skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I attended a talk on Powershell as my colleagues scoffed. But I think there's some neat concepts there. Tighter (typed!) integration with processes could be super helpful in making better tooling.
Ugh. Network Solutions is terrible. In 2003, I registered my domain for 100 years at $9.99 per year for a total of $999. Then ten years later (2013), I received a notice that they were having a problem charging my credit card for the domain name renewal? Apparently, it went into their system as a ten year registration.

I've been on the phone with them periodically for about a year now trying to resolve this, and in the mean-time I've paid for two additional one-year registrations. It was basically a miracle that I was able to track down the credit card number I used back in 2003. I had to fax them various documents as evidence and now they're supposedly doing an investigation, but I haven't heard from them in a while.

I really should follow up again. I hope I can get a refund for the remaining 90 years and switch registrars. In the end, I might just let Network Solutions keep my $900+ and switch away from them for the peace of mind.
Docker Raises $15M
OK, 1.48BTC/oz ;)

> but countless societies have valued it highly

I was not commenting on its value history. I was trying to convey that this value is almost entirely subjective, which goes against what one would think "intrinsic value" means. "Expected value" might be better, but that would weaken the argument against Bitcoin.
I've become a big Dogecoin proponent. I believe that Dogecoin will add another dimension to our online experience, and open up avenues for content creators to be rewarded that did not exist before.

I'm all in.
There's no analogue to that in online dating though.
An Internet outage knocked out two-thirds of China’s .com domains for an hour
You know, honestly, thinking about it, I'm not feeling certain to say no.

First, could they get an audio feed of all or many of the cell phones in a given cell?

Second, can, you know, Science, or science the NSA has, do that 'reverb / echo analysis' thing?

I don't really know either way, but find the second one more dubious than the first.
So you'd say the real rule is "be interesting"?

The problem is there are plenty of people with passionate, interesting lives, but who aren't good at communicating that interest, or have interests that don't appeal to (most of) the opposite sex.

In dating, where first impressions are everything, it's often more important to appear interesting than be interesting.
User Experience Professionals Association
Thanks... now I'm going to have trouble sleeping at night.
Why hasn’t Japan’s massive government debt wreaked havoc (yet)?
I've tried every Mac mail app under the sun, and Mail Pilot is the only one I've actually enjoyed using. I've been using it as my exclusive e-mail client since the early preview and it has truly revolutionized how I handle e-mail. I've committed to their to-list idea of keeping up with e-mail, and I actually get to inbox zero almost daily (I hadn't reached true inbox zero in years). Mail Pilot still needs some more polish, but the updates are frequent and it already surpasses everything else out there in my opinion.
Basic Steps for Beginners to Develop Android App
It would cost "nothing" to mount an attack because the attack mining is profitable for other reasons.
Congratulations to the Docker team and contributors!
unless you convince every team to make you win for a cut :)

It's a marketing scheme, I found it interesting
>On one of my very first interviews the CEO told me women aren't math minded so he was going to >skip some of the questions for me. On another interview I was asked why "he should take on the >liability of hiring a female programmer".

Those are a couple of pretty shitty interviews to be sure. I'm curious how many interview you've had for dev positions and if they're all bad like that with these being the worst examples, or if they're the only good examples.

What I'm trying to get at is that if it was 2/10 interviews were horrible like this then that's regrettable but not indicative of highly institutionalized sexism. If it's more like 8/10 interviews then I would think it is. Obviously we can't draw any rigorous conclusions from a single person's experience but I'm curious nonetheless.

Part of the reason I'm even asking is because I don't see a lot of sexism in the tech circles I travel in, but I also don't go anywhere near "brogrammer" type gatherings either. Based on the absence of sexism I see on a regular basis I'd like to believe the best in people in general.
I guess I am missing something. How do you get your money to the exchange and how do you get it back? If you are buying 1 bitcoin for $830, how do you get your $830 to the exchange? Do you give them your credit card number? Your paypal account? Don't they then have to pay the 2-3% to the credit card processor? And then I guess if you sell one bitcoin, how do they get your $825 to you? Do they send you a check? Do they wire it to you? Do they pay the costs for that transfer back to you? Or do you just assume you will keep the bitcoin and use it to buy something? And then how are we calculating the value of it vs. $? Do merchants use the same exchange rate or do they get to decide on the fly what exchange rate they are going to use? How do we know we are not losing at least 2% on that?
As someone in an entirely different country (and lives in a state where they've decided a 30% increase in public transport prices every year is acceptable and not idiotic...) can someone explain to me why there is such a fuss around companies making their employees lives easier by taking care of transport for them?

