skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My assumption of why it failed isn't very important, it could be wrong, but the symptoms (cannot input a non-hungarian billing address, cannot signup) and final result (gave up) are the same.

Anyway I tried to contact them through twitter (no answer) after going here (the page linked as "contact us for support"):

http://www.windowsazure.com/it-it/support/options/

Here I can:

* get payed support (which I cannot buy)

* something literally translated as "Visit the overflow of the stack". Funnily enough, Bing's automatic translation translates "visit stackoverflow" better than this.

* go to an MSDN forum. Which I did.

There, among plenty of thread of people unable to signup, I found this thread[0] In which the MS support person states (I will translate for you)

"The reported error is sadly common during signup, and finding the cause is hard (sic).

I suggest you double check you input correct data, check that you card is valid and that azure is available in your country. You could contact your financial institution to get more help or phone us"

Notice that this is a terrible answer because at this point they already know my card is valid and have in fact already detracted 1€ from it (both for me and the thread creator), and if azure isn't available in my country (which it is) why did they let me get to this point of the signup?.

Then there are three more replies from people getting the same result, opening multiple support tickets and not getting any answer.
One month later there is another reply from support stating that debit cards cannot be used for signup, sorry we don't say that anywhere.
This was one year ago, they still don't say that anywhere.

Awesome, but I was already trying with my credit card, after I failed to sign up with 2 debit cards (all of which got succesfully charged for every attempt).

Honestly, would you have kept trying at this point, hoping that in one month they get back to you?

[0] http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsazure/it-IT/6...
So you're saying that a malicious iTunes visualizer plugin won't get installed and get past antivirus?

Or maybe that your visualizer/screensaver plugins should have access to your credit cards?

Worries the crap out of me, personally. :)
Apple iPhone 5S with Flappy Bird Installed Going for $100,000 on eBay
Still just minor value changes, no effect on processing transactions.
How about Apple TV, ipad, android etc? Any plans for those platforms?
Suppose there's a vaccine that has a 1 in a million chance to kill you.

Also suppose you have a 1% chance to catch and die from a disease without the vaccine.

You would take the vaccine every time.
Right, because I often expect visualizer plugins to not be sandboxed and have full control over my iTunes Store transactions... not. :)
A humblebrag: when you make your use of the word 'humblebrag' a hyperlink to its definition.
I work 40 hours a week at maximum - most weeks I work about 34 to 38 hours. You 80 hours a week guys, what the hell are you doing with your time? Are you divorced? No family? No friends?

Is 'disrupting' an industry really that important to you?
I do agree with the author that there is an inordinate number of us who brag about the number, but this isn't something that is likely to just go away. Unless a new and objective measure of 'productivity' comes along people will still humblebrag about how long they work
Looks great! I'll give this a try. I've been using LaunchControl for this job so far. http://www.soma-zone.com/LaunchControl/
The best choice is often the framework that you know the best or you think you can learn the quickest.

If you're not using a lot of features of the framework and are going to be pulling in data from an API, it might make sense to check out something a bit more minimalist like http://slimframework.com or something like that to see if something like that might work for your use case.
What is this? There doesn't seem to be an explanation. Perhaps an aggregator for streaming services? Or just an easy way to pirate films?
Changing ownership and permissions on the plugin folder won't help if an end user wants the plugin. Suddenly all iTunes plugins can't be trusted, and shouldn't have been installed in the past.

In fact, I now wonder how far that extends -- if I've plugins for Xcode installed, should I worry about my developer account session in Preferences which auto-downloads and can create signing keys for apps? It's a thought...
yeah, well, that's entirely different from what we were talking about though. also speed is obviously not their focus. they just chose a comfortable approach to binary searching regressions in binary builds of libreoffice.

it's not a repo anyone will ever work with. some build bot builds it, and noone else ever commits things back. you just download the tar'd repo, and never ever commit anything or push back. it's also clearly seperated from any code repositories they have.

but maybe i misunderstood something so feel free to correct me.
I would open source it, if only because it is something that I personally would use and want to improve on. As it sits right now abandoned, it isn't doing any good for anyone, and in my opinion constitues wasted time if not used. My personal philosophy is to open source a project if I abandon it so that the effort that went into it is usefule to someone, if not me. Just my two cents on the issue.
Does the download button at the top change based on the users OS?
http://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/cause-of-death/all-cancer...

US has better cancer survival rates than France
MacOS uses a sandbox security model for all major apps now--but automatically silently loads 3rd party iTunes plugins into iTunes app security context.
That's "mechanism, not policy" for you!
Why are you all justifying quite the security flaw?
If Adobe Flash can be exploited if you click a button, should it not been patched?
> Or a mandated private insurance like in Germany [...]

