skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just to clarify, I think using some reliable and trustworthy SSL cert vendor is the way to go. It just won't protect you from the aforementioned parties. Nothing will at this point.

SSL protects you and your users from many other attack vectors, and is important. It wasn't my intention to argue against SSL, just to point out the truth of our modern day situation.
I apologize for using sarcasm in my previous posts. That, along with pointing out absurdity, is apparently an unacceptable use of language for some.

In the future I shall try to make the effort of being very direct and to the point so as to avoid any confusion. This, hopefully, will alleviate the concerns of the literal-minded, the humorless, and the partisan.
I'd love to know a little more about what you were doing and where in Australia.
This should keep a completed level on the screen until you click to advance.

Also, deleting links needs some work: I think the hit detection is too small. Also, a mouse-only way to delete would be nice -- how about right clicking? Double clicking would be another possibility (and I assume more touch friendly).
Yale's Ex-President Heads West To Become CEO Of Coursera
I love the concept, but have few questions: does it allow chrome-extension like permissions (web, local storage + quota)?
how are apps updated?
does it use zerovm?
how are unresponsive apps managed?
can apps use protocols like websocket, webrtc?
how are data backed up/restored?
The Ultimate Frontend Build tool: make
Yes, it's very competitive. It's pretty much Dropbox but with all of the IT controls that Enterprise must* have.

*According to their governance, risk and compliance policies. Dropbox basically fails all of these checks for large companies.
Hey Jerome! I work at Balanced.

We won't be supporting wire transfers: https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api/issues/267

As our CEO says in that thread, given that we do same-day payouts to Wells Fargo and next-day payouts to all other banks, we think ACH debits are a better use-case than a wire transfer in this scenario.

To handle your case with ACH debits, you would debit the bank account, it would go into our escrow, and then when the seller ships, you would pay them out.

Now, for one or two other things:

We absolutely support the ability to do an authorization and then a capture: we call it a 'hold', since we provide both ACH and credit card processing. Holds are free, and you pay the same price when you capture as when you do a regular charge: https://www.balancedpayments.com/pricing

And we put a limit of seven days for a hold. As you've asked, credit card companies don't like seeing lots of voided holds: you've basically frozen someone's funds for a period of time. Doing it often generally means something else is going wrong.
I don't know where you're getting this idea from, but you really should check your sources.

There is a limited prohibition against screening for political affiliations enforced by the Federal government when filling certain civil service positions, but that's about it.

For a good summary of what types of discrimination can and cannot trigger legal liability, see here:

http://www.eeoc.gov/facts/qanda.html
Here is how I interpret it. If today Brendan says he will pick No Opinion to "Should Bills of Rights be included in the Constitution of the United States", then should he be held accountable for his decision?

He can either support Bills of Rights, against Bills of Rights, or he can do nothing about it, in which case is pretty much in the same camp as the opposition. The only difference is he chose to not care and yet he will probably be judged for not helping human rights. And human rights, to many is a worthwhile ethic cause. Not an individual morality debate; just as gay advocates would think gay rights is a basic right of human. If Brendan chose to say "I have no opinion" he is neither against nor supporting gay rights but his decision will disappoint the gay advocates in which case the advocates will not be happy with Mozilla. Therefore, everyone has to take a stand even if it were "I don't have any opinion."
I have not played 1024; but, I will say the mechanic of 2048 is very different from Threes: it would be like saying that Bejeweled is a "clone" of Tetris Attack, that Sonic the Hedgehog is a "clone" of Super Mario Brothers, or that Flappy Bird is a "clone" of Lunar Lander. These games all have many superficial similarities, and even share similar control mechanics, but they are in fact very very different to people playing the games: the strategies are different, the tactics are different, and someone could easily find one "incredibly fun" and the other "intensely boring".
To clarify his "moral convictions" and promise to keep his personal beliefs from violating the will of the community as well as Mozilla's mission.
I really love Threes, I've been sad to see this mess continue. I feel so bad for that guy, making such a great app and then having a rip-off take so many sales. Truth is he's lucky he got 2 or 3 weeks before it happened.

