skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for your explanation. I do believe they are not outside of their bounds in wanting to verify my identity. You are correct that my concern is the security of my ID document.

I'm curious how email encryption would solve this problem. Presumably it would make for the secure transmission of the document, but I would still be left with DOs word that the document would be completely deleted after they viewed it and not kept on file. I just hate the thought of my CC info and government ID sitting somewhere on their servers and then hearing they had a security breach (for the very reasons that you specified - CC alone == promise, CC + ID == identity theft?).
Is the 'We' here Rackspace? Am confused :s
98% of all great startups are copycats, not original innovations. Markus copied the look and feel from infiniminer, but minecraft was far better executed.
Having had some cards expire, I can assure you that nobody has their Amazon account suspended when a card expires; that would be insane. Instead, your account works as normal, but you can't use the expired card to pay for anything.

Amazon doesn't operate on a tab system. I'm struggling to imagine how you thought using them worked.
Trey, love it! We're doing something similar...everyone on Treatings is open to being treated to coffee by a stranger:

https://treatings.co/activity
Did anyone else find this section weird:

In an archive of the thousands of thank you messages written
to Jeff over the years, a small sampling includes “I just
wanted to thank you for giving my husband the opportunity to
work for your company so many years ago and let you know
that he always spoke kindly and enthusiastically of the
distribution center, the people and you.” “Having finished
my shift I thought I would send you a short email to say
thank you. There is a fantastic team based here and we have
super support. Our mentors are true Amazon angels providing
guidance and showing great patience.” “I cried as I read the
Career Choice announcement on Amazon today. What Amazon is
doing to help its employees is affecting lives in the most
meaningful way I can think of. It restores my faith in
humanity.”

I'm not saying they haven't received thousands of thank-yous, but that's weird, right? I've never once considered sending a thank-you to any CEO/boss, nor have I met anyone who has. (Of course, I've also never worked at Amazon--)
Migrating your Django Project to Heroku
Wow, the Hazelcast guys came to our office and allowed us to pepper them with all the questions we could. They were smart, open and honest with their answers. I think this is the sign of things to come with some of the jvm targeted libraries who use standard Java collections.

Now if only we could get them to produce a nice Scala version.
More like "this book is so damning, that even Bezos's wife had to do damage control". That's the impression I got at least.
To bad this is still about 26x more expensive than Hetzner.

Hetzner just launched new servers themselves.

http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver-pr...

For €139/mo. :

- new E5-1650 hexcore CPU

- 128GB of ECC RAM

- 2 x 240GB SSD

Edit: formatting and price comparison of €139 vs $3971/mo. http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/servers/pricing/
Interview with the Github Elasticsearch Team
Indeed, but the two may not be mutually exclusive. "Everywhere I can fact check from personal knowledge" doesn't automatically mean more than a handful
Was it a genuine mistake, or just someone adding drama to the story to make it more sensational? Looks like the second scenario, in this case.
See these comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6674569

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6675042

Some things are actually verifiable. Or a weaker statement: if something could be easily verified, the fact that someone with an opinion on the matter hasn't bothered to research it indicates laziness. For people like journalists and writers, it may indicate misconduct.

As a society, we need to fight the idea that everyone is biased therefore if your facts weaken my argument let's just agree to disagree, m'kay.

While on a social level, this is a good idea, in the public sphere it allows bad actors to just shrug off contradicting evidence.
Jim Jarmusch: "Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: 'It’s not where you take things from - it’s where you take them to.' "
How to JIT – an introduction
Ask HN: Can anyone recommend a good security auditor / pen tester?
I'm acting on behalf of a company that believes that they have been infiltrated / hacked. I can't go into much details here.

I need some recommendations on people / companies that can help:

- security audit (company servers / desktops / laptops)

- penetration testing (both network and social engineering)

Company is based in the UK. Discretion is very important to the client. You are likely to be asked for references / work experience. They might also need you to sign an NDA.

My email in profile.

P.S. I'm not sure if this would be better in the "seeking freelancers" section of HN. Please let me know if that is the case, and I'll delete this and move it there.
Treat strangers to coffee
My best friend and I disliked our jobs and wanted a non-awkward way to reach out to people whose work interested us.

We finally quit our jobs, moved into bunkbeds (http://instagram.com/p/WOPgf-rcFB/), and learned to code in order to build a community of people open to meeting strangers whose work interests them, over coffee.

