skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I may ask, which bank issued yours? My (former) JPMC card didn't work at any unattended terminals like Luas stops in Dublin. When I went to some stores and used the PIN pad, the terminal spit out a paper for me to sign. I'm looking for a card that is confirmed to work as a PIN-primary card. So far, only the State Department FCU seems to have one.
I'm a little confused about the direction things are going in. I like high level languages and I like that the OS manages certain resources so I don't have to. This guy is writing directly to block devices from OCaml. Don't get me wrong it's all pretty cool but there is some kind of dissonance there I can't reconcile. Is Xen the new OS now?
Best practices to learn a skill
Ask HN: What Do You Really Think About Clickhole.com?
Brilliant beef jerky ad? Brilliant satire? A brilliant new source for breaking news? All opinions welcome...
Audi is currently (as in this week) test driving self-driving cars on an elevated expressway in Tampa this week, that has been shut down for this purpose.

http://www.wtsp.com/story/tech/2014/07/28/driverless-car-hit...
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid vows to defend net neutrality rules
I built docklister.com in 4 months during my spare time. I started approximately 24 months ago and have a single customer that covers the hosting costs (~80/mo). I just got back from a 30 day honeymoon; anxious to get back into the flow!

Marketplaces are hard to bootstrap. For the last 6 months I've been trying to grow pageviews and leads by doing low-touch marketing experiments: post listings to Boating and Yachting FB groups, asking for feedback in /r/sailing (lots of great feedback and pageviews), replying to craigslist ads for boats suggesting they list on docklister.

I have a several great blog ideas and I have a newsletter with approximately 45 people that I plan to start actively emailing content to.

Currently doing ~100 pageviews/day.

edit: forgot active link - https://www.docklister.com/
You could live there, it just isn't a very good place to live anymore. You would need to fly in your own food and water, and you'll still be getting irradiated, but we're talking "probably get cancer one day" irradiated, not "die of radiation sickness" irradiated.

Bikini Atoll was also worse than this hypothetical Arkansas scenario in two ways:

1) The soil there is potassium poor, causing local plants to more readily take in radioactive cesium.

2) It was also hit by 22 additional bombs.
Awesome! Been looking forward to this to play with some of the new stuff like collections.
The threat of a nuclear exchange is just as possible today as it was during the cold war. Both the US and Russia continue to build new nuclear weapons. This is far, far more serious than anything terrorists can do today. The Cold War de-escalated, but I would hardly call it over.

Just today Russia launched three new nuclear submarines, capable of deploying ballistic missiles: http://www.janes.com/article/41339/russia-lays-keels-for-thr...

Unfortunately since journalists rely so heavily on controlled leaks and targeted propaganda it just doesn't make headlines, but these events are hardly secret.

I suspect we have a 50% chance of a nuclear weapon incident in the next 5 years. North Korea is run by a guy whose view of the world has almost no basis in reality. Pakistan-India, who knows what could happen. The US is pushing hard against Russia but I suspect both parties remain sane (though the point of the article is accidents.)

Get to Mars fast.
The political unrest doesn't really effect day to day living at all for Thailand.

You can read up about it, the latest round actually has a lot of online posts talking about how "tourist friendly" the military was (no joke).
I hope this gives Mozilla a little kick to get moving with their 64 bit builds of Firefox for Windows too.
Anybody have reading for a merchant evaluating Bitcoin as another payment option?
True. But how you deal with it makes quite a difference. Imagine a greater president than Bush spinning it like this (I'm not good enough with rhetoric to make it a compelling speech though):

"Today America mourns. Today we were attacked. Today terrorists tried to destroy our way of life. They tried to rob us of our sense of security, our liberty, our democracy. And yet today we stand united! We will not let them take away our values our freedom! We will find and persecute those that are responsible. But we will not fall for the cycle of hate and violence the terrorists have laid in front of us."

