skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And the risk is they'll get inspired and try to solve another problem with css and a "clever declarative implementation" only that is better solved with the appropriate technology.

I'm not saying these tech explorations are bad, they just need to have a big fat disclaimer "don't try this in prod" and preferably a reference implementation of how it would be done "properly".
If you think about it - it kind of is. I would rather have some means to call for help if I need it than clean clothes.
I would absolutely do the same. Get one of the apps that downloads WikiVoyage and you have a detailed guidebook for all of Europe (including phrasebooks for every language) that doubles as a camera and flashlight and fits in your pocket.
Ruby link blog
http://rubyconn.herokuapp.com/
Easy way to find and read material on Ruby related topics.
It makes me think technology items are just too damn expensive. Phones and the contracts associated with them are more than a tad expensive. How much are we paying just to stay in contact with each other?
Har, har, har.
Santander 1-2-3 is quite a gimmick. Here's a list of participating retailers:

http://www.santander-products.co.uk/banking/calculator/cashb...

So, none of my water, fuel, energy, mortgage or communications providers qualify.

Under the hood it's a promotional scheme with certain big companies.
A fairly big revelation for me was not to act so interested when I first enter a conversation. Two things happen when I appear interested before a word has been spoken. I look awkward, and if the conversation doesn't actually interest me I've just insulted everyone. They are insulted in the form of I apparently really wanted to talk to them and then didn't like them. Thus actual awkwardness occurs while I try and look interested in them.

It's better to enter a conversation with a degree of hesitation and then walk away if nothing pans out. It may not feel like it but they appreciate that. It can also form a bond if I like them as they might feel as though they won me over.
Peter Thiel claims bitcoin has the potential to change the world
Looks great, just needs some emojis and hubot integration and I'm sold!
I once travelled through about 8 countries in Asia over two months. I was recently looking at the backpack I had used for that trip and remembered that it was literally half filled with lonely planet/history/language books that must have weighed about 20 lbs. That is hard to imagine these days.
Nice to see Rasa there. If you live in London and haven't been, go! Indian veg in angel is one of the best value meals london have to offer, 5.50 all you can eat of a selection of south indian curries. Possibly you could add the woodland restaurant on Panton street.
This is awesome. I can see this being massively useful. Who wants to use GMail for a chat?

Coming from someone who uses Github with a few people, this would be great. I'd even pay for it if our project was more than a hobby at this point.
I thought this was a pretty cool story but was a bit bummed that the author didn't disclose the total cost of their trip. It would have been interesting to know how much they spent.
Like I said above, Egold was a single entity. In U.S. feds must shut down multiple very different service providers related to Bitcoin and even then there are other countries with their own companies and legislation.

Also, it's one thing to say that some company helped Osama bin Laden to launder his money - there will be evidence and no one would make a big story out of it. Another thing is to say that "we cannot do anything about this protocol, so we will shut down every single company just because they might use it". To shut down tens of companies you'd need to show evidence that they all somehow launder tons of money. That would be an epic event and it will be well-advertised, so prosecutors would have to be even more careful in what they say, or they will look like simple bullies on every newspaper. It's just entirely different scale of action to take on everyone connected with Bitcoin.

If they do things slowly and try to kill companies one by one, then each time they would create more clarity on how to be compliant with the law which will make every next case even more difficult.

I have no doubt there will be war (there's one already with all this regulatory crap, seizure of funds etc.), but it sure won't be one single decision and little attention, like in case of Egold.
Sure, and the supposedly-stolen things I'm selling really just fell off the back of a truck.

I would think that sellers having ties to producers would have a harder time arguing they were selling fakes. And if they don't have those ties -- if they're not supporting the people causing the harm -- then their actions are only illegal for the sake of simplifying the prosecution's work. Which means their likely being able to get off at trial is less of an issue.
> Also, reasoning from first principles requires you to be aware of all of the "principles" that need to be taken into account.

Yes exactly. That's where most people fall down, or what certainly seems to be the meme in software, where a person's first principles approach is actually just a naive approach.
Great concept, but I don't know how comfortable I am giving them access to all my accounts when all they do for me is choose which card to charge. And how do the purchases show on my card statements? Are they all from Wallaby now?
Signed up immediately. Very promising, especially if the history stays up there for anyone who joins the "repo" discussion later on.

This could be really important for bigger projects where new/significant features should be discussed openly. This way the information stays attached to the repo and others can refer to it later on.