This is still a big problem Apple has though. I have a hard time with the whole "curated app store" thing when nearly every search turns up screen after screen of low quality copy-cat garbage. How long was Pokemon Yellow on the store before it finally got pulled? How many 'strategy guides' and 'Angry Falcons' and 'Crash of Clans' are there?
This. Founders are better served maximizing traction at the lowest outside investment possible. If it doesn't become big, then you still hold a large chunk of a small company. And if does, then you hold a fairly large chunk of a large company.
Because depending on your industry the vast majority of people have never used bitcoin and have no intention of working the whole thing out. Most of everyone interested in buying online though can use one of a credit card, PayPal or a bank transfer.

Maybe there are niches where it is feasible to operate in bitcoin at this time. For almost everyone though this isn't an option.
First para is brilliant. Thanks for writing this
Unlimited P2P chatting program
The Programmer's Survival Guide
He got totally Goxxed.
> Russia is the last standing of the Great Powers of pre WWI and it shows in their thinking.

Russia now isn't the same except in approximate geography to any pre-WWI great power, whereas both the United Kingdom and the United States (generally regarded as a great power since at least the Spanish-American War) have continuity of regime (though the former has shed much of its pre-WWI empire.)
Is shame, then, the way social issues should be addressed?
Is it possible that he's already cashed out some of his shares privately? (Get himself some liquidity prior to an exit.)
My phone is a £25/mo music player and book reader. I have NEVER read so many books as when I finally got a smartphone.

Occasionally I switch the radio on and see if I have any messages or voicemail.

It also has every variant of Angry Birds. Bad piggies to kill, you understand.
Wanelo: The First Million Users [video]
Microsoft offering $100 credit on a new PC to switch from XP
Nope I didn't. But this as with the chaos after WWI were just temporarily setbacks. Whereas GB, France and Germany geopolitical power is greatly diminished and in no way recovering.
Deena's talk starts at 31:00 mark.
You appear to be advocating a new IDE. Here's why it will not succeed
The video of this talk is available at http://livestre.am/4OaXa

Deena's talk starts at 31:00 mark.
That's nothing compared to before. Before ACA, the offers I got was between 1K-2K a month. I couldn't afford it at all.

After ACA, I can grab 200-500$ a month depending on which metal plan I want. If my income was lower by $1K, it'd be 50-300$ a month. Makes me want to ask for a pay cut with the rest made up in perks instead.
It's worth pointing out that they count the datacenter and support costs for their free accounts under Sales and Marketing.
Brendan Eich chose to make his personal belief public by paying for it to be written into law, and his customers, who include publishers on his platform, are absolutely free to hold him accountable for that.

What his employers choose to do in response to that public knowledge and action is up to them, within the limits of employment law. It is my understanding that homophobes are not a protected class under said law, and long may that continue.

Any further inferences you draw from my posts are unwarranted, although I'll tell you for free that any company that asks potential employees what their sexual orientation is can get stuffed as far as I'm concerned.
Or, at least, Russia says they don't. But, of course they are going to say that.
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/science-technology/nokia-...

AFTER 40 years of mobile telephones, a Nokia with a broken screen has been declared the greatest ever.

Experts described the battered 2003 phone as ‘not taking any shit’, and ‘the only phone you’ve ever wanted to have a pint with’.

Telecoms analyst Martin Bishop said: “It’s got buttons, a speaker, the game ‘Snake’ plus you can drive a Panzer tank over the fucker and it still works.
Well, you know, 'fascist' nowadays can mean 'anyone who takes a hard stance on something I'm against'. It's pretty much a branch of Godwin's Law.
It's Never Too Late to Start
The UK's shed all of its empire, aside from a few islands.
Did you know that many extremely popular movies did not technically make any profit?
No you nitwit, I was talking about the absurdity of calling the campaign against him a with hunt.

