skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure if you have tried the new bookmarklet we released, but it changes the way you interact with the service. In two clicks (click on the bookmarklet, click on the browser / platform you want to test in), the page you are currently viewing is launched in the remote configuration and the browser is opened to your current page. It really improves the work flow. You can read more about it at http://crossbrowsertesting.com/blog/new-cool-bookmarklet.

Appreciate the plug!
Tony
Founder - CrossBrowserTesting.com
You can get an ITIN without being a citizen or resident of the US, it's just seldom necessary. The most common reason seems to be foreign nationals with American investments that are taxed by the IRS.
unreal. I had same experience and comments.
-thought it was a blog (because it is)
- didn't get it
- watch the video for half a minute
- bailed

To jamesvisto, I don't mean to to be negative. I just think you need real feedback. good luck with it!
There might be legal precedent on this issue since there used to be books of tables of logarithms published in the days before calculators and computers. The publishers would place subtle errors in a few random points many digits out to prove that someone else had copied the numbers without computing the logarithms themselves. Of course IANAL.
Yeah, sorting is an issue we're still looking at (and is still very much in transition considering the new rating system). Appreciate the suggestion! We'll add it to our list of potential solutions.
Some of these were really helpful.
You can usually update the tools by using parts of openvmtools.

http://patrickmylund.com/blog/how-to-install-vmware-tools-on...
Does Wikipedia have RDF or other semantic format?
This whole discussion is silly, there isn't nearly enough information given in the post to infer anything. The author is just making the point that it isn't a toy application.
How to predict the success of a product on FB: stickiness
They look like different fonts and different weights (heavier fonts, emboldened, are more readable at smaller sizes). Both look ugly OSX ones are too ragged, Ubuntu are too sharp. Is it the exact same font being rendered by the different engines??
Brutal honesty: the site's design is terrible. There is no call to action, the page is WAY to cluttered, and there is no sense of visual consistency.

UI aside, what is the goal of this site? Why would a college student use it? I couldn't find a good reason from the 10 seconds or so I spent poking around (and that's more than most people will spend)
Ask HN: How have you dealt with corruption?
A technical person at a potential large government customer of ours invited me to discuss our technology with him outside the office. This could be a red flag in itself but we had met twice before and I had learned that he graduated from the same school as I and around the same time I did and we knew some people in common. Additionally, he had given me a paper of his to read which was pretty decent and said he would like feedback. In general, he seemed like an enlightened techie who was enthusiastic about our technology and technology in general. There seemed to be no red flags.

The first time I met him, we discussed his paper and our project in general and he was generally encouraging, saying his organization could be very bureaucratic but he really believed what we were doing was the future and he would pull for us. He also indicated he was stifled in his job and would be interested in working for us in the future. This was a bit of a red flag but considering our connections outside of this project, it seemed like it could be an innocent thing. I told him that if he decided to leave his employer he should let me know and that we were at least a few months away from thinking seriously about hiring someone with his skills.

When I met him the second time, he out and out suggested that we pay him to push our project through and, when I told him his employer would most likely find that objectionable, he suggested various ways of hiding it. I was too shocked to say anything, afraid he would sabotage us if I said no to his face and insulted him and the only thing I could say to him was that my cofounder is very by the book and I really have to run it past him and that he should double check to find if it is actually allowed.

I have no intention of paying him or dealing with him again, but I feel dirty for not telling him off on his face. I am just posting this here to vent and see if anyone else has faced similar issues. How did you deal with them? Any advice for me?

How could I have handled this better? I am asking this seriously. Although I did not do anything wrong (or so my partner tells me), I feel that not doing anything more assertive than what I did was wrong. :(
That depends if you're using it primarily because it is a lisp or primarily because of its Java interop / the fact it runs on the JVM.
Language is a product of culture. [...] Your culture shapes language - not the other way around.

I'm not sure why you would repeat what I said like this, except to buttress the dubious claim you sandwich in the middle.

For a lot of New York Jews, Hebrew isn't just "another language", but simply a decoder ring they use to read aloud in cultural rituals. They still have a cultural and personal Jewish identity.

You can’t just anglicise and magically keep your culture and all other cultural influences out.

You keep mixing up the chain of causality, and you fail to acknowledge any of the presented arguments (i.e., you used my post to repeat what you wanted to say, rather than mention anything I said, and the bountiful evidence of English speaking African-American culture and English speaking Native American culture negates your ridiculous claims).

If all you'd like is a soapbox, please just go write a blog.
Hey, nice to see another Ido on the site.
> "we're all <35, no big corporate lifers here (you know what I'm talking about)"

I don't know about Canada, but this age-related way of segmenting people can cause you some problems in the US.
Weebly hiring Head of Customer Satisfaction
Perhaps. I found that the artwork got more accomplished in the recent comics, so it's nicer to look at.
What about using Facebook Connect? Apparently site that use it see a huge spike in sign ups.
neil would really appreciate positive amazon reviews to help spread the word :)
4th Amendment does Not apply to data stored with third-party providers.
Do we have any sources pointing either way?