Looking forward to seeing it in action!
Bored Trustafarians doing wacky shit is not something worth writing an article about.
A couple of years I got addicted to yoga and it's made me a very happy and love-spreading person. And I think we just can't have enough of those people in the world. But for some reasons, especially guys think yoga is not for them. So one step towards world-peace would be if we got more guys to do yoga. Wouldn't it be great if there was an online platform
that allows guys to practice their yoga secretly at home so they can show of their skills in public once they've mastered them?! And wouldn't it be great if that platform also included a social network/video game style element to make it even more appealing to guys?!
Well actually, there is a Kickstarter project (funded in 7 hours!!!) that aims to develop just this!! It's MyYogaPro, and I'm a fan, sponsor, ambassador, and convinced believer!
You're supposed to look only at the source code!
Oh, we'll have awesome emotigifs(tm?) and will certainly look at baking Hubot right in.

Thanks for your feebdack.
Seconded. The Last Psychiatrist blog is excellent.

The original story is unclear about whether it counted just articles in the magazines or adverts as well. It does mention the tech adverts in one magazine but the general tone is about tech 'coverage' - as in the choice of the content. Which would seem to exclude ads, since I'd bet the magazines would accept advertising from whoever pays them enough.

I would guess that a study of the adverts would show a whole lot more tech products, as marketing departments can't have failed to notice that women buy their products too.
"Available everywhere that has internets"

And my Windows Phone? :(
I don't really like the idea of signing up with my github account. But I like the idea of Gitter.

One small improvement: Link the "@GitChat" on the confirmation page to the twitter account ;)
Know as the Scunthorpe problem. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
Yes, I should have mentioned those rules.

The point I was trying to make was that we don't have as many rewards programs in Europe because we're behind curve, and they are starting to appear, not because of low interchange.
Thanks for the support. We'll be absolutely sure to have a useful free tier as well as a paid offering.
What!?!? Ok for a minute there I thought I accidentally ended up on some bizarre sub-reddit...oh wait it is the NEW HN </sarcasm>
Next up: Guantanamo-style "secure hoods" containing smart "Google Glass"-style glasses.
Yes, and at least in Finland the merchant has to inspect the physical card to see that the name on the card matches the buyer's ID. (In practise it seldom happens.)
Google offered $4B but snapshat said no
Just speculating here, but could communism be eased out of China the same way many countries peacefully abolished slavery?
There's something weird there that sounds like a very fun way of travel but those pictures seem very cold.

With that body length distance between each other in every picture they don't seem friends at all more like people who happen to be traveling together. What's up with that?
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"OSS as a hiring filter biases your selection process toward white men"... not sure what to say.

But I do find it funny that they don't think that Github should be used as a resumé but their "conferencing", tweets, books about diversifying and podcasts should do.

Talkers or Makers?

I write OSS on my free time because I feel like other alternatives might not be good enough. I spend a couple of hours in the morning, weekends and etc. It's hard and time consuming. I can take two days if just figuring out what the selector should be called or argument names.

Right now I am getting paid for OSS, but I even spend my free time on it because I'd like to make sure it comes out good.

It's very slow and time consuming, and sometimes keeps me up at night, but I LIKE IT. And I like acknowledgment to it.

These sorta articles invalidate what I make just because I FEEL like making them. Not sure what to feel about that.

I have friends who make stuff to Go-lang because they want to learn the language and make stuff that doesn't exist. These articles invalidates their passion.

And saying bullshit like LGBT or other genders are actively being excluded... well it makes me hard to take you seriously. I'm not white, and I am part of LGBT.
Good lord, its up to £5.50 now? Still a good deal, but it was £2 back in the day.
You can't (as far as I know) run a Windows program from a linux VM. You can browse around the file system all you want from a VM, but can't do anything binary-ish to the files you find.

I work in the cygwin terminal as much as possible on my work Win7 box. I often do this from cygwin:

$ OurWindowsOnlyProprietaryLogReader someLog.log

which runs the windows program to process the log. Similar with Excel.

I do also use a vagrant VM, but I rarely fire it up these days because I do a lot of what I just described. One reason I wanted vagrant was for tmux, and tmux on cygwin will be welcome.
Dev here! Yeah, we've been making www.trou.pe for while and have just added some github hooks after some user requests. We are just curious to see how far people want github integration to go...
MyYogaPro is an exciting Kickstarter project. You'll want to check it out if you love yoga or have ever considered giving it a try.
Beautiful, but unfortunately it wouldn't be appropriate for my non-technical teammates, so I cannot see it beating out hipchat.

I love the concept though and I can see this being the tool of choice for technical teams.
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Okay. The chip based cards. So you need to have credit and debit account(s) in the same bank, right?

That sounds good and very handy.

The chip based cards ( EMV ) are being introduced in India, rather RBI ( Reserve Bank of India - Controls monetary policy of India) has made it mandatory for all banks to replace the present cards and make them all as EMV.

But its not to merge them but to reduce the frauds.
This can already be done by anyone with a magstripe or RFID reader
fwiw, this was reported in the local press when he was here (chile), although i can't find anything now. that was a couple of years back, so this isn't new.
There's always the webapp :)
Have you posted about this before? This seems really familiar.