There is no mandated /private/ health insurance, there is just mandated health insurance in Germany.

See e.g.
http://www.slowtravelberlin.com/guide-health-insurance-germa...
one of the little flaws of our system ( i'm french) is that all being free a lot of people go to the emergency when a simple visit to the doctor would suffice, this mean emergency rooms are often surcharged and nurses have to prioritize who can see a doctor first and long waiting time when you are not in a critical condition.

I have been in a motorcycle accident, the "fire house departement" ( we call them that but they do 90% medical emergency, they are trained for that ) arrived promptly, i had to wait 1h as i was not in a critical condition but i had all the treatment and analyses you say you had in dallas. And i live in a small country town.

The only other thing who feel real in your account is that the hospital might feel old ( walls, paint, etc. ).

Your friend might not tell you everything or he had a very bad exeptionnal experience who is not representative.
Really cool app. It "just works", you click on the movie you wanna watch and 5 seconds later you are watching it. Keep up the good work guys!
Are you talking about a login mechanism to a site, or about authenticating yourself to other sites? I don't understand what "roll your own" is referring to.
A physical address and unsubscribe instructions are actually required by US CAN-SPAM law.
My question implicitly defined the scope of the conversation to be programming languages. I like how you broke out of that, and pointed out that Bitcoin might have bigger problems that need to be tackled first. Every time I try to think about how to solve Bitcoin's problems, I return to the traditional banking paradigm: you pay someone else to take the risks of managing the money, and they will thus reimburse you if something bad happens.
Okay, fair enough call with the humblebrag -- many times people talking about how many hours they work are simply socially posturing: look at how much more important I am!

Also, it's bad for you. Bad for your health and bad for your performance.

Having said all of that, there's nothing wrong with 1) pouring yourself into something that's bigger than you, and 2) living a life that's dedicated to something aside from yourself, one which doesn't have traditional work-life boundaries.

That's probably only true in 1% of these cases, but I don't want to lose those folks while giving lectures to the other 99% about values and performance.

ADD: Rephrased, articles like this are also a form of social posturing, and please don't kill the next Thomas Edison with your well-meaning advice to ten thousand corporate drones.
The elementary school teacher who reached 42 million Twitter users
Facebook as a product does actually behave in a far less user hostile fashion. It's relatively fast and just makes much more sense. I do understand that FB actually are weasels but G+ feels like it was made by weasels.

For all the fuss FB has an enormously superior signal-to-noise ratio than G+. My default G+ page is a horrifying mess of things I have zero interest in.

The Google "but you trust FB with this data" line is tiresome. People trust FB because they're an understood silo. Google showing up in unexpected places is why they're regarded as creepy.
If you are geolocating, I would suggest spending $370 to buy the MaxMind GeoIPCity database. There's an nginx module for it and any major language will have code to run queries against it.

http://www.maxmind.com/en/city
http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_geoip_module.html
you could look into elance or one of those sites. affiliate marketing is tricky because you need to get a site placed in search for free organic advertising. you could design a site and sell it on flippa for about $100-$150 bucks.
I still don’t understand why no one does `child.__proto__ = parent;` to inherit properties on the constructor chain too.
You would have to be somewhat out of touch to think we haven't had a tiered system in the US since long before the ACA. The fact that people can talk about "good insurance" and "bad insurance" where the deciding factor is how good of a job you have - and still keep a straight face - is pretty telling.
As others have said, if you've already convinced the user to run untrusted unsandboxed code then it doesn't matter whether it installs an iTunes plugin to do its dirty business.

I have an even easier to implement attack - a menu bar-less app that shows an iTunes password window after using system APIs to bring iTunes to the front. Make up some excuse in the text for why it needs your password. You don't even have to mess around with breakpoints, most users will probably type their password - and you don't even have to wait until they buy something from iTunes!
One 60 hour week in isolation is not a problem. Sometimes it's crunch time and deadlines happen.

