skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to do Tier 4 support for a now-defunct (3rd Largest) grocery store in the US, and NCR has a stranglehold on this market. Every Self-CheckOuT lane with the same voice is probably an unbranded NCR SCOT. I've seen them in Home Depot, Loblaw's/Superstore, and even in some surprising locations (a nursery/greenhouse). Everyone uses the same terminals. It's been ripe for disruption for nearly a decade now.

LemonPOS[1] has been around for ages, is Free Software, and works great. It'd take very little effort to undercut the big guys in this market with a tiny agile startup.

[1] http://lemonpos.org/
Actually an improvement
But that leads to the monetization of houses which skews the market to produce way more houses than required eventually leading to a bubble.

http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-ideas/inside-china8217s...
If you could deliver on all of those things, I would be willing to pay 10%-20% of my annual salary for it.

However, much like executive search, this is the kind of service that would need to essentially pay for itself.

E.g. If I could get a $100K salary on my own, I would expect you to find me similar positions for $120K to justify taking a 10% finders fee from me and not from the company.

Also this would need to have contingencies built in for a poor fit. A minimum 3 month tenure with a prorated amount payable over the remaining 9 months would probably be enough for me.
You say that but man eastern medicine is powerful stuff!!
Yep. Java is pretty standard in enterprise because it's relatively fast, fairly easy to program, very portable, and has a mature community and ecosystem.
This is cool! I've been thinking about doing something like this for a long time.
They don't need to re-shape the way their website looks, just the way they handle journalism. These guys are one of the few to bastardize journalism in the tech space. We want to read about News - about reporting what happens, exactly right? Not about what somebody else thinks of the news. And that's exactly what Techcrunch does - Steal the news from communities like Hackernews, Reddit, etc. and add their own bias, repackage and sell it with ads. Viola, money! Because AOL.
V8 was first released in 2008 - and while it is awesome, "mature" sounds like a bit of a reach...
Glad you like it. Anything specific you think I should address?
Guardian‘s reporter Greenwald is leaving for “dream journalistic opportunity”
Neither here nor there. No reason to use a story about a redesign as a soapbox for your complaints, no matter how accurate they may be.
General Assembly launches Dash, a Codecademy-style site that teaches you to code
No, I think Amir is suggesting something different here.

I suspect what Amir is saying is that some successful people attribute their success to one thing, but that may not be the actual reason.

As an example - where the successful person has been clever enough to recognise their initial hypothesis for their success may have had flaws - many early Paul Graham essays credited the success of his Viaweb startup to the use of Lisp[1], while now most of his advice doesn't touch on a specific technology stack at all[2].

From my experience the things successful people credit for their success are infrequently wrong, but very often incomplete.

[1] eg, http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html (from 2001)

[2] eg http://www.paulgraham.com/ds.html (2013)
We built our monitoring package at Zetetic to be extremely flexible about what events go where, with multiple levels of non-blocking filtering and routing, so that everything remotely interesting could go to SQL (with or without a durable local queue in front of it), and just very critical stuff could also go to a local embedded database / lpr / MQ / ZeroMQ publisher, etc. My preference is for decoupled ZMQ subscribers to handle anything very gnarly.

Internal errors in the monitoring software itself first surface in NLog, which could--but probably oughtn't--be configured to feed even more errors into the monitoring system; obviously this could create a terrible feedback loop if left unchecked.
I know first impressions are not always the best, but I find it much harder to read the titles quickly. Take a look at Mashable, for example -- scrolling through that is a mess. I had no problem with the old TechCrunch design and now I feel there are so many competing things happening at the same time. AllThingsD article titles are right there and the contrast in color and clean design makes it easier to scroll.
If they're like PM roles in the rest of the Internet industry, then yes, they are basically CEOs of a specific project or program for part of a company. The problem is that in most large software companies, projects are generally quite small. So a PM might be in charge of an engineering team of 4-6 engineers that are working on one tiny widget on the page. The product as a whole is usually the responsibility of a VP.
Under the correct assumption that there was some effort to increase readership by this move, commenting that the design was not their biggest problem seems relevant enough for an internet comment.
Capitalism is stronger than customs.

