skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, this lesson has been learned dozens of times in the Bitcoin community by now. Never store significant quantities in web wallets of any kind, even if it presents as an "account" at an exchange. Move all significant quantities of coins to a local wallet and make a million secure backups of that wallet. When you want to use these coins, send them from your local wallet.

There is no reason not to have a local wallet. There have been major coin thefts from online services, even very reputable services, sometimes sinking the entire thing. Cryptocoins are worth a lot of money and people will steal them from you if you leave them vulnerable. Cloud coin storage is always vulnerable.
I learned about the for loop hack from avr-libc[1][2]. It even does some preprocessor abuse to implement different kinds of atomic and non-atomic sections.

[1] http://www.nongnu.org/avr-libc/user-manual/group__util__atom...

[2] http://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/viewvc/trunk/avr-libc/include...
This is the right answer. Right now it's quite far down the page, so I hope OP sees it.

Think of it this way, OP: if there was nothing wrong with it, then the person doing it wouldn't mind being outed, right? So, out him or her and see what happens.
That's definitely on our minds, and we certainly plan to include some g-free breads from time to time. What other foods would you like to see?
Another thumbs up. I'm currently in the process of migrating away from CFEngine to Ansible and it's been a breeze.
But not search, like the original comment claimed?
I misunderstood your intent.
Actual headline should read: "Confused front-line tech support rep parrots back answer to a leading question that he probably didn't understand"
Looks like a great idea and I signed up to be notified if/when you'll be launching in Vancouver, B.C.!

The price also seems reasonable - we use Cobs Bread for our fresh bread, and a loaf is between $4 and $6.

But I'm curious why SMS was chosen, instead of through a web app? Is the purchase charged through the phone bill this way?

And how will the product be packaged in order to prevent squirrels or other animals from taking a bite if the customer isn't home?
I can understand how people might grow bitter in the situation where they put their "dream on hold" because their spouse was afraid of dealing with the unknown, but if you already tried making a go of your dream and it failed and you are now in significant debt, putting your dream on hold and taking regular employment is the only sane option, so in OP's case, I don't see how this could manifest itself in bitterness towards his spouse unless he is insane.
The only market that Google has ever dominated profitably is search engine advertising. Despite, Glass, self driving cars, Android (free), Feedburner (dominated and shuttered) Gmail, Maps, etc... 96%[1] of their revenue is from selling ads.

I love a lot of Google products, but the only one they make any money on, is one I despise. It pays for everything else.

[1]http://venturebeat.com/2012/01/29/google-advertising/
Basically any device or thing that has an internet connection can publish information about itself so that it can be consumed externally. For example if you had a BeagleBone microprocessor monitoring temperatures and you wanted to share those temperatures with other people or machines on the cloud, you could do it easily with dweet.io. It's basically a really simple pub/sub platform.
It was common to have your milk delivered every morning until a few decades ago(in the UK at last), with some milk men also doing eggs, butter, orange juice etc.

They have mostly died out. Have you explored why and what you will do to succeed when these people have closed their businesses?
With no context, I have nothing to comment on.

[Edit: I should have written, "with NO context"...]
Right now Facebook is having issues with messaging and Authenticating
Thanks, Curiosity, your tiny Earth 'selfie' is a big wake-up call
> airport security is mostly security theater

Agreed 100%. We'd be better off without most of it.

> this kind of ethnic screening has a ton of ethical problems

This, obviously, is a value judgment. If you think ethnic screening is unworkable for ethical reasons, that's fair. But you need to acknowledge that, by giving up ethnic screening, you're purposefully making your security less effective -- you would rather see some additional people die to terrorism, and some additional non-ethnics harassed in precisely the way you don't want to see happen to ethnics, than dirty your hands with ethnic screening.