Heck in some industries, they give you a car, and yet I've never seen anything like this before. I've read a whole stack about this issue but still can't seem to make it click.
It's clearly intended as anecdotal evidence. Citation request: WONTFIX
CT Youth Soccer Private Coaching Start-Up
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Do We Still Need Davos In A World Of Developers?
If I can't wait 21 days for a new car, I have some serious life planning issues.
I just started working at a research hospital. One problem I've heard mentioned from several people is the difficulty of getting black patients to participate in studies or even consent to having their biological samples used for research. If you think this is "illogical", then you're probably (1) don't belong to a lower status group in American society and (2) haven't read much about the history of medical experimentation. Tuskegee wasn't an isolated incident, before the advent of modern consent & ethics standard, medical experimentation in the US preyed on the lower rungs of society.

Some examples:

* Holmeburg prison: http://www.amazon.com/Acres-Skin-Experiments-Holmesburg-Pris...

* Development of modern gynecology through live experiments on slaves: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Marion_Sims#Medical_experime...

* Whole-body radiation exposure experiment in the 60s: http://articles.latimes.com/2007/oct/06/local/me-saenger6

* Immortalized cell line from Henrietta Lacks without her permission or that of her family: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks

and, of course, there was eugenics: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics_in_the_United_States#C...
Domain registrations have always been limited to 10 years. If NetSol ever claimed to be offering a 100-year registration, they were either wrong or being misleading.
Didn't Apple take a more gentrified approach to their sales?

I was under the impression that Apple didn't bother to market to any of the markets listed in that article because they aren't THE LARGEST AND RICHEST MARKETS IN THE WORLD.

It took them over 3 years to release ANY version of an iphone in finland (one of the listed nations in the article): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_iPhone#European_...

U.S.A. Release: June 28, 2007

Finland Release: September 30, 2010

It took them over a year to get to Greece, etc...

People buy what's available and then stick to what they know, generally.

I am not surprised by the findings of this article.
Thanks for that explanation. Seems it isn't very practical with a black hole as your energy source/storage. Not surprising I suppose.
I am really ... shocked I guess, how can you not like this. I was not born in the US, but in 10 yrs I lived here (and liking it obviously), I was always bothered that such a great country can have so many homeless and destitute people.
I can write about this pages and pages... Studies show, once someone ends on the street, he never comes back up, this is the only way for many of those to get themselves up. I am even liking numbers about how much it costs to care about homeless vs. helping them.

Seriously, this costs little and helps a great deal to people who genuinely need it.
This looks fairly nice, but useless for me without Exchange.

This prompted me to finally just break down and spend the $2 on AirMail. What surprises am I in for, both good and bad?
“You allow these companies to illegally use public spaces.” The fix is either stop them from doing so, or make such action not illegal.
This is basically the power source on Romulan starships :)
Technically, the quality of the browser was immaterial to the EU Competition authority investigation, and a good browser (as it was at the time the investigation was suggested, an eon ego by tech standards) might have made things worst. The political support for the investigation came later, wasn't neutral to the outcome and was then triggered by the quality of the software. Administration works in mysterious ways, and the European Commission’s are strangers than Cthulhu's.
They are protesting the people in the busses, not the busses.

The protesters are angry that there are relatively prosperous individuals in "their" neighborhoods at all; they would rather it be an affordable slum than be priced out.
right next to the oddly placed c++11
Though unrelated to this post in particular, I figured I would post a method of finding dates that worked particularly well for me.

Post a "Blind Date" message in the M4W section of CL. In the message describe your self as honestly as you can, while still being interesting and flattering to yourself. Ask the women to describe themselves to you in the reply. Say one or two interesting things about your self, and what you are looking for. Request that the responding girl does NOT send you a picture, and wait for the messages to roll in :)

I picked up quite a few dates that way, all the girls were beautiful, smart, and very interesting to talk to. Because we weren't a "100%" match, we actually had some different points of view, which lead to fun conversations.

You might think this would lead to you perhaps going out with girls who are not very good looking. First of all, you can have lot's of fun with a girl, even if you are not sexually attracted to her. But in reality, only girls who are very beautiful and confident in their appearance would actually reply to this message.

