skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, this does not have to do with "American Exceptionalism." It has to do with the much more basic concept that sovereign nations reserve the right to kill people in other sovereign nations in pursuit of their own security. The U.S. just gets the brunt of the blame for these sorts of accidents because it bankrolls geopolitical stability for the rest of the world.
I'm guessing somewhere around Temuco based on the Llaima Volcano being in the background - absolutely beautiful area of the country (but then again, it's hard to find a part of Chile that isn't beautiful!)
Who buys a phone "prepaid", that is locked?

I bought my iPhone straight from Apple, unlocked, to avoid it. Are there phones you pay for in full, up-front, that are still only available locked?
They're just acting as an email client. Alice sends email to Bob, Bob is granted rights to fetch and view images. Bob uses gmail, so he passes the rights onto google to do part of that serverside.
Great! A bit off topic, but how do you get instant searching on the website as you type? (I'm a amateur programmer).
That's not the case. The only case when browsers send no referer header is when an HTTP request is made from a page loaded over HTTPS. Cross-origin has nothing to do with that.
Yes, no conceptual leap at all between the NSA getting U.S. communications caught up in filters targeted for foreigners and the military just blowing up people in U.S. cities.

No fucking difference at all.
To trolls, the silent treatment is the cruelest of all . And it works.

See Hellbanning - http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/06/suspension-ban-or-h...
Accountability is definitely an issue but the major issue is the attitude of acting like the biggest bully in high school doing whatever the heck you want just because you happen to be bigger than the other kids. Actually its even worse because at least the high school bully doesn't go around telling off other "bullies" for their behavior
you are right from a marketing persepctive it would be bad . y built in failsafe would be a much better way to go.
That is a capital gain not income and just saying you can claim the loss next year doesn't do you much good if your bankrupt or unemployed.

By your argument all US pension funds should pay income tax on any capital gains.

And just saying well you cant pay your tax we will take your pension is just taking the piss (to be blunt).

Forget reforming the NSA/CIA its the IRS I would be worried about
Are you able to give any more information on the cracktro? Which group? What was cracked?
YouTube Expands Live Streaming to All Channels
Are you saying that YC only invests 11K per company plus 3K per founder?
This is a very unwise decision. I Follow people on Twitter who I've witnessed being stalked and harassed. Blocking helped to end that. Now the rule change lets the stalkers, trolls, and harassers have the upper hand. What Block was always missing was Mute. Now it's all been changed to Mute without Block. This is just screwy.

And saying to Protect your account is like a punishment to the innocent. Unless Twitter has changed their TOS, it's a TOS violation to RT a Protected account.
Until the NSA gets to it.
barely running anything but docker/dokku on the box.
I think it's the opposite. With Google's change, the sender can more accurately find out if you've opened the email, since a request to download the image will be made as soon as you open the email. However, what the sender doesn't get now is IP, location, and browser data.
I just saw that tag v5.2.0 has been added.
Because Yemen is a failed state and a hotbed of terrorism, and the U.S. believes that it's important for geopolitical stability to keep it in check.

There's nothing puzzling about it. This is the way the world has worked for centuries, and how the U.S. has worked since its founding. The great powers intervene in small nations to put out brush fires that could upset the global status quo. It's like the history of Europe from 1500-1945.
That might be the plan for Daala but it really needs to be MUCH better to make another generational change worthwhile.

