skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How about a generalised list of things you need to do for each country.

1) Decide country
2) Hire finance lawyer for that country
3) Deal with banks / APIs
4) Make applications to governments
etc.

Give us some example timeline based on past experience etc for each step, maybe with some anecdotes when Stp X was particularly difficult /easy with country Y.
I don't know how to best phrase this, but...

I still don't understand why I should worry about preventing non-recipients of my messages from being able to read them.
Google still controls your information, despite EU ruling
Ex-NSA wants you to install software to encrypt email
We can help with the introspection: http://blog.runscope.com/posts/api-providers-build-a-twilio-...
Great! Let's see what we have here. Random guy from Greed Street is giving sound advice on what's good for his cousin's soul and something about hope?

Oh, it's a sarcastic piece. Phew! Wait a minute...

I'm so glad I seized the opportunity to leave Wall Street.
Cool--we're working on that. how old are your kids?
Yes, but you have to be able to do it first.
Yeah... Feminist here. You don't know what you're talking about. Most if us believe nothing like what you are saying.

Do you base a lot of your beliefs on such shallow and demonstrably incorrect premises?
Seriously, what could possibly go wrong?
Game Developer Conference Awards to honor Feminist Frequency, League of Legends
Probably the biggest sign we're in a bubble[1] is that the Leveraged Sellout guy is back and has trained his focus on Silicon Valley.

1. Not saying we're actually in a bubble. Just pointing out that the last time he was around, he was poking fun at 22 year olds going into finance for absurdly high incomes.
Yes, "dunking a ball". We are talking about "dunking a ball" when you are taller than most of other people.

You have a good metaphor here, but what kinds of ball are you dunking when you have higher IQ than other people? Do you do anything productive to take advantage of your high IQ? I didn't see it yet.

I agree that being super intelligent is a disaster to people around you. But if you can make something to benefit people, you will be accepted as a hero by the people eventually. That's how heroes are generated.
(NSFW)Peepbox is for geeks who love beautiful design, simplicity and porn?
Most of the articles about Flappy Bird are frustrating. Everybody assumes that the developer somehow "hacked" the system, refusing to believe a phenomenon where sometimes just everything aligns and makes you successful.

What I find even pathetic is that people trying to explain how Flappy Bird hacked it's way by the means available to everybody - like botnets posting reviews.

I think in the reality it's just this: Sometimes people or products happen to be at the right time at the right place.

Think about celebrities. Are the most popular actors that much outstanding from many others? Or musicians? Or artists? Most of them just happen to be caught to the perfect storm and they shine. Think about an actor who was in few movies before, but this time he is the Top Gun - and now we have Tom Cruise. What He did in Top Gun that he didn't in Risky Business?

We like to believe that we live in a meritocratic society but most of the time glamour is about luck. I am not even sure that there is anyone or any product that is so outstanding that millions of people celebrate it for it's meritocratic qualities.

That's why sometimes an old song becomes a hit many years later, like the song Beggin' became popular again 40 years after it's first debut. Did Madcon somehow made an outstanding cover for first time in 40 years?

Sometimes it becomes a meme, like Three Wolf Moon becoming one after a review on amazon. Was this review first of it's kind or something really that outstanding? I don't think so.

Flappy Bird was caught by the perfect storm, that's it. The game had the qualities, just like many other games, and some chaotic chain of events placed the game to a position where it can run for the glamour.
But you don't have to maintain it! Think of the time savings! /s
I would prefer to have that statement qualified with "knows of" ;)
I agree with most of what you're saying, except for "every single person's money problem is solved with the very simple 'don't spend more than you earn.'" Sometimes it's not being able to earn enough money that's the problem--there's a baseline level of income needed to pay for very basic no frills food and rent in any given area.
There are people who aim high whether they are in the 20's, 30's, 40's ... and then there are those who aim low.

