skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing for sure it is based on another software.
See History (http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/version-history2)

> 1.0

> February 2, 2004

> Note: TrueCrypt 1.0 is based on E4M (Encryption for the
> Masses). Therefore, the following list contains
> differences between E4M 2.02a and TrueCrypt 1.0 (minor
> differences have been omitted).
Two major reasons, depends on who's telling.

First and foremost is simplicity for the recipient: if wallet X contains the desired number of bitcoins, the sender paid. Unambiguously. Otherwise it's difficult to tell who sent what, since you might be sending any number of pieces of coins that all make up "your" transaction, which is complex / nigh-impossible to solve without other ways of verifying (such as including a message in the transaction). This is made even more complex if you receive many transactions from many people with a single address.

Second is anonymity. If you reuse "your" wallet and it's ever connected to you, so is every transaction out of it, forever. If you value the anonymity side of Bitcoin, it's very important, but not sufficient. If you don't care about anonymity, the only other downside is that someone who gets your private key can wait until your wallet is bigger before stealing the bitcoins. If you constantly change addresses, the old private key is essentially worthless as soon as you make any transaction. Honestly that's pretty unlikely, and if they have your private key it's game over anyway, they can steal it all at any time they want.
Particularly weak passwords could be brute forced with a dictionary attack.
TSA proposes arbitrarily individualized surveillance-based searches
This is an excellent term to throw around carelessly with your designer friends.
> "With cockroaches, you can invest 20 yuan and get back 150 yuan," or $3.25 for a return of $11.

?????????

As I see it, 150元 is seven and a half times as much as 20元. I didn't use any exchange rate of any sort to compute that.

Seven and a half times $3.25 is $24.375 . Using the most charitable interpretation I can think of, that's a return of $21.12 on an investment of $3.25, but put in the same terms as the original quote, I'd call it investing $3.25 and getting back $24.38. What happened there?
> it looks like it was build based on some other font, and there are still original/unchanged characters left.

There is nothing wrong with doing that. Fonts can't be copyrighted.

The font file itself can (sometimes) be copyrighted as a form of computer program, but not the font (i.e. the shape).
Except now that'll be the first place I'll look :D
I would have at least 1-2 slang/leet-speak words in there to counter dictionary attacks.
Many similar GIFs to be found on Giphy:

http://giphy.com/tags/geometry/

http://giphy.com/tags/math/

http://giphy.com/tags/physics/
In my Canadian city high-volume, low-price businesses such as independent fast food places take debit only since credit card charges would remove a good bit of their margin on a sale.
How do we know you're not working for the NSA to undermine the undermining of the credibility of the audit? :P
TechCrunch Has Redesigned, Again
I'm no expert by any means but aren't the account number and routing number both printed on the bottom of every check? Are you saying that simply giving a check to someone compromises your checking account?
Please do not put nginx and crap like mongodb in the same basket. nginx won its user-base solely due to brilliant engineering, attention to details and superior code quality, while mongodb "success" is based on using deceptive sales techniques and media manipulations.

There are hundreds of blog posts that describe in great details all the pitfalls and bad design withing mongodb, along with their cheating with benchmarks and calling "transactions" non-atomic writes, etc. It is no use to describe all the details here. Use Google search.)
Breakdown of Will
Then you choose another open source offering or fork nginx and start implementing the features it's missing.
I'm pretty sure the rider stays in the same place O_o

Oh god. This is going to be the next airplane-on-treadmill isn't it.
Yeah, man.
Except, Wave accounting is missing bank reconciliation...a really important feature that your accountant will probably tell you, needs to be there.
I also wish the limitations would disappear, but there are two reasons keeping them in place:

1) Government wants to ensure it can track all digital transfers (many pre-paid cards require activating with SSN)

2) Failing to approve certain transactions is the equivalent of a financial firewall because banks and payment processors know they haven't hardened their servers enough to prevent another one of these: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/10/nyregion/eight-charged-in-...