I expect it should be more efficient to provide stuff (food, energy, whatever) to a dense population due to economics of scale. On the other hand bringing that stuff over might take more energy.
What I need in a reader (I haven't found it) is the ability to say: this list of subjects is what I want to read about. Period. I don't want to be the filter. In an always-on reader, I want fine-grained tunable filters. Source level isn't good enough: it has to be at the post level. Or better.

Sometimes I want to drink from the firehose. Then I run to an accumulator like popurls.com. But life's too short to be scrolling for a half hour. As for socializing: I do that at the club.
Remember also that during the time that ITA would have made that decision, SBCL and SLIME were both evolving rapidly.
i didn't know twittering and blogging were mutually exclusive.
Odd to label the ciphertext the "plaintext".
I don't get it. Do you submit results once, or you can resubmit? Makes a lot of difference!
I tried this method for my app. But it turned out that I needed a lot of fields to be in their own columns since i would have to use them with queries in the WHERE clause or ORDER clause.

So be careful while choosing the columns you would like to serialize or json-ify and dump.

Just my 2c.
Posession is 99/100ths of Internet Law. I think similar logic led to a ruling that Google did not infringe on plaintiff's IP because Google did not host the images displayed on its pages.
As someone who likes actually buying and owning things, I'm getting sick of legitimately purchased content being worse than the pirated alternative.
Actually, I think he did it on a significantly less powerful system. Just an Athlon64x2 or similar. CUDA could speed it up considerably.
I've dealt with this when I had to mop up after a predecessor made a habit of taking bungs at a government department.

My advice to you is that you should have absolutely nothing to do with this. You should forget the sale now (it's a possibility that it was only entertained in the first place because your associate thought the payoff would be likely).

If you can anonymously tip off this person's superior one way or another, you'll be doing a good thing for everyone (citizens, colleagues, bung-seeker) in the long run.

This advice only applies for government - in private enterprise this kind of thing is pretty much par for the course on very big sales, but in modern times it normally takes the form of valuable free stuff rather than cash.
Not all programs representable by 32 bits are elegant, but of all programs that are both 32 bits long and elegant, there are no more than 2^32 of them.

edit: this follows from the uniqueness of each "elegant" program.
Actually the DMCA has an exemption for allowing software interoperability. This sounds like exactly the situation that it was designed not to protect against.
Really? I think everyone reading Hacker News is capable of searching Google and pasting the text into the first result. I apologize to this startup for the hordes of tech illiterate people I am sending to gum up their application process. ;)
The British saw what they were prepared to see. What they missed falls on them. Just below the superficial, India is one of the great nations of history.

(The same applies to what new arrivals in the Americas were not prepared to see in the 'Indians' of the Americas. Before knowledge we can only see with the eyes our culture gives us.)
"The hat also resembles all manner of Safari hats"

Or porkpie hats, or fedoras.
Thoughts:

Anyone who doesn't get that graphing historical toilet usage times resulting from tragically poor medical science against modern toilet usage times resulting from pathetic laziness and/or extreme nerdiness regarding laptop computers is hysterically brilliant and funny, needs to get a life or at least go away and stop bothering people.

I don't know the guy, but judging from the hot girls modelling T-shirts on the website, I'd take a guess that the author of XKCD is not a male hyper feminist as the critic tried to claim. Hot girls don't go for male hyper feminists. He's simply a confident male who has figured out that making smart girls happy (thru fun comic strips starring smart girls) tends to get him laid. In this he is no different from any man who tells a gal a joke to help her relax.

Criticizing a wildly popular work of art known for weaving complicated math and science topics into quality jokes is dangerous to begin with. There is so much danger that the reason you don't "get it" is because its over your head and you don't know it. To then express the criticism with such poorly-written captions is just sad.

XKCD forever.
It's pretty sad how strongly memorization, as opposed to critical thinking, is encouraged and rewarded. This seems (based on my University education) to be increasingly true even in disciplines like Math and CS.

Beginning in grade school, the "smart kids" are those who memorize things, not those who solve problems. I'm better at rote memorization, but I pride myself on solving problems.
The dilemma is clearly between the larger good and my selfish interest in not seeing my company hurt. The industry we operate in is very narrow and while losing thus customer alone would hurt us a lot, having someone there say negative things about us could destroy us. I have already written off this customer, because if nothing else, the stress of having to manage a corrupt person while not indulging in corruption is not worth whatever money we make off them. But we would prefer to not get vilified in the industry because of someone else's character flaws.