Age is rarely a factor for those who are shooting for the moon, but it's a great excuse for those who don't.
Hot or not for UFO sightings app
I wonder how many people are able to trace back their ancestry more than a few hundred years?
Hey Sergio, my agency's website [1] has been happily hosted on Heroku for a year and I pay approximately $0 for it. You have to set up your site for performance—caching, CDN, use Unicorn, the like—but unless you have something like 30 concurrent users, I think you might be overthinking it. You definitely don't need a production-level PostgreSQL database.

That said, I'm pushing my developers to use Middleman [2] for mostly-static sites these days. No moving parts means nothing can go wrong, and we host on GitHub pages for free. Not sure if this fits your use case.

I'm a bit of a Rails performance nut, feel free to ping me at nj@thirdprestige.com if you'd like to ask me more specific questions.

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

[2] http://middlemanapp.com/
Why should "majority feminists" have any more expectations for their response to those actions than there are for, say, your response?
Doesn't matter if they're garbage - the point raised was whether RapGenius has made other lyric sites obsolete. So far, we've heard opinions from people, but I've seen no data to support the theory that these sites are now out of the game.
The real interesting thing about that use is that it makes it impossible for the NSA and the like to strong arm someone else for the keys.

With what we know about the current environment, being your own CA is actually the most secure approach.
Because it's difficult. Count how many steps it takes to generate a public key (opening a terminal window counts as one, answering each gpg question counts as one, moving your mouse counts as one).

And then there is the fact that your private key is in files, which risk being lost. If you use a keyserver, you have to go find a keyserver to use. Also, some people (myself included) like to have multiple identities, hence multiple publick keys.

It's hell to manage for us hackers, what more your SixPack Joe who has never even touched a command prompt in his life.

What I want to see is something truly unintrusive to use. I like OS X's keychain concept, but I cannot ever bring myself to trust keychain with my private keys.

p/s: I have a public key in my blog. Guess how many times I've received an encrypted email from my blog enquiry? Zero. Everyone uses plaintext instead.
Oil And Gas Drilling Linked To More Frequent Earthquakes
Do you think most people are constructing their morality on top of some fundamental beliefs?

(I tend to think we work backwards trying to come up with compact descriptions of what we are comfortable with...)
To tell them to fuck off obviously. Can you point to specific instances of that happening?
Yeah I didn't say people past their 20s don't aim high. I said your 20s is a great time to aim high.
in some places, vending machines accept contactless smart cards, which makes it much easier to pay - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_smart_cards

More easy for countries where it is supported everywhere, rather than regionally. But also possible to target vending machines in transit areas, since a lot of public transport has moved over to smart cards.
Awesome, any mommy blogs you (or your wife) particularly like to visit?
Counting graphemes and detecting "the nearest complete grapheme" are basically the same problem.

The only reason counting graphemes is hard is because detecting grapheme boundaries is hard.
Maybe you should educate yourself in general evolution, and evolution of sex in particular, and then figure out the obvious: men and women gravitate toward different things. Women are (generally) not discriminated in tech, they just don't gravitate towards it. They are not discriminated on HN, or in Trekkie conventions, they are practically not present there. They don't play computer games, they do social networking.

And when in evolution, we say "they", we don't mean any individual members, we mean proportions. So women in general don't do some things that interest men.

Now, if you guys want society to spend effort and probably money to push women in some roles that don't interest them (or vice versa for men), so be it. My opinion is that doing this will not make women/men any happier or even will not be good for society...
Can't confirm on Win 7 & FF 26.
> The primary targets are government institutions, diplomatic offices and embassies, energy, oil and gas companies, research organizations and activists.

Ah pesky activists.