Now, if policy-makers were convinced the online-children-purchases market were bigger than the drive-by-ATM fraud, we would see the rules changed tomorrow.
Remember that the person you're replying to said "which, honestly, I know nothing about".

To remove money from a US account, you also need authorization. The trick thieves use is to lie about having authorization. In that case, it's fraud.

I don't know of many fraudulent transactions that can't be reversed. Even fraudulent/unauthorized wire transfers can be reversed. The bigger problem is the hassle that comes with losing access to cash while the situation is resolved.

Can someone with actual banking knowledge correct me where I'm wrong and clear up this confusion?
heyo simon! Totally understand. This is primarily for church organizations to manage tithes, offering, and interaction with members. But church congregations (members) will have limited access too.

There's a great infographic that breaks down whether online giving is right for your church. Check it out: http://i.imgur.com/WLysi7d.png

I'm going to update the landing page with more info here shortly...
Yeah, while I have respect for Greenwald's work, I struggle with the notion that a news organisation with a billionaire as its backer can maintain a fully independent editorial policy.

Chomsky and Herman point to five distorting filters which I think are prevalent in most mainstream news organisations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent:_The_Poli...
Actually, I think that "better story" is that we cannot and should not entrust proprietary and closed systems with our vital information. Just like how "security through obscurity" has long ago been proven untrue, so too should we stop using non-free software to do our tasks, especially highly important ones with sensitive data.
Is it me or is there a place in the market for higher quality, less commodity type hosting services. Right now things are segmented by type of hosting in very technical ways, but we're now seeing more value added hosting for things like rails (heroku), wordpress (wp engine), etc.

I think people will always pay for service, quality, and experience. Whoever can deliver that consistently will make money in hosting.
I remember calling up Network Solutions on the phone to pay for a domain, because they had no e-commerce functionality! This was around 1997ish. I had several "free" domains from the 1993-94 era.
Great work. I'll be keeping a close eye on this.

I think the tagline "Grow your church community and increase giving" doesn't feel quite right. Specifically, "increase giving" sounds a little bit ... greedy, maybe? Every church I've been in recognizes that money is useful and necessary, but there's always that fear that people will feel like they have to give in order to be a Good Christian.

I'm not really sure how to improve the tagline, but perhaps you could focus on what money enables. The pain-point isn't that churches want more money, it's that they want to be able do more, help more, serve more.
Its sad that we are regressing from high quality to low quality voice telephony. Telephone companies are already petitioning (rather silently) to remove any aspect of regulation from the state utility commissions. I got a tattered postcard in fine print from CenturyLink explaining about such a hearing that will take place in .. get this .. 4 days on a weekday. I suspect they don't want the public to be very aware of this.

Soon, the last saviors of communication, the battery bank powered analog telephone line with cold war reliability, will be replaced with garbage DSL/VoIP modems that crash on a daily basis with choppy audio... yay.. i can't wait for another actiontec. This is going to be the replacement for the "landline". Seriously.
I just upgraded to 4.3 (Win7 host, Sandy Bridge Core i7 processor), and VirtualBox is now complaining that I've got more virtual cores (4) assigned to my guest than I have physical cores (2) on my host.

While this is true, this wasn't an issue with 4.2. It still lets me run it, but it's not happy about it.

EDIT: Further investigation shows that VirtualBox docs have always said this was a bad thing to do, but didn't used to throw up a warning when you did it anyways.
Yes, they are printed on the bottom of checks because they are the information that allows conversion of the check into money. Yes, giving a check to someone compromises your account. You're trusting the other person to do nothing other than withdraw the amount on the check, but you're giving them enough information to withdraw whatever you have in your account.
This is by far my favorite programming font and has been for years now.
Clash of Clans vs Clash of Clones on Android
the fundamental blocking issue might be that we all think that 'flow' is not in our capability, & that it is possible only for a blessed few. I've penned my thoughts on it in a post I wrote sometime here
http://priyankasriraghavan.blogspot.in/2013/07/flow-let-it-b...
Very interesting to find someone else who is also perplexed by the double keys. I've thought about this as well and I arrived at a different conclusion. My guess is car rental companies give you two keys in case one doesn't work. Maybe one fob is out of battery or one of the keys doesn't work. Having a hot stand-by is much cheaper than having to rescue you from a distant location.
Consider that the people who made the biggest, shittiest decisions here made way more money while doing so than you did during the same period, most likely.
“Grow your church community and fund your mission.”

