skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm no longer collecting cards upfront, and I've finally got MRR growth back on track. I made the mistake of simply changing the signup form / billing code without making heavy modifications to the marketing site and onboarding flow, which caused a huge drop in growth after that change.

That'd be a great topic for a blog post. I don't know how to make that switch myself; I tried once and it wasn't a success.
The Nexus and Moto family of phones have proven otherwise with prices ranging from $180 - $350.
We bought one for testing responsive designs. It lives in a cabinet with a handful of other devices.
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So the way to solve this is to create a note on my calendar with "Remind to complain about this to vic.gundotra@google.com larry.page@google.com" ?
Nothing happened. I'll never trust you again.

EDIT: I usually keep my sound muted. I trust you again.
They don't give you higher prices with a Macbook Pro, they might just suggest higher priced things.

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230445860...
GHC 7.6.2 is installed (I checked the container) and you can use cabal as though you had a sandbox due to the containment.
> "As an organization, they've acted within the bounds of the law and done exactly what they were supposed to do."

Do you get paid to write this stuff, or do you actually believe it? It is obvious that the NSA has been creatively interpreting the law to acquire more and more data on innocent citizens. This report says so. The President's panel said so too, albeit a little more politely.

> the NSA currently has the support of the people and the people's representatives... The issue is 50/50 at best among the people

Know what? Slavery had the support of the people. Segregation had the support of the people. Anti-miscegenation laws had support of the people. Opposition to gay marriage has the support of the people. When it comes to rights, it doesn't matter if the majority of the people support it or not; rights are rights.

And, by the way: members of Congress themselves have asked for help from the Snowden documents[1], because the NSA has not been truthful with them.

[1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/01/today_i_brief...
321k for one carrier (that were reported) meaning a conservative total would be ~1 million requests. 2013 census reports that there are 8 states with populations of 1 mil or less.
I've never understood why any service should need my card details if I'm signing up for a free trial. I now don't sign up to free trials that require payment details up front because, often, there isn't any warning before the trial period ends and a large charge can then get taken.

If I like your service and it's useful to me after the free trial ends I'll sign up and add my payment details.

I'm probably just cynical before my time but I see it as preying on people who are forgetful, to take their money.

In answer to your question though. I'd send a reminder it's polite.
Are you even allowed to store CC details of your customers on your servers?

I know that you are not forced to be PCI compliant by law, but if you are not and your database is leaked, you will be liable for any damages that result from that leak.

Anyways, I wouldn't ask for CC at signup because your business may come across as untrustworthy or a scam when asking for such data when the user is not buying anything at the moment.

Edit: Sorry my fault, somehow ignored the part of his message stating that he is using Stripe.
Um, I have a go bag in case of emergency/natural disaster that affects my home. That does not make me an international spy; the reason I have it is I have a three year old daughter.

And no shit he was ready to go. He knew what he was up against. Snowden's been a step ahead of the gov't at all times. Read some of his writing, he's incredibly smart and eloquent. It stands in stark contrast to the sweaty mealy-mouthed denials of the bureaucrats trying feebly to discredit him.

In black and white literal terms, he's certainly a criminal. It has so little to do with right and wrong that it hasn't affected his credibility much.
We're talking hardware here - whether you own it yourself, or it is "in the cloud", there is still a metal box somewhere behind it all, so there is still a market for those metal boxes.
Yeah, definitely appropriate abbreviation for the airplane nuts at Hacker News. It's an interesting TIL, but for future reference, @WildUtah, I'd wager less than 1% of the population knows anything about airline designations.
I think many posters here are missing the real problem here, Google is taking liberties with (y)our personal data.

Hiding behind the excuse that you could opt out, or that informational leakage is a user problem is disingenuous and can be illustrated by the simple analogy to a telephone directory:

If your telephone directory suddenly arbitrarily decided to indicate beside a listing (a listing you may not have requested) your sexual orientation, gender, criminal history or political affiliation. Would that be ok?

I think the answer is a clear and resounding "no!", and the underlying issue one that Google must address immediately and definitively. I've been migrating away from Google for the past six months or so, but this has now pushed that to the top of my priorities.

So much for "do no evil"
I'll have to disagree with you on the design aspect. In my opinion Nokia N9 has been the nicest looking and feeling phone ever. When you have it in your hand the finishing feels great, especially the subtly curved screen that has deep enough blacks that blend into the black borders seamlessly.

http://velmont.no/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Nokia-N9.jpg
The Windows Phone development tools are amazing indeed.

Getting to work with MVVM and XAML is pure bliss. The emulator is great too (much better than any Android one).

Blendability (the ability to see design data in real time) is probably my favorite feature (beside using C#, Visual Studio, etc).
Right, you ever track all the changes in Php or Java? The idea that something being open source means that there aren't changes is just nonsense.