In any case, it worked great for me. I met lot's of cool girls, and eventually found the love of my life.
In physics, if you randomly divide a fixed amount of energy among n particles, you will obtain a boltzmann (exponential) distribution of particle energies, such that a small number of particles have very high energy and while many have only a little.

Similarly, if you randomly divide a fixed amount of wealth among n individuals, you end up with a boltzmann distribution of wealth, such that a small number if individuals have a lot of the wealth, while many have only a little.

The boltzmann distribution is the maximum entropy distribution, for fixed total energy or fixed total wealth.
That's a pretty cynical view. You're a assuming people will strive for the lowest common denominator of living standards just so they can get free housing.

Do some people take advantage of welfare? Sure. But if you're doing pretty ok making $30k a year, would you drag yourself into unemployment just so you can take food stamps? Doubt it.

In fact, I see it completely reversed. It's a short term problem, with a long term solution. If you look at Maslow's hiearchy of needs, people who have their basic necessities met (housing, food, friends, etc) will naturally strive for higher living standards. In the short term, people will become homeless to claim free apartments, but in the long term strive for higher living standards.
>Let's face it: email on OSX sucks.

Compared to what? Since, you know, it can run most apps other platforms can (and most people use), from mutt to Thunderbird and Outlook.

>For all of Apple's skill in crafting beautiful hardware (and as much as I like OSX as an operating system), Mail.app is outdated and still has limited support for Gmail labels

Labels? Why should it support a proprietary technology -- and much more from a competitor, and much more one that might kill IMAP at any time?

Labels aside, I never had much problems with Mail.app. And, spam aside, I get around 200 mails per day.
Nice and smooth. Good write up too. Technologic.
Redistribution kills motivation

I know that I stopped working as hard to gain more wealth the second my taxes went up.*

* Stated by no one ever.
List of Roman deities
Eudora still works. That's pretty good for a program that came out in the late 1980s.
IE browser on the wp8 is good, but wp8 as a platform sucks. So many features are not supported or has issues when rendering HTML5 app on wp8 platform.

My HN mobile client works fine on WP8/IE, but so many hacks required to work as an HTML5 WP8 app.
Object Oriented Design Principles
I do not have an active credit card on file with them

Be careful. If they charge an inactive card, it is possible that after some investigative work the charge will be moved to an active card along with additional fees.
Seems like famous "Darklord of the Internet " article got wide adoption.

Being "successful" scammer is now considered a vertue.
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2010/09/gray-def...

There's not a fuss around companies providing transport to their employees. There's a fuss around the employees, who are hated by "locals", living nearby. As described in the linked article, gentrification battles are phrased in other terms, because you lose PR points for saying "get out because, um, we hate you".

Threads about the buses on HN in the past have seen a lot of self-righteous grandstanding about "but the buses are breaking traffic laws!" -- completely disregarding the fact that everyone posting in the thread, San Francisco residents or not, breaks traffic laws every day.
Thanks for the suggestion. Yes, white labeling is another area I am constantly looking into. However, it seems hard to find the right contact to pitch. Any idea on that?
Good: It's a fairly decent mail app that does all of the things you'd expect.

Bad: Still get bugs and crashes that I'd expect from a beta, not a production-ready app.
This is fantastic advice! I think dancing above all others will speed up the process of confidence around the ladies.
>While this may be good for pocketbooks, it has also probably destroyed desktop mail clients for non-enterprise as a market for a software company that wants to pay landlords or mortgages in something besides appreciation.

Does not seem to have stopped other companies, from the Omni Group to Pixelmator. And didn't iA sold hundends of thousands of copies of it's editor when other editors where 1/5 to 1/10 the price? If it solves a need, people will pay for quality.

Not to mention that today's $10 correspond to 10 to 30 times more people using Macs than the times of $50-$100 email clients did.
With modern computers we should be able to recite religious texts fast and efficiently. Even a Raspberry PI with a solar panel could probably get up to some decent speed compared to a prayer wheel. Not sure it helps you reach nirvana though. :)
I explained it poorly.

When we can't afford to keep building a feature, we release it as open source and reintegrate it eventually.
"In a small, cramped city, ...". San Francisco certainly may be small, but I've never known it to be cramped. I feel like its not being cramped is precisely the root of the problem for which "Google" buses erroneously take the blame.
Imagine you're the CEO of a business that is bleeding cash left, right, and center, and someone comes to you with a plan that will reduce your revenue 20% while reducing your costs 50%. You don't think you'd consider that plan even for a second?

