skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The hotels will actually keep the card you paid with on file and charge you for the mini bar in a second transaction. I've had it happen quite a bit when I've used the mini bar but the items from the last night hadn't been accounted for in the bill as the cleaners will restock and note down what was taken from the mini bar each day.
Laws of morality do not apply to states. India has suffered a lot because it failed to understand this basic fact. I dont think there is any moral argument against what government is doing. The only argument is that American government is not strong enough to go ahead with these kinds schemes any more.
I'm paying $50/month for unlimited voice/text and 2.5GB of 4G data before I drop to 2G speeds. Is that what AT&T offers for the same price? Also, I run on a Nexus 5 (half the price of an unlocked iPhone 5s).
Like the Z80, the M68k can still be found today inside of some TI graphing calculators (the 89 series, 92, and V200. The 80, 81, 82, 83 and 84 series, and the 85/86 have Z80's).
It's still $30/mo (taxes-and-fees inclusive) for T-Mobile's prepaid plan. That's 5GB/mo each for $60/month total.
Live streaming Haskell class with Bob Ippolito (3:30pm PST)
My wife lost her T-Mobile G Slate tablet and she was going to replace it with a WiFi only one, so she called T-Mobile to cancel the data plan. Even though it was not covered by insurance, they sent her a replacement (upgraded to Samsung Galaxy Tab) and they converted the plan to a 200MB 4G/month plan for no monthly charge. That is great customer service.
Yes, but after 2 years and you've paid off the phone, that extra $30 or so comes off your bill (quite nice).With ATT, even after your contract expires, you're still paying that extra money for the subsidized phone.
Google’s New Private Ferry Won’t Defuse Tension Over Buses
Ok. So idiomatic go returns multiple values with an intention to return an error type. I guess fmt.Printf() is an exception.

For the most part, it does as well as C does.
Sweet.js is hygienic but you can choose to be unhygienic if you want.

It is the best of both worlds.

http://sweetjs.org/#getting_dirty__breaking_hygiene
I agree totally. This trend is infuriating. When I have to read an article on the site with a top bar I often go into the developer tools and delete that node from the DOM. There are sites that make even that measure impossible, like gmail, which is even more infuriating.

I use a small screen most of the time, and it sometimes seems like the designers of these sites have never looked at their website on a monitor smaller than 30 inches.

If it's so important that I be easily able to reach some navigation, put a tiny, unobtrusive, go-to-the-top button in a fixed element off to the side which will pop me back up to the nav bar.
I got free LTE tethering (on AT&T) once I switched from my grandfathered unlimited plan to the newer metered plans.

Which is ironic, as tethering is the only context in which I would come anywhere close to using up my monthly bandwidth allocation.
I moved houses once a year every year until I was 7. I can remember things just after I was two years old, the floor plans of my parents house, grandparents house, christmas when I was 3, parents friends houses, memories of those things, lots of other things. My parents didn't believe me until I told them the floorplans. Some memories are a little fuzzy, but I remember parts of every place I've lived since I was two years old. Sometimes random memories will pop up that I forgot about. My earliest memory my parents were able to pinpoint to about 26 months old (we moved to a new city at 30 months, and my memory was of my dad leaving to work at night which he had stopped doing sometime around when I was 27 months).

Maybe more interesting is that I can't remember a single seizure my brother who had epilepsy had, although I can remember before and after moments (ages 3 and 4).
Sure, there are plenty of such counter examples, but I'd bet my left shoe that each of them draws from some marketing budget or equivalent. Think of those as start-ups within the larger organization: they're risky, transient, and haven't gained acceptance to be a complete part of the whole yet.
Are you serious? Can you reread your question and not feel like a jerk?

I'm 34 and didn't even HAVE a credit card ~3 years ago. I still rarely use it. The world is so diverse and different...

A hotel that asks for my credit card in Europe has to live with the chance that I don't have one, period. Which isn't the case anymore (see above), but I _still_ don't leave a credit card, ever.

