).

I'm worried about the data my phone company holds, because people do misuse access. (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/revealed-how-to-hack-into-...)

> In an astonishing breach of security BT Cellnet has handed out, over the telephone, a confidential pin number allowing the recipient to listen in to the confidential messages of any of the five million customers on their network.

> The Independent on Sunday has that pin number and yesterday was able to hack into the message systems of 15 people. Their permission was obtained in advance.
These people are not my close friends (I occasionally contacted them by IRC or E-mail for support, probably more often their employees) but

I am pretty sure that Jed was the person who started the business, and he sold it to MagicalTux. This would indicate that it's a coincidence that MT in MagicalTux is like MT in MtGox. Maybe MagicalTux chose his nickname for this reason.
I had more or less the same experience with Scala but I just jumped all the all way to functional programming and started using Clojure, never looked back =)
Ask HN: Freelancers, would you pay for service that ensures your clients prepay?
Tim, CTO/Co-Founder of matchist here.
We're thinking of developing a separate payment product for freelancers.

The problem this product would solve is ensuring your clients always pay on time by having them fund milestones before work begins and release payment as milestones are completed (similar to the current matchist payment system but for any of your clients, regardless of where you found them).

Here's how it would work:

1) When you secure a contract, you set up milestones for the project in the system.

2) Clients prepay for the milestone. There is no fee for them.

3) When you finish the milestone, you ask for payment to be released.

4) The client releases payment.

The cost would be $50/month for holding $1k or less in the system. If there was $5k or less being held in escrow, we would charge $100, and $10k would be $200/month.

What do you think? Please be honest: Would you pay for this product?
Same here (ate it up).

We bought the 2nd edition as a library book here at work recently. I couldn't get into it at all. I wonder if there is a qualitative difference between the editions, or if perhaps I internalized the first book enough that the 2nd edition just didn't capture my interest in the same way.

But, in case the article has you doubting the value of the book, I found it to be tremendous. With every line I write I have all of the ideas in that book running through my head.

Take a simple example. Braces on the same line or next line? Well, to me the answer is clearly same line (I used to prefer next line, until Code Complete, btw, I am not just using the book to justify a random preference). Why same line? Because studies show that as soon as you need to scroll a window to see all of your function, bugs go up and comprehension goes down. So, by putting the braces on the same line I can sometimes significantly improve vertical density, and thus improve the code reading experience.

I do not intend a brace war - please don't start one. The point is that we can use empirical studies to guide how we code. Not just layout issues, but how we name variables, how we enter and exit loops, how we break things into functions, and so on.

I cannot overstate how much I value the book and the ideas contained within it. If it was up to me (and, it's not) every programmer in this company would have a copy on their desk, and would be expected to either follow it or have a good reason for not following it (and there are good reasons sometimes - no rule is cast in stone).

Get the book. Learn the book. It will make you better.
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This is interesting. Apparently there is some confusion as to whether or not it was a functioning bomb. I wonder: why on Earth would they put a functioning bomb on a plane during an exercise?
Sorry about that, should be fine now :)
It's a shame such cool technology is being put to use for something as trivial as Facebook.
this already exists, check out elance or any other freelance marketplaces
I just picked up Understanding Computation and, having made it through the first two chapters at this point, heartily recommend it. If anyone wants to have a little reading group, I'd be interested.

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920025481.do
Show HN: How to write a research paper [pdf]
Getting just about impossible. Like trying to succeed at the Tour de France without doping...
http://sartalics.com/
You're welcome.
The ~$50B black budget is well over 1% of federal spending ($3.8T says http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_United_States_federal_budg... ). Considerably more than a drop.
That is an extreme point of view that I don't agree with. I'd like to point out that these abuses weren't committed by the data holders but by the government, the same entity tasked with regulating data abuse, also as long as the user has control over their data and the ability to opt out, much of the potential threat is neutralized.
> > are responsible for their own poverty...

> no. The poorer members of our society have more limitations [...] like physical disability.