Or something of the sort. People respond to vision, not need.
No, no it's not compassion. Not unless compassion is your Core Value. But as Core Values are individual, it would only be your conception of success.

If compassion isn't your core value then it's a concept close to 'altruism' which is the lowest Presence level of Good. That is, Altruism = Submissive Good.

And maybe for you rising up to the bottom of the barrel of Good people is "success" but I rather think success is when you've reached the other end of the Presence scale and you're a god.

This discussion could get very technical very, very quickly. In fact, it's already gone far beyond your vocabulary in mental theory and your ability to grasp the concepts. I doubt you even know what a god is.

You've done the equivalent of asking "what does well-designed software look like?" and answering your question with "could it have something to do with assignment operators?" To which I respond "Um, yeah, no."
Nginx Inc without mr. Sysoev is just a support company.)

There were rumors that he had plans to rewrite big parts of the server, so-called nginx2. If this Nginx Plus is what they would do instead, that is pity.

In my humble opinion, while nginx/core is brilliant the module system is over-engineered and too complicated, and there are lot of room for improvements.
Sort of weird to lump a whole region together. I'd agree though that traditional Japanese aesthetics include a lot of great descriptive terms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_aesthetics
A Month With JavaScript Disabled
Around a month ago I disabled JavaScript. Since then for both home links and techie related I've accrued a list of 101 unique exceptions. And there are at least 50-100 more that I didn't add to the exceptions list because their site's functionality was not seriously degraded enough for me to add one.

I'd say most of the ones I added to my list could easily have been designed to use no JavaScript while a small percentage were very heavily in need of the dynamic power of JavaScript.

Question, with so many find platform specific technologies and techniques, why do we force a kludge of HTMl, JavaScript and CSS to make a usable web application? I really think when a web site needs to start having JavaScript considered, it's time to think about building a real client side application.
I miss the days where you visited a website and all you got was a 960px wide centered site with a banner and a clearly distinguishable menu. Maybe if you were lucky you had a sidebar, and if you were really lucky it wasn't designed terribly.

This new design resembles that era to a degree for me. Might actually start using it now.

Dead simple navigation is what I look for every time and this redesign nails that. I love that as well as the "recent fundings" and footer. Stories ALL the way down, with a huge ass number for pages gets me excited and has me potentially spending a lot of time on TC in the future.

It took me about 5 seconds to know exactly how to use the new site, and that's amazing.

Really gives it that "go to" feel that websites strive for.

edit: looks beautiful on my Nexus 7 as well.
And of course it cures cancer, diabetes, bad-breath and increases your virility and success with the ladies. They haven't tried it yet, but it should also increase your mileage if you put them in your gas tank.
Chase Quickpay works like this. While it is limited to another Chase customer (I believe), I don't need to know their account number, just their email and I can send them money directly. The other person can then login to their account to claim the Quickpay and the money is transferred immediately. The transaction is free, and I am notified when the money has been accepted.
I agree that Node.js is technically solid, but the Ruby/Rails code bases and communities have an immeasurably larger and more mature testing culture than JS/Node... and "modern strongly typed languages compiling to JS" does not by any means solve code-base scalability problems for large teams. That claim is simply false. There are boatloads of experienced Java developers. The people who tend to write "strongly typed languages compiling to JS" tend to write those languages, and not JS.