Change happens. It's life. I guess you just pick your poison.
Roadside Picnic is one of my favorites. I've been wanting to watch the Tartovsky film (Stalker) but had been waiting for a Blu-ray version. This works, too!

(Never touched the game, but the reviews look good. Unfortunately I'm terrible at FPS games, so I doubt I'll ever play this.)
Great idea.

I ALMOST went back to the safety of CCs upfront (http://planscope.io/blog/why-im-going-back-to-capturing-cred...) but ended up sticking with it. And I'm glad I did, because growth is significantly higher and there are fewer cancelations.

The big takeaway: People do more research before plugging in their credit card. If it's relatively low friction to sign up for a trial of your product, you need to make sure your onboarding flow isn't just about how to use your product, but why (e.g. the typical responsibility of your features / tour pages.)
Well, Backbone handles delegation for elements within the same view. But it doesn't handle the case where you have lots of instances of the same view class in a list and want each handler registered only once for the whole list. You can do this manually by checking out the event target and maintaining a mapping from dom nodes to views, which you ought to do if you have lists of hundreds or thousands of repeated subviews. But Ember and various Backbone plugins can do this for you automatically.
Isn't Lenovo beginning to encroach into monopoly territory? I keep hearing how they are purchasing large chunks of the current PC market.
Maps That Will Help You Make Sense of the World
I agree that national defense is a necessity, but I don't think the ability to blow up huts on the other side of the planet is a necessary component to that.

Similarly, while I agree that regulating drug manufacture is a necessity, regulating drug consumption is not.

So there's first an argument from degree. It's not as simple as "Nations must be able to fight wars." Details matter a great deal, and I think a case could be made that even if war-fighting is necessary, the vast majority of what we currently spend on it is unnecessary and immoral.

Further, who decides what's necessary? I imagine a hard-core pacifist would argue that national defense is not actually a necessity. That same person might argue that access to good health care, including contraception, is a fundamental human right and therefore funding that is a necessity. Why should someone be forced to pay for anything they find immoral and unnecessary, even if you happen to think it's necessary?

My own response to that would be that some people are simply wrong about that, and allowing people to opt out of things they feel are unnecessary and immoral simply wouldn't work. The good thing about government is that it allows us to take collective actions that benefit us all but would fall victim to things like the free rider problem if they were funded voluntarily. But then we need some way of collectively deciding what's worth funding through government and forcing people to pay for, and what's not.

And this really just puts is back where we started. We have to fund some things, and no matter what they are, some taxpayers will feel that those things are unnecessary and immoral. That, I think, indicates that "I shouldn't be required to pay for things I find immoral" is not a good argument.
It's time to implement serious cloud incident reporting
And as a result of this - I am reading another "good guy Amazon" story on the net. This reinforces my concept that Amazon is reasonable to deal with, and I'll be more likely to buy from them, other things being equal.

Similarly this is why I have a preference for Square and Stripe over other similar services, my local $preferred_brand car dealership (over other local ones) and so on with other reasonable to deal with companies. At the end of the day, I'm willing to pay even a bit more if the hassle is lower, or expected to be lower should I need something 'weird' (defined as: not just purchase and walk away forever).

Generating a little bit of good feeling towards your business is totally worth some overhead cost.
Red Hat ups its virtualization and cloud game
Its amazing that on North Korea's small budget that they were able to achieve such advanced scientific systems. Hopefully NASA can learn from the example of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and learn to structure its budget properly without capitalist excess.
This was in PHP but the problem exists in most languages. For all of you python programmers out there check out defusedxml and use it. They have a good explanation of many of the dangers in XML parsing:

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/defusedxml
As far as I am aware 'he' has two meanings in common parlance, one gender neutral and one specifically referring to males. 'she' on the other hand has only one meaning, it always specifically refers to females. When people use 'she' when not referring to a woman this always strikes me as slightly weird, just like it always strikes me as slightly weird when I read old quotes that specifically refer to men, e.g.:

"Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it." -- Rene Decartes
This is amazing guys! Thank you so much, it's exactly what our team needed.
(cough yaml parser cough) ... indeed.
I'd much prefer if you would not take my credit card number at all until I confirm that I want to convert from a free trial to a paying customer. I very rarely sign up for free services that require handing over payment information up front. After all, if you're legitimately offering a free trial, there's no reason you'd actually need my credit card number. If I lose interest in your free service after a few days, I don't want the hassle of having to remember to cancel to avoid a charge. I don't want to have to worry about being charged before the free trial is over (I've never heard of your company, so I don't know if you're honest). It just adds too much useless stress to the process. If I keep my credit card in my pocket, I know I'm in control.