(I habitually take a fairly aggressive tone. I really don't care whether you make the call one way or the other -- but I do care that, if that's what you believe, you should cop to it.)
Wagtail CMS – content management made beautiful
... I'm actually surprised it's only 2/3. I mean, there are fringe geeks on DuckDuckGo, and IE Windows default search is Bing, but still I've never seen anybody IRL actually open anything but Google for a web search.
Except ... you agreed to this treatment via the Terms of Service: https://squareup.com/legal/seller-agreement
Seems like Opsworks does a lot more than just the provisioning, no?

"AWS OpsWorks can scale your application using automatic load-based or time-based scaling and maintain the health of your application by detecting failed instances and replacing them. You have full control of deployments and automation of each component."

How would you suggest using Ansible to cover that side of things?
That link is a 404, both in your comment and in the updated post.
"As much as I understand that they’re all professional investors, I still can’t help but feel a personal responsibility to them."

Dude. You went all in and are now broke. You were responsible to them.

Don't spend one remaining second of your life feeling bad about that shit.
By all means sell Google and buy Exxon. Check back with us in 10 years about how that went.

> Exxon's better reflect the value of the underlying assets.

That's like valuing a car based on the price of the steel it contains instead of where it can take you.
Have you considered being less patronising?
Introduction to the Mill CPU Programming Model
I don't use square nor does a quick search show a phone number for them. In does though show a lot of unhappy customers not able to find a phone number to square. Sure seems like if nothing else an opportunity for them to fix perceptions and help people.

Be somewhat thankful you aren't with Paypal, that 90 days would be 6 months and there is little to nothing you can do about it. From what I understand technically, there is a 6 month window where credit card transactions can be challenged (at least in some cases), so many times Paypal et al will hold money for all or a portion of that period if your business is deemed high risk.

You don't mention what your business is or what it is you do, so it is hard to judge why they consider you high risk. But good luck trying to get ahold of Square other than through support forms or email from the way it looks.
Techvibes releases a redesigned Canadian Startup Index
Well, IMNAL, but laws seem to imply that developing, supporting and distributing cryptographic solutions without appropriate FSB-provided license is banned, although I never heard anyone had issues with hosting, say, Debian mirror with GnuPG and OpenSSL, or adding TLS support to some product. But it may be well possible that laws are there but it's just that no one cares to enforce them.

On the other hand, use is legal, except if user is state-owned and municipal corporations. Those must use only FSB-licensed solutions.
Connecting to it via wifi without the benefit of the paper manual is itself a WTF-worthy process. Even with the manual it was a PITA for me, I can't imagine what it's like for a non-techie.
From BTCE (google-translated from Russian)

Dear participants of the project BTC-e.com! In connection with decision-making in relation to the crypto-currency in Russia working with Qiwi suspended indefinitely, as well as with other payment systems in Russia. All financial obligations will be met in full without the means available additional commissions. encourage you to use the system okpay (USD, EUR), interest on the conclusion on it is reduced to zero. apologize for any inconvenience. Sincerely support btc-e.com
We all know what PG says the most important thing for a startup like Google is growth and that's the only thing that matters :)
No Gori annexion happened, actually -- Russian military entered the city, then, after the conflict was over, left.

The readiness to respond was quite amazing though, yes -- but it was Georgian army who started the storm of Tshinval, not expecting the Russian one to appear any soon through a mountain tunnel (or appear at all, actually).

There have been trainings just before that, that's correct; and there have been provocations from both sides of the conflict (Ossetian and Georgian).
I saw a lot of advice in that article, but not one recount of an actual experience where it worked well.

/tongue-in-cheek
What happened when the CEO of a Boston burrito chain became an Uber driver
Well there's professional experience and non-professional/hobbyist experience. In your interview you should probably clarify that. They're both different but I think there is value to the things teenager might have learned working on some toy project.
Exxon Mobil invests more money in alternative energy research than any other organization in the world.
There's always the possibility that this is mostly Scott Adams trolling. He does do that sometimes.
That's what I'm saying, it's disruptive to pull it out of my pocket, enter my 7 digit pin, go back to the home screen, open the recording app, start a new recording.
I was thinking about it last time. And it's sad that it's 2014 and most tech companies that get tons of press and admiration make money with advertisement, something we all hate.
because labor laws.