I will find out about how to anonymously report this. I am thinking I could do it at least after a few months so at the very least it's not obvious who did it.
How can anyone even approach this with a straight face? You don't even know what they are computing!

If you want to question clojure's performance for technical reasons, do that. But let's not use feelings, and instincts in discussions about concrete scientific topics. There have certainly been several interesting articles on clojure performance, and work done to improve performance for native data structures (transients). I, and no doubt many others, would be genuinely interested in performance studies on more complex concurrency problems I've seen so far.
You did perfectly fine - seriously.

Alternatively, you could have gone the comedic route by making the whole thing into a big joke, but it's not like things would have been better.
Maintenance costs on a Rialta could be expensive (though, perhaps compared to the TOC of a home, they turn out to be pretty inexpensive). I own a EuroVan (in which, coincidentally, my family and I will be living out of for a time next spring), on which the Rialta is based, and repairs are not cheap, and it can be difficult to find a good mechanic who will actually look at it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRcamEx7EmA

Just kidding.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03...
Twittering and blogging have their own separate places. It's perfectly fine to engage in both of them.

Or, you know, focus on one and occasionally visit the other.
> "Idea: OneClick – Mobile app, allows users to perform commonly-used, very specific actions in a single click.(i.e. get directions to address)"

143 characters

my version: "OneClick: Mobile app, users perform common, specific actions in single click; eg, get directions."

98 characters. i agree with his sentiment, but i didn't find his example too compelling...maybe he has room to grow for twitter communication...although an extra 45 characters still might not be sufficient.
Some speakers can get away with it, whether as a form of humor or setting completely unreal expectations (ie. I am not prepared, but then blows the audience away with their knowledge).

Normal people can't do it (which most certainly includes myself!)
it's pretty much the color of the bikeshed

I've not heard that expression but changing the colour of the walls in a room alters the behaviour of people in that room including how long they stay. I'd say the colour of the bike-shed matters.
Like many have said, it is unclear what your site does/where the content comes from.

Also, fix your spelling - the sub-banner "Its Your University" should be "It's".
Digital Gear: Webcam, handheld video camera go HD
Great post. I would also say:
1) don't get caught up in any one name
2) having too descriptive of a name can be disastrous as you won't have as much flexibility
3) have fun with it!
http://www.kcrw.com/podcasts for To The Point, Left Right & Center

http://wamu.org/help/podcasts/ for Diane Rehm Show, Kojo Nnamdi Show featuring Tech Tuesday and the Computer Guys

http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_directory.php Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, Planet Money, All Songs Considered, Live Concerts

http://thislife.org This American Life

http://www.wnyc.org/podcasting/ Radio Lab, On the Media, Leonard Lopate Show
That is an excellent point!
This is very cool thank you. I posted earlier today about the need for a better rating system than the five star system. I'm really glad to see you working on a great solution. Thanks!
I totally disagree with the point of this article. It's (fairly) easy to add features until you're UI is cluttered. The hard part is making the decision between what features need to be added and which detract from your final presentation. In most cases, I've found that the right balance finds itself closer to minimalism than not.
I understand, managing this for you has got to be really, really delicate.

There's potential downsides in doing nothing as well.

I'd still say it is worth having a word with someone more senior if you are able to. He'll likely lose his job, which is a horrible thing to have on your conscience - but if your sale goes through anyway, and he championed it - you could still end up on the hook. You'll either get tarred with his brush, or outright investigated for colluding with him, which may or may not be a crime where you are.

On the basis that you've written off the sale mentally, talking becomes an upside. It gives you another chance at making the sale on fair terms, and establishes your trustworthiness.

I don't envy you though, horrible situation.
Amusingly, there's an inversion of that last bit being played out - the response to people not finding the "gag" of the explanations hilarious is that the joke is just so over folks' heads. We can't get the "real" joke!

The "real" joke is that, hey, this guy that people call "funny" occasionally makes unfunny comics - and we can find unfunny ones from years back! No? Uh, the "real" joke is that there is no humor, so it's a joke. ...Or, um, would you believe that the "real" joke is that people find our shtick dumb and object, because they're just not cool enough to give a thumbs-up to half-assed attacks on things they like?
What about the 5GB transfer cap on almost all cellular data plans? Seems like that could be a problem.
Having thought about this a bit, I feel like if I had turned a cold shoulder to his proposal to work for us in the future, he would have been discouraged about it. I could also have communicated in some other way that we work by the book.

At least then, we would have had the chance of working with other (possibly non corrupt) people in the organization to get our project through. I mean there are other people there who are enthusiastic about it.

Anyway, that's just me ranting. Thank you for your words.
Now you have me worried. If I did not offer him anything, how could I be held responsible for colluding with him?