On top of that: For the minibar issue that _still_ makes no difference at all. Most of the exploits I've seen were connected to company trips. The room was payed by the company, backed by a credit card. The minibar .. wasn't.

I'm currently in a decent hotel in Bern (my favorite, tried probably "all there are" in this city over some years). They don't have my credit card.

So..

- Bern isn't part of the modern first world

- Novotel hotels don't know their business

- You win
Any attempt to do so would be amazingly obvious to everyone and would be bad enough to force a fork. Redhat isn't stupid.

This smells like FUD.
Ask HN: What software/services do you recommend for sales in a SaaS startup?
What's your sales setup like? Looking for suggestions on which software/services to use (e.g. CRM, accounting, etc). Our current setup uses SugarCRM (for contact management + emailing + quote/invoice tracking) and Skype (calling out). But we waste a lot of time being inefficient (manually logging calls into SugarCRM, manually creating "followup" events for each quote, no way to manage trial conversions, etc) and I was wondering if anyone has any better suggestions?
I know this is a joke, but allowing arbitrarily long passwords allow a DOS attack if your server uses bcrypt or similar (consider uploading a 1GB password, for example)
I learned perl from the camel and llama books, but I think there are probably better resources these days.

I don't remember when I first started learning bash... I found some gems in the Advanced Bash Scripting guide (http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/) but that's probably not the place to start (and I've recently heard some criticism of it).
My earliest memories are very clear, and I astounded my father when I recounted them as a teenager. I remember riding in the car by my dad's work at the University, and seeing owls on the facade of some of the buildings. We always stopped at one building in particular. Obviously some of the context for the memories is pieced together from when I was older -- e.g. The fact that I was riding in the car. I distinctly remember my dad pointing out the owls and saying the word for "owl" but being unable to remember/grok the word, for example.

Anyway when I was a teenager we drove by the building we used to stop at and I told my dad about these early memories. It turns out that my mother had been seeing a therapist in that building on campus and once a week we would drive by to do a pickup and drop off. He was so shocked because they never discussed the matter with anyone, so he figured it was a real memory.

According to my dad I was six months old.
this article is the first i've heard about the policy change, and i have multiple google accounts...
I don’t think so. The Anticafé in Paris has the exact same concept with roughly the same pricing (€14/day), and has been open for more than 8 months now. AFAIK they don’t have such problem and the place is crowded by students and 20-something with MacBooks everywhere. They don’t offer sandwichs so it’s hard to have a "real" lunch here, you’d better go buy a €4 sandwich elsewhere and come back eat it there. As students, we don’t really come there for the free food, but because you can stay all the day working without being disturbed by a waiter asking you to leave.
Backslide, or return to making forward progress against crowding? ;)
Excellent!

(I mean the site. Not so crazy that FF 26 under OSX 10.9.1 is listed as BAD, but I understand and accept the reasoning.)

Hopefully this will spur the various vendors to abandon old, broken protocols and ciphers.
The opposite concept can also work: free work space but no outside food or drink.

Next Door in Chicago offers a good work environment (tables, some cubicles and private rooms with excellent internet), and is completely free. Using it for work is encouraged. A cafe inside does very good business from the people who are otherwise there to work (no outside food or drink is allowed) . It's sponsored (by State Farm), so it's possible the cafe might not be able to support the space on it's own, but the fact that an environment where work is explicitly free brings substantial revenue for the cafe suggests that model might be viable.
Thumbs up on everything here.

> Google Chrome 32.0.1700.72 (Official Build 243157) m
> OS Windows
Those are all object oriented features. I was trying to compare O.O. to golang's approach.

I like the fact that you are forced to look at the algorithm vs the class hierarchy. I like that you don't have to read through factories.

I do think that generics would be great if they found a way of implementing them, however, I do not think that you need generics in order to write this kind of project.
Carriers are already moving to discount fully paid phones. AT&T hasn't done it yet but Verizon is and AT&T is likely to follow.
What road are you talking about that leads to Gizmodo and TMZ? The one I described (ranking by upvotes) is used by HN and Reddit.