We're now talking to companies who will be featuring their employees as "ambassadors" offering coffee meetings ("treatings") to individuals interested in working at their company. We think job sites suck and that networking/job seeking should work like online dating. Would love peoples' feedback, and an upvote!
This is a cool idea; I would take you up on it if I wasn't in New York. I especially like your web page but have to say that the light coloring makes some of the text a little hard to read.
Coveralls: Code Coverage History and Stats
Can you remove the chat widget from your blog? It makes reading the site impossible on my phone.
To return a shared_ptr you first had to create it. So even if it optimizes the move, it doesn't optimize away the creation of the pointer and its destruction.

As of using naked references, you're right, but if you can use naked references, why ever use shared_ptr? Naked references are fine when you know the lifetime of the object.

Don't get me wrong - shared pointers are useful in many scenarios, but they are not a general replacement for GC.
To be fair, I think it's supposed to be a stylized exclamation mark.
Looking for a co-founder
Hi all,

I am currently looking for a UI designer to join me as a co founder. I am currently working on getting my small business CRM tool off the ground and I have coded up most of the server side (its using RoR) pieces of the mvp. But I need someone to do the front end of it. The ideal person would be someone who wants to break into the startup scene (just like me!), lives in new england and is proficient in html5, css, bootstrap/watch, responsive design etc. If interested, shoot me an email.
I thought this was going to be another Apple = Big Brother piece too. Having read too many articles like that lately, I was surprised at the ending. The post title on here feels kind of ominous...
Incredible Footage Shows Skydivers Surviving Plane Collision
Passion > Business. Passion that makes a business is even better.
If this is really an issue for you, you should probably be aware that there is no subjunctive form in "if I were a rich man" (CGOTEL terms that form "irrealis").

The english subjunctive can be observed in e.g. "I ask that you be there on time".
Read the Docs: Create, host, and browse documentation
I actually played this game on a Pentium 60 with 8 MB of RAM. It ran pretty well if you turned down all the graphics settings.
Does anyone find it funny that Bezos is making money off this inaccurate book about himself, that he probably hates, by selling it in his store? And that his wife's bad review of the book probably drove more sales? (the rank is currently 83, earlier today in a Google cached version of the page the rank is 86)

Not that he should/would pull the book or anything. Just kind of funny.
3 Supposed Best Practices In Email Optimisation: Debunked
Ask HN: Why are free iOS apps most downloaded form China and Russia?
I recently launched a free version of my iOS app. On day 1, the most downloads were from China and Russia. Given my app is intended for south indian classical music users, this is an unexpected demographic to be actually interested in the app.

Any insights on why these downloads are happening from China/Russia?

The last time I tried this, China and Russia dominated the initial downloads but quickly came down the list.

It almost looks like some bots are watching for free apps and download them automatically or something :)
The original content is at http://www.cabletv.com/the-walking-dead
I hear lots of praise for Valgrind. Resorted to it on occasion, but the results were less than stellar. Other than a spew of irrelevant 'leaks' (single-allocations at start that last the life of the program, intentional and not leaks at all) it has, for me, never caught anything important.

Memory corruption errors are hard to find and I'd love a tool that helped me find them. Systematic leaks (app leaks over hours or days) would also be good to find. I've had zero luck with valgrind. Always had to resort to finding them the old-fashioned way.
It's interesting that the OP says this:

> When we think of entrepreneurs we stereotypically expect them to have extroverted traits.

and then near the end of the article essentially agrees that he had to learn those "extroverted traits":

> over time I gained the confidence I needed to speak in public to large crowds, attend packed networking events, and pitch to powerful and wealthy individuals

I think most people would agree that introverts can be entrepreneurs, but there are certain "extroverted traits" that fit hand-in-glove with building a successful company, and I would say they are learned behaviours for everyone, simply at different times in life, or depending on one's role. Extroverted entrepreneurs (who are technical) also may need to learn to enjoy spending lots of time alone on code. This is no less of a learning process than the opposite.
Thanks for the clarifications. Just for the record it seems that Supervisor will roll out Python 3 support soon https://github.com/Supervisor/supervisor/issues/110. It's good to have it here and now though.
What about the social and psychological impacts of doing chores for all of those old-timey reasons like "learning the value of an honest day's work"?

I would say this kind of behavior has pretty big social implications that everyone seems to be glossing over.
I actually took some pains to assure them I was not trying to do that. I offered to teach them the techniques I would use, which would actually have increased their market value. They just would not have a word of it. About 6 months later we were all laid off when the company folded.

I now hire spreadsheet testers on odesk for $10/hr. Upskill when you have the chance or die.
No, he didn't just copy it, he looked what the players liked and what they didn't like, extracted the good stuff and made a game out of this.

