skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a great point. I work on tools that would be perfect for this: Crowdtilt[0] and our open-source tool Crowdhoster[1]. This situation specifically reminds me of a Crowdtilt campaign that launched here on HN after the Internet Archive burned down[2], so I would be very happy to help.

[0]: https://www.crowdtilt.com/

[1]: http://www.crowdhoster.com/

[2]: https://www.crowdtilt.com/campaigns/please-help-the-internet...
Obama's NSA Speech: Just What Eisenhower Warned About?
Thanks done, OpenSSH is an indispensable tool.
Apple designs it's entire platform to basically drag developers to using the latest SDK and codebase. I can't even download the iOS 5 simulator in xcode right now. Shit starts breaking in the newer versions of things when you use the older way of doing stuff, and sometimes the decision is an exclusive or. Support %95 of the userbase using ios 7 & 6 and frankly give yourself less of a development headache or support ios 5 laggards who are less likely to pay for things as a group anyway.
Yup. This is why practices like fasting, or change in environment / traveling is good to help you get out of routines - to see what you've been conditioned to and what habits you've formed.
Well...Westchester New York. A tony suburb of NYC.

Teachers work about 186 days a year, so the magic number we have to get to is $186K.

Let's say the high school gym teacher. Late 30s, been there for 15 years. Base salary, $125K.

Health benefit package worth $18K a year. Pension benefits worth maybe $40K a year.

He also gets $7K in SS taxes paid, and other assorted taxes we'll ignore.

125+18+40+7 = $190k

(I suppose to be fair we must deduct union dues from the total. I have no idea how much union dues are.)
Your steps are almost the same as the one I linked. But I tried them, just in case. And it still does not build. The fsharp build fails with some error about casting types. Do you have version details?
From the slide, a subtitle:

SMS Text Messages: A Goldmine to Exploit

Oy vey--they don't even care anymore, do they? They're not even trying.

Fuck it, have a friendly octopus:

http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/52a3bb30eab8ea8a2d3...
If I had to pick a single pain point about front-end development right now, it would be this. The new features in HTML, CSS, and native browser APIs plus the variations and limitations of each browser (plus the special and not particularly settled world of mobile/tablets) is hard enough to keep up with.

But we're now in the stage where there's a dozen frameworks out there, probably classifiable into at least three distinct paradigms, and then we have the languages that target the browser. And I suspect we're a long way from shaking this out into a semi-stable point.

The thing that I like least about this treadmill is that time invested in the ephemeral arcana of a stack/platform is time that isn't invested in skills that will transfer elsewhere and help you become a better general problem solver.
Perhaps he said he needed a change (not more money) because he was feeling burnt out or lost motivation on the project he was working on and perhaps in an attempt to keep him his employer tried throwing more money at him. Perhaps he turned down the more money offer because it really wasn't about money. Perhaps 6 months later he was rejuvenated and because his boss could see his leaving 6 months earlier wasn't just an attempt to "extort" more money but legitimately about burn out he hired him back on.

Perhaps it would make more sense if it said "because he hadn’t played games and hadn't acted unethically"
Correct. Stripe can do ACH payouts (credits) but cannot pull money from a bank account for a payment (ACH debit).
Even with a soul in the picture, you just move the question to a different level, not answering anything. Wouldn't you want to ask if a soul have a free will, or if it is governed by its own set of deterministic rules?
It's implausible that they've decided to capture text-messages, but turned a blind-eye to iMessage.
I believe this is due in part to the average house buyer not being informed on how many options they have.

Being a real estate investor, I have come to find that there are more than a number of ways to finance a deal. Also, there are several which require no down payment or initial equity in the deal. Lease options, seller financing, subject-to deals, wraparound mortages, HELOC (Home Equity Line of Credit), etc. The average consumer is unaware of the flexibilities present in finance, and as such, they tend to believe that conventional financing in the only way to go.
These maps don't work in Firefox :(
With Nimrod's macro, you can do awesome things.

It can improve readability a good deal. Here's an example I made:
https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/blob/mast...

Go version:
https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/blob/mast...
Exactly. It should be hidden away from you and you shouldn't have to deal with it.
Dropping platforms will lose them developers. Developers who also work on the main platforms, or atleast whose work crosses over.
I agree, though you may be underestimating the amount of space heavy users of file syncing services can consume:

For a single (1) robotics project in college we had CAD models, fundraising materials, reports, and documentation in dropbox. It's still there and consuming 3.8GB of space.

As soon as multiple projects (consecutively or in parallel) are using the same storage space, it even 50GB might get tight.
I have about a thousand lines of Hy in production, but sadly, that code is not open source. I am, however, working on porting a few Clojure libraries to Hy, those will appear on my github profile (github.com/algernon/) in the coming months.
Hi Keith - I'm sorry the shutdown is disruptive to your business. Discontinuing our direct-to-merchant products was a tough call for us and something we debated intensely.