He's talking about work experience and that requires a work environment. Not the semblance of one.
Another way to look at it is:

You just earned an MBA. This MBA, like any MBA from a top university, is expensive. Except yours is much better. It is based on real-world learnings, learnings that you could have never gotten from a classroom. Arguably, a traditional MBA would have never given you the right background for creating a startup too. So your experience is even better.

Very few get to go through an accelerator, and the fact that you went through a well-known one means your education is even more precious. So congrats on a fantastic, though tough, learning experience!
I understand what you are saying about things like the Moon, Pluto, etc. If a bury a thermometer on the moon, and dig it up 5 minutes later, it will be very cold.

But we are talking about a space walk here. Let's phrase the question this way: if I have a 1 kg mass of plastic and metal in some proportion and I throw it out of the airlock with the initial temperature of 293 K, what will its temperature be 30 minutes later if it was (a) in the shadow and (b) in the sunlight? This is a different case than being in contact with a hot or cold satellite or planet. It's a rate problem. If we assume a near-perfect vacuum, the only heat going in and out is via radiation. So the question is, how fast does a hunk of metal/plastic radiate heat at 293 K.

Now, the radiation heat transfer out of a black body will be: q = σ T^4 A, where q is the Watts of heat transferred, σ is the Boltzman constant, T is the temperature in Kelvin, and A is the surface area. Roughly: 5.6703e-8 x 293 x 0.1 for a GoPro camera. That's 1.66e-6 Watts, or 1.66 microwatts. That's a pretty damn low transfer rate: we are talking about roughly 3 mJ of energy lost over 30 minutes.

Now, the delta T here is equal to Q/(mC), where Q is our 0.003 Joules, m is the mass, 0.135 kilograms, and C is the specific heat. The specific heat is tricky but let's assume this thing is made out of copper: 390 J/(K kg). That gives us a delta T of, drum roll please, 5.7e-5 degrees. So assuming we are in the shade and are not touching cold objects, the GoPro will come back at the exact temperature it left after a 30 minute space walk.

We can of course figure out what it will be in the sun, where I expect it'll heat up quite a bit, which is probably the more dangerous thing for a piece of equipment. The equations are nearly the same.
People didn't put lights on their bikes at night until about 15 years ago when low-weight, bright LEDs became cheap and ubiquitous.

Any city cyclist will tell you about all the close calls and accidents they've had, so it's just a matter of making a camera that's rugged and cheap enough to meet the demand. GoPro has rugged down, now they just need to come down in price and maybe up in usability.

I think it's different from the Red Bull example because red bull doesn't really offer anything that tons of cheap competitors don't already offer, and with taste being what it is there's no 'default' drink to capture the whole market.

If gopro just became 'the dash-cam' company, and any time you bought a new bike or car it was a $50 add-on at the register, I think they'd clean house.

Of course we're a ways from a stabilized HD camera being an impulse buy, but they're probably the best positioned company to get there. Then they just have to fight commoditization, which is a nice problem to have.
Affordable NJ Bar / Bat Mitzvah Photographer
The problem with that, of course, is that "chemistry" is just another way of saying "people I'm comfortable around", which is a socially acceptable way of discriminating against people who don't make you comfortable -- usually defined as "people who are different than you". And so it goes.
This is exactly what I've been looking for, docker + CI, and I'm excited to see the scala 2.10 image!
From postman to profit: A one-man startup goes the alternative route
> After completing a transaction this past week

So, I'm wiling to bet this is a high-dollar transaction. These generally have a high-risk associated with them, and generally aren't accepted by a service like Square. In fact, I imagine the transaction was someone paying you to "license" your patent.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6308902
http://patents.justia.com/patent/20130013387

In which case, Square is very much in the right, and you are indeed abusing the service provided.

If this is incorrect, please share.

> Holding OUR money for 90 days is ludicrous also

You are clearly not knowledgeable about credit card processing and the banking industry.
Seems like a vague story. Nothing is obviously underhanded even if true. Moreover, it's not actionable in any sense.