This is how everything remotely successful works.

This is also why things later fail!

The companies want more customers and add stuff to their products to appeal. But what they end with is a product, that doesn't reflect the good things extracted anymore, because they got bloated.
The real question is, is this still needed in the modern web? I have never used the user agent to serve different content. I do expect that some sites still use the user agent for detection of mobile browsers but that is also deprecated for people with common sense..
Love DDG but discovering your UA on SERP like that isn't very useful. If you're someone who needs to know your own UA, you`ll probably need it several times a day or more. Searching for "user agent" is the long way to do it, there are browser extension for that. Still, nice Easter Egg from the best Duck in town.
Ask HN: What open source project is your pride and joy?
Maybe you've authored or contributed to 10 projects - which one is special?
I've actually used an excel doc as a backend, which wrote json to a server for an app to consume. And honestly, I would do it again over using a google doc.
I would be interested, though probably not so much in the web UI for it - Emacs would be fine.
I think it's a cool idea too - I am in NYC wanna grab coffee/beer and chat tech?
Why is there no subjunctive form in "If I were a rich man"? I do agree that "If I was a rich man" would also be technically correct in as many contexts, though, so that was a bad example (but I haven't had my coffee yet and that's the first example that comes to mind :) )
Makes you appreciate how much layouts have improved with CSS. So much layout code in the javascript. And tables. Tables as far as the eye can see.
Wrong thread mate.
If she attempted to have the book banned from Amazon (or get her husband to do it), and sales rose, then I would agree with calling it a case of the "Streisand Effect". But all she did was say "The events described do not match my recollections as a primary source."

That makes me less inclined to read it.
Great. Thanks. I hope the list will grow and grow.
Wrong thread, you must have mixed up tabs :)
Nov 6th, 2013 ¤ Re-launch of Online Bingo
Probably for the same reason most app piracy also comes from China and Russia. On iOS your competitors may be having paid apps, so if yours is free, they'll get yours, while downloading almost none of the paid apps from competitors.

The point is, people there can't afford to buy apps, so they'll get them for free (either from the store, or pirate them). Both countries have large populations, too, so you're more likely to notice the "surge".
All you need is a bank, no detergent necessary.
Yeah, I think it definitely has a "weird things aristocratic British people do" association: job titles like au pair, chauffeur, butler, chef, governess, etc. don't seem like something that would fit into a red-blooded, down-to-earth American household.

Housecleaning and grass cutting are really common to pay people for in the U.S., though. I think in the neighborhood I grew up the same large company must've had at least 20-30% of the lawns, because they basically came through with their big trailers of equipment and went house to house marching through their customer list.
That's a novel idea, very brave also. There needs to be a blog post follow up to see how this went!
I like the website and if I weren't in DC I'd fill it out... But one doesn't need a fancy website to reach me. I pretty much always say yes to someone who wants to learn more about what we're working on. I bet that's true for a great many founders.
I don't think it's a weird thing to do if someone loves what they do or is very grateful for the opportunity they have. However, I'm biased as I have written a thank you note to my CEO before (small company - I was #13 and we have 36 people now).
I wonder if you could make a linkedin app that would not only show people in your area (city) but also show the 2nd and 3rd connections and who you should reach out to in order to get drinks with that person. Cool idea - love it!
Circus looks great, although there doesn't appear to be an email alert plugin (yet?). I use this with Supervisor to alert me of restarts/crashes.

The web interface is certainly pretty, though.
Also outside of HN/geek how many people REALLY used Reader? I bet you its less than 0.1% of the overall Google users. I would have done exactly the same in Google's position.

If a feature had been built that only 0.1% of users are using yet is taking up time to run, why keep it?
How do you value your time at $100/hour, though? If it's because you subjectively place $100 value on that hour of doing nothing, then that's fine, and it's true that you should in that case pay someone to do the hour of work. But if it's because you earn $100/hour when you're working, and therefore infer that your time is generally worth $100/hr, that is a somewhat questionable inference unless you are actually going to do paid work in that hour, i.e. you will actually incur an opportunity cost of $100 by mowing your lawn instead of doing an hour of contract work.