But now that you mention it, the organization - in overlooking this particular view - sent a clear signal that it takes the issue a good deal less seriously that a significant number of its stakeholders. That's starting to look like a major mistake.
Well, unfortunately actions speak louder than words. I have friends that swear up and down they aren't racist, but they judge people all the time based on color and often use terminology that isn't acceptable. Sometimes we have to reject people's claims and judge their arguments based on our own gut feelings and experiences. Reason cannot survive in a dishonest environment.
> So, another way to look at it is that he is retired from public service and is simply a private citizen

He was President of the United States. He will have a State Funeral held upon his death (a date which will be too soon no matter when it happens). He is the farthest thing from "simply a private citizen", at least in the context of the foreign policy of the nation he led for four years.

But either way, go check out the "Carter Doctrine", which he promulgated during his term in office if you think he was opposed to all force.
Zulily raised $253M in their November 2013 IPO (off of a $2.6b valuation), for context.
Mobile Apps and Website Charity for Charity
Charity for charities and non-profits who need mobile apps or websites to help get off the ground.
I find this to be an extremely surprising move. I'm not sure why a company like Coursera which aims (or should be aiming) to disrupt the existing structure of post-secondary education in the United States has chosen a leader who is clearly associated with the "old guard."
They're also almost entirely bugs in things that aren't linux, but applications that run on linux. I don't have any of those problems, because I use different applications. It would be more logical to blame bugs in IE on Windows.
US was not considered a great power before WWI and UK declined a lot after WWII.

And while Russia may have had changes of regime it have had very consistent pursuing of its interests. After all the Ribbentrop Molotov pack would have been signed no matter if the tzars were in power or Stalin.
The idea that somehow we've hit a point where clones should be rejected or purged misses the fact that this has been happening constantly almost since the inception of the app stores.

They state there's only one Flappy Bird clone in the top 20 on iTunes, but look at the rest of what's there. If you're going to be concerned about games that are clones/copies of what's essentially pre-existing game mechanics, you might want to think about how little comes through that's actually original in any respect.

City builders, TCG's, match 3, slot machines... and we've covered the vast majority of popular apps. Go a little further and you have hidden item games, runners, etc.

The only reason it's so obvious with games like Flappy Bird and 2048 is that the mechanic is so simple and requires so little in terms of effort and resources that anyone with even an elementary skill set on a mobile platform can throw together one of these clones and puke it onto the internet to ride the wave (or at least the foam, as most of them never even get into the surf).
I do want to build autonomous vehicles, and I have the Ph.D. where I did just that to validate my ability - but, and this is a big but, I don't want to do it in Silicon Valley. There are plenty of excellent American robotics engineers available, but there are even more European, Australian, Japanese, Chinese, etc, who love their lifestyles and would rather work on something slightly less interesting to not have to move. The first hardware/software company that works out how to effectively handle remote teams and prototype hardware is going to dramatically increase their available pool of skilled workers. I for one would jump at the chance to work on something that compelling if I could do so from Sydney or Melbourne instead of California!
I remember seeing a nice little system that involved taking the square root of something, but I can't remember what it was. Anybody know it?
How does a YC backed company create a video with audio that's clearly watermarked. Presumably they could afford the $17 license...
For the purposes of the parent's argument, it's just fine. And you know it.
Url Shortener for Holyness
another URL Shorty. Holy Shit!
MH370 search: How new satellite data confirmed Malaysia Airlines plane was lost
As a startup CEO your salary is there to provide for your "essentials," such as housing, food, etc. It is not designed as an income that you can get rich off of. That ways your personal success is tied to the success of the company, which incentivizes you to have the investors best interests in mind.
I agree that it doesn't seem like an entirely rational viewpoint. It's a very deeply personal thing for them. I'm just saying that their opposition to "gay marriage" doesn't necessarily mean they bear animosity toward gay people.
The key is that it's just like normal web apps, except they talk to each other easily, despite possibly belonging to different suites, and don't put your data at as much risk by operating on an external server.
It's a pretty silly story. To keep even 10% ownership of Box through their massive dilution would have been extremely expensive. Cuban owned a small position in it. Very understandable how that would not have been worth it for a guy like Cuban (who has demonstrated he's content with a couple billion, and never puts even a small % of his fortunate at risk, having stated over the years that his biggest fear is losing it all).
Regular change. Can you not read?
No. The abortion analogy is terrible. Abortion is a muddy issue because it pits the rights of the mother against the rights of the fetus. The crux of the argument basically comes down to whether one believes that a fetus should have the same legal protections as a human. If the mother is forced to carry the pregnancy to term, she loses the freedom to make her own medical decisions, if she is allowed to terminate her pregnancy, then the fetus will never be born. We have not yet devised a way to resolve this conflict.