If growing them feeds people efficiently, we'll see it here soon enough.

Potatoes didn't exist outside the Americas until after 1492. Then many cultures viewed them as lowly and not worth eating. But you can feed more people per area than any other food and they grow in more types of land than many other edible plants. Cultures would reject them until a famine struck. Then the ruler would eat them out of necessity. Then everyone would eat them. Now potatoes are in more cuisines of the world than any other food.

If cockroaches are efficient, I would expect a few shocks in some commodity markets to put them on a few cultures' dinner plates, then to spread. Like roaches, if you'll pardon the pun.
Of course the news organization will be biased in favor of the financier and his interests. But those interests are presumably far narrower than the interests of a mainstream news organization that has to contend with a wide breadth of advertisers and political entities.
As a 20 year old coming out of school, you are going to get a very standard offer that will only fluctuate slightly with the current market. Unless you're the world's expert in some very valuable algorithm that you developed in school, you don't have enough of an edge over your peers to negotiate much outside your already allotted salary band.

The only leverage you would have would be if you had another offer from Microsoft, Apple, or Google. But it would be notoriously hard to line up everything and get those offers in time.

As others have said, don't sweat it too much. Try to negotiate more on the relocation expenses/signing bonus to ease the pain of moving if that makes you feel better.
You use the system backing check processing, ACH. Theoretically, this is similar to counterfeiting a check, except:

- these are electronic requests, so there's nothing to distinguish "genuine" from "fraudulent" ones

- you really do have all of the information that goes into an ACH payment

Really, it's much more similar to forging a check than to counterfeiting one.
It probably is for individuals. Some measure success with lots of money, whilst others measure it with possessions (boats, cars, house etc).

For example as long as I can have support my wife and kids without them going hungry I believe I'm successful in what I do.
if (x < 42 && y > 1776)
useConfabulator = false;

Why? Who knows? People don't comment their code for many reasons, not least of which is that it's not technically required and you can easily put it off and forget. Every checkin generally requires at least some comment. You can still enter meaningless messages like "fix", but you're not liable to do so by accident.
Whenever I make this argument, a historian I know retorts that media bias is older than the country; the only difference now is the veneer of impartiality. Founding-era newspapers were forthright with and proud of their leanings.
Oooh, so close and yet so far.

Counter-example: what if you're a happy slave? Would you consider that success? Slaves are Submissive, the lowest level of Presence. Their achieving happiness doesn't count for much.

What if you're a happy servant? Or a happy minion? Already you can see this is more challenging, more ambitious, and more worthy of the appellation of 'success'.

Now, everyone's conception of success will look different but it's obvious that Presence has something to do with it. Let's take Psychopaths as a reductive example.

Con men and shills can be successful, but they're rather pathetic compared to, say, a Lord of War. Seen the movie? Now that guy was a huge success.

Fostering wars across the planet, responsible for millions of deaths and uncountable destruction while snorting cocaine off of strippers' tits. What more could a Psychopath ask for?

I would tell you what more a Psychopath could ask for except there's no doubt many psychopaths reading this and I don't want to give any of them ideas.
> Collapse would slow and chaotic

Unless a comet or asteroid hit the earth. Here's some good sci-fi reading for you: http://www.amazon.com/Lucifers-Hammer-Jerry-Pournelle/dp/044...
The following is a response from Dan (who hasn't registered an account yet):

Thank you for your comment. I wrote an explanation of why I'm not overcomplicating the problem - allow me to address your concerns:

1) "Since gravity acts on all points of the slinky equally, you can aggregate this by saying that gravity acts on the slinky's center of mass."