This path would have been harder to defend against those crying for revenge. But it could have used the same patriotism and stubbornness that was used for war mongering in the alternative world we live in. And in hindsight we see how bad the results of that fear and violence politics were for America and for the world.
When I used to donate previously, my DKK were converted to USD. But I still use DKK every day.
Sounds intriguing! Thanks for the offer to connect, email sent.
Do your measurements align with your goals?
Which is my point... maybe the parent commenter does not want to do this - instead of being either lazy or stupid as suggested.
Wouldn't COBOL be classic scripting - one funny thing at BT we had a lifer COBOL guy (20 years plus on mainframes) join our perl team - he found the transition hard "where are the Divisions" was one quote from him
Do you bother about Chinese sites where you can't read the language, or do you just ignore them? There must be lots of those.
Daddy, where do paycheques come from?
That's what I was thinking too. What would you like to pay for that? Let's say a pre-paid data SIM card, a day pass in a coworking space, a low-end hotel night near the space altogether?
The government's case here isn't a ridiculous one. I can't think of any other situation where there is 4th amendment protection of property in custody of a third party where the custodian has essentially unregulated and unrestricted access to the property and no consequences for loss or damage to the property. Its a really novel argument on the part of Microsoft to claim that your emails on their service are still your property, when none of the usual protections that apply to property held by third parties applies to that email.
I happen to think that because the leverage is greater, the reward for hiring highly skilled & talented engineers is much greater than it ever was.

All the products mentioned were functionally simple and I like billyhoffman's explanation of why the low functionality/large audience products don't represent the majority of the industry - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8109434

I'm trying to understand how Sam Gerstenzang becomes a partner at Andreessen Horowitz and I can't figure it out.

http://www.crunchbase.com/person/sam-gerstenzang

I don't want to ad hominem, I'm just a bit puzzled. It seems like he was an engineer for about 12 months. Anyone here know him?
your ssl cert has expired
How did I mange 4 down votes for suggesting google, yet you got none?
Yes, basically. You let the host manage memory, disk, network etc and your program is a guest OS that doesn't need all the extraneous processes that usually go with a whole OS. No background services or cron jobs.

Edit: as enduser pointed out, in addition to saving resources, this means there is no context-switching from kernelspace to userspace in your guest VM!
I freely admit that I'm not exactly writing for all audiences, but I'd love to know what gave you trouble. I'm just learning Swift myself and applying some (fairly weird) techniques to it in order to get some give from its (very nice) immutable data structures.

I ended up writing this as a little background for another post I was more earnestly working on that implements a lazy, non-deterministic parser combinator library. That one might be more interesting and I'll try to write it so that you can get by without too much knowledge from this post.
Yeah can't edit - Istanbul, Turkey should definitely be on that list
There are apps for iphone and android which display 2D movie files duplicated side-by-side, so that you can get the big-screen experience using a VR headset like Durovis Dive or Google Cardboard.

I would like to be able to do other 2D things with a headset, like speed reading with one if those apps which flashes three words at a time. Or reading HN.
I'm already OK if they compete in the top 75%.
OK I'll come up with something. Thanks
Flight Risk: visualization of fatal plane incidents since 1993
New OVH Servers: $84 for Xeon, 96GB ECC, 2x600GB SAS, 16 IPv4
This, this a million time.

This guy has no idea what he is talking about. Hell, over here (Canada) we have ads and public campaigns all over that say "Depression is a mental illness, do not be shameful, consult a mental health professional".
How DevOps and Models Enhance Behavioral Detection
If what you said was true the exchange rate would have collapsed in the last 2 years (BitPay and Coinbase accumulated 60,000+ merchants who began accepting Bitcoin over the last 2 years and most of them automatically convert BTC to USD). But instead, the exchange rate rose from $10 to $580: http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/bitstampUSD#rg730ztgSzm1g10z...

Why? Because as Bitcoin is accepted in more and more places, it increases its subjective value, so more and more people are looking to get some bitcoins, which counterbalances the downward selling pressure.
I wasn't really complaining that it's too difficult to ship stuff so much as I was that the employees I've interacted with have all been dicks. I guess not setting aside a weekend to memorize the poorly-designed info database on the USPS site is technically willful ignorance. But then again so is not taking a weekend to learn all of the inner workings of my car, or how plumbing works, or how to build a house, etc. and choosing to have a professional take care of it.