At the end of the day, unlike Stripe which is building broader payment functionality - we're trying to provide payments for a very focused usecase: platforms (like marketplaces, crowdfunding sites, small business software, etc)

Any product that isn't directly working towards that takes resources away from our platform work. In addition, because it isn't our core focus, it won't be a best-in-class product. That's why we made the tough call to do this.

If there's anything I can do to help make the transition to Stripe or anyone else easier, please let me know - bill@wepay.com Thanks for being a customer.
I initially felt the same way as you about emailing documents and stuff when buying my house; but I figured that no matter how much trouble I put myself through, it wouldn't stop those others from emailing and faxing my stuff to here, there, and yonder.
If you're looking for payments buttons, Ribbon does that very well and we're about to expand that. Same focus on not requiring you to be a "pay API code ninja" to use.

Drop me an email and I'll tell you more. hany@ribbon.co
But they may not be able to crack iMessage.
Creator of Automately here, our service could definitely be something you might be interested in. While we aren't directly in the business of web scraping, we do have a powerful automation service that can accomplish those needs using simple javascript and our powerful scalable automation API.

We are accepting early access requests right now.
Check us out! http://automate.ly/
A lot of the automation may be removing jobs that used to be done by humans by doing it for less, but a byproduct of this is the drastic decrease in barriers to entry for starting your own business, especially as services like Shopify specialize in making the efficiency and cost gains accessible to everybody.

In the past, merchants were often those without land who became merchants because it was their best option. Now, basically anyone can become a merchant immediately.
The thing you must understand is that I do not actually consider a society with any investment in state secrecy to be actually functioning. Actually, a society ruled by secrets is little more than a mafia, playing charades.

But I see you are limiting your viewpoint to 'what is real' and not to 'what could be done differently about the situation'. That's okay with me, to 'keep it real'.

But I have no desire to live in a society ruled by its secrets, as the USA (and other sham states) are. If we are to have true freedom, it must include freedom from the liability of having to keep a secret. The USA is almost imploding against the weight of its own secrets; which serve to hide crimes, and little else.

Beneath every revelation of a state secret is a crime that was committed - or will be committed - against another human being. A catalog of tools whose sole purpose is the mass-violation of human rights, in hands other than 'the elected officials deemed worthy enough to hold the keys', is a criminal instrument. I do not personally agree that we need to construct such things; it is because of profit from suffering that such things are allowed, in the secret chambers of the American Security Elite.
Would you have interest in a tractor drawn, in-field mobile hemp decorticator that is being developed by Canfiber in BC?
Yeah, some of the studies of students checking themselves in and then trying to get out (perfectly sane students) are nightmarish.

How do you PROVE you aren't faking "sanity". shiver It gives the people in charge unchecked god like power over other human beings.
> GC by default, but first class support for manual memory management

Since Mesa/Cedar (1978) there have been quite a few systems languages proposing that approach.

http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/xerox/parc/techReport...
TCL code in the form of a string is not a data structure the language provides you tools to manipulate past being able to execute it: if you wanted to write a macro you are forced to parse the string. While the code is conceptually a list of commands, each of which is a list of lists, with code strings as a special case of value that is itself really a list itself, those semantics are not what you type: code is a semi-colon separated list of lists (which could contain, of course, nested semicolons), and cannot thereby be parsed as any normal TCL data structure (nor can it trivially be run through split or something to get a normal TCL data structure). The square brackets are themselves somewhat special, and the white-space has complex semantics; variable substitution is a one-off feature. The language thereby has the property that code is data (so the example about C++ given by gjm11 was probably confusing, and even got me at first: I was about to write a response to him talking about how in C++ code is separate from data in a way that it isn't in TCL), but it isn't really "homoiconic" (which I then realized as I started working on that response, as it has been over a decade since I lived and breathed TCL, and all I had remembered was the abstract conceptual beauty as opposed to the nitty-gritty details of actually typing it; I started typing it, tried to manipulate the string, and failed). Due to this, I would quibble that you can easily implement macros: you actually first have to write a TCL parser (which people have done; if you search for tcl parser you find some TCL parsers written in TCL in the package index) to recover the structure of the code from the opaque data. Like, you may as well be coding in JavaScript: no one would claim JavaScript is homoiconic, but they do define a .toString() on functions which is supposed to return a string with code that could be evaluated back to a function... you technically can then write macros that take as an argument a function that is .toString()'d, run the code string through a JavaScript implementation of JavaScript's grammar (such as Narcissus), and then manipulate the result to return replacement code in the form of a new function... if you've ever worked in an actually-homoiconic language (like Lisp) this is a fundamentally different experience.
Dirt is useful for growing plants, but you don't want to touch it ;)
And what would you have those of us already doing that do?
At least among my friends Venmo totally dominates the so-called "direct-to-consumer" payment market. Maybe they just didn't anticipate hitting critical mass in competition.
The more reasonable "100k+" number that others have cited is still all in the top 20%, so while there may broadly be some inappropriate conflation of "middle class" and "most people" or "median income", that's not most of what's going on here.
A 1TB hard drive retails for $50. If you're only considering the cost of the storage itself, disregarding the value of the service it's attached to, $99/year is expensive.
Can you elaborate on the second controller? Are you referring to two disks on two controllers, using mdadm (or similar) to create a software RAID 1 across the two?
cloud.mail.ru offers free 1Tb for life if you register until 20 January. Yes the interface is in Russian(at least for the desktop app) and rough at edges, but still worth spending 5 minutes registering.