Well, not quite - a non-rigid body behaves differently in the case of uniform gravitational field compared to the case of an equal force localized at its center. To see this, take the limit where the spring constant goes to zero. This physically represents a cloud of uncoupled particles, all but one of which would remain motionless if the force were applied only to the central particle. It is true, however, that the center of mass of the falling spring will accelerate at a rate g when the spring is dropped. This is clear since the force of gravity is the only force acting on the spring after release, but it's also interesting to look more closely at the complex motion of all the other parts of the spring.

2) "The slinky acts like a spring. Since it is being held stationary, the forces on the bottom part of the slinky equal out. There is a force of gravity going down which equals an upward spring force."

Yes, this is true, and I use a more general version of this principle (not restricted to the bottom point only).

"Therefore when it is dropped, [...] the bottom part initially experiences no net forces."

This is also true, but more limited than I described. Showing that there are initially no net forces on the bottom of the spring only shows that its acceleration at time zero is zero. A priori it is possible that the bottom's displacement is only zero instantaneously. If you think this is absurd, consider the problem with n masses connected by n-1 ideal, massless springs, and you'll see that the displacement of the bottom particle has non-zero (but possibly small) displacement even instantaneously after the top mass is released. So it is not obvious. The finite propagation speed emerges when we pass to the continuum system.

I hope this helps explain my post - I tried to look deeper into the problem, by extracting the motion of the entire spring rather than just its bottom at the instant it is dropped.
There is such a thing (lookup DKIM) but it's really only one factor of email authenticity and I'm sure Square isn't fully relying on it.
Not true. We only charge the sender to send from a credit card. If you send from a bank account or from the funds that you've already received, it's free.
It's mostly a Japanese thing. In Chinese we don't have a lot of words for particular aesthetic qualities. However, if you want profane homophonic puns or pithy four-word idioms ...
debit cards != ACH
List of US federal government agencies affected by the shutdown of 2013
Chrome Version 30.0.1599.66, Linux works fine.
> Citation?

http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends/ruby%2C+java.html

> Why would Ruby developers be getting more scare? Are they retiring earlier than Java developers?

Ruby developers have always been a tiny fraction of the number of Java developers, and that fraction has been steadily decreasing, while the Java developer pool keeps increasing (Android helped quite a bit growing that population).
YNAB is a great personal software, if you can buy into it's very specific (but helpful!) process.
> Cultures would reject them [potatoes] until a famine struck. Then the ruler would eat them out of necessity. Then everyone would eat them.

I'd love to read more about this. Can you point me to a particular episode? The ruler is pretty much the last person I'd expect to eat something out of necessity.
It's still in slow rollout stage. If you want to try it now, I'll send you a cent and it should be enabled for you. (You must be in the US, read the TOS, etc.)
Hi Breckin, would love to chat, email is in profile, I think you'll love what we're building :)
So is PayPal and just about every other financial institution. Square has some nice safeguards in place here and considering they are going to be the ones paying for fraud abuse, you can be sure they'll be doing everything possible to prevent it.
Entirely curious: has he posted that he is American before? Where are you getting that from, are are you generalizing about all Americans and not talking about the poster above?
So ... not realizing your ambitions but DOWNSIZING your ambitions. And we all just LOVE downsizing!

I think I just realized why Americans are so in love with freaking Buddhism. They want their spirituality downsized.
>>its awkward to put money and church in the same phrase

I have attended churches that would disagree with that sentiment. :)

Can you tell us what the ADDO name means?
Video Start-Up Co-Founded by Cory Booker Is Set to Be Acquired
I see no links backing their claims. Are there any creditable sources for this?
They appear to be a trusted name in (big) business circles, and have been around since the beginning of the Internet in Australia.

I guess you have to pick your poison, a company that might not be so great but has been around, or someone that is great but fleeting. Although that is starting to change now with Linode, Rackspace, and others.
I am still pushing to name version 0.1 of Servo "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians". :)
I'm more excited by cricket farming for protein flour (here in the US).