Intelligence agencies: support domestic economic advantage, suppress domestic political dissent, and defend against nation security threats. That seems to be order of priorities based on all these leaks.
All great - but not proof that RapGenius has obsoleted traditional lyrics sites like azlyrics.com or metrolyrics.com.
The message is satire.
The colors don't offer enough contrast between the clouds and the missles (?) to tell when their is a collision sometimes.
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This is the problem: the way calculus is taught is not very mathematical.
This whole sub-conversation felt eerily like the quote from Richard Bach's Jonathan Livingston Seagull:

"The trick to flying is to be able to throw yourself at the ground, and miss."
Besides the fact that js is an interpreted dynamic language while the others are statically typed
I am still unsure whether the author was 1) seriously making some decent points about YC's model underneath a (self-aware and -effacing or just tone-deaf, I'm really not sure) veneer of old-school snobbery and greed, or 2) sarcastically making the opposite points by presenting the counterargument in such unappealing terms.

Either way, it left something of a bad taste in my mouth for both industries.
Polya's "how to solve it" is a classic.
Considering this guy is running a finance/consulting parody website, I have to assume there's a measure of jealousy and regret that the website he is running does not have attractive enough characteristics to be let into Y Combinator, although he must swim in some of the same circles as these startups.

The main question I take away from reading this is how the average payout to a young college grad compares on wall street, to the elite VC/startup track, taking away the unquantifiable benefits and focusing on average hard dollars earned.

Of course - that's probably not the comparison to make. Most of PG's stuff was written for technical folks considering entry level technical jobs. I would guess that even considering survivorship bias, the average outcome for elite startup tracks versus entry level tech track is extremely good, considering the jobs it can lead to (would love to hear if otherwise).

It's a little harder to compare for the theoretical econ major from harvard contemplating a wall street track. wall street is not a normal business environment - oligopolistic, heavy regulatory protections - much more like joining a club earning economic rents off capital flows than a group doing much to change the world.

IMHO the main reason people work 100 hour weeks in finance is to prove they are willing to give up everything in their life to make it to the next rung - not because they are doing anything particularly noteworthy or unusual that demands intensive focus. from first hand experience, I've noted most M&A customers have sophisticated in house teams that can run the numbers plenty well on their own, which does raise the question what the six banks typically advising them are doing.

All I can say is - for the average econ major contemplating the future on wall street - it will be really interesting when Amazon (and/or others) decide to take on financial services. regulations can hold them off for a while, but as they eat the rest of the world, it's inevitable hungry eyes will aggressively turn to where the money is (literally) - only a matter of time I'm sure.

Plan accordingly, I say.
This read as sarcasm to me. Isn't there a name for not being able to distinguish parody and sarcasm?
I think the article pokes fun at startups and finance alike.
Famous last words :-)
So I guess by that argument you'd put PHP in that family? ;)
It seems that a lot of people are missing the point. Leveraged Sellout was famously satirical of the financial markets in the heady pre-crisis days of '06-'08. Even published a book: http://www.amazon.com/Damn-Feels-Good-Be-Banker/dp/B0023RSZK...

The site was quiet for a long time and has very recently re-emerged to take on the tech industry - albeit from the perspective of the New York finance type.

Outlandish and uncomfortably true.
> But the idea that we are somehow "out of reach of the NSA" is definitely not one of them. Sure, we're not actively collaborating with them, as many US businesses are, but as we've said before: we just assume the pipes going into and out of our major network exchange points are being vacuumed en masse.

Maybe easydns isn't, but the Telcos are definitely collaborating. We've had intercept equipment directly under the control of CSIS installed in major datacenters since the early 2000s. (I really do mean CSIS, not CSEC.)

I've seen it myself and I have multiple sources with direct, first hand knowledge of it.

None of them are interested in coming forward though, and I have no proof to offer myself.

What would necessitate cooperation of easydns anyway? They can't possibly get transit or peer with anyone of significance in Canada that doesn't have the surveillance equipment installed, so I don't see why any of the spooks would bother contacting them.
Yes, it is a little bit tricky.

One way is to show that you or your grandmother can speak in Ladino, it is difficult to fake that but tracing ancestry more than a few generations can be an impossible task for the major part of the people.
Exactly.