Edit. The interface of the Android app is available in English. Also, being an active Dropbox user, Mail.ru solution is obviously less polished and still in beta. But it is an established company in Russia(I would guess second biggest internet media holding), and you can somewhat rely on them.
I like your world--let's live there instead.
Identifying and creating efficiency in agriculture is one of the backbones of civilization :)
On the other hand, someone walking up to a stranger and punching them is a good indication of someone not getting some help they need.
No, that him turning it down was ethical according to Hurwitz, that he acted on his own terms.

There is no such thing as "unethical." There is always an ethic involved unless the person is acting completely without reason and randomly, such as when they are insane (and even then there is probably still some kind of reason in their mind). In this way, a person conducting themselves in an "unethical" way is likely on the verge of death or incarceration.
I understand, you make a choice that summarizes the data the best that you can; I wasn't trying to attack you. I was trying to point out that choice of a language for the representation of your configuration is exactly that, a choice.

I don't know that I agree that having the dependency definition in native code is a source of vulnerabilities; it could make the definition easier to write for people packaging code in that language. Also, I think JSON could be considered native code for npm since it is written in nodejs/javascript.
How do you categorize someone like Los Amigos Invisibles?
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Not Theo.

He clearly says things like "that's not up for discussion", "I'm not going into details", etc.

If anyone ever truly deserved the title BDFL...
Go is not that modern, for those of us that know the alternative world of Algol family of languages.
This actually a very exciting development. As a B2B provider of fundraising software for nonprofits, StayClassy (www.stayclassy.org), we do everything we can to put our customers' brands first. This reduces donor confusion, and ends up helping everyone involved be more successful.

Having WePay sunset their consumer-facing products has a similar effect in that it allows us to transact more money through WePay while reducing potential confusion around which services are responsible for which part of the fundraising process.

The WePay team has always been extremely responsive to questions and feature requests, so I'm excited to see what they do with the added resources and renewed focus on partner services.
Also excited about this: but it's also clearly a very ambitious project that will need a lot of help.
The investor deck I used to try to raise $1M
They aren't working in Chrome either. Is there some plugin that needs to be installed?
Net neutrality is dead, but competition is alive
Would there be noticeable performance issues if one were to run Google Drive, Dropbox, and Box simultaneously?
Intelligence is worthless if it results in someone getting killed.
"They may be hiding most of their international income in Ireland"

Bermuda[1]. Google does its best to avoid paying tax in Ireland too.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/10/to-reduce-its-tax-bu...
Yeah my site is more social-oriented so I can see how your site may work better with something like mongo (if it's mainly lat/long coordinates). Just as a quick example of something I ran into: When saving comments I liked to save the user's _id, username, along with their avatar so I wouldn't have to do a join later on, but then realized what if the user changes their avatar? Since I store the avatar as a row in the `users` collection, then I'd still need to do one of those nasty fake joins.

The post/pre-save methods are pretty bad ass and there are a few things I still do like about mongo (which is why I chose to explore it initially), but I think for social type websites, a sql solution makes more sense. I also scoped @ http://www.rethinkdb.com/ which looked interesting, but at this time I wanted to go with a more bulletproof solution to my problems.
the burden of proof is very much on them

But who do they have to prove it to? The public, or the people they actually report to?
I'd love HN feedback on the deck as well - the good - the bad - for others to learn from.
Because they don't have to. He suggested the use of the room for their sake, not his own.
What control does a renter really have? If you don't pay your rent on time, you're going to have a bad time.
Do you need a vector of displayed characters?