It's too early for customer impressions to shaped by bad press, not important enough to put off early hires and not relevant to investors.

More importantly it sounds like just a he said / she said type of thing.
Ask HN: Do you downvote the comments above yours selfishly?
Clearly.

I just added that in to amplify my opinion that more tlds are not helpful.
EDIT: I sit corrected. My post is wrong.

No, you can't, and no they don't.

lock(lk_var) {
lock(lk_var2) {
var = var2;
}
}

That expands to:

for(int i=0; (i < 1) && !lk_lock(lk_var); lk_unlock(lk_var), i++)
{
for(int i=0; (i < 1) && !lk_lock(lk_var2); lk_unlock(lk_var2), i++)
{
var = var2;
}
}

You end up with an i scoped inside another i.
Ansible: I was in the "Don't go there" camp a while ago - they documentation was horrible, the whole website a mess and lots of things weren't discoverable at all (people using ansible told me that they used google site search to find stuff in the manual).

I returned a couple of days ago to look at the current state of things and I have to admit that I was impressed. Technically I really liked ansible for quite some while. Now it even comes with decent documentation. I'd back the suggestion to check it out.
Many websites relying on Facebook Authentication are also suffering from it.
You want to go with smaller companies that are flexible enough to evaluate you and maybe take a risk. They'll also let you do more stuff if you prove you can.
Just noticed!

API Response time is growing fast! https://developers.facebook.com/status/

Not good to have customers call in on a Friday afternoon!
They're probably saying it from places where $6 is a lot for bread, even delivered.
Straight shooters are great, but you will NEVER have a positive reaction when you talk with people about your IQ. Especially when 145 is so much higher than most. If you have a 145 IQ and you mention it to 1,000 people, you've just pissed off 998 of them.
I also saw a broken like button on my website, and profile pictures were not loading 5 min ago.
Productivity tips for academics
Firstly, the earlier post said "allow and embrace", not just allow.

Second, I am not even sure how you can unfairly discriminate against a culture, and the problem here seems to be that there is not enough positive discrimination to accommodate differing groups.
I believe one reason why Google and even Apple are able to surpass Exxon is because Exxon pays out a large portion of its profit in dividends while Google and Apple retain much of theirs in bank accounts as assets. If Exxon didn't pay a dividend they'd easily be the largest company in the world with regards to market cap.
http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html - disagreement level 0 or 1, you're just throwing insults without addressing their position at all.
The equivalence I use now is that the iPhone 5s is roughly as fast as the first gen macbook air.
Security improvements this week
Exxon Mobil isn't going anywhere. As oil-usage decreases (which is still likely a long ways off), I'm sure they'll be right there to provide whatever the next energy source is.
No. Vote on merit, not position.
I agree with you and the GP: It is Marketing 101. And that, unfortunately, is often underhanded and classless.
Then you still can't forget and do this:

lock(lk_var) lock(lk_var2)
{
lk_var = lk_var2;
}

Or this:

lock(lk_var) { lock(lk_var2 { lk_var = lk_var2; } }

Using the pre-processor to solve a regular, every day, hum-drum, solved-a-billion-times RAII problem is bad news.
Don’t Put Pricing In Your Marketing E-mails
Really? Wasn't it because of the security and privacy concerns pointed here many times?
appl had ~$160B in cash as of their earning report last week: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-28/apple-s-160-billion...
Good points. The only other Windows based matching engine I know of is Direct Edge in the US, and I think even they are going to switch over using BATS' Linux-based matching engine once the BATS-DE merger completes.
I really liked your blog post! Yeah literally only one person has ordered a card from mine besides family and friends. Interesting that you're also sending Lob a custom back, I'm just using their standard one and sending them the data.

Mine also works on mobile, does yours?

I don't think there's much demand unfortunately for postcards that weren't handwritten which is the sad thing.
Did you really just create an account to insult someone?
I'd like to share a story of a sushi restaurant owner that I know. I was a bartender there, many, many years ago.