I have exactly two panics in my ~15k line server. Both are in initialization code that will probably never get called, so it will fail very early on in the code. The rest of my code looks like this:

func getRecord(args...) (err error) {
if err := doSomethingRisky(); err != nil {
return err
}
if err := doSomethingElseRisky(); err != nil {
return err
}
... other code ...
return nil
}

func processRecord() error {
if err := getRecord(args...); err != nil {
return err
}
... do other stuff ...
return nil
}

All the way down the stack. It's certainly a little more code, but it forces you to at least acknowledge all errors. If you want a stack-trace, you can always use the runtime package.
I think that the fist comment in the other thread is interesting. (I just notice that it was wroten by you.)

> To the uninitiated, this is a humour blog that was active until the debt crisis, focused on made up stories and rumors: http://www.leveragedsellout.com/2008/10/remember-the-titans/ .
Here's a screenshot of a demo schedule.
Super simple, add your kids, add an activity and share with your friends or family

https://www.dropbox.com/s/aq1ixtdm6ioogdo/Screen%20Shot%2020...
He's spent 20 hours doing one-off lectures to high school math students, and he believes he's an expert teacher? He seems to have an interesting approach and can get the students intrigued, but giving an interesting hour-long presentation and teaching a high school class for a full year are very different things.

I'm not trying to be cynical or discouraging, but dial back the certainty in your genius methods a couple of notches until you've done more than just gotten kids interested for an hour.
Try reading the article linked at the end.
This is satire guys. Hopefully it's intentional satire, and not an unintentional self-parody of how wall street guys think.
FYI Nodejitsu offers private npm...
Well, he alleges that Square cancelled his account without notice, and describes how that affected his business because he had made efforts to drive customers to use the Square payment method. He also admits that he should have developed a more robust solution, but rationalizes that he stayed with Square due to good prior experience.

Even if Square is perfectly in the right based on their user agreements they may be throwing good money away, and chasing off good customers. It's not hard to understand why a retail business owner would appreciate a little notice before an account cancellation.
The OP comes across as very fond of deriding the US schooling system, but proposes nothing beyond an egotistical assurance that he can teach math well even though no one else can.

Math education is not homogenous. People are not homogenous. Everyone experiences math in different ways both in school and in everyday life. Some people will simply memorize the steps necessary to solve problems. Some will actually grasp the theory behind the problem solving. Some will experience very little of what is considered "classic" high school math. (At my school, those who are not tracked into calculus or statistics as Seniors take a course that deals with things like formal logic. It actually seems really interesting.) The OP's blanket assertions are simply wrong.

Moreover, math is a massive field. The OP's claim that calculus and algebra are not math but that "pattern recognition" is is just absurd.
Also, hi Mat!
This is incredibly well-written. As someone who has a brother at Wharton and parents in the healthcare and legal fields I found myself smiling often. Was the iPad smashing too much though? Is that what rich people do?
Linus's issue on "shared code means less bugs" https://lkml.org/lkml/2000/8/22/12
So convergence.io is only available over HTTP, yet it offers the plugin for download. It seems an ironically bad practice to install security software over an untrusted connection. Meanwhile, https://convergence.io yields a certificate for whispersystems.org and is in fact the https://whispersystems.org/ main page (nothing to do with convergence.io). There appears to be no secure way to obtain Moxie's plugin (it is not available from mozilla.org, though a fork is available, based on this repo: https://github.com/mk-fg/convergence). My understanding is that more recently, Moxie has been focusing on http://tack.io which offers improved security without overturning the CA model.
The Co-Founder Dilemma – Rebekah Campbell
At the start, no one wants to haggle over shares because, at this stage, the company isn’t worth anything. Right?