Either way, I don't really understand your dilemma - you've clearly got enough cash to start a business. If you don't have any ideas of your own, fund someone else or buy into a franchise. Most of the multi/decamillionaires I know made their money over time doing boring, normal things.
Looks really interesting, you guys should take a look at www.surfly.com. With Surfly in the mix you would not just be able to chat about things but also show people around.

Also, I couldn't find any contact info. :(
I hitchhiked from Leh to Manali in northern India with a couple of guys I met while travelling. It was an incredibly liberating, unforgettable experience. The hitchhiking experience gave you a completely different experience of travel: on the way from Manali to Leh I sat clutching my head with altitude sickness as a minibus sped through the Himalayas at breakneck speed, making the journey in 12 hours or so. Whereas on the return trip, I think it took us around a week: we saw so much more of the places along the way, had views across incredible Himalayan plains from standing up in the back of pick up trucks or overlooking chasms from the cab of a lorry while the driver dragged on his cigarette. We stopped off more and talked to more people, explored more, and even did a spot of walking like the authors in the article -- sometimes this is your only option: no vehicles for 3 hours? Start walking!

We had backpacks though... not as hardcore ;)
British women probably spend thousands on petrol but I doubt they want to read about it.
Agree. I noted this as well. The optimistic way to look at this, however, is it obviates the need for maps, plane tickets, guidebooks, a compass and a couple other items that you would surely bring, otherwise. The real faf is the power source (being tied to towns), absent a mobile solar panel (which adds weight, volume, and clutter).
I thought it was cool. Instead of doing the boring arms around shoulders that everyone else does, they made a deliberate decision to take these posed, stoic shots, using the same formation in every one. Much more interesting than the "warm" shots you see in typical facebook posts that are instantly forgettable.
You should never fly for dates it never works out you come off too needy.

Now if you're flying to visit a place and just squeeze a date in that's different. The goal shouldn't be the date it should be visiting the city.

Maybe you can make her show you around (if she's a local) that way you get something out of it even if it doesn't work out.
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I'm not so "thankful" to Google or Judge Chin as you, since you seem to be arguing that "if you're big enough to do whatever you feel like, do it!!!"

Just another example of the "taking economy" that seems so popular these days among the short-sighted.
Hey there. We'll absolutely consider how non-technical folks can engage with this. Our current product, Troupe (http://trou.pe) is more along these lines, with GitHub webhooks integration.

We may look to fuse the concepts so that it works brilliantly for both the developers and the rest of the company too.
I’m not religious at all, but I’ve eaten in some religious-based restaurants such as Harikrishna, adventist, and buddhist. And to be honest, I don't find it creepier than any other religion/cult.

I used to go all the time to a Loving Hut in Chinatown (San Francisco) and got friendly with the staff.
They never mentioned religion or tried to convince me to join their religion/cult. I would be annoyed if they tried to push their religion on me, but instead, they seemed interested in promote vegetarianism and veganism. On a side note, this Chinatown branch has the best vegan Pho I ever had.
Or to buy a house.
Or there could be an unfilled niche.
It's not just the credit cards....that's the easy problem to solve (especially with so many alternative pay methods at the moment),
I was hating hipsters before it was cool.
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We have an employee whose last name is Null
Nice claim, hard to believe but it might be true(?) What does the (very) small print on the bottom of the ad say?
I've wondered about adapting a live streaming video platform that would run on your smart TV which would show students the instructor as a primary UI element, and let students see the others students the instructor was seeing (opt-in per student) as a secondary element.

The instructor interface would be tricky to get right. I assume you would want them to be able to seamlessly move between doing the poses with the class, and switching to a watching mode where they could give personalized instruction. Their audio feedback to specific students could be private or public. You might need a specialized remote, or at least a smartphone app to control it.

Class size could be anything from 1:1 to 1:100s... and include a mix of student types (free, paid), and include all the stats/achievements that you would expect.

Of course it's not just yoga, but any kind of fitness or personal training, P90, crossfit, etc.

Would people want it? Would it work? I have no idea... The key question I think is what are the benefits of making it real-time versus asynchronous. I've always found the prerequisite of actually attending a class at a fixed time helped me increase engagement versus a fully on-demand platform which I could do "whenever" meaning "never".
Nope, it's not a right - or rather, that right is not protected in any kind of legal document. It's not a legal right or even a legal privilege. It's just a custom that stems out of the fact that most employers are worried about employees knowing each other's salaries, because often they have multiple people doing more or less the same job for very different salaries.
I think you are mistaken. In Britain, the term 'midwife' means specifically a postgraduate qualification on a general nursing degree. They are certified medical professionals and have a level of specialised knowledge akin to a ICU nurse or a surgical nurse. Indeed, midwifes attend Caesarean sections, as part of the surgical team.
Anyone else open it at work and then immediately close it?
I think the root cause of the problem is that innovative projects/companies don't have marketing/sales skills. There are a lot of innovation in the world and in US in particular but it's difficult to plug into the business world.
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I like the Activity Graph on the right :D
"Trouble Paying Your Malware Ransom? Crooks Launch 'Customer Service' Site"
Ashe Dryden's original post has merit, I'm not contesting that. James' post however, is wrong on so many levels.