I don't think VP9 can win the current fight to be honest. I doubt it is patent free, or good enough. I also wonder if Google can cooperate in the way required to build support for it outside of its Android family.
At least no Malcolm Gladwell. Bill Gates the voice of sanity - who woulda thunk it.
That blasted "f". If that wasn't there I could joke about how the act calls for 416 rolls of a (65,726,963,612,043,616 times ten to the power of (204,36f,646,520 factorial))-sided die. (The act name itself seems to have an exclamation point on it.) But the "f" in the middle ruins it.
Thank you.
You are totally correct. Forgot about the js include in the 404 (doh).
New Math 2.0?
It's important to keep in mind that in the past, viruses have successfully propagated through bugs in image decoders. Proxying the images provides an opportunity to remove malicious ones.
The only carrier I have found with decent coverage at my house is Verizon, who (as far as I can tell) charges me the same amount for a plan whether the phone is subsidized or not, on or off contract. Why shouldn't I get a subsidized plan?
It's futile unless they show voluntary interest in the subject. I started off in elementary school, but it was motivated entirely through my own volition.
In Canada the situation used to be same that you have to wait until after your contract is over then you can unlock your phone for a petty fee. Fido has just changed their policies early this year to allow unlocking for $50 within half a year of starting a contract. Not sure about other carriers, but can't say how glad I was to see this change as I come to US every few months.

Of course, still unfortunate that I have to pay the fee, though I'd rather have this than in states where you still have to wait until your contract is up.
Prepaid in this context i think is one of the cheap phones with no contract that you can grab in some places like walmart or gas stations. So you've got to have been using it for a year before you can unlock.
I've transited through the US at LAX before, and while I did have to go through customs, I did not have to go through TSA.
Dedeprecator: automatically replace deprecated methods
A clarification: GMail's proxy is in two pieces; your email client connects to GMail's CDN, but in order to load content from the origin it passes through a pool of servers in Mountain View. My guess is that the transcoding servers are all located there.
In reality, I'd be less worried for Google and more worried for whoever is hosting moderately large images that get linkjacked in numerous variations (http://www.example.com/largeimg.png?randomnumber=72435).

Google can't tell, a priori, whether or not a series of similar e-mails sent to many thousands of people with Google Mail addresses and containing similar but different image links like the above is a genuine mail going out to someone's list or a DDoS of www.example.com in which Google is about to become an unwitting participant.

By the time they've worked out whichever trick is being used this time (in the same way that they adapt to changing black hat SEO tactics, but probably only make major changes every few months) it's not hard to see a hostile party busting the bandwidth cap for anyone on a basic, low-volume hosting plan.
Come on, you're definitely an outlier. How many 6 year olds had a C-64?
Thanks. In the TODO list :)
Great, now spammers will know my email account is legitimate.
yes, YC doesn't do pro rata. so basically they're down to probably at least 2-3%, but probably more.
Bitcoin perception in 2011
There's a lot of confusion around what they're really doing. Either:

1) they're caching the images when they're sent. This seems to be what Google and Ars are saying, and it's what makes sense.

2) they're loading the image when the email is opened. This would be a privacy disaster, and is what Wired is saying, and from various comments people claim to have confirmed this by testing with their own servers.
Good question. Can't really answer that atm. Will note it for future investigation. Thanks.
I use jQuery to send an AJAX request to nodejs which then queries elasticsearch and returns the rendered html which I switch out the DOM with.
After the Microsoft years he has proven to be a brilliant individual with a genuine interest I. Using his fame and fortune (and everything that goes with it) to try to improve the world.
I thought these were regular info you have to provide to sign up and run the droplet. How did you sign up withholding these info while you use your credit card?
You can trust an established business with a reputation to lose, not to defecate where it eats.

The upset in the threat model is that you can no longer trust that a business is free to choose according to self interest. You have to assume the government will be force-feeding it laxatives.
... But if you only read HN ... Let's say that news is really as bad as everyone is saying, that must mean that people are basically mindless and necessarily believe everything simply because they consume it ... Ok, but if that's case and you only consume HN comments and believe the general echo chamber ... I think you will end up with a bizarre conception of the real world ...
s = '416D65726963612043616E20436F646520'

def decoder(s):
cl = [ s[i]+s[i+1] for i in range(0,len(s),2)]
cl = [int(c,16) for c in cl]
f = "".join([chr(c) for c in cl])
return f

decoder(s)

returns 'America Can Code '
Interesting. Thanks. And I had always thought of 'muckraker' as a derogatory term, though it seems it must have started out, at least, as an approbatory term for the positive development of muckraking out of yellow journalism(?).
I suspect that if the only thing hurting them is not supporting ~1% of the desktop market, then that must mean they're actually not hurting at all.