Contrast this with the gay marriage debate. There is no conflict. Gay marriage does not affect its opponents in any capacity. A married gay couple does not infringe on anybody else's right to be married. Opposition to gay marriage is completely arbitrary and rooted in discrimination in all cases, there just isn't any reason why one should care, and even less of a reason why the government should take that judgement into consideration. Any religious, traditional, or cultural opposition to gay marriage is completely moot since marriage is not even real thing, it's simply a legal status with the same name as a historical tradition.
Obama Gives Quora A Presidential Push
In America, there's a very annoyingly direct correlation between "cities with good public transit" and "cities whose administrators use public transit routinely." So that argues in favor of your point. I wish it could simply be taken for granted that people who don't ride on public transit will do a worse job of overseeing it than people who do.
In 1980, while working at Texas Instruments, I wrote a program to draw mazes one night. My first version started out quite simple and elegant, but the mazes it printed (on our departments line printer) weren't very difficult to solve. The next night I improved the mazes produced by the program, adding tweaks here and there in the code to make the mazes harder to solve. I added long winding dead ends, corridors with loops and so forth. The mazes caught on and soon many cubicles had the three page mazes with hand drawn solutions as decoration. Marketing folks headed to a trade show saw these mazes and wanted the program to run on a system on the trade show floor so that personalized mazes could be handed out as trade show swag.

Unfortunately, version two of program wasn't very pretty with all the little hacks and tweaks, but it did make fun mazes. Six or nine months later I got a call from someone wanting help with a Pascal program (I was one of the Pascal experts in the company at the time so I would get calls like this). As they described the program on the phone, I recognized it as my maze program. They said they got it off of the distribution tape for the TI Pascal compiler (I had programmed the program in Pascal). I was mortified that someone had made the ugly program a sample program for a TI product but at least it didn't have my name on it!
Wow, I'd love to pay for an email app. This also seems great for any SaaS company that wants to sell to customers who insist on self-hosting. I hope this really takes off!
Note that sales and marketing accounts for 66.6% (yes really) of total operating expenses and "Sales and marketing expense [includes] datacenter and customer support costs related to providing our cloud-based services to our free users." (p55).

Their Net Loss, as a % of revenues, is decreasing year-on-year:

13 months to 31 January 2012: -227%

12 months to 31 January 2013: -191%

12 months to 31 January 2014: -135%

You can project that curve forward and predict that they'll be cash-flow positive by the end of 2015.

I think that, if you were to ask Levie off the record (i.e. with the restrictions imposed by the SEC), he'd say that they've found a repeatable and scalable business model and that the company could become profitable in the not-too-distant future.

They could slow their expenses' growth rate further by ceasing to offer free storage to new users. If they really started running out of money, they could cut expenses significantly (and increase revenue a bit) by saying to existing users "No more free storage! Pay us $x/GB from next month or you'd better download your files because we'll delete 'em!"