I hope I haven't mangled your words too badly. But I'm a bit confused - are you saying that people are responsible for being blind and thus are responsible for being poor?
Thanks for liking this post. But the actual credits must go to the author of this text as I am just another fan of this book like you are now.
I would say that the advice in The Pragmatic Programmer is timeless, much like The Mythical Man Month. A lot of the ideas presented there were later formalized into agile principles and practices, and are still quite relevant today.

Code Complete, on the other hand, is a little more hit-or-miss. Some parts of it are still very relevant, like how to write clear, readable code. But other parts have been supplanted by better practices. The book tends to lean more towards waterfall development approaches.
Thank you for opening the issue. I should of thought of that.
I wrote a Chrome [1] extension and UserScript [2] which does this automagically:

[1]: https://github.com/sindresorhus/quora-unblocker
[2]: https://github.com/sindresorhus/quora-unblocker-userscript
hi @kmatzen/@mallyvai! Adding briefly to Nate's comment (my co-founder at Authorea), I would like to point out that we do support many popular LaTeX packages. One big reason why we do not support custom LaTeX packages is that some of them are really intended for the printed page and cannot be easily ported to the web- and the point of Authorea is to create web-native documents, which render in the browser, first, and can then be ported to print formats. In other words, we support a safe subset of LaTeX which we can easily convert back and forth into other web formats (such as Markdown). Do let us know if you have a LaTeX package in mind and we will see if we can add it for you.
> It should also be noted that the CIA is the go-to agency for clandestine operations that involve reconnaissance, espionage, or subversive operations -- both domestically and abroad.

I thought the CIA had limits placed on what they could do within the US?
Hopper, the $22M, 6-years-in-the-making travel planning website, goes alpha
agree on that...imagine if the US domestic spying budget was dedicated to detection human rights abuses!
Way back when IBM was a big juicy target for lawsuits, an employee told me IBM doesn't sign NDAs: "We don't want you to disclose anything confidential to us." Because, how the hell would they even keep track of the information status across all those people and projects? Not realistic.

In my experience NDAs aren't practical to enforce and hardly anyone takes them seriously. I've seen them used mostly as a sort of social ritual, much like shaking hands, asking "How are you?", and "Hey, can you keep a secret?".
Same here. But on rare occasions when I do avail the buy-one-get-one-free offer, the second book invariably goes unread.

Also does anyone know why these 50% discount offers are limited to ebooks only?
If you read the article to the end, they had 90 minutes extra worth of fuel, and landed with 30 minutes left after diverting due to a thunderstorm.

It was a "mayday" because they didn't have enough fuel to return to the original airport they were going to land at and/or to continue waiting in a holding pattern for another hour.
There are a couple of different lists. The first is the list of accelerators, which I update as soon as I learn about a new accelerator. (Often I add it before they've funded any companies.)

The next list is the list of startups for each accelerator. This is a pretty manual process, though I do give admin permission to accelerators to go in and add their startups themselves. I suspect for the accelerator you're thinking either a) I don't have their full list of startups and/or b) the startups that have exited aren't marked as such on Crunchbase.

You're correct that for many acquisitions I do have to make guesses about exit value; I clearly mark each exit value on Seed-DB with a H/M/L icon to indicate my level of confidence in the value. (Where people have come to me afterward my guesses have been roughly 50/50 over/under.)

I've got some ideas about calculating a valuation, but even if I put that together I would likely not make it public since it's just guesses multiplied by guesses. Plus, there are companies that just buck trends in trying to guess valuation based on funding signals... my favorite example here is Weebly. They went for 4 years on ~$600k of funding before raising a monster $45million round.
I can speak to this. For a while in 2010 I was completely broke after leaving my first job out of college, which I hated, and having some other employment opportunities fall through. Having that little money changes your decision making process about absolutely everything. Obviously every financial decision is effected, even the tiniest purchases weigh into bigger questions like "will I have enough money in my bank account to pay rent on the first?" It can reach a point where you can barely purchase a soda without any stress over spending money. And at least for me who is fortunate enough that this was not a chronic way of life, one thing that weighed on my mind was how I was spending my time and whether I was doing enough to make sure I wasn't so broke all the time. I could imagine that at some point that sort of thinking goes away and you believe poverty is a way of life. But I can think of a variety of other meta concerns stemming from poverty that could plague your thoughts.