What with their revenue being 2nd only to Steam - who is way more focused on higher-ticket AAA titles than old games at a discount - I suppose that's fair. They really aren't hurting very much.
With my credit card!
never got asked.
Altcoins are a possibility. And if we do add that info, we'll definitely also add the option of hiding the info :)
This Ethiopian village has gained wealth, but has bred hostility
http://pri.org/stories/2013-12-12/ethiopian-village-has-gained-wealth-has-bred-hostility
Curious, is this less of a problem on teams that work remotely where the only thing you can evaluate are the results?
I kind of like this idea. I think it's terrible to have to succumb to a username like mankhool48723 when you really want something, better. If you were creating a new service today, how would you handle usernames, not about just the use-it-or-lose-it issue, but about username creation and uniqueness? Logan 6 identify please.
To be completely honest, it was a bit of getting lucky, and a lot of realizing that if I needed to modify one object in that particular library to satisfy a legal requirement, it was only a matter of time before a decree would come down that the rest need to be changed as well.
Twitter changes its blocking policy
Well they are just appealing to a kind of Internet hipster that will likely continue reading them anyway.
"If you've bought something you should be able to do whatever you want with it, whether it’s modifying it, or unlocking it. You shouldn't need a massive corporation's permission."

If you think $200 buys you an iPhone, you're sadly deluded. "$200 with 2 year contract" means you haven't bought anything, you're still paying the mortgage with every phone bill. If you want to buy something and "do whatever you want with it", Apple, Google, and a host of others will sell you an unlocked phone. And it will cost a bit more than $200 (though the Nexus 5at $349 isn't too far off).

On the other hand, if you're fed up with your carrier and would like to switch, you're free to do so. I just did it with AT&T. Walked into a T-Mobile store, asked them to transfer our numbers. The next day I called AT&T and asked, "how much do I owe for the ETF?" I paid the $225/phone (that's how fed up with AT&T I was) over the phone with AT&T. Wait a few days for their accounting system to catch up, go to the web page and enter the IMEI for both phones, and two days later the phones are unlocked. Slapped the T-Mobile SIMs into the iPhones and we were on the air.

I just don't get the sentiment of "unlock my free-with-contract phone two months into my contract, you bastards!" It's not your phone. Now, if Verizon, Sprint, or $YOUR_CARRIER don't as readily unlock your phone as AT&T after you pay the ETF or your contract is up, I'll stand with you in your complaint. Otherwise, I don't see the issue.
I think the issue here was assuming that the optimization is the best possible one. It doesn't have to be, it just needs to be good enough to still function given past and present evolutionary pressure.
Well, my parents and my uncles did.

My uncle conscripted me to enter in Basic games printed in magazines when I was about 8. I've been hooked ever since (on coding...I don't really game much anymore).
> The U.S. just gets the brunt of the blame for these sorts of accidents because it bankrolls geopolitical stability for the rest of the world.

"bankrolling geopolitical stability for the rest of the world" is a nice attempt to recast maintaining a global empire through military power as if it was a selfless, altruistic deed.

But its not even remotely accurate.
ZenPayroll (YC W12) is hiring software engineers to make payroll delightful
ABOUT US:
+ We're building the future of payroll. If you love solving foundational problems that affect millions of people, we'd love to talk with you. You’ll be an early member of the team with significant responsibility and equity stake.

+ Payroll is complex and there are tough engineering challenges to be tackled. We move tens of millions of dollars every month. Payroll is business critical and must always be correct. Business owners and their employees depend on us to receive their pay. We strive for 100% test coverage, and every commit is code reviewed by another developer on the team. We all hold each other to rigorous standards and we’ve all become better developers because of it.