I understand the risk of being painted with the same brush. This is all the more infuriating because there are other people, more senior than him at this organization who seemed enthusiastic about the project.
I don't see any benefit to taking a strong stand face-to-face. It's not like he would see the light or something. It would only ensure that he has a heads up, putting you in a seriously dangerous position.
Then this discussion between Cliff Click and Rich Hickey may be of interest: http://blogs.azulsystems.com/cliff/2008/05/clojure-stms-vs.h...

Its a bit dated ('08), but sounds like the jury is still out on STMs.
> No cryptography was broken. Given a number, he found a number that divided it. It's a property of the universe, and you can't copyright properties of the universe. (That gravity is mine!!!)

Breaks of cryptography systems in general can also be expressed as numbers. Quite naturally. And so can all binary representations. The American law system certainly does view numbers as being able to be placed under copyright (or similar restrictions).

And numbers aren't a property of the universe. They are made up by humans.
Just upgraded and everything is smooth so far. The only exception being VMware Workstation 6.5 - you need to upgrade to VMware Workstation 7.0 or it won't work.
So, really and truly this government guy hit you up for a bribe?

Tonight, write down every detail, sign and date (ideally with witnesses). Tomorrow morning, call the FBI. After speaking with the FBI, unless they advise otherwise, brief your CEO.

Only do these things if you are really, really sure the guy actually hit you up for a bribe but if you are - I think you should do these things.

-t
The good news is that this will never see the inside of a courtroom, as publishing factorizations of numbers is legal. So is doing whatever you want to your own hardware.

But anyway, how hard does the math problem have to be before it becomes illegal to solve? If my signing key is 4, would it be illegal for someone to say "Gentlemen, it has come to my attention that the number 4 is the product of 2 and 2."? Why?

How is 4 different from
68575999143494039
77654744967172758
17990411426461294
73261271699761332
96980951450542789
80888450430107555
07864648023040197
95402754670660318
614966266413770127 ? (I need to know what the law is before I can try to avoid breaking it.)

Also, is the mere act of looking up the factorization of this number in a table illegal? If not, what about using a program that has the number stored in a table? If not, what if that program lazily computes the factorization. Is strict evaluation legal, but not lazy evaluation?

How about if I have a friend that randomly wants to know the factorization of a number and I compute it in my head? What if it's for breaking a cryptosystem, but I don't know that, I just think it's a problem he's challenging me with? Who broke the law? What law was broken?

Anyway, I don't think you've thought this through. You used the word "cute" dismissively, though, which was very cute...
You nailed it.

If you had not stood your ground, you would have sacrificed all your hard work for nothing.

If you had pushed any more than you did, you would have created an unnecessary drama that would have diverted your focus.

You feel badly right now because you're normal. This shall pass.

Even the fact that you registered a puppet account to
discuss this clearly demonstrates that you know how to handle a delicate business matter. If the quality of your product matches the integrity of your character, you have great success awaiting you.

Respect.
You need my "ancestry" for me to register. Is that user driven or do you just get more money for the db with ethnicity info, it has a "*" in the sign up page; http://digidorm.com/user/register .

The page loaded very slowly for me, YSlow report 5000 DOM objects on the registration page ??

Asking for a matriculation or student ID might reduce signons from non-students even if you can't verify them - once you have some you'll be able to create a pattern.

I was impressed you had an apparently comprehensive list of uni's - I thought Open Uni might catch you out - you should play this up "every Uni" and emphasise the global nature of the site.

Your CC link at the bottom strongly suggests a CC-license but none is made clear; this suggest to me you're trying to con me in some way.

Advertising being the top of a main menu listing (Services) suggests that the point of the site is to make you money with targetted ads. That may be true but you perhaps want to be more subtle about it.

Edit: the logo ain't retro it's horribly 80s corporate looking. The colour scheme is bland. Align that search box or I'll go mad! The guy in the suit is not a good try at a hero shot - hot coeds is the standard. What are you doing to avoid astroturfing?

Just my initial thoughts from a couple of minutes contact.
Do not tip off the supervisor. Go to the FBI.
Thanks you for this ebook. I was actually in the process of looking for something just like it. Once i have read through it i will provide neil with the feedback :)
Already briefed my partner. Calling him again in a few minutes.

Calling the FBI is tricky. I don't have any proof and as a small company, I would prefer not to have a scandal (even with us on the right side of it) be our first introductiion to the rest of the small community. In essence, what I am saying is doing the perfectly right thing would hurt us.

I am thinking seriously about anonymously reporting this though. I don't know if that even works but at least I can say I tried.
IANAL but it might not be a bad idea to take a few minutes and write down who said what and when, while it's still fresh in your mind. Maybe even in some official company record ("captain's log").

Ya never know . . .
yup they do, in the form of DBPedia, http://dbpedia.org/About