Mentally poverty can be an all consuming condition. I've come to think of it as comparable to programming in a high level language versus programming in a low level language. If you're financially stable you are like someone programming in a high level language who has tedious tasks like memory management taken care of for you. Whereas if you live in poverty before you can get to some of the really productive work you have some hurdles to overcome.

Another way of thinking of the difference between being financially stable and being poor is that if you are poor it is constantly a necessity to think about short term outcomes first so your mind gets clogged up with them. It is very difficult to get to think about your long term good because failing to properly address your short term outcomes could end in complete disaster. This is why I cannot take seriously comments like this on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6301856 although thankfully the commenter does acknowledge he is being cynical and disrespectful.
This review is spot on. Code Complete (CC) is more thorough and detailed, but Pragmatic Programing (PP) is better written.

The cool thing about PP is how it packs its advice into easy to understand metaphors. CC tries too hard to make science in a subject (Software Engineering) that is not always very easy to handle scientifically. I don't buy a lot of the evidence CC provides (cone of uncertainty, 10x productivity difference in programmers). I even think CC becomes a better book after you read PP first.

[Edit] At the end the author comments about 2 other books: Clean Code and Refactoring as overlapping the stuff covered by Code Complete. I don't think so; to me they are much more a subset of it. [/Edit]
I think they've made the best kickstarter video so far.
I am sorry, but even if you absolutely ignore everything else, Clapper's lying to Congress was illegal. He has also exposed the fact that NSA has violated the constitution many times.

What is "classified" anyways? Some guy sitting somewhere decides that it is "classified". So why can't some other guy decide that it is in the public interest to not classify it?
As for other non-Java Lucene alternatives, Sphinx works great, is compact and the C++ code is fairly easy to pick up enough of to make modifications if needed:

http://www.spingxsearch.com
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>To make a blanket statement that I'll never sign your NDA ...

Maybe you should actually read what the author wrote. He didn't make a blanket statement. The author refuses to sign an NDA when he is approached for advice about some idea somebody may have. This is perfectly reasonable. Why should he open himself up to liability for giving (free) advice and guidance over coffee?

On the other hand, if he is approached in a more formal setting, such as when he is hired or contracted out by the party, then it would be unreasonable for him to refuse an NDA.
Physical items is not in the plan for now. If more people show interest in that, something we can consider. Our differentiator is certainly discovery.

About the nitpicks:
1. This was to avoid user accidentally clicking and losing the music queue. Now that we've added a js check, we should certainly remove it.
2. We had to shut it down because of the spam. I know we could do captcha, but then we realized most of the feedback anyway came from signed up users.
A possible example of this is how the 'Clear Browsing Data' button in chrome for android has been moved to an inconspicious location away from the other settings, if you have an android device i invite you to see how easily you can find it without looking it up.
> Your admission of "women are open ogled" isn't something to be proud of—it's backwards and needs to be corrected by society.

Unless men are also openly ogled.
That's more analogous to the strategy of pausing processes which require memory when there isn't any available, and then resuming them once memory becomes available. The airline still lets you complete your trip when they bump you from a flight, you just have to wait until capacity becomes available for you.

The problem with translating that approach to OSes is that you can easily deadlock the entire system.
Is your argument that because the wikipedia definition of whistleblower seems to exclude this type of disclosure, it doesn't qualify as whistleblowing? If someone amended the wikipedia definition to include "disclosures of information which is of a compelling nature and of significant interest to the voting public", would you change your opinion?

Shouldn't the question of the value of this disclosure be determined on its merits (does its value in furthering democracy outweigh any potential harm), not whether or not it qualifies under some dictionary definition?