+ We raised a $6.1M seed round last year and are funded by the CEOs of Yelp, Dropbox, Yammer, Box, Parse, and others, as well as Google Ventures, Salesforce and Y-Combinator. Full list at www.zenpayroll.com/investors.

+ Our founders are second time entrepreneurs from Stanford who have had two prior exits. We’re in this for the long haul and are committed to building ZenPayroll into a truly significant company that we’re proud of.

THINGS WE’RE LOOKING FOR:

+ Interest in working with Rails | Backbone.js | CoffeeScript | MySQL

+ Interest in using a test driven and code review development process.

+ Interest in building user-facing features and core-backend functionality, as well as being an active part of the design process.

+ Desire to understand the customer perspective. All members of our team are builders and it's important everyone understands the pain point we're solving.

PERKS:

+ You'll be a core member of our team as we grow the company. As a result, you'll receive a competitive salary + significant equity stake.

+ Housing stipend if you live near the office, delicious and healthy food and snacks, company retreats, gym/sports club stipend, dream work set-up, and more -- including copious espressos brewed by one of our co-founders. People are the foundation of our company and we make sure they know they're valued. Full list of perks at www.zenpayroll.com/careers

Above all, we're looking for individuals who are yearning to do the best work of their lives. You'll be amply rewarded for the work you do.

To apply, send a note to jobs [at] zenpayroll [dot] com and include your LinkedIn, GitHub, and/or any project pages.

We’re located in SoMa, San Francisco, CA and you must be local or willing to relocate (we'll cover the cost).
Currently it doesn't seem to be that low ( "we invest a small amount of money ($14-20k + an $80k note") from http://ycombinator.com/ , but yeah, it's not a huge amount of cash. It is very early stage startups though, remember.
Please submit a link next time rather than a text post.
I don't understand the flap about this. Your public tweets will always be accessible by someone. There is no way to prevent them seeing things in retweets, or via an alt, or embedded, or whatever.

If you are concerned who sees your tweets, you should be considering a private profile. If you want to avoid interacting with someone or seeing anything of theirs, you can block them. This seems very functional to me, and in line with the definition of "public" online communication.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6875092
By far the easiest way to learn programming logic is by learning a programming language. It's not that inappropriate.
Or perhaps it's too smart
People that control content licenses and distribution aren't all stupid. The lobbyists and industry groups do the dirty work to "defend" their client's interests. Perhaps the Pirate Party and TPB should invest in covert dirty tricks people like Rove. Such people are not valued for their ostensible vestigial allegiance to a political persuasion but are willing to accomplish feats force and cries for mercy could never begin to hope to achieve. Otherwise, TPB and similar are sitting ducks in a war they don't understand how to fight... Politics and greed.
Kim Jong Un's Uncle, Formerly North Korea's No. 2, Is Executed
I've tried using SASS a few times but keep going back to LESS so I can configure Bootstrap variables. Also, bootswatch.com uses LESS so that's a big motivator is stick with LESS.
Hellbanning only works when _noone_ can read your posts. If you can be read by everyone but your "mark" then it's only one step removed from the harrassee.
Yep. I'm sure you've seen http://www.apihub.com/ which actually has a lot more details and information and api tools with raml built in to visualize and try out the api (e.g. Here's Stripe http://www.apihub.com/stripe/api/stripe-api/docs/raml).

Full disclosure - I work at MuleSoft, the company responsible for ApiHub.
Fraud that takes out a person's entire life savings, even
if the victim doesn't commit suicide, typically does more
lasting damage than, say, the average case of assault and
battery.

I disagree with you in every possible way, and I think you've just decided, off the top of your head, to make that up because you think it sounds good. You might be able to google some statistics, but I'm not drinking your kool-aid.

Assault resulting in serious injury is categorically worse than fraud or identity theft, and far more common.
"I'm not sure I follow. OP's point is that a failed startup might still be profitable enough to be a lifestyle business."