Wrong. The company does have a value at the start. It’s worth the energy and intellect the founding team is prepared to invest. When I started Posse, I felt this nascent idea had no inherent value, but when I look back on the level of work and perseverance I’ve applied over three years, that commitment was an important asset at the beginning.
Yeah some of these comments seem to take the piece on face value. However, the satire is brilliant.
Yeah, I guessed I picked too simple a system. If it happens often, perhaps have some kind of hint that the user is missing the point.
I definitely felt like my grade school education did me a disservice in the math department. I liken it to learning grammar for 12 years without ever writing an essay.

This is why I think programming should be taught starting in elementary school. It gives you an application for the math you need to learn. I never cared about learning algebra, calculus, or trigonometry until I started programming. Now I wish I had paid attention and now I am going back and self educating on the subjects in order to empower my programming.
And when the check came, I passed it to Eric and watched his eyes widen at the total. The host came over, expecting his card. I could see Eric sweat. “Oh, this shouldn’t be a problem,” I assured him. I turned to the host: “You accept equity, right?” Her face contorted. I elbowed my cousin. “Eric – tell her about your startup.”
he's such a dick, I love it.
Inspired after seeing Nicole talk about Trulia's Styleguide, my current way to work with clients' design is to spend enough time and effort in making a styleguide. Once a styleguide is in place, it continues to evolve and change and the eventual design is pretty straight forward and easy.
I think the logic is that the current way isn't a big problem now that there is a standard of how you add your username to the file, and has allowed for some flexibility on the membership.

The old saying, "don't fix it if it ain't broke."
Is there any real downside to this approach, or is it just that it looks "less professional"?
There's a Quora question that has some quite interesting varying perspectives on the issue: http://www.quora.com/Education/Do-people-who-have-skipped-gr...
Ask HN: CubeSats and Telecommunications – Best Way to Learn?
What's the best way to learn how to build a CubSat for telecommunications (phone and data communications)?
I'm a telecom engineer, so I understand wireless communications but know little about satellites.
Perhaps this article could be taken seriously if it didn't refer to a large percentage of Americans as "nuts" and didn't write off all British people as idiots: "In Britain, where we hope our robbers carry nothing more than a big stick."
I think the idea of renaming programming concepts so beginners can understand them easily is worth trying.

But wouldn't it also be a good idea to also map this back to standard programming language terminology? And provide a detailed description of the semantics of the language, so people who are knowledgeable in the field can comment on it?
I don't know. I think it's fine if a private company that is maintaing the registry also wants to monetize parts of it. They are after all expending considerable effort and resources, and they're doing nothing to stop others from hosting registries.

What would be nice is decentralization — because these registries are so similar to link shorteners I am wondering what a peer to peer registry system would look like a la DNS...
Or, you could learn from this, and not use Parse.
I hate to be rude, but I feel like you jumped into this thread without reading the context.

I'm not talking about panicing instead of returning errors. I'm talking about using an idiom---which is used in the Go standard library (see my link up-thread)---to make error handling more terse when you're working with code that is otherwise profligate with checking errors.

At no point is a panic exposed to the user of a program or to the client of a library. At no point are errors ignored. The panics are kept within package and converted to error values.
Reading. A lot. Pick a book, read (not always fully!), next. Probably I finish all the comics, history, science sections*

* The library was mid-sized, and that was the section for kids. Next I move to the full big one, but then I have get out of school, need work, and that kill it...
Please do--and reach out to me directly. I'd love to help out.
No, this isn't what I'm talking about. See my response: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7222197
I absolutely agree. I don't get why the tech industry is so afraid of throwing some more of their weight around to bring political change in ways that are more aggressive than what your average joe could do.

Politicians care about one thing - getting reelected and we all know the effects of money in politics. Let's put together a list of politicians we want to get out of office, fund their opponents aggressively and find leverage. By leverage, I mean find what makes these politicians uncomfortable, what they really don't want you to make a fuss about and do some convincing to get them to see the light.

We need an insider, a Frank Underwood to take care of things inside the beltway.