If it's not displacing paid work, then it becomes a matter of subjective valuation of your time, which depends not only on the time, but the task and what you would do instead. In that case, you really have to place a subjective value on how much you like or dislike mowing the lawn, and how much you like or dislike what you would do instead. Since you're just displacing one kind of unpaid time for another kind of unpaid time, there's no objective economic basis for determining what the delta value between "sitting in a chair" and "mowing the lawn" is. I personally put it fairly low, because I don't mind mowing the lawn (plus it's exercise, something I'd have to find time to do anyway).
I'm working on one called Brodlist.com that uses data from Wikipedia (specifically WikiData). The technology underneath let's you do really powerful queries without a language. (You can look at the site, but it's just a mockup -- it won't be in Beta for another month or two.)
Startups have same success rate a restaurents? [research] -- http://
It's an awesome idea, and you've done a great job of making it look sweet. I have actually been working on something similar so that I could connect with the local designers/coders in the Philadelphia area. I'll post it here when its ready :)
Why should travelers not be armed then? I walk into an airport with no weapons at all, no ability to defend myself from an attack. In fact the purpose of the checkpoints, in theory, is to ensure that travelers are unarmed.
That's great to see Supervisor is moving forward on the Python 3 support.

Scott is actually the person who ported Circus to Python 3, so double kudos for him.
Not sure about the US, but could you file these under "business expenses" for taxes?
Yes, you are spot on!
This is when you should/shouldn't or who should apply or shouldn't etc.
Startup Decisions Must Be Quick And Disciplined
This is an interesting problem, but not that interesting, really.

The really interesting problem is an ant walking on the surface of an expanding sphere, where the rate of the expansion of the sphere is proportional to the radius of the sphere.

If the ant starts at one pole, will it ever reach the other pole?

Yes, I've underspecified the problem - we want the complete set of solutions.

Assume initial radius r, ant of length l, ant walking at speed w, and initial rate of expansion e (remembering that de/dt is proportional to r).

Under what conditions will an ant at pole P1 reach P2? Under what conditions is impossible for the ant to reach P2?

Presumably there is a range of values such that the ant can traverse the sphere if it starts early enough or is big enough or if w is high enough.

Now make things even more interesting: Assume that there is a maximum speed M, and that the closer w or e gets to M, the harder it is to get incrementally close to M.

This is the expanding universe. We are the ant.

If we had developed high speed interstellar travel "early enough", would we ever have been able to cross the universe? Or is it always too late?

Now that's an interesting problem. Solution left as an exercise for the reader.
Umm, no, you shouldn't be able to do everything you want with your money.

A payment processor has a fiduciary duty for its customers. So if you are sending $100,000 to Nigeria to pay for puppies, the Payment processor better stop this transaction to protect you form being scammed.

Now maybe you are smart and savvy enough to be not scammed but an average joe isn't.

There are many rules in the payment industry but KYC (Know Your Customer) is pretty high up in the Payment Processor's Bible. From the article it seems that Lib.Res. didn't just commit minor sins; it was designed to disregard the bible all together.
Saving Time when Installing HybridCluster
A great explanation that also made me laugh. I've never really thought of the browser vendors trying to impersonate each other before; sort of, "competing" for content. I always thought they just did what they liked and we all had to hack around it.
Could you state your argument more precisely, please?

The original argument would be "don't do Space, solve povery/hunger/education...".

You point out that "poverty/hunger/education..." have improved despite Space.

This does only partly contradict the original argument, since there are plenty of severe and urgent problems today, including some of those from the 1961.

Additionally, can you explain the usage of the word "bigot"? Seems harsh.
I guess doing the math it's just likely below my radar.

Thousands of thank-yous comes out to around ~100 / year, and Amazon has probably had between 10,000 and 100,000 employees for most of that, so it's around 0.1%-1% of employees choosing to write a thank-you in any given year. I probably don't know 100-1000 people well enough for that to show up in my personal experience.

But it still seems weird.
Yeah we did not ship a plugin for e-mail alerting - the builtin plugins are : http://circus.readthedocs.org/en/latest/for-ops/using-plugin...

But writing a new plugin is very easy, see : http://circus.readthedocs.org/en/latest/for-devs/writing-plu...

We would be happy to add in the built-in collection new useful plugins contributed by the community
@kamaal, please don't measure everything in terms of money, and in terms of those million dollar flats. You are simply swaying off of topic. Why do you think you can dispute GP's first hand experience?

Also, you don't seem to have any idea about ISRO. So, please control your assumptions about their salary, working conditions, transport etc. I'd rather trust GP's post about ISRO as he has first hand experience.
Exactly. When my high school switched from Windows to Linux a number of years ago, I didn't have to change the way I taught office software, computer fluency, or programming, because I wanted to be "operating-system agnostic". I'm glad that students have different systems at home than at school; that gives us openings to talk about their distinctions and how they make a difference.

These days, some students are using Google Docs for their papers and other work. They don't care what OS they're using.
Should you be able to mark unit tests as ignored?