Also, I think that the observation that you get much higher conversion rates from people who provide credit card info up front is debatable. It suffers from survivor bias: you might get a lot more paying customers from the group of potential customers who refused to sign up for your trial because you asked for payment info up front. That could be pushing away 95% of all your potential customers, but you'd never know it.
Yup, it's the DOM stuff and not the js initialization that is the bottleneck. This is why Ember and React can be faster: you still have the same number or more js objects, but the automatic event delegation and managed draw cycle minimize dom changes.
Anatomy of a SQL Injection Attack leading to Code Execution
If it can run Android, I'll put Play Store apps on it, regardless of whether or not they come with the ROM. Granted, rooting a phone and putting a new ROM on it isn't exactly user friendly or easy for most people.
Contrary to what the article states, what Falcon 3.0 focused on wasn't the flight model, but a relatively realistic and more involved representation of a dynamic battlefield, avionics and combat tactics, one of the reasons I still played it during the mid to late 90's.
We’ve Got Your Number
Yes. The author of South is writing the built-in migrations, and keeping a 3rd party migration library would be redundant.
I try out emacs every few years. Every time, I get discouraged whenever I attempt to do something simple (change the theme, etc) by the amount of configuration necessary. I may try your repo, since it seems to have a lot of stuff already configured.

The other thing is that Emacs is really slow to start as soon as you have a few plugins, compared to vim.
How to Balance a Startup With Parenthood
thanks, feedback is always much appreciated, support@networkapp.net
> It gives distances in yards

Have not you heard of settings?
What I'm wondering is do people in North Korea understand that the government is lying through its teeth or do they really buy it all?
This is called abusing customer service.

How the tell if you're not being ethical:

If every single person does it, does the system break down? If the answer is yes, then stop.
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What about Samsung and HTC? They have high-end successful Android phones. Though I haven't looked at the financials of the company or anything... are they not doing well?
Lumia 928 owner and I love my phone, for me the OS/HW is great. To me, it feels like a lot of the dissatisfaction centers around the fact that WP is an MS product. Of course there are things that could be enhanced or done better but compared with my past experience with iOS and Android, WP is tops for me. That being said, it is a beautiful thing to have choice so more power to the iOS and Android users. Get in where you fit in!
There are several of these around, on different themes, like http://fattweet.com
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Not too surprising; outside HN comments I have yet to find anyone actually liking these phones here (in the EU). Most people I know who have one (including me) like the hardware but not the software and they don't like the hardware enough to not get an iPhone or Android. I tried to like it but it's gathering dust only to be swept off when a client wants to order an app for it from us. After that it goes into the drawer again."

Nokia 928 is an amazing phone and Windows 8 phone is really smooth. An article on HN yesterday talked about the rise of these phones in specific markets one them being Europe. Most people I know that actually own one really like it and think its much better than Android. Obviously the previous comment is just an opinion and not fact.
What about we flood their calendar about this? ;)
That and there is this one problem that many in Washington have a problem coming to grips with.

Yes, one man could do all of this and more.
The investor presentation we used to raise 2 million dollars
How One Startup's Engineering Team Cut their Engineering Release Times in Half
From my experience, salaries can vary a lot. It depends on the following factors:

- is it an early startup, something more stable or established company in some industry. The latter tend to pay more.

- technological stack

- experience

For example, as a senior software developer in JVM stack you can make in startup on average EUR 50 000 - 60 000.
Also consider taxes - they vary depending on if you are single, married with employed/unemployed spouse, children.
Does it matter how much the charge is? Personally I would appreciate a reminder of a $100+ charge, but I don’t want 2 emails (reminder + receipt) for every $5 recurring charge.
In the grand scheme of IBM's business strategy this makes sense. They sold off their consumer PC market to Lenovo already. The hardware game is not where the big money is. Would you rather be selling relatively cheap hardware or have an army of high end consultants billing out at $250+/hour? You can contract IT infrastructure, application development, BPM, legal and many other services from their professional services division. Want to start an international bank? IBM's financial services and global services will help you out. This is purely just the next step in their evolution to a pure services company with some top notch talent.
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Possibly fake Kiva loans
These two profiles are too similar to be just a coincidence, the text appears to be auto-generated just replacing the numbers, names and specific bits.

Maybe somebody is gaming/abusing Kiva? Or is Kiva itself creating fake profiles?
I'll contact them and post any updates.

Profile 1: http://goo.gl/cBytRa
Profile 2: http://goo.gl/79re14
Screenshots: http://imgur.com/a/0NUaI
Snapchat is better than IBM's entire lower-end server business. I know this is not a popular opinion, but I think what Snapchat has done is spectacular and what IBM has done is pretty meh.
The app can do the first, the second two are coming in some form in the future, both things I want myself for the app.
I bought a Lumia 620 for $70 on Amazon and hooked it up through Straight Talk on their $45/unlimited plan, and frankly, it's pretty great. The O/S is fluid and pretty, the phone works fine, the battery life's really good, it does everything I need to. Really, I have no complaints.
To be fair, the lower-end of IBM's server business is much like dell; they don't actually manufacture any of the complex bits, they just sell them. Your CPU is made my intel, your ram by Samsung and your raid chipset by LSI, just like if you bought a SuperMicro; In fact, it wouldn't surprise me at all if SuperMicro did more of the board layout work in-house than IBM or dell.