Usually all you care about is the rendered size, which your rendering engine should be able to tell you. No need to be able to pick out those characters in most situations.
It's nonsensical because you misunderstand it. He is saying he thinks two or more of them ought to combine efforts in order to prevent all of them from failing.
I wouldn't design a new product for ipad 1 users. The tech is too old to invest any time into it.
Nothing auto-plays on TechCrunch here. I tried both Chrome 32 and IE 11.
Are you working for the Mule?
You might find the lengthy discussion in the linked article answers your question.

To summarize:
1. Millions of visitors can't view WebM
2. Most of the video created today is H.264
Over here in Auckland, New Zealand, there is a sudden drive for cycling safety. There have been several well publicised cases of cyclists being killed after cases of poor road design, bad driving, bad cycling etc. I can't help but think that lit up cyclists would help this. A quick search shows others are trying stuff, although not in the tight-fitting-top style that most cyclists here wear.
http://m.instructables.com/id/turn-signal-biking-jacket/
This is a bit excessive - I think hand signals are enough, and bright lights are to show where the cyclist is.
http://www.esthete-cycle.com/en/product/veste-esthete-velo-u...
This is a bit of a full on jacket, but appears fairly robust.
That is a nice tool, thanks. Someone else posted something similar recently and it wanted to charge $250 for membership or something like that.

The web is bringing a lot of good transparency to nonprofits but there's still a lot of repugnant wastefulness and avarice that often isn't captured well by a 990 form. (publishing salaries is pretty huge, though)

I stand by my point that the more a person learns about the average charity the less they're going to want to donate... transparency doesn't magically lead to supportiveness. And wanting a project to account for every watt of electricity is just completely silly.

edit: transparency is a way for better charities to look good relative to poor ones, yes, but all things being equal, it's a negative for fundraising: as with business and government, a lot of what goes on in ANY organization is ugly to look at and is bound to turn some people off. (none of that is an argument against transparency itself, let's just not kid ourselves about its usefulness for raising money)
I know a couple of Delphi developers; good developers. I don't think that they would recommend learning the language today because the number of legacy systems still in Delphi are declining, few new projects use Delphi, and while there are web frameworks, app development frameworks, etc., they really only exist to help existing developers and are not remarkable enough to be worth learning the language.
Bill from WePay here

Venmo is a great product (I use it too! And so does Lucas.)

We originally launched WePay thinking we could build a great P2P experience and charge fees for it. We found that end-users preferred free options like Venmo & PayPal versus paid versions, so we gradually drifted up market in response.

We ended up serving platforms because they aggregate lots of individuals in a context where they expect to pay for payment processing. It leverages our core capability of processing payments for individuals, but it does so in a context where our business model makes sense.
Calling Thread.sleep with small argument affects system clock on windows (2001)
This has been discussed extensively and people are split on it. https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/comments&q=seiki&sta...
Do you not need a russian phone number?
Thanks providing something concrete to go with all the hand waving on all sides of this.
thanks for the tl;dr summary, I may give the full discussion a try.
Haha! I didn't get much into channel wars, diplomacy got a lot further when there was always legit bandwidth kicking around.

Tcl in some ways was the cause of, and solution to a lot of problems on IRC.. I ended up becoming friends with some of the people who'd try to takeover a channel I might be in and we'd realize we had more in common than not, such as how to customize those damn bots. Still have some of those friends years later, and I'm not sure if I'm the only one. Tcl feel good story.
Of course they have to.. Schneier is monitored everywhere he goes!
Another sign of gentrification: I'm seeing all these ad signs that they're buying cheap houses. These ads are getting more and more now. I say this is a sign because there are poor people that wants to move out, and others sees it as opportunity to flip the house for profit.
I feel you - I recently started a node project on LevelDB and ultimately switched over to an SQL database. The difference though is I went for Postgres 9.3, which has incredible native JSON support, allowing you to slice parts of your JSON data out as a record set, join them against tables, as well as other crazy things like partial indexes on deeply nested JSON values which may or may not be present.

I really think Pg is starting to blow Mongo out of the water.
I don't love TCL, but "toy language" is frankly a comical representation. At least from what I see, it's practically the exact opposite. Nobody I know uses TCL because they like it or because it is fun; they use it because they must, to get work done (to control big hairy enterprise software).
Working with a technology that is more highly documented is better when you're starting out. Especially when you're teaching yourself and StackOverflow is your TA. Python is very appropriate for someone who's new to data work.

Otherwise, asking what technology to use is like asking what mode of transportation to use to get to a destination -- it's not the point. The important part is that you arrive. Some days walking over the mountain is the least sensible method, other days high seas make taking the boat around it impossible. The tool that gets the job done is the best tool.
Initially, I was kind of 'meh' towards Nimrod since Rust already looked so good. But when I recently read about the features, especially the metaprogramming and compile-time features, it seems like it could be really fun and powerful to program in.