skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And...another group of people new to running a business find that the business side of things can be challenging and time-consuming.
Are they? I feel like this goes against most of what startups and VC funding and incubators like YC are about. Judging people based on the strength of their ideas and what they have accomplished so far instead of pedigree.
Maybe you can show Paypal this, demonstrating you are carrying a large share of the risk as well.

It's all risk containment for them. I'm a bit surprised that you would write such a confused blog post about the freeze, isn't it common knowledge that this happens with all Paypal accounts that do not deal in (existing) physical things?
The EFF is a great thing, but let's look at what they won:

> [O]rders and opinions of the FISC issued from January 1, 2004, to June 6, 2011, that contain a significant legal interpretation of the government’s authority or use of its authority under Section 215; and responsive “significant documents, procedures, or legal analyses incorporated into FISC opinions or orders and treated as binding by the Department of Justice or the National Security Agency.”

My interpretation of that is that the results could just include a lot about: "As stated in (some law or regulation) case # (redacted) with regard to (redacted), (redacted) is fully (or not fully) within the rights of the government to do so."

So, I'm sure there will be some information there, but it will be about the laws and regulations surrounding what is possible, not about the actions being discussed. And, frankly I've known for years (who hasn't) that our government wants an excessive amount of information about us with the intent to keep us safe and/or dominate the world, so I don't need the EFF or our government to spend much time on this. The EFF should be figuring out what can be patented and what can be free, and our government should be doing what it can to boost our economy in a long-term fashion while ensuring our freedom and safety. If that involves an overreaching security group, so be it.
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It could be argued that all democracies, by definition, use PR.
I'm surprised PayPal still haven't taken a clear stance against crowdfunding like Amazon Payments have. That's part of the problem - it's really vague as to what situations PayPal will intervene in.
It is an escrow service because it allows the buyer to reverse the transaction.
What's its selling point, price\performance?
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> If the rail was newly laid in the 50s, then they might have had to cut down the trees

It wasn't. The first London to Brighton railway line opened in 1841. Most of sections of the two main paths from Brighton to London (to London Victoria and London Bridge respectively) should have been complete by about 1855. There was expansion work (adding extra tracks) on the busiest section of the line around 1908, but I think that was the last major work on the London-Brighton lines apart from connecting branches.

There's of course been replacements and upgrades, but these tends to happen bit by bit.
This is a great point. When we think of Google, we think of a lot of other things before the logo (at least I do).

The effort of moving the conversation further with this marketing is impressive.. How many more "30 days" type of marketing initiatives will this create?
Motorola Mobility didn’t act in good faith when it demanded patent royalties from Microsoft Corp

Duh! Nothing in these lawsuits is in good faith, all is done to screw the other side. MS got lucky Motorola played it dumb and lost. Asking 2.25% of the sale price just for a small portion of one feature takes b-lls. Being FRAND patents and all, no one forced Motorola to add their patents to standards.

U.S. District Judge James Robart, who presided over the trial, determined in April that the appropriate royalty rate was about a half-cent per unit for video-decoding technology and 3 1/2 cents for wireless technology. Microsoft said that would equal about $1.8 million a year.

Is this legally binding, assuming it's held on appeal?
Hi fellow gear-heads... very cool engine graphics!

On a related note, I wanted to add that, if you are not familiar with dual-clutch transmissions [1], they are pretty interesting.

One example (many manufacturers offer this type of transmission) is the Porsche Doppelkupplungsgetriebe (or simply PDK) [2], developed by Porsche. It is essentially two gearboxes in one complete transmission package, where both gearboxes possess their own clutch. When a gear is selected in one gearbox, the next gear is pre-selected in the other gearbox. The result is a nearly-instantaneous gear change, with smooth power delivery.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual-clutch_transmission

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7Zh-nQPh_8&t=33
> Sorry, I didn't mean to say it is impossible to fight. In the sense that I could fight Mike Tyson, or Don Quixote could fight a windmill, obviously it can be fought.

It is possible to win. We blocked SOPA and ACTA. The vote to partially defund the NSA was only lost by a narrow margin. There are Pirates in the European Parliament (and will probably be more next year). There is more awareness of digital rights than there ever has been before, and importantly for the future it's higher amoung younger voters.

This is a fight that can be won.
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> Also, would you mind if they did twitter style in-stream ads?

Isn't the whole point that it doesn't have ads?
Note that they had previously stated that they wanted to release the funds as slowly as possible. Asking us to provide a detailed budget is basically asking us to justify that

None of this contradicts my point about mitigating risk, nor that it's a Very Good Idea to have even the most basic of development roadmaps.
Mailpile sets off alarm bells for me. The web page seems big on promises, and decent webmail isn't the eaiest thing in the world to make a decent UI for. Never mind that it's all wrapped around some kind of seamless background application.