That said, the IBM has... much more market share than I thought in the server market[1] so even if it's mostly a sales game, it's not a small sales game.

[1]http://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckjones/2013/08/29/ibm-regain...
My anecdotal experience is that for elder people and truly non-tech people (i.e. they just know they got "a new phone"), WP is fantastic, iOS is fine and Android is clumsy. If I ever replaced my dad's dumbphone with a smart one, I would definitely shoot for a WP. But it would be the cheapest Lumia I could find. :)
Assange's hacker name was Mendax (nobly untruthful). Snowden's code name? Verax (truth teller).

I am not the hugest Snowden or Wikileaks fan, but how is it a coincidence that people whose mission it is to release secrets would choose screennames related to the concept of truth?
Forget about PHP. Java's development pace has been glacial the last few years (though Oracle seems determined to do something about it), but when introducing new features, it's rare that backward compatibility breaks (even when it would be desirable).
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It means that any company can make hardware and put Windows on it, and anyone can make software for Windows without paying Microsoft. This set Windows apart from various platforms in the 80's that are now dead, game consoles and Apple.

Linux is much more open of course.
Can you compare/contrast this with the Apple Podcasts app? Why is it worth manually reimporting my entire list of subscriptions? :)
>"From non tech people I usually hear complaints about it still just not working all too well (annoying to hook up to computers, not being able to easily put movies and music on them compared to android/ios, no worthwhile apps compared, random crashes)"

It is interesting since I have the opposite experience. I have a Lumia 920 and I find it way easier to hookup and way more stable when I compare it with my previous Android.
I'm currently working on an programming contest judge[1] written in Node, that uses Docker to run submitted programs in.

1: https://github.com/EmilS/OnlineJudge
Hardly. HP and Dell cover most of the same ground, from laptops to mid-size servers. And the consumer space has Apple of course, and the enterpise has...SuperMicro? It has been more or less like this for some time now.
The Stallman post about LLVM being bad because it allows people to use it to build other tools was from 2012. Why did you ignore that?

Plugins are only part of the story. Without stable intermedia representations there is still no GCC equivalent to libtooling or LLVM IR. That is by design, and remains true.

No conspiracy theory. Just an ugly truth that some people want to deny.
Might want to shoot Salvatore Sanfilippo an email as well.
Are they reimbursed for these? If so how much? I am curious if its a money making process for them or if the costs are just rolled into "the cost of doing business"

Still the numbers are beyond phenomenal, bordering on insane. Just how does one go about validating that all these request are remotely legal, let alone how does one go about generating so many requests!
Are people still buying AMD processors? My impression was that they really had collapsed over the last 2-3 years.

(Not that I believe ARM will win; x86 still has a huge compatibility advantage, and phone batteries get bigger every year)
I had a bunch of Sega consoles from that generation but don't remember the Sega Channel (granted I wasn't in a Time Warner service area). It just blows my mind that a system for essentially downloading games from the 'cloud' so to speak was available 20 years ago.
Does anyone know of any guidelines for creating software that is trans-inclusive?
I'm sure the profit margin is low for IBM but will be workable for lenovo, but startup valuations are based on rainbows and unicorns.
If they work for Google, I wish they'd say so in their HN profile, or a comment. And if they don't, they should probably clear that up, too.
There are PCI compliant ways of storing this data, and even better there are companies you can pay to do it for you (so you don't screw it up) while providing a lot of other goodies at the same time. See: Braintree, and Stripe.
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> an unlocked phone is by far the cheapest option.

That assumes the carrier provides equivalent but lower-priced subsidies-free plans. Otherwise the would-be subsidy ends up as additional profits in the carrier's pocket.
How do I compile this? GCC complains:

CFLAGS="-g -pipe" make -k donut
cc -g -pipe donut.c -o donut
donut.c:1:2: warning: data definition has no type or storage class [enabled by default]
donut.c: In function ‘main’:
donut.c:4:16: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘printf’ [enabled by default]
donut.c:5:12: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘memset’ [enabled by default]
donut.c:9:63: error: ‘s’ undeclared (first use in this function)
donut.c:9:63: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
donut.c:10:18: error: expected ‘,’ or ‘;’ before ‘in’
donut.c:11:32: error: ‘t’ undeclared (first use in this function)
make: *** [donut] Errore 1

Compilation exited abnormally with code 2 at Thu Jan 23 16:11:12