skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quick followup on the resume - nobody will look at your GitHub. Make sure that the projects are also listed on your resume.
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The rich do not pay the most taxes, they pay ALL the taxes
This times a thousand.

There ought to be some basic ground rules that are enforced in public spaces, even if it takes horrible Guiliani-style police state tactics. Whether you're homeless or a well-off tech dweeb, you shouldn't be allowed to poop on the street, run around screaming at people, obstruct traffic, openly deal drugs or stolen goods. If you're doing any of these things, you should be instantly and forcefully removed, regardless of your circumstances. You can be pro-civility without being anti-homeless.
I am curious to know if I can make my girlfriend sign a document giving me the absolute rights of all the photographs I might click of hers. [I am only hypothetically speaking.]
and they have 9,000+ employees!
She has very few links and the ones she did have that were propping her up are dying out.
She needs to work on the site more and reach out to other people more.
Hi @pentium10. I work on some of SendGrid's open source libraries and am a dev evangelist with them. I'm looking into this.
Using tor on a daily basis depend on how people surf the web.

If you are one of those people who click on news article all day long, maybe read comments, then the added latency do not really do anything. You go to HN, open in new tabs all the interesting articles you want to read. By the time you reach the end of HN front page, the first page is loaded.
Still, if it is in fact 7,1000 more powerful at warming the earth, wouldn't a concentration of 0.18 ppm have a greater impact on the climate than 400 ppm of CO2? Not sure if the math is that simple, but it's not obvious to me why there has to a much greater concentration for us to worry about it compared to CO2.
Ask HN: How to become a freelancer? 
Is it possible to become a Web developer without a college degree or previous job experience?

What does it take to become a freelance programmer making decent amount of good money? 50k+ ?

What do I need to learn? what language? what stack and technology? To get started? Is PHP the right choice for a beginner Web developer who has never worked as a developer?
So, what I'm seeing is that if he had not tried to extort people by demanding money to remove the photos, his site would not have been illegal?
Which usually doesn't mean employee liquidity :/
>the more points of failure there are, the more stable it will be.

As with life.
Wow, that increased from 5% to 10% in half an hour! Or are you suggesting either that cilantro aversion is higher among tech workers, or that people who don't dislike cilantro will also be put off by the name?

I think if Wii and iPad can get past those names then this'll be fine.
The easiest way to obtain bitcoins (aside from buying them) is to offer a service or provide a value and accept bitcoins as payment.
Use PUT for Partial Updates in your REST API!
Wow, one avocado for $1.25. Aren't they usually a lot cheaper than that in the Bay Area? That's like East Coast prices.
Interesting use of the imgur platform, never see this done before
That has nothing to do with going to jail, nor the EU.

A whole load of both public and private organisations have the right to tow your vehicle for many, many things, like simply parking in the wrong place, and you have to do the paperwork.

At this point you're essentially just arguing that if you break you countries local laws you have to deal with the police... mmm.
In fairness this isn't directly storing bitcoins in a fidelity wallet, there is now an EFTish fund that is bitcoin-backed accessible to fidelity customers.
Another "revenge porn" operator was on On The Media last week, and I've rarely had a more visceral reaction against another person in my life:

http://www.onthemedia.org/story/revenge-porns-latest-frontie...

(EDIT: originally misattributed this interview as the guy arrested today; I was wrong.)
I don't search much. What I do a lot of is sort my inbox by sender. Pretty basic feature right there.
Actually, despite our semi-sincere objections, there are places using Rust in production. The two I know of are OpenDNS and Skylight:

http://www.opendns.com/

https://www.skylight.io/
Use of devices in airplane mode is okay. No data/4G connections allowed during flight (though that's hard to enforce, it is also damn hard to get a worthwhile signal and will quickly drain your battery as your phone searches for service).
=== Word vs Docs ===
I'd say the only way Google wins in this is collaboration. Being able to work on the same document with multiple people at the same time is such an amazing feature, I'm sad to lose it.

You can collaboratively edit Word documents in Word 2010 and SharePoint:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word-help/video-coauthorin...

Also works in OneNote. OneNote can do it without SharePoint, I don't know whether Word can.
Oh my god, is that ever inaccurate. It's a trust available only to accredited investors that happens to invest in Bitcoin. By that logic, you can put just about anything in your IRA.