I doubt they'll do that, though. I expect they'll simply keep selling and marketing and growing bigger and bigger, in the same way that Amazon studiously avoid profitability in order to keep growing and expanding.

Interesting, by the way, that Andreessen Horowitz don't show up in the list of >5% shareholders.
Didn't comment either way as to whether is was good/bad PR. Just letting everyone know that you're not voting on anything that will actually make it to space.

Not that it is consequential in either way, it's just even less consequential since you're voting on how the on earth trial suit will look, and it won't have any bearing on what the final suit looks like.
Yeah, I don't get it either.

With a watch, I can read the time in 1/10 of a second, I don't have to dig it out of my pocket and turn it on, I can surreptitiously check the time, I can read it without my glasses on, I can read it out of the corner of my eye, it doesn't bounce around annoyingly in my pocket when I jog, it lasts a year on a charge, it works on an airplane, I can read it when my hands are full, I can check the time without taking my hands off the steering wheel, it works in the rain, etc.

The only thing I don't like about a watch is I have to remember to take it off when working with rotating machinery.
Ask HN: What is the Current State of HTML5 WebSockets?
I've loosely tracked the development of HTML5 WebSockets from its inception to, what I understood to be, its eventual decline.

My question is, what is the current state of WebSockets? Is it basically dead? And if so, what are my options for developing a real-time web application?
Debunking the Myth of a Desperate Software Labor Shortage (1998)
As was pointed out at a UN Security Council meeting regarding the Ukraine crisis, the government wasn't overthrown. Yanukovych just left, first out of Kyiv, then out of the country, and that directly after signing the accord that would have settled all of this. And of course, all of that after actually killing many of the non-violent protestors.
No, it's closer to a Christian bakery refusing to sell communion wafers to a Muslim because they aren't Christian.
The problem is refusing an existing service to someone based upon them as a person. Not refusing to provide a service you don't usually provide.
Your attorney will need to know more about your specific plans, but in general as long as you don't use material from the movies (title, major plot elements, character names, images, sounds, etc) you can be inspired all you want. So "Tiny Thief Thwarter--The Game" is more likely to fly than "Home Alone--The Game", and if TTT weren't named Kevin and was defending a meth lab or a palace instead of a house in Evanston you'd give the Home Alone guys less and less to be quarrelsome about.

Now, you specifically mention "parody" and "fair use," do you intend to quote parts of the movies, or actually parody part of it? Based on your short question I don't really get the sense that's your angle. I more get the sense that you're looking for a new scenario inspired by those movies, and I'd encourage you to use the inspiration to drive toward the new idea rather than attempt a parody of the old.

And good on you for not having it be zombies!
Haha, same photo I used in my article about applying to YC: https://medium.com/p/b0a75aa7401f :)
Growth Hacking Uber
The “U” stands for User. How Customer Optimization fuels Growth.
uh... soo....

Its good to run our own server for control, freedom,
security and so on. Makes sense. I have been doing
that for decades but ok.

So now we add the term "cloud" to it, and wrap it up.
Some great ideas that I like sure.

But.. I can rent my own private server on their cloud platform...... HOw is that different from almost every
other vendor.

Inside my house/business sure.
Xkcd: 2048
Hey Steve, thanks for the clarification. I understood, but it's probably useful for others. My transactions would all be maxing out that cap, just not sure if users will be willing to replace their paper checks if they have to pay $5 more.
TechLaunch has predatory terms
As someone who opposes all marriage, I am sad to learn that I should not be hired.
However the EU can gain independence from Russia fuels easier than Russia can generate a new means to replace those funds.

If they really want to put Putin in a bind they can simply revoke all travel Visas for Russians by means testing it. Bottle the rich oligarchs up in Russia and they won't tolerate it long.
Yes, but gmail is a nightmare of an application. I use it because it works, for various values of "works", but it has a lot of insanity inside of it.