Endless 60 hour weeks are a problem. Perpetual crunch time means that expectations are misaligned with the resources needed to meet them.
It isn't about disrupting an industry. It's about money.
That's because the US Army is still fighting the cold war, and thought it was "Red Hate Linux".
You don't need a G+ or any kind of Google account to do other non-Google things, say shop at Amazon or watch a Netflix video. This is the right way to compare. The major difference is that we're not a one-trick pony, we have dozens of services that people want. For a more comparable example, several mostly-unrelated Microsoft online products (Office365, SkyDrive, Xbox, Skype, Outlook.com, etc.) are all under the umbrella of a Microsoft Account. Which also makes a lot of sense, for example I suppose you can buy a unified cloud storage quota that can be used by both Office365 and SkyDrive, among other things. OTOH, because I have a MS account, I also have a (send-only at least) Outlook.com account. But I have no problem with that, I just don't use it.
Interestingly, the case about firemen not helping someone who didn't pay the out-of-county fire coverage fee also relates directly to health care. The reason they didn't help is because if someone was hurt fighting a fire they weren't supposed to be fighting, their health insurance wouldn't have covered it. If there had been universal health care, this would not have been an issue. Many screwed up incentives in the US result from lack of proper health coverage.
Merkel, Hollande to discuss European comm network that avoids U.S.
There is definitely many sides to this whole argument of "x hour work week". For many, it makes sense to push their limits and clock up 60+ hours/wk while many are productive working just about 40 or less. And we can certainly discuss the pros and cons of both. But one of the fundamental things that I believe we should all think about is the ability to control what/how/when you do things. This includes work hours as well. As an example, I know many colleagues who take pride in working a lot of hours and they even login from home just to reply to emails. Do they really need to do that ? In most cases, I would challenge that they don't. But it is a tendency that develops over time and one day you suddently realize that you are clocking 60+ hours/wk and don't even know why.

But then you could argue that everyone else on the team does that, my boss likes it that way blah blah. Again, totally understood that if everyone else is doing it, why wouldn't you but the fact still remains "you can control it to an extent". That's the point.

I have made it a point to set some strict boundaries. Sure, I have the luxury of doing that after being in the industry for a while as a specialist and my clients depend on my expertise. So it is more about value than time. Focus on creating that for your employers/clients and you are golden.
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/19844i/

It's as good as any other BTC exchange I guess. I mean, it hasn't closed down and run off with everyone's funds. That's about all you can hope for these days. I also have no problems with BTC-e.com, but I only day trade there. I don't connect my personal banking info to it. Instead I use Coinbase.com for that intimacy. YC-backed, also very much enjoyed this video[1] and they're San Francisco based which is very close to me so I can stage my own protest if my funds disappear. :)

1. http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/17/foundation-brian-armstrong-...
Everyone's got their priorities & passion. Some can balance it better than others.
He defined Communsim as any positive interaction between people, and implicitly any negative interaction as capitlist subversion. Where does one even begin to explain why that's wrong? Communism is a socio-political theory. It's a way of defining a governing structure of our society Furthermore we live in a world of scarcity, so it also defines a way of distributing scarce resources amongst the population. As a counter-example, every example he gave, is perfectly allowable in a Capitalist society. Under Capitalism, people cooperate, and work together all the time. Sometimes there's a profit motive (e.g. a typical manufacturer may have hundreds of suppliers), and sometimes there isn't. With respect of the latter, Communists usually trot out Open-Source Software as a inherently Communist movement. Except that OSS exists comfortably in a Capitalist society, because Capitalism has no problem with people freely donating their time and skills towards any type of endeavour they choose. Your time belongs to you, do as you fit with it.

Does that make sense?
I think what the parent meant, was that the browser is unique in actually having an attack surface (the JS VM sandbox) that has been hardened by millions of people hitting it with arbitrary foreign code all day. Just because something else on your system happens to be a virtual machine, does not mean its security has been ascertained to nearly this extent.

I wouldn't expect, say, VMWare, or the OpenType rendering engine, to hold up if millions of people were throwing arbitrary foreign code at them each day. But people don't--the code these VMs see is mostly trusted code they either created themselves, or got from a reputable source, and it's heavily the same 1000-2000 blobs.
Facebook DNS record has been compromised
Here is the whois I got from: www.gandi.net/whois:

It seems that european DNS report incorrent/spammish DNS record for facebook...

What is going on?

FACEBOOK.COM.MORE.INFO.AT.WWW.BEYONDWHOIS.COM

FACEBOOK.COM.ZZZZZ.GET.LAID.AT.WWW.SWINGINGCOMMUNITY.COM

FACEBOOK.COM.LOVE D.BY.WWW.SHQIPHOST.COM

FACEBOOK.COM.GET.ONE.MILLION.DOLLARS.AT.WWW.UNIMUNDI

FACEBOOK.COM.DISABLE.YOUR.TIMELINE.NOW.WITH.THE.ORIGINAL.TIMELINE-REMOVE.NET

FACEBOOK.COM
Kernel Embedding of Distributions
Como empezar con una oportunidad de negocio rentable por internet
Depends on who you're selling to. Here are few categories out of top of my head.

- Make website very fancy with videos and do many useless benchmarks showing that it's faster then everything, especially Nodejs

- Create VM language and show that it's just as good as Java but with much more syntactic sugar. Also note that C# runs only on Windows and yours run on everything.

- Do a static compiled-to-bytecode language that will be just as fast as C++. This is very hard so you can forget about this.