There's a Brooklyn company called Exo (Exo.co) which is doing just that after a kickstarter campaign + media blitz. Cricket flour is super high in protein, and also very sustainable. Could see it becoming the next acai, chia seed, quinoa, etc.
I'm basically the tech guy for my church, and my parents are elders (we don't have a pastor, per se; we have four elder couples).

I think that's an interesting idea. The first thing that jumps out at me is that it better be very simple to use, and there should be a way to integrate it well with the church website, regardless of what system they use to run their website. But, I'm sure you've thought of that already. I don't think this would work out well for my church since we're pretty small at this point (about a hundred attendees most weeks) and not particularly tech-literate, but I'll keep an eye on this.
zuluCrypt [1] replaced TrueCrypt for me.

> "zuluCrypt is a front end to cryptsetup and tcplay. It makes it easy to manage LUKS,PLAIN and TRUECRYPT encrypted volumes through a GUI and a simpler to use CLI interface."

If you can handle experimental CLI-driven software, pbp [2] is interesting.

> "PBP is a simple python wrapper and a command line interface around libsodium, to provide basic functionality resembling PGP. It uses scrypt for a KDF and a much simpler packet format, which should be much harder to fingerprint, pbp also provides an experimental forward secrecy mode and a multi-party DH mode."

[1] https://code.google.com/p/zulucrypt/

[2] https://github.com/stef/pbp

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/zulucrypt/

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python2-pbp
While this is true, type design will make you a better graphic designer. Designing a font is one of the better ways of training your eyes, becoming sensitive to subtlety, trusting your optical perception over raw measurements, learning about the interaction between shapes and space, etc.
As someone that has raised $100M+ in VC for my current startup, I totally agree with this sentiment.

Open with the investment thesis -- or more specifically, lead with WHY this is a great investment compared to the other 100+ deals they're looking at.
>> "Cultures would reject them until a famine struck."

Ironic considering the devastating effects of the reliance on potatoes during the Irish potato famine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)
I really hope also if each bank in the world can provide API for easy bank reconciliation and can auto match with any number provider such as bank in slip number or what ever number.
I thought that there were now ways for payment processors to flag that a transaction is not supposed to earn points? (eg. balance transfers, cash withdrawals etc...)

Otherwise I could deposit $10,000 from my credit card into my on-line gambling wallet, then withdraw it, repeat...
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I always considered MT to be a marketing company so this seems to be a perfect fit. I mean that literally because I always joke that they are the designer jeans of hosting.
> Do we literally don't know who created Truecrypt?

Yes, that's right. (The very earliest version was based on work 13 years ago by Paul Le Roux, but it's undergone enormous work since then by some person or group.)

TrueCrypt is a popular, carefully designed, well written, well maintained,
highly stable and non-trivial application, but its authors are completely
unknown. The open source world does have some quiet humble people, but it
seems surprising that the authors want to remain totally anonymous
for developing a legitimate and well-respected product.
The main problem is that humans will be the one using the calendar system ;)
Addo means "to give" in latin.
Longer decks still work -- even today.

Possible reason: Often, decks are shared before a meeting is taken, so the really good ones are designed to be read (not just presented).
"Wabi sabi" is a not a commonly used (or known) term in contemporary Japan, although it has been popularised in western art circles to exemplify a Japanese art. A more used term in Japan (as far as I have been told - I am not Japanese myself) which has a related meaning is 'mono no aware' ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono_no_aware ).

[edit] to plug a book on Japanese culture (as it was, rather than as it is now) to anyone with the time or interest, I highly recommend Bernard Rudofsky's 1965 book 'The Kimono Mind'.
interesting - strange choice of architecture. Is there an advantage to something like this ?
What service allows you to specify a debit from an account that's not authorized, in hte US? No bank that I've even used provides that, nor does an online service or API without first authorizing a debit via ACH with the deposit confirmation.
> That they are not allowing this for credit cards indicates that they are using the pin debit networks.

not necessarily. you can't think of any other reasons why they'd do this?
When I first head of wabi-sabi, it was to describe the aesthetic appeal of raw denim made on heirloom equipment -- the uneven weave caused by loom chatter, how dye gets everywhere, the uneven fade patterns, the leg twist caused by the skewed direction of the twill weave.
Many people spend time comparing the different services, but in truth they're all the same!