To be clear: the web would not be what it is without JS, and Node is a fascinating and innovative thing. I disagree that there are loads of people who are experienced in C/C++ are champing at the bit to go write Node. The Java/C# talent pool is massively larger than the non-frontend JS talent pool at this time, and the C/C++ talent pool is largely otherwise occupied. That could change... but it hasn't changed yet. The HN/startup scene is not representative of the software industry at large, and a lot of people writing these "languages that can compile to JS" are part of the industry at large.
Y Combinator applicant advice
Chad - big thanks for your comment. I struggled on a tagline, but I think you nailed it. Focusing on "what money enables."

After reading it more, its awkward to put money and church in the same phrase, especially for churches.
I think is has a lot of potential. Two suggestions:

1. Consider adding more information to your landing page. It's just a little too sparse at the moment.

2. Online giving can be a sticky subject, so I would suggest adding some scripture and exegesis to your landing page that can help people be at ease with it.
Amazon sued over requiring security screenings on unpaid time
>_> dGhlcGFzc3dvcmRpc1NRVUVBTUlTSE9TU0lGUkFOR0U=
If it's really free and remains so, it'll be cool. Oddly enough, I'm in a tiny little niche market where there are a few folks who've had really nasty experiences with eBay, and hence refuse to do business through PayPal. The accepted alternative right now is they send me a check, but this thing looks like a good alternative.
Somebody managed to save it.

http://scientopia.org/blogs/drugmonkey/2013/10/15/volunteer-...
I don't think that's at all too far into conspiracy territory. Keep in mind that him being forced to do something and obeying badly (because he couldn't talk publicly about it) is a pretty precise description of the events leading up to the shutdown.
How To Write an NES Emulator in Javascript. Part 1
Hacking sleep: being productive with 4 hours of sleep
how does the email source verification work? SPF and DKIM checks?
any idea how they can credit a debit card? I'm guessing they rolled out their own solution with a few of the biggest US banks, having accounts at each one?
Daily user, with a prescription and approval of Health Canada. Allowed to grow 15 plants under license (which is grandfathered as of april 2014). massively lowers my anxiety, and allows me to work.

As MMPR is being brought in here (and Harper is destroying the black market cannabis trade), I'm bootstrapping a cooperative corporation that converts all these illegal growers to legal ones. We're already approved for distribution, and our website should be launched shortly.
>Fonts can't be copyrighted
are you sure? than what are all this online web-font services like typekit about? are you saying that i can download any font, edit its metadata, maybe add 1 point to every character and freely use it?
Paypal has been offering this for a few years, but they don't promote it much.
Comparing Large Scale Query Engines
A standard markup language for flows would be a good idea, too.
but they don't actually require a PIN number to complete the transaction, so that's probably now how it works, right?
Thanks for this. Very insightful.

I did a Startup Weekend a few months ago and the biggest lesson I learnt there was "Listen, listen, listen!" as well as "Ask for help, you don't have all the answers".

The peopl are there to help and they are either volunteering their time to do so. Take full advantage of that.
Agreed! It is just adding fuel to the fire...
Chrysler has been circling the drain for decades and GM isn't too far behind. Why own stock in them when you can just drain them of their remaining wealth?
I love the logo re-design the most. Finally!
^I meant "increase giving" not "money"
Travel re-imbursement for Y Combinator interviews
I am curious about how YC reimburses teams they invite for interviews. Not so much as the amount but the form - do they write a paper check drawn on their local bank ? Or do they paypal ? Or do they ask for your bank information and do a wire transfer ?
How do you deal with conflicts in sync? We have an Accounting software and I liked your offline freemium approach. What are you using for local server? and for database?SQLLite?
Confidence is one aspect of Presence which is an aspect of Clarity which is Innate Power (though Clarity is the more accurate word). But Confidence is a LOW aspect of Presence. A higher aspect of it is Forcefulness. A still higher is Strength of Purpose.

I'm not going to go into mental theory in the margins of this comment box. But you are confident when you have Clarity about what you want and also about how to get what you want.