And I really don't think the only two options the USPS has are "be a dick" or "go figure it out yourself, you lazy shit"
>Is this problem even solvable on a fundamental level?

I think it is, though it may never be practical. In theory, you could have every node everywhere constantly streaming encrypted noise to every other node, and when you actually want to communicate something, you just switch out the noise for something you actually care about. You'd never know who is actually talking and who is just sending noise.

As you can imagine, that would take a lot of bandwidth and probably a lot of computing power, but it would have very high latency.

EDIT: To clarify, I mean nodes on the network, not relay nodes. Potentially you could use a relay system, but that wouldn't be necessary if everything on the network was constantly in connection with everything else on the network.
It is a lose-lose case for the US. If they win the case, other countries say sorry you can't do business here. We already have seen countries such as Brazil and Russia make moves to requiring companies to securely store user's data in country.

This makes a good argument for open source software development and decoupling storage. Software-as-a-service may end up being Commodity-as-a-service. Terrible for enterprises like Microsoft, Oracle, and IBM who want to be global "cloud" providers.
A big problem with the competing device market is that books aren't portable between Amazon and alternatives (but they are between the alternatives). So, if you've bought a number of e-books on Amazon, switching becomes much more difficult.
Also worth mentioning: http://dadaviz.com
Nice initiative, please consider adopting IAB standard ad sizes like 300x250, 728x90, 468x60, etc so you can access to more remnant inventory.

Right now many ad companies use Greenpeace or Red Cross for serving something when they run out of ads. It shouldn't be hard to get some impressions from them, but the standard ad sizes will be a common requirement.

Good luck!
Selling a business involves a lot prep work. Here's solid overview from the NY Times> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/07/business/smallbusiness/07g...

Possible Option: Depending on the sophistication level of his employees, one or more could step-up as a potential buyer. Your friend could structure favorable payment terms. He gets checks monthly over 3-5 years. Win-win.
My sentiments indeed. I will not dare to hack on a $400 Android tablet, but gladly brick a couple of $50 tablets in order to learn one thing or another.
It has always been like that. A file full of static files (no dashes at the top) is still a valid Jekyll site.
The Benefits Of A DevOps Approach
Cost of living by city:

http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/rankings_current.jsp
Truth is most people's APIs really cost us nothing to run, so we'd rather not charge for it :P

I'm a really big believer in sites that provide a ton of utility for free, and only charge you when you're actually costing the company something.

That said if you do want to use a ton of CPU, that gets expensive for us - so we may make paid accounts for people that use CPU heavy API's. We realized Blockspring would still be a lot cheaper than keeping your own EC2 server up all the time, so that's sorta cool!

Also if you wanted it set-up locally at your company and 24/7 phone support (from the two of us), we'd have a paid account to cover our time.

Obviously if you have ideas let us know!
Mostly. In most countries that I know of, either there is a limit under which you don't have to pay taxes or don't have to register a business. Perhaps your country taxes that kind of income as personal income.

And in the worst case you only risk a small fine, as the amount is small.

Much more probable is that you don't sell anything or have only a small amount of sales that no one cares about, so first check that you have a business and not a dream.
I'm still working on improving SEO, but here's some examples for Google:

"buy variegated peperomia plant" #7 / DuckDuckGo #2

"jackson vine" Google #9 / DuckDuckGo #4

"rainbow eucalyptus for sale" Google #22 / DuckDuckGo #6

Apparently I need to start using DuckDuckGo!!! These results are great!

From the attracting perspective sellers (nurseries), the "Buy Plants Online" search has a lot of competing bidders on Google so I'm going to have to get creative there.
>The premise of the article seems to be that we no longer need great engineers at all.

Well, not really, because somebody will have to build all those elaborate abstraction layers people will use.

The core idea is that we'll need much fewer great engineers -- which is another way of saying we won't need "great engineers" at all. Read "not need them at all" liberally (very few), not literally (nobody).