I'm doubtful that they'll do what they think they can do. Good luck to them, but I'm unsuprised that paypal has witheld funds.
Direct link to the site: http://dontbeafuckingidiot.com/
Link to the statement that's a bit clearer: http://dontbeafuckingidiot.com/MediaStatement.pdf
Even though they're saying they wont do it, it's pretty typical of Australian politics to simply change their mind again once they get in to power.
Textbook Bitcoin.
Well they both work on compression, diesels simply rely on it more than gasoline engines.

Diesel engines work on what's called adiabatic compression heating. In other words, the compression causes the air to heat to a point higher than the ignition point of the fuel. Diesel engines usually use glow plugs to compensate for the lack of adiabatic compression heating when the engine is cold.
Did you expect it to continue working? :)
What should they use - Google Checkout? https://support.google.com/checkout/sell/answer/3080449?hl=e...

For better or worse, Paypal has survived and looks like it's going to go on surviving, that's why people if they only support one method, choose it.
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University endowments of top universities like Stanford and Harvard are some of the biggest sources of funding for alternative asset management firms (private equity, venture capital, hedge funds, etc.). They have their own portfolio management team managing these funds. Why pay VCs and private equity firms 20%-30% if they can just cut out the middle men and invest the money themselves?
Classic Reddit "review" of the game's predecessor:

Demon’s Souls is a game that will make you into a man. A scrawny fourteen-year-old, after two hours with this game, will be grooming his muttonchops and ready to ship off on the next boat to fight the Kaiser. If you are already a man, it will make you into some sort of bizarre double-man. What’s that you say? You’re a woman? You don’t want to be a man? Too bad. Too bad. That’s the Demon’s Souls way.

You’ve probably heard that Demon’s Souls is hard. Pshh. Lots of games are hard. Some are even harder than this one. The difficulty is not the point. What sets Demon's Souls apart is the way that it doesn't just kill you, but also stomps on your genitals when you’re down. And it will make you realize that that’s what you needed all along.

It’s a lot like life. Sometimes in life you win, and sometimes the giant armored skeleton stabs your face off because the flying mantis monster you didn’t even see shot you in the back with a spike at just the wrong time. And when that happens in life, do you respawn at the same spot and carry on like nothing happened? NO, asshole. You go back to the beginning of the level, leaving all your hard-earned souls out there on the pavement, and you fight your way back. And you learn a lesson from the whole thing, because you should have been wearing your Thief’s Ring, now shouldn’t you? That’s life.

The trend in hard games these days is to unlock “Easy” mode for you once you’ve died enough times. Do you think Demon’s Souls does that? Do you think Demon’s Souls is so much as aware of the concept of “Easy” mode? NO IT IS NOT. If Demon’s Souls even knew we were talking about “Easy” mode, it would come over here and kick the shit out of all of us. And we would deserve it.

I’ll tell you what happens in Demon’s Souls when you die. You come back as a ghost with your health capped at half. And when you keep on dying, the alignment of the world turns black and the enemies get harder. That’s right, when you fail in this game, it gets harder. Why? Because fuck you is why.

Have I told you about the online elements? At any time when you’re in Body form, another player from anywhere else in the world can invade your game and murder you to regain his own body, or just to keep you on your toes. This happens when you’re in the middle of fighting armies of unthinkable monsters that are probably already three-quarters of the way towards killing you. And no, you cannot opt out of this feature! This is what you signed up for when you agreed to be a man.

When this happened to me -- when a guy strolled into my game like it was Taco Bell and exploded my torso, costing me my body and all my progress in the level -- was I mad? No, because I was too busy being in awe at how fucking hardcore the experience was.

Now, don’t let this dissuade you. Demon’s Souls is a pitiless master, but let it never be said that it is not fair. The game rewards handsomely those who stand up to it, and the greater the challenge, the greater the glory.

What the hell are you waiting for?

www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/acz2t/let_me_tell_you_about_demons_souls/
responding to that comment.
It seems weird to me that they went through so much trouble focusing on tiny details and then making the logo on the homepage so small that you can barely see them. I'm pretty ignorant of design theory though - can anyone recommend any reading materials (general, logo specific or other) that would provide a good introduction?
Why have VGA?
I think the evidence would bare out that the qualifications you speak of are not necessary. A typical college educated adult can likely bring a child up to speed on what they need to know from K-12 education. We homeschool, and I don't remember all the nifty rules for short and long vowels, but the books we use have that information.
Cdist 2.3.2 has been released
I don't understand the difference between "momof3g8kids" and "tlpWENT2m". Why would the latter be more secure?
Exactly. It's turned out that the only way to charge for things online is using credit cards, so everyone is exposed to the chargeback risk.
disgusted by the way people dress? were they copying the American "lady ga-ga's" bacon outfit (https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=lady+gaga+bacon&safe=activ...)?
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Oh, to be so naive. You're assuming Congress opposes the actions of the NSA.