It doesn't matter a lick how much money you have or how many muscles you have if you don't know how to apply these things to reality in order to get what you want.

Note that NONE of this has ANYTHING to do with Wealth OR Success. What Foreman is really saying is that wealth matters for jack shit next to confidence and that confidence is infinitely more precious, rare and valuable. Which is true.

Especially in the 20th century when out of 11 billion humans that lived, 90% topped out their Presence at Submissive, 9% topped out at Passive, and less than 1% were Assertive and above.

What Foreman called Confidence was probably Assertiveness. Of course, Assertiveness is only +1 on a scale running from -1 to +6. So really, rather pathetic. To me anyways.
The Cloud Washers Will Lose
All the time. Conventional wisdom at Google is that you should always apply for a promotion, because the cost to you was zero and the benefit was potentially very large.

...that said, I didn't apply last cycle, because the form was changed so that promo candidates have to fill out a more in-depth self-assessment and get more in-depth peer feedback, and me and my peers were heads-down on a deadline at the time. I suppose one way to deal with the externalities of everybody always going up for promo is to make the process easier on people who don't.

BTW, there are regular performance reviews at Google - you can (and should) get your peers' feedback without actually going up for promotion. I did every cycle until I made senior, then I stopped caring quite so much. Promotions beyond senior have a large "impact and leadership" component to them, and so you basically know what you have to do to get promoted, you have to lead a major project that succeeds.
Actually, you can't just take funds out. How would you do that, counterfeit a check and commit fraud by cashing it in? The bank ATMs/teller machines would reject that check and you'd find yourself in prison very quickly.
API Directories
- Good call. Adding more info to the landing page now.

- I like the idea of scripture. It'll probably be something I do with a more fleshed out landing page.
> Also, node.js with browserify & grunt makes for a great front end packaging & dependency tool.

This reminds me of "homebrew is a great packaging/dependency tool, it's basically as good as apt/yum/pacman"
I find it cumbersome because it's as much work as Core Data and seems to have many of the same API choices around threading, but I also have to write SQL. I don't like writing SQL.
> ACH also takes several days to work, and has a wide window for either bank to declare the transfer fraudulent

Still some catching up to do with the UK/EU. Transfers within 15 minutes (99%) with fraud checking etc. is awesome.
thats interesting. i didn't know that there might be a fallback for individual character. not recognised characters are usually visibly marked as not present (square or X or something else).
but if this is whats happening, its not falling back to the next font set in css, its rather picking some "other" (what are the rules here?) font. or simply these characters are designed like this in the font. either as leftovers of originally edited font or on purpose.
Seems like a great way for startups to share learnings with team members about what works (or doesn't) on sales calls. Looking forward to trying it out!
I worked in webhosting for about two years, and can attest to the fact that it's a horrible world. We were pretty good at our jobs, but the company was experiencing some really nasty growing pains, and the product was pretty bad as a result.

One of the big pains in the webhosting world is maintaining legacy systems...we had about 15,000 clients on ancient servers running RHEL4, under a proprietary VPS platform. (And as far as I know, a big chunk of them are still there.) Needless to say, this resulted in a really crappy service for the clients on those servers, and there never seemed to be a big push to get everybody migrated off of them and onto our newer servers running cPanel. We were working towards it, but it was a big endeavor that would leave a lot of clients extremely upset when things invariably went awry. So rather then putting some good development time towards automating the process as much as possible and hiring more support for those accounts that didn't migrate properly, the problem just sat there for years.
I'm not quite sure how to sign up. When I go to "Account" at the bottom right and enter my email address, it takes me to the purple "how to sign up" section, but it's not clear what to do from there.
If the actual article http://www.visionmobile.com/blog/2013/10/how-to-win-in-mobil..., is correct, why has Blackberry fallen so hard when you can run Android apps on it?

I don't think people actually by a device because of the apps that run on it. They are influenced more by advertising and friends.