And if not the ranking, what part of HN, Reddit, etc. are you praising over NYT?

Do you like just the listing, without the ranking? I think the latter follows from the former. I don't like listing, because it orders articles and artificially gives the higher up ones more importance. NYT headlines instead assign things to levels and categories, based on page location and headline size. Also, in many of the sub-sections, news is organized roughly as its added (newest-oldest), and its assumed that it's important enough to read if it's in the NYT.

Or do you just like the plain text presentation? Fair enough, but I like having more context on the home page.

It may seem messy at first, but as a long-time reader, I love the NYT site for its rich and informational presentation (and content).
Oh, I just noticed that you are a co-founder of Balanced!

I will say this - and I mean this in the most respectful way possible: it is unlikely I would encourage us to switch to you folks until (frustratingly!) you all are more established!

[Also, I don't mean to single you out specifically: I'm talking about any company who wants to be an integral part of our infrastructure, but the topic at hand happens to be payments.]

I have personally been burned by choosing a neato new startup for critical parts of our infrastructure. Burned in the sense that these startups change their model and pivot quickly, and since we have made them an integral part of our infrastructure, it is frustrating and difficult to change. (Dotcloud, for example, got rid of their free sandboxed tier this past year. This was a great move on their part, but also left a sour taste in my mouth and unexpectedly increased our expenses.) We also get burned when a new company has bugs - because while I personally might understand, our customers are the ones who are affected. It also called into question my ability to evaluate different solutions, and forced me to realize that, for non-personal projects, it is important to use something established.

This is somewhat ironic, since we ourselves are a startup - so I feel the pain of finding customers (or even developers!) every day!
> ensuring that only the original author can sell forks of the product

I consider this the absolutely worst reason to use the GPL. Quite a few companies (large companies like MySQL/now Oracle or small ones like Macromates) require contributors to sign an agreement that allows the company to distribute the code under a different, proprietary license.

Doesn't this circumvent everything the GPL stands for? If I contribute to such a project, what guarantee do I have that the owner doesn't just distribute the software, including my contributions, under a proprietary license and stops making improvements public?
You mean, so you can 1) mug the cardholder, and 2) try all the 4x4 combinations (or 5x5 for mine), which I believe will get the card eaten after a small number of failures? Seems like it would be much useful for snooping pinpad door lock codes, which often don't seem to care how many errors you enter in a short period.
The specification of it being "mothers" not "parents" or "primary care-givers" - assuming scientific rigour - must be important.

I am disinclined to assume such scientific rigor as the explanation for that wording. I am much more inclined to assume unquestioned bias on the part of the people who wrote and administered the study. We have peer reviewed journals et al to help account for the fact that humans are pretty darn bad about being human, no matter their job title. But, ultimately, it is essentially impossible to weed out bias entirely.

I hope you are right and I am not but I see no reason at this time to think so.
That doesn't apply over here (see the less carefully crafted version of your statement/the sibling comment).

That said: What happens if you _have_ a credit card that backs the room, but not the rest of the expenses? I usually travel with a CC (from my employer) backing the room. I never pay my room myself. That said, the hotel isn't allowed to charge minibar/massage/champagne at 3am by room service on the company card - and has no reliable information about me [1].

1: Yes, obviously it's rather dumb to run off with a TV if my company reserved the room or something. But again, as stated elsewhere in this thread: I've seen a number of people getting away with minibar-theft, very easily.
GFX cards don't idle nearly as well as CPU's; I would guess that is the reason. A 350W GFX card may idle around 150-200W.
Yes - exactly the same. It's really important in either case to get expectations of what you will do and who gets what actually written down, even if in email form.
The ZTE Open is noticeably better/faster/more responsive after manually installing the FFOS 1.1 update.