After all if job demand goes from 1,000,000 people to 1000 people (arbitrary numbers), it's like it's the end of that job, even if technically people are still employed (there are after all horse cabbies and film lab technicians and letterpress printers employed still today).
What Is DevOps and Why Does It Matter?
WalmartLabs acquires Kleiner Perkins-Backed Luvocracy
In my best month, I did $3.3K in AdSense.

No idea is stupid if you can monetize it.

To explore projects outside of clients’ demands, we began a Labs initiative in March 2012. Think of it as a palate cleanser between client work. It's resulted in about ten completed projects. The formula is pretty simple. Find a problem, build a website to solve it. If it can be done in an afternoon, we don't even think about it. We just do it.

Of the ten sites we've built in the last year, the most popular are: RainyCafe, CalmingManatee, Is this Retina?, and Will there be mail today?

Getting traffic is a pretty straight forward process. Submit the site to blogs in relevant niches. In the case of RainyCafe, we submitted it as a tip to Lifehacker who posted it the next day. Once you've got a major blog exposure like that, having frictionless sharing (in the form of social media buttons) is enough to keep it going. However, this assumes the content is compelling enough to share to begin with.

Sometimes doing that much isn't even necessary. CalmingManatee was different. We tweeted it once, and about a week later it was everywhere. A million visits in the first month everywhere. We received requests for interviews from NPR, Huffington Post, and some other random blogs as a results.

The success of these afternoon projects was a pleasant surprise, and the free publicity was welcome, but what would be even better is some extra revenue. As freelancers, having recurring revenue is critical to building our business.

Our first attempt at monetization was to sell Manatee greeting cards through Zazzle. After six months, we sold so few that we couldn't meet the the threshold to get paid out. Fail.

We switched to donations. Using WePay, we allowed people to donate via three suggested donation levels. That netted about $100/mo. Better but not great. We had to reconcile dozens of micro-transactions in Quickbooks which, when you factor the time, made it a net loss. Fail again.

Then we tried making a RainyCafe iOS app that we planned to sell for $1. Apple rejected it because they found that our Rainy Cafe app provides "a very limited amount of content and a very limited set of features" specifically because it "only contains two ambient noises." Strike three.

Finally, I got off my high horse and switched to AdSense.Not only did we hit out of the park with AdSense, but it was the easiest of our four monetization attempts to implement. I wish I'd done it sooner.

Lesson learned: Simple is great. Ever since CalmingManatee, if someone in the office has an idea that can be implemented in less than an afternoon, we don't even debate it, we just implement it, put AdSense on it, and see what happens. Some work, some don't. At the very least, we always learn something from it.
You might try instagram as well. Here's an instagram account I follow (I have a corgi) that is doing really great marketing. They usually a few posts per week, occasional shots of various products, link to website. I thought it was brilliant.

link: http://instagram.com/corgistagram
Why is this such an achievement? Is 64-bit on Windows so much harder than on Linux, because they have had 64-bit on Linux for as long as I can remember. (I've been using Linux for 3 years)
Swift Core Data: How I developed a love/hate relationship with format strings
Can you tell me what browser/etc you are using? I replaced the cert a month ago on expiry and believe it is serving the correct one, and have verified this independently as of a minute ago, so I am wondering if there isn't a caching issue somewhere.
If you like this book, check out 'Dark Pools'. It's even better.
They claim to get you market rates: https://bitpay.com/bitcoin-exchange-rates
Analog Electronics Kickstarter
The Rhesus Chart...the latest Laundry novel by Charles Stross.
why can't I upvote this?
apply for a job at the CDC?
If people only realized how our government is the vampire squid that is hell-bent on world domination.

Embrace your future state of slavery, it is invariable.
End users need to and can take control over their own email privacy. GPG. Ten minutes to download, install, and generate a key pair is all you need to secure your email. Perhaps the willingness to do so will increase when the government successfully argues that non-encrypted mail posted through an email server is the same as posting your thoughts on a public peg board...