The fact that many of them have the same parent company doesn't mean that their servers, features, support, uptime, etc. are the same. So they're no more the same than Facebook and Instagram are the same social network just because they have the same owner.
Tech Rivals Lay Down Arms for Youth Coding
I don't see anything on the site but on Google Play it warns the app can't be installed on my Nexus 4 - I take it this is US only?

Edit:

Looks like it's not even available in all states in the US [1]

[1] https://squareup.com/help/en-us/article/5136-troubleshoot-sq...
Disagree with this.

In today's world (particularly in consumer Internet), investors often judge the "quality" of a team based on the aesthetics of the pitch-deck -- and website. All things being equal, the deck with the better design sense wins.
I subscribed to a tmdhosting VPS package, and the IO throughput was simply horrible. I collected the IO statistics, and I emailed the support team and asked it to move me to another hardware node which was less overloaded.

The support person refused to do so, but instead, asked me to subscribe to a dedicated server. I explained that I didn't need a dedicated server, as it was clear from my statistic that all faults were on their IO throughput side. He just won't listen and still insisted on up-selling me a dedicated server.

What a horrible experience! Anyone encountered the same thing as I do? Is IO throughput a PITA for your hosting experience?
It's getting better: http://www.rackspace.com.au/cloud-servers/pricing

Plus I know of a smaller company that's intending to move in here. Hope that goes well...
Yes, you seem to be correct. Good catch.
According to a google for "150 CNY in USD", "150 Chinese Yuan equals 24.59 US Dollar"
Makes those recycled press releases really shine.
Google Play Redesign Highlights Tablet Apps
Actually, as the Ars technica articles have shown, it takes much more than that to protect from a dictionary attack with the speed that passwords can be tried now.

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/10/how-the-bible-and-yo...
I've had several accounts with them over the years, and I think they provide a lot of value for the money. Their website design is antiquated, but their hosting works.
Please, use the word typeface when trying to make this distinction. In the US, typefaces cannot be copyrighted, but some fonts can.
How we broke the 1,000 subscribers milestone with no budget
I'm not much of a churchgoer these days, but growing up Episcopalian I have nothing but respect for folks for faith.

Is it cool if I send this to some of my non-techie friends/family? One of your comments says that you haven't really shipped yet, so I'm not sure what your target audience is at this point.

edit: for what it's worth I also think chad_oliver and blankenship nailed it with their comments/suggestions.
Drones vs. Government: Who Owns America's Skies?
Ask HN: How to Get Registered Users to Actually Use My Webapp
I had a great launch... as a result of the niche coverage I received, a few thousand users are signed up and in. However, noone is actually using the site.

It's perplexing... the feedback is great. Anyone else have this happen and have any suggestions?

The site is a user-to-user marketplace.
Gmail is now overriding browser right-click to provide a custom contextual menu
This is a clear example of a design anti-pattern that often crops up with new Google interfaces.

There is no setting to turn it off, and it nukes the browser's standard right click contextual menu for opening links in new tabs and windows, copying urls, etc when clicking on messages.

Designers, please just stop with this kind of thing. It's not acceptable to change the behavior of a standard. fundamental browser interface in your site design.
I set up a mini cockroach farm to feed my lizard (a bearded dragon). They're easy to look after, very low maintenance, never bite and don't make much noise. I can't say I've ever wanted to eat one, but I can see why they'd be an excellent creature to farm if people are willing.
When I try to email an invoice, I get an "Error", which isn't very helpful. I can't find anywhere to setup the emailing functionality, so I assume that that part isn't ready yet?
Mozilla’s New App Manager Makes Debugging Easier For Firefox OS Developers