Not keeping me from giving it to a friend, though - I was not as impressed with FFOS as I thought I would be.
Raster to vector conversions with potrace and cocoapotrace
What do you think will happen at the conferences "security experts" do go to? DefCon, for example.
I'd rather have a car I can drive if I want to, or hit a button and have it just autopilot there instead.
I'll eat that one, too.
You revealed a secret key in your README, is that OK?
This is really cool! I've been thinking about making something like this for a while. Looking forward to checking it out for my next project.
What Will a Search Engine Look Like in the Future?
LGPL is just fine in this regard – you can ship with and link against an LGPL library together with proprietary libraries because the combined result need not be under the LGPL. Whether you link dynamically or statically is irrelevant from a legal perspective.
I manually convoluted the key from the one I was using; the one in the README.md should be invalid. Thanks for checking! Perhaps I should make that more clear in the docs.
Yeah, there's definitely a few workarounds. Things aren't really designed with Chrome Extensions in mind ever -- down to the fact that their URL isn't http or https. I even have to make myself look like a website by intercepted the headers being sent out by the iframe: https://github.com/MeoMix/StreamusChromeExtension/blob/maste... But, yes, the YouTube IFrame API is called from the background, but it still need a DOM element to target which gets destroyed on the foreground.

In theory, it would be possible to spawn a second, muted instance of the YouTube API in the foreground and, when the user wants video, swap to it while attempting to not introduce noticeable audio issues, but that seemed pretty ugly for now. I think if I ever get around to playing with cross-fading (http://solayo.com/ supports it..) then I might be confident enough to try this out.

I'm glad you like radio mode. It can go off-track sometimes... had people complain about Justin Bieber and other Top 40 leaking into it. I starred your repo -- if you ever want to collab or chat about ideas, I'm down! I'm always idling on IRC: #streamus irc.freenode.net

Yeah, I know about that bug. I haven't quite figured it out yet because all of my canvas elements are the exact same size -- something about YouTube serving up a different quality of image, maybe. I only released video back into the wild about 2 days ago and it might be removed again temporarily while I debug further.

Oh, also, if it wasn't immediately apparent -- there's also a whole server + DB backing this. This is only to allow sharing of playlists for now, but definitely opens the door to more possibilities in the future.

Here's a couple of full-length tracks I'm listening to currently: http://share.streamus.com/playlist/9a9b8a640590/hacker_news_...

:)
Insurance won't necessarily go up for manual driving. At least at first, it will be lower for automated cars (once insurance companies have enough data). Assuming sufficient competition, insurance companies charge just enough to cover their costs plus some profit. Statistically safer cars means fewer claims, and lower cost. A good opportunity to undercut any competitors not on the same page.

Sure you would pay more than owner of automated car, but probably not more than you are already paying. People on bicycles don't pay any insurance at all, I don't see anybody complaining about them (for that reason anyway).
> BULL and SHIT. In Australia, there is no routine pixellation of middle fingers, likewise pixellating the mouth of someone swearing.

We don't ban whole works. Australia does.

> Hell, even movie ratings are a form of censorship,

Nonsense. Self-imposed rating systems are in no way comparable to governmental censorship.

> Some US states prevent atheists from holding political office

Wrong. Those laws may be on the books, but they could never be enforced, due to the First Amendment of the Federal Constitution.

> Your wikipedia link has little that Australia has banned in the past couple of decades

It's the principle of the thing.

> Idealism is nice... until it's tested, then pragmatism needs to have a voice.

Wrong. Utterly wrong. If you abandon your principles the moment they're tested, they were never your fucking principles at all.

> But the pragmatism of legislating against holocaust denial or sporting the swastika is basically the same as anti-defamation legislation: it's saying 'don't diminish this'.

By making it seem that it can't fight deniers on an equal footing, that it needs laws to bolster its argument.

> those laws are very specific in terms of what they ban

So? That doesn't make it better.

> US free speech also does nothing to solve any of the real problems modern America has with anti-Mexican and anti-Muslim racism.