Here's a random Google result about the variety of bizarre funds out there: http://money.usnews.com/money/personal-finance/articles/2009...

edit: corrected my mistaken categorization of SecondMarket investment vehicle.

edit: invest in fine art (sorry, no funds open to new investment) - http://www.thefineartfund.com/index.php/en/products-and-serv...

edit: invest in vintage wines - http://www.wineinvestmentfund.com/index.aspx ... and so on.
Android Studio is basically the community edition of Intellij, but I would consider it to be more stable.
GNU Guix 0.5 released
According to the wiki article on the topic ([0], citing [1]), you could get significant terraforming of Mars with something on the order of 39 million tons of CFCs. One Falcon rocket can carry 14 tons there, so that would naively 2.8 million Falcon launches, at a current cost (@$100MM/launch) of $280 trillion. (And surprisingly little terrestrial CO2 emissions -- only about 3 billion tons).

As ealloc points out [2], this particular fluorine compound isn't very different, as a greenhouse gas, from the other CFCs these estimates are based on.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraforming_of_Mars#Use_of_fl...

[1] http://www.pnas.org/content/98/5/2154.full.pdf

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6889978
Many of those channels rely on guiding people to search engines, or at the very least being findable on search engines by name. To take this example, your website is called portrait quilts, the url is http://portraitquilts.com/ - so you do loads of advertising on twitter, print media, word of mouth etc, and people try to find your site. You can try to guide them to a unique url, but often people won't remember urls, but names, and are encouraged to use this method by the blurring of urls and keyword searches in browsers.

So they open up their browser, type portrait quilts in the address bar, which redirects to a search, and your website is on page 8 despite being an exact match on the search. Game Over.

Seems your other channels are not quite as effective as you thought if google decides to penalise or blacklist your site. If you're off page 1 or 2 you may as well not exist. Of course from Google's point of view, you'll just have to advertise with google, so this doesn't penalise them at all, in fact they are rewarded monetarily for arbitrarily shifting rankings periodically (not that I'm suggesting that they go out of their way to do this, just that the perverse incentive is there).
It's not poor, it just doesn't work. The recent talk about allowing in-flight cell phone use was in relation to the airlines installing an in-plane microcell of some sort for your phone to connect though.
I don't think I'm missing the problem at all. The problem is that that average business trusts Google way too much. They think Google is some kind of free public service. They're putting all their eggs in Google's basket. They should know that Google is heavily invested in the basket business.
Its great that the power of the law is currently being directed at great big jerks, but do we really think it will stay this way?

These revenge porn sites are journalism. And apparently we are all now cheering the government as it shuts down publications whose motives and views we disagree with.

http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2013/defending_hunter_moor...
you (and to a lesser extent the article) are ignoring the enormous burden of payroll taxes.
> "this value is being plucked from you without you having an opportunity to bargain like someone providing a valuable commodity, rather than as a degrading "eyeball". "

Do you consider reading sites (other than this one) without making direct payments -- subscription, per-article -- to be without value?

You're paying with your time and attention. That's the bargain.

It'd be great to have ways to turn your engagement into currency more directly.
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Hacher News is having SSL trouble
I've used QML / QtQuick for a while. Here are my thoughts

1. It makes writing UI state machines much simpler since it is declarative. Instead of saying "when this information changes, update the UI", you just say "This bit of UI shows this information" and then it updates it does it automatically.

2. Animation is also much easier (and possible at all).

3. Layout is... myeh it is not so good actually. UI files made it really really simple, but QML has a kind of Android-like overcomplication to it. For example I have no idea how to have two buttons above each other with the same width and have that width the minimum required to fit them both. With the old system I didn't even have to think about that.

4. Javascript was a seriously bad choice. Fortunately you don't write that much of it (and the non-javascript parts of QML are well designed). The biggest problem is that you have to run code to have even the vaguest idea that it will work (probably you misspelt a variable). With C++ if it compiles you at least have some idea that it will work. Also there is a lot of hassle converting between C++ values and javascript objects. Particularly for lists/vectors of things which work very badly and... to be honest does not really work.

5. It does force you to separate your logic and UI - kind of like HTML/CSS. This is a good thing generally.

6. Once you've done the hard C++ work, building the UI is much quicker and less verbose than using the old system. It is also easier to change around.

In generally they are going in the right direction. They just made a huge mistake by choosing javascript. They've ended up writing their own javascript VM too, so I don't know why they didn't take the opportunity to use a sane, strongly typed language.
Typical misleading tactic of saying "ALL the taxes" but meaning only the federal income tax, which only accounts for 42% of federal tax revenues: http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/background/numb.... Indeed, part of the reason refundable tax credits exist is that they were introduced to offset the regressive nature of the payroll tax, which accounts for 40% of federal tax revenue, and is not payed on income above ~$100k.

