skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do not think so. I am not sure if you are aware of Hawala http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawala or so many other malicious instruments that can be used in a manner similar to crowdfunding. This also includes other factors when looking at international donations to a project which usually come under numerous regulations that need to be answered by PayPal. To not investigate such transactions would be a blunder and the freeze has not been very long. I see no need for an apology for a routine check when it has been clearly stated in their terms and conditions.
So many HN commenters have this gut hatred of PayPal, which honestly isn't warranted. You'd find trouble finding ANYTHING that can accept $300k in donations for an unreleased product without some kind of review. This is the case over and over again in these "PayPal froze my account" horror-stories/whines, and somehow people have trouble learning to just contact the company FIRST and let them do the investigation before funding begins, instead of while in progress.

I defy you to find a single other financial partner who'd let this kind of behavior slide without review. (And Bitcoin doesn't count ... not if you want to accept donations from any reasonably large number of people.)
Don't be silly, that has nothing to do with sexism in tech and everything to do with sexism of a single idiot. I, for one, would be really happy to have a girl co-founder (I would be equally happy to have a guy co-founder, though).
I was the guy that used to write all the software for the CVap ovens at Winston, so here's my take... The basic idea is the pan of water is your food temperature and the air temperature is your food texture/browning. It really is incredibly simple technology, and it really is quite superior to the old way. I would LOVE to have that feature in a normal home oven. The same oven can be a proofing oven, baking oven, steamer and holding cabinet. You can cook a roast and it can safely be held for about 24 hours without affecting the food at all (medium-rare will stay that way no matter how long you keep it in the oven). Not to mention that is cooks faster and more efficiently. Also you can cook at lower temperatures safely, which is kind of big.

The two major difficulties are: 1) The pan of water is a pain to clean and keep full. All that moisture just builds up gunk. 2) The user needs to rethink how they cook. They need to think food temperature and texture, rather than cook X minutes at Y. It's simple to modify your recipes, but customers have always seemed quite resistant to change. I still say it is needed in every kitchen, however.
Ask HN: Which RSS reader do you use a year after Google Reader's death?
Some well known RSS readers:

* Feedly
* Digg
* Flipboard
* NewsBlur
* The Old Reader
* Newsvibe
* Noowit
* Tiny Tiny RSS
Why tesla motors is opeaning all of its patents?
I was discussing with my father about Tesla Motors opening all its patents for everyone. And Elon's gigafactory plan. And suddenly I felt how both the business move is connected. By the time other companies will be rolling out a better battery powered cars. Elon will be leading the manufacturing of batteries throughout the world!
I suspect it's that it's a hefty price tag for a simple website that doesn't directly generate revenue.
This is hacker news dude. Just edit your /etc/hosts file.
The deep irony if this is that at the time this conversation allegedly took place, Mateen was just a 26 year old "boy" a few years out of school. It takes a lot of balls to pull the age card on someone two years younger than you.
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1) IIRC, The Windows NT family had more granular level permissions than Linux. Granted before XP Windows was quite insecure, as I said in my original comment

2) Still we do see a lot of bugs and exploits that affect large swathes of Linux machines.

3) My entire point is that popular OSes that are used by nontechnical users that allow third party installs

4) Even OS X got a lot of burn for sanboxing apps and making third party apps difficult to install. They tried difficult UAC with Vista and it didn't go so well.

There isn't much stopping Linux malware in repos if the Linux desktop gets more popular.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/how-much-more-malware-is-...

Heck, even kernel.org was rooted and they still haven't revealed what happened. Not to mention other distros which were also compromised at some point.

5) http://www.pcworld.com/article/2099421/report-malwareinfecte...

6) Which ones? (apart from RT ARM machines that were a total flop in the marketplace and are like iPads)
You can use multi-party escrow for that
fyi: https://www.google.com/search?q=Scott+Adams+goals

(The first 4 links are relevant and one of them may be the blog post you were thinking of.)
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Why would a large holding company like IAC do something as stupid as fake messages in a legal deposition? What you're suggesting is highly unlikely, and would have absolutely no potential payoff for IAC. Your comment comes off as completely off-topic.
There were definite tradeoffs to make while we were designing Rx and that was certainly one of them. Since we don't want to have to check if the stream is the same stream, instead of saying:

stream1.combine(stream1.skip(1), ...)

We encourage since it is the same stream to use zip to avoid glitches and keep our overall memory footprint low:

stream1.zip(stream1.skip(1), ...)
FWIW: the guys behind Miner Wars (Keen Software House) are working on a new game, Space Engineers, which has full 3D, Decent-like movement. The game is more about construction than combat, though weapons exist in the game. It's currently in beta, but they have been consistently cranking out weekly updates. One of the more tantalizing features they want to add: in-game C# scripting so players can automate a lot of the functionality and build their own communications systems.
Well, USD doesn't have that feature either, but we have central agencies we trust (e.g. kickstarter). There's no reason why that model cannot be used with Bitcoin (so nothing disingenuous as you claim). The real power of Bitcoin would be to be able to do this in a trust-less manner. It hasn't been implemented yet, but exists in the Bitcoin Protocol. You're welcome to take a shot at it, by the way, the core developer team is always looking for new developers.
Directly from the complaint:

"Justin Mateen joined Tinder as Chief Marketing Officer, a position that made him Ms. Wolfe’s direct supervisor. Within two months after he became an employee, in November 2012, Mr. Mateen began pursuing a romantic relationship with Ms. Wolfe."

http://www.rezlaw.com/News-Events/06-30-14_Complaint_with_Ex...