But who will operate the lifestyle business? The founders and the team?

My point is that the type of person/team that gets involved in wanting and getting into YC (both the founders and the team) don't seem to me to be the type of people that would want to continue in "merely" a lifestyle business. Not that some wouldn't but my speculation is that the majority would not.

From your profile I see that you do LSAT prep.

My guess is that the majority of people who put in the time to get into law school are generally shooting to be lawyers.

If they end up graduating and not getting employment in law (or not being able to sustain that) they might very well end up having to do another job. (Actually they will or they will starve.).

But now we have a case of people who pursue the startup lifestyle presumably for the big win.[1] And now after all the work "all" it turns out to be is "lifestyle" I would think a high percentage of them would then try to get involved in another startup (whether their own or someone elses) not stay and have "only" a lifestyle business.

Otoh if enough time goes on before it becomes apparent that it is only going to be a lifestyle business it's possible that members of the team might have priority changes (marriage and kids) and decide that the lifestyle business is pretty attractive.

[1] Edit: Or to change the world.
That's what YC says:

How much do you invest?

Usually $11,000 + $3000 per founder. So $17,000 for two founders, $20,000 for three or more. We've also arranged for each startup to get $80k in convertible notes automatically. The goal is usually to give you enough money to build an impressive prototype or version 1, which you can then use to get further funding.

http://ycombinator.com/faq.html
When I was around 7 or 8, I borrowed every book on BASIC from my local library that they had, since that was all they had that dealt with programming. My parents encouraged me but didn't have anything close to a technical background, so they couldn't do much, and I didn't have the ability to stay focused and start slowly, from the beginning of those books to get much out of them. It was years before we had internet access so there weren't better resources available. I sometimes wonder how different my life would have been if something like this had been there to help focus my learning, provide guidelines, and encourage the structure I was lacking. This could give kids options they might never have otherwise.
Goodbye, hacker news
I bet you're fun to hang out with. :)
Can you give me instructions for Netgear too?
They have an extra space at the end of the name?
Paste fail.
I was missing that piece, but how is func2 called? I'm still looking through the code, but if both func2 and a int_variable are interface{}, how does the compiler check these types (or is the "framework" using some reflection?)
My thoughts exactly. While teaching kids the basics can't hurt, designating programming languages as "foreign" is a stretch at best. While they surely seem "foreign" to those who can't code at all (which would likely include the rep. who introduced this bill), they are not "foreign" in the same way that German or French or Spanish is "foreign" to English.

What is different is they are a representation of a logic system, either as a series of steps to carry out, or a set of transformations to perform on data. Teaching a programming language as a "foreign" language, without also teaching the logical way of thinking that allows one to write a program in the first place, will likely not produce the outcome the bill is intended to produce.
I don't understand how this gives harassers the upper hand. If you can't see their messages any more doesn't that remove the harassment? I've seen multiple people say this today but I don't understand it. I've also never been outright harassed on Twitter so I'm sure there's something I'm missing.
George Costanza taught me this.
Actually this might have a minor impact on kik. Lots of Instagram users use kik to communicate, so this messaging tool could affect them more than snapchat. Snapchat still has the decaying images feature as it's main selling point,
This a great step forward. General IT education at an early age is currently non-existent in most schools around the world.

Technology is for everyone - not just a select few. Teach all kids (and adults) basic coding skills and you'll be safeguarding democracy by preventing technocracy.
You missed the part where the idiot got served. He's lucky he didn't get any charges besides his unpaid parking tickets. Next time, let's see how the cops react when he points a "cookie gun" at them.
IMO it doesn't make sense to read code like this without a copy of the H.264 spec in hand. And once you've got that spec, why paraphrase a fraction of it, poorly, in the source code?

I do think that comments at the function level indicating which part of the spec you should be reading would be nice. They might not be an issue for people who are indoctrinated into the code though.
Creating an Effective Engagement Strategy for Your Mobile App Users
But I thought code is art not a foreign language!