This restaurant owner came from Japan with his wife when they were in their twenties. They both spoke limited English and settled down in a part of New York that is predominantly Caucasian. For many years, he worked as a dishwasher while saving up diligently.

When he saved up enough money, he entered into a partnership with 2 others to open up a restaurant. One of the partners screwed the other two and he had to declare bankruptcy.

He went back to being a dishwasher, then later a cook, as he saved up money again. Finally, he had a chance to purchase a hole-in-the-wall restaurant that he thought he could improve. Unfortunately, that one also failed. And he declared bankruptcy for a second time.

That still didn't deter him. He worked again, saved up again, and opened up his third restaurant, a sushi restaurant. And for him, the third time was the charm.

This one became a success. It grew to 3 locations total. Every morning, he drove for hours to the fish market at 4am to select the best fish, then transported it to his restaurants in the back of his truck. He still has that truck. We all called it his "fishmobile" because it stunk of fish like you wouldn't believe.

He didn't reach this success until his 50s. Through it all, his wife was amazingly supportive. She worked alongside him in these restaurants too. They are retired now. He shared his story with me when I told him I was starting a business of my own.

I can't imagine having to lose so much, but in his perspective, he started out with nothing, so it wasn't that painful to return to nothing. I'm not saying I would want to do this with my wife and daughter, but hearing his story definitely gave me perspective.
Spot on. For the most part I think you can take anyone on HN to build 90% of the applications out there. After all, it mostly boils down CRUD (different levels), with the other 10% requiring specialized knowledge of algorithms and certain systems. All this to say that coding is the easy part. The more time-consuming part is figuring out exactly what the end users need, whether that involves communicating directly with them or with a project manager. After it's shipped? Even more communication because there will be some bug that you, or your test suite, would not have caught from an everyday user, and there's only one way to find out how to reproduce it...
Seems like a question for a US based attorney.

Is the escrow management your product or just something you need to offer? It seems to me if it is just something you need to manage, then use a service like Balanced Payments. If it is your business, then seek out some legal advice to make sure you protect yourself.
> By all means sell Google and buy Exxon. Check back with us in 10 years about how that went.

I am actually going to try to track this (and I don't mean that in a bad way). I am honestly curious about this over the next 10 years.
Leave room for a margin of error, same as humans do.
The article's described origin of Big Data ignores the original big data problem: Insurance, specifically actuarial tables. The origins of big data are actually far older than 1990, going back to the first mass computing systems in the old days which were literally aisles of women working in offices computing actuarial tables[0].

One could even go further back to the 16th century (and earlier if you're really adventurous) where the ideas of life statistics applying to groups (but not individuals) was first explained.

In short, 1990 is sort of an arbitrary date and does not accurately reflect the origin of Big Data. We have wanted to record the sum total of humanity for as long as we have had the ability to record things; it's simply becoming more reasonable to attempt today.

[0]http://www.officemuseum.com/1907_Actuarial_Division_Metropol...
I'm not sure that is a correct line of logic. Often, companies pump their stock prices by handing over dividends. That's a sign of a mature company, which can't expect to grow much, but is still valuable to its shareholders if it can provide results in any other way.
Your argument implies the startups are competing for customers: from the description they are competing for investors; in fact, in such a scenario, your biggest competitor is pretty much always "an un- or under-funded, not yet widely known or used startup". Investors are a group of people who are difficult to market to, and can also be difficult to cold call, so it seems like this technique of "sniping" a pitch at a semi-closed venue seems like it would be uniquely effective. (Even the ads they were supposedly running: end users would not be looking up stuff related to 500 Startups; the ads are almost certainly trying to catch the eye of potential investors looking for interesting companies.)
I'm wondering if someone of Github's caliber can be hacked so easily, what about the rest of the masses developing web apps.

What do you think makes Github that much better than all the rest?
I think people are able to endorse you for anything. The more keyword-rich a profile is, the better targeted the advertising. ;-)