It's worth noting that James is a UK based developer. Most of his points may be completely valid in the US but they are completely at odds with the UK climate. I've worked with an inordinate amount of tech companies in the UK and consulted with many more and I've yet to come across any that hire based primarily on the merits of a candidates github repo.

In fact, I'd argue his understanding of the request for a candidates github URL is completely wrong. One of my first requests when speaking to a potential candidate is for their github/bitbucket profile so I can see some actual code examples. I know that it's rare to find a true indication of someones ability from just their github contributions but for example, it can help me discern whether a ruby candidate adheres to ruby best practices or not. A small example of a minor indicator that someone might be a good fit for our company.

A man with significantly more experience in the industry than me once put it better than I ever could:

The more information I can get, the easier it becomes for me to make a decision, and to feel comfortable in it. And the best sort of information to give me is to show me what you can make, whether that's code for a backend position, or interesting design/UI for a front end position. It also gives us another thing to talk about during interview; and more opportunity to ask about design decisions and rationale.

Some of the best people I've ever sourced didn't have any publicly accessible code but if they had, I would have found them a hell of a lot quicker.
""These guys have some big cojones," said security expert Brian Krebs, who writes the KrebsOnSecurity blog."
Yeah, that barrier is a tough one to overcome. We've found that having an easy entry point (nothing to install, one click signup etc.) lowers the barrier a bit.

Also having some kind of free tier could always be an advantage over hipchat...
Ah, yes on that too! Sorry, didn't mean to leave you guys out.
Why We Shouldn't Celebrate Udacity's "Pivot"
"If you want to find out whether someone’s worth hiring as a software engineer, their code is of very limited value compared to talking to them, discussing design and architecture, previous engineering constraints they’ve faced, and what they’re like at solving problems"

I have a hard time thinking of a better way to see how good someone is at all of those those thing than to look at code they've written in the past.

Also, the title of the article is "Why GitHub is not your CV" yet all it talks about is how it can't replace an interview. Which I don't think many people advocate.
Hur hur.
Hey, thanks for the improvement. Done. Shipped like squirrel.

Why don't you like the idea of signing up with GitHub? Feedback will be very valuable for us, thanks.
> These sorta articles invalidate what I make just because I FEEL like making them. Not sure what to feel about that.

Maybe it's because I'm getting old, but I've learned something... stop caring what others are saying and doing. If you feel like making shit, then make it.
Precisely. The error here seems to be assuming that just because these magazines are often aimed at women they should cover all areas. The magazine is still a dominant force in fashion whereas technology is heavily supported by many and varied online resources.
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I generally don't give a shit. But I do get concerned when others do to crap that might affect me.
GDRR5 leverage the fact that the memory chips are soldered, compared to DIMM slots for DDR3. That can be use to improve the performance. Now don't ask me for more details, I'm not an expert in this area.
Ask HN: Web hosts that support Perfect Forward Secrecy?
I'm waiting to hear back from Heroku to see if/when they'll support Perfect Forward Secrecy, and thought in the meantime I'd ask this here: do you know any hosts already supporting Perfect Forward Secrecy?
Too little too late.

One reason why the west doesn't need to fear Chinese military power is that, well China don't have any warrior left. If you are the only son, its your duty to take care of you ageing parents instead of fighting at the borders.
But they _do_ allow that. You have to pay a license fee to Apple for the connectors, programming interface etc, but even without that you can do communication using one of the established protocols like MIDI. Also, you could use Bluetooth 4.0 without any licensing at all.
So the question to why they allow it is that they're not consistently evil :)
In Swedish, the word for the number 6 is the same as the word for sex.
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> They could have merged Youtube and Google video early on but never did.

They did, but not early on. It caused some drama when they announced Google Video was slated for decommission and all videos migrated to YouTube.
Not directly related to your product, but I always wonder why, with soft launches like this where you gauge interest, why not make the "interest" count public? How many people have you captured?

That being said, I've wanted this idea for a while, so I signed up straight away.
Yesterday Apple's in-store POS/easypay was down and employees were doing manual imprints. It's rare but does occasionally happen.
as a complete aside - i have to say that i do love the visuals of the webpage itself :)