If you account for all levels of taxation, the U.S. has a pretty flat distributionn for the top 60% that tapers down for the bottom 40%: http://www.ctj.org/pdf/taxday2012.pdf. The top 60% pay between 25-30% of their income in taxes, and the bottom 40% pays between 17-21% of their income in taxes. The regressivity of state and local taxes means that the top 1% is taxed at a lower rate than the next 4%.

In my opinion, all the fighting about who pays the taxes obscures the fact that in the end, the distribution is pretty reasonable, if conservative. The bottom 99% pay about 80% of all taxes, which means that the government isn't overly dependent on the rich. The "middle 59%" (roughly, the lower middle class to the upper middle class), carries 70% of the tax burden. The bottom 40% only make 10% of all the income, and pay about 7% of all the taxes. We could cut their taxes substantially without having a major impact on revenue.
So the Arab states were propped up by the Americans and the British following the 1st World War, left to their devices until the 2nd World War and then left again. A couple of decades later, amidst a few revolutions, with more western influence dictating the regions stability - the Arab Spring kicks off, with the population coming out of the woodwork demanding real democracy. Their actions are latched onto by the Islamists looking to invoke Sharia Law, and by Western powers to have some form of presence and support amidst the growing influence of Russia, China and within the next decade or two - the Indian sub-continent.

Somewhere along the lines the locals, the Islamists and Western Powers realise they want the current government overthrown, but soon thereafter their differences come out in what they want the end result to be.

Syria is already is a flashpoint for a Russian backed government battling Western backed rebels, and potentially any other hard-line Islamist state / government / group backed Islamists blending in with the rebels.

I'm not even sure who's playing what game anymore - the west is actively partaking in removing leaders it helped come into power - and has already done so with a few.

The whole region is ed and we are nothing more than mere spectators for whatever end-goal whoever has in mind, provided they actually get what they want.

To think, in about a century and a bit the regions oil reserves will have been depleted and it will be forgotten about - nothing more than a dot in history of leaders coming and going, a populace that never got the opportunity to develop or progress and will have severe bitterness of the powers that sought their own means at their expense.

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The first few statements are off the top of my head so please someone correct me if I went wrong, but thats how I remember the gist of the history of the region.
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50-90-99 is my go-to set. I really don't give a rip about the ops that are faster than the median. Seeing those is just me patting myself on the back.
This is a sensationalist headline. The non-rich are stil taxed plenty in payroll tax, sales tax, gas tax, property tax, etc. Sure, the rich pay a lot more. But "ALL the taxes" is simplifying the issue.

I have not read the linked IRS/Census report within the article, but the CNBC article summarizes the IRS/Census report by saying that the non-rich pay negative tax because of the money they earn in return for welfare. The whole article and report lacks any nuance on the issue of who is paying what taxes.
It is not journalism to hack people's computers, steal their stuff and pit it online.
I probably should have mentioned it. Virtuozzo was much higher profile at the time I was closely following various workload separation technologies--in part because it was making a serious attempt to position itself as an alternative to VMware in the enterprise space. (Something it ultimately failed to do although it continued to enjoy considerable success in hosting.) The fact is that there have been lots of different isolation approaches, including OS virtualization, and Virtuozzo's implementation of OS virtualization--while hardly unique--was the best known along with Solaris Containers.
I wonder how hard it is to pretend to be an iOS device and use iMessage as a tunnel. Probably not worth it at all.
Clearly we shouldn't let middle class people fund budding enterprises.

It is better to forcefully stop rational people from risking their money, in an attempt to protect irrational people from making irrational decisions.

People who want to let the middle class take risks that could help them become wealthy are operating under the premise that this is supposed to be a free country---a premise that the country's elected and respected political leadership has wisely decided to adamantly ignore.
Remember that the URL acts as the public key. If you got the URL from a reputable source then there's no way that you could manage tot get into that situation. Just like SSL you're assured that the destination is who you think it is.
Then there is the part where somehow that means the rich deserve preferential treatment because of this and the other classes must be lazy worthless people...
We were discussing 3d modellers, and in that area, Wings3D is excellent. It only does a small set of things, but it does them very, very well. You can then import those models and UV maps into blender easily.
You can decide to self clear at any point before accepting the package. It doesn't matter if they've made you an invoice or not.
Unfortunately that whitepaper says nothing on how they do it.

My theory is that they're using the Dynect CDN manager. This is a tool created by Dyn to let companies use their DNS system to pick which CDNs are used where, and to create round robin rules that are percentage and region based.