- Create another "language" that will compile to Javascript.
Show that it decreases LOC while improving/maintaining readability with performance at par with current ones OR great performance without too much compromise on LOC count and readability.

So in essence, how it makes an average joe like me more productive/powerful.
IANA economist, but as I see it, the problem is that healthcare is mostly a captive market, i.e. not having it when you need it is not an option. With such an inelastic demand and relatively high entry barriers for providers (making competition scarce), it's expected that prices skyrocket. So socialized healthcare is a big win for the people and a big loss for the moneymakers.

Living in another country with socialized helathcare, each time the situation in the USA is described, I'm really glad I don't live there.
I probably average around 60hrs per week and my biggest reservations about this are:

1. That's 60hrs of being a sedentary lazy-ass

2. The more I work outside of work, the less well-rounded I will be

I'm a fit person and take regular walking/stretching breaks and switch between standing and sitting but I still feel like I'm spending way too much time being motionless.

Regarding being well-rounded, I've spent large chunks of my life focused on music, philosophy and learning new (natural) languages. I find that it makes me happier and makes me a more creative programmer, so I tend to feel guilty when realize at the end of the week that I've spent all of my evenings coding and reading RFCs.
Hell, I'll do 60 hour work DAYS!
Excellent! thanks a lot.
Edit: So, you say you didn't submit bank info to Bitstamp, so how do you deposit the USD to get BTC? do you just directly move funds from Coinbase to Bitstamp in USD, then buy BTC at Bitstamp then move them back to CB?
Exactly what is he suggesting?
Let's assume you're right and Apple should revisit it (I don't think they should; I prefer plugins that can, in fact, do anything they wish). How does that lead to the OP's hysterical conclusion?

Browser plugin sandboxing is a very new phenomenon. Apple doesn't give a shit about security because... they said they'll investigate doing something that has only recently been done for the first time at all? What?
Replicating NPM to Riak
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What I meant by "comfortable Westerner" is that what you may consider insulting, they in China might be fine with. And it is presumptuous to think that they are being exploited (and ungrateful for their jobs) just because Western standards are to have supersize and excess in everything like gas guzzling Hummers, McMansions, air conditioning in every room, etc.

And someone from a developed country always has better options, so it is easy to say "they should not be taking that job" from up high. But when your main concern is your family, your child's education, and putting food on the table, any option is a good option. More so when you aren't concerned with luxury... because you can be more efficient and actually work for less when you don't waste money on extraneous living expenses.

Plus, if you truly believe in a "global economy" where everyone is paid the same, the only way to move towards that is to enable free trade and allow cheap labor to be used. Holding back on an area because the wages are "too low" in fact drives wages there even lower, so that other exploitative people will be able to exploit this imbalance.

So avoiding cheap labor doesn't make sense and causes exploitative wage reduction by artificially withholding demand, and paying more than market price doesn't make business sense. For example if I have three photographers. One charges $100/hr, the other $200/hr, and the third $300/hr. If I hire the first photographer I don't just decide to pay him $300 simply because the highest quote I received was $300. Not to mention paying market price is perfectly conducive with evening out the wages in a "global economy."
The title is wrong -- the device is not "going" for $100K, it's being offered for $100K.

Also, are people really this stupid? The executable for the Android version of Flappy Bird is being offered for download for free -- all people have to do is get over their infatuation with Apple.
One thing that's quite improved it in Denmark is that a company came out with a whitelabel hosted-health-portal SaaS product (http://www.mithelbred.dk/) that has really caught on. Doctors can sign up with it and reskin it on their clinic's website, and the product handles the backend interaction. You can book appointments, cancel or move them, send/receive notes to the doctor (if you have a question/worry but aren't sure you really need to go in person), check and renew prescriptions, etc. There are even mobile apps! They claim to have >50% of all doctors in the country signed up with them. I think it's caught on to such an extent because from the doctor's perspective it lets them outsource the patient-management / administrative part of their clinic's work for a price that's lower than it'd cost to do in-house, and the fact that patients now get some online convenience is just an added bonus.
The art of working though is to earn as much money as possible whilst doing the least amount of work.

60 hour a week people haven't got that idea yet.
In my situation, I've never used an iTunes plugin and see no need to personally. So the solution helps me, but you're right that it's a stopgap measure that's not universally applicable.
The videos lags in Windows. Not buffer lag, decoding is very slow. Other than that, a nice implication about how does it work would be nice.
Who the fuck brags about this?
Who the fuck thinks this is a good thing?

This happened to me recently. More than 70h per week.

But that's not. The fact of the matter is, I was the sole programmer on the product and the product is so attached to me that if it fails, I fail.

I don't see it that way, but the employees at the place I work at do.
The clients who were brought in to meet me, do.