It's possible for a Member of Congress to express public outrage to appease the idiot mob, but believe something else entirely in private.
The main problem with this logo is that it sends conflicting messages. On one hand it wants to be funky (differently sized letters, tilted exclamation mark), but on the other it oozes conservative, with its square and straight typeface and lack of color. Overall, 'conservative' clearly beats out 'funky', with the few creative touches clobbered into submission. The larger Y and O, supposed to add dynamism and 'fun', are not different enough to pop and convey that idea. This is particularly jarring with the larger O next to the smaller one at the end - only different enough to confuse, not to send a message.

What's worse is the execution is poor and sloppy. It has no synergy. Notice the horizontal lines in the A and the H at strange 'close-but-not-equal' levels, neither tying into anything else in the logo. The flat foot of the larger Y sets one baseline, but the flat feet of the A and H define another, neither being referenced anywhere else in the logo.

Perhaps I just don't get it. Maybe the amateurism of it is the message, in which case it comes through loud and clear.
How would something attack Diceware?

There's a list of 7776 words, everyone knows what words are on the list. I suspect that sometimes people re-roll because they don't like a word or don't think they'll remember it. But I don't that that makes much difference.
At first I thought so too as well, but then I started to wonder whether that was just an effect of the first film being black and white. This means that the trees don't stand out as much against the grey background as when they're shown in colour.
In the Netherlands, there's Bits of Freedom for example (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bits_of_Freedom)
Sure, but we have no reason to give those details to PayPal, and very good reasons not to.

Edit: Delaying payments by months is not acceptable or reasonable. There are tax implications (we have to deal with multiple jurisdictions) and opportunity costs. Also, this very obviously goes against the wishes of our community of backers - they are supporting a free software development project, not buying a product.
Some teachers (talented young ones) are severely underpaid. Some teachers (older, lazy ones) are severely overpaid.

The problem with simply raising teacher salaries is that, due to the tenure system in public schools, most of the increase will accrue to the oldest teachers regardless of skill.
Yes. They have stripped out the gruntfile. Just copying this from the original project into your solution should work.

https://github.com/linnovate/mean/blob/master/gruntfile.js

Make sure you have grunt installed.

http://gruntjs.com/
I don't know whether it is true, but similar things have happened in the UK, Germany and Finland, so it could well be.
Prison is a prison and damaging our kids...
The annoyance of the "mobile site"
He should do it in 7 and take some breaks to see some stuff.

Source: I've done it in 6 and 7 days, 7 was way more fun, way more relaxing and I learned more.
Yeah, it "literally" kills me every time
How about "X does some good, but far more harm, therefore X is a problem"?
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Sure, but we have no reason to give those details to PayPal

You'll reduce your risk profile, and increase your chances of receiving payment inside the next year.

and very good reasons not to

Aside from potentially delayed payouts, what are your other good reasons?

Edit, replying to your edit:

Our community of backers... are supporting a free software development project, not buying a product

Do you know for a fact that all of your backers 100% understand the difference?

Do you also know for 100% that you will receive no complaints, no refund requests, and no chargebacks in the event that you don't deliver?
> Then you should have your children taken away from you, as you are clearly incapable of raising them.

Have you seen a foster home? I don't think you would say this if you had much experience with the foster child programs.
"Unschooling" beats home-schooling (and is less work for a parent, they are a facilitator not a teacher).
I make this journey everyday, pretty cool to see it as it used to be, it is a shame it is so fast.

You can see when they go through the first big tunnel (the merstham tunnel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merstham_tunnels) they enter at the same time and exit at the same time so the old one must be (maybe??) sped up.

It would have been interesting to see what Gatwick airport was like then but it doesn't really show it, other than there being a big space on the right hand side that isn't there any more (2:11).
"We had no intention of accidentally releasing this policy decision so close to an election. We will correct the version online immediately with our temporary watered down version until we've won."

great.
Its not a logo I would have made, but its different and it doesn't look _bad_. I appreciate the explanation she gave about the different aesthetics that went into it and how they tried to give it some deeper meaning then just a font on a white background.
I recently added 2FA (OATH/Google Authenticator) support to Persowna[1], and it only took about two hours, 1:55 of which was spent on the UI. It's really not very hard.

[1] https://www.persowna.net/
Lots of people still have VGA monitors + they're cheap as second monitors.
I liked the approach mentioned here:
http://beyondschools2.blogspot.in/2013/05/know-think-do.html

In a nutshell, the idea is to teach basic principles within the structure of a school and then let the pupil explore the higher grade subjects by themselves, with the intermittent guidance of a teacher.
Meh. It would make a lot more sense if it had a Wine port, perhaps even ship with support from Crossovers or similar.
Everything on the campaign page is so poorly executed it looks like scam.
And the goal is... $1,490,000. Is it some kind of a joke?
Yep, track is called 'Alive' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPKAwJKGSDc]
Scala is becoming my programming language of choice, especially since I tried out Scala.js which really works well.