I'm not saying such a plan would work for USPS, and definitely not saying Outbox could have brought that sort of value proposition to USPS, but reducing revenue is not always a poor business decision.
Liberian cargo ship Leda Trader catches fire off the coast of Florida
I think I've been happiest with Postbox, but holy cow, that periodic re-indexing is painful. Hooking up ~500k emails means it grinds away for minutes on a HD, something like once or twice every hour.

That aside, it handled those 500k emails way better than e.g. Mail.app (whose performance routinely falls off a cliff somewhere back between 200k and 300k), synced quickly, etc and all without the normal annoyances that keep me away from Thunderbird. A very solid, cheap option.

That said, the re-indexing eventually got annoying enough that I disabled a bunch of IMAP folders in Gmail and switched back to Mail.app. I'd love to find a real alternative, but everything else I've touched has been awful in absolutely-critical ways (usually one or more of: can't handle a couple hundred thousand emails at all, can't display HTML emails, can't stand the UI, or useless/nonexistent filtering tools).
I thought GitHub was a flat organization?
"some" people always seem to jump up to make this pedantic argument when men are generalized about, and yet somehow talking about women as a general group never seems to invoke the same.
"females will almost never initiate a flirt sequence themselves"

Maybe they don't with YOU.
It sounds to me like the people who gentrified the area are now complaining about getting priced out of "their" neighborhood. I expect the same to start happening in Williamsburg once the yuppies start moving into all of the new condos.
I remember seeing advertising for this. I believe they promised that they would keep it registered 10 years out until your time ran out.

Of course, even in 2003, the only thing Network Solutions had going for them was high prices.
Sure hope the same standards are applied to charter tourist buses and those double-deckers that carry tourists back and forth.
They said they'd automatically renew it on their end. It was marketed to me as a service that I'd only have to pay for once and never have to worry about for the rest of my life. Obviously, the opposite has been true. =/
Excited to see Docker's rapid climb. This is the right product at the right time.
This is the right approach. Just ask a simple question that shows you read the person's profile and ask them to expand on something you would like to know more about (and it should be something you are genuinely curious about). Also, stay away from anything romantic/sexual, and you'll stick out way more compared to all the crazy/creepy guys that are messaging her.
They should make a movie out of it.
But Android is the Windows of the mobile world.
I'm gonna assume you and Paul12345534 aren't white dudes b/c that'd be a behavior for creeps.
I really don't know much about them beyond my own limited experience as a shopper (about 6 years ago). I came to know of a local broker (southern California) via a referral at about the time I was looking to buy a new car, and decided to try the service. This particular broker charges an up-front, fixed fee (maybe $100? I don't remember), and he shops for the best deal in the region for your specific vehicle configuration.

Even though I hired him, I decided to also see what the local Costco deal was (wasn't completely confident Costco couldn't do better). The pricing the broker negotiated was a shade better than I could get through Costco (maybe $75 less, including the broker fee), but the big plus was that the car was delivered to my door, and the contracts were signed on my kitchen table. I never had to set foot on a dealer lot (minus my own Costco experiment). No "finance guy" circus. It was cleanest car buying experience I have had.
OS X and iOS qualifies as cross-platform these days?
Would data help you change your mind? http://advance.cornell.edu/documents/ImpactofGender.pdf
I'll second Postbox. Search is fast, and it handles multiple accounts easily. Stable and clean.
This is just anecdotal evidence, but increasingly some of my friends and relatives are including Galaxy and Lumia into their conversations about phone upgrade. So maybe it's getting into the general mind-share.
Carwoo shutting down
This is an honest question, that maybe someone in SF could answer for me. I have been in SF several times, and I didn't like the city all that much, but that's just a personal preference. But in that area their are so many nice cities to live in. My personal favorite is Santa Cruise, but there a ton of other great cities around the bay. If San Fransisco natives hate the tech workers so much, why stay?

I live in San Diego, so it might be just a clash of cultures. But I honesty would like to know, why does the tech community find SF so appealing. Is it just a function of that's were all the VC money is? Or am I missing something?
I wonder why they call the algorithm PageRank when their example is academic citations? The academic citation index existed long before PageRank took that concept to the Web.

People even gamed it the same way (citation clubs == linkbuilding networks.)
Dang those are some awkward messages.
Apparently It’s OK For iOS Apps To Ask For Your Apple ID And Password