(page 5, paragraph 19)
>I've never heard of there being malware in a major distribution

Not much to stop malware if desktop linux becomes more popular.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/how-much-more-malware-is-...
Does the "it became clear" in IAC's statement mean nothing to you?
Woz sold his Samsung Galaxy Gear on eBay because it sucked
I think the percentage of people who physically type in the url is miniscule.
Could you expand on why?

I ask because the largest test case for Rust, Servo, is a cross-platform application, and I'm always looking to improve our marketing.
This also points to the urgent need for BTC adoption by both major crowdfunding organizations because PayPal is dangerous.

Bitcoin has its own issues -- see "Bitcoin crowdfunding sites find funding difficult" (http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-crowdfunding-sites-find-fund...).

Even if the legal/security issues are worked out, it will take a lot of convincing to get mainstream users/potential crowdfunding donors on board. People don't trust what they don't understand, and the fact that the value of BTC is so unstable is a giant red flag. Would Joe Shmoe plunk down fiat for X $BTC, with the knowledge that the exchange may fail or the value of his investment may plunge the next day?
Paypal used to be the easiest thing to integrate - especially because they would handle the entire backend server workflow, and you just get a ping from their back end when the thing is done. They also have the instant payment button that would accumulate payments and consolidate orders without you even having a backend.

If you're looking for something similar to the payment integration, Stripe is pretty similar in terms of development effort and can even run a form on your (static) web site. You still have to do a bit of processing on your end, but we're talking about a few hours of work tops.

We ran a subscription business for a few months without a real backend or a database (validating that there is a demand) using stripe and JotForm. Jotform is a very simple forms builder and server online that can handle a trivial product selection, collect custom information, execute a payment workflow and send the customer and you an e-mail at the end, optionally showing the customer a confirmation page. Yes, all this is doable by a good programmer in a day or two, but it costs next to nothing on JotForm and allowed us to play with the process until we got it right. Their site can run paypal and stripe (and a few other things) so in case paypal blocks you it's easy to switch to a different provider without customers noticing anything.

Stripe doesn't offer seller or buyer protection - which is another benefit of PayPal. I don't know anyone else who does that.
That was just plain straight up sexual harasment, you can ask any HR person. It really doesn't matter what she did, once a person asks you to stop harassing them, they really really really should stop, legally speaking. I was going to get the Tinder app myself, but forget it. I can't support assholes like this who give guys and tech a bad name. I hope she, or someone else, mounts a marketing campaign asking females to delete their accounts from the app. Let it become another tired wasteland of a cockfest, and then they will know how important a female founder can actually be. p.s. -no, i'm not a female, i just get pissed because tech guys constantly have a bad name and i constantly need to defend the fact that we are not all assholes.
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We are using a no-ip.biz address for the Taipei Hackerspace website (because need DynamicDNS due to stupid settings of our network provider). After the whole day it was still working, I thought we will be not affected. No such luck, microsoftinternetsafety.net took our address as well, and the website + all services associated is inaccessible.

Thanks a lot, M$!
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Ruby on Rails

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Leaflet.js / Mapbox / ESRI / Google Maps

HighCharts.js

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Would your startup use this?
It comes down to how personal versus impersonal advice is taken. Examples:

1. She should have known the risk of walking down that dark alley by herself.

2. It's important to understand that it can be dangerous to walk down dark alleys by oneself.

The latter is just solid advice. The former is easily interpreted as "blaming the victim".

You're right, by pointing out the risks, you took the risk of being labeled a victim blamer. And yet you still managed to use victim-blaming language despite being completely aware of how it would be taken. All I can advise is to take more care with how you word posts which you know will be controversial, and if it's pointed out, merely apologize and mention that you didn't intend that interpretation, rather than essentially repeating your victim-blaming mistake again by blaming people who read your post for responding to the words it contains rather than reading your mind to glean your intent.
OTOH it is certainly better for me to pay with credit. I get 2% cashback plus I have to go to the ATM less plus I get a free 30 day loan.
Perhaps. But even those who sit on the fence lean toward one side or the other.
Frankly that was somewhat tongue-in-cheek. I'm poking fun at the way we all obsess over details, like who did or said what when or where they did or said it. There isn't a safe or appropriate way for a manager and a direct report to date. I'm sure it works out sometimes, but that's like the time I went unicycling next to a steep cliff while juggling chainsaws. I'm alive, so I must have done something right, but the activity still can't be recommended.
Perhaps the biggest concern right now is vendor buy-in from other browser vendors such as Microsoft and Apple. It appears that React, at least for the time being, is a more immediate and practical approach to composing UIs.