I am currently porting a Clojure library of mine to Scala, and it is about 10% less code, and obviously more robust because of static type checking.

Scala.js: https://github.com/lampepfl/scala-js
Sounds like an opportunity to create a crowdfunding site that only accepts cash in the mail. But then, I'm sure you open up a whole new can of worms.
Given the ire that's been directed at NCLB, which was specifically designed to potentially label a school as "failing" even if the majority rich, white kids were all doing fine, I think the answer, unfortunately, is no.
I don't know if I missed something but what's the point in this? Couldn't I just build a little x86 machine and stick x86 Android on it, for cheaper than the reward levels in this listing?

Maybe it's not intended to be unique and it's just a system builder using indiegogo to get some orders.
The code culture problem
just a suggestion if the author is here - maybe be more consistent when showing bad vs good - sometimes you show the good then the bad and sometimes vice versa. Try to stick to one or the other - or alternatively change the background color of the examples to red and green to clearly show bad examples.
I wonder why this isn't advertised anywhere. Does it only include submissions from the past three days?
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Anticlimactic. It's like their old logo, only more boring.
Why does Yahoo exist?
https://news.ycombinator.com/lists
My apologies! You are right. It's the Shooters and Fishers Party and the white nationalist Australia First Party they are preferencing above the Greens. It's the Sex Party that is preferencing One Nation.
The cheapest funding level which actually gives you the hardware is $149, and they say their factory requires a minimum order of 10,000 units. That seems to be the $1,490,000 right there. :)

Also, the title here is kind of misleading, it's not very powerfully branded as a "gaming console", it's just a "computing device". Also known, I guess, as "a computer".

No idea how big Android is for x86, are most apps even available cross-compiled?
Persona doesn't require a password. You could authenticate with an SSL certificate, a Yubikey or whatever else you want. I wrote my own, hosted identity provider (https://www.persowna.net/) which includes 2FA now, and I plan to add more of these types of authentication in the future.
I'll say this again and specifically on this comment since it spells out "30 choices" while others just hint at it -

There were no 30 choices. This was always the final logo. The 30 prior "logos" were a "whimsical" way of getting users used to the idea of change. None of those 30 logos were done seriously...
Microsoft Active Directory servers (used in big business and government all over the world) uses one round of MD4 (no salt). That's a 4, not a 5.
Translation: We only changed our stance so people will vote for us and once we are in power, we'll make it opt-out again because it'll be too late and we have nothing to lose.

Remember John Howard famously saying there wouldn't be a GST and then introduced a GST? Replace John Howard with Malcolm Turnbull and GST with opt-out Internet filter and it reads the same...
I'll never be able to unsee this: http://cdn.qualitylogoproducts.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2...
I totally agree with you on all fronts. The fingerprint reference was written more in jest and sarcasm than sincerity. To me, this product reeks of the "lukewarm tea problem". This is a neat engineering project, and I am sure it is actually quite fun and fancy to use, but it is not a market winning product.
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Apart from the fact those lines are all electrified, the problem on the London-Brighton stretch is not so much train speed as it is line capacity and reliability.

South of East Croydon a substantial stretch is just double track (one in each direction), though most of the line has four tracks (which still makes for a massive chokepoint if a train fails) , and many of the stations have very few platforms and no extra track for trains to pass on. North of East Croydon, there's massive capacity problems on the approach to London Bridge, and on the path from London Bridge in to Charing Cross.

The result is that the slightest little impact to the time table at half a dozen points or more along the line have carry on effects along the entire line.

Increasing the speed of the trains would be great, but without upgrading capacity the slightest little problem would force a lot of following trains to slow down anyway.

EDIT: Apparently the "third rail" is also a problem for increasing speeds.
Yeah.... even my mother knows better than to use PayPal.
I love that both Turnbull (who will be the internet minister) and Abbott (who will be prime minister) are both back pedalling saying they didn't have time to read it properly.

IT'S THEIR FUCKING POLICY.

https://twitter.com/TurnbullMalcolm/status/37555537509050777...
As I read this post, I felt a brief rush of anxiety wondering if I backed this project. I hoped not. These guys come off as rather flippant with other people's money.
I don't know what you are talking about. If there is a shortage in housing, prices go up; if there is an oversupply, prices go down. Credit affects what people can afford and plays a factor, but the basic rules of economics are very much in play with housing.
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The problem there is getting people off their asses to actually do it. One-click Paypal login has a very low barrier to purchase.
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As a human being I am angered by these rapid advancements of Internet censorship in the developed world.

As someone in the business of circumventing said censorship I am excited to have the solvent westerners as my clients in additional to generally poor third-world folk we are currently serving.