If you want full compatibility, you can pay a small yearly [extortion] fee to the Verisign gatekeepers... but I prefer not to...
I very much enjoyed Andrew Ng's machine learning class, so much so that I was sad when the class ended. I wish him great success at Baidu.

A little off topic, but: Corporations no longer are loyal to employees (unless they are at the top of their field). Some countries now seem much more interested in the interests of corporations than people. Therefore, I think that it is very smart for individuals to more consider themselves as 'citizens of the world' and be very open to working for whoever pays them the most, provides the best infrastructure, etc.
I hadn't considered the impact of the fat that Microsoft is data mining.

I haven't read the DOJ's brief, do they raise that argument?

Northwestern lawyers per capita on this chat bort is out of control.
What makes you think you can't upvote it?
> eco-system where they have all the advantages

Maybe this is what you're alluding to, but Intel used a whole host of anti-competitive practices to prevent AMD from gaining a foothold in the market at a time when AMD had faster and better CPUs. And this was part of the reason why AMD ended up buying ATI (IIRC they were after NVIDIA for a while) - they wanted another angle from which to attack Intel.

But it seems like they overpaid for ATI, and then Barcelona happened and Bulldozer was delayed beyond belief and so the last few years have been very tough for AMD. Let's hope this gets them back into the game.
That is the "killer app" here, basically a package deal. Also easy to monetize as you're converting customers for the various participating parties (phone/cowork/hostel/etc). If you can make it 'on demand' so that as someone walks off the plane they can stop at the "Nomadics" kiosk and say, "1 person, 2 months, no smoking." and be handed sim/annotated map/authcode for keyapp/token for shuttle and walk out of the airport and be productive an hour later.

To make that work you would need pre-arranged contracts with a co-working space, some hostels/hotels, phone companies, and transportation services. Using an NFC app to grant access to a coworking space/hotel room would minimize things like key management/inventory. It would be primarily a logistics play but if there are enough people doing this sort of thing it could be profitable.
First Data Acquires Mobile Gift Card Platform Gyft
My employer uses viddler, but they are medium/large and not small (100k-1M downloads per month).
Pretty much everyone predicted a power vacuum when the US pulled out. Hell, it was the stated reason by Dick Cheney for not going to Baghdad in 1991:

> What would happen to the government once U.S. forces withdrew? How many casualties should the United States accept in that effort to try to create clarity and stability in a situation that is inherently unstable?
Fedora is a rolling distro so your packages are normally always very up to day unlike debian which can have long package freezes.

Fedora doesn't use the libre kernel like debian

Fedora is commonly the 'test bed' of things for red hat. Fedora is to Red Hat, what Sid is to Debian stable.
Do you know which publisher sells for all your favourite authors? I certainly know for some of them, but not others. What about when you just hear about a book from someone? This is why people go to bookstores.

I'd be a lot happier if everyone went to no-DRM or at least interchangeable DRM so you could move to a different e-reader. Amazon and iBooks are the odd ones out. iBooks doesn't have a big marketshare, but Amazon definitely does.
Two-way binding between AngularJS and Web Components
The legacy cruft is easily served by not loading the respective crufty modules.

And frankly, I like Xserver support across a variety of devices.
If you're willing to give us a range, what's your COGS on the snow?

Great animated GIF on the home page!
Well..its India..too may practical issues that can dig into your profit
Does it have much content beyond the CS183 class notes on Blake Masters' web site?

I saw a pre-release copy on sale on abebooks but wanted to wait for the reviews.
> The "reasonable expectation of privacy" in things like safe deposit boxes or storage units is based on the actual fact that service providers generally do not and cannot access the contents of those rented spaces.

And the "reasonable expectation of privacy" in cloud email is based on the fact that, while computers necessarily have access to the data (it is not possible to provide email service otherwise), humans generally don't.
Precisely. A really hot day sounds more impressive when you say 82 Fahrenheit, rather than 28 Celsius. Similarly, you get down into the negative numbers way sooner with Celsius (since freezing is 0, rather than 32).

Just makes for better headlines, although almost everyone uses C now.