I confirmed this by checking their nameservers, which are currently pointed at Dyn (ie, NS1.P24.DYNECT.NET).

The thing that amuses me about this is that Edgecast offers this same service at a far, far more reasonable price. I'm not sure why they didn't just use them.
Using Node.js PayPal Doubles RPS, Lowers Latency, With Fewer Developers
Lee,

It's interesting that you assume I'm American on the basis of my description of what "public funding" really is, at heart. Newsflash: I'm actually Australian, born in the UK and raised in New Zealand.

You're not exactly addressing the point I raised, though. "Public funding" relies upon coercion. That many people consider such coercion an "utterly mundane fact of life" is irrelevant to the underlying immorality of it: forcing some people to pay for goods and services to be given to others.

I'm not suggesting that people who are through no fault of their own incapable of providing for themselves be left to die or suffer. I'm suggesting that the ends don't justify the means when it comes to the initiation of force.

Edited: here's an open letter, originally written to Rand, that illustrates the coercive nature of Government, and explains a rational, coercion-free alternative: http://www.lewrockwell.com/1970/01/roy-a-childs-jr/objectivi...

Edited: linking to LewRockwell.com does not constitute a blanket endorsement of their content on my part :)
Cloud repositories for Music projects
I'm looking for a music-github-dropbox solution. Has anyone used some tool like that? What would you recommend?
That constitutes fraud. If the SEC found out the company would get fined and the individual potential fines, asset forfeitures, and even jail time.
How is revenge porn journalism?
It's the principal. I live close enough to an airport CBSA office that it just takes an hour of my time and a few emails.
Not having to attach files for even the slightest change is so much better. I really miss working for a company that uses google apps.

Everything was online and centrally controlled. Jira, Confluence, AWS, Github, MediaWiki (some of these were self-hosted), and google apps.

I have always preferred centralised computing, you can visually see the headaches and frustration drop for IT support technicians when they don't have to deal with minor printer, file, or collaboration issues. The kind of issues that were created by the "PC" in the business environment.
Not everyone would choose to take the drug in the first place.
This seems like the type of video I'd expect in a response on Reddit. That is, it's a response that's trying to be funny (or link something funny) rather than continue the conversation at hand.

I was really hoping it would be a link providing evidence to one side (Snapchat is primarily sexting) or the other side (only a small % of snapchat usage is sexting).
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Yes, but again, this would have made a interesting story. It's just confusing and strange to note such a thing and then not elaborate at least a bit on it. Also, someone who can found such a firm usually understands how not to "get mugged" by a changing search engine.
reorganize settings. Either A) organize them into sections based on the service they're related to such as chat, mail, google+ or better yet, provide a search feature to find the setting you want.

Without googling it, block a user on chat, then figure out how to unblock them.
Yeah, I can't stand to eat food that came from a dented can...
No I buy avocados at Safeway for $1.50/ea
What I find interesting though, is that OP went from interning at a YC company, to founding one. Would love to learn more about that process, and the visa situation throughout, since I don't think you can be founding companies and getting investment on a J1 visa.

I interned with a big company this summer that had an established J1 process (Microsoft), so didn't have to deal with a lot of these hassles - they organised the J1 visa and sent me SEVIS papers that I simply took to the embassy in London, and got my visa approved after a 2 minute interview. They organise housing and give you a rental car or bike based on your preference. The biggest worry for me was that they may incorrectly apply the 'home country physical presence' requirement, since India lists every single possible skill as wanted. Still, it's interesting to learn that the process is still doable for small startups without the same resources, in case I need it in the future.
Ask HN: Looking for an iOS developer in NY.
If you're an iOS developer with a year or two of professional experience based in New York City and looking for a full-time position at an exciting NYC startup, reach out!

contact at ratsimihah dot com
No, I do it manually. I don't want each commit to result in a new image. I only release new versions when it's been thoroughly enough tested. It's supposed to be a stable base image that other people can rely on, not a bleeding edge thing.
Look into Xero.com. That have bank feeds you can set up. And they have a full lineup of accounting and invoicing features. My favorite feature is integration with Stripe and Paypal for invoicing.
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It's a test that's defined by law [1], ostensibly to protect the non-wealthy from being scammed easily. [2] AFAIK, the intent is to prevent scammers from directly selling highly risky investments to the average Joe without explaining to them the complete depths of the risk.

[1] http://www.sec.gov/answers/accred.htm

[2] http://www.institutionalinvestorsalpha.com/Article/3214072/S...