We don't ban face veils. Talk to me about racism when you've stopped banning veils.

> They're there to stem violent nationalism, the European forms of which don't exist in the US.

We had the KKK, which was just as violent and just as nationalistic as European forms of it. We were able to destroy it (twice!) without resorting to the destruction of fundamental freedoms.
It only took changing two settings in about:config to get FF 26 to 'pass.'

security.tls.version.max = 3
security.ssl3.rsa_fips_des_ede3_sha = false
As nice as new features are, I do wish you'd work on bringing all of your existing features to non-US customers first!

Your international support is definitely better than most payment processors (Balanced I'm looking at you), but it's been over six months since you introduced Transfers to US customers. I'd love to know if there is a technical/legal reason behind this? The US has a number marketplace payment solutions but I've yet to come across any European ones.
Am I the only one here who just doesn't have a phone plan? Seriously, unless if you're a cab driver or something, WiFi hotspots are more than enough.

Actually, even if you are a cab driver, GPS + offline maps are completely free.
The flag to enable the built in mobile hotspot feature of your phone's os is enabled by default when you choose the share everything plan on Verizon or the mobile share plan on AT&T.

There is also the option of individual data plans (per line) that include this flag as well, but they of course cost more. Example: You get $30 for 2GB on Verizon, but to enable the mobile hotspot you need the $50 for 4GB plan. In AT&T's case you would need the $50 5GB plan to enable mobile hotspot.

In the case of Verizon, you're perfectly able to download a third party tethering application (as per the FCC ruling) and use it on their old tiered individual data plans. If you have Verizon's grandfathered unlimited plan, you are able to add on the $30 unlimited tethering option as this plan did not fall under the FCC fiasco. However, I have not heard of Verizon going after anyone using a third party tethering application on an unlimited plan. It's worth noting that Verizon is still the only carrier that ever offered and still offers (to subscribers that already have an unlimited data plan) truly unlimited and unthrottled tethering as an option as their LTE network is not throttled.

In the case of users still on AT&T's grandfathered unlimited data plan, they are throttled to 0.5Mb/0.5Mb after 3GB for 3G devices, and 5GB for LTE devices. They also will automatically move you to a tiered plan if you attempt to use any third party tethering applications and do not offer any legitimate way to tether on this plan.

I'm hoping that one of T-Mobile's next moves will include adding unlimited tethering that is unthrottled to their unlimited data plan.
There is a great deal of sophistication and cultural consciousness in hip hop and it certainly has its share of successful businesspeople.

This is not in contradiction with your quote.

Sean Combs (formerly Puff Daddy), Jay-Z and Dr. Dre come to mind immediately.

I'm not sure if I'm misunderstanding your point, but all three artists reached business success through hiphop. Jay-Z was selling mixtapes out of his car to get enough recognition to release Reasonable Doubt.
> For the most part, it does as well as C does.

Which isn't saying much really :) There is absolutely no way to force you to handle errors in Go.
Yes maybe. Anyway, good job!
If you have no memories from dreamless sleep, how do you know it's an unconscious state?
None of this is relevant. You can't argue the actual points, so you descend to irrelevancies.
There is no ban on computer vision professionals. I'm sure we'll have at least a few competing.
Roads are already engineered in the general case for faster than the speed limit. Why do you want them to go even slower?
T-Mobile US Offers to Pay Early Termination Fees for Switchers
Yes. Could you drop me a line? patrick@stripe.com.
> the law does not specifically mention Islam and it does not prohibit, as you have misrepresented, "dressing up as a Muslim"

Ah, but it bans something that it just so happens only Muslims would wear. Suspicious, no?

> Also accusations of Big Brother coming from Americans at this point is rather hilarious.

Irrelevant. If you think the NSA is alone, you're delusional.
Thanks. Just did that on my FF 26.0 on windows and it passes now as well.

Rather surprised it was dumping down TLS 1.0!