I'll still be mixing Polymer into internal/side projects to keep up to date on its status, but I don't think I'll be pushing anything public facing for the foreseeable future.
Peter Thiel: The libertarian futurism of a Silicon Valley billionaire.
You signed up to say that? Or this is a shill account / an uncredited company statement?
Yep, there are plenty of examples to be found such as those listed here:
https://github.com/Reactive-Extensions/NDC-Oslo-2014

In addition, we ship a good number of samples within our RxJS repository:
https://github.com/Reactive-Extensions/RxJS/tree/master/exam...
I had good luck resetting my sleep patterns with regular exercise and Melatonin supplements. Melatonin makes it easier to fall asleep and stay asleep in a way that promotes rest.
> It's rare to see sexism in tech spelled out so blatantly.

Read some of the comments here; you won't be disappointed.
A Major Milestone: Announcing Our Partnership with Sequoia Capital
Two companies in their portfolios are worth $10B+. I am aware their equity portions are still very small, but I would be surprised if they didn't have the money to afford it.
6 Life Lessons from RPG Games
> I don't expect much to come from rewarding failure.

What about adequately supporting developers who have provided a product used by a huge number of people? Yes, they've had failures and have clearly done some things wrong. But they have also made positive contributions. I guess it's a matter of whether one thinks the baby should be thrown out with the bathwater.
"n" + enter is all I need.
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So if country A is at war with country B then the government of A shouldn't be allowed to prevent company C from selling items which materially benefit and provide aid and comfort to country B?
SEEKING WORK - Remote, traveling in the US

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Looking for Angular front end work, preferably with a .NET backend.
> Right now the extra compile-safety of Rust is IMO not worth giving up the other benefits of C++

I can't speak to everyone's use case, but for ours memory safety is extremely important. C++ is not safe, and we still see tons of memory safety issues, many security-sensitive, in practice, despite using modern C++ for all new code.

Even if safety isn't as important to you, there are other reasons you might be interested in Rust: a module system, pattern matching, a standard library which offers better performance than STL for many tasks, ADTs, concepts, a package manager, etc.
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Our Product team consists of a VP of Product, three programmers, and a User Experience person. The remaining team members are a Community Manager, a Relationship Manager, our CEO, and our VP of Sales.

* AWS

* Linux admin, shell scripting, etc.

* Some configuration management tool (Docker, Chef, Puppet, etc.)

* Server config/management (nginx, haproxy, openssl, etc.)

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* Networking, TCP/IP tuning, etc.

* Deployment (continuous, or something close to it)

* Some working knowledge of one or more programming languages (ideally, one we use - JavaScript, Clojure, Ruby)

* Automation of lots of the above

* Experience working closely and frequently with programmers, as you'll be sitting in the bullpen with us

* Interest in writing production code while at the same time not seeing Devops as just a stepping stone to full-time production coder

* Plays well with others

* Experience transitioning away from Heroku

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One important question: Do you need to ship something right now?

If so, its important to keep in mind that Polymer is in a "developer preview" state, and we have not declared it production ready yet.

If you need to ship, then use whatever you feel the most comfortable with. Fewer cognitive barriers and less stress.

However, if you've got the time to play around and learn how web components work, then hop aboard!

There's an introduction tutorial here: http://www.polymer-project.org/docs/start/tutorial/intro.htm...

The calculator demo is pretty simple: http://www.polymer-project.org/components/paper-calculator/d... (source: https://github.com/polymer/paper-calculator)

Salesforce has a nice polymer-based web component set for building mobile apps that integrate with the Salesforce apis: https://github.com/ForceDotComLabs/mobile-ui-elements/

And the demo app at I/O is here: http://www.polymer-project.org/apps/topeka/ (source: https://github.com/polymer/topeka/ and https://github.com/polymer/topeka-elements)
True, but then the project doesn't get the money until they ship, which means they pass up most of the benefits of crowdfunding.
Space Rogue has owned and used hackernews.com since before Paul Graham had even sold Viaweb to Yahoo. I think maybe we should let him keep it.
Visualizing America’s Absurd Parking Requirements
New startup idea: "A single-tap, zero character way to control your life"

Edit: The above should be seen as a bit tongue-in-cheek.
It's a shame that T:A is an online-only free-to-play game, meaning that developer Hi-Rez tightly controls distribution and servers and thus hobbles the modding community.
I've been using Rocksmith. I think it only lets you get away with bad habits as long as you are comfortable with whatever rating it gives you. I know I was stuck in terms of progress until I learned proper technique elsewhere, then I could do the fast and difficult passages and getting 100%s on more songs. I learned those proper techniques off YouTube, but am also thinking of getting a proper teacher.